Biggest Story of 2009: The Rise of the Virtual Newsroom

It was the biggest story of 2009. If you doubt, ask ACORN. Or Van Jones. Or the So We Might See campaign. You won’t need Time magazine’s once clout-filled “Man of the Year” issue to figure it out, either. Just take a look back at the bestseller lists, the ratings of Fox News or simply turn on your local AM radio dial. The single most important news event of 2009 was the emergence of The Virtual Newsroom. A newsroom run by a virtual army of conservative journalists famous and unknown, their individual and collective impact multiplied exponentially by millions of Internet users, radio listeners, readers and television viewers. [Best read of the day…ed]

O’s Window Dressing

In the art-auction world, the trick to selling a bad painting is to put it in a terrific frame. That’s the logic behind President Obama’s West Point speech tonight. Condemned by his own vacillation to sketching a picture repulsive to multiple constituencies, Obama will use the impressive frame of West Point to lend his remarks an illusion of glorious leadership. The event will be impressive: The US Military Academy does pomp and circumstance well. The cadets will be immaculate and perfectly behaved, applauding on cue (no Joe Wilson “You lie!” shout-outs from this hyper-disciplined bunch). Flags, formality and hallowed tradition will be at the service of a policy announcement that, by tomorrow morning, the establishment media will hail as rivaling the Gettysburg Address (to the journalistic herd, every Obama utterance is greater than the last — from Cairo to Fort Hood to West Point). [For an explanation of why Obama’s handlers chose West Point with its captive audience of future military officers who MUST support every word he says, read this…ed]

Five More Amateur Mistakes By the Obama Administration

Since he has been elected, Barack Obama has been like a four year old wearing water wings and desperately trying to reach the edge of the pool. In other words, he has been completely out of his depth. Who could have known that giving soaring speeches about “hope” and “change” while voting “present” on the tough issues wouldn’t be enough preparation for the most important job on Planet Earth — oh wait, millions of Americans knew that and pointed it out at every opportunity. Unfortunately, the media was too busy obsessing over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe and parody songs on the Rush Limbaugh show to actually consider whether or not a man whose biggest accomplishment was winning a Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton was qualified to be President. Of course, we can debate Obama’s ideological decisions all day. Does the country need socialized medicine? Should he have pursued that staggeringly expensive stimulus program? Has he been applying enough pressure on Iran? The answers to those questions are no, no, and no — but, there’s a more important question we need to consider: does Barack Obama know what he’s doing? [Normally one would say this nitwit, who’s resume could easily be printed double spaced on the head of a pin, is indeed a clueless boob floating aimlessly in the sea, unfortunately that would be the best case scenario for this country. Dangerously for the future of America, this guy knows exactly what he’s doing because the cretins who really call the shots are telling him when, where and how each and every day. Keep your powder dry and stock up accordingly folks…ed]

Anti-War Left Protests Obama’s Afghanistan War Strategy

The anti-war left is turning on the president it helped put into office, launching a counteroffensive against President Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Activist groups are joining liberal members of Congress in condemning the president’s expected announcement on Tuesday that he will order roughly 30,000 more troops to the war zone as part of an overhauled strategy to finish what President Bush started eight years ago. Some are urging him not to go through with it — though the strategy apparently is set in stone, with Obama having issued his final orders to his generals Sunday evening. [I could never understand why in the hell a president would go on live TV and announce whatever military strategy decisions he has planned when he knows damn well the enemy is watching and listening. That said it is interesting it took so long for the code pink anti America pigs to begin their idiotic war protestations. After all Obama told EVERYONE he felt Afghanistan was ‘the necessary war” long before he was elected with the help of these asshats…ed]

White House Dismisses ‘Climategate’ Because ‘Most People’ Believe in Global Warming

As President Barack Obama prepares to travel to a global climate summit next week in Copenhagen, the White House is dismissing the “climategate” controversy that has arisen over the leak of email communications between top climate-change scientists that some skeptics say cast doubt on the legitimacy of the science behind the theory that human activity is causing global warming. Obama will be attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference on Dec. 9. The conference in Copenhagen comes soon after the emails released by a computer hacker has led one Republican U.S. senator to call for an investigation. Some global warming skeptics have referred to the e-mails–from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit in England–as “climategate.” But White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs dismissed the controversy on Monday, saying that most people don’t dispute global warming. [The Obama administration dismisses the revelation of the exploding climate change fraud because these hairballs are in on the scam to screw the American taxpayers in order to transfer huge amounts of wealth out of the country and into third world hellholes just to make things “fair”…ed]

