Category: Government

Government: who rules us.

Obama is the greatest according to Obama’s last speech

obama-aaaa So what did Obama really  accomplish?  To listen to Obama he thinks he’s the greatest.   You can listen to all of it below.

Obama got the largest applause  — very lengthy — when he said that he opposed discrimination against muslims.

Crime? What’s the Obama legacy on crime?   How about  black crime in Chicago  where Obama delivered his farewell address to America?  In 2016 there’s some 3000+ dead blacks killing blacks in Chicago, Ill.

Obama’s wonderful qualities?  Obama mentions himself 80+ times in his  last speech.  Just a tad narcissistic?

Race relations?  How many people voted for Obama thinking that  race issues would improve?  That flopped.

Reach across the isle? No.   ObamaCare was created by Democrat Nancy Pelosi and who ignored Republicans and ultimately zero votes were cast by Republicans for ObamaCare. Obama spent the last 4 years spewing out one Executive Order after another. Those may evaporate just as quickly as they were created.

Here’s Obama’s speech:

 

 

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Ethnic cleansing in South Sudan aided by Obama’s child soldiers?

child-soldierPresident Barack Obama announced in Oct. 2015  that four countries that use child soldiers — the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Somalia, and South Sudan – will continue to receive United States military assistance.

What to do about Southern Sudan where  as of Dec. 2016 ethnic cleansing takes its toil on the country’s  60+ different ethnic groups?

Use the power of the purse:  For starters,  the U.S. Congress could stop payment immediately for child soldiers used by both  South Sudan’s President Kiir and the rebels lead by Machar.

In 2015,  Obama sent  161 MILLION  in  military aid  to African countries which use  child soldiers.

Obama has  but does not use a powerful tool at his disposal – the Child Soldiers Prevention Act – that allows him to withhold US military aid until governments end their exploitation of children in war.

Child soldiers in South Sudan —  paid by Obama — fight  on both sides, for Preident  Kiir’s government and also for the rebel forces.

A much better way to spend US taxpayer money:  teach literacy via radio to South  Sudanese children.  This project is paid for by U.S. Agency for International Development.

Various churches including the Episcopal Church seek action to prevent further deriorationin South Sudan.  Roughly a third of all South Sudanese are Episcopalian.  children-learn-via-aid-money-bbb

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Take back California’s water from Boxer? Quick!

no-water-higher-food-costEveryone in California  — including Barbara Boxer —  knows we have water problems.  And most individuals  conserve water.

And then we look at what  politicians  such as Boxer do — and don’t do.

Boxer lives in San Francisco and represents California. Surely she could be in contact with whatever is necessary to figure out how to save water when the big storms hit?

Why is government so clueless when it comes to real issues?

One might think so.  Guess again.

One would think that these politicos — such as Barbara Boxer — could   figure out how to save water?

When we have heavy storms why does all the surface water continue to drain into San Francisco Bay due to lack of  surface storage in the Sierras and pumping restrictions to protect the smelt?

Ok, we Californians  love to eat fish. And yes we love our salmon and maybe we love  our smelt.

But our farmers are hurting.  And Barbara Boxer — as usual — has only herself to consider.

Only 852,000 of the 5.5 million  acre-feet of water — only  10 percent — during the first two months of this year was sent to southern California.  Why so little water sent south?     Bureaucrats who operate the pumps keep the water from flowing south to the farmers.

And guess who is sinking a modest water bill that could provide relief to CA farmers?  Barbara Boxer.

Let her know what you think:  save the farmers or save the smelt?  You choose.

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Trump keeps promises to Deplorables? Yes!

deplorable-meWere you one of Hilary’s Deplorables who voted for Trump?  Guess what:   Trump is picking key players who have your interests at heart.

Strategy:  Trump listens to Obama and then picks who he wants.  A brilliant strategy.  Listen to who was in power and then do something else.

Very important:  When foreign dangers threaten, the generals will be awake.  Remember how Secretary of State Hilary Clinton responded to Bengazi?  Who knows who did what that night. In contrast,  Trump’s picks include  several command generals to fill key cabinet positions related to security.

Does Trump keep promises to Hilary’s ‘Deplorables’?

Were going to get regulations off the backs of people.  That was something Trump talked a lot about.  Trump’s key appointment for the top post at Enviornmental Protection Agency will bring law back to a lawless agency.

