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| Red Julia: Imminent ouster |
Hmmm. We could do with that guy over here.
8/31/11
Red Julia's last days
Hmmm. We could do with that guy over here.
Brits 'trapped in godforsaken hellhole'
You think you've had it bad with the quake, Irene and Great Recession? Spare a thought for the rising numbers of Britons who can't afford to leave their godforsaken hellhole, the Daily Mash reports.
'Mad' Max-ine threatens banks
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[Hat tip: Michelle Malkin]
Always there when they need us
My Vermont friend emails: I was just wondering when the Arab League, the Saudis, China, Israel, et. al. will be sending offers of money, aid, and food to Vermont and other regions devastated by Irene. I'm not holding my breath.
You thought the 9/11 anniversary was about the victims?
Chris Wysocki at his sarcastic best on Wyblog.
White House again prods lifeless housing market
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| Freddie stretched further |
8/30/11
Banks encouraged to make cut-price loans to minorities
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| Encouraging a banker |
Irene leaves a splitting headache
A friend up in Vermont whose work I often edit, has an enviable writer's office/shed near his house. He lost four big trees to Irene and almost lost his shed [ see left ] despite our nation's indomitable leader commanding the Hurricane Control Center. But the Exalted One will have an easy solution: Tax all trees, and regulate them.
Could Uncle Omar sue?
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In other news, the LC has been advised by his lawyers, Bigbuks & Greede, not to pursue a case, since the LC is such a handsome old geezer that he hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of winning.
8/29/11
Obama: ready for the Big Office?
CNN anchor Kyra Phillips asked her "Political Buzz" panel Monday if GOP candidates Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann are "ready for the big office."
What about President Obama? Three years in the "big office" and he's still not ready.
What about President Obama? Three years in the "big office" and he's still not ready.
Good news for ugly people
Good news for the ugly. An academic wrote this satirical piece in The New York Times suggesting that ugly people could sue for discrimination if they miss out on a job or promotion. Oops, wait... you mean it's not satire?
Oh, well, this report from the SL Tribune certainly isn't satirical and it's almost as absurd.
Oh, well, this report from the SL Tribune certainly isn't satirical and it's almost as absurd.
Too little spice in this Curry
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| Curry: Bland |
What irks me on the is her blandness, faux concern, compulsive "empathetic" touching of co-hosts and interviewees, and fatuous links like "such a sad story, Matt." There's an obvious reason why ratings have fallen since Meredith Vieira left: Curry's lack of spice.
8/28/11
New scandal involving Australia's Red Julia?
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| Gillard: questions |
Matthews plays the race card
"It appears that unless every white person in this country votes for Barack Obama next November, Chris Matthews will believe it's because they're racist," writes Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters. "On this weekend's syndicated program bearing his name," adds Sheppard, "Matthews smelled racism in the declining number of whites supporting the President."
Of course the only racism was from Matthews himself , who preferred the knee-jerk white-liberal "racist" meme over the far more obvious non-racist explanation: Obama's failure of leadership.
Of course the only racism was from Matthews himself , who preferred the knee-jerk white-liberal "racist" meme over the far more obvious non-racist explanation: Obama's failure of leadership.
Hurricane Irene devastates LC estate
Hurricane Irene ripped mercilessly through the LC's estate disturbing some leaves and sending several small twigs plunging to the ground. The LC and his family crouched, frozen with fear, inside Chateau LC as winds gusting up to a terrifying 5mph. ruffled the tails and manes of the horses outside. Thank God President Obama took charge of the Hurricane control center and single-handedly averted the greatest single catastrophe in the history of mankind.
Arrested Obama uncle asks to call White House
The Washington Times reports that an illegal immigrant from Kenya named Onyango Obama, 67, (said to be President Obama's uncle) was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly ramming his SUV into a police car in Framingham, Massachusetts. Onyango Obama, was charged with DUI. When offered the use of a phone to help raise bail, he allegedly said: "I think I will call the White House."
