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Great Communicator

chillguy33 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:41:22 +0000

Articulate to a fault, The Great Communicator (donkey version) punctuates his speech with the middle finger, as a habit.

Another frequent gesture of The Great Communicator is compulsive bowing.

The compleat communicator is comfortable with the effective use of symbolism.

Journalists tell us that Obama’s gift of oratory is unmatched. On this score, the journalists have got it right.

Obama’s mannerisms are unprecedented among presidents. This is called “change” or maybe “hope.” Journalists have been hoping for a president who spoke their language for a long time.

Gateway Pundit: The Complete “Obama Flips the Bird at His Political Opponents” Collection (Video)

Obama’s save the jihadists initiative gets traction

chillguy33 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:21:58 +0000

Obama’s unprecedented “save the jihadists” initiative is gaining momentum.

Following the $300 Billion “save the jihadists” program startup from highly efficient if lavish Porkulus funding, Americans are now heeding Obama’s lead to make friends with a jihadist, today. Now this is job creation, Obama-style. Ten jobs were created/saved in zip code HELP-OBAMA through the progress of this program.

Obama asks you to do your part. Obama will send you your own piece of the World Trade Center in recognition.

(Hey, it probably will happen next year – after all, Obama is lustily making friends with the Taliban, not to mention Achmedinejad! These people are not like greedy capitalists or Christian evangelists or anything really bad. Next you will hear from Obama – foreign aid for Taliban. That’s how Obama plans to get out of Afghanistan after 18 months. He’ll just borrow the money from China by mortgaging Texas, then send the cash over to the Taliban. Obama telegraphs his moves well in advance, but you have to listen and watch.)

Moonbattery: Save The Freedom Fighters

Obama Command Openly Employs ISNA Moles

chillguy33 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:30:11 +0000

Obama should be walking the plank.

These are not just moles; they are TOP OFFICIALS of ISNA.

The American military has been compromised by Commander Obama.

The Fort Hood base commander follows his orders. The ISNA top official follows his orders. The orders come from Obama.

Somebody at Fort Hood Should Be Walking the Plank

It’s been brought to my attention by several reliable sources that the Defense Department has brought Louay Safi to Fort Hood as an instructor, and that he has been lecturing on Islam to our troops in Fort Hood who are about to deploy to Afghanistan. Safi is a top official of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and served as research director at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).

Worse, last evening, Safi was apparently permitted to present a check (evidently on behalf of ISNA) to the families of the victims of last month’s Fort Hood massacre. A military source told the blogger Barbarossa at the Jawa Report: “This is nothing short of blood money. This is criminal and the Ft. Hood base commander should be fired right now.”

ISNA was identified by the Justice Department at the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing conspiracy trial as an unindicted co-conspirator. The defendants at that trial were convicted of funding Hamas to the tune of millions of dollars. This should have come as no surprise. ISNA is the Muslim Brotherhood’s umbrella entity for Islamist organizations in the United States. It was established in 1981 to enable Muslims in North America “to adopt Islam as a complete way of life” — i.e., to further the Brotherhood’s strategy of establishing enclaves in the West that are governed by sharia. As I detailed in an essay for the April 20 edition of NR, the Brotherhood’s rally-cry remains, to this day, “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” The Brotherhood’s spiritual guide, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who issued a fatwa in 2004 calling for attacks on American forces in Afghanistan, openly declares that Islam will “conquer America” and “conquer Europe.”

Obama Will Try US Navy Seals – For Capturing Terrorist

chillguy33 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:34:19 +0000

Brave and self-sacrificing US Navy Seals have tracked down and captured bin-Laden’s closest cousin. Ahmed Hashim Abed burned four Americans alive; drug their charred remains through the streets of Fallujah, and hung them from a bridge. In a surprise move, the Obama “command” will have THE NAVY SEALS tried – FOR GIVING TERRORIST Abed A FAT LIP!

