Ace Of Spades Moron Bloggers Nice Deb Photoshops Thank President BushFor the 3rd Sunday of Advent, (Gaudete Sunday), Enya breathes life into the old advent standby, O come O Come Emmanuel:
Beautifully done.
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Refrain
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
This Naked Emperor News video was highlighted by Glenn Beck on his radio and t.v. shows, earlier, this week.
Read The Right Scoop at Hot Air for commentary: Van Jones: We are coming for the media and that’s not all
We would do well to listen to what people like Van Jones are saying. He has the ear of the President…as TRS says, Obama “is one of them”.
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Why do the Obami love to badmouth their own country overseas, so much?
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Some comic relief via Pundette at Potluck: Obama just wants to go home:
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The weekly Republican address was delivered by newcomer, Rep.-Elect Kristi Noem (R-SD) on creating jobs, cutting spending, and the Pledge to America. Noem will represent South Dakota in the 112th Congress.
I hate to be a wet blanket, but the American people want to see the outrageous deficit spending stopped, (not just hear you talk about cutting spending)….that means the billions more in stimulus spending Republicans agreed to to get the stupid tax deal.
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This is important because the Global Warming agenda is tied in with overpopulation alarmism:
Via Moonbattery: Overpopulation: The Making of a Myth
I have no idea how Bulletpeople were able to get this FB conversation between the President and Journolister, Mike Allen, but here you go:
Captured! Politico’s Mike Allen Chats with Obama on facebook:
Via iOWNTHEWORLD, Reason TV’s: The Power of Nazi Propaganda:
A reminder of why a state’s misuse of the arts for propaganda purposes, still resonates, today: How Obama Intends To Use The NEA To Promote His Agenda
The NEA is currently holding grant workshops around the country:
National Endowment for the Arts representatives Anita Decker and Mike Griffin discuss recent changes to NEA grant requirements and offer a tutorial for persons and organizations seeking NEA funding.
Poor Charles seems a bit traumatized by such positive attention from the likes of Bill Clinton:
I’m at the point where I want this bill scrapped as much as the Dem Socialists do. We expected better from the Republicans.
Start over. No more tricks.
Jim Young/Reuters
I missed this when it happened, but it should be on YouTube in short order. TCOTers like Cuffy were all a-Twitter about the stunningly bad optics of Obama leaving Clinton at the podium during their joint press conference about the tax deal. Obama was unable to say any parting words (besides, “I’m taking off”)…because Clinton wouldn’t stop talking.
Added: Video via The Daily Caller:
The NYT Caucus Blog reports:
The president stood by Mr. Clinton’s side for several minutes as Mr. Clinton held court in front of the White House logo that often hovered behind him a decade ago.
But after Mr. Clinton began taking questions, the current president excused himself, saying that the first lady, Michelle, expected Mr. Obama’s presence at one of the many holiday parties that presidents host during the month of December.
“I’ve been keeping the first lady waiting,” Mr. Obama said, excusing himself.
“I don’t want to make her mad,” Mr. Clinton said. “Please go.”
And with that, Mr. Obama departed, leaving Mr. Clinton to continue his extended conversation with the media. The image on the television screen – of Mr. Clinton at the White House, behind the official podium – had a time-warp quality to it.
A Freeper described what happened, this way:
Watching Obama and clinton press conference live on CNN. Obama tries to nudge Clinton off stage, you can even see him lower his shoulder to push his way in front of podium but clinton would not move. Finally after standing around looking like a child who’s dad has to fix things, Obama pats clinton on the back and tries to save face by exiting the stage. clinton simply keeps on talking as if he is still president and a servant just left the room.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS!
Did Obama just jump the shark?
See also:
Drew at AoSHQ: Barack Obama Resigns And Leaves Bill Clinton In Charge
Obama had Clinton over for a chat, then brought him to the briefing room. Then it got weird. Obama just…left and let Clinton have the mic for like, I don’t know, 20 30 minutes or so.
RCP has video: Obama Ditches Tax Cut Presser After Bill Clinton Takes Control
Business Insider: WATCH: Obama Walks Out On Presser With Bill Clinton! ‘I’m Going To Take Off’
It was a terrible visual to begin with — I’m not a wussy, here’s Bill Clinton to tell you why! — that just got so. much. worse.
