What planet is this guy from?

Well, this cartoon is about what you get in the LA Times. My theory is that this cartoonist goes to social gatherings where there are celebrities and introduces himself as the artist who drew this cartoon. Just think of the attaboys and schmoozing he would get; Tom Hanks telling him that this cartoon is over his desk at the office would bring him to orgasm, wouldn't you say?

There is no courage needed to be an outspoken liberal in Hollywood.

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons

More of this cartoonist's sycophancy here. 

 

Well, the Peace and Freedom Party likes the similarities between Obama and socialists

"I believe that Obama would like to see an end to racism, sexism and homophobia. While many people find fault at the slow pace that Obama is addressing these issues, socialists would agree with these aims. But so would Greens, most Democrats and some libertarians (did I forget anyone?). So, being an open-minded individual who supports civil rights does not necessarily label one a socialist. In fact, most socialists would argue that our economic system, capitalism, requires inequality to survive, and so we cannot finally end these blights within the current framework – not that we shouldn’t still try."

 

The Communist Party's publication loves Obama's reelection  
Obama Wins!
                 Labor wins!
Americans reject policies of greed and union busting!

By Scott Marshall

President-elect Barack Obama.

Those words ring with meaning. For organized labor they ring with pride, hope, and energy for the struggles ahead. No one feels like labors candidate won, so now we can go home and rest. Rather, as congratulation messages pour in from all parts of the labor movement, the critical subtext is, we are ready and eager to march with you for change. At the top of labors change agenda is boots-on-the-ground support for the Obama agenda of a new New Deal for economic recovery and passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.
 ....
The labor movement took independent political action to spectacular new levels. Unions broke all previous records in mobilizing its rank and file for labor walks, phone banks, plant gate distributions, and member to member contact in the workplace. Labor continued to build and develop its own political apparatus and voice. Hundreds, if not thousands, of union halls became campaign central for the Obama campaign as well as for targeted Congressional contests.

Obama says we ain't got no stinkin' spending problem

Wall Street Journal; The Education of John Boehner  "Mr. Boehner confirms that at one critical juncture he asked Mr. Obama, after conceding on $800 billion in new taxes, "What am I getting?" and the president replied: "You don't get anything for it. I'm taking that anyway.""
...."Mr. Boehner says that the only way to build long-term economic growth is to reduce the nation's debt through entitlement and tax reform. But can such a deal be achieved with a president who doesn't even think that Washington has a spending problem? "He believes in the power of government," Mr. Boehner answers. "I believe in the power of the American people. It is really that simple." And really that difficult."

Nile Gardiner; 128 million Americans are now on government programmes. Can America survive as the world’s superpower?   "Ironically, Britain, through the tremendous determination of Iain Duncan Smith and his team at the Department of Work and Pensions, is starting to roll back the welfare state, precisely at the same time the current US administration is expanding it.
The United States isn’t just gliding towards a continental European-style future of vast welfare systems, economic decline, and massive debts – it is accelerating towards it at full speed."

Heritage agrees: U.S. Government Increases National Debt—and Keeps 128 Million People on Government Programs

Wow!… Barack Obama Tells John Boehner “We Don’t Have a Spending Problem”

"For years we’ve been trying to decide, “Is Obama stupid or is he purposely trying to destroy the US economy?”
"Now we know the answer. He’s stupid as a can of Spam.
"Thank you, America, for reelecting this destructive bonehead.
"Barack Obama told John Boehner, “We don’t have a spending problem.” "

Krauthammer: 'Not a Scintilla of Evidence' Obama Will Reform Entitlements (Video)
 

How liberals control the debate: "prog-talk"

Propaganda Critic

Conservatives talk about "getting our message out" and having communicators who are able to do it. But I'm just plain pessimistic about it because how would we stand a chance no matter what sound logical argument is used? The left controls academia, movies, even school curricula. And all these sources use the "prog-talk" mentioned here:  

Neal Boortz: A New Term In Prog-Talk!  "It’s been a while since we have updated our list of prog-talk terms.  What is “prog-talk”?  That is the language that progressives and liberals like to use in order to say bad things but in a way that doesn’t sound as bad to the dumbmasses … actually that should be dumb masses … or the ignoramuses.  Let’s review our list real fast before we get to our latest entry, shall we?"

• “Undocumented workers” became the politically acceptable term so as to not offend “illegal immigrants” or “illegal aliens”

• “Revenues” are a fancy way of saying “taxes” in prog-talk

• “Revenue positive” is how liberals like to say “tax increases” without using the forbidden “t-word” (taxes)

• “Letting the Bush tax cuts expire” was, for a long while, the way to say “increase taxes on the rich!”

