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The Smell Of Desperation

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“If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters.
If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.”
(Barack Obama, DNC Convention, 2008)

As summer draws near and temperatures begin to soar,  the stench of desperate Democrats  begins to waft across America’s political landscape.  Three and a half years into this most unfortunate presidential term, the average American has come to the realization the hope and change promised by a rank unknown in 2008 smacks too much of the socialism that more astute eyes and ears caught from the beginning of his meteoric takeover of the election spotlight.  Put simply, President Lame Duck’s snarky presumption of great intelligence and endless finger-pointing campaigning have now begun to bear fruit and the taste is far from sweet.

Instead of realizing that leadership is something requiring more effort than bowing to foreign rulers in the Middle East and sucking up to Islamic extremists, playing golf, appearing on late-night television shows and Hollywood fundraisers or checking off names on a kill list, The Abonimable One has doubled-down and alternately continues to blame his predecessor for the results of his failed policies while attempting to rule by executive fiat.

Obligingly, his poll numbers drop correspondingly.

This doesn’t bode well for someone who wants to rule the world…errrr…serve another term in office so word on the street is that the Chicago machine is frantically sharpening its claws in preparation for what they hope will be an early takedown of the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.

The following quote was given to John Heilemann by an Obama campaign advisor on how they plan to win over racists.  You know, those “bitter clingers”, “teabaggers” and others who believe the Constitution is not equal to Charmin, live responsibly and expect others to do the same.

“[Romney is] not likable. He’s not trustworthy. He’s not on your side. You live in Pittsburgh and you’ve got dirt under your fingernails, who do you want to have a beer with? It ain’t f***ing Mitt Romney. You’re like, ‘S**t, I’d rather have a beer with the black guy than him!’”

Yes, indeed.  They intend on putting the finest of their crude, inner-city Chicago on full display; the same kind of low-class divisive act that cost the Democrat-backed unions Wisconsin and California earlier this month. 

Americans aren’t as stupid as Herr Barry thinks. 

Amnesty By Fiat

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Thumbing his nose at the Constitutional requirement that immigration policy originates with Congress, President Lame Duck today announced he has decided that  he is suspending the deportation of most illegal aliens under the age of 31.  And he will give them forever-renewable work permits.

No matter that 20 million American citizens are currently unemployed.

No matter that the millions of young Americans graduating from high school and college this month can’t find work.

No matter that unemployment of black youth in particular is somewhere in the neighborhood of 50%.

No matter that this is a slap in the face to every person who came to America legally.

No matter that every attempt to pass some sort of DREAM Act has – rightfully – failed to make it through both House and Senate.

No matter that a majority of Americans do not want any more amnesty programs but instead want sane legal immigration policy and secure borders.

No, all that matters is pandering to the deliberate, pre-meditated criminal leeches who suck the lifeblood of the American taxpayer.  Leeches who can’t even legally vote (but in too many cases do) but who are seen as future Democrat victims…errr…voters by slavering progressive liberals.

Congress has the power to put a stop to this banana republic dictator-wannabe nonsense now.  The question is:  do they have big enough cojones to do it?

Walker Wins Wisconsin – Again

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Despite their big mouths, strong-arming and literal Mickey Mouse petition signatures, the unions and progressive liberal Democrats have been given their walking papers by the voters in Wisconsin.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.

With 65% of precincts reporting, it’s shaping up to be a rather embarrassing defeat:  58% (Walker) to 41% (Barrett). 

It makes the last year+ of headline news and handwringing about the dangers of allowing grownups to run state governments rather a waste of time; along with the reported $60+ million spent by everyone involved.

And since everything must always be about President Lame Duck, yes, Barack Obama, this is, indeed, a referendum about you and your supporters and everything for which you stand.  You might want to start getting estimates from moving companies to avoid the rush in November.

 

 

 

Another SWAT At A Brett Kimberlin Blogger

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As the old saying goes, if you believe this is just coincidence, then we have a bridge for sale we’d like to show you.

Last Friday was “Everyone Blog About Brett Kimberlin” day and many, many stepped up to the plate to let a little more sunshine in on what this convicted felon has been up to since his release from prison.

