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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: Barack Obama, Constitutional Ignoramus

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QOTD: "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." --John Adams

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

More anti-Obama street art spotted

It started last year and included a sticky note campaign.

I have a strong feeling we'll be seeing a lot more of this over the next few months.

'It's on, cuz we don't have to worry about re-election'

Gee, this doesn't send shivers up my spine:

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign website has removed several videos that pitched alarmist messages to African-American voters, following reporting by The Daily Caller and the Fox News Channel.

In one video that the campaign yanked from the “African-Americans for Obama” section of its website Tuesday, actress Tatyana Ali seemed to predict that a second Obama term would bring a host of benefits to African-Americans once the president no longer had to concern himself with campaigning.

“What really excites me … is that a U.S. president has only two terms,” a laughing Ali said in the footage that the Obama campaign scrubbed from its website Tuesday. “In the second term, ‘it’s on,’ because we don’t have to worry about re-election.”

...The video series, titled “Leading Women Defined,” focuses on African-American women, including Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s longtime aide and a former Chicago government official. It was produced by Black Entertainment Television and is still available on that that network’s website.

“We’re encouraging people to come out and vote to, as we say, vote like your life depended on it,” BET CEO Debra Lee said in one of the videos...

The BET videos include a raft of black-targeted messaging, including a reminder that Obama has delivered $1 billion dollars to historically black colleges and universities and $3 billion in contracts and loans to African-Americans entrepreneurs...

"In the second term, ‘it’s on,’ because we don’t have to worry about re-election"?

What's on?

Oh. That's right. More race-baiting. More deficit-spending. More unemployment. More class warfare. More trickle-up failure. More crony capitalism. More lawlessness. More socialism.

More "fundamental transformation".

Got it.

Here's the one chart you can show to any liberal propagandist who claims GM paid off its debt to taxpayers

When the president or any other propagandist tries to claim that GM and Chrysler have made the American taxpayer whole, wave this in their face.

In a February 28 speech, President Obama referred to this expenditure of $80 billion as a bet on the American worker, and added: “Now, three years later . . . that bet is paying off, not just paying off for you, it’s paying off for America.” His implication that the bailout is succeeding-that it will not ultimately be a loss for taxpayers-is a constant theme of Democrats.

The [accompanying] chart, drawn from information released by the Treasury, shows the current status of the financial assistance that the automotive industry has received through TARP. Out of the total $80 billion that has been paid out, only $35 billion has been repaid, some $7 billion has been written off, and $37 billion is still outstanding. That is, 9 percent of the original amount has already been lost, and close to half is still in limbo.

The latest Congressional Budget Office report estimates that the total cost of the bailout will end up being $20 billion. The biggest culprit will be GM, since the Treasury has no remaining investment in Chrysler, having sold its shares in July 2011.

The automakers may be profitable now, but only because we are not counting the taxpayer losses against the profits. If the president continues to avoid this simple math, perhaps someone should ask him why he didn’t shower billions on every industry and create millions more jobs.

Repeat:

Close to 10 percent of the "investment" has already been irretrievably lost. And it's questionable we'll ever see the other half of the money.

Good News: Your Tax Dollars Going to Lionize Race-Baiters

I wonder if they have these posters in Hymietown?

‘Take to the streets’: Obama Labor Dept. glorifies Sharpton, Jackson in protest-preaching poster
President Barack Obama’s labor secretary, Hilda Solis, has authorized new posters in elevators throughout the Department of Labor’s Washington, D.C. headquarters building. The posters feature a photo of her marching in protest alongside the Rev. Jesse Jackson and MSNBC television host Rev. Al Sharpton, among others.

The photo depicts Solis acting as an emissary of the Obama administration protesting against Alabama’s strict new law combating illegal immigration. Solis has her arms locked with Sharpton, and Jackson is a few feet away. The poster also carries a message for federal government employees — who are traditionally expected to be apolitical in the performance of their duties.

“Whether we take to the streets or simply do our work with integrity and commitment here at the U.S. Department of Labor,” the poster reads, above Solis’ signature, “We are all marching toward the same goals: safer workplaces, fair pay, dignity on the job, secure retirement and opportunities to make a better life. I believe in the power of collective action.”

A Labor Department spokeswoman did not respond to The Daily Caller’s request for comment on whether Solis is encouraging federal workers to use their positions to promote a political agenda. Even so, an official sign describing the posters’ purpose indicates that may be the case.

