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Distractions
True, they should have used their heads for something more than an earpiece holder. *shakes head*
However, the distraction from serious issues is just one more tactic of the administration and media to, hopefully, get our minds on the small stuff, and ignore the BIG stuff. Sorry guys…it ain’t working! We still know Obama is the WORST PRESIDENT EVAH!
We still know, thanks to his socialist policies, the economy sucks. We still know that jobs are at a premium, and the actual unemployment rate is a whole lot higher than what y’all keep spouting. How ’bout counting those folks who have just given up? The real number is closer to 15% than 8. *cocking eyebrow* See, we aren’t all as stupid as you’d like to believe! And the list goes on! We ARE paying attention, so y’all just go on about your business, believing we buy into your crap.
Come November, y’all might be REAL surprised to find out…. WE, The People ain’t buyin’ your snake oil!
AFP Wasteful Spending Ad
Since Some Folks Have Comprehension Issues….
….I thought this graphic found on Heritage from the IRS might assist in their understanding of the issue:
You’ll also notice, that those in the middle ‘class’ bracket pay more than the tier above them. Wonder why that is? Because the government is doing it’s best to kill the “middle class”.
“MY Government”??????
One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in the face of Congressional obstructionism.
Obviously, someone else is going to have to pull this dude’s head out of his hinder, since he seems incapable of doing so himself. You see? This is why you do NOT elect a person who was not raised in the U.S. for ANY office. None. Zip. Zero. Since he evidently was never really taught what the Constitution actually says, he isn’t able to discern there is a ‘separation of powers’. No, he was not a Constitutional law professor. He did some lecturing, and honestly, I feel sorry for anyone who sat through his classes, which, by the way, were actually forced on the school, AFTER he was turned down for a job as adjunct. Shoot, he’s not even a flippin’ lawyer! He’s a liar!
Each time, Mr. Obama has emphasized the fact that he is bypassing lawmakers. When he announced a cut in refinancing fees for federally insured mortgages last month, for example, he said: “If Congress refuses to act, I’ve said that I’ll continue to do everything in my power to act without them.”
Obama has gone WAY beyond Teddy Roosevelt’s “strong president” view of ‘presidents may do anything not specifically prohibited by the Constitution.’ He’s totally ignored the Constitution, and played dictator with OUR lives. And isn’t it amazing that since the Republicans took over the House in 2011 (Jan), they’ve done absolutely NOTHING to stop this guy? Just sayin’. They should have started impeachment proceedings from day one, but alas….there is no spine in Congress, so we’ll have to 1) make sure he is NOT ‘re-elected’ (which I have doubts about the validity the first time around) or 2) we have such a CONSERVATIVE majority in both houses, that he can not even wipe his hind end without permission from WE, The People, and THEN start impeachment proceedings.
Either way, this guy MUST GO!
Ok, This HAD To Be Copy & Pasted!
If people don’t pull their heads out of their hinders, and take a good hard look at the criminals in charge of this country, then we will no longer have a country, and evil will have won.
Katie Pavlich, Fast & Furious BS, and Generation Scary
by Doug Giles
If you’re looking for light summer beach reading then do not, I repeat … do not … buy Katie Pavlich’s disturbing new book, Fast & Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up.
Further, if you want to live undisturbed in Obama la-la-land, you need to put your tennis shoes on and run away from this tome. Indeed, Pollyanna, this book will smash all the windows of your enchanted little cottage and grind your rose-colored Obama glasses into powder.
Fast & Furious parlays into the public arena the scurrilous way the ATF, at the behest of the DOJ, allowed thousands of weapons to get into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. These firearms, in turn—as anyone with even half a brain can imagine—were used to slaughter thousands of Mexicans and to take the lives of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and ICE’s Jaime Zapata.
WHAT?
I don’t usually post on Sunday morning. I’m too busy trying to get both eyes open so I can get ready for church, but when I saw a link to THIS on FB…..
Citing an increasing debt burden, Egan-Jones Ratings Co. downgrades the US credit rating another notch. This is the second time they have done this in 8 months.
Here is what the President Sean Egan said in a telephone interview:
Reason for downgrade: “the increasing debt load coupled with the fact that there has been no tangible progress in addressing the country’s growing debt to GDP”
“Unfortunately, the debt is growing fairly rapidly while the GDP is not.”
The debt has climbed 23.6% from 2008 to 2010.
What is Obama doing to address this? Probably taking a vacation or campaigning.
This is dated April 9. It’s now April 22. Am I the only one who never heard a word about another downgrade? I realize I haven’t been keeping up with the outside world as well as I should….too much going on…but seriously, I do watch the news once in a while, and if I heard about this, it evidently went in one ear, and out the other, which I find highly unlikely!
H/T: Lanie
Found On Facebook
Ok…this picture had all kinds of comments…yada…yada….yada…. So, I decided to download it, take a closer look, and come to my own conclusions.
