Come out, come out wherever you are

It seems that Obama has been ducking reporters more than President Bush. It’s been 219 days since Obama’s last press conference. Perhaps he doesn’t want to answer questions about why his approval numbers continue to tank, with only 22% of Americans strongly approving of his job performance and 41% strongly disapproving. Or why a group of business owners in Wisconsin pooled their money and bought a billboard calling for Obama’s impeachment. Or why overseas he’s made fun of by the Germans, and a statue of him that was erected in Indonesia to much fanfare has been pulled down.

Some people are saying that the president needs to ignore his falling approval numbers and growing discontent of the American people and “go gangsta” and “man up“. So what does Obama do? Despite the overt outrage of Americans everywhere over the topic, he puts forward a $1,000,000,000,000 health care plan. A plan which would use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions. Despite the will of We the People, the White House vows that if the GOP filibusters, they’ll pass Obama’s healthcare plan with 51 votes, after Obama and the Democrats said back in 2005 that the so-called “nuclear option” is an “arrogant” power grab against the founders’ intent. This strong-arming and ignoring the will of We the People is likely why Congress’ approval ratings are down to 10%.

We’re still #1! (for now)

Speaking of healthcare… despite the vaunted Canadian “free” government healthcare, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams came to the United States for heart surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. Asked by reporters why he didn’t get treated in Canada, he said, “I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics.”

So wait… the best possible healthcare isn’t in Canada? The best possible healthcare isn’t provided by the government? The best possible healthcare isn’t… free? No!

“This was my heart, my choice and my health,” Williams said.

“My choice.” Well, it is for now. Once the United States Federal Government gets involved, Mr. Williams, that will cease to be the case.

We’re not #1! (And that’s okay)

We’re going to just blatantly copy the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s opening paragraph for an article with the same title, and paste it here with the obligatory link:

“Internet access is not a right. It is a privilege; one that we pay for. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, while not explicitly demanding high-speed Internet access for all Americans did tip-toe toward that ledge in recent comments, in which he noted the importance of high-speed broadband Internet in economic development.”

The full article can be found over at OpenMarket.org

Brrrrrrrrrrr

While we’re still looking for Al Gore, we’ll leave you with these headlines:

• Follow the money: BBC exposed in biggest climate racket on planet
• Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels
• New Climate Agency Head Tried to Suppress Data
• Global warming as religion
• Northeast Braces for Hurricane-like Snowstorm
• Dallas close to breaking all-time snowfall record
• Russian capital Moscow covered by record snowfall

Remember when…

…the media found out about Abu Ghraib, and they kept exclaiming what an atrocity it was and how the Bush administration was just pure evil for allowing it to happen? Notice their silence now that Taliban rape tapes are discovered, showing a “Muslim Abu Ghraib”.

…the media made a big stink about the Bush administration’s “warrantless wiretaps” between a phone call between someone in the U.S. and a known terrorist outside the U.S.? Remember how they never shut up about how the evil Bush administration wanted to spy on innocent Americans without due process and was disregarding our protections under the 4th Amendment? Notice their silence as the Obama administration says that Americans enjoy “no reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cellphone records, including their location based on cell tower records. The Obama administration’s Department of Justice lawyers say that “a customer’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records” that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.

…the media made a big stink about the bonuses paid to AIG employees, bonuses that were guaranteed by contract prior to AIG accepting the bailout money? Notice their silence as Obama says he “doesn’t begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

…the media wouldn’t shut up about President Bush’s declining approval poll numbers? It seemed like not a day went by that they didn’t yap about it. Notice their silence now that Obama’s approval rating has dropped to its lowest point, and the majority of Americans don’t believe Obama deserves a second term, after only shortly more than a year in office.

Pearls before swine

It comes to our attention that the swine flu was a big to-do about nothing. As with everything in life, there is truth in numbers: according to the CDC’s own numbers, only 0.02% of the swine flu cases were fatal. Some may credit the Obama administration and Health & Human Services Secretary kathleen Sebelius for getting the swine flu vaccine out to everyone, but since the vaccine wasn’t available until after the number of infections had already peaked and begun to recede… we find the whole thing a case of manufactured hysteria.

Where are the jobs?

That’s the question on the lips of many Americans. For example, remember how there was supposed to be all these “green jobs” weatherizing homes? Remember how $5 billion of the “stimulus” was supposed to create 87,000 jobs and winterize 593,000 homes? Well, it seems only 9,100 homes had been weatherized as of December 31st, at a cost of $57,362 each. Other “stimulus” funds are slated to go to programs that Obama has slashed from his own budget.

So we ask again: where are the jobs?

While the White House brass are split on stats from the “stimulus”, a record number of Americans are on foodstamps, there’s a rising tide of foreclosures and homeless, the jobless rate is going up not down, and analysts say the jobs bill won’t add many jobs, Obama has the audacity to defend the “stimulus” as beneficial, and says that it rescued the economy. Um, what?!

Now in the midst of all this dour news about people out of work, Obama says he’s “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000. Which is to say, he’s “voting present” again: if the House and Senate pass a bill that raises taxes on middle America, “agnostic” Obama will sign it and say “it’s not my fault… blame Congress.”

So for all those of you who believed that Obama would cut your taxes and are now suffering from voter’s remorse, all we can say is we told you so.

Seeing as how a new report that came out says that only 6% of Americans believe that the pork-filled “stimulus” actually created any jobs, we think America is slowly starting to realize the lies we’ve been sold about “bailouts” and “stimulus”. We’re willing to bet it has something to do with Obama’s approval numbers, too.

Where’s Al?

