Epic Fail -- Government Photo Op Fly Over on New York City

This is so bad. What is the Obama Administration thinking or not thining about? This is New York City for Christ sake, you can't be terrorizing New Yorkers with fly overs of jumbo jets like this. They should be ashamed of themselves for having such a tin ear when it comes to the reality of 9/11 in Manhattan. Epic FAIL for team Obama.

Obama First 100 Days = 100 mistakes

I'm glad someone is keeping track of Obama's presidential performance.

Sayonara New York Times -- $34 Million Left in the Bank $1.3 Billion in Debt

The New York Times is down to $34 million in the bank with $1.3 BILLION IN DEBT. Good Riddance as far as I'm concerned, but somehow I smell a bailout on the horizon. The Lefties will absolutely find a way to prop up their primary propaganda vehicle, but nonetheless, I find their current predicament somewhat delightful.

The Difference Between The Left and The Right on Gay Marriage

Watch these three clips and you'll get a perfect example of freedom of expression and how the Left treats it when it does not fit into their tightly defined world. Being a resident of this once proud now sad pathetic state filled with its "thought police", I'm proud to stand up with Miss California for standing behind what she believes. Three cheers!!!

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Obama and Chavez -- Soul Brothers

Disgusting display by Obama elevating the Venezuelan thug. Has everyone forgot Chavez from 2006. If so, let me remind everyone:

“The United States empire is on its way down and it will be finished in the near future, inshallah," Chavez told reporters, ending the statement with the Arabic phrase for "God willing."

Reaching out to Iran and Cuba and now a soul handshake with Chavez who is nothing more than a common street tough who has brought Venezuela to its knees in his despotic regime. God this is sad and we are still in the first 100 days of the Obama presidency.

Tea Parties Across America

Stay tuned as we update Tea Parties across America on April 15. 544,000 attendees and counting according to Pajamas TV.



Neil Cavuto and Michelle Malkin in Sacramento, CA. Big, loud boisterous crowd. “Fiscal responsibility is the new counterculture.” Watch and learn.

California GOP Slapped Around at Sacramento Tea Party. From Michelle Malkin:

Something hugely significant just happened here at the Sacramento Tea Party. Organizer Mark Meckler singled out GOP opportunists who wouldn’t give him the time of day weeks ago — and then wanted to hitch their wagons to the Tea Party bandwagon at the last minute.

Meckler said he heard that California GOP chair Ron Nehring was in the audience. Meckler invited him to say hi to the crowd — and then ripped him for waffling on the massive tax hike ballot measures (particularly Prop1A - $16 billion tax hikes).

Massive boos from the crowd of thousands here against the Calif. GOP establishment.

Will this make the MSM coverage? It doesn’t fit the narrative. But it’s yet another demonstration that this movement is not partisan and equal opportunity when it comes to holding politicians’ feet to the fire for fiscal irresponsibility and fecklessness.

Glen Beck and Ted Nugent at the Alamo Tea Party. Nugent rocking out as well. Getting pretty exciting around here.

Over 5,000 people attend Sacramento Tea Party. GOP mil toasts served up on a platter along with porkulus Democrats.

Tea Party in Jefferson City, MO

San Diego Tea Party sign

DC Tea Party

Would we expect anything less from CNN coverage of Tea Party in Chicago? Reporter's words don't match the pictures. Party on Garth!



Putting Gov. Schwarzenegger's head on a stick in Fullerton, California

Chicago. Didn't see Bill Ayres or Calypso Louis there...darn

Lansing, Michigan

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Kentucky

American Legion Seeks Apology From Napolitano

Secretary Janet Napolitano
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528

April 13, 2009

Dear Secretary Napolitano,

On behalf of the 2.6 million-member American Legion, I am stating my concern about your April 7 report, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence and Recruitment.”

First, I want to assure you that The American Legion has long shared your concern about white supremacist and anti-government groups. In 1923, when the Ku Klux Klan still yielded unspeakable influence in this country, The American Legion passed Resolution 407. It resolved, in part, “…we consider any individual, group of individuals or organizations, which creates, or fosters racial, religious or class strife among our people, or which takes into their own hands the enforcement of law, determination of guilt, or infliction of punishment, to be un-American, a menace to our liberties, and destructive to our fundamental law…”

The best that I can say about your recent report is that it is incomplete. The report states, without any statistical evidence, “The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.”

