Barry In Charge: America's Epitaph: "We Won't Weaponize Space"

Today North Korea announced that "it is preparing a rocket launch, claiming the country has the right to "space development"—a term Pyongyang has used in the past to disguise a long-range missile test as a satellite launch. " (source)

There is a belief amongst some that America is a bully. They have been saying this ever since we won WW II. The communists who infiltrated our universities, the State Department, and the Executive branch, have worked for three generations to conjur up this notion that if only America would lay down its arms, that the world would be a safer place.

"But we don't use our military to conquer", you may say in protest. And you would be right. But that doesn't matter to the useful idiots like Jimmy Carter, Madeline Albright, Bill Clinton, and Barry Obama.

It may take a mushroom cloud over one of our nation's cities to finally make Barry realize that there's nothing laudable about pacifism. He is a pure coward, and it is hard to teach an old dog like him new tricks. The chance to teach him a lesson was lost when he was attending a $20,000/yr prep school in Hawaii in his youth.

Barry was too cool to consider saving a mostly white nation called America. When many of us were raised with ideals of patriotism, my country right or wrong, and other quiant notions, Barry was being taught that white America is to blame for the world's problems. Our greed, strong military, and capitalist economy needed to be brought down a peg or two.

After all of that indoctrination, Barry only felt a need to help and protect southside Chicago residents who look like him and Michelle.

Apparently, he thinks the rest of us in America need to be taught a lesson about how much we're hated around the world:



Barry was raised in the lap of luxury by doting grandparents who sacraficed their own financial savings to provide him with his world-class education and soft upbringing.

And that's the problem with Barry. He never saw anything worth fighting for, and he realized that he wouldn't have to fight if he just played the role of poor, put-upon black man here in America. We would trip all over ourselves to give him everything he ever wanted, and we would feel ashamed of ourselves if he ever claimed that something was wrong here in America.

Hell, we'd even elect him into office if it meant that we wouldn't be thought of as "racist" anymore.

In the wake of today's announcement by North Korea, are you beginning to see why it is important to educate yourself, to prevent being hoodwinked by con men?

Obama Coin Scam: A Metaphor For Our Time

Now check out a hit piece from ABC affiliate KATU on this scam:

Isn't it poetic? The coin scam is the Obama scam.

Not only does the metaphor apply to Obama and the coin (all flash but no substance), but to the Obamaniacs and coin purchasers, as well.

Cloward-Piven Strategy: Ramming The Stimulus Package Through Congress And Hiding The Details In A PDF

CLOWARD-PIVEN

Nancy Pelosi is due to embark on an 8-day tour of Europe tonight, and the word on the Hill is that the passage of this Euthenasia Act Of 2009 must pass tonight so that she can fly away without any legislative chores left undone.

Our nation is about to commit hari-kari, and the Idiot Queen of the Left is only worried about making her flight. Nero fiddles while Rome burns.

I found an article this morning from Human Events that explains even further how nightmarish this con-job is turning out to be: The Dems didn't even make the Stimulus Bill public until last night on the internet, but before they did they spent hours converting the 1,100-page bill to pdf files!

PDF files are nothing more than a jpg! The search engines can't scan for keywords when they're looking through mere images. The bill is released last night, and the Dems are actually telling the Republican congressmen that 6 hours or more is all they get in order to know what they are voting on.

Could you effectively read 1,100 pages in a day? Even with a staff of 20 people reading a section apiece, the congressman isn't given enough time to process all of this information.

When we look back at how our nation started to fall, this will be the tracks that lead to the water's edge, where our lifeless body floats undisturbed.

From Human Events today:

Democratic staffers released the final version of the stimulus bill at about 11 p.m. last night after delaying the release for hours to put it into a format which people cannot “search” on their home computers.

Instead of publishing the bill as a regular internet document -- which people can search by “key words” and otherwise, the Dems took hours to convert the final bill from the regular searchable format into “pdf” files, which can be read but not searched.

Three of the four .pdf files had no text embedded, just images of the text, which did not permit text searches of the bill. That move to conceal the bill’s provisions had not been remedied this morning at the time of publication of this article. (You can find the entire bill on the House Appropriations [http://appropriations.house.gov/] website.)

