LEE RODGERSGOV'T
BY “EXECUTIVE ORDER”
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OBAMA'S WAY: ENDLESS BORROWING …
ANTI-GUN DRIVE COULD BACKFIRE
OBAMA'S WAY: ENDLESS BORROWING …
ANTI-GUN DRIVE COULD BACKFIRE
Let us be clear: The obsession with government-by-”executive orders” on the part of Obama and his stooges reveals an obvious infatuation with dictatorship. The frightening thing is that so many of our demented fellow citizens approve. Their mentality is, “As long is it gives me what I want, I don't care how it's done.” And that was the rallying cry of the mindless mobs that have supported every tyrant in history.
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The endless story of hypocrisy in politics continues …
Now Democrats are saying that, since Chuck Hagel was in the Vietnam war, that service qualifies him to be Secretary of Defense and also places him above question or criticism.
I don't seem to recall Democrats showing similar unquestioning esteem for John McCain during his presidential run.
Conversely, Democrats who did – and do – revere Franklin D. Roosevelt as a great wartime Commander-in-Chief never question his own lack of military experience.
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Obama, Pelosi, et al, claim that the government should be allowed to borrow an unlimited amount of money.
Whether you're talking about individuals or governments – whose debts can only be repaid, however indirectly, BY individuals – what kind of sub-moron seriously believes that unrestrained borrowing is a rational way of conducting financial affairs? This is an express-train to Crazyland … and disaster.
After Obama, Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve, may be the most dangerous man on the planet. Printing piles of funny-money seems to be his preoccupation. The appropriate term for his actions is “legalized counterfeiting.”
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Liberal anti-gun stupidity on display: The fools think they're accomplishing something wonderful by publishing names and addresses of registered gun owners. They're so stupid they don't even realize that virtually all crimes involving guns are perpetrated by people using weapons that aren't registered, and never will be.
This is simply self-aggrandizing pomposity masquerading as public service.
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We have an “epidemic” of mass shootings, as heard in a TV “news” report? Simply a lie. In fact, the number of such tragic events has declined in the past decade. Doubt it? Check the FBI's own statistics, published here several days ago and available on the internet.
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Obama and his moronic Marxist mob are deliberately blinding themselves to the very real possibility that, in their anti-2nd Amendment crusade, they are making what could turn out to be a very dangerous mistake.
Ask yourself, “Do I want the job of going house-to-house and door-to-door, demanding that gun owners hand over their weapons?” Do they really expect passive acquiescence from everyone? And what happens when the inevitable shooting begins? Those who think such a thing wouldn't happen may be in for a rude awakening.
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Quote to note …
“I came to see Islam not how it is often misrepresented, but for what it is – how it is practiced every day, by well over a billion Muslims worldwide, a faith of peace and tolerance and great diversity.
“Jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify, for a legitimate purpose. Our enemy is not terrorism because terrorism is but a tactic. Nor do we describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one’s community.” – John Brennan, Obama's choice to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Your taxpayer-paid government idiots in action …
One of the principal recommendations following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was that emergency and rescue personnel have one secure radio frequency on which all agencies that were merged into the Department of Homeland Security could communicate.
In November, the department's inspector general revealed that, despite $430 million allotted to build and operate the frequency in the last nine years, it remains almost useless to DHS' 123,000 employees.
The report surveyed 479 workers, but found only one who knew how to find the frequency, and 72 percent did not even know one existed (and half the department's radios couldn't have accessed it even if employees knew where to look). – JWR
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Burt Prelutsky with some thoughts on the First Family and fatherhood …
“I’m not suggesting that Obama is as bad a father as he is a president, but it does seem to me that if he took the role as seriously as he should, he’d use his bully pulpit to admonish black men to start shouldering their responsibilities and to be ashamed of their part in dooming the 71% of black babies being born to unwed mothers to a life of ignorance, poverty and crime. You would think that in four years, he could have taken a few minutes off from deriding Republicans and Tea Party members to deliver a few well-chosen words to those sperm donors who have turned every inner city in America into an urban cesspool.
“It also wouldn’t be out of line for Mrs. Obama to quit yakking about cookies and calories long enough to expend some of her political capital on young black women who don’t seem to think twice about condemning themselves, their offspring and future generations, to lives of quiet degradation.”
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Argus Hamilton –
“One thing is keeping technology going. The USDA just named Apple a food group and now people can use food stamps to buy iPhones.”
“Last year Apple founder Steve jobs died and every six months he's re-buried in a slightly better coffin.”
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New Joisey Gov. Chris Christie says he'll be “more ready” to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. After all the coverage of him hugging Obama and trailing him like an adoring puppy-dog following the hurricane, he may find a shortage of support within his purported party.
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Lots of football fans are correctly questioning the wisdom of Washington Redskins' coach Mike Shanahan for leaving his prize rookie quarterback RG-3 (Robert Griffin the Third) in the playoff game last Sunday when he was obviously hobbling with a knee injury which was re-injured to the point where he's now had knee reconstruction surgery.
I've had it myself, and even without need to prepare for pro football, the rehab was not fun.
Griffin is tough and courageous, but the decision to leave him in the game was stupid because (A) by the second quarter it was clear he couldn't perform at anywhere near the level necessary to win the game and (B) was vulnerable to the second injury that may well compromise his entire football future. Worst-case scenario: that decision may have cost the organization a franchise quarterback for the next fifteen years.
Just … dumb.
There's an inherent conflict-of-interest regarding team doctors who give the “go” or “no go” on injured players returning to action. The coach wants them to play … the athletes almost invariably want to play, fearing for their jobs … and the doctor is paid by – ta-ta! – the organization.
All too often those team doctors could be described by the sound a duck makes.
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I wonder how Rob Parker, just fired from ESPN for his remarks about RG-3 “pushing away” from “his people,” would like it if any white person referred to other whites as “MY people.”
Seems some black Americans are a long, long way from Martin Luther King's admonition that people should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.
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Question for Notre Dame fans: Is Coach Brian Kelly seriously interested in the Philadelphia Eagles job, for which he's already interviewed, or is he simply using it to shake down ND for more money? Worked for Chip Kelly at Oregon!
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A final observation about the college football championship from Jay Leno --
"According to several reports, a lot of people think 2013 is going to be bad luck because it has the number 13 in it. You know what you call these people? Notre Dame fans.
“Let me tell you how bad it was. The Pope suggested that Notre Dame might want to be a Lutheran college."
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Worth repeating …
The word for Americans living abroad is “expatriate,” usually shortened to “expat,” not “ex-patriot.” Most who choose to live outside their native country are as patriotic as anyone else. They choose to live elsewhere for many reasons, the primary one being overseas job assignment, often by American employers. Other reasons include a lower cost of living, especially for retirees and, increasingly, disgust with the U.S. government.
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This, believe it or not, is the signature of Jacob (Jack) Lew, Obama's choice to be the new Secretary of the Treasury. If he is confirmed in that job, it will appear on all new currency.
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My neighbor Mike reports on crime deterrence …
A woman had just returned to her home from an evening of church services when she was startled by an intruder.
She caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables and yelled, “Stop! Acts 2:38!” (“Repent and be Baptized, in the name of Jesus Christ , so that your sins may be forgiven.”)
The burglar stopped in his tracks. The woman calmly called the police and explained what she had done. As the officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked the burglar, “Why did you just stand there? All the lady did was yell a scripture to you.”
Scripture? She said she had an axe and two 38s!”
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."