There used to be a time when a Cuban dictator telling an American President to ignore Congress and side with Communism was frowned upon in Washington. Now, not so much. It’s also been revealed that the whole effort is merely a plan to funnel enormous amounts of cash directly to the Castro regime, cheating workers out of 92% of their earnings by foreign (U.S.) companies. Story by the Daily Caller and Breitbart. Graphic by the Earl. Feliz Navidad.
Filed under Barack Obama, Cuba, Fidel Castro
Breitbart – A modern American president lives in a bubble of security, mostly shielded from the rest of the country. But that doesn’t protect the Obamas from racism, the First Lady says in an exclusive interview with People magazine.
Oh yeah. This’ll bring the country together…
Filed under Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Race Relations
On Tuesday, December 9, 2014, President Obama told us that “the good book says don’t throw stones at glass houses, or make sure we’re looking at the log in our eye before we are pointing out the mote in other folks eyes.”
What is it with this guy? He’s got the first saying wrong, plus, oh wait, it’s NOT from the Bible.
The earliest known use of the idea is in Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ (1385), which would put it … oh … 1300 years after the last New Testament book was penned.
To his (very small) credit, the second part of his bumbling statement is kinda, sorta from the Bible.
“Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye” (Matthew 7:3-5).
It’s a little hard to fathom how the “smartest man on the planet” managed to render Jesus’ teaching about “removing the log” (confessing and repenting of our sins) before presuming to “remove the splinter” (correct the sins of another) as,
“Make sure we’re looking at the log in our eye before we are pointing out the mote in other folks eyes.”
Of course, he can get away with any number of idiotic statements here on Earth, because his followers are all either complicit or illiterate. But this baloney isn’t going to fly with the Lord of the good book he so glibly mangles. Jesus introduced the log/splinter/eye thing with this chilling admonition:
“The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you” (Matthew 7:2).
Sources:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/09/obama-says-immigrants-are-saving-social-security/
http://originsofsayings.blogspot.com/2006/08/people-who-live-in-glass-houses-should.html
Filed under Barack Obama
British-born American photographer Luke Somers was killed by his captors early this morning during a U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six rescue attempt. A South African hostage, Pierre Korkie, was also killed. Quoted by the NY Times, President Obama said in a statement:
It is my highest responsibility to do everything possible to protect American citizens. As this and previous hostage rescue operations demonstrate, the United States will spare no effort to use all of its military, intelligence and diplomatic capabilities to bring Americans home safely, wherever they are located.
The President made no mention of his earlier failure to approve a rescue attempt for James Foley and Steven Sotloff until it was delayed for over a month and was eventually canceled. Those hostages were eventually beheaded on video. He also was vague about his role in repeated “stand down” orders that allowed Americans, including a U.S. Ambassador, to be slaughtered in Benghazi, Libya a few years ago. Further, his strong statement was immediately contradicted by political analysts, speaking anonymously, who assured members of the Press that this failure makes it almost certain that the President will never approve another rescue attempt again out of fear of this kind of failure. In short, nothing the President said this morning has even the remotest chance of resembling any kind of truth, so we can expect it to be widely reported today with total acceptance and enthusiasm by all Media except Fox News and the Jerusalem Post. Image of Sana’a, Yemen by GetInTravel.
Filed under Armed Forces, Barack Obama, ISIS
Obama has destroyed the Democratic Party.
In 2006 and 2008, Democrats picked up 14 Senate seats and 52 House seats and the press was touting the death of the GOP. In 2010 and 2012, voters decisively returned control of Congress to Republicans. Obama’s leadership also brought low the Kennedy and Clinton dynasties and bumped Jimmy Carter out of the “Worst President Ever” spot, which I’m sure is a comfort to the good folks of Georgia.
Obama has completely exposed Liberals and Progressives to a new generation.
While Democrats pompously claim to be helping the poor with their tax, borrow and spend policies, what really happens is that they reward themselves and political cronies with enormous wealth while driving the poor and middle class down. They ignore our safety at home and abroad by allowing infrastructure to decay and refusing to defend us from our enemies.
Obama has brought more Americans back to the Conservative Movement than anyone since Reagan.
Talk about community organizing! Just in his first year in the White House, Obama almost single-handedly shook millions of freedom-loving Americans out of their political lethargy and launched them into the Tea Party movement. After six years, the Tea Party is still going strong, while the Democrats’ counter “movements” — Occupy and Coffee Party — have faded from memory like one-hit rock bands.
Obama has rejuvenated Americans’ commitment to protecting and defending ALL of our rights.
