The Liars list.

 

The Complete List of Obama Statement Expiration Dates  provided by Jim Geraghty at NRO.

Here are some highlights:

STATEMENT: “These negotiations will be on C-SPAN, and so the public will be part of the conversation and will see the decisions that are being made.” January 20, 2008, and seven other times.

EXPIRATION DATE: Throughout the summer, fall, and winter of 2009 and 2010; when John McCain asked about it during the health care summit February 26, Obama dismissed the issue by declaring, “the campaign is over, John.”

STATEMENT: “No family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase.” (multiple times on the campaign trail)

EXPIRATION DATE: Broken multiple times, including the raised taxes on tobacco, a new tax on indoor tanning salons, but most prominently on February 11, 2010: “President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.”

It is rather lenghty, but well worth a read.  Here is to “The One” who says one thing and does another.  Very typical of Washington and all that dwell there, but I think Obama and his people take it to another level.

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The Unexpected Recession

I'm as shocked as you, Kyle.

January 21, 2010: Jobless claims “unexpectedly” rise.

January 14, 201o: Retail sales drop “unexpectedly”.

December 10, 2009: Jobless claims “unexpectedly” rise.

October 28, 2009: New home sales “unexpectedly tumble.

October 2, 2009: Jobless claims rose “higher than forecast”.

August 20, 2009: Jobless claims “unexpectedly” rise.

June 25, 2009: Jobless claims “unexpectedly” rise.

And now for a flashback:

Newsweek (Feb 5, 2009): GOP says stimulus can’t create jobs.  They’re wrong.

ABC (June 8, 2009): White House claims stimulus will save or create 600,000 jobs in the next 100 days.

B. Hussein Obama (January 22, 2009): I won.

It looks to me like the only ones who are surprised to find the stimulus’ inability to “create” – or even “save” jobs are people who bought into the whole Obamanaut theory to begin with.

Let’s be honest for a minute, folks…  this is bad.  As Ed Morrissey over at HotAir and Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit are both saying, even if this is from an “administrative accumulation”, it’s still a sign that the economy is far from recovery, and it’s quite possible that December’s retail numbers were much worse than predicted.  The Dow Jones is up, sure…  but not because the economy is strong.  The value of the Dow Jones is up because the value on which the Dow Jones is based is worth less than it was before the recession.  There’s an inverse correlation between the increase in the Dow and the value of the dollar that’s been in place since Bush’s stimulus back in October.

In other words: it’s not a recovery.  Jobs aren’t being created, which means people aren’t buying things, which means that it’s harder for companies to stay open and employ people and pay their bills.

And what is Obama’s response?  It’s the 21st century equivalent of “Let them eat cake”…   “tax them“…  because ,obviously, when people and businesses are having trouble making ends meet, the best idea is to take even more money away from them.

I guess that’s what makes all the economic news so “unexpected”.  It’s the same thing makes Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts “shocking”.  It’s a concept that’s best summed up by Adam Savage from “Mythbusters”: they reject reality and substitute their own.

Here’s hoping they’ll be just as shocked and surprised when they get tossed out of Washington on their flabby butts.

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NY. What does $32,000 of YOUR tax money get you?

Answer:  some really cool flyers on how to properly inject heroin.  Click the link and read the flyer from  the New York Post.  Here are some highlights:

“The 16-page pamphlet features seven comics-like illustrations and offers dope fiends such useful advice as “Warm your body (jump up and down) to show your veins,” and “Find the vein before you try to inject.”

It even encourages addicts to keep jabbing if their needles miss the mark.

“If you don’t ‘register,’ pull out and try again,” it says.

 This certainly takes the common saying “Well, if they are going to do it any way”, and puts a new spin on it.  I’ll let the chair of the council’s public safety committee, and the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration who are quoted in the article, take it from here:

“It concerns me that the city would produce a how-to on using drugs,” Gilbride said. “Heroin is extremely potent. You may only get the chance to use it once. To suggest there is a method of using that alleviates the dangers, that’s very disturbing.”

Vallone, who chairs the council’s public safety committee, vowed to shut down the distribution of the pamphlet.

“This is a tremendous misuse of city funds, and I’m going to see what I can do to stop it. It sends a message to our youth: give it a try,” he fumed.

Ok, just to be fair, it does mention that there is some sound advice in the pamphlet. 

 It stresses the importance of kicking the habit, seeking professional help and not sharing needles.

That does appear to be all that the article mentions on “sound advice”.  Can’t argue with that.  16 pages in the pamphlet and “sound advice” gets a couple of sentences? 

The quote of the day belongs to Daliah Heller, assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care and Treatment.

Asked why the handout tells people how to shoot up, Heller said, “From a health perspective, there is a less harmful way to inject yourself.”

The most irritating thing about this is that tax payer dollars are going towards the education on the proper way to administer drugs intravenously.  The pamphlet is draped under the assumption that there is a safe way to dope yourself with heroin, or any other drug.  I don’t care if you live under the fairy tale land that thinks we must provide education on how to do these kinds of things “safely”.  Welcome to the real world where I don’t want my tax money providing this type of education or service.  And neither do most other sane people. 

Thirty-two thousand dollars.   Couldn’t they have purchased a few trees for the city?  Bought some food for those in need.  Made up some flyer’s with some pictures of before and after drug users.  The before and after Meth ones here in Wisconsin scare the crud out of me.  Not that I think they stop a whole lot of people from using, but it would have been money a little better spent.  Maybe?   

Props to  JammieWearingFool blog for alerting me to this.

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