Vocal Minority

On Today's N.J. Special Senatorial Election

Coming out of hibernation to make a couple predictions (not rocket science really):

1) Although polls showed Steve Lonegan gaining on Cory Booker in the last several weeks, Booker is still going to win handily. (No, I'm not a pessimist; I'm a realist.)

2) Unlike with Tim Scott (R-SC), whose becoming the Senate's sole black member last November was ridiculed, pooh-poohed or ignored entirely by the DBF* media, Booker's election will be heralded as some major "civil rights" milestone.

Like I said, not rocket science really. Just my humble predictions.

It's 4:00 p.m. as I write this. What do you think? 

*DBF = Democrat-b*tt-f**king

 

 

UPDATE: I was wrong on both counts! While Booker won, it was much closer than expected and the Obammedia was actually concerned about the implications of that for Democrats in 2014. Go figure!

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Listen & Learn: El Rushbo on the McDonalds Strikes, Minimum Wage, and Basic Economics (8/29/13)

It's been months since I posted one of these, which is my fault. It would be easy to pick my favorite hour from a talk show and simply hit "post," but that's too lazy. When a host talks extemporaneously there is always dispensable stuff, extra long pockets of dead air, extraneous repetition of previous points, stammering and stuttering (even more so from nervous and inexperienced callers) that I feel it's important to edit out before posting. This takes an enormous amount of time but in the end, when I have the time, it's worth it.

That said, on Thursday El Rushbo dedicated well over an hour to the McDonald's minimum wage strikes going on nationwide. During this he takes a call from a man who believes the protesters deserve their demanded 100%(!) wage increase. Putting on his professor's hat, Rush then delivers an Econ 101 lecture that everyone needs to learn (or relearn).

The entire discussion is couched within the Democrat left's and particularly Obama's ignorant view of economics and how their destructive (not to mention oppressive and authoritarian) policies are hurting the county, including the very McDonalds workers -- no doubt mostly Obama voters themselves -- who are protesting.

I think you will enjoy the next 37 minutes. Listen and learn!

Then do something about it! Share, inform, engage, vote, whatever it takes.

(P.S. May take a few moments to download, be patient)

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Help! My Young Kids Are Already Being Turned into Environ-mental-ist Wackos

I had no idea that by ages 5 and 7 my kids would already be getting turned into environ-mental-ist wackos.

This morning, my 7-year-old son, just a couple weeks shy of starting 2nd grade, finished watching the DVD Epic, which their mother bought for them yesterday, and came into my office asking to go to the "Energy Star" website.

I was already familiar with the propaganda Energy Star (with the government's help and using our money) peddles to kids. Three summers ago I noticed posters inside my town's public schools using the Lorax movie to motivate kids to "save the planet".

Anyway, I humored my son and we went to the EnergyStar.GOV site. There we were met with this page:

If you go to the actual site, the "HELP" sign sticking out of the North Pole pops in and out of supposedly melting ice and bops around. Nice touch. The pink vocab box on the top right changes every time you visit or reload the page, showing words like "renewable energy," "CFL's," "photovoltaic cells," "greenhouse gases," and other things every young skull full of mush needs to know. The green "fun facts" box changes too, giving scary statistics about all the evil things the U.S. does to destroy the environment.

From this web page you can click on the spinning wheel at the bottom and select various games and activities. My son chose this word search game:

OK, "clean air," "clean water," is fine, whatever. But "togetherness" and "respect"??? How much leftist feel-good gobbledygook can one government-funded website squeeze into one child's word search game??? Someone should let them know they forgot "bullying"!

Anyway, while my son played these activities he began complaining that "Cars are bad!" My 5-year-old daughter seconded that, bemoaning cars' "smoke". I asked, "Well, how would we get around?" To which my son quickly replied, "By bike." (I immediately recalled a story El Rushbo talked about this week about young millennials being glorified by NPR for living a car-free lifestyle and getting around by bike.)

How does Epic fit in to all this? Our EPA (again with our tax dollars) is using the characters, who in the movie "save the planet", to encourage viewers to go to the Energy Star website and to "join Team Energy Star in the EPIC fight to protect the climate!" They've done this by playing advertisements on the DVD following the movie.

This page is at schoolfamily.com, a website associated with America's PTA/PTO organizations.

What was I, an informed citizen but also a parent, to do? I calmly explained to my kids that cars were not evil and that the website was meant to scare kids into thinking that we're destroying the planet. It was a good way of teaching them that not everything they see on TV or online is true. I was also straightforward and explained in a way for kids to understand that the people trying to scare us to stop using cars and electricity really just don't like the fact that people have ways to be successful and prosperous and provide for their families. I also pointed out that the scarers haven't even given up their own energy-indulgent lifestyles.

Not quite convinced of my explanation, my son reasoned that at least littering is definitely bad for the planet. Which I, of course, agreed with.

