Quantitative Easing Explained (Video)

Hat tip to Mustang of Social Sense:


A not-so-funny Sunday funny.

So, how can we prepare for the coming economic storm?

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What If This Happened To Your Child?

As one in my late 50s, I'm able to tolerate most any kind of examination of my body. That said, I think that the TSA has gone way over the line, particularly in the following video:


From the person who filmed the above video:

Lets get the facts straight first. Before the video started the boy went through a metal detector and didn't set it off but was selected for a pat down. The boy was shy so the TSA couldn't complete the full pat on the young boy. The father tried several times to just hold the boys arms out for the TSA agent but i guess it didn't end up being enough for the guy. I was about 30 ft away so i couldn't hear their conversation if there was any. The enraged father pulled his son shirt off and gave it to the TSA agent to search, thats when this video begins.

At Infidel Bloggers Alliance, Midnight Rider said the following:

America is becoming so cowed by government intrusiveness and invasion of our lives that we no longer even defend our children from what is tantamount to assualt, and sexual sssault at that. Afraid of what they might do. We're not even recognizing it as wrong. Numbed down and dumbed down to thinking THIS is the new normal and it's ok even though unsavory.

Thus far, Obama has deemed the TSA procedures necessary.

I say: Give the TSA a pass on doing this kind of thing for a few years, and many young people won't know that anything else was ever the norm.

Here's some snarky truth from Pastorius: we're having to endure all this

for the pleasure of living with all the nice Moderate Muslims we get the joy of sharing our lives with here in the USA.

So what do we do? Not take family vacations by air anymore? Not attend family funerals or other family gatherings in distant states or travel with our families to overseas destinations?

And what about this incident, in which a TSA search left the passenger soaked in urine? Again, the TSA was way over the line. Will the ADA step in on that case?

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Pat Condell: Human Rights Travesty

Hat tip to Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning:



Another video below the fold.




Pat Condell's no-nonsense commentaries are not broadcast on the mainstream media.

Can you imagine how the world would change if all the major news networks in the West would broadcast Pat Condell's political commentaries?

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Here's Your Daily Dose Of Insanity

"Obama Advisor: He is Bored To Death And Just Too Talented to do What Ordinary People Do," via Weasel 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!

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More ObamaKare Waivers

Also see THIS at Michelle Malkin. Brief excerpt:

Make no mistake: Team Obama isn’t granting the waivers out of bleeding-heart compassion for the affected workers, but out of a panicked urgency to avoid a public relations disaster.

Read it all!

So much for "liberty and justice for all," huh?

A little personal perspective on the above....

Back in January 2008, Mr. AOW lost his full-time job after nearly twelve years of working for that particular employer. In part, Mr. AOW's job loss was due to the economic slowdown. But something else played a larger part in the job loss, namely, the company's policy about employees carrying employer-based health insurance: enrolling in the health-insurance plan was optional. The result: only those employees with significant pre-existing conditions enrolled in the health plan, thereby making the plan more and more expensive.

As most of my readers must know, I do not support ObamaKare. That said, the realities of insurance involve having both low risk and high risk insureds in the same pool. Indeed, that very concept of a diversified-risks pool is the basis of all insurance.

So, just how is ObamaKare going to function with only higher risk insureds in the plan?

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The Obamas And Diplomatic Etiquette

Tifatul Sembiring shook Michelle Obama's hand. A "pious" Moslem shook the hand of a woman not his wife. Huge no-no!




She forced herself on him! Yeah, right.

The Obamas are hardly strangers to breaches of diplomatic etiquette:


Don't the Obamas listen to their coaches in diplomatic etiquette?

I'm no defender of Islam and its weirdo traditions and legalisms. That said, I see a bigger problem with the Obamas and their flaunting of protocol.

Furthermore, if a Republican First Family were making these mistakes, the mainstream media would excoriate the entire GOP.

Note: Michelle Obama did manage to conform to the dress code so as to visit Istiqlal Mosque (Click directly on the image to enlarge it):


More photos HERE at Weasel Zippers.

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Obama The Orator

Obama doesn't really qualify as an orator, of course. He needs the technological version of Dean Martin's cue cards. Of course, Dino never pretended to be an orator.

From the Hindustan Times:

Obama to use teleprompter for Hindi speech

...Obama will make history for more than one reason during the Nov 6-9 visit. This will be the first time a teleprompter will be used in the nearly 100-feet high dome-shaped hall that has portraits of eminent national leaders adorning its walls.

Indian politicians are known for making impromptu long speeches and perhaps that is why some parliament officials, who did not wish to be named, sounded rather surprised with the idea of a teleprompter for Obama.

"We thought Obama is a trained orator and skilled in the art of mass address with his continuous eye contact," an official [said]...

Pathetic.

Embarrassing.

I teach public speaking at the high school level and won't allow my students as much reliance on note cards as the President of the United States relies on the teleprompter's scroll.

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Obama Doesn't Admit The Meaning Of November 2

So, our Blabber In Chief will be on 60 Minutes this weekend to say that his message hasn't gotten across.

I've seen a preview of the interview. Obama's pretended humility cannot cover up his blatant narcissism.

