Monthly Archives: February 2009

When will people starting fighting back against such big brother, totalitarian minded schemes? This is one law I would actively scream to high heaven about and urge civil disobedience, vandalism of devices,  and any other possible idea to defeat this very un-American law. How far we have fallen from a liberty loving people.

Big brother is watching… as we drive

Just before it plunged to the ground.

It may not have been aloft for long, but NASA’S “Carbon Observatory” has done its job! It recorded the highest atmospheric temperatures ever – over six thousand degrees – before crashing to earth.

“We’re just thrilled.” said NASA C limatologist Bucky “Fred” Savage. “The lower temperature numbers had been looking pretty grim for the last decade,  but now that we have that six thousand degrees to fold into the data – WOW!”

Al Gore flew from Davao in his new hypersonic jump jet “Bio Green Unicorn Rainbow” to bless the believers outside the New York Times building – soon to be renamed “El Casa Del Pepe” by its new Mexican Billionaire Owner.

“It’s a moral issue.” Gore said to the screaming multitude. “Show the unbelievers no mercy!”

When asked how he felt about the new Climate news, President Obama said “It’s good, unless it’s bad. Larry – do we have a position on this?”

The President promised to get back to us after his workout.

Dear Casey,   I was listening to tonight’s non-SOTU SOTU speech and it brought this song to mind.  Can you dedicate this 80′s hit to President Obama.

Apparently, companies like Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig are losing money, as well. Where’s their bailout? Afterall, they’re doing the gummint’s bidding by trying to get the country slimmed down and healthy.

I guess they didn’t lobby enough.

From the latest “Imprimus” newsletter:

…Third, the New Deal divided and politicized the country in tragic ways. Those who lobbied most effectively won subsidies and bailouts even if their cause was weak. Others, who had greater needs, received nothing…

This “stimulus” bill is such a load of horse manure. Liberals don’t really give a damn about us. It’s about power, and growing government.
All you people who think that’s what conservatism is about need a serious paradigm shift.

I’m not going to quote the whole article “Do We Need a New New Deal?” by Burton W. Folsom, Jr., because anyone who gives a crap should read the whole thing which ends with,

If history is a guide, we have every reason to believe that if President Obama institutes a New New Deal, then universal health care, federal bailouts, and jobs stimulus programs will be costly, will be politicized, and will fail.

This is a piece written by “the Senior Sage”, my father. He is a minister and this was distributed in our church in response to a number of people asking about how they should be praying for those in authority over us.

In 1 Timothy 2:1-2, the apostle Paul says, “I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.”

Most of us realize that we should be interceding for our country’s leaders. But sometimes we have difficulty knowing what to ask. Below are a few suggestions. Pray that our elected officials would:

1. Recognize their personal sinfulness and need for the cleansing power of Jesus Christ.

2. Understand their personal sinfulness and need for the cleansing power of Jesus Christ.

3. Reject all counsel that violates the spiritual principles of God’s Word and be willing to trust God to lead them in the right direction.

4. Resist the pressures of those who would lead them astray or tempt them to disobey the Lord and His will for their lives.

5. Work to reverse the trend towards ungodliness in our land and to restore America’s Christ-centered values.

6. Be prepared to make godly choices in the best interest of America, regardless of the cost.

7. Rely on the Word of God and prayer for strength and success.

8. Maintain dignity, honor, trustworthiness, and righteousness in office.

9. Strive to be a godly example to the men, women, and children of this land.

10. Remember that while in office, they are accountable to God for their attitudes, actions, and motives.

If God’s people pray consistently and passionately for those in authority, the entire nation will be affected. “The effective prayer of a righteous man [or woman] can accomplish much” (James 5:16).

Every time the Dems poke up their heads the Market crashes. Check out these two graphs:

1. This week. Note the steep drop between Friday and Tuesday. Did anything noteworthy happen in that time span? Hmmmmm….

2. Why yes – yes, something did happen this week!

3.And finally this from Investor’s Business Daily:

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

UPDATE: More Causey-Effectyness from the WaPo

Last week, the scary word was “nationalization,” a government takeover of a business or industry. It’s pretty much the worst fear of every capitalist.

A number of the nation’s biggest banks — Citigroup and Bank of America, chiefly — are sick, their balance sheets poisoned with toxic assets they can’t unload, such as mortgage-backed securities.

They are so sick that Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), the powerful head of the Senate Banking committee, nearly sent them into cardiac arrest on Friday with a comment he made.

