Who is Samantha Power and why should I care?

Well, incredibly, it seems as if she may be one of the chief "behind the scenes" reasons why we are in Libya bombing our little hearts out!  Huh?

 

Samantha is President Obama's "National Security Advisor on Human Rights."  Supposedly, she has direct access to Obama on human rights issues.  What does that mean?  It means that she attended a function as the representative of the White House in November 2010 called the International Symposium on Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities.  Guess who's a member of the clique that makes the rounds of meetings like that?  How about none other than our good friend and world government proponent George "No Borders" Soros.

 

In her position in the Obama administration, Power argues for a doctrine dubbed the Responsibility to Protect.  This doctrine is being embraced as a governmental golden rule to justify the penetration of national borders to prevent the sort of atrocities, real and imagined, orchestrated by Gadhafi in Libya.  If you're a "No Borders" guy like Soros, how clever is it to support the implementation of a philosophy that mobilizes the entire might of the US military into a region without a formal declaration of war from the US Congress?  The previous sentence read backwards means "without the consent of the American people." 

 

Give the devil his due, Soros knows what he wants and knows how to get it.  Soros backs corrupt politicians who are ready to trade national sovereignty for campaign contributions leading to power.  Libya is a test by the Obama administration for future incursions like we are witnessing on the evening news.

 

John Boehner, Speaker of the House, seems to sense that there's a rat in the mill and is chastising Obama for US involvement in Libya without Congressional approval.  However laudable, Boehner's objections come as our planes are still flying over Libya, US war ships are still steaming in the Med and there's no telling which countries Obama may have in his sights next: Syria?  Yemen?  Bahrain?  Saudi Arabia?

 

Yes sir, Middle East chaos reigns supreme and that's just how Obama wants it!  Let's see, we still have Africa, South America, the Far East......

 

 

John P. Kuchta, Jr.

Virginia Beach, VA

Obama, Reid and Environmentalist to Blame (in part) for Jap Nuke Disaster!

Yes, President Obama by nixing funding and Senator Reid’s continual campaign against protecting the world from radioactive waste and the perpetual “what if’s” by environmentalists based on fear and not facts have helped lay the ground work for Japan’s Nuclear disaster.

"This is great news because it not only prevents Nevada from becoming the nation's nuclear dumping ground, it also protects hundreds of communities through which the waste would have had to travel in order to get to Yucca," said Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who represents Nevada, in a statement released Sunday on his website. (From csmonitor.com)

Japanese spent nuclear fuel (where there is more radioactive material then in the core) could have been safely transported and stored in one of the most researched and geological sound and safest places in America.  Instead of trucks, trains, boats and planes, a plume of radioactive dust will make its way to Yucca Mountain via the jet stream contaminating the Eastern coast of Japan and soon our American West coast and the Pacific Ocean.  

We could have even charged the Japanese for the storage of their waste.  Now we are going to spend untold millions to evacuate our citizens, move our ships and help clean up the mess!  Thank you Obama, Reid and environmentalists for being such great stewards of our environment, tax dollars and not listening to the professionals!

Did you know??

 Muslims don't wear jewelry at the conclusion of Ramadan to support the whole idea of denying themselves. 

Press conference on 10 Sept, the end of ramadan

... Just sayin...

An Open Letter To President Obama

An Open Letter To President Obama

  JEFFREY S. HOWARD 

 

    In today’s dangerous world, we need a president with experience, leadership and courage. Unfortunately, you have shown us little of those traits.  
   
Your childhood and younger years denied you the opportunity to grow up as an American man, and that is no fault of your own. Unfortunately, your lack of empathy for and experience of a traditional American upbringing has left you out of touch with those of us who grew up learning the traditions and work ethic of our predecessors.  
   
You have never accepted the honor of military service, or held and survived in any sort of entry-level working position. You are bereft of many of the basic building blocks of a true American personality and worldview.    

You have never experienced the icy hand of fear caressing your gut during a firefight when your very survival from second to second depends on your luck, wits, fellow troopers and the grace of God. You have never sweated out a payroll when your receivables are late.      

You’ve missed the rewarding feeling of flogging a loaded truck all night to deliver a load 500 miles away at 7 a.m. You never shoveled cow manure for less than minimum wage to earn enough for a rattletrap car. You missed out on greasing dump trucks on the night shift, and never had the opportunity to start out cleaning restrooms and sweeping floors in a factory.       

Your education was in the law, and you ignored any opportunity to absorb the lessons of history or the theories of economics. You have never experienced the law of the jungle in the private sector.     

While you play golf and basketball and surround yourself with “the swells” enjoying concerts in the People’s House, those of us in the general public dine on Spam and Costco burgers. I can’t put my wife on a 747 and send her to Spain so she can be ready to spend 10 days on Martha’s Vineyard when she gets back. She works seven days a week and so do I — spreading four full- and parttime jobs between us to make ends meet.     

