SOTU

State of the Euphemism

Some euphemisms are intended to amuse, while others are created to mislead or at least put a positive spin on events.

On January 24th we watched a master practicing his craft.

There was so much BS in this SOTU I don't even know where to begin. So I'll put it in categories .

Jobs:

He mentioned jobs 34 times in the STOU. Therefore jobs must be important to him. Then explain to me how this plays out. When Boeing built a plant in SC (a right to work state) and announces it's opening, the government (NLRB) steps in and shuts it down. In other words the government is telling Boeing when and where it can operate. Not only does this wreak with overbearing governmental jurisdiction; what about new jobs so vital in helping improve the economy?

Bottom line. Not pissing off the unions is more important then jobs. Why? He needs them to get reelected.

This one is even better. Remember when he touted the line... shovel ready projects? Did you here him mention the Keystone Pipeline in the SOTU? I didn't think so. Depending on who you listen to job creation from this project can generate between 25,000 and 100,000 jobs. Obama said he's not going to make a decision until after the election. Why? Even though the unions are for it, the majority of his liberal base (including the Hollywood crowd) are against it. (You know the type, they and their Limo's perform on accolades, not gas)  I don't know how this is going to go down but I do know the Canadians are threatening to sell their oil to China. If that happens Obama is fucked. 


Bottom line. The plan is to stall it until after the election (God forbid he's reelected) and then pass it crying...We need more jobs...throwing his liberal base under the bus knowing his presidential ticket has already been punched. This strategy shows, once again, he places himself ahead of the country.

Taxes

We all saw it coming. In fact there was a lively (business) going on the internet  betting on how many times he was going to say FAIR-SHARE-TAXES-MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES. I don't know who won, but the total was 31 times.

 First. Poor Warren Buffett's secretary. She sat there  glowing, basking in the radiance of the Messiah. My heart goes out to her. I got a suggestion. Why not lower her taxes or have Buffett give her a raise?

Second. This was nothing but a blatant attempt to pit the have's against the have-nots. This fair share crap is starting to get a little long in the tooth.

He is trying to convince Americans if millionaires and billionaires "would only" pay their "fair share" the deficit and the economy is just going to be hunky-dory. This is disingenuous at best and an out-and-out-lie at worse. If the government taxed all millionaires and billionaires at 25%.. no 50%... lets go a step further... 100% ...it would not put a scratch in the national debt!  His use of the term "fair share" is nothing more then sanctimonious horse shit. 47% of Americans who work for a living pay zero income tax! How is that fair? Bottom line. You can't cure a crack heads by giving them more crack. I guarantee you if  millionaires and billionaires paid more in taxes not one dime would go to pay down the national debt. 

The truth of the matter is the top-earning 25 percent of taxpayers earned 67.5 percent of nation's income, but they paid more than four out of every five dollars collected by the federal income tax (86 percent). The top 1 percent of taxpayers  earned approximately 21.2 percent of the nation's income yet paid 39.4 percent of all federal income taxes. That means the top 1 percent of tax returns paid about the same amount of federal individual income taxes as the bottom 95 percent of tax returns combined.

Obama likes to speak in half truths and is also quite good at twisting the facts. Lets get back to Buffett's secretary. He likes to say millionaires and billionaires pay less tax, percentage wise, then her. Romney just released his tax returns so I will use him as an example. He made about $21 million on investment income and was taxed at 15% which is less then Buffett's secretary. But where did Romney get the money to invest? He got it from the years he had an earned income which was taxed at 35%. He then took that income he just paid 35% on and invested it then had to pay an additional 15%  on the gains. So in effect he's paying 50%!


 Obama seeks to divide and conquer. Since most Americans have the political savvy of a door knob it may work. His scheme is intended to project the rich  stealing from the middle class and the poor. When in fact they are the job creators. Which begs the question. When was the last time a poor person gave anyone a job?

What we didn't hear

Usually when a president hits his third year in office he likes to expound on his accomplishments during the SOTU. Well in this case there isn't any, he can't run on his record, so he has to deflect the blame elsewhere. First Bush was to blame. Then Republicans became obstructionists...  the party of ...NO. Failing that he lumped the entire Congress together as the ...do nothing congress. Now it's  millionaires and billionaires who are responsible. Oh..almost forgot about those racist Teapartiers. It's always someone else's fault... never his. 


