Obama is never investigated by the press no matter how juicy the story

“The allegation [that Obama’s friend Eric Whitaker tried to bribe Wright into silence]  is contained in The Amateur, a new book by conservative journalist Ed Klein. While Klein may or may not be reliable – some conservatives have distanced themselves from him – it appears Wright did make the allegation.

The only mainstream White House reporter to do some follow through on this, Jake Tapper of ABC, reported that he listened to one of Klein’s tapes of his conversations with Wright in which the reverend didn’t deny suggestions that it was Wright who bribed him.

Whitaker denies he did it which, guilty or innocent, is what you’d expect. Wright refuses to answer questions from Tapper, which is not quite what you’d expect.

And no one in the press is doing much investigating that we know of – which is exactly what we’d expect.

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/06/04/investigation/

I be so cool, man

“The dispassionate man from Chicago is proving every day what rare stuff he's made of. The president sees how the Iranians mock him - and does nothing. He sees radical Islam approaching the nuclear brink - and does not budge. With amazing courage Barack Obama watches the tsunami rolling toward America's shores - and smiles. . . “

“President Obama is a thrifty president. America isn't what it used to be, but it still has vast strategic, economic and military resources. The United States can stop the Iranian nuclear program by using a small part of these resources.

But the extremely thrifty commander-in-chief is not prepared to pay any price for stopping the 8,000 Shi'ite centrifuges. That's why Obama didn't stand by the Iranian Spring of 2009 as he stood by the Arab Spring of 2011. That's why Obama didn't act firmly against the underground facility near Qom, which was discovered three years ago. That's why Obama has not touched, to this day, Iran's central bank, nor has he stopped the flow of oil distillates to the country's ports.

The cautious president sees not the catastrophic price the West will pay for Iran's nuclearization, but the political price he will pay if oil prices rise. Never in its history has the United States had such a thrifty leader as its 44th president.”

http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/the-world-should-focus-on-obama-not-netanyahu.premium-1.432287?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.225%2C2.227%2C

How divorce affects the children

She’s an adult. Capable.  Stable. Talented artist and writer. A strong Christian. And her father has been unfaithful and left her mother.  The other woman has left her husband and children. The unfaithful couple flaunt their infidelity in front of family and friends.   Thirteen people in the immediate families including grandchildren mentally and emotionally destroyed by infidelity.  “Divorce is a death without a funeral,” she writes, where there are no calls, meals brought in, or offers to help.  And nearly 70 readers write back about their deepest hurts—some after 30 years, or even after never having known their parents as a “couple.”

 http://jeanneoliverdesigns.com/blog/2012/05/27/sometimes-in-the-pain-you-find-your-most-tender-heart/

A viral divorce agreement

DIVORCE AGREEMENT (political humor)

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.

Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is a model separation agreement:
--Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

--We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them.
--You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.

--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.
--We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel.
--You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.

--We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.
--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens.
--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.
--We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.

--You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
--You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

--We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
--You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.

--We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
--You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.
--We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.

--We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
--I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya" or "We Are the World".

--We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.

--Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American

P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin & Charlie Sheen, Barbara Streisand, & ( Hanoi ) Jane Fonda with you

Obama’s over his head; voters are over their depth

Another dismal job growth and unemployment report with the highest tax increase in history looming. Obama’s response? More of the same.  If Romney let’s this slip by him, maybe we’ve got what we deserve.

“On Friday, the same architects who designed this economy built to stall were calling for one more rescue by the Fed. And gold jumped more than $60 an ounce, suggesting that markets believe that Chairman Ben Bernanke will oblige with some version of QE III. But the lesson of the last four years is that easier money can provide at most a temporary reprieve from otherwise rotten policies. Markets rally for a time, but then they fade when the money-fix is withdrawn.

Far more constructive would be a bipartisan attempt to remove the tax cliff that the economy is rolling toward in January 2013. One of the biggest fears among investors and businesses is that tax rates on capital gains, dividends and personal income are all scheduled to go way up at the same time.

