Jack-booted conservationism

The New Holocaust Deniers; Environmentalists still won't admit the existence of the carnage they have created.  "Yet here was this liberal gentleman, supposedly an anti-racist and feminist, a self-proclaimed defender of the poor and the helpless, shrugging off massive violations of human rights and extraordinary crimes directed against women, infants, and people of color. In amazement I blurted out, “This is a holocaust, and you should not be denying it!”
"Then it hit me. I was dealing with a holocaust denier."

Eco Crowd Growing Desperate—and Dangerous  "Notice that arguments contrary to what Zwick believes are not honest differences of opinion—they are “lies.” Those who disagree with him are not merely mistaken, they are malevolent. They are not worthy of being converted to his point of view via honest debate; they deserve only to have their homes razed.
"This is fascism, pure and simple, and it is more and more a feature of environmentalist rhetoric." 

...."Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, global warming was the Left’s last, best chance to institute a world-wide redistributive regime.  What happens when global warming, too, collapses?"

The Lacey Act: From Conservation to Criminalization  "How did a law originally enacted to target poaching of migratory birds evolve to authorize an armed raid of a guitar factory in search of wooden veneers imported without the proper paperwork? The Lacey Act was the first federal wildlife conservation statute, narrowly targeted at the interstate sale in poached game. But in the century since its enactment, the statute’s scope has been enormously expanded to the point that it now incorporates the wildlife and trade laws of every foreign nation. As a result, it has become a trap for the unwary, placing honest businessmen and businesswomen at risk of criminal liability for unknowing violations of hyper-technical foreign laws and regulations.

"In short, the Lacey Act has become the poster child for the phenomenon of overcriminalization and should be at the top of Congress’s list for reform."

Obama: Gay for Pay

 Washington Free Beacon: OBAMA REVERSAL ON SAME SEX MARRIAGE COMES JUST DAYS AFTER DONORS THREATENED TO WITHHOLD FUNDS

"The Washington Post noted on Tuesday that roughly 20 percent of Obama top campaign bundlers—who are responsible for arranging $500,000 and up—“publicly identified themselves as gay.”  

"Obama’s announcement fits a pattern of changing positions on major issues for what appear to be financially motivated reasons." Via Lucianne

Steve McCann: Obama's politics of distraction  "While Europe is inching ever closer to plunging into a financial abyss, there are moments of comic relief provided by the current President of the United States.  He has not only become the butt of innumerable jokes but his re-election campaign tactics are the stuff of low-brow comedy. A case in point, his recent "evolution" in to supporting gay marriage."
 ....Quoting from this UK Telegraph article: Obama's cynical endorsement of gay marriage is a gift to Mitt Romney:

As for gay rights campaigners, I hope they won't be fooled by this empty, cynical gesture.  Why did Obama wait until after the North Carolina vote to back gay marriage?

Cowardice, perhaps?  Ladies and gentlemen, Obama is a politician.  He'll take your money and your votes and give you nothing in return.  At least Mitt Romney might cut your taxes.

 

• Obama hits the motherlode after gay marriage statement
• That was no Biden gaffe 
• Much more on this here.
• Obama "evolves", but Romney "flip-flops".  Don't you love "journalists"?

Alan Caruba: Gay Marriage is Obama's Poison Pill   "Urbanites and suburbanites may say that they are okay with gay marriage, but what they tell pollsters and what they say privately among friends and family is far different. Americans may want to be tolerant, but their distaste for the gay lifestyle and incessant demands for acceptance is deeply offensive to most people."

Heritage Culture Watch: President Obama and the Truth About Marriage  "The reason the state is in the marriage business in the first place is because sex makes babies and babies need mothers and fathers. As one source has put it, “but for children, there would be no need of any institution concerned with sex.” That “institution” is marriage, and it brings together men and women as husbands and wives to become fathers and mothers to any children their unions bring forth.
"This binding together doesn’t happen by accident. Binding fathers to mothers and their children requires strong cultural and legal norms to channel adult sexual desire and behavior into an institution where childbearing leads to responsible childrearing."


