Obama: Keeping An Eye On You … And You … And You …

Obama Looks Out For YouOur less-than-fearless leader has identified the enemy and it is us:

Obama Snoops Part 2: Infiltrate, Target, Harass Churches

“… the Obama administration implemented a covert program beginning in 2009 that was intended to spy on conservative, evangelical Christian churches. That program involved infiltration — sending in government operatives to join churches for the purpose of data collection. The government snoops would keep their eyes and ears open for criticism of the Obama administration, talk of Tea Party participation, conversations about gun ownership, and a number of other issues.

But a special report issued today by Fox News indicates that the program went far beyond infiltration and snooping. The IRS was used to harass Christian churches if they were identified as places where large numbers of anti-Obama citizens congregated for worship.”

In Obama’s lexicon, a potential terrorist is anyone who opposes Big Red — unless, of course, they practice the ‘Religion of Peace’:

Obama’s Snooping Excludes Mosques (Investors.com)

The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won’t snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are.

That’s right, the government’s sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized.

Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee. Who makes up this body, and how do they decide requests? Nobody knows; the names of the chairman, members and staff are kept secret.

DOJ: Slam Muslims on Facebook, face feds (WND)

Bloggers beware. And those who use email, too. And those on Facebook. And Twitter. And anyone else using social media: Diss a Muslim and the Department of Justice will be on your case with the full weight of federal law.

The Obama administration, which is launching a series of Muslim Outreach Summits so that Islamists can tell federal officials how they better can serve that community, says it also is holding educational outreaches to let people know that Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to federal prosecution.

Welcome to the Obama Nation.  Your papers, please.

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The Fed: Never Steal Anything Small

A Good LaughH/T Tom for original graphic.  Blame me for all modifications …

This is no longer a government; it’s a criminal enterprise.  How do you misplace a trillion dollars?  The answer: You don’t.  See the video at Maggie’s Notebook.

Federal Reserve: $9T Missing – Off Balance Sheet, $1T to Someone – Inspector General Clueless (Maggie’s Notebook)

Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman is not the usually sharp, no-nonsense and intuitive IG we have seen in other areas. IGs are some of the best of our Government, although Congress routinely ignores their recommendations, and Obama simply fires them without the authority to do so. Stay with it, $9,000,000,000,000 is apparently nowhere to be found. The Federal Reserve believes their worthless, magical monies not worthy of record or accountability to the American people. Federal Reserve dollars really are fantasy until inflation empties your 401-K, then it becomes a nightmare. There’s also $1,000,000,000,000 somewhere out there unaccounted for.

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Hussein Obama And The 40 Thieves

“Who trusts the “executive” who claims he doesn’t know what’sHussein Obama going on, and has no plans to find out?” — John Hayward

If a measly 40 thieves were all we had to worry about, the country would be in decent shape. Unfortunately, that robber’s roost on the Potomac called the District of Columbia is home to a lot more than 40 career criminals … uh, politicians.  After all, 53 Democrats nest in the Senate alone. And they’re not just looting the treasury — that stash was emptied long ago — they’re stealing the future.

Take the so-called ‘immigration reform’ bill, legislation which has already had a stake driven through its dark heart dozens of times by the dwindling portion of the American electorate that still retains a modicum of common sense.  But, like the infamous Count from Transylvania, the plan to legalize the illegals keeps coming back, resurrected time after time by Marxist Democrats and their Republican thralls, who see the importation of 40 or 50 million impoverished Mexicans and their extended families as the path to permanent one-party rule by socialist Jackasses.  This latest effort is being directed, of course, by the community organizer-in-chief, ‘Red’ Barry Soetoro, better known by his public alias, Barack H. Obama:

The Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants who have applied under President Obama’s new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday.  That’s a slight drop from the 99.5 percent approval rate reported last month.

And, being who he is, Obama has ensured that a goodly number of these freshly-minted residents are Muslim jihadists with a vested interest in the destruction of every principle Americans used to hold dear:

Supporters of this policy, according to the Times, “say the high rate makes sense given the motivated pool of youngsters, known as ‘Dreamers’ because of the Dream Act legislation that would give them full citizenship rights.”