But the conversation wasn't over. Done with the computer game in my office, my two kids were about to head upstairs to play something else when my son stopped at the doorway and insisted the light be turned off to save energy. I told him not to because, for one thing, it wasn't light enough in my office at 9:30 in the morning to use only sunlight, and in addition, the fixture in my office had those curly CFL bulbs in there anyway. (Why the hell not? They last longer and in the long run they're cheaper.) So my son reluctantly turned the light back on and went up to play with his sister.

I had no idea that by ages 5 and 7 my kids would already be getting turned into environ-mental-ist wackos.

But I'm just one parent trying to "fight back the liberal hoardes." What I'd like to know is: How are other parents dealing with creeping leftism everywhere -- schools, songs, movies, websites, and even commercials?

Cited Again in Court ... and a New FB Pic for All to Share

My last post described how a dear friend's b*tch soon-to-be-ex-wife was so desperate to smear her husband, her snake lawyer used the VM Facebook page (which he follows) as evidence to show how supposedly unstable he is. What was so offensive about my page? It was this profile pic:

Oooo, guns. Scary. Meaning people who follow my page are craaaaazy.

I was told today, even though the judge readily dismissed this cheap shot last week, the creep lawyer cited it again in closing arguments.

All right, fine. That pic has been up there a while. So starting today, here's the new VM profile pic on FB:

Indeed he is. And the White House and Capitol are the Big Top and Washington D.C. is the entire circus.

Sweet: VM Cited in the Courtroom. Wanna Know Why?

Coming out of blogging hibernation to relay a funny story.

I'm honored to say in its nearly six-year fits-n'-starts history, VM has been shouted out by the likes of Ann Coulter and Mark Levin. But never would I have suspected this:

A dear friend (a flag-waving gun-toting conservative who follows my blog) who is unfortunately going through a bitter divorce informed me yesterday that their court proceedings took a very amusing turn. The soon-to-be-ex-wife's lawyer was attempting to paint my friend as unstable and unfit to care for their four kids (two their own, two from her previous marriage). To accomplish this, the liar-for-hire cited this very blog as evidence!

Why?

Because the profile pic at VM's Facebook page is this:

Yes, it's true: This pic features ... gasp ... guns! (Not that it makes any difference that my friend and his truly unstable wife are themselves gun owners.) 

This is actually a clip of this larger graphic, based on the ubiquitous "marriage equality" symbol that's been around the social sites:

Incidentally, feel free to "like" the VM FB page, even though I'm technically on a blogging hiatus. 

Luckily, the judge completely dismissed this desperate attempt to grasp at straws. (This took place in a rather conservative region of a generally blue state.)

But I have to say, I didn't realize until yesterday that my friend's wife really hates me. No wonder she never accepted my FB friend request!

The Chicagoization of America | FrontPage Magazine

Thought-provoking!

The Chicagoization of America | FrontPage Magazine.

Creating Dependency, One Mouthful at a Time

Creating Dependency, One Mouthful at a Time.

It should come as no surprise that millions of Americans are hardly shamed by relying on Aunt Samantha for their daily bread.  Dependency is almost the new normal.  Those who cherish the spirit of independence should take heed.  Future entitlement reform requires more than tightening eligibility or cutting benefits.  Restoring contingency is essential: beneficiaries must do something to "earn" government's generosity -- e.g., keeping a tidy house or fixing Junior a healthy lunch.  Without this link, millions will come to believe that Washington is an all-providing God that demands nothing but self-inflicted poverty to bestow His/Her/Its blessings.

Liberal Media Bias: Romney Bashing ... in a Music Article

Coming out of blogging hibernation to post this discovery of Mitt Romney-bashing -- 5 months after the fricking election -- in an on-line pop music article.

The site is called Pop Dust. And this snippet comes out of an article about the 10 richest musicians of all time:

3. Bono: $600 million

Paul Hewson is known as much for his global diplomacy and forays into venture capital as U2’s music. His investment in Facebook’s IPO—via his Elevation Partners private equity firm—didn’t make him a billionaire, but U2’s “360 Tour” grossed nearly $800 million between 2009 and 2011, making it the biggest tour ever. (2005-06’s “Vertigo” tour is fifth on that list.) Combine that with Bono’s many investments (including private equity stakes, a clothing line, and a five-star hotel), the fact that the band owns all the rights to its own music, and Bono’s Romney-esque tax-dodging investment schemes, and the numbers add up quickly.

This perfectly exemplifies what El Rushbo talks about often: the low-information voter, consuming culture and news from low-information writers who stealthly (and not-so-stealthly) inject fallacious political commentary into their wholly non-political articles, T.V. shows, etc.

