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Category: Liberals suck

  • Too little too late

    A shocking bit of news from the Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell this week. It seems she thinks that the Post was a little too easy on Obama over this year.

    But Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got, especially of his undergraduate years, his start in Chicago and his relationship with Antoin “Tony” Rezko, who was convicted this year of influence-peddling in Chicago. The Post did nothing on Obama’s acknowledged drug use as a teenager.

    Oh, no kidding? Ya think? Spend a little too much time trying to dig up crap on the Republican candidates that on the guy who was paling around with terrorists, felons and racists? Oh, and maybe they weren’t tough enough on on Joe Biden, too;

    One gaping hole in coverage involved Joe Biden, Obama’s running mate. When Gov. Sarah Palin was nominated for vice president, reporters were booking the next flight to Alaska. Some readers thought The Post went over Palin with a fine-tooth comb and neglected Biden. They are right; it was a serious omission.

    And, as Newbusters Matthew Balan wrote, other reporters are starting to mention how creepy the Obama culture of personality suddenly seems – but they didn’t notice until he gave his victory speech.

    I suspect between now and January we’re going to see a bunch of admissions of bad behavior from the media – but they’ll trickle out and they’ll be empty admissions with no apologies. But will they change their behavior?

    Found at doubleplusundead.

  • Emanuel skips out on taxes?

    Lawhawk wrote yesterday that Rahm Emanuel is steeped in the mortgage crisis at Freddie Mac as a member of the board of that entity;

    Emanuel was on the board of Freddie Mac when Freddie Mac was cooking the books. He didn’t blow the whistle on the situation or the fact that the entity was about to go broke over the subprime mess, which he and his fellow Democrats chose to ignore for years in the name of affordable housing. As ABC News now reports:

    President-elect Barack Obama’s newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot “red flags,” according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com.

    According to a complaint later filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Freddie Mac, known formally as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002.

    No one has accused Emanuel of wrongdoing in those complaints, but one really ought to question his judgment and inability to note the serious problems facing Freddie Mac.

    Reading it reminded me of a piece that Rurik emailed me the other day, so when I went to the article I had just read yesterday, I bumped into this;

    Through the magic of the internet, though, I tracked down a cached copy;

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  • How times change

    Remember when this was hip;
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    That was a picture I took just this last March.

    This was in April;

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    And this was in July;

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    Upside down flags were the way the Left showed their displeasure with the Bush Administration.

    Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim discovers that it’s not so cool any more since Tuesday;

    Veteran Lou Schrader of Las Cruces, New Mexico flew his flag upside down on Wednesday in protest of Barack Obama winning the presidency.
    This alarmed his liberal neighbors.
    The Sun-News reported:

    “Now that there’s an African-American president, he’s protesting the U.S., and I think it’s funny because, if you love your country, you love it no matter what.”

    Kollaros said he backs freedom of speech, but flying the flag upside-down shouldn’t be done lightly because it could send the wrong message.

    “We’ve got to be careful about how we do that, because we don’t want to offend people,” he said.

    I’m not saying I support Mister Schrader’s flying the flag upside down, but I think it’s pretty hypocritical of the Left to pick and choose when they’re going to get a bout of patriotism. The flag represents the people, the nation, not the party that resides at the White House.

    Stable Hand at The Jawa Report writes about similar sentiments in Seattle of all places;

    I shall now call them phony f’n patriots.

    “Red, White & True Blue: City Hoists Old Glory

    Barack Obama’s presidential win held a poignant significance for liberal Seattleites: This is their America, too.

    The feeling was evident in jubilant partying in the streets, in quiet moments of reflection and in blossoms of red, white and blue.

    With newfound patriotism, Seattleites want to wave the flag, hang it from their homes and stick it on their cars.

    I wonder what Skye will encounter in West Chester, PA this weekend.

  • Coming for the children

    Gateway Pundit writes this morning that Obama has outlined his plan to indoctinate the children into community service (so they, too, can be President someday) by requiring 50 hours every year for elementary and high school students and 100 hours every year for college students.  Again, more examples of what IS NOT charity – government-mandated work is not service to the community.

    The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America,

    JammieWearingFool also writes that Rahm Emanuel is on the same sheet of music with what Emanuel calls “The Real Patriot Act”

    Here’s how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They’ll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we’re hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities’ most pressing needs.

    What do I have against “community service”? Nothing. Anyone who volunteers their time is an exceptional person and commands my respect. But forced service? In the name of the community? It’s nothing short of collectivism – it assumes that we’re all the same, that we all just lay around watching TV and playing video games. That we all react the same way to the blessings of the Obama Messiah.

