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Obama himself plays the 'Race' card

Posted by Catmman on Saturday, February 28, 2009 7:07:05 PM
Acknowledging that "tough times for America often mean tougher times for African-Americans," US President Barack Obama on Saturday called for more local and national engagement by fellow blacks.

"You know that tough times for America often mean tougher times for African Americans. This recession has been no exception," Obama told the 10th annual "State of the Black Union" gathering, noting that the unemployment rate among African-Americans is five points higher than the national average.

It strikes me as funny.  Our nations first black president, who overcame what he did in his youth, being abandoned by his black father especially.  Then achieving what he has in his life at such a relatively young age - his education, his political 'achievements' in Illinois, then nationally.  Being elected in the Seante, now the President - still tells the blacks in this country how hard things are, indeed how much harder they are since they are black - and NO ONE thinks what he is saying is the least bit ridiculous or hypocritical.

Instead of using this as an opportunity to say, "Look at me, look at what happened to me as a child.  Look what I was able to accomplish.  You can do this too!", he gives a speech playing on the same old, tired racial class envy so typical of his party and his politics.

Sad.
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Can't blame Bush for February

Posted by Catmman on Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:43:10 AM
President Obama and his administration take every opportunity to state they "inherited" the current economic crises.  As far as the statement goes, it is true.  What Obama and his supporters are sure to stay away from however is that Obama has been the President since January 20th, NOT Bush.  Any downturn or economic hardship, indeed ANY issue which impacts the United States now falls squarely on the shoulders of Obama.

Bush wasn't responsible for this:  The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 119.15 points, or 1.7%, to end at 7062.93. The blue-chip benchmark ended down 937.93 points, or 11.72% on the month -- the worst percentage drop for February since 1933, when it fell 15.62%.  The S&P 500 fell 17.74 points, or 2.4%, to 735.09. Its financial sector dropped 6.5% and its health-care sector sank 4% on fears that President Barack Obama's reform plans will carve into the profits of drug makers and insurers. The S&P is off 53% from its October 2007 peak and has now seen its worst six-month drop in percentage terms -- 42.7% -- since 1932, when it dropped 45.44% in the six months ending in June.

There isn't anyone who isn't saying that Bush didn't have a hand in what we have now.  Obama and his supporters aren't going to have Bush to push around for much longer however.  These February numbers belong to Obama, not Bush.  Amazingly there is no mention of this drastic, one month fall - most of it coming since Obama signed his so-called 'stimulus' package a couple of weeks ago.  We could also point out that the Dow is off over 25% (over 2,500 points) since Obama was elected.  Obama was to inject 'Hope' into things I thought?  The markets and financial sectors know Obama is full of it, hence the poor showing.  Given the choice between trusting the finacial industry on economics or trusting democrat polticians like Obama, pardon my cynicism but I'll stick with the true experts, not those trying to score poltical points.

Obama better hope there is a change in the economy soon.
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In Spring, an eco-nuts fancy turns to...your butt

Posted by Catmman on Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:15:43 PM
The eco-wackos of the world have now become bonafide parodies of themselves:
 
The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country's love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public's insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.
 
It was March or April a few years back that Sheryl Crow and other toilet paper facists were complaining about how much TP we use.  Now the fact we use TP at all seems to have the Goracle acolytes all up in arms. 
 
We could do what they do in the Middle East and just use our right hands I suppose.  That would be a more ecological, though a quite unsanitary, alternative.  One musn't confuse the comfort of our selfish bums to the comfort of Gaia I suppose.  The British have never used John Wayne paper I guess.  Let's send them some and see if their attitudes change a bit.  Nothing like a rubbed raw bottom to focus ones eco-fanaticism.
 
Note:  No pun intended in the post title.
 
(H/T: AoS)
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When it's time to hide 'em, it's time to use 'em

Posted by Catmman on Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:42:24 PM
Anyone think this wasn't coming?  Honestly?  If you were one who thought The One would govern from the center, you didn't heed the warnings.
 
A return to the rhetoric of the early 1990's.  "Cop killer" bullets?  A myth to begin with but...really?  At this point I would be surprised if anything ayone from this administration said wasn't a fearmongering-laced diatribe.
 
