And just when you thought...

...it couldn't get anymore ridiculous.  Ladies and Gentlemen:

The solar eclipse on Monday is RACIST

H/T David Thompson

January Can't Come Quickly Enough

How will a new administration (assuming the Rs win the election) untangle all the damage being wrought by Obama and his cronies? Look at this mess:

Under the Obama administration’s expansive interpretation of executive authority,  legal immigrants seeking citizenship through the nation’s Naturalization process are now exempt from a key part of the Oath of Allegiance.

Immigrants seeking to become citizens no longer have to pledge to “bear arms on behalf of the United States.” They can opt out of that part of the Oath. Nor do they have to cite any specific religious belief that forbids them to perform military service.  

According to the Naturalization Fact Sheet on the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) website, In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, the nation welcomed 729,995 Legal Permanent Residents into full citizenship.

• Over the past decade 6.6 million have been naturalized through a process that ends with the Oath of Allegiance.
• In the decade 1980-1990, the average number completing Naturalization was only 220,000 annually, but from 1990 to 2000 that number jumped to over 500,000  annually.
• 1,050,399  new citizens were welcomed in the year 2008.
• 18.7 million immigrants are eligible to eventually become citizens, and 8.8 million already meet the 5-year residency requirement.

The pledge to help defend America was good enough for the 6.6 million immigrants naturalized since 2005 and good enough for the over 15 million naturalized since 1980, but Obama’s appointees at the USCIS think that is too much to ask of the 18.7 million estimated legal immigrants eligible today for eventual naturalization or the 750,000 who will be naturalized in the coming year.

This radical change was announced a year ago, in July of 2015. Congress did not enact the change in new legislation. There was no congressional debate, no filibuster in the US Senate, and no sit-in in the House to demand that a bill to repeal the USCIS action be brought to a vote.

No, this radical change was implemented while Congress slept. Like other Obama actions to undermine our immigration laws, the Republican-controlled Congress has not used its constitutional powers to reverse the administrative action. Thank God many states are stepping up to fill that void.

This week, the US Supreme Court let stand a federal district court ruling invalidating Obama’s unconstitutional “DAPA” amnesty.

By a 4-4 tie vote, the Supreme Court declined to review the Circuit Court’s ruling upholding the Houston district court decision. Therefore, it is now the law and Obama’s DAPA amnesty is voided. If Justice Scalia were still alive and participating in the case, it would have been a 5-4 ruling because the “swing vote,” Associate Justice Kennedy, voted with Justices Alito, Roberts and Thomas.

Where was Congress? Why did it take a lawsuit by the Governors and Attorneys General of 26 states to overturn Obama’s unconstitutional actions?

It’s true that other Presidents have made changes in the Naturalization process by administrative decree and without congressional approval. In 2002, in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attack, President George Bush by executive order expedited the naturalization process for 89,000 immigrants serving in the armed forces. While many will agree with Bush’s action and even applaud, that change should have been done by act of Congress, not a presidential executive order.

In fact, most Americans will think it extremely odd that the USCIS action with regard to the Oath of Allegiance is not illegal. But the fact is, unelected bureaucrats at the USCIS can change the wording of the Oath without approval of the people’s representatives in Congress. Strange as it sounds, the law as it stands today allows USCIS bureaucrats great leeway in managing the Naturalization process, so Obama’s actions will not be challenged in federal court.

Yet, in view of Obama’s actions, why doesn’t Congress change the law and take control of the Oath of Allegiance? So far, there is no indication that the Republican leadership will do so. If they won’t even bar Islamic terrorists from the refugee program, why should we expect them to protect the Oath of Allegiance? Some members of Congress will grumble, make speeches and issue press releases, but the Republican leadership will do nothing.

Such is the state of the nation as we approach this 240th anniversary of the  Declaration of Independence. Some Americans see great irony in the British declaring their independence from the tyranny of Brussels while Americans quietly accept the new tyranny of Washington, DC.

Wake Up Europe!

This seems depressingly appropriate for Remembrance Day. Have our brave soldiers fought in vain, defending a continent of cowards and self-immolating social justice "warriors"?

More thoughts on Fergusson

I was going to do this as a comment on Lady Red's post, but I want to addt a couple of videos. Here are my thoughts:

I wonder if it would be possible to help those business owners rebuild their businesses -- elsewhere. Let Fergusson rot. The business owners tried to be productive members of society so I think we should help them to rebuild what society allowed to be taken away from them.