America's deficit: amazing picture
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| Hurricane of Debt revealed |
8/27/11
Obama takes charge at hurricane command center
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| Obama takes charge at FEMA |
Europe's wretched failure
I highly recommend this insightful piece by The Australian's Foreign Editor, Greg Sheridan, on the decline and fall of Europe's welfare states.
US takes out al-Qaeda's No.2
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| al-Rahman |
Cartoonist of the Day: Rick McKee
Don Surber has this perfectly-timed cartoon from the Augusta Chronicle's Rick McKee.
8/26/11
Wall Street flees Hurricane Hype
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Annoyingly cheerful? There's a pill for that
Still cheerful despite the quake and Irene? The Onion has the cure. You might want to send some to those insufferably cheerful weather forecasters at your local TV station.
It's Ron who's in the torture business
Ron Reagan, the apple who fell so incredibly far from the tree, is pure torture to listen to.
Cartoonist of the Day: Glenn Foden
Glenn Foden reckons Irene may have a silver lining for President Obama.
Inflation much?
Investors' response to hints of more money printing? Gold has rebounded to $1800 an ounce.
Heckuva job, Barry!
Keith Koffler, who has been watching events at the Vineyard with a jaundiced eye, reports that the President has now decided that he is going to cut short his vacation.
First of all Michelle and kids were going to stay and fly back later in a separate plane, at yet more thousands in cost to taxpayers. But guess what? Our decisive leader changed his mind yet again and they will all take one flight (AF1 alone costs about $250,000 an hour plus helicopter rides at both ends).
First of all Michelle and kids were going to stay and fly back later in a separate plane, at yet more thousands in cost to taxpayers. But guess what? Our decisive leader changed his mind yet again and they will all take one flight (AF1 alone costs about $250,000 an hour plus helicopter rides at both ends).
Forward, no, back! Forward! Back!
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| Screech! |
I think we are hearing the screech of brakes from the Administration and the sound of the transmission being slammed into reverse. Dither, dither. More stimulus after the fist one failed utterly. An opportunity for thousands of jobs refused, then accepted, simultaneously upsetting both China and Taiwan. O must Go!
Do-little stays for another round of golf
As prudent vacationers and vulnerable residents flee to the mainland ahead of the storm, President Do-little and his family are in no hurry to leave Martha's Vineyard. And why should they? Since when was it the President's job to lead? He's managed three years without doing so. Why start now? There's another round of golf to play and Marine One will be there to pluck him to safety.
Hunker down! Hurricane Barack is coming
The past quarter's economic growth has been revised down from 1.3% to 1% -- a level that usually indicates the start of a recession. The unknown cost of Obama care hovers like a buzzard over the job market.
8/25/11
The Audacity of Dope
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Global arrogance of the left
The excellent Andrew Bolt on the arrogance of the left Down Under. It's the same thing we suffer Up Over.
Thieves: Marines can be dangerous to your health
Maggie's Farm has this wonderful cautionary tale for any thief stupid enough to stab a Marine.
8/24/11
Perry Gallups ahead
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| Perry leads |
Great Sayings of the Left
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| "To create jobs, first destroy them." |
Drawing by alagram: Blogs please link
Mass job destruction: Obama shoots down huge F16 deal
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| Shooting down jobs |
" The thing about bad guys that Obama has never understood is that they do not respond to appeasement," adds Koffler. "They instead will respect tough policies. It’s just a totally different frame of mind than that of, say, Winston Churchill, whose Oval Office bust Obama gave back the the British. The approach was signaled by Obama’s early ambition to make friends with the likes of Ahmadinejad and Chavez."
And that worked so well.
8/23/11
The LC was shaken but not stirred
The vast LC estate is only about 50 miles from the epicenter of the 5.9 magnitude Virginia quake. The house shook, the LC was woken from his post-prandial snooze. The dogs barked, the hummingbirds continued flitting around their feeders and the horses continued grazing undisturbed. No damage, thank goodness.
