Narcissistic views on News/Politics

Religious people who trusted Obama on Contraception mandate were stupid.

2012-02-03T00:33:00.000-05:00

Obama doesn't care about anything other than getting reelected and if that means throwing naive religious people who thought they would be exempt from birth controls rules, so be it. Obama worships liberalism. That is the only thing he answers too and the reason he tried to make a point that God inspired him to raise taxes.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells Egyptians don't look at the U.S. Constitution.

2012-02-03T00:26:00.000-05:00

I mean its only one of the few that every other nation uses as a template for their own constitution since it carries basic human rights and a manner of how the people should hold power over its own affairs and its own government.

But for liberals like Ginsburg, international law is better.

2011 OSCARS: The weakest field in recent history?

2012-01-25T02:16:00.000-05:00

The fact they could only get nine films for best picture Oscar instead of the bloated 10 says a lot about the quality of the movies over the last year. I like the Artist but come on, this is Hollywood loving Hollywood and going gaga over a film that went back in history to seem "cool" to baby boomers and hipsters. Nothing about the nominations make this show a must watch event.

Obama lying about boosting domestic energy production.

2012-01-25T02:09:00.000-05:00

Via Instapundit the detailed rebuttal even though the casual observer had to do a double take considering how Obama and his EPA have done everything they can to destroy domestic production of gas and oil, Obama stopping the Keystone pipeline, banning drilling off the coasts and damaging oil production in the gulf.

But that is Obama's MO which is to throw out number, depend on the media not to call him on it while making people thinking he is actually doing the opposite.

Indiana becoming a right to work state, Dems and union thugs protest and flee

2012-01-25T02:03:00.002-05:00

If the unions were so confident in their awesomeness of being unions, why protest the right of people to not join a union?

With Republican-controlled Indiana on the verge of becoming a “right to work” state, Democrats in the State House on Tuesday took the only step they have left to prevent it, if only for a bit longer. They disappeared. Again.

A final vote on the measure, which would ban union contracts from requiring nonunion members to pay fees for representation, had been expected on Tuesday in the House, which Republicans dominate 60 to 40. But with scores of union members and supporters filling the Statehouse halls in Indianapolis in protest, most Democrats refused to turn up for floor sessions — not once but twice on Tuesday afternoon.

The absences, only the latest in a series of absences and fierce partisan debate over the issue during the state’s legislative session, meant Republicans did not have enough members on the floor to do business; 67 representatives are required.

And so, with the national spotlight soon to descend on Indianapolis for the Super Bowl and with the tense standoff only rising among lawmakers and protesters, Indiana finds itself at the center of a fight over the role of unions and their power, not unlike the issues that boiled over last year in Ohio and Wisconsin.

Republicans say the right to work legislation would allow workers who do not wish to support unions not to be forced to and would entice new businesses to move to Indiana, which would be the first state in more than a decade to approve such a provision. Democrats say the measure, more common in states outside the traditional Midwestern manufacturing belt, would weaken unions and lead to lower pay and benefits for workers.

Obama's big government interference is here and Margaret Thatcher's reponse

2012-01-25T02:00:00.001-05:00

Typical Obama big liberal government to "bridge" the wealth gap nonsense by dragging down those who he deems successful to give to those he feels had a life that is just not fair.

President Obama pledged on Tuesday night to use government power to balance the scale between America’s rich and the rest of the public, trying to present an election-year choice between continued leadership toward an economy “built to last” and what he called irresponsible policies of the past that caused an economic collapse.

Declaring that “we’ve come too far to turn back now,” the president used his final State of the Union address before he faces the voters to showcase the extent to which he will try to contrast his core economic principles with those of his Republican rivals in a time of deep economic uncertainty. While many Americans remain disappointed with the state of the economy and the president’s handling of it, Mr. Obama nonetheless tried to bring into relief the difference between where the country was when he took over and where it is now.

“The state of our union is getting stronger,” he declared in time-honored tradition. “In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs.” He pointed to renewed hiring by American manufacturers and — borrowing the “built to last” phrase from the auto industry he helped save — he sketched out, albeit vaguely, what he called a blueprint for economic growth in which the wealthy play by the same rules as ordinary Americans.

Republicans challenged Mr. Obama’s assessment of the economy, and asserted that his policies had made the situation worse. But with their own poll numbers diving, Congressional Republicans were subdued in their response to the speech, careful not to boo or seem disrespectful. And the president disputed their claim that he was practicing the politics of division.

