Where Is Obama’s Border Policy? A serious president would push to eliminate the Central American loophole in our immigration laws.

 Charles Krauthammer   ... "There is no logic. Just a quirk of the law — a 2008 law intended to deter sex trafficking. It mandates that Central American kids receive temporary relocation, extensive assistance and elaborate immigration/deportation proceedings, which many simply evade.

"This leniency was designed for a small number of sex-trafficked youth. It was never intended for today’s mass migration aimed at establishing a family foothold in America.

"Stopping this wave is not complicated. A serious president would go to Congress tomorrow proposing a change in the law, simply mandating that Central American kids get the same treatment as Mexican kids, i.e., be subject to immediate repatriation.

"Then do so under the most humane conditions. Buses with every amenity. Kids accompanied by nurses and social workers and interpreters and everything they need on board. But going home.

"One thing is certain. When the first convoys begin rolling from town to town across Central America, the influx will stop." ...   More at NRO

 

Texas Gov. Rick Perry wanted to discuss the issue with America's president   And how'd that work out?

... "He did, however, reluctantly agree to a hastily-arranged meeting with Texas Governor Rick Perry to talk about the growing emergency. Well, not actually talk, but listen. Okay, he didn't listen either - but at least he was in the room - giggling - long enough to get a picture taken..." 

"Things you can do at #hobbylobby #keepyourrosariesoffmyovaries #prochoice."

Althouse    More at "Crafty activists are trolling Hobby Lobby by rearranging in-store craft displays to spell ‘pro-choice’" in The Washington Post.

Shea’s fans — actress Wendi McLendon-Covey and columnist Dan Savage among them — have lauded the stunt as a clever, light-hearted way to draw attention to women’s health and the Hobby Lobby case. Her critics, meanwhile, have dismissed it as childish and misguided, less sticking it to “the man” and more inconveniencing a bunch of frazzled, innocent store employees....

 

In either case, what Shea terms a “protest” or a “prank” is almost indistinguishable from trolling — provoking annoyance and fury, merely to infuriate and annoy. That’s not a criticism, but it’s certainly an intriguing commentary on the state of political discourse these days. We have reached a point where the end-game, perhaps necessarily, isn’t to convert hearts and minds — it’s just to make some noise.

 "1.  "Pro-choice" is the wrong word in the context where the business owners resisted being denied the choice about covering birth control and where that resistance is premised on their religion which they have the right to choose. Those who don't like the choices the business owners have made have the choice to shop elsewhere.

"2. The pranksters are taunting those who have taken a strong stand based on religion. Are we really going to taunt people about religion? If you're inclined to say yes, do you really mean it, across the board for all religions, or is this a special willingness to taunt Christians? If it's special for Christians, why is that? Is it because you think it's okay to taunt what you think is the dominant group? If Christians like the ones your protesting against really were dominant, we shouldn't, in a democracy, end up with laws forcing them to do things against their conscience, so I'd say, the existence of the birth control mandate is evidence that they are not the dominant group, in which case, you're harassing a minority. Why would you do that? Is it that you feel safe picking on Christians?"

Some comments to this story:
  "Uh... because Christians don't tend to kill you when you prank them? 

..."Such HL protests by the post-Marxist Left are not about presenting a rational discourse for the public to mull over & hopefully, support. They seek not to refute, but to make opposing viewpoints "un-thinkable' " ...

..."Everyone feels safe picking on Christians because there are no consequences for doing so. You won't find a similar relish for picking on Muslims, because there is a distinct tendency to riots and slit throats when the "prophet" is maligned (or even depicted). That is certainly an interesting set of incentives to be pushing, isn't it? "

...Michael said (I hasten to add) :

 "There are an uncommon number of fat, tattooed women with a cause. As they degrade their bodies there seems to be a collateral degradation of brain cells. They are very unattractive. Their ideas are sophomoric. Stunts like this are asinine. She is not a customer of the store and making fun, as she is, of both the company and its customers is not a smart or winning strategy.

