Question for Obama

Why is Texas doing so much better than California?

Probable lie #1: They're not.

Probable lie #2: They destroy the environment

Probable lie #3: Who wants to be a cowboy?

Reality:

Governor Perry has made Texas the best place to do business.

Hmmm, Perry looks like a much better than bet his predecessor.

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How to give your responses to the GOP more weight

Hit them where it hurts

We get around 20 GOP solicitations per day. Usually, we put a note in the postage paid return envelope explaining why we won't give them a dime, and we won't ever give the GOP a dime until it returns to conservative principles. Hint to the GOP: foisting RINOs on us as presidential candidates doesn't cut it.

We do give to true conservative candidates and Sarahpac is an example of causes we support.

I post this in jest but it is worth trying. Take the postage paid return envelope and wrap it around a brick. Send it back with a note explaining what the GOP needs to do to gain your support. When they pay the postage they might get your message.

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Melanie Phillips reviews Alan Dershowitz's apology for Obama on Israel

And takes him to the woodshed

Alan Dershowitz wrote a limp defense of Obama's Israel policy in the WSJ. Melanie Phillips responds and demolishes him in the Spectator.

Obama is a lily-livered Marxist, and Netanyahu is a hard-nosed leader defending the very existence of his country, his people and his religion. Obama may huff and puff but he will not prevail in his attempt to make Israel the sacrificial lamb in his quest to appease the Muslim world.

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Honduras shows Obama's true colors

Chavez and Castro are his role models

From an email to Jonah Goldberg on the Corner:

The country is bewildered that the world, especially the United States, is not on their side. Zelaya was confident of his plans to convert Honduras into a Venezuelan satellite. The Honduran people are proud of their constitution and are proud to have a functioning democratic system. Zelaya was replaced by a member of his own party who vows to see that this November's presidential election takes place. What happened was not a "coup" but a bipartisan effort to save the nation.

It is heartbreaking for me to see President Obama throw Honduras under the bus. He did not speak out when Zelaya was attempting to stage a sham "constitutional referendum" with ballots printed in Venezuela.

The fact that Obama is on the same side as Chavez and other leftist Latin American thugs tells us all we need to know about Obama. He's on their side; not ours.

Need more proof? Who benefits more from "Cap and Trade"? The US or Venezuela? If you think the US wins, think again.

Michael Ramirez sums it up.

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Obama has destroyed the Left

Just like the Japs destroyed themselves when they hit Pearl Harbor.

Admiral Yamamoto may not have said:

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve

but he did understand that it was a terrible mistake to attack he United States.

Obama has attempted what Yamamoto attempted. He has launched a sneak attack upon the heart of the United States of America.

Obama has plunged our nation into horrendous debt and threatened to give our currency junk bond status. None of the peoples' representatives in Washington have asked him to explain himself. But foreign bond holders and buyers know full well, and they shall have a reckoning with profligate Obama.

Obama has emboldened our enemies and disheartened our friends. Great Britain has been repeatedly insulted and Israel has been thrown under the bus. Meanwhile, Iran has been granted negotiating status even as it slaughters its own citizens, and continues to develop offensive nuclear weapons. North Korea has been given a green light to launch ballistic missiles wherever it choose, armed with whatever nukes they can cobble together. But our allies know they must defend themselves, even while the US sleeps, and there will be wars, because of Obama's search for peace at any price.

Obama took around $8,000 from every household in America to pay for his stimulus package. He claimed it was needed to stop unemployment increasing. He was stupid enough to claim that unemployment would peak under 8% with his plan and hit 9% without it. A few short months later, unemployment has hit 9.4% and there is no sign of a bottom. The people losing their jobs, and the people watching their buddies lose their jobs, now understand that Obama doesn't care about them. But they also understand Obama has been using our money to preserve gold-plated UAW jobs and benefits.

As if he hasn't done enough damage to the US economy already, Obama is set to foist upon the US economy an energy tax that will take us down to Argentina's level. We cannot drill oil at home, we cannot pipe gas at home, we cannot build nuclear power stations at home, but we must erect solar panels and windmills wherever we can, except the greenies won't let us do even that. Obama will pay for every brownout, every cent that gas goes up and every day we freeze in ever colder winters.

Obama has awakened a giant. The first breath of that giant was the initial round of Tea Party protests. Working people, who had to take time off work, mothers, with kids who needed babysitters, retirees worried about their grandchildren's future, showed up for their first protest ever. In Cleveland, maybe 100 people showed up.

The second breath brought far larger numbers to protest. In Cleveland, 2000+ people showed up. The MSM tried to hide the numbers but the giant was counting.