So, what are they hiding?

A lot. We searched the bill randomly -- the only way possible -- to see what’s being hidden from the public and the members of Congress who will be voting on the bill today. We found one provision that may be a good example of why the Democrats are desperate to stop any exposure of what is in this bill. Like this gem:SEC. 1607.

(a) CERTIFICATION BY GOVERNOR -- Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, for funds provided to any State or agency thereof, the Governor of the State shall certify that: 1) the State request and use funds provided by this Act , and; 2) funds be used to create jobs and promote economic growth.

(b) ACCEPTANCE BY STATE LEGISLATURE -- If funds provided to any State in any division of this Act are not accepted for use by the Governor, then acceptance by the State legislature, by means of the adoption of a concurrent resolution, shall be sufficient to provide funding to such State.

This provision --– apparently aimed at conservative governors such as South Carolina’s Mark Sanford who does not want the federal money -- would overturn state laws and constitutions, intervening directly in the state’s government to give the legislature the power to overturn a government’s decision.This provision probably violates the US Constitution, a matter which will be of no concern to Congressional Democrats.

This act -- to strong-arm state governments and a governor’s ability to control the state budget -- is Chicago-style bipartisanship.This bill is so bad that even the Associated Press analyst report today concludes that the bill will not jump-start the economy.

Scramble in the SenateRoll Call is reporting that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) will likely not be able to travel to Washington for the vote. This causes a conundrum for Reid, as it would bring the vote total down to 60 -- the number needed -- but no Republican wants to go on record as the 60th vote. Reid may try to get around Senate rules to enable Specter, Snowe and Collins to avoid being Vote #60 for the stimulus bill. (source)

ISLAMOFILE 021209: Dutch Politician Arrested In UK After Being Invited To Show His Movie Fitna By The House of Lords

Our brothers in the UK insist on doing themselves in, it seems. The political correctness that is trying to commit cultural homicide in our country has already gained great power in England. They are suffering from a social system of chronic infusion of a certain people who insist on replacing English Law with Sharia Law.

There is a Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, who has produced a simple video, factual and researched, that shows the connection between the actions of Islamic fundamentalists and the Quran.

"Well, duh!" you may say, and I agree with that sentiment. But for the multi-culturalists, their lips tighten and they clench at their purses when you start talking about a certain race of people. To them, we are all the same, merely products of our societies.

So when this Dutch MP arrives to the UK after being invited to display his new film, he is snatched away at Heathrow airport, then quickly deported.

"Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary refused Mr Wilders entry because his opinions "would threaten community security and therefore public security" in the UK." (source)

This is his film:

FAIRNESS DOCTRINE REDUX: The Clinton Appeal

This is no surprise, of course.

Only a year into his presidency, Bill Clinton was trying to silence dissent, as any good Communist does, by declaring that America's airwaves were full of "hate and intolerance". Now, if you can recall, the only nationally-syndicated conservative voice was Rush, Barry Farber, and maybe a couple of regional hosts, but there was mainly one: Rush Limbaugh. Isn't it amazing to see the reactionary Left practically hyperventilate over an AM radio talk show? Here's Clinton's response in part about "the media" from a 1994 interview with two hosts on KMOX in St Louis:

I think there's too much cynicism and too much intolerance. But if you look at the information they get, if you look at how much more negative the news reports are, how much more editorial they are, and how much less direct they are, if you look at how much of talk radio is just a constant unremitting drumbeat of negativism and cynicism, you can't—I don't think the American people are cynical, but you can't blame them for responding that way.

We, for example, we had a meeting the other day, and a group of people were told that under our budgets we were going to bring the deficit down 3 years in a row for the first time since Harry Truman was President. And some of them said, "Well, I just don't believe you. We never hear that on the news. I just don't believe you." It's a fact. I've worked hard to do it. And we're going to—we're bringing the deficit down. That's what bothers me. (source)

By 1995, Rush was still on the air, so, using the Oklahoma City bombing as an excuse to silence dissent, Bill clinton stoked the fire as he spoke in Mineapolis only days after the bombing:

In this country we cherish and guard the right of free speech. We know we love it when we put up with people saying things we absolutely deplore. And we must always be willing to defend their right to say things we deplore to the ultimate degree. But we hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other. They spread hate. They leave the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable. You ought to see - I'm sure you are now seeing the reports of some things that are regularly said over the airwaves in America today.