BTW...he had about as much to do with killing Bin Laden as I did.

Some of the words conspicuously missing in the SOTU.

Hope and Change

Joe Biden

Tax Cheats (aka his appointments) 

Trillion dollar stimulus

Transparency-C Span
College Transcripts

Obamacare (his signature legislation)

Dodd-Frank

Gitmo

Immigration law suits

Sanctuary cities

Zeituni Onyango

Onyango Obama

Backdoor Amnesty

Fast and Furious

DOJ
John Corzine

Ground Zero Mosque

Solyndra

Green Energy

Keystone Pipeline 

Boeing

Illegal appointments

Shovel ready projects

Golf

 Cash for Clunkers

Government Motors

Welfare

Food Stamps
99 weeks of unemployment benefits

Occupy Wall Street

Missing drones

Downgrade

$1.84 gas price when Bush exited

1000 days with no budget passed
(T0 name a few)

Then he has the balls to say this:

"I've gotten more done then any president except Lincoln, FDR, and LBJ."


  The mere mention of Obama in the same sentence with Lincoln is blasphemy.

One of my favorite lines used by Obama was during the raising of the debt ceiling debacle:

"I cannot guarantee that those checks (SS) go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it." 


The scare tactic worked so well S &P downgraded our triple A credit rating.


Obama has a lot in common with OJ. Americans couldn't help but like them... till you strip away the facade.

TRANSCRIPT: Obama's 2012 State of the Union

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/24/transcript-obamas-2012-state-union/

-- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

"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 can not 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."

I rest my case.

SOTU

Another Obama Milestone

Today Democrats in the Senate celebrate 1000 days without passing a budget.

Another Obama Milestone

Stop the Rhetoric, It's Time to Act

If this video doesn't make every American sit up and take notice of out of control government spending I don't know what will. 

It leans neither left or right but directs the destiny we will all one day share.

Our national debt increases at the rate of almost $4 billion per day.

 On Thursday  January 12th 2012 Obama asked Congress for another $1.2 trillion increase in the nation's debt limit which is not reflected in the political ad above.

Stop the Rhetoric, It's Time to Act

SC Primary...What a turn around

Mitt goes from a likely  3-0 to 1 out of 3!

On an interesting side note. SC is considered the reddest of red states, a state populated with Evangelical Christians, the "buckle" on the bible belt if you will. 

South Carolina has picked the winner of every GOP presidential nomination fight since 1980. That's why it's surprising to me Romney's Mormonism drew more wrath then Newt cheating on his wife.

What is the government? For all intents and purposes it's a business. Of the four remaining candidates who better to run a business then Mitt Romney?

Or would you prefer the current community organizer?

SC Primary...What a turn around

GOP-Better get your act together!

The GOP primary is a 3 ring circus. Romney was supposed to be going for the "hat trick" in SC when suddenly Santorum is crowned the winner in Iowa. Who's monitoring the precincts in Iowa ACORN? 

 Newt and Perry go after Romney for embracing capitalism. Perry goes as far as calling it "vulture capitalism"  (probably why he's no longer is in the race). These two attack Romney trying to make his association with Bain Capital tantamount to Bernie Madoff. Romney being Romney, sits there and takes it on the chin. Democrats got to be eating this up with a spoon! 

It gets even better,or worse, depending on your point of view.

Now the ringleader (ABC Nightline... just in time for the SC primary vote, a coincidence I'm sure) is interviewing Newt's second wife Marianne. Newt said he has been truthful about his indiscretions besides this happened over ten years.  Not that it matters, but so did Bain Capital right? This tawdry episode is not going to go down well for Newt. Apparently, according to her, while he was chastising Clinton for his affair with Lewinsky he was conducting his own with Callista…pardon me...wait a sec.…I'm having a John Edwards moment.

What is her motivation? How much is she being paid? Or does she just enjoy twisting the knife in Newt's back? Have you noticed every time a GOP candidate sticks his head above water the MSM pushes it back down? The GOP better get their act together and stop fighting among themselves. Our job is tougher then Democrats. There are no O'Reilly's, Mark Levin's, or Ed Henry's that are going to be interviewing Obama. We have to beat the media and Obama.

Lets get to work.

This bastard is loving it. 

And he's got about a billion in his war chest.