Energy Update

Nearly half the nation’s voters still believe that global warming is caused primarily by long term planetary trends, not human activity. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 47% of voters blame global warming on planetary trends, while 37% of voters take the opposite view and blame human activity. Just 5% point to some other reason. Voters continue to believe the president holds the opposite view. Fifty percent (50%) say President Obama blames global warming on human activity, while only 20% think he blames planetary trends. But another 21% are not sure what the president believes. [Just thought I would help Baghdad Bob Gibbs with his facts about how the American public feels concerning this global warming bullshit…ed]

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Food-Stamp Usage Soars Under Obama

More than 36 million Americans — one of every eight adults and one of every four children — rely on food stamps in order to eat, and those numbers will likely grow. “I think the response of the program has been tremendous,” Kevin Concannon, an undersecretary of agriculture, told The New York Times, “but we’re mindful that there are another 15, 16 million who could benefit.” Government figures show that nationwide, food stamps reach only about two-thirds of those eligible to receive them, with rates ranging from 50 percent of Californians to 98 percent of those who live in Missouri. [It’s all part of the master plan folks and it’s gonna get much worse before we can even think about it getting better. Keep your powder dry and stock up accordingly…ed]

Maurice Clemmons, man wanted for questioning, has troubling criminal history

Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health. Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors. “This is the day I’ve been dreading for a long time,” Larry Jegley, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas’ Pulaski County said tonight when informed that Clemmons was being sought for questioning in connection with the killings. [Huckabee felt sorry for this then 17 year old criminal who was found guilty of several serious felonies then sentenced to basically a life sentence. RINO Huckabee’s chances of coming out on top in a Republican presidential primary in 2012 is now essentially zero which is a very good thing for conservatives indeed…ed]

Huckabee: ‘Less than likely’ I’ll run in 2012

Mike Huckabee, the former Republican governor from Arkansas who has his own Fox show told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that a 2012 presidential bid is “less than likely” and depends on whether Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, keeps liking his show. “The reason I wouldn’t is that this Fox gig I’ve got is really wonderful, ” he said, talking about whether or not he would get in the race given that he is a GOP front runner according to most recent polls. “Jumping into the pool, you gottta make sure there is some water in it.” [It’s probably best you didn’t Mr. Huck especially now that four cops are dead because you let their alleged killer loose…ed]

7 stories Barack Obama doesn’t want told

Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds. No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were better storytellers than the opposition. The pro-Obama narrative featured an almost mystically talented young idealist who stood for change in a disciplined and thoughtful way. This easily outpowered the anti-Obama narrative, featuring an opportunistic Chicago pol with dubious relationships who was more liberal than he was letting on. A year into his presidency, however, Obama’s gift for controlling his image shows signs of faltering. [Rut roh. Even the lefties over at Politico are beginning to see the light about their guy Obama…ed]

The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama

‘He talks too much,” a Saudi academic in Jeddah, who had once been smitten with Barack Obama, recently observed to me of America’s 44th president. He has wearied of Mr. Obama and now does not bother with the Obama oratory. He is hardly alone, this academic. In the endless chatter of this region, and in the commentaries offered by the press, the theme is one of disappointment. In the Arab-Islamic world, Barack Obama has come down to earth. He has not made the world anew, history did not bend to his will, the Indians and Pakistanis have been told that the matter of Kashmir is theirs to resolve, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the same intractable clash of two irreconcilable nationalisms, and the theocrats in Iran have not “unclenched their fist,” nor have they abandoned their nuclear quest. [Obama speaks poorly of us and America while on foreign soil and that makes anyone suspicious of his motives including our enemies. The fact that Arabs, virulently anti western by their very nature, applauded this guy in the first place should cause any TRUE American to be concerned…ed]

