Rappers Going Broke Even Though “The Man” Is Black And Not “Holding Them Down.”

MediaTakeOut says Prodigy from Mobb Deep is getting foreclosed on and Mos Def is broke. Method Man has back taxes and fell victim to the repo man and there’s more, but whatever.

Make sure they sign their “Obama Loyalty Pledge” (must click link to atlas) and just get em some “Obama Money,” since all their rhymes are obsolete and they have nothing else to say that’s worthwhile.

Btw, the dispelling of a black prosperity ceiling is the best part of Obama’s Presidency.

*A friend who works at Wells Fargo tells me the folks have been calling up asking if they, “got that Obama Money.”

Really.

Thanks to reader TommyT

Ashley Biden Videotaped Demanding Hollywood Lines.

It’s not what you think.

Or maybe it is if you’re really smart.

Let’s say…the only filming the Vice President’s daughter will be doing is “Celebrity Rehab” with Dr. Drew or A&E’s, “Intervention.”

Or maybe, “Nalin’ Palin’s” producers might portray the Vice President’s daughter in what could be an epic hit.

I got sidetracked…so here’s a few suggestions for the title, integrally correlated to the profit of the film, as “One Night in Paris” demonstrated:

“High and Inside Biden“

“Biden Her Time”

“Railed on Rails”

“Ridin’ Biden”

Now that we’re banned in 13 more countries, let’s cut to it.

The NYpost is reporting:

A “friend” of Vice President Joseph Biden’s daughter, Ashley, is attempting to hawk a videotape that he claims shows her snorting cocaine at a house party this month in Delaware. “At one point she pretty much complains that the line isn’t big enough,” said the second lawyer, who declined to identify himself. “And she talks about her dad.”

Awesome!

She sounds like a riot, not to mention, my kind of feminist!

Seriously, America loves a high-as-a-kite, socialite, nymphomaniac and I pick my battles with America wisely.

Ok. Git it girl.

NYpost provides a little more context:

Biden has been an outspoken crusader against drugs, coining the term “drug czar” in 1982 while campaigning for a more forceful “war on drugs.”

Well as long as Ashley’s not a teenage mom from a pro-life/abstinence advocating home in a red state, I don’t think there’s any reason to go at Old Joe for hypocrisy.

Marijuana Wasn’t The Only Plant At The “Intimate” Town Hall

Newbusters links to a Washington Post online item that says:

But while the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama’s campaign in 2008.

Change?

Obama On Pot. Totally Full Of S%*t.

I know.

You can’t believe it.

Obama:

We…uh…we took suh, we took votes about which questions were gonna be asked and 3.5 million people voted.  I have to say there was one question that ranked fairly high, and that was whether legalizing marijuana would improve the ah economy and job creation…and uh, uh I don’t know what this says about the online audience.

OOTB:

STFU bro.  Do you ever stop politicin’ and lying?  Everybody knows the reason you’re a slave to nicotine is because you’re an addict and a stoner and you know exactly what it says about the “online audience” because no one has ever harvested the web and mastered grassroots organizing more than your pot head a$$.  And what, now marijuana smokers aren’t the midnight tokers you once knew?

Oh yeah by the way, it didn’t just “rank fairly high,” it nearly choked out your website and was the #1 question asked.  But of course, and like everything else, that has nothing to do with you.

Maklin Malkin brings something to light and probably uncovers the reason Obama stumbled over the word, “vote.”

The DNC, fresh off its failed attempt to muster grass-roots support for the president’s budget, has been aggressively advertising the townhall.

If this online townhall looks like another permanent campaign registration tool to you, you’re not alone.

Barry Barack Soetoro Obama Dunham Davis Merriam Webster

Last week we payed homage to PETA’s “sea kittens” when the now discontinued, “enemy combatants,” were redubbed, “undocumented malcontents.”

Well, once again liberalism has out-done us in trying its best to render  “The Onion’s” and OOTB’s political satire, mundane and believable.

Because they’ve insisted that our identity is racist at worst, and judgmental and insensitive at best, liberals have made our language (and culture) mean nothing.

When our language has no meaning, it can be molded to perform political tasks.

And so it is.

