Archive for the ‘B. Hussein Obama’ Category

Flyers = Gunnies

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

WizardPC, manning the Walls of the City, points out that the new TSA directives promulgated in the wake of the Christmas Bombing, works in exactly the same way as current gun regulations:

  • Unaccountable Government Agency with the power to ruin your life over seemingly minor transgressions? Check!
  • Assumption that you’re up to no good based solely on lawful activity? Check!

…And three more items. As one of Wiz’s commenters notes, this only applies to international travelers, but come on, people, do you really believe that officials like Napolitano don’t want to impose them universally?

After all, many of our current gun control laws got started after the Civil War, and were only supposed to keep uppity black folk from resisting the KKK and other bastions of law and order; they were never intended to be used against decent white Americans.

If the System Worked…

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

If the system worked, as “Nappies” Napolitano claims, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would not now be in the hands of the Justice Department.

He’d be in military hands, in Guantanomo, and would at this moment be in the process of being persuaded to spill his guts on who supplied him with a defective bomb. He might be allowed to watch with the rest of us as the homes and capitals of those responsible were obliterated. He’d certainly be hearing, and possibly watching, the Current Occupants at Gitmo being shot. Then it would be his turn. They would all have been offered a last meal of pork sausage and beer.

If the system worked, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would never have attempted what he did, because his sponsors would either be dead, or would know better than to attack an American target.

If the system worked, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would indeed be in this country, attending engineering school, being a good student, and preparing to go back home to bring his nation into the modern era.

If the system really worked, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would be going to school in his own country, and that school would be almost as good as almost any place he could have gone to here, and his country would be a substantial economic competitor to the US, like Japan after WWII.

And if the system worked, Barack Hussein Obama would be the junior Senator from Illinois. At best.

QotD: “The System Worked”

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Look, this is all over the place. It’s so obviously, blatantly wrong, nobody’s saying anything insightful about it. All you can really do is bug out your eyes and scream incoherently, or just sigh and click on to the next post, or go watch a movie or something.

Ladies and gentlemen, the finest hands your country is in [0:30]

“Baghdad” Janet “Nappies” Napolitano, Head Nanny:

One thing I’d like to point out here is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here. The passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action.

Even CNN’s commentator can’t quite keep the disbelief out of her voice. CNN is not playing with The Team on this one.

Some of the passengers did indeed do the right thing, although Nappies and her minions have done everything possible to render the passengers helpless.

Then there’s this:

We have no suggestion that he was improperly screened.

He got on the plane despite being on watch lists and despite warnings from his own family. How is that not “improper screened”?

Cold Fury:

This is never going to work if both the terrorist’s and the Administration’s pants are on fire.

Jonah Goldberg says the obvious about as well as anybody:

It is her basic position that the “system worked” because the bureaucrats responded properly after the attack. That the attack was “foiled” by a bad detonator and some civilian passengers is proof, she claims, that her agency is doing everything right. That is just about the dumbest thing she could say, on the merits and politically.

If the White House wants to assure people that it takes the war on terror seriously (a term Robert Gibbs used this morning by the way), they could start by firing this patenly unqualified hack.

Although Goldberg is generous (”patently unqualified hack”), you should read the whole thing; it’s short.

Oh, and I can’t pass over this [0:39]:

Within literally an hour to ninety minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 flights in the air had been notified to take some special measures in light of what had occurred.

When seconds count, TSA is an hour away, at least. With advice, not actual, you know, help.

Goldberg is far too generous. Napolitano, and the administration she is a part of, is not unqualified.

They’re on the other side.

I’m Dreaming of a Red Christmas

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

OK, one guess which tree this little bit of patriotic Christmas cheer is hanging on:obama_christmastree

Here’s a hint: this guy lives in the house:
obama_christmastree2

Via Sandra K.
Yeah, that’s right: The pResident of the United States of America has a portrait of the greatest mass murdering communist tyrant in history hanging on the Whitehouse Christmas tree.

And right nearby, another ornament with his own portrait pasted in with the Mt. Rushmore Presidents.

Either he is utterly clueless or utterly evil. Either way, fuck him.

And all you people who voted for him?

Enjoy Christmas while He still allows you to do so.

Obama Caught in the Webb

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Wow. Too close to home to be funny. This is just flat out the truth.

