LEE RODGERSPASS THE (Cinco de) MAYO ...
OBAMA'S JULIA IS A SICK JOKE ...
FIGURES LIE AND LIARS FIGURE RE ECONOMY
OBAMA'S JULIA IS A SICK JOKE ...
FIGURES LIE AND LIARS FIGURE RE ECONOMY
To a neighbor, new to the southwest, who once asked, "When is Cinco de Mayo?" ... it's today. Sometimes called "The Mexican-American Rosh Hashanah."
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If this doesn't creep you out ...
The Obama production of a slide-show about a fictional woman named Julia, whose entire life is directed and "protected" by a benevolent Big Brother government of the sort envisioned by Barack Obama and every socialist demagogue who ever existed. Social programs, free birth control, with the government raising her child when she finally decides to be a mother. Daddy seems to be absent. Cradle-to-grave government dependence. Frightening.
The message is clear. Women are helpless without an eternal Barack to guide them.
If the American people have any sense left at all, this paen to an all-knowing, all-controlling big government will backfire, bigtime.
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Regarding Julia, the Obamunists' latest campaign creation ...
David Harsanyi (Human Events) writes “Who the hell is ‘Julia,’ and why am I paying for her whole life?” It’s a fair question. According to Obama’s campaign website, someone enrolls Julia into a Head Start program. The government provides her with contraception until she decides to have a child. She has no parents. She has no husband. She suckles the teat of government her whole life, from delivery room to death panel.
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The inimitable Mark Steyn's take on Julia ...
"Have you dated a composite woman? They're America's hottest new demographic. As with all the really cool stuff, Barack Obama was doing it years before the rest of us. In 'Dreams from My Father,' the world's all-time most-unread bestseller, he spills the inside dope on his composite white girlfriend:
"'When we got back to the car she started crying. She couldn't be black, she said. She would if she could, but she couldn't. She could only be herself, and wasn't that enough...'
"But being yourself is never going to be enough in the new composite America. Last week, in an election campaign ad, Barack revealed his latest composite girlfriend – 'Julia.' She's worse than the old New York girlfriend. She can't even be herself. In fact, she can't be anything without massive assistance from Barack every step of the way, from his "Head Start" program at age 3 through to his Social Security benefits at the age of 67. Everything good in her life she owes to him.
"She's not competent to do a single thing for herself – and, from Barack's point of view, that's exactly what he's looking for in a woman, if only for a one-night stand on a Tuesday in early November."
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The government and Obama's propaganda machine keeps telling you the economy is improving, but your own observations and common sense tell you otherwise. What's going on? The Washington Times explains ...
"The White House crowed on Friday about the unemployment rate dropping a 10th of a percent. At the same time, the number of people out of the labor force reached a record high. The Obama administration can report all the funny numbers it wants, but the American people know in their guts that things are getting much worse.
"A recovering economy is supposed to create jobs, not shed them. According to government math, 115,000 new jobs were added in April. But over the same period, 522,000 people dropped out of the labor force and were not counted as unemployed. This accounting trick improved the official unemployment rate but left America with a record 88.4 million in the uncounted jobless category. Currently, over 35 percent of Americans are out of the labor force, and the number is increasing."
In short, the government bureaucracy is flat-out lying to you. They're giving you/me/us the old mushroom treatment. You know: keep 'em in the dark and feed 'em bull(bleep)!
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Veterans for a Strong America is the organization of former military personnel from the Navy SEALS and Special Forces units who are planning to give Obama an even harsher going-over than the pompous braggart John Kerry got when his Swiftboat adventures in Vietnam were exposed. This isn't going to be pretty, but it IS going to be interesting. A cringing communist stooge confronted by American warriors. Perfect.
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Columnist Diana West addresses the memo to military officers from the obviously politicized Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, likening it to something from the classic sci-fi movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ...
"In this memo, our highest-ranking military officer orders the entire United States military to purge its educational and training classes, files and rosters of instructors to ensure that no members of the U.S. military are ever again instructed in the basic principles of Islamic jihad. The body snatchers call such allegedly offending educational material 'anti-Islam,' but it covers study of Islamic-style war. Given the unchecked threat of such war, both violent and covert, to spread Shariah (Islamic law) until a new global caliphate exists, the question is whether eliminating instruction in the enemy threat doctrine is something that a "normal" Joint Chiefs chairman would do."
-- (Townhall.com) --
And the Obama sellout to crazed Muslims continues.
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Our neighbor to the north is becoming penniless.
Canada has decided to stop minting the one-cent coin because it costs more to make that it's worth.
Expect yet another attempt to abandon the penny in this country.
One thing that can be expected in Canada and eventually here: businesses will round their prices UP to the next five-cent coin, not down.
The price of copper has skyrocketed, so the copper mines near my Arizona home are working full-tilt, with around-the-clock operations.
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It isn't a sure-thing prediction, but a good bet that the Romney VP choice will come down to the states the possible choices represent as much as the individual contenders. Think Ohio, Florida and -- maybe -- Virginia. All three are vital to Republican success in November.
