Wednesday - September 14, 2011
My reply to flapjawman
Those of you who’ve been here for awhile know flapjawman is a friend of mine since the early 70s. Here’s my reply to one of his emails:
I don’t believe the Dems will survive 2012.
The question is: Will we put up an American candidate? Or just the latest RINO.
Reagan showed the way. Unapologetic conservative positions win every time. Even the new RINOs like Scott Brown know that. I may be too hard on Scott Brown, he’s a Massachusetts Republican. By definition a NE Republican will be more socialist than the rest of us.
I believe we can keep the House, recapture the Senate…
But the last thing I want is a President who will ‘reach across the aisle’.
As Dr. Thomas Sowell has written:
“Much as we may deplore partisanship in Washington, bipartisan disasters are often twice as bad as partisan disasters — and this is a bipartisan disaster in the making.”
Me? I want more partisanship. George Washington did not talk to the British. He shot them. He wasn’t ‘bipartisan’.
The Democrats are a more dangerous enemy than Islam. We can deal with an external threat. We’ve problems with dealing with internal threats. Especially if the leader of that threat lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I honestly believe Obama is our biggest national threat.
See this.
Christopher
SNOFU! –– Situation Normal, Obama Fucked Up!
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Permalink • Thursday - September 08, 2011
saving your time
Just in case you’d got that last piece of lint out from behind the clothes dryer, got all your socks sorted, cleaned the fish tank, and couldn’t find anything at all else to watch on TV and were resigned to watching Teh One give his paramount Jobs Speech (have your shovels ready!), ADHD leveraged his contacts and found a pre-teleprompter copy of the speech. So you can read his short version, avoid watching the Great I Am on the tube, and get back to important things, like sorting the coins you found under the couch cushions.
WASHINGTON, D.C – In a major campaign (jobs) speech before Congress tomorrow night, President Barack Obama will say that jobs are priority #1, just as soon as he gets re-elected in 2012.
In the meantime, the “Great Orator” will spell out a 5-point plan that will continue to spread a matrix of a Thousand Points of Darkness throughout the land until he can once again claim in January 2013 that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
[ a small part of ] Obama’s $300 billion lackluster plan:
3. Creating the Barack Obama Caddy and Bus Driver Fund. Immediately following his speech, the president will go on permanent vacation until his presumed second inauguration in January 2013. Instead of running the country, Obama will embark on the I Take No Responsibility Bus Tour across America, stopping every day at a golf course to, of course, play golf.
Not a bad effort at all. Read on!
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Permalink • The Obama Economy
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 07, 2011
Drew’s favorite bowling alley
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Permalink • John Bolton’s Latest Masterpiece
Former ambassador John Bolton has written a scathing critique of Obama’s foreign policy, or rather, the lack thereof. He pulls no punches. Try this:
Like Obama’s presidency generally, his national-security flaws combine ideology, naïveté, weakness, lack of leadership, intellectual laziness, and a near-religious faith in negotiation for its own sake.
Don’t hold back, Ambassador! Tell us how you really feel! 
And I’ll bet there’s a teleprompter in those negotiations too. A few paragraphs later:
So what emerges from a president who is basically uninterested in foreign affairs, who doesn’t see our manifold threats and challenges as worthy of presidential time and energy, who repeatedly stresses devotion to negotiations that are divorced from their substantive outcome, and who believes that multilateral fora rather than American resolve and power can address foreign problems? The now-indisputable answer is a failing, collapsing U.S. foreign policy.
You’d think this would be obvious to anyone who learned to read despite the best efforts of the government schools. But I keep hearing from TV news readers how brilliantly Obama handles foreign affairs. Then the ambassador fillets Obama’s Mid-East policies:
Inexperience, incompetence, and blind faith in negotiation have led to gridlock in the Middle East. Obama has acted as though the gravest threat there to American interests and international peace and security is Israeli housing construction in the suburbs of Jerusalem.
Yeah, I’m really threatened by that, not the Islamic Jihad against the West.
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Permalink • Saturday - September 03, 2011
A Good Short Read
“In the last 30 months, the Obama administration has created a psychological landscape that finally just seemed, whether fairly or not, too hostile to most employers to risk new hiring and buying ...
... such liberal rhetoric simply adds to the problem from yet another dimension: confirming perceptions that employers are about the last people in the world that this administration is worried about.
