And, if you want to see Tio explain it more succinctly, the go below the fold…

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Military members don’t think much of the CinC.

A Military Times poll conducted early this year found that 31 percent approved of his job as commander in chief, while 53 percent disapproved. Those findings were similar to Military Times poll taken in December 2008, just before Mr. Obama was inaugurated, and found that 32 percent were “optimistic” about Mr. Obama as their commander in chief, while 30 percent were pessimistic and 35 percent were uncertain.

Now why would soldiers fighting a war on Islamic terror have a problem with a president who refuses to use the words “Islamic terror?” It just doesn’t make sense, huh?

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That is the logic of CNN commentator Bill Press.

Martin Luther King said this at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963…

…From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring,…we will be able to speed up that day when all God’s children…will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we’re free at last!”

Doubtless Press sees those words as inappropriate on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as well.

Of course Lincoln’s most famous speech and one of the most famous speeches in history included these inappropriate words.

…we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Of course Lincoln wasn’t at the Lincoln Memorial when he spoke of God so I guess that doesn’t count, huh?

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Obama has stimulated one part of the economy: Stocks in companies that sell survival goods are on the rise.

Hormel Foods Inc., the 120-year-old producer of that dugout staple, Spam, is up 12% this year, and hit an all-time high of $43.95 in recent weeks. The company’s stable of long-life provisions, from instant packets of dehydrated broth to wrapped sausages, are critical for weathering even the most prolonged storm.

Bottled-drink maker Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc., whose brands include DejaBlue purified drinking water, has soared 32% this year. The company also makes Schweppes ginger ale, great for any gnawing queasiness.

Also in the bunker club, Cummins Inc. The maker of a wide range of auxiliary power generators in addition to truck engines is up 66% this year. Shares of the Columbus, Ind., manufacturer hit a record $81.83 last Wednesday.

Hard hats and gas masks? Airgas Inc. makes both. Shares of the Radnor, Pa.-based company, which spiked in February after a hostile bid from rival Air Products & Chemicals Inc., has since added to those gains, hitting its best-ever close, at $66.72, on Friday.

“If it’s the end of the world, what do you buy? Canned foods, guns and the generators,” said Keith Springer, president of Capital Financial Advisory Services. “There are a huge number of people who feel this is the end of the world.”

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That is the opinion of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

With a number of polls showing a sustained level of opposition to the Democrats’ health care reform efforts more than five months after passage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Obama administration has “a lot of reeducation to do” heading into the midterms.

While some surveys – namely the Kaiser Family Foundation monthly tracking poll – have suggested an uptick in support for the reforms, most other surveys continue to show a steady level of opposition to the new law that remains higher than the favorable opinions of it.

“Unfortunately, there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn’t,” Sebelius told ABC News Radio in an interview Monday.

With several vulnerable House Democrats touting their votes against the bill, and Republicans running on repeal, Sebelius said “misinformation given on a 24/7 basis” has led to the enduring opposition nearly six months after the lengthy debate ended in Congress.

“So, we have a lot of reeducation to do,” Sebelius said.

This more than a bad choice of words. This is a glimpse into how the liberal elite see the citizenry. Opposition to their agenda can’t be based on good faith, it is based ignorance. If you oppose their agenda, you are in need of government imposed indoctrination. Frankly, their attitude is terrifying.

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Rick Sanchez is a retard. If this happened on FoxNews, there’d be hell to pay from the left.

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And Ed Schultz of MSNBC says it was

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This election isn’t about Democrats vs Republicans. It is much bigger than that.

U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn called out Democrats, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, the military-industrial complex, teachers unions and Medicare – to name a few – at a town hall meeting Friday.

“The real problem is that America is asleep,” Coburn said, speaking mostly in response to questions from an audience of about 65 people at the Wagoner Civic Center. “America is not involved. I think this election they’ll be more involved than they ever have been, and the reason is they’re scared.”

The audience generally seemed to find comfort in the potential for a Republican takeover of Congress, but Coburn warned that that alone would not necessarily yield the desired results.

“If the conservatives in Congress gain control and don’t live up to expectations,” he said, “the Republican Party will be dead.”

I have no love for any political party. When we put the Republicans back in power, they better get the job done. I don’t give a damn which party is in power. I want the government returned to its legitimate Constitutional roles. The Republicans are our best hope of that happening. They had better not disappoint. Coburn seems to get that.

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The summer fun of US and Soviet Russian leadership. All I can say is, “God Almighty, we are screwed.”

We talked about little Barry’s big day in the off topic section…

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You get more of it. The Democrats have been subsidizing unemployment with 99 weeks of unemployment payments.

