We’ve all known and had to deal with at least one serial liar in our lives but Barack Hussein Obama truly owns the label. One has to wonder how this guy can actually possess the unmitigated nerve to go in front of television cameras and spew this kind of absolute bullshit when it has become obvious Americans are onto him and want no part of his plans for the systematic dismantling of our country as we know it.
townhall.com–Visitors to Washington D.C. today got to hear what residents in Hamtramck and Dearborn, Michigan, as well as areas of London, Amsterdam and other Western cities already endure five times a day: The sound of amplified Muslim prayers lifted to Allah.
This time, the prayers reverberated over America’s front lawn as some 2,000 Muslims gathered for the Jummah Prayer on Capitol Hill: A Day of Islamic Unity. Promoters had planned for 50,000 but came nowhere near that.
Hadn’t you heard about this? If not, it’s probably because the media have been tight lipped, the better not to embarrass the One in the White House.
While some women in burkas were sighted in the crowd, there was no sign of Nancy Pelosi in a hijab, which she wore on her Middle East tour. The purpose of Friday’s event, according to its Website, was to “manifest Islam’s majestic spiritual principles” in chants echoing “off the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill.” Well, they probably didn’t carry that far. These are not church bells, folks.
This is the sound, however muted, of the world’s most aggressive religion rearing up and lyrically cooing its desire to master the world under Allah. Islam means, literally, Submission to Allah……
And tidings of comfort and joy from Harry Reid too. The Senate Majority Leader has decided that the last few days before Christmas are the opportune moment for a narrow majority of Democrats to stuff ObamaCare through the Senate to meet an arbitrary White House deadline. Barring some extraordinary reversal, it now seems as if they have the 60 votes they need to jump off this cliff, with one-seventh of the economy in tow. Mr. Obama promised a new era of transparent good government, yet on Saturday morning Mr. Reid threw out the 2,100-page bill that the world’s greatest deliberative body spent just 17 days debating and replaced it with a new “manager’s amendment” that was stapled together in covert partisan negotiations. Democrats are barely even bothering to pretend to care what’s in it, not that any Senator had the chance to digest it in the 38 hours before the first cloture vote at 1 a.m. this morning. After procedural motions that allow for no amendments, the final vote could come at 9 p.m. on December 24. Even in World War I there was a Christmas truce. [“A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve.” On a 60 Democrat ZERO Republican vote no less…ed]
Passing health reform could be a nightmare for Obama
Barack Obama’s quest for historic health-care legislation has turned into a parody of leadership. We usually associate presidential leadership with the pursuit of goals that, though initially unpopular, serve America’s long-term interests. Obama has reversed this. He’s championing increasingly unpopular legislation that threatens the country’s long-term interests. “This isn’t about me,” he likes to say, “I have great health insurance.” But of course, it is about him: about the legacy he covets as the president who achieved “universal” health insurance. He’ll be disappointed. Even if Congress passes legislation — a good bet — the finished product will fall far short of Obama’s extravagant promises. It will not cover everyone. [This ObamaCare crap never was about health insurance for everyone, it was ALL about the epitome of governmental control over every one of us…ed]
Health bill money for hospital sought by Dodd
A $100 million item for construction of a university hospital was inserted in the Senate health care bill at the request of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who faces a difficult re-election campaign, his office said Sunday night. The legislation leaves it up to the Health and Human Services Department to decide where the money should be spent, although spokesman Bryan DeAngelis said Dodd hopes to claim it for the University of Connecticut. The provision is included in a 383-page series of changes to the health care bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., outlined Saturday. Scattered throughout are numerous items sought by individual [Democrat] lawmakers, many of them directing money explicitly to programs or projects in their home states. [There is more to this than meets the eye as I doubt 100 million bones would pay for the foundation of the building let alone the entire construction costs of this blatant attempt to buy the worthless scumbag Dodd, who should be sitting in prison for his part in the foreclosure mess this country is going through, votes in his upcoming reelection bid…ed]
Cash for Cloture: Demcare bribe list, Pt. II
