the houston conservative: News and Commentary

Calling it quits

2009-11-25T06:43:00.002-06:00

Will Malven
11/25/2009

Well folks, it's been a good run, but I think it's time to call it quits.

I'm sure those of you who have been more or less regular readers have noticed the drop in number of blog entries. Demands on my time...especially financial needs...have forced this decision.

Well, that and facing the fact that I will never generate the kind of traffic to this website that is necessary for commercial success.

This website will remain active, as a reference source until my ownership of the name expires next summer.

Thanks for reading and opining. Keep the faith, conservatism is still the majority view and the Obama phenomenon is now beginning to wear thin with the people who got so caught up with it.

Seems they are discovering what some of us knew from the very start, the new emperor has no clothes...and Obama is buck-nekkid...that's for sure.

God bless you, God bless our republic.

Onward to victory!

The Obsequious President Obama Bows Once Again

2009-11-16T20:09:00.002-06:00

Will Malven
11/16/2009

Well, not satisfied with humiliating all Americans with his sbsequious bow before the Saudi King earlier this year, President Obama has once more kowtowed to a foreign leader...this time the Emperor of Japan.

This man has no pride in his nation, in fact he is ashamed of being an American, a title he believes saddles him with the burden of being the source of all evil in the world.

Can this man be any more ignorant of protocol? Can he be any more disrespectful towards his nation and the men who fought to valiantly to defend it against the Japanese Army in World War II?

Even in a bow of apology, the deepest of customary bows, one only goes to 45 degrees; Obama's bow was a 90 degree bow. He was not showing respect, he was making a fool of himself and America.

A real American President knows not to bow before any foreign dignitary, especially not to the emperor of Japan. Ronald Reagan knew how to behave as did Dick Cheney.

The truth is, Obama wants to apologize for America. He actually feels guilty that America used the atomic bomb to end the war in Japan.

Obama has no class and his bow to the Japanese Emperor was a sign of obeisance, not respect. In attempting to demonstrate how sophisticated and erudite he is, he proved himself to be just the opposite...a cultural oaf. Of course most of America knew that by the way he failed to show proper respect to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and to the Queen.

Makes me wonder if he brought the Emperor a transistor radio or maybe a Sony CD player. I suppose he must have brought the Empress a synthetic kimono.

Liberals like to say that Obama has brought back the respect for America that President Bush lost. They point to the fact that he is well liked by the people of the world. Of course the world likes President Obama, he acts like a puppy. The entire world loves a lap dog.

Respect must be earned and President Obama has done nothing to earn anyone's respect. He's just another corrupt Chicago style politician and he will never be anything more than community organizer.

What an embarrassment for America.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Senator Lindsey Graham is "Stuck on Stupid"

2009-11-10T14:45:00.002-06:00

Will Malven
11/10/2009

There is nothing more reprehensible than a politician that hedges his bets when discussing problems that directly impinge on our national security. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is just one such politician. He is a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs and has access to enough information to be better informed than most of us.

He appeared this weekend on Face the Nation and when he was asked about the Fort Hood terrorist attack, he could not bring himself to talk about Major Nidal Malik Hasan's Muslim terrorist connections. He should know better than to make this kind of waffling, cowardly, stupid, pandering comment, but here it is.

Senator Graham, you should be ashamed of yourself and immediately stepdown as Senator in shame and embarrassment after this obscene display of obsequiousness towards Muslims. It's true that not all Muslims are terrorists, but in the world today, pretty much all terrorists are Muslims.

What a total politician and jerk.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Fort Hood Shootings: In Dealing with Islam, Political Correctness is a Suicide Pact

2009-11-08T22:44:00.006-06:00

Will Malven
11/09/2009

During the hours of news coverage following the tragic shootings that occurred at Fort Hood, one thing that stood out above all others was the reluctance of the news agencies to state the name of the perpetrator of this heinous act. Well after Fox and other news networks knew the apparent identity of the gunman, great care was exercised to avoid identifying Nidal Malik Hasan by name.

From the time that the shootings took place it took the Fox News Channel four and one half hours to provide the identity of the perpetrator by name. Shepherd Smith, the news anchor, even stated that he was "reluctant" to say the name of the perpetrator, because they were concerned about any reaction the name might evoke, until it was confirmed by the Department of Defense. He was not alone in this reluctance, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was also provided with the name of the alleged perpetrator but would not say who it was until it was confirmed by the Defense Department.

I am all for making certain that a reporter has his fact right before he goes on camera. In fact I would prefer to get my news more slowly if that delay is motivated by a desire to get the story right, but that has not been the case in our mainstream media for some considerable time. For decades now the press has been more inclined to get the story out immediately and then correct the information as facts change...but not this time.

Compare how the Fort Hood shooter's identity was handled by the media with that of Jason Rodriquez following the tragic mass shooting that he perpetrated in Orlando, Florida yesterday. Within an hour of the shootings occurrence, everyone who was watching the news knew the Mr. Rodriquez's name.

Why? Why the discrepancy? Certainly, some of the delay Thursday was due to the natural difficulties associated with obtaining information from sources on a military base. Access to information necessarily is more controlled on a military base than it is in the general public, but once the identity was known with some degree of certainty, why didn't the press reveal it with the same eagerness that it has displayed in other cases of this type? Why was the senator "uncomfortable" with identifying who the killer was? Why was the press so forth coming with the identity of the man in Florida and so slow to reveal the name of the shooter in Texas?

The reason for this reluctance is clear and has been manifest in our national media ever since the attacks on 9/11 were revealed to have been perpetrated by radical Muslims. There was, and still is, a reluctance to be seen as being critical of Islam and radical Islamists, by the mainstream media.

They have never been so scrupulous when dealing with Christians when, on very rare occasion one commits a heinous act. Every time a protest occurs at an abortion clinic, the protestors are readily identified as being a member of a "fundamentalist Christian" organization, or an "extreme right-wing Christian" group.

Why is it that liberals as a general rule are so reluctant to talk about radical Muslims or even to use the word terrorist when discussing radical Islamists who have been attacking American people for the past four decades?

Even in protecting our citizens, today's law enforcement organizations are proscribed from using, "racial profiling," as a tool for detecting potential terrorists. To an outside observer, it would appear that our political leaders are more concerned with not offending some special interest group...like the Muslim community...than they are with protecting and saving American lives.

Every time an attack like the one at Fort Hood occurs, we are admonished not to draw any conclusions about a certain group of people from the actions of one individual or small group of individuals. We are instantly and repeatedly reminded of non-Muslims who have committed horrible acts. The names of Timothy McVeigh or Ted Kaczynski or some other lone crazy who perpetrated mass murder are readily at the tip of liberals' tongues to remind us that it's not only Muslims who commit these kinds of acts.

There is almost a religious fervor in their efforts to prevent anyone from concluding what is patently obvious to any objective observer, that Islam, the "Religion of Peace," spurs more of its adherents to violence than any other organized religion or political group on Earth. There's not even a second place in this category.

Liberals are especially prone to use moral equivalency to excuse what is clearly a dangerous proclivity among Muslims throughout the world. From the blog "Confluence" here is a typical liberal’s comment:
"...Islam is no more violent than any other religion. Fundamentalism is our enemy and that can be found in Christianity as well as Islam. I am not going to condemn a religion or its followers because of the deranged actions of one their members and I caution others who I respect to refrain from doing so as well..."
This comment is made in the face of facts that surround us in the world today. This was not an isolated act nor am I saying all of this "because of the deranged actions of" one individual. Radical Islamists are committing violent acts against their own people and against non-Muslims all over the world today. Bombings in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq have killed dozens of civilians and our troops. Muslim terrorists are fighting and killing people in the Philippines, Somalia, Indonesia and America.

This liberal fool continues:

"Fundamentalism is our enemy and that can be found in Christianity as well as Islam. I am not going to condemn a religion or its followers because of the deranged actions of one their members and I caution others who [sic] I respect to refrain from doing so as well. The last thing we need is a backlash to comdown on the heads of Muslim men, women and children."

More false moral equivalency. How many terrorist attacks have "fundamentalist Christians" committed over the last four decades? How many American citizens have they killed? How many acts of indiscriminate murder? Such claims as this author "riverdaughter" makes are as dishonest and agenda driven as they are ludicrous.

Liberals and other who wish to excuse Islam always mention Charles Whitman who killed 14 and wounded 32 in 1966 at the University of Texas, or George Jo Kennard who drove into a Luby's Restaurant and killed 23 people on October 16, 1991, or Timothy McVeigh who bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 and killed 168 people, or Seung-Hui Cho who murdered 32 people on April 16, 2007, or Jiverly Wong who killed 13 and wounded 4 on April 03, 2009.

While all of those are horrible occurrences, they have no common thread. They each are isolated, disparate events. Juxtapose those events with the fact that, according to the State Department, there were 248 "Significant Terrorist Incidents" that occurred between May of 1961 and the end of 2003 throughout the world. Out of those, 133 or 54% have been caused by Muslim extremists.

Even disallowing 43 attacks against Israel which could be blamed on the long term war between Arabs and the Israelis, and 18 attacks against targets in Iraq which could be blamed on the American presence there, Muslims were responsible for 72 terrorist attacks throughout the world between 1970 and 2003. [As a side note, another group, also a cause celebre for liberals, communist (whether it be the FARC in Columbia, AFRC in Sierra Leone, or even the Red Brigade in Europe), have been responsible for 49 terrorist attacks.]

So is it reasonable to wonder when someone named Nidal Malik Hasan who is a devout Muslim and who has been very outspoken in his opposition to Americas presence in Iraq and Afghanistan if there is more to the attack at Fort Hood than him being mentally ill?

The reasons for paying extra close attention to any and all acts of violence that are carried out by Muslims are obvious and the risk to our national security and the safety of every American citizen in not doing so for reasons of political correctness is great.

The level of idiocy and intentional blindness required for our government to take the approach to these acts of violence that isolated events and that one must not bring the words Islam or Muslim into the dialogue for fear of offending certain people is approaching that of criminality.

Evidence shows beyond any reasonable doubt that, far from being a Religion of Peace, Islam is a grave threat to our nation and our citizens and for that reason, perhaps America should consider removing all of our men and women in uniform who are Muslims from active service and banning any further enlistments of Muslims.

For those who claim "It's not fair," you're right it's not, but then it's not "fair" that 13 of our very best and brightest were killed Thursday by a Muslim with a grievance against America and our involvement in the Middle East. It's not "fair" that 3000 Americans were killed on 9/11. It's not "fair" that we have lost over 4000 of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's not "fair" that 13 families are now in mourning for their lost loved ones and another 38 families are worried sick over how their loved ones are doing in their efforts to recover from the wounds Dr. Hasan inflicted on them...for no reason.

So don't tell me it's not "fair" to profile swarthy looking men between the ages of 17 and 40 because I don't care if it's "fair" or not; fairness is irrelevant. Those swarthy looking men have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and members of our military...not because they are suffering from PTSD or because "he was a troubled man," but because they hated America and chose to follow the path of a radical religion that teaches hatred and murder of all who refuse to submit to its teachings.

There may be nothing more to these deaths than the sad story of a sick individual who suffered a severe psychotic episode and killed a lot of people similar to the others liberals are so quick to mention, but to make that assumption without even investigating the obvious issues surrounding this man's history and the apparent care with which he planned this massacre is just plain stupid, arrogant, political correctness run amok.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Pelosi's Health Care Bill: Half a Billion Dollars a Page

2009-10-30T08:41:00.002-05:00

Will Malven
10/30/2009

Sooo...somebody do the math, please! Half a billion dollars/page...that's $500,000,000 for each and every page (give or take a page or two). Of course that's the projected cost over 10 years, so let's say $50,000,000 per page per year. To put that into perspective, if a rich person is defined as those making over $250,000/year, then each page could make 200 of the 4 million newly unemployed a rich person, or 400,000 newly created "rich persons."

Of course we know that the true cost, the cost that the other idiot in charge of the other House in our Legislative Branch, Harry Reid, let slip in a moment of senility was $2 Trillion over 10 years or twice as much as Congress is willing to admit to. That brings us up to 800,000 "rich persons" who could be created by simply giving away this money.

Carry it even farther. If $50,000/year is the average annual income, then suddenly we would have 4,000,000 new jobs, each guaranteed for 10 years. Wow, just think if we were to do that then each of those people could afford to buy their own insurance through their employers.

Think about it...4 million newly employed all of them insured and paying both federal income tax and social security taxes.

Of course the fifty thou they were earning would be worth about twenty thousand after inflation kicked in...which is of course the whole point of this exercise. WE DON'T HAVE 2 TRILLION DOLLARS TO SPEND LIKE THIS!!!

Back to Pelosi's plan. The CBO claims that the ultimate cost of this plan will be roughly $1.055 Trillion and then they go through some mental "matherbation" (they assume that $161 Billion will be generated by penalties assessed on those who don't sign up for insurance- 1055 - 161 = 894) to get the sum down to $894 Billion which is, amazingly enough, $6 Billion below President Obama's promised $900 Billion limit...funny how that worked out.

Problem is, we all know that these numbers are completely bogus. The Heritage Foundation has the "low-down" on the historical accuracy of congressional cost estimates for the sort of social programs that Democrats seem to like so much here and their record is not very reassuring:
"In 1965, as Congress considered legislation to establish a national Medicare program, the House Ways and Means Committee estimated that the hospital insurance portion of the program, Part A, would cost about $9 billion annually by 1990.v Actual Part A spending in 1990 was $67 billion. The actuary who provided the original cost estimates acknowledged in 1994 that, even after conservatively discounting for the unexpectedly high inflation rates of the early ‘70s and other factors, “the actual [Part A] experience was 165% higher than the estimate.”
Whoops! Better make that check out for a bit more than Congress is ~~lying~~ telling us.