What was unfair about the Fairness Doctrine
Chris Wysocki celebrates the end of the Fairness Doctrine.
8/22/11
The problem blacks have with Obama
In a fascinating analysis, Star Parker, herself black, explains the painful conflicts that a failing black president creates for African-Americans. Read it all.
8/21/11
A financial reckoning is upon us and that's GOOD news
Australian senator Cory Bernardi sees financial upheaval, reckoning and reformation looming for the world, but finds comfort in the inevitable return to conservative values that will follow, bringing happier, more fulfilling and contented lives. More
Prof. Do-little was right, for once
He said back in March that Gaddafi's ouster was days, away. It has been days, but more than 100 of them.
What to do with Gaddafi
Now he's dethroned, put him on a 747, fly him 30,000 ft over Lockerbie, and push him out the door. Yeah, I know you can't open a door at that altitude, but a man can dream....
Professor Do-little in La-La land
Maureen Dowd now gets it: she writes in the NYT:
(h/t Newsbusters)
Americans are rattled and want action. They don’t know or care what Congress’s schedule is. They just see the president not doing anything. Cruising white Midwestern hamlets in his black bus, Obama tried to justify not calling lawmakers back to D.C. by saying they’d just continue to bicker. But what does he think they’ll do in September? The truth is, he doesn’t want them back in the capital any more than they want to be back. It would have screwed up his vacation and upset Michelle, who already feels trapped in the Washington bubble.The LC does not begrudge the Obamas downtime when appropriate. But it would never even occur to a small-business owner to take a vacation if the business were in crisis. But the President of the world's only superpower sees no problem with it. Dangerously arrogant and aloof doesn't even begin to describe him.
(h/t Newsbusters)
8/20/11
For Obama, the game is lost
President Obama is a man who has never had to cope with failure: Cries of "Great job, Barry!" have followed him all the days of his life, from Hawaii to Harvard to the White House. Now, like an overindulged child, he has thrown down his toys in a tantrum and is blaming everyone else for his failures.
Those failures grow more catastrophic by the day. Businesses are frozen by the uncertainty he has bred. Stock market investors and people still in jobs, are terrified by what is clearly another oncoming recession, and rightly so. This time the Fed has no ammunition to delay the inevitable. Meanwhile there is the distant thunder of a potentially massive economic storm in Europe.
The mood of this country could scarcely be worse. But instead of getting in front to lead, inspire, and offer hope, Obama has chosen this critical moment to disappear on an obscenely expensive vacation. Why? He has already played the Hope and Change cards. He knows the game is lost.
Those failures grow more catastrophic by the day. Businesses are frozen by the uncertainty he has bred. Stock market investors and people still in jobs, are terrified by what is clearly another oncoming recession, and rightly so. This time the Fed has no ammunition to delay the inevitable. Meanwhile there is the distant thunder of a potentially massive economic storm in Europe.
The mood of this country could scarcely be worse. But instead of getting in front to lead, inspire, and offer hope, Obama has chosen this critical moment to disappear on an obscenely expensive vacation. Why? He has already played the Hope and Change cards. He knows the game is lost.
The liberal roots of the riots
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| Burning questions |
Why Sarah WILL run
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| Too scary? |
Cartoonist of the Day: Ramirez
Michael Ramirez looks at the peril of a second recession for Obama (one O can't blame on Bush).
(via: Townhall.com)
(via: Townhall.com)
8/19/11
Obamas take two planes to the Vineyard -- and we pay
President and Mrs Obama traveled in separate planes to Martha's Vineyard, costing taxpayers thousands more than if they had traveled on Air Force One together. The Obamas are entitled to downtime. But two planes? An arrogant waste of a money and an insult to the many who can't afford a vacation this year.
8/18/11
Obama's Syrian option
President Obama is calling on Syria's Assad, to step down. Perhaps if O were to set an example by stepping down himself, Assad might follow. O how I wish...
