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Barack Say What They Want To Hear Obama released this statement today, in response to the Supreme Court Heller decision.  Let’s take it point by point, shall we, kind of read between the lines, and fill in the “rest of the statement”.?

I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms,

Except when they live in a state with a big city, or in D.C., or Illinois, and except for the time I didn’t believe it.

but I also identify with the need for crime-ravaged communities to save their children from the violence that plagues

Oh yeah, it’s for the children.  Works for about 45% of Americans on everything else, so let’s use it for gun control too.

that plagues our streets through common-sense, effective safety measures.

Like the complete ban on handguns that has proven to be so effective everywhere it has been tried, like D.C. and Chicago.

The Supreme Court has now endorsed that view,

And they have agreed with me, Barack The New Politician Obama.

and while it ruled that the D.C. gun ban went too far,

which is just wrong, but that @#!^ Kennedy let us down

Justice Scalia himself acknowledged that this right is not absolute and subject to reasonable regulations enacted by local communities to keep their streets safe.

Which is just the kind of thread I as President need to hang on to, upon which to hang a renewed effort to roll back this awful miscarriage of hope and change.

Today’s ruling, the first clear statement on this issue in 127 years,

which lack nobody I know saw any problem with

will provide much-needed guidance to local jurisdictions across the country.

and create a full employment situation for armies of attorneys for decades to come.

As President, I will uphold the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun-owners, hunters, and sportsmen.

And you can trust me on that because I have a clear record, and you can believe what I’m telling you.

I know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne.

Will security please take that “gentleman” from Idaho who is laughing hysterically out of the room, please?  Now, as I was saying, it works so well in Chicago that we need to expand the programs to other cities where they will work equally as well.

We can work together to enact common-sense laws,

The lawyers, my friends in the Democrat majority, and my patrons George and MoveOn, we’re all about common-sense.

like closing the gun show loophole

because we can’t have private citizens buying and selling legal guns from other private citizens now, can we?

and improving our background check system, so that guns do not fall into the hands of terrorists or criminals.

We also intend to prosecute every gun dealer in America, because even if the criminals and terrorists don’t get their guns directly from the dealers, untrained citizens are allowing their unsecured guns to be stolen, and that has to stop.  You can count on me to stop it.

Today’s decision reinforces that if we act responsibly, we can both protect the constitutional right to bear arms and keep our communities and our children safe.

And I promise to appoint the right kind of judges that will accomplish all that I intend to do to the Constitution, in order to get it just the way I want it.  Thank you for believing in me.  Sleep tight.

I have already mentioned the Idaho Dems going out of their way to ensure just the right mix of, er, skin tones, ancestry, and persuasions represented in the delegates they chose to send to their convention in Denver later this summer.  But that isn’t bad, because, after all, Barack The Sinless Obama has been known to shuffle the members of his audience now and again, to get the “right mix for the camera”.

So is it any wonder the Democrat National Committee is sparing no expense, or browsweat, to bring before the cameras in August a convention that promises to be the biggest “green” spectacle ever seen?  Yes, even dwarfing the Live Earth concerts, or so they can hope.  Proving to the world that they truly believe they are better than everyone else when it comes to righteous living, and how devoted they are to Mother Earth.  From the Wall Street Journal this morning (warning on content: we’re rating this one S for Spewing, H for Hurling)

DENVER — As the Mile High City gears up to host a Democratic bash for 50,000, organizers are discovering the perils of trying to stage a political spectacle that’s also politically correct.

Consider the fanny packs.

The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA.

Official merchandiser Bob DeMasse scoured the country. His weary conclusion: “That just doesn’t exist.”

Ditto for the baseball caps. “We have a union cap or an organic cap,” Mr. DeMasse says. “But we don’t have a union-organic offering.”

Much of the hand-wringing can be blamed on Denver’s Democratic mayor, John Hickenlooper, who challenged his party and his city to “make this the greenest convention in the history of the planet.”