Go to WWW.SUPPORTTHESEALS.COM to register your disapproval. Taking your feedback to “commander” Obama at the White House would be a complete waste of time. The Obama “command” is mostly concerned with appeasing terrorists. Obama will make certain terrorists will NEVER NEED TO FEAR the American troops in his command.

Also here: Moonbattery Defend Our Defenders

Also here: Gateway Pundit Powerful Ad – “Support The Persecuted Navy Seals” (Video)

Even California Docs Oppose Obamacare

chillguy33 — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:43:24 +0000

More than 35,000 physicians, The California Medical Assn. is the second largest medical association in the United States.

California Medical Assn. to oppose healthcare bill under debate in Senate

The state’s largest doctors group is opposing healthcare legislation being debated in the Senate this week, saying it would increase local healthcare costs and restrict access to care for elderly and low-income patients.

The California Medical Assn. represents more than 35,000 physicians statewide, making it the second-largest state medical association in the country after Texas.

The group’s executive committee met last week to discuss the Senate legislation proposed by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Nov. 18, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Association leaders plan to issue a news release detailing their opposition later today, spokesman Andrew LaMar told The Times.
“The Senate bill came so short that we could not support it, even though we solidly support healthcare reform,” said Dr. Dev GnanaDev, medical director at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in San Bernardino, who also serves on the association’s executive committee. [...]

Doctors who oppose the Senate bill are concerned that it would would shift Medicare funding from urban to rural areas, move responsibility for Medicare oversight away from Congress by creating an Independent Medicare Commission and, ultimately, decrease Medicare reimbursement rates.

Medicare reimbursements would decrease 40% in coming years under the Senate bill, LaMar said. California doctors already contend with some of the lowest MediCal reimbursement rates in the nation, and although those rates would not change under the Senate bill, the pool of people eligible for coverage would increase. Only about a third of California doctors currently accept MediCal, and GnanaDev said that would likely grow under the Senate plan.

“If the doctors can’t see you, the only choice you have is the emergency room, which is a very bad way to get healthcare,” he said.

[...] the association has not endorsed the House bill, which was backed by doctors last month at the national convention of the American Medical Assn. in Houston. The AMA has not taken a position on the Senate bill, although it also oppose provisions that would lower Medicare reimbursement rates.

Story continues here.

Obama Drops Stricken Auntie Under The Bus

chillguy33 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:22:49 +0000

The Obamas are her only family in the United States.

Now that is a SERIOUS problem. Obama will not pay for her treatment; he knows you have been, even before Obamacare. What treatment, you ask? Read on.

Think you have troubles? The Obamas are her only family.

If Obama Aunt Zeituni Onyango was a Marxist, or a terrorist like Bill Ayers, she would be resting easy like the rest of them inside the Obama White House tonight.

If Auntie Zeituni was only a Maoist, she would be in like Flynn. She would have a cabinet position. If Obama auntie Zeituni was a soldier of Allah, she would be resting easy in the White House tonight, loading up. But Obama doesn’t want women posing as soldiers of Allah.

Auntie Zeituni is only an aunt of Obama. Sorry, no cigar, Auntie Zeituni Onyango. Being an aunt of Obama surely is more important than being one his impoverished, and estranged, half-brothers. Nope; it’s not even as good.

Story here: AP Exclusive: Obama aunt anguished by separation

BOSTON – President Barack Obama’s aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish over no longer having contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing.

Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUH’-nee awn-YAHN’-goh) told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that she is troubled that her immigration woes have made her a political liability to her nephew.

Onyango, the half sister of Obama’s late father, said she has exiled herself from the family after attending Obama’s inauguration because she didn’t want to become fodder for his foes. Obama and his family have not reached out to her either, she said.

“Before, we were family. But right now, there is a lot of politics, and me, I am not interested in any politics at all,” said Onyango, whose appeal for asylum from her native Kenya is before an immigration judge in Boston.

The Obamas are her only family in the United States, she said.

