Category Archives: Obamalot

The Fart, Barf & Itch Air Force

Posted on June 4, 2015 | 1 comment

“The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned.

“The planes’ surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge’s approval, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations. In a recent 30-day period, the agency flew above more than 30 cities in 11 states across the country, an AP review found.”

Looks like Rand Paul’s battle with the NSA—which I predict he will lose despite his initial victory—is only the beginning. Or maybe not.

Via NR’s Jim Geraghty

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Battles of Wikipedia

Posted on June 1, 2015 | 3 comments

“There was the day in February [2008] when an editor replaced a photo of Hillary on her Wikipedia page with a picture of a walrus. Then there was the day this month [March 2008] when a Hillary supporter changed Obama’s bio so that it referred to him as ‘a Kenyan-American politician.'”

The problem of all encyclopedias, i.e. editorial bias, is sharpened by Wikipedia’s voluntary editing and real-time updating. These days it’s most obvious in the ongoing struggle over global warming/climate change (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party) in manipulated Wikipedia entries about the climate blog What’s Up With That. It’ll be back to political infighting in next year’s presidential campaigns.

Nevertheless, as you will see from the widget at the bottom left of this page, I support Wikipedia for what it indispensably is: a pretty good internet encyclopedia. You just have to read it with a suspicious eye sometimes.

But that was also true of the Britannica and the World Book set I had as a kid.

Via WUWT

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The Obama Betrayal

Posted on May 30, 2015 | 1 comment

No, not the one about keeping your doctor or your health insurance, blatant as those lies were. Rather, Our Little Barry’s decision to use Vietnam as a model and turn the presidential back on Iraq.

“President Obama’s 2011 abandonment of Iraq was a betrayal of America’s promises to millions of Iraqi men, women and children. The ISIS victories, and the horrors that follow them, are a direct result of that betrayal. As Ismail said to me: ‘They shouldn’t leave us like that.’”

It’s not just you, Ismail. It’s American soldiers who get left as well.

Via Instapundit.

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Epitaph on a politician

Posted on May 28, 2015 | 1 comment

Here richly, with ridiculous display,

The Politician’s corpse was laid away.

While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged

I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

— Hilaire Belloc’s “Epitaph on the Politician.”

You can imagine who I’d like to see here. But you’ll have to imagine. I’m not going to sic the feds on myself.

UPDATE:  Clarence Darrow was more circumspect: “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”

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In Observance

Posted on May 25, 2015 | 2 comments

This year we have the sad duty to observe Memorial Day in remembrance of two generations of American soldiers whose lives were thrown away on distant battlefields by American politicians:  In Viet Nam and Iraq.

As Richard Fernandez explains: “The collapse in the Middle East feels like Black April, 1975, the month South Vietnam fell. And it should, because just as the collapse of Saigon did not happen in Black April, but in a political American decision to allow South Vietnam to fall after a ‘decent interval’, so also is the ongoing collapse rooted, not in the recent tactical mistakes of the White House, but in the grand strategic decision president Obama made when he assumed office…”

Militarily, the good old USA is not what it was and may never be again. Nobody, certainly not in the Middle East, trusts us anymore. Nor should they. Today, only about one half of 1 percent of the American population serves. Soldiers have no political clout whatsoever.

Indeed, joining the micro-managed, all-PC American military today—for any reason other than to repel a direct attack on the homeland—really isn’t advisable. It’s just slow-motion suicide. Deployment, perhaps, to the latest short-lived “commitment.” Some civilian flag-waving back home for a minute or two and then…forgotten.

Via ChicagoBoyz & Belmont Club.

UPDATE:  Kept hearing Happy Memorial Day Weekend, a civilian salutation bespeaking bar-b-ques and whatnot. Memorial Day really is about dead soldiers. So it’s like hearing Happy Dead Soldiers day. Disgusting.

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Never Forget

Posted on May 23, 2015 | Comments Off on Never Forget

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Even when American presidents do

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Miriam Carey is still dead

Posted on May 21, 2015 | Comments Off on Miriam Carey is still dead

Every two-bit petty criminal who happens to be black gets the full snooze media treatment with walk-on parts by our Little Barry and his pal Al Sharpton. But when a young, law-abiding black mother is gunned down by a pack of wild police animals…Crickets.

Via Mouth of the Brazos

UPDATE:  Not too many have contributed to her legal fund, probably reflecting people’s ability to recognize futility when they see it. But I gave some and you should, too.

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