Obama--tearful & in pain--sought solace at the golf course after beheading revelation

  Outrage of the day.
  Having brilliantly intuited after the brouhaha over the press conference where he publicly lamented the beheading of an American and seven (7) minutes later appeared on the golf course grinning like a hyena, Obama tried today to "fix" his "optics" problem by claiming--you probably didn't know this--he had been tearful and "heartbroken" over the whole beheading thing and how bad he felt for the family. 
  The Hill reports that Obama on MTP has declared that one of the reasons he was off kilter was because he was on vacation:

“It is always a challenge when you’re supposed to be on vacation...."

  And just in case we missed the whole tearful Obama part, let's go over it again.

"There's no doubt that — after having talked to the families, where it was hard for me to hold back tears listening to the pain that they were going through, after the statement that I made, that you know, I should've anticipated the optics....That's part of the job."

  He's listening to the family's "pain" on the phone, shortly thereafter appears in front of the camera to make the obligatory perfunctory presidential statement, then scuttles over to the golf course seven (7) minutes later, even though he felt really really bad about the whole beheading thing. Like this:

  And like this, courtesy Political Clown Parade:

    Can't you sense his pain over their pain? He's just oozing pain and tears.

  But, seriously, anybody who really knows Obama knows, even though there will always be "tough news" to deal with, as he says, that he takes "all this stuff in" (like the beheadings stuff) because it's "serious business" (the beheadings are) and "you care very deeply about it," oddly avoiding the first person.

  Oh, and this, ROTFLMYO statement from WaPo:

"Part of this job is also the theater of it," Obama said, adding that "it's not something that always comes naturally to me.  But it matters."

   I just, I just can't even crack on that line, so obviously fabricated to cover his original insouciance.
  The part about the theater not coming naturally to him. 
  The part about his not being able to even fake sincerity. Like, the part about who are you gonna believe me or.
  I just can't even quip on that.
  Probably because of the whole beheadings stuff.
  It kinda throws me off kilter.
  Maybe I need to head to the golf course so I could feel a little more detached.
  That's where I do my best thinking, after all.
Update: Conservative Treehouse breaks down the politics and lies of the MTP interview.

Dr. David Pitts: Ivory Tower Occupant & Poster Boy for Wacky Academics

  Hey, kids, let's put on a show! 
  Remember that Mickey Rooney trope?
  The twenty first century version of that appears to be Let's burn up the town!
  Just imagine spending years of your life attaining higher degrees. Undergraduate, master's degree and then a PhD in 2005.
  You spend years writing important stuff. 
  You know. Stuff about diversity, LGBT causes, education.
  You're so successful in your career that you win honors and prizes from various groups.
  You're a Google scholar and your themes are always inclusion, race, sexual orientation and its impact on education, workplace diversity, leadership and empowerment in federal organizations.
  Your opinions are widely sought from federal, local and state authorities. You are on numerous editorial boards, because your opinion matters.

   In fact, you are:

.... a public management and policy scholar with a primary focus on workforce diversity and representative bureaucracy. His research examines how diversity among public officials can alter policy design and implementation, particularly when those policy changes affect target population outcomes and organizational performance. His research focuses on diversity in public schools, on how racial/ethnic diversity among school board members and teachers can affect student achievement and discipline outcomes. Pitts received the 2009 Robert Bailey Award for the Best Paper in LGBT Politics and the 2006 Leonard White Award for the Best Dissertation in Public Administration, both from the American Political Science Association

Pitts has provided technical assistance to organizations at the federal, state, and local levels, particularly on human capital issues, and serves as PhD program student development coordinator for the Department of Public Administration and Policy

  Then one day, a day when you've achieved the utmost at 37 years of age and have become the chair of your department at a prestigious university, you get arrested.
  For what?
  Burglary.
  Setting fires.
  Oh, and there was that illegal entry into a pharmacy and, one might imagine, therein will lie the justification for Dr. David Pitts's behavior. 
  Because he undoubtedly could not help his behavior. Because it's not his fault he's an _____ **addict**whisper**
  Because he was "disoriented," the Washington Post reports factually and without astonishment, Dr. Pitts:

According to an arrest affidavit, about 1 a.m. Thursday, Montgomery officers saw Pitts set a chair on fire near a guard shack at his apartment complex’s parking garage. Then, the documents state, he lit a newspaper on fire in front of a Starbucks and then set a fire in the woods off Embassy Park Drive. Police said they then saw Pitts force his way into the mall, giving him access to a pharmacy, bank and several doctors’ offices. The officers called D.C. police, and Pitts was arrested after a brief chase from the third level of the mall into the parking garage.