• “Investing” is the word that proggies use to describe “government spending”

• “Earmarks” and “pork-barrel spending” were replaced by the politically correct “congressionally directed spending”

• “Stimulus” became a dirty word after the $800 billion flop of 2009, so proggies managed to use the word “job creation” instead .. still puzzled as to how the two are related.

"The latest proggie term has been coined by proggie princess herself Nancy Pelosi, the hallow-eye hippie from Haight-Ashbury.  In the discussion over gun control, apparently Princess Pelosi would prefer to do away with the term “gun control” and replace it with “gun violence prevention.”
"This is how the proggies will get what they want out of this fight .. they will change the language so as to make anyone challenging them out to be for gun violence and against preventing gun violence.  Isn’t that clever?"  

The New Liberal Aristocracy; Modern elitists are past masters at preaching one thing and practicing another.

Victor Davis Hanson   "Class warrior Barack Obama spent his winter break in a ritzy rental on a Hawaiian beach. It cost the taxpayers $7 (or is it $20?) million to jet him and his entourage 6,000 miles for their tropical vacation. But whether the first family escapes to Hawaii or Martha’s Vineyard or Costa del Sol, the image of a 1 percent lifestyle seems a bit at odds with the president’s professed disdain for “millionaires and billionaires,” “fat cats,” and “corporate-jet owners” who supposedly can afford such tony retreats only because they have done something suspect."
...."Senator John Kerry, who will soon become secretary of state, is a tireless advocate of higher taxes while enjoying his multimillionaire wife’s multiple estates."
...."What explains the hypocrisy of the new liberal aristocracy?"
"....But penance plays a role as well. For the overpaid and pampered Hollywood movie star, calling for raising taxes, banning guns, ending global warming, and legalizing gay marriage means never having to feel too bad about living on the beach and making, under our capitalist system, more money in a month than do many Americans in a lifetime." (Emphasis added)

Uh-oh. Looks like I'm in trouble for the previous post! Article calls Obama ‘aloof’; Libs scramble to put aloof in Handbook of Racial Code Words. Well, one lib anyway. But after this remark gets forwarded around more, we'll see if Chris Matthews rants about it. Here's the tweet:                       

@NPRinskeep @ron_fournier really? Not republican intransigence and ideological rigidity but President Obama is aloof? Code for uppity?

And here is the article being tweeted about by the low-information tweeter. Read the article yourself and show me one sentence that can be construed in any way to be racial:

The Perils of Being Aloof; Willingness to Schmooze Can Make the Difference Between a Good and Great Presidency.
"At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?"
Did you read it? Go ahead, I'll wait here for you. After all, we don't want you to be another of the low-information people, do we?
Picture at right from Obama cartoons

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Lessons In Government School Indoctrination

Neal Boortz

"The problem is HOW this government school document teaches the lesson.  The headline at the top of the document reads “Distribute the Wealth.”  And there you have the picture of the pretty little girl with the cute little pony tail.  She’s holding a bag of money in one hand, and giving away some of that money with the other.  Yes!  She’s distributing her wealth!  But if you study the picture you’ll see there’s an even more subtle message.  She’s not handing money away from her wallet or her purse.  No!  That wouldn’t get the real message across!  Why pretty much every little girl has a wallet or a purse.  No .. this little sweetheart has a BAG of money!  Not every little girl has BAGS of money … so this girl must be really RICH!  And since she’s rich her money needs to be redistributed!  So she’s being a good little rich girl  and she’s smiling as she hands her money away."

Well, wouldn't the most accurate picture be that she is smiling while some adult is reaching into her bag to take money out?

The English role in the American Civil War

When Liverpool was Dixie; An English history, an American War
 "April of 1861, Stephen Mallory, Secretary of the Confederate Navy, met with James Dunwoody Bulloch, a private citizen, in Montgomery, AL.
"Bulloch was inducted into the Confederate Navy, with the rank of Lieutenant, and given orders to travel to Liverpool, England, there to build and equip, ships of war for the Confederate Navy. What followed is one of the most remarkable stories of the conflict, a story that continued, long after the conflict itself had finished.

"The story of the South`s hidden hero Commander James Dunwoody Bulloch."  Via The 290 Foundation on Facebook
The ships,,foremost of them all being the British-built Alabama.  Read her fascinating story:  "Originally designated the 290 (she was the 290th vessel to be built in the Lairds yard). She was launched as the Enrica, and was once referred to as the Barcelona upon her arrival in the Azores. Being commissioned into the Confederate States Navy in August 1862 as the CSS Alabama."

Hence the name of the 290 Foundation, our source for this information.

Alabama's upper and lower deck plans

Lower deck construction blueprint
Elevation drawing of Alabama Notice the storage for "Spirits","Bread' and "Shells" all together.

Alabama and Kearsarge; a comparative review
 

Hear Alabama's story in song by Kimber's Men. There are more polished versions of this, but I particularly loved KM's harmonies even though they were just jammin' here.

USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama; the final battle

Report of Captain Winslow, U.S. Navy, commanding U.S.S. Kearsarge.

 

U. S. S. KEARSARGE, Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864

SIR:   I have the honor to inform the Department that the day subsequent to the arrival of the Kearsarge off this port, on the 14th instant, I received a note from Captain Semmes, begging that the Kearsarge would not depart, as he intended to fight her and would not delay her but a day or two.

According to this notice, the Alabama left the port of Cherbourg this morning at about 9:30 o'clock.

At 10:20 a. m. we discovered her steering toward us. Fearing the question of jurisdiction might arise, we steamed to sea until a distance of 6 or 7 miles was attained from the Cherbourg breakwater, when we rounded to and commenced steaming for the Alabama. As we approached her within about 1,200 yards she opened fire, we receiving two or three broadsides before a shot was returned. The action continued, the respective steamers making a circle round and round at a distance of about 900 yards from each other. At the expiration of an hour the Alabama struck, going down in about 20 minutes afterwards, and carrying many persons with her.

It affords me great gratification to announce to the Department that every officer and man did his duty, exhibiting a degree of coolness and fortitude which gave promise at the outset of certain victory.

I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your obedient servant,     

JNO. A. WINSLOW,                     Captain,

Hon. GIDEON WELLES,

Mentioned in this account is the city of Birkenhead. This is the account of the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead and the origin of the phrase, "The Birkenhead Drill" and "Women and children first"...
The account includes this quote from Somerset Maugham:

 "I much prefer travelling in non-British ships. There's none of that nonsense about women and children first."

Trend in conservative protests — supporting retailers under attack

Legal Insurrection  "It seems my first prediction of the year came true:  There won’t be any massive “Tea Party” rallies. Instead… more impromptu displays celebrating American principles and liberties will occur.
"Over 60,000 people signed up to shop at Hobby Lobby Saturday in a show of support for the company’s freedom of religion. The firm sells arts and crafts supplies and is owned by evangelical David Green. The company filed a lawsuit against the Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate that requires it to cover contraception, sterilization and abortifacients in their employees’ health care.
" "It was another successful buycott organized by average Americans upset with the over-reach of the government, just as Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day was last year.  For example, News 5/KOAA in Colorado Springs reports that hundreds of area residents showed up and added a little something extra to their support:"

Tens of Thousands Flock to Hobby Lobby on National Appreciation Day

Standing With Hobby Lobby on Facebook

"PROTEST BONUS! There is a petition on the White House website to officially recognize the Roman Catholic Church as a hate group. Happily, they seem rather shy of the 25,000 signatures requested. My purchase seems like a good way to protest that, too."...See below:
We The People has this petition going: We petition the Obama Administration to: Officially recognize the Roman Catholic Church as a hate group.   ...."Pope Benedict said that gay people starting families are threatening to society, and that gay parents objectify and take away the dignity of children. The Pope also implied that gay families are sub-human, as they are not dignified in the eyes of God.
Upon these remarks, the Roman Catholic Church fits the definition of a hate group as defined by both the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League." ...."Signatures needed by January 24, 2013 to reach goal of 25,000: 22,625" "Total signatures on this petition: 2,375"
But this cartoon shows us how any of us who take a stand for Christian principles will be depicted:

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jan/05/hobby-lobby-cartoon-clay-bennett-chattanooga-times/

It does not matter that a company carries healthcare for its employees; if they do not provide birth control they will be accused of not doing so and be given the" tolerant liberal treatment".  

Why Is The Left In America So Filled With HATE?

The Freedom Fighter's Journal: A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
"They have no respect for anyone other than themselves.  Common decency in addressing another human being who may hold a differing opinion is avoided like the plague.

"Their use of the vilest of profane language in the pubic square is their trademark.  Having a conversation with them is akin to walking barefoot through a livestock pen — in the dark.

"They are the bully in every conversation or discussion.  Their use of vocal force to dominate a debate, especially when they are losing to common sense, only demonstrates the shallowness of their own knowledge stream ...."

...."The rancid attitude of the left has poisoned the American political process and has infected the American citizenry so deeply that a total breakup of the country would not be unexpected."

 Want some good examples? How about this one on then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice by Danziger? We printed another of her by the virulently anti-Republican 'toonist Oliphant recently. 

 

Here is liberal treatment of conservative economist Thomas Sowell that MSNBC people are free to comment upon at any time they feel like doing so:

 Emerge Magazine 

Israel and Chuck Hagel

Obviously Obama seems to enjoy picking fights with conservatives. He relishes the chances it gives him to demagogue as he stands in front of beaming supporters posed tightly behind him. In other words, Hagel is a symptom of the unchecked arrogance of the president as he enters his second term.