“You can call this class warfare all you want,” Mr. Obama said of his call to create a more even economic playing field. “Most Americans would call that common sense.” He characterized the choice as one between whether “a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of Americans barely get by” or his own vision — “where everyone gets a fair shot.”

Thatcher's response ;)

Jon Stewart disingenuous bullshit "rage" over Mitt Romney's tax return.

2012-01-25T01:47:00.000-05:00

Jon Stewart makes about $15 million a year and worth about $80 million, he has to have investments and he gets money from those investments at the same sort of rate that Romney who is making his income from investments.

So to be "outraged" by comparing the tax rate of a guy working at TSA on his income means Jon Stewart is a liar or just stupid.

Obama admin call to stop deportations to Haiti leads to three murders in Miami.

2012-01-23T00:20:00.000-05:00

I wouldn't be surprised if there are more cases like this in America where good intentions leads to scum like this to stay here.

When burglar Kesler Dufrene became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti.

That never happened.

Instead, when Dufrene’s state prison term was up, Miami immigration authorities in October 2010 released him from custody. Two months later, North Miami police say, he slaughtered three people, including a 15-year-old girl in a murder case that remains as baffling today as it did the afternoon the bodies were discovered.

DNA on a rifle found inside the house and cellphone tracking technology later linked Dufrene to the Jan. 2, 2011, slayings.

But North Miami detectives never got to interrogate him. Just 18 days after the murders, Dufrene shot and killed himself when he was cornered by Manatee County sheriff’s deputies in Bradenton after an unrelated break-in and shooting there.

The episode is a black eye for U.S. authorities, who by law could not detain Dufrene indefinitely after the Obama administration ordered a temporary halt of deportations to the island nation. The deportations were halted because of the carnage wrought by Haiti’s January 2010 earthquake.

“Because of the moratorium on removals to Haiti in effect when Dufrene came into ICE custody, his removal to Haiti was not likely in the reasonably foreseeable future,” an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said in a statement Friday.

Obama to push for big government intervention into America's lives

2012-01-22T22:12:00.002-05:00

Just say you want full on socialism and get it over with already.

President Obama will use his election-year State of the Union address on Tuesday to argue that it is government’s role to promote a prosperous and equitable society, drawing a stark contrast between the parties in a time of deep economic uncertainty.

In a video preview e-mailed to millions of supporters on Saturday, as South Carolina Republicans went to the polls to help pick an alternative to him, Mr. Obama promised a populist “blueprint for an American economy that’s built to last,” with the government assisting the private sector and individuals to ensure “an America where everybody gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everybody plays by the same set of rules.”

Mr. Obama has honed that message for months as he has attacked Republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail, contrasting it with what he has described as Republicans’ “go it alone” free-market views.

Last week at fund-raisers in New York, he told supporters that his push for a government hand had a precedent dating to the construction of canals and interstate highways, and the creation of land-grant colleges and the G.I. Bill. He said that Republicans had moved so far to the right that 2012 will be a “hugely consequential election.”

Notably, Mr. Obama will again propose changes to the tax code so the wealthy pay more, despite Republicans’ consistent opposition. Americans overwhelmingly support the idea, polls show, and the White House hopes that it gains traction with voters, given last week’s acknowledgment by the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that he pays taxes at a lower rate than many middle-class Americans because most of his income comes from investments.

With most Americans registering disapproval of the president’s economic record after three years, it is all the more imperative for Mr. Obama to define the election not as a referendum on him but as a choice between his vision and that of his eventual Republican rival.

Obama orders free birth control for all.

2012-01-21T15:56:00.000-05:00

It means everyone will pay more to cover birth control for everyone else and paying for those who are already getting free healthcare paid by taxpayers.

Most healthcare plans will be required to cover birth control without charging co-pays or deductibles starting Aug. 1, the Obama administration announced Friday.

The final regulation retains the approach federal health officials proposed last summer, despite the deluge of complaints from religious groups and congressional Republicans that has poured in since then. Churches, synagogues and other houses of worship are exempt from the requirement, but religious-affiliated hospitals and universities only get a one-year delay and must comply by Aug. 1, 2013.

Jay-Z’s 40/40 club shut down for hours just after opening by health inspectors.