The American Legion is well aware and horrified at the pain inflicted during the Oklahoma City bombing, but Timothy McVeigh was only one of more than 42 million veterans who have worn this nation’s uniform during wartime. To continue to use McVeigh as an example of the stereotypical “disgruntled military veteran” is as unfair as using Osama bin Laden as the sole example of Islam.

Your report states that “Rightwing extremists were concerned during the 1990s with the perception that illegal immigrants were taking away American jobs through their willingness to work at significantly lower wages.” Secretary Napolitano, this is more than a perception to those who have lost their job. Would you categorize union members as “Right Wing extremists”?

In spite of this incomplete, and, I fear, politically-biased report, The American Legion and the Department of Homeland Security share many common and crucial interests, such as the Citizen Corps and disaster preparedness. Since you are a graduate of New Mexico Girls State, I trust that you are very familiar with The American Legion. I would be happy to meet with you at a time of mutual convenience to discuss issues such as border security and the war on terrorism. I think it is important for all of us to remember that Americans are not the enemy. The terrorists are.

Sincerely,

David K. Rehbein
National Commander
The American Legion

Will Media Ever Point Out Obama Gaffes Like it Did on Bush?

TOTUS needs to edge a little bit closer so the Chosen One can get a better look.

Barack Obama Approval Index Slips to +2

Here's something you won't see reported in the mainstream media. Barack Obama's current approval index, the difference between those that strongly approve and those who strongly disapprove has slipped to just +2. Obama's decision to go after the Somali pirates should help some as he shows some backbone, but they've got to be a bit worried in the White House, unless they continue to read the bevy of polls out there showing he's got great approval but that are using heavily skewed left-leaning polling data...like CBS and CNN for instance.

Sweet! Three Pirates Killed as Captain Saved on Easter

U.S. forces freed an American ship captain and killed three of his captors Sunday in a daring rescue that ended a five-day standoff between the world's most powerful navy and Somali pirates in a lifeboat far off the Horn of Africa.

Capt. Richard Phillips was in "imminent danger" of being killed before snipers shot the pirates in an operation authorized by President Barack Obama, Vice Adm. Bill Gortney said.

He said the pirates were armed with AK-47s and small-caliber pistols and were pointing the rifles at the captain when the commander of the nearby USS Bainbridge gave the order to open fire.

Rest of story at Msn.com

Support Your Local Tea Party on April 15th

Get out and support a Tea Party in your local community this April 15th. Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

He Has Risen Indeed

Secularism -- Hatred of Christianity Runs Deep

A well known British secularist tells his late life story of conversion to Christ:

Like most educated people in Britain and Northern Europe (I was born in 1950), I have grown up in a culture that is overwhelmingly secular and anti-religious. The universities, broadcasters and media generally are not merely non-religious, they are positively anti.

To my shame, I believe it was this that made me lose faith and heart in my youth. It felt so uncool to be religious. With the mentality of a child in the playground, I felt at some visceral level that being religious was unsexy, like having spots or wearing specs.

This playground attitude accounts for much of the attitude towards Christianity that you pick up, say, from the alternative comedians, and the casual light blasphemy of jokes on TV or radio.

It also lends weight to the fervour of the anti-God fanatics, such as the writer Christopher Hitchens and the geneticist Richard Dawkins, who think all the evil in the world is actually caused by religion.

The sneering Ms Toynbee, like Richard Dawkins, believes in rational explanations for our existence and behaviour. She is deeply committed to the Rationalist Association, but her approach to religion is too fanatical to be described as rational.

Perhaps it goes back to her relationship with her nice old dad, Philip Toynbee, a Thirties public school Marxist who, before he died, made the hesitant journey from unbelief to a questing Christianity.

The Polly Toynbees of this world ignore all the benign aspects of religion and see it purely as a sinister agent of control, especially over women.

One suspects this is how it is viewed in most liberal circles, in university common rooms, at the BBC and, perhaps above all, sadly, by the bishops of the Church of England, who despite their episcopal regalia, nourish few discernible beliefs that could be distinguished from the liberalism of the age.

