CONTENTS: Magic accounting (Pocopson, demographics); Born in Kenya (3 stories); Mitt won’t use JerryWright; Military detention blocked; Strassel – vampire capitalism; Kaminsky – Greek California; Van Jones ripped Eric Holder; Guzzardi – PA debt; Budget cut internal watch dogs; Schools grew cash stash; 6-figure pensioners – 3 stories; Malkin – another Chicago scheme; Defeating national defense; Watch lamps; Obama budget; O’Keefe fried Perdue; 53K dead Florida voters; Mitt’s fundraising, Maryland tax hike; FL cuts grade slack; Goldberg – violence can work; BO loses Dem primary?; more Reichstag; Announcements
Announcements: p. 11 and at http://www.deadcatsandclippings.com/?page_id=394
“The real class warfare in this country isn’t rich vs. poor, it’s government employees vs. we, the taxpayers, who pay their salaries.” Ann Coulter http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2012/05/16/sacrificial_scams
“Was Obama the first Birther?” Ed Driscoll http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/05/17/was-obama-himself-the-first-birther/
William Voegeli, NRO: “Magic Accounting”
“…The indictment is clear: Lots of Americans are conflicted and confused about our welfare state. That’s forgivable — its programs are numerous, enormous, and complex. What’s unforgivable is how conservative politicians, rather than disabuse people of these misconceptions, exploit them to win electoral victories. They do this, in some cases, because they share their constituents’ contradictory thinking about reducing programs while retaining protections. In other cases, they know full well that such an agenda is impossible, but cynically seek short-term political victories at the cost of long-term governmental problems…”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299463/magic-accounting-william-voegeli
The Pocopson “Home”?
William Voegeli, NRO: “…the fulfillment of our social-insurance contracts has become a grave problem because the myth of social insurance cannot be reconciled with the reality, political and fiscal, of social welfare. The Times cites an Urban Institute study showing that the value of social-insurance benefits is typically a multiple of the value of social-insurance taxes. In one example, a woman born in 1965 earns a midrange salary during her working years and deposits her (and her employers’) Medicare withholding taxes into an account that compounds annually at the inflation rate plus 2 percent interest. That account would be worth $87,000 by the time she retired in 2030 at age 65. ‘But on average,’ Appelbaum and Gebeloff report, ‘the government will then spend $275,000 on her medical care.’ http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299463/magic-accounting-william-voegeli?pg=3
Sabrina Tavernise, NYT: White Births Down
Read America Alone by Mark Steyn … Demographics are most of the “game” …
“WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.
“Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed race — reached 50.4 percent, representing a majority for the first time in the country’s history…”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/us/whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html?_r=1&hp
Breitbart: “. . . Born in Kenya . . .”
“Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
“The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
“It also promotes Obama’s anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White–which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
“Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below) …”
Breitbart: Fact Check? Doubtful . . .
“Miriam Goderich, who helped edit a 1991 booklet for Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which erroneously stated that Obama had been born in Kenya, has issued a press release–first reported by her own client at Political Wire:
‘You’re undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time. There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more.’
“Political Wire is run by Taegan Goddard, a client of Goderich’s agency, Dystel & Goderich.
“Goderich’s statement fails to explain why the “fact checking error” persisted for sixteen years, through at least three different versions of Jane Dystel’s website, and through at least four different versions of Obama’s biography…”
Roger Simon, PJM: “A tiny soupçon of doubt…”
“Reading the extraordinary revelation about Barack Obama’s youthful literary career on Breitbart.com — that his agents published a promotional book in 1991 with a bio of Obama saying he was born in Kenya — set my old mystery writer mind ablaze.
“How could that be? Why would they think such a thing?
“There are only two forks in this road — either he was born in Kenya or he wasn’t.
“I have never been a conspiracy theorist and will assume the latter, although I have to confess that for the first time, given this revelation, I have the tiniest soupçon of doubt.
“Nevertheless, the more interesting, and actually frightening and depressing, conclusion is the former. So what if he was born in Kenya? At least we know why he lied about it. He wanted to be president.