  Investigating his apartment, officers discovered " 5,431 prescription pills, including 2,310 Cialis pills, sedatives to treat insomnia and oxycodone."
  That's a lot of Cialis. 
  So why should this case interest the public, in addition to its remarkably bizarre details?
  Having acquired higher degrees myself, I've noted repeatedly throughout my education that many so-called educators are completely out of touch with society in general. 
  Many are vain, solipsistic and so driven by ideology that they can never be truly successful in their teaching. 
  That lack of success, in their minds, is the hallmark of their success.
  The only "students" in which these "teachers" have any interest are the easily persuadable. Those who accept their "teachers" as divinity and mirror their opinions, particularly politically.
  Pitts is an excellent example of a person who has so surrounded himself with his own propaganda in the vaunted Ivory Tower that he cannot or will not relate to the real world around him. 
  Of course, I'm painting with a broad brush.
  The problem is that we've seen this pattern among university employees over and over; it's not hard to anticipate Pitts's defense: he will have excuses for his behavior, shrouded in poor me rhetoric and evidence that someone somewhere treated him meanly because he's gay or something and, thus, he's turned to pills and illegal behavior to ventilate his tortured emotions.
   He'll appeal to the university for a suitable period of probation as long as he attends some sort of program to get himself clear of drugs and promise never to set a fire again.
   And he'll probably stay employed at this or another university because universities are very accepting of bombers, murderers, frauds and fantasists and slanderers.
  They accept everyone except political conservatives. 
  And Christians. Christians are terrible people, compared to Marxists and the anti-semitists.
  Universities are also tough on white males.
  But then there's that problem of Pitts's Twitter account and the conference he attended at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel where someone set several fires.
  What a thrill it was to see all those "political scientists in their nighties." 
  I remember looking at the lineup when I received my degree, thinking, "Geez, anybody can get a degree."

Obama, the president coward

  The craven political hack who runs this country visited Stone Henge at taxpayer expense we see, because he wanted to "knock it off his bucket list." Of course, getting "special access" to Stone Henge means getting a selfie behind the ropes.
  Daily Mail has numerous pictures of the POTUS who was eager "grinning" as the Daily Mail puts it to pose for pictures with a local family. After all, what is a day without a photo op?
 

  As you can see, the crowds are thronging to catch a glimpse of the rock star POTUS.
  He seemed to think that the crowds were all there to see only HIM at the NATO Summit too, as this picture can attest. 
  And, yes. He did it again.

  You'll note that his hand is blocking the unfortunate leader of "another" country, quite less important than the one whose hand is waving.
  And now we hear that Obama's putting off defiling the Constitution yet again until after the election.
  Because it's all political, ya know.
  Latino groups are acting all horrified and angry that Obama is not personally granting amnesty to the millions of illegals here eagerly waiting to vote Democrat without an ID in the next elections.
  But the truth is that it's all about politics. They know Obama will do what he can for them as soon as the elections are over, just like the whole gay marriage sham.
  Everything's about politics. It's not about what's right or wrong and what's good for the country or what's Constitutional.
  It's about what's good for Obama and whatever he deems important, which is usually retaining control of the sheeple through government handouts.
  Powerline and Truth Revolt have it all here in one video.
  This is President Coward. Too political and concerned about his own welfare to do the right thing at the right time.



  Duh. "They're special stones." Duh.
  How fortuitous that he's mic'ed and cameras are at several angles. And, oooh, that White House background music just makes me all tingly!

The new Philadelphia Story; stealing homes to pay police.

America should be pretty proud of the City of Brotherly Love. Mayor Michael Nutter signed a bill Wednesday, mandating a fine of up to $2,000 and other penalties for employers who do not provide clean non-bathroom space for a woman to pump breast milk. Philadelphia is fastidious in its concern for its most vulnerable citizens unless they own property. Between 2002 and 2012, Philadelphia stole 1,172 real estate properties through a government run racket called civil forfeiture.
Go pump your breasts out in the street, sister, we want your house.
Civil forfeitures is a national problem but Philadelphia takes the abuse of property rights to a new level notwithstanding the constitutional prohibition of depriving citizens of life, liberty, or property, without due process. Philly sues the property; not the property owner. And where do the proceeds go? The almost $6 million the city extracts from the proletariat each year goes to pay the cops and prosecutors who seize the property. The Institute of Justice, which has filed a class action lawsuit against the city where no mother should have to pump her breast in a dirty restroom, explains the process in the video below.



Moving from the hypothetical to a real life example, homeowner, Chris Sourovelis has never had any trouble with the law or been accused of any crime. But that hasn't stopped the City of Philadelphia from trying to take his home. His son was caught selling $40 worth of drugs outside of the home. With no previous arrests or a prior record, a court ordered him to attend rehab and the cops went after Sourovelis' home. In another instance a woman faces civil forfeiture of her home, which has been in her family for 17 years, because her estranged husband, unbeknownst to her, was dealing small amounts of marijuana. On the brighter side she is assured of a clean place to pump her breasts or the full might of Nutter's goon squad will crush her offending employer.

Democrats worry about hacked nude celeb pics and ignore hacking at healthcare.gov

In the wake of the nude celebrity hacking hijinks Senator Jay Rockefeller, who will be retiring at years end, is demanding that Apple brief his staff on the "security protocols in place for its cloud databases." before it releases its new iPhone 6.
"Apple is expected to introduce a new version of its iPhone that will enable, if not encourage, users to store more information with its cloud services, and I want to learn whether these focused, targeted attacks are symptomatic of wider, systemic vulnerabilities," the West Virginia Democrat said.
It is noble of the senator to look out for all the little people in Hollywood but posting nude pictures of one's self is voluntary albeit stupid. What is not voluntary in the country anymore is the right not to purchase health insurance thanks to Senator Rockefeller and his fellow Democrats. For many using the ill functioning healthcare.gov is not an option; it is mandatory yet the silence from Democrats has been deafening following the revelation that it has been hacked. And it is not as if HHS, both houses of congress and scotus himself have not been warned that the site was vulnerable to hacking.
Perhaps if one is serious about persevering the confidentiality of one's personal data when purchasing insurance he should attach a nude selfie and then Democratic senators would give a damn.