8/17/11
Barack Obama: a dictionary definition
su·per·cil·i·ous/ËŒso͞opÉ™rˈsilÄ“É™s/
Adjective: Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others, sometimes despite a lack of concrete achievements. To be like Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama disdainful of "little blogs"
Could anything be more patronizing? Obama said this in an Iowa speech in which he belittled the whole blogosphere:
This is total BS. I am a conservative, I read the NYT online most days and I sift the rest of the liberal media for gems about Dems . I never watch Fox News and, while I do have my "little blog," I make up my mind about you, Mr President, based on your unfulfilled promises and your negligible record of achievement (other than debt creation.)"It used to be that everybody was sitting there watching Walter Cronkite, now everybody is on their own little blog or on their own separate news forum. If you're a Democrat you're reading the New York Times, if you're a Republican, you're watching Fox News. . . people don't listen to each other much."
Mr President, seeing since this is the land of the free (at least until you came along) I will go on on writing "O must GO!" until they pry this keyboard from my hands. You may not like it, Mr President, but it's called "Freedom of Speech," and you are not the only one who can be patronizing.
Billionaire Buffett wants tax hikes for 'thousandaires'
Good to see The Wall Street Journal agreeing with us about Buffett's B.S. on taxes, Our initial post 'Secret of Buffett's low taxes' is here. Buffett is a brilliant investor, but fiscal expert? Not so much.
O must GO: Even Black Caucus is 'tired of making excuses'
The Congressional Black Caucus is " tired of making excuses" for President Obama's lack of action on jobs The Washington Examiner reports.
Read the whole report
Read the whole report
Cartoonist of the Day: Chip Bok
Chip Bock is the LC's Cartoonist of the Day, with this comment on poll-leading Texas Governor Perry.
8/16/11
After 'homophobes' will there soon be 'pedophobes' ?
A truly chilling post about a movement in the psychiatric community to encourage societal acceptance of "minor-attracted persons" (pedophiles)" Don't miss the superb reader comment from a psychiatrist. A particularly troubling aspect is the MSM's ignoring of a startling claim that pedophilia is rife in Hollywood.
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Caught them with a corndog (snigger...)
I am amazed that liberal blogs like the Daily Kos can openly wallow in sophomoric humor like these examples highlighted by Michelle Malkin. Aren't the left supposed to be urban sophisticates? Instead we see a bunch of sniggering adolescents.
Perry leaps ahead in GOP race
Rasmussen is reporting a big poll breakthrough for Texas Governor Rick Perry: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13%
The secret of Buffet's low taxes
"Our favorite holding period is forever," Warren Buffett has said many times. An investment with a holding period of forever incurs a capital gains tax of 0%, while all along the holder can be getting wealthy from appreciation. That's the real reason Mr. Buffet does not pay a lot of income taxes. Read more
Cartoonist of the Day: Ramirez
Click here to see Michael Ramirez on an economy weighed down by Obaminations
8/15/11
Calling Buffett's bluff
Warren Buffett, in The New York Times, called for a higher taxes on the mega-rich like himself. Warren, what are you waiting for? An invoice? Get out your checkbook now and donate a few billion to the US Treasury or the IRS. Why wait? I'm sure they won't turn it away. Oh, and remember not to claim a tax deduction on it as a charitable donation, there's a good multi-billionaire.
O is so over
"There is nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed." President Obama said in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, today. He's right for once. All it'll take is for him to step down. O is so Over.
O must GO: approval rating hits a new low
The former Superman seems to have overdosed on kryptonite, the latest Gallup poll shows.
8/14/11
Tone-deaf diplomat infuriates Tamils
The United States has apologized for controversial remarks made by a US vice consul who spoke of India's Tamils as "dark and dirty", the US consulate later issued a statement saying the comment was "inappropriate." "Inappropriate?" How about aloof and tone deaf? Who are these supposedly professional diplomats representing to the world? Oh...wait: " Tone deaf and aloof, " who in our leadership could that possibly reflect? Read the whole report.