“But why did Obama’s agents think he was born in Kenya? That’s a more interesting question. (Obama, of course, is a liar either way.) …”
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/05/18/the-mystery-of-the-kenyan-birth/
Michael Shear, NYT: Mitt Won’t Use Jerry Wright
“12:48 p.m. | Updated Mitt Romney condemned efforts to use President Obama’s former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, in ads attacking the president, as reportedly planned by a “super PAC” working toward electing Mr. Romney in November.
“I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they’ve described,” Mr. Romney said during an interview with the conservative Townhall Web site. “I would like to see this campaign focus on the economy, on getting people back to work, on seeing rising incomes and growing prosperity — particularly for those in the middle class of America.”
Mr. Romney used the opportunity to accuse Mr. Obama of running a “campaign is a campaign of character assassination” but said of the PAC that “I repudiate what they’re thinking about.”
Van Voris & Hurtado, Bloomberg: Military Detention Blocked by Federal Judge
“Opponents of a U.S. law they claim may subject them to indefinite military detention for activities including news reporting and political activism persuaded a federal judge to temporarily block the measure.
“U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattanyesterday ruled in favor of a group of writers and activists who sued President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the Defense Department, claiming a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law Dec. 31, puts them in fear that they could be arrested and held by U.S. armed forces…”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-16/military-detention-law-blocked-by-new-york-judge.html
Kimberley Strassel, WSJ: “Vampire Capitalism? Please”
“GST Steel would have failed much earlier without Bain.
“This week the Obama campaign debuted its attack on Bain Capital, the private-equity firm Mitt Romney founded. Its two-minute ad purports to tell the story of GS Technologies, a Kansas City-based Bain investment that went bankrupt in 2001.
“To hear the Obama campaign, this is a tale of greed: GST was a healthy, happy, quality steelmaker until Bain plundered its worth and stripped its 750 workers of their due. “It was like a vampire,” laments one former employee in the ad. “They came in and sucked the life out of us.”
“GST is a tragic tale, though in a different way. The real story of GST is that of a private-equity firm trying to spark some life into a uncompetitive, over-unionized industry. Bain’s crime here—if that’s what you call it—was giving a dying steel plant an unexpected eight-year lease on life…”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303360504577410573651845802.html#
Ross Kaminsky, Spectator: Our Greek California
“Stock, commodity, and currency markets have been on a roller-coaster ride in recent days as Greece’s election results leave that nation without a functioning government, and without a clear path toward staying in the euro currency.
“The right answer, albeit a very painful one, may be for Greece to take their medicine and leave the euro, and for Europe to stop bailing out a dysfunctional country that can never be competitive without a less expensive currency. Wednesday marked an all-time low in the Greek stock market.
“More important, however, and where few Americans seem to be looking, is our very own Greece: California. Since California doesn’t have the option of seceding from the union, one wonders when the state will ask the IMF for a Greek-style bailout…”
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/05/17/our-very-own-greece
Matthew Boyle, DailyCaller: Van Jones Ripped Eric Holder
“During a radio interview Wednesday night, former Obama “green jobs czar” Van Jones broke ranks with current and former administration officials and ripped Attorney General Eric Holder for his handling of Operation Fast and Furious, the failed gun-walking operation that trafficked thousands of firearms across the Mexican border.
“‘I believe that if this was happening across our other border in Canada, we’d probably take it a little more seriously,’ Jones said, implying much of the carelessness over Operation Fast and Furious came because many of the victims are Hispanics from Mexico.
“‘I worry sometimes that we just don’t value all life the same,’ Jones added.
Bob Guzzardi, Citizens Alliance for Pennsylvania
“..the Republican controlled House and Senate, and Republican Governor, voted to incur $1.6 billion debt and are preparing to vote $1.67 billion more. (emph added, jb) See details below from Leo Knepper at CAP. Naturally, the Democrats are more than happy to be ‘bipartisan’ – another word word for ‘tax increase.’
“Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania is focused on Republican primaries and, in particular, to replace self-serving Big Government hacks who are getting rich from government with principled, Limited Government, Economic Freedom candidates.