A month ago, I compiled Part I of the Demcare bribe list as Harry Reid rushed before Thanksgiving to secure his first cloture vote on the government health care takeover. (Quick re-cap: $300 million Louisiana Purchase for Landrieu; $300 million California doctor payments; AARP goodies; abortion and union lobby concessions.) Here’s Part II of the Cash for Cloture bribe list all in one handy place (hat tip again to my friend ChristinaKB for the apt phrase she first coined on November 21 for the Demcare wheeling and dealing). GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell alluded to all this backroom dealing on the floor early this morning before the cloture vote, but lamely refused to name names on the Senate floor. Screw Senate collegiality. Let the sun shine in. [Michelle Malkin has a running list of the slimeball Democrats involving in the “Cash for Cloture” scam taking place up there in that legislative cesspool called Capitol hill…ed]
Democrats Pin 2010 Hopes on Bill
Slumping in the polls and struggling to pass climate and financial legislation, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are counting on an historic health care victory to buoy their electoral prospects in 2010. But Republicans argued Sunday that the issue is breaking their way, and liberal infighting indicates the party leadership has to win back its base along with the larger electorate. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been telling Democrats a win on the health issue will reverse the slide in public opinion, just as passage of another controversial proposal, the North American Free Trade Agreement, lifted President Bill Clinton in the polls. [Earth to Democrats. The American people are overwhelmingly opposed to every piece of socialist Utopian dream legislation you are trying to foist upon us. Passing your leftists agenda on a strictly party line vote time and again because you think you know what’s best for the people you are supposed to be representing is not going to help your chances in 2010, believe me…ed]
Nearly 60 percent Say President Obama’s Decisions ‘Bad for America’
A majority of Americans believe an increased government role in health care would lead to more government corruption, while a plurality of Americans think that scientific data supporting man-made global warming is “mostly falsified.” That is what a new poll by Survey USA reveals. The poll also shows that 58 percent of Americans believe that decisions by the Obama administration have been “bad for America,” as opposed to 37 percent who think Obama’s decisions have been “good for America.” [Lock and load folks, the second revolution is just around the corner…ed]
Kwanzaa creator a secular kook, convict
There are three aspects of Kwanzaa that most folks don’t know. First, most blacks DON’T celebrate the invented holiday. Secondly, very few non-Americans even know of its existence and finally, its inventor is a kook and a violent convict. Born Ron Everett, Maulana Karenga gave up what he calls his “European name” right about the time he began to adopt his Marxist, black nationalistic views in the 1960s, right around the time he invented Kwanzaa (Dec. 26, 1966), a week-long celebration focusing on African heritage and culture. You see, Karenga believes in black separatism and black isolationism. He’s a radical extremist; a member of the Black Power movement and founder of a group called Organization Us. [Like the global warming BS, a lie told often enough eventually becomes “reality.” Here’s a little history lesson on this silly kwanzaa nonsense…ed]
Obama And His Appointees Dismantling US
President Barack Hussein Obama is proceeding to destroy America and has opened up a six-front war to do so: [If you read nothing else today, set a few minutes aside for this one…ed]
President Barack Obama grimly warned America this week that if his health care plans fail, the nation will go “bankrupt.” Sure, adding another trillion-dollar entitlement program to our $12 trillion debt may seem like a counterintuitive way to stave off economic ruin, but who are we to argue? The president’s got smarts. And like with so many issues, Obama adorned his rhetoric with sharp warnings of calamity should he fail, fabricated consensus to buttress his case and a promise of rapture should he succeed. You’ll remember it was Obama who cautioned that failure to pass the stimulus boondoggle would “turn a crisis into a catastrophe.” He claimed that a failure to act on cap and trade will lead us to “irreversible catastrophe” and a failure to pass a government-run health care system will mean “more Americans dying every day.” It’s like living the Old Testament. Scary. [Just the other day Obama was bellowing how Americans shouldn’t listen to Republican “scare tactics” concerning his agenda yet everything out of this rube’s mouth is nothing but…ed]
It’s settled; climate circus was a fairy tale
The best summation of the UN climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Herald Sun: “Nothing is real in Copenhagen – not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the ‘solution’.” Just so. Reuters, for example, carried a moving account of the speech by Ian Fry, lead negotiator for Tuvalu, the beleaguered Pacific island nation soon to be under water because of a planet-devastating combination of your SUV and unsustainable bovine flatulence from Vermont farms. “The fate of my country rests in your hands,” Fry told the meeting. “I make this as a strong and impassioned plea … I woke this morning and I was crying and that was not easy for a grown man to admit,” he continued, “his voice choking with emotion,” in the Reuters reporter’s words. Who could fail to be moved? [Mark Steyn chimes in on the Nopenhagen nonsense…ed]
Another “Bad Air Day” for The One in Copenhagen!
