Why do we have to go to Foreign Media to get the story?

From the Australian:

After all, on all the big foreign policy questions, Obama has continued Bush's policies. The predator drones still fly over Pakistan, destroying any al-Qa'ida operative dumb enough to talk on the phone. The terrorists are still in Guantanamo as Obama's administration develops the Bush administration's decision to shut Guantanamo, as a necessity of global PR, while trying to stop the terrorists from going back to killing civilians. Like Bush, Obama is pursuing an attempt to engage the Iranian regime and even using the same official Bush did. He is withdrawing from Iraq very slowly, on a timetable approved by Republican senator John McCain. He acknowledges the success of the US troop surge in Iraq and wants to emulate it in Afghanistan. He stands four square behind Israel's security. And so on.

Yet while much of the world hated Bush with an irrational passion, allegedly for these policies, it loves Obama with at least a seemingly similar passion, notwithstanding these very same policies.

From the UK Telegraph:

President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit? Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and co-ordinated. Did he achieve it? Not so as you'd notice.

Then came the dramatic bit, the authentic West Wing script, with the President wakened in the middle of the night in Prague to be told that Kim Jong-il had just launched a Taepodong-2 missile. America had Aegis destroyers tracking the missile and could have shot it down. But Uncle Sam had a sterner reprisal in store for l'il ole Kim (as Dame Edna might call him): a multi-megaton strike of Obama hot air.

"Rules must be binding," declared Obama, referring to the fact that Kim had just breached UN Resolutions 1695 and 1718. "Violations must be punished." (Sounds ominous.) "Words must mean something." (Why, Barack? They never did before, for you - as a cursory glance at your many speeches will show.)

President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America's missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.

That's just for Foreign Policy. when we start talking about something closer to home like the Global Warming Hoax, we get gems like these.

The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air. John Holdren told the Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geo-engineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays.

Of course nothing can possible go wrong, right? Oh but wait is the science behind this global warming fiasco conclusive?
Well of course you have to go to the UK Register in order to read about a new NASA study on the melting Arctic ice. The AGW alarmists love to use Arctic Ice as evidence of AGW, so what dos NASA have to say?

New research from NASA suggests that the Arctic warming trend seen in recent decades has indeed resulted from human activities: but not, as is widely assumed at present, those leading to carbon dioxide emissions. Rather, Arctic warming has been caused in large part by laws introduced to improve air quality and fight acid rain.

Just let the Left keep telling themselves, that there is no Media Bias. Just like little kids hide under the blanket to protect themselves from the Boogyman. The left keeps it's blinders on to what Obama is doing. See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil....eventually you can convince yourself of anything.

At least there are a few Left commentators that actually have some values and a spine.

The Obama DOJ is now squarely to the Right of an extremely conservative, pro-executive-power, Bush 43-appointed judge on issues of executive power and due-process-less detentions. Leave aside for the moment the issue of whether you believe that the U.S. Government should have the right to abduct people anywhere in the world, ship them to faraway prisons and hold them there indefinitely without charges or any rights at all. The Bush DOJ -- and now the Obama DOJ -- maintain the President does and should have that right, and that's an issue that has been extensively debated. It was, after all, one of the centerpieces of the Bush regime of radicalism, lawlessness and extremism.

I encourage everyone to read Glenn Greenwald at Salon. I don't agree with him on much anymore, but at least he is willing to challenge Obama on the Administrations hypocracy.

This is scary

http://www.end22.com/

Then we can be like Venezuela too!!!

More Sowell

It gets harder and harder for me to make regular posts with school and work. I did work 112 hours this last two weeks. I need to find a format that works for me. Instead of try, rather badly IMO, to write a big commentary, I think I will try a Post a link and write a few sentences about it approach. I will rant and rave on a few things though. I also will try and post some comments that I make to various blogs, I think my 5 min of madness posts are the better ones than my try to think of something for 50 min approach. Anywho on that note...some killer quotes from Professor Sowell, my favorite economist and social commentator.

The famous editorial cartoonist Herblock could write as well as draw. In one of his books, he said something like: "You too can have the soothing feeling of nature's own baby-soft wool being pulled gently over your resting eyes." I think of that every time I see Barack Obama talking.

You ain't kiddin'. The hope and change mantra is slowly going away but there are way too many people still star struck. Maybe now that his budget is passed in the House and Senate, people will realize the kind of deficits Obama will "enjoy" for his term.

Barack Obama seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s, at home and abroad. He has already repeated Herbert Hoover's policy of raising taxes on high income earners, FDR's policy of trying to micro-manage the economy and Neville Chamberlain's policy of seeking dialogues with hostile nations while downplaying the dangers they represent.

The reason more people don't talk about his....see quote one.

Perhaps the scariest aspect of our times is how many people think in talking points, rather than in terms of real world consequences.

