Archive for June, 2013
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
“The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals. This dynamic – the hallmark of a healthy and free society – has been radically reversed. Now, they know everything about what we do, and are constantly building systems to know more. Meanwhile, we know less and less about what they do, as they build walls of secrecy behind which they function. That’s the imbalance that needs to come to an end. No democracy can be healthy and functional if the most consequential acts of those who wield political power are completely unknown to those to whom they are supposed to be accountable.”
— Glenn Greenwald
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Sunday, June 9th, 2013
The continuous flow of scandals, felonies, lies and cover ups coming from the Obama White House reminded me of this exchange from the TV show Archer.
Cyril Figgis: How do you keep track of all these lies?
Sterling Archer: Practice Cyril. Lying is like 95% of what I do.
Cyril Figgis: In your job.
Sterling Archer: Sure.
Sorry Archer, 95% just isn’t good enough to work in the Obama White administration.
Case in point, White House Spokes Weasel Jay Carney. He has moved well beyond the typical spin control required in the job and right into Baghdad Bob territory. Plenty of video evidence of that.
Let’s review:
The Entire Obama White House staff, and numerous members of the Obama executive branch, lied repeatedly, in fact often, on National TV, about the murder of four Americans, including an Ambassador in Benghazi. That is documented. Proven over and over again. Which is why most leftists will claim it’s ‘not a big deal’, since they can’t deny it or blame President G.W. Bush.
The Obama regime lied repeatedly over the IRS multiple violations of the First Amendment rights of Conservative groups. The Obama cultists’ explanation of this is particularly hypocritical, since they are claiming the Tea Party groups were asking for it by wearing a short skirt, or reading the Constitution. The Cato Daily Podcast, which you should be listening to, interviewed one of the top people at the D.C. branch of the ACLU. This fellow felt this was a big fornicating deal. It was deliberate targeting of a group practice of free political speech. A clear felony level violation of the First Amendment. The ACLU is taking the classic Liberal position here, which is the territory of Libertarians these days. The self identified “progressives” are being true to form, since they never were fans of free speech or the market place of free ideas.
The Obama regime lied, and continues to lie, about their Fast and Furious program in where it supplied semi-automatic weapons to Mexican drug cartels. A program that resulted in the murders of over 300 Mexican nationals and at least one US Federal Agent. If this was as above board as they claim, why is our Dear Leader‘s top officials stonewalling any attempts to find out the facts?
Bottom line, our Dear Leader promised the “most transparent administration ever”, and instead he has gone into an information blackout and raised the administration’s paranoia well past the levels of the Nixon administration. Don’t forget his previous War on Inspector Generals.
It is also interesting to watch all the far left extremists Obama cultists back pedal to defend the actions of their Lightbringer that they would have screamed bloody murder and flooded the streets protesting if anybody with a R after their name had done it.
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Thursday, June 6th, 2013
That is how Ed Driscoll tags it, and he’s probably right.
“In Wetumpka, we are patriotic Americans. We peacefully assemble. We petition our government. We exercise the right to free speech. And we don’t understand why the government tried to stop us.
I’m not here as a serf or a vassal. I’m not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born free American woman. Wife, mother, and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place. It’s not your responsibility to look out for my wellbeing and to monitor my speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. Your post, the post that you occupy, exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty, and you have faltered…
What the government did to our little group in Wetumpka, Alabama is un-American. It isn’t a matter of firing or arresting individuals. The individuals who sought to intimidate us were acting as they thought they should, in a government culture that has little respect for its citizens. Many of the agents and agencies of the federal government do not understand that they are servants of the people. They think they are our masters. And they are mistaken.
I’m not interested in scoring political points. I want to protect and preserve the America that I grew up in. The America that people crossed oceans and risked their lives to become a part of. And I’m terrified it is slipping away.
Thank you.”
— Testimony of Becky Gerritson, president of the Wetumpka, Alabama Tea Party, before the House Ways and Means Committee
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Thursday, June 6th, 2013
“25 states allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some says it’s crazy. However, four out of five US murders are committed in the other half of the country: So who’s crazy?”