It gets better folks:
"Medicare (entire program). In 1967, the House Ways and Means Committee predicted that the new Medicare program, launched the previous year, would cost about $12 billion in 1990. Actual Medicare spending in 1990 was $110 billion—off by nearly a factor of 10."
WOW! So like...we could expect this "$1 Trillion program which actually costs $2 Trillion to cost more like $20 Trillion? I don't know about you, but that sure sounds like a lot of money to me.

That's just for Medicare, how about Medicaid?

Medicaid DSH program. In 1987, Congress estimated that Medicaid’s disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments—which states use to provide relief to hospitals that serve especially large numbers of Medicaid and uninsured patients—would cost less than $1 billion in 1992. The actual cost that year was a staggering $17 billion.

That's 1700% people. Congress and the much touted CBO were off by a factor of 17. What happens if they have made the same mistakes today as they made back then?

Think about what this means. Under optimistic assumption, especially given the record of the current economy, the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the United States in 10 years is projected to be around $16.5 Trillion. Our current GDP is $13.3 Trillion current national debt is $11.9 Trillion (ummm that'a a net positive of $1.4 Trillion). Congress is about to add "$1.055 Trillion" and very probably several times that, given their historical record for accuracy, for health care alone...UH-OH America just went bankrupt.

Madame Speaker asserts (along with her fellow liberals) that Democrats are pursuing the passage of this bill "to provide competition" and force insurance companies to control health care costs and to insure the estimated ~~40 million~~ 30 million uninsured, whom we are told are dying for lack of insurance, which is of course total poppycock as no one in America goes without treatment unless they choose to.

You want competition, there are 1700 insurance companies in America. The only reason there isn't any competition is because the governments of each state have legislated monopolies for certain insurance companies, thus according to the GAO in Texas there are 46 providers with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas being the largest holding 27% of the market and the top 5 companies holding 68% of the market. We're in pretty good shape compared to other states like Alabama in which one company, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama holds a whopping 96% of the health insurance market.

There's not much competition in Alabama, so instead of offering just one other option, the "public option," why not simply pass a federal law allowing people to buy their insurance from any provider anywhere in the United States? Instead of giving citizens one alternative, they would be given 1700 alternatives...and here's the kicker, it wouldn't cost a dime of taxpayer money to do this.

The sad truth is, the reason Democrats in Congress won't deregulate the insurance industry is that this whole sham isn't about providing better, cheaper medical care, it is about accruing more power to the federal government. It is about destroying the private insurance industry and forcing citizens to rely more on the federal government for their "welfare."

Anyone who denies that this is an effort to destroy the private insurance industry is lying...flat out. NO if's, and's, or but's about it. They are intentionally attempting to deceive the American people. You cannot have "competition" where one of the "competitors" has unlimited resources on which to draw and does not have to make a profit. Madame Speaker Pelosi claims that this public option will not have an unfair advantage:
“It should be actuarially sound. It should be administrative and self-sufficient. It should be a real competitor with the private sector and not have an unfair advantage.”
Is anybody reading this dumb enough to believe that the government won't step in and assist this "public option" in the event that is shows signs of not competing? Is anyone gullible enough to believe that this plan will not have a built in financial advantage? How many companies, insurance or otherwise, do you know of that do not ever have to worry about failing?

This is the "thin end of the wedge" of "single payer" socialized medicine. It is a large step in America's continuing slide towards becoming another European style socialist state complete with all of the economic difficulties and "shared sacrifices" with which Europeans have been "blessed."

This isn't just a pig in a poke, it is a rotting, festering, decaying porcine corpse and Democrats want you to buy it without even getting your "poke." Only you can stop this monstrosity...only you can exert sufficient pressure on members of Congress to stop this rape of the American health care system and of the America electorate.

Contact your members of Congress...do it repeatedly and do it to all of them, left or right. Make certain they know exactly how you feel and stop this train before it picks up any steam.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

White House Attacks Against Cheney Continue Liberal Tradition (Attack the Messenger)

2009-10-26T09:01:00.003-05:00

Will Malven
10/26/2009

Another 14 Americans died in Afghanistan today; ten while leaving a combat zone in helicopters, and another four while engaged in combat from helicopters...meanwhile in other news, President Obama continues to "evaluate" the recommendations of his commanding general on the ground...the term "dithering" comes to mind...

This past week, former Vice-president Dick Cheney upset members of the Obama Administration and the Democrat Party leadership by revealing that far from "ignoring" Afghanistan as the Democrats have been accusing the Bush Administration of doing, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney had ordered a comprehensive review of the war in Afghanistan last fall and at the request of the Obama people kept the fact of the review, as well as the findings, confidential.

As a reward for their earnest efforts at assisting the Neophyte in Chief and his assembled cabal of incompetents in getting a strong start in running the nation's business, President Bush and his administration have been the target of endless attacks and have been blamed for everything from the economic meltdown (for which they deserve a fair share of the blame) to Obama's foreign policy screw ups (for which Obama is solely responsible).

It seems to prove the old cynic's adage: "No good deed goes unpunished." Perhaps President Bush would have fared better had he followed his predecessor's actions and removed all of the O's from the keyboards of all White House computers and committed other acts of deliberate sabotage, as the Clintonistas did...he certainly couldn't have been attacked any more savagely by the Democrats and Obama.

Once again this points out the nasty truth about liberals and Democrats, if you cross them, they hate you for life. If you contradict them, they revile you. If you expose them for liars and corrupted hypocrites, they attack you personally.

Cheney pointed out the fact that at the request of Obama's team, they performed their review of the Afghan War in secret, provided Obama's team with the results of that review in secret, and that the much ballyhooed "in depth" evaluation of Afghanistan Obama carried out in March and their report was largely a cut-and-paste job of President Bush's fall report.

Rather than answering Cheney's charges, the White House chose to attack the former vice-president and the Bush Administration. While the accusations against President Bush as concerns "neglecting Afghanistan for Iraq" may or may not be true, they are irrelevant as it pertains to the former vice-president's charges.

What is revealed here is a further confirmation of this President's complete lack of capacity to deal with the problems that face this nation. The fact that the "review" done in March was nothing but a re-wording of a report provided to them by President Bush's Administration and that following that review, the current occupant of the White House has done nothing in furtherance of that review, has failed to follow the advice of his personally selected commander on the ground there, and is still uncertain of how to proceed in Afghanistan-even as our troops continue to die there-confirms former Vice-president Cheney's accusations of dithering as factual.

Obama and his little band of sycophants are so pre-occupied with how his decision will affect his party's political future, that he is content to see Americans die without giving them the support they have requested and that they need, until he and other Democrats leaders can decide which policy will have the most positive effect on their poll numbers.

General McChrystal requested his 40,000 additional combat troops back in August of this year; it is now the end of October and our troops continue to be embattled and die in increasing numbers yet the President and his advisors continue to debate politics rather than policy.

This indecisiveness of our President is destructive to our nation's goals and to our troops morale. Those fine young men and women are eager to perform the jobs for which they were hired, provided they are sure those leading them are doing so competently and with certainty of purpose. It is only when our leaders are unsure of themselves and of their policies that the morale of our troops suffers.

Throughout his campaign and since he was inaugurated, President Obama has called the war in Afghanistan a "war of necessity," yet now when he is faced with making a decision that would confirm that campaign claim, he hesitates. Now when our troops most need decisive, strong leadership, their new "Commander in Chief" can't make up his mind and seems more concerned with how his decision will affect his party's chances in the 2010 election than with winning in Afghanistan and protecting, not just Afghani lives, but American lives both here and abroad.

Say what you will about former President George W. Bush, when it came to protecting our nation and our troops, he never allowed the potential domestic political implications of a purely military decision to cloud his judgment.

Dick Cheney was right to chide President Obama about Afghanistan and his accusation of "dithering" was dead on. It is unseemly and irresponsible of the White House to attack the former vice-president on purely political grounds while failing to execute the most basic and essential obligations of the Presidency.

Even if every single accusation they have made against Dick Cheney and President Bush was true (and they're not), it would be completely irrelevant to what is occurring with our troops and what policy the current President should pursue.

Politics should play no part in protecting our national interests and our troops and the games the White House and Democrat leadership are playing with the lives of our troops is shameful and unacceptable.

Mr. President, you have declared this war a "war of necessity;" you have chosen your commander for the war in Afghanistan and solicited his advice. You have already performed you extensive review of the war in Afghanistan back in March and now the commander whom you appointed has made his request clear. Stop playing politics with the lives of our troops and make your decision.

Stop playing the blame game.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Russia's Putin warns against intimidating Iran (Obama Continues to Win Friends - Uh-huh)

2009-10-14T15:34:00.003-05:00

Will Malven
10/14/2009

My, my, but Obama is sure succeeding in changing the world's opinion of America. So far we have had insults to both the Prime Minister and the Queen of the United Kingdom, French President Sarcozy ridiculing Obama and suggesting that he "walk on water," and former Russian President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sending former President Bush a "thank-you" letter on the day that President Obama travels to Moscow.

Now we have Mr. Putin warning America against taking any actions against Iran that could be construed as intimidating. Not only that but once more Putin snubbed the Obama White House, leaving for a trip to the Russian Far East and China before Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, could arrive in Moscow. For those of you counting, that makes two huge snubs by Putin of the Obama White House...talk about impressing a foreign leader...I guess Putin has made his opinion of Obama quite clear.

Here's a portion of the Reuters India account with the usual link to the full article:

Russia's Putin warns against intimidating Iran

Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:02pm IST
By Darya Korsunskaya

BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned major powers on Wednesday against intimidating Iran and said talk of sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme was "premature".

Putin, who many diplomats, analysts, and Russian citizens believe is still Russia's paramount leader despite stepping down as president last year, was speaking after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Moscow for two days of talks.

"There is no need to frighten the Iranians," Putin told reporters in Beijing after a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

"We need to look for a compromise. If a compromise is not found, and the discussions end in a fiasco, then we will see."

"And if now, before making any steps (towards holding talks) we start announcing some sanctions, then we won't be creating favourable conditions for them (talks) to end positively. This is why it is premature to talk about this now."
Aren't you glad that Obama caved in on the missile defenses that were supposed to be placed in Poland and the Czech Republic? He really impressed Putin.

Folks, Obama got nothing, zip, squat, zero props or concessions for his unilateral surrender of the missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic...absolutely nothing...but contempt.

Secretary Clinton's entire trip was a bust. She failed to achieve any of her goals and did not receive any assurances from the Russians that they would assist in our efforts to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability.

Far from achieving anything, she got the brush-off from Moscow. This once again proves just how wrong liberals are in their policies and how absurdly naive they are in dealing with powerful nations like Russia.

For Obama's appeasement of Russian objections to the anti-missile systems that were going to be placed in Poland and the Czech Republic, he got...more demands and a warning from Moscow. Thus ever is the reward for kowtowing to other nation's leaders.

AP reports that Moscow has stated that it maintains the right to us "pre-emptive nuclear strikes" to protect their nation against any aggressive acts on both local and national scale...local scale as in the former Soviet state of Georgia where there was just recently a dust-up, perhaps?

The head of the Russian Presidential Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, specifically mentioned the U.S. and NATO as still posing a threat to Russia, in a news article published in Izvestia.

It is important to note that these comments from Mr. Patrushev came while Hillary Clinton was in Moscow, cap-in-hand asking for help from Russia on the Iranian issue.

Russia's response was for Patrushev to say that Russian leaders are looking at:
"a variety of possibilities for using nuclear force, depending on the situation and the intentions of the possible opponent.In situations critical to national security, options including a preventative nuclear strike on the aggressor are not excluded."
He also said that nuclear weapons could be used:
"to repel an aggression with the use of conventional weapons not only in a large-scale but also in a regional and even local war."
Again, is he referring to the recent Georgia conflict?

Yeah that Obama White House really has Moscow eating out of its hands now. From all appearances, Obama has us headed back to a Cold War status reminiscent of the 1970's.

Now I know that Obama has aspirations of claiming President Carter's title of "Worst President of the last Century" and that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but really, do we need to undo all of the great work of Presidents Reagan and Bush just to feed the ego of this "Empty-Suit-In-Chief?"

To use former President Bush's phrase describing his meeting with the President Putin in reverse, all of these foreign leaders and dictators have looked our current President "in the eyes" and have seen the emptiness behind them.

They know they can intimidate him. Men like Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Noriega, Putin (well Putin has so much contempt for him he won't even meet with him), and Medvedev are laughing at Obama as he play-acts his way across the globe pretending to be President of the United States while actually accomplishing nothing.

The American ship of state is without its captain. Instead we have the director if entertainment sitting in the big chair and attempting to steer. It's like (to mix my metaphors) having a 5 year-old child at the wheel of a 60,000 lb. semi-tractor trailer that is barreling down a two lane blacktop.

The world is becoming increasingly dangerous as venturesome and despotic leaders begin to realize just how under-qualified and unprepared President Obama is to deal with their aspirations of power and expansion.

The terrorists know this as well and they are beginning to expand their operations as a result. Does anyone believe it is a coincidence that we have had a sudden spate of terror suspects arrested within our borders?

Once the fools in Congress get through "revising" (read dismantling) the Patriot Act that has kept America safe for the past eight years, we citizens had better be prepared for another perhaps worse 9-11.

Obama is rapidly proving once again that incompetence in the Oval Office is a recipe for chaos and disaster and in President Obama, we have the "Mother of all" Incompetents.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

The Amazing Narcissism of the Modern Leftist

2009-10-10T09:02:00.002-05:00

Will Malven
10/10/2009

Nothing so amuses conservatives as watching the mutual admiration society of liberals in the wake of President Obama's Nobel Prize announcement. In the quaint little minds, they have scored some imagined great coup that leaves conservatives gnashing their teeth like Professor Tolkien's orcs.

The assumption is that the modern day Nobel Prize, in some way, conveys prestige and honor that others might envy, when in truth it has been so trivialized by those the Nobel committee have honored over the past several decades, that conservatives consider the award in a similar vein to being "honored" by the U.N. General Assembly...in other words...an "honor" most would prefer not to receive.