For instance, the “War on Terror” should now be referred to as, “Overseas Contingency Operation”

Charles at LGF explains because we’re not kidding…that’s really what BHO wants to call it:

I’m really not sorry to see the phrase “War on Terror” being retired by the Pentagon; it’s always seemed like a complete misnomer. You don’t fight a war against a tactic, you fight against people with an ideology. This battle would have been much better described as the “War on Militant Islam,” but our government is too hobbled by political correctness to ever be that direct and truthful.

Suddenly, “undocumented malcontents” seems like a reasonable suggestion.

Here’s some more leftist attempts to destroy the fabric of our society, from the past week or so:

• Merriam Webster redefined “marriage” in their dictionaries, which at least they have the right to do.

• Dept of Homeland Security Chief, Janet Napolitano decided to rid our vernacular of, “terrorism” and replace it with, “man-caused disasters.”

Stop laughing. We’re still not kidding. And there’s more:

• The European Parliament has banned the terms ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ in case they offend female MEPs. The politically correct rules also mean a ban on Continental titles, such as Madame and Mademoiselle, Frau and Fraulein and Senora and Senorita.  Guidance issued in a new ‘Gender-Neutral Language’ pamphlet instead orders politicians to address female members by their full name only.

*This should come as no surprise since the California state senate passed a bill in 2006 which banned the words, “mom and dad” from school textbooks, so as not to “reflect adversely on anyone based on sexual orientation or actual or perceived gender.”

• We also have Harvard professors suggesting the need to “redefine merit because standardized testing is racist.”

Hey it may be the land of confusion but, at least the President isn’t a walking identity crisis in an empty suit who purposefully sends mixed messages to all comers so they can project their beliefs unto him.

No…he knows exactly who he is on the inside.

Link for the pic

Maybe Just Invite The Press To The “Herd Mentality” WH Cocktail Parties?

Andrew Malcom slips one by the LA Times editing board and steals The Onion’s thunder as Obama banned the press from his, “Newsmaker of the Year” award ceremony.   The press is giving Obama the award, but someone else will have to hand it to him and cheer.

We are not making this up:

Barack Obama was elected commander in chief promising to run the most transparent presidential administration in American history.

This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. to name him “Newsmaker of the Year.”

The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers in a White House ceremony this afternoon.

The Obama White House has closed the press award ceremony to the press.

From the president’s official schedule:

“Later in the afternoon, the President and the First Lady will attend a reception with the National Newspaper Publisher Association in the State Dining Room, where they will be presented the Newsmaker of the Year award. This event is closed press.”

Maybe they’ll let the newspaper people pass the award through the fence.

Or, maybe they could invite them to the newly reestablished, Wednesday night soirees at the White House, eloquently described by Letitia Baldrige.

Letitia Baldrige, former social secretary to first ladies Jacqueline Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson, told FOXNews.com, “no real, substantial conversation takes place” at White House cocktail parties.

“We had them, we didn’t like them, but they are a necessary evil,” Baldrige said. “The best thing is to be invited to dinner, really, then lunch, then a morning breakfast meeting. These are sit-down, conversation-friendly events.

“But cocktail parties need a herd mentality. You go with the herd mentality and talk about what the herd is talking about. It’s nothing more, really, than going there to see and be seen.”

The party’s main function, Baldrige said, is simply to take care of people who feel left out or hurt.

“It’s a way of taking care of social obligations,” she said. “It’s just a way of making people feel good.”

Sounds perfect for the press and for Obama…except that Obama has a reputation for partying with terrorist fundraisers and sympathizers, and has been known to get tore up and bash Israel on tapes that the press refuses to release.

Here’s Obama at an Arab American Action Network dinner party in 1998, probably talking about Jews with PLO advisor Edward Said.

Here’s another shot so you can peep the hottie a little closer.

She’s so fabulous!, I wonder if she had awesome, toned biceps back then!

Thanks to Terri for the White House party alert

UPDATE: Charles at LGF has a worthy update and a great suggestion for the supper club guestlist.

The National Newspaper Association, despite its innocuous name, is actually an association of far-left publications that includes “Final Call” — the paper published by Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam: NNPA – Article – member papers.

And that explains why Obama doesn’t want the mainstream press at this award ceremony.

