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#ObamaDogRecipes

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 88 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Dog Day Afternoon, Humor, OOT, Open thread at April 18th, 2012 - 11:02 pm

This is a special thread dedicated to a prominent blogger who took the lefties’ bullcrap meme (Romney Abuses Animals) and turned it on it’s head with the cheap and easy revelation that Our Dear Leader Declared That He ATE A Dog. Awesome, funny and political don’t always jive, but Treacher pulled it off with pure irreverent snark.

BowWowWowYippieYoYippieYay on The Overnight Open Thread.

The first post-racial President? It’s black and white: Obama to blame for increased racial violence

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 113 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, government, Hate Speech, History, Marxism, Media, Politics, Progressives at April 12th, 2012 - 8:00 am

Remember when we were all told that the Marxist occupying the White House would be the first post-racial President and would bring all Americans, regardless of their skin color, together?

GMAFB! We all knew that was a load of crap, just like everything else the mainstream media official propaganda department of the Obama regime and the dumocrat party tried to tell us would happen if this Marxist was elected. What we have is the most racist administration regime in over 100 years.

I saw this coming when the Regime’s Department Of Justice Injustice refused to prosecute the new black panthers for voter intimidation in Philadelphia on election day, 2008, and when the racist Attorney General, the disgraceful Eric Holder, said he didn’t want to prosecute “our people”, even if they committed a crime.

This regime and Obama himself are more like that racist anti-Semitic dirtbag Calypso Louie Farrakhan than Martin Luther King Jr.

All the proof we need is the fact that for over 20 years, Obama sat there in the pews of that POS Jeremiah Wright’s church and listened to Wright’s racist, hate-filled, anti-American, and anti-Semitic sermons every Sunday. And if’s that’s not bad enough, he also allowed the preacher racist hatemonger to marry him and Moochelle, and to baptize his daughters.

OBAMA TO BLAME FOR INCREASED RACIAL VIOLENCE
Exclusive: Roger Hedgecock notes that president is ‘encouraging payback mentality’

Too many white Americans voted for Barack Obama for president in 2008 because they wanted to prove they weren’t racists. They believed Obama’s promise that his election represented a triumph over racism. Those white Obama voters have been betrayed.

Then and now, opponents of Barack Obama are routinely labeled racist. Hillary supporters found that out in 2008. Nothing’s changed. The president, who promised a post-racial presidency, has played the race card ever since.

From “the Cambridge police acted stupidly” to “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” Obama has deliberately fanned the flames of racial resentment among black Americans.

The racial divisions in American society are worse now than when Obama took office.

When the black woman coming out of an Obama Miami campaign rally in 2008 proclaimed, “He’s gonna take care of my mortgage; he’s gonna buy my gas,” the stage was set for sky-high expectations and crushing disappointment for black Americans.

Today, blacks suffer the highest unemployment, most crime and highest dependency on government assistance of any group of Americans.

Obama maintains black-voter support by signaling that white racism is holding him back, preventing him from accomplishing everything he promised. It’s the oldest excuse for black failure. And it is the gateway to the “payback time” mentality of too many young black males – a mentality that is claiming lives all across the U.S. today.

In a horrible crime reported only in the Tulsa World, the U.K. press and some blogs on March 14, a 20-year-old black man named Tryone Woodfork led an invasion of the North Tulsa, Okla., home of Bob and Nancy Strait, ages 90 and 85.

He and his friends beat the old white couple and shot Bob in the face with a BB gun. Tyrone beat and raped Nancy Strait until she died. Bob is still in the hospital, suffering from a broken jaw, severe bleeding and broken ribs.

Tyrone and friends got away with $200, an old Plymouth Neon and a TV. Tyrone was arrested the next day.

Bob was awarded the bronze star as a World War II paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division. He and Nancy had been married more than 65 years. They raised six kids and were blessed with 18 grandchildren and 50 great and great, great grandchildren.

When told Nancy was dead, he murmured, “I loved her. I loved that old woman.”

If Bob had defended his home by shooting Tyrone, the national media would be all over this story; Al Sharpton would be leading protests in Tulsa. Apparently, when whites are the victims of black crime, it isn’t news.

