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Saturday Afternoon links and open thread

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on May 30, 2009 at 6:03 pm

Some weekend links for your perusal:

—– Must-read: Doug Ross takes a look at Obama’s actions and decisions over the course of the last 100+ days and has come to the same conclusion that Mark Levin has, which is to say that he believes that this administration is “[a]s close to a dictatorship as this country has ever seen.” I’m nowhere near that belief yet, but there are definitely good points which Ross brings up that are troubling.

—– Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK) has checked into the Betty Ford Clinic for help with alcohol addiction, and is taking a temporary leave from Congress. According to the Tulsa World news outlet, he has been open about his drinking problems in the past. Here’s hoping and praying he gets the help he needs at the BFC and that over the long term he wins his battle against alcohol addiction.

—– Legal eagle Bill Jacobson takes a look of the defenders of Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial rulings/decisions, and finds them, well, lacking.

—– The amazing Susan Boyle did not win Britain’s Got Talent – she came in second place, but in the hearts and minds of people all over the world, she’s still a winner … and there’s no doubt she’ll be getting a recording contract from somewhere.

—– Has Obama “expanded the lobbying ban,” as the WaPo reports, or have they loosened restrictions, as Roll Call writes? Hmmm. I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle.

—–ABC reports that the National Archives has offered a $50,000 cash reward for that missing Clinton hard drive. If they offered several million for it back – oh, enough to pay off old campaign debts – I suspect Hillary would consider returning it.

—– Change you can believe in: CNN reports on how the Obama admin has said it will “continue” to utilize the “states secret” privilege in a case involving a suit by an Oregon-based outfit the US has determined to be a “terrorist organization.” The al-Haramain Islamic Foundation is suing the gov’t over its use of the alleged use of the warrantless wiretapping program against the foundation.

—– Fab Euro-blogger Michael van der Galien has a post up about the announcement earlier this week that conservative Tucker Carlson is planning on starting a “right-leaning” version of HuffPo called “The Daily Caller” (thedailycaller.com), which Carlson claims will go live “within weeks.” van der Galien writes:

“I wish Tucker best of luck with this new venture – I am pretty sure that there actually is a lot of room for a ‘right-leaning Huffington Post’ – but he has to understand that he has to truly blow everybody away after announcing his new project before a group of bloggers, and telling them he will be better than the HuffPo, Hot Air, or any other existing site, and faster than Drudge. Those are some darn high expectations: You have to wonder whether the man understands what he’s getting himself into.”

Stay tuned …

Cross-posted to No Runny Eggs, where I will be helping guestblog for the vacationing Steve Egg this week.

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  1. Severian says:
    May 30, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    I think he has a point. Lincoln was worse, presiding over little things like massacres in Baltimore and NYC, suspending habeus corpus, etc. But remember, Obama likes to believe he’s a modern day Lincoln, so expect him to try and revisit all of Lincoln’s atrocities eventually.

    As you say, it’s only about 4 months in, and every day brings some new outrage or insult or jaw dropping event, some new neo-Marxist, fascistic event or policy. It’s going to be a long 4 years.

  2. forest hunter says:
    May 30, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    LINK

    Hysterical history buffs make good!

  3. Great White Rat says:
    May 31, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    Guess where you can find this:

    First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights…

    Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another….

    The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe…

    Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

    So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies.

    So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses?…

    The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

    Rush Limbaugh? Michelle Malkin? Sister Toldjah? No…this is from a column in Pravda .

    What does it say about our MSM when Putin’s puppet news agency prints a more accurate portrayal of the American situation than NYT, NBC, LAT, CNN, etc.??

  4. Great White Rat says:
    May 31, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    Oh, and if you find you just can’t get enough of the greatness that is Barack Obama, you can always go here. Warning: have barf bag handy. :-&

  5. forest hunter says:
    May 31, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land called America , having lost their morals, their initiative, and their will to defend their liberties, chose as their Supreme Leader that person known as Teh One. He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but he hypnotized the people telling them, “I am sent to save you. My lack of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my association with evildoers are of no consequence. For I shall save you with Hope and Change. Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the land that he who preceded me is evil, that he has defiled the nation, and that all he has built must be destroyed.”