Well, people like that who want to share our freedoms must know that their bitter words can have consequences and that freedom has endured in this country for more than two centuries because it was coupled with an enormous sense of responsibility on the part of the American people.

If we are to have freedom to speak, freedom to assemble, and, yes, the freedom to bear arms,we must have responsibility as well. And to those of us who do not agree with the purveyors of hatred and division, with the promoters of paranoia, I remind you that we have freedom of speech, too. And we have responsibilities, too. And some of us have not discharged our responsibilities. It is time we all stood up and spoke against that kind of reckless speech and behavior.

If they insist on being irresponsible with our common liberties, then we must be all the more responsible with our liberties. When they talk of hatred, we must stand
against them. When they talk of violence, we must stand against them. When they say things that are irresponsible, that may have egregious consequences, we must call them on it. The exercise of their freedom of speech makes our silence all the more unforgivable. So exercise yours, my fellow Americans. Our country, our future, our way of life is at stake. I never want to look into the faces of another set of family members like I saw yesterday, and you can help to stop it.

Our democracy has endured a lot over these last 200 years, and we are strong enough today to sort out and work through all these angry voices. But we owe it to our children to do our part. Billy Graham got a standing ovation yesterday when he said, "The spirit of our Nation will not be defeated." I can tell by your response that that is true. But you must begin today.

(source)

Barry has a lot of comrades in this effort.

OBAMA TO DATE: An Analysis 021209

Here's a great article I came across on a terrific blog, Sweetness & Light, thanks to Proreason's reposting it in the weekly round-up forum there:

Murphy’s Law, the Peter Principle and Barack Obama


What happens when everything that can go wrong in a person’s character formation does go wrong, and that person continues to be promoted to his level of incompetence?

President Barack Obama happens.
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Proper character development is the overriding aim of good parents in raising their children. Mature parents, especially those Judeo/Christian parents with faith, believe it sinful to raise a child without strong self-constraint, a well-formed conscience, ingrained humility and an ironclad respect for the rights of others. Children raised thusly become self-supporting adults, honest in their dealings with others and prone to be contributing members of the society at large.

The world is purely chock full of bad parents, however. Plum chock full.

Barack Obama was conceived out of wedlock to an eighteen year-old girl, who was herself the product of non-religious, rebellious parents, intent on unraveling the fabric of WASP America. Stanley Ann Dunham met Barack Obama Sr., an already-married
African Muslim man, in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii in her very first year there. According to President Obama’s memoir, his biological father married his mother about three months into the pregnancy, even though he already had a wife and children on his home continent. Hence, very shortly, the father abandoned the new mother and her child to seek his own fortune and yet another wife-to-be at Harvard.

Bigamists are not known for fidelity, are they?

The end result of this convoluted beginning of the man who would become President was that his maternal grandparents became his primary caregivers. With the very best of intentions, I’m sure, these white grandparents doted, scraped and groveled to make the little abandoned child’s life as picture-perfect as it could possibly be under the awful circumstances of parental abandonment. This is a recipe for disaster in the area of character development.

Believing that the child, Barry, needed lots of attention and as few hard knocks as possible, these grandparents proceeded to spoil the ever-living daylights out of the precocious, charismatic, bi-racial child of their only daughter. Through his grandmother’s connections, Barry got a scholarship to the elite Panahou Academy and became one of only five black children in the posh school, where teachers, too, bent over backwards not to offend, not to discipline. For added umph to this already-disastrous formula, Barry’s grandfather made sure the child got lots of father-figure mentoring from a self-proclaimed pedophile and avowed communist, Frank Marshall Davis.

