May

22

Flashback: Severe tornadoes caused by global cooling

Filed Under Global Warming, Science & Nature | 3 Comments

2013: Global warming is causing these severe tornadoes.

1975: Global cooling is causing these severe tornadoes:

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More “settled science” from the 1970′s: “Prepare for the next ice age.”

Like I always say, no matter what happens, the “scare mongers for fun and profit” are right. There is no scenario that would disprove Al Gore’s sham. Shut up and pay up, deniers!

May

21

Setting the Scene: Obama’s Next Visit to Iwo Jima

Filed Under Humor, Politics | 12 Comments

Our comrades at The People’s Cube have made a mockery of this with the following depiction of what it will look like if President Obama delivers another speech at Iwo Jima:

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May

20

Obama Justice Department Spied on Fox News Reporter(s)

Filed Under Media, Politics | 10 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, as his Department of Justice was seizing Associated Press phone records, President Obama hailed “World Press Freedom Day”:

We pay special tribute to those journalists who have sacrificed their lives, freedom or personal well-being in pursuit of truth and justice.

Ironic, because those who risk sacrificing their freedom in the pursuit of truth are reporters covering the Obama administration. Here’s just the latest:

The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the State Department and seizing two days of Rosen’s personal emails, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

In a chilling move sure to rile defenders of civil liberties, an FBI agent also accused Rosen of breaking anti-espionage law with behavior that — as described in the agent’s own affidavit — falls well inside the bounds of traditional news reporting.

Fox News is now claiming that the Obama Justice Department targeted two of their reporters and one producer.

As John Nolte pointed out over at Breitbart, the things the government is accusing Rosen of doing happen almost every day in the world of journalism in a free nation — and the Obama administration wants to criminalize it while sending a “horse head in the bed” style message to every other reporter in the country.

In 2009 the Obama administration pretty much declared war on Fox News, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this story runs a lot wider and deeper and isn’t even isolated to alleged leak investigations.

May

18

Tweet of the Day

Filed Under Idiots, Politics | 18 Comments

“Muphry’s Law” on parade courtesy of a Media Matters “research fellow”:

Only right wingnut morons would put an apostrophe somewhere in there.

May

17

David Axelrod Argues for Smaller Government

Filed Under Politics | 16 Comments

Never thought I’d see the day that Greasy Axelrod advocated for shrinking the federal monstrosity, but if it’s too much for He Who Knows and Sees All to keep track of, Axe is right — time to cut its size:

The government is simply too big for President Obama to keep track of all the wrongdoing taking place on his watch, his former senior adviser, David Axelrod, told MSNBC. “Part of being president is there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so vast,” he explained.

Come on, liberals, jump on board the “smaller government” bandwagon. Do it for the future of America. Or, if that’s not important enough of a consideration, do it for Obama.

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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Barack Obama, February 2008

“I’m hearing about this stuff from the news.” Barack Obama, May 2013

May

16

Obama Calls in the Marines

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President Obama today ordered into action two members of the greatest military force the world has ever known:

I’ve got a little caption contest going over at Michelle’s if you feel like adding one.

In fairness to The One, at least he’s aware of his limitations when it comes to operating his own umbrella:

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May

16

Holder: No Special Counsel to Investigate Benghazi

Filed Under Law, Politics | 6 Comments

The US Attorney General is the only person who can appoint special counsels. Obama really knew what he was doing when he nominated Eric Holder — but don’t forget to save some major blame for the Dem controlled Senate for confirming this guy:

Even if Holder did decide to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Benghazi, what are the chances he’d choose somebody who would actually investigate? He’d probably appoint Hillary. In reality, the only thing Eric Holder needs in order to initiate a criminal investigation is a mirror.

May

15

Viva la Transparency!

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Most. Transparent. Administration. Ever:

The American Civil Liberties Union was curious about warrantless government snooping on citizens’ text messages. So the group filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the Justice Department. Here’s what they got back:

Totally Redacted FOIA response:

Totally Redacted FOIA response

Scroll through the entire thing. Thank God for FOIA or we wouldn’t know what our government is up to.

May

14

Headline of the Day

Filed Under Media, Politics | 22 Comments

This headline is quite funny if you really think about it:

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Obama tells the press that government unfairly targeting conservatives in the private sector is absolutely unacceptable, followed closely by a speech in which he blasted a private sector conservative by name? Leading by example was never Obama’s forte.

May

14

WaPo Fact Checks Obama Claim That He Referred to Benghazi as an ‘Act of Terrorism’ From Day 1

Filed Under Nat'l Security, Politics | 17 Comments

“The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” – President Obama, May 13, 2013
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Four Pinocchios, according to Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post.

I’d throw in a fifth Pinocchio just because Obama has repeated this lie so many times. He never used the word “terrorism” in reference to Benghazi. But don’t take my word for it:

For instance, on Sept. 12, immediately after the Rose Garden statement the day after the attack, Obama sat down with Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes and acknowledged he purposely avoided the using the word “terrorism:”

KROFT: “Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word ‘terrorism’ in connection with the Libya attack.”

OBAMA: “Right.”

KROFT: “Do you believe that this was a terrorist attack?”

OBAMA: “Well, it’s too early to know exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans. And we are going to be working with the Libyan government to make sure that we bring these folks to justice, one way or the other.”

And yet the producer of a YouTube video remains in prison.