Barack Obama just couldn’t catch a break in Copenhagen, or so it seems. On the heels of his mind-boggling humiliation at the hands of the IOC just weeks ago, our naive community organizer suffered another brutal day on the international stage while trying to convert hot air into green gold. Never at a loss for words when it comes to exaggerating his own importance and accomplishments, Obama shoved the naked truth into submission and declared Victory, with a capital V! “Unprecedented breakthrough” and “meaningful agreement” were the rich phrases words used by the president in describing his baby, which, as it turns out, is a non-binding verbal agreement that is hardly a breakthrough, and is unprecedented only in the amount of hot air and noxious fumes generated to make it sound meaningful. [Gotta love Canada Free Press for telling it like it is!…ed]
Copenhagen climate summit: ‘most important paper in the world’ is a glorified UN press release
When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney, when the blatant greed and self-interest of the participants has become obvious to all beholders, when those pesky polar bears just keep increasing and multiplying – what do you do? No contest: stop issuing three rainforests of press releases every day, change the heading to James Bond-style “Do not distribute” and “leak” a single copy, in the knowledge that human nature is programmed to interest itself in anything it imagines it is not supposed to see, whereas it would bin the same document unread if it were distributed openly. [This global warming scam has been fully exposed. Now if we could just find a way to get the 80% of the American public that isn’t paying attention to open their eyes before we all get royally screwed…ed]
WSJ/NBC News Poll: Tea Party Tops Democrats and Republicans
The loosely organized group made of up mostly conservative activists and independent voters that’s come to be known as the Tea Party movement currently boasts higher favorability ratings than either the Democratic or Republican Parties, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll coming out later today. More than four in 10, 41%, of respondents said they had a very or somewhat favorable view of the Tea Party movement, while 24% said they had a somewhat or very negative view of the group. The Tea Party movement gained notoriety over the summer following a series of protests in Washington, D.C. and other cities over government spending and other U.S. economic policies. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, which controls both the White House and Congress, has a 35% positive rating compared with a 45% negative rating. [Apparently all of the liberal and media smears against Americans sick and tired of the two major political parties, isn’t working…ed]
Democrats’ Blues Grow Deeper in New Poll
Less than a year after Inauguration Day, support for the Democratic Party continues to slump, amid a difficult economy and a wave of public discontent, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The findings underscored how dramatically the political landscape has changed during the Obama administration’s first year. In January, despite the recession and financial crisis, voters expressed optimism about the future, the new president enjoyed soaring approval ratings, and congressional leaders promised to swiftly pass his ambitious agenda. In December’s survey, for the first time, less than half of Americans approved of the job President Barack Obama was doing, marking a steeper first-year fall for this president than his recent predecessors. [Obama and his fellow liberals in Congress have awoken the sleeping giant in America. The productive hard working people in this country who bust their asses day in and day out and take care of their responsibilities are sick and tired of pulling the wagon full of those who don’t…ed]
Barack has no deaf-ense for a tin ear
Of all the surprises of President Obama’s first year, the biggest is his continuing tin ear for the mood of the country. He often appears clueless about what Americans want. Almost from the moment he stepped into the Oval Office, the man who smashed the Clinton machine and won an electoral landslide over John McCain seemed to lose his touch with the people who put him there. Some days, many days, he doesn’t look like he cares that big chunks of the country, left, right and center, are giving up on him. Voters by a large margin have said for months they don’t want the health-care overhaul he’s pushing, so he pushes harder. They want less spending and debt, so he doubles down on pork, bailouts, handouts and taxes. They thought he would deliver bipartisanship, and he gives his hard-left allies the keys to the kingdom. [Those that took the time to look into this Obama guy before he became president knew exactly what kind of man he was and we knew all along how much he and his wife hate this country…ed]
President Obama: Federal Government ‘Will Go Bankrupt’ if Health Care Costs Are Not Reined In
President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.” The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his health care reform effort fails. “If we don’t pass it, here’s the guarantee….your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you,” he said. “Potentially they’re going to drop your coverage, because they just can’t afford an increase of 25 percent, 30 percent in terms of the costs of providing health care to employees each and every year. “ [Obama gets more desperate by the day as virtually every poll shows the American public has caught on to the healthcare scam he is pushing the Democrats to sneak through Congress…ed]
GOP: Obama can’t act on climate without Congress
Republican lawmakers are telling President Barack Obama that he needs Congress to deliver on any commitments he makes to reduce global warming gases. Seven GOP senators said at a news conference Thursday that any pledges Obama makes in Copenhagen will require Senate approval. The Senate is unlikely to support an agreement that does not include China and other developing countries. The GOP lawmakers also said they would try to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases. [It’s very telling that someone has to remind the current president of the United States that the Constitution requires him to get the approval of two thirds of the Senate on any treaties or binding agreements he may commit this country to…ed]
A private Canadian company says it will plant 1,176 trees to offset the carbon emitted by Air Force One when it carries President Barack Obama to Copenhagen for the international climate conference. President Obama will travel 3,979 miles to Denmark on Friday, Dec. 18, and Air Force One will emit an estimated 196 tons of carbon on that trip, said LimeGreen Earth, Inc., in a news release.