8/13/11
Rick's in-- now spare us more Yankee cliches
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'O must GO!': the Doomsday Scenario
The world is heading into its worst crisis in decades. Europe is in a catastrophic financial state, facing monumental bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, with French banks more wobbly by the day, and Spanish and Italian economies next in line to crumble. Crippled by its own massive deficit and the threat of another credit downgrade, the US can do little to help.
The Euro seems doomed to break up, which will tilt the world back into recession. But this time it will be a much worse and longer lasting recession, because the Fed has already squandered all its stimulus ammunition and Obama won't cut taxes on small businesses to encourage more hiring, or remove the shadow of Obamacare that makes businesses fearful of employing new workers
By incredible ill-fortune --at this most critical of moments-- the Free World is led by President Obama, a man who has lost all credibility, who is paralyzed by indecision and is unable to act forthrightly. We are facing a doomsday scenario with a remote, ineffectual academic in charge, a passionless leader who is already proven to wilt under pressure. Only we can save ourselves: if enough of us demand that 'O must GO!' -- often enough and loudly enough -- we will make it so. O must GO!
The Euro seems doomed to break up, which will tilt the world back into recession. But this time it will be a much worse and longer lasting recession, because the Fed has already squandered all its stimulus ammunition and Obama won't cut taxes on small businesses to encourage more hiring, or remove the shadow of Obamacare that makes businesses fearful of employing new workers
By incredible ill-fortune --at this most critical of moments-- the Free World is led by President Obama, a man who has lost all credibility, who is paralyzed by indecision and is unable to act forthrightly. We are facing a doomsday scenario with a remote, ineffectual academic in charge, a passionless leader who is already proven to wilt under pressure. Only we can save ourselves: if enough of us demand that 'O must GO!' -- often enough and loudly enough -- we will make it so. O must GO!
Riots: one cop's week in Hell
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Post-great Britain
I've been waiting impatiently for the incomparable Mark Steyn to hold forth on the London riots: here's a taste:
Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically. Within living memory, the city in flames on our TV screens every night governed a fifth of the Earth's surface and a quarter of its population. When you're imperialists on that scale, there are bound to be a few mishaps along the way. But nothing the British Empire did to its subject peoples has been as total and catastrophic as what a post-great Britain did to its own. Read the whole column
'O must GO!': The audacity of nothing
What happened to Obama? Absolutely nothing.
He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president, says this devastating indictment by Norman Podhoretz in The Wall Street Journal.
He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president, says this devastating indictment by Norman Podhoretz in The Wall Street Journal.
Rick Perry, climate skeptic, heats up libs
You can almost hear the readers of The Guardian, London's liberal newspaper, choking on their organic herbal tea, as they read that Rick Perry, a climate-change skeptic, is throwing his hat into the Presidential ring.
"Perry calls global warming 'all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight,' ” says The Guardian adding, condescendingly: "The climate sceptics can finally get excited about the 2012 election."
Have a nice riot.
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Have a nice riot.
'O must GO!': as more insanity awaits
Chris Wysocki at Wyblog is feeling cynical. He says: "Every week, yes folks every single week from now on, President Obama is going to deliver new ideas to create jobs. It's The Idea Of The Week Club! I know he's just getting started, but let's see what this week's ideas are...." Read the whole piece
Beware of bloody bureaucrats, mate
Australia, despite its paltry 16 million people in a land the size of the USA, is the most urbanised nation on earth and the perfect environment for people who idolize the natural world, but have never been mugged by its realities. Greens, if you like.
In spite of Australia’s negligible global contribution to so-called greenhouse gases and their alleged role in global warming or ‘climate change’ Prime Minister Julia Gillard, is hell-bent on imposing a carbon-dioxide tax, at vast cost to the country in higher electricity costs and export prices. Meanwhile, an environmental "consulting" group advising her Labor government has come up with a new warming villain: not carbon dioxide, but the camel.