The mutual backslapping is manifest at many liberal blogs. At FireDogLake, after quoting the entire Nobel statement of self-justification, "Peterr" gloats:

"I can almost hear the screaming from Dick Cheney and the neocons as they get the news."

Talk about being absolutely clueless as to what conservatives believe...with laughter echoing across the entire world at the absurdity of granting the greatly diminished, formerly prestigious, award to a man who has done absolutely nothing in his entire life but campaign and make anti-American speeches...they assume that conservatives feel slighted...offended that Obama has been so honored.

Honored? Really? By receiving the same award as that given to Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat? By being granted the same award as Albert Gore, Jr. and Jimmy "I'm a Nukeyer Scientist" Cahtah?

If one looks at recent recipients, the tale is pretty graphic in it political agenda...anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-freedom. The list is rife with incompetents and appeasers, most of whom accomplished nothing in the actions for which they were "honored" and some actually caused more destruction and chaos than they eliminated.

Of particular note is the aforementioned Yasser Arafat who was responsible for the suffering and murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees. By refusing to distribute the monies he received intended to assist the Palestinian people and keeping them in their refugee camps rather than improving their living conditions, solely for the purpose of maintaining the people's hatred of Israel and the Western Nations, Arafat kept his people living in squalor and privation.

By ultimately rejecting the peace proposal offered by Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin and to which he had previously agreed, he prolonged the misery of his own people and launched a 15 year long "Fattah" of terror and violence against the only democratic nation in the Middle East.

Truly Arafat represented the best of what the Nobel Prize has come to represent.

How about Kofi Annan and the United Nations? They were "honored" by these naive Norwegians in 2001...about the same time as it was revealed they had been working to undermine the international sanctions against Saddam Hussein's Iraq and doing so in concert with members of the French and Russian governments for personal gain.

Their actions directly led to the failure of the sanctions and the privation of millions of Iraqis and the necessity of invading Iraq. Again, true representatives of everything for which the Nobel Prize has come to represent.

I've already mentioned Jimmy Carter, sticking his nose into places it didn't belong and blessing dictators across the world. His intervention in North Korea directly led to them achieving nuclear weapons capability. He has "officially sanctioned" as legitimate, the obviously corrupt elections of Hugo Chavez (even as Chavez was shutting off access to the press of his opponents and pursuing a lifetime appointment as President) in Venezuela and Aristide in Haiti.

He has compared the Palestinian-Israeli political situation to South Africa and apartheid. He has defended such luminaries of the peace movement as Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Mashal Josef Tito, Nicholae Ceaucescu, General Zia ul-Haq, Kim Il sung and Kim Jong Il.

A champion of freedom, our former president Jimmy Carter is not.

Then there's the International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei who have done more to assist Iran in their efforts to achieve nuclear weapons capability than any other party except for those who actually provided them the equipment and knowledge to do so, ignoring the certain signs of such activity and claiming absolute knowledge that no such effort was underway when in fact it was being carried out under their very noses.

I guess complete incompetence is one of the most important qualities in a Nobel Peace Prize honoree.

Albert Gore, Jr., the wooden soldier of Global Warming, and his little band of followers, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What can one say about a man of such little intellect and such great ambition? Well he isn't all that dumb; he has managed to con an entire world into believing one of the great fictions of all time and made himself incredibly wealthy at the same time. Not bad for an idiot who flunked out of divinity school.

Gore's efforts to destroy the economies of all third world nations and to bankrupt his own nation are stand out examples of the liberal's mentality and that alone is reason enough for the Nobel Panel to award him their "prestigious" prize. Gore has done more to advance the world's desires for the demise of America than any liberal luminary since Carter and has proven his ability to cause far more economic damage than even Carter could have imagined.

Al Gore is the perfect example of the gullible fool who believes his own propaganda and is so arrogant in his ignorance that he believes his fellow citizens need to suffer for their previous way of life.

Now we have Obama...full of potential, but zero in accomplishments. The committee made this award solely on the promise Obama has shown of his ability to finally destroy everything great and noble about America.

Sooo...let's see, conservatives are supposed to be envious and angry because Obama received the biggest gag gift imaginable? Dick Cheney is supposed to be "screaming" in anger (or anguish) over Obama's being honored by a bunch of idiot Norwegian elitists who hate America and everything for which it has stood over the past fifty years...and most especially for bringing an end to the myth of socialist superiority by causing the fall of the Soviet Union?

These liberals are "epic" in their misunderstanding of how we conservatives think. We are witnessing one of the biggest real-time farces in history and, if it doesn't destroy America, conservatives will be in charge of this nation for the next century.

This is liberals behaving as liberals and believing that they have pulled one over on conservatives. It is very reminiscent of a bunch of teenagers making mischief and believing that the adults in the room are unaware of their antics.

Conservatives understand liberals better than they understand themselves; while to liberals conservatives remain an absolute enigma. This is so because liberals, being intellectually dishonest, are incapable of seeing their own foibles which conservatives see in glowing neon.

Conservatives upset over this? We might as well be upset at George Soros awarding another million dollars to John Podesta and his little band of Democrat warriors.

The Nobel Academy lost the respect of conservatives long ago. In order for one to be offended by the actions of another, he must first have respect for that other individual or entity, which is, of course, why liberals became so outraged last year when Rush Limbaugh's name was entered as a nominee for this same prize. Talk about screaming and gnashing of teeth...

I would be more offended if they had awarded the prize to President Bush or Reagan...that really would have been an insult.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Nobel Peace Prize Transforms Obama Into Butt of Jokes

2009-10-09T12:13:00.003-05:00

Will Malven
10/09/2009

Awarding Barack Hussein Obama the Nobel Peace Prize may have been the greatest gift to Republicans in history.

The jokes are flying fast and in numbers I have never seen.

From FreeRepublic.com come the following sample (the list just keeps growing).

· Barak Obama Wins 2010 NBA Dunk Contest
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:53:16 AM · by elhombrelibre · 13+ views
FreeRepublic ^ 29 Feb 20101 Barak Obama
In another stunner, Barak Obama jumped through the roof of and dunked a basketball in his under pants to win this year's NBA All Star Break's Dunking contest. Obama smiled and said he was not worthy of the award, but he agreed that he should accept it in behalf of all people who understand the concept of dunking a basketball but who cannot do it.

· Breaking: NBA to Cancel Season. Awards Trophy to Barack Hussein Obama Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:52:35 AM · by BulletBobCo · 11+ views
You Tube ^
After officials reviewed this video, the White House was informed that nobody could possibly beat this man.

· FLASH! Kim Jong Il Resigns, Names Obama New Leader of North Korea!
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:52:00 AM · by mbarker12474 · 28+ views
vanity 9 October 2009 Vanity
He recognized the New Messiah!

· Everything in America named "Martin Luther King" to be renamed for "Dr. Barrack Hussein Obama, Jr"
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:51:51 AM · by Mac from Cleveland · 3 replies · 36+ views
self 10-9-09 self
"After all, the president said, what's King done lately?"

· BREAKING: Barack Obama wins World Series by forfeit from all eight teams in the playoffs!!!
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:51:05 AM · by Man50D · 3 replies · 33+ views
All eight teams admitted defeat upon announcement BO had won the Nobel Peace Prize.

· Obama climbs Mount Everest...his only comment was, "refreshing"
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:49:57 AM · by AngelesCrestHighway · 28+ views
This man is simply amazing!

· Breaking: Obama named Time's Man of the Year for the last 20 and the next 20 years
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:49:45 AM · by dirtboy · 1 replies · 48+ views
dirtboy
TIME magazine today rescinded all of its previous Man/Person/Machine of the Year awards from the last 20 years (except for last year's) and retroactively gave them to Obama. It also presented the next 20 years of awards to Obama just prior to announcing its next issue would be its last.

· BREAKING: BARACK OBAMA WINS IDITAROD!!!!
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:46:44 AM · by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard · 10 replies · 171+ views
10/9/2009 Me
Take that, Palin!

· Barack obama Wins KENTUCKY DERBY !!!!!
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:46:06 AM · by woofie · 7 replies · 108+ views
today
Pulls away in the 5th (whatever that means)

· Barak Obama Awarded 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Literature
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:42:08 AM · by elhombrelibre · 1 replies · 78+ views
Fictional News Networks ^ 09 Oct 09 Elhombrelibre
Barak Obama joined writing luminaries as James A. Michener, Harper Lee, Ernest Hemingway, Larry McMurtry,and William Faulkner today as a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Obama's novel DADDY'S DREAMS PART TWO dazzled the critics and won over skeptics to the acceptance of Obama as one of the great intellects of our day. Obama accepted the award saying he was deeply humbled by the committees selection and promised to work even harder on his next book, DADDY's DREAMS PART THREE.

· BREAKING: Obama wins Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500 , 24-hour Sebring races the same day
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:42:06 AM · by NormsRevenge · 9 replies · 125+ views
Uhhhh... .com 10'9'09
Uhhh.. My fellow uhhh .. Americans. On behalf of uhh. you, I uhhh.. accept your accolades and prizes. Without you, I uhhhh.. could not have accomplished uhhhh.. what I have in such a short uhhh. time.

· BREAKING! Obama beats JIM THOMPSON at Balloon sit/egg carry race!
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:40:54 AM · by Danae · 1 replies · 66+ views
the universe ^ 10-9-2009 Danae
Hes done it again! Obama is UNBEATABLE! He beat Jim Thompson in a stunning upset in the Rose Garden on Friday morning, though no one actually saw Thompson, and there have been no confirmed sightings of him on either the White House grounds or anywhere in Washington D.C. None the less the President was shown holding his egg above his head in victory, a large grin upon his face. However, this did not prevent President from graciously thanking Mr. Thompson for his sportsmanship and for the ribald jokes told while on the playing field. "So, Jim, did that balloon popping...

· FLASH: Barack Obama wins Top Chef Las Vegas, awarded FOUR Michelin Stars (out of 3)
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:37:56 AM · by Petronski · 8 replies · 158+ views
Bravo Network / Magical Elves Productions ^ 10-9-9 Tom Colicchio
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For the first time in Top Chef history, a non-competitor has been awarded the prize of Top Chef. In recognition of the intensely delicious and most excellent dishes Mr. Obama has from time to time considered cooking, we hereby declare him Top Chef Las Vegas. Our French culinary colleagues have endorsed our recognition by awarding Mr. Obama four Michelin stars, on a scale of three. Prizes to be awarded to Mr. Obama include $125,000 in cash, a brand new Toyota Prius, a year's supply of the Glad family of food storage products, and rights of consortium with...

· BREAKING: OBAMA WINS THE AMAZING RACE!!!
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:34:06 AM · by bigheadfred · 11 replies · 241+ views
SELF OCT. 9, 2009 SELF
HE MOVES SO FAST IT APPEARS HE'S NOT MOVING AT ALL!!

· Barack Obama becomes New Santa Clause
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:27:52 AM · by erkyl · 11 replies · 194+ views
10/9/09 Erkyl
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE North Pole. The real Santa and Mrs. Clause received eviction notice today and have been ordered to vacate the North Pole immediately so that the newly appointed Barack and Michelle Obama can begin serving immediately as the new (and improved) Santa and Mrs. Clause. The drastic move became necessary as the former Santa and Mrs. Clause continually asserted that Barack and Michelle could not possibly become Santa because of his Muslim religion. However, that notion was dismissed by the Presiding Majority Elf Leader, Nancy Pelosi, calling the former Santa and Mrs. Clause "artificial snow". "As the holiday...

· Barack Obama inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!!
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:27:45 AM · by wastedyears · 4 replies · 205+ views
Forget about Metallica and Deep Purple, they've decided to cancel everybody else and induct Obama into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

· Obama Named Miss Hooters 2010
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:26:50 AM · by kristinn · 26 replies · 685+ views
Friday, October 9, 2009 Kristinn
Miss Hooters 2010Hooters announced today that they are naming Barack Obama 'Miss Hooters 2010'.Hooters pageant judge Perez Hilton said the committee based their vote on Obama's performance in the swimsuit competition. That Obama didn't participate in the official swimsuit competition was judged to be a racist standard that was thrown out premptively to avoid a civil rights investigation by Attorney General Eric Holder, according to another judge, the Rev. Al Sharpton.Sharpton said he had submitted this photo of the 2007 Miss Hooters contest to Holder and that Holder had quickly responded that he was going to personally oversee the investigation:

· BREAKING: Obama Wins All Events at 2012 Olympics!
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:25:51 AM · by BulletBobCo · 11 replies · 251+ views
All events, male and female, have been awarded to Barack Hussein Obama. The award ceremony to take place atop Sugarloaf Mountain.

· BREAKING! obama wins "American Idol"
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:21:12 AM · by freedumb2003 · 4 replies · 252+ views
10/9/2009 Simon Cowell
His rendition of the Americanized version of "Deutschlandlied" -- Amerikalandlied -- riveted the entire panel. When he got to the "We will crush Capitalism and bow or heads before the world" lyric the entire audience was on its feet and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. The producers are now trying to decide if there is any point in continuing the series, since the Best Performer Ever has been found. As an aside, judge Simon Cowell noted: "What is truly amazing about this performance is it was done via a letter written by someone named TOTUS..."

· Obama wins $10 Million Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes.
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:21:03 AM · by Mac from Cleveland · 10 replies · 198+ views
Mac from Cleveland 10-9-09 self
I also heard Michelle's the odds-on favorite for the Kentucky Derby....

· BREAKING: Obama wins "Survivor" reality show!
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:13:42 AM · by NMEwithin · 26 replies · 342+ views
10/09/2009 NMEwithin
President Obama has just been awarded the one million dollar prize and the honor of being the Ultimate Survivor without even having been to Samoa or participating in any challenges. The actual contestants were told to just "go home" by Jeff Probst after it was determined by show producers that president Obama had outwitted and outplayed them all in one genius stroke of complete non-action on his part.