"She should save her "creativity" for new tattoo ideas. "  

I did a search of "pictures pro choice protests at muslim stores". What do you think came up?  Bupkis

Same for this search: "pictures pro choice protests at islamic centers". One link was to the protest against the Muslim victory mosque at Ground Zero, but not a pro-choice activist anywhere. I'm sure the pro-choice crowd thought that Ground Zero issue was due to intolerance.

VD Hanson: Are Obama’s Advisers Unhinged?

 

Full article by Victor Davis Hanson   "Surely reports that President Obama is going down to Texas at the height of the Katrina-like border debacle to raise money at the home of the popular but often polarizing filmmaker and Quentin Tarantino–collaborator Robert Rodriguez are the stuff of right-wing mythology?

 

"No one could be so politically dense as to head south in the direction of this catastrophe only to pull up short to huckster campaign funds — while under a lingering cloud that such special-interest money solicitation in the past typically has taken precedence over national security (cf. the need to retire early on the night of Benghazi in order to prep for an important fundraiser the next day in Las Vegas, where the selfish go to blow their kids’ tuition money).

"That the Obama money-raiser is purportedly being hosted by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez also cannot be true. The latter is famous for ultra-violent exploitation films of just the sort that gun-control liberals have insisted glorify (true) assault-weapon violence for profit and influence the deranged to translate such violent fiction into murderous fact.

"More disturbing at this volatile time of national tensions on the border is the fact that Rodriguez directed the Machete andMachete Kills movies, which offered cheap exploitation about the immigration debate, caricaturing any who disagreed with the present policy of non-enforcement as more or less evil, Neanderthal-like racists and demented militiamen worthy of death (cf. the pseudo/spoof racist trailer for one of the films that envisioned killing border-enforcement politicians).

 

"What would the media have thought if George W. Bush went to Louisiana during Katrina only to avoid New Orleans and the devastation, instead raising campaign cash (at $32,000 a head) at the home of a right-wing filmmaker of violent films that tended to glorify gunplay and to reduce controversies over disaster relief into caricatures of culpable dependents?

 

"In short, it would be impossible to dream up a worse mercenary presidential trip — in terms of morally indifferent omission and self-interested commission — at this critical time than what Obama supposedly now intends.

 

"Surely, the junket will be canceled out of embarrassment or quietly recalibrated — or perhaps the entire story about the trip is simply an urban legend."

Alan Caruba asks: How Intelligent are Americans?

Warning Signs

 

"The segments when Jay Leno would take to the street to ask Americans questions about things that one would expect them to know and those when Jesse Watters of the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News does the same thing invariably suggest that those interviewed are appallingly stupid. But how representative are they of the population?

"The voters who reelected President Obama despite a first term that included all his policies that put the nation at jeopardy apparently made no connection between those facts and his competence. Voters who stayed home demonstrated indifference.

....

After much insightful commentary, Mr. Caruba concludes with this:

 

"To that extent, I wait impatiently for the results of the forthcoming November midterm elections. Stupid Americans will vote for more of the same. Intelligent ones will vote for change."

viewpointsofasagittarian

 

 

Obama’s ‘Man-Caused’ Disaster

Politico

... "The first rule in a crisis for any executive is put on your windbreaker and your boots and get out on the ground. President George W. Bush didn’t do it soon enough after Hurricane Katrina and, politically, could never make up for it, no matter how many times he visited New Orleans subsequently. Obama’s bizarre resistance to visiting the border on his fundraising swing out West fueled talk of the influx as Obama’s “Katrina moment.”

"The Katrina analogy is both over the top and too generous. It is over the top because the border influx isn’t a deadly catastrophe swallowing an American city. It is too generous because Bush didn’t do anything to bring on Hurricane Katrina, whereas Obama’s policies are responsible for the influx of immigrants from the border. It is, in the argot of his administration, a “man-caused disaster.' ”... Read more:
Rich Lowry.

bokbluster.com

 

Tea Party: Learn From Al Gore

Ann Coulter   "Chris McDaniel, candidate for the U.S. Senate from Mississippi, lost the Republican runoff to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran last month, and now he is being led down a primrose path to political oblivion. McDaniel's passionate supporters think that a moment of crisis for the country is a good time to treat control of the Senate as if it's a prom queen election.
"Hoping for yet a third primary vote, McDaniel's crew is going to prevent him from having any political career, ever again."Observe that no one is asking Al Gore to run again, except maybe his cardiologist. Even in cases of actual vote fraud, history shows that the contesting politicians get branded as sore losers and destroy their political careers. Better to be magnanimous and live to fight another day.Here are a few examples:"   Full article...