Obama should beware the next few breaths of the giant. The giant hated his cap-and-trade mega-tax bill that the house passed. In fact, the giant hates virtually everything Obama has done in his first few months in office.

And the giant will blame the left for everything Obama has done in their name. And the giant will grow stronger as the economy grows weaker.

Come 2010, the giant is going to throw Obama a giant curve-ball. How is he going to cope with the giant's demand he that repudiate all he's done on spending, and most of what Bush did? He will be faced with the a congress that represents the people for the first time in a very long time. And they will destroy him with a few simple investigations. Inspector General sackings? Black Panther voter intimidation? Chicago unending corruption? GM takeover? Chrysler takeover? Bank bailouts?

As Obama goes, so does the Left.

When this all comes to pass, and it will, the Left will join the Bolsheviks in the ash can of history, along with America's first Marxist president.

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One of my readers defended Obama's ignorance on CO₂

Dan doesn't get a cigar; CO₂ isn't the problem

Dan said:

Uh, no, CO2 isn't a chemical pollutant in the way that CO or NO2 or SO2 are air pollutants that harm us when we breathe them, but it does have a strong heat-trapping effect on the earth's atmosphere. Doubling or tripling pre-industrial concentrations of CO2 will cause large-scale changes in the climate over a very short time scale, on the order of decades. Sure, the climate has changed many times in the planet's history, but this will be a sharply abrupt change, much too fast for ecosystems and societies to adjust. The result will be a dramatic loss of human welfare, especially in developing nations. That's unjust, I think. Don't you care about that?

Sorry Dan, but no cigar. So far, no one has demonstrated that CO₂ has had any significant impact on global temperatures. Bogus computer models don't count. Over the last decade CO₂ emissions have increased but global temperatures have actually declined. The ocean has a much greater specific heat than the atmosphere and ocean temperatures are a better measure of global temperature changes than air measurements. Ocean temperatures have declined slightly over the last few years.

Moreover, the longer term temperature record doesn't show much correlation between CO₂ concentrations and global temperatures. Take a look at this graph. Notice the dramatic drop in global temperatures around 450 million years ago. Some suggest that the Earth became a snowball back then.

We aren't seeing an abrupt climate change. We are seeing nothing unusual compared to the last few thousand years, and there is a strong suspicion that the current warming phase has ended. If you want to see abrupt changes, check out how fast the Earth enters an ice age, and how fast it can emerge.

You want to worry about something? Worry about the next ice age. It is coming and there is nothing we can do about it. I'm more worried about Obamatons trying to save the plant by using geo-engineering to scrub the atmosphere of CO₂. That would be the end of life of Earth.

Worried about burning fossil fuels? Think of it as recycling. Where do you think the C in fossil fuels came from? If you guessed CO₂ in the ancient atmosphere you win a cigar. Enjoy it. You'll be putting plant food in the sky.

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Obama's incredible ignorance of basic science

Does he always lie or is he just ignorant?

Powerline notes an incredibly ignorant Obama claim:

In his press conference today, President Obama talked about the cap-and-trade energy tax that the Democrats are trying to ram through Congress. Obama's nose grew a couple of inches as he uttered this howler:

At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe.

Carbon emissions is Greenie shorthand for CO₂ emissions. One of the Powerline commenters corrects him:

As a previous commenter indicated, it is truly a monumental stupidity to say that CO₂ contaminates the air we breathe and pollutes the water we drink. Without CO₂ there would be no plant life, and, therefore, no animal life. In additional, all of us that drink soda pop or carbonated water, or Champagne for that matter, are downing very large amounts of CO₂. if it were a poison, Americans would be dropping like flies. The success of the Obama anti-carbon campaign depends wholly on the unfortunate scientific illiteracy of the American people.

Does Obama realize that in the very act of making that claim, he was spewing out more of those "dangerous carbon emissions" that "pollute the air"? The world would be so much better off if he just stopped doing that.

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Eight Republicans gave victory to the worst bill in US history

Cap and Trade will be a disaster

The final margin was 219 to 212. Eight Republicans sided with the Democrats. The vote should have been 211 to 220.

The names of those renegade Republicans should go down in infamy. They are:

Mary Bono Mack
Mike Castle
Mark Kirk
Leonard Lance
Frank LoBiondo
John McHugh
Dave Reichert
Chris Smith

If any of these gullible fools is your Congress critter, give them hell.

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Do I care Michael Jackson died?