· BREAKING: Obama Wins Dancing with the Stars Trophy - Rest of Season Cancelled
Friday, October 09, 2009 11:04:32 AM · by illiac · 45 replies · 959+ views
Self ^ 10/9/09 Self
President 0bama was today awarded the Dancing with the Stars Trophy for the best Sidestep routine ever seen by the judges. Commenting after the award, the judges commented on how he so deftly sidestepped every issue known to man, and his sidestep routine showcases his inherent talent never before seen on the dance floor.

· Breaking: NHL cancels season, awards Stanley Cup to Barack Obama (And other news)
Friday, October 09, 2009 10:58:09 AM · by GeorgiaDawg32 · 8 replies · 386+ views
Liberal Lunacy ^ 10/9/09 Liberal Lunacy Staff/REM
(Hockeytown, USA - 10/9/09) In a stunning announcement today, a spokesperson for the NHL Commissioner issued the following short statement: "We are pleased to present the 2009-2010 Stanley Cup to President Obama for his innate ability to skate around every issue that comes his way. Forwards, backwards or sideways, his skating ability is second to none." "We are also seriously considering awarding him the Defenseman of the Year award not only for his backwards skating ability, but also his ability to defend against everything he's done wrong by effectively blaming all ills on someone who hasn't been in office for...

· BREAKING:Obama wins the Cy Young Award
Friday, October 09, 2009 10:55:46 AM · by hecht · 20 replies · 638+ views
In an unprecidented move, both the National and American Leagues awarded President Barack Obama the Cy Young Award. Speculation exists that he will also receive the MVP Award. When asked to comment, senior aide Rahm Emmanuel stated that MLB knew from Obama's Mom Jeans that he wasn't taking performance enhancing drugs.

· Barack 0bama the new James Bond
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:14:05 PM · by Perdogg
10.09.09 Perdogg
BHO will play James Bond in "A Rush to Kill"

· Obama wins the Mid-American Conference Championship
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:12:38 PM · by N3WBI3 · 14+ views
http://bull-run.blogspot.com/ 10/9/09 Bull Run
Cleveland Ohio: At a high key media event Mid American Conference Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher Announced that the 2009 Mid American Conference Championship Trophy was being awarded to Barack Obama. I saw him throw the football around this spring at the white house and I knew even in March that his vision, his passion for football, and his eloquence as a leader put him far and above any coach or player in the Conference, perhaps in all of college football. -- Jon Steinbrecher

· BREAKING: Obama wins "International Man of Mystery" award!
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:12:29 PM · by NMEwithin · 1 replies · 26+ views
Neither Austin Powers nor Doctor Evil could be reached for comment...Mini-Me said to NOT be happy...

· Obama delivers pizza in less than 30 minutes!
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:12:16 PM · by mark3681 · 24+ views
self 10/09/2009 mark3681
...fresh from the oven...

· BREAKING!!! Obama makes it snow early in Chicago.. IOC reverses decision!
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:11:28 PM · by historyrepeatz · 1 replies · 76+ views
Audacity of Narcissism Billy Ayers
ANYTHING to distract from passage of Obamacare!

· Barak Goes Back In Time, Repairs Black Sox Scandal, Buys Joe Jackson New Shoes
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:11:05 PM · by InvisibleChurch · 17+ views
10.9.9
BHO spoke: "Losing is a disease... as contagious as polio... as contagious as syphilis... as contagious as the bubonic plague... attacking one, but affecting all."

· Obama wins 2009 AKC "Best of Show"!!!!
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:10:16 PM · by fishtank · 6 replies · 52+ views
fishtank
Obama wins 2009 AKC "Best of SHow".

· Breaking (with photo): Obama challenges Kobayashi to hot dog eating contest.
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:09:42 PM · by sbMKE · 1 replies · 89+ views
Flickr. ^ 10/9/09 live reports
Live: Obama vs. Kobayashi in a hot dog eating contest.

· CAN IT BE? Obama cures cancer, Mt. St. Helens moves
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:08:51 PM · by mlizzy · 44+ views
WPOS 10-09-09 Staff
Today, in an unpresidented move, Barack Obama has come out of the closet with his cure for cancer. When asking about the antidote to the harsh disease, smiling and all wee-wee'd up, he blurted out, "It's been the arugula all along. I tried to bring it up previously and there was laughter, mocking even, but for those who voted for me, for those who believe, for those who want even more hope and change, I had to come clean, and speak up now!" Upon stating these facts, there was a tremble in Skamania County, Washington. People visiting and locals...

· Barak Obama Named Mr. Universe 2010
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:07:15 PM · by elhombrelibre · 6 replies · 109+ views
Fictional News Network ^ 2010 Barak Obama
A lathered up, muscle-bound, Barak Obama accepted next year's Mr. Universe with a vim and vigor saying only America haters like the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Rush Limbaugh do not appreciate what this award means to skinny kids all over the world. Obama pledged to use his winnings to take all the gold medals in the 2016 Rio Olympics. To get ready, Obama pledged to read carefully from the teleprompter using uplifting rhetoric bound to assure his win.

· BREAKING! Barack Hussein Obama's likeness to be carved into Mount Rushmore!
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:06:44 PM · by wbill · 11 replies · 121+ views
Total Vanity ^ 10/9/09 me
When asked "Why?", BO replied, "Well, let me be clear. This is not at all about me. However, it's not like those guys have done much lately, anyway. I think our national parks need some refreshing."

· Breaking: Pope Benedict crowns Obama "Holy Roman Emperor"
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:04:25 PM · by Alter Kaker · 15 replies · 260+ views
The Vatican ^ Today me
In a surprise move, Pope Benedict XVI crowned US President Barack Obama "Holy Roman Emperor" today in a rose garden ceremony.In a statement, the Pope said "Emperor Obama follows in the footsteps of Charlemagne and the Emperor Constantine."In other news, Chinese Premier Hu Jintao announced plans to restore the Qing dynasty, saying that Barack Obama -- a direct descendant of the last Manchu Emperor -- would be China's new Emperor.However, Turkish officials were quick to deny widely published reports of a restoration of the Byzantine Empire. "Turks wiped out the Byzantines in 1453. There are simply no Byzantines here for...

· BREAKING - Barack Hussein Obama Declared Winner of 2000 Florida Recount
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:04:23 PM · by 95Theses · 5 replies · 91+ views
10/9/09 Self
On a day which has already seen an unprecedented number of contests, awards, and competitions surprisingly go his way, President B. Hussein Obama now has one more feather in his cap: the presidency of George W. Bush. The Florida Supreme Court and United States Supreme Court, in an extraordinary and highly unconstitutional joint session, have granted former Vice-President Gore's request for a targeted recount of the 2000 presidential election results in select Florida counties. Furthermore, the joint court has declared Obama to be the winner of the recount, thereby gaining all of Florida's electoral votes in the 2000 election. While...

· Barrach Hussein wins Mother Theresa Awards
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:03:32 PM · by 240B · 3 replies · 41+ views
http://a@b.com now vanity
Because of his infallible beatific presence, Hussein will be awarded "Salvation of all Mankind" award. developing...

· White Smoke over Vatican, Cardinals Elect Obama as Pope!
Friday, October 09, 2009 12:03:13 PM · by Rebelbase · 4 replies · 185+ views
Hypothetical Vatican News ^ 10/9/09 Varios
VATICAN CITY: White smoke billowed from the the chimney of the election hall this morning signaling the time honored tradition of notifying the world a new Pope has been elected. By a unanimous first round vote a hastily called session of the Vatican Council, Barak Obama has been elected Pope of the Catholic Church. "He's our best hope for world peace and bringing unity and hope to oppressed people in the world", said an unnamed Vatican spokesperson. Replaced Pope Benedict XVI was said to be in seclusion and unavailable for comment. World reaction is said to be both elation and...

...The Amazing Barack Hussein Obama...MMM...MMM...MMM!!!

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize for "Hope" and "Change"

2009-10-09T08:03:00.006-05:00

Will Malven
10/09/2009

Well, I'm not exactly certain how it happened, but I slipped through Alice's Looking Glass last night and woke up in Wonderland.

The Nobel Peace Prize, which has long been of questionable merit, was awarded to President Barack Hussein Obama for...umm...err...nothing.

Now I have made no secret of my contempt of those Norwegian Nitwits who preside over this particular sham, especially since they awarded the prize to former President Jimmy Carter, more as a slap at former President Bush than for any meritorious achievement.

This latest absurdity is simply the icing on the cake.

These self-satisfied, self-admiring, specimens of fatuous fantasy have chosen to award this prize to one of their own. Obama is the gold standard of vacuity. He has done nothing since his inauguration except make speeches, mostly attacking his own nation, and bask in the golden light of his own ego.

As to the merits of this prize one can only stop and admire such a stunning example of pandering to race - Obama's an African American, you know - and rewarding of nebulous promises of "hope" and "change," rather than actual accomplishment. It appears that he was granted this prize for the great achievement of being born the son of a Kenyan father and a Kansan mother and that he can give speeches filled with wonderful, soaring, but empty rhetoric.

Talk about trivializing an already besmirched and diminished award. One has to reach to find words adequate for this hilarious hypocrisy. With this award, the Nobel committee has exhausted the lexicon; absurd, ludicrous, "made a mockery of," "stunning," all seem inadequate in describing this move by the Nobel Numbskulls.

I mean, come on folks, nominations for the prize closed twelve days after Obama was inaugurated. Even the White House thought it was being "punked" when they were informed that the Empty Suit-in-Chief had been awarded the prize.

If the party being honored first believed it to be a joke, how seriously should the rest of the world - the adults of the world - take it.

Perhaps the greatest dismay has been expressed by people in the Middle East. Reuters reports the following (link to full article in title).
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize to mixed reviews

By Wojciech Moskwa
Fri Oct 9, 2009 9:04am EDT

OSLO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament, in a surprise award that drew both warm praise and sharp criticism.
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The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip and opposes a peace treaty with Israel, said the award was premature at best.

"Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he can deserve a reward," said Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri. "Obama only made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace. And he has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and Muslim causes."

Issam al-Khazraji, a day laborer in Baghdad, said: "He doesn't deserve this prize. All these problems -- Iraq, Afghanistan -- have not been solved...The man of 'change' hasn't changed anything yet."

Liaqat Baluch, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a conservative religious party in Pakistan, called the award an embarrassing "joke."
Imagine that, the people of the Middle East, who have been generally hostile to the efforts of former President Bush and supportive of our terrorist enemies and who warmly embraced President Obama's election, find the Nobel committee's choice to be absurd.

As for merit, as to why they made the decision they did, Reuters reports that the Nobel nominating committee stated:
"Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future."
Apparently they were all caught up in that "Hope and Change you can believe in" campaign slogan. One can only laugh and shake his head in amazement at how those on the Left think (if one can call what occurs in their little heads "thinking").

It used to be that one was rewarded for what he achieved in life, now it appears that mere aspirations and promises are sufficient.

Liberals really are self-parodying if you only give them a chance. Honestly you liberals, we're laughing at you, not with you.

By the way, how's the "Hopey-Changey" thing working out for you folks?

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Democrats Block G.O.P. Move on Rangel (Continue to Support Corruption)

2009-10-07T14:45:00.006-05:00

Will Malven
8/07/2009

Well it looks like Democrats still believe corruption can only occur it the perpetrator is a Republican. For the third time, Democrats have blocked any move by Republicans to have Charlie Rangel (D-NY) removed as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee...how about that folks? We have one of the biggest of the Democrat tax cheats heading up the committee in charge of taxing American citizens... the chief tax-cheat in charge of taxes...and Nancy "Culture of Corruption" Pelosi is four-square behind him (probably because she's worried that she will be investigated next).

Democrats continue to set the bar for corruption at levels Republicans could only dream of achieving.

The New York Times has this take on it (link in the title):
"Democrats Block G.O.P. Move on Rangel

By Carl Hulse

WASHINGTON – House Democrats on Wednesday blocked a Republican effort to force Representative Charles B. Rangel from the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee and instead referred the demand to the panel already investigating the New York Democrat.

As expected, the House voted 246 to 153 to essentially table the call for Mr. Rangel’s ouster by turning it over to the ethics committee. Representative John Carter, Republican of Texas, had sought Mr. Rangel’s removal in a resolution that said national attention to a series of financial lapses by the chairman of the tax-writing committee has “held the House up to public ridicule.”

Under rules governing consideration of such resolutions in the House, there was no debate on the proposal. But Democrats and a few Republicans said the House should take no action until the ethics panel reached a conclusion on Mr. Rangel’s belated disclosure of significant personal assets and initial failure to pay taxes on some income.

Mr. Rangel sat in the front row of the House chamber as the nine-page resolution recounting news stories and editorials on his financial miscues was read twice in full – a process that consumed about 30 minutes.”
Rangel recently amended his House financial disclosure forms to show $650,000 in previously undisclosed assets and he "forgot" about a $250,000 checking account. How? How is this in any way a credible lie to anyone other than an apologist for corrupt members of the Democrat Party?

This guy is one of those liberals who has never seen a tax hike bill he didn't like. He has advocated for usurious tax rates on "the rich" for pretty much his entire career, yet when called upon to pay his own taxes, he (conveniently) forgot $650,000 of income.

Now I don't know about you, but it would be pretty much impossible for me to forget almost three-quarters of a million dollars in income...especially if I was a United States Representative whose salary was $174,000/year. How do you forget what is essentially four times you annual salary in additional income?

Rangel has always been a clown (okay, I know...the entire Democrat Party leadership is composed of clowns and none funnier-or scarier-than Madame Speaker) and now we know that he is a very, very corrupt clown. So, the $650,000 question is (drum roll please) where is Nancy "Culture of Corruption" Pelosi on this? Pelosi issued a statement proclaiming on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 that she was going to fight corruption:
“Democrats are leading the effort to turn the most closed, corrupt Congress in history into the most open and honest Congress in history,” Pelosi said. “The American people have been paying the cost for the Republican culture of corruption with a confusing, special-interest Medicare prescription drug program, higher gas prices at the pump, and skyrocketing home heating bills. Democrats will restore truth and trust to our government, and put the priorities of the American people first.”
Why is this woman, who declared war on governmental corruption, now keeping silent? Apparently keeping Charlie Rangel as the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is part of her and her fellow Democrats putting "the priorities of the American people first."

