Finished goal of running the distance of 2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C and back!!!...plus 339.1 miles
0.0 miles run this week. Daily running average for the week is 0.00 miles per day. Total amount run in the past 800 days is 2,419.1 miles. Daily running average overall is 3.02 miles per day.
President Barack Obama and his campaign team continue to sink even further into desperation and the reproachable depths of tactlessness. Just when our president hits a new level of absurdity that could not possibly be outdone, he completely surpasses our expectations...every few days, lately.
Now, instead of receiving wedding gifts to hold onto for the rest of your life as mementos for the one special day of your life that you are eternally bonded with the one individual you love, our pompous president suggests you forgo these less important commodities and keepsakes and turn them into campaign contributions.
Birthdays? Anniversaries? You can give your gifts to Barack Obama for these occasions, too. Forget about your special day...Barack Obama needs a second term.
President Barack Obama is not to be blamed for all of our nation's problems. Many presidents and many more politicians came before him who contributed to our present state and the disaster that has become our economy. But, he is to be blamed for not moving in a proper direction to move back at least a mere inch from the financial cliff we are sliding off of. In fact, he seems to be deliberately edging closer to the gravity just beyond the cliff.
Each day seems to be getting worse and worse for our president and his reelection chances. He still blames Bush for everything under the sun (including "Fast and Furious" as of today), but he needs to answer for why his landmark legislative achievement (Affordable Health Care Act, which is exactly the opposite of what the name implies) is on the eve of more than likely being ruled unconstitutional, why his stimulus packages have resulted in nothing more than further national debt, why he won't take common sense opportunities like the Keystone Pipeline, and why unemployment won't budge, just to name a few.
This president had two years to do anything he wanted with control of Congress and those two years have amounted to debt on unborn Americans and a health care law that, as I said earlier, is probably going to be ruled unconstitutional and illegal in a matter of days. The second half of his term has been uneventful because Americans were so at odds with him for what he did in the first half that they fired an enormous amount of Democratic Congressmen and women and replaced them with the exact opposite. Congressmen and women who vowed to not raise taxes and to stop our president from continuing his destructive path. Our current Congress has been named the most "do nothing" Congress in American history by many pundits. That name was intended to be an insult but I think it is a worthy accomplishment. The fewer laws, regulations, and tax increases they make the more free and prosperous we as individuals are.
The House oversight committee voted today to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for his refusal to hand over critical documents regarding the "Fast and Furious" scandal. The vote was 23 to 17 (23 Republicans and 17 Democrats). Next week, despite President Obama's order of executive privilege to deny certain documents demanded by the investigatory panel, the House of Representatives will hold the contempt vote.
“Until now, everyone believed that the decisions regarding Fast and Furious were confined to the Department of Justice. The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the Fast and Furious operation or the cover-up that followed. The administration has always insisted that wasn’t the case. Were they lying, or are they now bending the law to hide the truth?”
If Eric Holder were a normal American citizen like you and me in a courtroom with these charges against him, supported by overwhelming evidence, the judge would laugh at the audacity he possesses to conceal evidence the way he is currently doing. Then the judge would immediately hold him in contempt and put him in a jail cell. Instead, because he is the United States Attorney General, he is somehow granted flexibility to waste time and postpone verdicts that would be delivered to people like you and me quite swiftly.
Socialist leader of France, President Francois Hollande, swiped a parliamentary election power grab yesterday by earning 314 Socialist representatives of the 577-member National Assembly. With this majority Hollande will be in a position to execute exactly what he campaigned on. His intention is to halt numerous tax exemptions, pass tax hikes for large corporations (particularly banks and energy firms), and, finally, here is the zowie---impose a 75% tax rate on those earning over 1 million euros. These are the maneuvers Hollande claims will bring France's deficit to within the 3% European Union limit by next year.
Gross government debt in the twenty-seven nations belonging to the Euro in 2010 was 80% of GDP. American gross federal debt in 2010 was 94% of GDP. Separately, government debt is growing more slowly in the EU than in America because the majority of nations belonging to it are actually implementing austerity measures. The accumulated government deficit among the European Unions twenty-seven nations was 6.6% of GDP in 2010. America's federal deficit in 2010 was 9% of GDP.
America is worse off financially than the EU-27 and it seems our nation's leaders and our media are doing everything they can to not spell that out in the simple and understandable terms we deserve to hear.
