"Obama Advisor: He is Bored To Death And Just Too Talented to do What Ordinary People Do," viaWeasel Zippers, citing the Pittsburgh Review-Tribune:
In his biography of Obama, “The Bridge,” David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: “I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
There's no reaching those fully immersed in the Cult of Obama.
The comments at Weasel Zippers are priceless. Warning! Strong language!
Obama's upcoming visit to India involves sending an armada of thirty-four warships, controlling the monkey menace, removing coconuts, and building an overground tunnel.
Seven other Latin American countries want to join Mexico in supporting a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s immigration enforcement law.
Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru filed separate, nearly identical motions to join Mexico’s legal brief supporting the lawsuit filed by U.S. civil rights and other advocacy groups.
A federal judge formally accepted Mexico’s filing July 1 but did not immediately rule on the latest motions filed late last week.
How about we countersue Latin America because of the drug cartels?
FromI Hate The Media, citingWorld Net Daily about the college textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, co-authored by Science Czar John Holdren:
The authors argued that involuntary birth-control measures, including forced sterilization, may be necessary and morally acceptable under extreme conditions, such as widespread famine brought about by “climate change.”
They recommended the creation of a “planetary regime” created to act as an “international superagency for population, resources, and environment.”
“Such a Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable, at least insofar as international implications exist,” they argued.
“Thus, the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and the oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans.”
Read more HERE at Zombie Time, which has scanned pages from the aforementioned textbook.
According to THIS at Science Progress [July 15, 2009], all the eugenics and other measures were not actually proposals:
Paul and Anne Ehrlich have also refuted the charges—they sent out an email observing that “We were not then, never have been, and are not now ‘advocates’ of the Draconian measures for population limitation described—but not recommended—in the book’s 60-plus small-type pages cataloging the full spectrum of population policies that, at the time, had either been tried in some country or analyzed by some commentator.” In his Senate confirmation hearing...Holdren also rejected the idea that he supports government-mandated efforts at population control.
...The book is three decades old; Holdren isn’t its first author; it takes a stance against such policies; and neither Holdren nor the Ehrlichs support these policies today, either.
At what point during the three decades since the book was first published did the denials as to book's intent begin? When Obama made known his choice of John Holdren for the position as "science czar"?
Note the following parsing, also fromScience Progress:
...[T]o describe these measures is different from advocating them. And in fact, the Ehrlichs and Holdren concluded by arguing that noncoercive measures were what they supported: “A far better choice, in our view, is to expand the use of milder methods of influencing family size preferences”—such as birth control and access to abortions....They were writing in very different times thirty years ago; but even if they were defending these positions then (and they weren’t), that hardly means that they do today.
In other words: Nothing to see here, move right along.
But don't the words "better choice" still leave the eugenics option on the table and tell us a lot about the ethics system of John Holdren?
This post is not another personal, whiny one as should be obvious by the accompany graphic from Google images.
Rather, this post is a reaction to this June 4, 2010 story from the Washington Post. Lengthy excerpt below the fold:
It wasn't typical fare for the neighborhood e-mail discussion group, but Jean Teichroew hoped that another Silver Spring resident might know the answer to her question: "Whose responsibility in the county is it to remove a dead chicken?"
The rust-colored, feathered corpse had been lying rear-up near an empty Heineken box at 16th Street and Second Avenue, just north of downtown Silver Spring, since late last week, Teichroew wrote on the North Woodside forum Tuesday. After it had begun to "ripen" in the heat, she wrote, she called Montgomery County's Animal Services Division but was told that officers couldn't retrieve it unless the bird was "the size of a vulture."
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...A Montgomery County Council member's staff intervened and red-shirted "ambassadors" from downtown Silver Spring's Urban District were sent to pick it up....
Apparently, these citizens in Montgomery County, Maryland, felt that they required government help to get rid of a dead chicken, particularly when
Teichroew said that the chicken, which she had to pass daily on her walk to work, was "pretty disgusting."
Of course, as the dead chicken lay there day after to day, it continued to rot and reek while citizens waited for the government to take care of the matter:
Teichroew said she and her son, Peter, 24, planned to remove the chicken themselves Saturday with a bag and a pair of gloves. But when her son saw the bird's size, he told her, "Mom, that thing is huge!"
Concerned that the smelly, fly-covered corpse was a public health hazard, she asked her son to call Animal Services again. "Tell them it's really, really big," she recalled telling him. "Maybe you'll get someone who doesn't have the 'vulture rule.'"