“CAP provides insight and information that clueless media does not…”
Leo Knepper, EmpowerPA.org: More Debt for Taxpayers
“…The Capital Budget in recent history has been a goody bag for lobbyists and corporate special interests. Act 130 of 2011, last year’s Capital Budget, added $1.6 billion in debt to the Commonwealth’s balance sheet. Taxpayers financed projects like: The Arlen Spector Library ($1.97 million); the John P. Murtha Center for Public Policy ($10 Million); Laborers District Council Union Office Building ($2 million) (emph added, jb); and a host of projects with debatable economic impact (like soccer stadiums).
“The Senate’s proposed 2012-2013 Capital Budget, SB 1480, will add another $1.67 billion in debt to the balance sheet. However, taxpayers will not find out exactly which projects are being funded until the money is disbursed (the House and the Senate pass a wish list, but the executive branch ultimately writes the check)…”
http://www.empowerpa.org/more-debt.php
Lincoln Radio Journal
Program 12-19
“(May 12, 2012 – May 18, 2012) This week on Lincoln Radio Journal: Eric Boehm has news headlines from www.paindependent.com; David Taylor of the PA Manufacturers Association and Matthew Brouillette of the Commonwealth Foundation have a Capitol Watch look at the latest national survey to place Pennsylvania at the bottom of economic competitiveness among the states; And, Lowman Henry has a Town Hall Commentary on why business in Pennsylvania are so pessimistic about the state’s economy.”
http://lincolnradiojournal.com/
Melissa Daniels, PaIndependent: Budget Cuts Internal Watchdogs
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed budget for next year puts Pennsylvania’s internal watchdogs on a shorter leash.
Take the Department of the Auditor General, for example. Corbett’s proposed 2012-13 budget decreases the department’s funding by more than $2 million, the latest in a series of cutbacks. In 2008, the budget was at a seven-year high of $54.4 million — next year, it’s proposed at $42.3 million.
While budget talks are still in the works, the Senate’s version of the budget keeps the department’s funding flat.
Auditor General Jack Wagner is concerned. He’s seen his staff decrease from 755 to 600 since 2005, and a corresponding decrease of 10 percent to 15 percent in the number of annual audits.
http://paindependent.com/2012/05/proposed-budget-cuts-neuter-internal-watchdogs/
Eric Boehm, PaIndependent: Schools Increased Cash Stash
“HARRISBURG — As state funding for education increased in the past 15 years, many school districts set aside a hefty stash of cash in savings accounts.
“As of the end of the 2011 budget year, Pennsylvania school districts have more than $3.2 billion in reserve funds. Some cash is earmarked for specific projects but not being used and some is simply sitting in accounts, according to data from the state Department of Education.
“What’s more impressive is the speed with which some districts have built up their reserves.
“The same data show that the total amount in the reserve accounts has nearly tripled from $1.1 billion in 1996-97 to more than $3.2 billion last year. At the same time, state spending on public education has increased from about $13 billion to about $26 billion.
“Tim Eller, spokesman for the state Department of Education, said districts are saving this money for expected future expenses while asking taxpayers annually to pay more than is needed…”
http://paindependent.com/2012/05/pa-school-districts-have-tripled-savings-in-15-years/
Debra Erdley, Tribune Review: PA’s Six-figure Pensioners
“Public service yields generous, long-lasting rewards — at least for Pennsylvania’s top school and state employees.
“Despite the economic downturn and state budget woes, records from Pennsylvania’s two largest pension systems show that the number of state and school retirees collecting annual pensions of more than $100,000 has more than doubled to 658, up from 253 in 2007. Some pensioners receive more than $300,000 a year, records show.
“Most of the retirees worked as public school administrators or professors from Penn State and the 14 State System of Higher Education universities.
