Category Archives: Obamalot

What, the economy doesn’t jump when he orders it?

Posted on July 28, 2013 | 6 comments

Would be helpful to lower taxes and cut back on voluminous federal business regulations (not to mention repealing Obamacare) but that’s (apparently) too obvious for our disgraceful president.

“Obama taxes Americans. He taxes their incomes, their lifebloods and their patience. He has put his entire faith in taxes, in grubbing up enough money to serve as collateral for his latest scheme. And the road that his paradise of amnesty for illegal aliens, green energy for electric poverty and more government employees to administer the whole mess leads to is Detroit.”

He talks and talks and nothing happens. He doesn’t care. He’s got his.

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Our lying, gun-running U.S. Attorney General

Posted on July 27, 2013 | 3 comments

Conservative and libertarian pundits like to say Eric Holder is among the most corrupt and racist attorneys general in U.S. history. He’s a bozo, alright, but that’s a lot of attorneys general.

I suspect many of his white predecessors were more racist. Even so-called liberal AG Robert Kennedy authorized the wiretapping of Dr. King. But corrupt? So I went to the tale of the tape, as a certain deceased sportscaster used to say.

The closest tape is Wikipedia—which I support even when I don’t agree with its content because it’s nice to have an encyclopedia on the Web and even the printed ones can be biased—and its historical recitation of federal political scandals suggests that, so far, Holder is an amateur when it comes to corruption, at least.

True, the Wikipedia entry does manage to ignore Holder’s department’s secret subpoena of phone records of the Associated Press and spying on Fox News—you can find the info if you click through to his profile, however.

But even after you include his contempt of Congress citation over failure to answer questions about the Fast & Furious gun-running scheme to Mexico, Holder has a long way to go to catch up with his contemptible predecessors in the Reagan, Nixon, Harding and Grant administrations.

Given his recent push to ignore a Supreme Court ruling and try to tell Texas how to hold elections (good luck with that, bozo), not to mention trying to try George Zimmerman twice (now that’s racism!), I’m betting that Holder will be up there with the superstars of racism and corruption by the next presidential go round in 2016.

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Exonerating Zimmerman

Posted on July 26, 2013 | 6 comments

“Seattle radio host John Carlson–who… initially thought Zimmerman guilty–notes:

One of the most important, and remarkably under-publicized facts that came out at trial is that one of the detectives, while interrogating Zimmerman at the police station that night, told him that the entire incident had been caught on surveillance video. The detective was bluffing, but Zimmerman didn’t know that. His reaction: ‘Thank God.’

‘Thank God.’ How many people who do something wrong, lie about it and are told it’s on tape react that way?”

Remarkably under-publicized? Oh, come on. It hardly fits the Narrative pushed by our feckless president and his race baiter pals. It’s way too telling.

Via Best of the Web Today.

UPDATE:  Rare reader Darkwater sends this link to PJMedia journalist Bill Whittle’s excellant, fully-sourced takedown of the lies told about Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman by, variously, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the President of the United States and the U.S. Attorney General. They should hang their heads in shame, if they have any shame, which I doubt.

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That Royal baby

Posted on July 24, 2013 | 2 comments

Fox News, which I check at least once every day as the most reliable and objective of the traditional news gatherers, lured me in the other day to paying attention to Prince William and Princess Kate and their baby boy.

I already admired dad for being a helicopter pilot in the Royal Navy. The late Princess Diana’s eldest certainly didn’t have to venture into that particular danger. Nor did his younger brother, Harry, have to fight in Afghanistan. I also liked Bill’s self-deprecating remark that his new son (bald as babies usually are) has more hair than he does.

Katie seems nice enough. Although a commoner (like the rest of us) whose ancestors actually include coal miners and laborers, her beauty, ever-present smile and flamboyant hats help her fit right in with the other swells.

Why do we (and me) care about these folks? I’m not sure. America wouldn’t exist if our predecessors had not been anti-monarchists who kicked out the old royal’s troops, including their German mercenaries.

Nevertheless, says Spengler: “…the [endurance of the British monarchs reflects] a longing for something more permanent, more reverential in the character of the state.” Lord knows I’d rather look at William and Catherine than our ever-mendacious president and his sour-faced wife. But Bill’s father, Charlie, is a bit of a dork.