For ten or 15 of my middle years, I, too, was one of the mockers. But, as time passed, I found myself going back to church, although at first only as a fellow traveller with the believers, not as one who shared the faith that Jesus had truly risen from the grave. Some time over the past five or six years - I could not tell you exactly when - I found that I had changed.

When I took part in the procession last Sunday and heard the Gospel being chanted, I assented to it with complete simplicity.

My own return to faith has surprised no one more than myself. Why did I return to it? Partially, perhaps it is no more than the confidence I have gained with age.

Rather than being cowed by them, I relish the notion that, by asserting a belief in the risen Christ, I am defying all the liberal clever-clogs on the block: cutting-edge novelists such as Martin Amis; foul-mouthed, self-satisfied TV presenters such as Jonathan Ross and Jo Brand; and the smug, tieless architects of so much television output.

But there is more to it than that. My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

The Easter story answers their questions about the spiritual aspects of humanity. It changes people's lives because it helps us understand that we, like Jesus, are born as spiritual beings.

Every inner prompting of conscience, every glimmering sense of beauty, every response we make to music, every experience we have of love - whether of physical love, sexual love, family love or the love of friends - and every experience of bereavement, reminds us of this fact about ourselves.

Ah, say the rationalists. But no one can possibly rise again after death, for that is beyond the realm of scientific possibility.

And it is true to say that no one can ever prove - nor, indeed, disprove - the existence of an after-life or God, or answer the conundrums of honest doubters (how does a loving God allow an earthquake in Italy?)

Easter does not answer such questions by clever-clever logic. Nor is it irrational. On the contrary, it meets our reason and our hearts together, for it addresses the whole person.

Weakness in Dealing with Pirates will Lead to Increased Terrorism Around the World

Pay close attention to the escalating Pirate story. The longer we fail to take aggressive action and show these scoundrels that we will not stand for these outrageous acts of terrorism, the more dangerous fanatic Islam groups will become. If Islam fascists detect any hesitance on our part to deal with this, it will send a message that we are once again acting weak and defensive when it comes to terrorism and they will soon ratchet up acts of violence around the world. This has the makings of Clinton and Somalia and Bin Laden's reaction all over again.
More Here: Pirates Challenge Obama's pre-9/11 Mentality

Leftism is Racism

Interesting take from Andrew Klavan's recent experience in a book store. The whole story here:

You know, every now and again, I meet a conservative individual who is an avowed racist, and that’s too bad. But leftism is racism. Leftism, which sees people as victim groups rather than individuals, which sets us one against another according to the color of our skins rather than distinguishing us by the contents of our characters, which is so eager to manipulate our guilts and grievances in order to form bases of support for an ever-expanding state, has derailed the natural American movement—the natural human movement—toward assimilation and unity and replaced it with ghettoizing multi-culturalism and infantilizing “diversity.”

It would be one thing if it were only in the bookstores. But the racist clowns do it everywhere. Shame on them.

Demeaning America -- Obama Bows to Saudi King

The Washington Times on Barack bowing to the Saudi King:

In a shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate, President Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah at the Group of 20 summit in London last week.

Mr. Obama later said in Strasbourg, France, "We have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect." Symbolism is important in world affairs. By bending over to show greater respect to Islam, the U.S. president belittled the power and independence of the United States.

The bow was an extraordinary protocol violation. Such an act is a traditional obeisance befitting a king's subjects, not his peer. There is no precedent for U.S. presidents bowing to Saudi or any other royals. Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt shook hands with Saudi King Abdulaziz in February 1945. Granted, Mr. Roosevelt was wheelchair-bound, but former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shook hands when he first met King Saud in January 1957. Mr. Obama's bow to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques does not help his image with those who believe he is secretly a Muslim, and why he chose to bow only to the Saudi King and not to any other royals remains unexplained.

No Americans of any station are required to bow to royalty. It is one of the pillars of American exceptionalism that our country rejected traditional caste divisions. Article I Section 9 of the Constitution forbids titles of nobility and stipulates that no officeholder or government employee may "accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state" without the consent of Congress. Judith Martin wrote in her Miss Manners column in 2001 that bowing "is not an ordinary bit of foreign etiquette one might adopt out of courtesy when traveling. ... Americans do not properly bow to any royalty. We show respect for other countries' leaders the same way we do to our own."