“They may be among the most comfortable public employee retirees in Pennsylvania, where the Census Bureau pegged the mean household retirement income at $18,240 a year in 2010…”
Ann Coulter, TownHall: Pensions & “Sacrificial Scams”
Thanks Ted,
“…Working for the government is supposed to be a trade-off: You can’t be fired and don’t have to exert yourself, but you will receive smaller remuneration than in the private sector, where layoffs are common (especially in the Obama economy!). Instead, government jobs are safe, secure, pressure-free — and now, amazingly lucrative!”
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2012/05/16/sacrificial_scams
Chuck DeVore, Fox: California/Texas
“…Texas’ bureaucracy, excluding teachers, is 22 percent smaller as a portion of the population than is California’s, with every Texan paying about $467 a year for government retiree benefits, compared to California’s $1,105 in pension costs. Sky-high benefits for bureaucrats may soon cause the bankruptcy of Stockton, California’s 13th-largest city.
“California has more government paper-pushers but Texas has 17 percent more teachers per capita, with educational outcomes favoring the Lone Star State. In fact, Texas K-12 schools perform consistently above the national average across age, racial, and subject matter areas, while California schools perform well below the national average.
“To support its bloated government, California asks more of its taxpayers who pay 10.6 percent of their income to state and local government, above the U.S. average of 9.8 percent. Texans pay only 7.9 percent.
“But California’s political leaders aren’t satisfied with 10.6 percent—they want more and they’re going to the voters this November with a massive $9 billion sales and income tax hike that, if approved, would set California’s income tax rates at a national-high of 13.3 percent, 2.3 percent higher than the top marginal rate charged by President Obama’s home state of Hawaii.
“What Governor Brown doesn’t dare mention about his proposed tax hike is that half of the new taxes he wants to raise would fund government employee pensions…”
Michelle Malkin, TownHall: Another OCare Scheme
Thanks Ted,
“The stench of Chicago cronyism over the White House just got fouler. Inhale this:
A shadowy $10 billion Obamacare agency with zero oversight just awarded first lady Michelle Obama’s pet patient-dumping scheme at the University of Chicago Medical Center a $5.9 million taxpayer-funded grant. It will enable Mrs. Obama’s cronies to build a government-sponsored electronic medical record-sharing system.
“The Chicago program, known as the Urban Health Initiative, is run by one of President Obama’s closest golfing buddies, scandal magnet Eric Whitaker, who has been entangled with Illinois corruption celebrities Rod Blagojevich and Tony Rezko over the past decade.
“Fun fact: Whitaker recently was named by author Edward Klein as the man who purportedly offered hate-mongering Rev. Jeremiah Wright $150,000 in hush money during the 2008 campaign…”
Adam Credo, FreeBeacon: “Defeating National Defense”
“Former government attorneys and defense experts fear that foreign terrorists could capitalize on a new House proposal that would afford them full protection under the U.S. legal system, potentially spurring a domestic influx of would-be terrorists who may seek to exploit the legal loophole.
“The amendment, spearheaded by Reps. Justin Amash (R., Mich.) and Adam Smith (D., Wash), would implement an unprecedented reversal in longstanding U.S. policy by requiring that terrorists be prosecuted in civilian courts—a shift that would also allow them to be housed among general inmates in American prisons…”
http://freebeacon.com/defeating-national-defense/
Aaron Klein, KoL: This Is a Watch Lamp Watching You
Remember “this is a watch bird watching you”? “The Watchbirds flip the concept of bird-watching onto any potential childhood naughtiness. Did you (or might you) complain about going to bed on time? Refuse to brush your teeth? Throw a tantrum? Watch out, for there’s a watchbird watching YOU. After their popularity grew in Ladies Home Journal, the Watchbirds cartoons were compiled into five books and there is even “The Watchbird Song.” The cartoons followed a standard pattern: a naively drawn caricature (see the original art for “a SQUIRMER” at right) would be accompanied by a cute explanatory caption and two watchbirds. One watchbird would be disappointedly watching the Squirmer, the other would be watching YOU.” http://libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/index.cfm?postid=1404
“With a price tag of $3,000+ apiece, according to an ABC report, the street lights are now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh, and may soon mushroom all across the country.
