There Is No Honor In It

As I said in my earlier article (here and cross-posted here), I will attack Obama every chance I get but I will not use a contortionist stretch of an Obama statement to arrive at a false conclusion to attack him. There is no honor in denying the truth or intentionally hiding facts.

And now, news of a liberal showing a massive amount of . . . dishonor (note the elipsis). Glenn Greenwald, aka Gren Gleenwald, aka Green Waldglen, aka Wald Greenglen did a huge dishonorable article regarding blog coverage of Fort Hood (where my daughter is stationed). And Patterico flays him.

Patterico is much more charitable than I. As far as I am concerned, a quotation from the sock-puppet du jour carries the same weight as a quote from KOS or Soros-funded Media Matters, in other words, no weight whatsoever. I don’t care what GG says because GG intentionally lies by omission every breath he takes, it seems. So, moonbats (for you, Jeff), provide a source that isn’t the sock-puppet source if you want me to even consider possibly looking at your source.

A Quote To Remember

From Military Quotes.com:

When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat,
Col Puller called his Tank Commander, gave them the Army position, and ordered:
“If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them.”
Turning to the captain, he replied “Does that answer your question?
We’re here to fight.” At Koto-ri in Korea
- Chesty Puller at Koto-ri in Korea
(From “Marine: The Life of Chesty Puller” by Burke Davis)

I Will Attack Obama Every Chance I Get

But this one is not it.

David R. Graham, an apparently new and sporadic commentator at Patterico’s Pontifications (see side-bar), said the following:

C-i-C said in “his” book that if the political winds turn ugly, as now appears the case, he will “side with the Muslims.” On that his word can be trusted.

This very much intrigued me. While I admit I’m ready to believe just about any anti-American and anti-Constitutional assertion regarding Obama, this seemed outlandish. I mean, I would not doubt Obama actually would go full-on Mohammedan in much, along with his socialist agenda and his Ayers agenda, but I highly doubt he’d actually spell things out that clearly and that destructively for America and all freedom-loving countries for all the world to see. I believe Obama is the worst thing to ever happen to the US since King George got too full of himself back in the 18th century. That’s a given.

But this claim about Obama was, on the face of it, way over the top. And, since I knew Obama has said many things and been allied with many people who are indeed way over the top, I wasn’t prepared to set it aside all that quickly. So I requested sourcing information. If this story was real, I wanted to have documentation in my attack.

I got the documentation. And the documentation was a “fail.” It takes a lot of work to get from what he said to what he was reported to have meant. Again, I am ready to believe the worst about Obama because Obama is the worst, but that doesn’t preclude my critical thinking skills. But this particular assertion does not quite fit.

As the documentation shows, Obama said:

The actual quote from the book is from page 261 and is as follows: “Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

Within that context, I find no fault whatsoever. That means no point on which to attack Obama. No point at all. What I see in that passage is Obama saying he will not let another unconstitutional incarceration of whole swaths of people take place just because we are fighting similar-type folk. And that is a good thing. I can agree with that. No unconstitutional incarceration of all Mohammedans just because we are at war with Mohammedan terrorists. FDR was dead wrong. A second FDR-like action would be equally dead wrong. And that’s what that passage is saying, on the face of it.

I am still ready to believe anything bad about Obama. I am also still ready to believe hidden info not available to anyone. But I cannot, with a clear conscience, attack Obama on this point. There is no honor in it.

My Daughter Is Safe

Those of you who have followed my blog or my commentary elsewhere know my daughter is in the US Army (search “my daughter” in the sidebar search-box). She is stationed at Fort Hood, where a muslim psychiatrist (MJR Hasan) went on a shooting rampage, killing 12 and wounding 31. My daughter is safe and Fort Hood is on lock-down.

ObamaCare: It’s Good For You (I Mean It This Time)

Remember Representative Sheila Jackson Lee’s game-time in Houston on ObamaCare? No? Perhaps you never even heard about it? Or I’m being unclear? Maybe you heard about the woman who isn’t a doctor but plays one at town-hall meetings? No? It went viral and made mainstream news after Patterico scooped it (do a bit of link-surfing after you link-surf from the above link). Sheila Jackson Lee, who couldn’t put four words together without pantsing herself, had a fake doctor in the crowd give a fake story and blah blah yada yada yada during a town-hall meeting.

