Sunday Sermon

tobyMac- Lose My Soul



And, yes, I judge this holy hip-hop to be edifying and vastly superior to some degenerate rap crap
grunting about n*ggas & b*tches.

China Puts US for Sale on eBay

‘Government Sold Separately,’ Sales Listing Says.

But, wait. There's more!

Contentious Debt Ceiling Debate has Obama Starting to Wonder Why He Moved to U.S.

President Nostalgic for Land of Birth, Fox News Says.

I'm pretty certain both are satire, but stranger things have happened.

(;-p

TY MF

Klavan on the Culture

Daddy, where does money come from?



"If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative."

Dissonant Obamanation

TY HnCC

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Obamanation

Can we impeach him yet, or do we have to wait until everything is a flaming wreck?

"Damning by Faint Praise"

Or something like it.

That's how Bob Priddy over at MissouriNet characterizes the Missouri Democratic Party's latest assessment of Gov. Jay Nixon's chances for re-election. Apparently, someone at the MDC found an article in GOVERNING Magazine to be noteworthy.

Says Bob,

"So the senior spokesman for the Missouri Democratic Committee is circulating an article suggesting it “sometimes seems as if he has stronger support form Republicans than Democrats,” and that Governor Nixon “seems to have placed enough distance between himself and his party to be able to survive.” The article also notes that “Missouri voters aren’t enamored of Democrats these days.

Maybe our languid and gaffe prone Lt. Gov. Kinder(R) is not such a long shot opponent, after all. 

Maybe.

About Last Night: Obama's Speech

Much has already been written, so here's my 2 cents:
“When your enemy is destroying himself, never interfere.” - Sun Tzu

The eloquent visionary who once claimed to slow the ocean’s rise and heal the planet is now a feckless & reckless functionary who cannot tame 500 plus congress critters. In short, Good King Barack has become irrelevant to the process.

Even Congressional Democrats are disgusted with Barack’s arrogance and condescension toward one third of this federal triumvirate. This was most evident two months ago when the Senate voted down his own budget, 97-0.

Obama already tee’d off SCOTUS at his first State of the Union Address, resulting in their absence during his second.

And fearful of the inevitable in this race towards the bottom, many in Good King Barack’s inner circle have wisely deployed their golden parachutes.

It's obvious to all but the most servile sycophants that Obama is revealing himself to be nothing more than an incompetent juvenile; driven by hubris and determined to isolate himself.

Brevity is the soul of wit and Charles Krauthammer embodies it: “I Thought I Was Cynical Until I Heard Obama’s Speech.”

"Change You Can Step In" Obamanation

Friday Night Hoopla

The Beatles - Revolution

Friday Night Hoopla

Goldfinger by the sensational Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey.



I would dedicate this to Pres. Obama, but since Goldfinger "loves only gold" and Obama "loves only quantitatively eased, record national debt and other people's confiscated wealth", it doesn't lend itself to memorable lyrics.

Klavan on the Culture

Michele Bachmann Makes a Gaffe!!!



Because only she could do something this dumb.

The Priggish Urban Liberal-Progressive Busybody Knowitall Pseudointellectual Snob

Mercifully, after tens years of finger wagging, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" aired its final episode last Sunday. I've seen a few episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent over the years, but could never put my finger on why this formulaic, thought police soap opera always made me throw up a little in my mouth.

That is, until S.T. Karnick over at Big Hollywood summarized it so succinctly.

Slacker-fication Obamanation

Or is it "Bolshevik-ation Obamanation? All, of course, with complicit gub'mint schools.

Thomas Jefferson's Prayer for our Nation

(Washington DC, March 4, 1801)

"Almighty God, Who has given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

Bless our land with honorable ministry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion, from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people, the multitude brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues.

Endow with Thy spirit of wisdom those whom in Thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth. In time of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail;

all of which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen."

Yet we tolerate our school children being indoctrinated with the nonsense that he was just a secularized deist who had no use for this Jesus hootinnanny stuff?

God save the Republic.

Government Wiretaps Increase by 34 percent in 2010

Alternative headline: "They told me if I voted for John McCain, Big Brother would be snooping more and more — and they were right!"

(shamelessly stolen from Ed Morrissey channeling Glenn Reynolds)

"The top three states with approved wiretap applications were California, New York and New Jersey."

Traditionally, the bluest of blue states. Hopey-changey, boys n girls.