Poll: Palin best reflects GOP core values

Republican voters are split on whether their party’s leadership is taking the GOP in the right direction, according to a new national poll. The Washington Post survey released Monday also indicates that Republicans say that Sarah Palin, more than any other leader, best reflects the core values of the party. According to the poll, 18 percent of Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP say the former Alaska governor best reflects core GOP values. In second place, 5 points back, is Sen. John McCain of Arizona, last year’s Republican presidential nominee, followed by former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee at 7 percent, former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney at 6 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 4 percent and conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh at 2 percent. [Now you know why the Democrats and their cohorts in the media have been mercilessly attacking this woman from the day she stepped onto the national stage. That said WTF were those polled thinking about with John McCain?…ed]

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4 Police Officers Shot Dead Near Washington State Air Force Base

Four police officers were shot dead in an ambush at a Washington state coffee house, a sheriff’s official said Sunday. The attack occurred east of McChord Air Force Base in Parkland, Wash. The officers were shot at local coffee shop, Forza Coffee, the News Tribune of Tacoma reported. Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer told The News Tribune in Tacoma that the officers were sitting in the coffee shop with their computers when the shooter came in Sunday morning. He says investigators believe the officers were targeted, and it was not a robbery. [I’m not sure what the concealed carry laws are in this part of the country but I’m sure these officers would have appreciated some assistance from a well armed public when the murderous thug(s) started blasting away…ed]

Afghans Detail Detention in ‘Black Jail’ at U.S. Base

An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. The site, known to detainees as the black jail, consists of individual windowless concrete cells, each illuminated by a single light bulb glowing 24 hours a day. In interviews, former detainees said that their only human contact was at twice-daily interrogation sessions. [The world was allegedly OUTRAGED when George W. was president and this stuff was going on. With the uber left winger Obama….not so much…ed]

For 3rd time, Woods cancels meeting with police

Tiger Woods canceled another meeting with state troopers on Sunday, the third straight time he’s done so. He posted a statement on his Web site that said the accident was his fault, but failed to address the lingering questions about the crash that sent him to a hospital. The statement was posted about an hour before state troopers were to meet with the world’s No. 1 golfer at his home inside the gates of Isleworth. A meeting was not rescheduled. [I’ll have to keep this situation in mind the next time the cops show up at my door wanting to talk to me. Sorry dudes, I’m sleeping. Come back tomorrow for another excuse for why I won’t chat with ya…ed]

Climate change data dumped

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation. The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building. [Proof that this climate change crap was nothing but a criminal scam continues to leak out…ed]

GPs ‘should offer climate change advice to patients’

The Climate and Health Council, a collaboration of worldwide health organisations including the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society of Medicine, believes there is a direct link between climate change and better health. Their controversial plan would see GPs and nurses give out advice to their patients on how to lower their carbon footprint. The Council believes that climate change “threatens to radically undermine the health of all peoples”. It believes health professionals are ideally placed to promote change because “we have ethical responsibility…..as well as the capacity to influence people and our political representatives to take the necessary action”. [Socialized medicine is nothing more that another method of pushing the insipid liberal political agenda…ed]

Mapping out the strain on your NHS: 243 sick babies treated in one London hospital ward…. and just 18 mothers come from Britain

Countless red dots scattered across the world map on the wall of a NHS hospital reveal the story of the changing face of Britain. Each dot denotes the background of a mother with a baby in the neonatal ward of London’s Chelsea and Westminster hospital. The map was put up by hospital administrators to ‘celebrate the ethnic diversity’ of the sick children treated there, each at a cost of £1,400 a day. It shows dramatically how the NHS now treats patients from every corner of the globe. The 243 mothers are from 72 different nations. They include Mongolia, the remotest regions of Russia, Japan, Africa, South America, swathes of Asia, Australasia and even Papua New Guinea. Only 18 mothers said they were from Britain. [More healthcare insanity news coming out of England brought to you by the idiotic leftists…ed]

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Sheriff Joe for governor?