“By offsetting President Obama’s carbon emission, we are setting a precedent for the global community,” said the company’s president, Andrew Thomas. “It is up to every individual to do their part to eliminate carbon emissions. There is no one better to lead this revolution than the President of the United States of America.” [Another stupid useless stunt by a bunch of Canadian liberals that means absolutely nothing but they must have forgotten about the “spare” Air Force One that will be trailing Obama and the litany of support vehicles that will accompany The Won on his little trip…ed]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading a large delegation on at least two Air Force jets to Copenhagen for the climate summit — where participants harshly condemn the use of jet airplanes for the high amounts of CO2 they emit. “This may be the largest congressional delegation I have ever heard of,” said a source at the 89th Air Wing stationed at Andrews Air Force Base of the trip to the UN summit, which is increasingly being criticized as a farce. Using her authority as speaker, Pelosi reserved at least two jets based at Andrews AFB to fly her and her delegation to Denmark for the final days of the two-week conference. (SNIP) “Climate change is a religion for them, so there was no way they were going to miss this,” said one top GOP aide. “This is their Hajj.” [How cool would it be to hear Pelosi’s plane ran out of gas over the Atlantic with her and her Democrat party contingent the only ones without parachutes?…ed]
Not So Private Property?: Clean Water Restoration Act Raises Fears of Land Grab
Upwards of 40 percent of all land in the United States is already under some form of government control or ownership — 800 million to 900 million acres out of America’s total 2.2 billion acres. The government now appears poised to wield greater control over private property on a number of fronts. The battle over private property rights has intensified since 2005, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Kelo v. City of New London case that the government could take property from one group of private landowners and give it to another. Outraged over that ruling and a series of recent efforts by government to wield greater control over private property, citizens are fighting back. [As usual the lamestream media will gloss right over this story and most of the American people will have no idea about the long running federal government plan to steal land from private property owners…ed]
Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don’t add up
There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row. Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.” [Al Gore, once again, gets caught in an outright lie over this global warming hoax. When someone has to constantly rely on providing false information to “make their point” perhaps the issue they are pushing is as phony as they are…ed]
Copenhagen summit carbon footprint biggest ever: report
The Copenhagen climate talks will generate more carbon emissions than any previous climate conference, equivalent to the annual output of over half a million Ethiopians, figures commissioned by hosts Denmark show. Delegates, journalists, activists and observers from almost 200 countries have gathered at the Dec 7-18 summit and their travel and work will create 46,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, most of it from their flights. This would fill nearly 10,000 Olympic swimming pools, and is the same amount produced each year by 2,300 Americans or 660,000 Ethiopians — the vast difference is due to the huge gap in consumption patterns in the two countries — according to U.S. government statistics about per person emissions in 2006. [The blatant hypocrisy of these global warming nutjobs never ceases to amaze…ed]
Relief from rotten calls in Denmark
Barack Obama is eager to return to Copenhagen, where he couldn’t rescue the Olympics for Chicago, for a dramatic last-minute liberation of the world just before we all sink into a boiling sea with the polar bears. Money is no object, of course. On Monday, the “developing countries” of the world – these countries were once called “the Third World” until someone came up with better marketing – demanded that “the rich countries” put more loot in their begging bowls. [JARG is hell bent on bringing the truth to the masses about this global warming scam…ed]
Plug-in hybrid hype gets zapped
If you want to save big money on fuel and create a cleaner environment by buying a new, hot off the production line plug-in hybrid, you’d better hold your horses. For at least a couple of decades, plug-in hybrid vehicles are likely to cost too much for drivers to earn any financial benefit, according to a government advisory group. High battery costs are the main culprit, according to a National Research Council report. Also, Americans shouldn’t expect a big environmental impact from these vehicles even if they’re very successful with consumers, the report said. [Another great example of liberal “feel good” nonsense blowing up in their faces…ed]
Energy-efficient traffic lights can’t melt snow
Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don’t burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm — a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death. “I’ve never had to put up with this in the past,” said Duane Kassens, a driver from West Bend who got into a fender-bender recently because he couldn’t see the lights. “The police officer told me the new lights weren’t melting the snow. How is that safe?” Many communities have switched to LED bulbs in their traffic lights because they use 90 percent less energy than the old incandescent variety, last far longer and save money. Their great advantage is also their drawback: They do not waste energy by producing heat. [Perhaps the enviroweenies can get together and send crews out to install little windmills on top of traffic signals in order to generate enough power to melt the snow and ice which will ensure no more innocent motorists die needlessly…ed]