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Democrats persist in the delusion that raising the minimum wage will improve the lives of those whose limited skills make them only marginally employable. In the real word (as opposed to liberal fantasies) the actual result is always the same: employers who might have previously hired those "marginals" simply conclude that they are not worth the higher wage -- and don't hire them.
If more Democrats knew a bit about the realities of business rather than being immersed in idiotic and failed leftist ideology, they would cease and desist -- except, of course, for their hunger for votes from the easily deluded.
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The two most hypocritical words in the modern political lexicon are "fair share." When some freeloading deadbeat who pays no taxes but sucks-up my own "contribution" via various government freebies then blathers about me -- or any other taxpayer -- not paying a "fair share," I have to stifle the temptation to do something physical and violent.
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Charles Krauthammer dissects the Obama campaign ...
"The entire Obama campaign is a slice and dice operation, pandering to one group after another, particularly those that elected Obama in 2008 – blacks, Hispanics, women, young people – and for whom the thrill is now gone.
"What to do? Try fear. Create division, stir resentment, by whatever means necessary – bogus court challenges, dead-end Senate bills and a forest of straw men.
"Why else would the Justice Department challenge the photo ID law in Texas? To charge Republicans with seeking to disenfranchise Hispanics and blacks, of course. But in 2008 the Supreme Court upheld a similar law from Indiana. And it wasn't close: 6-3, the majority including that venerated liberal, John Paul Stevens.
"Moreover, photo IDs were recommended by the 2005 Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter. And you surely can't get into the attorney general's building without one. Are Stevens, Carter and Eric Holder anti-Hispanic and anti-black?"
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Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, the former House Speaker, has asked Obama to stop the raids by federal authorities on medical marijuana shops; asked it in the name of "respecting states' rights." Interesting, considering that she wants Arizona's enforcement of immigration laws curtailed as being an intrusion by a state on federal jurisdiction.
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Memos written by the late Osama bin Laden show that the mass murderer-terrorist was an admirer of the CBS and ABC news operations but became hostile toward MSNBC when they fired a man who was apparently one of his favorites, Keith Olbermann.
This is outrageous, of course, because in his listing of American news sources he liked, he left out NBC, mommy-network of MSNBC and now the biggest shill for left-wing craziness in the entire Big Media spectrum.
Osama bin Laden also supported the "Arab spring" movement that so enchanted the American left. The result, of course, has been increased power for Islamic fanaticism in those countries. So, again, liberals find themselves in good company.
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Reader Art takes note of a threatening case of misspelling ...
"In light of your interest in wordplay, I'd like to share an interesting homophone boo-boo I ran into yesterday. I was walking past a day spa and read their poster advertising their Spring Special Pedicure. The treatment included:
Lemon Thyme Foot Bath
Sugar Scrub Exfoliation
10-minute Foot Massage
CALLOUS Treatment
I thought a more sensitive attitude would have been appropriate ..."
Indeed. That may have been intended as a reference to CALLUSES on feet. Or not.
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She was in a Florida jail.
He came to visit her. And apparently figured she was horny.
So he whipped it out to show her on the closed-circuit video feed that enabled them to communicate.
He apparently didn't realize that guards also monitored the video circuits.
They were no amused. Now HE'S in jail.
Perhaps she'll visit him ... and ... reciprocate? We await developments ...
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Herewith, a fable of the old west, with a moral ...
An old prospector shuffled into town, leading a tired old mule. The old man headed straight for the only saloon in town, to clear his parched throat. He walked up to the saloon and tied his old mule to the hitching post.
As he stood there, brushing some of the dust from his face and clothes, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other.
The young gunslinger looked at the old man and laughed, saying, "Hey old man, can you dance?"
The old man looked up at the gunslinger and said, "No son, I don't dance... never really wanted to"
A crowd had gathered as the gunslinger grinned and said, "Well, you're gonna dance now!" and started shooting at the old man's feet.
The old prospector, not wanting to get a toe blown off, started hopping around like a flea on a hot skillet.
When his last bullet had been fired, the young gunslinger, still laughing, holstered his gun and turned around to go back into the saloon.
The old man turned to his pack mule, pulled out a double-barreled 12 gauge shotgun and cocked both hammers. The loud clicks carried clearly through the desert air.
The young gunslinger heard the sounds too, and turned around very slowly.
The crowd watched as the young gunman stared at the old timer and the large gaping holes of those twin 12 gauge shotgun barrels.
Quietly the old man asked, "Son, have you ever kissed a mule's ass?"
The gunslinger swallowed hard and said, "No sir ... but ... I've always wanted to."
There are a few lessons here:
* Don't be arrogant.
* Don't waste ammunition.
* Whiskey makes you think you're smarter than you are.
* Always make sure you know who is in control.
* And finally, Don't screw around with old folks; they didn't get old by being stupid.
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Cindy Adams --
"America. The land where half our income goes to buy food and the other half to lose weight."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."