Bono has made millions for not only himself but has also provided a product desired by millions of customers (his fans) not to mention created jobs for thousands of "employees", i.e. everyone who works for him, for U2, marketers, retailers, ticket sellers, shirt makers, etc. etc. etc. Yet because he dared move his business away from a high-taxing business-unfriendly environment to a low-taxing business-friendly one, he's a scheming tax dodger. Get it?

That's not being a "tax dodger," leftists. It's calling being smart with your hard-earned money! What you're doing is like calling someone a shoplifter because they chose to buy a grocery item at supermarket X because they were selling it cheaper than supermarket Y. Of course, when you're of the ilk that believes that you're not paying your fair share and that the Government is owed your money, then when you make smart decisions by seeking out low-taxing environments you're smeared as a scheming tax dodger.

And what else works with the LIV? Word-association guilt-by-association games. You all know the game: A psychologist tells you to say the first thing that comes to your mind when (s)he says x. So what are LIV writers, and, as is presumed, their LIV readers, supposed to think when they hear "multi-millionaire tax-dodging investment schemer"? President Hope&Change's Republican arch-enemy Mitt Romney of course!

So, just like Mitt Romney whose candidacy ended almost 5 whole months ago, Bono is using unethical unfair schemes so that his "numbers add up quickly."

And that, my friends, is how you create and inculcate the low-information voter.

Vitriol Vacay, Hate-Speech Hiatus, etc.

It's been a busy season with work projects and family activities. Not sure when I'll be back blogging but keep fighting the good fight and visit my friends on the blogroll. - ETR

Obama's Revenge: Day 19 (2/8/13)

"Vote! Voting is the best revenge." - Barack H. Obama, Nov. 2, 2012

Gateway Pundit and others reported this story yesterday:

Obama Administration Shuts Down 100 Year Old Oyster Farm This Week

Another Obama success story…
The Drakes Bay Oyster Co. has been in business for 100 years.
Then came Barack Obama.
In November, the Obama Administration shut down the oyster farm. They said it was for environmental reasons.

The farm produced 40% of California oysters.

The business was ordered to close its doors this week after a federal judge denied the oyster farm’s request to overturn its eviction from Point Reyes National Seashore.

Kevin Lunny, owner of Drakes Bay Oyster Company, hugs longtime worker Lupe Guadalupe Arriago after learning the government will not renew his family’s lease in Inverness, Calif., Nov. 29, 2012 (Wall Street Journal)

Our president is like a Bizarro King Midas. Everything he touches turns to crap. This is only Exhibit #38163. I'm sure if his environ-mental-ist bullies didn't shut them down, his IRS bullies (oh, sorry: Affordable Health Act advocates) would've put them out of business with punitive regulations and costs. You wanted 4 more years of Hope&Change(TM)? You got it!

Incidentally, when I linked this GP article on my FB page, a a lib/Dem friend not pleased with my disrespect for The One, replied:

How about taking a look at the history of the legislation and the complexity of the situation: http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/01/04/of-mollusks-and-men-the-wilderness-act-and-drakes-bay-oyster-company/

<Sigh> A blog entry written by the Executive Director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley? That's sure to be a "fair and balanced" piece. Incidentally, I did read the piece, and, not surprisingly, it applauded the Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for refusing to renew the Lunnys' lease. Another victory scored by Big Government over individual liberty and property rights. All in the name of "the children," "the environment," or whatever.

As an epilogue, President Hope&Change had some eyebrow-raising words to say about the outgoing Salazar, as AWR Hawkins at Breitbart reports:

Offering comments on behalf of outgoing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Wednesday, President Obama suggested the Hispanic Cabinet member is more authentically American than New England's Pilgrims.

"His ancestors were here before the Mayflower set sail," Obama noted.

Obama talked about Salazar's Spanish roots and segued from that to focus on how hard he's "working to get immigration reform passed." 

The President then repeated a phrase common among Nativists, insinuating that lands belong to ethnicities and not countries: "[Salazar and] his family did not cross the border, the border crossed them. And that's why, when I needed somebody to lead Interior, I didn't have to look very far."

Dear G0d, I can't wait to see who Obama picks as the new Interior Secretary.

Obama's Revenge: Day 17 (2/6/13)

Remember the good ol' days when George W. Bush was demonized as an imperial president abusing his executive power by doing ... well, G0d knows what?

Remember how the Democrat-media complex were apoplectic with rage about how he and his Cheney-Rumsfeld junta "rushed" us to war supposedly without Congressional authorization?

Remember how they were nuts about his violation of countless sections of the Bill of Rights when he passed the Patriot Act? How worried they were that both American citizens and enemy combatants wouldn't be afforded Due Process rights.

And remember how they protested in the streets demanding the closing of Club Gitmo, where poow poow innocent tewwowists were getting tortured by Bushie's evil henchmen? 

And remember how they compared Bush to Hitler and other historic tyrants for "warrantless wiretapping"? How worried they were that both American citizens and enemy combatants wouldn't be afforded privacy rights.

That was then. This is now.