The jobs Trump has filled: Defense (Mattis), Treasury (Steve Mnuchin), Transportation (Elaine Chao), Health and Human Services (Tom Price), Commerce (Wilbur Ross), Education (Betsy DeVos), United Nations ambassador (Nikki Haley), Housing and Urban Development (Ben Carson), Central Intelligence Agency (Mike Pompeo) and attorney general (Jeff Sessions).

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/309161-trump-says-he-has-consulted-with-obama-on-cabinet-picks

So far, Deplorables, President-Elect Trump’s picks have your interests at heart:  safety of the USA, get regulations under control, create jobs for Americans.

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Women sell hair, Jamie Foxx thinks Venezuela dictator just great

 

Venezuelans wait in line to cross into Colombia through the Simon Bolivar bridge in San Antonio del Tachira, Venezuela, Sunday July 17, 2016. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans crossed the border into Colombia on Sunday to hunt for food and medicine that are in short supply at home. It's the second weekend in a row that Venezuela’s government has opened the long-closed border connecting Venezuela to Colombia. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuelans wait in line to cross into Colombia through the Simon Bolivar bridge in San Antonio del Tachira, Venezuela, Sunday July 17, 2016. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans crossed the border into Colombia on Sunday to hunt for food and medicine that are in short supply at home. It’s the second weekend in a row that Venezuela’s government has opened the long-closed border connecting Venezuela to Colombia. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Jamie Foxx thinks the dictator of Venezuela is just great while  Venezuelan  women sell their hair to buy food and medicine.

Women living near the Venezuelan border region are flocking into neighboring Colombia to sell their hair, sometimes for as little as $20 a head.

Reuters reports that as many as 200 Venezuelan women a day cross the border to sell hair stylists their locks to be used in styling or adding volume to the hair of customers. While the $20 price is small in absolute terms, it could mean a windfall in a country that just began printing 20,000 bolívar bills to keep up with the spiraling inflation. Reuters notes that $20 is “the equivalent of a monthly minimum wage and food tickets” in Venezuela. Due to the socialist rationing system, the government regulates how much food each individual can buy with food tickets or ration cards.

Venezuela’s socialist government has grossly mismanaged the oil-rich nation’s economy for the past 17 years, with dictator Nicolás Maduro now presiding over outrageous inflation and an unwieldy ration system that forces many Venezuelans to spend up to eight hours in a supermarket line to buy basic goods like flour, milk, and vegetable oil. The food crisis in Venezuela is threatening to become a famine as studies show nearly

The food crisis in Venezuela is threatening to become a famine as studies show nearly 90 percent of Venezuelans do not have the means to acquire three meals’ worth of food a day. 15 percent survive by eating garbage disposed of by restaurants and cafes.

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Firenze Sage:  What is Socialism is the answer?  Venezuela writ large.

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CNN Symone Sanders on microagressions, whatever they are

Make America Great Again first used by
Make America Great Again was first used by Ronald Reagan

On  “CNN Newsroom,” Symone Sanders argued that Make America Great Again “takes us back to a time when we were in slavery, when we were in chains, when we worked on plantations, internment camps for the Chinese.”

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slaves in Virginia 1862
Sanders corrected the Chinese internment statement on Twitter, saying she misspoke and meant to refer to Japanese internment.

 And the last thing I would say is that racism is — a racist is — I think people think racism is dogs and white hoods and water hoses and the n-word, and that is not the only form of racism.

There are microaggressions. There are oh, I didn’t — you speak so well. These are microaggressions that are forms of prejudice and discrimination that we have to address.”

Sanders added that just because a county voted for Obama, and then voted for Trump, “doesn’t mean that they don’t have elements of prejudice, of discrimination, of racism. That is the equivalent of saying I have a black friend.

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Firenze Sage: I don’t think that more than 3 non zombies believe that people in chains was the thrust of Make America Great Again, but then maybe Symone Sanders was the spawn of a black slave owner.

