Snark of the Day by Doctor Charles Kruthammer:
[President Barack] Obama is not the first president with a large streak of narcissism. But the others had equally expansive feelings about their country. Obama’s modesty about America would be more understandable if he treated himself with the same reserve. What is odd is to have a president so convinced of his own magnificence — yet not of his own country’s.
Hat tip: Aleister, Legal Insurrection,
Seldom has one man lacked so much modesty, for so little reason.
Brace yourself. from Courthouse News Service:
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) – After waiting for four hours for dialysis with a shunt in his arm, a veteran told a Veterans Administration hospital he was leaving, whereupon VA police beat the hell out of him and stomped on his carotid artery, giving him a stroke that killed him, and they lied to his wife about it, the widow claims in court.
Here, dear reader, we have it all. Police brutality, the VA in a nutshell, and with it our own future with Obamacare.
I can say all of this with no fear of contradiction because at the bottom line, this is government in it’s pure form.
Addendum and edit: DavidL
Speaker Tablecloth, a/k/a the Botox Queen touts Single Payer as an “improvement” to Obama Care, video:
Of course, Speaker Tablecloth will insist on imposing Obama Care on the mere peasants. She will exempt her and the ruling class from the draconian system.
Hat tip and more: Saving the Republic:
Single payer is and always was the end goal for obamacare. Complete govt control over everyone’s healthcare also allows the govt to control your life!
Govt controlled healthcare aka single payer has worked out so well just ask our friends across the pond or better yet the VA! The mess with the VA is single payer and that is what Pelosi, obama and all the progressives want for the entire nation.
If I were but emperor, I’d balance my budget with a tax on Botox.
Paging Algore, Memorial in Marquette, photo:
Hat tip photo: Watts Up with That
Story, Anthony Watts, Watts Up with That:
IceAgeNow writes: As of today, 27 May 2014, Lake Superior ice cover stands at 4.3% – the greatest level of ice seen on this date, not only on Lake Superior, but on all of the Great Lakes since modern satellite records in 1980-81. Get a load of this picture that shows the Lake Superior beaches on Memorial Day.
What say you, Al?
Imagine, if you will, that while Lady Bird Johnson was attempting to beautify our national highways, whe was a secret litter bug. Or that while Nancy Reagan pleaded for kids to just say no to illegal drug, she herself a a druggie. Or while Laura Bush was promoting reading, it was revealed that Mrs. Bush was illiterate. Imagine the cries of hypocrisy.
Hat tip: Cripes Suzette
Yet today my hypothetical has been a fact. FLOTUS, a/k/a the Fat Lady of the United States, b/k/a Michelle Obama continues her one woman crusade against school children and their lunches:
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is answering Republicans in Congress who want to roll back healthier school meal standards, holding an event at the White House to highlight the success of the health guidelines.
The Tuesday event is an unusual move for the first lady, who has largely stayed away from policy fights since she lobbied for congressional passage of a child nutrition law in 2010.
Sam Kass, director of Mrs. Obama’s Let’s Move initiative to combat childhood obesity, said a Republican bill that would allow schools to opt out of the standards is “a real assault” on administration efforts to make foods healthier for kids.
It should be obvious that the only thing FLOTUS knows about diet and exercise plans is that hers does not work.
Snark of the Day from Neo-Neocon:
Apparently Kim [Kardashian] and the father of her child got married over the weekend. This was what Kim and one of her sisters wore to a pre-wedding dinner. Kim looks like she was interrupted while getting ready for a Tae Kwon Do class and misplaced her belt.
It is Memorial Day (observed) and not exactly political, but I am in the mood for some catty snark. Enjoy.
Still need proof our government is out of control?
Here you are.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/america/department-of-agriculture-seeking-to-purchase-submachine-guns/
Remember Valarie Plame the non-covert CIA stateside employee was not outed by one Lewis “Scooter” Libby? Well unlike Affair de Plame, the Obama regime has outed a real covert deployed CIA employee. I would assume to soon to be former CIA chief of station for Afghanistan, from Scott Johnson, Powerline:
Meanwhile in Kabul
Today comes word that the White House blew the cover of the CIA station chief in Kabul by identifying him in a list submitted to Washington Post White House bureau chief Scott Wilson and other reporters covering Obama’s trip to Kabul. Wilson copied the list in the pool report that he disseminated to 6,000 recipients (“including foreign media, not taking part in the trip”) before noting the reference to the “Chief of Station” named on the list.
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We have two-and-a-half years to go before Obama serves out his term and makes way for his successor. We are in the Killer Rabbit phase of his presidency, when the consequences of disastrous policies manifest themselves and pure cock-ups cannot be concealed. The president is Carterized; he becomes a figure of derision. He’s only holding the office down temporarily, but it’s a long, long way to temporary.
By retracting and redacting the press release, will the Regime Obama now pretend nothing happened?
I feel like a dog is forest of fire hydrants, or in military parlance a target rich environment. Jerome Hudson manages to tie in two of my favorite targets, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and the National Association for the Advancement of [Liberal] Colored People, together with Donald Sterling. I am not a big fan of ambush interviews, but in this case, the Reverend Sharpton does not know when or how to hold his tongue, from Daily Surge:
Daily Surge Publisher Jason Mattera asked the faux Civil Rights leader if he should be banned from television, “in the spirit of Donald Sterling,” for all the “racist stuff” he’s said over the years. Sharpton, recall, threatened boycotts and protests if the National Basketball Association failed to ban Sterling from the league.
