Logic question for the left

Chick-fil-A and gay marriage.  Our economy is falling apart, Syria's chemical weapons may fall into the hands of Al-Qaida, but the statements of a conservative business owner take top spot in the news cycle.

From Moonbattery comes this logic question:

Well??

Second Amendment Thoughts

What's the best defense against a crazy person with a gun?  Having guns in the hands of the sane folks in the crowd.

But that kind of logic doesn't penetrate the mind of those who believe the answer is always more government, more regulation, more control by those in power.

How naive are we becoming?  I know....years of government public schools have had their intended effect.

Thanks to Moonbattery.

Whittle on fire

Whittle remains one of my favorites.



Thanks to Moonbattery for the video.

Semi-automatic

From The Real Revo comes word of a true danger to Americans that must have immediate attention.

7,630 men, women and children killed

That’s how many Americans were killed by automobiles in the US during the first quarter of 2012. That is 910 more in the first three months of 2012 than in the first three months of 2011. This tragedy is another grim reminder that cars are the enablers of mass killers and that our nation pays an unacceptable price for our failure to keep cars out of the hands of dangerous people.

U.S. traffic deaths jump 13.5 percent in 2012

NHTSA said the rate of traffic deaths per 100 million miles of vehicle travel increased substantially. For the first three months of 2012, the rate increased significantly to 1.10 fatalities per 100 million miles traveled, up from 0.98 fatalities per 100 million miles in the same period last year.

NHTSA said it estimates 7,630 people died in vehicle crashes in the first three months, up from 6,720 in the first quarter of 2011. Cars kill 12 people in America every three and a half hours, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. At what point will be ban semi-automatic assault automobiles? Why don’t the police just go on strike until the assault cars are banned?

Do you realize that there is no federal licence required to own an automobile? There isn’t even a background check. People under the age of 18 are allowed to use automobiles unsupervised.

Auto deaths are on the rise and yet the federal government refuses to implement common sense car control laws. For example, the federal government should immediately…

1) Ban certain types of sports cars that have styling that makes them appear more dangerous than other cars
2) Implement a federal background check before a car can be purchased
3) Limit the number of cars a person can purchase in a given period
4) Require a three day waiting period before a car can be removed from the lot
5) Eliminate private sales of cars at car shows
6) Make illegal high capacity gasoline tanks
7) Alert the FBI if an individual attempts to buy more than 20 gallons of gasoline

We must work to reform the auto industry by enacting and enforcing sensible regulations to reduce automobile violence, including regulations governing the auto industry. In addition, we should represent victims of automobile violence in the courts. We must work to educate the public about car violence through litigation, grassroots mobilization, and outreach to affected communities.

Together we can end the death and destruction automobiles cause in America.

Too good. H/T to I Own the World for the pointer.

He had Help

I Own the World breaks this news:

Police have released information that the shooter, James Holmes, used the road to get to the theater.

Hey, we all need help from Uncle Sam.

Zombie Humor

Zombies and an Obama voter:

Unfortunately, the typical Obama supporter feels rather than thinks.  I guess that the White House Kool-Aid just dissolves those brain cells into a gooey mess.

Found at House of Eratosthenes.

More Narcissist in Chief

Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit, brings us this data about Obama's remarks on the Colorado shooting:

Barack Obama offered condolences today to the victims of the Aurora Theater shootings the best way he knows how – by talking about himself.

The president used “I”, “me” or “we” over 20 times and used it as an opportunity to talk about himself and his family.

Here’s part of his speech today:

My daughters go to the movies. What if Malia and Sasha had been at the theater, as so many of our kids do every day? Michelle and I will be fortunate enough to hug our girls a little tighter tonight, and I’m sure you will do the same with your children. But for those parents who may not be so lucky, we have to embrace them and let them know we will be there for them as a nation.

So, again, I am so grateful that all of you are here. I am so moved by your support.

It's all about The One.

More builder humor

A few good ones to share.

The builder

From Jon Lovitz, via You Didn't Build That.

Lots more at the link above.

The full plate

Seems that while our President says that he is focused on jobs, the only one he seems to care about is his own.  And that of his caddy.




Jobs Council meetings in the last six months = ZERO.

Just like the man himself.

Who built it?

A truly great ad from the Romney campaign:



Now, to hammer home this point, day after day, so that the mass of Americans truly learn what Obama believes.

