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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.