2012-01-21T13:03:00.001-05:00

Not the best reopening day ever.

Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club was shut down for a slew of health-code violations just a day after its celebrity-drenched $10 million relaunch — and now it faces a dreaded “C” grade, The Post has learned.

An inspector found perishable food at dangerously warm temperatures inside the walk-in refrigerator and discovered “hot” food left out on the counter on Thursday, Health Department sources said.

A worker was also seen mixing salsa with his bare hands.

The refrigerator was at a rancid 60 degrees instead of 41 — jeopardizing the safety of 50 pounds of raw chicken wings, five pounds of raw shrimp and 100 turkey burgers, the sources said.

Five pounds of cooked mashed potatoes, meanwhile, were left out at a temperature of 89 degrees, while 10 pounds of cooked rice and 50 turkey burgers were kept at 67 degrees.

All the hot foods should be at least 140 degrees, the sources said.

The club’s restaurant was immediately closed, and new patrons were barred from entering. Those already inside were allowed to remain.

“If you have a walk-in place with food like this, you put a hell of a lot of people at risk,” said the source. “A night of dinner and dancing should not include the risk of contracting food-borne illness.”

The nightspot corrected the problem and was cleared for business last night.

Illinois now the lowest graded state in the nation by Moody.

2012-01-21T13:00:00.000-05:00

Good to see all those tax hikes work wonders.

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois had its general-obligation bond rating reduced by Moody's Investors Service to A2 from A1, making it the company's lowest-graded U.S. state.

The downgrade to the sixth-highest level came after a legislative session that "took no steps to implement lasting solutions to its severe pension under-funding or to its chronic bill payment delays," Moody's said in a report. Illinois, it said, has "weak management practices."

Moody's revised its outlook on the debt to stable from negative, citing the state's power over revenue and spending, and laws that establish the priority of payment for general- obligation bonds. The downgrade affects $32 billion of debt, according to the statement.

Barack Obama's Middle East Miscalculation

2012-01-21T12:50:00.000-05:00

Less a miscalculation than being naive about the mideast. Egypt has gone from a dictatorship to a fundi Islam elected dictatorship.

The White House completely miscalculated in Egypt, as it did in Gaza. It seemed only to care for the mechanics of the electoral process rather than the meaning of the results. Washington vacillated on who its Egyptian allies really are. We had long shared with the Egyptian military understandings on national security, ours with an eye to maintaining peace in the region. That relationship is now pretty much lost.

Americans, in their perennial innocence, have demanded that the generals turn over power to the civilians whomever they may be, just as they did to the Persian shah, just as they did after Israel's pullout from Gaza when they hadn't a clue about the danger posed by Hamas. Our ingenuous attitude has been tantamount to handing over Egypt on a silver platter to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists, who ironically are coming into power as democrats.

Their new foreign policy will include opening the blockaded border with Gaza, ending normal relations with Israel, and opening them with Hamas and Iran in such a way as to alter the balance of power in the region against U.S. interests. Indeed, one of the few things that unites the political parties in Egypt is an anti-Western foreign policy. Cairo has already allowed Iran's warships to transit the Suez Canal; failed to protect pipelines supplying energy to Israel and Jordan; endorsed the union of Hamas and Fatah; and hosted conferences in support of "the resistance," that is, terrorism.

Greece creditors leave Athens without debt deal

2012-01-21T12:36:00.002-05:00

Just let Greece default, its over for them. The longer this drags out the worse it is for everyone else.

Chief negotiators for Greece's private creditors left Athens unexpectedly on Saturday without a deal on a debt swap plan that is vital to avert a chaotic default, sources close to the negotiations told Reuters.

A technical team stayed in the Greek capital to work on details and negotiations will continue over the phone but it is unlikely that a deal can be clinched before a crucial meeting Monday of euro zone finance ministers, the sources said.

Following several rounds of talks from Wednesday to Friday, Greece and its private creditors, represented by Institute of International Finance chief Charles Dallara, are converging towards a deal in which private creditors will take a real loss of 65 to 70 percent.

The new bonds would feature 30-year maturity and a progressive interest rate averaging out at 4 percent, a banking official close to the talks told Reuters.

Confidence in eurozone improves despite downgrades

2012-01-21T12:30:00.000-05:00

I don't know what confidence would improve when the problems are still there. I think they are in the denial stage.

