Already Failing to Deliver...

Ky. asks Obama to speed federal aid for ice storm

"FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky's governor will ask President Barack Obama on Monday to speed up federal aid dollars as costs spiral past $45 million for emergency work to restore power, hand out water and food and clear debris across the state hit hard by an icy winter storm last week."

"Speed up"?

But... but - you mean, after a week, The One hasn't swept in and shown us all how it's supposed to be done?

"President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur."

"President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina. Citing the Bush Administration's "unconscionable ineptitude" in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims." - whitehouse.gov


I guess there's only one way to respond to this.... Call Kanye West!!


Hey - at least Obama can't be called out for doing frivolous things during the crisis, the way Condi Rice was - right?

(btw - where are all the pictures of the looting in KY?)

- MuscleDaddy

A Call for Prayers and Well-Wishes...

If anyone reading this has occasioned to visit The Rott, you've likely run across a post-or-two by LC Brendan.

Brendan is Good Troop - Aussie by birth and geography - who keeps a sharp eye out to make sure that honorable conduct in uniform does not go unnoticed.

He's a real Stand Up Guy with his act together and his priorities in order - High Speed, Low Drag.

...and right now, he needs your prayers.

Brendan's wonderful and beloved wife is in the hospital, yesterday diagnosed with DVT (blood clots) in her leg and an (as yet) unspecified pelvic mass.

He's grinding himself down trying to be strong for her through this - and he needs our help.

Now, I haven't been able to raise him since he signed-off last night, and I don't have a direct e-mail address to him, but if you want to leave a note here (I'll pass them along as I can) , at The Rott, or over at his own Aussie Blog, I'm certain he could use your prayers and support.

He is absolutely One Of Ours, so send him what you've got - from that place we all still dream about.

There, but for the grace of God...

   - MuscleDaddy

Yup - Saw This Coming...

Angry Senator Wants Pay Cap on Wall Street 'Idiots'

Uh-huh...

An angry U.S. senator introduced legislation Friday to cap compensation for employees of any company that accepts federal bailout money. Under the terms of a bill introduced by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, no employee would be allowed to make more than the president of the United States.

Anyone who says they didn't see this coming - was too busy looking for the inaugural unicorns.

Prior to the 'Bailout', the very IDEA that government would be allowed to introduce legislation dictating what a company could pay its employees would have been met with gasps of horror from anyone not already on the welfare rolls.

Now?

Hey guys, what did you think you were selling?

Let me give you a hint : "Freedom"

...hope you got a good price.

- MuscleDaddy

P.S. -
Gov't gives money to Business... Gov't takes control of Business... Gov't tells Business what pay is "Fair"...

Sounds familiar... like something I might have said Before

CNN Hits Bottom - Digs...

That they can make themselves see this as anything but shameful absolutely beggars the imagination:

CNN Hawking Obamessiah Shirts

(Here's a couple of captures, for when they memory-hole this later...)



There's... just ...nothing to say here.

How could I mock this in a way that would make it seem more ridiculous?

- MuscleDaddy

"Well I, for one, am v-v-very interested to see w-w-what's going to happen next."

So there I am, following up on an article link from Tyrone (my favorite sparring-commenter), when I run across this in the UK Telegraph:

"Perez Hilton: Is Michelle Obama pregnant?"

Now, at the moment these stories (everyone who's anyone is buzzing about it) are still in the 'unconfirmed rumor' stage - but the idea does set one to thinking...

Michelle is, what? 45? 46? - That's 'getting on a bit' for child-bearing age.

Also, as is reiterated in the Telegraph story:

"Mrs Obama, known as America's "mom-in-chief", has stated that she and her husband and "commander-in-chief", President Barack Obama, do not plan to have another child."

So let's see - "do not plan" - so if there is, in fact, a pregnancy @ the White House, we could reasonably characterize it as 'unplanned'.

