Obama's hubris problem

Politico  "Tuesday morning, a peculiar announcement trickled out of the White House press office: President Barack Obama would be holding a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston bombings. At the White House. By himself. No press or other intruders allowed.

"Except the White House photographer.

"That Obama assumed Americans would want an iconic photo of him privately mourning the victims of the bombings was emblematic of a kind of hubris that has enveloped the president and his White House as the president commences his second term."

Obama leans toward this sort of thing:

"Talk radio bomb thrower Rush Limbaugh ripped President Obama on Sunday for his ego, health care reform effort - and a "photo op" with the casket of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan."

 

Media Fawns Over Obama Saluting Caskets Of Fallen Soldiers From Afghanistan  " Our troops don’t need salutes at this point. They need leadership. And Obama is sadly bereft of that quality.
"And this isn’t asking him to “rush” a decision on Afghanistan. He campaigned on finishing the war there. He’s had months and months to consider the issue. There’s no reason he can’t make a decision now. Other than politics, which he clearly values more than the lives of our troops." 

One of those posts you aren't sure if you should publish or not. But do; there is some MSNBC in all of us, isn't there?

Beck to Obama: Come clean on bombing, or else   "TV and radio host Glenn Beck has warned the Obama administration it has until Monday, April 22, to come clean about the Boston Marathon bombing, or he promises to “expose” what’s being hidden from the American public.
“I thought I had heard and seen it all. I thought I didn’t trust my government,” Beck lamented. “Oh, no. No, no. There is no depth that these people will not stoop to. They have until Monday, and then the Blaze will expose it.” "
"What is Beck threatening to expose? Apparently it has something to do with Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, a Saudi national initially questioned by police following the bombing, but since released."
....
" “Let me just say this to those at the highest echelons of government,” Beck intoned. “We know who this Saudi national is. And it is in your best interest and the best interest of integrity and trust for the people of United States of America – it’s best coming from you, not coming from a news organization. It’s best coming from you. You have until Monday. We have information on who this man is. … We know he is a very bad, bad, bad man.”"

But do not write Beck off until you consider all the following:

Jihad in France: Jihadi opens fire on Southern Town of Istres, Kills 3
"How much longer can the media cover up the jihad  motive?"

Could This Islamic Demand Be Next for America?  "The Obama Administration is in denial over Islamic extremism. It shows in almost everything they say and do. For example:

“Before the Boston Marathon bombings, the Obama administration argued for years that there is a big difference between terrorists and the tenets of Islam.

“A senior White House aide in 2009 publicly urged Washington to cease using the term ‘jihadist’ — asserting that terrorists are simply extremists. Two years later, the White House ordered a cleansing of training materials that Islamic groups deemed offensive.”

 

Bush’s “Decency” Was Always There, but Where Was the Media’s? (UPDATED)

Seth Mandel  "So yes, there was plenty of absurdity coming from the right and leveled at President Obama, and history will not look kindly on the disrespect and indignity of making the president feel compelled to show his birth certificate. Plenty of the attacks on Bill Clinton were–or should have been–out of bounds too. But ask yourself this: can you picture John McCain screaming at the top of his lungs that Barack Obama is a traitor to the country he leads, or jokingly suggesting he should assassinate Obama? And can you imagine political reporters writing four years after Obama leaves office that they never knew he was a personally decent man?"

UPDATE: W outclasses Barack and Bill, without even trying  ...."Just before we said our goodbyes, I asked her if she’d miss covering President Obama.

 

" “Not at all. He’s an inch deep. Bush is a bottomless chasm, a deep, mysterious, emotional, profound man. Obama is all surface — shallow, obvious, robotic, and, frankly, not nearly as smart as he thinks. Bush was the one.”

"Her words, so succinct, have stuck with me ever since. By the way, she’s a hardcore Democrat."

Army scraping off biblical reference from weapons scopes

American Thinker  "For years, weapons scopes supplied to the Army by a company called Trijicon ...have carried serial numbers ending in JNB:12 and 2COR4:6. To the biblically untutored, they appeared to be just a continuation of an alphanumeric sequence. But to people familiar with the Bible and citations therefrom, these sequences signify Bible verses.
....
"The U.S. Army is directing troops to remove a Bible inscription that a vendor etched into the serial numbers of weapon scopes, Fox News has learned.
"Soldiers at Fort Wainwright in Alaska told Fox News they received a directive to turn in their scopes so the Bible references could be removed."

"The biblical verse (JN8:12) must be removed utilizing a Dremel type tool and then painted black," read instructions on how to remedy the matter.

 "The vendor etched those inscriptions on scopes without the Army's approval," Army spokesman Matthew Bourke told Fox in a written statement. "Consequently, the modified scopes did not meet the requirement under which the contract was executed."


The most famous commercial example of biublical verse references printed where most people won't notice them is the In-N-Out Burger beverage cups. If you turn one over, you see:

About California

Victor Davis Hanson; Five Days of Hope and Despair. Here is a brief travel log of five days amid 21st-century California.

"If the new library is now designed as a valuable cultural nexus, to throw together all sorts of young people of different classes, religions, and races, and at least expose them to the idea of sitting in a comfortable and humane learning place, overseen by courteous and professional staff, where reading is theoretically possible, then it is a smashing success.