The White House press corps was “summoned at a moment’s notice” to the briefing room for the news conference. And not long after the two presidents appeared together at 4:23pmET, it became AAB — all about Bill (or Bubba, take your pick).
The depressing truth: Given the alternative, it really would be great news.
I can’t do justice to what you’re about to see. The spectacle of the president bugging out of his own press conference to go to a Christmas party is weird enough, but having Clinton back at the White House podium fielding questions on the hottest domestic issue of the day shoots past deja vu and lands firmly in “am I hallucinating?” territory. (The good news: It turned Twitter into an hour-long snark free-for-all, with Michael Goldfarb taking first prize.)
Update:
The Caucus Blog: The Surprise Trip to the Briefing Room
Next week’s POTUS presser: Zombie FDR with real working wheel chair!
The national Planned Parenthood abortion business is at it again, using a sacrilegious Christmas theme to raise money for its efforts to promote and perform abortions.
Nice. Mocking Christmas has become a time honored tradition for Planned Parenthood. And why are they raising money? Because that “extreme”, “dangerous”, “anti-choice” hater, Mike Pence is introducing legislation that would cut off taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood: Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act.
Go Mike Pence!
Pirate’s Cove has more on the left’s war on Christmas: Tis’ The Season For Liberals To Go Nuts Over Nativity Scenes
Read this from iowntheWorld to cleanse your palate: A Yuletide Gift of Kindness. Seriously, it’s the feel good story of the week.
Atlas Shrugs: WIKILEAKED: Obama Tried to Stop Kenya Passing Armaments to Besieged South Sudanese
And the Obama hits just keep on coming. If Wikileaks has done anything, it has vindicated this blog on Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc.
The latest is that Obama stopped the transfer of weapons to Southern Sudan, site of an Islamic genocide that has slaughtered over two million southern Sudanese over the past two decades.
Keep America safe: Is Admin Releasing Terrorists It Knows Will Return To Battlefield?
Michelle Malkin: Homegrown hate crimes against our troops:
How many more arrests of U.S. military-hating Muhammads will it take for “sadness” to evolve into genuine indignation? The latest Baltimore plot comes as the Beltway area remains under alert for an unknown shooter targeting recruitment stations and other military targets. Over the past two months, the Marine Corps Museum in Washington D.C., the Pentagon, a vacant Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly, Va., and a Coast Guard recruiting station in Woodbridge, VA have all taken shots from a high-powered rifle linked by ballistic tests. The feds say the arrest of the Baltimore jihadi is not related to these still-unsolved acts of terror.
The outrage over the TSA idiocy has largely died down in the public arena, even as the Gate Rapes and carcinogenic porn scans continue. Like frogs swimming in slowly increasingly heated water, the sheeple won’t realize how bad things have gotten until it is far to late to save themselves.
The latest “big stories” regarding the TSA in the MSM are all about Khloe Kardashian getting pilloried after she (correctly) likened the Gate Rapes to sexual assault and a former Baywatch Star being subjected to a carcinogenic porn scan because she has a nice body. Of course they don’t bother to report on REAL the scandals involving the TSA, but I will!
Keep reading…and be very afraid.
They told us if we elected Obama, the world would love us….Hot Air: Video: India “outraged” over TSA patdown of ambassador
GWP has footage from the UK riots: PRINCE CHARLES’ CAR ATTACKED By Violent London Youths (PHOTO & Video)… Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square Torched
On the lighter side…Jay Leno had some fun with Obama’s Wednesday Press Conference:
Glenn Beck’s apocalyptic world-view is jarring for many, but he’s been paying close attention to the movers and shakers on the far left, and connecting dots…if his conclusions sound whacked and delusional, consider the whacked-out but very determined subjects of his research.
Sam Foster, PJ Media: Widening the Margin of Voter Fraud
The problem is getting worse, and will not go away without common sense regulations, like an end to early voting.
I hope Congressional Republicans set their sights on this issue before 2012. Some are saying it’s time for an new voters rights act.