Strange.  Why would a man like Louis Farrakhan take to BHO?

“2-Beats-Away” Sarah Would Never Have Said This…

Jake Tapper at ABC is bound to get fired or kidnapped because he’s done a good job for months now.  Today, he rescues Americans from imminent censorship after Obama The Brilliant, made fun of retards etc on the Leno Show when he demeaned the Special Olympics by comparing them to his paltry bowling skillz.

Pic: The Gutterball Presidency rolled in with an embarrassingly girly 37.

How gay can you get?

Kidding of course!!

Just pointing out how insensitive The Great Healer was to folks who are born with unique challenges.

Btw Mr. President, is it a reach to infer any feelings you may have towards special needs people by your calloused stands on abortion and less than ideal pregnancies?

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air drops this bomb on Obama:

You know how you can tell when a President has a bad day?  When his comparison of an American corporation to terrorists is the second-stupidest thing he said.

Morrissey was referring to Obama’s earlier comment:

“The same is true with AIG,” he said. “It was the right thing to do to step in. Here’s the problem. It’s almost like they’ve got — they’ve got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger. You don’t want them to blow up. But you’ve got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger.”

Brilliant!

And for score keepers out there, the third-stupidest thing Obama said today was that soon to be, “not-the-Timothy-Geithner-I-once-knew” was doing and “outstanding job.”

Something tells me he won’t say that when he asks him to step down in a bit.

Naturally Michelle Malkin recalled Brownie:

Heckuva job, Timmy!

She’s right on.

You know what?

Wake the f*ck up Barry!

I’m getting really tired keeping up with your daily bungles.

About That “Military Strength, Civilian Security Force.”

POST UPDATED BELOW

We’ve reported at length about Obama’s brownshirt gestapo plan, and Rahm Emanuel’s coinciding views on the need to conscript American children to re-education camps national service.

Video below:

Atlas, relays from increasingly popular infowars.com:

The House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force” intensify.

The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate.

The Senate is also considering a similar piece of legislation known as the “Serve America Act,” which also includes language about “Youth Engagement Zones”.

I can’t wait until all those idiots with the, “I’m voting for kids” bumper stickers have to send their kids to boot camp for a few months and don’t recognize them when they return.

And, honestly, I’m probably too old to be drafted into this neo-fascist group, and I’m pretty worried about how non-serving folks like me will be marginalized by the legions of brainwashed youth, but this is the best I’ve felt about being 30…ever!

UPDATE: It passed the senate in swift fashion, and the dearth of corporate media coverage means it’s not authoritarian, it’s a new wave of cooperation and service.

But He’s Different! How Could This Be?

Cara Ellison absolutely blew me away with this one:

President Obama received a $101,332 bonus from failed insurance giant AIG according to Opensecrets.org.

The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are – Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama.

The A.I.G. Financial Products affiliate of A.I.G. gave out $136,928, the most of any AIG affiliate, in the 2008 cycle.

Obama’s crocodile tears are even more hilarious now.

Well, at least Obama’s giving the money back.  Right?

Obama Using “National Security” As Excuse For Secret Plans

BoingBoing explains how Obama rejected a Freedom of Information Act request by Knowledge Ecology International:

The White House is refusing to release documents about the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a super-maximal copyright treaty that a bunch of rich countries are negotiating behind closed doors to escape the activists who’ve started to report on their shenanigans at the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organisation.

Incredibly, the Obama administration claims that disclosing the details of this secret copyright law would endanger “national security.”

The national security claim is stunning, given that the treaty negotiations have included the 27 member states of the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Switzerland and New Zealand, all of whom presumably have access to the “classified” information.

Heh. Just like Bush, only Obama’s not even pretending we have enemies who truly want us dead?

Allegedly leaked documents (wait, isn’t it life and death?) at wikileaks and other geek sites feared the following: criminalizing peer to peer file sharing, Ipod searches and warrantless ISP monitoring.

Interestingly, this geek site fears the following.

Obama: “The Fundamentals Of The Economy Are Sound, Not Strong.”

Yesterday an old-style reporter asked Robert Gibbs about John McCain’s the White House’s new stance that, “the fundamentals of the economy are strong sound.”