If you can believe it, Sharpton challenged Mattera to produce evidence of racism.
And when that evidence was produced, easily (see above) – in this case, him calling Fred Harari a “white interloper” and David Dinkins a n***** – Sharpton ignored the shot at Dinkins, but ridiculously claimed that “whiter interloper” didn’t rise to the level of racism because it was directed at only one Jew, not a neighborhood of them.
video:
Call me cynical, but it is hard to take any political movement which uses the Reverend Al Sharpton as a spokesman seriously. That is a shame. The black population is rift with problems. However, idiots like Sharpton are not trying to solve any of them.
Addendum I: Eric
Full on agreement with David, here. One addition I would make to his comment, though… there’s a major difference between Sterling and Sharpton. Sterlings comments were made in private, then recorded and released without his permission. Sharpton has been laying his racism out, overtly in the press for a generation and more… to the resounding approval of the left. This difference speaks volumes.
Addendum II: David
A significant difference between Sterling and Sharpton, is only Sterling in smart enough, or honest enough, to be aware that his remarks would be considered offensive. Sterling spent what millions trying to buy redemption from the NAA[L]CP. In contrast, Sharpton wears his antisemitism as if it were some kind of badge of of honor.
So what besides being the daughter of a genuine war hero and political traitor has Meghan McCain ever done to deserve the media spotlight? From Politico:
Meghan McCain was sharply critical of Karl Rove during an interview with Larry King, going so far as to say she hates him and that he needs to apologize to her family.
The daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential nominee showed no love for the political commentator and said he is no longer a relevant political figure, according to a transcript of the interview from Ora.TV’s “PoliticKING with Larry King” that will air on Thursday night.
“I hate Karl Rove and I think he still needs to apologize to my family, which he has not done, for things that happened in 2000,” McCain said. “I think there was an era where Karl Rove was relevant and I don’t know why people still give him attention.”
Unlike the Clan McCain, the Arizona branch, Karl Rove attacks democrats, gets under their skin and has even managed to win a couple of national elections. Meanwhile back at the dude ranch, Miss McCain only bares her fangs to attack republicans.
Snark of the Day from Karen, Lonely Conservative:
Since Michelle Obama began her war on lunch the number of students participating in the National School Lunch Program is down by more than a million students.
As I wrote 28 Aug. 2008
Jim Geraghty’s Law, National Review
:All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.
Moe Lane today:
White House won’t say if Barack Obama gave up 5% of his salary for shutdown solidarity.
Because Barack Obama said that he would – voluntarily, mind you; it’d be illegal to dock the President’s pay – only when the Washington Free Beacon called to check, well…
I bought into Geraghty’s argument that if Barrack Obama would not keep his promises as a candidate, he would not keep them as president. You may applaud now.
From a speech by the only American to have a day singularly in his honor, Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. from American Rhetoric:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
The pitfalls of working with whites as per the White Privilege Conference, include:
18. Practice Colorblindness.
28. Believe the greatest achievement they can make is to transcend race or ethnicity.
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.
I don’t view racism is a vice, but rather a fact. Show me a person who denies being racist, and I will show you either a fool or a liar. Colorblindness simply does not work.
We listened to the speech. We tried colorblindness. It did not work. Can we please have the holiday back?
Snark of the Day by Sarah Palin:
Hey! Hillary’s brain is off-limits! Leave her health records alone! Democrats are right – scouring records of a female candidate is just politics of personal destruction, and for the media to engage in it would be unfair, unethical, and absolutely UNPRECEDENTED. You can’t probe a woman like that because, well, it’s a war on women!
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Just ask me. And Trig.
If I included what I excluded by the snip, it would be an article and not a snark.
The Clinton’s can only gain B.J’s third chance to soil the carpet in the Oval Office if they can define what issues are and are not off-limits to the lame stream media. Just say no to media control by Arkansas white trash.
Mrs. Clinton believes that citizens have too much free access to guns. Yet Mrs. Clinton has not given up her Secret Service protection. How strange. I we need more free citizens with free access to weapons, from NY Daily News:
BAUCHI, Nigeria — Villagers in an area of Nigeria where Boko Haram operates have killed and detained scores of the extremist Islamic militants who were suspected of planning a fresh attack, the residents and a security official said.
Locals in Nigeria’s northern states have been forming vigilante groups in various areas to resist the militant group who have held more than 270 schoolgirls captive since last month.
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On Tuesday morning, after learning about an impending attack by militants, locals ambushed two trucks with a gunmen, a security official told The Associated Press. At least 10 militants were detained, and scores were killed, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give interviews to journalists. It was not immediately clear where the detainees were being held
Hat tip and reax, Truth About Guns:
Ever since the Boko Haram hit the net – and before – TTAG recommended a simple solution to the terrorist threat against Nigerian non-believers: arm civilians. Give them guns and let them defend themselves. Needless to say, the mainstream media didn’t even so much as mention the possibility of armed self-defense. Equally, the Nigerian population afflicted by the Boko Haram scourge didn’t need our advice on the matter.
Vigilante justice appears when the criminal justice system does exist, or function Such is the case in Nigeria.