Boooshitler has left the building and the MSM chirping cricket chorus is in full swing.

In 2006, Jr. Illinois Senator Barack Obama Voted Against Raising Debt Ceiling

Demanding that the U.S. Congress get "our fiscal house in order."

Alternative headline: Pres. Obama a Revisionist Hypocrite of the Worst Sort.

Update:  Looky here. It's Day 800 Since Senate Dems Passed a Budget.

Because, you know,  funding and managing a multi-trillion dollar organization which holds sway over world economies and armies should always be done by throwing darts blindfolded.

Oh. And let's not forget this flashback gold from 2006 when Hapless Harry Reid excoriated a Republican Congress for being fiscally irresponsible.

Not that Hapless Harry is a rabid, hyper-partisan hypocrite, or anything...

Friday Night Hoopla

Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk '68

(obviously, a couple o' furreigners us bitter clingers don't like)



This was originally released on their 1959 debut album on Canadian-American Records, and has been covered by many others artists over the decades. Must be a classic.

US adds 18,000 jobs, Canada adds 28,400

DS at the DM puts a fine point on it:

"We spent $787 billion for this.

Had we done nothing — and this is from President Obama, not me — the unemployment rate would be a full point below what it is now.

Now he can say he was handed a bad hand of cards, but he played them even worse.

And it gets worse..."

Unless you're employed by Obama: The White House will pay $37,121,463 in salaries for 454 employees in 2011.

That makes the average W.H. staffer salary $81,765—or 65% above the median household income of us 'bitter' citizens clinging to our guns and religion and xenophobia.

Uh oh. Obama caught in lie about White House salaries during twitter tweet confab.  

Putz.

Cue the MSM chirping cricket chorus.

Tea Party-ism VS Neo-Marxism

(this is a re-post from March, 2010)

Philosophy matters: Political; Religious; Economic.

And a fish rots from the head down. Let's review:



In a 2001 radio interview, Barack Obama stated that the government should provide "political and economic justice in this society," and the U.S. Constitution "reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day."

Tea Partiers believe that a government big enough to give you everything you need, is also a government big enough to take away everything you have.

~nuff said.

Looney Toons is, As Looney Toons Does

(this is a re-post from January, 2011)

Fortunately, not all of them murder people. Although some do advocate murder...  and some simply tinkle on their own leg - then advocate murder, all the while cashing pay checks from their employer, whose parent company got bailed out by the Feds to the tune of 126 billion dollars.

But they don't contribute to a climate of hate.

See how this works?

Don Douglas, over at American Power, highlights "The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Left-Wing Attacks on U.S. Conservatives Following the Arizona Shootings."  Douglas rightly points out that the list is incomplete, compiled a day before the self-indulgent, hate-mongering, religious bigot Bill Maher chimed in with his defamatory screed about the Tuscon tragedy.

 Uh, oh. Now this.

If you've lost Charles Blow...: Calling a 'witch hunt' a 'witch hunt.'

TY TS

Why 178 Public Educators in Atlanta Should be in Prison

From KM at HA:

"The majority of the nation doesn’t know that investigators have turned up a hatched-scheme in which Union bosses coordinated efforts with public education officials. Further that 44 of 56 school districts in the Atlanta Public Schools system strategically convinced Superintendents, Principals and teachers to cheat–primarily by going back and erasing answers on tests and replacing them with correct ones–in order to have a higher means score for the No Child Left Behind funding qualifications.

The evidence is overwhelming..."

KM surmises there's enough evidence to charge these colluding union stooges under RICO statutes. It sure sounds like organized crime to me.

Update: KS at PM asks, "Why the Shock Over Atlanta Teacher Cheating?"

"There should be little surprise over the unintended consequences of bad education policy."

A Rabidly Pro-Abortion Kathleen Sebelius as HHS Sect'y

(this is a re-post from April, 2009)

Bleeding Kansas: Late term abortions. A $650 million 2010 budget deficit.

Those aren't the only mismanaged legacies Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius(D) will leave behind for D.C.'s greener political pandering pastures.

Kansas Legislator Tim Huelskamp says her almost assured Senate confirmation as Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services next week is a mistake.

"HHS Secretary is one of the few positions in a presidential administration where one’s position on abortion can have a dramatic impact, and Sebelius is likely to enact policies that would make it easier to obtain an abortion for any reason -- and make taxpayers pay for it. For this reason, pro-life leaders are rightly concerned about Sebelius’ imminent confirmation...