President Obama to nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, senior administration official says  ".... he's ready for a contentious confirmation fight likely dominated by questions about Hagel's stands on Israel and Iran." Lucianne

Would Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge Survive Hagel?  "The logic was simple: Israel would be outnumbered in both men in uniform and hardware by its neighbors: The Arab League contains more than 400 million people; Israel tops out at less than 8 million."
...."When it comes to Israel’s [qualitative military edge] , perhaps one of the first questions the Senate should ask their former colleague is whether he believes that maintaining Israel’s QME continues to have a place in America’s national security, how recent events should mandate that QME be calculated, what cost is acceptable to maintain the QME, and what changes, if any, he would like to see made to it."

Iran Gets the Message on Hagel  "...we’ll probably hear how Hagel’s views have “evolved” and “don’t matter anyway,” because Obama sets the policies. That’s nonsense. .... There is only one reason, one possible advantage, of choosing a fight over Hagel. And that’s to send a message to Israel and Iran."  The author quotes this from Iranian PressTV

Obama to name anti-Israeli Hagel as Defense Secretary: Reports   "All signs indicate that US President Barack Obama is poised to nominate anti-Israel ex-Senator Chuck Hagel as the next defense secretary soon, informed sources say."

This is a signal from Obama to Iran and Israel; if Congress approves Hagel they will be endorsing this same position. Think of the import of this. TD

Caroline Glick wrote back in December: Hagel, Obama and the Israeli elections  "... there is no chance that Obama will appoint a supporter of a strong Israel to any senior foreign policy post because he wouldn't appoint someone who doesn't share his basic animosity towards Israel. But in Hagel, he chose someone even more outspoken in his animus towards the Jewish state than Obama."

Jewish World Review posted this: GOPers to defend Israel from one of their own; "Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., predicted that Hagel would be "the most antagonistic secretary of defense toward the state of Israel in our nation's history," and called it an "in-your-face nomination." "

Israel Matsav gives this quote from the column "Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler"
"Recently, a campaign to support the flagging nomination of Sen. Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense began. Part of that campaign were two op-eds in the New York Times casting opponents of Hagel as extremists".

Winners and losers in the fiscal cliff deal

http://terrellaftermath.com/

WaPo; Winners and losers in the fiscal cliff deal  "Obama’s handling of the fiscal cliff talks felt pitch perfect up until his Monday event with “middle class” citizens. The rally felt too much like a campaign rally — Obama was repeatedly cheered — and the president himself was in a joking mood that didn’t seem to fit the moment.  Will it be overshadow the fact that he got a deal? No. But it was an off-key note from the country’s top communicator."

Regulatory Calendar: Administration Releases 2013 Regulatory Plan

Time to get this?

Possible Costs: $123.2 billion

Possible Paperwork Burden: 13.6 million hours

American Action Forum  "On the Friday afternoon before Christmas, the administration released its delayed 2012 “Unified Agenda” of federal regulations.  Rather than publish a spring and fall agenda, the custom every year since 1996, the White House opted for a late afternoon drop during the holidays."The timing is perhaps less important than the contents of the new report.  According to initial projections, the agenda contains $123.2 billion in possible regulatory costs for 2013 and at least 13 million paperwork burden hours.
"What’s more, some entries lacked data typically included in the regulatory plan, and outlined in the Regulatory Flexibility Act.  For example, new import security filings state $0 in capital and annual costs in the 2012 agenda.  However, the 2011 agenda clearly stated costs could reach $7 billion annually.  It’s not clear how widespread these omissions are in the 2012 agenda.
"Listed below are 40 notable regulations (out of 2,387 active actions) on the horizon for 2013, organized by agency, and then chronologically by scheduled release date." "
Read them here

Video; Top government regulations Santa will break

Obama supporters shocked, angry at new tax increases

     Washington Times

Sometimes, watching a Democrat learn something is wonderful, like seeing the family dog finally sit and stay at your command

"Shocker. Democrats who supported the president’s re-election just had NO idea that his steadfast pledge to raise taxes meant that he was really going to raise taxes. They thought he planned to just hit those filthy “1 percenters,” you know, the ones who earned fortunes through their inventiveness and hard work. They thought the free ride would continue forever.

"So this week, as taxes went up for millions of Americans — which Republicans predicted throughout the campaign would happen — it was fun to watch the agoggery of the left."

Democrat Underground Blames Bush for Obama Payroll Tax Hike
"And somebody went to Democrat Underground, somebody got the idea to go there and just troll and look around, and one of the first posts in Democrat Underground last night was this: "What happened that my Social Security withholding's in my paycheck just went up? My paycheck just went down by an amount that I don't feel comfortable with. I guarantee this decrease is gonna hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over 400 grand. What happened?" "