Conservative Rumblings

WASHINGTON, DC - Barack Obama says that while he’s dedicated to expanding homosexual rights, many Americans still cling to what he calls “worn arguments and old attitudes.”

At a White House celebration of Gay Pride Month, Obama said he hopes to persuade all Americans to accept homosexuality. “”There are good and decent people in this country who don’t yet fully embrace their gay brothers and sisters — not yet,” said the president. “That’s why I’ve spoken about these issues — not just in front of you — but in front of unlikely audiences, in front of African-American church members.”

Obama acknowledged that many Americans still disapprove of homosexuality. “There are still fellow citizens, perhaps neighbors or even family members and loved ones, who still hold fast to worn arguments and old attitudes,” he stated.

“Worn arguments?” How dare you, sir. How dare you. Not only is it disgusting for him to refer to religious opposition to homosexuality as “worn” and “old,” it is wholly unacceptable for him to think he can force us to change to his world view. Freedom of religion and freedom expression means we can believe whatever we want. That is our right. Mr. Obama, you cannot (and you will not) force “all Americans” to accept your views as the only “right” views.

This reeks of totalitarianism and is only one step from the Thought Police. Utterly reprehensible.

What’s funny is that he claims to be Christian but opposes a Christian view of homosexuality. (Well, actually, he seems to be against gay marriage but for more gay rights…I think.)

He’s like the love child of Janus and Karl Marx: commie lunatic with multiple faces.

When it comes to foreign policy, I don’t think I agree with a dang thing this crazy old man says. Fiscally, however, he makes a lot of sense, especially with his long-term mission to audit the crooked Federal Reserve.

Now, it seems that other congressmen are listening.

The feisty congressman from Texas, whose insurgent “Ron Paul Revolution” presidential campaign rankled Republican leaders last year, now has the GOP House leadership on his side — backing a measure that generated paltry support when he first introduced it 26 years ago.

Paul, as of Tuesday, has won 245 co-sponsors to a bill that would require a full-fledged audit of the Federal Reserve by the end of 2010.

Paul attracted just 18 co-sponsors when he authored a similar bill, which died, in 1983. While the impact Fed policies have on inflation is once again a concern, fears about loose monetary policy and excessive federal spending appear even more widespread in 2009.

“In the past, I never got much support, but I think it’s the financial crisis obviously that’s drawing so much attention to it, and people want to know more about the Federal Reserve,” Paul told FOXNews.com.

With the Federal Reserve holding interest rates at rock-bottom levels, pumping trillions into the economy and now poised to have new powers to oversee the financial system under President Obama’s proposed regulatory overhaul, Paul said lawmakers want transparency.

“If they give them a lot more power and there’s no more transparency, that’ll be a disaster,” he said.

The bill would call for the comptroller general in the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed and report those findings to Congress. The GAO’s ability to conduct such audits now is severely restricted.

This makes perfect sense, of course. The Fed’s “IOU” system of monetary policy, combined with them marching in lockstep formation with the Obama administration has given them far too much power in our society. Obama is a huge fan of not being accountable; his “czars” were created as a way to run the government with a bunch of socialists that answer to no one. His insistence of expanding the powers of the Fed Reserve is exactly the same thing.

If Paul’s bill can move, however, it could put a serious damper on the corrupt little schemes Obama and his ilk have planned for the Fed.

Victory.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a group of white firefighters in Connecticut were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision endorsed by high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

The 5-4 ruling poses a potential complication to Sotomayor’s nomination, with confirmation hearings set to start in July. Already, supporters and critics of Sotomayor are seizing on the decision in an effort to defend their stance.

In the high-profile, controversial case, white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., argued they were discriminated against when the city tossed out the results of a promotion exam because too few minorities scored high enough on it.

Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the opinion in favor of Frank Ricci and his fellow firefighters who sued the city of New Haven.

“The city’s action in discarding the tests violated (federal law),” the Supreme Court majority wrote Monday, adding that the city’s “race-based rejection of the test results” could not be justified.

This is an amazing stand for civil rights. Her insane argument that you can’t discriminate against white people is just another abhorrent example of her overt racism. I don’t know if ever in the history of the Supreme Court has a sitting set of justices reversed the ruling of a nominee who is slated for confirmation hearings in a couple weeks.

Sotomayor is a racist; there’s no tap dancing around that fact. She believes, as she has stated numerous times, that a “wise latina” would always make better decisions than a “white male.”

I am sick of this crap where people say you can’t be racist if it’s against white people. I’m not a person to run around crying and screaming for special treatment, but this is ridiculous. We’ve been under attack for years by the State, as racial quotas, affirmative action and other ridiculous racial inequality institutions have reinforced the belief that racism is only racism if it is against a minority.

The last thing we need is a Supreme Court justice who believes she’s better than everyone else simply because she’s Puerto Rican. The racism and the race favoritism is just the icing on the cake, of course…the main problem with her is her judicial activism and her insane case decisions.

