Obama's disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit

Ouch:

Obama's disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit: "World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow."

They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.

In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.

The new currency is obedience

Good:

Hot Air Blog Archive The new currency is obedience: "The past two years have seen a profound change occur in the American system. Our basic currency is no longer the dollar. People like Jason Levin understand the nature of our new currency, which is obedience."

Obama Democrats worship central planning. They have repeatedly expressed the belief that only powerful, maternal government can be trusted to allocate the most essential resources, or manage vital industries. The free market is a playpen, filled with the stuff that isn’t serious enough to merit direct control by the Mother State. When a particular toy causes the children of the electorate to scream, it is quickly snatched out of the pen. The free market can’t even be trusted to deal with airline fees for carry-on luggage… which turned out to be a market response to previous government action. You are expected to sit quietly and swallow your tears if Mother State chooses to beat you over the head with one of your toys.


Central planning is useless if nobody follows the central plans. Where the free market is persuasive, organizing resources by responding to demand and exploiting opportunity, central planning is coercive. It must compel obedience to its designs, and compulsion is always necessary. If people were eager to follow those designs of their own free will, there would be no need for central planning in the first place.

Public Policy Polling: Obama/Bush Nearly Divided

Wow, who would have thought this?

Public Policy Polling: Obama/Bush Nearly Divided: "Americans are now pretty evenly divided about whether they would rather have Barack Obama or George W. Bush in the White House. 48% prefer Obama while 46% say they would rather have the old President back.

Bush had atrocious approval ratings for his final few years in office, particularly because he lost a lot of support from Republicans and conservative leaning independents. Those folks may not have liked him but they now say they would rather have him back than Obama. 87% of GOP voters now say they would prefer Bush, a number a good deal higher than Bush's approval rating within his party toward the tail end of his Presidency. Democrats predictably go for Obama by an 86/10 margin, and independents lean toward him as well by a 49/37 spread."

How Bad Could 2010 Really Get For Democrats?

Hmmm...maybe 100 seats?

RealClearPolitics - How Bad Could 2010 Really Get For Democrats?: "Though Election Day is still months away, pundits have already begun to speculate on possible outcomes for this year's midterms. There's a general consensus that Democrats will lose seats in November, but beyond that opinions vary widely on how big those losses might be. Some argue that because of the advance notice, passage of health care, and an improving economy (or some combination of all three), Democrats will be able to limit their losses significantly. Others are predicting a repeat of 1994, when Democrats lost 50 seats and control of the House."

So how bad could 2010 get for the Democrats? Let me say upfront that I tend to agree with analysts who argue that if we move into a "V"-shaped recovery and President Obama's job approval improves, Democratic losses could be limited to twenty or twenty-five seats.

That said, I think those who suggest that the House is barely in play, or that we are a long way from a 1994-style scenario are missing the mark. A 1994-style scenario is probably the most likely outcome at this point.

Orgone Blasters Chemtrails Aliens ELF Fight Back By Sherry Shriner

I had someone comment on my blog so I followed the link to their website. Sometimes you just can't make things up. This Sherry Shriner blends every form of syncretistic belief into the weirdest hybrid I have ever seen.

From secret codes, reptilians, mystery names for God (she has a fetish for Yahweh which is the Hebrew YHWH commonly referred to as the tetragrameton), plane chemtrails, the power of crystals and on and on... Every conspiracy out there, is thrown together, vigorously stirred and out pops...I'm not sure what to call it.

You can't even really call this false prophecy because no one will believe it unless they themselves have refused to take their meds.

The world is full of interesting people that need our prayer and a really good Christian counselor. May God reveal Himself to her.

Orgone Blasters Chemtrails Aliens ELF Fight Back By Sherry Shriner: "The Lord is raising up a group of Warriors to prepare for, and fight against, the arrival of the Antichrist and his forces on earth. Joel 2, Rev, 9 and Rev. 16 mention literal alien and demonic invasions on earth. The orgone will protect the Lord's people and their properties against them. The orgone to aliens is like garlic to vampires. It destroys them. WE CAN DESTROY THEM! By disseminating orgone throughout our towns, cities, states, and country we can make our land, air, and water uninhabitable for them! We can annihilate them by the millions!"