...Americans for Limited Government communications director Rick Manning led the Department of Labor’s public affairs department during the George W. Bush administration. He told TheDC that Solis appears to be more interesting in politicking than actually enforcing laws... “This administration seems to be more interested in using public resources to promote extra-legal social change through propagandizing the federal workforce rather than simply enforcing the laws passed by Congress..."

If you're looking to confirm the president's affinity for race-baiting kooks, please note that Sharpton was also just invited to a White House breakfast.

Hat tips: Pat Dollard and BadBlue.

Controversial Poster o' the Day: Pro-Choice

Larwyn's Linx: Obama campaign website yanks BET videos

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Nation

Obama campaign website yanks BET videos: DC
Judidical activism for me, but not for thee: Betsy
President Shows Off His Scholarity: Sundries

A Highly Developed Talent of President Barack Obama: Sowell
President Obama, Are You Serious? Are You Serious?!: Alexa
Obama Demands SCOTUS become His Rubber Stamp: NoisyRm

To The Race-Baiters: Now You Have Problems: Denninger
Appeals Court Angrily Challenges Obama: MenRec
Obama and the Mother of All Tyrannies: Harsanyi

2012 Elections

The Democrats’ Election Forgery Racket: Malkin
Wisconsin, Maryland GOP Primary Results HQ: RSM
Illegal Alien Mass Voter Fraud Discovered in FL: NoisyRm

Obama pitches 'second term' during NCAAs, fans revolt: Twitchy
Obamacare will be Romney’s savior: RWN
Obama’s Battleground Advantage: PJM

Economy

Absolute Beginners: Nancy Pelosi Says We Should "Begin" With Taxes On The Rich: Ace
Government Services Administrator Forced Out For Lavishly Wasting Money On Luxe Vegas "Conference": Ace
President Obama Accuses Bill Clinton of ‘Thinly Veiled Social Darwinism’: Cato

Dupes For the State: Williams
Paul Ryan Cracks Up At Question About Obama’s Latest Demagogic Attack: NiceDeb
Our Dangerous Dependence on Foreign Chocolate: Foundry

Scandal Central

Obama scrubs website: In a second term, it’s on, 'cause we don’t have to worry about re-election: FAM
Does Obama Know How the Supreme Court Voted?: RS
The Vetting - Valerie Jarrett Keeps Obama Close to Radical Roots: Breitbart

Climate & Energy

Good News! Reno Wind Turbine That Cost $21,000 Saves $4!: Pirate's Cove
Hey, what if we had invested all those useless green energy dollars in pipelines?: WyBlog
Inhofe Blasts Obama’s Latest Falsehoods: Cap And Trade Edition: CFP

Media

The 15 Best Conservative News Sites On The Internet: Hawkins
Obama delivers what may very well be the worst speech in history: Elephant
Evolution of an Obama Dictatorship: Nullifying Congress to Nullifying the Supreme Court: NoisyRm

Two Florida Men Who Could Look Like Obama’s Son Carjack Man and Beat Him With Hammer: JWF
#Resist44: the Conservative Alternative to #Gen44: CDN
We have officially reached the David Dinkins stage of the Obama presidency: WyBlog

Bret Baier destroys whiny propaganda minister Jay Carney over Obama’s budget: FAM
AP Chairman Comes Close to Endorsing Obama: NoisyRm
Why Obama Shouldn’t Declare War on the Supreme Court: Meacham

World

Israelis blame administration leaks for ‘diplomatic, military and even operational damage’: World News Tribune
Why Did the Administration Leak the Israel-Azerbaijan Story?: Commentary
The Wasted 1-Day "Summit": Fausta

The Democratic Party and Jewish Anti-Semitism: Sultan Knish
Reichsführer Ogabe Strikes Another Blow Against Israel: Nice Doggie
World Mourns As Communist Darkness Falls Upon America (2010): EU Times

Sci-Tech

Coolest jobs in tech: Hackers for hire: Ars Technica
How China Steals Our Secrets: NYT
So How Long Until We Can Write The Obituary For Windows Phone?: Insider

Cornucopia

Did Obama '08 Threaten Chelsea's Life to Keep Parents Silent on Obama’s Ineligibility?: GodfatherPolitics
Hi Neighbor! Special Guest Commentary by the Palin Homunculus Living Inside Liberals' Heads: IowaHawk
Obama Circling the Drain: AWD

Image: Alexa Shrugged
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "Cosmic visions of society are not just visions about society. They are visions about those people who hold these visions and the role of such people in society, whether these people are deemed to be leaders of a master race, the vanguard of the proletariat, saviors of the planet, or to have some other similarly self-flattering role as an anointed visionary group ‘making a difference’ in the unfolding of history." --Thomas Sowell

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Federal Appeals Court: Yo, Barry -- You Got 'Til Thursday to Explain Your Chavez-Like Speechifying

The envelope was addressed to a "Mr. Soetero", I hear.