The DOJ’s Unprofessionalism in Its Attack on Traditional Marriage  "Next, Attorney General Eric Holder announced in February that the Justice Department would no longer defend DOMA in court, but that the President had directed executive agencies to continue enforcing DOMA unless it is repealed by Congress or the judicial branch renders a “definitive verdict” against the law’s constitutionality.

"Now the Justice Department has gone even further, filing a strongly-worded brief in federal court in San Francisco in Golinski v. United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) arguing that DOMA was motivated by hostility toward gays and lesbians and is unconstitutional."

Presidential Narcissism

Hat tip to Neal Boortz , who introduced this column thus: "Victor Davis Hanson has some thoughts on what he calls Presidential Narcissism.  In this regard, he calls Bill Clinton and Barack Obama “brothers beneath the skin.” "

Victor Davis Hanson   ...."And aside from the fact that Barack Obama promised never to “spike the football” by using the SEAL mission to score campaign points, only a narcissistic Bill Clinton could have envisioned the death or capture of Navy SEALs not in terms of those men’s own horrible fates, but only as political “downside” for an equally narcissistic Barack Obama."

...".In other words, I worry that Vladimir Putin, the Iranian theocrats, the North Korean apparat, the Chinese central committee, the Muslim Brotherhood, and all the others who detest the United States have sized up Barack Obama. For 40 months they have acknowledged that his postracial image and his youthful charisma, as David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs rightly insisted, threw them for a loop — for a while. And that “for a while” is now ending, replaced with a new belief abroad that the more Obama talks about himself and his team, and the more emphatic he becomes with his “Make no mistake about it” and “Let me be perfectly clear” vacuities, the more he can at first safely be ignored, and then, quite soon, safely be taken advantage of.

"The problem with a narcissistic president is not just that he sees the world as all about himself, but that the world soon sees that it is not about him at all."


Elliott Abrams:  ‘On My Behalf’ Really?  "Most Americans thought they were fighting for the country, not on Barack Obama’s behalf.  Slip of the tongue, to be sure, but can one think of another president who’d have made it?  They are fighting under his command, under his orders, to be sure, but this particular locution is offensive and solipsistic.  Mr. Obama has switched his position on the sanctity of marriage back and forth and has a new one, again, today, revealed when politics made that advisable to him and to his campaign.  Whether this is the end or he will “evolve” some more is anyone’s guess.

"But let’s leave our soldiers out of this. They aren’t fighting for Mr. Obama and his campaign, and no one sent them out to risk their lives to win same sex “marriage.” 

Al-Qaeda has called on its followers to unleash massive forest fires upon the United States this summer

BareNakedIslam  "ABC NEWS The men who launched al Qaeda’s English-language magazine may have died in a U.S. missile strike last fall, but “Inspire” magazine lives on without them — and continues to promote jihadi attacks on Western targets, offering detailed advice on how to start huge forest fires in America with timed explosives and how to build remote-controlled bombs.

Al Qaeda ‘Inspire’ Magazine Calls For Firebomb Campaign In US

"In issue eight, there was an eight-page article instructing readers on how to construct a remote-controlled explosives, with a laundry list of parts and ingredients and photos showing proper assembly.  

"The issues also provided tips on how to use a handgun and advice on how to become an urban assassin."

Bill Ayres would be so pleased and envious that he didn't call for this first. He could find plenty of willing loonies in the #Occupy movement.

Campaign Tactics and Republican Fears

Warning Signs  "Just as Obama “inherited” the financial crisis of 2008, Romney is going to inherit “Taxageddon” in 2013 if a GOP controlled Congress does not repeal significant increases in taxes, all of which will stall any effort to get the economy back on a growth track."