This is an entirely artificial crisis created by the mantra of "temporary, targeted" tax cuts, combined with Mr. Obama's campaign strategy to run against high-income earners with his Buffett rule and attacks on bankers and Bain Capital. If Mr. Obama wants a better chance at re-election, and especially with troubles in Europe and China, he'll call off the class war and call for no change in taxes for at least another two years until there is a larger tax reform. He'd find he'd get little resistance from Republicans.

As for Mitt Romney, the latest slowdown in jobs and growth gives him an enormous opening to offer the American people a better way. Criticizing the results of the last four years and saying that Mr. Obama is in over his head are not enough. “

An economy built to stall

The post turtle

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, whose hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.  Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his role as our President.

The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a “Post Turtle''.
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked what a “post
turtle” was.

The old rancher said, “When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a ‘post turtle’”.

The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain.  "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he's elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with."

Seen at Two Sisters from the Right facebook page.

George W. Bush on steroids—Barack Obama

Personally, Obama isn’t worthy to tie Bush’s combat boots or zip his flight jacket, not after he did all he could to throw a monkey wrench into the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan while he was a senator, and then did a flip flip to become Mr. War Hero using all the advantages gained by the very methods he voted against.

Indeed, newspaper revelations last week about the "kill list" showed the Obama administration defines a militant as any military-age male in the strike zone when its drone attacks. That has raised the hackles of many who saw Obama as somehow more sophisticated on terrorism issues than his predecessor, George W Bush. But Guiora does not view it that way. He sees Obama as the same as Bush, just much more enthusiastic when it comes to waging drone war. "If Bush did what Obama has been doing, then journalists would have been all over it," he said.

But the "kill list" and rapidly expanded drone programme are just two of many aspects of Obama's national security policy that seem at odds with the expectations of many supporters in 2008. Having come to office on a powerful message of breaking with Bush, Obama has in fact built on his predecessor's national security tactics.

Obama has presided over a massive expansion of secret surveillance of American citizens by the National Security Agency. He has launched a ferocious and unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. He has made more government documents classified than any previous president. He has broken his promise to close down the controversial Guantánamo Bay prison and pressed on with prosecutions via secretive military tribunals, rather than civilian courts. He has preserved CIA renditions. He has tried to grab broad new powers on what defines a terrorist or a terrorist supporter and what can be done with them, often without recourse to legal process.

The sheer scope and breadth of Obama's national security policy has stunned even fervent Bush supporters and members of the Washington DC establishment. In last week's New York Times article that detailed the "kill list", Bush's last CIA director, Michael Hayden, said Obama should open the process to   more  public  scrutiny.  "Democracies do not make war on the basis of legal memos locked in a [Department of Justice] safe," he told the newspaper.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/02/drone-wars-secrecy-barack-obama?CMP=twt_gu

Friday family photo—The Memorial Tournament 2012

Our son got tickets for the 2012 Memorial Tournament, May 31, in Dublin, Ohio, north and west of where we live.  The weather was gorgeous, the greens fast, and the spot we chose to put our folding chairs was very close to the second hole right on the water, near a grove of trees for shade to flee to when we needed it, close to the restroom, and close to a food tent, was fabulous.  We left after we saw Phil Mickelson play in a group with Rickie Fowler and Bubba Watson, a favorite of my guys, and were home by about 2:30.  It was my first experience of any length with golf, other than walking through the living room saying, “Isn’t there anything interesting on TV?”

       

             

"Shrewd as serpents and simple as doves"

Christians who take their faith seriously — unless called to a monastic lifestyle — are not supposed to withdraw from such a world, but to transform it; their influence, example, and prayers are intended to demonstrate God's love for the world — a love so great that He sent His only Son for its salvation (cf. Jn. 3:16). Fulfilling this mission, however, requires an awareness of the challenges we face — challenges which, while they can only be overcome through divine grace, require us for our part to be as "shrewd as serpents and simple as doves" (Mt. 10:16).