Since January of this year, this has been the most corrupt, profligate, irresponsible, incompetent, and unaccomplished Congress and President in our nation's history.

With these continuing revelations about Rangel and the problems of Obama's cabinet nominee-tax cheats, Geitner, Daschle, Killifer, and Solis, is there anyone in the Democrat Party Leadership that isn't a tax cheat?

Given the tax difficulties of President Obama's choices for members of his cabinet, it begs the question: Are all of President Obama's Czars tax cheats as well?

Is the reason he has chosen to use czars rather than filling the cabinet positions that remain open that czars are not vetted by Congress and therefore nothing is known about their tax records (or other aspects of their lives as well)?

Those are the questions that need asking...and answering.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

U.S. Commander of Afghanistan only talked to Obama once (Are you kidding me??!!)

2009-09-28T08:33:00.003-05:00

Will Malven
9/28/2009

The key to understanding and competent leadership is knowledge of the basic issues and good communications with those upon whom one depends to execute his directives and carry out his orders.

Any good leader knows this, whether he be the CEO of a corporation, or the commander of troops in combat; good communications can be the difference between victory and defeat. Unfortunately President Obama, being totally inexperienced and completely unprepared for his role as President and Commander in Chief, lacks this basic understanding. Well, he was a community organizer with absolutely no experience in directing a large enterprise, so this should come as no surprise.

So here we have a situation where there are American troops fighting against an implacable enemy and the commander on the ground has spoken to the Commander in Chief (who specifically placed him in command of those troops) exactly once in over two months.

Here is the Washington Times report (with the link in the title):
U.S. Commander of Afghanistan only talked to Obama once

By Amanda Carpenter
Sept. 28, 2009

The military general credited for capturing Saddam Hussein and killing the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq says he has only spoken to President Obama once since taking command of Afghanistan.

“I’ve talked to the president, since I’ve been here, once on a VTC [video teleconferece],” General Stanley McChrystal told CBS reporter David Martin in a television interview that aired Sunday.

“You’ve talked to him once in 70 days?” Mr. Martin followed up.

“That is correct,” the general replied.
How do you respond to this? How can you make any claim to competency when you are so far out of the loop that you haven't even made the effort to communicate with your military commanders? Common sense alone would dictate that, as Commander-in-Chief, you need to talk to your subordinates on a regular and frequent basis, if only to remain informed of the status of combat operations.

I am not surprised by this revelation...at least I shouldn't be...because this is typical of how Democrats view the military and foreign policy.

When your whole understanding of international relations begins with "America has been wrong in the past and is wrong now," then it is no small leap to the concept of relegating military action to the back burner of your priorities.

When the entire focus of your presidency is to "completely restructure American society" along the lines of a Utopian socialist paradise, then all foreign policy becomes of secondary importance.

Obama has no time for the military because he is too busy destroying the lives of the American people with his "Cap and Trade" environmental boondoggle and his "health care initiative." He is too busy attacking citizens who oppose his destructive domestic agenda to worry about the lives of our troops and the conduct of a war that will directly influence our national security.

He is too busy pandering to the Latino voters by perusing amnesty to the 20-30 million illegal aliens in America and fighting against securing our borders by removing agents.

Lastly, he is too busy travelling around the nation and the world apologizing for America's past behavior and attempting to make friends with those leaders who hate America.

The man hs spent more time in Air Force One than he has behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. Apparently he believes that being the President is akin to going on a four year worldwide holiday paid for by the American taxpayer.

Looks like President Obama has perceived the threat, from Jimmy Carter, to his apparent aspirations to becoming the most incompetent president in history and is firing another salvo in an attempt to recapture the lead.

The question to ask now is not, "Is President Obama incompetent?" It is, "Just how incompetent is President Obama?"

So far the answer to that question is, "Breathtakingly."

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

US might have been involved in 2002 Chavez coup: Carter (Will Someone Shut This Idiot Up?)

2009-09-20T18:55:00.002-05:00

Will Malven
8/20/2009

Apparently Jimmy Carter at being relegated to the number two position as our National Idiot in Chief. Seems his gross incompetence as President "Malaise" isn't sufficient to guarantee him first place given the stellar performance of our current occupant of the White House.

First he made a blanket indictment of every white person in the United States that disagrees with President Obama as a "racist." Now he has sided with our enemies in Venezuela in declaring that not only did our government (meaning of course that nasty, evil, George Bush) know about the attempted 2002 coups against President Hugo Chavez, but that we probably took part in it. I hear next week he is planning to open up his very own psychic hotline (call 1-900 Malaise).

Well here is the Breitbart article with the title linked:

US might have been involved in 2002 Chavez coup: Carter

Sep 20 05:07 PM US/Eastern

The United States knew about an abortive coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002, and may even have taken part, former US president Jimmy Carter has told a Colombian newspaper.

"I think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at the very least full knowledge about the coup, and could even have been directly involved," Carter said in an interview with El Tiempo published Sunday.

The former US leader said it is understandable that Chavez continues to blame the United States for the failed overthrow attempt.

The Venezuelan president, considered a bulwark of leftism in Latin America, was overthrown by a civilian-military junta for about 48 hours in April 2002, before returning to power.

Then-president George W. Bush denied any US involvement in the abortive coup and called on Chavez, a fierce US critic, to "learn a lesson" from the attempted overthrow.
What an embarrassment he is...although, I understand that among liberals he is considered a genius, not that that is saying much about him, but it says a lot about them.

Not content with his constant verbal attacks against the only democratically elected government in the Middle East (up until the still fledgling Republic of Iraq) and unsatisfied with assuring that North Korea was able to obtain a nuclear arsenal, he continues to demonstrate his abiding hatred of his own nation and any who believe in the principles for which she stands.

Obama is working hard to become the most unsuccessful and destructive President in our nation's 230+ year history, but former President "Jimmah Cahtah" has not been resting on his own considerable incompetence laurels.

Obama is going to have to work twice as hard if he still intends to capture that elusive title of "Worst President In History."

Come On President Obama! I'm pulling for you. I know you can do it. I know you can be the worst...with ACORN and Media Matters and George Soros helping you, you have the full potential to defeat President Malaise and capture that treasured Democrat title (although you still have a ways to go in topping Carter's "Killer Bunny" adventure).

Seriously folks, someone needs to put a cork in Carter's vile cake hole.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Newspaper journalism gets words of praise Print media's role vital, Obama says (Making "The State Run Media" Official)

2009-09-20T17:31:00.005-05:00

Will Malven
9/20/2009

To quote The Great One, "There you go again."

Obama said in an interview with the Toledo Blade, that he "would be happy to look at" the bills now being introduced into Congress to bail out or otherwise assist the dying print media.

President Obama Marxes On:

Let's see:

First he nationalized the banks and financial institutions,
then he takes over ownership of the automotive industry,
then he begins the attempt to control and restructure the energy industry,
then he begins his attempt to socialize the health care industry, and
now he and the Democrats want to make the already badly tainted "independent" press beholden to the national government

All of that in his first nine months. Man this socialist hasn't wasted any time with implementing the "change" part of his "Hope and Change" promise. Well here is a part of the Toledo Blade article/interview with the usual link in the title:

Newspaper journalism gets words of praise Print media's role vital, Obama says

September 20, 2009
By DAVE MURRAY
BLADE SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR

Saying he is a "big newspaper junkie," President Obama expressed hope on Friday that newspapers can find their way through the financial crisis most are now mired in.

In an Oval Office interview with editors from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade, the President talked about the vital role journalism and newspapers play in American society.

"Journalistic integrity, you know, fact-based reporting, serious investigative reporting, how to retain those ethics in all these different new media and how to make sure that it's paid for, is really a challenge," Mr. Obama said. "But it's something that I think is absolutely critical to the health of our democracy."

Really? Obama should hire out as a comedian. I mean, "Journalistic integrity...fact-based reporting, serious investigative reporting?" Since when has the mainstream media been doing any of that where Obama and his administration have been concerned?

What a joke! Okay, I guess he means like the diligent and relentless way in which the New York Times reported on the Van Jones scandal...oh yeah, they didn't.

Well then maybe he was talking about the intense and detailed coverage of the Tea Party movement and their march on Washington D.C. was covered by all of the mainstream media...oh yeah, it wasn't.

The President didn't even know that there was going to be a huge rally in D.C. according to him. Now since we know that President Obama would never lie about something like that, I submit it as further proof that the mainstream media failed to cover the roughly one million citizens who met in Washington to protest government spending and the Obama march towards socialism.

My favorite comment by him in this interview was:

"I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,"

Hah-hah! What a card. You are "concerned" that you are getting your sorry behind kicked in the debate on the issues and you would like to stifle all dissent. What a jokester he is...and prevaricator.

Sorry Mr. President, it would appear that all of the "fact checking" and all of the putting of "stories in context" has been done by the blogosphere you so blithely condemn. It sure as hell hasn't been done by the people you are now considering funding with tax-payer money; they have been at your beck and call since you first announced your candidacy.

This is a seriously concerning proposal coming out of Democrats in Congress and the White House. Our press is supposed to be independent of the government, not dependant on the government. Hence the first amendment to our Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Turning the print media into dependants of the federal government renders them subject to pressure from that government and thus negates any possibility of "...freedom of speech, or of the press..."

Such a press would instantly become suspect as the paid propaganda wing of the federal government and any editor would be brave indeed to "bite the hand" that fed him.

Like most ideas (well, pretty much all that I can think of) which come from the Democrat Party this one is seriously flawed and probably unconstitutional, and most certainly contrary to the intent and design of our forefathers in writing our Constitution.

This President and this Democrat Party controlled Congress just continue to get worse and worse.

One more thing Mr. President. We live in a REPUBLIC, not a "democracy."
Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Car showrooms quiet after clunkers clamor ends (DUH!)

2009-09-20T16:58:00.002-05:00

Will Malven
9/20/2009

Gee! Who'd a thunk it? Car dealerships are back building inventories as buyers stay away in droves.

Essentially, what this means is that the billions of tax-payer dollars Obama and the Democrat Congress spent on the "Cash for Clunkers" program were wasted...wow, no one predicted this. [Roll eyes]

This is simply the latest example of the idiocy that now poses as leadership in the White House and in Congress. The longer these Democrats remain in power the greater my contempt for them grows...beginning with our Tyro in Chief. The man had no business running for President. Unqualified is the precise word.

Well here's a part of the Boston.com article and the usual link:
Car showrooms quiet after clunkers clamor ends

Dealers add other incentives in bid to entice buyers

By Megan Woolhouse
Globe Staff / September 19, 2009

It has been nearly a month since the car-buying frenzy of the Cash for Clunkers program ended, and many area auto dealers are longing for the good old days of July and August.

Like consumers nationwide, Massachusetts residents rushed to take advantage of the federal voucher program, which offered them up to $4,500 on old gas-guzzlers to be put toward the purchase of new, more fuel-efficient vehicles. About $65 million worth of vouchers were handed out statewide during the monthlong program that ended Aug. 24.

But once the federal money dried up, so did the sales rally. Now, customers at dealerships like Silko Honda in Raynham are few and far between, and inventory is once again accumulating.
This just proves the old adage, "If the government gives it away, they will come."

Seriously folks, you would have to be pretty darn stupid to have believed that a temporary boost in auto sales would result in anything but a following lull when the free money dried up. Of course deep thought is not what this administration is known for...or for that matter what liberalism in general is known for.

Quick, simplistic, superficial, ill-conceived, poorly understood, and ineffectual seems to be a more accurate description of what passes for thinking in the Obama White House and in the Democrat leadership.

The first thought I had about the "Cash for Clunkers" program...after I criticized it as a crass attempt at the redistribution of wealth from the taxpayers to anyone having a car they needed or wanted to dump...was that the aftermath of the huge boost in sales would be a return to the doldrums the industry was experiencing prior to that boondoggle.

So now we see the fruits of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Administration. Automobile dealerships are once more desperate for customers who will not show up because of economic uncertainty resulting from Obama's pathetic performance since he was sworn into office.

All of you Obama voters enjoy that "Hope and Change" you were promised.

As P.T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute." Obama cornered the market.

Perhaps Forrest Gump was closer, to paraphrase: "Stupid is as stupid votes."

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

The Coward of the Country: Obama Abandons Missile Defense in Poland/Czech Republic

2009-09-17T09:36:00.002-05:00

Will Malven
9/17/2009

President Obama has decided to abandon one of our staunchest allies and strongest supporters in the war against terrorism. He has chosen to scrap the plan to deploy a missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland in an attempt to appease Russia.

Such cowardice in the face of Russian opposition and such gullibility in a president as to believe that appeasement will gain America anything in our negotiations with Vladimir Putin and his puppet President Medvedev is unacceptable in a President.

I believe it, because I know who and what President Obama is, but it remains breathtaking in its political implications both here and abroad. It also conclusively demonstrates how totally unqualified and unprepared this puppet president is.

Poland has been one of the strongest members of the “Coalition of the Willing” President Bush assembled to aid us in fighting the war against terrorism both in Iraq and Afghanistan, but primarily in Iraq.

When American needed support on the international scene for our efforts to carry the war to the enemy, Poland was first among our allies to sign up. [I guess that alone is sufficient reason for Democrats to hate them and undermine them]

Democrats have never forgiven our nation for defeating the former Soviet Union and in the process proving once and for all that their beloved socialism, in whatever form it takes, is predestined to fail. So it is only natural that they work against those nations that played an important part in the destruction of the old Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Eastern Bloc.

There is a natural affinity in the Democrat Party for dictators…provided they adhere to Marxism…and for their repressive anti-liberty form of government. Virtually every major policy the Democrat Party has advocated since the 1920s has been aimed at increasing the power and scope of the federal government at the expense of individual liberty and freedom and to withdraw power from states.