A little after 1 p.m. on Friday, while speaking on Bloomberg television, Dodd said that nationalization of some of the nation’s unhealthiest banks may be necessary “for a short time.”
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“I don’t welcome that at all, but I could see how it’s possible it may happen,” Dodd said.

It’s usually a mistake to link market fluctuations to moment-by-moment news.

Not this time.

The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 instantly dove nearly 3 percent following Dodd’s comments.

That’s not the worst of it: Shares of Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo responded to Dodd’s comments by each dropping a staggering 25 percent within minutes.

Dodd’s comment was so potent, the White House felt compelled to chime in quickly, saying “a privately held banking system is the correct way to go.”

The market recovered after the White House repudiated him. One has to wonder if the right hand knows what the left hand is doing up there.

This has been out since at least mid 2007? How did I miss it?

H/T: Kerri (again :^)

Fresh off their Monkey Cartoon smear victory, the Huffington post launched an attack at Fox News with a video purporting to show John Gibson comparing (Black Attorney General) Eric Holder To a “Monkey With a Bright Blue Scrotum”. Predictably,outrage followed. Here are some of the comments (they may sound eerily familiar to you).

* FOX continues to prove it is part of the most racist network since the KKK

* John Gibson should be fired.

* These guys are unbelievable. Racism and Gibson’s fixation for blue scrotums together would baffle when Freud himself.

* this is not surprising john gibson is a bigot and has never denied it.

* i hope Keith Olbeman has a special comment about this isses!!!

* Keep digging Faux, just keep on digging yourselves into a marginalize racist pit of despair.

There’s only one problem, the video they presented was doctored! Gibson said no such thing and HuffPo has retracted.

From the blog Johnny Dollar’s Place:

The Huffington Post claims they got the video from TVNewser, but obviously did not verify its accuracy. Several commenters note that an ‘annotation’ (words that pop on the screen) has now been added to the youtube video by its poster, admitting that Gibson didnt say ‘bright blue scrotum’. But the original doctored video (without the disclaimer) was saved and can be found here.

Gibson’s response today: “The Huffington Post, in its zeal to slime me, went over the line and posted a phony, fabricated quote, attributed it to me, and which actually constitutes a lie, and a slander. The Huffington Post plays fast and loose on a regular basis, but this time it was caught in an out and out fabricated falsehood.” It’s going to be “All Racism All The Time”, kids.

My friend Matt, who is also an occasional Conclub commentor (as Mbucky), will be on the radio in the morning (Friday the 20th) from 7 – 8 am (Mountain time) on 600 KCOL talk radio.  They are bringing him in to get his perspective on the stimulus bill and how it will affect homeowners.  You can listen on the Internet too if you go to http://www.600kcol.com .   There’s a link at the top of the page that says “LISTEN LIVE”.

In the middle of an increasingly severe financial crisis, a national debt that is out of control, and soon to be truly massive unemployment, it would appear that the Obama administration has decided to contribute to the scuttling of the ship of state, instead of taking steps to truly save it from sinking. The Environmental wackos have finally got their man in the white house and if we are not careful he may make Gore look like a raging moderate on the subject. Fascism never takes over in a single night, but is a path taken one step at a time. Can you hear the pitter patter of little feet?

E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials.

The decision, which most likely would play out in stages over a period of months, would have a profound impact on transportation, manufacturing costs and how utilities generate power. It could accelerate the progress of energy and climate change legislation in Congress and form a basis for the United States’ negotiating position at United Nations climate talks set for December in Copenhagen.

In response to conservative critics, liberals complain it’s too early to judge team Obama, and they are right in a general sense. It’s too early to proclaim success or failure for the Administration as a whole – way too early. That doesn’t mean its individual actions are above scrutiny. Even Obama admitted – in the aftermath of Tom Daschel’s exit – “I screwed up.”. If Obama can judge himself we can too.

Enter this Tony Blankley column. He argues that Obama’s response to four items – Cabinet selection, closing Gitmo, the stimulus package and bipartisanship – gives us clues as to his future governing style. Blankley begins:

In the Middle Ages, when a young prince suddenly and prematurely became king, the royal court, the church leadership and other senior aristocrats would scrutinize his every word and habit for signs of what kind of mind would be deciding their country’s fate and their personal prosperity and safety. Today, around the world, President Barack Obama’s every word, every action, every inaction is being likewise scrutinized for similar reasons.

Prior to the November election, the only evidence we had of Mr. Obama’s managing style — and that evidence was indirect — was the management of his campaign, which was brilliant. But whether he was its active manager or merely took guidance from a shrewd Svengali remains to be known.