Another great little essay from VDH.
Has American business gone Galt? Sure seems that way; that such a term has become overwhelmingly common in the past two and a half years speaks for itself.
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Permalink • Monday - August 29, 2011
Sign Me Up!
Wardmama too, and her husband. And we’ll get Christopher on board as well.
Be an insulation installer for the government ... $21/hr + benes. $43,680 salary. And no work to do. Oh hella yeah, I’ll take it. And I’m sure they provide the work clothes, gloves, masks etc so you don’t get a daily case of ‘glass ass, which is a terribly irritating affliction.
A green jobs program in one of America’s greenest cities is being called a bust 16 months after a $20 million federal grant to weatherize homes in Seattle ended up putting just 14 people to work in mostly administrative jobs and upgrading only three homes in the area.
“The jobs are not there,” Todd Myers, who wrote the book “Eco Fads,” told Fox News. “So we’re training people for jobs that don’t exist.”
Seattle is not alone. The Department of Energy has allocated $508 million to 41 states for its Better Buildings Neighborhood Program and 600 jobs have been created or retained.
One year into the three-year program, 9,000 homes have had energy audits and received some kind of upgrade. The goal is to weatherize 150,000 homes by 2013 and save consumers $65 million annually on energy bills.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn says it’s too early to declare the program a failure.
“We may have to adjust how we market it and the incentives we provide,” McGinn said. “Nobody has really cracked the green jobs code.”
Contractors who do the energy audits and home retrofits blame government for getting in the way. To be a participating business in Seattle, the contractor is required to pay workers $21 an hour with full benefits, including retirement pay. But according to several small business owners in the area, the prevailing wage for new workers who lay insulation is $12. per hour.
McGinn, however, insisted that allowing contractors to pay anything less than what the city has declared a ‘living wage’, amounts to a ‘race to the bottom’ for jobs.
But Myers and others say the biggest problem with the program is government is trying to create a market that consumers don’t want. The average homeowner in the U.S. pays about $2,000 a year for energy.
The weatherization upgrades are aimed at saving 15 percent on energy consumption. If the retrofit costs $10,000 even with all the government incentives, it will take over 30 years to pay off through lower energy bills.
“The problem is the policies the politicians choose, whether green jobs or retrofits, are based on appearance,” Myers said. “They choose things that look good, rather than what’s best for the environment.”
Among the other cities having trouble fulfilling the green jobs promise are Toledo, Kansas City and Phoenix. So far, those cities have created a combined 72 jobs with $65 million in grants.
Sign me up. Hell, sign us all up. BMEWS Insulation Services, going green for the long haul. And the long green.
Saved or retained my ass. The whole !*$(ing stimulus thing is one gigantic pile of crap. “Shovel ready” indeed.
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Permalink • Monday - July 18, 2011
Aspirin For Cancer
The Tea Party won the largest midterm election victory since 1938 on the theme that Obama’s rate of borrowing and debt-creation were unsustainable and made worse, not better, by massive new Obama health care and green initiatives. So Obama, now well below 50% in the polls, is to be reinvented as a reasoned budget cutter. Note the logic that suddenly after ObamaCare and green fiascos we pause in midstream, and talk of fiscal restraint and again more taxes. The thinking is analogous to this: the adolescent takes the chronically indebted family Master Charge card, maxes it out, has no more credit, and then asks his father and mother to take on additional jobs to find the money to pay off the debt, but while insisting that he keep all his previously charged junk — and the card as well. At some point in July 2011, all the money borrowed since 2009 was deemed absolutely essential. Nothing was wasted. There was no fraud. Instead, all that $5 trillion saved lives and the planet as well. Borrowing a trillion dollars for ObamaCare cannot be renegotiated.
Note well this pattern of suddenly turning to the neglected debt: Obama lectured for most of 2008 that “drill, baby, drill” was silly, given his belief that increased supply would only marginally affect then climbing prices, and his religion that high gas prices are good in that they make wind/solar subsidized energy more attractive, encourage less energy use and thus cool the planet, while favoring government mass transit rather than the mindless individual’s use of a private car. Then as reelection neared, he tapped the strategic petroleum reserve on the logic that while drilling more new oil does not lower prices, pumping previously drilled oil most surely does.
