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Skip Shot: Obama: “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money“ Chaser: “The 8,200 nine-bedroom home in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood where President Obama and his family will live after he leaves office next year“ Approx. value = $6 Million
From Instapundit (emphasis mine):
What makes Trump so appealing to so many voters is that the establishment does seem unusually clueless these days. The great American post-Cold War project of seeking peace and security through the construction of a New World Order based on liberal internationalism and American power doesn’t seem to be working very well, and it’s not hard to conclude that neither the neoconservatives nor the Obama-ites really know what they are doing. When it comes to the economy, it’s been clear since the financial crisis of 2008 that something is badly awry and that the economists, so dogmatic and opinionated and so bitterly divided into quarreling schools, aren’t sure how the system works anymore, and have no real ideas about how to make the world system work to the benefit of ordinary voters in the United States. With the PC crowd and the Obama administration hammering away at transgender bathroom rights as if this was the great moral cause of our time, and with campus Pure Thought advocates collapsing into self parody even as an epidemic of drug abuse and family breakdown relentlessly corrodes the foundations of American social cohesion, it’s hard to believe that the establishment has a solid grip on the moral principles and priorities a society like ours needs.
Trump appeals to all those who think that the American Establishment, the Great and the Good of both parties, has worked its way into a dead end of ideas that don’t work and values that can’t save us. He is the candidate of Control-Alt-Delete. His election would sweep away the smug generational certainties that Clinton embodies, the Boomer Progressive Synthesis that hasn’t solved the problems of the world or of the United States, but which nevertheless persists in regarding itself as the highest and only form of truth. . . .
The Left has become emboldened, knowing that the Obama Transformationists have their backs – traditional middle class “fly over” values must be stamped out; anything that overthrows such will be protected. And those standing up for them, like Brendan Eich, ust be destroyed. From The Declination (emphasis mine):
The other day, it occurred to me that I have finally become entirely immune to SJW attack. Oh, they can find out who I am and where I live easily enough. Some have already. But I am not concerned with attacks on my person anyway — I am well armed and capable of defending myself.
But they have, in the past, used economic means to come after me. They failed, but I sought to further diversify my income streams to render myself immune to future attacks. I can now say that I am invulnerable to this sort of attack. I have switched to private contracting for the majority of my income. Yes, I still have a day job also, but that is a matter of convenience. I have worked for them for many years, and it has been mutually beneficial. It is a good job. If SJWs were to somehow damage that relationship, however, I could increase my contracting hours by way of compensation and suffer no financial losses.
I believe the Obama doctrine is “Speak annoyingly and carry no stick.”
“When faced with the reality of the abortion procedure, many people who are pro-choice change their minds instantly. A video put out by Live Action shows former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levantino describing and showing the process of a second-trimester (13-24 weeks of pregnancy) surgical abortion procedure. Dr. Levantino has preformed over 1,200 abortions and explains in detail how babies are ripped apart limb by limb in these procedures.”
“Live Action approached people on the street and asked them if they were pro-choice. To those that said yes, even up to the point of birth, they showed Dr. Levantino’s video of the procedure. After watching the video, the people who claimed to be pro-choice changed their minds on the spot. They admitted they were unaware of how developed babies are at this point in pregnancy and described the video as “inhumane.”“
Want to see what they watched? How to kill a child:
20,642 New Regulations Added in the Obama Presidency …More than $22 billion per year in new regulatory costs were imposed on Americans last year, pushing the total burden for the Obama years to exceed $100 billion annually. That’s a dollar for every star in the galaxy, or one for every second in 32 years. …America’s problem … Read more
From Powerline on why Obama is so insistent on LGBT rights and now, the transgender bathroom war – and it isn’t necessarily what you think but Ammo Grrrll nails it (emphasis mine, reformatted):
And so, in a spectacular example of Life imitating Art, we see the Great Revolutionary Obama, lowerer of oceans, healer of the planet, telling the ones who have been waiting for themselves (itself a neat trick), that his legacy is going to be mandating that pretend females will have access to all real females’ bathrooms, showers and locker rooms. No matter how young and vulnerable the girls, pretend females with various dangly bits will be allowed next to them.…To object is to be smeared as supporting the same people who half a century ago would not allow black people to potty in the same bathrooms as white people.
