No, Really. The Obama White House/Re-Election Campaign Has Inserted Obama Into The Biographies Of His Predecessors

Words fail. Really.

OS picked up on this article from an acquaintance, and his first thought was 'Nawwww! Somebody's pulling my leg. This is a prank. Not even Obama would be that shameless and completely stupid.'


Actually, the article's author had had that same reaction himself...only to discover multiple re-edits of the biographies to include Himself in the great narrative of the past.

Here are just a few examples, and the readers dug up even more--including a few about Michelle!

• In a 1946 letter to the National Urban League, President Truman wrote that the government has “an obligation to see that the civil rights of every citizen are fully and equally protected.” He ended racial segregation in civil service and the armed forces in 1948. Today the Obama administration continues to strive toward upholding the civil rights of its citizens, repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, allowing people of all sexual orientations to serve openly in our armed forces.

• President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare signed (sic) into law in 1965—providing millions of elderly healthcare stability. President Obama’s historic health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, strengthens Medicare, offers eligible seniors a range of preventive services with no cost-sharing, and provides discounts on drugs when in the coverage gap known as the “donut hole.”

• On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today the Obama administration continues to protect seniors and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations.

• In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule.

Another great reader contribution was this joke:

"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning-the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. President Obama saw this and said "I was totally going to do it in 5 days and get in two days of golf, but whatever."

Here's Calvin Coolidge's bio on the White House Website, just as an example. It's one of the milder examples.

Words. Fail.

Archbishop Cranmer In The Crosshairs Of The Left And The Advertising Standards Authority

And just who in England's GreenAndPleasant Land are these people?

Bit by bit, the darkness begins to descend upon Europe once again, even to the British Isles.  

OS share this to lend his support, and encourages others to do likewise.  While they can.

Really, Honest--There's Noooooo Problem On Our Border With Mexico

...and all those people in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas who are jumping up and down in alarm are just a bunch of raaaaaacists.

So they and we will just ignore little items like this, so nobody gets upset and Massah Obama gets the re-election to which He is entitled, because, well, He's Himself.

The bodies of 23 people were found hanging from a bridge or decapitated and dumped near city hall Friday in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody and escalating turf war.

Authorities found nine of the victims, including four women, hanging from an overpass leading to a main highway, said a Tamaulipas state official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to provide information on the case.

Hours later, police found 14 human heads inside coolers outside city hall along with a threatening note. The 14 bodies were found in black plastic bags inside a car abandoned near an international bridge, the official said.

Noooooo worries! This sort of behavior can't poooooossibly cross the border to the interior of the United States. We don't have any of those Mexican gang types up here, mixed in among those 12 million or so illegal aliens, right? That what Mzzzzzzzz Napolitano assures us, and she knows everything about all of this sort of thing.

Right?

Today's Math Lesson For The One, LittleTimmy, And Helicopter Ben

What's 522, 000 minus 115,000?

That would be 407,000, the net loss of individuals from the US workforce in April 2012.

In April, about 522,000 Americans left the labor force, making the addition of 115,000 jobs look all the more alarming. In 2011, about 2.7 million Americans left the work force while only 945,000 came in.

So, what's  2.7 million minus 945,000?

That would be 1,755,000, the net loss of individuals from the US workforce in 2011.

So, what's 14.5 minus 8.1?

That would be the total percentage of unemployed (including those who have given up) minus the 'official' unemployment rate in April 2012. 6.4% of the entire US workforce.

Having 6.4 percent of the nation’s employable adults out of economic circulation is big trouble. For older adults in that category, they may never be able to return to work. For younger adults, it means a lifetime of lower wages and slower advancement if they eventually get back in the hunt and find a job.

OS knows that Himself never did like math, cuz he was too busy thinking of ways to take over and then wreck the United States. But someone might wish to risk whispering in His ear that, with each day that passes, the November election gets one day closer.

That math he understands, cause it's all about Him.

Full article here.

Green Energy, Toxic Waste, Taxpayer Fleecing, Obama's Energy Policy

The perfect image, example and cautionary tale of the administration of Barack Obama.


Solyndra, the gift that just keeps on giving. Hundreds of millions ponied up to political friends, sunk into a bone-head business that had zero chance of succeeding, but did make for some great photo-ops for Himself.

It goes tits-up, and leaves behind years worth of toxic waste to clean up, again at our expense.

No one is to blame, no one goes to jail, no one is even sued. They all just walk away, and we get to clean it all up.

It fits perfectly, except we have the opportunity to hasten His exit this November via the ballot box.

But we'll still have years, perhaps a generation, of clean-up ahead of us.

A bit more here, complete with His smiling self addressing the employees at the plant, just in case anyone needs a reminder.

Adios, Dr. Amendariz--And The Questions That Linger

It was a Sunday afternoon execution, off the news cycle, unobtrusive. The resignation was written for him, no doubt, and he signed off. Dr. Al Armendariz, who so reveled in Roman political technique, was treated to, not Roman, but more approximately, Soviet political technique.