During the Obama’s years, abortion rates have declined, a record number of abortion clinics have closed, sales of firearms and ammunition have sky-rocketed, traditionally Democrat groups, like Blacks and Catholics, have woken up to the fact that Democrat policies destroy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and disgust with the Democrat-shilling media has risen to the point where this year’s Most Trusted Journalist is Fox’s Bret Baier.
Filed under Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Constitution, Democrats, Republicans
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Filed under Barack Obama, Democrats, Harry Reid, U.S. Senate
Barack Obama: 20 Quotes on Islam; 20 quotes on Christianity–So Which is He?
Barack Obama on Islam:
1. “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”
2. “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”
3. “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world – including in my own country.”
4. “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
5. “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
6. “Islam has always been part of America”
7. “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”
8. “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”
9. “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
10. “I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”
11. “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”
12. “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”
13. “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”
14. “throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”
15. “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality”
16. “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”
17. “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”
18. “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”
19. “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
20. “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”
Barack Obama on Christianity:
1. “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
2. “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”
3. “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”
4. “Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”
5. “The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”
6. From Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex-nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.”
7. Obama’s response when asked what his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with my values.”
8. “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they.”
9. “This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and proselytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re going to hell.”
10. “I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That’s just not part of my religious makeup.”
11. “I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.”
12. “I’ve said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do not believe she went to hell.”
13. “Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God’s will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”
14. On his support for civil unions for gay couples: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.”
15. “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
16. “In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology”
17. “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”
18. “We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own”
19. “All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra – (applause) – as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)”
20. “I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”
SOURCE: Clash Daily.
Filed under Barack Obama, Funny Stuff
From the second the bedwetting farce who calls himself the president first realized that being white meant nothing but being black could get you special set-asides race has been his stock-in-trade. Without his tan hide,he’s nothing but another drooling Muslim fanatic too cowardly to blow himself up. Being from Illinois I’ve had to put up with his shit for a very long time and frankly I really don’t care anymore when somebody says I’m a racist.
This is not news. I’ve never denied my disgust with a segment of society thats been raised being told the white man is the root cause of all their trouble,nothing is their fault and it’s easier to start having kids you can’t support before you finish high school and live off the largesse of the very people they’ve been taught to despise. Start stealing at 8 years old,hijacking cars at 13 and committing armed robberies at 16. It beats working until you get caught….or killed.
The four racial stooges are pushing hard for a full-blown race war which I fear may actually happen. The antagonists know nothing will ever happen to them and they fear nothing. It’s all a sick power trip. The abject failure (or success,if you prefer) of the educational system to impart any usable knowledge to a generation incapable of independent or analytical thinking is the awful price we continue to pay.
They just believe whatever the demagogues tell them. These are the people burning,looting stores,raising hell in general when few,if any,bother with the facts. Facts won’t get you Air Jordans or a flat screen TV. There will come a time,sooner rather than later,when shots will be fired out of anger or frustration and the racilaists will claim another victory.
BETCHA NEVER HEARD SOME OF THIS FROM THE LSM
Filed under Barack Obama, Ferguson
Remember David Letterman’s sex “joke” about Sarah Palin’s then-14 year old daughter Willow? Or the demented Trig Palin theories espoused by Dan Savage, et al? Nobody lost their jobs over those appalling attacks on a politician’s minor children.
But hey … judge for yourself. This is what Lauten said on her Facebook page: “Dear Sasha and Malia, I get you’re both in those awful teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family, try showing a little class. At least respect the part you play.” And this is what prompted her remarks.
Personally, I think she had a point and the whole “political kids are off limits” schtick is crap IN THIS INSTANCE. These girls were at a public function, not at a school or family function. If they want to be off limits, they need to stay out of the spotlight.
As for being forced to resign … what the hell?! Lauten’s boss is a jerk for not sticking up for her and telling the liberal shrieking class that an apology was enough and they should go find some actual NEWS to report on … like the debt for instance. Or how Russia now has more nukes than we do. Or how many Americans have been injured and killed in Obama’s War in Afghanistan.
Filed under Barack Obama, Media Bias
Well, this is one way to solve an immigration crisis. The “Give me your tired, your poor…” line from the Statue of Liberty is only meaningful if we can truly boast that our poor are better off in some way from the worst slums and ghettoes of the third world. Otherwise, who would want to come here? According to a recent urban youth well-being study, we have already lost out to Africa in this struggle. As Diogenes put it, recently, President Obama and his suicidal sycophants in the Black Community share much blame in this:
The destruction of black America under the leadership of Barack Obama is unprecedented since the abolition of slavery, yet they follow blindly, yelling racism.
In the Vocativ graphic below, urban Baltimore is rated below Ibadan, Nigeria in all three categories of well-being. Hat tip to Diogenes’ Middle Finger News Service for the story.
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Filed under Barack Obama, Poverty
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