Seriously? Just how many hands does one person have? Whose hand is doing the holding, and whose hand is just hanging there?
Come on people, just how stupid do you think we are??? Is a photo shopped pic of BO and MO gonna impress us?
Taking a closer look at the OTHER MO hand, I THINK…note, I said think, both hanging hands are MO’s.
Notice the long nails?
Odds are the one holding is hers as well, but ya know…if the White House is going to do such stoopid things, you’d think they’d actually NOTICE the…uh…screw up? *shakes head* Likely due to shadows, the holding hand is a bit darker, but seriously…. who gives a flying flip if they hold hands or not?
Side by side…. Honestly…. I just don’t care!
And this was really a STOOPID move on the part of the White House! 
UPDATE! Thanks to John, we get to see the original picture.
So, I have to ask again….to what purpose was the bad photo shopped pic? Idjits!
Consequences of “Social Engineering”
Social-diversity programs as applied to the U.S. military have been accompanied by a startling number of sex crimes: 515 rapes, 414 aggravated sexual assaults and 349 forcible sodomies documented by the Criminal Investigation Command in just 2011, according to an analysis of several military reports.
Where to even start on this one. *shakes head*
“Pentagon officials regularly praise their own work and proclaim undeserved ‘success,’ even though evidence of sexual misconduct, both consensual and non-consensual, continues to accelerate, year after year,” said Elaine Donnelly, chief of the Center for Military Readiness.
If the increased number of sexual assaults in the Army is what they consider ‘success’, we have got some major problems going on in the Pentagon.
The organization studied several new military reports to arrive at its assessment of what’s been going on in the ranks over the past few years, as Barack Obama and his compatriots in Congress eliminated the longstanding “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that banned open homosexuals from the military.
Repealing DODT was a really bad idea. For many years, gays served in the military, many with honor, but they weren’t allowed to ‘flaunt’ their sexuality. Many of those around them ‘knew’, but as long as it wasn’t blatant, then most had no problem. However….the increase in assaults can NOT be blamed on this repeal. The increase in assaults began when someone had the bright idea that men and women were the same, and should be trained together. Are they out of their flippin’ minds? Obviously, the answer is……………..YES!
“It is time to reconsider and change flawed policies that are weakening the culture of the only military we have,” Donnelly said.
Is There Anyone He Won’t Blame?
The man/child has been a complete failure since day one, but it’s everybody else’s fault! Man up, dude! Your policies suck, and are destroying this country! But then, that was your intent all along, wasn’t it!
Obama’s New Gas Price Scapegoat
The Foundry
High gas prices are not a president’s friend, especially in an election year, so it’s not surprising that President Barack Obama is trying his darndest to shift the blame for record-high fuel prices onto something other than his failed energy policies. Yesterday he made a desperate attempt to distract from those failures and redirect America’s gas price rage with a flawed proposal to punish speculators for supposedly driving up the cost of energy.
Speaking from the Rose Garden, the president announced a proposal to spend $52 million to fund increased government oversight of oil futures market trading in addition to harsher civil and criminal penalties for manipulation in energy markets. “We can’t afford a situation where some speculators can reap millions, while millions of American families get the short end of the stick,” Obama said. “That’s not the way the market should work.”
The Quote of the Decade
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America ‘s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, “the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006 ~
Shared by Ick.
Ditto
Well, except I’m not of Italian descent. Let’s see….if I was a hyphenated American, I would be Irish, Native American (aka Indian) and a wee smidge of French. But that’s way too many hyphens. Come to think of it, one hyphen is too many. So…. I AM AN AMERICAN! Whose skin tone just happens to be….well, kind of beige, actually.
Shared by Jerry.
A History Lesson – January 3, 2007
Whether or not you like Bush 43, facts are facts! There are some who would love to change history to suit their agenda, but thankfully, there are enough of us who know the truth, and will do our utmost to keep the facts in the foreground!
The day the Democrats took over was not January 20, 2009, it was actually January 3, 2007, the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995. For those who are listening to liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault”, think about this:
On January 3, 2007, the day the Democrats took control of Congress:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush’s Economic policies had SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!
Remember that day…?
January 3rd, 2007 was the day Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES! THANK YOU DEMOCRATS (especially Barney), for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
(BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie – starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy. Barney blocked it and called it a “Chicken Little Philosophy”, but…the sky did fall!)
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA!!!
And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress, especially BARNEY!!!!
So when someone tries to blame Bush… REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007…. THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!
Bush may have been in the car, but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel while they were driving the economy into the ditch. Budgets are not passed in the White House. They are passed by Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 (until the 2010 election and the Republicans took the majority in the House) is the Democrat Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009, as well as 2010 & 2011. Obama has now gone more than 1,000 days without a budget, and is still blaming it on the Republicans! In that first year, Congress had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending when Bush, somewhat belatedly, got tough on spending increases.