Of course, Bush's offensive in both Iraq and Afghanistan were initiated with complete Congressional authorization.

As president Obama himself has renewed the Patriot Act with nary a peep from the Bush-haters.

Despite being one of his primary campaign promises in 2008, Obama has yet to close Club Gitmo, again with nary an objection from the Bush-is-Hitler crowd.

And what of those Due Process rights the Left is so interested in protecting?

It has been known for a while, despite White House obfuscations and obstructions, that Obama has been sending unmanned drone aircraft to the Middle East to kill individuals suspected to be Al Qaeda or other dangerous terrorists. Fine by me.

Except some of these targets have been American citizens who for one reason or another became radicalized and became fighters for jihad. Again, I couldn't care less if these cretins' time on earth was suddenly curtailed. But if they are still American citizens, why are they not being arrested and given their Constitution-secured Due Process rights?

The White House hasn't told us. Even worse, now that a White House memo has been leaked, the administration is actually defending the practice.

Oh, but it gets better. These drones have not only been used in the Middle East. Drones have been spotted flying low on U.S. soil. Which has led about a dozen states, with blessing from the ACLU -- thanks, guys. Where the *^#@ have you been? -- to look to ways to restrict drone use over their skies. 

Oh, but it gets even better. Turns out, the U.K. Guardian has reported some major U.S. news outlets, the same outlets who lambasted George W. Bush for nearly his entire presidency for being an imperial president, has purposely kept a lid on the story. 

US news organisations are facing accusations of complicity after it emerged that they bowed to pressure from the Obama administration not to disclose the existence of a secret drone base in Saudi Arabia despite knowing about it for a year.

Amid renewed scrutiny over the Obama administration's secrecy over its targeted killing programme, media analysts and national security experts said the revelation that some newspapers had co-operated over the drone base had reopened the debate over the balance between freedom of information and national security.

On Tuesday, following Monday's disclosure by NBC of a leaked Justice Department white paper on the case for its controversial targeted killing programme, the Washington Post revealed it had previously refrained from publishing the base's location at the behest of the Obama administration over national security concerns.

The New York Times followed with its own story on the drone programme on Wednesday, and an op-ed explaining why it felt the time to publish was now. ...

The NY Times, huh? The same NY Times that couldn't wait to splash anti-Bush anti-war propaganda on their top-fold front pages.

The same NY Times that sensationalized the non-story called Abu Ghraib. 

The same NY Times that couldn't wait to disclose classified information on its front pages despite admonitions from the Bush White House. 

The same NY Times that worked to put a sympathetic face on the hardened terrorists supposedly tortured by Americans at Club Gitmo.

The same NY Times that gave the detestable MoveOn.org a discount on a full-page ad smearing then-General David Patraeus. 

The knowingly sat for over a year on revelations that the Obama White House had been using drones to assassinate American citizens overseas. 

The late great Andrew Breitbart didn't call them the "Democrat-media complex" for nothing.

Three questions, by the way:

(1) Why is this story being reported in a non-American newspaper?

(2) Why is the White House defending the use of drone assassinations, and if there's nothing wrong with it, why did they and the news outlets that propagandize for them keep it from the public for over a year?

(3) Don't you find it funny that this is all coming out after the election? Hmmm????

Obama's Revenge: Day 14 (2/3/13)

So, over the weekend, the White House released a photo of President Golden Calf skeet shooting -- you know, to show that even though he's hell-bent on unconstitutionally confiscating every single firearm from Maine to Maui, that he's cool with shootin'. Whatever. 

But the best part is that the White House warned subjects citizens not to Photoshop or otherwise alteer the photo:  

This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way ...

Who the @*$! do these people think they are??

Well, naturally a few people did not take that threat from Dear Leader seriously. So here are my favorite Photoshopped versions of the Skeet-Shooter in Chief [h/t Twitchy, Moonbattery, Looking Spoon, The Blaze - these are just aggregates. You might need to do a little clicking to get to the original links]:

Obama's Revenge: Day 13 (2/2/13)

"Vote! Voting is the best revenge." - Barack H. Obama, Nov. 2, 2012

"We have to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it." 
- Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, March 9, 2010

CBS-TV's D.C. affiliate reports:

Medical Company Blames ‘Obamacare’ For Layoffs Of Nearly 100 People

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (CBSDC) — A medical company is blaming President Obama’s health care law for the layoffs of nearly 100 people.

Smith & Nephew says a 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices in the “Obamacare” law caused the layoffs in the Memphis and Andover, Mass., offices.

“The nearly $30 billion tax on medical devices that took effect Jan. 1, 2013, has impacted a number of companies across the U.S.,” the company said in a statement to WHBQ-TV.

Joe Metzger, senior vice president of corporate communications for the company, tells the Memphis Business Journal that they were “not immune” to the tax burden.