Press outlets have been conspicuously silent on Mr. Obama's bow. Compare this to the New York Times' reaction when former President Bill Clinton inclined a bit too far when meeting Japanese Emperor Akihito in 1994. According to the Gray Lady, "The image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent president, and the Emperor of Japan." Former President George W. Bush received thorough press attention after being photographed holding hands with then-Crown Prince Abdullah in 2005. "It clearly strikes a nerve," CBS News reported, while David Letterman satirized Mr. Bush as "officially the gayest president since Lincoln." These two cases were tame compared to Mr. Obama's full-out genuflection, which makes us wonder why it is not worthy of comment.

Mr. Obama is proving that one can be elected president without knowing how to behave presidentially. His servile gesture was fully fitting with the tone of his humility tour of Europe. In his eagerness to be loved personally, the president has lost sight of the fact that the leader of the free world also must be respected.

Two Obama Bows You Decide

View on Liberalism Today From a Noted Liberal

Camille Pagila answering a question on Liberalism in today's world:

Something very ugly has surfaced in contemporary American liberalism, as evidenced by the irrational and sometimes infantile abuse directed toward anyone who strays from a strict party line. Liberalism, like second-wave feminism, seems to have become a new religion for those who profess contempt for religion. It has been reduced to an elitist set of rhetorical formulas, which posit the working class as passive, mindless victims in desperate need of salvation by the state. Individual rights and free expression, which used to be liberal values, are being gradually subsumed to worship of government power.

The problems on the American left were already manifest by the late 1960s, as college-educated liberals began to lose contact with the working class for whom they claimed to speak. (A superb 1990 documentary, "Berkeley in the Sixties," chronicles the arguments and misjudgments about tactics that alienated the national electorate and led to the election of Richard Nixon.) For the past 25 years, liberalism has gradually sunk into a soft, soggy, white upper-middle-class style that I often find preposterous and repellent. The nut cases on the right are on the uneducated fringe, but on the left they sport Ivy League degrees. I'm not kidding -- there are some real fruitcakes out there, and some of them are writing for major magazines. It's a comfortable, urban, messianic liberalism befogged by psychiatric pharmaceuticals. Conservatives these days are more geared to facts than emotions, and as individuals they seem to have a more ethical, perhaps sports-based sense of fair play.

Probably the main reason for my unorthodox view of politics (as in my instant approval of Sarah Palin) is that I had much more childhood contact with working-class life than appears to be the norm among current American columnists. One of my grandfathers was a barber, and the other was a leather worker at the Endicott-Johnson shoe factory in upstate New York. Thanks to the G.I. Bill, my father was able to attend college, the only one in his large family to do so. I was born while he was still in college and mopping floors in the cafeteria. Years later, he became a high-school teacher and then a professor at a Jesuit college, but we never left our immigrant family roots in industrial Endicott. To this day, I have more rapport with campus infrastructure staffers (maintenance, security) than I do with other professors or, for that matter, writers. Don't get me started on the hermetic bourgeois arrogance of American literati!

Obama in Turkey -- US Not a Christian Nation

I'm sorry but this is just plain foolish talk. Just a cursory review of our founding documents and our fore fathers would reveal the inherent Judeo-Christian values embedded in the bedrock of America. Obama disgracefully portrayed himself as a Christian during the election, then manages to not have attended church one time since moving to Washington D.C. (as of this writing). Every day that passes he's looking more like a one world athiest with all this global citizen blather.

Obama Thinks Austrian is a Language

If this was George W. Bush, every major media outlet in America would be having a field day calling him a doofus, but alas, it is the Chosen One. How many free passes will Obama get to establish without his teleprompter, he is a first class gaffe machine. Not quite on the level of Biden, but entertaining nonetheless.

Obama Like Lincoln?

Hat tip to: Personal Litmus

Obama Praises Europe Makes Disgraceful Remarks About America

Charles Krauthammer at his best telling it like it is about teat sucking Europe and Obama's disgraceful remarks about America.