Some more random thoughts from me and various news sources---especially in case you missed them the first time around. The socialist takeover of our Country seems destined to continue unabated unless we all wake up and do something.
I think if Obama were President during WWII, he'd have declared victory at the first sinking of a Japanese ship, and turned to other pursuits. Of course, he'd have lost the war and opened up our country to disaster, but why care? His march to socialism would have been more important to his administration [in its dying days.]
Per WTOP Radio: "An employee of the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer and a private contractor were charged with corruption Thursday after an FBI raid at the former office of one of President Obama's appointees.”
'Annette Nazareth, a former senior staffer and commissioner with the Securities and Exchange Commission, made "a personal decision" to withdraw from the process, according to a person familiar with her decision. …The decision followed more than a month of intense scrutiny of her taxes and multiple interviews. No tax problems or other issues arose during Nazareth's vetting, said the person, who requested anonymity because Geithner's choice of Nazareth was never announced officially.'
"Charles W Freeman Jr withdrew his Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) appointment acceptance after a barrage of criticism from Jewish groups and liberal senators."
'The U.S. is no longer waging a 'global war on terror,' according to an official memo. But it's not that the terror threat has ended. In a memo e-mailed to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department's office of security review stated that 'this administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT]. Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation.''
Per Washington Times: "The Obama administration is taking steps quietly to shut down the program that qualifies commercial airline pilots to carry firearms in jetliner cockpits in order to ward off another 9/11-type attack. *The administration recently diverted $2 million from a program to train and certify pilots to carry firearms safely while on duty. Instead, it is using the money to hire additional field inspectors to help discipline pilots who step out of line, according to a report in Tuesday's Washington Times.
Per Dick Morris: "Since he has taken office, the president has: 1 Announced closure of Guantanamo; 2 Declined to prosecute the mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing; 3 Closed all overseas CIA interrogation centers; 4 Appointed an Attorney General and Justice Department officials on record as opposed to the use of "enhanced" interrogation techniques in terror investigations; 5 Granted Al Arabia television his first news organization interview and called Fatah Party leader and PA President Mahmoud Abbass in his first phone contact with any foreign leader; 6 *Now, with no strings attached, the president has allocated $20.3 million in "post-conflict humanitarian aid" to "Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza. The additional funds bring to $60 million U.S. aid commitments in Gaza." [There's a lot more, but there isn't room on the Internet to write it all.]
Per Jonathan Martin and David S. Cloud: Just hours after North Korea launched a long-range rocket, President Barack Obama called for "a world without nuclear weapons" and said the United States has a “moral responsibility ” to lead the way, as the only nation ever to use them." [I guess in our cultural, the police should be shedding their weapons and try to talk kindly to criminals.]
Per Fox News: "Two House Judiciary subcommittees convened Thursday to examine allegations of unconstitutional immigration enforcement tactics -- and took target practice at Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, whose controversial methods have been called racist by activists and Democratic lawmakers. *But Arpaio didn't defend himself on Capitol Hill. He did not testify to the committee and he did not attend the joint hearing. That's because the Maricopa County, Ariz., law enforcement chief wasn't invited, said House Judiciary Committee sources." [By the way, Sheriff Arpaio is simply enforcing existing laws---but when did that matter to members of Congress.]
Per William Welch: "Studies by two conservative think tanks estimate immigrants in the United States illegally could take 300,000 construction jobs---or 15% of the 2 million jobs that new taxpayer-financed projects are predicted to create." [Most of the others will go to state and federal agencies.]
Per Carol Lee: "President Barack Obama doesn't go anywhere without his Teleprompter. *The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president's prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks. … Obama's reliance on the Teleprompter is unusual – not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small." [I might add that in his news conferences, he has replaced the Teleprompters with a big video screen behind the reporters so the system isn't so obvious.]
Per NewsMax: "The Environmental Protection Agency put hundreds of mountaintop coal-mining permits on hold Tuesday, saying it wants to evaluate the projects' impact on streams and wetlands." [Never mind the effect on jobs or energy.]
Per NewsMax: "The White House [ha]s alloc[ated] tickets for the...Easter Egg Roll to gay and lesbian families as part of the Obama administration's outreach to diverse communities. *Families say the gesture shows that the new Democratic administration values them as equal to other families. And for many, being included in the annual tradition --- dating to 1878 --- renews hope that they will have more support in their quest for equal rights in matters such as marriage and adoption than under the previous administration." [All Americans already have equal rights. What the gay activists want are 'special' rights to justify their perverted 'lifestyles.']
Per Janet M. LaRue: "During his 2004 run for the Senate, Obama said 'I think that the Second Amendment means something. I think that if the government were to confiscate everybody's guns unilaterally that I think that would be subject to constitutional challenge.'”
Per Lee Ross: "'At some point, [the Defense of Marriage Act] is going to have to go to the United States Supreme Court,' the congressman, a Democrat, said. 'I wouldn't want it to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has got too many votes on this current court.' [So would he be happy now that we have a sexist and racist on the court?]
Per Judson Berger: "Global War on Terror is out -- 'overseas contingency operation' is in. *Terrorist attack is out -- 'man-caused disaster' is in."
