Earthquake disrupts Obama's Golf game...

It was Bush's fault. Bush and Rove fire up their weather/natural disaster machine to keep Obama from teeing off on time.

That'll teach him.

The Undecider

Obama and his lapdogs, the legacy media outlets, have put me in a rather strange dilemma... whether to laugh or to cry.

Obama had precisely nothing of meaning to say about the situation in Libya until the UN Security Council decided Ghadafi was bad. So they are going to impose a no-fly zone over a sovereign country, who it could be argued, is merely trying to quell a foreign funded insurrection. Which is not untrue.

I could detail the reasons why Ghadafi is evil incarnate, falling just short of Idi Amin in the way of evil, except Ghadafi has not been accused of cannibalism... yet. And I say yet because in order for the UN and the US media to complete their portrayal of Ghadafi as a complete misanthropic bastard they have to try to overcome the complete asinine decision to put Libya on the human rights committee.

Ghadafi is not a friend of the US, but aside from the Lockerbie bombing Libya has not been an enemy either. He feared the US, offering to turn over his entire nuke program to the Brits in exchange for the US not bombing his house again while they conducted GW2. Of course he later amended his offer for his nukes in exchange for British and US conventional weapons, which everyone thought was a fair trade.

But back to why Obama is an embarrassing non-leader... after the UN granted Libya a seat on the Human Rights Committee they authorized armed force against Ghadafi because of his human rights violations. So when was the UN right, granted the grandfatherly author of children's books a high prestige position in the UN, or when the UN decided the strong arm dictator was committing genocide?

Obama, basing his position on Libya based on the schizophrenic asshats in the UN, demonstrates that he cannot make any decisions that don't involve brackets for the NCAA tournaments (and even there he chose the 1st seed in each division to make it to the final four.. not exactly taking any risks there.)

Don't get me wrong, Ghadafi is a blemish on the world, but he had been a relatively harmless blemish. And since there is credible evidence that his insurrection is being orchestrated by Al Qaeda, fighting along side him, instead of against him, might be in the best interests of the US.

But the Undecider took the path of least resistance and drifted along with the current... but what if the current is forcing his rudderless craft towards the precipice of a raging waterfall?

From his first crisis while in office, when he backed the legally deposed former President over the constitutionally backed President Obama is always on the wrong side of things to when he waited until Mubarack was on the ropes then jumped ugly and the Saudi King publicly told him to back off and let his former ally save face. Lets hope this is not another one of those times.

Grandma is a union thug

I was flying through Atlanta last week returning from spring break when in the train that runs between the terminals the car I was in was suddenly half filled with a gaggle of elderly women wearing matching hi-viz green tee shirts with a flag and the words "good Bless America" on front and a message on the back saying: 1. I will remember 2. I vote.

I was amused as I knew that there was a union rally in Atlanta the previous day. But these union Grandma's were all flying out of the city without carry on luggage. So curiousity won and I asked the woman who was closest to me what union they were with, instead of answering she looked at her friend and the obvious Alpha Granny who growled (literally) why I wanted to know. I explained it was obvious they were going to a protest and as former union member I supported their right (I didn't add to wear ugly shirts in public). She gave me their local number, but didn't identify the union nor my next question of where they were going, my attempt at breaking the ice failed so taking a picture of the stampeding herd as the door opened at Terminal B was out of the question.

Taking stock of the situation as I waited 5 hours for my flight while some ersatz Romeo penetrated me with his eyes (he literally stared at my crotch for most of the time except when we escaped to the Fox Sports bar for some Bloody Marias) left me disappointed I could not drag more information out the union thugs. They were all white, on the other side of 60, all in matching shirts, obviously representing a union but did not want to disclose which one, were spoiling for a fight before even getting to where they were going, and aside from one woman who appeared to be in her mid to late 70s they were all heavy weights... obese to morbidly obese, and reluctant to tell me where they were going.

It is my contention that if they really believed in the cause they were about to board a plane to rally for they would be talking about it. But from the anger displayed by the group so early in the morning and before getting to the demonstration, and the uniform air of contempt as they stormed onto and out of the train car it occurred to me as though they may have been at a perverse sort of pep rally prior to coming to the airport.

It also occurred to me that none of these people likely had jobs that paid enough to pay enough for them to take a vacation outside the state so it had to be the union that was footing the bill. And they had no carry ons, just purses, so they either checked their luggage, or more likely, were taking a day trip.

Union demonstrations are the new astroturf. Pelosi fired off that invective at the true grassroots TEA Parties, but note how she and the administration are saying nothing about scores of union members being shuttled around the country for finely orchestrated rallies that, like the Town Hall counter protesters of summer 2009, are inciting violence to which the left and their monkeys in the media have chosen to remain blind and ignorant.

Never waste a good crisis

The liberal Democrats in congress, along with their winged monkeys, the lame stream media have certainly not let this crisis go to waste.

A hand gun was used so naturally everyone expected the usual clamoring for more controls on handguns. This being championed by Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) who reports she is "readying a bill" to restrict access to handguns. This was not unexpected as she rode to the attention of NY, and to the Congress, as a staunch gun control advocate after she detracted blame from the man who killed her husband and wounded her son and instead directed her attention at the illegally possessed handgun he used.

But then two more knee jerk reactionists leaped into the fray. One only radically dangerous, the other making an outright attempt to burn the Constitution.

The radically dangerous proposal is by Rep. Robert Brady (D-PA) who wants to make it a federal crime to "use words or symbols that may be perceived to be a threat" to a federal employee. In the wake of the shooting all of the media attention is pointing out Sarah Palin used a crosshairs symbol to mark the districts where the TEA Party Express was putting their resources but failed to point out the DCCC has used a similar strategy biannually for at least a decade, as did Kos who marked the districts of Democat congress members who did not vote for Pelosi as Speaker last week, including Mrs Giffford's district, with a bulls eye symbol.

And that is the part that makes his proposal radicaly dangerous (and why the media is not jumping all over him for it). It is bad enough that he is proposing a thought police type of control, where it is the perception of the act, not the act that is illegal. What makes it radically dangerous, and the Palin example demonstrates, is that identical acts can be percieved differently depending on the politics involved.

This proposal tramples a citizen' First Amendment rights by suppresing not only their right to express their displeasure to their elected Representatives, it also would also make free speech illegal if it could possibly be perceived as a threat.

But as eggregious as that asshat is to the First Amendment, Rep Clyburn (D-SC) is even a greater threat. Rep. Clyburn is proposing the ultimate suppression of the free media, a return of the paradoxically titles Fairness Doctrine. Because the leftard media, along with leftard politicians, has also picked up on this meme of "rhetoric of hate" which lead to this tragedy. And this aside from the fact that this person was not known to be politically active or in any way influenced by the so called hateful rhetoric that Clyburn seems content to p*ss on the Constitution in order to suppress.

This triumvirate of asshats is willing to capitalize on this tragedy to restrict our 2nd Amendment rights while strangling the 1st Amendment for citizens and the media.

Forget that their proposed actions will do precisely NOTHING to prevent the recurrance of this type of tragedy from recurring... the leftard Democrats will never let an opportunity to suppress liberty pass by, especially in the name of keeping us safe (or keeping the children safe... note the media's preoccupation with the 9 year old victim while virtually ignoring the other 5 people killed.)

The media, along with the leftards (and backed by non-leftard statists) in Congress are setting up an environemnt where people will gladly forfeit their liberties, wihtout telling them that nothing could have been done to predict or prevent this event, not will any law prevent it from occurring again.