08.25.09
Posted in America, Democrats, Latin America, Obama Administration, Unexplained Mysteries, stupidity at 8:47 pm by Toby Petzold
Glenn Reynolds links to this piece of news tonight from the Department of State (emphasis added):
The OAS Foreign Ministers mission is in Honduras seeking support for the San Jose Accord, which would restore the democratic and constitutional order and resolve the political crisis in Honduras. In support of this mission and as a consequence of the de facto regime’s reluctance to sign the San Jose Accord, the U.S. Department of State is conducting a full review of our visa policy in Honduras. As part of that review, we are suspending non-emergency, non-immigrant visa services in the consular section of our embassy in Honduras, effective August 26. We firmly believe a negotiated solution is the appropriate way forward and the San Jose Accord is the best solution.
Why do people believe that Obama is a smart guy? I think he’s proving himself to be stunningly incompetent. The vast majority of Hondurans themselves are glad to be rid of Zelaya because he was threatening a coup. Their constitution worked. Its constituted branches of government did exactly what they were supposed to do. And the Obama Administration does what in response? Punishes an entire country because of his own private loyalty to a fellow Marxist and would-be practitioner of Chavismo?
What a disaster!
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08.23.09
Posted in America, Democrats, Election of 2010, New Economy, Obama Administration, Unexplained Mysteries, stupidity, treason at 11:05 am by Toby Petzold
To permit this ridiculous fraud of a President and his useful idiots in Congress to expand our country’s debt way into the trillions is morally insane. Our civilization cannot survive with that kind of debt and the concomitant taxation.
We have been warned. Now we should act.
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08.12.09
Posted in America, Democrats, Election of 2010, New Economy, Obama Administration, Unexplained Mysteries, moonbats, stupidity at 11:24 pm by Toby Petzold
Did you hear this ridiculous liar of a President we’re stuck with say this [yester]day? (emphasis mine)
President Obama made what his advisers believe were his first public comments on the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday, basically knocking its performance during his health-care-themed town hall in New Hampshire.
He said an audience member raised a “legitimate concern” about how a government-run health-care program might affect private insurers.
“My answer is that if the private insurance companies are providing a good bargain, and if the public option has to be self-sustaining — meaning taxpayers aren’t subsidizing it, but it has to run on charging premiums and providing good services and a good network of doctors, just like any other private insurer would do — then I think private insurers should be able to compete. They do it all the time.”
Then he invoked the Postal Service:
“I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the post office that’s always having problems.”
That comment provoked laughter from the audience.
“That comment” makes absolute nonsense of his socialism. In fact, it very succinctly implies that Government entities are prone to acceptable levels of inefficiency and waste because it is typically assumed that they will be subsidized indefinitely, thereby making “competition” an open fiction.
It does not matter that Obama says the public option “has to be self-sustaining” because that’s a lie and he knows it’s a lie as he tells it.
The best thing that could possibly happen to this guy right now is some disaster or crisis to make him “look” Presidential. Otherwise, and day by day, the recklessness and arrogance of this Lying Narcissist on the subject of health care will erode his position with the moderates and other kinds of polite straddlers who are still too stubborn to admit that they got took when they voted for him.
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07.30.09
Posted in America, Big Media, Election of 2010, Eminently Occidental, Obama Administration, racism, stupidity at 5:44 pm by Toby Petzold
I think it’s great that the President of the United States is comfortable enough in his own skin to share a beer with a couple of guys out on the lawn of his house.
But what brought him there is ridiculous, although entirely predictable: pride, arrogance, and a kind of narcissism that deserves to be examined and laughed at —for the good of the Republic.
I have zero respect for anyone who cannot see the cultish element in Obama’s support. The post-racial post-American anti-Bush makes monkeys out of men: poor little nothings (often employed as “journalists”) who are too afraid of being stigmatized as racists for making even the most basic kind of criticisms of him that one must expect of the fourth estate. How will these Democrats be held accountable if the people on the TV and the editorial boards are too afraid of false accusations? For that matter, how can we expect cops to do their jobs if we assume that they are authoritarian bullies bent on oppressing minorities? That’s what the President did. And he was wrong.
So has he now apologized to James Crowley? I doubt it.
Pride goeth before a fall.
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07.23.09
Posted in America, Democrats, Election of 2010, New Economy, Obama Administration, Unexplained Mysteries, stupidity at 6:10 pm by Toby Petzold
The stock markets are doing well because it is becoming apparent that the President’s and the Democratic Party’s plans for socializing medicine are doing so poorly.
How’s this? The recovery of economic health in this society will depend on the continuing failure of its own government’s economic policies. Assholes —and, by that, I mean Democrats— need to reconsider the wisdom of sinking this economy further into the mire by raising and adding taxes that will obviously impact the middle class. OBVIOUSLY. Then again, a lot of these very people are the ones who put the Lying Narcissist in power to begin with. These are the ones who were practicing class warfare right along with him, so maybe they can find the time to be good citizens and quit uncritically pretending that Socialism is okay or is some sort of fad that we’ll just slough off if need be. WRONG.
The veto is a natural power available to all men. Free will be done in America as it is on Capitol Hill.
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07.22.09
Posted in America, Big Media, Election of 2010, Eminently Occidental, Obama Administration at 7:29 pm by Toby Petzold
He’s not sweating, really. He’s effervescing —like the insubstantial clown and stain on the American People’s judgement that he is: into the ether and between the threads.
Tapper’s question was great and also had thorns.
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Posted in America, Big Media, Election of 2010, Obama Administration at 7:14 pm by Toby Petzold
I like how that boy from the AP gulped as he went in for the last clause of his inquiry.
That means he’s scared shitless, but deems the effort worthy of his own terror. They still make such reporters, right?
We shall see.
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07.19.09
Posted in America, Eminently Occidental, Unexplained Mysteries, personal at 8:28 pm by Toby Petzold
Jesus, could I be any happier? I’m almost nauseatingly at peace with the world.
For instance, I’m out driving around a while ago —completely oblivious to the carbon bigfootprint I was putting down— and I spot these two cats moving down the sidewalk in some sort of fraternally-cocksure gait. It’s a pair of very young black men —eleven or twelve, tops— wearing their white cotton wifebeaters and sporting some sort of overlong shorts or trunks. And they’re wearing them in a dignified manner —even pulled up to their waists! (Their kicks I don’t know from; I wasn’t paying attention.)
So, I’m idling there at the light with some early James Brown funk going on and watching these guys —and just beaming. And I’m thinking of all the afternoons of my own youth spent with my friends and of us wearing the appropriate uniforms of our day when we, too, would walk the streets like we owned them. And I’m thinking and hoping for these young men that they live long and prosper and realize the privilege that comes to men of my age to see the world anew in every moment lived with charity in one’s heart.
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07.17.09
Posted in America, Big Media, History, Texas at 10:05 pm by Toby Petzold
Hook ‘em, Uncle Walter.
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07.14.09
Posted in America, New Economy, Obama Administration at 7:21 pm by Toby Petzold
It’s pretty obvious that Obama and the Democrats are doing a controlled demolition on our economy so that they can come back later in the year (and the next, which is an election year) and paper over all the bad news that they themselves are causing with all of the stimulus money that they’re sitting on now.
This is a huge Socialist power grab. It’s a confiscatory reallocation strategy intended to break down the maker class in this country and shower largesse on the taker class closer to election time to remind them who’s more likely to butter their bread: Obamachrist or Stingy Old White Christianists.
Look! Over there! Cheney’s torturing something. Let’s talk about it.
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