A recent Rasmussen Reports poll of possible matchups in the Republican primary next year shows Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio would attract 47 percent of the vote. Treasurer Dean Martin, whose campaign pitch in the past has traded on his familiar name, would come in at 22 percent if he decides to run. Incumbent Gov. Jan Brewer came in third at 10 percent of the vote. Tucson lawyer John Munger and Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker each garnered 6 percent of the vote. It also shows Arpaio leads Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard by a dozen points. [The hell with governor, this country needs this man in the White House!…ed]

Rigging a Climate ‘Consensus’

The climatologists at the center of the leaked email and document scandal have taken the line that it is all much ado about nothing. Yes, the wording of their messages was unfortunate, but they insist this in no way undermines the underlying science. They’re ignoring the damage they’ve done to public confidence in the arbiters of climate science. “What they’ve done is search through stolen personal emails—confidential between colleagues who often speak in a language they understand and is often foreign to the outside world,” Penn State’s Michael Mann told Reuters Wednesday. Mr. Mann added that this has made “something innocent into something nefarious.” [The gig is up for the climate change fraudsters and no amount of double talk or cover up from the lamestream media will matter now…ed]

White House Science Czar Involved in Climategate

You haven’t heard it from America’s mainstream media yet – even Fox News hasn’t covered it – but the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John P. Holdren, is a key player in the Climategate e-mails flap, which is shaping up as the biggest scandal in the history of modern science. Holdren is an intractable global warming activist with no time for climate change skepticism. In a New York Times article, he contended that such questioning “has delayed – and continues to delay – the development of the political consensus that will be needed if society is to embrace remedies commensurate with the challenge.” (SNIP) But the Canada Free Press this week revealed that the former Harvard professor and Al Gore global warming adviser features prominently in the thousands of e-mails and other files made public after the hacking last week of a computer server used by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit. [Holdren isn’t the only Obama flunky involved in this fraud and more will be revealed as time goes on…ed]

Climate Czar Browner: What Conflict of Interest?

Well, here’s yet another thing the unconfirmable Obama “Climate Czarina” Carol Browner got around disclosing thanks to, and one more reason for being stuffed into, a position of influence through the backdoor of a phony job not subject to Senate confirmation, even while lording over Senate-confirmed constitutional officers: She was on the board of one of the leading carbon offset trading companies, APX. That makes for one really big conflict of interest in her role guiding the administration’s efforts to regulate carbon dioxide and force emitters to buy CO2 ration-coupons. [Concerning the previously posted article, see what I mean?…ed]

Plundering California

The economy is struggling, the unemployment rate is high, and many Americans are struggling to pay the bills, but one class of Americans is doing quite well: government workers. Their pay levels are soaring, they enjoy unmatched benefits, and they remain largely immune from layoffs, except for some overly publicized cutbacks around the margins. To make matters worse, government employees—thanks largely to the power of their unions—have carved out special protections that exempt them from many of the rules that other working Americans must live by. California has been on the cutting edge of this dangerous trend, which has essentially turned government employees into a special class of citizens. [This, for all the folks out there in CA who can’t quite figure out one of the main reasons, besides the Democrats running the government, why their state has gone to hell in a politically correct biologically disgusting reusable canvas shopping bag…ed]

Mad Magazine Attacks Palin as a ‘Delusional’ ‘Blunder Woman’

It doesn’t matter whether it’s Spider-Man giving the fist bump to President Obama or New Jersey kids singing Dear Leader’s praises, the left likes to indoctrinate the young. The latest example is Mad Magazine trying to make former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin look foolish and “dangerously delusional.” Mad magazine, which no doubt you are surprised even exists anymore, decided the way to get attention is make fun of Palin. The January 2010 issue bashes Palin as “Blunder Woman” in part of a cover story devoted to the “20 Dumbest, People, Events and Things” of 2009. The magazine criticized her for “going ‘rogue,'” saying “‘rogue’ is the Eskimo word for ‘stupid.'” [Who the hell reads Mad magazine anymore? I mean, this rag was completely stupid even way back when I was a young and impressionable dupe ripe for political persuasion via idiotic cartoon drawings…ed]

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The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah

In the spring of 1964, Sarah Heath, then just three months old, flew into backwater Skagway, Alaska (population 650) aboard a 1930s-era Grumman Goose to start a new life with her parents, brother, and sister. At that same time, in America’s other new outlier state, Hawaii, two-year-old Barry Obama was just getting used to a fatherless existence in the otherwise-comfortable world his white grandparents and occasionally his mother would make for him. At the time, not even Nostradamus could have foretold that the paths of Barry and Sarah would intersect in the “historic” 2008 election, Barry as the first major party presidential nominee of African descent and Sarah as the first woman with a real shot at the vice-presidency. [If you read nothing else today, take a few minutes for this one. It’s one of the best I’ve come across all year from AmericanThinker.com…ed]