"It is my belief that Obama is extraordinarily vulnerable to defeat, but that has given rise to another commonly expressed Republican fear; that the Democrats will steal the election with ACORN-style tactics at the polls. 
"In the end, “Are you better off in 2012 than you were four years ago?” will end Obama’s first and last term."  Alan Caruba
 

Ann Coulter: Elizabeth Warren dances with lies

Ann Coulter  "Elizabeth Warren, who also goes by her Indian name, "Lies on Race Box," is in big heap-um trouble. The earnest, reform-minded liberal running for Senate against Scott Brown, R-Mass., lied about being part-Cherokee to get a job at Harvard." 
....
"Family lore is not proof. Proof is contemporary documentation, produced under penalty of perjury, such as a census record. My mother told me she found me under a rock, but I don't put that on job applications."
....
"For liberals, it should be a mortal sin: Elizabeth Warren cheated on affirmative action."

http://www.worldmag.com/editorialcartoons/

Elizabeth Warren and What Really Makes a Native American
"Seeking clarification, I called the Cherokee Nation and spoke with spokeswoman Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, who said that to be a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, one must provide proper documentation of direct descent from someone listed in the Dawes Rolls (closed more than a century ago) to obtain a tribal citizenship card."

Obama comes out of the closet

 The Associated Press:  Romney stands by his opposition to gay marriage  "Mitt Romney on Wednesday reaffirmed his view that marriage should be restricted to one man and one woman, highlighting a sharp contrast with President Barack Obama.

"Obama declared his unequivocal personal support for same-sex marriage during an interview with ABC News. Reporters asked Romney about the issue after a campaign event in Oklahoma City."

....

"Obama is the first president in history to support gay marriage. Polls show the country is evenly divided on the issue."

CELEBRITIES EUPHORIC OVER OBAMA'S SAME-SEX MARRIAGE POLITICAL HEDGE

"Some buzz on Twitter for this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment in O’s remarks: “when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf…” His behalf?"

Obama bailed out of North Carolina visit as traditional-marriage amendment goes to voters  " It’s a headscratcher, all right, especially the claim that this amendment has nothing to do with gay marriage.  Here’s the text of the amendment:

“Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.

This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party; nor does this section prohibit courts from adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts.”

Legal Insurrection: #LandOfTheGullible  "....So Obama rolls out a half-measure that he “personally” thinks gay marriage should be legal, but that it should be up to the states to decide … um, isn’t that how it is now?

"California decided, but the federal judiciary intervened.  North Carolina decided, and as of this moment the Democrats still are having their national convention there.  Over 30 states have decided against gay marriage, and a small number in favor (via the judiciary or legislature).

"That is the status quo gay marriage supporters detest, yet they are cheering Obama’s endorsement of the status quo as if it were a watershed moment.

"Don’t you get it by now? It’s all about him."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/05/09/99095

Just how stupid ARE liberal ideas anyway?

PJ Media: 5 Insane Fads New Parents Swallow  "Old hippies have spawned a new hybrid generation of parents that’s three parts high-tech and one part organic. The new “Crunchy” or “Natural Mamas” have inherited some ideals once considered “out there” for we Boomers, like nursing and laboring in water.
"The next four extreme trends could become the new norm." We regret any off-color language
"And just one more WARNING for some graphic content on the last page…"

March of the Idiots at OccupyLA May Day  

"This sign was used to assault four police officers, as seen clearly around the 2:45 mark in this video. The perpetrators, of whom this is presumably one, got away with it. The video reveals exactly how Occupy’s strategy works: They blindside the police with an unprovoked assault, then the attackers instantly scatter, while other Occupiers with cameras are waiting immediately behind to record the police’s hoped-for overreaction. And they think that this is so very clever that no one’s yet caught on to their tricks.  "Like I said: Idiocy."

Boortz: You asked for it  "I have a message for all of you Obama voters residing in blue states – those are the states that voted for Obama in 2008 – you get what you deserve." 