OBAMA’S GOONS:SILENCING/THREATENING INTELLIGENCE WHISTLEBLOWERS-SHUT UP, OR ELSE.FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN CROSSHAIRS!

Anita Kutniki

Which makes me wonder; Whose brilliant idea was

it to make the Democrats blue instead of giving them

the red? Red has been the color of socialism  for 

 a century.

 

... "YET, the handwriting has been on the wall, for heavens sake, too many times to count. Never mind…
RECOUNT ONE:

"DO readers recall the recent plight of a concerned parent, a former prosecutor no less, who was arrested at a school board meeting in New Hampshire, all for the “crime” of questioning the (mis)educators of his 14 yr old daughter? Well, when the fish stinks from the head up, those in positions of authority, whether local school boards or what not, feel freer to bring down the hammer, to silence, if disagreed with! Can you imagine? Is this America, or a third world tyranny?
RECOUNT TWO:"   ..... Keep reading...
  

 

Hat tip to Conservative Bloggers on Facebook  

 

 NBC News' Chuck Todd: Obama administration looks like it's 'struggling to run the government'     "An MSNBC  (wait!....what??) panel suggested Wednesday that the myriad of scandals surrounding the White House have finally overwhelmed top Obama officials, giving off the sense that the administration is “struggling to run the government.' ”  Video.

Dem. Rep. Henry Cuellar Rips Obama: 'Aloof,' 'Bizarre,' and 'Detached'   

 

... "He's so close to the border. And let me say this: when I saw, and I hate to use the word bizarre, but under the circumstances, when he is shown playing pool in Colorado, drinking a beer, and he can't even go 242 miles to the Texas border, and plus, if he doesn't want to go down to the border, there's the Air Force Base where HHS is holding some of the young kids from the border. He could at least make that trip to San Antonio, but again, border community leaders wants to see him down there on the border, and I think the optics and the substance of it is that he should show up at the border," said Cuellar.

"And he had some advice for the White House."If they are worried about putting a face, the president's face, to this human crisis, humanitarian crisis, I think it's worse if he doesn't even show up. Either way, he's going to be tied into this humanitarian crisis. he either can roll up his sleeves and go down to the border, or he can just look aloof and detached and not go to the border, send surrogates down there, and say that he's got everything under control."

"He adds, "It Just floored me, because if he's saying he's too busy to go to the border but you have time to drink beer, play pool."
The president was in Colorado last night -- drinking beer and playing pool.

Democrats; the party of demagogues, Occupiers. Larry Flynt, Harry Reid, and Mike Dickinson; doing what they do best.

This is not our father's Democrat Party. Conservatives, do not do things like this; we have to be better than liberals.

Mike Dickinson, the Virginia liberal Democrat, offers reward for nude photos of hunter-cheerleader Kendall Jones

Kendall Jones/Facebook via CBS News

 

"Mike Dickinson, the Virginia liberal Democrat seeking the House seat currently held by Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., despite not being on the ballot, offered a $100,000 reward for nude photos and videos of Kendall Jones, the 19-year-old Texas Tech cheerleader who recently made news with a series of hunting photos on her Facebook page.

 

" 'I have 100k to anyone who has nude photos or videos of #kendalljones at Texas tech (sic)," Dickinson tweeted. "She deserves to be a target."

...

Dickinson's campaign, if one can even call it that, has consisted primarily of unhinged, inappropriate rants on Twitter, attacking critics and declaring war on those with whom he disagrees, which is pretty much anyone to the right of Josef Stalin. He routinely refers to members of the Tea Party as terrorists, saying in a recent tweet that a "dead teabagger is a good teabagger."