I'm not alone in finding her extreme positions disqualifying. She's also hearing about it from the Catholic Church. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann has informed Governor Sebelius she "should stop receiving Communion until she publicly repudiates her support of abortion and makes a 'worthy sacramental confession.'" Sebelius, of course, claims to be "personally pro-life," but that is essentially the same intellectually dishonest position taken by Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden."

Sebelius' other mismanaged legacies include aggressive action to repel industry & tax revenue from Kansas in favor of demagogued pseudo-science with her repeated vetoes of two proposed 700-megawatt coal-burning power plants. Yet, she and her husband are invested in coal for personal financial gain?

Perhaps that hypocrisy slipped her notice when her seditious political posturing against the hated Boooshitler, at the expense of the poor folks in Greensburg, Kan. after a devastating F-5 tornado leveled their entire town in May, 2007, was at its frothiest.

Or maybe it was her race baiting bigotry on the campaign trail last year for her future boss. Hope n change, ya know.

Character matters, and this woman has proved that she has precious little. Not that her future boss seems to mind. Like most Obama cabinet appointees, she has not paid all her taxes - until caught.

Add 'unpatriotic' on top of it all.

How sad.

NY Motorcyclist Dies on Ride Protesting Helmet Law

Alternative headline: Another Darwin Award Candidate a Victim of Brutal Irony

They ain't called 'donor' cycles fer nuthin'.

Condolences to family and friends.

The Current Truth About Old, Rich, Founding White Guys & Their Evil Oppressive Nation

"On the Fourth of July Americans will cynically celebrate the greatest setback world progress has ever endured in all of human history. The rest of humankind will, of course, be grieving over the dark day when the United States of America was born. To understand the full scope of this tragedy we must look back at the pre-7/04 world and see what it was like to live on planet Earth before 1776."

Spare yourselves the sorrow of capitalists lies, Komrades!

Re-educate your brain now, at The People's Cube.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

From Wikipedia:

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is a hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It became popular during the American Civil War. Since that time it has become an extremely popular and well-known American patriotic song."

Original lyrics

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
“As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal”;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free;
[originally …let us die to make men free]
While God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! While God is marching on.

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.

My Country, 'Tis of Thee

From Wikipedia:

"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as "America", is an American patriotic song, whose lyrics were written by Samuel Francis Smith (in 1831). The melody is that of the United Kingdom's national anthem, "God Save the Queen", although Smith encountered it by way of a German adaptation. The song served as a de facto national anthem of the United States before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official anthem."

Lyrics

    My country,' tis of thee,
    sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;
    land where my fathers died,
    land of the pilgrims' pride,
    from every mountainside let freedom ring!
    My native country, thee,
    land of the noble free, thy name I love;
    I love thy rocks and rills,
    thy woods and templed hills;
    my heart with rapture thrills, like that above.

    Let music swell the breeze,
    and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song;
    let mortal tongues awake;
    let all that breathe partake;
    let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.

    Our fathers' God, to thee,
    author of liberty, to thee we sing;
    long may our land be bright
    with freedom's holy light;
    protect us by thy might, great God, our King.

God Bless America

From Wikipedia:

"God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised by him in 1938, as sung by Kate Smith (becoming her signature song)."

Traditional lyrics

While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.

God bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home
God bless America, My home sweet home. 

More Neo-Bolshevik Thuggery Shuts Down Detroit Bank of America

This time from the UAW, which didn't seem to mind huge gub'mint handouts in exchange for Obama campaign contributions, yet is unhappy about bank bailouts. Or something.

(this is a re-post from March, 2011.)

From The Blaze:

"Last week you saw SEIU protesters take over a bank in Stroudsburg, PA when they stormed a lobby in an effort to call out a CEO. Then you learned that a former (maybe) SEIU official hatched a secret plan to target JP Morgan Chase through massive loan defaults.

Now we have video of United Auto Workers (UAW) protesters staging a rally outside a Bank of America in Detroit on Thursday. The gathering was so large it shut down the branch for 30 minutes."

The Blaze also reports that dictator luvin', multi-millionaire hypocrite, actor Danny Glover, and MSNBC on-air hater, Ed Schultz also participated in the screed fest.

As stated above, all this is nothing new for these Neo-Bolshevik thugs. In May last year, about 100 bussed-in SEIU thugs used 'we know where you live' intimidation tactics to trespass upon the private residence of Greg Baer, a senior Bank of America executive based in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Baer wasn't home that Sunday afternoon, but is terrified 14 y.o. son was, and called the police to disperse the gang of thugs.