This time, he was told that someone would be sent out. But when Teichroew walked to work Tuesday morning, the chicken was still there. She then called Montgomery's Highway Services division, but it referred her back to Animal Services and the police department's non-emergency number. When she called that, she said, she was pointed back to Animal Services and the highway division. That's when she called the office of council member Valerie Ervin (D-Silver Spring), and a staff member passed her concerns along to Rodriguez.
Finally, the local government arrived to solve the problem, that of a dead chicken, for pity's sake.
Although both the newspaper and the various involved civil servants found a lot of humor in this story, I do not.
Why in the world didn't at least one of the affected citizens glove up, don a mask, grab a shovel and a couple of heavy-duty trash bags, and take care of the matter himself (or herself, for that matter)? Not a pleasant task, to be sure, but a necessary one, unless one wants to smell decomposing animal flesh day after day. I also find amazing that the woman and her twenty-four-year-old son, both adults, wimped out from scooping up a dead chicken.
Americans have become way too reliant on the government to solve problems which citizens themselves can and should solve for themselves. Honestly, I cannot imagine my father's generation walking by a stinking animal carcass day after day and not tending to the matter themselves. Can you?
As Mark of Casting Pearls Before Swine recently opined:
We are becoming a nation of whiny little wusses.
In all sorts of ways, right down to being too squeamish to remove a chicken carcass.
Normally, I'd save a posting such as this for weekend humor. Of course, what you're about to watch in the video isn't really funny in a light-hearted sense.
Democrat Peggy West, the 12th District Supervisor for south Milwaukee, doesn't know that Mexico borders Arizona (hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance):
Apparently, the following map is a stranger to her:
Below the fold, additional information about the idiot in the video.
Peggy West was elected 12th District Supervisor in 2004 and, after being reelected in 2008, is serving her second term representing 50,000 residents on Milwaukee's south side. She currently serves as 2nd Vice-Chair on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. Supervisor West also has the unique distinction of being the first Latino/Hispanic American to be elected to the Milwaukee County Board.
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A committed believer in community service, Supervisor West volunteers for UMOS, Inc. and Mexican Fiesta and serves as a mentor at Notre Dame Middle School.
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...She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Milwaukee Democratic Party.
Is she also an Obamabot?
Regardless, as the saying goes, "We surrounded by idiots," many of them our so-called elected public servants.
Congregation Sang "Alleluia" When Obama Entered Church for Easter Service
The first family attended Easter services Sunday at Allen Chapel, an African Methodist Episcopal church in Southeast Washington...
...[W]orshippers stood, clapped and sang "Alleilua’" [sic] when the first family entered via a side door at 11:05 a.m., according to the pool report.
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[The Rev. Dr. Michael E.] Bell [pastor of the congregation] referred to the president as the "most intelligent, most anointed, most charismatic president of America," and called Mrs. Obama "his beautiful wife — TV cameras don’t do her justice."
I heartily concur with Z's comment over at Infidel Bloggers Alliance:
Oops...I thought he's not attending churches because he creates too much of a diversion? Right? Isn't that the excuse he uses so he doesn't have to attend the churches most American presidents have attended while in DC? But, the diversion was fine as long as they were praising HIM? Any decent man with any respect for our God would have stood up and thanked the crowd but asked them to please remember who they're there to worship and to just treat him and his family like the 'normal folks' he likes to refer to himself as.
And as Brooke pointed out in the same comments thread:
Would you not fear the Lord if that occurred in your church? Would you not RUN for the door?
The first of the Ten Commandments, a commandment cast to the side on Easter Sunday in Allan Chapel:
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
This Obama worship will come to no good end.
After reading this post, if you haven't already read the post below this one, please scroll down to "Quote of the Day."
Prior to his election to Congress, Rep. Johnson served twelve (12) years as a DeKalb County magistrate judge, five (5) years as a county commissioner and three (3) years as chair of the DeKalb County Budget Committee.
Rep. Johnson practiced civil and criminal law in DeKalb County for twenty-seven (27) years. A staunch supporter of public education, he is a graduate of the District of Columbia Public Schools...
The case for private education and homeschooling grows stronger every day.
And then we have this, also from the congressman's web site:
One of the earliest congressional supporters of President Barack Obama, Rep. Johnson served as co-Chair of the Obama Campaign in Georgia.
