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The damage Obama has done to our country

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 207 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Election 2008, Elections 2010, Elections 2012, History, Misery Index, Politics, Progressives, Republican Party at February 19th, 2011 - 4:00 pm

A certain paranoid, irrelevant, failing blogger, who sees Nazis and racists wherever he looks, continually claims that the only reason any Republican voter or conservative blog detests Barack Hussein Obama, is because he’s (half) black.

Please note, for those of you stalkers from the cesspool, and other lib miscreants, without a sense of humor (or functioning brain), which is 99.9% of you, the following two paragraphs are called sarcasm. Thank you for your cooperation.

Of course all of us racists only hate Obama because of the color of his skin! It has nothing to do with the pathetic job he’s doing! It’s the color of his skin that we detest!

If we weren’t all racists, we’d agree he’s actually done such a fine job as President, that he deserves not only a second, but also a third and fourth term! Damn racist constitution written by all those dead slave-owning honkies a couple hundred years ago and amended by other honkies is holding down da brother!

Seriously, the fact is, that since Obama took office in Jan. 2009, the USA is a total disaster. Take a look at these numbers. They don’t lie, nor can they be “spun” to turn the truth into lies. Since wordpress doesn’t do spreadsheets or graphs well, the first number is what is was in Jan. 2009, when Obungler took office. The second number is today, or the most current available. The third is the percentage of change since Jan. 2009.

After reading the chart, you will see that nothing good has happened, and Obama deserves to go the route of Jimmy Carter- One term and done.

THE DAMAGE OBAMA HAS DONE

Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 / $3.104 / + 69.6%

Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 / $99.02 / +127.7%

Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38.74 / $91.38 / +135.9%

Gold: London (per troy oz.) $853.25 / $1,369.50 / +60.5%

Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL $3.56 / $6.33 / +78.1%

Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL $9.66 / $13.75 / +42.3%

Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. fob $13.37 / $35.39 / +164.7%

Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall 7.6% / 9.4% / +23.7%

Unemployment rate, blacks 12.6% / 15.8% / +25.4%

Number of unemployed 11,616,000 / 14,485,000 / +24.7%

Number of fed. employees, ex. military 2,779,000 / 2,840,000 / + 2.2%

Real median household income (2008 v 2009) $50,112 / $49,777 / -0.7%

Number of food stamp recipients 31,983,716 / 43,200,878 / +35.1%

Number of unemployment benefit recipients 7,526,598 / 9,193,838 / +22.2%

Number of long-term unemployed 2,600,000 / 6,400,000 / +146.2%

Poverty rate, individuals 13.2% / 14.3% / +8.3%

People in poverty in U.S. 39,800,000 / 43,600,000 / +9.5%

U.S. rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings 5 / 9 / n/a

Failed banks 140 / 164 / +17.1%

U.S. dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate 89.76 / 82.03 / -8.6%

National debt, in trillions $10.627 / $14.052 / +32.2%

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“Barack In The USSR”, and not the Beatles song, obviously…

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 102 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Breaking News, Cold War, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Europe, History, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Politics, Progressives, Russia, Socialism, Tranzis at February 7th, 2011 - 8:30 am

Obungler is getting ready sell out Britain, our staunchest ally for decades. This POS really does hate America, and obviously any other country that is willing to defend itself against tyranny.

Nothing this America-hating and freedom-hating POS and his God-awful administration does anymore surprises me. And I’m sure most Americans and freedom-loving people feel the same way.

So, it will come as a shock to none of you that Obungler will supply the USSR Russia with sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade the Rodina (Motherland, as the USSR called itself), to sign a defense treaty.

And naturally, the lamestream Obama-loving media cheerleaders are howling mad about this, right? Of course not! You hear the crickets, don’t you? Well, you would if it was July.

Nope, as usual, we have to go overseas to get this info. To where those getting screwed by Obungler reside. And unbelievably, to wikileaks. I guess we chock this up to the old saying- “A broken clock is correct twice a day”.

But to the imbeciles who make up the D.C. press corps (memo to the moron occupying the White House- that’s pronounced “core”, not “corpse”, you friggin’ dolt), the only thing that qualifies as “news” to these incompetent socialist a-holes is the latest blast-fax they receive from the Minister of Propaganda Gibbs.