This whole story is astonishing to me.  This is the party that promised to straighten out Washington two years ago, to bring us a heightened standard of ethics,  to fix the economy, end the war, bring us an energy plan, give us health care, rescue the environment, and make us all love government again, especially really BIG government.  But then, just like the apologists for the failure of communism and socialism keep trying to tell us, they haven’t really failed to deliver these things, they just don’t have the right people in power yet.  But you just watch, once we have Barack The Sinless Obama as our President, things are going to be just ducky.  And you just need to look at our convention to know how serious we are.

There will be special food, special balloons, special hats and fanny packs.  Why, it’s going to have a carbon footprint so low you’ll need a bloodhound to find it.  There will even be garbage can monitors, just like in grade school, to make sure nobody lets a fork get into the wrong trash stream.  Don’t believe me?  It gets better.  Keep reading

To test whether celebratory balloons advertised as biodegradable actually will decompose, Ms. Robinson buried samples in a steaming compost heap. She hired an Official Carbon Adviser, who will measure the greenhouse-gas emissions of every placard, every plane trip, every appetizer prepared and every coffee cup tossed. The Democrats hope to pay penance for those emissions by investing in renewable energy projects.

A Carbon Advisor?  Really?  Oh my, they’re really serious.  They’re so serious they are even going to buy some of AlGore’s carbon credits, “to pay penance for those emissions”.  You know, something about that reminds of Martin Luther, Wittenberg, indulgences… but that might just be me.  But I can’t help but wonder, if He Who Must Not Be Made Fun Of is actually elected, how soon before each of our cities gets a Carbon Advisor?  Maybe that’s what they plan to do with all those extra BATF agents they won’t need after we all turn in our guns?  Carbon Advisors and Waste Stream Monitors…

We’ve already had enough religion mixed into this campaign, especially on the Democrat side of late, but I remember a passage that seems to apply here.  Yes, Barack The Preacher Obama is wrong, some of us are reading our Bibles, not just clinging to them.  So Barry, and you in the hope change choir, ponder on this for a bit, see if anything comes to you.  It’s from The Sermon on the Mount, one of the items you’ve preached at us about.

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. “

Hypocrites.

Last night after dinner I was sitting around just really hoping something would change, and I was particularly focused on gas prices.  After all, that is about all anyone is talking about these days.  On my way home from some business in town I noticed that my favorite gas stop had gone to $4.02… sigh… they did pretty well, holding it below four bucks, but they finally succumbed.   I was really bummed, so you can imagine how hard I was hoping for some change. 

Can you believe that?  Me?  I know, it’s a good thing my Dad doesn’t read my blog, because he always said “Brother, if you want something to change you’re going to have to get off your ass and change it, because sitting there hoping isn’t going to do it.”  Or something like that, I don’t remember.  He said stuff like that about 40 years ago, and back then I wasn’t listening very hard.  Yeah, I had to reinvent the wheel.  Come to think of it, I had a Che shirt, a Harley, and a dope pipe then too.  Not much culture change the past 40 years, eh?  Or are they just reinventing the wheel? 

But this hope thing is actually a pretty attractive idea, so last night, when nobody was looking (my Sweetie was watching “John and Kate +8″) I gave that hope thing a good shot.  Hope. Gas Prices. Change.  Hope.  Gas Prices. Change.  No, I didn’t go “Ooooommmmbaaaaamaaa”.  That’d be creepy.

Well, this morning on my way in to town I drove by my favorite gas stop again and damn!  that sign had changed!

$4.05

So, sue me.  I’m just a rookie at this hopey changey thing, and I don’t know how to steer it yet.  Guess that’s why we need the Obamessiah, you think?

Stumbled on an interesting website this morning that you might enjoy spending some time poking around on.  They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I dare say a good chart is worth it as well.  Go check out Ross Perot’s Charts.  He’s got a bunch of charts that illustrate the past 40 or so years of the Federal Government’s collection and use of our money.  Here’s a sample

John McCain, going after Obama for his windfall profits tax idea this afternoon

“Tax relief just isn’t change he can believe in,” said the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, mocking his opponent’s campaign slogan.

McCain’s bid to chart a middle course on a major issue hit a bump, though, when he criticized Obama for proposing a windfall profits tax, despite saying last month he would consider the same proposal.