 

More on Dickinson here: Va. Dem. says he wants to 'decimate' Christians, 'eradicate' Tea Party    " 'Said it proudly! Want to decimate the tea party, the NRA, bible thumpers, and Fox News zombies? Vote for me," he tweeted."

More on this subject as pertaining to Democrats:

• Facebook OKs page advocating murder of hunter-cheerleader Kendall Jones
• Chart-topping songwriter calls for death of Texas Tech hunter-cheerleader
• Va. Dem. wants police called on Tea Party members, seeks personal information
• Va. Dem. to supporters: Break the law, use police to harass Tea Party members
• Did Va. Dem. Mike Dickinson suggest killing Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin? 

THE UGLY TRUTH -- A DIAGNOSIS

Mr. Boortz connects some dots and draws a conclusion from them. If you disagree with any of his points, be specific and detailed about them. Inane remarks such as, "moronic post", and "delusional" just do not impress anyone except the other liberals in your high school class.

HopeN'Change

 

Neal Boortz   ... "OK.  Sit down.  I have a diagnosis for you.  This reality is going to be hard to accept.  You may have first heard this diagnosis a few years ago, and totally rejected it.  New tests – more modern tests -- have been run.  Better research has been performed.  I’m sorry, but the diagnosis has been confirmed.  Many of you who are just now studying the issue are going to embrace the denial stage immediately.  If you read on, if you pay attention, if you have even a semblance of an open mind, you’re going to see that this diagnosis is pretty much accurate.

"Diagnosis:  America is currently being ruled by a man who came to this country in 1979 determined to destroy America as we know it, and who is well on his way to realizing that goal. 

"There!  There’s the denial, right?  That Boortz guy is just a hater.  Barack Obama cares so much for people.  It’s those Republicans and their obstructionism that have made him look so bad. Go ahead … go with that response for a while, but I’m going to give you some facts to digest.  Call them dots.  Connect them yourself.  See where they lead you.

"OBAMA HISTORY
            "I’ve blogged about Obama’s history – his upbringing – many times.  If you’re reading this you’ve probably read my previous thoughts on the subject. I do have a different and more concise way to express to you the reality of 0bama’s formative years.  Let’s try this:" ...

With one exception, every single person involved in bringing Obama into this world, nurturing him, educating him and escorting him into adulthood literally despised America.  From the time he was born until the time he left home in Hawaii to attend Occidental College in California, every single person involved in raising Obama thought America was a blight on the world. 

 

 

UPDATED: School leader mocks Michelle O’s bake sale restrictions: We can’t fundraise ‘selling carrot sticks’

Vote Democrat to get more of this:

Education Action Group Foundation  "NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee State Board of Education has passed sweeping new restrictions on student bake sales in order to be compliant with federal rules on school snacks, and a lot of people are unhappy about it.

Hot Air

"In order to comply with the Michelle Obama-inspired regulations, Tennessee schools will only be allowed to have bake sales 30 days per school year.

"State Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman said it was “quite remarkable” that food fundraisers would be regulated by how many days they can be held, noting that this will prevent high school sports teams from holding weekly food fundraisers, according to The Tennessean.

"Others were more direct in their criticism.

“ 'It’s unbelievable to me the amount of guidelines that are there,” state Board of Education Chairman Fielding Rolston said, according to the newspaper."

Perhaps the Obama's will simply choose not to enforce the law. Naaaa.

#ThanksMichelle: Students Tweet Photos of Skimpy, Stomach-Turning School Lunches

Shocking moment ISIS militants take sledgehammers to Mosul tomb of Prophet Jonah

UK Daily Mail

 

"One of the devastated tombstones belonged to the Prophet Jonah (Younis in Arabic) and was revered by Muslims and Christians alike, according to Iraqi authorities.

 

"The prophet, who is the central figure in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Jonah, is best known for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation." ...

 

... "The photographs of the destroyed churches and mosques that emerged last week were posted on a website which frequently carries official statements from ISIS.

"Some of them showed bulldozers plowing through walls, while others featured buildings being demolished by explosives in a cloud of smoke and rubble.

"Residents from both Mosul and Tal Afar confirmed the destruction of the sites, the Associated Press reported."