Quote of the day:  "One of the most brilliant things I’ve heard in a long time is your explanation of why, 'It’s government people, not rich people, who have the power to coerce and make our lives miserable.' ” Quoting Walter Williams.


Cher doesn’t want to breathe the same air as Romney and his ‘racist homophobic women hating tea bagger masters’  Then she, um, well..apologizes?


What a history lesson can do for an Occupier  "One young man tried to pass an “Occupy Wall Street Journal” to two men observing the protests, and ended up gaining an education in history, politics, economics, and statecraft.  Give the young Occupier credit, as Joe Schoffstall says — he was at least willing to listen.  I’m not sure he was actually convinced, but he at least knew better than to keep arguing:

"You might be tempted to stop after a couple of minutes, but stick to it all the way through to the end.  It shows what one man can do when he’s armed with the facts*, as well as a little moral authority from having lived through a socialist nightmare.  His companion tells him at the end, “I’m very proud of you,” and I’d bet more than a few people here would be as well."
"And at least the young man still had the capacity to learn. Ringo and Zombie document some of the mental incapacity found at the Occupy LA rally last week, including these images:"


*I can tell by the man's accent that he is from the former Soviet Union. If he spoke to this entire Occupy crowd, they would not be able to refute his ideas; they would only shout him down. Just as they did here.
Then this cartoon:

Tony Branco cartoon

Stupid Liberal Celebrities: Why Do We Have A Government Run Military?  "To all of the stupid liberal celebrities: read the Constitution again. And if you don’t like what you see, lobby for some new amendments. Until then, shut up."


Debunking Stupid Liberal Memes, Part I:  Meme: Merriam-Webster explains it thus: "Definition of MEMEan idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture"

Americans For Prosperity Ad

AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY   "At the end of last week, President Obama’s campaign sicked his attack dogs on AFP—because this TV ad puts pressure on Obama to defend his failed “green energy” spending that kept our economy weak, and forced more of our jobs overseas.
In fact, his deputy campaign director even blasted a 2-minute video response to Obama supporters as a “rebuttal” to our ad—filled with the shaky facts and issue distortion we’ve come to expect from President Obama’s campaign machine.
And just on Monday, Obama's campaign announced a $25 million ad buy—solely intended to bury this ad.
These latest attacks, of course, come after Obama launched a 60-second TV commercial trying to discredit AFP’s ad—and a few days after the Democratic National Committee admitted to top supporters that AFP’s TV ad could cause “serious damage” to their election-year plan to hide their failed policy agenda.

Obama creates "green" jobs--in foreign countries  You can watch the ad even if you do not care to donate.

Nobody messes with Joe

Mr. Biden, I'm 'Absolutely Comfortable' with Mothers and Fathers
"Given these facts, you can imagine the surprise of many when Vice President Joe Biden recently said that he's "absolutely comfortable" with same-sex "marriage."  He reportedly made this statement partly based upon meeting a same-sex couple with children.  Translated appropriately, Mr. Biden is "absolutely comfortable" with circumstances where children are intentionally deprived of either a mother or a father.
"And why are these children deprived of that?  Because some other adult decided that the particular child at issue does not require either a mother or a father.  Thus, the desire of adults to have a motherless or fatherless family have trumped the needs of the child."

Breakpoint: Lesbian Studies Fail the Test  "Getting back to the results in the lives of children, Stanton points out that young people raised in homes with homosexual parents are more likely to be homosexuals later in life and to engage in risky sexual behaviors."

The temple of postmodern liberalism was rocked these last few weeks, as a number of supporting columns and buttresses simply crashed, leaving the entire edifice wobbling.

Victor Davis Hanson "In short, liberalism does not work, contrary as it is to human nature. I wish I could just say that about every thirty years or so, forgetful Americans take an allergy shot of it, suffer the reaction, and then get another three decades of Carter/Obama immunity. But instead statist redistribution and intrusion are an insidious process, no longer specific just to Democrats, but bound up in the growing affluence and leisure of the West—both serving its various needs of alleviating guilt to the masses, subsidizing half the nation, and providing much envied power and lucre to a highly educated and technocratic elite who have little talent for acquiring either in the private sector. 