As a young teenager, surrounded by opportunities for drug abuse and tomfoolery, Barry bragged that he had a deal with his doting grandparents which entailed his being able to do whatever he wanted while they looked the other way and pretended not to notice.
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As President Obama’s school transcripts (all of them, from start to finish!) remain among his stack of unreleased documents, we have no way of knowing how our current President did in school.
However, we do know that he was doing drugs, that he was not involved in any demanding athletic program and that he was not otherwise making a big name for
himself on campus.
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This was the story hailed by Axelrod as bedrock, middle-class, Kansan upbringing.
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Then, it was off to Columbia and a shadow existence, which eventually culminated in President Barack Obama, the first African-American President and the first man to ever assume the highest office in the land without one whit of experience other than running for office and beguiling a public begging to be beguiled.
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Nowhere, at any time during Barack Obama’s near-miraculous rise to power, did he come into contact with anyone that would have demanded a character test.
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The characters in this President’s closet are too strange for fiction — Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, the New Party, Billy Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Louis Farrakhan, Mayor Daly, Rod Blagojevich, George Soros, assorted tax cheats and pay-to-play schemers of every variety. When any sentient person adds it up, he gets a man without
principle, someone so enabled in his avoidance of reality about himself that one can only call it Murphy’s Law applied to character development.

Every single thing that could go wrong has indeed gone wrong.

From Stage right and Stage left, and from below and above, we see the Peter Principle in all its inglorious dimensions set to wreak havoc upon this entire Country

In only three weeks’ time, this President has signaled to every terrorist on the
planet that we are a sorry, groveling, ashamed Nation ready to come to the diplomatic confessional. He is closing Gitmo within one year, has suspended trials there, and dismissed the charges against the U.S.S. Cole plotter. American penance is coming and it’s coming fast and feebly on its knees. .

President Obama has just put our money where his mouth is and is using $20.3 million to bring in Palestinian refugees from Gaza, the Hamas-controlled region where folks prefer bomb-making to bread-baking. Instead of helping Israel defeat them, this President brings them here.
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The new Secretary of Education was in charge of Chicago schools, where more than 500 verified acts of child battering by teachers went unpunished and teacher unions trumped student rights. This Cabinet is shaping up to be worse than Bill Clinton’s and Jimmy Carter’s combined, while President Obama throws cocktail parties with $100/pound steak.

.President Obama’s definition of bipartisanship: “I won.”

President Obama’s definition of leadership: “Nancy can handle the details.”.
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The Peter Principle has reached its pinnacle in President Barack Obama.
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.The perfect collision of Murphy’s Law with the Peter Principle has arrived to explode in our faces.

In the words of Britain’s most eloquent commentator, “America, what have you done?” . (source)

Gregg Resignation Gives Obama Pause, But No Compromise

Listen as this liar disguises the real reasons that Senator Gregg resigned as Commerce Secretary nominee:



"He had a change of heart about leaving the Senate", is the misdirection he's holding up with one hand, while sticking law after regulation in the "stimulus" bill. Barry is tap dancing, and showing what looks like a genuine smile on his face above, despite two crashing embarrassments accrue in this departmental appointment alone. What about the flops in the other parts of the cabinet?

I like the fact that the Obama camp knew that Gregg had a reputation for being somewhat strict and principled when it came to budgets, and yet they picked him to be the head of a federal agency that was about to be the cover for MUCH rule-bending, rule-breaking, and outright tyranny.

They expected to perform this overnight takeover of our economy with a Republican fall guy at the helm. Someone they could say was a financial miser and only spent the money necessary for the nation’s recovery…and they couldn’t buy him off to do it.

My bet is the administration is going to end up with a black eye over this (downplayed and minimized as much as possible by the MSM, ‘natch) for a half a day, then they’ll dazzle us with the third person nominated to do their deed. Meanwhile, a moment to stop, reflect, and maybe correct yourself a bit will be lost on the Great O. I don’t think he has the upbringing to do such a thing.

Gregg couldn’t lend his name to what he saw coming. Rare that we find someone willing to risk what could have been a position full of perks, payoffs, and pensions for the holder.

Principled people like Gregg befuddle the Harvard Law grad Barry.

Barry In Charge: When You Throw A Revolution And No One Comes

I know how hard this moment must be for the 52% of voting America who cast the vote for this novice tyrant, but the ride isn't going very smoothly yet. It sounds like we're in the backseat of a nice, roomy, 5-speed cruiser of a car, and we let a young, untested teenager take the wheel.

And the gas pedal.

His name is Barry, and he's really a snot-nosed kid who's dedicated his life to deconstruction of one form or another since his birth. But more about that later.