I have to rub the GOP’s, and McCain’s nose in this one, because this is really a pathetic performance.  We have two of the worst candidates for President I can imagine.  Neither one of them is qualified to be President.

McCain said Obama “says that high oil prices are not the problem, but only that they rose too quickly. He’s doesn’t support new domestic production. He doesn’t support new nuclear plants. He doesn’t support more traditional use of coal, either.”

Instead, McCain said Obama “wants a windfall profits tax on oil, to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas. If the plan sounds familiar, it’s because that was President Jimmy Carter’s big idea too - and a lot of good it did us.”

Good line John.  And he warned everyone he didn’t know much about economics.  But he also doesn’t seem to understand politics, or know what his own positions really are .  If you want to smack down your opponent for one of his positions, make SURE you didn’t take the same position less than a month ago.

Dork!

This is a surprise, only in that it’s coming from the LA Times

In 2006, John F. Kerry explained the Senate’s 77-23 passage of the Iraq war resolution this way: “We were misled. We were given evidence that was not true.” On the campaign trail, Hillary Rodham Clinton dodged blame for her pro-war vote by claiming that “the mistakes were made by this president, who misled this country and this Congress.”

Nearly every prominent Democrat in the country has repeated some version of this charge, and the notion that the Bush administration deceived the American people has become the accepted narrative of how we went to war.

Yet in spite of all the accusations of White House “manipulation” — that it pressured intelligence analysts into connecting Hussein and Al Qaeda and concocted evidence about weapons of mass destruction — administration critics continually demonstrate an inability to distinguish making claims based on flawed intelligence from knowingly propagating falsehoods.

The Times calls out J.D. Rockerfeller for his flawed Intelligence Committee report that was released at the beginning of the month and which continues the “Bush lied” meme

Contrast those conclusions with the Senate Intelligence Committee report issued June 5, the production of which excluded Republican staffers and which only two GOP senators endorsed. In a news release announcing the report, committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV got in this familiar shot: “Sadly, the Bush administration led the nation into war under false pretenses.”

Yet Rockefeller’s highly partisan report does not substantiate its most explosive claims. Rockefeller, for instance, charges that “top administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and Al Qaeda as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11.” Yet what did his report actually find? That Iraq-Al Qaeda links were “substantiated by intelligence information.” The same goes for claims about Hussein’s possession of biological and chemical weapons, as well as his alleged operation of a nuclear weapons program

Read the whole thing, if for no other reason than to see a typically left-leaning news outlet get one right.  For all the hero worship and pedestal polishing going on about Tim Russert, you’d think the liberal media would take the hint and just do a little more fact reporting and let the chips fall.  Russert was tough, but generally honest.  We can all hope that it might catch on.

It’s not about the best person for the job, it’s about quotas.  That is the message from the Democrat Party in 2008.  If the recent primary struggles weren’t enough proof, how about looking at the Idaho State Democrat Convention?  This is the delegation selected to go to Denver later this summer, as reported in the Idaho Statesman this morning.

The 23-member delegation includes five African-Americans, three Native Americans, a Hispanic, an Asian, a gay man and a lesbian woman - all categories in party affirmative-action goals. Hispanics are Idaho’s largest minority group, with 9.8 percent of the population; Native Americans represent 1.4 percent, Asians 1.2 percent and African-Americans 0.8 percent.

Former Democratic National Committee member John Greenfield lost his chance to be a national delegate because a coin toss determined the slot he had campaigned for must go to a woman. Party rules require an equal split between genders.

But Greenfield, a 64-year-old Boise lawyer, said it’s time for older, white men to defer power. “It’s the healthiest thing that ever happened to this party.”

Eight of the delegates are under 35, exceeding the party goal of six in that category. A new group, Idaho Young Democrats, had about 50 of the 332 delegates at the convention.

Affirmative action goals, eh?  Not proportional representation, not the most qualified, not luck of the draw, or who spent the most money, or even who did the best job working for the goal… these folks were hand picked to fit the special interest group/”victim” list mentality the Democrat Party has worked so hard establishing in America today.  Quotas.  There is no difference between picking a person because of their skincolor/gender/sexual orientation or whatever, than there is in denying another person for the same reason.  Would that they would work so hard to pick the best, rather than the most diverse. 