Yes, the motivated pool of youngsters like Al Harbi, the Saudi “person of interest” whose role in the Boston Marathon jihad bombing has never been adequately explained, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston jihad bomber himself, or Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari (building bombs to use on the home of George W. Bush, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, nightclubs and the homes of soldiers) or Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh (who plotted to bomb a New York synagogue and the Empire State Building) or Amine El Khalifi (who plotted a suicide bombing plot of U.S. Capitol) or Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis (who plotted to bomb the Manhattan office of the Federal Reserve Bank) and so many other highly motivated youngsters …

The Obama administration is importing whole Muslim communities from Islamic countries like Somalia. The “diversity” immigration numbers are doubling, tripling in some months.

But, as impressive as they are, those numbers are apparently insufficient in the demented worldview of Hussein Obama.  He plans on inviting an additional tens of thousands of dislocated Syrians (people he has himself been largely responsible for dislocating) to a neighborhood near you.  After all, now that his operation running guns to the al Qaeda affiliated anti-Assad rebels has been legitimized, there’s no reason not to.

U.S.: Syria Used Chemical Weapons, Crossing “Red Line” (CBS News)

[...] in a major policy shift, President Obama has decided to supply military support to the rebels, the White House announced Thursday.

RUSSIA WARNS AMERICANS: Barack Hussein Obama has been shipping arms to al-Qaeda jihadists in Syria for over a year (Bare Naked Islam)

[...] While the Times report claims most of the weapons shipments facilitated by the CIA began after the latest presidential election, Middle Eastern security officials have said U.S.-aided weapons shipments go back more than a year, escalating before the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. facilities in Benghazi.

Middle Eastern security officials describe the U.S. mission in Benghazi and nearby CIA annex attacked last September as an intelligence and planning center for U.S. aid to the rebels in the Middle East, particularly those fighting Syrian Assad’s regime … Earlier this month, Reuters further reported Obama allegedly signed a secret order in 2012 authorizing U.S. agencies such as the CIA to provide support to rebel forces in Syria.

How Obama and Al-Qaeda Became Syrian Bedfellows

Obama’s strongest military ally on the ground in Syria- the best equipped and effective fighting force against the Syrian Government — is Jabhat al-Nusra, a group that has affiliated itself with al-Qaeda, and aims to turn Syria into an extremist Islamic state that enforces a fundamentalist version of Sharia law.

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Takin’ Care Of Business

It's A Wonderful Life

Another busy day:

Obama Schedule || Friday, June 14, 2013 (via White House Dossier)

9:45 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing

11:30 am || Hosts a Father’s Day luncheon; State Dining Room

2:45 pm || Welcomes the WNBA Champion Indiana Fever to the White House; East Room

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Triumph Of The Swill

What Difference

It’s as hard to imagine the former co-president, Secretary of State, and valedictorian from the Wellesley class of ’69 (appropriately), Hillary Rodman, sans broomstick and cauldron as it is to picture husband Slick Willy without a bimbo on his arm and a lie on his lips.

 

Two New Obama Scandals in a Single Day

White House Dossier last week noted a total of 20 significant Obama administration scandals, but that was before these latest two and the revelation that the government is keeping track of telephone calls and Internet traffic.

 In one of the fresh scandals that came to light Monday, CBS News revealed that State Department investigations into misdoings by officials overseas – several having to do with sex – were manipulated or quashed.

Prostitution, Drugs, Coverup? Obama’s State Dep’t Under Fire

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“A righteous government provides a safety net for its citizens, not a trampoline.”

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Lord Of The Lies

Obama NationI’ve absented myself from these pages lo these many months primarily because of my antipathy to the 50% of my so-called countrymen who willingly installed Barack Obama and his gang of one-armed ideological bandits into the seat of American power.  To elect such a man once was one time too many, but to repeat the blunder — and in the face of overwhelming evidence that he and the O-Ring shouldn’t have been trusted to hose out Porta-Potties without close supervision, let alone to direct the affairs of what was once the greatest nation on earth?  It was downright depressing for me to discover you really can fool half of the people all of the time. So I hunkered down in my little corner of Occupied America and hoped that reason would one day return to the land of the formerly free.

A half-year into Obama’s second term, and it’s become increasingly clear even to many of the walking dead (Democrats) that this president is either the most inept administrator ever to sit in the Oval Office or the architect of incipient tyranny. To be fair, he could be both.

Stay tuned.

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The American Idle

Golfer In Chief

Why Obama keeps the press away – playing golf with Tiger Woods doesn’t look good with 12 million Americans out of work and a $16 trillion debt – Telegraph

Obama’s latest mini-vacation follows in the wake of his lavish Christmas/ New Year holiday on Kailua Beach in Oahu, Hawaii, which cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $7 million.