January 20th, 2013 can’t get here soon enough for me, so we can get this America-hating fool out of the White House and back to Chicago…Or Kenya.

From the UK Telegraph

WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain’s nuclear secrets

The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

By Matthew Moore, Gordon Rayner and Christopher Hope

Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.

Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.

The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.

Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today. The documents also show that:

• America spied on Foreign Office ministers by gathering gossip on their private lives and professional relationships.

• Intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US became strained after the controversy over Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee who sued the Government over his alleged torture.

• David Miliband disowned the Duchess of York by saying she could not “be controlled” after she made an undercover TV documentary.

• Tens of millions of pounds of overseas aid was stolen and spent on plasma televisions and luxury goods by corrupt regimes.

A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New START” deal.

Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.

Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.

Professor Malcolm Chalmers said: “This appears to be significant because while the UK has announced how many missiles it possesses, there has been no way for the Russians to verify this. Over time, the unique identifiers will provide them with another data point to gauge the size of the British arsenal.”

Duncan Lennox, editor of Jane’s Strategic Weapons Systems, said: “They want to find out whether Britain has more missiles than we say we have, and having the unique identifiers might help them.”

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Obama Supports Islamist Takeover Of Egypt

by 1389AD ( 150 Comments › )
Filed under African Liberation Movements, Barack Obama, Breaking News, Egypt, George W. Bush, Hamas, Iran, Islamists, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinians, Tranzis at February 2nd, 2011 - 8:30 am

(update by m 08:20 am:)

Mubarak supporters clash with Egyptian opposition protesters

THE crisis in Egypt lurched into a potentially dangerous new phase overnight as supporters of embattled President Hosni Mubarak faced off with anti-government protesters who defied a military call to disperse.

A crowd of 20,000 Mubarak supporters marched to Tahrir (Liberation) Square in central Cairo, the epicentre of nine days of unrest, far outnumbering the opposition supporters encamped there, Sky News reported.



The Obama administration and the entire liberal establishment are actively supporting the Islamist takeover, not only of Egypt, but of all Muslim countries.

Caroline B. Glick: Clueless in Washington

(h/t: yenta-fada)

Does the US fail to understand what will happen to its strategic interests in the region if the Muslim Brotherhood is the power behind the throne of the next regime?

I would go much further than that. Genuine US strategic interests in the Middle East and everywhere else, including at home, would mean an all-out effort to roll back the worldwide jihad.

But the strategic interests of the US government at this point are exactly the opposite of the genuine stragetic interests of the American citizen, voter, and taxpayer. The Obama Administration and the US State Department are doing everything they can to promote the Islamic jihad.

…Certainly it is true that the regime is populated by old men. Mubarak is 82 years old. It is also true that his regime is corrupt and tyrannical. Since the Muslim Brotherhood spinoff Islamic Jihad terror group murdered Mubarak’s predecessor president Anwar Sadat in 1981, Egypt has been governed by emergency laws that ban democratic freedoms. Mubarak has consistently rejected US pressure to ease regime repression and enact liberal reforms in governance.

This reality has led many American commentators across the political spectrum to side enthusiastically with the rioters. A prestigious working group on Egypt formed in recent months by Middle East experts from Left and Right issued a statement over the weekend calling for the Obama administration to dump Mubarak and withdraw its support for the Egyptian regime. It recommended further that the administration force Mubarak to abdicate and his regime to fall by suspending all economic and military assistance to Egypt for the duration.
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The problem with this recommendation is that it is based entirely on the nature of Mubarak’s regime. If the regime was the biggest problem, then certainly removing US support for it would make sense. However, the character of the protesters is not liberal.

Indeed, their character is a bigger problem than the character of the regime they seek to overthrow.

According to a Pew opinion survey of Egyptians from June 2010, 59 percent said they back Islamists. Only 27% said they back modernizers. Half of Egyptians support Hamas. Thirty percent support Hizbullah and 20% support al Qaida. Moreover, 95% of them would welcome Islamic influence over their politics. When this preference is translated into actual government policy, it is clear that the Islam they support is the al Qaida Salafist version.

Eighty two percent of Egyptians support executing adulterers by stoning, 77% support whipping and cutting the hands off thieves. 84% support executing any Muslim who changes his religion.