More than a million wild camels roam the Outback, descendants of dromedaries imported more than a century ago as beasts of burden. They live off otherwise inedible vegetation and occasionally expel a puff of methane (a minor 'greenhouse' gas). The “consultants” solution to this is simple: Kill all million of them. Herd them together, slaughter them, and finally pick off any strays by shooting them from helicopters.
Before I continue I must declare an interest: I once went on an afternoon’s trek through the outback on domesticated camels, with my wife Hilary and two young daughters. Awesome! It seemed like riding on Mars: completely silent, virgin red-orange sand underfoot, nothing man made in sight, not even an aircraft con-trail to blemish the amethyst sky; just the four of us, our guide, and the occasional sound of a camel biting off a mouthful of scrub as we padded through the desert enjoying the easy rolling motion of the beasts.
The reason for the boat-like ride, we learned, is that camels move their left legs together, then their right legs, like a pacing horse, or a giraffe. Camels groan a lot which can make them seem surly, “It’s just their way of being sociable”, our guide smiled. They are easily steered with a rope attached to a plug in the outer wall one nostril. When well trained, on the command “Hoosh!”, they kneel at both ends, you climb on board, wrap one leg around the saddle horn, take the nose rope in one hand, then they stand up. Find me a horse that will do that.
As you will have noticed by now, I like camels. So you bloodthirsty consultants and your tree-hugging fellow travelers l will say only this: Leave those camels alone. By slaughtering them, you will set a ghastly precedent. Eco-psychopaths who are even more extreme than you, will arise: see all of you, as useless generators of greenhouse gas, herd you together and slaughter you. You have been warmed.
In spite of Australia’s negligible global contribution to so-called greenhouse gases and their alleged role in global warming or ‘climate change’ Prime Minister Julia Gillard, is hell-bent on imposing a carbon-dioxide tax, at vast cost to the country in higher electricity costs and export prices. Meanwhile, an environmental "consulting" group advising her Labor government has come up with a new warming villain: not carbon dioxide, but the camel.
More than a million wild camels roam the Outback, descendants of dromedaries imported more than a century ago as beasts of burden. They live off otherwise inedible vegetation and occasionally expel a puff of methane (a minor 'greenhouse' gas). The “consultants” solution to this is simple: Kill all million of them. Herd them together, slaughter them, and finally pick off any strays by shooting them from helicopters.
Before I continue I must declare an interest: I once went on an afternoon’s trek through the outback on domesticated camels, with my wife Hilary and two young daughters. Awesome! It seemed like riding on Mars: completely silent, virgin red-orange sand underfoot, nothing man made in sight, not even an aircraft con-trail to blemish the amethyst sky; just the four of us, our guide, and the occasional sound of a camel biting off a mouthful of scrub as we padded through the desert enjoying the easy rolling motion of the beasts.
The reason for the boat-like ride, we learned, is that camels move their left legs together, then their right legs, like a pacing horse, or a giraffe. Camels groan a lot which can make them seem surly, “It’s just their way of being sociable”, our guide smiled. They are easily steered with a rope attached to a plug in the outer wall one nostril. When well trained, on the command “Hoosh!”, they kneel at both ends, you climb on board, wrap one leg around the saddle horn, take the nose rope in one hand, then they stand up. Find me a horse that will do that.
As you will have noticed by now, I like camels. So you bloodthirsty consultants and your tree-hugging fellow travelers l will say only this: Leave those camels alone. By slaughtering them, you will set a ghastly precedent. Eco-psychopaths who are even more extreme than you, will arise: see all of you, as useless generators of greenhouse gas, herd you together and slaughter you. You have been warmed.
8/12/11
More join the call: 'O must GO!'
Jeffrey Kuhner at the Washington Times joins the growing campaign: "O must GO!"