— Andrew Ford
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
“Put down how much you earn, put down a deduction for charitable contributions, home mortgage and how much you owe. It ought to be a simple one-page postcard, and take the agents, the bureaucracy out of Washington and limit the power of government.”
— Senator Ted Cruz
A damn good idea. The IRS is too big and the tax code is much too complex and places an undo burden on the American taxpayer.
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Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
“Somehow we’ve gotten to a place where the bullying, sanctimonious, preening of Obama-style liberalism is seen as cool and rebellious. There’s no reasoning with what makes things cool. But radical? You’d have to scrape contemporary liberalism against a whetting stone for a week just to get it to “edgy” status. Virtually all the institutions of power young people interact with — schools, colleges, bureaucracies, corporations, Hollywood etc — are liberal. And yet these kids think they’re rebelling against something! What? Peaceful and hardworking Christians who live a hundred miles away?”
— Jonah Goldberg, The Goldberg File, 5/31/13
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Monday, June 3rd, 2013
The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen
Vampires have been all the rage with the kids lately, but back in the mid 1970, Fred Saberhagen wrote one of the best Dracula books ever, IMNSHO. Dracula tells his side of the story told by Bram Stoker. In his version, it is Van Helsing that is the blood thirsty monster and Vlad is the misunderstood hero. A fun read, but better if the you read the Stoker version first.
Monday Book Pick Archive
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
One of the reasons there are so many schools of Keynesian economics is none of them actually work in the real world. It only works in the fantasy world of academia. No wonder leftists flock to it.
When faced with reality, Keynesians, in typical leftist fashion, deny it. Robert Murphy provides some excellent examples.
When the passage of the Obama “stimulus” package coincided with the economy falling off a cliff, the Keynesians said, “Oh wow, good thing we passed that! The economy is even worse than we realized!”
When the implementation of “austerity” coincided with an economy improving according to the standard metrics, the Keynesians said, “Phew! We got lucky! The economy was doing a lot better than we realized.”
As it has been pointed out here previously, by our Dear Leader‘s own metrics, the US economy is in worse shape than if the federal government had done nothing, make his economic policy a miserable failure.
Recent US history also provides examples of a roaring recovery following a recession even worse than the one that was in place when our Dear Leader took office.
Bottom line for leftist in denial, the Keynesian economic policies of Barack Hussein Obama has made things worse for America, not better.
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Saturday, June 1st, 2013
While DHS Was Patrolling Tea Party Rallies – 266 Dangerous Foreign Nationals Went Missing. That’s right, armed federal agents, wearing DHS uniforms arrived in DHS marked vehicles to monitor a Tea Party demonstration. Despite leftist fantasies to the contrary, Tea Party rallies are remarkably peaceful. The only incident of violence at a Tea Party demonstration was four purple shirted SEIU thugs beating up a black man for daring to stray off the liberal plantation an attend a Tea Party rally. Yet the Obama Regime found it necessary to send armed Department of Homeland Security to “monitor” a Tea Party rally. I guess our Dear Leader thinks people who read the Constitution and want the government accountable to the citizens are his enemy.
Speak of the President’s enemies and how he deals with them, Top IRS Goon Who Wrote Threatening Letters to Conservatives Is Promoted.
Despite leftists telling you repeatedly that this doesn’t happen, Obama Supporter Found Guilty Of Multiple Counts Of Voter Fraud In Ohio.
Obama’s new Secretary of State, John Kerry is handing another $4 billion to the terrorists running the Palestinian territories
Democratic Party Communications Director Brad Woodhouse has declared the journalists will “lose their rights” if they refuse to meet with Obama AG, and perjurer, Eric Holder. The left never has been a fan of the First Amendment.
Speaking of Watergate type crimes, a democrat has admitted to bugging Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell’s office.
On the subject of President Obama punishing his enemies, the Obama Administration CUTS HOT MEALS for Troops Serving in Afghanistan.
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