Brett Kimberlin doesn’t like that his public record remains public, since his primary source of funds are from the non-profits he runs with the help of nice, fat grants from various organizations, including left-wingers like the Tides Foundation and The Streisand Foundation.  To show his displeasure with the truth being said…errrrrr…typed out loud, Kimberlin has been on a long tear filing lawsuits against those who mention his name at the same time as his past and highlight his financial support by the left.

Saturday, another high-profile blogger received a visit from his local sheriffs.  Erick Erickson of Red State and CNN political contributor reports:

“Someone called 911 from my address claiming there had been an accidental shooting.”

Yes, you read the right.  Just like the Patrick Frey spoof SWAT, someone called 911 from Erik’s own house to lie about a shooting. 

Not only does this deliberately put innocents at risk of grave danger since a mistake or a wrong move by either party could result in injury or even death, it is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.

And it is illegal to some degree everywhere.

Patterico said:

Of course, Erickson’s swatter could be a copycat.

BLAST FROM THE PAST: It was reported by Joe Gelarden that, when Kimberlin was incarcerated, he tried to have someone set off bombs with similar components to those set off in Speedway, to show that there was another perpetrator and that he therefore could not be guilty.

Of course, pigs often fly, too. 

BLAST FROM THE PAST:  The grandmother of Brett Kimberlin’s 14-year old alleged love obsession, Julia Scypher, was summarily executed by, it is believed though never able to be proven due to the death of the primary witness, one of Brett Kimberlin’s friends in 1978.

As a current victim of Kimberlin’s abuse of the legal system, Aaron Worthing summed up this latest incident succinctly:

“…if Brett Kimberlin or his allies really did this, they know nothing about the internet.  They just tried to put out a fire, with gasoline.”

 

Describing Obama In Three Words On Twitter

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We’ve no idea why this one is trending on Twitter today, but like other attempts to use it to push President Lame Duck and his nefarious agenda, all that’s happening is making the case against the progressive liberal agenda.

This one apparently failed reading comprehension.

So did this one, but at least they are living in reality.

This one has been spending too much time burning up those “free minutes” on their government-issued cellphone.

And this one must’ve been raised drinking Kool-Aid.

Probably by this guy.

 Fortunately, some who get it are also laugh-out-loud funny.

 

 

 

They Didn’t Die For Islam

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Religious freedom?  Religious tolerance?  Of course.  America’s very foundation is based upon it.

But religious law?  Never when it goes against the fundamental liberties and rights contained in the Constitution.

Yet there are those Muslims who think that because they have chosen to live in America they may practice every abhorrent and often misogynistic aberration of Sharia law.  For example:

    • Marriage between men and girls as young as 6 years old
    • Multiple wives
    • Strict dress code
    • So-called “honor” killings of those same wives and daughters
    • Rape
    • Animal cruelty (bestiality is acceptable, even how-to documented but for men-only, but walking Fido in public is a no-no since owning a dog is considered a sign of “moral” corruption)
      • Halal slaughter of animals for human consumption (trust us, it ain’t the least bit kosher)
    • Forced conversion

Many of those Muslims continue to insist it is somehow their right to do any or all of these things here in America and, using the same twisted logic that gave them the bright idea to erect a mosque where their more blatant brethren murdered over 3,000 people, the majority of them Americans, 15,000 Islamic supremacists are having a convention this weekend in Connecticut to learn how to counter the rising push in America against their extremist ideology.  They would like nothing better than to redefine Sharia law within the common lexicon as a simple “misnomer” and are trying to hide behind the American right to freedom of religion.  (A particular freedom, it must be noted, that does not exist within Islam and the practice of Sharia as partially noted above.  But if you don’t believe us,  just ask Christians still living anywhere with a Muslim majority or close to it.)