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'O must GO!': Now appeals court slaps down Obamacare mandate
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that President Barack Obama's healthcare law requiring Americans to buy healthcare insurance or face a penalty was unconstitutional, Reuters reports. The U.S. Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, found that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Americans to buy coverage.
'O must GO' latest: Consumer sentiment worst in 30 years
U.S. consumer sentiment dropped to its lowest point in more than three decades as fears of a stalled recovery combined with despair over government policies, a Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey shows.
'O Must GO!': more media join the call
In Investors Business Daily Doug MacKinnon has the guts to ask straight out: Isn't it time for President Obama to resign, for the sake of his country? One honorable solution he says, would be for VP Joe Biden to quit, for Obama to appoint a suitable VP successor, then for Obama himself to resign.
Read MacKinnon's whole piece here.
Read MacKinnon's whole piece here.
8/11/11
Obama-style 'balanced' approach gets a fiery reception
It's a much-overlooked fact that Britain's deficit reduction program was Obama-like in its " balanced" approach, in addition to spending cuts, they raised capital gains tax from 18% to 28%, and VAT (national sales tax) from 17.5% to 20%. This was so popular that in major cities countrywide, the Brits have been gathering in the streets to rejoice and light fires to celebrate their good fortune.
Riots: Liberals call banks to account
The Guardian, that bastion of British progressives has a predictable explanation for the UK riots. It was the greedy bankers wot did it. Of course! How could we have missed that? By looting flatscreen TVs, smartphones and sneakers, but leaving bank branches alone, the rioters are teaching those greedy bankers a lesson they will never forget.
8/10/11
The ugly truth behind the British riots
This is by far the best piece I have read on the British riots; a sample:
(via Instapundit & Forbes.com)
It no longer feels as if we live in a civilised country. The cause of the riots is the looters; opportunistic, greedy, arrogant and amoral young criminals who believe that they have the right to steal, burn and destroy other people’s property. There were no extenuating circumstances, no excuses. The context was two-fold: first, decades of failed social, educational, family and microeconomic policies, which means that a large chunk of the UK has become alienated from mainstream society, culturally impoverished, bereft of role models, permanently workless and trapped and dependent on welfare or the shadow economy.Read more
(via Instapundit & Forbes.com)
Gold Bug Day
Gold has just broken through $1800. I see it at $2000+ very soon. But beware.... they were talking about gold on NBC's Today this morning. Soon the newsweeklies will have gold bars on their covers, and full-blown mania will begin.
Michelle O: No-show at Dover
Keith Koffler makes an outstanding point today. Why did Michelle Obama not interrupt her vacation when the SEAL dead came home?
'O must GO!': War casualties escalate
Reason.com has a fascinating piece on the Peace Movement and the easy ride it is giving Obama. Casualties are far higher under Obama than under Bush.
(h/t Instapundit)
(h/t Instapundit)
'O must GO' now most of US agrees
Who knew! Our week-old 'O must GO' campaign has engulfed the whole country so quickly.
8/9/11
Bachmann and The Beast
Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek, clearly doesn't learn from her mistakes. I thought she had reached an all-time low when she ran an undead Princess Diana photoshopped walking in the street alongside Kate Middleton. Now Brown is running a hideously unflattering cover of Michele Bachmann, which actually says more about Brown than it does about Bachmann. Brown's online publication The Beast, which was merged with Newsweek, is the most aptly named publication of all time, even if the name was derived from the Evelyn Waugh novel, Scoop. These grotesque covers draw news coverage, but for a once-reputable publication like Newsweek, such coverage is pure poison.
'O Must GO': Some Dems ask: Would Hillary have been better?'
President Barack Obama is facing mounting doubts within his own party about his re-election prospects, with fellow Democrats beginning to ask if Hillary Clinton would have made a better president, says Alex Spillius in The Telegraph.
AOL stock drops 27 %
AOL/ Huffington Post stock has dropped ~27%. That couldn't have something to do with conservative turncoat Huffington, could it? Surely not.