    And the people rejoiced. For even though they knew not what Teh One would do, He had promised that it was good; and they believed.

    And Teh One said, “We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change everything about it!”

    And the people said, “Hallelujah!! Change is good!”

    Then He said, “We are going to tax the rich fat-cats.”

    And the people said “Sock it to them!” “And redistribute their wealth.”

    And the people said, “Show us the money!”

    And then He said, “Redistribution of wealth is good for everybody”

    And Joe the plumber asked, “Are you kidding me? You’re going to steal my money and give it to the deadbeats??

    And Teh One ridiculed and taunted him, and Joe’s personal records were hacked and publicized. One lone reporter asked, “Isn’t that Marxist policy?”

    And she was banished from the kingdom!

    Then a citizen asked, “With no foreign relations experience and having zero military experience or knowledge, how will you deal with radical terrorists?”

    And Teh One said, “Simple. I shall sit with them and talk with them and show them how nice we really are; and they will forget that they ever wanted to kill us all!

    And the people said, “Hallelujah!! We are safe at last, and we can beat our weapons into free cars for the people!”

    Then Teh One said, “I shall give 95% of you lower taxes.”

    And one, lone voice said, “But 40% of us don’t pay ANY taxes.”

    So Teh One said, “Then I shall give you some of the taxes the fat-cats pay!”

    And the people said, “Hallelujah!! Show us the money!”

    Then Teh One said, “I shall tax your Capital Gains when you sell your homes!” And the people yawned and the slumping housing market collapsed.

    And He said, “I shall mandate employer-funded health care for EVERY worker and raise the minimum wage. And I shall give every person unlimited health care and medicine and transportation to the clinics.”

    And the people said, “Gim’me some of that!”

    Then he said, “I shall penalize employers who ship jobs overseas.”

    And the people said, “Where’s my rebate check?”

    Then Teh One said, “I shall bankrupt the coal industry and electricity rates will skyrocket!”

    And the people said, “Coal is dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don’t care for that part about higher electric rates.” So Teh One said, “Not to worry. If your rebate isn’t enough to cover your expenses, we shall bail you out. Just sign up with ACORN and your troubles are over!”

    Then He said, “Illegal immigrants feel scorned and slighted. Let’s grant them amnesty, Social Security, free education, free lunches, free medical care, bilingual signs and guaranteed housing”

    And the people said, “Hallelujah!!” And they made him King!

    And so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs and ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off workers. Others simply gave up and went out of business and the economy sank like a rock dropped from a cliff. The banking industry was destroyed. Manufacturing slowed to a crawl. And more of the people were without a means of support.

    Then Teh One said, “I am, The One – The Messiah – and I’m here to save you! We shall just print more money so everyone will have enough!” But our foreign trading partners said unto Him, “Wait a minute. Your dollar is not worth a pile of camel dung! You will have to pay more.”
    And the people said, “Wait a minute. That is unfair!!”

    And the world said, “Neither are these other idiotic programs you have embraced. Lo, you have become a Socialist State and a second-rate power. Now you shall play by our rules!”

    And the people cried out, “Alas, alas!! What have we done?” But yea verily, it was too late.

    And the once mighty Nation was no more.

    ……unless and until!

  6. John A says:
    May 31, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    Will this near-riot by Muslims in the UK get much play? Doubtful – wrong people win…

    Muslims drive off extremists

    The Muslim community turned on extremists in their midst yesterday, telling them they were ’sick and tired’ of their behaviour.
    …
    As the radical Muslims began to set up their stall, they were surrounded by a crowd shouting ‘we don’t want you here’ and ‘move on, move on’.
    …
    Farasat Latif, of the Islamic Centre in Luton, … said moderate members of his community took action because police had failed to move the group on.