By the way, give the Statesman credit for quietly pointing out

Hispanics are Idaho’s largest minority group, with 9.8 percent of the population; Native Americans represent 1.4 percent, Asians 1.2 percent and African-Americans 0.8 percent.

So we’re not even doing actual proportions here, but politically correct proportions.  Other demographics include women 49.6 percent, which they’ve got covered, and whites 95.2, which they’re doing all they can to ignore, since getting rid of old white guys in the Idaho Democrat Party has been one of the stated goals as well.  No word in the Statesman concerning the number of Sierra Club members, teachers, or lawyers in the delegation.  You go, Dems.

So, all you “I love my country more than I hate Obama-vote McCain” kool-aid drinkers…amnesty, McCain-Feingold, McCain-Leiberman, the whole glowball warming nonsense, past threats to not only switch parties but consider the Dem VP spot, unreliable at best on the Second Amendment, and lately, floating the Bloomberg name for his own VP… if all that hasn’t been enough for you, try this on

“I believe there needs to be a thorough and complete investigation of speculators to find out whether speculation has been going on and, if so, how much it has affected the price of a barrel of oil,” Mr. McCain said in response to an audience member’s complaint about investors driving up the price of fuel and other commodities. “There’s a lot of things out there that need a lot more transparency and, consequently, oversight.”

Investigation?  And oversight, eh?  That’s big government, lose more freedom talk if I ever heard it.

“I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies not only because of the obscene profits they’ve made but at their failure to invest in alternate energy to help us eliminate our dependence on foreign oil,” the senator said. “They’re making huge profits and that happens, but not to say, ‘We’re in this so we can over time eliminate America’s dependence on foreign oil,’ I think is an abrogation of their responsibilities as citizens.”

That’s the way Hillary Clinton was talking on the campaign trail but a week or two ago.  Obscene profits, eh?  That’s a socialist word if I ever heard one.  The man sounds like Barack Chicago Mob Obama, Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi.  I won’t bore you with a rundown on the different profit percents for various industries in America because I’m sure you’ve all heard them before.  The profits made by the oil companies are actually below what many other American companies make (check out what the banks, the IT, and the high tech companies make, if you want some comparisons).  But to suggest that their profits are somehow obscene, and that they have some kind of civic duty to invest in other technologies is absurd.  Hey Maverick, profit is NOT an obscene thing.  And they’re OIL COMPAINIES!  They do oil, not solar, not wind, not buffalo chips.  For crying out loud, get a clue.

Might I suggest that it is YOU, and Congress, that have abrogated your responsibilities as representatives in locking up American resources and American industry to the point that we cannot even use our own resources and technologies to solve this “energy crisis”.  Our resources, meaning the ones owned by the American people.  All you big government  people have done is bitch, and make laws that have hamstrung American businesses (and driven them out of the country in some cases).  Big government power used by big government politicians in a way that harms the American economy, American business, and the American citizen.  I’m up for more of that, you bet.

And back to you folks who keep telling me I HAVE to vote for McCain… really?  You really think he’s DIFFERENT from Obama?  No.  Not. One. Ounce. Better.  You’d better quit trying to enlist my vote for John McCain, and start working your tails off to get some conservative/small “l” libertarians on the down tickets in your states, because John McCain isn’t going to change squat.  The only difference we can make is to promote and elect better choices in the other slots.  If you have a decent candidate running for Senator or Congressman in your state, screw McCain and concentrate on getting the good candidate elected.  If you have someone running locally who believes like you do, then you’d better spend time getting your neighbor involved in voting for that person, and quit telling me I need to vote for John McCain.  That isn’t going to happen.

Do you believe in freedom?  In liberty?  Then convert your friends, your family, your children, your co-workers to the ideals of liberty.  Tell them about individual rights and freedom.  Teach them about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Explain to them about responsibility, and why John McCain’s idea about “their responsibilites as citizens” is just plain wrong.  Show them that big government, whether big socialist Democrat government or big conservative Republican government, is unworkable at best and downright dangerous to everyone’s freedom at worst, and try to explain that there hasn’t been much difference between the two lately.