An 'unplanned pregnancy' (btw - both MuscleBabies were 'unplanned') is something we Bitter-Clingers out here in Flyover-Bumpkin-Land would largely refer to as a "Baby".

Some others would refer to an unplanned pregnancy as a "Mistake."

And we already know how The One feels about "mistakes"...



...and we already know Michelle's stance...


Hmmmm....


So - if the rumors are true, this could obviously go one of two ways:

We could either see the first White House birth in over 100 years...

...or find out just how Pro-abortion the White House really is.

(can you just imagine NARAL staging a Victory/Support demonstration in front of the White House?)

A child-bearing-age couple in the White House - and this is something to legitimately wonder about...

...God Help Us All.

  - MuscleDaddy

The only point to take away from the "Rush Scandal"

So, here is a pretty good indication of how most supporters of The One are madly spinning the current Rush/Obama business:

"Rush Limbaugh is worried."...

"Right now Rush is being played. The Obama dinner with conservative columnists, shortly before his inauguration, was as much about excluding Rush as coddling the columnists. Not only did the conservatives fawn, but Rush fumed. It got under his skin. Indeed, the rumor that he might in fact be there (likely coming from the Obama camp), and then his evident lack of an invitation, highlighted the slight."...

"The game the president is playing is to make a testy, easy-to-arouse, fun-to-rankle Rush come to stand for an odd-ball, tone-deaf, blowhard far right that the rest of the desperate-to-be-liked Republican Party will eagerly distance itself from."...

Okay, so 'Rush is running scared'...blah,blah...'Obama's a genius'...blah,blah...'Rush is being marginalized'...blah,blah... etc, etc, et-frakkin'-cetera...


Consider this:

George W. Bush endured every manner of slight & slander from every media outlet available, from "straight news" to commentary shows, newspaper columns, sitcoms and even asshat music award shows (look, a two-fer! MS-LSD calls it 'candor')

Now - name for me ONE TIME that 'W.' called out a single media personality like that... or made reference to a network or even overt references to 'The Press'.

(...No, it's okay - Take your time - I'll wait....)

So now, let me understand this:

Barack Obama, the President of the United States, goes out of his way to acknowledge Rush and even to deliberately disinvite him from a 'conservative media dinner' - and RUSH is the one on the ropes?

Are you kidding me?

That's more air-time than Bush gave Olbermann after years of spittle-flecked ranting!


OBAMA: If you guys listen to Rush, you're just not cool!

OBAMEDIA: Ooooo,... pwned!!!1!


Oh yeah, baby - Rush is the one who's worried!

Look out - it's amateur-hour @ the White House.

- MuscleDaddy

Too Little, Too Late?

The British people would like their guns back, please...
(h/t- "Public Secrets")

Apparently, the 40% post-handgun-ban, cause-and-effect crime increase has finally become too much for the British law-abiding populace to bear.


Watch the whole thing and listen to some of those people:

"It's not safe."

"We can't count of the police to protect us."

"The ban was a failure."

"Things have changed."

...and even aside from the usual travelling packs of layabouts that socialism historically breeds, do you suppose they could also be referring to the annexation of whole sections of Britain and their transformation into places where the laws of the land simply do not apply?

Or maybe the continuing increase of homicides committed by indistinct "youths"?

Even the police (as @ 2:55 in the video) know what no one will openly admit - Gun Bans only work to disarm the law-abiding populace - and allow Goblins to commit their crimes unimpeded.

The police, after all, haven't stopped carrying or wearing body armor since the ban that was to "make everything safer".

So here is the mature case-study in disarming a country's general populace, while simultaneously pushing them ever farther down the slope of socialism: England.

There, in the light of day, for anyone with the desire & honesty to see it.

The people of once-"Great" Britain now see what they've lost - what they've given away - and, as you can see in the video, they want it back.

Unfortunately it is far, far more difficult to regain Rights & Liberties, once lost, than it is to defend them in the first place.

...just ask Tony Martin.