Anger over this crime has boiled over in Tulsa. Someone described as white driving a pickup truck is randomly shooting blacks walking in the streets. These shootings have been reported all over the national media.

In another horrible example, two black teenagers followed a younger white teenager home from school. They caught him the porch of his house, doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire as one of the black teenagers said, “This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy.”

No national media (except Fox News) reported the story.

The “payback time” mentality was expressed by Attorney General Eric Holder when he refused to prosecute Voting Rights Act violations by the New Black Panther Party, whose members were intimidating white voters outside Philadelphia polling places in 2008. According to Department of Justice lawyers, Holder believes that only whites can violate the Voting Rights Act.

In schools, in colleges, in courtrooms and in too many workplaces, white Americans are feeling the “payback time” attitude of too many black Americans.

Obama has tolerated and even encouraged black triumphalism, played to the black grievance culture and encouraged the “payback time” mentality.

American voters pinned their hopes for racial healing on Barack Obama. They got Louie Farrakhan instead.

This is NO JOKE! Obama regime is assuming dictatorial powers over U.S. citizens, Constitution be damned!

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 44 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, Fascism, Free Speech, government, History, Liberal Fascism, Media, Military, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Socialism at March 26th, 2012 - 8:00 am

In a nutshell, this Marxist regime and the Marxist occupying the White House, by signing another executive order last week, and a bill signed earlier this year, have given themselves the power to detain anyone, including U.S. citizens, indefinitely, without due cause or trial, Constitution be damned! It also allows for the regime to take over almost all aspects of our economy!

Most of us here were certain that Obamacare, which, if allowed to be fully implemented, would take over 1/6 of our economy, would never be enough to satisfy the Marxist swine salivating to control our lives at every turn, and that it was only the beginning of the power grab for our rights. Here’s the proof that most of us were, in fact, correct.

This order allowing for the indefinite detention of any U.S. citizen, without being charged or tried, clearly violates the following Constitutional amendments:

* 4th amendment which guards against searches, arrests, and seizures of property without a specific warrant or a “probable cause”.

* 5th amendment which forbids punishment without due process of law.

* 6th amendment, which guarantees a speedy public trial for criminal offenses. It also guarantees the accused a right to know the charges against him.

We all know the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, which, for over 225 years has protected the rights of liberty and freedom to all individuals, was nothing but a pesky little barrier to be breached by this Marxist POS occupying the White House, his regime, and the rest of the Marxist dimocrats in the House and Senate.

I urge you all to read the following articles, the first one written by the very liberal professor of public interest law at George Washington University, Jonathon Turley, whom I’m certain you’ve seen on TV arguing for just about every liberal position this side of North Korea.

The second one that was written by Edwin Black, in, believe it or not, the uber-liberal Huffington Post (broken clock theory applies here).

They’re about the inherent danger of the two bills signed by the Marxist POS White House occupier that was, naturally, completely ignored by the propaganda arm/cheerleader squad of the dimocrat party, the mainstream media.

And to be honest, I haven’t read squat about this unprecedented and unconstitutional assault on the liberty of all U.S. citizens in any of the conservative media either.

Guess they’re too busy talking about friggin’ Etch-A-Sketches to worry about what the hell is actually important!!!

Nor, for that matter, have any of our Presidential candidates even mentioned this unbridled assault on our liberty and freedom. Again, it’s the Etch-A-Sketches that are important, people!

As is usual, Turley’s article was not published here, but rather overseas in the ultra liberal Socialist Guardian newspaper in London.

Think the mainstream Obama-loving media would have ignored this if it had been the Bush administration that did this? Me neither. They’d be outraged and howling like wolves (and rightfully so) in the New York Slimes and on MSLSD about how that eeeevil George W. Bush is trampling on our rights.

That’s why when it comes to ANY libturd complaint, grievance, or outrage, we all need to ignore the hypocritical imbeciles.

Always remember, it’s not what was done, it was who did it.

As long as the “right” kind of people (libturds) do it, they’re like “it’s okay folks, nothing to see here, move right along”. That’s why I detest these leftist America-hating scumbags more each day.

The NDAA’s historic assault on American liberty

By Jonathan Turley

President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment, to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country … and citizens partied in unwitting bliss into the New Year.

