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Posted on August 25th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
What is wrong with Barack Obama? I think the man is a menace, a reckless amateur of the worst sort. A delegator (or just plain lazy), he surrounds himself with hacks that have done little more than diminish his position with the people of this country. Barack Obama himself may be able to fool some of the people, some of the time… but his cronies? People like Sebelius, Axelrod and Gibbs are hardly the kind of people you want front and center on anything of any importance. Sebelius was Governor of a nothing state (sorry Kansas), Axelrod is a behind the scenes operator and player, Gibbs is a doughie mess, easily riled and often left stammering awkwardly. Why would these be the faces that I saw trying to articulate healthcare for the executive branch? Did they want to fail?
Anybody with a lick of sense should have known that Obama needed to be front and center. He needed to be “lawyered up” on the plan, well versed in what he was talking about in order that he maintain his “coolness” factor. There was no room for a “mom jeans” moment, surely not when the Congress was going to be represented by dim witted zealots like Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Schumer et al. With Ted Kennedy sidelined the Democratic short list that would be pushing this plan could have been riding a short bus to the capitol. Obama needed to be the reassuring presence, the guy that let America believe, “Fear not, these idiots aren’t really in charge, I am.” We didn’t get that for weeks… but worse, when Obama decided it was time that he do some of the heavy lifting, he was ill informed and ill prepared. He declared with conviction that private insurance would survive the public option because Fed Ex and UPS were doing just fine against a failing US Postal Service. Wow, how reassuring. I’m opposed to the liberal/socialist agenda of this President, but I doubt I could have gummed up the works this well if I were Obama’s Chief of Staff. It is simply amazing to me to watch the implosion of this administration.
So when the healthcare debate goes south, what does this president do? He, revisits CIA interrogations of terrorists and murderers! I cannot help but think that Obama has completely lost every bit of “mojo” he once had. What a winner this thing is going to be for the Obama Administration. Our CIA interrogators made threats and used force to intimidate murderers! Who in their right mind is going to get worked up about the supposed torture of three ANIMALS?! I cannot wait until the media is forced to read the resumes of these disgusting subhuman thugs.
Keep it up, President Obama! I love you for this. You give conservatives one gift after another. You are completely out of touch with the American people. You would have us believe that this is Holder and not you, but this is you. This revisiting of the CIA interrogations is desperate and it will end in a further diminishing of President Obama’s approval and standing with the American people. Bravo! Anybody have some popcorn?
Posted on August 25th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Get active!, News.
Here is an open letter to Walmart. Feel free to post this all over the place… much appreciated. Free speech matters in America, whether right or wrong. If Beck is so off base, let the viewers, the individuals out there, exercise their right to turn him off.
To Whom It May Concern,
I have been a consistent shopper in your stores for years now. I cannot think of a time where I was not it one of your stores at least once a week. I cringe considering the amounts of money that I have sunk into purchases made in your stores. The first place I think to go when I need something is the local Walmart… sadly, your actions as of late have forced me to reconsider. Your stance on healthcare given this political and economic climate was perplexing but you had a right to consider your best interests and to speak your mind on the matter. I’m sure there is a financial offset that is beneficial to your corporation in laying costs such as insurance on the backs of the taxpayers while at the same time diminishing your own responsibility to your employees. I am a capitalist, a conservative and a realist. I do not begrudge you the right to maximize your profits; in fact I expect you to do just that, it’s good business. So while I oppose the healthcare reforms being proposed, I respected Walmart’s right to disagree and to pursue what was best for them. It was not a stance that would make me consider shopping elsewhere.
This week however, you have elected to back a boycott of the Glenn Beck Program. I cannot express to you just how irksome it is to have supported a corporation’s right to free speech, while that corporation, has decided to aid in the squashing of an individual’s speech rights. This boycott is not about right and wrong, it is about destroying an opposition viewpoint. You are a party to an action I find vile, and that I abhor. How dare you join an effort to shut somebody up. I think I am going to have to reconsider whether or not corporations should have the same kind of free speech rights as individuals. I think perhaps it is reckless to give rights granted the individual to nebulous entities who cannot be held singularly accountable for what they say and the positions that they take. Perhaps we should all be considering whether or not corporations should be allowed an opinion in public debate at all. Your choice to pull ads was cowardly. Avoidance of controversy is one thing, bailing out on a program you didn’t find offensive until threatened, is another. Beck has a right to consider the president a racist if he believes it… and further he has a right to say it. People are free to stand up and say, “You’re wrong,” but that’s where it should end. There should not be a concerted effort to destroy a man because he has an opinion. That you have joined in this action is galling to me.