Note well that suddenly Obama called for withdrawal in Afghanistan, on the logic that, while a few months ago a surge, a new commander, and a sustainable commitment were vital to winning the “good war,” now, with reelection looming, it is time to start packing it in.
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Permalink • Sunday - July 17, 2011
Straight Up BS
They do? Really? Nobody asked me. And I bet they didn’t ask you either. And if the poll was even partially realistic, I guarantee you the question was NOT “Would you be willing to pay significantly more taxes to help the government balance the budget/reduce borrowing?”
And I double guarantee you that there was NO filter question before that one, that asked “Do you currently pay income taxes?”
Pure BS from the king BSer hisself.
Obama: Public is ‘sold’ on tax increases in a debt-ceiling deal
President Obama on Friday kept up the pressure on Republicans to agree to revenue increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, claiming 80 percent of the public supports Democrats’ demand for tax increases.
“The American people are sold,” Obama said. “The problem is members of Congress are dug in ideologically.”
Throughout the press conference, Obama blasted Republicans for ignoring what he said is the will of the American people by rejecting tax increases that would balance out spending cuts in a debt package.
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Obama repeated his warning that the country is “running out of time” to avert a financial “Armageddon.”“We should not even be this close on a deadline,” Obama said. “This is something we should have accomplished earlier.”
The president’s press conference came the day after he wrapped up debt-ceiling negotiations at the White House and gave congressional leaders 24 to 36 hours to consult with members on a possible compromise. Obama is pushing for a sweeping package that would save $4 trillion over 10 years.
Obama said he is still pushing for a “big” deal to raise the debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline despite the hardening of positions on Capitol Hill.
“I always have hope,” Obama said. “Don’t you remember my campaign?”
As far as I am concerned, any plan that any one of these crotch weasels comes up with that doesn’t trim off at least $750 billion PER YEAR is nothing more than ass gas.
And the whole crop of them ought to be fired anyway: they have failed to do their basic assignment: it is now 809 days that the federal government has been without a formal budget.
“The Senate has a legal obligation to pass a budget every year but has not done so for more than two years,” said Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots.
“Democrats have controlled the Senate and the White House since the election of 2008, and the House of Representatives up until this year. Certainly they could have passed any budget they desired, including one with tax increases and spending increases. But they chose to ignore the 800-day gorilla in the room because they don’t want to be on record supporting a budget that actually does what they want. Then the public could hold them accountable for their cowardly and irresponsible behavior in the face of national fiscal calamity.”
The Democrats have not even proposed a budget.
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Back in May, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) stated, “There’s no need to have a Democratic budget in my opinion. It would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage.”
Deeper thoughts on the whole spending thing; a short read here, with graphics:
Discussions by policymakers to increase the US debt limit are in the eleventh hour. Sadly, so far the circus of intense political posturing has avoided highlighting the real issue.
It is not the debt capacity of the US government that is of primary importance, nor how much will be cut from proposed federal spending over the next ten years. There is something fundamental at stake here and much more important to the future of the US. It will be made clear by the outcome of budget cuts, if any are finally made. It is, namely, the adversative relationship between the country’s public and private sectors, or to put it bluntly, the tax-eaters versus tax-payers.
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The feathers are being plucked from the goose at a record rate. Government spending has become an even bigger force in the economy than when the US was on a war-footing during World War II. Never before has government consumed so much of the private sector’s wealth creation.The important conclusion to be made from the above chart is that Americans who produce wealth are getting squeezed. This picture of economic activity clearly illustrates that tax-eaters have never been more burdensome to wealth-producing tax-payers.
The above chart illustrates the great extent to which the US has become reliant upon socialist dogma.
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Permalink • Thursday - June 09, 2011
I Count Four. Did I Miss One Or Two?
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration has intensified the covert U.S. war in Yemen, hitting militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, The New York Times reported late Wednesday.
The accelerated campaign has occurred in recent weeks as violent conflict in Yemen has left the government in Sanaa struggling to cling to power, the Times said.
The report, posted on the newspaper’s website, said Yemeni troops that had been battling militants linked to Al Qaeda in the south have been pulled back to the capital. American officials hope the strikes will help prevent militants from consolidating power.