So it is only natural that Obama, being one of the most extreme left members of this extreme left-wing Democrat Party, should abandon the people of Poland and the Czech Republic in the face of ~~Soviet~~ Russian pressure.

The real problem however, is not the abandonment of the Poles-as bad as that is-it is the persistent refusal of Obama and his party to recognized the genuine threat rogue nations in possession of nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles represent to our allies and to us.

That threat is real, whether directly from missiles aimed at the United States or its bases around the world, or indirectly in the form of diplomatic pressure from those other nations, nominally our allies, who might feel that threat and thus be unduly influenced in how they conduct their foreign policy.

The dissolution of our strategic missile defense system has been the aim of Russia (or in its earlier incarnation, the Soviet Union) and their American allies, the Democrat Party, since it was first proposed by former President Ronald Reagan.

Democrats have fought against any kind of missile defense and done everything they could to defund or otherwise eliminate the program, in spite of repeated demonstrations of its value both in strategic negotiations and as a deterrent to attack.

With the clown we now have occupying the White House and a solid majority in both houses of Congress, Democrats are at last in a position to make their dreams come true. This truly inane action by the White House is the first step in stripping our nation of the necessary defense mechanisms to preserve our national security and our freedom from oppression.

Whether it be the massive accumulation of debt, unprecedented in our nation’s history, his attempts to avoid congressional oversight by appointing “czars” to do the work normally preserved for cabinet secretaries, or his numerous successful efforts to usurp to the federal government massive sectors of our formerly free market economy, or his attempts to intervene and control our lives directly through “health care reform” and the monitoring and recording of our internet postings, Obama has been systematically dismantling or otherwise undermining the most precious and essential underpinnings of our nation and our society.

By any definition or objective standard, Obama has violated his oath of office and sought to undermine our Constitution and usurp powers not granted to him. It is time now for serious discussions of impeachment…if for no other reason than to preserve what remains of our nation and to stop this “change” before America becomes unrecognizable.

“Impeach Obama Now” is no longer a slogan in the province of the fringe of conservatism, it has become the only viable recipe for stopping his rapid move towards the destruction of our private economy and the institution of a state run, state controlled socialist system.

Time for this experiment in amateurism to end. Obama was unqualified and unprepared for office when he was elected and time has demonstrated conclusively that on-the-job training will not work when the fate of a nation is at issue.

No amount of cheerleading and covering up by the mainstream media will compensate for the malevolence and pure incompetence we are now witnessing in our federal government. Any doubt as to the suitability of electing a “community organizer” with no operational experience or history of accomplishment should now be laid to rest.

Barack Obama has no business doing the nation’s business. He remains nothing more than a moderately competent community organizer in a position so far “above his pay grade” and level of competence as to lend credence to those who would argue, counter intuitively, that Jimmy Carter was a good President.

The fact that Carter, who was a miserable president and possibly the worst in our nation’s history, compares favorably to Barack Obama is truly frightening to any who care about this nation and its people.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

By the way, to add insult to injury, Drudge notes that Obama makes this announcement on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's invasion of Poland in 1939...nice.

Cries of "Racism" are the Last Refuge of Scoundrels: Democrats are Scoundrels

2009-09-16T08:01:00.003-05:00

Will Malven
8/16/2009

Now the Democrats are accusing Representative Wilson (R-SC) of being a racist for calling the President a liar. Unbelievable! Have Democrats no shame at all?

Clearly not...not for a long, long time.

The cry of "Racist!" has become reflexive in this society. Anytime anyone dares to differ with a black cause or dares to point out a disturbing fact (such as the disproportionately high crime rate) directly reflective of the African American community, out come the cries of "Racist!" [I state this knowing full well that by their standards, I am now a "Racist!"]

It's funny to me that the only people who are genuinely racist in America...outside of the extreme lunatic fringe element...are those on the left who are so race conscious.

The true definition of racism is not what you think about someone of a different ethnicity or race; it is how often you think about race and how much it influences your world view. Liberals view the entire world through the window of race (when it suits their political needs), thus they claim that anyone who objects to their political agenda-especially if that agenda is being espoused by someone of color-is a racist.

"Race consciousness" is racism. Thus now we have the real racists in America coming out to smear a very good man.

The second compelling fact about this attack on Representative Joe Wilson as a "racist" is that those who are using the tactic are doing so not because they actually believe that Congressman Wilson is a racist, but to advance their narrow political agenda of "Health Care Reform." Again we see that Democrats are fully willing to destroy anyone who gets in the way of their political agenda and will do so gleefully. The person, in this case Congressman Wilson, means nothing to them as a human being. It is their political agenda that is important and if you dare to stand in their way, they will attempt to destroy you.

Democrats are fully aware that all of the objections to Obama's aggressive leftist agenda are based solely on ideological grounds, not because he is "the first black president."

[Hmmm...I thought that honor belonged to Bill Clinton...wasn't he declared the first black president when he was in office?...Ah yes he was declared so by African American journalist Toni Morrison in the October '98 issue of the New Yorker.]

Conservatives object to the President's agenda on health care reform, as well as his "Cap and Trade" green agenda and his "stimulus package," because they are huge, budget busting, socialist power grabs aimed at the free market engine that built American into the greatest economy in the world, not because this particular socialist happens to be black.

Democrats make their charges of "racism" with the utmost cynicism.

In our society today the first person to point to another person's race, the first person to have their opinion of another person informed by that person's race, is invariably a liberal.

The first person to inject race into a political discussion is invariably a liberal and the first person to inject racial stereo-types into any political discussion is, again, invariably a liberal.

[Just listen to the names liberals call any African American who dares to take issue with their socialist agenda. That individual is immediately the target of such epithets as "Uncle Tom," "Step 'n' Fetchit," or "House Nigger," by the very people who claim to be fighting against such behavior.]

Though there may be a small minority who voted against Barack Obama because he was a black man, most who voted against him did so because of his political beliefs. He was the most liberal member of the Senate...based on his voting record, not on his race. His presidential platform was the most politically liberal agenda to emerge from the Democrat Party since Carter.

It amazes me that anyone could, with a straight face, assert that America remains a racist nation...yet we hear it from those on the left all of the time; usually when they are not getting their way.

The President of the United States, the most powerful man in the entire world, is a black man. He was not appointed; he was elected by the very people in this nation liberals are now attempting to portray as a "racist" nation.

No, I am not attempting to assert that Joe Wilson voted for or supported Barack Obama's candidacy, Joe Wilson is a conservative and therefore would never support a socialist liberal in a bid for office...regardless of his race. I am asserting that we who oppose Barack Obama and his agenda do so because it is bad for all Americans of whatever color.

Former President Jimmy Carter, the single most incompetent man ever to hold that office in the history of the United States, the man who during the 2008 Democrat Primary described then Candidate Obama as "this black boy:"

This Jimmy Carter has now injected himself into the discussion by calling not just Joe Wilson, but all white Americans, especially those of us in the South, racists.

I am pointing out the cynical use of the claim of racism by those on the left. The cover of Newsweek Magazine this week features a white baby with the question, "Is Your Baby Racist?" Democrat political hack and MSNBC contributor Lawrence O'Donnell has declared that all opposition to Obama's plan is based in racism (he also implied that Congressman Joe Wilson was drunk).

Those who assert that those who are protesting Obama Care or Congress Care are racists who oppose his agenda because he is black are, in fact, the true racists. It is they whose opinions are informed not by the ideology of the individual targeted by those protests, but by his race...opponents oppose Obama not because he is a left-wing extremist, but because he is black...their collective focus on President Obama's race is racism.

The assertion by these people is reflective of their own deeply held racist beliefs. These people who are declaring Obama's opponents "racist" are the same people who assert that black and Latino students are incapable of competing in school unless they are given extra help in the way of quotas and bonus points on exams. These are the same people who believe that no African American is capable of competing without the assistance of some government bureaucrat instituting an affirmative action program.

They don't ever see minorities as equal to the task, they see them as weak and handicapped, ever in need of some liberal's condescension and help to get anywhere in life.

President Bush had it pegged exactly right when he described what ails our education system as "The soft bigotry of low expectations." The people who have those low expectations of minorities are these same liberal Democrats.

They are the people who see all working class people, not just minorities, as their "White man's burden."

Let me tell you something, when I want to hear from Jimmy "Malaise" Carter, I'll give him a call. He is undoubtedly the least intelligent, most superficial and incompetent man ever to achieve rank above his capability.

Remember what he gave us, double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, and double digit interest rates. That is a man to whom Democrats turn to inform them on the plight of Americans?

You've got to be kidding me.

Barack Obama is a bad president not because of his race, but because of his Marxist political philosophy and his hatred of all of the things which make and have made America the great nation it is.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Remembering 9/11

2009-09-11T08:08:00.005-05:00

Will Malven
9/11/2009

September 9/11/2001.

You remember it.

That gut-wrenching, head-turning, unbelievable news that made you stop what you were doing.

The news that made you laugh that little laugh we all have when we hear something that is so outrageous that we think it has to be a really bad joke.

The news that made you give that disbelieving slightly hopeful look we all get when someone tells us something we just can't get our heads around.

The news that caused that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach as you realized it was no joke; America has just been attacked and 3,000 of our fellow American citizens had just been murdered.

Most Americans remember exactly where we were and what we were doing the moment that reality came home to us.

A jet airliner had flown into one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City was such a shock to me that I smiled, patiently waiting for the punch line. After what seemed an eternity the coworker who told me realized what I was feeling and added,

"No, really. A plane has just hit the World Trade Center."

I hope you remember it.

I remember that it came in a series of body blows.

Wham! 8:46 AM - A plane (American Airlines Flight 11) flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Wham! 9:03 AM - A second plane (United Airlines Flight 175) just flew into the North Tower.
Wham! 9:37 AM - A plane (American Airlines Flight 77) just smashed into to Pentagon. More deaths and fire.
Wham! Videos of massive fires engulfing the middle floors of both towers; people jumping to their deaths from 400, 500 feet in the air to avoid being burned to death.
Wham! 9:59 AM - The South Tower collapses after burning for a little less than an hour.
Wham! 10:03 AM - Another plane (United Airlines Flight 93) crashes into the ground at Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Wham! 10:28 AM - The North Tower Collapses after burning a little over an hour and a half.

Wham! Wham! Wham!

Body blow after body blow, we Americans were reeling from the shock and horror...and the growing anger...as suspicions mounted as to the source of these attacks. In less than two hours for most American, partisan divisions dissolved, at least of a while.

We all became Americans.

United in our grief...and our anger; we were filled with the righteous outrage of those who have been attacked without provocation by an enemy bent on the destruction of our society and our way of life.We gradually came to understand that America had been attacked by terrorists and three thousand (3,000) of our fellow citizens had been murdered...as a political statement…by Islamic radicals, animals who rejected even the most basic of tenets humans possess, war is conducted against military targets, not against the innocent civilians.

We remember our sorrow and our outrage as we learned more and more about what happened, who was involved, and who the victims were.

We were proud of the passengers who were aboard United Airlines Flight 93 as we learned that they refused to allow themselves to be used to further the aims of the terrorists and chose to drive the plane into the ground rather than let these monsters lay claim to further terrorist successes.

We remember the tales of heroism as firefighters risked and all too often lost their lives in their efforts to rescue those trapped in the burning buildings.

Stark in my memory were the images of hundreds of people running down the streets; fleeing for their lives with panicked, horrified looks on their faces as clouds of dust and rubble flowed in their wake; caked in dust and gasping for breath as they clutched handkerchiefs, scarves, or sleeves to their faces to escape the ever present dust.

I remember the images of the buildings as they began to collapse, starting out almost as if in slow motion then accelerating as gravity began to assert itself; and I remember the inconceivable mass of debris which began to billow outwards as those storied buildings, icons of a city and a nation, collapsed.

I remember the heartbreak as the numbers began to be trickle out estimates of the casualties varying wildly as rescue workers attempted to understand the scope of the disaster.

Mostly I remember the anger. I remember my desire to strike back at the monsters who planned and executed the attack; simultaneously my desire to lash out at all Muslims and my comprehension that it was not all Muslims, but only a small minority who executed this act of infamy.

I also remember my growing anger that, as most of the world’s civilized nations joined us in reacting with horror and sympathy at this heinous act, crowds of Muslims in Islamic nations around the world danced and celebrated our losses…I also recall how slow “moderate Muslims” were to condemn the attack even though such an attack was a violation of all Western-Christian and Muslim norms of behavior.

I remember my admiration for those brave firefighters and policemen who continued to risk their lives in their struggle to find survivors and their compassion as they worked to assist those who were injured, choked, or just plain lost after the dust began to settle.

Mostly I remember that I vowed, “Never Again!”

I remember that I vowed that, if I could prevent it in any way, America would never again allow this kind of action to happen on our soil; that never again would we allow ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security like that which preceded those attacks…and which I see beginning to grow around me now, again…in America and throughout the world.

This was a military strike by a brand of religious zealotry which has as its goal the destruction of Western civilization. Its proponents hate America because we celebrate individual freedom and liberty. They hate us because we tolerate dissent and religious freedom.

Mostly they hate us because we hold different beliefs than do they.

Their goal is the subjugation, of America and of the world under an Islamic caliphate. They wish to return the world to a near medieval level of technology in which they can control and dominate the people, forcing them into their primitive, restrictive religious world…or kill them if they refuse to submit.

We must never allow ourselves to forget the pain, the horror, the noble sacrifices, the heroism, or the trust bestowed upon us by our predecessors to preserve our republic.

For some reason our new President and his Party wish to diminish the importance of this day, from one of remembrance to one of “national service.” They wish to minimize the attack and treat what was clearly a military assault as a criminal act.

Following the memorial service on September 12th, the day after, I recall my shock that some of my Democrat coworkers were so obsessed with their hatred of President Bush that even as we all mourned they were unable to lay aside their narrow petty political agenda.

That should never have been. In times of crisis, we should all be Americans, not partisan affiliates. This is not a time for partisan bickering, it is a time to remember those we lost and who we are as a nation.