He is surely under orders to disa-blanking-ppear, lest he be disappeared by his former mentors whom he now must still regard as his present bosses. Surely a quiet bit of good-bye money has been arranged, just to help him maintain his loyalty, his silence, and to reduce the temptation to, say, write a book about his life in the Obama Administration for release in early October--complete with the requisite book tour and chat-show appearances. He probably didn't need to threaten them too extensively, and he knows that if he were to jabber, and Obama win in November...his wife teaches school and he has children and he'd like a shot at academia again someday...hmmm. Silence is golden, after all, is it not? Who knows, if Obama wins, he could be rehabilitated! It happened in the golden days of the Soviet Union, after all, why not here and now?

Thus: A reading from the Book of Regulatory, Chapter 13, Verse 13.

Al Armendariz, the top environmental official in the oil-rich South and Southwest region, resigned in a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on Sunday, saying he did not want to be a distraction for the agency. The resignation is effective Monday.

"As I have expressed publicly, and to you directly, I regret comments I made several years ago that do not in any way reflect my work as regional administrator. As importantly, they do not represent the work you have overseen as EPA administrator," he wrote. "I take great pride in having built a career based on integrity and hard work. These are the principles that guide me personally as well. While I feel there is much work that remains to be done for the people of this country in the region that I serve, after a  great deal of thought and careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that my continued service will distract you and the agency from the 2012 political campaign its important work."

Here endeth the lesson.

The most important bit is in the first sentence--'I've already said I'm sorry, and I'm not really like that, and I guarantee you aren't really like that. Honest, I don't know how those words came to my lips--I must have been channeling Caligula or Hugo Chavez'. 

Of course, the question does linger in the air: How did TheMostTransparentAndIntellectuallyAstute administration in the history of the Republic hire this guy? To work at this level, the candidate has to be vetted and vetted again and background checked and interviewed several times, because he really will wield a lot of power as the energy caudillo of Region 6.  They'd need a guy with the sort of stones and lack of squeamishness needed to crush TheLittlePeople under the boot, someone who wouldn't surprise them with pangs of conscience, someone who could boast about the Romans crucifying villagers at random as a legitimate means of governance.

 

So, we are led to one of two conclusions: Obama and Lisa Jackson, if they were doing their jobs and are the astute people they insist they are, must have known with certainty what manner of man they were hiring. Or, alternatively, they were recklessly negligent to the point downright stupidity to have hired Dr. Armendariz. There really isn't much middle ground of possibility.

So, which is it? Are they venal, or are they stupid? 

Can we afford to have them in power, in any case?

Don't Miss Your Life: Epiphany On The Road Home

There are those moments, those moments when time stands completely still. Sometimes, we can schedule their arrival, such as midnight service on Christmas Eve--we show up and The Moment happens, right on time. Other times, we can sense something may happen, as the sunset approaches, or Bubba Watson (or Tom Watson!) lines up that final putt, Kirk Gibson at the plate when only a home run will do, when the fishing fly hits the water just-so under that particular tree limb.

Then, there are the completely unexpected epiphanies, when the heavens open up and the angels sing, perhaps loudly perhaps softly; still it's unmistakeably a voice from outside that takes us by the lapels, looks us in the eye and growls--Pay Attention! You need to listen!

OS has had just a few of those, and reports with regret he disregarded a few of them. Others, he is grateful to report, he heeded.

Yesterday saw one of those moments arrive unbidden, out of the blue, like a slap upside-da-head. OS was driving home from short business trip, decided to see how much of the interstate he could avoid, and took in the countryside and small towns of southern Tennessee. The radio was playing, oldies until the station faded, a bit of black gospel (same story), and then a strong-signal country station from the next county over...ahh that's better. Some dreck, some classics. OS decided to drive through what remains of the once pretty downtown of Fayetteville. It was a scene of long decline, capped by this last recession decisively kicking the legs out from underneath the town. Radio playing, radio playing....and a song begins about a busy man on a plane with a deadline and BigThingsToDo--this song, as a matter of fact.

It tears at the heart, this song. OS was listening, absorbed in the lyric, rounded the curve at the old city cemetery, and saw a large old tombstone facing out to the road--with his name on it. Song plays on, and on--Don't Miss Your Life.

So, for the record (no pun intended) this epiphany did capture the attention, and OS has no intention of disregarding such a gift.

Al Amendariz Issues An Apology Of A Sort--Where's The Line That Says 'I Resign'?

From CBS News

HOUSTON — A top administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has apologized for using the word "crucify" two years ago when describing the agency's enforcement policies, and for saying it makes examples of bad players in the oil and gas industry.

EPA Region 6 administrator Al Armendariz, who oversees Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico, issued a written apology Wednesday after video surfaced of him at a meeting in May 2010 in the tiny town of Dish.

The video shows Armendariz answering a question about the agency's enforcement policies. In the Middle Ages, he tells the crowd, the Romans would enter a troublesome village, "take the first five guys they saw and crucify them." Then the town would be "really easy to manage for the next few years," he said.