To get a rough quantitative estimate of the implications for the unemployment rate, suppose that the expansion of unemployment-insurance coverage to 99 weeks had not occurred and—I assume—the share of long-term unemployment had equaled the peak value of 24.5% observed in July 1983. Then, if the number of unemployed 26 weeks or less in June 2010 had still equaled the observed value of 7.9 million, the total number of unemployed would have been 10.4 million rather than 14.6 million. If the labor force still equaled the observed value (153.7 million), the unemployment rate would have been 6.8% rather than 9.5%.

Consider how the prospects for Democrats in the November elections would look if the unemployment rate were now only 6.8%. Obviously, this change would make all the difference, and President Obama can reasonably blame his economic advisers. They should have protected their boss by standing firm and arguing that a reckless expansion of unemployment-insurance coverage to 99 weeks was unwise economically and politically. Congressman Boehner’s advice to Mr. Obama seems correct, though possibly too late to matter.

Anybody with anything like real world experience knows with absolute certainty that subsidizing unemployment creates unemployment. It is a metaphysical certitude. Once a person is infected with the entitlement bug, it is very difficult to cure him of it. After 99 weeks of unemployment, many – if not most – people are work dysfunctional. Our betters in Washington, in their utopian haze, will continue to ignore this fact.

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Obama on Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally on Saturday:

“Given all those anxieties . . . it’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. That’s been true throughout our history.”

That sounds familiar… oh yeah, I remember:

And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

You know, I have mixed feelings about George W. Bush. He presided over a growing government and he spent like a liberal. Still, you knew he loved America. He never held any portion of America in contempt. You knew he loved his country and all the people in it. It is clear, however, that Obama holds the traditional, centerist, Christian America in contempt. Maybe it is antipathy to people who aren’t like him, huh?

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Liberty. These people want the restoration of the government to its legitimate constitutional roles. They feel the heavy yoke of oppression, not in any individual act, but in a million little burdens imposed on them. They feel the citizenry has been put on a leash and that the state holds the other end. For these people, it is of no comfort that their master was elected, they want no master; elected or otherwise. They want the respect they are owed as free people.

These people can’t articulate the above very artfully, but that is what they are feeling.

Below is the fold is a photo that causes great pain and consternation for liberals. It is like an arrow in their hearts.

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In a New York Times opinion piece, Anna Holmes and Rebecca Traister wish the left had a “Palin of their own” to energize the leftist feminist movement. In fact, they are flat out exasperated that they don’t have one.

The left should be outraged and exasperated by all this — but at their own failings as much as Ms. Palin’s ascension. Since the 2008 election, progressive leaders have done little to address the obvious national appetite for female leadership. And despite (or because of) their continuing obsession with Ms. Palin, they have done nothing to stop an anti-choice, pro-abstinence, socialist-bashing Tea Party enthusiast from becoming the 21st century symbol of American women in politics.

Yep, they are pissed off throughout at both Palin and themselves. But at what? The last sentence above pretty much spells it out.

When they say anti-choice, they mean anti-abortion. Abortion is the cornerstone of leftist feminism. Anyone who opposes killing little girls (and boys) before they are born can’t possibly be a leftist feminist. The right of mothers to kill their babies is core to the leftist feminist movement and any deviation from that canon immediately excludes that individual from their ranks. You cannot support the right of babies to their lives and be a leftist feminist. In fact, it really the only issue brought up later in the piece.

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More corruption from the “most ethical congress ever.”

Longtime Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide’s two children since 2005, using foundation funds set aside for black lawmakers’ causes.

The recipients were ineligible under anti-nepotism rules of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which provided the money. And all of the awards violated a foundation requirement that scholarship winners live or study in a caucus member’s district.

Johnson, a Democrat, denied any favoritism when asked about the scholarships last week. Two days later, she acknowledged in a statement released by her office that she had violated the rules but said she had done so “unknowingly” and would work with the foundation to “rectify the financial situation.”
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Johnson awarded nine to 11 scholarships a year from 2005 to 2008, the most recent years for which information was available. Each of those years, three or four winners were related to her or her district director, Rod Givens. Johnson said she divided the available funds equally among recipients, and every qualified applicant got a scholarship.

My irony meter is pegged. As if it isn’t bad enough that tax dollars earmarked for scholarships are statutorily denied to individuals of specific races, these dollar aren’t even directed appropriately to members of the race they are dedicated to.

On the other hand… What is the point of getting elected to public office if not for patronage and the ability to steer public money to friends and relatives? I mean, its not like she is doing it for here heath, you know. She won and now it is her money to distribute, right?

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The Battle of Mohács was another victory of Islamic expansionism against Christian forces. In the battle, forces of the Kingdom of Hungary led by King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia were defeated by Islamic forces led by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The Battle of Mohács meant the end of the independent Kingdom of Hungary as a unified entity. The Legacy was harsh for Hungarians….