… According to [White House Correspondent Keith] Koffler,”the total cost to taxpayers of Obama’s vacations to Hawaii since becoming president is likely in excess of $20 million, and possibly much, much more.”  … The optics certainly don’t look good for a president who has in the past called on Americans to make sacrifices, while blatantly refusing to do so himself … This is the latest demonstration of an overwhelming culture of impunity in a celebrity-obsessed Obama White House, frequently coupled with a disturbing lack of transparency that would be roundly condemned by the likes of The New York Times, NBC, or CBS if a Republican were in office.

While Barack Vacations In Palm Beach, Mooch To Take Separate Taxpayer Funded Vacation In Aspen | Weasel Zippers

First Lady Michelle Obama plans to vacation in Aspen, Colorado this Presidents’ Day weekend, separately from her husband, who will land this evening in West Palm Beach for his own down time with the boys.

Michelle’s separate excursion from the president means that, even as the government prepares to slash spending as the March 1 sequester approaches, taxpayers will be footing the bill for two separate Obama vacations, paying for items like travel and the expensive security and staff entourages that accompany them everywhere.

You can’t blame Democrats for their insufferable arrogance.  After all, they can boast of an almost perfect record since 1965.  Of course, it’s a record of unmitigated failure, but hey, perfection is perfection — and theirs is a streak that shows no signs of ending anytime soon.

Things Only a Democrat Could Get Away With

[...] The Democratic Party in the last two decades has absorbed Bill Clinton’s ability to avoid accountability. The ranks of its congressmen are full of liars, felons and lunatics. It is a party so devoid of accountability that the likes of Sheila Jackson Lee can sit on the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics without being able to tell apart the Moon and Mars, while Hank Johnson can warn that Guam may tip over if too many Marines land on it.

The Party of Jefferson has made the long sad trip to a party that views Massachusetts scandal machines like Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank as elder statesmen, instead of criminals who were never locked up, on account of their political influence. And it is full of these elder statesmen, men like Joe Biden, whose only gift is an inability to shut up and a media unwilling to condemn even the worst of their shenanigans.

The only remaining virtue in the Democratic Party is shamelessness. Those Democrats who have no shame prosper, those who do turn themselves in and serve their time. 

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Proud To Be An UnAmerican

Birds Of A Feather

 “It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.” – John F. Kerry

Unfortunately, the country being assiduously constructed by the likes of Barack Obama isn’t America.  It’s Cuba and North Vietnam and the old Soviet Union.  And John Kerry? He’s one of the people your parents warned you against.

“During Lt.(jg) Kerry’s tour, he was under my command for two or three specific operations, before his rapid exit. Trust, loyalty and judgment are the key, operative words. His turncoat performance in 1971 in his grubby shirt and his medal-tossing escapade, coupled with his slanderous lines in the recent book portraying us that served, including all POWs and MIAs, as murderous war criminals, I believe, will have a lasting effect on all military veterans and their families. Kerry would be described as devious, self-absorbing, manipulative, disdain for authority, disruptive, but the most common phrase that you’d hear is ‘requires constant supervision.’” — Captain Charles Plumly, USN (retired)

“John Kerry’s recent admissions caused me to realize that I was most likely in Vietnam dodging enemy rockets on the very day he met in Paris with Madame Binh, the representative of the Viet Cong to the Paris Peace Conference…Who was the last American POW to die languishing in a North Vietnamese prison forced to listen to the recorded voice of John Kerry disgracing their service by his dishonest testimony before the Senate?” — John O’Neill

“More Than any other person, John Kerry is responsible for the false image of Vietnam veterans as dysfunctional misfits. Kerry betrayed all of us when he returned from Vietnam.” — Retired U.S. Navy SEAL captain John Bailey

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The Obamacalypse

RW FanaticH/T to Tom & Dave

Obama ZombiesI’ve never been particularly enamored by dramas featuring predatory cadavers (which is why I neglected to watch the recent State of the Union address); however, The Walking Dead, the saga of a viral zombie apocalypse and the band of uninfected stalwarts who struggle to survive in a world gone mad has much to recommend it, not least of which is that it serves as an almost perfect metaphor for the Obama years.  After all, what else but a mysterious malady that destroys the capacity for reason and turns human beings into Democrats can explain the re-election of a man so obviously unfit for office?  His (partial) record:

  • 2.6 million more people living below the poverty line.
  • Food stamp rolls have skyrocketed to more than 47 million people.
  • Over 8,803,335 Americans are receiving disability, an 18% increase since 2009.
  • The median household income has dropped $4,520, or about one month’s average wages, since Obama took office.
  • US incomes fell more during the so-called recovery than the recession.
  • Gas prices have doubled.
  • Taxes have ballooned.
  • This year working Americans making between $30,000 and $200,000 will see their paychecks shrink by as much as 1.7 percent – or up to $1,784.
  • Obamacare will punish working Americans with more taxes.