For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed “Lame Duck President” George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budget. And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of those massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. Let’s remember what the deficits looked like during that period:
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself and a Democratic Congress.
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is: “I inherited a deficit that I voted for, and then I expanded that deficit four-fold since January 20th 2009.”
Of course, the left will do all they can to silence the truth, but as Jesus said in John 8:32, “…And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
“The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.”
Shared by Sharon, with a few additions of my own.
Obama is No Ordinary Socialist
You Can’t Fix Stupid….
….but you CAN vote ‘em out!
Buffett Rule 101
The Foundry
President Obama traveled to Florida yesterday to distract the nation from its real problems by laying out his case for the Buffett Rule, a plan to drastically raise taxes on successful Americans and small businesses. The core of his argument is that the rich aren’t paying their fair share. It makes for great populist rhetoric, especially when families are hurting and angry under today’s high unemployment, but the result is terrible policy. Worse, it’s a distraction from the big issues facing the nation, like the deficit, the economy, jobs, gas prices, health care, and on and on, none of which are addressed by the President’s proposals, and none of which he wants to talk about.
Will the President’s tax hike at least tackle the country’s fiscal problems? No, it won’t.
According to a recent analysis by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, the Buffett Rule would raise a mere $47 billion over ten years. Meanwhile, President Obama’s budget calls for adding $6.7 trillion to the national debt. That means that the Buffett Rule will only cover one half of one percent of the President’s new spending. Soaking the rich cannot get deficits down, only spending reductions can do that.
When it comes to the biggest problem America is facing — a weak economy and high unemployment — the Buffett Rule would weaken the economy and make matters worse. Heritage’s J.D. Foster and Curtis Dubay write that the tax would fall most heavily on job creators (who pay taxes at the individual rate) and confiscate their resources that would otherwise be used to start new businesses, grow existing businesses, and hire more workers. As a result, economic growth will slow down right along with job creation.
Playing Politics With OUR Money
Well, which is it? I’m getting a very sinking feeling…one I’ve had, day after day, after day, after day…starting on the night of November 4, 2008. We really are a nation of morons!
Without those evil rich folks, there would be no middle class. Is that Obama’s intent? To completely destroy those of us in the ‘middle class’. Personally, I don’t see myself of any ‘class’. I’m an American, and I want and need, what is best for the country as a whole. When the rich do well, the rest of us do well. With one exception….those who have been feeding off the teat of the taxpayers, from one generation to the next.
IF Mitt Romney is the nominee, and IF he is able to take the White House from the Marxist in chief, I expect to see a much quicker turn around in the economy, with private sector job growth. I say IF because I seriously doubt the unions, and that a foreign owned company (Spain) will let our votes actually count. Just who decided a foreign company could, or would, ensure that our elections would fair? This is a FOREIGN company…not a U.S. company, that, IMHO, would do its utmost to make sure ever vote counts. I am at the point where I don’t believe Obama will allow himself to be defeated, by whatever means necessary. There will be voter fraud out the wazoo, and of course, that useless piece of crap holding the highest law enforcement office in the land will turn a blind eye, just like he has done, time and time again. It wouldn’t surprise me one single bit if the head honchos at the DOJ are sitting in their ‘ivory towers’ right now, coming up with plans to basically steal the election from the American people.
Obama is not a leader. He is a campaigner. That’s what he does, day in, day out. He is incapable of reason and logic. He’s been campaigning since he managed to steal the Senate seat back in 2006, and evidently, he doesn’t know how to be a leader. All those ‘campaign promises’? Hot air from an empty suit. I was willing to give him a chance. Well, he had his chance, and he blew it! He has succeeded in one area though….the ‘blame game’. You see, none of his worthless policies have worked to turn the economy around, so, naturally, it’s someone else’s fault. “BUSH DID IT!” After 3 1/2 years, don’t you think it’s time for him to pull up his big boy pants, and take responsibility for his own actions?
To quote Charlie Sykes: Life isn’t fair, get over it! Everyone has the same opportunities to succeed. It’s our choice whether or not we make use of those opportunities. Success isn’t counted in dollar signs. Success is what you do with your life, if you are happy, if you have filled that huge hole in your life, if you share joy with others, if your respect yourself, and raise your children to be productive, to respect themselves, and look toward yourself to meet your own goals. THAT is success!
Apparently, the current occupant of the White House has never understood exactly what America, and Americans, stand for. He was not raised in the country during his formative years, and those ‘role models’ he had while growing up, obviously didn’t understand the concept of liberty whatsoever. They were incapable of understanding the principles taught in the Bible, and having a ‘pastor’ such a Jeremiah Wright was no help in setting him on the path of Truth. He obviously has no idea what the true meaning of both the Declaration of Independence, and the United States Constitution. The warped sense of self is great in ‘the ONE’. And he is obviously unfamiliar with the word ‘NO’.
Keep your powder dry!
H/T: Tena