Clarity on Colorado

In the wake of the mass murder in Colorado, Charles CW Cooke at NRO's The Corner has some wise words:

What happened in Colorado in the early hours of this morning was not a “tragedy” but a willful act of mass murder. Beyond his age, name, and ethnicity, nobody yet knows who the shooter is, or why he chose to do what he did. In my view, this is a blessing, albeit a temporary one; for, as has been the way in recent years, once his party registration, television-viewing habits, and random scribblings become known to the public, all sorts of hysterical speculation and unlettered accusations will burst forth.

Whole groups will be vilified, blame will be apportioned to those many times removed, and the shooter will be partially absolved of blame by those who prefer to see fault in video games or talk radio or political rhetoric or anything else that can be conscripted to explain why terrible things happen to good people. Few will point out that unless someone commits an atrocity in the name of an ideology — Timothy McVeigh, for example — their political beliefs are wholly irrelevant. Even in cases where a killer is motivated by something specific, to draw general conclusions is most often folly. America is not the land of collective guilt, and mass shootings should carve out no exception.

Defining moments

Pat Sajak at Ricochet:

It's as if President Obama climbed into a tank, put on his helmet, talked about how his foray into Cambodia was seared in his memory, looked at his watch, misspelled "potato" and pardoned Richard Nixon all in the same day. It's fun to imagine the hand-wringing that must be going on within the White House as staffers try to figure out how to undo the damage their boss has done with his anti-entrepenurial riff. Defining moments in politics are strange beasts. Sometimes they're only recognized in hindsight, while sometimes they throw the train off the tracks before a sentence has been completed. Sometimes their effect can be contained and minimized, while sometimes their effect on the political narrative mestastasizes. This one is very bad for the White House.

These defining moments take hold most devastatingly when they confirm what a large portion of the electorate already believes. Taken alone, it seems unfair that a single moment, an unguarded remark or a slip of the tongue can carry such weight. They're often dismissed as "gotcha" moments, but when voters are able to nod and say, "I knew it," these moments stick and do terrible damage. We have witnessed such a moment.

Well put. 

Back from Hiatus

The OC had to take some time away from the internet, but is back to keep you posted on what's happening out there.  Sorry for the absence, but I'm revved and ready for the run to November.  And so should you.

Fauxcahontas and Single Payer

From William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection:

Anyone who has seen Elizabeth Warren deal with the Cherokee issue knows the routine — immediately change the subject, answer the question you wanted asked not the question actually asked, keep talking rapidly, and most of all, act as if you have not just been caught in a lie.

Jacobson continues:

Notice that when the interviewer reads Warren’s own words back to her contradicting her claim that she does not support single payer, she immediately mentions that she wrote it with two other people — as if that has anything to do with anything, but it was a convenient segue to pretending she was not caught misrepresenting her own position.

Fauxcahontas update

With all that's been going around elsewhere, it's easy to lose sight of our favorite red-skin (or would that be Crimson-skin).  Anyhow, the good folks at Breitbart haven't forgotten Liawatha.

Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes has caught Elizabeth Warren in yet another lie about her false claims of Native American heritage.

When Elizabeth Warren's "Aunt Bea," Bess A. Reed Veneck, died in 1999 at the age of 98, Ms. Warren was listed as the "informant" on the death certificate that identified Aunt Bea as White. Line 14 of the death certificate allowed the informant to specificy the race of the deceased. Presented with the option of selecting  "American Indian," "Black," or "White," Ms. Warren chose to identify Aunt Bea's race as White.

You see, it's OK if a Democrat changes their story.  That's "evolving".  Look at our president and his composite biography.  Whatever fits the narrative, well, that's the new truth.

If only Warren has just fessed up in the first place.  But it's never the deed, it's the coverup.  Just ask Eric Holder.

Hypocrite in Chief

Barack Obama has a seemingly pathological need to change his story whenever the situation calls.  In a continuation of their series "The Vetting", Breitbart turns to Obama's stance regarding private equity.

President Barack Obama has attacked Gov. Mitt Romney's record in the private equity industry as CEO of Bain Capital. But ten years ago, as he struggled to raise funds for his long-shot U.S. Senate campaign, then-State Senator Obama decided to embrace the private equity industry and its wealthy Chicago political donors. At one point, Obama even sponsored a resolution in the Illinois Senate calling calling private equity firms like Bain "the best opportunity for long-term economic vitality" and for "the creation of jobs."

