Noted in passing

On election night, 2008, I signed up for Barack Obama's mailing list under the name Fred Mertz. I get a regular supply of spam from them, sent from Organizing for America and BarackObama.com. In the last week or so they've really stepped up the volume with abject pleas and imperious demands for more and more money. This desperate barrage of requests for money is getting really annoying - I've never seen anything like it from any other spammer.

With a little help from his friends

I see here that the emperor of the world plans to visit Bombay next month. It seems he can't travel anywhere without the entire imperial retinue of janissaries, sycophants and jesters. Why not just stay home and do the whole thing via videoconference?

Back in the first American revolution

...we went to war with our government over problems that were trivial compared to this.

Bigger government! Smaller government!

By my lights, Ray Bradbury isn't making much sense. In one paragraph he wants President Obama to announce that we (which, in context, can only mean We the Government) should be going to the Moon and Mars, etc., and in the next paragraph he says, "There is too much government today." Choose one, Mr Bradbury.

Perhaps Mr Obama's only true success since January 2009 is his evisceration of NASA's manned space program, which is one of the first few necessary steps toward opening space to ordinary people eager to do great things and make a buck while doing them. It's fine to have NASA working on propulsion systems and deep solar system exploration; meanwhile, get NASA out of Earth orbit and let us get up there ourselves.

Who's "we", kemosabe?

Pope Obama I adds a feast to his religion's liturgical calendar.

Hat tip: Mr Culbreath.

What could you do with half a million bucks?

recovery.gov says they've stolen 16 billion dollars to create (or save) 30 thousand jobs. If you dare to do the math, that's about half a million dollars per job. So that's what the government can do with $500,000. I think I could do a hell of a lot better than that, all by my little own lonesome.

UPDATE: see subsidiarity, a word from which King Obama's czars, sultans and potentates recoil in horror.

A government program I can get behind

Stop it - you're killing me!

A joke from President Obama's recent commencement address at Arizona State University:

Now, before I begin, I'd like to clear the air about that little controversy everyone was talking about a few weeks back. I have to tell you, I really thought it was much ado about nothing, although I think we all learned an important lesson. I learned to never again pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA bracket. And your university President and Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.

Once he nationalizes health insurance, he can joke about denying, say, pacemakers or chemotherapy or organ transplants to folks he doesn't like. It'll be a laff riot!

Obama's "civil discourse"

From Diogenes:

I see nothing wrong with swatting flies.

Let's say that you have a different opinion. You think the lives of flies are sacred, and therefore you think that swatting flies is grossly immoral. You hold this view with the utmost sincerity. Unfortunately for you, I'm making the rules. And I say:

* You can't refer to fly-swatting as "murder." That would be "hate speech," inciting others to violence.
* You can't interfere when I swat flies.
* You must contribute to the purchase of fly swatters.

Now, with those ground-rules established, let's begin a civil discussion of the morality of swatting flies. There's no need for anger, recrimination, or name-calling. We have a sincere different of opinion. Let's-- oh, wait, excuse me a moment [thwack!]-- find some common ground.

Just a passing happy thought

One the government controls healthcare, they can use the threat of fines, penalties and punishments to control everything you do that influences your health. And we can expect a celebrated (by the "news" media) increase in physician-assisted suicides. Those will save the government insurance bureaucrats a bundle of money that would have gone toward end-of-life care.

A picture of Mr Obama's foreign policy

Wrecking the economy?

With what Obama and the Democrats have done and are planning to do, it almost seems they're deliberately wrecking business and industry, as though they want everything to be supported by the government so when the nation returns to its senses, we'll find it impossible to scale back government without causing the whole structure to collapse.

And do you get the impression they're not concerned about upcoming elections? With the White House takeover of the census and huge "stimulating" payoffs scheduled to go out just before next year's elections, it's as though they intend to rig what elections they can and buy the ones they can't.

Or maybe I'm just a new member of the tinfoil hat brigade.

A note on tax hikes

"Rich" people are looking for ways to avoid slavery, as any sensible person would. I don't understand the notion of raising taxes on the rich. Personally, I've never received a family-sustaining regular paycheck from a poor person. If the President has his way, fewer families will receive them from rich people.

Change comes to America!

Well that was worth it. Barry, Nancy and friends wrecked the economy, but at least we all get an extra 40 quarters a week; or, to fully capture the excitement, one hundred dimes - every week!

Minitrue

The rulers of Airstip One knew better than to leave the scrubbing of history to amateurs - they employed an entire professional bureaucracy to ensure that all past cross-references matched the new history. I wonder whether Uncle O included funds for his own Minitrue among the job-creation provisions of the recent "stimulus" bill.

Government smokes

Sp President Obama signed the SCHIP bill yesterday, and the government program has a very special funding source:

The Congressional Budget Office says the bill will enable states to cover more than four million uninsured children by 2013, while continuing coverage for seven million youngsters. The bill will increase tobacco taxes to offset the increase in spending, estimated at more than $32 billion over four and a half years.

It's now your patriotic duty to smoke like a chimney. It's for the kids! And if the feds are smart, they'll start marketing their own line of Patriotic Old Glory Presidential cigarettes:

• cherry-scented Washingtons
  
• Lincolns: 100s and 120s
  
• Nixons: short and crooked
  
• Obamas: with a premium dark wrapper
  

And how about a line of Clinton cigars?

Obama's ferocious pro-life position

After that long campaign I had no idea he was one of us!

We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

Strong words against the abortion mafia. A tip o' the hat to Ellyn of Oblique House.

Stay healthy, Barack

My wife takes a look at the presidential line of succession and hopes President Obama doesn't pull a William Henry Harrison on us.