…So, why this slap in the face to all common sense and decency? Why is Obama using this molehill upon which to make a stand, complete with draconian threats of boycotts and lawsuits?
It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. – Patrick Henry Our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament, or the Christian religion. -Noah Webster So tell me – WHY is the Left so adamant in removing faith from … Read more
The Left’s tolerance only extends to themselves and not those that dissent from their monoculture and religion of The State and the misguided idea that History has a “right” side. All they want is complete submission – maybe that is their attraction to Islam (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
They should fear the animate person and not the inanimate object (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
Instead of sloughing it off on the Executive Branch to fill in their “legislation holes”. And become “jealous” of both their power AND responsibility to the point of not allowing the Executive Branch and the Courts to fill the Legislative role in our separate branches of governance. Tennessee – a model to follow?
During the long years of Democratic rule, the Government Operations committees in the Legislature were boring exercises in routine housekeeping legislation. They were often stacked with some of the party’s less than stellar members, because you have to put them somewhere, and they rubber-stamped whatever the leadership wanted.
Like our examples here in NH who collectively couldn’t collectively muster a mild brain fart due to lack of grey matter or political courage.
“Government Ops” under Republican rule has morphed into a very powerful operation, rivaling even the Rules Committee or Finance. The power to regulate state bureaucrats has always been there; it’s just not been exercised until now.
Sorry, I just can’t cross that line to being Liberal. BUT! Live by the sword, die by the sword. If the Left / Socialists / Cultural Marxist want society be mired in an absolute moral relativism (oxymoron intended) as it seem, then MY truth is just as valid as their’s. Oh, you say, but you’re … Read more
How often do you hear about a solar energy plant self-immolating? Yup, the same Obama boondoggle with our tax money that we’ve been writing about for years (bird burning, environment killing, proving solar energy isn’t free, bankrupt) decided to show us all that it could set itself on fire and kill off 2/3rds of itself: … Read more
Of course, if one raises wages artificially, by union or by statute, unemployment will result. The argument one hears from, say, Paul Krugman – that raising wages is good for the company because workers will work harder as a result – seems implausible, considering that the company in such a case would already have raised … Read more
Finally, a state legislature decides enough of this out of control political correctness / cultural Marxism that is spiraling out of control thanks to the 60 radicals that decided to use universities as their own cultural “Easy Bake Oven” (emphasis mine):
TENNESSEE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1, UT OFFICE OF DIVERSITY 0. Here’s an email that went out to the University of Tennessee community from Chancellor Jimmy Cheek today:
It saddens me to share with you that a new state law requires us to defund the Office of Diversity and Inclusion from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017. This means that no funds can go to operate the office. Vice Chancellor Rickey Hall has announced that he is becoming the vice president for the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity at the University of Washington and chief diversity officer for the UW system. One of the employees in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion has been offered another position with the university, and the university continues to assist the other employee whose position is being eliminated. As the law requires, the university will reallocate the Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s budget to minority engineering scholarships.
But it seems that Academia doesn’t like its leash shortened and is willfully trying to do a “go around” – the leadership is acting just like its students when they hear “NO!” After all, academia BELIEVES in its entitlements by being “the smarted people in the room” (the high brow translation:
Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic. That sum would come close to the all-time peak of $1.02 trillion set in July 2008, just before the financial crisis intensified, and could signal an easing of frugal habits ingrained by the recession. The boom has been driven by steady economic conditions and an improving … Read more
(H/T: The Truth About Guns)
I agree with Sploid – much more appreciation when the action is slowed down.