A 75% tax rate. This is insanity. I predict a lot of France's wealth will be packing their bags and selling their homes very soon. We are worse off than Europe and doing less to fix our deficit. If Hollande can take three quarters of what highly successful, hardworking French citizens make than Obama, or future American presidents, can do the same thing in the very near future. There is your proof. It can happen and is happening right across the pond.
Today ends week ninety-four of running against Obama. I ran 23.6 miles this week, averaging 3.37 miles per day.
In an article by Emily Miller from the Washington Times, "The next time President Obama hits the links, it will be his 100th round of golf since coming to the White House."
In three and one-half years this president has golfed enough to equal four entire months worth of work time.
2009: President Obama promised his stimulus bill would save or create 3.5 million jobs. Unemployment was 8.3% and our national debt was $10.8 trillion. First golf outing was April 26, 2009. Twenty-seven rounds were played in his first year.
2010: Unemployment at 9.7%. President Obama proposed a second stimulus and a health care overhaul. The Democratic Congress passed these bills. Thirty-one rounds of golf were played in his second year.
2011: Unemployment at 9.1%. During the midterm elections President Obama was "shellacked" and lost control of his House. The Senate took losses but narrowly remained Democratic. American voters had sent a message of how little they approved of Barack Obama's leadership and the decisions he had made. National debt was $14 trillion. Thirty-three rounds of golf were played.
2012: By the time President Obama had delivered his State of the Union Address, he was up to ninety-three rounds of golf. Unemployment was at 8.3%, national debt was $15.2 trillion, and America's credit rating was downgraded.
This is President Obama at a 2011 Univision Town Hall describing the limitations he has as president to successfully suspend deportations for anyone because of existing laws that he would break by issuing an executive order on the matter. He describes in concise detail how taking such an action would be a rank violation of the separation of powers. Well put, Mr. President.
This is President Obama contradicting the video above by announcing he is going to stop deporting illegal immigrants who break the law and come into our country at an early age (approximately between the ages of 15-30). With no congressional consent, our president is going to open the floodgates allowing a projected 800,000 illegal immigrants to remain in the country without the fear of deportation and they will even be put in jobs programs...oh, and they will probably be able to and encouraged to vote in the presidential election in November.
The reporter who appears to be heckling Obama in the video was simply asking him why he felt it was more important to give foreigners jobs than Americans. This immigration announcement comes at a time when low-skilled workers, Hispanic, and African-American unemployment is setting records. Unemployment rose in all of these categories in May and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, less than 50% of younger African Americans have full-time jobs. Perfect time to add more workers to the pool.
Gerald R. Molen, producer of "Schindler's List", has a new movie hitting theaters this July. "2016: Obama's America" is a film based on the New York Time's bestseller by Dinesh D'Souza. The film examines a potential America at the end of a possible second Obama term. D'Souza has written a lot of books and has earned many accolades for his work. He is not an outlandish, conspiracy theory mongering, brute who holds personal resentment to our current president. He is just really good at examining and exposing all of the mystery behind Barack Hussein Obama and his past that our main stream media failed to do in 2008.Here is the website for "2016: Obama's America" and below is an extended trailer of the movie:
President Obama gave a 54 minute speech in Ohio today outlining the same themes and ideas he's been talking about in more brief and concise speeches of the past. This particular one differed only in that it was brutally lengthy and redundant. The main message of his speech was declaring the reality before us in this election that a choice between "two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take" will have to be decided. I could not agree more.
Here are some responses to his Ohio speech from the political press corps who heard it:
"In terms of politics, this speech could have ended about 20 minutes ago. Drive your message, take your ball, go home."
Mike O’Brien, Politico
"Just cheerleading BO doesn't help him. He needs a sharper, more cogent
message with some memorable lines. I ain't walking my criticism back...one of the worst speeches I’ve ever heard Barack Obama make."
Jonathan Alter, MSNBC
"This Obama speech is so long-winded it might be the first attempt to filibuster an election."
John Hayward, Human Events
"In America we don't quit till we've spoken for 54 minutes."
Here are a few videos of the day. Some rich material down below. First, we have a British politician, Nigel Farage, shamelessly decrying how absurd the European Union, its debt crisis, and the leaders making the big decisions are. Second, David Axelrod, in a clip from 1994, almost as though he was prophesying his own future and the detestable fate awaiting him and the president he represents in alarming irony, describes the exact flawed tactics Barack Obama is employing here in 2012 to illegitimately strengthen his case for reelection. And the last video, Barack Obama, in what appears to be a standup comedy act, reiterates once again how all others who came before him are responsible for all our economic woes and how he has clearly not done one single thing wrong and does not hold a single fiber of fault.