Little by little, day by day.  We've been hit with economic numbers so large their essentially meaningless, right?  The administration is adding what they want to spending bills.  they are putting together their 'health care plan'.  anyone hear any major complaining?  The health issue alone was killed over public outrage in 1993.  How do you think it'll go now?  Is ther even the same level of outrage?  Even if the outrage were more palpable, do you think our 'leaders' would just give us a "My bad." and drop it?  Nope.
 
The Dems, who we might as well call Progressives anymore, are in charge and they have the votes.  The gun issue is a sticky one for them however.  It's our only hope on this not going forward - at least not yet.  the Dems in Congress remember 1994 and they don't want a repeat.  This issue may only get token attention from the administration, at least until the 2010 midterms.  If something horrible happens and the Dems were to somehow gain more seats in the Congress, you can kiss the 2nd Amendment goodbye.  The "Fairness Doctine" would also probably make a comeback as well.
 
Does the phrase, "from my cold, dead hands" mean anything to anyone?  Really mean anything?  As my post title suggests, when it's time to hide 'em, it's time to use 'em.  It may come to just that.
 
(H/T: Hot Air)
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Predictably predicting warming worse than predicted

Posted by Catmman on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:09:21 PM
What does an alarmist do when faced with the fact that the globe isn't warming as advertised or predicted for the past 20 years?
 
Change the rules of the game doing another study contradicting everything they've previously said on the subject.  Well, not so much contradicting is as redefining the previous parameters of your alarmism.  Nuance at its finest!
 
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
 
How to debunk said new study?  Like this:
 
So what do you do if you’re a climate alarmist and the world isn’t warming up as much as you said it would? Why, you redefine “climate sensitivity.” You claim that agriculture, health, weather, etc. are more “sensitive” to increases in global temperature than scientists once believed. You say that less warming than the IPCC warned us about will lead to worse impacts than the IPCC warned us about. That’s the gist of a recent IPCC-sponsored study, as summarized here by AP/MSNBC.com.
 
Well, I’m skeptical! First, the IPCC study claims that a 21st century temperature increase of only 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit and 3.6 degrees could significantly increase the severity of extreme weather. But Knutson et al. (2008), a leading modeling study of global warming and Atlantic tropical cyclones, projects that the same amount of warming will increase the average intensity of Atlantic hurricanes by only 1.7% but decrease hurricane frequency by 18%, producing a cumulative 25% decrease in Atlantic hurricane power. That’s a significant net climate benefit!
 
The IPCC study reportedly warns that even a wee bit of warming will produce deadly heat waves, suggesting (but not bluntly saying) that the 2003 killer heat wave in Europe was due to the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases. Yet, as Pat Michaels and Robert Balling document in their new book, Climate of Extremes, the European heat wave of 2003 was an atmospheric circulation anomaly–a bubble of hot air trapped in Europe during a summer that was slightly cooler than average worldwide.
 
This is jsut another thing which tears me up.  How many times does the game need to be "redefined" or the terminology changed before the average person realizes they are being sold a bill of goods by the climate alarmists?  President Obama is going to cause huge increases in energy cost and production with his cap and trade scam, not to mention encouraging the EPA to regulate CO2 as an actual pollutant.  The alamists are resetting the goal posts and calling for a "do-over", and they are getting away with it!  I thought the science was settled?  If the damn sceince is settled, then why are the alarmists still making hay out of the science?!
 
From Ace:  Isn't it odd that with the panic among alarmists due to the earth not really warming at all over ten years, we now find out, whoops, gee willickers, it hardly has to warm at all to plunge us into disaster and ruin? 
 
Wake up people!
 
(Post title abridged from Global Warming.org)
 
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Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Posted by Catmman on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:10:39 PM
A rant in one part.
 
So much is going on with our nation, with our politicians, with our culture, with everything and quite a lot of it is just plain bad.  There is so much crap going on every day you can hardly keep up.  Does anyone else feel this?  Anyone else reached the point that they feel like crying or screaming?  Perhaps you are so disillusioned you only shake your head and chuckle, amazed at the idiocy?
 
Seriously.  After having doubled the nations debt in just five weeks (from 1 to 2 TRILLION dollars) the very next week we are bombarded with the propaganda about how we need to be fiscally responsible!  The president actually has the stones to talk about cutting the deficit by the end of his first term after signing and pushing for the largets spending bill in American history (there is nothing stimulating about the stimulus, let's face it).  Add to that we're just now hearing about what needs to go into the regular budget and that Uncle Obama will be coming back 'asking' for more money for more bailouts as well as probably another 'stimulus'?!  How can you not shake your head and laugh?
 