Gibbs tried out his Obama-impression, but fell flat in the semantics game, when he insisted “strong” and “sound” are fundamentally different.

Someday, a wise-ass reporter might ask if Obama inherited a sound economy.

Recall, McCain was ahead of Obama at the time of the Lehman Brothers collapse and his untimely comments were used by smear merchants in the corporate media to show him as, “out of touch.”

How many houses does that guy have anyways?

This, along with his hasty support for the bailout (TARP), when Obama was merely, “there if we need him” proved to be the most pivotal moment of the campaign.

By the way, Obama is now fear-mongering on behalf of bailouts, and McCain’s pathetic ass is against them.

And shocker…BO’s numbers are stinking up the joint.

“Did somebody say joint?”

Flashback vids are here to bring you there.

Chris Matthews lampooned McCain for saying “the fundamentals of the economy are strong” 22 times.

The epitome of a politician, Barack Obama, ridiculed McCain for the statement and made this campaign ad during his adorable class warfare faze.

Flip to 57 seconds of MSNBC’s McCain bash to see Obama on 9/15/08 say, “we just woke up to financial disaster and this morning he (McCain) said, ‘the fundamentals of the economy are strong.’  Senator McCain, what economy are you talking about?”  Then, liar-in-chief says, “you all remember Phil Gramm, he’s the guy who said, ‘we’re just going through a mental recession’ and called the United States of America, a ‘nation of whiners.’ You can’t make this stuff up. It’s like a Saturday Night Live routine”

I always get a kick out of the crowd whining when Obama tells them they’ve been called whiners but hey, at least Gramm didn’t call us a “nation of cowards.”

Here’s Glenn Beck with a round-up.

Tigerhawk compliments Instapundit.

Glenn Reynolds makes a nifty, if somewhat lawyerly, point: If the economy is still fundamentally strong, what are the actual problems inherited by the Obama administration? That said, I much prefer the president talking it up than talking it down, and if it takes a little hypocrisy to make that happen I’m all for giving him a pass. The outrage, of course, is that so many in the media credulously parroted the Obama campaign’s talking points last fall. But even that is only the “usual” outrage.

Thanks Tigerhawk, back to Adam at OutOfTheBlu,

“Hawaiian born or not, this guy is a freaking fraud and the people who haven’t figured that out, are even worse.”

The 2nd Amendment Doesn’t Mention The Right To Affordable Bullets.

Post UPDATED below.

So liberals are trying to take them away because they’re strict constructionists fascists.

Reader, BogieBJ, points to The Shootist, who reports a lot more than what’s below:

From now on, remanufacturers of military brass will not be able to buy surplus brass from DOD–actually from Government Liquidators, llc.–the corporation that sells surplus materials for the U.S. government. At least, not in any form recognizable as once-fired brass ammunition.

Now all brass ammunition will have to be shredded, and sold as scrap.

Georgia Arms, who brought this to our attention, is the 5th largest ammunition manufacturer of centerfire pistol and rifle ammunition in the U.S.

“We’re right up there behind Hornady,” Larry Haynie told me.

He also told me with the cancellation of his contract to purchase this brass, and the ending of his ability to purchase any more expended military ammunition, he will have to severely curtail his operation–laying off approximately half his 60-person work force.

Haynie further pointed out this move is a stupendous waste of taxpayer money–reducing the worth of the brass some 80%–from casings, to shredded bulk brass.

He stated most of this will now go to foundries where it will be melted down, cast in shippable forms, and likely be sold to China, one of the largest purchasers of U.S. metals on the open market.

Haynie was manufacturing over 1 million rounds of .223 ammunition every month, which he sold on the civilian market to resellers, and to law enforcement agencies across the country.

He will start tomorrow sending cancellations of orders for .223 to law enforcement agencies all over the country.

You can expect this to affect every bullet you purchase in the future–with no reloaded ammunition available, the already strained new manufacturers will be unable to meet demand. They are already turning out everything they can build for the military market. The civilian market is stressed to the point even reloading components have become hard to find.

Now, with this hit, ammunition prices will go through the roof in the next year.

Your quality piece, sitting in your gun rack, will become a very expensive wood and steel, or plastic and steel club.

What can you do?