9/11 must be preserved as a day of remembrance and reflection. It was on 9/12/2001 that our President called on us to pray for our nation and those we lost and then called us to action and service.

We must never demean or dismiss the sacrifices and losses of this day. We must never forget the lives America lost. We must never forget the heroism of those passengers on Flight 93 and the sacrifice they made. We must never forget the sacrifices made by our police and firemen. We must never forget that on 9/11/2oo1 America was attacked, without provocation, simply because we stand for freedom and individual liberty.

We must never lose the fire in our bellies for defending that freedom from enemies, both foreign and domestic, and we must never allow our national day of remembrance to by hijacked by those who would diminish its importance and attempt to distract us from our just cause.

We have a solemn responsibility, bequeathed to us by our forefathers, to preserve this greatest of nations and to defend our flag and our nation, for which it stands.

And as citizens we have an obligation to remember our pledge:

I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands,
One nation under God,
Indivisible,
With liberty and justice for all.

Let those words grab your heart and resound in your soul. Never forget them and as this day progresses contemplate their meaning and what this nation means to you.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Congressman Joe Wilson Speaks Truth to Power

2009-09-10T07:38:00.008-05:00

Will Malven
9/10/2009

"Oh, The humanity!"

During President Obama's speech last night, Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted out "You lie!" when the President asserted that no illegal aliens would be covered by Obama's health care reform proposal.

Although Representative Wilson immediately apologized for his outburst...even calling the White House to apologize directly to the President (I mean a genuine apology, not one of those non-apology apologies that Democrats make after they misbehave)...Democrats and liberals have taken great pains to demonstrate the humbrage at such an assault on the decorum of Congress and such a show of disrespect towards the President.

Here is a portion of CNN's report (the full article is linked to in the title):
Joe Wilson shouts to Obama during speech: 'You lie'

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Republican House member shouted "You lie" during President Obama's health care speech to Congress on Wednesday, and members of both parties condemned the heckling.

After the speech, South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson issued a statement apologizing for his outburst.

"This evening, I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the president's remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill," the statement said. "While I disagree with the president's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility."

Wilson also called the White House to apologize and spoke with Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who accepted the apology on the president's behalf, according to a senior administration official.
Wow, it's good to see what a real apology looks like after all of the dissembling by Democrats like Van Jones.

Now old "Uncle Joe" Biden and Nancy "Bela" Pelosi were so upset at Representative Wilson's outburst that for a moment I thought Pelosi's head was going to explode ("Uncle Joe" just looked confused, as though he feared he might have said it) and they scrambled to get the seating roster so that they could identify who it was that "spoke truth to power."

[Funny, I seem to remember that Democrats once were in favor of "speaking truth to power," in fact I am certain that I got that phrase from Nancy Pelosi's own mouth.]

And...yes it is offensive when a Congressman breeches the decorum of the House chambers, but it is far more offensive to have a President stand up before the American people and assume that the American people are too stupid to know that he is lying to them.

For my part, I applaud the good Congressman, both for his outburst of genuine indignation at the President's blatant lies and for his courtesy and integrity in making a real apology to the President.

Joe, you are my latest hero.

The criticism being leveled at Representative Wilson rings hollow when it was actually the President, lying repeatedly, who was offending the decorum of the House.

How dare he get up in front of the American people and Congress and claim that over two thirds of the cost of his proposed health care plan would be paid for by curbing "waste and abuse?" How dare he claim that his health care plan would not cover illegal aliens, when this government cannot even determine who the illegal aliens are? How dare he claim to have the backing of "doctors" when he knows that the AMA (which has come out in support of his agenda) only represents 20% of doctors? How dare he, of all people, come out and accuse others of using the health care reform debate "as an opportunity to score short-term political points" when the whole exercise of health care reform is a politically motivated power grab by Democrats and the President?

...And even worst of all...how dare he claim that those who rely on Medicare when, as Karl Rove pointed out last night, the president’s own White House Web site says there will be $622 billion in Medicare cuts?

Oh yeah one more thing lest we forget it was the Democrats who first breeched House decorum during a Presidential address. It was the Democrat...these same "outraged" Democrats who have gotten so "wee-weed up"...who booed and shouted out "No!" during President Bush's 2005 State of the Union Speech, a speech which carries with it a far greater burden of decorum than this ad hoc address by our current President, as he discussed the approaching bankruptcy of Social Security.

Apparently Democrats weren't quite so concerned with observing propriety and House decorum when the former President was speaking.

Wow! Democrats are hypocrites...who knew? There were no apologies coming from Democrats following their outbursts.

This isn't to say that I believe that one wrong act justifies another, only that Democrats are always far too ready to jump on the actions of others while their own actions are generally worse...or another way of saying it..."What's good for the goose is good for the gander."

I am celebrating Representative Wilson's actions because I am tired of President Obama's serial lying. I am tired of having a President that lies every time he opens his mouth...not even President Clinton was as pathological a liar as is Obama...and that is saying a lot.

I'm certain that Representative Wilson will suffer some form of House discipline for his actions...most probably he will have to take to the floor and formally apologize to the House...but my heart is with him.

Would that more Congressional Republicans demonstrate such heart and outrage at being lied to.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

President Obama Speaks to Congress Tonight

2009-09-09T09:31:00.003-05:00

High [Melo]drama on Capitol Hill

Will Malven
8/09/2009

Tonight President Obama will again address the nation and a joint session of Congress (as though he has something new to say). It is another in a series of speeches he has given in a futile effort to revive the flagging support for his health care plan…and his legacy. To date this strategy has been a net negative for him.

Expect him to once more talk about “myths and lies” being used to fight against his health care reform. He will again promise us that he has no intention of taking away our private health care and replacing it with a public system…although that is precisely what he wishes and the inevitable result of his agenda should it be adopted.

He will speak about the “death panels” dismissively, asking those who mention them to point out where those words appear in any of the proposed bills, knowing that though the specific words do not appear, the need for rationing will dictate their existence.

He will, once more, lie to us. His lies are most often lies of omission; he won’t tell us the entire truth, only enough to convince to join him in his fight against "injustice," most often in the form of those evil insurance companies who, "Gasp!" dare to make a profit.

Expect him to play the aggrieved soul. He will, no doubt, bring up the right’s reaction in anticipation of his speech to students across the nation, saying something to the effect of:
“See, all I wanted to do was to exhort the youth of America to strive towards success and conservatives reacted with claims of indoctrination and propaganda. There was no propaganda, just a positive message.”
Yet we were justified in our mistrust because we know Obama for who he truly is and we have observed those with whom he has surrounded himself (as he instructed us to do in order that we might judge him better). We know the liberal mind as well as we know our own.

We know that those on the left will be crowing about how unreasonable conservatives were to hold their children out of school while Obama was talking to them about continuing with their educations and persevering through adversity to better themselves…all the while knowing that, had those very same conservatives NOT said anything, their dire predictions which forced the President to change his speech would have been proven true.

Can we prove all of this…no, of course not…the speech, having been altered, cannot then be examined as it was originally, but since we know the minds of these liberals and the shameful way in which they play with the truth, we know our original assumptions were justified.

Thus we see the dangerous game conservatives are forced, by this president, to play.
If we anticipate and intercept his moves, then he and his advisors can alter their plans and then point their hypocritical fingers at us playing the injured, misjudged victim, wrongfully accused.

If we fail to intercede, then he succeeds in propagandizing our young people and further indoctrinating them into this culture of entitlement.

Expect him and his Democrat supporters to play Shakespeare’s Shylock to our Portia,

“…If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?…”

Expect him to play Tolkien’s Saruman to our Theoden,

”...Despite the injuries that have been done to me, in which [you] alas! have had some part, still I would save you, and deliver you from the ruin that draws nigh inevitable, if you ride upon this road which you have taken...”

Expect more of Gibbs with his “silly season” remark.

Expect that, caught with the canary’s feathers on their collective mouths, these Democrat cats, guilt free and unapologetic, will wipe the condemning evidence from their faces and smile gleefully as we are caught in their trap.

They ridicule our “unreasonableness” and our "paranoia;" they laugh at our caution and predictions…all the while knowing that we were correct.

No matter, we cannot relax our vigil. We must let them mock us, knowing we are right. We must persevere, trusting that the American people, who so clearly saw through the lies about the health care bill and showed up in large numbers, will remain as perceptive and see through Obama’s attempts to paint all of his opponents as “out of the mainstream.”

We were lectured when we complained, that President G.H.W. Bush gave a speech to school children during his term in office, so why are we so upset that President B. Hussein Obama is giving one? After all, isn’t it only fair that this "giant among men," this "messiah of the left" should be allowed to share his vision with those same young people? Isn’t it only reasonable?

What they fail to mention is that, unlike when President Bush 41 gave his speech, this time there will be no congressional committees investigating the president for having given his speech; no GAO estimates as to how much tax payer money President Obama spent in giving this speech. Both men had a Democrat Party in control of Congress, but only President Bush was subjected to scrutiny because of his speech.

So tonight expect the same lies and half-truths; expect an appeal to “reasonableness” and expect another lecture on the importance to America “that we solve this dire crisis facing us all.” President Obama will, no doubt, appeal to our humanity and our sense of fairness and charity to press his agenda, but never forget that his sort of charity comes at the point of an IRS auditor’s pen, not from the heart.

Remember also that the real sense of urgency coming from Obama is derived not from a sense of obligation to the American people, but a sense of his own floundering presidency needing a victory…and he will declare any bill a victory, no matter how far it strays from his original agenda.

Expect also that he will exhort his Democrat colleagues to go it alone if need be…much to his regret, I'm sure.

His message will be that the need for action is so dire that if necessary we Democrats must do for America what Republicans are unwilling to do.

Has there ever been a more cynical President in our 233 year history? I doubt it.

The only need in America the is dire right now is the need to stop President Obama in his drive to destroy our health care system in the same way that he and President Bush destroyed our economy and our automotive industry, through more government intrusion and control.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

"Moderates" Toying With "Back Door" to Socialized Medicine

2009-09-08T09:56:00.005-05:00

Will Malven
9/08.2009

Well I told you they wouldn't give up on imposing a single-payer health care plan on us and here is more evidence of their intent.

Obama is giving a speech tomorrow before a joint session of Congress to extol the virtues of healthcare reform and attempt to renew the sense of urgency that has gradually evaporated from the health care reform movement as skeptics have dominated the discourse...or course most of that urgency is about trying to save his administration from being labeled a failure...so once more Obama is going back to the well which served him so well during the 2008 campaign, but seems to have failed him miserably in this health care debate.

Obama Readies (Another) Speech As Health Care Picks Up Steam

By MICHAEL SCHERER AND KAREN TUMULTY - WASHINGTON
TIME
9/08/2009

This is what Barack Obama does. Back him into a corner, get the press in a frenzy, send his polls ratings plummeting, and the aging basketball player responds again and again with the same move: he delivers a major speech. And why not? It keeps working. It's the thing that first introduced him to the nation, at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It is what extricated him from the Jeremiah Wright mess during the campaign. It has become the central method of his foreign policy push, in Prague, Cairo, Moscow and Accra.

It's also been the method of choice in his push for health-care reform. In just the last two months, he has held six health-care town halls and a prime-time news conference. But public support for his plans has been declining through the summer. So the answer, he believes, is one more speech, Wednesday night in front of a joint session of Congress.
Maybe this technique is failing to rally people to his cause because the voters are far better informed on the proposed health care changes than they were about what a fraud Obama was and because they remain far better informed on the issue of health care reform that either the Democrats in Congress working on the bill or Obama as to what is in the bill.

By the way, only a dedicated liberal news organization, committed to the Democrat Party and the President's health care agenda could claim that in the current climate "Health Care Picks Up Steam."

Folks health care reform is gasping for breath as it struggles to survive in any recognizable form...leave it to liberals to confuse "picking up steam" with "twitching in its death throes."

So as Obama is pimping his next version of "health care reform," look for browbeating and scapegoating of Republicans...again...in spite of the fact that Democrats have sufficient votes in Congress to pass any legislation they wish-without any Republican support as well as exhortations of dire consequences should Congress fail.

All I know is that we are going to be faced with another command performance of the "Empty Suit in Chief...Liar Extraordinaire."

To add insult to injury, some in Congress are attempting to trick the voters by performing a little legislative legerdemain called "the trigger option."

Time/Yahoo are reporting, among other things, that Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Olympia Snowe (RINO-ME) are ready to sign on to a "deal" that would impose a "public option" only if the insurance companies failed to change their way of doing business; the so called "trigger" option.

Continuing from the above article:
Meanwhile, in the Senate, where a compromise has not yet been reached, there are some signs that agreement time might be upon us. On Sunday, in an interview with CNN, Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson, a longtime opponent of a public-health-insurance option, said he could support a public plan as a "fail-safe" or "backstop" that would be created only if insurance companies did not reform their business practices over the coming years. Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, a key swing vote from Maine, has also spoken favorably about a triggered fail-safe.
This so-called trigger is very dangerous for those who oppose any public option for health care. It is the proverbial stalking horse for the later imposition of a public option by the government bureaucracy.

Who is to say when the insurance companies have failed to "reform their business practices?"

Who is to say when this "trigger" kicks in? Who is to say how the resultant "public heath-insurance option" would kick in and who would determine what provisions would be included?

The "trigger" option is nothing but a cowardly means of letting the gutless "moderates" in Congress vote for the public option without being forced to do so overtly. It is nothing but the "stealth option" for socialized medicine.

There is not person more contemptible in Congress than those who lack the courage of their convictions. What really sad is that these very gutless, indecisive "moderates" are held up as models of restraint and polity when in reality they are simply cowards.

Members of Congress like Snowe, Nelson and Collins, to name a few, lack the intestinal fortitude to face their constituents and say where they stand on the issues. They are indecisive and vacillating because they are dullards and easily swayed by arguments full of emotion and completely lacking of merit.