The Teaparty Movement, The Democrat Party, Racism and Incitement! • Looking at the Left

Well worth the read:

The Teaparty Movement, The Democrat Party, Racism and Incitement! • Looking at the Left: "After a massive kickoff rally in Searchlight, Nevada, the Tea Party Express III is winding its way across America. They are received by large rallies of Tea Party patriots in city after city along the way. The three bus, 43 city tour arrives in Washington DC this week for a mega-rally on tax day April 15th.

Recent polls show that the Tea Party movement has bipartisan support. Despite a year-long stream of hate speech and lies from the mainstream media and Democrat officials, 63% of Americans say their views are closer to the Teaparty’s than to the President’s.

The mainstream media, in lockstep with the Administration, has gone to the gutter in their effort to brand this important movement as a pack of howling racists."

Urban Traffic: San Francisco 1906

Absolutely fascinating:

Car Lust: Urban Traffic: "This video has been making the rounds of late. It's Market Street in San Francisco on April 14, 1906, four days before the great 1906 Earthquake."


Here's the same street after the Quake:

Fighting Allergies by Mimicking Parasitic Worms

This makes a lot of sense, I've wondered why allergies seem so much more prevalent today:

Technology Review: Fighting Allergies by Mimicking Parasitic Worms: "As blossoming spring trees spew pollen, many allergy sufferers would be grateful for a more effective way to alleviate their itchy misery. How about swallowing a batch of pig whipworm eggs, or deliberately infecting oneself with the fecal-dwelling hookworm? Yucky as these options sound, mounting evidence in both humans and animals suggests that infection with these parasitic worms seems to protect against a number of inflammatory diseases, including asthma and allergy, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, and type 1 diabetes."

French Leader Sarkozy Slams Obama, Warns He Might Be Insane | EUTimes.net

Sarkozy understands the man:

Update:  I have serious reservations about this story and quite frankly don't believe it:

French Leader Sarkozy Slams Obama, Warns He Might Be Insane | EUTimes.net: "A new report circulating in the Kremlin today authored by France’s Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) and recently “obtained” by the FSB shockingly quotes French President Nicolas Sarkozy as stating that President Barack Obama is “a dangerous[ly] alie'ne'”, which translates into his, Obama, being a “mad lunatic”, or in the American vernacular, “insane”.

According to this report, Sarkozy was “appalled” at Obama’s “vision” of what the World should be under his “guidance” and “amazed” at the American Presidents unwillingness to listen to either “reason” or “logic”. Sarkozy’s meeting where these impressions of Obama were formed took place nearly a fortnight ago at the White House in Washington D.C., and upon his leaving he “scolded” Obama and the US for not listening closely enough to what the rest of the World has to say."

Notes About Rights

Very interesting:

Hot Air Blog Archive Notes from the SRLC fringe: "The Bill of Rights also followed a pattern, which was to lift the innate, natural rights of citizens above the power of government.The rights in those first ten amendments again flowed from the concept of natural law, which flow from the individual and not from the society in which the individual lives. The rights to speech, assembly, privacy, petition for redress of grievances, to keep and bear arms, and so on come from the individual himself as a consequence of his humanity – and require no gift or confiscation from government.

Note that the founders did not add a right to health care, or to food, or shelter, or even water in this bill. Why? Each of those items existed in those days, obviously, and were just as critical to life and happiness as they are today. However, to grant a right to food, as an example, would directly contradict the idea that the farmer who grows the food has a right to ownership of the fruits of his labors – literally speaking, in this instance. It sets in motion a confiscatory requirement to satisfy that right. Someone has to seize that food and distribute it to others in order to bring that “right” to fruition."