Those ignoramuses that burned Fergusson down? They can live in the ashes. Don't use a dime of taxpayer funds to help rebuild what they destroyed. In fact, let the professional victims burn down all the blue cities and let them rot. End welfare to them as well.

The entire St. Gentle Giant narrative came apart as each new piece of information came out.  Even black witnesses say he was charging Officer Wilson. Not that is is related, but here is a video that describes the situation very well:



Bill Whittle puts succinctly:



Obama is not a failure. He is a disgrace. He and his race-bating friends are showing gasoline on a pile of dynamite then lighting road flares.

The pipes, the pipes are calling...

Mark Steyn, no additional commentary needed.

Stuff You Couldn't Make Up...

This is entirely the weirdest written article about the weirdest looney toon.  The fact that the subject of the article is BO's half sister makes it even weirder.  So, pull up a chair, pour yourself a magic goblet of moondew and laugh, snicker, despair.

Her innate tendency toward peacefulness, she said, had been sown and sewn into her own soul through the agency of her extraordinary mother’s uncommonly colour-blind and progressive world view. Through Stanley Ann Dunham, the white mid-American seeker and social anthropologist who married first an African and then an Indonesian man, she said, “I was granted comity, I was granted tolerance, I was granted artistry, I was granted sweetness.”

And I am granted an overwhelming desire to puke.

Skool Daze

For the life of me I can't fathom why we even bother having schools anymore. Pink Floyd were obviously more prescient than originally given credit for.

Heaven Help Baby Bodhi

Read it and weep.

Or laugh.

Or both.

Monty Python Is In The House

STOCKHOLM (FRIA TIDER). Owners of cars destroyed in the riots fined for parking illegally while police adopt non-intervention policy.

Since last Sunday, May 19, rioters have taken to the streets of Stockholm’s suburbs every night, torching cars, schools, stores, office buildings and residential complexes. Yesterday, a police station in Rågsved, a suburb four kilometers south of Stockholm, was attacked and set on fire.  But while the Stockholm riots keep spreading and intensifying, Swedish police have adopted a tactic of non-interference. ”Our ambition is really to do as little as possible,” Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving explained to the Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday.”We go to the crime scenes, but when we get there we stand and wait,” elaborated Lars Byström, the media relations officer of the Stockholm Police Department. ”If we see a burning car, we let it burn if there is no risk of the fire spreading to other cars or buildings nearby. By doing so we minimize the risk of having rocks thrown at us.”

Swedish parking laws, however, continue to be rigidly enforced despite the increasingly chaotic situation. Early Wednesday, while documenting the destruction after a night of rioting in the Stockholm suburb of Alby, a reporter from Fria Tider observed a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a burnt-out Ford. When questioned, the officer explained that the ticket was issued because the vehicle lacked a tag showing its time of arrival. The fact that the vehicle had been effectively destroyed – its windshield smashed and the interior heavily damaged by fire – was irrelevant according to the meter maid, who asked Fria Tider’s photographer to destroy the photos he had taken. Her employer, the parking company P-service, refused to comment when Fria Tider contacted them on Wednesday afternoon.

HT Protein Wisdom

Paul Krugman Is Insane

There. I said it.

He's batshit crazy. Around the bend. Cuckoo for Cocoa-Puffs.

I offer this as evidence of his mental state: eco-freaks and right-wing radicals salad, drizzled with immenent doom, and served with crunchy crackers.

Kruggers, unwound

John Roberts, I Thought We Knew Ye...

UPDATE:  To the voting booth!

Fruit Loop Of The Week

Veganism discrimination.

Yes.
Really.

This systemic discrimination and harassment that silences marginalized minority peoples’ voices, such as me as a Racialized Ethical Vegan, is a serious threat towards freedom of speech and freedom of belief

Say what?

I believe that the faculty’s reaction has its basis in the strict religious belief of ‘men’s domination over animals’ that racialized people’s suffering should not be spoken about in the same context of animal suffering and that sympathy for animal suffering is not as important as sympathy for racialized peoples’ suffering

My head.
It exploded.

"Fashion"

For the last few weeks I've seen "fashion week" this and "fashion week" that in the media. I would normally not give one whit. Except I seem to recall that a few years ago the fashion industry came up against some fairly strong opposition to the thin sized models they were using on the runways.