So, I want you to know that you have lost a loyal customer. My family of four will shop elsewhere and I will likewise tell my extended family and friends to also boycott your stores. The Sam’s Club membership will not be renewed. We’ll purchase clothing at Kohl’s, incidentals at Target or K-mart, and return to the local grocery store. Sure, in the short term it will cost us a few bucks to make this change, but in the long term the costs associated with stances like the one made by your spineless corporation, are all the greater. We as a nation cannot afford to have our free speech rights threatened in any way. I urge you to reconsider your position, but if you will not, so be it. Let my voice be the first to say, enough… and hopefully others will follow suit. I will be posting this to my blog and will encourage others to do the same. You may find the loss of one customer laughable, but we’ll see how funny it is when others join in.
Respectfully,
Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Uncategorized.
Bill Maher is right, America is a stupid country. What else would you call a people that continue to refer to Mr. Maher as a comedian when there is twenty years worth of evidence to the contrary? Yep, we’re dopes for continuing to call this guy a comedian when terms like ”angry”, “unfunny” or “liberal” are so much more relevant. His commentary has gotten angrier and angrier over the years. It’s a real shame. His funny is retreating with his hairline. Let’s not forget, this is the guy that thinks committing suicide and killing innocents takes guts. People kill themselves every day Bill, the manner in which you do it is hardly relevant beyond the consideration of the deed. No, but we’re the idiots.
In your parlance, Bill… “f you”.
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Politics.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs went out before the press and tried to clarify what it was that the president meant when he stated that the police had acted stupidly in arresting Professor Henry Gates. Too bad he dug the hole deeper in my mind. Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama felt that when it was clear that Harvard scholar Louis Gates Jr. was not a burglary suspect last week, “at that point, cooler heads on all sides should have prevailed.”
Cooler heads should have prevailed? What does that mean? The officer(s) are hotheaded? Could Professor Gates have acted better, or does he get a pass? After all, he is the guy that was (according to all witnesses) yelling “racist” about the arresting/responding officer.
Obama had said that the Cambridge, Mass., police “acted stupidly” by citing Gates on a resisting arrest charge, which was quickly dropped. He had not faulted the actions of Gates, who he said is a friend. Of course he didn’t find fault in the actions of his friend. Obama is a disciple of Jeremiah Wright and the police are ALL corrupt racists according to that maniac’s teachings.
“Let me be clear, he was not calling the officer stupid,” Gibbs told reporters as Obama landed in Cleveland for two health care events Thursday. He said Obama felt that “at a certain point the situation got far out of hand” at Gates’ home last week. Wow, really Robert? The situation got out of hand? When did it get out of hand? Was it when the neighbor called the cops? Was it when the officer responded? Was it when the officer dared to ask a black man for ID in his own home? When exactly did the whole thing fall apart? Who was it that became immediately riled according to witnesses?
I am very angry that this president would comment on an incident without having a firm grasp on the facts. Worse though, this president would continue to try to scramble and to make excuses for his poor form. I don’t care what generalities this president and his lackeys deem as relevant. The president was asked about a SPECIFIC incident and instead of seeking to educate himself on the matter he decides to shoot from the hip. Well then Mr. Obama, live with the consequences of speaking from a place of admitted STUPIDITY and casting an entire department in a poor light without even KNOWING THE FACTS. What an arrogant, selfrighteous fool this president has turned out to be. Bush was an idiot? Yeah. Obama is a genius? Not even close.
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Just Dumb, News.
Barack Obama has screwed himself rotten. This week he has admitted that he isn’t fully versed on his healthcare adventure. Asked, “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.” Really? You aren’t familiar with a plan that you are trying to shove down the throats of the American people? Reckless, much?
I suppose last night’s hijacking of the airwaves was supposed to be a means by which Barack Obama could make his case for healthcare and perhaps convince us all that he knows what he’s talking about. There was much babbling, much finger pointing and then Barack Obama was asked about the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Gates. That’s when the president again elected to speak about that which he knows little about. “My understanding is that Professor Gates then shows his I.D. to show that this is his house and, at that point, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct, charges which are later dropped,” Obama said. Really? President Obama, that isn’t how the police say it all went down. They dispute the extent of Gates’ cooperation, saying he didn’t initially provide identification when asked and berated the police.
Not one to be succinct the president then went about his pontificating as he always does, in that kind of exploratory babble that he uses to gauge reaction and to adjust his argument. “I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact.”