“It is very sad when such a thing happens. There are people, outsiders, you know, they come in between, they divide a family,” she said last week. “It’s not easy.”

Onyango, 57, is protective of Obama and said she never asked him to intervene in her case and didn’t tell him about her immigration difficulties.

“I carry my own cross,” she said. “He has nothing to do with my problem.”

The White House said Obama has had no involvement in his aunt’s case and believes it should run its ordinary course.

Onyango helped care for the president’s half brothers and sister while living with Barack Obama Sr. in Kenya. She moved to the United States in 2000 and applied for asylum in 2002, but her request was rejected and she was ordered deported in 2004.

However, she did not leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston. She had been a health care volunteer but not since her status became public. She refused to discuss how she affords to live now or who is paying for her attorney.

Onyango said she previously had no trouble visiting Obama when he was a state senator in Illinois or after he became a U.S. senator, though she declined to discuss details of how often she had contact with Obama and his family. Her tiny apartment in a modest subsidized public housing complex for seniors and the disabled is adorned with photographs of her with Obama at the Illinois Statehouse, the president’s official portrait, his family, the inauguration, her children and African wildlife.

She is disabled and learning to walk again after being paralyzed for more than three months because of an autoimmune disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Obama Will Fund ACORN; SCREW Congress

chillguy33 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:25:54 +0000

Obama/ACORN are joined at the hip.

Congress could no more tell Obama not to fund ACORN, than the US Consitution could keep him from hijacking America’s banking industry.

Or than the US Constitution could keep him from running for election as president, without producing a valid birth certificate.

OBAMA is going to fund ACORN, come hell or high water. (Even though Obama doesn’t even KNOW that he funds ACORN (he says – unprecedented transparency prevails)).

You might be perplexed; but remember, Obama’s presidency is absolutely unprecedented. I think that could explain it.

Team Obama/ACORN assembles for training session

Story here: Gateway Pundit Obama Administration Approves of ACORN Funding

One of Barack Obama’s first big “community organizer” jobs involved ACORN in 1992. He has been working along side ACORN since before he became an elected official. Obama also trained ACORN employees. He represented ACORN in court. Obama worked with and protested with ACORN. His campaign donated $800,000 to ACORN in 2008 for voter registration efforts.
And, ACORN even canvassed for Obama last year.

Earlier this year Obama promoted a top ACORN operative, Patrick Gaspard, who’s oranization was fined $775,000 for election violations, to a top post in the White House. Gespard is helping shape domestic policy.

Obama’s ACORN group was banned from receiving federal funds in September after the group was busted on tape promoting the child sex slave trade.

But, today it was announced that ACORN will be paid with taxpayer funds after all.
The New York Times reported:

The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing funds to the group.

The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, adds a new wrinkle to a sharp political debate over the antipoverty group’s activities and recent efforts to distance the government from it.

Since 1994, Acorn, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has received about $53 million in federal aid, much of it grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for providing various services related to affordable housing.

But the group has become a prime target for conservative critics, and on Oct. 1, President Obama signed into law a spending bill that included a provision that said no taxpayer funds — including funds authorized by previous legislation — could be “provided to” the group or its affiliates.

Obviously, considering Obama’s history with ACORN, this latest news surprises no one.

Screw Congress. I'm with Obama

Obama’s Marxist Entourage Has No End

chillguy33 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:02:43 +0000

Can you spot the two Marxists in this picture?

H/T: Figures. Obama’s Personal Physician Friend Was a Marxist, Too

Quentin Young is Obama’s long-time friend and neighbor in Chicago, and a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist since the late 1930s. Obama became a strong proponent of government-run single payer health “insurance” at the tutelage of Marxist Young.

Must read story here: New Zeal: Obama File 91 Barack Obama and the Socialist Healthcare Scamsters

Who is Quentin Young and what is Physicians for a National Health Program? What influence do they actually have?

PNHP claims to be a national organization of 14,000 doctors advocating single-payer national health insurance.