- MuscleDaddy

Two Thousand Words

Vermont.
Area: 9,620 Square miles
Population: 621,270 (2008 est.)

Israel.
Area: 8,019 / 8,522 Square miles (give or take) It depends on who you ask.
Population: 2008 estimate 7,282,000

Is it too much to ask that this tiny little sliver of land could be a safe home for the sons and daughters of Abraham?

I REALLY thought they'd wait for this...

...at least for a little while.

Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you:

"Obama's Little Blue Book"


(From the Product Description)

POCKET OBAMA serves as a reminder of the amazing power of oratory and the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words, a primer for readers who want to examine the substance of his thought and reflect on the next great chapter in the American story.

His superb and captivating oratory has earned comparisons to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and this collection presents words that catapulted his remarkable rise to the American Presidency.

Learn earnestly and diligently. It is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times.

Now - before you start thinking "This is Amazon making a joke"

(understandable, given the 'customer images' that have been added)
... let's look around:


Here is the website of The History Company - being the company that holds the copyright.
(they only sell in packs of 10 - referring you to Amazon for single copies...)

Here's the search by ISBN:

And if THAT'S not frightening enough, apparently you can also find it at CampusBookRentals.com
(this will be an important resource when university funding depends on how many sections of 'Dear Leader' are being taught per semester)


BTW - that "unofficial requirement" bit is actually in the book, too

....which just shows how ahead-of-the-curve this publisher is (as in 'unofficial' - so far).


Personally, I think that being able to refer back to this in the future will be an important teaching tool.

I think everyone should get one of these and keep it on the shelf next to "Fall of the Roman Empire", Mao's "Little Red Book" and "Mein Kampf"


.... after all, we repeat history because we forget it.


Like the man says: "Learn earnestly and diligently"

- MuscleDaddy

Well, THAT was Quick!

"Barack Obama's approval rating plunges 15 points"

"But there were signs yesterday that reality has set in following the wave of optimism surrounding his inauguration last Tuesday."

But...but it cannot be!

Was not the sky to open, the light come down, celestial choirs sing and everyone know to do the right thing and the world become perfect???

Yea verily, and so it was upon the Fifth Day (being neither the fourth nor the sixth) that the first of the great plagues were loosed upon the denizens of Obamatopia - and so unto them did come ...

The Rain of Subpoenas

Hmeh.

- MuscleDaddy

Same Actions, Expecting Different Results...

It occurred to me that I shouold have posted about this before - but somehow I never let it get beyond the 'conversation' stage.

Earlier this month, I tapped out a post about the (then) shooting-war in Israel.

I pointed out that everything was happening as it has happened before, complete with the standard, anti-Israel responses and "coverage" from the Left-wing Media.

Ben Shapiro wrote on the same matter, from the Israeli perspective - explaining Why Israel Will Lose...Again (essentially, because they continue to insist on playing this the same way every time)

So here we are, right back where we've been:

- Israel stops defending itself to "negotiate",

- The former Egyptians/Jordanians declare victory,
(because they weren't all slaughtered - which must demonstrate Israel's weakness, after all)

- An "Uneasy Cease-fire" begins

- During which we're supposed to believe that the former Egyptians/Jordanians are "negotiating" in good faith...


...and everything old becomes new again...

U.S. Navy intercepts Iranian arms vessel

"...carrying weapons to rearm Hamas in the Gaza Strip..."

I understand that the Arabs/Muslims hate the Israelis because they have to - they are born and bred into it, and the Jews are the only thing further down their ladder-of-evil (tm) than Americans - but why do the Israelis insist on running through the same cycle that has failed so many times in the past?

Why do they insist on trying to 'negotiate' with people who only seem to even procreate so they can send more bomb-carriers against Israel - with people whose only intention is to carry-water for any country that would see Israel wiped off the face of the earth?

How many times will this particular Kabuki theater be played out before someone finally wakes up and says "enough"?

(seriously, jump in here and lend some insight - I'm at a loss)

- MuscleDaddy

Okay, I admit it...