Barry is now reclining in that leather interior driver's seat, kicked back in the style of your average drug dealer with outstretched arm draped loosely over the wheel. But he hasn't even started the engine yet.



He cranks the ignition, lurches forward because he didn't have his foot on the brake when he turned the key, then violently stops the almost out-of-control luxury car. The girl you're with in the backseat laughs nervously, then Barry puts his game face on to get this spaceship of a car on the road again.

The beginning of this administration is like the car that won't start right. We're going to see this man-boy try to ram things through congress like he's grinding gears with his stick-shift all through this first year.

The Saul Alinskyites insist on pushing their agenda on the heels of either a war or an economic disaster recovery, exactly like the one we're going through right now.

He's doing his best. Just give him time.

Barry In Charge: Insane Lies-- The Caterpillar Crash

Profiles In Courage: Dan Halen

The recession is a great leveller. Just like death. Between death and a depression, I'd take the depression any day, but would it take me? -John Galt

Dan Halen hails from the north mountains of Georgia. He is an entrepreneur extraordinare, and seeks his fortune from the great recesses of hollows, ridgelines, and valleys. His cunning and ingenuity have led to several inventions, patents, and miracle cures.

We need the Dan Halens of this world, but there aren't too many left.

Dan's latest enterprise is a complicated model of culinary design:

Ain't Nuthin' But A Wing has been a testing establishment for finer palates in the North Georgia community, and Dan has always endeavored to bring consistent quality night after night.

Recently, Dan had his chefs experiment with various ingredients in order to create something that blends the major themes of southern cuisine. He invented a chicken that grew dozens of extra wings across its body, and would spew draught beer and ranch dressing for dipping:

Distinguished patrons Early and Granny are lucky enough to give the new dish a sophisticated evaluation for an anxious Dan Halen. After close examination of the chicken's succulent juices, Early determines that the chicken doesn't produce draught beer when you suck from its orifices, but instead bloodclots. Dan responds that the dish hasn't been completely cleared for commercial use, yet. They're still working out the flaws.

But he has been upfront about the tumors:Placemats and crayons at every table in Ain't Nuthin' But A Wing

It is pioneers like Dan Halen that keep our country what it is: opportunity and freedom. Where else could a man of his stature, barely 3 ft 3 inches, make this much of a mark on the world?

Dining among the local upper crest of North Georgia, the town sheriff calls Dan over to his table. "Are these chicken penises I'm eating?" he asks, betraying a hint of uneasiness:

Dan shows a flash of weariness, answering yet another tedious question about a minor detail in his long day. "Do I know if these are chicken penises in your basket?" he repeats the sheriff's question.

"Indeed, if they are chicken penises, then no doubt they are the best chicken penises money can buy, Sheriff", an exhausted Dan returns. If only the public knew what kind of hoops a restaurant owner goes through to please his customers.

"Well I'm gonna tell you that you're gonna have to make some changes if you expect to stay open", says the sheriff:

Meanwhile in the back, Early's pubescent squid son, Rusty, prepares another batch of the exotic fowl:

Although a strict man with his money, Dan's generosity is felt throughout the company. Employees like Rusty are allowed to sample the cuisine for free, provided they have finished hosing down the cages for the day.

Potent as they are, the experimental wings produce a (?)hallucinatory vision for young Rusty:

A talking chipmunk appears, and addresses poor Rusty's dilema of whether these chickens can reproduce or not. Then a talking tree also appears, and begins to explain nature to young Rusty:

"All things reproduce, Rusty, just as Nature intended", the wise old tree said. "The birds do it":

"The bees do it", he continued:

"Your father does it, Rusty. That's how you got here", he said:

"And look here, Rusty", said the tree, as he ripped a piece of bark from his trunk:

"Two wood slugs are going at it", the tree says to Rusty. "Uh-oh...there seems to be a third one joining in! Things are getting kinda weird", he said:

From here, the story goes on a bit until its end.

The amazing spawn of life is helped along by the steadfast work of geniuses like Dan Halen. You can learn more about Dan Halen's contribution to the fabric of American society here. Squidbillies airs on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network on Sunday nights when in season, sometimes during the week around midnight.