Sunday, August 18, 2013

The Gov...er, the Candy Man Can


Thanks to former classmate John Paul Curnutt for steering us to this little gem.

Another version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N37IWeQFwqs

Muslims to hold protest march on DC . . . on September 11th!


"We all swore We Would NEVER Forget the most horrific day of our lifetime when we saw our fellow Americans brutally murdered, right here on American soil.  Right here in America, where we hold our children and our families so dear and precious, so many were taken from us by a brutal enemy in a far off land who celebrated their savagery upon us.
"9/11 should NOT be a day for a Million Muslim March, NO!  My blood boils at the thought of this!  My heart hurts for all the 9/11 families who lost their loved ones on 9/11! If we as Americans allow these Million Muslims to march for their “rights” on this  most sacred day without an appropriate action, then we allow these families and all who have sacrificed to be brutalized again!....
 

I got him! Bush couldn't do it, but I did!

Hope n' Change   "According to a video interview with presidential body man and alleged "friend with benefits," Reggie Love,  Barack Obama left the situation room during the Seal Team Six raid on Bin Laden's compound, preferring to play Spades. For hours.

"Despite his reelection claims that he pretty much personally put a high hot one through Bin Laden's eyehole, Barry actually told Love " I’m not going to be down there, I can’t watch this entire thing." Nope, not when there are card games to be played."
...."So if President Obama "was this bored by the Bin Laden mission, imagine his complete indifference to a little thing like Benghazi. There are still no reports whatsoever about what the hell he was doing while Americans were dying, although we do know from the tragic results that it was nothing even remotely presidential."....

Lawgiver

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"President Obama insists that he’s not a dictator or a king, but if Congress won’t act he will. How’s that work? He picks and chooses the laws he likes. In a speech last week he claimed the right to unilaterally “tweak” the Affordable Care Act because this is not a “normal political environment” – meaning Congress won’t do what he wants.
"Funny, he didn’t have any trouble getting Congress’s cooperateration when they tweaked the law to subsidize the health care government workers must now buy through the exchanges. No one else earning$175,000 gets a subsidy.
George Will offers a pithy analysis of Obama’s Nixonian tendencies here:"
Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel
Obama’s unconstitutional steps worse than Nixon’s  "President Obama’s increasingly grandiose claims for presidential power are inversely proportional to his shriveling presidency. Desperation fuels arrogance as, barely 200 days into the 1,462 days of his second term, his pantry of excuses for failure is bare, his domestic agenda is nonexistent and his foreign policy of empty rhetorical deadlines and red lines is floundering. And at last week’s news conference he offered inconvenience as a justification for illegality."...
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"Serving as props in the scripted charade of White House news conferences, journalists did not ask the pertinent question: “Where does the Constitution confer upon presidents the ‘executive authority’ to ignore the separation of powers by revising laws?” The question could have elicited an Obama rarity: brevity. Because there is no such authority."....    (Emphasis added, TD)

Obama's Quality of Leadership

American Thinker   "Egypt is vital strategically to U.S. interests and security in the Middle East.  Yet the United States stands by, powerless, as mayhem reigns there and instability simmers dangerously elsewhere.  What has happened to our influence in the world?  A clue can be found in President Barack Obama's own words, his recent response to Russia's grant of asylum to NSA-leaker Edward Snowden:"....
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"Instead, we have a president whose attitude in a crisis seems to be one of pettiness, detachment and petulance."
There's that word, "petulant" again.
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http://www.cagle.com/news/obama-and-putin/page/2/

...."And our enemies?  Leaders like Vladimir Putin are not beguiled by charisma.  Obama's promised "Russian reset," now a shambles, was always a fantasy, a delusion.  It is not difficult to imagine the Russian president, perhaps while out hunting bear, chuckling in amazement at the weakness of the ostensible "Leader of the Free World."  Amazement that is sadly echoed around the world."
 

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Oversight Putsch: President Obama Fired Nearly All Members On Key Intelligence Advisory Board

Atlas Shrugs  "Once again, President Obama's contempt and disdain for the American people is glaring, this time in his claims that he had a serious revamp of the NSA's surveillance activity in his priorities before the Snowden leaks happened. Another big fat lie. He was ramping up the spying, while cutting back on the oversight and review.
"The more authoritarian the President is, the more sycophantic the enemedia is around this cult figure. "
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“They kicked me off,” said former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.). “I was on it a long time under Bush and under Obama. They wanted to make some changes.”