(just a thought)

How much would you pay to see on FOX 8:00 PM a one on one interview... Rush and the Messiah?

Instead all we get from the MSM media is genuflection.

GOP-Better get your act together!

Then and Now

THEN

Remember this? 

Sounds like a ringing endorsement to me.

NOW

I've been saying for years she is nothing but a lying hypocritical bitch.

This proves it.

After a smoke bomb is thrown over the fence at the White House she tries to change direction. Befuddled and unsure, she attempts to distance herself and Democrats from the OWS crowd. I'm no body language expert but judging from her facial expressions and hand movements she is lying through her teeth.

Now she says she has no connection to the OWS crowd as she throws them under the bus!

How can anyone not see through this impostor?

A raunchy raw liberal hypocrite as phony as her Botox. 

Then and Now

Iran’s morality police crack down on sale of Barbie and Ken

Iran’s morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, shopkeepers said on Monday.

As the West imposes the toughest ever sanctions on Iran and tensions rise over its nuclear program, inside the country the Barbie ban is part of what the government calls a “soft war” against decadent cultural influences. “About three weeks ago the morality police came to our shop, asking us to remove all the Barbies,” said a shopkeeper in a toy store in northern Tehran.

Iran’s religious rulers first declared Barbie, made by U.S. company Mattel, un-Islamic in 1996, citing its “destructive cultural and social consequences.”

The new order, issued about three weeks ago, forced shopkeepers to hide the leggy, busty blonde behind other toys as a way of meeting popular demand for the dolls while avoiding being closed down by the police. A range of officially approved dolls launched in 2002 to counter demand for Barbie have not proven successful, merchants told Reuters. The dolls named Sara, a female, and Dara, a male, arrived in shops wearing a variety of traditional dress, with Sara fully respecting the rule that all women in Iran must obey in public, of covering their hair and wearing loose-fitting clothes.

Sara and Dara, dolls have been officially sanctioned for sale by the Iranian government. (File photo)

Despite the ban, Iran’s religious rulers declared  "Suicide Barbie" will still be available.  The doll has been openly on sale in Tehran shops and is quite popular. A spokesperson for Mattel who makes the doll said, "Suicide Barbie has become our biggest seller in the series. 







Sales are exploding especially in the Middle East. Business has been so brisk we have now begun development of the  Jihad Ken doll."

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently visited Venezuela to discuss the Barbie situation with his friend Hugo Chavez.

The world is normal again.

Iran’s morality police crack down on sale of Barbie and Ken

Dropping All Pretense of Objective Reporting

Campaign headquarters for the reelection of Barack Hussein Obama.

The arrogant "Mussolini pose" just ties the whole cover together don't you think?

Lets see here... ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR...wait a minute there's the guy from the NYT's, over there is the editor from Time Magazine...isn't that Nancy leading the pack?

Dropping All Pretense of Objective Reporting

Raising the Debt Ceiling Made Simple

On a tip from Keith Grant

Obama to ask for increase in debt ceiling

 (The debt ceiling isn't a ceiling. It's an imaginary line.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/obama-to-ask-for-increase-in-debt-ceiling/2011/12/27/gIQApypjKP_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics

Judging by the current trajectory, if Obama gets another term by the time he leaves office we will be in the vicinity of a whopping $ 20,000,000,000,000 in debt!!!


In other words.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone.

Raising the Debt Ceiling Made Simple

Forrest Chump

Notice how all his "accomplishments" have been swept under the rug.

 He sues AZ, AL, and SC for enforcing  immigration laws claiming it's the federal government's responsibility. Yet Sanctuary cities, openly defying federal statute, he turns a blind eye and a deaf ear to. 

Remarkably Fast and Furious and Solyndra have seemed to drop of the radar. 

Forrest Chump

Does Michelle Obama secretly hope her husband will be kicked out of the White House?

(I don't know about her... but the rest of us sure as hell do)

Miss Kantor writes in her new book The Obamas that the stalemate in Washington over healthcare reforms, among other initiatives, led the Obamas to muse that losing the 2012 bid for re-election might not be so bad.

They began to feel that life in the White House was something to be endured rather than savored. 

On TV this week, Mrs Obama — who was once pilloried for stating that her husband’s successful presidential campaign meant that ‘for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country’ — insisted her time in the White House had made her ‘start feeling euphoric and proud and, you know, proud of yourself and proud of your time’.