In reality it was long a phonebox size operation run by Quentin Young and a handful of Marxist comrades.

Quentin Young is one of America’s most committed socialists, beginning with his time in the Young Communist League in late 1930s Chicago.

After WW2, into the mid 1970s, Young was closely associated with the Communist Party and was accused of belonging to the Bethune Club (a communist doctor’s club) by a US Congressional Committee investigating the riots at the 1968 Democratic Party convention in Chicago.

In the late 1970s Young was associated with the pro Marx/Gramsci, New American Movement and in 1982 helped found the also Marxist, Democratic Socialists of America-to which he still belongs.

In 1972, in the dying days of the Vietnam War Young led a small radical delegation to Communist North Vietnam.

In 1987 Young and Peter Orris founded the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), the US’s oldest existing “single payer” advocacy organization and is currently the organization’s National Co-ordinator.

In 1995 Young attended the famous meeting at the Hyde Park home of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn where Barack Obama was introduced as chosen successor to Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer.

[Story continues with outstanding detail]

Toxic Health Care Scandal Rocks Nationalized Medicine in UK

chillguy33 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:00:48 +0000

Government in the UK again proves itself incapable of delivering efficient, effective health care. The government there provides instead Hellish Care (read below), but at a higher cost than free-market health care to boot. Obama will be no more effective than UK politicians and bureaucrats; in fact, he will be far less effective judging on his disdain for learning from history and experience elsewhere. Obama suffers from a raging fever to install nationalized health care before his popularity tanks completely, without studying adequately the results already obtained elsewhere including Canada, the UK, and Cuba. Ineffective and expensive socialized medicine around the world is inferior to the American free market system. American health care is not broken; it is the socialized medicine “systems” elsewhere which are all broken, fundamentally. Such systems are frought with rationing, delay, bad to catastrophic service, and excessive cost. Obama rushes to break health care in the United States, too, with his me-too socialized medicine that never works. He is enthusiastic to start answering questions like which elderly person should receive health care, and which should instead take a pain pill. Matter of fact, he has started along that tack already.

H/T: The Astute Bloggers Another NHS Horror Story

70 deaths on ward of shame: Patients neglected by lazy nurses in a filthy, blood-spattered casualty unit, says damning report

Must read story here.

Dozens of patients died needlessly as a result of filthy conditions in an NHS hospital, a shocking report said last night. Appalling nursing care in Basildon University Hospital contributed to a mortality rate that was more than a third higher than the national average. At least 70 people may have died who should have been saved. It is the latest example of patients paying the ultimate price for Labour’s failure to stamp out Third World conditions in the NHS – despite trebling taxpayer funding over the past decade.

The Essex hospital is run by one of the supposedly ‘elite’ foundation trusts, which have greater freedom to manage their finances. Last night there were angry calls for its entire management team to resign.

Unannounced visits by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission found blood spattered on curtains and chairs in the A&E ward, a catheter bag on the floor, poorly-trained nurses and patients treated on trolleys.

A commode was soiled under the seat, nurses were failing to feed frail elderly people and patients had pressure sores.
There was no paediatric nurse for most of the time so children were not getting the best care.

The mortality rate in the A&E ward was 6.1 per cent in 2008, more than a third higher than the national average of 4.4 per cent.

Toxic Health Care Pervasive in UK

The scandal mirrors what happened at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust – a much bigger trust than Basildon – where 400 people died over three years.

[...]

‘This government has set up a labyrinth of bodies and inspectors which are meant to ensure high quality standards in our hospitals but it simply isn’t working.’

HELLISH Care On Earth in UK

Obama Guarantees Absolutely The Privacy of Your Medical Records

chillguy33 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:04:05 +0000

H/T: Legal Insurrection Your Medical Records Are Absolutely Safe

Obama has ordered unprecedented security measures for his unprecedented state dinner and his unprecedented Obamacare plan.

Obama Absolutely Guarantees Safety of Your Medical Records