Spengler says it all goes back to ancient Israel, the combination of monarchy and religion, that is. The Brit monarchy, you see, upholds the Church of England even as its parishioners dwindle in an increasingly secular country.

But Bill and Katie are just plain refreshing. They seem more wholesome than some of the usual dweebs who clamor for attention. Even if their royalty is dated (going on a thousand years) and, just like our latest occupants of the White House, they get their goods by sponging off the taxpayers.

They probably don’t smile near as much in private. I expect Katie does not cook and I’m sure she doesn’t clean. But Bill, who is after all a military pilot currently stationed in Wales, might use the refrigerator now and then without waiting for a servant to misunderstand and bring him something he doesn’t want.

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Free Boroujerdi!

Posted on July 21, 2013 | 4 comments

It’s good to know there’s at least one Muslim cleric who advocates tolerance of non-Muslims. Unfortunately Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeini  Boroujerdi has been imprisoned in Tehran since 2009, tortured and denied medical care, and now he is dying, presumably of heart disease.

“Ayatollah Boroujerdi threatens the regime for two reasons:  he advocates toleration of all religious (and non-religious) beliefs, and, in keeping with Shi’ite tradition, opposes the involvement of religious leaders in politics.  Years ago, he said ‘the regime is adamant that either people adhere to political Islam or be jailed, exiled or killed.

“In 2010 he sent Hanukkah greetings to the Jews of the world, saying “any religious belief that brings us closer to the Source (God) is the truth. This force will lead humanity towards enlightenment. On this great day, we celebrate the unity among the believers of God’s light.”

A White House plea for Boroujerdi’s freedom, so he can at least die at home among family and friends, might work, as might a similar call by our U.N. rep Samantha Powers. It’s hard to imagine either happening, unfortunately, but it would be wonderful if they did.

Via Faster Please.

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The snooze media cautiously opens an eye

Posted on July 21, 2013 | 4 comments

The IRS breadcrumbs are leading ever closer to the White House, pausing for now at the office of the tax agency’s chief counsel, a Wormtongue appointee in 2009.

Like we couldn’t figure out that the IRS’s screwing of the Tea Party was ordered from the top. But it’s nice to almost have proof. And while the Associated Press tried to cover it up the other day, some of their junior subscribers, at least, are finally starting to pay attention: i.e. the Dallas Morning News and Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Who knows? Maybe even the daily, which also relies on AP, will get around to noticing there’s some real news out there, besides the continuing blather about St. Trayvon the Thug and the latest from the White House fog machine.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Delaware will sift through your federal tax records whenever they like. Especially if you run for political office as a Republican.

MORE:  The plot thickens: IRS chief counsel visited Wormtongue two days before the screws were applied to the Tea Party. Shocker!

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Our phony justice system

Posted on July 19, 2013 | 5 comments

Not because George Zimmerman was acquitted, which he certainly deserved to be, but because of the way the state of Florida tried, desperately, to convict him of something, anything, to keep the racists happy.

“…if Floridians are of a mind to let off a little steam, they might usefully burn down the Sanford courthouse and salt the earth. The justice system revealed by this squalid trial is worth rioting over.”

An all-woman jury for a male defendant? What was that about? Six jurors instead of twelve? What am I missing here?

Possibly that Florida was merely following the trend at the federal level, which wins more than 90 percent of its cases, principally because they hit the defendant with so many charges that the jury feels like it’s being reasonable to only convict on one or two of them.

It’s a record which, as Mark Steyn notes, certainly would impress the House of Saud. Only Kim Jon Un is likely to close in on 100 percent.

Our in-house editor, Mrs Charm, frequently reminds us that criminal justice these days is about plea bargaining and and not much else. Even Jimmy Carter knows our democracy is dying.

UPDATE:  Florida law says the acquitted Zimmerman gets his gun back. The feds, however, tell Florida not to obey its own law. Justice denied again.

MORE:  Meanwhile, our narcissist president (everything is about him) weighs in once more:  “If Trayvon was a white teen, he said, ‘both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.’” The “show” must go on until the polls close in 2014.

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