O must GO: Rep. Burgess sees possible impeachment
Impeaching President Barack Obama “needs to happen,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) told a local tea party group, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. He said whether or not there were legal grounds for impeachment it would "tie things up" and prevent Obama from pursuing his agenda.
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Powerless and irresolute: 'O must GO' (part 3)
More reasons that O must GO:
"The most powerful man in the world seems strangely powerless, and irresolute, as larger forces bring down the country and his presidency, says Dana Milbank in the Washington Post. "The economy crawls, the credit rating falls, the markets plunge, and a helicopter packed with U.S. special forces goes down in Afghanistan. Two thirds of Americans say the country is on the wrong track (and that was before the market swooned), Obama’s approval rating is 43 percent, and activists on his own side are calling him weak."
"The most powerful man in the world seems strangely powerless, and irresolute, as larger forces bring down the country and his presidency, says Dana Milbank in the Washington Post. "The economy crawls, the credit rating falls, the markets plunge, and a helicopter packed with U.S. special forces goes down in Afghanistan. Two thirds of Americans say the country is on the wrong track (and that was before the market swooned), Obama’s approval rating is 43 percent, and activists on his own side are calling him weak."
8/8/11
One more reason 'O must GO'
As if to reinforce my assertion in the post below that Obama is way out of his depth and should quit, the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin had this to say about the "horrifyingly bad" speech, which was supposed to rally the nation at a critical moment today:
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He was a half hour late. His head turned from side to side as if he were attending a tennis match. He practically never looked in the camera, as if he were averting our gaze. And those were the strong parts of President Obama’s disastrous speech.It was a bit like a slow-motion car crash. After a while, one stopped listening to the blather and simply watched the stock ticker go down and down. And down some more....
OBAMA MUST GO!
Events are spinning out of control. The Dow is down another ~600 points today on huge volume, gold has smashed through the $1700 level, S&P have now downgraded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, extremely serious questions are being raised about the SEAL catastrophe. The nation desperately needs real leadership. Obama's 1pm statement simply accelerated the Wall Street rout. The Fed has essentially run out of ammunition.The President is clearly out of his depth and has lost all credibililty. Enough. In the national interest it is time for him to step down.
SEAL disaster: more crucial questions
Following my post yesterday (below) here's an even more disturbing report: This is a major scandal in the making.
8/7/11
Deeply disturbing questions raised by the SEAL disaster
There are deeply disturbing questions raised by the the SEAL disaster. Even the SEALs very existence is normally played down. Their use as a rapid reaction force inserted by a huge and vulnerable Chinook helicopter to help soldiers in midst of battle was apparently almost unprecedented and extremely dangerous. Result: the loss of nearly 10 percent of the Navy's most skilled fighters. SEAL's exhaustive training and that of their pilots is for covert operations. Confidentiality about the exact circumstances of combat death is an accepted part of their role. Why reveal publicly that SEALs were involved at all, giving the Taliban a huge propaganda bonus and morale boost? Above all, why was it originally revealed at all that SEAL Team Six killed Bin Laden, unnecessarily making them and their families potential targets? The nation and the grieving families deserve prompt answers from the White House, whose credibility is at stake.
8/6/11
China warns of US debt 'addiction'
China's Xinhua news agency says:" Many outside the United States believe the credit rating cut is an overdue bill that America has to pay for its own debt addi(c)tion and the short-sighted political wrangling in Washington...." The official news agency said China had "every right" to demand Washington address its structural debt problems and safeguard Chinese dollar assets.
8/5/11
Update: US credit downgraded to AA+
This updates the earlier post below. S&P did go ahead and downgrade US debt to AA+ from AAA on concerns that measures to reduce the nation's deficit had not gone far enough.
US downgrade halted by error warning
A mathematical error discovered late Friday by Treasury Department officials has delayed a planned Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the top-notch AAA credit rating the U.S. has held for 70 years says a Wall Street Journal blog. The downgrade may still proceed.
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