“Unfortunately, and in order to absorb this cost burden into our business, this has meant less than 100 positions have been made redundant across various departmental functions in our Tennessee and Massachusetts sites,” Metzger told the Business Journal. “The company is providing the affected employees with a comprehensiveseverance package and outplacement support.”

The Business Journal reports that the company announced last February it would lay off 7 percent of its workforce worldwide.

The tax took effect on Jan. 1.

This is just 100 jobs from one company. But opponents of Obama(PretendsTo)Care have been warning about the nationwide damage the tax will create, such as American Action Forum:

But don't worry: Not all medical companies will be closing up shop due to this punitive tax on their products. Most of them will just pass the tax on to you, the consumer. Next time you buy medical supplies of any shape, size, or price, check the bottom of your receipt. It's been happening for a month already.

 

Obama's Revenge: Day 12 (2/1/13) [UPDATE]

Well, they've had their greasy paws on the schools for decades. And now, the same folks who will move mountains to get sexually active preteen schoolgirls all the contraception they want and knocked-up girls all the abortions they want -- even without knowledge or consent of their parents -- are set to ban candy and sugary drinks from schools nationwide.

Remember - it's all for the children.

Look, nobody's for loading their kids up with sugar and other junk. As a parent of two young kids, I certainly don't. But it's not the job of some soulless bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. to prohibit its availability outright.

Ben Shapiro at Breitbart writes:

In typical federal government fashion, the rules run a full 160 pages. They do not ban juice, and call for foods to be fruit, vegetable, dairy, protein, whole-grain, or a combination thereof.

Of course, most students will either forego the healthy snacks or throw them out. But wasting taxpayer money has never been a problem for this administration.

This is to be expected. School kids have already rebelled against the Obama administration's assault on school lunches, with kids throwing out tons of food they just don't want to eat, or smuggling and trading more palatable foods in a juvenile black market.

The food fascists of the left are already giddy about this. In fact, Massachusetts, and the city of Chicago have already assaulted your child's food freedom.

From guns to food to cigarettes, to the water in your toilets, cars in your driveway, light bulbs in your sockets, to the amount of money in your paycheck, there is no end to the Obama left's assault on your liberty. And the woefully ignorant American people voted for it -- twice. 

So, to all you 12-year-old girls out there, screw to your heart's content. Schools will get you all the contraceptive you need. Just don't you dare be eating a cookie while you're doing it. And if you get pregnant, it's taxpayer-funded abortions abound! Just don't you dare be drinking a soda while you're sitting waiting for the school nurse. That might be grounds for expulsion.

What a sick f**king country we've turned into.

UPDATE 2/4/13: Lest anyone think I was being hyperbolic about the leftists running our schools providing young girls with contraceptives, even without parental knowledge or consent, behold this expose in this morning's AT: NYC schools have been giving away Plan B pills like candy (except it's candy that's now prohibited!) not only without parental consent, but also without a legally required doctor's prescription. It's allegedly been going on for years under the radar.

Again: What a sick f**king country we've turned into.

Obama's Revenge: Day 10 (1/30/13)

Two surprises happened yesterday (NOT!)

(1) The latest economic data reveals the already crappy economy continued to get crappier in the 4th quarter of 2012. (But wait but wait, the Democrat-media complex kept telling us the economy was getting better! And if you believed that tripe, I got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.)

You know who was surprised? Associated Press and the "experts" they interviewed. But people actually paying attention weren't surprised in the least. In fact, some have been predicting it ever since President Golden Calf got into office. Here's El Rushbo on yesterday's show citing the aforementioned AP:

[Y]ou remember what this administration's growth forecasts were for the next three to four years:  Their growth forecasts were anywhere between 3 and 4 1/2%.  Our growth rate is below the ChiComs.  Our growth rate is below Cuba.  We're not growing now.  The 4th quarter we actually contracted.

That means that the employment situation isn't changing. That means wages aren't changing positively. There's no growth in people's incomes.  It's just sad to watch this happening right in front of our eyes.  The inflation rate is at least 2%, probably higher than that.  So a casual calculation here, a 0.1% GDP contraction could mean that for all intents and purposes we're back into a recession.  ... I'll tell you, if there were a Republican in the White House, we'd be in a recession.  If there were a Republican in the White House, we'd never have come out of the recession.  If there were a Republican in the White House, there would be a depression.  If there were a Republican in the White House and all this was going on, we'd be doing impeachment hearings by now.  ...