Atlas has a story about BHO ending the program of pilots carrying firearms...because he’s a pensive moderate, and the constitution doesn’t mention airline pilots’ rights to defend their cockpits.

President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.

The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from the pilot training program to hire more supervisory staff, who will engage in field inspections of pilots.

Pilots cannot openly speak about the changing policies for fear of retaliation from the Transportation Security Administration. Pilots who act in any way that causes a “loss of confidence” in the armed pilot program risk criminal prosecution as well as their removal from the program. Despite these threats, pilots in the Federal Flight Deck Officers program have raised real concerns in multiple interviews.

UPDATE: Who knows, but federal officials are denying a report that the Obama administration is seeking to end a program that allows trained airline pilots to carry guns.

UPDATE: We did it guys! OOTB’s reader lobby strikes again.  Don’t let ‘em tell you this post was worthless!

From NRA Chief Lobbyist, Chris Cox

Yesterday morning, the Department of Defense informed NRA-ILA that fired military small arms cartridge cases are once again eligible for sale, following a temporary suspension in such sales instituted last week. NRA-ILA began discussions with DoD shortly after the suspension took effect, and we were assured from the beginning that efforts were underway to resolve the issue favorably.

In sum, a problem that could have had serious repercussions for the remanufactured ammunition industry and the countless gun owners who support it, appears to have been resolved quickly.

Thanks again BogieBJ

VDH: “An Honest Campaign Speech Would Have Gone Like This:”

”As we approach Election Day, the American people should not waste the crisis we find ourselves in.

“Consequently, if elected, I promise to get us over the Bush financial meltdown with a stimulus program that will borrow $787 billion – which, of course, will add to the already sizable budget deficit (nearly $500 billion) projected in the Bush administration’s last budget.

“By March of next year, my new $3.6 trillion budget will include a spending bill with more than 8,500 budget earmarks to target in-need constituents.

“In addition to the stimulus/borrowing plan, I intend to devote $634 billion to fund a new supplementary national health-care system. But that is not all. Unfortunately, the initial Bush bank bailout of some $700 billion also may well have to be augmented by an additional $750 billion.

“Although my new spending proposals may raise the federal deficit in my first year to $1.75 trillion, I promise the American people that by the end of my first term, I will halve the federal deficit – albeit adding another $3 trillion to $5 trillion to the national debt.

”Those savings can be accomplished by upping the federal income tax to about 40 percent on those rich 5 percent of Americans who currently pay only 60 percent of our aggregate income taxes – as well as lifting Social Security caps on their payroll taxes and cutting out many of their tax deductions.

”With state income taxes, federal income tax, Social Security and payroll taxes, along with new cutbacks in deductions, some of these rich will pay over 60 percent of their incomes in taxes. That is not an unreasonable rate in comparison with past levels – or the fact that well over 40 percent of Americans do not make enough to pay any federal income taxes.

“I expect that Wall Street may react negatively to these proposals. We may see the Dow fall an additional 2,000 to 3,000 points after I’m elected. It may descend to under 7,000 during my first weeks of office. And this may be the moment when the economy continues to cool and unemployment rises.

”But to deal with this reaction of entrenched interests, I promise a fresh team of hard-nosed American professionals – understanding that it is impossible to appoint some without past insider connections and occasional tax problems.

”From the former Clinton administration, I will select Rahm Emanuel to run my staff. To oversee revenue, Timothy Geithner will assemble a large team at Treasury. Sen. Clinton herself will run state, and I will anchor my Cabinet with pros like Tom Daschle, Eric Holder, Bill Richardson and Hilda Solis.

”On matters of protecting civil liberties, I assure the American people that I have examined the Patriot Act, the FISA accords and renditions – and I have discovered that they, in fact, do not shred our Constitution. I will, however, shut down Guantanamo Bay – but must keep it open another year and appoint a task force to study the issue.

“Our new direction in energy policy will center on cap-and-trade initiatives that promote wind and solar power. While we won’t rule out oil, gas, coal and nuclear development, problems with greenhouse gas emissions and nuclear waste mean that these ossified 20th-century industries – including new offshore drilling development – must be discouraged and further taxed or regulated to subsidize our green future.