I haven't posted much over the last few weeks.  I just don't have it in me.  I see and hear about our country's economic situation, then I see our 'leaders' do exactly the opposite of what needs to be done.  I hear the rhetoric about "those in need" but we aren't told that most of those who are "in need" are where they are because of their own stupidity and irresponsibility.  I see responsible people - those who pay their bills on time, those who pay their mortages, those who work hard at their jobs, those who save, those who play by the rules - I see those people crapped on while those who Ayn Rand called the 'moochers' get a free ride.  The government gives to those who take and takes from those who give.  Everything which made this country great is turned on its head.  More telling is that our government, our President have no problem enabling the 'moochers'.  Indeed, they hold them up as what has made America great!  Then the rest of us are lectured to about how we need to be more "patriotic", how we need to "sacrifice" for our fellow citizens.  After we are given this lecture, more money is confiscated, stolen from our children's future.
 
I see people praising the president for giving a good speech.  How much of a frickin stretch is it to give the guy props for doing the one thing he does right well?  I don't listen to presidential speeches anyway, never have.  What's the point?  Especially now?  President Obama has shown through both action and inaction that I have no reason to believe anything which comes out of his mouth.  Of course all politicians are liars to some extent, I get that.  But when Bill Clinton looks honest by comparison, there is definately a problem.
 
All of the problems, all of the non-vetting, all of the corruption coming to light, with everything going on this administration, indeed Washington, has become a parody of itself.  It's almost to the point that laughing at the hypocrisy and the double standards doesn't even make a dent anymore.  What's worse is that no one seems to care.  At least there is little reporting that people care.  Oh they care about getting whatever goody Uncle Obama has promised them; there is no shortage of those stories.  Yet there is damn little reporting about what this is going to cost, not just financially but what is the cost going to be to this country's soul?
 
My daughter read me a quote she got from school yesterday.  Frankly I was a bit shocked she was given this in a public school history class.  It seems at least her school here in San Antonio hasn't fallen completely to liberal pieces:  A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.  The quote is attributed to Alexander Tyler.  Considering what is going on with our country now, it is dead on target.
 
Can you see it coming?  Can you perhaps feel our nation is on the verge of some big something - almost definately bad?
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Protesting Home Foreclosures - The Chicago Way

Posted by Catmman on Friday, February 20, 2009 12:11:59 PM
ACORN thugs break into a foreclosed home and 're-install' the previous 'owner'.  The 'owner' couldn't afford her mortage, was foreclosed on and evicted from the house.  Thems the breaks, right?  Not in this age of gang thuggery and anarchy maquerading as 'community organization'.
 
A community organization breaks into a foreclosed home in what they are calling an act of civil disobedience.
 
The group wants to train homeowners facing eviction on peaceful ways they can remain in their homes.
 
Derek Valcourt reports their actions are not without controversy.
 
Near Patterson Park, the padlock on the door and the sign in the window tells part of Donna Hanks foreclosure story.
 
“The mortgage went up $300 in one month,” said Hanks, former homeowner.
 
She says the bank refused to modify her loan and foreclosed, kicking her out of the house in September.
 
The community group ACORN calls Hanks a victim of predatory lending.

“This is our house now,” said Louis Beverly, ACORN.
 
And on Thursday afternoon, they literally broke the foreclosure padlock right off the front door and then broke into the house, letting Hanks back in for the first time in months.
 
'Civil disobedience'?  How about Theft?  Trespassing?  Destruction of private property?  Any of a myriad of other charges which should be levied against these anarchist cretins!
 
Is this the first shot in a wider cultural conflict?  What will you do, what will any of us do, if this begins to spread or creep into our own neighborhoods?  If the civil authorities don't deal with this swiftly and appropriately you can bet further lawlessnes, in fact probably more emboldened acts, will continue and arise in other areas across the country.
 
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NY Post: "Eff-Off you hyper-sensitive dolts!"

Posted by Catmman on Friday, February 20, 2009 9:42:44 AM
The best 'apology' for a non-incident I've ever seen (in its entirety):
 
Wednesday's Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday's police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut - has created considerable controversy.
 