From CNN Money:

"Now those strong-arm tactics, stirred by supposedly free-floating (as opposed to organized) populist rage, have come to the neighborhood curb. Last year it was AIG executives -- with protestors met by security guard outside. Now it's any executive -- and they're on the front stoop. After Baer's house, the 14 buses left to descend on the nearby residence of Peter Scher, a government relations executive at JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500).

Targeting homes and families seems to put SEIU in the ranks of (now jailed) radical animal-rights activists and the Kansas anti-gay fundamentalists harassing the grieving parents of a dead 20-year-old soldier at his funeral (the Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the latter). But that's not a conversation that SEIU officials want to have. "

Of course not. They don't have any respect for other's viewpoints. These Neo-Bolshevik thugs only seek to intimidate and oppress, not converse.

Still, I guess we should be thankful these Neo-Bolsheviks have not resorted to violence (yet), like their barbarian cousins in London, England this past weekend.

Friday Night Hoopla

Miami 2017 - Billy Joel



I'm not much for polls (except the only one that truly counts, on election day), but I found this to be particularly disturbing:

4 in 10 Americans say they think the economy is in permanent decline.

"At the same time, fewer Americans see the economy as having the potential to eventually recover, with 57 percent of those surveyed saying they think things will, in time, be better. That’s down from 68 percent in October.

As the economy continues to sputter in the eyes of many Americans, President Barack Obama’s approval rating is at 47 percent and his disapproval is at 44 percent. In May, surging in the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden, Obama’s approval rating in the same poll was 57 percent and his disapproval was 37 percent."

But let's not get cocky and uncivil by calling our President a 'dick.'

I prefer 'peevish' and 'incompetent :' Obamanomics, leaving on a jet plane.

"The most newsworthy bit of President Obama’s press conference certainly had nothing to do with economics or America’s precarious fiscal position. Recall: The president’s most recent budget plan would add $9.5 trillion in cumulative new debt over the next decade. Eliminating a tax break for the purchase of corporate jets – it’s called “accelerated depreciation” and Obama has endorsed the deduction twice before to boost growth and create jobs – would save $3 billion, or 0.03 percent of that total.

Yet this is the place where the president has chosen to stand his ground, to say “Here and no further!” Obama astride the bridge Khazad Dûm. He challenged the GOP to “go talk to your constituents, the Republican constituents, and ask them, are they willing to compromise their kids’ safety so that some corporate-jet owner continues to get a tax break.”

"Some corporate-jet owner continues to get a tax break?" You mean like Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill(D)?

Oh. Wait.

Meanwhile, Main Street continues to be strangled while Nero plays pocket pool: The Jobless Summer. Why only one in four teens is employed.

And, finally, Harvard survey SAYS!, Republicans more patriotic than Democrats, and attend July 4th celebrations more often.

TK at HA asks the exit questions, "Why don’t Democrats like to celebrate the Declaration quite so much?"

My response: "Because it’s not sufficiently lascivious or mind altering enough for their taste. Although, Libs will eagerly run under its philosophical umbrella to defend those licentious pursuits. Go figure."

Children Fined $500 for 'Unlicensed' Lemonade Stand

And that means it's time for another edition of Nanny of the Month (June 2011).



But our incompetent, finger wagging AG Eric Holder will defend these kids 'right' to access pr0n at the public library.

Liberty Dies by a Thousand Paper Cuts

(this is a re-post from April, 2010)

FDA Calls for Salt Cutbacks

"The Food and Drug Administration, saying Americans consume too much sodium, will seek voluntary reductions by the food industry. An Institute of Medicine report calls for more expeditious action."

Voluntary reductions. Got it? So it's all good. Because this administration is completely trustworthy.

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK." - Barack Obama, May, 2008

Nanny knows best which light bulb you should use, the terms on your credit card, what appliance you should buy, how efficient your car should be, decide that Cheerios is a "drug", spank you with a sugar tax for drinking too much soda pop, and those cheese burgers & french fries are a big NO-NO! Besides, the First Lady says eat arugula lettuce, you bad boys n girls!

Better buy that deep fat fryer whilst nanny still lets you.

"Nothing is off the table," said FDA spokeswoman Meghan Scott. "Everyone's in agreement that something needs to be done….We just don't know what it's going to look like."

Translation: you're too stupid to decide what and how you eat.