“Abroad, I promise to give America a new image. My first television interview will be with al Arabiya. Due both to new initiatives and my unique background, I can reassure them that no longer will the United States alienate the Muslim world. Our aim is to return to stable and friendly relations with the Middle East characteristic of 20 to 30 years ago.

“Indeed, on matters in the Middle East, I will bring back my suspended adviser Samantha Power. I look forward to her input, along with that of Charles Freeman, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and critic of Israel, as head of the National Intelligence Council, to craft new directions in the region

“We expect to open new dialogues with Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran without preconditions. And to further the cause of peace in the Middle East, the United States will pledge almost $1 billion to help rebuild the Gaza strip that is governed by Hamas.”

Now all that would have been hope and change that we could have voted on.

Weird…if Obama’s a new type of politician, why didn’t he just say this stuff at the time?

Link

Please Refer To “Enemy Combatants” As “Undocumented Malcontents.”

BHO has dropped, “enemy combatant” as a basis for detention.

Hey, you shoulda seen this coming when the genius-in-chief told you he was  seeking out “moderate Taliban” friends?

By the way, Mr. President, aren’t there moderate KKK members you can reach out to, while you’re at it?

What will deranged liberals say if we’re hit again and they can’t blame America for “turning Muslims into terrorists?”

Wait.

Nevermind.

Bush.

The Lights Are On, But O’s Not Home.

“It’s all our fault, he screens his phone calls.”

UK’s Daily Mail tells us:

He has a reputation for being the archetypal senior civil servant professional, unflappable, and, above all, discreet.

But Sir Gus O’Donnell risked sparking a transatlantic tiff today with an imprudent remark about Downing Street’s relations with the White House.

The head of the civil service, Sir Gus said the handover to President Barack Obama’s administration was severely hindering preparations for next month’s G20 summit.

In an extraordinary blunder, the usually-guarded Sir Gus said no-one in the U.S. Treasury department was answering telephone calls.

He said it meant the Government was finding it ‘unbelievably difficult’ to hold discussions ahead of the meeting of world leaders in London.

‘There is nobody there,’ he told a civil service conference in Gateshead.

‘You cannot believe how difficult it is.’

Newsbusters understands that Obama isn’t picking up the phone but wonders why the US media isn’t picking it up either.

Obama Knows 1st Hand. Women Aren’t Treated Equally

He knows because he’s paid them less than 4/5ths of what he’s paid men on his staff-coincidentally the same 78% that women earn compared to men-if you believe politicized liberal science math.

You know what time it is.

Executive order time!

This round brings more liberal BS to America in the form of, creating a White House Council on Women and Girls, with the purpose of “ensur(ing) that American women and girls are treated fairly in all matters of public policy.”

Keep in mind, at colleges across the country, 58 women will enroll as freshmen for every 42 men, and males are falling behind on most statistical areas.

UPDATE: Reader Ron B, points out how delightful it must be these days for males on college campuses.

Finally John Kerry Explains His Idea Of A “Global Test”

The msm continues to be outsourced as the Times of India informs us:

The United States is lining up billions of dollars in new economic and military aid to Pakistan despite reports that Islamabad is using American tax-payer money for deals with the Taliban and accounts of US arms ending up in the hands of the extremists.

Amid an ongoing review of the so-called Af-Pak policy initiated by the Obama administration, Washington, under pressure from influential Senator John Kerry among other lawmakers and lobbyists, is said to be considering a one-time $ 5 billion aid to Pakistan over and above the $ 1.5 billion annual package for ten years currently under review for passage through Congress. Releasing a report by the think-tank Atlantic Council on Wednesday, Kerry, who is also the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is in a position to pilot the aid package, raised the prospect of a total collapse in Pakistan if it was not helped urgently.

Pakistan is indeed a scary place and the thought of John Kerry contributing to its future is down right nightmarish.

Chas Freeman Bounced

Were the Joooooos behind this?

Either way, OOTB should get a lot of credit.

UPDATE: Get this, Chas went after the Joooooos in his withdrawal statement….but forgot to assail OOTB and its powerful readership lobby.

Politico quotes him:

“The libels on me and their easily traceable email trails show conclusively that there is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East,” he wrote.

“The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth.”

Of course had he stayed, he wouldn’t have credited the Saudi or Chinese Lobbies for their assistance.