"Hamilton's ouster is particularly interesting, given that just a month ago, he wrote an oped piece about how the NSA's surveillance efforts have gone too far. Seems like he'd be handy to have on this committee reviewing the NSA surveillance, no?"....

On school choice, Damon's actions speak louder than words

Orange County Register  "Matt Damon, the most outspoken celebrity supporter of public schools and teachers unions, is moving to Los Angeles and enrolling his four children in private schools.

"Damon told Britain's The Guardian, which broke the Edward Snowden/NSA story (apparently, American journalism has been outsourced overseas), "Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice."

"Actually, he has money and can send his kids to school anywhere, so he does have a choice. Damon wants to deny the rest of America school choice by opposing the voucher system."
Cartoon by Gary Varvel - Indiana Supreme Court Upholds School Vouchers

29 Cats That Forgot How To Cat

Buzzfeed  "What are you doing, cats? How did this happen? "

"5. This cat who forgot how to sit still on her cat bed."
 

Booby trap! Islamic breast bomb threat at Heathrow airport

By Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs   "All kidding aside, how is  the Obama administration and the TSA going to make us pay? Clearly, these are Muslim women but we can't profile (it might offend Muslims and that would violate the sharia.)
"So now what? Can we expect our daughters, sisters, wives to be felt up and sexually haraassed by goons and maroons? Whatever idiotic response is instituted, rest assured the actual enemy, the jihadic motive will remain sacrosanct. The sanction of the victim."
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RUSH: Obama Rodeo Clown ‘Nothing More Than An Event To Advance The Democrat Agenda’

Barack the Lawgiver; Obama sees the Constitution’s separation of powers as a quaint anachronism.

Charles Krauthammer  ...."Traditionally — meaning before Barack Obama — that’s how laws were changed: We have a problem, we hold hearings, we find some new arrangement, which is ratified by Congress and signed by the president.

"That was then. On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder, a liberal in a hurry, ordered all U.S. attorneys to simply stop charging nonviolent, non-gang-related drug defendants with crimes that, while fitting the offense, carry mandatory sentences. Find some lesser, non-triggering charge. How might you do that? Withhold evidence — e.g., about the amount of dope involved."....
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That’s caudillo talk. That’s banana-republic stuff. In this country, the president is required to win the consent of Congress first.
America is becoming a third-world country under a third-world president. TD

What You Might Not Know About Barack Obama

"Photo of our royal family, His Highness Barack Obama* and Michelle Antoinette Now that Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States have been finally dispatched, we have comfortably settled into a monarchy. Mr. Obama doesn’t have to deal with a big, messy, tough democracy any longer and he no longer has to envy the Chinese who don’t have a Congress to deal with. Mr. Obama has done a fine job of ignoring Congress when they refuse to do what he wants. ‘They have to do their work,’ he says.

.... "The energy sector will soon be nationalized under the king thanks to the EPA regulations about to crash down on them."

*Amazing that the cult of personality is enough to overcome a 200-year-old Constitution. Skeptical of these words? Then check out this child who  prays -yes prays- to Barack Obama.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Obama Foreign Policy: Speak Softly and Carry No Stick

'Incoherent' Obama policy on Egypt under fire as violence spreads
"As Egypt descends into chaos, President Obama is facing increasing criticism that an "incoherent" policy toward the country -- much like U.S. policy toward Syria -- is putting U.S. money and influence on the line without a clear end-game."

In fairness, what else can Obama do given the wide range of opinions given by people who know foreign policy? I must say that the overthrow of Morsi was very much in the interests of the US and Israel, but that may be by lucky accident; Obama policies rarely have US interests in mind but rather those of the  politically correct left.
 
How about this juxtaposition of Krauthammer opinions?
 " I think Obama -- I don't say this often -- I think he got it right today in terms of threading the needle." and....
  "I would say anything that John McCain and Rand Paul agree on, like cutting off aid, has to be wrong."

Foreign Policy.com  Speak Softly and Carry No Stick; Welcome to the Obama Doctrine in Egypt.    ... "At the same time, it's just as absurd to imagine that a suspension of the $1.5 billion a year in U.S. aid, or the threat of it, would have any effect on Egypt's new military rulers. They have waded hip-deep in blood; they won't retrace their steps because Washington is outraged."