This is the problem with this country. Everything is racist. Everything is measured against the past. Nothing is an individual case. Gates might have been acting like a fool, but hey, black folks have been treated badly in the past… so let’s give him a pass. Nevermind that President Obama has a personal bias. Even exposing that and admitting it, doesn’t diminish it. So instead of saying, “I don’t know all of the facts,” this guy uses words like “stupidly”. Brilliant.
I want to thank the president. As an opponent of this half baked idea that Democrats have where it concerns healthcare he did us all a HUGE favor. All of his babbling has been boiled down to so much NOTHING as the media focuses in on Mr. Obama’s racial comments. Bravo! This healthcare plan would do more harm than good. So for this president to minimalize his own efforts by clouding them over in a controversial commentary on race is A-OK by me! Again, thank you President Obama, your skewed view of reality, admittedly based in no knowledge of the facts, has done you in… and I am grateful.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Entertainment, Just Dumb.
As if Michael Jackson’s life wasn’t enough of a spectacle. Now we have this alleged pedophile’s rented womb out there going butch on the media. Why does Rowe have a beef? She’s acting as if she’s some kind of a responsible person due some decency in her treatment. I suppose she’s owed some respect. She’s mourning after all, I mean, the cash cow is dead and now she’s going to have to fight for these brats if she’s ever going to see another payday. Poor, poor Debbie. You sold your kids honey, don’t touch you? What, is it hands off of the merchandise? There will be no accidental touching of the “Rowe” unless you’re ponying up the cash to use her as an incubator? So sickening. Here’s a bit of Debbie Rowe, jawing (literally) at the media.
“ARE YOU READY TO GET YOUR BUTT KICKED!” Wow, how bold. I’m sure this ox of a woman will be a heck of a disciplinarian!
Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Politics.
Finally, somebody is saying what realists have been thinking. Barack Obama is so consumed with his agenda that he is spending us into oblivion. Kevin Hassett at Bloomberg.com makes comparisons between California and the federal budget that makes things perfectly clear.
The California morass has Democrats in Washington trembling. The reason is simple. If Obama’s health-care plan passes, then we may well end up paying for it with federal slips of paper worth less than California’s. Obama has bet everything on passing health care this year. The publicity surrounding the California debt fiasco almost assures his resounding defeat.
I know that people keep saying that Democrats will be running for the hills when it comes to this health care initiative of Obama’s but I would still like for those concerned to get more vocal about it. I am not convinced yet that this is DOA.
California has engaged in an orgy of spending, but, compared with our federal government, its legislators should feel chaste. The California deficit this year is now north of $26 billion. The U.S. federal defecit will be, according to the latest numbers, almost 70 times larger.
Bleak Picture
The federal picture is so bleak because the Obama administration is the most fiscally irresponsible in the history of the U.S. I would imagine that he would be the intergalactic champion as well, if we could gather the data on deficits on other worlds. Obama has taken George W. Bush’s inattention to defecits and elevated it to an art form.
HALLELUJAH! PREACH IT BROTHER!
With the price tag of Obama-care likely to exceed $1 trillion, moderate Democrats face a simple choice. They can jump off the cliff with the president, or they can stay true to the principles that they have espoused throughout their careers.
There are reassuring signs that principle is winning. One of the most expensive components of the Obama plan is the so- called public-insurance option, which opponents fear would result in massive government subsidies. Senator Mary Landrieu said that she is “not open” to a public option that will compete with private insurance.
One trillion? If that’s the Democrats’ estimate, I would venture that the real cost will be more than twice that. Nobody with any grasp on the situation that this country is staring down could support this health care initiative. Health care needs to be regulated. Insurance companies need to deliver what they promise and they need to do it in concert with a medical community that is accountable for corruption… just as insurers need to be held accountable for theirs. Hassett is optimistic that the stupidity that is Obama’s health care folly will be struck down. I am hopeful, but it seems to me that Hassett puts a lot of faith in the American people having a clue. I don’t know that people hear anything beyond FREE and Obama and the rest of the Democrats have made a good run at getting people to believe that they’re offering them something for nothing.
Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Politics.
What is it with Maureen Dowd? What makes this woman so bitter and angry? Her piece on Sarah Palin’s resignation can only be described as hateful. The venom and the disdain must have dripped from her forked tongue and drenched her keyboard in an ooze of bile that burned the lettering from the keys. I’m not a big Palin fan. I’ve thought for some time that she’s pretty much done herself in where it concerns her aspirations for higher office, which just makes Dowd’s assault all the more distressing. If Palin is truly done, I have to wonder; why the need to be so brutal?