Can Somebody Whip Up A New Prez With These Embryos?

Obama says, “no cloning” and I might just beg to differ with him depending on how fast they can do it.

Seriously though, where does he gets off discriminating against clones and for that matter, admitting the existence of  moral implications?

Isn’t this, “above his pay grade?”

Eh, that was just politics and now even Muslims finally know Obama’s not a Muslim.

With a few other things going on in the world, there’s no time for a national discussion so it’s just another run of the mill, executive order from Obama.

This one makes it 17.  Seventeen in 33 business days.

No wonder he’s “exhausted.”

Remember when he told you he would “restore science to its rightful place,” trivializing the Bush administration’s stance, and anyone who agrees with them, in the middle of his inauguration?

Well, King Obama, manifestor of endless politikol kapital, says the majority of Americans want federal funding of embryonic stem cells.  He says we will use sound, scientific practice and evidence, instead of dogma.

And so, because politics no longer impacts science, he’s overturning Bush’s stance which led to monumental gains in non-embryonic stem cell research, and doing it his way…the non-political way.

Classic Obamaean maneuver.  So obvious he adores, “Rules for Radicals.” 

Alinsky and Frank Marshall Davis would be proud.

By completely discounting his opponents’ beliefs (even when they’re backed by science), he “polarizes” their views into illegitimacy and obscurity.  Since the refuting science isn’t even considered, the opposition must be politically motivated.  Thus, the edict has been sent out and the script is flipped.

Good people who at least have honest agendas and concerns are rendered religious kooks who think grampa with Parkinson’s should just pass on, unmedicated, because it’s G-d’s will.

Yay. We conservative yokels are all Amish now! And in a few weeks when he orders Universal health care (literally for the entire Solar System), we’ll all be saying ….“if he (grandpa) dies, he dies.”

The fact is, a majority of Americans don’t know anything about the issue.  They mostly think Dubya outlawed all research, of all types, on a miracle drug that could have saved Christopher Reeve in time for the 2004 DNC.

I want to be clear.  I don’t know what to think about federal funding of embryonic stem cells, but I recognize this sword is double edged.

That being the responsible position to take, as stem cell inventor and scientist, James A. Thomson proved when he admitted, “if human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.”

Since embryonic stem cell research can be funded by the “greedy corporations” if it makes sense, and Obama is willing to flat out lie, I’m led to believe all the hoopla about federal funding of embryonic stem cells is really only about, desensitizing Americans to the destruction of human embryos for radical pro-abortionists like Obama and his minions.

I’m cool as long as it’s not about politics and there’s no earmarks in the “Stimulus.”

UPDATE: Coming soon to America…Australians have been refused insurance protection because of their genetic make-up, researchers have shown in the first study in the world to provide proof of genetic discrimination.

UPDATE: Krauthammer’s new piece expands on mine beautifully.

Axis’ Fears Confirmed: USA “Overcharging” Foes!

Breitbart with the scoop that would be famous if it had been Reagan or Bush’s administration:

Russian media has been poking fun at US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she gave her Russian counterpart a “reset” button with an ironic misspelling.Clinton’s gift to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at their meeting in Geneva on Friday evening was meant to underscore the Obama administration’s readiness to “to press the reset button” in ties with Moscow.

But instead of the Russian word for “reset” (perezagruzka) it featured a slightly different word meaning “overcharged” (peregruzka).

Daily newspaper Kommersant put a prominent picture of the fake red button on its front page and declared: “Sergei Lavrov and Hillary Clinton pushed the wrong button.”

A correspondent for NTV television called it a “symbolic mistake,” pointing out that US-Russian ties had become overcharged in recent years due to discord over such issues as missile defence and last summer’s war in Georgia.

Yes. This is two foreign policy gaffes in two days by the worldly administration that is “restoring” our relations abroad because of the xenophobic, anti-intellectual, rootin’-tootin’ Bush regime.

HotAir reader Tommy Christopher, quips:

And, is it really smart to give the Russians a red button to push?

Here’s the video link so you can watch the Russian point out the spelling error, causing the political pro, Hillary to cackle as if it were a joke and say, “well, we won’t let you (overcharge) us.”