The "Randians" win - they're right...
'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years ...


(H/T to Don for the video)

...congratulations.

- MuscleDaddy

And now, just you aren't left hanging...

A quick roundup of what DIDN'T happen on Tuesday:

- Bush didn't suspend the 2008 election

- Bush isn't going to have a third term
(although Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y seems to want that for The One)

- Bush didn't declare martial law and become our first dictator.

And let's not forget...

- Bush didn't stage false flag events to reinstate the draft, either.

Amazing!
All that Eeeevil - and it was like he Didn't. Even. Try.

... of course, staying on the topic of 'What Didn't Happen' - I am left wondering...


Where the hell is my Rainbow-Farting-Unicorn that pees Healthcare?


Just Askin',

- MuscleDaddy

Obama promised "Change"...

...and now he has delivered.
Via 'This Ain't Hell' ...

We learn that the Shitbird-In-Chief is the first newly-inaugurated President in 56 years (that's 14 Presidential Inaugurations) to blow-off the “Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball”, which recognizes recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Apparently CMH winners don't make the Presidential short-list anymore...

So, where was Barry Soetoro - clearly too busy to be bothered with a bunch of 'old guys'?

According to the Sofia News Agency, the evening went like this:

- The Neighborhood Ball,
(celebrities at the Neighborhood Ball at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center included Stevie Wonder, Shakira, Mary J. Blige, Faith Hill Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Adam Levine, will.i.am. from the Black-Eyes Peas, Sting and Mariah Carey.)

- The Home State Ball, for Illinois and Hawaii

- The Commander-in-Chief Ball, was next. Obama saluted the nation's military
men and women... via satellite.

- The Youth Inaugural Ball, where people between the ages of 18 and 35 gathered,
(Kid Rock and Kanye West )

- The Home State Ball for Delaware and Pennsylvania,

- The night ended with brief appearances at the Mid-Atlantic,

Western, (Marc Anthony)

Midwest, (Cheryl Crow)

Southernand Eastern regional balls.

Of course you can understand how The One would see hob-nobbing with Jay-Z and Kanye West as being more pressing than merely continuing a 56-year tradition of meeting with some of America's greatest heroes, right?

I mean - especially when meeting what other, lesser men might previously have considered an "obligation" would take him so far our of his way on the party circuit!

I mean honestly, all the way from the Walter Williams Convention Center to the Renaissance Hotel?!?

Clearly, he'd have missed the chance to dance with Cheryl Crow!
Some perspective here, please!

Change... it begins here.

- MuscleDaddy

Politico, aka: "Obama Tank-Depth Monitor"...

...joins in with some pre-emptive excuses for why Obama WON'T be able to lower the seas and heal the world.

Seven reasons for healthy skepticism

Okay - quick overview:

1) Just being "smart" isn't enough.

2) The economy is in trouble and one man (even The One) can't fix it.

3) The economy is going to get worse and one man (even The One) can't fix it.

4) He's far more prone to talking than making actual decisions.

5) He tends to be in the pocket of the Party or Special-Interests

6) He doesn't know enough to do anything but make it up as he goes.

7) The media won't be doing their job to keep his feet to the fire.

Well, Isn't That Special!

Sounds like all the same reasons we were giving for NOT electing him in the first place!

Hey, great job !

Oh, BTW - Where was all that analytical ability 6 months ago - you know, back when you were carrying Obama's water and bashing Sarah Palin?

Ass-Hats.

- MuscleDaddy

Another "Czar" appointee...

Remember last week, when I pointed out that Obama's pick for "Global Warming Czar" is an Industrial Revolution-hating, Big-S Socialist?

(Of course you do, everyone who's anyone reads this blog)

Well, I'm starting to see a pattern here...

Because Obama's pick for "Regulatory Czar" (technically, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator) is actually a dyed-in-the-wool, anti-meat, anti-hunting, animal-rights (as in, "squirrels can sue" animal-rights) ...well,...nutjob.