A drone strike by U.S. special operations forces on May 5 targeted U.S.-born Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, but a malfunction caused rockets to miss him by a matter of minutes, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
The recent operations come after a nearly yearlong pause in American airstrikes, which were halted amid concerns that poor intelligence had led to bungled missions and civilian deaths that were undercutting the goals of the secret campaign.
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The U.S. campaign in Yemen is led by the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command and is closely coordinated with the CIA, the Times said.
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[Yemeni President Ali Abdullah] Saleh authorized secret American missions in Yemen in 2009 but placed limits on their scope and has said publicly that all military operations have been conducted by his own troops.
So, let me see if I understand the big picture here. In Libya, we’re indirectly attacking a brutal dictator and supporting Al Qaeda aligned revolutionaries. And the dictator seems to be winning. But in Yemen, we’re supporting a brutal dictator and attacking Al Qaeda aligned revolutionaries. And the revolutionaries seem to be winning.
Did somebody let Obama make the picks for who we’re going to support? Because the guy utterly sucks when it comes to picking anything, from basketball teams, to Olympics hosting cities, to ... you name it. They guy is like Jimmy Carter: whatever he picks, take the opposite, and that will be the right one.
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Permalink • Saturday - May 28, 2011
International Conspiracy!!!!
Today’s Day By Day, full size
Gosh, what’s in store next for our wondrous decileader?
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Permalink • Wednesday - May 25, 2011
Oh Yes he Did
The Obamas visited Westminster Abbey yesterday and signed the guestbook:
It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice.
Barack Obama
24 May 2008
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/president_obama_has_no_idea_wh.html
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Permalink • Saturday - May 07, 2011
too right
If there’s one thing I’ve learned under the Obama regime, if there’s smoke, look for the fire somewhere else. It’s been OBL 24-7 for most of a week now, so the real question is: What other shenanigans are the Dems up to right now that isn’t getting any media attention at all? Even Holder’s gun running to the Mexican cartels is getting some play, but there’s always something those rats are trying to sneak by when we aren’t looking.
And the price of crude is down something like 10% in the past week and a bit, although I haven’t seen that reflected yet at the pumps. Soon I hope.
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Permalink • Friday - May 06, 2011
Captain Clueless Takes The Credit?
This might go a long way towards explaining why the OBL story seems to change by the hour. A 4 page insider’s story that Obama and his minion Jarret are blithering indecisive idiots, and that the whole OBL mission was run by Leon Panetta, with support from Hillary. Or is it just another whack job conspiracy “anonymous source” story written by one of her supporters? It sure goes a long way towards explaining that now famous “Situation Room” picture, where TOTUS looks more like a bad puppy caught peeing on the carpet than Our Bold Progressive War Leader. Hell, look at it: he’s not sitting at the head of the table. He’s not even sitting in a “big people” chair. He’s squatting on the floor. There isn’t even a chair for him to sit in. They just stuck him in for a photo op.
Q: You stated that President Obama was “overruled” by military/intelligence officials regarding the decision to send in military specialists into the Osama Bin Laden compound. Was that accurate?
A: I was told – in these exact terms, “we overruled him.” (Obama) I have since followed up and received further details on exactly what that meant, as well as the specifics of how Leon Panetta worked around the president’s “persistent hesitation to act.” There appears NOT to have been an outright overruling of any specific position by President Obama, simply because there was no specific position from the president to do so. President Obama was, in this case, as in all others, working as an absentee president.
I have been told by more than one source that Leon Panetta was directing the operation with both his own CIA operatives, as well as direct contacts with military – both entities were reporting to Panetta only at this point, and not the President of the United States. There was not going to be another delay as had happened 24 hour earlier. The operation was at this time effectively unknown to President Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett and it remained that way until AFTER it had already been initiated. President Obama was literally pulled from a golf outing and escorted back to the White House to be informed of the mission. Upon his arrival there was a briefing held which included Bill Daley, John Brennan, and a high ranking member of the military. When Obama emerged from the briefing, he was described as looking “very confused and uncertain.” The president was then placed in the situation room where several of the players in this event had already been watching the operation unfold.
The President of the United States, the Commander In Chief of all the military overruled?
That’s called a coup ladies and gentlemen. Treason in the highest degree. A junta, even if it was one that only lasted a few hours. Obama the sock puppet, his strings pulled from behind the curtain. If this story is even remotely true, how can you have the smallest measure of faith that these strings aren’t being pulled on a daily basis? Read the article.
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