Ironically, in addition to breaking his promise not to sign the law, Obama broke his promise on signing statements and attached a statement that he really does not want to detain citizens indefinitely (see the text of the statement here).

Obama insisted that he signed the bill simply to keep funding for the troops. It was a continuation of the dishonest treatment of the issue by the White House since the law first came to light. As discussed earlier, the White House told citizens that the president would not sign the NDAA because of the provision. That spin ended after sponsor Senator Carl Levin (Democrat, Michigan) went to the floor and disclosed that it was the White House and insisted that there be no exception for citizens in the indefinite detention provision.

The latest claim is even more insulting. You do not “support our troops” by denying the principles for which they are fighting. They are not fighting to consolidate authoritarian powers in the president. The “American way of life” is defined by our constitution and specifically the bill of rights. Moreover, the insistence that you do not intend to use authoritarian powers does not alter the fact that you just signed an authoritarian measure. It is not the use but the right to use such powers that defines authoritarian systems.

The almost complete failure of the mainstream media to cover this issue is shocking. Many reporters have bought into the spin of the Obama administration as they did the spin over torture by the Bush administration. Even today, reporters refuse to call waterboarding torture despite the long line of cases and experts defining waterboarding as torture for decades.

On the NDAA, reporters continue to mouth the claim that this law only codifies what is already the law. That is not true. The administration has fought any challenges to indefinite detention to prevent a true court review. Moreover, most experts agree that such indefinite detention of citizens violates the constitution.

There are also those who continue the longstanding effort to excuse Obama’s horrific record on civil liberties by blaming either others or the times. One successful myth is that there is an exception for citizens. The White House is saying that changes to the law made it unnecessary to veto the legislation. That spin is ridiculous. The changes were the inclusion of some meaningless rhetoric after key amendments protecting citizens were defeated. The provision merely states that nothing in the provisions could be construed to alter Americans’ legal rights. Since the Senate clearly views citizens as not just subject to indefinite detention but even to execution without a trial, the change offers nothing but rhetoric to hide the harsh reality.

The Obama administration and Democratic members are in full spin mode – using language designed to obscure the authority given to the military. The exemption for American citizens from the mandatory detention requirement (section 1032) is the screening language for the next section, 1031, which offers no exemption for American citizens from the authorisation to use the military to indefinitely detain people without charge or trial.

Obama could have refused to sign the bill and the Congress would have rushed to fund the troops. Instead, as confirmed by Senator Levin, the White House conducted a misinformation campaign to secure this power while portraying the president as some type of reluctant absolute ruler, or, as Obama maintains, a reluctant president with dictatorial powers.

Most Democratic members joined their Republican colleagues in voting for this un-American measure. Some Montana citizens are moving to force the removal of these members who, they insist, betrayed their oaths of office and their constituents. Most citizens, however, are continuing to treat the matter as a distraction from the holiday cheer.

For civil libertarians, the NDAA is our Mayan moment: 2012 is when the nation embraced authoritarian powers with little more than a pause between rounds of drinks.

Obama Prepares for War Footing

By Edwin Black

Last Friday, March 16, President Barack Obama may have quietly placed the United States on a war preparedness footing, perhaps in anticipation of an outbreak of war between Israel, the West, and Iran. A newly-propounded Executive Order, titled “National Defense Resources Preparedness,” renews and updates the president’s power to take control of all civil energy supplies, including oil and natural gas, control and restrict all civil transportation, which is almost 97 percent dependent upon oil; and even provides the option to re-enable a draft in order to achieve both the military and non-military demands of the country, according to a simple reading of the text. The Executive Order was published on the White House website.

The timing of the Order — with little fanfare — could not be explained. Opinions among the very first bloggers on the purpose of the unexpected Executive Order run the gamut from the confused to the absurd. None focus on the obvious sudden need for such a pronouncement: oil and its potential for imminent interruption.

If Iran was struck by Israel or the West, or if Iran thought it might be struck, the Tehran regime has promised it would block the Strait of Hormuz, which would obstruct some 40 percent of the world’s seaborne oil, some twenty percent of the global supply, and about 20 percent of America’s daily needs. Moreover, Tehran has promised military retaliation against any nation it feels has harmed it. The United States is at the top of the list.