Connecticut was one of the original 13 colonies and sacrificed much to give us the country in which we live today.  To say it is a slap in the face to see it overrun with supporters of terrorism this weekend is an understatement.  The brave military men and women of the United States have fought for over 200 years for liberty, not for its denial through the brutalization and slavery that is Islam and Sharia law.  Americans honor them this weekend; every one of them who have fought and especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

 

Don’t Believe The Left’s Lies About Intolerance

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For those of you who have “friends” on the left who remain steadfast in their belief that Conservatives are the ones who “hate”, are “racist” and “intolerant”, here are some facts you can share with them.

Investors.com, March 2012:

Not exactly shocking news for those exposed to them for years, but the respected Pew Research Center has determined that political liberals are far less tolerant of opposing views than regular Americans.

In a new study, the Pew Center for the Internet and American Life Project confirmed what most intelligent Americans had long sensed. That is, whenever they are challenged or confronted on the hollow falsity of their orthodoxy — such as, say, uniting diverse Americans — liberals tend to respond defensively with anger, even trying to shut off or silence critics.

The new research found that instead of engaging in civil discourse or debate, fully 16% of liberals admitted to blocking, unfriending or overtly hiding someone on a social networking site because that person expressed views they disagreed with. That’s double the percentage of conservatives and more than twice the percentage of political moderates who behaved like that.

The proportion jumps even higher when someone on a social site disagrees with a liberal’s post. Only 1% of moderates would block or shut out someone who dared to disagree with them, compared to 11% of liberals, whose rate was nearly three times that of conservatives.
nytimes.com, Nicholas Kristof, December 2008:

This holiday season is a time to examine who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, but I’m unhappy with my findings. The problem is this:  We liberals are personally stingy.

Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates.

Arthur Brooks, the author of a book on donors to charity, “Who Really Cares,” cites data that households headed by conservatives give 30 percent more to charity than households headed by liberals. A study by Google found an even greater disproportion: average annual contributions reported by conservatives were almost double those of liberals.

Other research has reached similar conclusions. The “generosity index” from the Catalogue for Philanthropy typically finds that red states are the most likely to give to nonprofits, while Northeastern states are least likely to do so.

“When I started doing research on charity,” Mr. Brooks wrote, “I expected to find that political liberals — who, I believed, genuinely cared more about others than conservatives did — would turn out to be the most privately charitable people. So when my early findings led me to the opposite conclusion, I assumed I had made some sort of technical error. I re-ran analyses. I got new data. Nothing worked. In the end, I had no option but to change my views.”

According to Google’s figures, if donations to all religious organizations are excluded, liberals give slightly more to charity than conservatives do. But Mr. Brooks says that if measuring by the percentage of income given, conservatives are more generous than liberals even to secular causes.

Conservatives also appear to be more generous than liberals in nonfinancial ways. People in red states are considerably more likely to volunteer for good causes, and conservatives give blood more often. If liberals and moderates gave blood as often as conservatives, Mr. Brooks said, the American blood supply would increase by 45 percent.
Dailycaller.com, March 2011:

Social scientists usually measure traditional racism against African Americans by looking at the survey responses of white Americans only. Among whites in the latest General Social Survey (2008) [conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago], only 4.5% of small-government advocates express the view that “most Blacks/African-Americans have less in-born ability to learn,” compared to 12.3% of those who favor bigger government or take a middle position expressing this racist view.

[A]mong whites, Republican advocates of smaller government are even less racist (1.3% believing that blacks have less in-born ability) than the rest of the general public (11.3% expressing racist views). Thus, in 2008 Republicans who believe that the government in Washington does too much have 10 times higher odds of not expressing racist views on the in-born ability question than the rest of the population (79-to-1 odds v. 7.9-to-1 odds).

In 2008, only 5.4% of white conservative Republicans expressed racist views on the in-born ability question, compared to 10.3% of the rest of the white population. [T]his same pattern holds for white Democrats compared to white Republicans: in 2008 12.3% of white Democrats in the U.S. believed that African Americans were born with less ability, compared to only 6.6% of white Republicans.

In sixteen surveys from 1977 through 2008, overall white Republicans were significantly less racist on the in-born ability question than white Democrats (13.3% to 17.3%), and white conservative Republicans were significantly less racist than other white Americans (11.7% to 14.7%)…

[O]verall white Democrats were significantly more likely to support segregated neighborhoods than white Republicans (30.4% to 26.3%).