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At last the truth: Do USA Hispanic voters support border control

  border-patrol   Do Hispanics support Trump’s immigration policies on immigration?  Read below and you decide.  
A majority of Hispanic voters said they “support Donald Trump’s immigration policies,” undercutting the narrative that enforcing immigration law will drive away Latinos, one exit poll found.
The poll, conducted from Nov. 9 to Nov. 10 by Zogby Analytics for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), found 58.5 percent of Hispanic voters favored President-Elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies, compared to 32.9 percent for failed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

Of all voters, 57.4 percent  Latinos  said they support Trump’s immigration policies, with 38.4 percent backing Clinton’s.

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Firenze Sage:  This answers the question of whether or not Latin workers want to compete with illegals who undercut wages for citizens.

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So much for the war refuge gig

   

Refugees walk past others resting on the ground at the border station between Serbia and Hungary near Horgos, Serbia, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. Small groups of migrants continued to sneak into Hungary on Wednesday, a day after the country sealed its border with Serbia and began arresting people trying to breach the razor-wire barrier, while a first group arrived in Croatia seeking another way into the European Union. (Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP)
Refugees walk past others resting on the ground at the border station between Serbia and Hungary near Horgos, Serbia, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. Small groups of migrants continued to sneak into Hungary on Wednesday, a day after the country sealed its border with Serbia and began arresting people trying to breach the razor-wire barrier, while a first group arrived in Croatia seeking another way into the European Union. (Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP)

Migrants come for money, not to flee  war.  Just 13.7 per cent of migrants in Europe say they are fleeing war, with most admitting they are economic migrants, a new study by Doctors of the World (MDM) has revealed.

The NGO found that the majority of nearly 10,000 migrants they spoke to admitted they moved to Europe for economic reasons. Examining access to healthcare, the report looked at migrants across 30 cities, just under half of whom are staying in Europe illegally.

The study, which was published Tuesday in Brussels, discloses that 53.1 per cent of migrants surveyed reported emigrating for economic reasons, 20.5 per cent for political reasons and just 13.7 per cent said they moved to escape war.

MDM are demanding that migrants get full access to all aspects of national health services across Europe, and argue that their survey showing only 3.1 per cent migrate solely for healthcare bolsters the case for this.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/six-out-of-10-migrants-to-europe-come-for-economic-reasons-and-are-not-refugees-eu-vice-president-a6836306.html

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Firenze Sage:  So who looks good now? Let all the poor war refugees in or shall we vet them and not expand the welfare roles.

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Hilary can’t count! Because votes ‘cast’ are not votes ‘counted’

    vote-absenteeHilary and the popular vote.

First of all, she’s probably not going to win the actual number of votes cast.

 Hilary  may win the number of votes counted, but not the votes cast.

Did you vote absentee?   Opps!  

States don’t count their absentee ballots unless the number of outstanding absentee ballots is larger than the state margin of difference.

If there is a margin of 1,000 votes counted and there are 1,300 absentee ballots outstanding, then the state tabulates those.  If the number of outstanding absentee ballots wouldn’t influence the election results, then the absentee ballots aren’t counted.

Who votes by absentee ballot?  Students overseas, the military, business people on trips, etc.  The historical breakout for absentee ballots is about 67-33% Republican.

 Example how absentee ballots work:  In 2000, when Al Gore “won” the popular vote nationally by 500,000 votes and the liberal media screamed bloody murder, there were 2 million absentee ballots in California alone.  A 67-33 breakout of those yields a 1.33- to 0.667-million Republican vote advantage, so Bush would have gotten a 667,000-vote margin from California’s uncounted absentee ballots alone!  So much for Gore’s 500,000 popular vote “victory.”  (That was the headline on the N.Y. Times, and it was the lead story on NBC Nightly News, right?  No?  

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/hillary_wins_the_popular_vote__not_.html

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Firenze Sage:  A handy tidbit for those who would scrap the electoral college so that NY and California alone can decide elections.

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Obama’s E.P.A. climate change regulations go bye bye?

 

climate change for real?
climate change for real? Ebell says no.  

You can expect Obama’s E,P.A.  climate change regulations to go bye bye? Yes.

Trump has put Myron Ebell in charge of everything to do with climate change.  Ebell started Cooler Heads Coalition to dispell myths about “global warming”.

Expect able Ebell to take on the Clean Power Plant regulations which come at a huge price which many say will have negligible impact on temperatures world wide.

Ebell is known for memorable sound bites.  In one Ebel refers to Al Gore as the forces of darkness as Gore  has said that he wants to turn off lights all over the world.

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