President Obama tells Oprah Winfrey: I deserve a B+ for my first 11 months in White House
President Obama told Oprah Winfrey on Sunday night he gives himself a “good, solid B-plus” for his first 11 months in the Oval Office. On what was billed as Oprah’s “White House Christmas Special,” Obama credited his administration with getting the economy on track, winding down the Iraq war and making the right call for a temporary surge in Afghanistan. He also said America has “reset” its prestige in the world and made progress toward halting development of nuclear weapons in Iran and North Korea. [Funny because I voted in the poll and only 9% of the respondents agreed with him while 53% gave the guy a straight up F…ed]
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18. That’s a one point improvement from yesterday when Obama’s Approval Index rating fell to the lowest level yet recorded. Prior to the past three days, the Approval Index had never fallen below -15 during Obama’s time in office. [While Obama tries to give himself a B+ for his fabulous job performance to date, the voters in this country see things in a much different manner as the president drops to his lowest poll numbers since taking office…ed]
Oops! Turns out Obama’s cost-cutting health plan won’t save a dime; cheaper to do nothing
It’s probably just coincidental that bad numbers about President Obama’s much-coveted healthcare legislation came out late last week when few people were paying attention. This is the absolutely crucial healthcare reform plan that simply had to be drafted, discussed, debated, amended and passed before early August. It’s supposed to cover millions more Americans and reduce the nation’s soaring medical costs. Turns out, not. Here’s a little chapter review before semester finals: Analysts in the Obama administration’s Health and Human Services Department reported Friday that the nation’s $2.5-trillion annual healthcare tab will not shrink at all under the Democrats’ legislative blueprint as being pushed by happy Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader in the Senate. [ObamaCare isn’t about costs, it’s all about complete control over the lives of all Americans…ed]
Lieberman resists Medicare buy-in plan
Risking the wrath of Democrats, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., threatened Sunday to join Republicans in opposing health care legislation if it permits uninsured individuals as young to 55 to purchase Medicare coverage. Lieberman, whose vote is critical to the bill’s prospects, expressed his opposition twice during the day: first in an interview with CBS, and more strongly later, according to Democratic officials, in a private meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Reid, who is hoping to pass the legislation by Christmas, needs 60 votes to overcome Republican objections, and has been counting on Lieberman to provide one. [Lieberman appears to be angling for some kind of major perk from the Democrats rather than standing on principle against the ObamaCare mess. We’ll see which way this fella swings when it comes down to brass tacks but I strongly suspect he’ll toe the line with the Democrats in screwing the American people…ed]
Democratic Civil Wars Likely as Left Weighs Primary Challenges Over Health
Democrats are having fun highlighting the “civil war” within the Republican Party, but their schadenfreude may be short-lived. Conservative and moderate Democrats are failing one liberal litmus test after another, stoking not just frustration on the left but also potential primary challenges. The list of those tests starts with the public option, a proposed government-sponsored health insurance plan that appears to be losing ground on Capitol Hill despite continued popularity in opinion polls. [Another “journalist” printing lies in order to assist the Democrats. To see just how “popular” this government run healthcare option is, don’t listen to the idiot who wrote this stupid article. Check out the actual polling in the next post…ed]
Fifty-six percent (56%) of U.S. voters now oppose the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the highest level of opposition found – reached three times before – in six months of polling. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 40% of voters favor the health care plan. Perhaps more significantly, 46% now Strongly Oppose the plan, compared to 19% who Strongly Favor it. [There ya have it folks…ed]
DHS takes action in bungled posting of airport security secrets