Obama's campaign ads dismissively compare Romney's work at Bain to that of a "vampire" draining jobs and money from vulnerable companies and workers. After pushback from a handful of pro-free market Democrats in late May, the President himself publicly defended his campaign's attacks on private equity firms like Bain.

But records from Obama's time as a state senator in Illinois, along with recollections of those who worked with him, present a very different stance. They indicate that Obama worked hard to position himself as a strong supporter of the venture capital industry. Obama attended industry social functions and used his position in the state senate to propose bills consistent with the legislative goals of the venture capital industry in the state.

When it suits him, he's for private equity.  When he needs the money, he's for it.  But when it then becomes expedient to be against it, Obama does a faster 180 than anyone since John Kerry.

"I was for it before I was against it."

What a two-face.

The Old Double Standard

Reported by Hans von Spakovsky at Breitbart:

The Department of Justice is asserting that the governor of Texas, as well as state legislators, have no executive or deliberative process privilege to shield documents -- even as Eric Holder and President Obama assert executive and deliberative process privilege to shield documents from Congress in its investigation of Fast & Furious.

and

It’s clear, when one compares the Justice Department’s position on executive and deliberate process privilege in the Texas voter ID litigation with its position on the privilege in the congressional investigation of Operation Fast and Furious, that neither Eric Holder nor Barack Obama want the same rules applied to them that they would apply to the governor of Texas and members of the state legislature.

 Sauce for the goose??

Wisdom from Wasilla

Sarah Palin nailed it on Hannity:

"Nancy Pelosi is a dingbat and the perfect spokesman for this whole agenda of the far left.”

Video from Breitbart.

Leaks from the Supreme Court

Yep.  Just three days after the historic SCOTUS decision and there's a story from major leaks on the deliberations and voting.  The Volokh Conspiracy has details on the CBS News reporting from Jan Crawford in three great posts HERE, HERE and HERE.

From the story:

I am told by two sources with specific knowledge of the court’s deliberations that Roberts initially sided with the conservatives in this case and was prepared to strike down the heart of this law, the so-called individual mandate, of course, that requires all Americans to buy insurance or pay a penalty. but Roberts, I’m told by my sources, changed his views deciding to instead join with the liberals.

This is amazing.  Does anyone know how to spell Earl Warren?

Liar, Liar

The primary tactic of the Obama administration, whether trying to govern or just to campaign, is to lie.  Flat out lies.  Nice to see that Mitt isn't letting it slide.



Found at Moonbattery.

It's up to us

In the SCOTUS decision, Chief Justice Roberts put it very clearly:

"It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."

Now, it's up to us.  Plain and simple.



From Moonbattery.

Slumlords for Obama

Flopping Aces brings back a 2008 story from the Boston Globe about slumlords and federal subsidies in Chicago.  And among the players mentioned....Valerie Jarrett.  Yes, the same Valerie Jarrett who had over 100 Chicago policemen assigned to her daughter's wedding.

From the story:

Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.

and

Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.

Read the whole thing.  The cronyism is inbred in this group.

Who'da thunk it??

Well, the House of Representatives finds Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.  But when it comes to actually prosecuting Holder, well....that's a different story.  From Fox News:

The Justice Department moved Friday to shield Attorney General Eric Holder from prosecution after the House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress.

The contempt vote technically opened the door for the House to call on the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to bring the case before a grand jury. But because U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen works for Holder and because President Obama has already asserted executive privilege over the documents in question, some expected Holder's Justice Department to balk.

Deputy Attorney General James Cole confirmed in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner that the department in fact would not pursue prosecution. The attorney general's withholding of documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, he wrote, "does not constitute a crime."

"Therefore the department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the attorney general," Cole wrote, in the letter obtained by Fox News.

Yeah, let's go ahead and prosecute the boss.  All of which means that the calls for a special prosecutor were so important.  And, of course, so ignored by Obama.

Al Sharpton and Holder

Yes, this is parody.  But damned good parody, because it actually sounds like what Revered Al might say.  It's best read aloud - add in your own Sharpton dialect for maximum effect.  It's a bit long, so be sure to follow the jump by clicking the "Read More".  From The Daily Rash, via I Own the World.