When it was suggested that some people were disappointed in the Obama presidency, she responded that they ‘may be confused about how much has been accomplished’. 

Confused???   Accomplished???   If she means destroying the economy her husband gets an A+.

The only positive coming out of his presidency was the death of Bin Laden. Which was simply a case of being in the right place at the right time.

Mrs Obama hints of feeling victimised and misunderstood will lead many to conclude she can’t get out of the White House fast enough.  

Fast enough is not fast enough.

Some might remark that ambitious people should be careful what they wish for. 

To which Michelle could be forgiven for responding that she didn’t want to be in the White House in the first place: it was all Barack’s idea.

As Shakespeare may have said:

           Oh How I Long For The Day

Does Michelle Obama secretly hope her husband will be kicked out of the White House?

Debbie Waaaasermouth Schultz Still Trying To Tie Jared Loughner To the Teaparty

I sent this vivacious beauty a jar of Hellmans mayonnaise for her hair. She said it works better then the Quaker State 10w30 she's been using. 

Democrats are still trying to exploit last January’s tragedy in Tucson by blaming  the Tea Party.

Meanwhile in the real world…

Jared Loughner is a mad man currently under psychiatric evaluation to see if he is even fit to stand trial. He has no ties to the Teaparty  but suffers from the same affliction as Debbie Waaaasermouth Shultz. 

He can't distinguish fact from fiction. 

Debbie Waaaasermouth Schultz Still Trying To Tie Jared Loughner To the Teaparty

Greatest Movie Line Ever

On a tip from Keith Grant

Most people say the greatest movie line was Clark Gable's delivery to Vivien 

Leigh in Gone With the Wind: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

But the greatest, most accurate, and most timely movie line was Bob

Hope's from a real oldie with Paulette Goddard and Richard Carlson.

Enjoy the 20 second clip.

Greatest Movie Line Ever

They’re back!

 Occupy Wall Street protesters return to Zuccotti Park after barricades come down 

Cops remove an Occupy Wall Street protester from Zuccotti Park after she tried to lie down on cardboard.

What do these people have in common with AIDS?
You can't get rid of either one.

Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters streamed back into Zuccotti Park overnight Tuesday as the barricades surrounding the lower Manhattan plaza were finally removed.

The atmosphere turned celebratory as the campaigners hugged one another, enjoyed free lasagna and saw the resurrection of a small "People's Library."

The events were largely peaceful until 1:30 a.m. when a 50 to 70 protesters remained in the privately owned public space and a handful attempted to lie down on pieces of cardboard.

What they desperately need in NY.

Pieces of cardboard ain't gonna help.

The park's owner, Brookfield Office Properties, has banned the use of tents, tarps or sleeping bags and even forbids people lying down on the benches. The rules were introduced after hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators began camping out in the park in September. They stayed for nearly two months until cops evicted them Nov. 15.

"The park is enforcing the rules," an NYPD officer warned the protesters through a microphone.

"You are not allowed to lay down or sleep in the park.

"If you do not obey these orders, you will be arrested for trespassing. This is your final warning."

Some protesters shouted back, "Go home, terrorist!" while others carried handmade "angry pacifists" signs.

As park officials moved to confiscate the cardboard the group was on, a tussle ensued and two protesters were removed from the area in plastic handcuffs as the rest of the crowd shouted, "Shame, shame."

Occupy Wall Street protesters first took over Zuccotti Park, which by law is open 24 hours a day, on Sept. 17 as part of their campaign for greater social and economic equality.

Copycat encampments sprung up in hundreds of towns and cities across the U.S. and around the world.

After the New York protesters were booted in November's pre-dawn raid, they moved largely off-site.

Zuccotti Park was surrounded with metal barriers, and Brookfield sent in security guards to join cops in an attempt to enforce the no-sleeping rule and prevent the camp from re-emerging.

The number of NYPD officers and private guards at the site usually far exceeded the number of people who ventured into the barricaded space, and

on Monday, civil rights groups filed a complaint with the city Buildings Department that the barriers violated city zoning law.

The barricades were removed Tuesday.

"We're pleased the city is finally giving the park back to the people," said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said.

