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Obama’s Priorities Are Not Fiscal
Here is a secret that isn’t much of a secret. I have made it clear, both in my posts and in comments at other blogs, that I did not watch President Obama’s second inaugural address. My reason is simple. I can not stand listening to someone whom I know is lying to me and the rest of America. I can easily glean what I need to know from reading the text of the speech and no, I haven’t even been tempted to watch short clips of the speech on YouTube.
From reading the speech and other commentaries, one thing is abundantly clear. President Obama does have an agenda for his second term and he highlighted it perfectly in his speech. We already know he believes he shouldn’t have to compromise with Republicans. After all, he has won two – count them, one, two – elections. He has his own set of priorities and he laid them out in his speech last Monday. He wants to fight climate change. He wants stricter gun control. Oh, and he wants to prevent Republicans from making changes to entitlement programs. One thing was sadly lacking in the list of priorities, namely fiscal reforms.
(The Weekly Standard) President Barack Obama used his second inaugural address Monday to offer an aggressive, unapologetic defense of activist government and to call for a new spirit of unity even as he seeks to move the country even further left.
But in celebrating the power of the government to lead the nation forward, Obama breezed past the costs of an ever-growing public sector and made only passing mention of the country’s most urgent problem as he took the oath to lead it: debt.
The United States is now $16.4 trillion in debt. We’ve accumulated more than a third of that total since Obama’s first inaugural four years ago, an additional $20,000-plus per citizen during the Obama presidency. Even using White House projections, we’ll have more than $21 trillion by the time his second term ends.
Obama doesn’t care.
“Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time,” he said, “but it does require us to act in our time.” And yet the president spoke as if those debates had been settled – and settled in favor of those who believe that progress requires “collective action” over individual initiative and those who believe in a substantially greater role for the state over those who believe in limited government. Our debt is not such an abstraction. And “progress,” particularly the way this president defines it, is costly.
The last sentence in the quote may be the understatement of the year. We have serious fiscal problems in America, but President Obama has other priorities. He made it plain to John Boehner that he did not believe we have a spending problem in America. If there is one thing I know, it is this simple truth. One can not fix a problem unless one acknowledges the problem exists. Clearly, Obama does not acknowledge that out-of-control government spending is the cause of our fiscal problems. He also refuses to acknowledge that those fiscal problems should be at the top of the list of anyone’s priorities. The Weekly Standard continues.
Read the rest at Political Realities…
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The touted security at the Presidential Inaugural didn’t keep 80-100 masked Black Bloc anarchists from marching on the streets of nation’s capital and smashing windows without a single arrest Sunday night.
Police showed up at the “Black Bloc Inaugural” and caused the crowd to scatter but not until the protesters, live-streaming their chaos, caused property damage only about a mile from the White House.
As shown in the Stephen K. Bannon film Occupy Unmasked , the Black Bloc anarchists are closely aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement. While many in the Occupy Wall Street movement claim to oppose President Barack Obama, his explicit use of their economic inequality message during the 2012 election shows the President feels an ideological kinship with Occupy Wall Street.
Local News station WJLA reports:
Police located 3 separate locations of damage:
-DVA Federal Credit Union ATM at 800 K St. NW. The front of ATM screen was completely smashed.
-TD Bank at 901 7th St. NW. A window was smashed and yellow paint was thrown on a side window.
-Hooters at 825 7th St. NW. A window was smashed out by a man wearing a black mask.
The group also dropped pamphlets on the ground near the TD Bank. The pamphlets said, “Against Every Cop. Against Every Boss. Against Every President.”
However, a report from Anarchist News is a little more blunt:
Carrying black flags and two large black banners reading, “Fuck Every Cop, Fuck Every President” and “No President Can Give You Freedom,” the marchers chanted and periodically hurled stacks of pamphlets into the air.
This video shows the mob of drum-beating, chanting, Black Bloc-attired hooligans marching through traffic, smashing things and then being dispersed by police vehicles.
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Josephine Pugh. Chernobyl: An Inventory of Mortality.
A photographic essay of Chernobyl and Pripyat 25 years later:
I visited the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the nearby city of Pripyat 25 years on from the catastrophic events of 26th April 1986. I was not prepared for what I would find. I was the photographer “cruising the urban inferno”, post-apocalypse. I was a visitor looting and preserving, collecting and salvaging. To be a tourist in Chernobyl and Pripyat’s degraded reality was a luxury not afforded the residents.
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Bottle Screws Silicone Wine Bottle Stoppers.
Do a search on Amazon for these.
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Barack Obama Believes Second Amendment Was Meant to Protect Hunters
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: Global Warming Is Not That Big of a Deal (Video)
SHOCK PHOTOS: Condemned Iranian Man Weeps on Executioner’s Shoulder
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One of Iran’s official press agencies published photos showing the public amputation of a thief’s fingers on Wednesday. These show a man getting his finger chopped off with a machine resembling a rotary saw.
We contacted many of our Observers in Iran to ask them about this machine. Some of them had heard about it before, but many discovered its existence through these morbid photographs, which were reportedly taken on Thursday. According to the INSA press agency, the man shown getting his finger cut off was charged with robbery and adultery by a court in the southwestern city of Shiraz. He was also accused of being at the head of a criminal organisation. On top of losing one of his fingers, he was sentenced to three years in prison and 99 whip lashes.
www.weaselzippers.us
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