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Yet another reason not to trust the feds

Posted on May 20, 2013 | Comments Off on Yet another reason not to trust the feds

I’ve had an implicit faith in most of the federal government for most of my life. It didn’t even completely die when I was betrayed, as most Vietnam veterans were, by a government that never intended to win the war they conscripted us to fight.

But watching the partisan Democrat bureaucracy kowtow to President Choom has just been too much for me. Such as this recent discovery that the feds kept secret the surviving Boston bomber’s written confession that jihad was the reason for his killing and maiming hundreds in a Marathon crowd.

The confession conflicted with the Democrat narrative that the reason for the bombing was unknown, mysterious, an enigma. And federal agents (and the local cops) dutifully played along and hid the confession like good little puppets doing Barry’s bidding. The federal gumshoes have always cost more than they were worth. Now they are beneath contempt.

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IRS-enforced Obamacare

Posted on May 19, 2013 | Comments Off on IRS-enforced Obamacare

Notice the hapless fellow getting directions is wearing a medical outfit? Lately, it seems every time I take Mr. B. to the doctor, for a brief illness or a required checkup for summer camp, even the nurses are bemoaning a future of expanded federal supervision.

The paperwork alone will keep them busy-busy hopping to the tune of the latest partisan Democrat in charge of counting lead pencils and rubber erasers. For instance, the IRS woman in charge of targeting the Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harassment audits, is the new director of enforcement for Obamacare.

The usual low-information folks who think Obamacare means free medicals will now discover that time also is a form of money and they will be spending a lot of time waiting. We’ll use the new concierge clinics as long as we can afford them. Then we’ll get in line.

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, as I said before, watch how you vote. You might not get that procedure you need approved in time to save your life.

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The First Golfer teed up the IRS audits

Posted on May 18, 2013 | Comments Off on The First Golfer teed up the IRS audits

Some think Barry is just woefully misinformed about the way the federal government is supposed to work. Too much golf; too many vacations; and too many celebrity parties to have time to study up on it, apparently.

Or else the First Adolescent is simply evading responsibility for his latest “screwup,” as he has about everything else since 2009. With him it’s always someone else’s fault. Just like a 12-year-old.

I think Kimberley Strassel has the goods on President Choom: The IRS Scandal started at the top, with him. He instigated it and he knew very well what he was doing. For instance:

“Mr. VanderSloot is the Obama target who in 2011 made a sizable donation to a group supporting Mitt Romney. In April 2012, an Obama campaign website named and slurred eight Romney donors. It tarred Mr. VanderSloot as a ‘wealthy individual’ with a ‘less-than-reputable record.’ Other donors were described as having been ‘on the wrong side of the law.’

“This was the Obama version of the phone call—put out to every government investigator (and liberal activist) in the land.

“Twelve days later, a man working for a political opposition-research firm called an Idaho courthouse for Mr. VanderSloot’s divorce records. In June, the IRS informed Mr. VanderSloot and his wife of an audit of two years of their taxes… Mr. VanderSloot, who had never been audited before, was subject to three in the four months after Mr. Obama teed him up for such scrutiny.”

It was similar to 2008 when Schoolyard Barry gave Shillary the finger on CNN by pretending to scratch his face with his middle finger. His backers in the audience hooted. They knew what he was doing. Just like the IRS knew what to do to Mr. VanderSloot.

Only fools would ever again trust our partisan federal bureaucrats.

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The new federal speech code

Posted on May 17, 2013 | Comments Off on The new federal speech code

While you’re being careful to vote the approved way, and whether and how you support Israel and what you say out loud about President Choom, if you happen to be a college student, the Department of “Justice” has a further warning just for you:

“The new mandate was revealed in a letter from the DOJ and DOE to the University of Montana that states ‘sexual harassment should be more broadly defined as ‘any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature,’ including  ‘verbal conduct.’ [Even sex jokes that might be overheard, got it?]