Maybe the red haired harlot of liberal editorial is still smarting from having her broom shoved squarely up her derrière after being declared a plagiarist? Is that perhaps what has Dowd so rabid? Is she adopting the tone of the blogosphere instead of simply ripping off its content? Surely the vapid rantings of this woman (exquisite use of vocabulary set aside) are more suited to the likes of the Democratic Underground than they are the pages of The New York Times. After all, the New York Times is supposedly the chronicle for the civilized world. Sadly, Dowd’s hit piece showed little in the way of civility.
What is clear is that Palin has likely had enough. Dowd and other liberals want to speculate as to why. Could it be a scandal? With no apparent proof of that, they’ve had to go the “crazy” route. After all, you’d have to be nuts to have had enough of the media and their incessant attacks on your family. Who wouldn’t love to have the media painting them as an imbecilic inbred from a backwoods state? Wouldn’t we all love to see the media and late night talkers savaging our kids? Which is likely what Maureen Dowd’s ire boils down to. HOW DARE SARAH PALIN SAY, ENOUGH, TO THIS MEDIA. HOW DARE SARAH PALIN TAKE CONTROL OF HER OWN DESTINY. HOW DARE SARAH PALIN END THIS MEDIA WITCH HUNT ON HER TERMS. When it’s all said and done, that explains the nastiness of Dowd’s attack. She is absolutely galled by the fact that Sarah Palin has had the nerve to simply walk away.
The press made you Sarah! You can’t just walk away! Dowd’s piece speaks for the whole of the leftist media. Dowd just beat the mass to the mark given this long weekend… but fear not, MSNBC’s lineup of hack talkers will be following up this savagery with their own vitriolic rantings. Sarah Palin has dared to defy the media. She has dared to set the terms. Will she be granted any peace? I doubt it, but the media will have a much harder time painting their attacks as relevant. Dowd as the media’s proxy is just the first of the mainstream to fathom the facts and to understand that their lives are all less relevant without the right’s poster girl to kick around.
So, what next? I would suggest that Maureen Dowd and the rest of the liberals in the media take a hard look at the state of the nation, rather than the state of the Republican Party. They got what they wanted. Those that proclaim themselves in line with their “evolved” thinking are running this country and our demise seems to have been hastened rather than stopped. Mayhaps Maureen Dowd and her ilk would be better served questioning the policies of those truly in power, rather than those that are not. Sarah Palin is a losing Vice Presidential Candidate and still she sends the leftist media into fits. Meanwhile, the neophyte that actually won the presidency is given a pass where it concerns the economy, our world standing and the nation’s general welfare. Sarah Palin is nuts? Hardly. It’s the whole of the Fourth Estate that is stark raving mad. Maureen Dowd isn’t fit to pontificate on “Brangelina” or even the elusive tabloid staple “Bat Boy”, much less politics. Ms. Dowd, honestly, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Entertainment, Just Dumb.
NOOOOOO! Say it ain’t so. Who will cure me of my insomnia? Who will get greasy stains from fast food out of my oxford shirts?! Fate is cruel… or was it simply that God required the services of the world’s number one pitch man? Sadly, I am left to ponder such questions as press sources have confirmed that Billy Mays is dead.
Even as infomercials he hosted aired on local stations across the country this morning, the cable news channels were reporting on the death of pitchman Billy Mays.
50-year-old Mays was found unresponsive by his wife in his Tampa home this morning. Mays was on board a US Airways flight yesterday that made an emergency landing in Tampa after its front tires blew out. It is unsure whether Mays’ death was related to the incident.
While this might indeed be a natural death and there is little to suggest otherwise, I would still like law enforcement to check out the ShamWow guy. Where was he at the time of May’s death… and can he prove it? Dude seems a little squirrely to me.
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials.
I have seen this look before, from my grandmother aka Oma. This is the look you get before she says through her thick accent, “bullsh*tters”.
It is apparent that Angela Merkel is unimpressed with the populist rhetoric of Mr. Obama. Maybe Germans have just had their belly full of populist leaders promising the world and delivering nothing of the sort. Of course at least their populist leaders of old managed to elevate themselves by building up their nation. In the case of Mr. Obama it seems that he is most comfortable laying on the guilt with all of us, and straight up throwing us under the bus with the rest of the world. Admitting that the US engaged in a coup in Iran in 1953 was a gesture of good will on Mr. “Naive” Obama’s part… but will now and forever be a mallet with which to strike at us for Mr. Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah du jour.