... Now, listen to this from AP: "That is a sharp slowdown from the 3.1% growth rate in the July-September quarter."  What they're not telling you is -- you may not remember this -- in the 4th quarter there was a whole lot of economic stimulus, quote, unquote, to cover for Obama's tax increases.  There was all kinds of stimulus so his reelection effort wouldn't be harmed, and it still resulted in a contraction.  And listen to this next sentence from these wizards of smart at AP.  "The surprise contraction..."  Are you surprised that our economy is collapsing on itself?  You're not, are you?  The wizards of smart at AP are.  Listen to this: 

"The surprise contraction could raise fears about the economy's ability to handle tax increases that took effect in January and looming spending cuts."  Really?  I thought tax increases were great for the economy.  That's what the news media and the Democrat Party has been telling us.  Same thing with unemployment benefits.  I thought that was great for economic growth.  What happened to that?  The surprise contraction could raise fears about the economy's ability to handle tax increases.  You mean they've known all along at AP that tax increases slow down the economy?  They've known that all along, and they've been lying to us about it, and now that we're contracting they're worried, openly admitting they're worried?

Of course, even if people opened their eyes and finally realized this, it's too late. President Hope&Change was just reelected, given carte blanche to bring four more years of economic disaster.

(2) The incompetent bitterly partisan lying Empty-Suit-in-Chief blamed Republicans for it.

 No more surprised than I, Rick Moran at AT quips:

It doesn't get any more brazen than this. Welcome to the new reality - created, nurtured, promoted, and sold by an administration that doesn't have to work very hard to get it's distorted and skewed version of the truth out to the masses thanks to a press corps that has thrown in with the Democrats.

Being rewarded for acting and governing irresponsibly will only lead to disaster. Good thing the GOP will always be there to take the blame.

Yup. Not only take the blame, but do nothing to counter the lies.

Oh, speaking of El Rushbo, he cited someone who said in an interview to David "I'm from the media so I'm allowed to brandish illegal gun magazines" Gregory that Blacks are doing worse under Obama, much worse. Yes, the same blacks who voted -- twice! -- for President Hope&Change by over 9-1.

Who says this? Some member of the right-wing noise machine?

Nope, that would be Ben Jealous of the NAA(L)CP. Jealous explains that while the general unemployment rate dropped to a still-piss-poor 8%, the black unemployment rate went up from 12.9% to 14%. Black teen unemployment rate was up to nearly 40% by July 2012.

If this data was known by July, why are we just hearing black leaders complaining about it now?

Gee, I wonder ...

Liberal Media Bias: NY Times on Recess Appointments

Oh, the NY Times. The Newspaper of Record. The Old Gray Lady. Standard bearer that sets the bar for all other media. Conveyer of truth, balance, objectivity, and "all the news that's fit to print."

Right!

So, what is the NY Times' position on presidential recess appointments?

Well, it depends on who the president is!

Here is what Damon Root at Reason dug up:

In January 2006, The New York Times published an unsigned editorial attacking “the grandiose vision of executive power” displayed by President George W. Bush, who was then battling Senate Democrats over the fate of several controversial nominees to federal office. “Seizing the opportunity presented by the Congressional holiday break, Mr. Bush announced 17 recess appointments—a constitutional gimmick,” announced the Times.

Of course, Bush's recess appointments were NEITHER a grandiose vision of executive power NOR a constitutional gimmick. It was completely and wholly within Bush's right to make any appointments he wanted between the end of the 110th Congress and start of the 111th. The notoriously Bush-hating rag the Times just didn't like anything Bush did: They propagated the lie that the War in Iraq was illegal and unconstitutional (and immoral). And you may remember how the entire DBF* media reacted to Bush's firing of eight U.S. attorneys, while not objecting to the previous president Bill Clinton's firing of all 93! Same double standard.

Also, Bush didn't not make any more recents appointments not because the bitter partisan Democrat-majority Senate and House pulled that stupid gavel stunt, but because the Constitution didn't permit the president to make any other such appointments.

Now fast forward to the present. Last week, a D.C. Circuit Court -- hardly a bunch of right-wing extremists! -- unanimously declared unconstitutional President Hope&Change's recess appointments last January, including three to the hyperpartisan National Labor Relations Board. (Yes, the same NLRB that recently bullied Boeing for the audacity of trying to set up shop in a right-to-work state!) Why? Because (A) there was NO transition between two Congresses and (B) Congress was NOT in recess; Obama just waved his magic wand and declared it so! 

So, how does the same NY Times react to the D.C. Court's ruling:

In an unsigned editorial titled “A Court Upholds Republican Chicanery,” theTimes blasted the D.C. Circuit for placing limits on Obama’s authority. “With no sign that Republicans are willing to let up on their machinations, Mr. Obama was entirely justified in using his executive power to keep federal agencies operating ...” 

Got that, everyone? Bush's completely legitimate recess appointments: "a grandiose vision of executive power" and "constitutional gimmick." Obama's completely illegitimate appointments: "justified executive power" being undermined by "Republican chicanery" and "Republican machinations".

Nope! No liberal media bias here!

What a freaking joke.

Obama's Revenge: Day 8 (1/28/13)

In a fashion that would make any tinpot dictator proud, Obama has used the left-leaning opinion mag The New Republic and singled out Fox News and Rush Limbaugh essentially as enemies of the State. In the interview he granted to the magazine, he said:

If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it.