Al Sharpton Grills Attorney General Eric Holder on MSNBC

WASHINGTON – Last night on MSNBC, news anchor Reverend Al Sharpton grilled Attorney General Eric Holder on everything from Fast and Furious to racism. Following is a transcript of that interview:

AL SHARPTON:  Welcome Mr. Secretary General of Defense. It’s a pleasure to sponsor you on my show.
ERIC HOLDER:  Thank you. It’s a pleasure being here.
AL SHARPTON:  I’m going to start off the show by saying two words and I want to get your response.
ERIC HOLDER: Sure.
AL SHARPTON:  Racism.
ERIC HOLDER:  (Looks confused)
AL SHARPTON:  Now, what does your judicated mind think when you hear those words?
ERIC HOLDER:  Uh, that we still have work to do fighting for civil rights?
AL SHARPTON:  Don’t those words define the biased white interlopers who’ve chosen to scrapegoat you, a premature African American man of power?
ERIC HOLDER:  Uh, yes, I am aware that my skin color may play a roll in the ceaseless attacks from the right side of the aisle.
AL SHARPTON:  Not just that Secretary Holder, but isn’t it true that President Obama is provocated from the aisle by the same Jim Crow fronts that would be clarified as abomable in a more just world?
ERIC HOLDER:  As you know Reverend Sharpton, I think the United States is a nation of cowards when it comes to race.
AL SHARPTON:  Not only cowards Secretary General, but isn’t the nation also a composite heap of partisan divide that threatens the very fabric of African American detrimentation?
ERIC HOLDER:  Well, uh, we do still have a lot of work to do.
AL SHARPTON:  And that leads me to my next question, General. With the issues of the Fast and Frisky gun profanities, isn’t it in the best interest of the country that the president intercept on your behalf to restrain matters of secrets in the attorney client prophecy?
ERIC HOLDER:  Uh, there is no question that certain information pertaining to Fast and Furious is privileged and should not be made public until after the election.

Two from Ramirez

Michael Ramirez has long been a favorite of mine.  His cartoon from yesterday:

And one more, found over at I Own the World:

Unfortunately, it's all true.  Obama wants to erase that border and thinks government is the answer to everything.

The Day American Died

Those of us above a certain age can remember Don McLean's "American Pie".  Recorded in 1971, it describes the 1959 plane crash that killed Bubby Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper as "The Day the Music Died".  Today was the day America died.

No, not that the country died like the Soviet Union.  Or the Holy Roman Empire.  Or so many other ruling institutions.  What died was America as a concept, as a vision for mankind.  America was not so much a matter of geography but of spirit and intent.  It was the bastion of liberty and the home to dreams and ideals.  That America died today.

The Supreme Court of the United States declared today that there is no limit to what the federal government can do, so long as it wraps itself in the taxing power of the Constitution.  We now can only rely on the restraint of elected politicians in Congress, which is a false and foolhardy reliance.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the government is supreme over the individual.  That the interests of the state are superior to the interests of the individuals.  That government doesn't receive its powers from the consent of the governed, but rather by the decree of itself.

America died.

Environmentalism

I think I have found a reason why I might have to become an environmentalist.  Save the planet!!

Hey...it's Obama that drove me to drink!!

Stolen from The Feral Irishman.

Damager in Chief

Paul Mirengoff at Powerline has a insightful piece on Obama's pandering to the Hispanic vote.  One takeaway:

The overriding damage is to our system of government and to respect for the law. In the topsy-turvy world created by Obama’s pandering, the president abdicates his responsibility to enforce the law, leaving states holding the bag. And when states that try to fill the breach, Obama not only punishes them as entities – by ending all meaningful federal cooperation – but also encourages attacks on state law enforcement personnel as individuals.

All of this because Obama needs the votes of Hispanics.

and

What additional benefits and exemptions from obligations would future Obamas confer on Hispanics if they become an even larger portion of the electorate? What new lawless decrees would future demagogues in the Obama tradition issue to satisfy this politically powerful underclass?

The answers should be sufficiently frightening to cause Republicans (and Democrats with a decent regard for our traditions and our system of government) to vow never to grant illegal aliens a path to citizenship.

The Democratic party ceased to be a party to represent the interests of American citizens.  What it has become is an ad-hoc amalgamation of special interests and voting blocs, with the goal of getting enough groups to make up 51% of the electorate.

Sad that it has come to this.

Outsourcer in Chief

One of the campaign mantras of the Obama campaign is that Romney is a "serial outsourcer".  Turns out that a proven outsourcer lives at 1600 Pennsylvania:

The Obama campaign spent nearly $4,700 on telemarketing services from a Canadian telemarketing company called Pacific East between March and June, a Washington Free Beacon study of federal election filings shows.