"We hope Zuccotti Park can now resume its rightful place as a center for meeting and protest in New York City."

I guess this just about sums it up.

What was that proverb excreted from the lips of Queen Nancy? 

“God bless them for their spontaneity, It’s young, it’s spontaneous, it’s focused and it’s going to be effective.”

They’re back!

Columbia Teaches How to "Occupy" at $5001.09

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

Recently, Columbia University in New York proposed offering a class in Occupy Wall Street. I suppose the class will teach people how to camp out in a city park. Under a continuation of the Obama administration, this might actually become a good life skill.

One facet of the class that I want to point out is its cost. There is an ongoing debate over the cost of a college education and if it is worth it. In general, a typical student completes a degree in four years. Masters students, course of study is compressed, two years. Time and money become a real constraint when selecting classes.

The cost for one year of undergraduate education at Columbia is roughly $53,345 all in. That includes room, board, books, tuition, and fees. Divide that by how many credit hours a normal student takes (32/yr) and you arrive at $1667.03 per credit hour. Masters students pay more per credit hour for their classes.

If you are borrowing money to go to school, the actual cost of the credit hour goes up because it will cost you more when you repay the loan. And if you are on government aid, the American taxpayer gets to pay for it!

Given that the Occupy Wall Street class is a three credit hour class, it costs an undergrad $5001.09 to learn how to camp out in a park and beat a drum while articulating a far left manifesto. I shouldn’t forget to mention that the student ought to consider what a future employer might think when they see that class on a transcript. I suppose if you are going to work for a far left non-government organization it would look favorable. But, I don’t think it will look particularly sharp if you are trying to get a job in a field like consulting.

If students began looking at classes on a cost/benefit basis and extrapolating how the chosen class will help them in the future, we would see less fluff and more real stuff. Maybe it’s not the actual cost of a college education that is the real problem. It’s the classes that are taken while they are there.

Recently, Columbia University in New York proposed offering a class in Occupy Wall Street. I suppose the class will teach people how to camp out in a city park. Under a continuation of the Obama administration, this might actually become a good life skill.

One facet of the class that I want to point out is its cost. There is an ongoing debate over the cost of a college education and if it is worth it. In general, a typical student completes a degree in four years. Masters students, course of study is compressed, two years. Time and money become a real constraint when selecting classes.

The cost for one year of undergraduate education at Columbia is roughly $53,345 all in. That includes room, board, books, tuition, and fees. Divide that by how many credit hours a normal student takes (32/yr) and you arrive at $1667.03 per credit hour. Masters students pay more per credit hour for their classes.

If you are borrowing money to go to school, the actual cost of the credit hour goes up because it will cost you more when you repay the loan. And if you are on government aid, the American taxpayer gets to pay for it!

Given that the Occupy Wall Street class is a three credit hour class, it costs an undergrad $5001.09 to learn how to camp out in a park and beat a drum while articulating a far left manifesto. I shouldn’t forget to mention that the student ought to consider what a future employer might think when they see that class on a transcript. I suppose if you are going to work for a far left non-government organization it would look favorable. But, I don’t think it will look particularly sharp if you are trying to get a job in a field like consulting.

If students began looking at classes on a cost/benefit basis and extrapolating how the chosen class will help them in the future, we would see less fluff and more real stuff. Maybe it’s not the actual cost of a college education that is the real problem. It’s the classes that are taken while they are there.

Columbia Teaches How to "Occupy" at $5001.09

Kim Jung Un

Courtesy of Harvey Hallberg  USMC.....................

I am really concerned about North Korea's appointment of the "dear leader", Kim Jung Ill's youngest son to be the new leader of North Korea -- a nuclear power!

After all, Kim Jung Un (pronounced Kim's young-un?) had NO military experience whatsoever before daddy made him a four-star general in the military. This is a snot-nose twerp who has never accomplished anything in his life that that would even come close to military leadership: he hasn't even so much as led a cub scout troop, let alone coached a sports team or commanded a military platoon. So, setting that aside, next they make him the "beloved leader" of the country. Terrific!!!

Oh, crap! I'm sorry. I just remembered that we did the same thing here, we took a community organizer who has never worn a uniform and made him Commander-in-Chief; a guy who has never led anything more than an ACORN demonstration and made him the leader of this country. Never mind.

 

Kim Jung Un