"If, on the other hand, it is supposed to be a place where disciplined young people individually pursue real knowledge in the liberal arts and sciences, through self-motivated and faculty-guided research, then it appears an utter failure. Does playing a video game next to the Iliad and Prometheus Bound mean that it is more likely that the video game is educational?"

http://www.calwatchdog.com/2013/04/22/california-127-2-billion-in-the-hole/

Obama says he believes in small business

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

Geithner: Taxes on ‘Small Business’ Must Rise So Government Doesn’t Shrink  "As far back as 2011,Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the House Small Business Committee 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.” "

Boston manhunt brought people together over desire to have a gun

Legal Insurrection  "Even most Democrats and liberals wanted a gun

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This is a follow up to my post about the bitter Twitter action during the lock-down of Boston in the search for the bombers, Boston lock-down exposes gun culture divide.

"The reaction to a tweet from an Arkansas state representative was particularly vigorous, revealing more about cultural perceptions (NSFW) than the usefulness of a gun.

"It looks like the divide may be deep, but not very wide.  A substantial majority of people want to have a gun in their home if there is a manhunt ongoing.

Even a majority of Democrats and liberals wanted a gun."

Breaking Report: FBI Was ‘Shocked’ to See Judge ‘Waltz’ in and Give Tsarnaev Miranda Rights

Gateway Pundit  "FOX News afternoon host Megyn Kelly broke the news this morning that – FBI agents were “shocked” to see a judge “waltz in” and read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights this week. According to Kelly, Dzhokhar was giving the agents crucial information before the judge, at the request of the Obama Administration, put a stop to it.

Quoting The Blaze:
"Regular viewers of Fox News are used to seeing popular host Megyn Kelly on their televisions every afternoon, but on Thursday morning Kelly made a special appearance during the morning to break some surprising information: according to her sources, the FBI was “shocked” to see a magistrate “waltz into” the hospital room of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and read him his Miranda rights.
"So why were they shocked? According to Kelly, the FBI was under the understanding that they would get much more time with Tsarnaev under the “public safety exemption” before he was read his rights. Adding to the shock: the sources told Kelly agents were getting crucial information after only 16 hours of questioning and were making valuable progress.
No matter.
"“It’s really unbelievable,” Kelly said."

 

Gateway Pundit reports: Michelle Obama Visited Saudi “Person of Interest” in Hospital… Skipped US Man Who Lost Both Legs

Gateway Pundit   Source: Walid Shoebat

The same prominent Saudi newspaper, that published photos of Abdul Rahman Ali Issa Al-Salimi Al-Harbi in the hospital after the Boston marathon bombings, is now reporting that the Saudi national was also visited by the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama during his hospital stay. Free Republic

Exclusive Photo of Alharbi in Hospital and more evidence of coverup

Maps of Vicksburg, Mississippi (1863); Battle of Vicksburg Animated Map

Civil War Trust
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Click here instead of the picture. So far, I have had no luck getting it to play even though the other maps listed in this site would.

We try to post things like this on their actual anniversaries, but this seemed to good to pass up. Enjoy, buffs.

"Watch our animated map of the Battle of Vicksburg, produced by Wide Awake Films in partnership with Friends of Vicksburg Battlefield. Learn more about this important Civil War campaign and battle, one sometimes called the turning point of the war."

Special Thanks to Wide Awake Films, for producing this animated map. Learn more at www.wideawakefilms.com »

Letters to a Young Progressive

Mike Adams' next book, Letters to a Young Progressive, will be published in April of 2013. He plans to spend the profits on new guns made by Browning and old guitars made by Fender.

....After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Mike Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. He has since made appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Glenn Beck. His column on TownHall.com has earned him countless hate mails - often from radical feminists who hate males

"Make no mistake about it, though: I'm glad to have written two hard-hitting books on life in the academy. The first was needed to expose the intellectual shallowness of the campus diversity movement. Another book was needed to chronicle the absurdity of campus feminism. But my latest book is written from the heart.
"I see kids going off to college and losing their faith every year. I also see them adopting radical political positions soon after enrolling in college. I understand what they are going through because I went through the same thing thirty years ago. I abandoned my faith my very first semester in college. Later on, I embraced left wing politics that only made sense in conjunction with a secular worldview. But circumstances and, ultimately, Providence turned that all around. "

 

THE PROBLEM ISN'T JUST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, IT'S LEGAL IMMIGRATION, TOO

http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/po/2013/04/22/

Ann Coulter  "...Sen. Lindsey Graham's response to the Boston Marathon bombers being worthless immigrants who hate America -- one of whom the FBI cleared even after being tipped off by Russia -- was to announce: "The fact that we could not track him has to be fixed."

"Track him? How about not admitting him as an immigrant?

"As if it's a defense, we're told Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (of the Back Bay Tsarnaevs) were disaffected "losers" -- the word used by their own uncle -- who couldn't make it in America. Their father had already returned to Russia. Tamerlan had dropped out of college, been arrested for domestic violence and said he had no American friends. Dzhokhar was failing most of his college courses. All of them were on welfare.

"(Dzhokhar was given everything America had to offer, and now he only has one thing in his future to look forward to ... a tenured professorship.)

"My thought is, maybe we should consider admitting immigrants who can succeed in America, rather than deadbeats"