Choom Daze

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A new book is due out next month from one of the associate editors at the Washington Compost that, based on lavisciouly gushing advance reviews by people of whom we’ve never heard, apparently does a quite fine job romantically chronicling President Lame Duck’s strange, illusory, left-leaning life.  In particular and by its timing it is clearly intended to be a counter to the rightful claims that Romney’s high school years pale in comparison to BO’s history of adolescent and young adult drug abuse, not to mention an attempt to recapture the fascination of the American people pre-election 2008.  Because it so blatantly attempts to convince us that his high school “choom” daze (so severe that his yearbook entry includes a thanks to his drug dealer, not his mother or grandmother) really just makes him “cooler” than the rest of us, we thought it might be helpful to point out the realities of going through high school stoned.

From Science And Management of Addictions:

There are many ways that psychoactive substances can alter or damage the development of the adolescent brain. Firstly, psychoactive substances often target and alter function of neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers that allow nerves to communicate at their junctions. Interference with neurotransmitters can directly damage fragile developing neural connections. Secondly, use of these substances alters perception and may interfere with the developing perceptual skills. And finally, the habits and choices associated with the use of drugs and alcohol slowly become ingrained in the wiring of the brain. Repeated action becomes habit and the habits of thought, perception, and reasoning developed in childhood and adolescence can stay with a person throughout his or her lifetime.

 Perceptual changes caused by drugs can also have long-term complications for adolescent development, since adolescent perceptive abilities are not fully mature. For example, MRI studies show that adults tend to use the frontal lobes, or logical problem solving, to determine facial expressions while adolescents use the amygdala, an area which normally processes emotions such as fear and worry. It holds true in many studies that where adults use problem solving areas of the brain to perceive the world adolescents use the more primitive areas of the brain more associated with emotions, and self-preservation; it also holds true that adult perception is generally more accurate.

Marijuana, like all drugs, changes perception. And like most drugs, it engenders perception that is fearful, emotional, defensive, and often inaccurate. Though the short term addiction potential of marijuana may be less than other drugs, the long-term impact of chronic marijuana use can be profound. Determining the feelings and motives of other people is necessary to function as an adult in society. If marijuana use is chronic or constant enough to hinder perceptual maturation, an adolescent user may encounter misunderstood failures in school, work, and relationships, which in turn re-enforce the desire to retreat to drugs.

 Adolescents and young adults who are heavy users of marijuana are more likely than non-users to have disrupted brain development…..researchers found abnormalities in areas of the brain that interconnect brain regions involved in memory, attention, decision-making, language and executive functioning skills. (Ashtari, Manzar Ph.D., Director of Diffusion Image Analysis and Brain Morphometry Laboratory in the Radiology Department of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Journal reference Manzar Ashtari, Kelly Cervellione, John Cottone, Babk A. Ardekani, Sanjiv Kumra, Diffusion abnormalities in adolescents and young adults with a history of heavy cannabis use. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2009; 43(3): 189-204 DOI: 10,1016/j.jpsychires.2008.12.002.)

This last little tidbit comes up in article after article; to be fair there appears to be a genetic component that is still being researched. 

 “We believe there is now enough evidence to inform people that using cannabis could increase their risk of developing a psychotic illness later in life.” (Moore et el. Lancet 370, 319-328, 2007; Nordentoft and Hjorthoj Lancet (307), 293 294, 2007)

The literature really isn’t any different for alcohol or the “blow” in which President Lame Duck also indulged.  Combining them simply makes the problems bigger.

Rather explains a lot, doesn’t it?  Not just about TOTUS’ behaviors and his mindset but that of all liberal progressives who spent too much time during their youth in drug-induced or drunken stupors.  The numbers that show the drug use and abuse of recently-graduated and current high schoolers helps to explain their propensity to avoid what common sense (and the Constitution) calls “personal responsibility”, with all its negative implications.

It sure doesn’t make us feel safe knowing someone like this is supposed to answer the red phone in the middle of the night.