Not really

Why am I unable to watch important news on places like Iran and Iraq on my TV? Because some weird pop singer died and it's getting 24x7 coverage. Like, we need to see shots of ambulances rolling up to ER to understand the gravity of what happened.

My brother-in-law called me to inform me that Michael Jackson was still dead, just in case I wasn't watching TV. Thanks for nothing.

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Governor Mark Sanford betrayed his voters

He joins a long list

Powerful men in American public office sometimes forget how they achieved their positions. They forget that they are the servants of the people and need to maintain public propriety. Sanford had the trust of the people of South Carolina and he betrayed that trust by skipping off to Argentina to pursue an extra-marital affair.

One might point out that Democrats appear to be much more prone to such failings and far less prone to exposure. The Kennedy dynasty serves as a prime example.

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President Obama should just light up

He'd be more focussed on the demands of his job

CNN reports that President Obama admits to smoking:

Obama said "that as a former smoker, I constantly struggle with it. … Have I fallen off the wagon? Yes."

Obama noted he is not a daily smoker and "doesn't do it in front of" his children.

If he falls off the wagon, he is still a smoker. A former smoker would never fall off the wagon. Been there, done that.

I gave up smoking in 1984. I did it cold turkey after countless failed attempts. At the time, I was a software developer leading a major development effort. I was also coding critical parts of the application. It was generally agreed that the code I produced after I quit was terrible. It took at least six months before I could concentrate properly and produce tight, working code.

My concern is that a President trying to quit smoking, when he really needs to be 100% focussed on his job, is going to lose focus and concentration. He should keep smoking at a level that lets him concentrate on his job.

Of course, if he lights up and becomes more effective in implementing his socialist agenda, I'll regret my advice.

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Bush vindicated?

Ayatollah Ali Sistani involved in resolving the conflict in Iran

In Islam, there is no division between religion and politics. Flopping Aces links to a report at Threats Watch on the involvement of Ayatollah Ali Sistani in the Iranian crisis. Here's what is interesting:

Why does this matter for Iran and Iranians? Pay close attention here, for Iraq's Sistani carries great weight among the Iranian Shi'a faithful.

Sistani's appeal does not end at the Iraqi border, as Iranians increasingly observe his leadership with interest and fondness. Some are "intrigued by the more freewheeling experiment in Shi'ite empowerment taking place across the border in Iraq," which is fundamentally different in approach than the Iranian theocratic brand of dictated observance and obedience. The Boston Globe's Anne Barnard reports that within Tehran's own central bazaar, "an increasing number of merchants are sending their religious donations, a 20 percent tithe expected from all who can spare it, to Iraq's most senior Shi'ite cleric."

If that didn't quite sink in, go read that paragraph again. many Iranian merchants have been sending their 20% tithes to Sistani, not Khamenei. Since at least 2007.

Back to Flopping Aces:

Why? Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in 2007 made two very critical statements: that “I am a servant of all Iraqis, there is no difference between a Sunni, a Shiite or a Kurd or a Christian,” and that Islam can exist within a democracy without theological conflict. You will never hear such words slip past the lips of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei. Ever.

Sistani’s presence at the Rafsanjani talks in Qom, Iran, through a representative brings therefore added significance. And the al-Arabiya report above seems to suggest that Rafsanjani is not seeking Sistani’s support for superficial reasons.

Suppose the Rafsanjani/Sistani axis wins out in Iran. Sistani is not an American puppet but he has seen what America stands for (or used to stand for). But Sistani's stature has been enormously enhanced by Bush's decision to depose Saddam Hussein. If Sistani's influence on Shiite Islam brings Iran back from the brink, Bush will deserve the credit. Obama, nada.

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Obama rules Chicago style at home

And Jimmy Carter style abroad

An Obama buddy gets investigated by a diligent Inspector General for wasting tax-payer money and the IG gets fired. That's Chicago style.

The stimulus money is being wasted on useless projects, as Michelle Malkin reports. The worst is:

$1 billion for FutureGen in Mattoon, Illinois is the “biggest earmark of all time” for a power plant that may never work.

One billion dollars of tax-payer money going to Obama's home state of Illinois for a greenie wet dream? That's Chicago style.

Banks, hedge fund, state pension funds and investors have been pushed aside in favor of one the most destructive unions in American history, the UAW. That's Chicago style.

Flying to New York on the tax-payer's dime to have dinner and see a show? That's Chicago style.

Ignoring his campaign promises to govern transparently? That's Chicago style.

Domestically, Obama is a Chicago style thug bullying his enemies, rewarding his friends, and wasting tax-payer money by the trillions. He must have Capone, Mussolini and Mugabe as role models.