Blocking the Strait of Hormuz would create an international and economic calamity of unprecedented severity. Here are the crude realities. America uses approximately 19 to 20 million barrels of oil per day, almost half of which is imported. If we lose just 1 million barrels per day, or suffer the type of damage sustained from Hurricane Katrina, our government will open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which offers a mere six- to eight-week supply of unrefined crude oil. If we lose 1.5 million barrels per day, or approximately 7.5 percent, we will ask our allies in the 28-member International Energy Agency to open their SPRs and otherwise assist. If we lose 2 million barrels per day, or 10 percent, for a protracted period, government crisis monitors say the chaos will be so catastrophic, they cannot even model it. One government oil crisis source recently told me: “We cannot put a price tag on it. If it happens, just cash in your 401(k).”

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Telling more lies again, Obungler? Five outright lies he told us about his energy policy

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 142 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, Energy, Environmentalism, government, Inflation, Marxism, Media, Misery Index, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Science, Socialism, Technology, unemployment at February 27th, 2012 - 2:00 pm

This commie clown occupying the White House is a serial liar. During his “energy speech” the other day, he told so many half-truths and outright lies, that the MSF’in’M naturally ignored, because they’re not the least bit interested in being journalists, but rather cheerleaders for this corrupt administration and Obungler’s re-election.

So, the capitalists at Investor’s Business Daily put together a list of Obungler’s five biggest lies he told regarding our energy policy since the POS became President. They called them “whoppers”, but whoppers come from Burger King, while lies come from Obungler’s mouth every time he moves his lips…

5 Biggest Whoppers In Obama’s Energy Speech

Energy: The White House billed President Obama’s energy policy speech as a response to mounting criticism of record high gas prices. What he delivered was a grab bag of excuses and outright falsehoods.

Obama’s main message to struggling motorists was: It’s not my fault, so stop whining. The speech only got worse from there, recycling excuses and myths that Obama’s peddled for years. But there were some standout whoppers that deserve debunking.

The five biggest:

“We’re focused on production.”

Fact: While production is up under Obama, this has nothing to do with his policies, but is the result of permits and private industry efforts that began long before Obama occupied the White House.

Obama has chosen almost always to limit production. He canceled leases on federal lands in Utah, suspended them in Montana, delayed them in Colorado and Utah, and canceled lease sales off the Virginia coast.

His administration also has been slow-walking permits in the Gulf of Mexico, approving far fewer while stretching out review times, according to the Greater New Orleans Gulf Permit Index. The Energy Dept. says Gulf oil output will be down 17% by the end of 2013, compared with the start of 2011. Swift Energy President Bruce Vincent is right to say Obama has “done nothing but restrict access and delay permitting.”

“The U.S. consumes more than a fifth of the world’s oil. But we only have 2% of the world’s oil reserves.”

Fact: Obama constantly refers to this statistic to buttress his claim that “we can’t drill our way to lower gas prices.” The argument goes that since the U.S. supply is limited, it won’t ever make a difference to world prices.

It’s bogus. New exploration and drilling technologies have uncovered vast amounts of recoverable oil.

In fact, the U.S. has a mind-boggling 1.4 trillion barrels of oil, enough to “fuel the present needs in the U.S. for around 250 years,” according to the Institute for Energy Research. The problem is the government has put most of this supply off limits.

“Because of the investments we’ve made, the use of clean, renewable energy in this country has nearly doubled.”

Fact: Production of renewable energy — biomass, wind, solar and the like — climbed just 12% between 2008 and 2011, according to the federal Energy Information Administration.

“We need to double-down on a clean energy industry that’s never been more promising.”

Fact: Renewable energy simply won’t play an important role in the country’s energy picture anytime soon, accounting for just 13% of U.S. energy production by 2035, according to the EIA.

“There are no short-term silver bullets when it comes to gas prices.”

Fact: Obama could drive down oil prices right now simply by announcing a more aggressive effort to boost domestic supplies. When President Bush lifted a moratorium in 2008, oil prices immediately fell $9 a barrel.

Obama said in his speech that Americans aren’t stupid (other than those who voted for the POS- BiB). He’s right about that, which is why most are giving his energy policy a thumbs down.

Hat tip Denny