France and Spain on Thursday sailed through their first bond market tests since Standard & Poor's downgraded their credit ratings last week, a sign that politicians and central bankers have at least temporarily stemmed the spread of Europe's debt crisis.

Worries about the 17-nation eurozone have receded since the start of the year, with stocks rallying consistently and bond yields — the rate countries pay to borrow — sliding.

Analysts warn, however, that those gains may simply be riding an absence of bad news — a looming recession could hinder efforts to slash deficits while Greece depends on a deal with banks to avoid a disastrous default this spring.

Spain and France held successful short-term debt auctions earlier in the week. Spain's success is at least partially thanks to the European Central Bank's massive injection of cheap money into the financial sector in December and its regular purchases of Spanish and Italian debt.

Microsoft "Avoid Ghetto" patent called racist! I call it awesome.

2012-01-21T00:49:00.001-05:00

Only the truly stupid people like NAACP Dallas members are calling it racist because they say it stereotypes black people. Color and Crime are not joined at the hip. Just pointing out high crimes area where the majority happen to be black is not racist.

The fact the NAACP head Juanita Wallace equates this app to black areas she represents is racist because instead of acknowledging high crime problems and helping to fix it, she blames the app for future racism.

Everyone would love an app that help you avoid bad areas.

7 students charged for beating up 13 year old on Ocala school bus

2012-01-21T00:32:00.002-05:00

Many angles to get at this story such as the media except for this site is not reporting on the racial angle since it was 7 black students beating up a white student. If it was reversed all hell would break loose.

Seven Marion County students face felony charges after a severe beating on a school bus that sent a 13-year-old girl to the hospital.

Zantavia Williams, 14, was among the students charged. The five girls and two boys all attended Liberty Middle School.

She said the beating happened Friday after a student got on the bus for the first time and was unfamiliar with the way students seated themselves. Black students normally sit in the back, white students in front. Williams said the student couldn't find a seat on the 16-row bus.

Marion County deputies said there were 74 students on board when the fight erupted. School officials said the bus has capacity for 89 students, if students sit three to a seat.

Williams said the victim, a white female, entered the back of the bus, and was told she would have to stand. Deputies said she was then hit by a shoe.

Williams said that's when the victim uttered a racial slur, and several black students began beating her.

Marion County Schools spokesman Kevin Christian said the bus driver did all he could to restore control on the bus.

He pulled over once, got the students to stop fighting, and then continued on his route. The fight then started again.

By the time authorities were called, the girl needed to be rushed to the hospital.

Guardian's comment section about Angry black women just enforces the image.

2012-01-14T23:29:00.000-05:00

Go Ahead and read it especially that miserable old bitty Bonnie Greer section. Then some wonder why some black men want nothing to do with black women.

Obama threw a Alice in Wonderland theme party at the White House.

2012-01-08T10:29:00.002-05:00

Let them eat cake!

It was the tea party the Obamas just couldn’t resist.

A White House “Alice in Wonderland” costume ball — put on by Johnny Depp and Hollywood director Tim Burton — proved to be a Mad-as-a-Hatter idea that was never made public for fear of a political backlash during hard economic times, according to a new tell-all.

“The Obamas,” by New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, tells of the first Halloween party the first couple feted at the White House in 2009. It was so over the top that “Star Wars” creator George Lucas sent the original Chewbacca to mingle with invited guests.

The book reveals how any official announcement of the glittering affair — coming at a time when Tea Party activists and voters furious over the lagging economy, 10-percent unemployment rate, bank bailouts and Obama’s health-care plan were staging protests — quickly vanished down the rabbit hole.

“White House officials were so nervous about how a splashy, Hollywood-esque party would look to jobless Americans — or their representatives in Congress, who would soon vote on health care — that the event was not discussed publicly and Burton’s and Depp’s contributions went unacknowledged,” the book says.

However, the White House made certain that more humble Halloween festivities earlier that day — for thousands of Washington-area schoolkids — were well reported by the press corps.

Then the Obamas went inside, where an invitation-only affair for children of military personnel and White House administrators unfolded in the East Room.

Unbeknownst to reporters, the State Dining Room had also been transformed into a secretive White House Wonderland.