    And what happens when the shine wears off the new program – when people stop showing up for their mandatory charity? Fines? Jail time? Re-education camps? Another aspect of our lives regulated? Will we then have to form an enforcement agency and a network of tattletales to inform on shirkers?

    What have we created here?

  • Cry havoc and let loose the regulators

    The Washington Post runs an article this morning entitled “Widespread complaints about a ruderless government” and it’s basically about the Federal workforce whining that they haven’t been able to regulate the private sector for eight years.

    When President Obama takes over in January as manager-in-chief of nearly 2 million federal employees, he will need a plan to reinvigorate a frustrated and demoralized workforce, career employees warn.

    In numerous agencies, federal civil servants complain that they have been thwarted for months or even years from doing the government jobs they were hired to do. Federal workers have told presidential transition leaders they feel rudderless, their morale impacted by the Bush administration’s opposition to industry regulation, steep budget cuts or the departures many months ago of Bush political appointees.

    I guess that’s another of the low bars the media ex[ects Obama to step over – writing enough regulations to keep the federal reg writers busy. Well, if they haven’t been busy in the last eight years, why have eight more volumes been added to the Code of Federal Regulations since 2000 – that’s an average of one every year. Sounds like the regulators have been busy all along, doesn’t it?

    Then, as if we, the reading public, are complete imbeciles, the Post adds this to the article;

    Federal employees said that they are not a passionately partisan group, but some are hopeful about an Obama presidency, assuming that their lot will improve. Several took heart from Obama’s campaign trail statements that he wanted to make federal government work “cool again.”

    Not “passionately partisan”? Funny, but the reports I got was that there was a pall over many offices after the 2004 election as if someone had died. Many offices had to have their arms twisted to post the usual photographs of the President and Vice President in 2000. I’ll betcha that Obama’s picture will be up before the Inauguration.

    The thing is, the government regulates nearly everything – I once found a diagram in the regs that specifically lays out the dimensions for theater seats – and every time the government writes a regulation, someone looses at least a little bit of their liberty. To me, federal employees gleeful about the prospect of writing more regulations is a very, very bad thing. It’s too bad the Post, which claims to  be part of the free media and watchdogs of the people, doesn’t think so, as well.

  • My America doesn’t wave Soviet flags

    The other day, when he accepted the Presidency, Obama said he wanted to be president of all of us, John McCain said Obama would be his president, too. But folks in my America don’t wave the flag of the Soviet Union at Obama celebrations, here’s the video I found at Michelle Malkin‘s;

    And a screen shot from the video;

    It really makes you wonder what these little halfwits were thinking when they pulled the lever for Obama. We’re not supposed to question their patriotism, they’re the first to tell us that they love country (although they wouldn’t go out of their way to serve the country in any capacity) yet, apparently, they want to do everything they can to change the country into something it was never intended to be.

    I don’t see anyone telling this goofbal to put the flag down, I see smiling faces. I’d like to see my new president tell these uneducated little wantwits that this is unacceptable behavior for a celebration of his winning the highest office in our country.

    I wasn’t going to go to the Inauguration, just because it’s usually held in the worst weather, but I don’t see how I can’t go now just to record this nonesense for posterity.

  • The shallow end of the Obama Brain Pool

    Back in May, MSNBC floated the idea of John Kerry for Secretary of State for the Obama Administration;

    Kerry aides insist he’s not angling for the job and point to his long involvement in foreign affairs. It started with his famous testimony as a 27-year-old veteran questioning the Vietnam War before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It continues today, at age 64, as the No. 3 Democrat on the same panel.

    But envisioning him in the post would hardly be a stretch given Obama’s chances at securing the Democratic nomination, a general election shaping up as a “change” campaign and Kerry’s relationship with the Illinois senator.

    Political floated the same rumor later that week, but Kerry dismissed the rumors;

    Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) dismissed media reports that he is angling to become America’s top diplomat, saying Monday that rumors linking him to the secretary of state post in a potential Obama administration were nothing more than “silly talk.”

    Silly talk indeed. His qualifications include unauthorized negotiations with our enemies North Vietnam and Nicaragua. Why would we ant to legitimize that behavior? Not to mention his tendency for “failed jokes”.

    McQ of Q and O said just a few weeks ago;

    Can you even begin to imagine Kerry as Secretary of State with Joe Biden as VP and those two making up the foreign policy brain trust for Obama?

    No, I can’t. Making Kerry Secretary of State would be just like making Sandy Berger the Archivist of the United States. However, there is an upside to Kerry leaving his Senate post, in that Kerry would leave his Senate post. Long term, it could be better for the country – even better would be naming him as the US Ambassador to Vermont.
    Crossposted at Four Horsemen of the Obacalypse.