Originally from Chicago (shocker!) ,Cass Sunstein is a Harvard University Law School professor (so you know he must be a good choice) , an author and has the endorsement of the Wall Street Journal (I feel their circulation dropping....)

He also believes that “There should be extensive regulation of the use of animals in entertainment, scientific experiments, and agriculture,”

"Extensive regulation" - and that "should be" part means that he doesn't currently feel that existing regulations are nearly extensive enough....

Okay, so he's a regulation-wonk, a bean-counter by nature and training - but what does he think those regulations should actually be?

Well, funny you should ask...

In Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions , a book Sunstein co-edited, he included his vision for a new direction in "animal rights":

“Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law … Any animals that are entitled to bring suit would be represented by (human) counsel, who would owe guardian like obligations and make decisions, subject to those obligations, on their clients’ behalf.”

Can you imagine what that consultation would look like, or the pooper-scooping necessary in the event of a class-action suit?

But wait - there's more...

Sunstein delivered a keynote speech at Harvard University’s 2007 “Facing Animals” conference.
(if you want to watch, Sunstein starts @ around 39 minutes in)

At that conference, Sunstein stated:

“We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn’t a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It’s time now.”

During that same speech, Sunstein spoke in favor of “eliminating current practices such as greyhound racing, cosmetic testing, and (...wait for it....) meat eating, most controversially.”

He later wrapped up that speech by concluding that our treatment of livestock and other animals should be considered “a form of unconscionable barbarity not the same as, but in many ways morally akin to, slavery and mass extermination of human beings.”

Remember, this is the guy who will have final say in the review and implementation of any regulations that fall in any way under the Office of Management and Budget which is, well... nearly everything.

And, by the way - that's just his view on animals.

Go take a look at his wish-list for the Internet.

When someone proposes:

"...a Civility Check that can accurately tell whether the email you’re about to send is angry and caution you, “warning: this appears to be an uncivil email. do you really and trulywant to send it?”

A stronger version, which people could choose or which might be the default, would say, “warning: this appears to be an uncivil email. this will not be sent unless you ask to resend in twenty-fourhours.”

...that sounds remarkable Czar-like to me - so at least the title is appropriate.

Don't worry, I'm sure the Senate confirma.... oh, right - that one doesn't need approval either.


- MuscleDaddy

Hail to the Chief!

The reason we always win at war, even if we lose a battle

Because that, folks, I am learning, is the Big Fear. I’m afraid of lots of things here – cars that blow up, roads that blow up, potholes that look like they might blow up, so on and so forth. But the thing I’m finding really makes my blood run cold is the idea of something happening to one of my dudes, especially when I’m not with them.

Go read.

Where else could you apply this...

"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions…

Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the ‘new, wonderful good society’ which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean ‘more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.’ Julius was always an ambitious villain, but he is only one man."

– Cicero

Think about it - who else is famous for speaking of ‘new, wonderful good society’ - interpreted to mean ‘more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.’ ?

Who else has enjoyed the roars of approval and adoration from crowds who don't know & don't care how those promises are kept, so long as their expectations of 'milk-and-honey' are met?

Who else has promised to tear-down-and-rebuild a society & government as it has stood, into something that the clamoring masses think they want?

Who else has drawn people toward the same edge-of-the-abyss precipice as Caesar?

.... scroll down, click play and read the words

(don't just roll your eyes and say "yeah, yeah-move on" - read the words)

- MuscleDaddy

Biggest Boobdoggle in American History...

Powerline Blog has...
'A Dozen Fun Facts About the House Democrats'Spending Bill'

... or, if you've got some time and want to see what happens when a bunch of spend-crazy hedonist legislators get a chance to run wild with a 'President' who lacks the executive experience to keep himself from signing anything they put in front of him...

Head straight over to ReadTheStimulus - but I suggest taking a bottle with you.

...and some tissues.


- MuscleDaddy