Blankley proceeds to break down Obama’s performance on each of these four issues from the perspective of what it tells us about Obma as a future manager. Not suprisingly (given the author of the column) Blankley paints an unflattering portrait of an executive in over his head – at least for now.

The second item, President Obama’s performance at the Gitmo executive order, provided brief but revealing insight into the president’s personal involvement in vital decision making. He had campaigned hard on closing Gitmo. His first public signing as president was that executive order to close it down. The central issue of Gitmo’s closing was and is: What do we do with the dangerous inmates? President Bush kept it open primarily because his administration couldn’t figure out an answer to that question.

Thus, it was breathtaking that at the signing ceremony, President Obama didn’t know how — or even whether — his executive order was dealing with this central quandary.

President Obama: “And we then provide, uh, the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed, uh, no later than one year from now. We will be, uh. … Is there a separate, uh, executive order, Greg, with respect to how we’re going to dispose of the detainees? Is that, uh, written?”

White House counsel Greg Craig: “We’ll set up a process.”

To be at the signing ceremony and not know what he was ordering done with the terrorist inmates is a level of ignorance about equivalent to being a groom at the altar in a wedding ceremony and asking who it is you are marrying.

The Beast won’t steal Blankley’s thunder by quoting his conclusions, read them for yourself and see.

Ultimately the question is – will Obama swim or will he sink? Right now he’s treading water, buoyed up by high personal approval ratings and a return to campaign mode. Right now he’s burning muscle.

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 From Moderate Muslim Beheading in New York: “Honor Killing” via Atlas Shrugs.

Beheading in Buffalo – at Muslim TV Station Northeast Intelligence (hat tip Taylor)

13 February 2009: Muzzammil “Mo” HASSAN, the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, a Buffalo, NY based Islamic television Network he helped pioneer in 2004 amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light, reportedly admitted to police that he beheaded his wife at the television station yesterday afternoon.The victim was identified as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, who just last month, filed for and received an order of protection against her husband.

According to police, HASSAN walked into the Orchard Park police station shortly after 6:00 PM

yesterday and admitted that he murdered his wife earlier in the afternoon. While Erie County, NY District Frank A. Sedita III stated about the murder that “”…this is the worst form of domestic violence possible,” it is more pertinent to understand that the act of beheading in Islam is frequently and closely associated with “honor killings.”

Dems target right-wing talk radio

House Approves Final $787B Stimulus Bill

Will the Stimulus Actually Stimulate? Economists say no.

A look at the “non-stimulus” bill

“We will go through our federal budget — page by page, line by line — eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way.”

 –Barack Obama, 25 November 2008

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Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run “programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting.”

In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 – nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator.

Oh did we mention that her husband had just become a US Senator? He sure had. Requested a $1 Million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. Way to network Michelle!

But now that Mrs Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000?

We can think of only one explanation: Senator Roland Burris’s wife wasn’t interested.

—The Editors of National Review, writing in the Magazine’s Feb 9 issue.’

Welcome to the Fascist Nanny State

 There was NO CRIME. But it gets worse. Much worse.

The college still got to “try” Jeff Maxwell. And they did tonight.

The tribunal that tried Marine veteran Jeffery Maxwell laughed after suspending him from Western Oregon University and sentencing him to:

a “psychological evaluation stating he is not a threat to himself of others” and

a mandatory “ten page paper” ” with references, “citing, but not limited to:
1) the importance of following the law,even through civil disobedience.
2) the importance of accepting responsibility for one’s actions
3) and recognizing the impact possession of weapons on college campuses has on others.”

So, Maxwell has been told his lawful possession of a firearm on campus is evidence of mental illness and he must “confess his sins.”  Welcome to the new Politburo. Maxwell may as well been judged by the Hitler youth for his “thought crimes.”

Jeffery Maxwell’s “jury” were four unnamed students and one staff member of WOU.

The “prosecutor” was Patrick Moser moserp@wou.edu “Acting Coordinator of Campus Judicial Affairs”

Eric Cantor FTW!

Downright inspirational. How come they didn’t sing at the Superbowl?  The two on the right are 6, the two next to them are seven, and the one on the far left is 8.

Thanks for welcoming me back. Its been a long time.

It has been said that the ancient Romans would shout out that “the enemy is at the gates”. Under Obama we are opening the gates and waving them through. And you are paying for it. No discussion, no vote, no debate. Some legacy.  He may not “pray to the east” but he might as well when he does things like this. We have seen what these kind of policies have done to the UK, and the result is that the UK is all but “done”. Obama has been president less than a month but the damage he is already inflicting upon this nation for decades to come is staggering.