This "trigger" option is very dangerous exactly because it holds the appeal of doing the unthinkable while providing the cover of plausible deniability. It is the perfect option for those gutless "middle of the road" members of Congress who lack the intellect and integrity to make a real decision.

When Congress says "trigger option" people watch your liberty, because they are preparing to take some of it away...via the back door.

Say what you will about those committed liberals in Congress, at least they are courageous enough to say what they want.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

AARP's Double Talk Exposed: Memo From Pelosi Reveals "Close Coordination"

2009-09-03T09:28:00.004-05:00

Will Malven
9/03/2009

Sorry for the late notification, but this just came to my attention. Human Events reveals a "House Democrat leadership memo sent to their membership" which among other things reveals that the House Democrat Party leadership has been coordinating with AARP in their efforts to get the Health Care bill passed.

Funny, but I seem to remember a couple of AARP representatives denying that they were behind any bill. The memo lists a number of Leftist organizations with whom Pelosi and the rest of the Democrat leadership have been coordinating.

From the memo:
The Leadership is working in close coordination with the White House and outside groups (including but not limited to HCAN, Families USA, AFSCME, SEIU, AARP, etc.) to ensure complementary efforts during August. The President, Secretary Sebelius and other principals in the reform debate will be working throughout the month to hold events, promote the message in the press and move the reform effort forward.
We see here a combination of union thugs (SEIU and AFSCME), leftist "Astroturf" organizations (HCAN-Health Care for America Now and Families USA) and of course AARP (who is not supporting any bill...according to them).

It is amazing to me how often and easily those on the Left lie about what they are doing. The AARP sent out their spokespeople to "correct" what the President and Conservative had been saying about AARP being on board with the Health Care bill.

What I find most amusing is that although AARP representative Cheryl Mathias stated in an interview on CBS Evening News, Monday August 17. NewsBusters has a full transcript of the interview, but here is the cogent part:

AARP representative Cheryl Mathias: "AARP has not endorsed any plan at this point."

CBS reporter Sheryl Attkisson: "Yet the AARP's Cheryl Mathias couldn't find anything to quibble with, including the Medicare cuts, which she says will not affect benefits."

A quick visit to AARP's webpage confirms that they are still fighting for the Democrat plan in whichever form it emerges. They continue to tell the lie that a federal health care option won't lead to socialized medicine even though such a claim defies logic.

After all of this information, there should be little doubt remaining that the AARP is in the pocket of the Democrat Party and this President. They should rename themselves the AADP - The American Association of the Democrat Party.

Fortunately the American Seniors Association is growing in size and influence. They remain the most viable, if not the only Conservative alternative to the AARP.

I am not affiliated with the ASA, I don't receive any money or compensation from them, I am just someone who has gotten tired of the double speak coming out of AARP. I am tired of organizations that claim to be "non-partisan" while spending every penny for and fighting every battle on the side of the Democrat Party.

When was the last time the AARP opposed any Democrat Party agenda item? When was the last time they came out against Democrats in Congress?

I say join the ASA and let the AARP become officially what it is de facto another arm of the Democrat Party.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Green Jobs Czar Van Jones' Storm Manifesto

2009-08-30T20:06:00.004-05:00

Will Malven
8/30/2009

Well, well. It appears that President Obama's Green Jobs Czar is unhappy that the organization that he helped create, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) has been garnering attention for its radical communist manifesto, so the organization has scrubbed the manifesto from its website.

No fear folks, thanks to the quick work of World Net Daily (WND) the endangered manifesto has been rescued from the oblivion of Google's archive pages and remains available. Here is a portion of the WND report with a link to the full article in the title:

Czar's 'communist manifesto' scrubbed from Net

Founded group with 'commitment to fundamental ideas of Marxism-Leninism'

Posted: August 30, 2009
7:15 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

STORM's manifesto, 'Reclaiming Revolution'

JERUSALEM – How is this for a quick clean up job?

Last week, WND reported the official communist-oriented manifesto of a radical group founded by Obama's environmental adviser, Van Jones, was published in full on the Internet.

Just hours later, the manifesto was removed and the entire website was taken down.

It is, however, still available in web archives.

As WND previously reported, Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is an admitted black nationalist and radical communist.

In the spirit of protecting STORM's work, I am making a copy of the report available here...we wouldn't want Van Jones' work to undermine our nation to get lost in the shuffle now, would we?
President Obama has surrounded himself with the best extreme leftist and communist minds America has to offer. Since the President himself told us to look at the people with whom he surrounds himself if we wanted to know who he is, it is important to preserve these little insights into the beliefs of him and those around him.

STORM's manifesto, entitled "Reclaiming Revolution."

Here are a few of the highlights from this document (You may wish to read it for yourself because what I am going to say may shock you and generate disbelief):

They were very disturbed by the fall of the Soviet Union as "the world's first and most powerful socialist nation." [Their words, not mine]

They were equally disturbed that "the United States would become the worlds one and only super power." [Again a direct quote from this publication]

Following a reorganization of STORM following a scandal, they began a "regrounding & rectification" process with set goals to:
1. Rebuild political and personal unity and
2. Make "a definite and collective shift towards communist politics"

During the "Rectification study" they "worked to develop a basic understanding of Marxist and Leninist histories, theories and politics..."

They developed four workgroups,
1. Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM)
2. Workers Organized to Rid us of Capitalism (WORC)
3. Culture & Propaganda and
4. Theory Development

I guess that is enough to establish Green Jobs Czar Van Jones' communist bona fides...all of that from the first 25 pages and then only a few of the highlights.

I have omitted things like membership was restricted to 75% people of color and 60% women...hmmm...both racist and sexist...do tell.

Again I ask, if President Obama believes in America and in our way of life, why has he surrounded himself with people like Van Jones?

...or has he been lying to the American people all this time?

Perhaps President Barack Hussein Obama surrounded himself with these people because he agrees with their radical communist agenda. Perhaps the reason he has these people around him is because they believe what he believes, that capitalism is bad, that the Constitution is fundamentally flawed because of the constraints our Founding Father placed within it. To quote him directly:

"the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.

And that hasn't shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.

He is lamenting that "redistributive change" didn't happen, couldn't happen under what was the most liberal Supreme Court in modern history.

The TRUTH: Obama has surrounded himself with communists because he is at heart a communist. He took over the automobile industry because he hates capitalism, he took over the banking system to provide for the redistribution of wealth, he is attempting to institute the largest tax increase in recent history in the form of the "Cap and Trade Bill" so that he can redistribute wealth from those who have to those who don't, and he is attempting to pass "Health Care Reform" so that he can have complete control over our lives.

None of those acts has anything to do with helping others; they are aimed at the accumulation and exercise of power. Still doubt me? Then add the bill, S-773, sponsored by Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), now making its way through Congress that would give President Obama emergency power over the internet.

If you are not beginning to wonder, if you are not concerned for your freedom, perhaps it is time you were.

I have not made any of this up; most of it comes from Obama and his own people.

Time to pay attention folks!

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

U.S. moves toward formal cut off of aid to Honduras (Pro Communists in Full Control at White House)

2009-08-28T07:17:00.006-05:00

Will Malven
8/28/2009

Here's news for those of you who doubted my assertion that Barack Obama was a hard core Marxist. The Obama administration is so determined to force Honduran strong-man and former President, Manuel Zelaya, back into his old position...in violation of the Honduran Constitution...that they are now moving to cut off all aid to the constitutionally instituted interim government of Roberto Micheletti.

In essence they are attempting to blackmail the Honduran people with the threat of an economic disaster...just to get a wannabe dictator back in office.

Here is part of Reuters report (link to full article in title):

U.S. moves toward formal cut off of aid to Honduras

Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:23pm EDT

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - U.S. State Department staff have recommended that the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be declared a "military coup," a U.S. official said on Thursday, a step that could cut off as much as $150 million in U.S. funding to the impoverished Central American nation.

The official, who spoke on condition he not be named, said State Department staff had made such a recommendation to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has yet to make a decision on the matter although one was likely soon.

Washington has already suspended about $18 million aid to Honduras following the June 28 coup and this would be formally cut if the determination is made because of a U.S. law barring aid "to the government of any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree."
Unbelievable! Well, it would be if I didn't know already that Obama was a hard core Marxist and fully sympathetic to the Marxist dictators that dominate Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba.

Micheletti assumed office as interim President after Manuel Zelaya was ousted for violating the Constitution of Honduras by attempting to hold a referendum to extend the length of time he could remain in office. The Honduran Constitution expressly forbids such an attempt and provides for the removal of any President who attempts to do what Zelaya did.

Micheletti was put in place by the legitimate government of Honduras. The Honduran Congress, the Honduran Supreme Court, and the Honduran Military, in unison, moved to remove President Zelaya after his actions were declare unconstitutional by the Honduran Supreme Court.

There is no ambiguity as to the constitutionality of their move. It is only in the expulsion of Zelaya that there is any doubt as to legality...and most believe it was done for his own protection.

I find it most revealing that Micheletti has offered to step down from office in favor of Jorge Rivera, the president of the Supreme Court and second in line, if the former President would also resign, but Zelaya and his people have refused to consider this offer...interesting that the man currently in power is perfectly willing to surrender that power, but Zelaya is unwilling to do the same and that our State Department (and so, presumably, our President) are on the side of the man who is unwilling to relinquish power.

Apparently Marxists are now in full control of our government and are willing to starve the people of Honduras to ensure that a clone of Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez is in power.

Funny (not really) as I look at the people with whom President Obama has surrounded himself-something he told us to do-I begin to wonder if what I once suggested in partial jest is not becoming more clearly fact; I wonder if President Obama is not laying the ground work for his own dictatorship in America by supporting those who rule in the other states of the Americas.

Perhaps he assumes, not unreasonably, that they will, in turn, support his claim to legitimacy should he "find it necessary" to extend his term as President and expand his powers...for the good of the American people, of course.

He is now clearly on the side of Venezuelan "President" Hugo Chavez, who has almost completely shutdown access to the press for all of his opponents and had his presidency extended into a lifetime appointment. He is clearly supportive of and sympathetic to Nicaraguan "President" (and Marxist terrorist) Daniel Ortega.

He has been praised by Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro and has been laying the ground-work for the establishment of full diplomatic relations with Cuba.

He has been very supportive of the Socialist President of Brazil, Luiz da Silva and has given $2 billion in loans to Petrobras, the state owned petroleum company of Brazil, for the exploitation of offshore oil resources in hopes of extracting a major new source of petroleum in South America (but he won't allow American companies to do the same, even though it wouldn't cost the tax-payer a penny).

Petrobras made $5 billion net profit in the 4th quarter of last year (their largest quarterly profit ever), why do they need American tax-payer dollars?

Oh! I get it, profitable capitalist "Big Oil" - BAD, profitable socialist "Big Oil" - GOOD. You just have to understand how el Presidente...I mean...President Obama thinks.

So now our government is attempting to oust the legitimate (according to their own constitution) government of a sovereign nation and replace it with an illegitimate (according to their own constitution) dictator-wannabe.

Man, the more the Obama Administration acts, the worse it appears to be for those who believe in freedom and democracy (as laid out by our Founding Fathers).

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

Ted Kennedy R.I.P.

2009-08-26T15:23:00.004-05:00

Will Malven
8/26/2009

I understand that Ted Kennedy was a great uncle and strong patriarch for the Kennedy family and for that I pay my respects. The Kennedy clan long endured much tragedy, not the least of which was the loss of JFK's son John Jr., along with his wife and his sister-in-law, while flying a Piper Saratoga at night returning to New York from Martha's Vineyard in July of 1999.

After each tragedy, it was Ted Kennedy to whom the family turned to find the strength to persevere. So as a family man and a loved one of his friends and relatives, I bid him rest in peace.

However, it would be the sheerest hypocrisy to say that I feel any sorrow for the death of Senator Kennedy. Senator Kennedy represented the worst in liberal politicians. He was hateful, dishonest, lecherous, self-indulgent, traitorous, and destructive to our nation.

Here are just a few of the highlights of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's career:

He was caught cheating...twice...and expelled twice while at Harvard.
He enlisted in the US Army after he was expelled the second time, but "mistakenly" signed up for a 4-year hitch. Upon discovering he could have signed up for two years, he got his father to press all of the right buttons and get his enlistment retro-actively "corrected" so that he was only required to serve 2 years. He was also able to wrangle an assignment to Paris, France rather than to Korea like his fellow enlistees.
His first major act as a Senator from Massachusetts was to usher through the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act, INS Act of 1965) which opened the flood-gates for illegal immigration and reversed the policies set out by President Eisenhower which limited, through strong enforcement policies, the number of illegal immigrants crossing our Southern border.
After spending the day sailing and drinking at a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, and flipped into Poucha Pond.

After swimming to safety, he walked back to the party, passing several houses and a fire station. Two friends then returned with him to the scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what he already knew - that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities.

Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car.
He reached out to Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, in 1983 with a proposal designed to undermine President Reagan’s defense policies toward the Soviet Union, policies he felt were too aggressive. This was documented in papers dated May 14, 1983 later released from the KGB archives
During the Supreme Court Nomination hearings for Judge Robert Bork, he personally attacked and smeared Judge Bork saying:
“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”
He viciously and hatefully smeared Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito; attempting to paint him as a racist and biggot, using false information and guilt by association. His personal attacks were so despicable that Judge Alito's wife was reduced to tears and forced to excuse herself from the hearings.
In May of 2004, he slandered President Bush and our troops when he said:
“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”

Excuse me if I don't feel like "lionizing" this reprobate.

Ted Kennedy had his hands on every piece of legislation the Left attempted to ram down America's throat. He single handedly did more damage to America as our Founding Fathers envisioned it than any other member of Congress in the past 60 years and he did most of it in a drunken stupor.

I feel sorry for the Kennedy family and sympathize with their grief, but I cannot mourn the end of his nightmarish political career.

America as a nation is better off without Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) serving in the Senate.

As one Freeper (member of FreeRepublic.com) said:

"I was told you should only say something good about the dead.

Senator Kennedy is dead: Good!"

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!