“Part of the Intellistreets systems made by the company Illuminating Concepts, they have a number of “homeland security applications” attached.
“Each has a microprocessor ‘essentially similar to an iPhone,’ capable of wireless communication. Each can capture images and count people for the police through a digital camera, record conversations of passers-by and even give voice commands thanks to a built-in speaker…”
http://rt.com/news/big-brother-street-lamps-286/
Ben Shapiro, BigGovernment: Obama Budget . . . 99-0 in Senate
“…In March, the measure went before the House for a vote – and went down to flaming defeat, 414-0. The Obama budget had been held up in the Senate by Democrats for fear of complete failure; that fear, it appears, was justified…”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/16/Obama-2013-budget-goes-down
Also: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/may/16/obama-budget-defeated-99-0-senate/
Tony Lee, Big Government: O’Keefe Video Fried Bev Perdue
“The new video James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released yesterday, which showed how easy it was for non-citizens to vote in North Carolina, has immediately had an impact in the state, pressuring Democrat Gov. Bev Perdue and state legislators, as well as creating a local media sensation.
“As Raleigh, North Carolina’s ABC affiliate, WTVD reports, the North Carolina State Board of Elections is already conducting an investigation into the ‘allegations made in the video, including double voting, non-citizen voting, and dead people voting.’
“According to WTVD, ‘Last year, Republicans in the legislature passed a voter ID bill that would have required voters to show picture identification at the polls,’ but ‘Gov. Perdue vetoed it on the concern that it would have stifled voting among older voters and students.’…”
J. Christian Adams, PJM: 53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida
“I have learned that Florida election officials are set to announce that the secretary of state has discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the voter rolls in Florida.
How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long? Simple. Because Florida hadn’t been using the best available data revealing which voters have died. Florida is now using the nationwide Social Security Death Index for determining which voters should be purged because they have died.
“Here is the bad news. Most states aren’t using the same database that Florida is. In fact, I have heard reports that some election officials won’t even remove voters even when they are presented with a death certificate. That means that voter rolls across the nation still are filled with dead voters, even if Florida is leading the way in detecting and removing them.
“But surely people aren’t voting in the names of dead voters, the voter fraud deniers argue. Wrong…”
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/05/16/53000-dead-voters-found-in-florida/
Keith Koffler, WhiteHouseDossier: Mitt’s Fundraising
“Mitt Romney raised $40.1 million in April, just a little bit shy of the $43.6 million raised the same month by President Obama, the New York Times reports.
Romney’s take is a huge $12.6 million step up from his March fundraising total, while Obama’s represents a nearly $10 million decline.
“Romney could easily have eclipsed Obama in April except for a technicality. Romney’s emergence as the presumptive GOP candidate in April made him able to raise money jointly with the Republican National Committee, in the same way Obama does with the Democratic National Committee. Donations to the RNC and DNC are capped at a higher total, but Romney didn’t hold his first combined event with the RNC until April 14…”
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/05/17/romney-fundraising-matches-obamas/
David Hill, Washington Times: Maryland Tax Hikes
“ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland General Assembly passed a $260 million tax increase Wednesday as it adjourned from a three-day special session that ended with Gov. Martin O’Malley saying he will bring lawmakers back for another session this summer.
The House gave final approval to two bills that will raise income taxes and shift a portion of teacher pension costs to counties to balance the state’s $35.5 billion budget, which is nearly $1 billion larger than last year’s spending plan.
The Senate passed the legislation Tuesday. It will be signed by the governor at a yet-to-be-determined date.
“We’ve not only been able to do the tough things on revenues to balance the budget, but we’ve also been able to protect our priorities,” said Mr. O’Malley, a Democrat…”
Kala Rama, Orlando: Florida Lowers Passing Score
“TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Board of Education decided in an emergency meeting Tuesday to lower the passing grade on the writing portion of Florida’s standardized test after preliminary results showed a drastic drop in student passing scores.
“The results indicated only about a third of students would pass this year’s tougher Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test exam, compared with a passing rate of 80 percent or more last year.