WHAT ALL of this makes clear is that if the regime falls, the successor regime will not be a liberal democracy. Mubarak’s military authoritarianism will be replaced by Islamic totalitarianism. The US’s greatest Arab ally will become its greatest enemy. Israel’s peace partner will again become its gravest foe.

Understanding this, Israeli officials and commentators have been nearly unanimous in their negative responses to what is happening in Egypt. The IDF, the national security council, all intelligence agencies and the government as well as the media have all agreed that Israel’s entire regional approach will have to change dramatically in the event that Egypt’s regime is overthrown.

None of the scenarios under discussion are positive.
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Anti-colonialists by definition must always support the most anti-Western forces as “authentic.” In light of Mubarak’s 30-year alliance with the US, it makes sense that Obama’s instincts would place the US president on the side of the protesters.

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Air Pelosi: Former Speaker used the United States Air Force as her own personal travel agency

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 269 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Politics, Progressives, Socialism, Transportation, Tranzis at January 28th, 2011 - 11:30 am

This REALLY makes me very angry!!! These libs obviously think that they’re some type of American royalty. U.S. Air Force Jets, fueled and loaded with premium food and liquor, paid for by you and I, at her beck and call whenever she needed them…

“According to previous documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the former Speaker’s military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over one two-year period — $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol. For example, purchases for one Pelosi-led congressional delegation traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008, included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Baileys Irish Cream, Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewar’s scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniel’s whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine.”

I guess when you’re a liberal and can fleece the taxpayers to pay for your booze, it’s “top shelf” brands all the way! None of those cheap bar brands for Queen Pelosi and her court.

Pelosi Logged 43 Flights Covering 90,155 Miles from January to October 2010; Received “Chocolate-Covered Strawberries” for Birthday Surprise

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained new documents from the United States Air Force detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s use of United States Air Force aircraft in 2010. According to the documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Pelosi used Air Force aircraft for 43 flights from January 1 to October 1, 2010. According to documents previously uncovered by Judicial Watch, by comparison, Nancy Pelosi logged 47 flights in the prior nine-month period, April 1, 2009, to January 1, 2010.

The most recent documents uncovered by Judicial Watch include a Passenger Mission Activity chart detailing all of former Speaker Pelosi’s flights January 1 to October 1, 2010, as well as detailed shopping lists for some flights, flight authorization forms, Mission Expense Records and internal Air Force correspondence related to the flights. Among the highlights from the documents, obtained pursuant to a FOIA request filed on September 10, 2010:

* Pelosi used the Air Force aircraft for a total of 43 trips, covering 90,155 miles, from January 1 through October 1, 2010. The Air Force documented in-flight expenses for 22 of these flights totaling $1,821.33. The Air Force did not provide expense information for the remaining 21 flights.
* Former Speaker Pelosi received chocolate covered strawberries as a birthday surprise on a March 26, 2010 flight. According to one internal Air Force email sent on March 25, 2010: “The speaker’s office is requesting egg salad sandwiches on wheat toast with fruit (watermelon, etc) for desert [sic]. It’s the speaker’s B-Day tomorrow so we’re also asking for something like chocolate covered strawberries (dark chocolate preferred)…” The immediate response to the email from another member of the Air Force staff: “Copy all. We’ll plan something for the birthday and take care of the meal.”

According to previous documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the former Speaker’s military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over one two-year period — $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol. For example, purchases for one Pelosi-led congressional delegation traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008, included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Baileys Irish Cream, Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewar’s scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniel’s whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine.

Judicial Watch also previously uncovered internal Department of Defense (DOD) email correspondence detailing attempts by DOD staff to accommodate Pelosi’s numerous requests for military escorts and military aircraft as well as the speaker’s last minute cancellations and changes. For example, in response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one DOD official wrote, “Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi’s team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?…[T]here’s no need to block every weekend ‘just in case’…” The email also notes that Pelosi’s office had, “a history of canceling many of their past requests.”

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At least now that she’s no longer speaker, the USAF can put away the jets and Pelosi can hop on her broom when she needs to fly to visit the dolts who keep re-electing this San Francisco liberal version of Marie Antoinette.