On the world stage, our Chicago thug turns into a wimpish Jimmy Carter, bullying our allies and cozying up to our enemies.

Our British friends have been repeatedly insulted by the Obama administration. The DVDs, the D-Day insult to the Queen, and the dumping of the Uighurs in the Bahamas spring to mind. That's Jimmy Carter style.

Our only true ally in the Middle East has been lectured by Obama, in a speech to Muslims, about making concessions to an enemy that has taken ruthless advantage of every concession that Israel has ever made. That's vintage Jimmy Carter style.

Down-playing the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear and missile programs? Cutting back on missile defense systems while threats grow? That's Jimmy Carter style.

Destroying our currency, and stiffing our creditors, by profligate spending? That's Jimmy Carter style.

Talking to Iran's leadership while ignoring the plight of the people? That's Jimmy Carter style.

It seems Obama has more in common with the likes of Chavez, Mugabe, Ortega, Castro, Mussolini, and other assorted bullies, than he does with the great Democrat presidents of the past.

The MSM have covered for him from day one and they own every disaster that Obama inflicts upon the world.

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The heroes of the greatest generation are leaving us

Honor their memories

The London Times and Daily Telegraph publish the obituaries of WW2 war heroes and they contain inspirational accounts of incredible bravery and sacrifice. The Telegraph obituary of Wing Commander Ken Mackenzie is no exception:

On October 7 [1940] , he shared in the destruction of another over London docks and then pursued yet one more, which he attacked. He registered hits on the enemy fighter before running out of ammunition. As the enemy aircraft turned for France and started to descend, Mackenzie closed on it. Determined not to let it escape, he positioned his Hurricane on the enemy's port side with his starboard wing over its tailplane. He then slammed his wing tip on the Bf 109's tail which snapped off sending it diving into the sea.

This violent and unorthodox manoeuvre immediately severed the outer part of his Hurricane's wing. Fortunately it was a clean break and Mackenzie retained some control. Although pursued by two more Bf 109s and sustaining damage to his engine from enemy fire, he managed to clear the cliffs near Folkestone and belly land in a field. The force of the impact threw him against the gunsight and he lost four teeth. For this daring feat and his earlier successes that week, he was awarded a DFC "for his skill and gallantry".

Follow the link and read more of his incredible bravery and service.

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Letterman insults the Palin family and Alex Rodriguez

This is beyond disgusting but we can fight back

Nobody has really commented on another aspect of the controversy so I will. Not only did Letterman grossly insult the Palin family but he also implied that Alex Rodriguez is a rapist. Nice going Mr. Letterman.

The Hillary sites from the 2008 election cycle are still alive and kicking. Hilbuzz is one of the best and one of their posts suggest how to make CBS and Letterman pay for their disgusting broadcasts:

If I ever walked into a restaurant, no matter how much I love the place, and heard the proprietor joking about raping a 14 year-old, I would let my feet express my opinion on that business and the person in charge of it. NEVER AGAIN would that vile pig receive a cent from me — even if it had previously been my favorite place in the world. Even if everyone I do business with eats there and boycotting that place would cost me business. I would rather be homeless and eating out of the garbage than doing business in a place that’s run by HUMAN GARBAGE.

So, my advice to you and your readers is:

(1) to find the three biggest advertisers Letterman has

(2) focus on advertisers having anything to do with children

(3) identify the entire C-suite [ CFO, COO, CIO, etc.] of both the advertiser and that particular agency making the commercials

(4) write to every single person on the list you make above at least once a day, and do your level best to fill up their voice mails with POLITE and PROFESSIONAL (no expletives) chastisement on a personal level for giving any pennies to keep that vile pig Letterman on the air

(5) use the Internet to post on every site imaginable the fact that M&M Mars, for instance, sells candy that promotes rape. Talk about how buying peanut M&Ms helps encourage the statutory rape of 14 year-olds in New York. Make a list of all the products made by M&M Mars and send that to every church group, daycare center, high school, etc. that you can find (with copies to the entire C-suite and exec board in (3) above) telling parents that purchasing any of these products puts money into the pocket of a pervert who promotes the rape of young girls like their daughters

(6) Once your boycotts are organized on the local levels, have teams in all cities contact their local news and tell them about what you are doing…invite the news to come out and watch you picket in front of grocery stores (once you obtain the public gathering permits, if needed, of course) to encourage fellow shoppers to boycott all M&M Mars products until they yank their ads from Letterman…in smaller cities, this would be a big news item, as there is often nothing to report in Mineral City, Ohio on days that cats have not gotten stuck in trees

M&M Mars will buckle and pull its support — in about a month, I would guess. Just like Kellogg’s yanked its sponsorship of Michael Phelps once he made headlines not for strokes in the pool, but tokes on his marijuana bong. M&M Mars cannot afford to sell the candies parents could quickly associate with rape.