Ok, I exaggerate a little bit…it’s actually the USS John McCain and it’s been sent to possibly intercept a North Korean ship suspected of carrying weapons. We all know it won’t ACTUALLY board the ship, of course. Obama wouldn’t want to offend Kim Jong-Il.

The U.S. military is preparing for a possible intercept of a North Korean flagged ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned.

The USS John McCain, a Navy destroyer, is positioning itself in case it gets orders to intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official. The order to inderdict has not been given yet, but the ship is moving into the area.

“Permission has not been requested. Nor is it clear it will be,” a military source told FOX News. “This is a very delicate situation and no one is interested in precipitating a confrontation.”

The ship left a port in North Korea Wednesday and appears to be heading toward Singapore, according to a senior U.S. military source. The vessel, which the military has been tracking since its departure, could be carrying weaponry, missile parts or nuclear materials, a violation of U.N. Resolution 1874, which put sanctions in place against Pyongyang.

After raising the hackles of many folks with their “protests = terrorism” stunt, the Pentagon has backtracked and removed the question from the training test.

Yesterday’s post on the topic: here.

Apparently, once news got out that the Pentagon was referring to protests as terrorism, it displeased quite a few people…including the ACLU and other left-wing “freedom of expression” groups.

God I love when the left eats its own.

The Pentagon has removed a controversial question from its anti-terrorism training exam that labeled “protests” a form of “low-level terrorism,” calling the question “poorly worded.”

A Pentagon spokesman said the question failed to make clear the difference between illegal violent demonstrations and constitutionally protected peaceful protests.

Civil libertarians and activist groups, interviewed by FOXNews.com for a story that appeared on Wednesday, had objected strongly to the exam question, which a Department of Defense employee had printed and given to the American Civil Liberties Union.

I thought this was an Onion article at first. Seriously.

WASHINGTON — The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he’s bedeviled by a fly in the White House.

PETA is sending Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.

“We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals,” PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. “We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals.”

During an interview for CNBC at the White House on Tuesday, a fly intruded on Obama’s conversation with correspondent John Harwood.

“Get out of here,” the president told the pesky insect. When it didn’t, he waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked it dead.

“Now, where were we?” Obama asked Harwood. Then he added: “That was pretty impressive, wasn’t it? I got the sucker.”

You’re kidding right? This can’t be serious. PETA is just messing with us…no one, and I mean no one, even CLOSE to sane would make a press release condemning someone for swatting a freaking fly!

Well, I guess PETA would. Just proves how radical they are, I suppose. They care enough about a fly to make a national scene about it, but not enough about the animals they take in to not slaughter them like fattening pigs. Keep the hypocrisy going there folks.

Interesting side note: it seems that Obama, while soft on terrorists, money launderers and evil regimes bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, it seems he hates insects with a passion. If the planet is ever invaded by large bugs, I guess there’s a better than 50-50 chance that he MIGHT decide the country is worth defending…maybe.

Interesting side note #2: Obama thinks it was “pretty impressive” to nail the fly. No wonder he’s wowed by the supposed “financial genius” of Turbo Tax Timmy if he thinks swatting a fly is impressive. Low standards, baby!

So, since I attended the Chicago Tea Party on April 15, does this now mean that they consider me a terrorist?

I guess it’s good news that Obama abolished the War on Terrorism.

A written exam administered by the Pentagon labels “protests” as a form of “low-level terrorism” — enraging civil liberties advocates and activist groups who say it shows blatant disregard of the First Amendment.

The written exam, given as part of Department of Defense employees’ routine training, includes a multiple-choice question that asks:

“Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorism?”

— Attacking the Pentagon

— IEDs

— Hate crimes against racial groups

— Protests

The correct answer, according to the exam, is “Protests.”

What a bunch of idiots. Protests aren’t terrorism; they are dissent, something that this administration has shown a huge amount of aversion to. So, if they can’t silence debate through other means, maybe we’ll just reclassify anyone who protests “a terrorist” and deal with them that way.

Mmm…smells like totalitarianism. Commie scum.

WASHINGTON — [Barack] Obama is offering a broad-scale overhaul of the financial system, saying hard times struck largely because a post-Depression era business regulatory scheme couldn’t keep up with an increasingly global economy.

In remarks readied for the unveiling of new rules to govern business, Obama attributed much of the country’s current problem to “a cascade of mistakes and missed opportunities” which happened over several decades.

His plan would bestow vast new powers on the Federal Reserve, authorizing it to oversee the entire financial system. It also would create a new consumer protection agency to guard against the types of abuses that played a big role in the current crisis.

(emphasis added)

“Never waste a good crisis” is the motto of this administration. They are taking a financial “crisis” that was caused by Democrats forcing banks to give out loans to unqualified individuals (Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, reaffirmed in the 90s) and turning it into an assault on capitalism.

