Degree of Madness

A President of Honor

You can't tell me America is not exceptional. You can't tell me that because I've seen it. First Lieutenant Dan Moran.

Maybe if you listen to it backwards...

A middle school football coach in Tennessee was fired recently for writing a song.  Some parents complained, saying the song had "racial overtones":

 

Bryan Glover, an assistant coach at Grassland Middle School near Nashville, co-wrote the country music song, “When You’re Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail.”

It was co-written by a parent who has a child on the team. Glover, 26, said he emailed a copy of the song to friends, family members and player’s parents through his personal email account.

And that’s when all the trouble started for the self-described independent conservative.

“The coach called me and said parents were upset – that I was being politically incorrect and the song had racial overtones,” Glover told FOX News Radio. “An hour and a half later I was told I was being terminated.”

 

Here's the racially overtoned video:

 

Wow. Did you see the head on that hammer? It was BLACK!

Welcome Home

Obama to NASA: Make Muslims feel good about themselves

According to NASA's website:  NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.

Maybe NASA needs to update its website.  According to NASA administrator Charles Bolden there's a new mission (my emphasis):

When I became the NASA Administrator — before I became the NASA Administrator — [Obama] charged me with three things: One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.

Foremost?  Is this a joke?  Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be:

“NASA is not only a space exploration agency,” Bolden concluded, “but also an earth improvement agency.”

Earth improvement agency.  How a person who could come up with that dopey statement made it to the top of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration is beyond me.  But he gets his orders from the president, the poster child for the Peter Principle.

Maybe Obama thinks the rocket attacks on Israel count as "historic contributions to science".  Maybe Muslims will promise not to fly any more planes into our buildings if we let them play astronaut.

Maybe we'll survive President Barack Hussein Obama.

Obama's answer to the Gulf crisis...

Go file a claim. 

One thing is clear: Bobby Jindal does not need a teleprompter to give you the entire run down on the Federal response to this crisis. 

Click image to The Rightscoop to listen.

 

STOP SPENDING, STOP SPENDING, STOP SPENDING..

STOP SPENDING, STOP SPENDING.  Rick Santelli:

They're done. The voting electorate has said they're done.

Via Hot Air

Al Qaeda's Adam Gadahn goes BOO!

Glenn Beck mocks Al Qaeda spokesman - American born Adam Gadahn.  Funny stuff:

From The Rightscoop

Everything is cuckoo

Hotel owner Steve Wynn:

Via American Thinker:

As I have said, this is a deliberate strategy. Nothing discourages business more than uncertainty, and the Obama administration has introduced a climate of uncertainty in this country that is unprecedented in our history. Even during war, no American ever seriously believed anyone would come along and attempt to change the fundamental structure of our society. But it is happening now before our eyes!

Mr. President, Do Your Job

Sign, sign, every where a sign:

Napolitano: The Border Is More Secure Than Ever:

(Newser) – Janet Napolitano pushed back against immigration alarmists yesterday, even as she touted the the White House's latest efforts to secure the border. The Obama administration will deploy an unmanned aerial drone in Texas, and allow local police communities to temporarily “deploy” to assist the National Guard along the border, the Washington Post reports. But Napolitano said there was no crisis, asserting that the “border is as secure now as it has ever been," despite the people "looking to score political points" by suggesting otherwise.

Alarmists?  These signs are pretty alarming and the federal government put the damn things up:

The signs read in part:

      "Danger - Public Warning
       Travel not recommended
       -- Active Drug and Human Smuggling Area
       -- Visitors may encounter armed criminals and smuggling 
           vehicles traveling at high rates
       -- Stay away from cash, clothing, backbacks and
           abandoned vehicles
      --  If you see suspicious activity, do not confront!
          Move away and call 911"

Border security in the Obama administration.  KEEP OUT.  Unfortunately they're talking to law abiding American citizens.

Finance deal reached, Dodd gets weepy

And the power grab continues.  In Deal, New Authority Over Wall Street.

A deal brokered by a bunch of politicians - most of whom probably couldn't fill out the EZ tax form. As made clear by one of two unusually honest comments by Chris Dodd, the authority is not just over Wall Street:

"This is about as important as it gets, because it deals with every single aspect of our lives."

Chilling words.  Especially coming from Chris Dodd:

In March of this year, the NY Post called it a cavalcade of scandal surrounding soon to retire Chris Dodd of Connecticut. The "Controversies" section of his wiki is the longest section there.

Today there is nothing noble in the leaving of Chris Dodd. He has become a poster boy, a caricature, really, for everything that American politics is at its worst and should not ever be. He neither deserves, nor has earned the entitlements he'll get for life from American taxpayers. But as greedy and crooked as he's always been, he'll take them just the same. You can count on it. This is Chris Dodd we're talking about.

Our lives in the hands of a crook.  What could go wrong?

Dodd is not running for re-election (even greedy crooks sooner or later overplay their hands) but he is doing as much damage as he can on his way out.  Ramming through a 2,000 page bill, giving "broad new powers" to the federal government.  Powers over "every single aspect of our lives."  In his second unusually honest comment, Dodd admits he has no idea how it will all work:

“It’s a great moment. I’m proud to have been here,” said a teary-eyed Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee led the effort in the Senate. “No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done.”

Interesting side note.  The Washington Post article no longer includes this entire quote.  Here's how it looks now:

Weary lawmakers wrapped up their work minutes before sunrise. "It's a great moment," said a teary-eyed Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who as chairman of the banking committee led the effort in the Senate. "It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done."

The damning quote, DODD: 'No one will know until this is actually in place how it works'..., was featured (and as of right now still is) on Drudge Report, linking to the Washington Post article:

NEARLY 2,000 PAGES: The legislation would redraw how money flows through economy...
Government would have broad new powers to seize...
DODD: 'No one will know until this is actually in place how it works'...

How very kind of the Washington Post to scrub Dodd's accidental truth from its story.  I guess it is time for Dodd to retire.  He forgot he was not supposed to tell the truth to the American people.  These little slips of the tongue are dangerous for a corrupt, lying politician.

One thing he did not forget, however, was to take care of his benefactors:

"Most of us believe that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played a large role in causing the financial meltdown, says Senator (Jim) DeMint, "certainly the housing bubble with subprime loans, the securitized subprime loans that brought down the worldwide financial system."

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Now, as the Congress debates a new financial regulation bill, many republicans propose getting rid of Fannie and Freddie altogether, or at least restructuring them.

Democrats only partly agree. Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a key player on financial issues, recently conceded there was cause for concern. "Look, this program needs to be fixed," he said. "There's no question about you need an alternative housing finance system. that is without question."

But Sen. Dodd rejects the idea of dealing with Fannie and Freddie in the legislation now working its way through Congress.

So, Democrats want to wait to talk about Fannie and Freddie. And the current financial bill does not address them at all.

Dodd tops the list of political contributions from Fannie and Freddie.  There will be no dealing with them on his watch. 

While Fannie and Freddie live to see another day, the rest of us are not so lucky.  While no doubt there are abuses on Wall Street they pale in comparison to the abuses in Washington, D.C.