Forget John McCain and Barack Guevara Obama.  That is not where we are going to make a difference this year, or the next four.  You won’t turn the machine that gave us these two candidates by voting for the “least nasty candidate”.  But you can try to throw a small monkey wrench into that machine by converting and trying to activate your friends, family, and neighbors.  You can’t change Washington, despite what Barack American Idol Obama and John Angry Maverick mcCain are telling you.  But you can change your neighborhood.  And isn’t that what citizenship is really all about?

But I do have to laugh a little bit.  All the people telling me to just hold my nose, ignore how OBVIOUSLY WRONG John McCain is on so many issues, and just vote for him anyway… yet not many of you big “L” Libertarians (or small “l” for that matter) are similarly telling me to just ignore the dope issue and vote for Bob Barr, who is clearly more correct on most of the other issues.  Heck, I’m already there, I already believe, you don’t have to convince me that individual freedom and tiny government are the correct way to go.  But if you won’t even try to enlist MY vote, how are you going to sell it to your family and friends?  Just asking.

Listening to Barack the Pied Piper Obama and the Democrats spinning their vision of the way they want to change the country, especially by expanding government giveaways and making new ones, with the corresponding increases in taxes that will require, reminds me of the following quote

“There are two distinct classes of men in the nation, those who pay taxes, and those who receive and live upon the taxes.”               -Thomas Paine

Parasites, all.

Apparently, the Moonbat Olympics Qualifying was going on in San Francisco this week, but I was busy having a real life and I missed one of the events.  From Instapundit I was made aware of an article that explains the Obama messiahthing (I cannot say ‘enlightened’ because I am a hopeless putz and can never hope for true enlightenment).  Warning: swallow, put your fork down, send the kids out of the room, and have a bag handy.  You want to know what it is about Obama?

No, it’s not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn’t have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.

High-vibration integrity?  Really?  What about Grandma, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and Tony Rezko?  All under the bus.

Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.

This is a stunning performance ladies and gentlemen.  You folks in California or Seattle might not see anything wrong with this article, but here in Idaho, not even Bill Cope, one of the leftover hippies writing for the Boise Weekly can rise to this level of nutballery.  In Idaho, this person would be considered “at risk of hurting themselves or others” and everyone would keep a watch out for them.

Now, Obama. The next step. Another try. And perhaps, as Bush laid waste to the land and embarrassed the country and pummeled our national spirit into disenchanted pulp and yet ironically, in so doing has helped set the stage for an even larger and more fascinating evolutionary burp, we are finally truly ready for another Lightworker to step up.

Barack Lightyear our Messiah, come to save us all from the eeevvviiilll Bushitler… hmmm, kinda has the zip, doesn’t it? I guess when you don’t have a real resume, a “narrative” is just as good.  No wonder the mainstream media gets a thrill up their leg covering this guy.   And I doubt all of us bitter Neanderthal conservatives, clinging to our guns and our Bibles, believing in an ancient diety who died will understand the opportunity that has come to mankind at just the right time in our evolution, in the form of the lightworker Barack Lumino Obama.

There’s a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that’s been held back by the armies of BushCo darkness, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod, is now effortlessly self-organizing around Obama’s candidacy. People and emotions and ideas of high and positive vibration are automatically drawn to him. It’s exactly like how Bush was a magnet for the low vibrational energies of fear and war and oppression and aggression, but, you know, completely reversed. And different. And far, far better.

Obama is going to ride this horse, laughing his ass off, all the way to the White House.  No, I take that back. He will believe it about himself. And the people behind him will be the ones laughing, and working hard to change this country into something the Founders hated with all of their beings, and did their best to warn us against. There is a serious side here that frightens me.  When otherwise intelligent people set aside their ability to think rationally and process information  to the degree that this writer has, and so many others it seems, there is a very real threat to our freedom when enough of these people confer power on a man like this.  Thrill up your leg?  No, more like hair standing up on the back of your neck.