  • Matthis Chiroux wannabe pops up

    We’ve got a new one who has refused his call-up from the Individual Ready Reserve, Benji Lewis who was discharged from active duty to the IRR in 2007. He was recalled earlier this year and he’s refused to report to complete his legal obligation to the Marines. He served honorably for two tours in Iraq and now he’s decided to make some kind of statement by potentially wiping out that honorable service.

    Let me explain the discharge thing before I have a deja vu moment with Army Sergeant all over again.

    A member of the military signs up for an eight year commitment, four or six years is usually on active duty, then they receive a DD 214 discharge certificate and they’re moved to the IRR for the remainder of their commitment. Servicemembers are made aware of this at the beginning of their service before they sign. The purpose of the two-year IRR service is in the case that the military might need their skills in the event manpower falls short the military has a pool of trained people from which to draw.

    When the two years of IRR is completed, they receive a final discharge. The first discharge is from active duty, not from further military responsibility. Like Matthis Chiroux, Lewis claims to be discharged, but it’s dishonest. Just like last year when Adam Kokesh tried to tell the world he’d been discharged but caught flak from the Marines when he wore his uniform in a protest while still under obligation to the military. His final discharge was a General Discharge even though he’d gotten an Honorable Discharge from active duty.

    You’d think that point would be clear by now, but apparently, it’s not.

    Anyway, Lewis writes this idiot screed about how he was misled by the Marines into thinking they were some sort of humanitarian organization and in his words;

    I joined because I wanted to help people. At the time I didn’t understand that the sole function of the military is the utter destruction of the individual. Furthermore, the fact that one is more likely to be punished than rewarded is a thick woolen blanket of oppression that stifles all humanitarianism, all creativity, and all individual thought.

    Tearing up yet? He describes boot camp;

    Boot Camp is full of this unwavering devotion to Flag, God, and Corps. Often we would start boot camp classes by watching footage of Iraqi buildings and people being destroyed to the tune of Drowning Pool’s ‘Let the Bodies hit the Floor.’

    Immediately after the longest basic training of all the military branches, where drill instructors broke me down in order to build me back up, the Marine Corps way, I found myself in Camp Pendleton, CA, at the School of Infantry (SOI). Here sleep was rare, though at least we weren’t ordered to put all our tent stakes into the squad bay’s running laundry dryers and sleep at attention on top of our blankets. Order was still strictly enforced. Inspections of all our personal belongings were common, and reprimands were more severe under the citation that our disobedience would not get us killed in Iraq, but by the persons to our right and to our left.

    Now, see I’ve heard plenty of times about this videos of war set to popular music stuff, but, having been a military instructor, I see no use for the practice. It would eat up more training time than it’s worth, so I call bullshit.

    And who knew that basic training was going to be so uncomfortable, huh? I thought it was like Summer Camp, but Lewis makes it sound hard. Why would it be so hard? Poor guy.

    How about this story from his time in Iraq;

    After a short time operating as a provisional rifle squad in Haditha, where we accomplished nothing but getting hit by an IED on our first patrol injuring a couple marines and reservists, we received orders to break out our mortars and head to Falluja in retaliation for the hanging of four U.S. contractors. This was it, we were mortar men and this was going to be what we were trained for!

    Few were excited, save for some officers and higher-ranking enlisted. Most looked at this as just another way we were getting screwed over by the “green weenie” as we affectionately referred to our beloved corps.

    What we were not told was that the four U.S. contractors were hung in retaliation for an assassination of a quadriplegic Cleric named Ahmed Yassin by Israel utilizing an American attack helicopter in the Gaza Strip. The Marine Corps does not find this information pertinent to disseminate to us lowly grunts.

    By some sort of circular logic, Lewis thinks it’s OK for terrorists to kill American citizens for the retribution of an act that didn’t involve anyone on either side of the actual retribution, didn’t happen within hundreds of miles of the dead cleric (who Lewis fails to mention was a co-founder of Hamas and was personally involved in directing suicide attacks against Israel despite his disabilities) and even though Lewis calls it an American helicopter that killed Yassin, he  was killed by an Israeli helicopter.

    So Lewis tries to blame the Marines for giving him incomplete and unnecessary information while he himself gives us false and incomplete information for his own purposes.

    I hope the military starts rounding these sociopaths up before they do more damage to our national security than they’ve already done. And I hope they toss them in the hoosegow before January, when I expect that they’ll be awarded medals for their “bravery”.