(Note: This is a long post as it is a bit of a round up)
I've been telling some of my non-blogging readers and friends about the following two videos, to gasps of incredulity and am posting the material in this post "for the record":
So, should we sign a contract without reading it? Come on! The first thing most of us learn about signing papers laid before us: "Read before you sign!" Yet, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi uttered words that have to rank up there with the craziest political statements ever. I call for her to be brought up on charges of political malpractice. Information about political malpractice HERE; please take a moment to read the link.
The second video, quite an admission, and additional material are below the fold:
And who can forget the following statement?
As for the health-reform act itself, read the following from the March 23, 2010 New York Times (hat tip to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS):
In Health Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality
For all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing seems clear: The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.
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...This fact helps explain why Mr. Obama was willing to spend so much political capital on the issue, even though it did not appear to be his top priority as a presidential candidate....
A reminder from a previous post here at Always On Watch:
In case you can't access the above audio, what Obama said:
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay.
But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.
And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted. One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that.
Add it all up, and it should be clear to any thinking person what this administration is all about. Change, all right, with the hope being overturning the America as we know her.
Do you think they would feel as comfortable spouting their Jew-hatred in the streets of Hollywood were our President not such an Israel-basher himself?
Go HERE for more details and more photos. Even more photos HERE.
1.6 million acres of California land designated as habitat for endangered frog
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday designated 1.6 million acres in California as critical habitat for the endangered red-legged frog, made famous by Mark Twain in his story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
...The Fish and Wildlife Service estimated the 20-year economic impact of the habitat designation to be $159 million to $500 million, with about 90 percent of the impacts on new development. Another $48.4 million of the cost is projected crop loss.
Noted global warming expert RFK, Jr. predicted that Washington, DC might never see snow again
The pathetically unprophetic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a column last year in which he bemoaned global warming and suggested that children of the future might never see snow again.
Another 8-12 inches of snow expected here in the D.C. area tomorrow. Heh.
Note to readers: Please scroll down to today's earlier post.
BHO Publicly Failed American Government Course In The SOTU Address
Note the following brief clip:
Did you catch the mistake? Read on. ----- As Gateway Punditpoints out, BHO confused the United States Constitution with the Declaration of Independence:
[BHO] cited the US Constitution...during his State of the Union Address. Unfortunately, the quote he cited was from the Declaration of Independence… not the Constitution.
BHO stated in the SOTU Address:
We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal....
Compare to these words in the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...
None of those who contributed to or proofread the speech caught the mistake. All those lawyers at the White House, including BHO who is himself a lawyer graduated from Harvard, missed the error. Surreal!
(Note to family and friends: The most recent update on Mr. AOW is here)
Check out this information (hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance, citing the blog American Power):
...[I]t turns out that Tareq Salahi, the polo-playing intruder, is a Palestinian nationalist with ties to the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) , a pro-Palestine lobby demanding the "right of return" for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants. The "right of return" has long been considered the backdoor to Israel's destruction. But not only that: ATFP President Ziad Asali is an America-basher who blamed 9/11 on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Asali was a lead U.S. official to PLO terrorist Yassir Arafat's funeral in 2004. And in a position paper in 2007, the ATFP called for a power-sharing agreement at the Palestinian Authority, which would have included the State Department's designated-terrorist group, Hamas.
A little something the lamestream media is avoiding telling about Salahi. Heh.
Anonymous aptly commented to the post at Infidel Bloggers Alliance:
...If they had any relationship of any sort to any type of Christian right organization, it would have been out front and center immediately....
Read the entire post over at Infidel Bloggers Alliance.
Addendum, November 29 @ 7:28 AM): The Salahis and and BHO go way back, to 2005. Excerpt:
...So, while earlier speculation at this blog suggested that the state-dinner security breach posed a terrorist danger to the president, the First Family, and guests (a conclusion later bolstered by expert commentary on the gatecrashers), it's becoming increasingly clear as well that the Salahi affair is resurrecting long-buried questions of Barack Obama's ties to hardline anti-American and anti-Israel organizations, some with real ties to violent extremists in the Middle East....
Any student who uses the word could be suspended from Danvers High School in Massachusetts! Many parents are just fine with the ban on the word "meep," a word popularized by Beaker on The Muppet Show and the cartoon character Road Runner.
Apparently, a biology teacher felt threatened by the word.
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