Armendariz's apology was issued Wednesday by the EPA's headquarters in Washington.

"I apologize to those I have offended and regret my poor choice of words. It was an offensive and inaccurate way to portray our efforts to address potential violations of our nation's environmental laws," he said. "I am always and have been committed to fair and vigorous enforcement of those laws."

Cynthia Giles, the assistant administrator for enforcement and compliance assurance, also issued a statement.

"Strong, fair and effective enforcement of the environmental laws passed by Congress is critical to protecting public health and ensuring that all companies, regardless of industry, are playing by the same rules," she wrote.


A few points come to mind:

1. Al didn't write the apology, and he sure didn't have the stones to actually go on camera and read it. Both would require a bit of contrition and true integrity. Remember, after all, this is the Obama administration.

2. Notice what the apology conveys--just a poor choice of words. Actually no apology for the attitudes behind those words, from either him or Mzzzzz Giles. The apology is for the manner of stating the brutal attitude taken by the EPA toward the culture and economy of the United States. There is no repentance concerning the policy set in place and followed. They plan to continue screwing us all to the wall, and will take care to not be so candid about it. Sweeeeeet.

3.  Had this occurred in the Reagan or either Bush administrations, CBS and NBC would lead off every hour expressing their outrage at this outrageous pronouncement, and demanding resignations.
Not a peep except a quiet reporting of a non-apology.

This is a firing offense, and the Administration should have him cleaning out his office in the morning.  But they won't, and the mainstream press will never utter a discouraging word.

Al Amendariz, EPA's 'Enforcer' For The Oil Fields Of Oklahoma And Texas

The news spread pretty quickly about the video of the speech given by EPA Region 6 Administrator Al Armedariz. The YouTube video carrying the speech has been stuffed down the Memory Hole already, but not before being viewed many times, and its content noted in the Congressional Record by Senator Inhofe. Oops.


So, in fairness to Mr. Armendariz, OS looked him up on the EPA website. The first sentence is most informative. He is Obama's man.

Al Armendariz was appointed by President Obama on November 5, 2009, as the Regional Administrator for EPA’s Region 6 office in Dallas. He is responsible for managing Agency activities in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and 66 tribal nations, under the direction of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.

Dr. Armendariz has brought a deep commitment to environmental issues to his work at EPA. He has made working with communities a priority across the Region, frequently engaging directly with those most vulnerable to harm from polluters. This was especially evident during the Agency's response to 2010's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, during which he worked tirelessly with area residents, local governments, and community groups. As he continues his tenure, he brings the same passion to the Region's work on air quality, wetlands protection, climate change and other environmental goals.

Let's think back a bit to what the Obama Administration did in response to the BP oil spill. They proceeded to shut down the oil industry in toto, and impoverished large swaths of the US Gulf Coast. Guess what happens to states that don't vote for Obama...

That word 'passion' is descriptive, because on the now disappeared video, in his speech given before a friendly audience, he said:


EPA’s “philosophy of enforcement is kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they’d run into, and they’d crucify them.”

“That town was really easy to manage for the next few years,” Armendariz added.

Sweet--he's an historian, too!

Let's repeat that final phrase a few times...

“That town was really easy to manage for the next few years."

“That town was really easy to manage for the next few years."

“That town was really easy to manage for the next few years."

“That town was really easy to manage for the next few years."

Does it make you wonder if your town, your business, your school, your church, your family is next?

Happy Earth Day, everybody. This is our future under Barack Obama.

   

The Great Louisville Orchestra Food Fight May Possibly Pause For A Truce

At least the musicians are announcing news to that effect.

What seems to be in place will be a one-year contract with a mediator hired to see if a longer agreement can't be worked out.

This whole episode resembles one of those really nasty divorces in which former spouses decide they'd each rather spend 50k on lawyer fees than allow the other to keep the patio furniture.

Simultaneous to this announcement, news that Louisville Fund for the Arts has appointed a new executive director.

The two events are unrelated, but may create some sort of synergy. It seem the Fund was also involved in its own airborne transport of nutritonal products.

OS scratches his gray head and wonders out loud:

Did it occur to anyone that the orchestra debacle, with its nastiness and name-calling, would deter people from buying tickets and donating what dwindling amounts of discretionary money may yet remain?

No one wants to buy tickets or give donations to a food fight. Even if they go back to work, it will still be a food fight for the musicians and concert goers. Musicians hate management, which is completely out of patience. The board (the people who give money) has been vilified by the people who are the direct recipients of the money the board raises...and much of Louisville would rather go to high school and college ball games on Friday night than hear a punch of pissed-off unhappy musicians go through the motions of playing a Brahms symphony.

The food fight isn't over, just put on hold. Rather like a divorcing couple, each seeking to prove itself the injured party, willing to burn everything down just to take possession of the ashes and declare victory, the war will flare up once more.

If everything goes well, and everyone behaves, it will require at least five years to rebuild the band, the brand, and the organization.

Tick, tock, ya'll...