Via Curmudgeonly and Skeptical.

KSM Kangaroo Kourt

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

The Everlasting Phelps:

What Holder and Obama are doing is taking the chance of either setting KSM free, or making a mockery of our court system. True, the system has plenty to mock in it already, from testilying cops to rubber-stamp warrants to odious victimless crime convictions. But this choice — letting KSM go or cutting the heart out of the court system — is a choice that they willingly took upon themselves.

When Obama spouts BS like, “it will all be OK when we execute him” he’s whistling past the graveyard. If it’s a guaranteed conviction, it’s a kangaroo court worthy of Stalin.

I’ve gutted Phelps’ article, which is very short, and very pithy. Read the whole thing, through your tears if you have to.

Phelps also links to this list by Ken Klukowski of “Six Arguments I’d Make If I Were Defending KSM”, over at Fox News.

1. That his Fourth Amendment rights were violated by letters and conversations that the government intercepted without a search warrant.

2. That his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination were violated if the government attempts to use statements made before he was read his Miranda rights or after he was waterboarded (since the Obama administration calls it torture).

3. That his Sixth Amendment rights were violated by not providing a speedy trial, that the Speedy Trial Act (a federal statute) has also been violated, and that he has been denied adequate legal counsel.

4. I would also say he cannot get a fair trial in New York and move for change of venue.

5. I would challenge the admissibility of any evidence that was unsecured even for an hour, challenge the authenticity of any offered evidence, insist on his Sixth Amendment right to confront every witness against him, including the capturing officers, interrogators, guards, transport personnel, and whoever else I can think of.

6. I would raise objections of circumstantial evidence, hearsay, the witnesses’ integrity, and every other conceivable objection to the evidence and every procedural step.

Klukowski discusses the terrible, horrible implications of all this. A taste:

At every step, these trials could harm America. They can find out through court discovery America’s methods for gathering intelligence and how we are tracking their movements. They might find out who’s working undercover with us, what we’ve been told, who we’re watching, and what we’re positioning to do in the future.

More and more, it’s hard to see this as incompetence, and more as The Plan.

The Man in the Oval

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Via Gunslinger:

My email teleprompter says this was written by Joe Crews and Harvey Wysong:

Barack Obama is less of a person than an image — a brand. People see whatever they want as they do on a Rorschach test. But does anyone really know him?

In fact, he is:

An empty suit.

A man with no birth certificate.

A man who was deserted in childhood by his biological father.

A man whose birth records, both in the United States and Kenya , are sealed by government order.

A man whose childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, spied on U.S. military installations in Hawaii for the Soviet Union, edited a communist newspaper, authored pornographic novels, and wrote poetry in praise of Joseph Stalin.

A man mentored by and still supported by radical Muslims.

A man who promised transparency in government, but has spent over a million dollars in legal fees hiding information that would determine his eligibility to be President.

A former drug user.

A man whose academic records are sealed from kindergarten through law school.

A man who arrived in New York in June of 1981 without enough money to get a hotel room, but one month later flew to Indonesia and Pakistan .Why did he go? Who paid his expenses?

A man who traveled to Pakistan when it was illegal for U.S. citizens to do so. So what country’s passport did he use?

A man whose Law School Admission Test scores and grades at Columbia University are known to have been mediocre, but was admitted to Harvard Law School through the intervention of a Saudi named Khalid al-Mansour.

A law review editor who never published an article in any law review.

A lawyer with no significant accomplishments in the law and no reputation in the legal community.

A former State and U.S. Senator, who never authored a piece of legislation.

A disciple of the Marxist Saul Alinsky.

A product of the Chicago political machine—the most corrupt political organization in America A man who selects Marxists, corrupt politicians, and criminals as his close political associates and personal friends.

A man whose presidential candidacy was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America,
the Socialist International, and the Workers International League.

A man lauded for the literary brilliance of two memoirs, both of which were ghostwritten by others.

A so-called Christian who says that knowing when human life begins is “above his pay-grade,” but somehow knows that abortion is permissible at any stage.

A man who thinks “waterboarding” is immoral, but that partial-birth abortion is moral.

A man who publicly laments slavery in America—which was abolished 150 years ago—but praises Islam, which still practices both slavery and the sexual mutilation of young girls.

