Open thread for Sunday, October 21st: Fire in Cairo edition
October 21, 2012
Here is the open thread for Sunday, October 21st: feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss the issues of the day as they arise.
The Middle East in on fire as a result of Barack Obama’s support of the Arab Spring and of his policy of leading from behind so today’s musical selection is a cool live acoustic version of The Cure performing ‘Fire in Cairo’ from 1993. The Cure were at the height of their American success after the release of their album ‘Wish’ in 1992, so while the video quality leaves something to be desired this is vintage material from The Cure.
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As always, truth is stranger than fiction: the latest Rasmussen Poll released this Sunday morning shows 56% of those polled approve of O bana’s aporoach to and handling of foreign policy. They most likely approve of that stray from a cattle drive, Hillary, wearing spandex underneath her wrinkled pant suits.
Imagine, these people will show up at the voting booth.
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I can’t believe that many approve of his foreign policy at this point, it would seem to me that the media blackout of this story is working.
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I would add most of Africa to the fire.
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I would have to agree with that statement, the whole world appears to be on fire.
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Found this over at http://www.Hillbuzz.org It sums up nicely what we all know:
OBAMA’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS
We must quit trashing President Obama’s accomplishments.
He has done more than any other President before him:First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in (Connecticut).
First President to preside over two cuts to the credit-rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party (health insurance).
First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as
‘shovel-ready’ jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his
union supporters (GM bailout).
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal
immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company (BP) hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees
(Kenneth Feinberg–Obama’s “Pay Czar”).
First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
First President to terminate America ‘s ability to put a man in space.
First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is
no longer a Christian nation.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional
and refuse to enforce it (Defense of Marriage Act).
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for
their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate
a factory (Boeing).
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
First President to fire an Inspector General (Gerald Walpin) of
AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office;
104 outings as of August 2012.
First President to hide his Medical, Educational and Travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple global “apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening
White House parties for his friends, paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Quran & tell us the early morning
call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is “one of the prettiest sounds
on earth at sunset.”
First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own
private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences”.
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were
UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.
First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the
American 50 states ( Mexico vs. Arizona ).How is that HOPE and CHANGE working out for you?
* How is this for Hope and Change? American Airlines sends layoff notices to 11,000
Read more http://hillbuzz.org/must-read-books
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Guess I am getting “moderated.
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Yeah, you got caught in my spam folder, sorry about that. Good stuff, thanks for sharing!
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Another good article to boost our mood:
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/08/22/analysis-election-factors-points-romney-win-university-colorado-study-says
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More good news!
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