Fr. Joseph M. Esper, “Spiritual Dangers of the 21st century,” 2010, introduction

Contraception won’t end abortions—it encourages abortions

The following appeared at Renew America:  http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/100325

Responding to a March 15 story on EmaxHealth.com titled "Free Contraception Can Cut Abortion Rate in Half," Brian Clowes, Ph.D., director of research for Human Life International, said in an e-mail (slightly edited):

'After 40 years of widespread contraceptive use in the United States, we should have learned that more and more contraception is not the answer to less abortion. This is because two things are imperfect: the contraceptive methods and the people themselves.

'According to the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, there are more than two million contraceptive failures in the U.S. each year. Two-thirds of women seeking abortions were using contraception when they got pregnant.

Contraceptive Technology, the 'Family Planner's Bible,' states that condoms, perhaps the worst offender, break, tear or slip off one time out of twelve, which means that the average condom user experiences eight failures every year.
'Contraception is obviously not the answer to ending abortion, as history has shown us. And it is certainly not the answer to ending sexually transmitted diseases. The only answer to ending these [evils] is living by nature's plan — abstinence before marriage and fidelity after. Those who sneer at this solution are both unscientific and tend to select the easier wrong over the harder right, claiming the former is 'impractical.' What is truly impractical is doing the same thing for decade after decade and expecting a different result.

'The Norwegian study purporting to show that women use the pill more when it is free flies in the face of human experience. In general, people tend to use and maintain products better if they have to invest in them. The Norwegian study must have missed one or more factors that impacted the behavior of these women.'

Four more years, suggests WSJ

“The most significant policy change during President Obama's first term was his health-care "reform," the movement of 17% of our economy from the marketplace of ideas and physician-patient decision-making to control and management by the federal government. The Supreme Court is now considering whether ObamaCare is constitutional, and is expected to decide by the end of June.

ObamaCare is a huge governmental mandate, the impact of which we are just beginning to feel. If the Supreme Court upholds the law, full government control of health care will start next year, with the new ObamaCare taxes on investment income. The individual mandates and other rules and regulations will begin in 2014. If the court upholds ObamaCare and Mr. Obama is re-elected in November, the scope and size of our government's control over health care will increase dramatically.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304707604577425232476213016.html

What's it all about, Al "race hustler" Sharpton?

The Democrats came up with Jim Crow and the KKK, they undid all the Civil Rights laws passed by Republicans after the Civil War, then took credit for the Civil Rights laws of the 20th century.  The Democrats are pushing abortions, 40% of which are for black babies.  So just what is he saying about Republicans? Just who is wiping out whom?  Who is the only president ever endorsed by Planned Parenthood which systematically kills minorities?

"It seems like [Republicans] act as though, some wiping out of people, some of the right-wing, is all right. It's not all right to do to any innocent people. If you had war and people that's one thing, but to wipe out innocent people just because of who they are like what was done in Hitler's Germany or what was done to Native Americans is not justifiable."
http://nation.foxnews.com/al-sharpton/2012/05/29/sharpton-compares-republicans-hitler

Eric Holder is possibly the worst Attorney General ever!

Eric Holder is correct when he says the right to vote is under attack.  But he’s saying it to increase racial tensions, not to quash voting threats.  Or he’s saying it fearful that blacks will be leaving the plantation as Obama continues to lead against their best interests on abortion, marriage and religious freedom.

When we Americans accept fraud, double and triple registrations, no ID, dead people voting, and voter intimidation by special interest groups and unions, they are in fact stealing our valid vote. Holder is trying to scare blacks that the old timey Democrat Jim Crow is back, but in fact, it is he who won't do anything about fraud. No one will dislodge the black vote from Obama. So why is he playing the race card? He may be the biggest racist in government.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/holder-brief-black-pastors-campaign-2012/567501

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/05/15/the-hits-keep-coming-project-veritas-exposes-non-citizens-dead-people-registered-to-vote-in-nc-and-so-much-more/

http://www.chron.com/default/article/Tea-partiers-confer-in-Houston-to-fight-vote-fraud-3518567.php