A federal appeals court is striking back after President Obama cautioned the Supreme Court against overturning the health care overhaul and warned that such an act would be "unprecedented."

A three-judge panel for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to explain by Thursday whether the administration believes judges have the power to strike down a federal law.

...One justice in particular chided the administration for what he said was being perceived as a "challenge" to judicial authority -- referring directly to Obama's latest comments about the Supreme Court's review of the health care case.

The testy exchange played out during a hearing over a separate ObamaCare challenge. It marked a new phase in the budding turf war between the executive and judicial branches.

"Does the Department of Justice recognize that federal courts have the authority in appropriate circumstances to strike federal statutes because of one or more constitutional infirmities?" Judge Jerry Smith asked at the hearing.
Justice Department attorney Dana Lydia Kaersvang answered "yes" to that question.

A source inside the courtroom, speaking to Fox News afterward, described the questioning by Smith as pointed. Smith also made clear during that exchange that he was "referring to statements by the president in the past few days to the effect ... that it is somehow inappropriate for what he termed unelected judges to strike acts of Congress. ... That has troubled a number of people who have read it as somehow a challenge to the federal courts or to their authority," Smith said. "And that's not a small matter."

Smith ordered a response from the department within 48 hours. The related letter from the court, obtained by Fox News, instructed the Justice Department to provide an explanation of "no less than three pages, single spaced" by noon on Thursday.

Ace summarizes:

Obama is currently inviting the courts to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, passed by truly solid democratic majorities, and still popular law. He has instructed his lawyers to not defend the law against challenge (Congress, I believe, has petitioned to intervene to defend the law).

So no, he doesn't really believe the courts can't strike down laws.

He's just lying for political effect, as usual.

CHANGE.
HOPE.
PROGRESS.
IN OTHER WORDS: A HUGO CHAVEZ-INSPIRED CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS.

Commerce Claws [Ramirez]

The brilliant Michael Ramirez.

Hat tip: Investors.com.

Hilarious Upside-Down Hockey-Stick Graph o' the Day

And it couldn't happen to a more deserving industry:

The Newspaper Association of America reported that advertising revenue for print newspapers in the U.S. fell to $20.7 billion in 2011. Adjusted for inflation, that’s the lowest annual advertising revenue for newspapers since 1951, sixty years ago. It took 50 years to go from about $20 billion in inflation-adjusted annual newspaper ad revenue in 1950 to $63.5 billion in 2000, and then only 11 years to go from $63.5 billion back to about $20 billion in 2011. This could be one of the best examples ever of “Schumpeterian creative destruction” displayed in a single graph.

My question about newspapers is a simple one: why do I need printouts of Democrat National Committee press releases when I can read them online?

Photo Quiz: Which Administration Official Did the Beautiful Russian Spy 'Honey-Trap'?

The Daily Mail:

Sexpot spy Anna Chapman came close to snaring a member of President Obama's inner circle in a honey trap, a top U.S. intelligence official has claimed... In a documentary broadcast last night, FBI counter-intelligence chief Frank Figliuzzi claimed the glamorous Russian agent got close enough to 'disturb' U.S. spy catchers.

He said the fear that Miss Chapman was close to seducing a sitting member of the Obama administration spurred agents to swoop on the 10-strong spy ring of which she was a part... Mr Figliuzzi told the Channel 4 documentary the auburn-haired spy got 'closer and closer to higher and higher ranking leadership... she got close enough to disturb us.

Which of the following administration officials did Chapman entrap?

Or was it someone else? Write your entry in the comments. And, please, be kind. These fine, upstanding officials deserve your respect.

Hat tip: Richard B.

Exclusive Photo: Gene Simmons Endorses Mitt Romney

Cub Reporter Biff Spackle snaps this world exclusive.

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday and said he regrets voting for President Obama in 2008.

He cited the former Massachusetts' governor's business experience and plans for the nation's economy in his endorsement.

..."If you take the point of view that American should be a business ... If you can't afford to do something no matter how much bellyaching everybody does," the singer said on "Fox and Friends" Tuesday morning. "I’m so sorry, if you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t do it."

Simmons went on to call Obama "President SCOAMF", though I could have misheard that statement as the dogs were barking.