Not only was Roxana Mayer a fake doctor (she was a grad student at the Univ of Houston), she was also an Obama delegate. Imagine that. She lied about being a doctor and hid the fact she was an insider to make it seem like she was, well, something she was clearly not. All to push ObamaCare.

Let me ask you a question. If your goal is pure, why do you have to use down-and-out lies to achieve your goal? Do you honestly believe “the ends justifies the means”? And, if so, is your goal really all that pure? Or do you already know that too many people will kill your goal if you act in an honorable fashion? If “the truth shall set you free,” why are you afraid of the truth?

Okay, that was more than one question. Sue me.

Why did Roxana Mayer lie? Because she thought her lieing would bring her street cred. Yup. From Patterico’s link above:

UPDATE x4: Further confirmation (as if it were needed!) from the Lone Star Times:

Our own David Jennings secured a phone interview, in which Mayer admitted to impersonating a physician, saying — get this — she thought it would help her credibility. (It didn’t.)

Weird; her hero Barack Obama also thinks that lying enhances his credibility . . .

You really should read their entire post. The idea that this was all Mayer’s idea seems rather outlandish once you’ve taken it all in.

This is just one of many lies told to get ObamaCare passed. Did you hear the one about how the CBO declared it would reduce the deficit? Since CBO only looks at a ten-year static model and ObamaCare starts taxing in 2010 and doesn’t start paying until 2013 (after the Presidential Election cycle), it has ten years of taxes and only seven years of payout. Let me say that again, in a different way. 100 percent of the time studied, it collects taxes but only 70 percent of the time studied, it pays out. So, the small “savings” it achieves is wholly due to the 30 percent of the time it doesn’t pay out. It does not show even close to being deficit-neutral without the first three “free” years where taxes are collected and payout never happens.

Of course, after the 10 years the CBO looks at, all years are being payed out, and at an enormous debt-enhancing cost. And, by the by, when was the last time CBO came even close to the actual cost of a government job?

On a fiscal analysis alone, ObamaCare is “death to us all.” Obama and the Dems have lied about that and continue to lie about it. Fake doctors at town-hall meetings (where Obama said the nation is all “wee-weed-up” and Gibbs very clearly admitted that meant along the lines of “wetting the bed”) were lies abut ObamaCare in an effort to push it. The photo-op of white-coated doctors was a lie.

How many lies must there be before people realize the entire ObamaCare bovine byproduct is a sack of lies? Well, in truth, a very large number of people have decided just so. Look at Rasmussen’s polling data. But a very large number of people are either ignoring the lies or haven’t found out they were lies or are drinking the Obama/Pelosi/Reid kool-aid.

There is an answer to every ailment, and never is that answer “more government intrusion.”

Self-Proclaimed Right Wing Extremist™ Blogs: Beers With Demo

Beers With Demo is one of the Self-Proclaimed Right Wing Extremist™ Blogs (as found on my side-bar). And it is proven by a recent article.

Dean notes the liberals despise the fanatical religious fanatics who are trying to take over and destroy their version of the new US. Those idiotic fanatical religious extremists of the … Democrat Party???

“I will continue whipping my colleagues to oppose bringing the bill to the floor for a vote until a clean vote against public funding for abortion is allowed,” Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said Monday in a statement.

He said last week that 40 Democrats could vote with him to oppose the legislation — enough to derail the bill.

That felt so good, we may need a smoke.

More over there.

But isn’t it interesting the Party of Pelosi, Reid (and Obama), which is so far to the left of the left-field foul pole has some social conservatives in its midst? And we Conservatives are told to drop that in order to become electable? Obviously you’re not smoking the same thing Dean is. You’re on something much, much stronger.

I Could Get It Done A Lot Faster If You Would Quit Helping Me

I’m sure you’ve experienced it. You are working on a project, such as remodeling your bathroom. You’ve decided on what you want and you’ve gotten all your materials. Then, as you begin, well-meaning people start offering up their free advice (which is worth what you paid for it), hovering around you and trying to get in on the demolition to help you (and knocking out a wall you weren’t going to move).