I watch in pain while my business venture slides into oblivion and my small IRA erodes as your economic policies push the nation into a double-dip recession. This economy is locking up again, and you cannot blame former President Bush. The great construction jobs I created are ending while you pour trillions in borrowed money into the public sector to buy votes.

I blame you personally for appointing the ship of fools you have as Cabinet officials and advisers.      You are repeating the gross mistakes of Japan in the ’90s and the Roosevelt administration in the ’30s — both of which failed and lengthened severe economic problems for a decade or more. You are intentionally smothering our private sector with regulations, taxes and mandates at the same time you squander the wages and futures of our children and grandkids.      

I deplore your continued efforts to divide the greatest nation of immigrants in the world along race and class lines. Pandering to various groups and attempting to set them against other Americans is demagoguery at its worst. I sincerely hope such actions end up damaging you in the end and not our country.
   
You will leave office with a big pension, Secret Service protection and gold-plated health care for life. I may well end up with 40 years of hard work down the drain, living in a mobile home in the backwoods.  
   
I do not resent you for your good fortune — you worked hard to become president and won the election fair and square. I do, however, despise your policies and the damage they are visiting on our nation, its economy and our future. 

I have dedicated my remaining years to fighting you and your policies and protecting our children’s futures.  
  
I may well end up destroyed financially from the results of your misguided and dangerous actions — but you will never break me psychologically or crush my spirit. 

I am a Marine, I have a wonderful wife and family   , and last but not least, I live in the greatest nation in the world. I shall work to my last breath to keep it that way, and you, sir, shall fail to destroy that dream.    
 
Howard, a Marine Corps veteran, University of Washington graduate and heavyequipment supervisor for two decades, is now a developer with projects in Washington and Oregon.

Strong Leadership?

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Arizona Immigration Law

2.5 Million People cannot be wrong... can they?

From MSNSB.COM

"In July, Arizona will begin enforcing a new law that requires law enforcement officers to check someone’s immigration status if they have reason to suspect that he or she is in the country illegally. Do you think this is a good idea?"

Your vote counts as well

as of 1430Z 8 July 2010

Book Review "CATASTROPHE"

This one has been sitting on my to read book shelf for a while however I have finally sucked it down.  Now this was not a no brainer like the Bourne series where the 700 pages were devoured in just a few nights.  I actually payed attention to what Mr. Morris wrote.  

He has some valid points and some of his predictions did come true.  I would definitely take the time to add this to your summer leading list and be ready for the November midterm elections  by being informed.  That is one of the things the founding fathers wanted, was an educated population and electorate.  

Pay particular attention to Chapter 7 where the US taxpayer is giving financial aid to Hamas, and Chapter 14 where the Clinton's goofed and "gave" the oil industry an estimated $60 billion in lost royalty revenue!  You left wingers thought Bush/Cheney were in the bag for the oil industry!

This one will make you think!

"With breathless anticipation the crowd awaits the unveiling of the Obama Statue"

Oops!

Somebody know something we don't?!

From the American Thinker Blog

Anatomy of a Failed Presidency

   The following is an interesting article and I wonder how long Dr. Hunt can remain at NIH once the powers that be get wind of this article. 

 Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist.  He has had nearly 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research in the field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and the Principal Investigator on three National Institutes on Health projects. He is also a writer for American Thinker.
 

       Another Failed Presidency

      An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt 
      Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.  In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ.  Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out.

 Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party.  Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China

      But, Barack Obama is failing.  Failing big.  Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy  Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed.  Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.

      But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of precedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months?  His poll ratings are in free fall.  In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage.  This truly is unbelievable.  What's going on?

  No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative.  No, not a narrative about himself.  He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else.  But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us.  He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us.  All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are.  Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan. 

But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task--all contributory of course.  It's that he's not one of us.  And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper.

 Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience. 

 In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job.  Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012:

 "For those of you I offended, I apologize.  For those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have offended you too."

       Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive.  An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year.  With a new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.

      Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them.  The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along. 

       Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money." 

      "When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union

       "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus 

"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." - Unknown

der Präsident wird uns Toast

Even the Germans are more observant then our left wing media machine

 From Spiegel Online

US President Barack Obama suffered a painful defeat in Massachusetts on Tuesday. With mid-term elections looming, it means that Obama will have to fundamentally re-think his political course. German commentators say it is the end of hope.

US President Barack Obama has had a number of difficult weeks during his first year in the White House. Right after he took office, he had to wade through a week full of partisan bickering over his economic stimulus package combined with a tax scandal surrounding Tom Daschle, the man Obama had hoped would lead his health care reform team.