Tim Burton decorated it “in his signature creepy-comic style. His film version was about to be released, and he had turned the room into the Mad Hatter’s tea party, with a long table set with antique-looking linens, enormous stuffed animals in chairs, and tiered serving plates with treats like bone-shaped meringue cookies,” reports the book, which The Post purchased at a Manhattan bookstore.

“Fruit punch was served in blood vials at the bar. Burton’s own Mad Hatter, the actor Johnny Depp, presided over the scene in full costume, standing up on a table to welcome everyone in character.”

The Obamas’ daughters, Malia and Sasha, then 11 and 8 respectively, “sat at the table, surrounded by a gaggle of their friends, and then proceeded to the next delight, a magic show in the East Room.”

Obama cuts military budgets, fires thousands of America troops

2012-01-06T23:13:00.000-05:00

He hasn't done a hatchet job like this to his precious welfare and entitlement program but he is pleasing liberals at making the military weaker.

— President Obama has for the first time put his own stamp on an all-encompassing American military policy by turning from the grinding ground wars that he inherited from the Bush administration and refocusing on what he described as a smaller, more agile force across Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East.

In an unusual appearance at the Pentagon briefing room on Thursday, Mr. Obama outlined a new national defense strategy driven by three realities: the winding down of a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, a fiscal crisis demanding hundreds of billions of dollars in Pentagon budget cuts and a rising threat from China and Iran.

A fourth reality, not mentioned in the briefing room, was Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign and the chorus of Republican presidential candidates who have sought to portray him as decimating the Pentagon budget and being weak in his response to Iran.

Mr. Obama, who spoke surrounded by a tableau of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in dress uniforms and with chests full of medals, underscored the national security successes of his administration — the ending of the Iraq war, the killing of Osama bin Laden and the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya — before declaring that the United States would downsize to a smaller ground force, get rid of “outdated cold war-era systems” and step up investments in intelligence-gathering and cyberwarfare.

Obama makes it easier for illegal immigrants to stay in America

2012-01-06T23:11:00.000-05:00

Obama is making it easier to come here illegally than legally just to pander to the liberal latino base for the election.

The Obama administration plans a rule change to help reduce the time illegal immigrant spouses and children are separated from citizen relatives while they try to win legal status in the United States, a senior administration official said.

Currently, illegal immigrants must leave the country before they can ask the government to waive a three- to 10-year ban on legally coming back to the U.S. The length of the ban depends on how long they have lived in the U.S. without permission.

The official said Thursday the new rule would let children and spouses of citizens ask the government to decide on the waiver request before the illegal immigrant heads to his or her home country to apply for a visa. The illegal immigrants still must go home to finish the visa process to come back to the U.S., but getting the waiver ahead of time could reduce the time an illegal immigrant is out of the country.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the proposed policy change had not been made public.

The waiver shift is the latest move by President Barack Obama to make changes to immigration policy without congressional action. Congressional Republicans repeatedly have criticized the administration for policy changes they describe as providing "backdoor amnesty" to illegal immigrants.

Awesome! Microsoft Patents ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Feature For GPS Devices

2012-01-06T23:08:00.000-05:00

This should be a must for all GPS devices. Just use the crime stats to steer people away from bad areas. That would me in South Florida half of Dade County.

Microsoft has been granted a patent for its “avoid ghetto” feature for GPS devices.

A GPS device is used to find shortcuts and avoid traffic, but Microsoft’s patent states that a route can be plotted for pedestrians to avoid an “unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is subject to harsh temperatures.”

Created for mobile phones, the technology uses the latest crime statistics and weather data and includes them when calculating a route.

LATIMES whines Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette is now RACIST

2012-01-06T23:05:00.000-05:00

In the process actually twists the meaning of uppity Negro. Anything mean about the Obamas is now labeled as racist. It is a very lazy leftist gimmick that has run its course. Hell, even by the loose definition of the Urban Dictionary to say that its racist to portray Michelle Obama who is completely tone deaf when it comes to the optics of taking lavish vacations is dishonest hackery.

Univision shows pro illegal immigrant bias, shakes down Senator Marco Rubio.

2012-01-02T23:39:00.001-05:00

Its not surprising to see the head of the liberal Univision network having a pro illegal agenda, but saying that pro Hispanic means being pro illegal immigration.

(Video) Big Fight on Miami's MetroRail Mover on New Year's Eve 2011

2012-01-01T09:48:00.000-05:00

Reason # 122200 I don't hate going Miami and its public transportation.