Obama and the Polish death camps

To the prime minister of Poland: Sir, we have been dealing with "ignorance, lack of knowledge, bad intentions" since January 2009, also from our more experienced vice president, and we so sincerely apologize that our leader made such a horrible mistake in referring to Polish death camps. He wasn't around in 1939, and God knows no one taught him (or his speech writers) history. His parents and grandparents were socialists and statists as are his mentors and friends. Some children do grow up to live out their parents' expectations. http://catholicglasses.com/2012/05/30/obama-nazi-death-camp-gaffe-hurt-all-poles-prime-minister-said-yahoo-news/

Most of us know Romney isn’t a Conservative, but Obama, doesn’t—he’s too far to the left

“RUSH: The Obama campaign intends to portray Romney as, quote, "the most conservative nominee Republicans have had going back to Goldwater." I hope they do. This is Romney's big problem. He's not conservative enough for many on the Republican side of the aisle. So if Obama tries to tag this guy as Goldwater or Reagan, bring it on, that would be the best possible endorsement Romney could get. People don't fear Barry Goldwater anymore. People are not afraid of Barry Goldwater. They fear Obama.”

No, they aren’t afraid of Barry Goldwater, but they are afraid of Barry Obama (his name before he ran for political office).

Support Governor Walker

Dana Loesch subbed for Glenn Beck tonight, and she's really good. Don't know where her regular program is, but she's certainly comfortable on camera. She interviewed Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch of Wisconsin, where everyone is watching the recall vote of Gov. Walker. This could happen in all our states, if we continue to let the public unions have this kind of power. Wisconsin has balanced its budget, hasn't laid off teachers, and has attracted industry to the state. Support Walker if you can. Now the unions have sent Wisconsin organizers to Louisiana to try to take out Bobby Jindal, one of the best governors in the country, in my opinion. Since Jindal is a minority, I wonder if the unionists can be accused of "hate speech?"

Also, there was a segment of Glenn interviewing Ari Horowitz who has a new movie called U.N. me about the corruption and ineffectiveness of the United Nations, now 60 years old and still doing nothing except sopping up our money. The United Nations doesn't answer to anyone

Dana also interviewed Madeleine Mcauley, a 16 year old who is the newest face on the War against Women. She made a video and posted it on YouTube in support of traditional marriage. She didn't say anything hateful or mean, but she sure is getting the hate mail. Brave young woman. She says marriage is a covenant with God. She also points out the hypocrisy of the left.


John Fund of the Wall Street Journal (plugging his new book "Who's counting" due in August) and President and Founder of True the Vote, Catherine Engelbrecht, were also on the show. Catherine says, "If our elections are not fair, we are not free." So why are Democrats and leftists so against this organization? Thirty-two states now have True the Vote organizations. It's like exposing mold to sunshine. It was started by a few women in 2009 who decided to be observers at the polls, thinking it would be a one time thing, and were shocked by what they found. For instance, 1200 felons voted in Minnesota who shouldn't have. Al Franken won in a recount. Obamacare passed by one vote. Every vote counts--and unfortunately fraudulent and illegal votes count even more--they cancel out your legal vote. In Ohio, we have only two cases of voter fraud--2 counties that is where there are thousands more registered voters than people over 18 in those counties. Our President used to represent one of the most crooked organizations in the country--ACORN. He is the organizer in chief.

Nearly all of the concern over voter fraud [in 2008] has focused on one group, the Association Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN), which is under investigation or facing serious allegations of fraud in 13 states over how it has conducted voter-registration drives. ACORN insists, incredibly, that its voter-registration drives are nonpartisan activities. However, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has endorsed the group’s activities in the past and taught at their seminars. His campaign has paid them $800,000 for get-out-the-vote efforts, and ACORN’s political action committee has endorsed Obama. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/225997/community-organizer-chief/mark-hemingway

Elevating Chris Hayes

Chris Hayes has a little watched program on MSNBC called Up with Chris Hayes.  He’s come under fire (the only type he gets since he's never been in battle) for what he said about the meaning of the word "hero" in connection with Memorial Day.  It was sort of his his Sandra Fluke moment.  Now, the MSNBC political pundit has had to apologize.  But was it an apology?  He apologized for not living up to his own standards of rigor for political speech.  Huh? Then the 300+ comments are people arguing over Limbaugh, Fox, who is Chris Hayes, MSNBC ratings, etc.  Just read the apology.  It wasn't.

http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/28/11924150-statement-from-chris-hayes#comments

I’ve never heard of him.  Now he’s famous for saying something really dumb and hurting a lot of people.  My uncle was killed in WWII in an exploding airplane due to the negligence of his commanding officer. Perhaps this is the type of war death that Hayes doesn’t want to call heroic.  Has he ever looked at the accident statistics for WWII or Vietnam?   

