Time for Thorns

His Oneness  stiffed a restaurant’s  wait staff last week.   What class he and Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction display at every opportunity,  and they surround themselves with the like-minded.

When did you learn  not to chew  gum in church?   What  parents allow their child to do so?  His Oneness had parents and grandparents who apparently did,  and I seem to recall Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction also doing the same at public events.

Why is there no video of His Oneness chewing gum at a mosque?

The White House  has invited  a Chicago rapper who uses the stage name Common,  and is defending the invitation vigorously because,  hey,  it’s art!   Never mind that the rapper is a follower of Rev.  Jeremiah Wright  — remember him?

Like most rappers,  he “sings” and writes “poetry”   degrading women,  and praising a cop-killing Black Panther member.   The latter has drawn fire from the union representing New Jersey police.

Personally,  I think Common’s artistic endeavors fall far short of what the White House standard should be,  but I’m not at all surprised that His Oneness and Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction selected him.   He is crude,  rude,  and as my mother used to say,  dirt common.   He certainly seems a perfect match for the Chicago common current occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Scared Monkeys  compares  His Oneness to Jimmy Carter,  and includes a wonderful cartoon.  Our  failed three-year  experiment in Keynesian economics may have something to do with that,  along with His Oneness being a big fan of the  one “big”  you can’t escape.

Or perhaps it’s the idiocy of the Obama  energy policy,  under which,  according to the man himself,  energy prices would “necessarily skyrocket”,  yet he is now claiming they won’t.

Could it be Obama’s utter hypocrisy on “undisclosed donors“,  who presented an existential threat to the republic  –  until His Oneness decided to use them himself?

Maybe the  war on portion  sizes and “bad” food being waged by Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction puts us in mind of Carter keeping the schedule for the White House tennis courts.  Or possibly the sudden USDA attack on the  mighty potato  isn’t to our liking.

Pres. Carter was,  as our current president is held to be,  an intelligent man.  He always believed he was the smartest critter in the room,  even while doing incredibly stupid things,  and blamed We the People for his failures.   Sound familiar yet?

At any rate,  the bin  Laden bounce   has proven helpful to His Oneness in only one category,  and that will most likely be short-lived.

KLo at The Corner offers some  lovely links  for the week.  If you’re feeling reflective,  try the links Michael Potemra provides.

For a different kind of reflection,  try John Miller’s  suggestion.  I’m not into much thematic music, but I have wildly eclectic tastes in music.  I enjoyed the Micah Watson  group so  much I ordered a CD.

TIME magazine  frets about  where His Oneness and Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction will worship Easter Sunday.   Personally,  I’m more concerned about who,  or what,  they worship.   In case you’ve managed to forget,  the Obamas spent 20 years in a church which preaches Marxism.   Do I need to remind you that Marxism is the antithesis of Christianity?

Except that approved by His Oneness and Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction.   Of course,  the anti-bullying conference ignored one of the  root problems,  just as anyone could have forecast.

I wonder what the First Lady will do if  her shamrocks refuse to grow and bless her house with the luck of the Irish?

Considering what His Oneness and Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction have dumped on We the People this year,  I find some justice in a  sewage spill spoiling their beaches in Hawaii.

His Oneness causes  traffic problems abroad,  in the air and on the ground as well.   He and his huge entourage will use an air-conditioned,  bomb-proof tunnel to reach  the Gandhi Museum,  just part of the epic  security forces being employed.   Some Muslims in Mumbai are enraged by the report that a bomb-sniffing dog named Khan is on the security teams.   Indian leaders were furious that security demanded their papers,  for which Hillary’s State  Department has profusely apologized.

Obama  is claiming that his stay at Taj is a  “powerful message against terror”,  but  South Mumbai is  essentially locked down for the presidential visit.   We are also informed that His Oneness doesn’t  view India as the land of call centers,   and that he described Gandhi as a hero to the world.    That’s an extremely charitable view of Mr. Gandhi,  who was quite the  nut job,  and who would have been dead and unknown if he had used his tactics against a nation other than Britain,  which exhibited the same weakness of kindness in dealing with its foes that other Western nations do.

So much for having tried to pave the way with his Diwali greetings.    Some locals  fear he will serve to dampen the lively celebrations,   as  fireworks will be banned in South Mumbai,  which scarcely seems helpful if you want  to celebrate the festival of lights with the Indian people while convincing them to buy more of our exports.

We know that the  carbon footprint for this  long-planned visit by the self-proclaimed green president is larger than that of many U.S. cities.   The $200 million figure given as the cost by Indian press is likely wrong,  but we know not only that  it’s expensive,  but also  suspect His Oneness is spending  quite a  bit more than either of the two previous presidents would have.

Here is an American views of what India expects,  and another of what  it might mean,  and here  is one from India which I find particularly insightful.   The Wall Street  Journal blogs have some very interesting material on the trip,  including his speech,  for which he used his  teleprompters,  not what Indians expect from trained orators.

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There’s a nearby planet which could support life?   Possibly,  though your concept of  “near”  and “life” may need  some adjustment.  Astronauts really do  have it rough,   or at least their hands do.

The Brits and the European Space Agency are going in search of a specific life form  — bacteria,  but only in the stratosphere.  Our own NASA is less ambitious,  merely launching a  new system that will allow scientists to monitor the impact of climate change in the Himalayas.

Meanwhile,  His oneness is trying to appease the eco-Nazis by using taxpayer money to install some  solar panels at the White House.   Why didn’t he and Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction just pay for carbon credits to offset her extremely expensive vacation? pockets?   As IBD observes,  this is just  more style over substance.

And from Australia,  check out this  marvelous photograph of an airplane flying in front of the moon.

You must read Victor Davis Hanson’s  latest piece.    I have said before that both His Oneness and Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction believe the economic pie is a static size and that you must take from one and give to another to equalize outcome.

Hanson brilliantly points out that is a peasant mentality,  and of course it’s one which is reality under communism and socialism,  where you must steal,  lie and cheat to get ahead.   Based on their actions to date,  I don’t think either of the Obamas has a problem with those three behaviors.   Based on a recent Obama speech,  perhaps  this is what they really have in mind for us.