Anytime BHO gets up to the teleprompter and reads the line “vast new powers” for a federal agency, we should all be cringing. He’s using the finance issues as a battering ram to implement communism and destroy the free market.

And what greets this harbinger of the death of freedom? Cheers from the media, who hail Obama as “sort of God” who is going to “save us all.”

Joy.

Obama’s firing of Gerald Walpin, Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, has sent ripples through the country as the illegality of the action has been exposed. Not only did he not have a good reason to fire the man, but the investigation Walpin was conducting was targeting an Obama ally, Kevin Johnson. I mean, come on; conflict of interest anyone?

I’m not terribly surprised. This administration has no respect for the Constitution, the law, the country or pretty much anyone outside their circle of czars. The firing of a solid IG who was investigating the misuse of funds by an Obama ally is small potatoes to what this administration is capable of.

Now, the fire is coming from his own side of the aisle. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who was quite the ardent BHO supporter during the campaign, seems to have had enough of his administration ignoring the law.

After being briefed today on President Obama’s firing last week of Gerald Walpin, Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said the president did not abide by the same law that he co-sponsored – and she wrote – about firing Inspectors General.

“The White House has failed to follow the proper procedure in notifying Congress as to the removal of the Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service,” McCaskill said. “The legislation which was passed last year requires that the president give a reason for the removal.”

McCaskill, a key Obama ally, said that the president’s stated reason for the termination, “Loss of confidence’ is not a sufficient reason.”

When his own party is coming after him for breaking the law, you know it’s serious. On top of McCaskill’s attack, Walpin himself defended his actions admirably:

Walpin learned his fate Wednesday night. He was driving to an event in upstate New York when he received a call from Norman Eisen, the Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform. “He said, ‘Mr. Walpin, the president wants me to tell you that he really appreciates your service, but it’s time to move on,’” Walpin recalls. “Eisen said, ‘You can either resign, or I’ll tell you that we’ll have to terminate you.’”

At that moment, Walpin says, he had finished not only a report on the Sacramento probe but also an investigation into extensive misuse of AmeriCorps money by the City University of New York, which is AmeriCorps’ biggest program. Walpin says he told Eisen that, given those two investigations, neither of which was well-received by top Corporation management, the timing of his firing seemed “very interesting.” According to Walpin, Eisen said it was “pure coincidence.” When Walpin asked for some time to consider what to do, Eisen gave him one hour. “Then he called back in 45 minutes and asked for my response,” Walpin recalls.

The method of Walpin’s firing could be a violation of the 2008 Inspectors General Reform Act, which requires the president to give Congress 30 days’ notice, plus an explanation of cause, before firing an inspector general. Then-Sen. Barack Obama was a co-sponsor of that legislation. In the case of Walpin, Eisen’s efforts to force Walpin to resign could be seen as an effort to push Walpin out of his job so that the White House would not have to go through the 30-day process or give a reason for its action. When Walpin refused to quit, the White House informed Congress and began the 30-day countdown.

This is huge. As more media outlets start to pick this up, the damage to the Obamadministration SHOULD continue to mount. This group of thugs running Washington thought they could bring Chicago politics to the national stage and no one would notice. Sorry, BHO, but we have. Your culture of corruption is under the spotlight now.

Walpin did his job; he targeted a government official who misused funds and exposed the issue. For doing his job, he has been fired (illegally) because his target was an Obama crony. Wake up, people; we have a Thug In Chief running this country like his own personal Mafia gang.

“Religion of Peace,” right?

A young Christian man was raped and brutally murdered in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam, and police are doing nothing about it, the victim’s brother and minister told FOXNews.com.

Pakistani police reportedly found the body of Tariq “Litto” Mashi Ghauri — a 28-year-old university student in Sargodha, Pakistan — lying dead in a canal outside a rural village in Punjab Province on May 15. He had been raped and stabbed at least five times.

[…]

The Rev. Haroon Bhatti, a Christian clergyman in the village and a friend of the Ghauri family, said Cheema’s three brothers came to Litto Ghauri’s house on May 11 and gave him an ultimatum: Marry their sister and convert to Islam.

Ghauri agreed to the marriage but refused to accept Islam, and the brothers kidnapped him at gunpoint and drove him to a remote farmhouse, where they tortured and murdered him, the minister said.

“On that farmhouse — four days there — we all, Christians and family, were searching for him,” the Rev. Bhatti said. “I was with him. I was searching for him.”

After police discovered the body, Ghauri’s death was declared a homicide and the family filed paperwork with the Atta Shaheed police station in their small village, Adda 44SB. But Ghauri’s brother said police still have not arrested the alleged killers and have refused to meet with his family.

Let’s just extend an “open hand” to these folks, ala B. Hussein Obama, and see if we can work this all out! Big group hug!!!

Radical Jihadists and Islamofacists CANNOT be negotiated with. Period.