“‘They’ve asked students to do more, but that’s pretty dramatic,’ said Florida Education Association spokesman Mark Pudlow. ‘We need to examine what led to this, not just paper over the problem.’
“The results provide another opening to critics of high-stakes testing. The statewide teachers union has opposed Florida’s use of standardized tests to evaluate teachers and grade schools…”
Michelle Fields, Daily Caller: Goldberg – Violence Can Solve Problems
WASHINGTON — National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg spoke Wednesday about how “violence solves all sorts of problems” and argued against the critique that Jesus was a pacifist.
Goldberg spoke at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. about his new book, “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas,” and, in an effort to expose one cliché, explained that Jesus wasn’t the pacifist that liberals say he was.
“A lot of people think we get this idea [that violence solves nothing] from Jesus,” Goldberg said. “This is one of the things they love: ‘You hypocritical conservatives, you think violence is a solution — you call yourself a Christian, you’re not.’ Jesus told his followers to carry swords. Unless he had some sort of theory that fell out of in the Apocrypha that these were just great big kabob skewers, presumably he thought they were going to be useful for something.”
“‘Violence solves all sorts of problems,’ Jonah said earlier, ‘particularly violent problems. World War II was a problem, Nazis were a problem, and we beat that problem through violence. Slavery ended through violence. Holocaust ended through violence.’
“Goldberg also blasted Obama’s comments against ideology and argued that the president is borrowing from Marxist thought…”
http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/16/jonah-goldberg-violence-solves-all-sorts-of-problems/
Jamie Weinstein, Daily Caller: Obama May Lose a Democrat Primary
“Obama may lose the Democratic primary — In Arkansas that is. After narrowly besting a federal inmate in the West Virginia Democratic primary, President Obama is just up 7 points on a no-name candidate in the Arkansas Democratic primary, reports TheDC’s Alex Pappas:
“You haven’t heard of John Wolfe because the obscure Democratic candidate for president has raised less than $500, can’t afford radio or TV ads and hasn’t gotten much press. Yet miraculously, a poll released this week shows Wolfe trailing President Barack Obama in the Arkansas Democratic primary — occurring next week — by just seven points.”
This is just embarrassing for the president. The primary takes place Tuesday.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/17/thedc-morning-obama-may-lose-the-democratic-primary/
Brian Bolduc, NRO: Obama’s Arkansas Problem
“In West Virginia, federal inmate Keith Judd recently swiped 42 percent of Democratic votes from the president, indicating the level of dissatisfaction among the rank and file. And according to a Talk Business–Hendrix College poll conducted on May 10, Obama leads John Wolfe, a virtually unknown candidate, in Arkansas’s 4th congressional district by only 7 points, 45–38.
“Three weeks earlier, the Talk Business–Hendrix College poll showed the president leading by 65–24 in the slightly less conservative 1st district, but that was before Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage…”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/300069/obama-s-arkansas-problem-brian-bolduc
WGG: More Reichstag?
i know this smacks of conspiracy, but thought you might personally find it interesting.
jarret is the central player – none other could have done fast & furious.
interestingly, i was following a thread and came across some well-documented info on the sweetie-pie. post occidental on his jaunt with pakistani roommates (who are involved in his administration), obama was introduced to a billionaire from iran, call the town tarak – i forget. back to columbia and beyond to 12K community organizing job. enter tony resko, who put the obamas in their house & funded his early political ventures. tony resko is from tarka, iran. and vallery jarret – and iranian from tarak.
lots of coincidences there. wish i had kept the thread, posts…..
Cheers and a Tear
Thanks Harrison for both of these…
“The Pope and Obama are on the same stage in Yankee Stadium in front of a huge crowd.
“The Pope leans towards Mr. Obama and said, “Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, but will go deep into their hearts and they’ll forever speak of this day and rejoice!”
“Obama replied, “I seriously doubt that! With one little wave of your hand….Show me!”
“So the Pope backhanded him and knocked him off the stage!
“AND THE CROWD ROARED & CHEERED WILDLY and there was happiness throughout the land!
“Kind of brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it?”
Col. Sanders
“A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.”