“The new rules apply to all colleges and universities receiving any sort of federal money, including Pell grants, federally backed student loans, and more. The letter contends the conduct in question need not be offensive to an ‘objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation.’ That means that there is effectively no check on what might count as harassment.”

This goes against your First Amendment rights, you say? Good luck. The feds are a power unto themselves. I wouldn’t try to push your view too far unless you want the IRS to audit you. Or your parents.

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Forget Watergate, Barry will skate

Posted on May 16, 2013 | 5 comments

Sure, his lawless regime is under fire, but I”m not letting it go to my head like J.D. is doing:

“…the death of a thousand cuts, where one tiny piece of damning information comes out at a time. The persistence of a very few investigating writers keeping the story simmering and slowly reaching a rolling boil…it’s spooky how it looks so much like Watergate.”

Except that the WaPo and the NYTimes led the charge on Watergate and the Democrat congress soon convened an impeachment investigation, on which Shillary, The Witch of Benghazi, did staff work, BTW.

Those newspapers will never dog the leader of the Choom Gang (who already is denying everything) and the Republicans don’t have the balls to impeach him. No way, no how.

And, while everyone’s distracted by the scandals, Republican Rubio & Co. will pass the amnesty immigration bill which, among other things, will create a new national I.D. card complete with photo for us all. Your papers, please.

I can hardly wait for the partisan Democrat IRS to start enforcing Obamacare.

Land of the free? Depends on your politics, bud. Better watch how you vote.

UPDATE:  Or, as PJMedia exec Roger L. Simon puts it:

“What we have now discovered about Barack Obama and Eric Holder’s America, if we didn’t already know it, is that any belief in a benign and decent government in this country is absolute horseshit. Liberalism has been revealed as a fascist joke.”

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Capitalism can even fix federal stupidity

Posted on May 14, 2013 | Comments Off on Capitalism can even fix federal stupidity

I haven’t tried to pour gasoline from a gas can since the days when I still owned a sailboat with an outboard hanging off the transom. So I’d forgotten what the feds did to the gas can, in their usual bureaucratic stupidity, though I hear the ventless gas can actually was first developed in California. Oh, of course.

Nevertheless, there’s hope for the new non-illuminating light bulbs, not-very-flushable toilets, discoloring paint, too-soon-broken refrigerators, and the other junk Barry’s new socialist bureaucracy has, or plans to, foist on us.

Because this clever entrepreneur fixed the ventless gas can. Yep. It does require a new part and something else to fiddle with, but it’s only $1.65 at Amazon. So there’s obviously hope for America. Thanks to capitalism, King Pinocchio, capitalism.

Via Instapundit.

And let’s not forget capitalism’s share in Canadian Chris Hadfield’s brilliant music video from the ISS, updating David Bowie’s old song Space Oddity (“Ground control to Major Tom”), with a few alterations to the lyrics. It deftly relieves the Space Age of the boredom government control has brought it (minus the inevitable tragedies) ever since Russian Yuri Gagarin’s first solo.

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King Pinocchio IS out to get you

Posted on May 14, 2013 | Comments Off on King Pinocchio IS out to get you

If, that is, you are a public critic of his increasingly lawless regime and the partisan bureaucracy it commands.

The IRS revelations, says Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, are “just the beginning of the story. This is no little thing. This is a big thing. The good news about it is they finally got caught.

“They finally messed with an agency everybody fully understands. When they try to quiet the critics through other agencies, it doesn’t get attention. This does. Everybody understands the IRS and how powerful they are. This is just one example of an administration-wide effort to silence critics.”

And when Mr. Hopenchange sics his “Justice” Department on the news media he already has on an ideological leash, you just know he’s not going to balk at collecting your cellphone records. So, for anything you want to hide, use a throw-away phone!

UPDATE:  Try not to be a Jew who supports Israel. And remember to pay no attention to anyone who warns you of government tyranny. They might be a crank.

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