Prosecuting American ‘War Crimes’

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed “great regret” in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war crimes in The Hague. The ICC’s chief prosecutor, though, has no intention of waiting for Washington to submit to the court’s authority. Luis Moreno Ocampo says he already has jurisdiction—at least with respect to Afghanistan. Because Kabul in 2003 ratified the Rome Statute—the ICC’s founding treaty—all soldiers on Afghan territory, even those from nontreaty countries, fall under the ICC’s oversight, Mr. Ocampo told me. And the chief prosecutor says he is already conducting a “preliminary examination” into whether NATO troops, including American soldiers, fighting the Taliban may have to be put in the dock. [Need any more proof that the rotten bastard liberals who have infested our government hate our troops? The American people will come unglued if Obama makes the serious mistake of going along with this program…ed]

Swiss go to the polls on Sunday to decide on Muslim minaret ban

After keeping invaders at bay for two centuries the Swiss are about to vote on what many see as the enemy within: their growing minority of Muslims. On Sunday, the calm little nation at the heart of Europe will decide whether to approve a constitutional ban on building minarets, the spires that are often attached to mosques. The issue arose when Mutalip Karaademi, a Muslim leader in the town of Langenthal, north of Berne, suggested a modest tower for the local mosque. The mayor supported what would have been only the fifth minaret in Switzerland — but it was blocked by opponents who want to halt what they see as inroads by political Islam in the world’s oldest democracy. [My distant relatives in Switzerland know what’s coming with the invading army of muslims trying to take over every country in Europe, and they don’t like it…ed]

Obama Makes History: Thanksgiving Proclamation First Ever to Omit Direct Mention of God

President Obama’s brief proclamation of Thanksgiving Day on November 26 was unique among all recorded Thanksgiving proclamations by his predecessors: it is the first one that fails to directly acknowledge the existence of God. The beneficence shown by God to America is a theme that traditionally defines the Thanksgiving holiday, and this theme is strongly emphasized in the original Thanksgiving Day proclamations and consistently acknowledged even by modern presidents. Obama’s unprecedented proclamation, however, only makes indirect mention of God by quoting George Washington, stating: “Today, we recall President George Washington, who proclaimed our first national day of public thanksgiving to be observed ‘by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God.'” [Yeah, he wouldn’t want to piss off his muslim buddies by referring to God in any of his speeches…ed]

Obama issues special Hajj message to world’s Muslims

Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year, and to Muslims in America and around the world who are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha. The rituals of Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha both serve as reminders of the shared Abrahamic roots of three of the world’s major religions. During Hajj, the world’s largest and most diverse gathering, three million Muslims from all walks of life – including thousands of American Muslims – will stand in prayer on Mount Arafat. [Once again Obama, this time in his own writing, grovels at the feet of the world’s number one terrorist threat, muslims. When was the last time you heard of the leaders of muslim nations wishing this CHRISTIAN country a Merry Christmas?…ed]

Best Buy Ditches ‘Christmas’ But Celebrates Muslim Holiday in Fliers

Christmas. Who needs it? Not Best Buy, that’s for sure. After all, Best Buy is loathe to use that hateful word in its advertising. It’s so “religious” and tinged with racism, America, and tradition. It makes Best Buy shudder to think of using that foul word, Christmas. But, advertising for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha? Heck, why not? What could be more welcoming and tolerant? And so, Best Buy has issued a Thanksgiving sales flyer wishing all good multi-cultural, Muslim loving Americans a happy Eid al-Adha this year. (SNIP) Yes, thanks Best Buy for showing us how to be better “Americans.” Now go ye forward and shop, America. Happy Eid al-Adha to everyone. And don’t let PETA stop you from buying that goat. And don’t mind us, folks. We are just committing cultural suicide is all. [Be sure to pass this on to all your family members, friends and neighbors…ed]

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As Bank Failures Rise, F.D.I.C. Fund Falls Into Red