Pundit and Pundette: What a difference a bribe makes
That was fast. The deal that couldn’t be changed could after all. Obama has bought off rebel Democrats with a minimum of fuss (if you don’t count the chanting and posturing). Allahpundit:
The AP’s vague on the precise terms — and cost — of the bargain, but it sounds like that righteous liberal rage over the new estate tax rate magically dissipated after it was sprinkled with a few ethanol subsidies.
They were in open revolt, chanting “Just say no!” and “No we can’t” and invoking their leader’s name in most disrespectful terms. It made for a diverting afternoon, but by nightfall it was over.
Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin: Obama Reminds World He Won Nobel Peace Prize Last Year, Congratulates This Year’s Winner What’s-His-Name
Linked by: Walter Hudson at NewsReal
That’s going to be the question of the day, Friday, and perhaps for the weekend. But I think we’ll know by the end of the weekend:
The frustration with President Barack Obama over his tax cut compromise was palpable and even profane at Thursday’s House Democratic Caucus meeting.
One unidentified lawmaker went so far as to mutter “f— the president” while Rep. Shelley Berkley was defending the package the president negotiated with Republicans. Berkley confirmed the incident, although she declined to name the specific lawmaker.
“It wasn’t loud,” the Nevada Democrat said. “It was just expressing frustration from a very frustrated Member.”
Remember how Joe Wilson was castigated for shouting something everyone knew was true at an Obama health care speech in September, 2009? And how Judge Samual Alito was castigated for simply shaking his head and mouthing the words, “not true”….during Obama’s horrendous 2010 State of the Union speech?
Pretty tame stuff compared to what Democrats are saying behind Obama’s back. Yes, more than one Dem were throwing F bombs at the meeting. According to Howard Fineman, appearing on a subdued Keith Olbermann’s show, there was liberal use of the F word in that closed door meeting, including “No f’n way”, “he effed it up”…
A fun thought experiment: Imagine it had been a closed door Republican meeting where Reps had hurled F-bombs at the young, historic, black President. Would Olby’s reaction had been a timid, (ahhhhmmm, kinda strong, huh?)…or perhaps something a bit more severe ?
At any rate, via The Blaze, FBN contributor Charles Payne says someone owes Joe Wilson an apology:
Why didn’t the judge point out to Occidental College Professor Carolyn Hellman, that poor people don’t pay taxes, so how can you give them a “tax cut”?
I wonder if she had the same Marxist Professors Obama did?
Hat tip: Ace
Cagle Cartoons – Cartoon Publishing website
Look at what the President’s Russian friends are suggesting:
The UK Telegraph: Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize, suggests Russia:
Russia has suggested that Julian Assange should be awarded the Nobel peace prize, in an unexpected show of support from Moscow for the jailed WikiLeaks founder.
In what appears to be a calculated dig at the US, the Kremlin urged non-governmental organisations to think seriously about “nominating Assange as a Nobel Prize laureate”.
“Public and non-governmental organisations should think of how to help him,” the source from inside president Dmitry Medvedev’s office told Russian news agencies. Speaking in Brussels, where Medvedev was attending a Russia-EU summit yesterday , the source went on: “Maybe, nominate him as a Nobel Prize laureate.”
Because Obama makes a habit of wrongly apologizing for America’s past on the world stage, (often to anti-American audiences), Nile Gardiner at The Telegraph thinks it would be appropriate for the Obama Administration to apologize to Britain an over the WikiLeaks débacle:
In the case of Britain, whose partnership with the United States is vital to the defence of the free world, the WikiLeaks disclosures are particularly sensitive. As The Guardian has extensively reported, WikiLeaks has made public a number of diplomatic cables between the US Embassy in London and the State Department, which report private discussions between US officials and senior Conservative Party shadow ministers in advance of the 2010 general election. These included meetings with William Hague, now Foreign Secretary, and Liam Fox, now Defence Secretary.