And when you get to situating the new toilet (and you bought the wrong one, you should have bought the one that uses a capful of water per flush) they help you by turning the toilet the wrong direction. The shower doesn’t have the gadgets you should have gotten and besides, it’s the wrong color and too small. Of course you were wrong in getting a claw-foot deep-water tub when you should have gotten the shallow-water 80-nozzle whirlpool tub. And you’re placing it all wrong.

As you start to install your light bars above your twin vanity (when you should have gotten a single vanity), your helpers install them vertically along the sides of the mirror when you wanted them horizontally above the mirror.

As your supply of pizza and beer vanishes, so do your helpers, to your great relief. And you think, “I could have already had this done if they hadn’t been helping me.”

Government assistance is so wonderful, isn’t it?

Maine’s Same Sex Marriage Law Going Down?

As of an hour ago,

From the Washington Post

With more than 84 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday, the side seeking to repeal the law had 53 percent of the vote. Their campaign organizer, Frank Schubert, claimed victory and declared that Maine voters had helped preserve the institution of marriage.

For the record, as a Bible believing Christian, I hope this victory stands.

US Constitution v. US Government

Today’s federal government is violating the US Constitution in a great many ways. In fact, the Constitution has not been violated this badly at least since FDR. Just a few of the violations are as follows:

(US Constitution link here and in my side-bar)

Section 8 – Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power

(snip)

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

The purchasing of land is for military use and “other needful buildings.” There is nothing there that says the federal government can own massive swaths of wilderness (national forests, for example).

Exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over DC: means no federal agency can write any regulations regarding anything to do with DC; it’s specifically US Congress’ responsibility. And there is no room to abdicate that responsibility.

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper … and all other powers … in any department or officer thereof: All laws come from congress. There is no room for any law to come from some agency. The Constitution does not provide for congressional abdication of responsibility.

Section 7 – Revenue Bills, Legislative Process, Presidential Veto

(snip)

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.

Every bill … shall be presented to the President to sign or veto. If the President vetoes it, the Congress will try to overturn the veto by 2/3 majority. Or the President can let the bill become law by doing nothing for 10 days: Proposed laws must pass through the President for action (or inaction) before becoming law. And if the President says “no” each house of Congress must override by 2/3 vote. Again, there is no room for outside agencies making laws. (And don’t even try to tell me a federal regulation is not law. You’ll get laughed out of court as you lose that legal battle.)

This means all EPA, FCC, FDA, OSHA, DOE, etc, ad nauseum regulations are unconstitutional. They may well be good regulations but they are still unconstitutional. Let Congress pass the laws and be held accountable for them, as the Constitution requires. Stop the Congressional Cowardice.

Section 2 – Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments

(snip)

[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall nominate, by the advice and consent of the Senate, ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, … all other officers of the US. But Congress may by law vest the appointment of inferior officers in the President alone: Congress needs to write a law specifically allowing the President to make appointments without Senate approval. Without such a law, no such appointments are constitutional. That means all the “czars” have to go.

Liberals Have No Morals

How’s that for a “gotcha” title?

Anyway, there’s a saying that goes somewhat along these lines:

How California goes is how the rest of the country will go.

There is some truth to that as California (along with NYC) has been the liberal forerunner over the past several decades. And California, with all its liberal “we just want to protect you from yourself” hooey and all the “punish the rich, save the field rat” tommyrot, is going belly-up. California’s money bucket has a liberal-sized hole in it. And how do they intend to fill that hole in the bucket?

That’s the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, isn’t it? How do they intend to cover their expenses? By withholding ten percent more than they’re entitled on each paycheck a California resident receives. Oh, you’ll get it back in April (maybe). (That’s a gazillion different links, folks.) Or, you might be giving California an interest-free loan for as much as a year. And it’s not your choice. It’s the liberal California government’s choice to take the interest-free loan right out of your paycheck. Got a problem with that? Need the money yourself? It’s YOUR money anyway? Tough nuggets. They’re taking it anyway.