The government-administered insurance fund that protects depositors fell into the red for the first time since the fallout from the savings-and-loan crisis of the early 1990s as the pace of bank failures accelerated. The fund had a negative balance of $8.2 billion at the end of the third quarter, federal regulators said Tuesday. Bank customers, however, should remain confident that their deposits would be protected since most of the amount reflects money that Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation has already set aside to cover the losses from future bank failures. Officials of the F.D.I.C. said in October that the deposit insurance fund had been depleted, but the third-quarter report card on the banking industry issued on Tuesday was the first time that hard numbers had been released. Even amid early signs that the economy is recovering, the report suggested that the country’s 8,100 lenders remain in fragile condition. [But don’t worry about the money you have in the bank because the government is going to force banks to pay three years of their annual assessments up front, right now, which, of course, will put very little strain on these lending institutions which happen to be failing at a record rate as the value of the dollar continues to tank at about the same rate as Obama’s poll numbers. More on this here…ed]

Would Obama Be President If He Made These Five Campaign Promises?

Calling a politician dishonest is like calling a burglar dishonest. The difference is that burglars take less of your money, don’t get invited on the Sunday morning shows, and are more dangerous — unless you happen to be a woman near a male member of the Kennedy family. Even amongst politicians, Barack Obama is such a liar that he makes Bill Clinton look like honest Abe Lincoln by comparison. During the campaign, Barack Obama promised everything to everybody and when people inquired too closely, his supporters screamed that you had to be a racist for doubting him. Well now, Barack Obama is President of the United States and he can no longer hide behind “hope” and “change” while he votes “present” on the tough issues. [Only 43% of Americans claim they would vote for the guy if he was running for president today so I’m thinking, NO, he wouldn’t presently be living in our White House if the country knew ANYTHING about his background or he told people what his true agenda was during the campaign…ed]

Bob Ainsworth criticises Barack Obama over Afghanistan

Mr Ainsworth took the unprecedented step of publicly criticising the US President and his delays in sending more troops to bolster the mission against the Taliban. A “period of hiatus” in Washington – and a lack of clear direction – had made it harder for ministers to persuade the British public to go on backing the Afghan mission in the face of a rising death toll, he said. Senior British Government sources have become increasingly frustrated with Mr Obama’s “dithering” on Afghanistan, the Daily Telegraph disclosed earlier this month, with several former British defence chiefs echoing the concerns. [This would bother Obama if the criticism was coming from the leader of a muslim country or one of our enemies. But coming from our British cousins and our strongest ally? Not so much…ed]

Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents

President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents — spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion — $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush’s term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama’s. That price tag came with a $1.4 trillion deficit, nearly $1 trillion more than last year. The overall budget was about a half-trillion more than Bush’s for 2008, his final full fiscal year in office. [Well at least he is VERY worried about how he is going to pay for the additional troops needed for HIS “necessary war” in Afghanistan…ed]

Saudi Arabia: Obama’s grandmother in Mecca for ‘Hajj’ ceremony

The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the ‘Hajj’ or Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a Saudi daily said on Wednesday. Sarah Obama, 87, is being accompanied by a nephew and Obama’s cousin, Omran. On Wednesday Sarah Obama was in the valley of Mina with an African delegation, according to the Saudi daily Okaz. Obama, the mother of the American president’s father, lives in a village in Kenya and is one of the many guests of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud. [Granny’s a muslim, who’s shocked? And I think I remember Obama nicking his forehead on the King’s zipper when he bowed to him earlier this year so maybe that’s why she’s his guest for this event…ed]

CRU’s Source Code: Climategate Uncovered

As the evidence of fraud at the University of East Anglia’s prestigious Climactic Research Unit (CRU) continues to mount, those who’ve been caught green-handed continue to parry their due opprobrium and comeuppance, thanks primarily to a dead-silent mainstream media. But should the hubris and duplicity evident in the e-mails of those whose millennial temperature charts literally fuel the warming alarmism movement somehow fail to convince the world of the scam that’s been perpetrated, certainly these revelations of the fraud cooked into the computer programs that create such charts will. First, let’s briefly review a few pertinent details. [AmericanThinker.com once again does the job the lame asses in the mainstream media refuse to do…ed]

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