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These documents have been released together with more recent sneering assessments from a senior US diplomat of Britain’s deep interest in the Special Relationship, amid concerns in the UK that the Obama administration would downgrade the alliance with London, fears which are described as “paranoid”. British fears about Washington’s distinctly cooler approach towards the UK have of course been subsequently realised with the White House’s assault on BP, and Hillary Clinton’s stab in the back over the Falklands, both of which have gone down badly across the Atlantic. And the official view of the Obama administration was summed up by a senior State Department official in March last year who told The Sunday Telegraph: “There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.”
The sneering assessment came from Richard LeBaron, the US deputy chief of mission, who said the obsession with the US/UK alliance would “be humorous, if it were not so corrosive”.
“More than one HMG [Her Majesty's Government] senior official asked embassy officers whether President Obama meant to send a signal in his inaugural address about US-UK relations by quoting Washington during the revolutionary war [against Britain], while the removal of the Churchill bust from the Oval office consumed much UK newsprint.”
He added: “This period of excessive UK speculation about the relationship is more paranoid than usual… This over-reading would often be humorous, if it were not so corrosive.”
Mr LeBaron continued: “Though tempting to argue that keeping HMG off balance about its current standing with us might make London more willing to respond favourably when pressed for assistance, in the long run it is not in US interests to have the UK public concluding the relationship is weaking, on either side.
Larry Elder at TownHall: The WikiLeaks Vindication of George W. Bush
The WikiLeaks de facto declassification of privileged material makes it case closed: Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction — and intended to restart his program once the heat was off.
President George W. Bush, in the 2003 State of the Union address, uttered the infamous “16 words”: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Former Ambassador Joe Wilson sprang into action and, in an op-ed piece, in effect wrote, “No, the Cheney administration sent me to investigate the allegation — and I found it without merit.”
Elder goes on to remind readers how the MSM took Wilson at his word, heralding him as a heroic whistleblower, even though the British stood by the intelligence on which Bush made the claim, and a Washington Post editorial concluded that Wilson had lied about the Iraq-in-Africa-for-uranium claim because he had told the CIA the opposite when he reported back from Africa.
In July of 2008, the US had shipped over 500 tons of yellowcake uranium to Canada for storage, but the media didn’t report on that with anywhere near the fervor they reported Wilson’s lies.
Elder continues:
Wired magazine’s contributing editor Noah Shachtman — a nonresident fellow at the liberal Brookings Institution — researched the 400,000 WikiLeaked documents released in October. Here’s what he found: “By late 2003, even the Bush White House’s staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But WikiLeaks’ newly-released Iraq war documents reveal that for years afterward, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins and uncover weapons of mass destruction (emphasis added). … Chemical weapons, especially, did not vanish from the Iraqi battlefield. Remnants of Saddam’s toxic arsenal, largely destroyed after the Gulf War, remained. Jihadists, insurgents and foreign (possibly Iranian) agitators turned to these stockpiles during the Iraq conflict — and may have brewed up their own deadly agents.”
In 2008, our military shipped out of Iraq — on 37 flights in 3,500 barrels — what even The Associated Press called “the last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program”: 550 metric tons of the supposedly nonexistent yellowcake. The New York Sun editorialized: “The uranium issue is not a trivial one, because Iraq, sitting on vast oil reserves, has no peaceful need for nuclear power. … To leave this nuclear material sitting around the Middle East in the hands of Saddam … would have been too big a risk.”
Bush’s wikileaks vindication ties in nicely with J.R. Dunn’s analysis at The American Thinker: WikiLeaks, Stuxnet, Cyberwar, and Obama
These lefty turdburglars are not getting the results they were hoping for:
It has been an axiom of the left since the days of the New Masses and the Daily Worker that if “the people” knew what was “really going on,” what decisions were being made and crimes committed “in their name,” they’d simply rise up in their wrath to smash the pillars of the temple and smite the evildoers.
This is the impulse behind the Pentagon Papers, all those flicks that end with the main character pausing meaningfully before entering the Times building, and, for that matter, the entire Plame saga, now appearing in a multiplex near you. That is the role that Assange is playing in real time and on the world stage.
And yet… far from ushering a new non-Matrix reality, he’s cowering in a British hoosegow waiting for the Swedish cops to get the spelling right on his rape warrant, his site is being locked out from every host and service on the net, from Amazon to PayPal to XXX Real Live Bondage XXX for all I know, while the world awaits his next info-bomb not with dread or exultation, but with much the same sense of titillation as greets the antics of Britney or Jon Gosselin.