But, of course, CBS's Early Show this morning is heavily promoting the upcoming edition of 60 Minutes.

Kathleen Parker's recent essay in the Washington Post explains how pathetic Obama's analysis of Tuesday's election results is:

Blindsided by their own blindness

Two words: Narrative, schmarrative.

Democrats have talked endlessly about the importance of narrative - missing in President Obama's case. We've heard over and over about the lack of smart messaging and the president's failure to communicate. If only Obama could better express himself, all would be well.

Seriously? This is the same president whose soaring rhetoric once sent his ratings into the heavenly realm and who, after assuming office, never stopped expressing himself.

For months, he was everywhere. Talking, talking, talking. Admit it. How many times did you flip on the tube and say, "Omigod, he's talking again"? Several Teleprompters had to take early retirement from sheer exhaustion.

Here's a narrative: You can't sell people what they don't want, no matter how mellifluous your pitch. This is the clear message of the midterm elections...

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Obama didn't need to be a better communicator. He needed to be a better listener. End of story.

Read Ms. Parker's entire essay HERE. Worth your time.

I'll watch Sunday's edition of 60 Minutes. Provided that I'm fortified with eggnog and brandy, that is.

Some music for when Obama is on the television screen:

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You Can't Make This Stuff Up

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.

Huh?

Read the details HERE.

The cost of all the above?

According to a comment at the link above the fold: $2,000,000,000 for ten days in India, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan and China.

Is that figure accurate? I don't know.

But I do know that the plans for Obama's visit to India sound, well, strange.

Maybe along the lines of Sindbad's third voyage:

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Obama On The Daily Show

I'm still quite ill, but I can't resist posting a few snippets from this essay by Dana Milbank:

On Comedy Central, the joke was on President Obama Wednesday night.

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The Daily Show host was giving Obama a tough time about hiring the conventional and Clintonian Larry Summers as his top economic advisor.

"In fairness," the president replied defensively, "Larry Summers did a heckuva job."

"You don't want to use that phrase, dude," Stewart recommended with a laugh.

Dude. The indignity of a comedy show host calling the commander in chief "dude" pretty well captured the moment for Obama....

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[A]s in his MTV appearance a couple of weeks ago, Obama didn't try to connect with his youthful audience. He was serious and defensive, pointing a finger at his host several times as he quarreled with the premise of a question.

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[T]he president did not really quarrel with Stewart's notion that Obama has done some of his work in a "political manner that has papered over a foundation that is corrupt."

"I think that is fair," Obama granted.

But when Stewart moved, politely, to point out weaknesses in the health-care legislation, Obama pointed at him again. "Not true!" the president argued....

Read the entire essay HERE.

Meanwhile, these rumors about Obama's emotional instability and a possible pending political scandal are surfacing. Be sure to click on the embedded links to read the details.

Does Obama have a Deep Throat biding his time to come forward?

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Quote Of The Day

William Stout in a comment to this thread here at Always On Watch:

I cannot express the sadness and remorse I feel at the slide of our nation to the disease of socialism or the fact that millions of Americans voted for it. We didn't ask questions about the most Marxist man in politics. We never inquired about his terrorist ties. We never asked him to give us a detailed plan of what he wanted to do. All we got and all we accepted was some tenuous feel good crap about hope and change. Now we must deal with the results of our actions not only for ourselves, but for our children and their children as well. God help us.

We're stuck with Obama until January 2013. However, we can go to the polls next week and slow down this train of socialism even if the train cannot return to the station.




Vote 'em out on November 2.

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What This Administration Hath Wrought

(Graphic above from TOTUS)


Hat tip to Bloviating Zeppelin for the video below:



See Bloviating Zeppelin's information about the reality check for Obama and the increasing voter remorse.




Vote 'em out on November 2.

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Obama's Phony Townhall Meeting

Not only is Obama teleprompter-dependent. He has to pack the audience with screened and scripted actors. Pathetic.

From The Blogmocracy, citing Human Events:

Actors Called to Play ‘Young People’ at Obama Town Hall

The set is beautiful, the lighting perfect. The President is ready for his close-up at the taping of the MTV, BET, CMT town hall to mobilize the ‘Youth Vote’ for the November election. Called a “Conversation with President Obama,” the town hall will include 250 young people. Leaving nothing to chance, the ‘Youth’ asking questions will be actors.

On behalf of the President, casting website Backstage.com put out a casting call for “males and females 18+” to fill out a questionnaire to include “your name, phone number, hometown, school attending, your job and what issues, if any, you are interested in, or passionate about. Also provide a recent photo and short description of your political views.” This job will be strictly for exposure; there will be no pay. Wonder if SAG condones this union-friendly President getting actors to work for free.

The casting call for the “Conversation with President Obama” was sandwiched between “Bachelors for Dating Show” and “Landau Music, Cruise Ship Musicians”.

Commentary from The Blogmocracy:

They had to submit their questions at the audition so Obungler would know what they were going to ask and how to answer them, and they also had to state their political views, proving, yet again, that the dolt cannot do anything if it isn’t scripted or can’t be read off a TelePrompTer.