I agree this is the scariest one. People want to think in terms on labels. If your free market and less government intervention, then you must be a "Rethuglican." If you want low taxes on what you earn and want to keep the fruits of your labor, then you must just want to horde and stick it to the poor while trying to keep them down.
It's truly disingenuous argument to say that if your a AGW (man made global warming) skeptic, then you must be bought and paid for by the oil industry or worse they say you must not believe science. Of course the fact that they "have the soothing feeling of nature's own baby-soft wool being pulled gently" pulled over their own eyes by the likes of Al Gore and his fellow Democrats because they see Cap and Trade as a money making venture, never come into question.
What is truly sad is the state of education in this country. Me and my wife have already decided that we are going for private school starting with pre-K. She told me the story of her history teacher telling her that the Holocaust didn't happen, and that she was sent to the dean because she called "BS" on her teacher did it for me. I can see that the current public system is rotten to the core. It only took reading about the Little Rock School District and how it is so ineptly run by the gang of 4, to get me on the path to private school. They are getting way too much money for the shitty job they are doing to our kids. That is a fact.
We have two sides in my view. On one side is the people that really want whats best for the kids. They want more choice in schools. Letting parents decide which schools they want their own kids to go to, that means vouchers for those that can't afford them. That's what DC kids enjoyed until recently. The other side is on the side of teacher and administration unions. They want more money, more money and yes even more money. They say they don't have enough funding and the only way to improve schools, test scores and graduation rates is more and more money. Where has all the previous money gone? No, I'm not talking about TARP. Why are teachers being paid so little and the administration being paid so much for such and inferior product?
This being my blog, I'll tell you what I think. I think it because they want it. They want an inferior product. They are against vouchers, private schools and homeschooling because they want the money those programs get. They pay teachers so much less, so they drive out the good teachers, keep the shitty ones and then use that to say they need more funding. Like the Leviathan, they will never be satiated. They want all the money.

Liberals seem to think that they are doing lagging groups a favor by making excuses for counterproductive and self-destructive behavior. The poor do not need press agents. They need the truth. No one ever said, "Press agents will make you free."

Thank the Gods for people like Sowell.

Big Brother to set wages for everyone.

There is a book out there, well two that everyone needs to read, 1984 and Atlas Shrugged. We are slowly yet surely going to turn into a socialist state. I say small S socialism, because the government won't actually own all that much. Big S socialism is that little thing they have in Venezuela.

1. Step one: Bail out companies that should have died away in the first place, because those companies gave a lot of money to your campaign fund. Check
2. Step two: Create a public out rage at executive compensasion, yet keep the fact that the companies gave heftily to your campaign fund. Check
3. Step three: Use that public outrage to pass legislation for even more government control of wages. In Progress.

But now, in a little-noticed move, the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the "Pay for Performance Act of 2009," would impose government controls on the pay of all employees -- not just top executives -- of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.

Of course this leaves the Obama administration as the sole body to determine what pay is "reasonable" or "fair." Hmmm...smells like Chicago politics to me.
Let's see, if you gave money to the Obama campaign and are a good foot soldier, I'm sure your pay will be "reasonable."
If you voted for the other guy and don't have a lot of nice things to say about Obama, I'm sure your pay will be made more "reasonable."
Let's recap. The banks get off, except for a few strawmen at AIG. The car companies get hostilly taken over by the government. Now the Fed can dictate what a person can get paid.
Yep thats small S socialism. I don't know about you, but I have a craving for Tea.

This is why I love Thomas Sowell

A Rookie President

Seeking deals with our adversaries, behind the backs of our allies? France did that at Munich back in 1938. They threw Czechoslovakia to the wolves and, less than two years later, Hitler gobbled up France anyway.

This year, President Obama's attempt to make a backdoor deal with the Russians, behind the backs of the NATO countries, was not only rejected but made public by the Russians-- a sign of contempt and a warning to our allies not to put too much trust in the United States.

Barack Obama is following a long practice among those on the left of being hard on our allies and soft on our enemies.

However much Barack Obama has proclaimed his support for Israel, his first phone call as President of the United States was to Hamas, to whom he has given hundreds of millions of dollars, which can buy a lot of rockets to fire into Israel.

Our oldest and staunchest ally, Britain, has been downgraded by President Obama's visibly less impressive reception of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, compared to the way that previous Presidents over the past two generations have received British Prime Ministers. President Obama's sending the bust of Winston Churchill in the White House back to the British embassy at about the same time was either a rookie mistake or another snub.

Obama is this years Ryan Leaf.

Gotta Love that ACORN President

From the Philadelphia Bulletin:

A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a “a game changer.”

During her testimony, Ms. Heidelbaugh said Ms. Moncrief had told her The New York Times articles stopped when she revealed that the Obama presidential campaign had sent its maxed-out donor list to ACORN’s Washington, D.C. office.

Ms. Heidelbaugh then told the congressional panel:

“Upon learning this information and receiving the list of donors from the Obama campaign, Ms. Strom [a NYT reporter] reported to Ms. Moncrief that her editors at The New York Times wanted her to kill the story because, and I quote, “it was a game changer.”’

You really have to love the NY Times. They will do anything to make sure there man gets elected.

Epic Fail

"Scenario 2: The main risk scenario (30% probability)

Stimulus fails, leading to continued asset price deflation and sustained contraction in the leading economies—a depression persisting for some years. The stubborn decline in global economic activity is punctuated by occasional rallies that are taken as signs of recovery, but these quickly fade as the underlying downward trend reasserts itself. The prominent role of governments in propping up banks and reviving domestic demand leads to strong political pressure for protectionism, effectively putting the process of globalization into reverse."

I think we are seeing that now.

• The Dow tumbled 254.16, or 3.3 percent, to 7,522.02.
• We are effectively in a trade war with Mexico, soon to be in one with Canada.
• The Fed is printing money like crazy to try and stop deflation, to the detriment of the dollar.
• Now China wants a new international currency, something Turbo Tax Tim says is good...therefore it's really really bad.
  

The good news is that everyone that wants to see Obama fail will see EPIC FAIL.
The bad news is he will take everyone down with him.