The information is trivial. There are no blockbusters or nation-breakers in the material yet released. No secret fleets of black helicopters. Karl Rove is not scheming to sell humanity to the aliens. The CIA is not transplanting children’s brains into chimpanzees in the Langley basement. What we have learned instead is that the Saudis are terrified at the prospect of a nuclear Iran, that the U.S. is cutting quiet anti-terror deals with countries such as Yemen, and that Hamid Karzai is as corrupt as he is charismatic. In other words, nothing at all new to anyone paying attention to media reports. The big disclosure is how little of this stuff needed to be secret in the first place.
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Now onto Big Government’s Pigford coverage. Here’s the latest, by Gary Hewson: The Pigford Killings: Double-Murder, Double-Cross, and Decapitation in
As we have been chronicling in our Pigford coverage this week, the amount of evidence suggesting massive fraud is staggering and will continue to build and build.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack came out last week to say there have only been three cases of fraud out of the 20,000 claims.
Well Mr. Vilsack, why don’t you try this on for size? And by the way, we will be bringing more crime rings your way very soon.
More Pigford coverage this week at Big Government:
The Daily Mail:‘Vandals have hacked at the heart of Christianity’: 2,000-year-old Holy Thorn Tree of Glastonbury is cut down
Vandals have destroyed one of the most celebrated Christian pilgrimage sites in Britain and chopped down a tree said to have sprouted from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea 2,000 years ago.
The Holy Thorn Tree of Glastonbury, Somerset, is visited by thousands every year to pay homage and leave tokens of worship. Those visiting today were moved to tears on finding the tree cut to a stump.
The sacred tree is unique in that it blossoms twice a year – at Christmas and Easter – and sprigs taken from the thorn are sent to The Queen each year for the festive table.
The big question, I think, is whether the former junior senator from Illinois can swallow his rage. This is a unique situation for him, I think. He’s never been in a situation where he’s had to treat the Republicans seriously. Up to now, from his early days in politics to the White House, the GOP has been a curious abstraction to him, the way that any alternative lifestyle is an abstraction to those who don’t follow it. He comes from a safely Democratic state, a state where the Republicans know that they are in the minority and thus have to spend much time treating with the majority to get what scraps they can get. Whether he realized it before or not, Chicago-style politics only works in a one party state where there is no one to check the knife wielders. Come January 1st, that will not be possible. John Boehner does not need the One’s good will to flourish politically; the people of Ohio sent the future Speaker back to Washington to thwart the One and all his doings. Watching the former junior senator’s attempts to get what he wants from a now hostile House of Representatives should be very interesting and make for very interesting television. I’m still waiting for Olberman’s head to make like Vesuvius.
Via Cold Fury, Stanley Kurtz continues his “no labels” assault debate with Frum at NRO: David Frum’s Wrong Direction:
Frum fails to plainly state the core findings of my research: that Obama was an orthodox Marxist-Leninist in his early college years; that he certainly attended two socialist conferences, which converted him to community organizing; that these conferences sketched a vision of socialist-friendly political coalitions led by African-Americans who would emerge from the ranks of community organizers; that the groups, strategies, and theologies Obama spent a lifetime cultivating were presented at these conferences as the program of a modernized socialism; that Obama worked for his entire career with the very stealth-socialist community organizers in Chicago who had authored the political strategy presented at those early socialist conferences; that these stealth-socialist community organizers sponsored Obama’s political rise; that Obama supported these socialists by channeling foundation money their way for years; that Obama worked closely with this stealth-socialist community-organizing network throughout his time as an Illinois state senator; that Obama has hidden, and particularly in the case of ACORN, bluntly lied about these radical connections; that the tactics, policies, and strategies crafted by Obama’s stealth-socialist organizing mentors have guided his entire political career, including his presidency; and that the same stealth-socialist community organizers who inspired and sponsored Obama’s political career advised his 2008 presidential campaign and continue to work with him at shaping and marshaling support for his presidential agenda. All of this is obscured or rendered invisible by Frum’s thin and mangled description of my book. Frum gets pretty much everything wrong, from details like how many socialist conferences Obama was certainly at (actually two, with a third also possible) to the much more significant issue of my discussion of Obama’s writings, legislative record, and presidency.