In other words: Every little nook and cranny of  the media is on my side. The only holdouts are Fox News (and that's not necessarily true, by the way; there are plenty of liberal hosts on Fox News that shill for Dear Leader) and El Rushbo. And they need to be punished! All the wittwe Wepubwicans would follow him to the far left and off the cliff if not for Fox and Rush. Please! He's like the snivvling little villain at the end of Scooby Doo episodes saying, "And I would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids!"

You know how I know news of this statement didn't go over well with many people? Because I keep mental tabs of the number of Facebook "likes" Rush's website gets. He usually gets around 500 or so new likes per day. But within the past day he's gotten closer to 1,500. It's the same reaction that occurred when President Golden Calf pointed his bony finger at guns and the NRA -- gun shops became mobbed with customers and the NRA got tons of new members.

Needless to say, folks at Fox News had something to say about Obama's thinly veiled threat against media outlets/figures who dare not toe the party line: Ben Shapiro, whose timely new book Bullies currently sits on my nightstand, penned this article and appeared on yesterday's Fox and Friends. Even one of Fox's liberal contributors Kirsten Powers called it "not presidential". 

Speaking of the compliant sycophantic media, President Golden Calf and Hillary "What Difference Does It Make!?" Clinton fielded underhand softballs on "60 Minutes" yesterday. One of the best conservative responses to that embarrassingly fawning interview was from Greg Gutfield, who said:

60 Minutes’ has become the longest hour you can spend outside a dentist’s chair. You know where every story is going, and it’s always left. No surprise that Obama blames FNC again, this time for hindering compromise. The real truth — in absence of media scrutiny — is FNC is all America has between them and lock-step. Hence the whine about FNC. Obama is like a quarterback complaining about the one cheerleader who won’t put out. How presidential of him. What is next? Is he going to crank call O’Reilly’s house? Amazing that a man that sees himself in grand terms can be so small. He is a diva. No wonder he and Beyoncé get along so well.

 

Obama's Revenge: Day 7 (1/27/13)

‎"Vote! Voting is the best revenge." - Barack H. Obama, Nov. 2, 2012

Obama wants this woman to die.

Fox 2 News Headlines

Yes, you read that right.

And so do Veep Biden, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo, and scores of other people -- almost all (il)liberal Democrats.

Because if this Detroit great-grandmother didn't have her 9mm pistol on her today -- which Cuomo has just banned, which Feinstein is trying to ban, and which Obama's two dozen executive orders seeks to ban -- she very well might have died. Or at least, have been roughed up and had her purse snatched [h/t Gateway Pundit].

You see, the anti-gun zealots that occupy the highest offices in the nation would have us believe that the Second Amendment caused the Newtown, CT massacre.

Which, of course, it didn't. A morally deficiant maniac with a couple of French Fries short of a Happy Meal who stole his mother's legally registered gun (already a crime on the books), murdered her (already a crime on the books), transported the weapons to a public school (already a crime on the books), and murdered 27 innocent adults and children (already a crime on the books) caused the Newton, CT massacre.

The Second Amendment doesn't endorse, sanction, or even cause gun violence. Despite what any (il)liberal demagogue who has disgustingly exploited the Newtown massacre will tell you.

However, infringing on citizens' Second Amendment rights will cause violence (with any weapon) and even death. Because with every Newton or Aurora or Tucson or Virginia Tech there are thousands, maybe even tens of thousands, of law abiding citizens who saved their or others' lives thanks specifically to their right to bear a firearm. A human right that your friendly Democrats in power are chomping at the bit to unconstitutionally take away from you. For your own good, of course.

This brave great-grandmother was able to defend herself today.

Thanks to Barack Obama and his voracious horde of gun-banning zealots, she -- and hundreds of millions of other Americans -- will not be able to defend herself tomorrow.

It is rumored that President Golden Calf will be yet again exploiting the Newtown massacre by having some victims' parents in attendance at his upcoming SOTU address.

This woman, or the thousands like her, should be there instead.

Obama's Revenge: Day 4 (1/24/13)

‎"Vote! Voting is the best revenge." - Barack H. Obama, Nov. 2, 2012

(Yes, I'm already 2 days behind in this. So sue me)

President Hope&Change's determination to decimate the military and turn it into an emasculate glorified peace corps contingent continues. Look, I don't care if women are allowed to go to the front lines. If they have the skills and the, um, cajones, then all more power to them. 

But there's more that went on: The relieving of duty of General James Mattis, who had replaced Gen. David Patraeus as head of CENTCOM since August 2010.

From Michael Walsh at Wednesday's NY Post:

Lost in the inaugural hullabaloo was Tuesday’s news that President Obama has relieved Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis, the colorful and highly decorated Marine who’s been in charge of the crucial US Central Command, which oversees the various wars in the Middle East, since 2010.