The Department of Homeland Security has initiated unspecified personnel actions against individuals involved in the bungled online posting this spring of a government document that revealed airport screening secrets, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told senators Wednesday morning. A contract employee was responsible for failing to properly redact a 93-page Transportation Security Administration operating manual onto a government procurement Web site, allowing computer users to recover blacked-out information by copying and pasting them into other documents, Napolitano said. TSA supervisors were also involved, Napolitano said. “The security of the traveling public has never been put at risk,” Napolitano assured the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing, repeating earlier TSA statements that the document was out of date, never implemented and had been subjected to six revisions after the breach. [One has to wonder why the highly sensitive security procedures for our airports was placed on the internet in the first place whether it was properly redacted or not. Who are the unnamed people responsible for this? Why is Napolitano acting like the information now widely available to anyone with access to the ‘net is no big deal when it is full of procedures terrorists would love to get their hands on? I know, I’ve read the thing…ed]
N.J. fugitive was working for homeland security office in Georgia, authorities say
A New Jersey fugitive wanted on insurance fraud charges since 2007 was working for the immigration division of the Department of Homeland Security in Georgia, despite a nation-wide alert for her arrest, Essex County prosecutors said today. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Atlanta was unaware that Tahaya Buchanan, 39, formerly of Newark, was being sought on a 2007 indictment on charges she staged the theft of her Range Rover in Newark for an insurance pay-out, said Paul Loriquet of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. [Looks like we have another one of those affirmative action hires, obviously brought on board without much of a background check, in an important government position that didn’t pan out so well…ed]
Barack Obama to miss most of Nobel Peace Prize events
The US president has turned down an invitation to lunch with the king of Norway, will not hold a press conference nor attend the Nobel concert held in his honour the day after the prize ceremony. Mr Obama is due to arrive in Oslo in the morning and will stay in the Norwegian capital for less than 24 hours. The official Nobel programme is usually spread out over three days. His decision is thought to be fuelled by embarrassment over being given the award so early in his presidency and a wish to avoid a public backlash in the US. But his decision to pull out of parts of large sections of the programme has been taken as a snub in Norway. Polls suggest the Norwegians are deeply unimpressed by his decision not to make more of the visit. [It is my humble opinion that the narcissist Barack Hussein Obama is utterly incapable of feeling embarrassed over anything but yes, he has done absolutely nothing to warrant what has long ago become little more than a joke, the Nobel Peace prize…ed]
Public support for the war in Afghanistan is up nine percentage points in the last three weeks, as American voters say 57 – 35 percent that fighting the war is the right thing to do. Approval of President Barack Obama’s handling of the war is up seven points in the same period, from a 38 – 49 percent negative November 18 to a 45 – 45 percent split, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. (SNIP) “It’s probably a good thing for President Obama that the time difference from Norway means the Nobel presentation will occur while most Americans are sleeping and might get less coverage in the United States,” Brown added. “Two out of three Americans don’t think he deserves it compared to the quarter who do. Even among Democrats, only 49 percent think he deserves it, compared to 8 percent of Republicans and 19 percent of independent voters. As is the case with many questions related to the President there are wide gender and racial gaps.” Among women, 31 percent think Obama deserves the award, compared to only 19 percent of men. Seventy-three percent of blacks, 29 percent of Hispanics and 18 percent of whites think so. [I would love to hear the reason those 26% think Obama deserves the Nobel prize especially now that he has FINALLY approved an additional 30,000 troops for the Afghanistan war…ed]
The other day, I wrote that President Obama has “run out of both charm and ideas.” I was too kind. To judge from the string of whoppers in his dreary jobs speech yesterday, he’s also run out of facts. And he’s still whining about the problems he inherited and blaming Republicans. He might as well be barking at the moon. That’s sort of what he is doing, because the American people are tuning him out at a stunning pace. The latest Gallup Poll gives him a record low 47 percent approval. Only 26 percent in another poll say he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Naturally, his press secretary attacks the pollsters, likening them to children with crayons. And Obama plunges on with his blame-game act. It’s tired, unpresidential and ineffective, all the more so because he’s banking on a bill of goods to prop himself up. [You know sniveling little whiners like Obama who always blame others for everything that happens and never take responsibility for anything that goes wrong. You work with them. You are related to them. You live next door to them. You HATE them, you know you do…ed]
Giant iceberg heading for Australia
The mammoth chunk of ice, which measures 12 miles long and five miles wide, was spotted floating surprisingly close to the mainland by scientists at the Australian Antarctic Division (ADD). Known as B17B, it is currently drifting 1,000 miles from Australia’s west coast and is moving gradually north with the ocean current and prevailing wind. Dr Neal Young, a glaciologist working for the ADD, said that if the iceberg eventually reached Australia waters, it would crash into the continental shelf causing a magnitude three to to four tremor. [Global warming created this geenormous berg. Honest, just ask Al Gore…ed]