Al Gore is still in hiding. Or maybe he’s buried under the latest waves of “global warming” that have been hammering the eastern United States with more snow. Either way, we have collected the following headlines for your perusal, enlightenment, and enjoyment:

• U.N. climate panel admits Dutch sea level flaw
• Utah delivers vote of no confidence for ‘climate alarmists’
• Climate ‘consensus’ cracks up
• Top UN climate official resigning
• Defections Shake Up Climate Coalition

Mr. Smarty Pants?

So Barack Obama, with his Harvard education, is the commander in chief. He’s never served in the military, but he has been photographed wearing a USMC t-shirt. (Much to the outrage of Marines everywhere.) Now despite his lack of military experience, one would expect him to at least be able to use his Harvard education to properly pronounce the job title of one of the people he is in charge of. And we’re not talking about some sort of strange military custom or award like the French fourragère that is worn by select US military units. We’re talking about the word “corps”.

As in “Marine Corps”. “Peace Corps”. “Army Corps of Engineers”. “Mercy Corps”. “Job Corps”. “AmeriCorps”. “Press Corps”.

Mr. Smarty Pants, with his Harvard education, pronounced it like “corpse” — twice — while referring to a navy corpsman. (Which is a navy term for “medic”.)

We wonder how Obama pronounces “sword”.

Remember when they were geeks?

Used to be, IRS auditors were though of as pencil-pushing geeks. You know: pocket protectors, bad glasses, worse fashion choices? The kind of kids we’d all cheat off of in math class? Not any more! According to this requisition, “the Internal Revenue Service intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division.” Why would the IRS need shotguns? Probably the same reason they’re hiring nearly 600 new revenue officers (auditors, in layperson’s speak): to go after anyone and everyone who they even marginally suspect are cheating in some way on their taxes. And as of 2007, the US tax code was 67,204 pages. That’s a growth of 12,358 pages since 2003, and we doubt it’s gotten smaller. The US Tax Code is a political device: it’s used to award favors for friends and supporters by way of tax breaks, and it’s used as a weapon against enemies. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans fall somewhere between the two, and as a result, the IRS hands out about 32,000,000 tax penalties every year.

Of interest, a Reuters story entitled “Advisory: Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” was removed from all wire services such as the New York Times and Yahoo News. Fortunately, some websites grabbed the text before it want missing. Gee, wonder why the story was pulled and who was behind its removal? After all, who would ever mind We the Taxpayers reading about how “lower-income families will pay more as well: the 25 percent tax bracket will revert back to 28 percent; the 28 percent bracket will increase to 31 percent; and the 33 percent bracket will increase to 36 percent.”

When it comes to taxes, we’d like to remind our readers that not all money is created equal:

We’d rather drive

After the failed underwear bomber on Christmas Day, all of a sudden there was a push for these “backscatter x-ray” machines to be installed in airports, despite the fact that they couldn’t have prevented the Fruit of Kaboom Bomber from stuffing PETN in his jock strap and walking on a plane, and ignoring data that the radiation exposure isn’t safe for pregnant women and children. Then there are the near-naked images the machines generate. The TSA has assured us that “the machines have zero storage capability”, yet they specified in 2008 documents that the machines must have image storage and sending abilities. We were all told to calm down, that we’re overreacting, and the typical government “we’re here to help you, not hurt you!” line of malarky.

Let’s just say that we weren’t surprised when over in England, where the same machines are mandatory for all airline passengers, a famous movie star was scanned… then his x-ray-naked picture printed out and passed around airport personnel. Yes, from the same machine that supposedly wasn’t able to allow operators the ability to do such things.

We would like to remind you that the same government who wants you to feel safe and secure in letting complete strangers who are not your doctor see you naked, is the same government who ensures you that letting them manage your healthcare is in your best interests.

Caveat emptor.

There is one bright spot in all of this: apparently Muslim groups are saying the scanners violate the teachings of Islam. So a truly devout Muslim shouldn’t go through the scanners. And since we can’t remember any story of a Christian, Jew, Buddhist, wiccan, pagan, agnostic, deist, or atheist ever trying to hijack or blow up a plane, we say maybe there is a good use for the scanners after all: keeping the slodeydopes (suicide bombers) of planes.

We’re betting there’s more than one

Remember all the people screaming “WHERE ARE THE WMDs?!” after the US military swept through Iraq? They pointed to all these intelligence briefings that said Saddam Hussein had WMDs and pilotless drones and decried President Bush’s attack as needless warmongering just to make his rich oil buddies richer. Many of us used logic and said that Saddam had likely buried contraband weapons in the desert prior to the invasion. (We did give them a couple weeks’ advance notice we were coming, after all.) Well, it seems that we’ve finally found a proverbial needle in a haystack: a buried missile capable of holding a chemical or biological warhead.

We’re not surprised. With the arid conditions of the Iraqi desert, burying hardware of this nature to hide it seems like a great idea. And with the vast expanses of desert, finding such things becomes extremely difficult unless you know right where to look. Besides, we did find between 30 and 40 Russian MiG-25 fighters buried in the Iraqi desert back in 2003, but the media paid as much attention then as it is now.

Missing Person Alert

Has anyone seen Al Gore? Is he going to start appearing on milk cartons? In case you’re in a part of the country without snow (which is unlikely, seeing as how even Dallas, Texas is getting buried in snow), here are some headlines from the past week:

• I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones
• Global Warmists Feel a Chilly Wind
• The great global warming collapse
• Snow storm leaves 180,000 without power in Dallas
• Rare snowfall in Rome as cold snap grips Italy
• Climate-Change Debate Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze