Spring Break with the Obama's

Audacity is a word associated with Barack Obama. His book was entitled The Audacity of Hope. Perhaps a more apt title would have been The Audacity of Traveling on the Taxpayers' Dime. While the White House is still closed to school children and air traffic controllers are being laid off and illegal immigrant prisoners are being released, Obama’s family is partying on the beach in the Bahamas followed by skiing in Aspen. When a Colorado television station caught Obama’s little darlings on the slopes surrounded by an entourage of 20 secret service, Obama demanded the station remove the clip from its station website…and these jack asses complied. Really?

Now you need to try to understand. Can you say H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E? We are now approaching $17 trillion in debt, borrowing between 30 – 40 cents of every dollar that is spent, and we are now paying for ANOTHER vacation for Obama’s brood. And not just one place…but two…one warm and the other cold! When was the last time you spent Monday Tues and Wednesday in the Bahamas and Thursday and Friday in Colorado skiing? Even Joe Biden got into the act with a $500,000.00 night in Paris and he's on vacation again this week.

Barack Obama has done an outstanding job of hiding his children and wife from view as they travel around the world at your expense. How many of you actually know the name of his children? That is how tight lipped the press has been about the comings and goings of Obama’s family. It made sense to me that he would want to protect his children’s privacy…but something is askew.

The heightened awareness of spending since the sequester has brought new and deserved scrutiny as to how the Obama family is spending our money. Malia will be 15 in July and Sasha is 12. Sending these kids on back to back vacations in the Bahamas and Aspen ought to be enough to bring them into the limelight. They aren’t in pre-school anymore. No, it is not their doing and they probably are blissfully unaware of the issues at hand.

On the other hand, Barack Obama has deliberately and vindictively made the decrease in the increase in spending as hard on the public as is possible as he throws his tantrum. Here’s an idea, Mr. President, how about a vacation on the Jersey shore?  When were the last time any of you reading this rant have been to the Bahamas and then to Aspen?  My family got a bus ticket to Niles and the Eastwood Mall for our vacation.

The hypocrisy of what I am seeing takes my breath away. The fact that the press is letting them get away with it is downright shameful. It’s time for the Obama Zombies to wake up. He has pulled the wool over your eyes, and the best is yet to come next year. Our economy grew .04% last month. We have 48 million people on food stamps. Those on disability are at an all time high and those participating in the labor force are at an all time low. In the middle of this mess, HHS is running ads in Mexico touting America’s food stamp program as illegal alien felons are released from custody. Why?  They are coming on vacation to the United States to test the waters.

But never fear….Sasha and Malia are vacationing at Atlantis in the Bahamas and Sun Valley in Colorado.  The world is safe for Democracy.

Bastardi and Global Warming



                      Joe Bastardi on AgriTalk Radio discusses global warming.

Joe Bastardi formely of Accuweather was a guest commentator on Neil Cavuto’s business wrap up show on Fox News. This is a smart guy. He has been a critic of global warming nut cases for the past several years. His comments are particularly important in light of Barack Obama’s coming assault on fossil fuels with attempted dictates through the EPA.

Mr. Bastardi was frank. There is no global warming. Global temperatures have evened out and have actually gone down the past ten years. Contrary to what is being reported on the news, the amount of oceanic ice is higher now than the past fifty years, particularly in the southern hemisphere. Yes…we have had draught in the United States and very warm summers, but it’s not global warming. It’s due to a cooling of the Pacific Ocean as a result of decreased world temperatures….and that is not unusual. He also commented that the temperatures in the United States account for about 2% of the makeup of global temperatures. The temperatures in Europe and Asia have been positively frigid. The news media just won’t report it.

He noted the amount of carbon in the atmosphere as the result of human activity is small almost to the point of irrelevance. While I can’t remember the exact statistic, it is something like 4% of the total carbon makeup of the atmosphere and is so irrelevant it can’t possibly have any effect on global temperatures.

Unfortunately, global warming has become like a religion. The facts are irrelevant. We have been told by the media that all normal climate variations are now a result of carbon emissions. Global warming causes the temperatures to go up. Global warming causes the temperatures go down. Bastardi said its like both sides of a war at the same time. It is either one or the other.

Even scarier are the made up statistics. From time to time the media splashes graphs across the screen showing global temperatures rising. But is has become clear to me that the media has templates of news, and the only report the news that fits the templates. Now they even make the news up. It doesn’t take much individual research on Google to debunk a whole lot of stuff one hears on television and reads in the New York Times.

Global warming is a myth being used by leftist thugs to as a mechanism to tax rich nations and redistribute the wealth to poorer nations often run by dictators. There is no other financial mechanism outside of a worldwide income tax to accomplish that goal. But a hidden carbon tax rooted in saving the environment…that is one that can be sold.

I keep writing in all of my columns that America needs to wake up as to who these people are and what they are trying to do. Sooner or later the truth will prevail. I just hope it is not too late.

Close the White House

The more I see Barack Obama in action the more I believe that he is whacked. I don’t think he is playing with a full deck. He is a narcissist and a spoiled brat tending towards tantrums when he doesn’t get his way and not afraid to bully people until he does.

His handling of the Sequester is the perfect example. For five years he has bullied Republicans and they have backed off. This time it didn’t work and he flipped. First he and his cronies scared the beejezuz out of Americans telling them that everything short the end of time would result from trimming back the rate of increase in government by 2 cents on the dollar. Then when the Republicans didn’t back down, he had to backtrack saying it wouldn’t be so bad and we would get through it. Meanwhile, he quietly instructed his minions to make it hurt wherever possible to make sure Americans suffer so he could blame the Republicans.

But he crossed the line when he closed the White House to tours. Claiming there was no other way to save a buck from the White House budget he closed the people’s house telling the people to shove it up their ass. Really? This guy is nuts.

Never mind we paid to have him play golf in Florida while his wife and children vacationed in Aspen. Never mind he couldn’t find some place on the mainland for his “vacation” White House…he has to go Hawaii. Never mind that his wife took an entourage at the public expense for a vacation in Spain. Remember when Nancy Reagan bought new White House china? The press screamed for a year and she was fodder on every late night comedian show for months.

So a bunch of kids from Colorado put together a video asking the President to re-open the White House so they could take their scheduled tour on a class trip to Washington. Maybe he could fire the guy to whom the American people pay $100,000.00 to care for his dog.

Obama is a vindictive man who has ice in his veins beyond that engaging smile and winning speech delivery. This time he has gone one step too far. His biggest asset this past election was people trusted him. He has destroyed that trust in less than a few weeks by his childish and mean spirited behavior. He will not be able to regain it.  And all of those children who he pulls out for political photo shoots...maybe their teachers will learn this man's true colors.  When the chips are down, everyone is expendable to achieve the socialist dream.

And as Obama sinks into the muck of his own making, Libertarian Rand Paul makes a Jimmy Stewart-esque old fashioned filibuster to force Eric Holder and Barack Obama to say publicly they don’t have the right to use drones flying over the United States to bomb American citizens.   

I think the momentum has shifted. The golden boy isn’t so golden anymore. The bloom is off the rose. Maybe now America can see him for what he is…a young 60’s style socialist radical who stands for freedom so long as it is his freedom and not yours. As we finally learn who this guy is, we are the better for it.