Quality of Cabinet Choices:
1 Secy of State Clinton tells the World that a Palestine state is inevitable and sides with the Palestinians against Israel
2 Obama picks 6 former Congress members for cabinet; so much for change
3 Obama picks numerous Clintonista's such as Hillary, Leon Panetta for cabinet and CIA.
4 Commerce - Bill Richardson withdrew because of federal investigation; Judd Gregg withdrew due to irreconcilable differences
5 HHS - Tom Daschle - didn't pay $100,000 in taxes
6 Health Czar - Nancy-Ann Parle from Clinton administration
7 Treasury - Tim Geithner - didn't pay about $34,000 in taxes but Democrats gave him a pass
8 Secretary of State - Hillary Clinton - well known baggage and home of nonsense.
9 CIA - Leon Panetta - Clinton administration - no experience to run anything, let alone the CIA
10 US Trade Rep - Ron Kirk - c$10.000 in back taxes
11 Chief Fed Government Performance - Nancy Killefer - undetermined unemployment taxes re household employee
12 Labor - Hilda Soli - husband owes c$6,000 back taxes
Per Pam Meister, Family Security Matters: "...One would think Obama couldn't top his cheesy gift of American DVD classics that [British Prime Minister] Brown wasn't interested in watching, let alone being able to play on his Euro-made DVD player, but never underestimate The Power of The One™. Upon meeting Queen Elizabeth II, the Obamas presented Her Majesty with an iPod, loaded with video of the Queen's trip to America in 2007. No, it wasn't loaded with photos of Obama relaxing in the Oval Office with his jacket off. It gets better: In addition to the Queen's visit video, it was loaded with photos of Obama's inauguration PLUS audio of the inauguration and audio from his 2004 Democrat Convention speech when he was a mere senator."
'The Obama administration's decision to raise fuel economy standards in cars to an average 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 is casting a new light on auto safety. As USA TODAY points out in its story today, smaller cars generally fare worse in crash tests -- especially against larger vehicles.' [The cash-for-clunkers policy [heavily flawed as it is for car dealers] is simply creating a better market for foreign compact cars.]
Per Burt Prelutsky, Townhall: "...Take the stimulus package, or, in the words of Joe Biden, “the so-called stimulus package.” Obama goes on TV and tells us that it's the only thing that will keep us from winding up in Hoovervilles, selling apples on the street and becoming a nation of hobos. Furthermore, this messenger of hope tells us, with a straight face, no less, that there isn't a single earmark to be found in it. That's like pointing at an enormous hog and saying there isn't a single link sausage or slice of bacon in it. There's no need for earmarks when the whole damn thing is nothing but pork! Obama didn't even have to stay up late to put the package together. That was done by Pelosi and Reid, Washington's answer to Hormel and Oscar Meyer. Obama was simply the snake oil salesman who was sent out on the road to sell it to the rubes."
Per Dennis Prager on Townhall: "...It [Obama Stimulus Package 1] is, as Robert Rector---identified by the Times of London as one of the architects of Clinton's 1996 reform bill--- [said] a welfare spendathon that would amount to the largest one-year increase in government handouts in American history. *It [Obama Stimulus Package 1] is the reason the Obama-supporting Newsweek headlined on its cover page 'We are all socialists now.' *It [Obama Stimulus Package 1] is why, in the words of The Times of London, Republicans are not alone in fearing that Obama's hastily concocted package is the first step towards the creation of a quasi-socialist welfare state." We can only guess about and fear a Stimulus 2.
The Obama administration---with the aid of Al Gore, most Liberal tree huggers and band wagon users, and Liberal scientists on a mission---is bent on destroying more than just our culture. The entire Global Warming hysteria is Liberal made. They find it easy to take natural occurrences and blame everything on man and culture so they can take control and screw thing up. Warming and cooling is natural and to be expected. If the Liberals were in charge millions of years ago, the dinosaurs would have been taxed nearly out of existence for their methane production; and then the comet or asteroid would have destroyed the Liberals and made it all moot? Besides, recent figures indicate a steady global cooling.
We have the energy sources to be self sufficient, but the Obama and the Democrats won't let us use them. They won't let us build safe nuclear plants and clean coal and oil plants, and they won't let us search for and recover our own oil. I'll bet when the Muslims take over that'll change. They'll drill everywhere and anywhere to find oil to sell to the World.
To steal a phrase from a popular song, “And the beat goes on.” It does go on and on and on. The Obama administration is giving us change alright. It's systematically destroying our country, our finances, our prestige, our culture, and our freedoms. Among other things, Obama wants to take the best medical system in the world and bring it down to European standards.
Obama's government takeover of private businesses is blatant socialism meant to destroy the free marketing system. He's taxing everything that moves, running our debt up by the trillions, and claims he's 'saving' the Country from the Bush Administration. Hogwash! If the Democrats hadn't been leading the charge in Congressional over-spending, handouts, and socialist leanings for the past 50 or 60 years, we might not be in this mess.
And I resent Obama's claim of 47 million uninsured for health purposes. In that made-up figure are about 12 million illegal aliens; about 18 million who can afford it but don't want it; about 9 million who are between jobs and only temporarily uninsured; about 3 million low income persons who simply haven't been using current government assistance; about 8 million young adults who still have their childhood 'I'm indestructible' attitude towards health insurance; and finally about 8 million children who are covered by their parent's insurance policies but don't have their own. [??]
Those figures add up to more than 47 million because of double counts. Now, do you really want to enact Obama's Healthcare Deform and ruin the World's best health care system just to cover illegal aliens?