Adele—Make you feel my love

This young lady from Britain, Adele Adkins, now known by her first name,  has had an amazing career in just a few short years.  I think this one is lovely – nice to know beautiful love songs are still enjoyed. Many artists have covered this since 1997.    She has won a Best Songwriter Award, but this one was written by Bob Dylan.  She says criticism of her first album, 19, was that her songs weren’t as good as her voice.  She took it to heart, and now with her album, 21, she’s won songwriting awards.

When the rain is blowing in your face,
and the whole world is on your case,
I could offer you a warm embrace
to make you feel my love.

When the evening shadows and the stars appear,
and there is no one there to dry your tears,
I could hold you for a million years
to make you feel my love.

I know you haven't made your mind up yet,
but I would never do you wrong.
I've known it from the moment that we met,
no doubt in my mind where you belong.

I'd go hungry; I'd go black and blue,
I'd go crawling down the avenue.
No, there's nothing that I wouldn't do
to make you feel my love.

The storms are raging on the rolling sea
and on the highway of regret.
Though winds of change are throwing wild and free,
you ain't seen nothing like me yet.

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true.
Nothing that I wouldn't do.
Go to the ends of the Earth for you,
to make you feel my love.

http://www.billboard.com/news/adele-wins-songwriting-honors-at-ivor-novello-1007093552.story#/news/adele-wins-songwriting-honors-at-ivor-novello-1007093552.story

Gaydar is more accurate than you might think

From the press release about the Public Library of Science article, “The Roles of Featural and Configural Face Processing in Snap Judgments of Sexual Orientation.”

“After seeing faces for less than a blink of an eye, college students have accuracy greater than mere chance in judging others' sexual orientation. Their "gaydar" persisted even when they saw the photos upside-down, and gay versus straight judgments were more accurate for women's faces than for men's.

The findings, published May 16 in the open-access online journal PLoS ONE, suggest that we unconsciously make gay and straight distinctions.

"It may be similar to how we don't have to think about whether someone is a man or a woman or black or white," said lead author Joshua Tabak, a psychology graduate student at the University of Washington. "This information confronts us in everyday life."

Tabak says that our ability to spontaneously assess sexual orientation based on observation or instinct conflicts with the assertion that if people just kept their sexual orientation to themselves then no one else would know and discrimination wouldn't exist, an argument frequently used by opponents of anti-discrimination policies for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.” . . .

“It's unclear why some have better gaydar than others, since studies have only tested this aptitude in college students. Tabak speculates that "people from older generations or different cultures who may not have grown up knowing they were interacting with gay people" may be less accurate in making gay versus straight judgments. “

For this article.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036671

Why I stopped blogging about libraries

When I first started blogging about 9 years ago, I actually still wrote occasionally about libraries.  I retired in 2000 and for awhile kept up with library news and information by participating in discussion groups.  Five years out, and it was pretty much hopeless. Today I came across some “library humor” (funny to no one except librarians) called Award for the Worst Title Change of the Year, or something like that, except it seems to have self-destructed around 2005.  So while back tracking I came across this paragraph, which reminded why I don’t write about libraries any more.

RDF and microdata both use the same fundamental triple data model. Please note that schema.org is just a specific set of vocabularies that can be used with HTML5 microdata, HTML5 microdata goes beyond this. schema.org is a pretty good microdata tutorial though, if you remember you don’t have to use it’s vocabularies. Here’s the actual microdata spec. Here’s a good microdata tutorial that pre-dates schema.org and is not schema.org-specific.

http://bibwild.wordpress.com/