Pacific East is not the only foreign telemarketing firm raking in cash from the president’s reelection campaign. Obama paid a call center in Manila, Philippines $78,314.10 for telemarketing services between the start of the campaign and March

Scratch a Democrat, find a hypocrite.  Too bad the MSM won't bother to report this.

Thanks to the Washington Free Beacon for the story.

Just another day at the office

From Keith Koffler at White House Dossier comes this schedule for The One's day.

Obama Schedule || Tuesday, June 26, 2012

9:05 am || Departs Boston
11:15 am || Arrives Atlanta
1:25 pm || Delivers remarks at a fundraiser; Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
2:10 pm || Appears at a fundraiser; Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
3:35 pm || Departs Atlanta
5:10 pm || Arrives Miami
5:45 pm || Attends a fundraiser; private residence
8:30 pm || Delivers remarks at a fundraiser; The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater
9:45 pm || Departs Miami
12:10 am || Arrives Washington
All times Eastern

Koffler reported that Obama had already been to over 100 fundraisers already this year.  And another four on this day.  Would someone please tell our president that there's a country to run?  On the other hand, if he's out on the road, there's less chance for him to screw something up again.

Turning the Arizona decision around

Found this graphic at I Own the World.

We all know how well that would work.

Kimberlin update

Lee Stranahan  reports:

Another conservative blogger has become the victim of a "swatting," where a false report of a murder sends the police, armed and ready, to a victim's home. The victim this time was blogger Aaron Walker, who had just this morning won a legal victory against convicted felon and leftist activist Brett Kimberlin.

May the full force of the law come down on those who are perpetrating these swattings.

Racist!!

Dana Loesch reports at Breitbart:

At a recent Obama rally in Ohio, prospective attendees were told to brandish their photo IDs if they expected admittance to the rally. No word yet on whether Attorney General Eric Holder plans to file suit against the Obama campaign for infringing upon Ohioans' right of peaceful assembly by way of a racist photo ID rule.

Where's Eric Holder?  Oh, yes, now I remember.  He's in the Justice Department building - where you have to show your photo ID to enter.

Little Debbie

From the Florida-based blog Shark Tank:

Back in April, the Shark Tank floated the likelihood that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman (DNC) Debbie Wasserman Schultz was perhaps on her way out as DNC Chairwoman. We now have learned that Wasserman Schultz will not be back as DNC Chairwoman after the November elections.

According to our source within the Democratic Party, who is also a close associate of Wasserman Schultz, the arrangements have already been made for her to leave DNC  regardless if President Obama wins re-election or not.

This same source believes that Wasserman Schultz will be forced to resign behind closed doors and then stage an press event in which she tells Americans that her job as the DNC chair was a temporary one and that she is moving on with her congressional career.

Too bad.  DWS is always good for a "throw the shoe at the TV" moment. Unfortunately, the Democrats might actually pick a chairman for the DNC who knows what to do.

Fundraising

John Hinderaker posts at Powerline about the status of fundraising in the 2012 election.  One of his observations:

Democrats are odd: they think it is a fine thing when unions extract dues from members against their will and use that money to advocate for liberal ideas with which many union members disagree. On the other hand, they think it is dirty pool when conservatives spend their own money to advocate the ideas that they believe in.

There's more in the story on the absurd conclusions of the Democrat fundraisers.  Read it.

Today's Bumper Sticker

Found at the Feral Irishman.

Afterburner on fire

I've been a big fan of Bill Whittle ever since his days at Eject, Eject, Eject!  This episode of Afterburner finds Bill giving Fast and Furious the one-two, and then a couple of more KO blows.



Whittle is, in my opinion, one of the best communicators in the new media, as well as in the conservative
sphere.  He knows how to talk, how to get his message across, and how to relate to his audience.  And here, he's as persuasive, and pissed off, as I've ever seen him.

Combine Fast & Furious with a complacent media and you have all the reasons in the world to be enraged.

Share this with your friends.  And buy a beer for Whittle if you see him.

Headline of the Day

Stolen from I Own the World.

I have long wondered....how many of these types of headlines are intentionally funny and how many are just the product of not thinking??

In any case, I had a good chuckle.

Congressional video of the day

Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina has the hands-down winner, definitely for today and maybe in the all-time top 10.  After hearing the Democrats try to stall and delay, Gowdy lays it all out on why the contempt citation must go forward.  And then he later responds to the well-worn claim that "Republicans did it too".



Can you picture him as a replacement for Lindsay Graham?  I can.

Thanks to The Right Scoop for the video.