Lost In Zombieland

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Obama Fabricated Account Of Racially Persecuted Kenyan Grandfather – Investors.com

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The Obama Record: The most frightening aspect of this president may not be his radical ideology but his rank dishonesty in selling that ideology. Now he’s been caught lying about family racism.

In “Dreams from My Father,” his 1995 memoir, Obama used the story of his paternal grandfather’s imprisonment and torture at the hands of British colonists in Kenya as an example of white cruelty. He claimed Hussein Onyango Obama was unjustly detained for six months before being released a crippled, lice-ridden “old man.”

In fact, none of it is true, according to Washington Post editor and biographer David Maraniss, who traveled to Kenya to investigate the tale. His grandfather was not detained or beaten by his “white rulers,” as Obama, writing as a 34-year-old lawyer, claimed.

This is only the latest example of a growing body of fabrications, embellishments and outright lies told by this president, who has a real and possibly pathological problem with the truth.

Stacked up, his whoppers would make even Bill Clinton blush. Here’s a sampling:

Lie No. 1: Obama has repeatedly claimed his white grandfather, Stanley Dunham, “fought in Patton’s army,” when he was a clerk with no combat in WWII.

Lie No. 2: Obama claimed Dunham, a communist sympathizer, signed up for duty “the day after Pearl Harbor,” when in fact he waited six months.

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Lie No. 3: Obama claimed his father “fought when he got back to Kenya against tribalism and nepotism, but ultimately was blackballed from the government,” when in fact he fought against capitalism and lost his job when he advocated communism.

Lie No. 4: Obama has claimed his late mother’s health insurer refused “to pay for her treatment” for cancer while citing a “pre-existing condition,” when Cigna paid all her hospital bills and never denied payment.

Lie No. 5: Obama claimed he and a black high school friend named “Ray” were ostracized in Honolulu, when in fact the friend, Keith Kakugawa, was half-Japanese, and neither of them experienced discrimination.

Lie No. 6: Obama claimed the father of his Indonesian stepfather was killed by Dutch soldiers while fighting for Indonesian independence, when in fact the story turns out to be “a concocted myth in almost all respects,” Maraniss found.

Lie No. 7: Obama claimed his parents decided to marry in the excitement of the Selma civil-rights march of 1965 — and that he personally has “a claim on Selma” — when in fact they were married several years earlier.

Lie No. 8: Obama claimed his father got to study in the U.S. thanks to JFK’s efforts to bring “young Africans over to America,” when in fact the Kenyan airlift his father participated in occurred in 1959 under Ike.

Lie No. 9: Obama submitted a phony bio to his book publicist claiming he was “born in Kenya.”

Lie No. 10: Obama denied being a member of the socialist New Party, when a member roster of the Chicago chapter of the party lists him joining on Jan. 11, 1996.

Lie No. 11: Obama claimed he had only a passing acquaintance with Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, when in fact they held a fundraiser for their Hyde Park neighbor in their living room, and years later, while Obama served in the U.S. Senate, hosted a barbecue for him in their backyard.

Lie No. 12: Obama claimed he never heard Rev. Jeremiah Wright spew anti-American invectives while sitting in his pews for 20 years, when in fact Obama was moved to tears hearing Wright condemn “white folks” and the U.S. for bombing other countries and even named his second book after the sermon.

Lie No. 13: Obama claimed he got in a “big fight” with old white flame Genevieve Cook, who after seeing a black play asked “why black people were so angry all the time,” when in fact she never saw the play nor made the remark.

In both his autobiographies, Obama paints a false portrait of a still-racist America and West, where he, his friends and relatives are victimized by that racism. Conveniently, his remedy is redistributive justice through bigger government.

via Obama Fabricated Account Of Racially Persecuted Kenyan Grandfather – Investors.com.

The Amateur And The Destoyer

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Who said he quit smoking?

The Amateur and The Destroyer:  Buy and read now!

The Death of Liberalism

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The book is just under 200 pages and provides a nice obituary for the over reaching looters we most commonly refer to as liberals.  Mr. Tyrrell, like most conservatives, back up his assertions with facts and humor.  I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to any conservative and to liberals who are seriously pondering conversion given fatal flaws in their logic.

Brain Dead Liberal No More

The problems facing us, faced by all mankind engaged in Democracy, may seem complex, or indeed insolvable, and we, in despair, may revert to a state of wish fulfillment-a state of “belief” in the power of the various experts presenting themselves as a cure for our indecision. But this is a sort of Stockholm Syndrome. Here, the captives, unable to bear the anxiety occasioned by their powerlessness, suppress it by identifying with their captors.

This is the essence of Leftist thought. It is a devolution from reason to “belief,” in an effort to stave off a feeling of powerlessness. And if government is Good, it is a logical elaboration that more government power is Better. But the opposite is apparent both to anyone who has ever had to deal with Government and, I think, to any dispassionate observer.

It is in sympathy with the first and in the hope of enlarging the second group that I have written this book.

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Andrew Breitbart Makes Big Screen Debut in ‘Atlas Shrugged’ (With Bonus Top Ten!)

By the way, another rumor floating around is that if you buy Andrew’s new book “Righteous Indignation” and see “Atlas” this weekend, and angel will get its wing and a liberal’s head will explode. What you call a two-fer.