And there is absolutely no defense of Letterman possible in this instance. Ultimately, Letterman will come out and claim that he MEANT to make fun of Bristol Palin, not Willow, and that some low-level writer made a mistake and ASSUMED it was Bristol, not Willow, on the New York trip. Most likely, that’s what CBS will hide behind…that the made fun of the wrong daughter, and were most likely intending to make fun of the oldest Palin daughter being forcibly impregnated, not the Palin’s middle daughter, young Willow.

But, CBS is in a bigger mess than they realize right now.

It was indeed 14 year-old Willow, not 18 year-old Bristol, that David Letterman stood in front of the camera and talked about a New York Yankee, grown man, baseball player impregnating — in what is statutory rape in every state of the union, from what I understand.

And I think Alex Rodriguez owes Mr. Letterman a punch in the mouth for suggesting, on national TV, that Rodriguez would commit statutory rape.

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17 Gitmo Uighurs to be transferred to Palau

Palau gets $200,000,000 as a signing bonus

The NYT reports:

The United States has won an agreement to transfer up to 17 Chinese Muslims from the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Palau, a sparsely populated archipelago in the North Pacific, according to a statement released by Palau to The Associated Press on Wednesday
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Three Obama administration officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity Tuesday because the negotiations were not yet complete, said it was not certain how many of the Uighurs would be settled in Palau. With barely 20,000 people, Palau, about 500 miles east of the Philippines, is one of the world’s least-populated nations, made up of 8 main islands and 250 smaller ones.
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The United States has pledged $200 million in long-term development aid to Palau. But a senior State Department official flatly denied it was a quid pro quo for the detainee deal.

So, we are effectively paying each Palau resident $10,000 to take 17 Chinese Muslim trainee terrorists and it is costing US taxpayers $11,764,705 per Uighur. It would have been far cheaper to ship them back to China. They are, after all, Chinese citizens. Given the circumstances of their capture it is certain they are no friends of the US.

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Snopes and Honor

Sometimes, those Web tales do pan out

I got a forwarded email today that described how a WW2 German Fighter pilot had escorted a badly damaged US bomber back towards England instead of shooting it down. It turns out that the story is largely true.

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PDS infects the NRCC

Which is why I'll give to SarahPAC but not the GOP

PDS is Palin derangement syndrome. The NRCC seems to have caught a dose, as Hot Air contributor Patrick Ishmael notes:

Whatever you think of Sarah Palin, the NRCC’s treatment of her in the run up to tomorrow’s fundraising “gala” has been atrocious. And I don’t just mean in a “that’s not how you treat someone” sort of way. I really mean it in a “that’s not how you raise money and win elections” sense.

I'm going to do my bit for the NRCC fund raising gala; I'm going to give SarahPAC my contribution. Commenters at Hot Air feel the same way:

Apparently the NRCC isn’t hearing the people donating to the Palin PACs. The GOPs loss I guess.

katiejane on June 8, 2009 at 12:08 PM

I said a long time ago to the Repub Party, not another cent to you. ALL of my money goes to candidates or projects in which I believe. Bet’cha can’t guess who got my first donation of the year. If you guessed Sarah…well, you know.

Mr. Grump on June 8, 2009 at 12:09 PM

Heck, it would send a helluva message to the GOP if SarahPC out raises the NRCC tomorrow.

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Pithy comment on team Obama's economic strategy

If prosperity is living in a speculative bubble...

the Other McCain writes:

That the anti-Summers cabal is praising Bernanke for being "aggressive" reminds me of my private-sector economist buddy who, two weeks ago, shook his head and said, "They're trying to re-inflate the bubble!"

Fortunately, for now, the bubble doesn't want to inflate.

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Why Obama would fail Econ 101

Trying to fight lower corporate tax rates overseas by raising US rates is moronic

Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer explains the impact:

“It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.”

Obama on May 4 proposed outlawing or restricting about $190 billion in tax breaks for offshore companies over the next decade.

If Obama had half a clue, and that is in serious doubt, he would be trying to lower US corporate tax rates so US based companies would become more competitive with their foreign competitors. But, he's as clueless about economics as your average Marxist, so he won't figure out what he should do. He is all about redistributing a shrinking pie rather than baking a bigger pie.

I try to be respectful of the President but he really is turning out just like his wafer thin resume predicted.

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