That it is not sustainable does not mean that it will not cause havoc as it totters and collapses. Look at Russia and Eastern Europe circa 1989, or the present-day EU, or Greece proper, or California or Illinois today."

Thomas Lifson: Another terrible day for Elizabeth Warren  "Elizabeth Warren, the poster girl for phony liberals, is the gift that just keeps on giving, as far as I am concerned. She embodies  so many aspects of the foibles of the crowd that took over the Democratic Party, the media, and the academy that she stands as a virtual ideal-type of the ruling class hypocrite."


Legal Insurrection: Cruel irony in Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee saga  "In what may be the ultimate and cruelest irony, not only is it unlikely that Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee, it turns out that Warren’s great-great-great grandfather was a member of a militia unit which participated in the round-up of the Cherokees in the prelude to the Trail of Tears."


In what must be a badge of honor for Cornell Law Professor Jacobsen there comes this endorsement from the left:

 "Jacobson is doing only what other McCain supporters are starting to do, produce these worthless pieces from some narrow perch in order to cover up their own racist bigotry"

I love these intellectual battles of ideas, don't you? 

Gay Creeps, Black Thugs, and Horrible Women: The Left’s Idea of Tolerance

Andrew Klavan  "When homosexual bully Dan Savage unleashed a foul-mouthed tirade against the religious beliefs of a group of teenagers at the National High School Journalism Convention in Seattle last month, he exposed the lie behind the Left’s idea of tolerance. Savage used obscenities to describe passages in the Bible he disliked and displayed either ignorance or dishonesty in talking about the role of Christianity in advancing the cause of freedom."


Severe language advisory in this video along with lots of laughter and applause on the Bill Maher show, though you really don't need to play it to appreciate the wisdom of Mr. Klavan's article. But you will see the unvarnished left as they are and be highly thankful for people like Andrew Klavan.TD

...."The Left tells me it’s wrong to be suspicious when a black punk wearing a hood and loose pants slouches into my neighborhood? The Left tells me to listen with respect to the destructive deceptions of con-men like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? The Left tells me not to fight back when some shrill, man-hating feminist virago goes on the rampage? They tell me not to be judgmental when I witness a young woman getting herself drunk enough to accept being used like a piece of meat by any young man without the virility to escort her safely home? And now the Left tells me I should not look askance at some gay weasel who abuses the privilege of speaking to young people by unleashing a foul-mouthed display of hatred, prejudice and rage?

"Well, thanks, but no."....

OBAMA TEAMS WITH ANTI-CHRISTIAN BULLY SAVAGE "So why would so many members of the Obama administration and their Democratic allies in the House go out of their way to endorse an anti-bullying project run by Savage, rather than the dozens of other anti-bullying projects throughout the United States? They knew all this about Savage when they decided to endorse his project."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keshet/5912792696/sizes/m/in/photostream/

• President Obama;
• Vice President Joe Biden (who can be seen grinning with Savage and Terry Miller here);
• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton;
• House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi;
• Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius;
• Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack;
• Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis;
• The Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice;
• The White House Staff; and more.

MSM turns Savage into a hero  "The hypocrisy here is insane. The same media that says that Rush Limbaugh is a bully for calling out Sandra Fluke – a woman who put herself in the public spotlight – says that Dan Savage is a hero for attacking Christian students who did nothing to earn his ire, save acting with dignity." 

Filibuster Cartoons

Dan Savage: bully  "They used to arrest middle-aged perverts who get their jollies from talking dirty to children. Today, they get a television show, a nationally syndicated column, a lecture circuit and multiple visits to the Obama White House."

Dan Savage Kinda, Sorta, um..Apologizes for Bullying During Anti-Bullying Speech