They told us that if we elected Obama, the sea levels would stop rising.
• Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal have sunk beneath the waves in the latest stunt by environmentalists to illustrate the risks of climate change.
Greenpeace immersed models of iconic global structures in the sea off Cancun where United Nations talks on global warming are going on.
Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International Executive Director, said the action was designed to highlight the risks of global sea level rise.
He said if the talks fail then global temperatures could rise by more than 2C (3.6F), risking sea level rise of up to 6ft 5in (2m), causing devastation in small island states.
Extreme weather events will also impact towns and cities in the rich world.
“Climate change knows no borders, it does not discriminate. The rising tide of climate impacts, be they economic, environmental or humanitarian will affect each and every one of us – rich and poor. Here in Cancun, government Ministers can still choose to steer us towards a bright and safe future, “ he said.
Insanity.
See Watts Up With That for rebuttal: Is the warming in the 20th century extraordinary?
Frank Lansner answers that question in a guest post:
Conclusion:
Nature has provided us with data telling a simple story: For periods on earth comparable with today, we see many examples of temperature increases in the magnitude of 1 K for all kinds of natural reasons. Very rarely does any temperature rise (via supposed positive feedbacks) reach 3 K within 100 years.It is thus surprising that IPCC and others with big confidence can claim large temperature rises of up to 3 – 6 K as most likely result from just a minor temperature increase, for example induced by CO2 warming.
Please go to WUWT to read the research that lead to his conclusion.
See also:
The ‘biofuels’ scam is one of the great idiocies of our generation. As with most recycling efforts, it is one of those ‘green’ initiatives that seems worthwhile but just doesn’t make economic sense (as even the grand Green Poobah, Al Gore, acknowledged recently). Yet the West pushes ahead, out of the feel-good/redistributionist leftism that wastes money and costs lives.
Laura Sullivan over at the European Voice [*] points this out at length, discussing the European Union’s continued push to shift to ‘renewable fuels’ (emphasis mine):
Fox Nation: About-Face on Light Bulbs!
What Anthony Watts puts in the “weather is not climate department”, I’ll just put in the “sad but true” – (and hysterical) department.
Yes, boys and girls…God does have a sense of humor, Cancun has enjoyed new record low temperatures for three straight days….
“Gore effect” strikes Cancun Climate Conference 3 days in a row:
Dr. Roy Spencer, who is in Cancun representing climate skepticism on behalf of CFACT writes on his blog:
Today’s my first full day in Cancun at COP-16, and as I emerged from my hotel room I was greeted by a brisk, dry, cool Canadian breeze.
It was 54 deg. F in Cancun this morning — a record low for the date. (BTW, Cancun is nowhere near Canada).
Al Gore is not supposed to be here…but it could be that the Gore Effect has announced his secret arrival. We will check into this.
No, if Al Gore were there, they’d be under five feet of snow by now.
As demonstrated by the dramatic reading of his magnum opus, “Our Choice” for the gushingly appreciative Harry Smith on The Early Show, last December:
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Neptune’s bones dissolve
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration
Unknown creatures
Take their leave, unmourned
Horsemen ready their stirrups
Passion seeks heroes and friends
The bell of the city
On the hill is rung
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
Michele Bachmann unloaded on Obama on The Mark Levin Show, last night, saying that he made “one odd statement after another”, and “flat out lied” about Republicans opposing tax cuts for the middle class. Those comments start at the 4:55 mark:
Fortunately, there are fewer and fewer people believing the Won’s shameless lies and Marxist demagoguery, but there will always remain an unreachable 25% percent of the population who will support him no matter what he says or does. The rest of America is looking at this appalling train-wreck of a Presidency, and like Michele, are saying, “You’ve got to be kidding me”.
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit
The Berkeley City Hall is living up to their town’s nickname, Berzerkeley, by considering a resolution that would declare Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, a hero.