Overseas, the damage done to American interests in just four years is equally appalling.  This is an administration either hopelessly inept or unbelievably treacherous. Yet the primary plague carrier was returned to office.  The virus was not contained.

There is an adage that reads “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity… but don’t rule out malice.”

… if you are both intelligent and you have a malicious agenda, you would not let the people that elected you know of your nefarious designs, at least not those who don’t share your agenda, so you would camouflage your intentions by providing some kind of cover. Any excuse that your (for the most part) ignorant and lazy electorate could swallow would do. It does not even have to make sense. You just need an excuse so that the people that elected you can wrap themselves in their delusional cocoon and go comfortably back to sleep.

… If the goal was the destruction of America, everything these Marxists do makes perfect sense. Otherwise we have to believe that these politicians are just really stupid or unlucky. (But Don’t Rule Out Malice|Ryan Scott Welch|The American Thinker)

The Obamacalypse is far from over. Vaccines are unreliable and the disease seems resistant to conventional antibiotics (Barack Obama…hmm..hmm…hmm). For now, we survivors seek refuge and anodynes.  Tomorrow, we must discover a cure.

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Hanoi John: An Obama Kind Of Guy

Hanoi John Reports For Duty Again

In modern America, it seems that no good deed goes unpunished; no bad one unrewarded.  The latest case in point: the confirmation of Hanoi John Kerry as our Secretary of State.  You don’t have to be a veteran of the late unpleasantness in Southeast Asia to experience profound nausea at the 94-3 vote by the gibbering buffoons who masquerade as U.S. senators — but it helps.  Recall, if you will, Hanoi Johnny’s slandering of American troops back in the ’70s:

“…they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country…”

And a more recent calumny (from 2005):

“…there is no reason … that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the–of–the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not…”

This is the kind of glib defamation that tends to rub real veterans the wrong way, especially when offered up by one whose entire tour of combat duty was only a bit longer than semester break:

According to nearly everyone he served with in Vietnam, Kerry was a self-serving malcontent from the day he arrived in Vietnam for his brief four-month visit. He was disgruntled. He avoided combat. He didn’t obey orders. But he did go beyond the call of duty in the pursuit of one objective – seeking medals and commendations and a shortened stay in Vietnam.

But even Hanoi Johnny has his heroes. Unfortunately, most of them are on the other side;  the late Vietnamese communist Ho Chi Minh for example (whom Kerry once compared to George Washington.),  or the Nicaraguan red Daniel Ortega:

…The Sandinistas had ethnically cleansed the Miskito Afro-Indians and destroyed Nicaragua’s Jewish community. But none of that deterred Kerry from shaking hands with Ortega and urging Reagan to make a deal with him. (John Kerry: Still Wrong After All These Years | Frontpage)

The saturnine senator from Massachusetts is an Obama kind of guy.  His boss, you see, is the man who has twice skipped the Inaugural Day Heroes Ball honoring Medal of Honor recipients, the first commander-in-chief ever to do so:

[...] Of course, it is not out of character for Obama to skip events that honor America’s most proud traditions

In 2010, Obama decided to skip the annual Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery and instead, go on another vacation, this time to Chicago. In doing so, he became the first president to break the tradition since the country began honoring its veterans with the national holiday.

He laid no wreath at the at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, he did not meet with the Gold Star Mothers nor did he lead the nation in a day of remembrance for those whose sacrifice make it possible for the rest of us to live in freedom.

Obama, instead, attended several private parties with his old Chicago friends. He did however, return to Washington in time to attend the Paul McCartney concert. (Obama will snub inaugural ball honoring Medal of Honor recipients…again – Examiner.com)

Well, hell.  Who could blame ol’ Barry for snubbing the Medal winners, ignoring the Gold Star moms, and unwreathing the grave of the Unknown Soldier?  After all, those are the very same people who Genghisized the peaceful villages of the ‘Nam, terrorized the sleeping Muslims of Iraq, and surrendered their lives for an America he detests — unforgivable sins in the red book of any respectable leftist.  Just ask John Kerry.

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