Ooh, yeah, there’s more. You should read all of it.

I Guess I’m Not A Black Man

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

At SondraK’s:

The Rev. Jesse ["the overseer"] Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

There you go folks; we do indeed live in a post-racial society. Your race is no longer determined by your skin color, the shape of your face, and other genetic characteristics. No, your race is now determined by whether or not you do what Barry Hussein and Jesse Jackson tell you to do.

Do Your Research, Then Pray For Barry Hussein

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Psalm 109:8.

Via Grouchy Old Cripple.

A Proper Bow

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Having attacked Obama for having bowed to the Emperor of Japan, in fairness I offer this historic bow, delivered by one of the founders, John Adams, as ambassador to the King George III of England, and, until very recently (at the time) King of the American colonies as well:

For those among my patriotic friends on the right who are so deeply distressed, let me offer this story – possibly the first encounter between an American citizen and foreign royalty (the contacts between Adams, Jefferson, Franklin and the French preceded the British surrender, and so one can make a claim that they were not yet truly American citizens).

John Adams was presented to King George as the first American Ambassador to the Court of St. James (from Page Smith’s delightful John Adams biography)…

The Foreign Secretary then carried Adams with him in his coach to the court and ushered him to the antechamber, “very full of ministers of state, lords, and bishops, and all sorts of courtiers.” The Dutch and Swedish ministers, perhaps noticing Adams’ agitation came up to chat and in a few minutes Carmarthen returned to escort him to the King’s closet. The door was closed after him and Adams found himself alone with the Killoro and the Foreign Secretary. He bowed the three times that etiquette required – at the door, again halfway into the room, and a third time standing directly before His Majesty. It was a strange and dramatic confrontation – two short, stout men, both rather choleric, stubborn and strong-willed, sharing a certain emotional instability and a native shrewdness and wit. They were both great talkers and both, in their hearts, farmers. They both lived in worlds where they felt frequently that every man’s hand was turned against them. One was the King of the most powerful nation in the world, the other’s permanent rank that of a provincial lawyer and farmer. It was the New England fanner who represented victory and the King who had been forced to accept defeat. The name of Adams, John or Samuel, had been a stench in the nostrils of George III for almost twenty years and now an Adams stood before him, ambassador from those colonies which not so long ago had been the King’s special treasure.

Both men were agitated and ill at ease. Adams, obviously nervous, (”I felt more,” he wrote later, “than I did or could express”) delivered his speech as best he could and the King listened “with a most apparent emotion .. . very much affected” and replied with a tremor in his voice: “Sir…the circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper and the feelings you have discovered so justly adapted to the occasion, that I must say that I not only receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad the choice has fallen upon you to be their minister. . . . I will be very frank with you,” the King continued slowly, rather haltingly, searching out his words. “I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.” Then in a more informal spirit the King asked Adams if he had come most recently from France. “Yes, Your Majesty.” The King gave his short, barking laugh. “There is an opinion among some people that you are not the most attached of all your countrymen to the manners of France.” Adams was disconcerted at the remark, but he adopted the King’s light air and answered: “That opinion, sir, is not mistaken; I must avow to Your Majesty I have no attachment but to my own country.”

“A honest man will never have any other,” the King replied.

The King spoke a few words to Lord Carmarthen and then turned and bowed to Adams, signifying that the audience was at an end. The American retreated, walking backward with as much grace as he could affect, bowed a last time at the door, and withdrew.

So it’s quite possible to bow and speak frankly in defense of American interests.

Let’s judge Obama less on the bowing and the dressing and pay more attention to the speaking.

Armed Liberal has other cogent comments as well, and you should read them, as well as the many links he has on offer.

For my part, though, I must say that Obama is President, not an Ambassador; that the status of the United States as a nation not ruled by some kind of monarch (and indeed, among nations in the European sphere, not ruled by a monarch very closely related to the other European monarchs) was in Adams’ time very, shall I say? “raw”; and that Obama bowed very much more deeply than Akihito did.

Even AL acknowledges that it was at the very least an unbecoming error, and possibly a misunderstanding of Japanese custom.

As noted before, the State Department maintains an Office of Protocol, the job of which is exactly to instruct the President and other traveling dignitaries on how to behave when acting in their official capacity. Obama needs to stop goofing off in class, and do his damn homework.