The council plans a vote Tuesday on the resolution in support of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is being held in a military brig in Virginia. A city commission already has approved it.
They’re also calling for his release.
RELATED:
SFGate: WikiLeaks’ Assange may elude U.S. justice
This woman has done nothing wrong, and since when has camping with your child become a federal crime?
Read the entire post. None of it makes sense, and it’s all very disturbing.
Atlas calls it “America’s SS”. All I know is something is deeply wrong, here.
So, as I’m sure, you’ve heard, the President has made a deal with Republicans on the Bush tax cuts, including a major cave on estate taxes.
Obama has always been violently opposed to Bush’s eeeeevil “tax cuts for the rich”, which he has characterized as one of “the failed policies that got us into this mess.”
Obama said, “What the hell.” Once he knew he had to give in, and would get criticized for giving in, he figured he might as well go whole hog. The whole deal seems designed to test conservative arguments about how best to help the economy right now, with the understanding that if the economy improves markedly as a result, he will get more credit for his role from the independents he lost so decisively in the 2010 election. And if it doesn’t, then the GOP will be in the position he was in this year in relation to the stimulus — their desired policy won’t have worked either, and he won’t get blamed for acceding to political reality in going along with it.
Maybe Obama has looked at the gloomy economic forecast, (thanks to his wild spending) with the “fiscal Frankenstein” of ObamaCare ever looming, and figured he’d let the Republicans be the fall guys in 2012 if things haven’t appreciably improved. (And they may not).
President Obama looks haggard and peeved and petulant at his White House press briefing on the tax deal, still underway as I type.
Exuding his typical gracelessness, he pouted about being forced into negotiations, whined about “tax cuts for the wealthy” as the “Holy Grail” of the Republican Party, and yes, referred to the GOP as “hostage-takers.”
“It’s tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers, unless the hostage gets harmed…the hostage was the American people.”
So much self-pitying stuff and nonsense packed into one plaintive wail.
Obama is taking credit for the payroll tax cut idea and claiming it is part of the concessions he got from the GOP as part of the overall agreement to keep tax rates steady but that’s simply BS.Remember during the debate over the so called “stimulus” bill when Obama said the GOP didn’t have any ideas and simply was saying no to everything? That was always a lie, the GOP did have an alternative plan and guess what was item number one in it (pdf)?
Eliminate the 3.1% payroll tax for all American EMPLOYEES for 2 years, and use general revenue to pay for Social Security and Medicare obligations.
Imagine what the last two years would have been like had the stimulus actually been used in ways that stimulated the economy and not as a means to pay off Democratic interest groups.
As you might expect, today’s cave-in on the tax deal has pushed DUmmieland decidedly over the edge. We’re getting the “early returns” tonight, and it’s not pretty. The threads are just building up, even as we speak, so tonight I’ll pick and choose from a variety of posts–there are tons to choose from–both General Discussion: Presidency THREADS and General Discussion THREADS. And I’m guessing PJ will have more for you in the days to come.
So let us now don our asbestos suits and enter the fiery furnace that is DUmmieland, in Bolshevik Red, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson, having more DU threads to look at than you could possibly imagine, is in the tax [brackets]:
A crossroads for DU… I betcha there’s a record amount of locked threads tonight…
[NO! Are you kidding? DU is a close-knit community of loyal Democrats, all standing together, arm in arm, UNITED in support of our wonderful President and Congress. Why, this has been a Golden Era, you know, with our beloved Democrats in charge of everything. No, no! No dissent or disunity HERE, of all places! Locked threads? Perish the thought!]
HAHAHA!
Honestly. I can’t relate to a mindset that is so in love with the idea of raising *other people’s* taxes …and having conniption fits when it doesn’t happen. What is wrong with these people?
MORE:
Linked by Michelle Malkin, thanks
“Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer
well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical
nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected
representatives to make competent decisions at the right time.”
- Club of Rome
We’re talking about media mogul, Ted Turner, a member of the Club of Rome, a group of highly influential, Neo-Malthusian, global elitists who want to impose some sort of new world order on civilization.
Tell me if this man’s ideas aren’t just a little scary.