Come on, Mr. President. You have a nation divided, a Democratic Senate that hasn't passed a budget since you've been elected, and the last budget you ran through Congress did not earn one single vote in the House or Senate. Bipartisanship? I don't see any. Coming together? It's not happening.
Our national debt is soaring, unemployment is not budging, the private sector, according to you, is doing just fine, and your best idea is to expand government more and more, which will only work to over-regulate and suffocate the success of the private sector just to create more dependence on and power for the federal government, an outcome that this country never intended.
Just as the House Oversight Committee prepares to schedule a vote on whether Attorney General Eric Holder should be held in contempt for not releasing subpoenaed documents relevant to the "Fast and Furious" case, Eric Holder is in the process of launching an investigation into the recent White House leaks, which many argue was a deliberate release of classified information regarding our national security intended to bolster President Obama's campaign.
That ought to turn out well. An allegation that coincidentally bodes well for Barack Obama's campaign is being investigated by a man who is on the verge of quite possibly losing all credibility as our nation's Attorney General.
This will be only the fourth time in thirty years that Congress takes a contempt action against an executive branch member. The way Eric Holder dances around every question he is asked and refuses to comply and participate with this investigation, his actions demand a vote to hold him in contempt.
Today ends week ninety-three of running against Obama. I ran 23.8 miles this week, averaging 3.40 miles per day.
I had posted about this commencement speech a couple days ago. Here it is in its entirety. Pretty powerful message delivered by David McCullough, Jr. imploring a class of high school graduates to seize every moment they can, to understand they are not special or entitled to anything they do not work hard to earn, and that they have an obligation to themselves to create their own happiness and success and to not approach the rest of their lives with the assumption that they deserve anything for nothing. It's a well-articulated commencement speech worth checking out and it happens to defy much of what Barack Obama's big government nanny state liberal agenda stands for. The America and the future McCullough describes are abrasively truthful and full of difficult challenges we all face in different forms. But isn't that the point, to rise to challenges on our own and as a united people? Or is it something more like what Barack Obama envisions where everything is fair and equal for all, a nation where hard work is punished and mediocrity is rewarded, idleness doubly rewarded?
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) had no kind words yesterday for Bureau of Labor Statistics Acting Commissioner Josh Galvin regarding the official definition of a "green job".
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics a green job is defined as any job that “provides goods or services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources.” This broad and nearly meaningless definition is the only reason Barack Obama has any ability to tout his green jobs agenda. The majority of what he claims to be new green jobs are actually just job jobs, for lack of a better term.
Here are some examples of what defines a green job as approved by Galvin:
10. Floor sweeper at a solar panel factory
The official definition allows for any position that will “reduce or
eliminate the creation of waste materials” to be considered a green job.
9. College professor teaching environmental studies
Any employee who is able to “provide education and training related
to green technologies and practices” has a green job, according to the
Department of Labor’s definition.
8. Salvation Army Employee
BLS says products and services that “collect, reuse, remanufacture,
recycle, or compost waste materials or wastewater” are considered green
jobs. As Issa points out, any type of business that sells used goods is a
green job, according to BLS.
7. An antique Dealer
Same rule applies here as in number six.
6. A clerk at a bicycle repair shop
Bicycle repair shops also reuse and recycle materials and is determined to be a green job.
5. Any school bus driver
Just as all forms of mass public transportation, school buses reduce
carbon emissions by reducing the number of cars on the road and
therefore reducing “greenhouse gas emissions through methods other than
renewable energy generation and energy efficiency.”
4. Any employee who puts gas in a school bus
This one is humorous but confirmed by Department of Labor officials to be a green job.
3. A full-time teenage employee at a used record shop
The recycled goods clause applies here, therefore it is dubbed a green job.
2. Train car manufacturers
Once again, employees whose job functions “reduce or eliminate the
creation of waste materials; collect, reuse, remanufacture, recycle, or
compost waste materials or wastewater” have themselves a green job.
1. And the number one most ridiculous job that the Labor Department considers “green” is… Oil lobbyist.
Galvin confirmed that an oil lobbyist is in fact a green job. It‘s
not entirely clear where in BLS’s definition the position falls under,
however, the job could possibly be considered to “increase public
awareness of environmental issues.”