Here’s the order:

[Federal Register: February 4, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 22)]
[Presidential Documents]
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                Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27,
                2009

                Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs
                Related To Gaza

                Memorandum for the Secretary of State

                By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
                the laws of the United States, including section
                2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of
                1962 (the ``Act''), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I
                hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the
                Act, that it is important to the national interest to
                furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to
                exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency
                Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose
                of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration
                needs, including by contributions to international,
                governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and
                payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of
                Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department
                of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian
                refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.

                You are authorized and directed to publish this
                memorandum in the Federal Register.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, January 27, 2009

[FR Doc. E9-2488
Filed 2-3-09; 8:45 am]
Billing code 4710-10-P

Pres. Obama Invites Hamas Terrorists to America

H/t to Mystarbucksfiles.

I was watching Morning Joe today (a great episode, Joe and Mika almost seemed like they were going to hit each other at one point) and saw Dylan Ratigan (CNBC pundit) put forward an idea I hadn’t really heard before. “Hope Bonds”. Essentially, issuing bonds that people could buy that would give them a stake in whatever bank bailout money we had to spend.  Is it just me, or does this seem like a really stupid name for a somewhat inspired idea that everybody could get behind?

The bonds would be cheap enough that families could invest at several income levels without disproportionately favoring the wealthy, so Democrats would like it.  It would take debt and ownership of private enterprises out of the federal government’s hands pretty early on. But it would still provide some measure of stability and insurance in a way that ordinary stock market investments would not. If we have to do this, why not do it right and let Americans help pay for money that we don’t have to borrow from China? Money that they could actually see returns on!

I dunno, I’m exhausted this morning, so I might just be rambling. But this is the kind of thing we should be thinking about.

He may have actually lost but be the winner in the end. You need 61 knesset seats in Israel to form a new government. Kadima won a majority of seats and traditionally the party which received the largest number of votes forms the next governement. But in this election, Benjamin Netanyahu is in a better position to become prime minister of Israel because he is in a better position to lead a coalition government due to a strong showing by other nationalist parties.

The bright spot for the “Right” parties at the moment is that with the race so incredibly close the ballots of all military personnel are counted last and they tend to vote heavily “Right”. This from the Jerusalem Post—”We’ve turned into a significant party, the third largest in Israel,” Lieberman  (leader of the rising right wing party Yisrael Beiteinu) said. “It’s true that Tzipi Livni won a surprise victory. But what is more important is that the right-wing camp won a clear majority… We want a right-wing government. That’s our wish and we don’t hide it.” That sounds like his party will unite with Likud to form a government. It certainly doesn’t sound like he’d unite with Livni.  Netanyahu is already in contact with a number of right wing and religious parties.

One poster over at FreeRepublic.com made the following point which is well worth repeating.

Everybody seems to have stepped to the right:

Left-wing Labor voters went Centrist (Kadima)

Many Kadima voters moved to Rightist Likud,

And a bunch of Likud voters went to the hard right Beitenu.

In all likelihood Netanyahu will be the next prime minister of Israel. I love Israeli politics. What  a fun system.

The AP title of the following link has changed three times this evening.

Livni and Netanyahu both declare victory

I love getting e-mails like these.

This is only one State……………If this doesn’t open your eyes nothing will !  

Just be glad I’m only “six degrees” teh Blonde. Seven would make me achieve that total blondishness that would not be good.
You can interpret that however you like.

From Obamicon.me:

“The new kind of politics of hope. Eight hours of debate in the House of Representatives to pass a bill spending $820 billion — or roughly $102 billion per hour of debate. Only 10 percent of the ‘stimulus’ [is] to be spent on 2009. Close to half goes to entities that sponsor or employ (or both) members of the Service Employees International Union, federal, state, and municipal employee unions or other Democrat-controlled unions. This bill is sent to Congress after President Obama has been in office for seven days. It is 680 pages long. According to my calculations, not one member of Congress read the entire bill before this vote. Obviously, it would have been impossible, given his schedule, for the president to have read the whole thing. For the amount spent, we could have given every unemployed person in the United States roughly $75,000. We could give every person who had lost a job and is now passing through long-term unemployment of six months or longer roughly $300,000. There has been pork-barrel politics since there has been politics, but the scale of this pork is beyond what had ever been imagined before — and no one can be sure it will actually do much stimulation. … This is more than pork-barrel — this is a coup for the constituencies of the party in power and against the idea of a responsible government itself. A bleak day. Unfortunately, it is only the latest in a long series of such days stretching across decades of rule by both parties, to the point where truly responsible government is only a distant echo of our forgotten ancestors.”