Then there was the last week of 2009, when a failed terror attack on a flight inbound for Detroit exposed major flaws in US efforts to identify and stop potential terrorists. This week, though -- a week when Obama should have been celebrating the first anniversary of his inauguration -- may have been the president's worst yet. Scott Brown, an almost unknown Republican member of the Massachusetts Senate, defeated the Democratic candidate Martha Coakley for the US Senate seat vacated by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. The defeat in a heavily Democratic state not only highlights Obama's massive loss of popular support during his first year in office, but it also could spell doom for his signature effort to reform the US health care system.
There were immediate calls for a suspension of health care votes in the Senate until Brown is sworn in. The loss of the Massachusetts seat means that the Democrats no longer control the 60 Senate seats necessary to avoid a filibuster. Obama's reform package, which aims to provide health insurance to most of the over 40 million Americans currently lacking coverage, may ultimately fail as a result.
More than that, though, the vote shows just how quickly the political pendulum has swung back to the right following Obama's election. The seat won by Brown had been in Democratic hands for all but six years since 1926. Now, its new occupant is a man who not only opposes the health care bill, but also favors waterboarding as a method of interrogation for terrorism suspects and rejects carbon cap-and-trade as a means of limiting carbon emissions.
The omen could be a dark one for the Obama administration heading into a mid-term election year. German commentators take a closer look.
Center-left daily Süddeutsche Zeitung writes on Thursday:
"Obama made a serious misjudgement. Right at the beginning of his first year in office, he saved the banks, rescued the automobile industry from collapse and passed a huge economic stimulus package. He had hoped that these enormous deeds would give him the space to address those issues which are dearest to him: health care reform, climate change and investment in education."
"Those issues, however, are clearly not priorities for people in the US at the moment. Scott Brown campaigned on two promises, both of which apparently struck a nerve with the electorate. He wants to block health care reform and he wants to find ways to reduce the enormous budget deficit. It is here where the roots of dissatisfaction with Obama are to be found. His reform agenda, in its current form, is highly suspect to Americans. And they have the impression that, if he continues piling up debt, he will be gambling away the country's future."
The Financial Times Deutschland writes:
"For Obama, the election in Massachusetts means that he will have to re-evaluate his political style. He could now focus his concentration on his political base and push through his policy agenda. After all, he still has a majority in Congress -- he could back away from his strategy of bipartisanship ... which would mean giving up much of what he spent his first year in office creating."
"More likely, however, is that Obama will interpret the Massachusetts loss as a signal that he should move further toward the middle and make more concessions to the conservatives -- even if this alienates his base even further, a base which had high expectations from the 'yes we can' candidate."
"For everyone else in the world, this means that they will have to bid farewell to a candidate for whom the hopes were so high. They will have to say goodbye to the charisma they fell in love with. Obama will be staying home after all."
The left-leaning daily Die Tageszeitung writes:
"In addition to health care reform, Obama's reputation has primarily been harmed by the high unemployment rate and the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan. It will become even more difficult in the future for the president to push projects through successfully. Not just because Republicans now have a means of preventing it, but also because the Democratic camp is deeply divided. Some would like to see the party shift toward the center -- wherever that may be -- whereas others want the party to position itself to the left. Such a battle is hardly a good sign for the mid-term elections in November. Massachusetts could prove to be an omen."
The center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes:
"Of course the president rejects the interpretation that the Massachusetts election was a referendum on his first year in the White House. But he cannot ignore the fact that his health care reform package is not popular, the situation of the country's finances is seen as threatening and many voters blame the high unemployment rate on the party in power -- on the Democrats, led by Obama. The result is a second year in office full of very different challenges than the first. To save what there is to be saved, Obama will have to be prepared to fashion a bipartisan compromise on health care -- a compromise with a Republican Party which has tasted blood and can now dream once again about a return to power."
-- Charles Hawley

PRESIDENT OBAMA, TALKING CRAP

Believe it or Not

The Obama Trifecta:

President Obama just completed the UNHOLY and ANTI-AMERICAN TRIFECTA:

1st president in 110 years to miss the annual Army-Navy Football Game.

1st president to not attend any Christmas religious observance.

1st president to stay on vacation after a terrorist attack.

A repost...

Like a re tweet but better cuz you can throw as much stuff up here as you want and are not limited like you are in twitter.

From our friend John who usually has his head screwed on correctly when it comes to business and politics. Please subscribe to his blog if you are so inclined.

"Rainy night and feeling vulnerable? If you really want to know just badly you're being taken, go to jkoped.blogspot.com to read about YOUR tax money going overseas to foreign bankers who should have known better! These guys are financial professionals who want you to pay for their mistakes.

Wonder why you're not getting any information about where TARP funds are going? It's going overseas and the DC "elite" don't want you to know. You and I are the part of the great unwashed that "doesn't need to know!"

John

Hail to the Chief?

"A tepid reception?"
From youtube.com

A worth while quote from a local.

Virginian Pilot, March 05, 2009 - ActivePaper Daily by Olive Software

THIS HELP ISN’T HELPING
I WISH PRESIDENT OBAMA would stop trying to help. Every time he goes on television, gives a speech or does an interview, the stock market drops. The more he helps, the worse the economy gets. My retirement cannot take any more. The economy cannot take any more. Please stop helping.

Scott Fager

Chesapeake

Tiger Woods in DC

You go Tiger! Thank you for supporting US!~