Mattis is famous for his blunt style and blistering aphorisms — “be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet” was his clear-headed advice to the Marines he led during the treacherous Iraq War. He’ll retire from both CentCom and the Corps in March, several months short of his expected tour of duty.

Walsh goes on to conclude that Obama's letting Mattis go was political and ideological. AWR Hawkins at Breitbart explains the firing was because Mattis dared questioned the omniscient Obama's Middle East Policy:

In particular, it appears his questions surrounding the U.S. response to Iran's nuclear ambitions drew the ire of civilian military and security advisers. 

These civilians were apparently upset by the way Mattis pushed them to "consider second and third-order consequences of military action against Iran." Nor did they appreciate the way he pushed them to think long term and consider what the U.S. will do if Iran develops non-nuclear weapons that can be used to keep U.S. ships out of the Persian Gulf.

Mattis also expressed concern over the consequences of certain aspects of the U.S. approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan. It seems this line of reasoning didn't sit well with National Security Adviser Tom Donilon.

James Lewis, in a provocative piece in yesterday's AT, agrees, writes:

Real human progress comes hard, very hard.

There are heroes in the world. Most of humanity doesn't come close. Compared to Dr. King and Abe Lincoln, Obama is a hollow man, clinging to a faith outworn.

General James Mattis is being fired for insisting on complete contingency planning, according to Pentagon reporter Tom Ricks. Truth-telling isn't welcome in this administration, and that means big trouble ahead. General Mattis and the military understand that. The general insisted on full planning for all predictable outcomes.

Obama is a gambler, and he doesn't want to think about what might happen if his wild gambles don't pay off. He is amazingly overconfident. General Mattis is a thinker. He is a responsible combat leader.

The differences are huge. [...]

General Mattis rose to fame by the success of his combat strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was Mattis who taught his Marines to tell the population that "we are your best friend and your worst enemy." In Iraqistan a lot of people got that.

In Afghanistan, after the Brits withdrew from Helmand Province with serious losses, the U.S. Marines took over the battleground. They practiced the Mattis Doctrine, walked combat patrols and risked personal death and injury to let the people decide. Today Helmand Province is pacified -- at least until Obama skedaddles outta there. 

The Taliban are now holed up in the mountains. They are very patient fanatics.

So we have Obama firing a very effective, albeit "controversial", general. We have Hillary wriggling like a worm on a hook during these ridiculous Benghazi hearings. And we have the Democrats' favorite military-bashing traitor John Kerry at the top of the short list for Secretary of State.

What could possibly go wrong?

 

 

Obama's Revenge: Day 3 (1/23/13)

‎"Vote! Voting is the best revenge." - Barack H. Obama, Nov. 2, 2012

 "What we need to do is change the way in which people think about [the G0d-given and Constitution-enshrined Right to own] guns, especially young people, and make it something that's not cool, that it's not acceptable, it's not hip to carry a gun anymore. ... Over time, we changed the way that people thought about smoking, so now we have people who cower outside of buildings and kind of smoke in private and don’t want to admit it.” - Now-AG Eric Holder, Jan. 30, 1995

No less than two incidents happened in which a student was deemed a murderous or terroristic threat warrantying public searching and suspension. Both incidents occurred in Pennsylvania.

First suspect: A 5-year-old kindergartner was suspended, labeled a terrorist threat, and questioned for 30 min without her parents present for brandishing a pink Hello Kitty bubble gun. This dangerous threat to the public was allegedly heard saying, "I'm going to shoot you and I will shoot myself." With bubbles. [h/t The Blaze]

Second suspect: 5th grader Melody Valentin of Philadelphia was scolded by a school administrator, was searched in front of her entire class, and endured taunting shouts of "murderer" for having in her backpack a folded piece of paper that looked like a gun. [h/t also The Blaze]

Does this look like a freaking public threat to you???

Of course, I'm sure if this 10-11-year-old girl was seeking an abortion, the school would have helped her get one, without the consent of her parents, and then heralded her as a champion of Constitutional rights.

This was South Philly, where actual murderous thugs like the New Black Panthers were caught on video brandishing clubs for the express purpose of physically intimating voters at a polling  location and whose case Obama and Holder inexplicably dismissed! The same ones who are responsible for deliberately fomenting a hysterical climate resulting in an innocent 5th grade girl waking up and crying in the bathroom in the middle of the night from nightmares.

These "educators" should be charged with child abuse. This is the hysterical climate of fear that Obama desires. Innocent children bullied, stigmatized, and emotionally scarred by anti-gun zealots. Make no mistake: These two permanently scarred girls are just dispensible casualties of Obama and Holder's new transformed America.  

And it is only the beginning.

END THE OCCUPATION! LIBERALS OUT OF THE SCHOOLS NOW!!!