–writer, actor, economist and lawyer Ben Stein

Here is a collection of quotes by the Gipper.

May he forever rest in peace.

George to the rescue!

“This is the best plan I’ve heard in years. A small investment of taxpayer money will pay off in spades as soon as George makes that wire transfer,” said Chris Dodd, D-CT, “If the American people don’t accept this plan, I may go ahead and do it myself. I didn’t even realize they had that kind of money in Kenya!”

“We tried a similar plan in Vermont,” said Patrick Leahy, D-VT, “A nice young gentleman from Nigeria was on his death bed and didn’t want the government taking his money. We set up an account for him and sent him $3,000 U.S. dollars in legal and wire fees. We also went ahead and sent him another $5,000 for radiation treatment and $8,500 to keep the Nigerian government off his back. He plans to transfer the money any day now, and boy are we excited!”

Via Neanderpundit, I found this gem.

Made me shed a tear.

The Washington Post has a really fun story about some raccoons that have invaded the White House. Inside that story you learn about someone that is my favorite person of the day: Tim McDowell, the real-life Dale Gribble.

Tim McDowell, a raccoon-trapper with 15 years of experience in the Washington area, says the National Park Service is probably using the wrong cages or the wrong bait.

“See, their cages probably don’t smell right,” McDowell explained. “They probably don’t have the smell of other raccoons on ‘em.”

McDowell has already removed birds that were flying inside the U.S. Capitol, but he says that he’s always dreamed of catching a raccoon on the White House grounds.

Normally, McDowell charges $195 for the setup fee plus $50 for each raccoon caught. But if asked, he said he would trap the raccoons for free. “I won’t charge ‘em nothing,” he said.

Daniel Pearl and the Normalization of Evil

This mentality of surrender then worked its way through politicians like the former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. In July 2005 he told Sky News that suicide bombing is almost man’s second nature. “In an unfair balance, that’s what people use,” explained Mr. Livingstone.

Those around the world who mourned for Danny in 2002 genuinely hoped that Danny’s murder would be a turning point in the history of man’s inhumanity to man, and that the targeting of innocents to transmit political messages would quickly become, like slavery and human sacrifice, an embarrassing relic of a bygone era.

But somehow, barbarism, often cloaked in the language of “resistance,” has gained acceptance in the most elite circles of our society. The words “war on terror” cannot be uttered today without fear of offense. Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil.

I believe it all started with well-meaning analysts, who in their zeal to find creative solutions to terror decided that terror is not a real enemy, but a tactic. Thus the basic engine that propels acts of terrorism — the ideological license to elevate one’s grievances above the norms of civilized society — was wished away in favor of seemingly more manageable “tactical” considerations.

Taking Chance: Based on a true story

Our friend Eric at Tygrrrr Express had a column posted on Front Page Magazine yesterday. He’s coming up in the world. Congrats.

Jew-Hate at UCLA

 A “Gaza and Human Rights” symposium hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)’s Center for Near Eastern Studies instructed attendees on how best to spread anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism. Attendees advocated for many unrelated leftists, from Lenin to Che Guevara, while students were busy texting, Twittering, and checking Facebook.

We have a winner. A 7-year old named David went to the dentist to have a tooth pulled. The dentist put him under heavy anesthesia. On the ride home, David still isn’t over it. If you’ve ever wondered what a 7 year old would look like while EXTREMELY high, now is your chance.

It’s good to see McCain growing a backbone. No need to ‘suck up’ to Obama, Pelosi and Reed on this one. What a boondoggle the “stimulus” package has turned out to be.

McCain says he’d vote against current stimulus bill

 

Iran says Obama’s offer to talk shows US failure

US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday. “This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed,” Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.

“Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change,” he added.

After nearly three decades of severed ties, Obama said shortly after taking office this month that he is willing to extend a diplomatic hand to Tehran if the Islamic republic is ready to “unclench its fist”.

In response, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a fresh tirade against the United States, demanding an apology for its “crimes” against Iran and saying he expected “deep and fundamental” change from Obama.

Those poor, misunderstood Iranians. Maybe Obama should offer them an apology. We are so sorry for not laying down and accepting your Shia revolution and not helping you annihilate the Jews in a cloud of fire.