Obama hits new low in Gallup poll

Obama has hit a new low of 38% approval in the Gallup daily tracking poll.

Junk Science, Junk Law, Junk Journalism

We blogged about this case back in 2011 when I wrote;

This is the most incredible story I have come across in memory. It reads like a movie script in part because it has been made into a movie. It's a bit like Silkwood but with a crazy twist. The cast of characters naturally include a big oil company, an environmental scientist, and a lawyer. The twist, and I wish I could save this part for last, is the scientist, her company, and the lawyer, who is an old law school pal of Barack Obama's find themselves as defendants in a RICO case filed by the big oil company. The big oil company is Chevron that acquired Texaco in 2003. Texaco had drilled in Ecuador from 1964 to 1990 when it was taken over by the Ecuadorian government. At that time Texaco agreed to a clean up payment of $40 million. You know people have to be pretty sure of themselves when they allow a documentary film crew to witness their conspiracy but that is exactly what the defendants did. When Chevron got wind of the film, appropriately entitled Crude it sued and won access to the out takes as part of the discovery process.
Appearing in this video are Dr. Ann Maest is a managing scientist at Straus Consulting. She was recently reappointed to the National Academy of Sciences. Maest is in high demand as an expert for those looking to stop oil and mineral exploration. Straus Consulting is a long-term contractor with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and is currently investigating the Deepwater Horizon mishap. The lawyer, Steven Donziger, had hoped to become a billionaire from this single lawsuit now he probably won't be able to probate a pauper's will.

So now we have a corrupt lawyer and a corrupt scientist what else works in the plot? How about a corrupt journalist? In a stellar opinion piece in the Miami Herald Glen Garvin chronicles how Donziger found a corrupt journalist in William Langewiesche of Vanity Fair. Donziger's wife just happened to work for Condé Nast, the magazine's publisher. Langewiesche did produce an article sympathetic to Donziger in what Donziger termed a “the kind of paradigm-shifting, breakthrough article that I think is going to change the entire case from here until it ends in a way that is favorable to us.”
The fact that Langewiesche allowed Donziger to all but co-author the article may have something to do with that. Langewiesche asked Donziger to prepare lists of dozens of questions to be asked of Chevron and asked Donziger to help him prepare arguments about why there’s no need for him to do face-to-face interviews with Chevron officials, as they’ve requested, even though he spent days meeting with Donziger and his legal staff. He even submitted emails to Donziger for approval before sending them to Chevron.
Donziger's ego tripped him up again. When Chevron got wind of the collaboration it subpoenaed the emails between the two. The same actors; lawyers, scientists, and journalists drive the debate on everything from childhood nutrition to global warming and while not all are corrupt the odds get longer by the day. They richly deserve all the criticism they get.

John Kerry: Muslim countries most vulnerable to climate change

  Why the long face, John Kerry?
  It seems like an endless 6 years so far with this administration but the last few weeks have been some of the longest, most humiliating in the history of the United States, with a leader who bumbles from one disaster to another, completely self-absorbed and utterly malevolently clueless.
  I don't think I can even express an opinion on our "president's" behavior in front of the Estonian people so, until I can collect my thoughts enough to return to ridiculing The Prince, I'm going to point out John Kerry's, um, stupendous performance as Secretary of State.
  There's the kiteboarding, a little different from the windsurfing to which the elitist Kerry usually treats America's eyes:

Courtesy Photo

  The kiteboarding bolstered the world's impression of an unserious Obama administration whose behavior on the Labor Day weekend when Obama went in front of his admirers to slam the most despicable people on the planet.....Republicans, who are worse than terrorists, according to Democrats.
  Kerry usually jets around the world spewing tons of carbon into the globe's atmosphere while looking down his sizable nose to nasally inform everyone that they're all going to die because of too much carbon. Now we know why the long face!
  From the verbally impaired--at least when it comes to the word "inextricably"-- Kerry, who apparently has become a devout believer in God and His commandments, we now learn that Americans have so much in common with Muslim countries because we're all so devout.
  Now it can now be revealed, Kerry tells us, that of all the countries in the world, "Muslim majority countries are among the most vulnerable"when it comes to climate change, presumably because they burn cow pies for warmth and their own oil fields for fun.
  Why Muslim majority countries are more vulnerable, we are not told, at least in the following clip, but it is a typical Democrat tactic to paint a targeted group as victims of ______ and that is why they should follow the omniscient wisdom of the Democrats and do as they say which is to ______.
  Mais oui! Onward, into the fire! One might inquire why Kerry seems to be picking bugs out of the air with his strange hand motions, if one wanted to know.