No problem they said. We will forgo the size zero!

Lo and behold they did. They swapped the size zero for what appears to be size sub-zero!


Well done fashonistas!

More Wasteful Spending

When I read this story in the newspaper about an airport I'd never heard of, I had to investigate further. From the paper:

U.S. Rep. Mike Ross and U.S. Sens. John Boozman (BOHZ'-man) and Mark Pryor say Grant County will receive more than $312,000 to make improvements at Sheridan Municipal Airport.

The men announced Friday that the $312,607 grant is from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The money will be used to deter unauthorized persons and vehicles from entering onto the airfield.

Ross says the investment at the airport will make it safer and stronger for its passengers and the surrounding communities.

Boozman and Pryor both say the improvements are important for economic development.

We need to deter unauthorized persons and vehicles from THIS airfield? Really? Should people from Idaho and North Carolina and Michigan shell out $312,607 of their hard earned money for THIS?

Stats:

Control Tower: No
Wind Indicator: Yes, Not Lighted
Lighting Schedule: DUSK-DAWN
Single Engine Aircraft Based on Field: 11
Multi-Engine Aircraft Based on Field: 1
Jet Aircraft Based on Field: none
Helicopters Based on Field: none
Military Aircraft Based on Field: none
Annual Commercial Operations: none
Annual Commuter Operations: none
Annual Air Taxi Operations: none
Annual Military Operations: 400
Annual GA Local Operations: 3400
Annual GA Itinerant Operations: 5000

I thought the "powers that be" were going to crack down on these idiotic airport expenditures? It looks to me like politics as usual.

London's Burning

For the third straight night, rioters have burned, looted and pilaged numerous London neighbourhoods. Seeking "justice" for the police shooting of a fine upstanding member of the community crack dealing, violent gang member who was resisting arrest.

As the British police appear not to have been able to stop them and the government hasn't called in the army to disperse the scum, certain communities are taking the law into their own hands and fighting back.

More here and here and here.

My heart aches.

Well, That Didn't Take Long

The President of the Canadian Arab Federation spreads conspiracy theory that Norway attack was Israel’s handiwork.

Extortion: The Latest Obama Ploy

He's as predictable as he can be.

President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks.

"I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it," Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, according to excerpts released by CBS News.

The Obama administration and many economists have warned of economic catastrophe if the United States does not raise the amount it is legally allowed to borrow by August 2.

The effer will do it too; stopping social security checks to our elderly to get what he wants. Take a good hard look at what we elected, America.

H/T: Drudge

"Gender Creative"

Genderless

I object on the grounds that the fallout will cost thousands of my hard earned tax dollars in therapy for "Storm" and its siblings.

Although I do have a suggestion for future child or grandchild names. How about Bread, Butter, and Jam.

Is It April 1st?

The EU is set to ban all cars in European cities by 2050. So says Siim Kallas, the EU transport commission.

British reaction:

"I suggest that he goes and finds himself a space in the local mental asylum," said Hugh Bladon, a spokesman for the BDA.

"If he wants to bring everywhere to a grinding halt and to plunge us into a new dark age, he is on the right track. We have to keep things moving. The man is off his rocker."

LMAO

She Loves Him! She Really, REALLY loves him!

You know those little bags tucked into the seat pouches of airplanes?  The ones you use if you feel your breakfast coming up?  Get one. 

Sometimes, you need to go away to keep your love alive. Perhaps it's the change of air. Perhaps it's the change of view. Perhaps it's just the chance to stop and pause. Who knows what it is that melts away the doubts, and the disappointment? But when I gazed at my beloved, at Lake Garda last weekend, I realized that, in spite of everything, my love still burned bright.

Hey, it's true, he looked tired. He's cut back on the jokes now. He's cut back on the smiles. But when he stepped out, in my hotel room, or perhaps I should say on the giant flat-screen telly in my hotel room, I felt a stirring that wasn't like the flicker of excitement you have on an early date, when fantasies blaze, and hopes soar. What I felt was something calmer, but also stronger: the sense that I, or perhaps the 65 million Americans who voted on my behalf, had chosen well.

Yep, she's publicly lusting after The One.  It's sick.  It's icky.  It's..it's...creepy.  Good job, Patterson.  You are now the laughingstock of all the internet.