It shows two police officers standing over the chimp's body: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," one officer says.
 
It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill.
 
Period.
 
But it has been taken as something else - as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism.
 
This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.
 
However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past - and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.
 
To them, no apology is due.
 
Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon - even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.
 
Refreshing, isn't it?  Someone, finally, with an apology that works - appropriately aplogetic for offending those who may have been genuinely affected, and telling all the others where to go in just the right language.  No fawning, groveling "we're sorry" to the race hustlers like Sharpton who I'm sure was expecting to get just that - some kind of political or financial payback.
 
Good for you NY Post! 
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CO2 regulation coming, hello price increases

Posted by Catmman on Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:06:46 PM
If what Obama has done so far is considered "centrist" or "moderate", I don't want to see what he does as a Leftist:
 
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials.
 
I like the "other greenhouse gasses" added in there.  The power the EPA will yield just in the area of regulation for CO2 is enough to make Stalin or Mao 'green' with envy.  By also regulating "other" GHG's the EPA will effectively control through regulation, any emission, of any gas, from any source. 
 
The increased cost of goods and services is only the tip of the iceberg.  The current spike in inflation was driven primarily through increases in energy cost.  Wait until CO2 and "other" GHG emission regulation kicks in.  Costs, and inflation, will go off the charts.  What kind of sense does it make to do this with its obvious consequences when the economy is already on the edge?  
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Inflation finally arrives

Posted by Catmman on Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:53:39 AM
Inflation at the wholesale level surged unexpectedly in January, reflecting sharply higher prices for gasoline and other energy products.
The Labor Department said Thursday that wholesale prices increased by 0.8 percent last month, the biggest gain since last July and well above the 0.2 percent increase that economists had expected.
 
The acceleration was led by a 3.7 percent surge in energy prices with gasoline prices jumping by 15 percent, the biggest gain in 14 months.
 
The article concludes that this won't be an issue since the government will be able to take care of inflationary pressure once the econmy rebounds.  Maybe.
 
The way things are going in government, especially with the economy, let me ask you a question:  do you think it more likely the government will take care of things and inflation won't become more of an issue, or not?
 
Given the governments performance of late, well, never mind. 
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Extinct Species Ironic Story of the Day

Posted by Catmman on Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:31:45 AM
Ironic, not because the species of bird wasn't actually extinct, but that after finding the supposedly previously thought extinct bird - the bird was then eaten.
 
Philippines bird photo
Hmmm, non-extinct bird...grrglgrrrrgllgrrgll
 
No word if the bird is now extinct.
 
Heh.
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A swastika for thee, but not for me

Posted by Catmman on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:37:47 AM
Remember the heady days when political speech, especially leftist political speech, was the "highest form of patriotism", "thie highest form of dissent"?
 
Remember there were no catcalls from the Left about all of the nazi imagery and rhetoric directed at President Bush?  "Bushitler!", "Chimpy McBushitler!" or just the plain "Bush is Hitler!"?
 
How about the imagery:
 
 
 
 
It appears the Left was perfectly happy being the vanguard of the nazi imagery when aimed at their adversary Bush.  Now that the shoe is on the other foot, they don't like what they are seeing.  Amazingly (but not surprisingly) there is no mention of (nor showing of) the myriad examples when the Left did the very same thing.
 
Michelle Malkin has a great post illustrating the absurd hypocrisy of the Left on this issue.
 
Personally I feel the use of this imagery is adolsecnet to say the least.  The use of this imagery as it has been continuously used also detracts from the true horrors of what the Nazis actually did during their reign in Germany.  It desensitizes people to the actual atrocities.  It converts an actual symbol of terror to a 'snappy' campaign slogan.  It's use also underscores the misunderstanding, intentional or not, of history and purposefully attempts to persuade addle brained, non-informed people there is some actual connection between Hitler, the Nazis, and people who have what used to be known as a simple political disagreement.  Whether from the Left or the Right, the use of the swastika is simply stupid.  Obama (nor Bush) are Nazis. 
 
Of course anyone regardless of their political stripes is free to use said imagery, the 1st Amendment protects it after all.  People should exercise a bit more sense in the exercise of their rights however.  We expect such behavior from Lefties.  Those of us on the Right should be more aware of what we're doing. 
 