Mohács is seen by many Hungarians as the decisive downward turning point in the country’s history, a national trauma that persists in the nation’s folk memory. For moments of bad luck, Hungarians still say: “more was lost at Mohács” (Több is veszett Mohácsnál). Hungarians view Mohács as marking the end of an independent and powerful European nation.

Whilst Mohács was a decisive loss, it was the aftermath that truly put an end to independent Hungary. The ensuing two hundred years of near constant warfare between the two empires, Habsburg and Ottoman, turned Hungary into a perpetual battlefield. The countryside was regularly ravaged by armies moving back and forth, in turn devastating the population. Only in the 20th century would Hungary regain its political independence, but it has never regained its former political power.

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Kerosene – Miranda Lambert… That can holds a hell of a lot of kerosene.

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They said we were finished.

In late October 2008, New Yorker staff writer George Packer reported “the complete collapse of the four-decade project that brought conservatism to power in America.” Two weeks later, the day after Mr. Obama’s election, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne proclaimed “the end of a conservative era” that had begun with the rise of Ronald Reagan.

And in February 2009, New York Times Book Review and Week in Review editor Sam Tanenhaus, writing in The New Republic, declared that “movement conservatism is exhausted and quite possibly dead.” Mr. Tanenhaus even purported to discern in the new president “the emergence of a president who seems more thoroughly steeped in the principles of Burkean conservatism than any significant thinker or political figure on the right.”

They will see what a dead movement looks like in November. Who gets credit for the Conservative Revival? Rush Limbaugh? Nope. Sarah Palin? Nuh uh. Glenn Beck? No. Guess again.

The credit for galvanizing ordinary people and placing individual freedom and limited government back on the national agenda principally belongs to President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Their heedless pursuit of progressive transformation reinvigorated a moribund conservative spirit, just as in 1993 and 1994 the Clintons’ overreaching on health care sparked a popular uprising resulting in a Republican takeover of Congress.

More than any person in our lifetimes, Barack Obama lit a fire under the asses of a complacent conservative movement. You have to smile at the irony.

Read all of Peter Berkowitz’s article here: The Death of Conservatism Was Greatly Exaggerated

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They can’t constitutionally ban ammunition so they decided to ban the makings of ammunition. Now that they have been outed, they are backing down… for now.

In a swift and unexpected decision, the Environmental Protection Agency today rejected a petition from environmental groups to ban the use of lead in bullets and shotgun shells, claiming it doesn’t have jurisdiction to weigh on the controversial Second Amendment issue. The decision came just hours after the Drudge Report posted stories from Washington Whispers and the Weekly Standard about how gun groups were fighting the lead bullet ban.

The EPA had planned to solicit public responses to the petition for two months, but this afternoon issued a statement rejecting a 100-page request from the Center for Biological Diversity, the American Bird Conservancy, and three other groups for a ban on lead bullets, shot, and fishing sinkers. The agency is still considering what to do about sinkers.

They decided not to poke at that tiger, huh?

Hat tip to Nobody.

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Tens of thousands of Americans demanding less government and more freedom met at the Lincoln Memorial today.

[Sarah] Palin, greeted by chants of “USA, USA, USA” from many in the crowd, told the gathering, “It is so humbling to get to be here with you today, patriots. You who are motivated and engaged … and knowing never to retreat.”

“We must restore America and restore her honor,” said the former Alaska governor, echoing the name of the rally, “Restoring Honor.”

Palin told the crowd she wasn’t speaking as a politician. “No, something more, something much more. I’ve been asked to speak as the mother of a soldier and I am proud of that distinction. Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet and you can’t take that away from me.” It was a reference to her son, Track, 20, who served a yearlong deployment in Iraq.

It was a big crowd.

Beck’s rally has been billed as a peaceful and non-political “re-dedication” of the traditional honor and values of the nation. Throngs of people crowded shoulder to shoulder for six city blocks, from the Lincoln Memorial past the reflecting pool to the World War II Memorial. From there, the ralliers spread out as they spilled onto the grounds of the Washington Monument.

The size of the gathering promises to be a subject of contention. Demonstrations on the Mall are notoriously difficult to estimate, with no official source for such figures. At one point, Beck joked he had “just gotten word from the media that there is over a thousand people here today.” Later, he told he crowd he heard it was “between 300,000 and 500,000.”

Meanwhile, Al Sharpton’s protest gathering only attracted a tiny fraction of the the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial. Only a couple of thousand of people like this SEIU member showed up.

“Shame on them. We still have a dream. We are here to let those folks on the Mall know that they don’t represent the dream,” said Jaime Contreras, president of SEIU-32BJ. “They sure as hell don’t represent me. They represent hate-mongering and angry white people. The happy white people are here today. We will not let them stand in the way of the change we voted for!”

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