Obama - What a failure!

Harvard should be hiding under a rock, with a graduate such as Obama included in the school's alumni.

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Is It Any Wonder That Surveys Indicate That Many Believe That Obama Is A Muslim?

Please see this list. Brief excerpt below the fold.

March 2009, Obama declares the "war on terror" is over despite a dramatic increase in jihad war ops.

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April 2009, Dalia Mogahed, the first hijab-clad senior adviser to Obama on Muslim affairs says in an interview with terrorist- and jihad-supporting Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi's website, "Many have claimed that terrorists have 'hijacked Islam'. I disagree. I think Islam is safe and thriving in the lives of Muslims around the world. What the terrorists have been allowed to take over are Muslim grievances."

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May 2010, Obama's Counterterrorism Adviser Calls Jihad "Legitimate Tenet of Islam."

Read the rest HERE at Infidel Bloggers Alliance.

Barack Hussein Obama says that he is not a Muslim. But he's behaving exactly like one in may respects. As Revere Rides Again stated:

Obama is a "Christian" in the sense that Muslims claim all Christians are Muslims, and vice versa. Obama is a Muslim by birth and early education, an NOI "Muslim" by racist inclination, a cheerleader for Muslim conquest out of hatred and resentment for Western Civilization, which dovetails nicely with his socialist politics, and seeing Islam as the best hope for downfall of the West.

Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim in every way that counts with regard to the survival of this nation.

America continues to sleep and to be obsessed with stories about the bimbo of the week or whatever other distraction is available.

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Executive Order Power Grab

Please see my post today over at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS. Then scroll down for some lighter reading here at Always On Watch.

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The Pitfalls Of ObamaKare

Please see this editorial from the Washington Examiner before reading any further in this post.

More information about the consequences of ObamaKare HERE.

And note this little gem about ObamaKare's abolishing lifetime limits on benefits from the Washington Post:

A plan can still put a lifetime dollar limit on spending for health services that the government does not deem essential.

This kind of debacle is what happens when Congress passes a bill into law and lets us find out later what's in it.

If ObamaKare remains in force, America will learn a very expensive lesson. At least, one HOPES [cough] that America will learn a lesson without millions of lives being upended, both literally and financially.

Vote the bums out in November 2010.

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Imprinting Young Minds With "The Tolerance of The Teachings of Islam"

Please see my post today over at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS.

This ideological war has so very many fronts!

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Your Weekend Graphic (Plus Video)

From RP Free Speech of Another Thousand Words (Click directly on the image to enlarge it):



And what has to be the quote of the week (hat tip to Warren):

Let me put this bluntly: virtually no one in America gives a damn what Barack Obama says about anything at this point. What could be more predictable, and less interesting, than Obama’s opinion on any given subject? Who wants to contemplate the economic wisdom of a guy who looted the Treasury for a trillion dollars, with less benefit than we could have achieved by stuffing hundred dollar bills into random cereal boxes? Who’s excited to hear about the next plan to convert taxpayer dollars into Democrat campaign funds? Who’s hungry for another hour of tedious excuses about permanently broken markets and the titanic dead hand of George W. Bush? Who wants a lecture on ethical business practices from the titular head of the party that gave us Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters? What use is another hollow foreign-policy speech from a man who sees no global adversary to rival the menace of Arizona? Even Obama’s supporters don’t hear anything he says any more. There’s nothing left to hear.

The following appeared this week (Thanks to Will, who emailed me the video):


Information about the video:

In 1984, the Reagan reelection campaign set the standard for modern political advertising with its fabled "Morning in America" series, which included one of the greatest political ads of all time -- "Better, Prouder, Stronger." The ad captured the zeitgeist -- America under President Reagan was coming back, full of optimism and confidence in the future.

Today, the zeitgeist is exactly the opposite. Americans are worried about their future, and about a government determined to implement policies that just don't work. But like its predecessor, "Mourning in America" offers a new hope -- if we can just get our government to return to time-tested policies that can spark a rebirth of liberty.

The results of the upcoming election in November will tell the tale.

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Molly Norris Vs. Jorge Luis Aguirre

Silverfiddle of Western Hero makes an excellent point in this post:

The FBI cannot protect an American citizen [Molly Norris] from Muslim murderers, but it grants asylum to a foreigner [Jorge Luis Aguirre] threatened by drug gangs.

Read Silverfiddle's entire post HERE.

My post about Molly Norris is HERE.

America has come to a sorry pass under the Obama administration.

Obama protests objections to the Ground Zero Mosque, condemns burning the Koran, yet remains silent about an American journalist's being forced into hiding by practitioners of the religion of peace.

Surreal.

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Obama's Omission

With a hat tip to Leticia of My Daily Trek....Can you identify the words omitted?



Information about the words omitted below the fold.

As Leticia points out in her posting:

Obama said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

And of course the correct quote, as is found written within the Declaration of Independence reads: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Listen for his "long pause" before he says, "endowed."

Maybe Obama wanted to say "endowed by Allah"? Heh. Never mind that Allah doesn't "endow" anything, much less equality or unalienable rights.

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