Climate change and population control can make for a politically explosive mix, as media mogul Ted Turner demonstrated Sunday when he urged world leaders to institute a global one-child policy to save the Earth’s environment.
Mr. Turner spoke at a luncheon where economist Brian O’Neill from the U.S.’s National Center for Atmospheric Research unveiled his study on the impact of demographic trends on future greenhouse gas emission, a little-discussed subject given its political sensitivity.
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Mr. Turner – a long-time advocate of population control – said the environmental stress on the Earth requires radical solutions, suggesting countries should follow China’s lead in instituting a one-child policy to reduce global population over time. He added that fertility rights could be sold so that poor people could profit from their decision not to reproduce.
“If we’re going to be here [as a species] 5,000 years from now, we’re not going to do it with seven billion people,” Mr. Turner said.
Former Irish president Mary Robinson warned that radical prescriptions for population control would backfire, ensuring that the subject will remain off the agenda of international climate talks.
“If we do it the wrong way, we can divide the world,” Ms. Robinson said. “A lot of people in the climate world could communicate this very badly.”
Mary Robinson is a member of the Gaia -worshiping Club of Rome, as well, as is Al Gore, George Soros, Maurice Strong, David Rockefeller, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, (notice any trends?), Tony Blair, Deepak Chopra, Henry Kissinger, and Obama’s Science Czar, John Holdren, the absent minded Professor, who along with his mentor, Paul Ehrich, has a 100% record of being wrong on every catastrophic prediction he’s ever made. For example, he outrageously predicted that one billion people would die by 2020 due to “some form of eco-catastrophe”. That’s about one in seven of us dead in ten years. The only way that’s gonna happen is if Holdren’s insane prescriptions to reduce world population, (forced abortions, mass sterilizations) are implemented, or if perhaps the earth gets hit by an asteroid.
Yet, Holdren is the smartest man in any room, and anyone who disagrees with him is an anti-science troglodyte, just ask Julian Simon,(1932-98), who for years was Holdren and Ehrlich arch-rival. Simon, a Professor of Business Administration from the University of Maryland, wrote scholarly papers and articles skeptical of their dire predictions.
In 1990 Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, and John Harte lost a nationally publicized monetary wager with Simon regarding the future of natural resource prices. Simon bet that such prices would fall in real terms over time. Ehrlich et al. bet they would rise—and lost on all five commodities they chose.
Even so, Ehrlich likened Simon to “an imbecile,” a “flat earther,” and a “fringe character.”
As late as 1991 Paul and Anne Ehrlich belittled Simon as “an economist specializing in mail-order marketing.”
Holdren, when asked to critically review an essay evaluating his 2003 criticism of Bjorn Lomborg, “The Heated Energy Debate.” told Robert Bradley one of the writers of the website, Master Resource:
What exactly entitles you to the evidently self-applied label of ‘energy expert’? …. You are of course entitled to (verbally) attack me in any legal way you like, but please don’t then pretend in personal notes to me that we are colleagues, each doing our best to get at the truth…. [Y]ou appear to be … lacking both discernible qualifications in the real world and the ability to tell a good argument from a bad one. I want nothing further to do with you.
Read Bradley’s bio and tell me if his 40 years of experience in the energy industry doesn’t qualify him as an “expert”.
The Climategate emails showed how contemporary warmists like Holdren, bullied their adversaries, but as the Simon story demonstrates, it’s been going on for a very long time.
Sorry, I kinda strayed from the original topic- but the Turner story reminded me of The Club of Rome, Holdren and Ehrlich, and Climategate…Good grief, these Gaia worshiping freaks drive me nuts.
See also:
Ed Driscoll: Memo to Turner for Turner’s crazy new spin on ObamaCare.
Chris Horner, The Daily Caller: Obama goes rogue in Cancun, putting U.S. interests at risk
Catholic Bishops Jump On Global Warming Bandwagon Just As Wheels Are Falling Off the Hoax
All You Have To Know About Copenhagen
The Nefarious Left-wing Cabal Behind Climate Research (UPDATED)
The Club Of Rome:A Major Force Behind Global Warming Alarmism And its Push For A New World Order
Soros Behind Massive Eco-Redistribution Scheme in Copenhagen
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