(H/T: Michelle Malkin.  Images from Michellemalkin.com)
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The Encapsulation of the Obama Fraud

Posted by Catmman on Monday, February 16, 2009 11:44:22 AM
Everything wrong with the Obama presidency explained in this real world scam.

Those Obama coins, one of them actually referred to as "The Coin of Change" are fake; simply regular coinage plastered with an Obama sticker.  More here.

Yeah it's upsetting to see this scam being practiced, yet it also is completely apropos to what the man truly is - a fraud.  I also get a kick out of the Obamabots who are wasting hard earned cash paying $20 dollars for $2 bucks worth of crap, all for the sake of "history".  Funny how those who would buy this phony garbage also voted for the phony himself.  The typical Obama supporter seems to have an ingrained need to continue to buy a 'bill of goods'.  Ironic, that.

P.T. Barnum is smiling somewhere...

(H/T: Jawa)
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Setting the stage for the next 'Stimulus'

Posted by Catmman on Friday, February 13, 2009 12:42:13 PM
The current 'debate' over the $800 billion (computed with interest over $1.2 Trillion) economic stimulus is just the beginning folks.

Add to that the following:

The $200 billion (roughly) tax rebate from 2008.

The $700 billion TARP from the fall of 2008.

TARP II is coming, it's only a matter of time.  Cost for the next "bank bailout" could range from $500 billion to $3.5 trillion.

Don't forget that these bills are outside the normal budget of the United States which is (roughly) $1 trillion a year.  Using the low end of projections of the projected 'stimulus', legislation already passed from 2008 and this years budget, our country is on the hook for roughly $3 trillion (without interest) dollars since the summer of 2008.  Again:  The United States has 'spent' $3 trillion dollars in less than a a year.  This number also doesn't take into account any further "supplemental" spending such as with war funding which is also outside the current budget and debate on 'stimulus'.

If you compute all of the debt Uncle Sugar is currently on the hook for and compare to past years deficits, this is what you get.  That extremely low number is just for 2009!

The government is going to come to the trough again.  And again.  And again

When are we going to say enough is enough?
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Ohhh, to be a nomad once again...

Posted by Catmman on Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:12:45 PM
Until about 10,000 years ago there were few, if any, permanent homes or villages. People moved around all the time, from place to place.
 
*Sigh*  How does that life sound to you?  No more paying bills, no more worrying about taking care of a home, no more worrying about school, no more worrying about anything it would seem.  Living the carefree life of a nomad with nary a care in the world if you read this piece of complete and utter shinola.   If you read this article, you will come away with the impression that living hand to mouth, barely subsisting from day to day is something we should all aspire to.  My personal opinion is that the "Greens" have that very thing in mind.
 
The author gives no credit to how technology, science, reason, medicine, etc. have given us the ability to not have to worry about lving from day to day, scratching a living from the surrounding area.  There is also no aknowledgment that it is these very inoovations by man which have increase like expectancy and is allowing this moron to write such drivel instead of him spending his time fighting his neighbors for an ear of corn to feed his child.
 
No understanding that his own article completely refutes the concept or 'organic' or 'living off the land' by stating that man in this 'natural' state could only support a population of around five million people!  The use of farming, modern chemicals, pesticides, machinery, etc have allowed for an increase many orders of magnitude higher in the quality of life of humanity that that experienced 10,000 years ago.  We have through our own willpower developed the means to sustain ourselves comfortably, living a relative life of luxury as opposed to our ancestors.
 
Were the people living this wandering, possession-free lifestyle happy with their lot? We cannot know. But it is interesting to note that before people started living in towns and making weapons out of metals like copper, bronze and iron there is little evidence of extensive warfare or violence.  The author obviously never read anything about the American Indian, who maintained such a nomadic lifestyle well into the 19th century.  The American Indian was a peaceful people because they shared stuff?  Read more history books, moron. 
 
This article is full of  Gaia-worship psycho-babble belying the true intent of the author - advocate for a lifestyle of privation, want and fewer people.  But hey, at least the Earth will be able to "restore, recover, renew."  Let's all institute the futuristic "Carousel" and "renew"ourselves!
 
We should be giving a big "Hooray!" for technology and the wonders of man's mind as opposed to trashing our current existence by advocating for a return to privation and primitivness.
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