Top 10 Reasons America’s Having a Great Week…

1. Tea Party rallies all over the country.

2. Sarah Palin and Andrew Breitbart appear together in Madison, Wisconsin this afternoon.

3. Big Thuggish Labor loses Wisconsin State Supreme Court election.

4. Obama hits 41% in latest Gallup Poll.

5. “Righteous Indignation” hits bookstores everywhere.

6. “Atlas Shrugged” finally hits the big screen.

7. Paul Ryan’s budget has Obama chasing his own tail.

8. Keith Olbermann who?

9. Donald Trump is now using words like “Rezko,” “Ayers,” and “Wright.”

10. The corrupt MSM is losing its grip on the narrative (see: 1 – 9).

via Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Andrew Breitbart Makes Big Screen Debut in ‘Atlas Shrugged’ (With Bonus Top Ten!).

NYC judge calls off plans for Google library

The judge acknowledged in his decision that there are many benefits to Google’s project, including that libraries, schools, researchers and disadvantaged populations would gain access to far more books; that authors and publishers would find new audiences and new sources of income; and that older books—particularly those out of print—would be preserved and given new life.

via NYC judge calls off plans for Google library.

I wonder if those who are against Google voted for Democrats.

Where Have All The Leaders Gone?

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Friends, would you believe that Lee Iacocca is 82 years old and is still kickin’ butt?

Just as true today as it  was when his book  first came  out.

He was, and still is, a  brilliant businessman!

Often we need to be  reminded of Iacocca’s  words.

Remember Lee  Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death  throes?  He’s now 82 years old and has a new book, ‘Where  Have All The Leaders  Gone?’.

Lee Iacocca  Says:
‘Am I the only  guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where  the hell is our outrage with this so called president? We should  be screaming bloody murder! We’ve got a gang of tax cheating  clueless leftists trying to steer our ship of state right over a  cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we  can’t even run a ridiculous cash-for-clunkers program without  losing $26 billion of the taxpayers’ money, much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and  nods their heads when the politicians say, ‘trust me, the economy  is getting  better..’ Better? You’ve  got to be kidding. This is America , not the damned ‘Titanic’.  I’ll give you a sound bite: ‘Throw all the Democrats out, along  with Obama!’

You might think  I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I  have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this  country  anymore..

The most famous  business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in  handcuffs.. While we’re fiddling in Afghanistan , Iran is  completing their nuclear bombs and missiles and nobody seems to  know what to do. And the liberal press is waving ‘pom-poms’  instead of asking hard questions. That’s not the promise of the  ‘ America ‘ my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for.  I’ve had enough. How about  you?

I’ll go a step  further. You can’t call yourself a patriot if you’re not  outraged. This is a fight I’m ready and willing to have. The  Biggest ‘C’ is Crisis! (Iacocca elaborates on nine C’s of leadership, with crisis being the  first.)

Leaders are  made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It’s  easy to sit there with thumb up your butt and talk theory. Or  send someone else’s kids off to war when you’ve never seen a  battlefield yourself. It’s another thing to lead when your world  comes tumbling  down.

On September 11,  2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our  history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A  hell of a mess, so here’s where we stand.

We’re immersed  in a bloody war now with no plan for winning and no plan for  leaving..  But our soldiers are dying  daily.

We’re running  the biggest deficit in the history of the world, and it’s  getting worse every  day!

We’ve lost the  manufacturing edge to Asia , while our once-great companies are  getting slaughtered by health care  costs.

Gas prices are  going to skyrock again, and nobody in power has a lucid plan to  open drilling to solve the problem.  This country has the  largest oil reserves in the WORLD, and we cannot drill for it  because the politicians have been bought by the flea-hugging  environmentalists.

Our schools  are in a complete disaster because of the teachers’  union.

Our borders are  like sieves and they want to give all illegal’s amnesty and free  healthcare.

The middle class  is being squeezed to death every  day.

These are times  that cry out for  leadership.

But when you  look around, you’ve got to ask: ‘Where have all the leaders  gone?’ Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are  the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and  common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think  you get the  point..

Name me a leader  who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take  off our shoes in airports and throw away our  shampoo?

We’ve spent  billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we  know how to do is react to things that have already  happened.

Everyone’s  hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping the government will make  it better for them.  Now, that’s just crazy.. Deal with  life.

Name me an  industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can  restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have  believed that there could ever be a time when ‘The Big Three’  referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and  more important, look what Obama did about  it!

Name me a  government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the  debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care  problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that  are eating away at our country and milking the middle class  dry.

I have news for  the Chicago gangsters in Congress. We didn’t elect you to turn  this country into a losing European Socialist state. What is  everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on NBC or CNN news  will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don’t you guys show  some spine for a  change?

Had Enough? Hey,  I’m not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here.  I’m  trying to light a fire. I’m speaking out because I have hope – I  believe in America .. In my lifetime, I’ve had the privilege of  living through some of     America ‘s greatest moments.  I’ve also experienced some of our worst crises: The ‘Great  Depression,’ ‘World War  II,’ the ‘Korean War,’ the  ‘Kennedy Assassination,’ the ‘Vietnam War,’ the 1970′s oil  crisis, and the struggles of recent years since  9/11.

Make your own  contribution by sending this to everyone you know and care  about. It’s our country, folks, and it’s our future. Our future  is at  stake!!