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Barack Obama, Roman Centurion and His Crucifixion Team

By Larry Johnson on April 26, 2012 at 12:30 PM in Current Affairs

Bumped Up: It’s Fox’s top story, and even CNN is covering the video‘s astonishing, revelatory message, saying it “has the White House in retreat.”) – added by BH.

How goddamn clueless can the Obama robots be? This is truly stunning and this asshole should be fired immediately. Thanks to several of you (Helen and Harp to mention two) who pointed this out:

When you treat key sectors of your economy as enemies that must be destroyed, don’t be shocked when they stop investing.

This video, if no other, more than justifies getting rid of Obama as President. He must go. He must be deposed at the ballot box. What a despicable message. What do you think?

  • alicewolf

    Give him a taste of his own medicine, huh?

  • HELENK2

    Is there any department of our government left that backtrack has not place a unamerican nutjob???
     

    • HELENK2

       think about it

      the DOJ has become every Americans nightmare

      EPA destroying the business climate more everyday

      Homeland security is more of a threat to the average American than any terrorist

      Senate  a sick joke that takes the pay  and does not do the job

      House tries to do the job but is stiffed by the senate

      He has to get gone

      • Popsmoke

         ”House tries to do the job but is stiffed by the senate”

        Lets see……Senate sucks because its Democratic and the House is good because its Republican…..

        Just bang my head on my desk……

        • http://twitter.com/VeronicaVerona1 Veronica Verona

          Did it knock any sense into you?  Hit your head again, if it didn’t.

          • Popsmoke

            Get a grip on reality.

          • beachnan

             Love, love, love your comment.  Popsmoke needs a grip on reality.

          • http://twitter.com/VeronicaVerona1 Veronica Verona

            Popsmoke below:

            I like my reality.  It’s you that’s having trouble with your reality.

          • Popsmoke

            You would not survive in my reality…trust me…..

          • shelldoll2

            Popsmoke seems to be an absolutist.

            No one is saying Ryan’s bill is the be all and end all.

            The Dems haven’t  done  any budget. The Democratic majority in the Senate has voted   against their own President’s budget.

            Maybe we can take the Ryan bill an tweak it until we have a better bill.  

            Or, we can sit here and complain that there is no bill at all.  Life is full of compromises and negotiations.

            As we said in the military: You can sit around and bitch or you can do something about it.

        • Hokma

          How many budgets got passed by this House and how many times did the Senate pass a budget even before the GOP majority in the House?

          • Popsmoke

            How much bullshit was in any of those budgets?

          • Hokma

            If you are talking about the budgets propsoed by Democrats there have been none, zero, zilch.  The ones proposed by Obama get unanimously defeated.

            The Ryan budget is a great start but it’s called compromise and negotiation which is an anathema to Democrats over the past 4 years.

            Sorry, but this one is one even a close call.

          • Popsmoke

            I prefer the Cooper-LaTourette http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/2012/03/cooper-latourette-fiscal-year-2013-budget-details  proposal over the Ryan proposal as a starting point.

          • Hokma

            Popsm – - unfortunately it only got 38 votes. Even if it had passed the House there is no way Harry Reid would allow it to even get a vote in the Senate before the election. A year ago and a year from now this would pass. But with this political climate you know it aint’ happening.

          • Popsmoke

            In this political climate ain’t much of anything going to move positively in any direction on the Hill…..

            Except for bullshit…..

        • DianaLC

          You are absolutely correct that the House has a Republican majority.  Yeah–you know one thing.  But perhaps in your effort to vilify our two party system–which is all we have to work with at this point–you forget that many of the things passed by the House have been passed with help from the Democrats.

          • Popsmoke

             Yes Diana you are right about one thing. I no longer like the two party system. Both are politically corrupt and its time for a real change.

            Yes it also take two to tango with most legislation. But today the hostility on Capitol Hill between the parties has come to an all time high and getting worse.

            Change is what we really need to be working with. Not continually fixing something that is broken….

          • jrterrier

            traditionally, the senate moves much more slowly than the house; whether it’s a republican controlled house or a democrat controlled house.  and usually that is good.  we really do not need to pass too many new laws; there are enough on the books to cover almost any ill or wrong.  many laws are just about pandering to the problem-of-the-day without really hitting the problem. 

            but not passing a budget in 3 years is just about politics; it’s not about the more deliberate senate.  last year the senate voted unanimously to reject the obama budget; in this election year, they don’t want to do that.

          • Hokma

            The two party system works in every state. It does not work only in the Federal Government.

            The only two solutions to this is:

            (1) strict term limits on House and Senate members.

            (2) make the Federal Government as irrelevant in our lives as possible (see Ron Paul).

        • HELENK2

           how many bills sit on harry reid’s desk because he refuses to allow a vote on them. How long since a budget?
          these people get a paycheck to do a job. They are not doing it.

        • stodghie

          popsmoke you have no idea AND I MEAN NO IDEA just how much damage the dimrats have done. the budget is just the tip of the iceberg. these are not DEMOCRATS, THEY ARE RATS!

          • Popsmoke

            Yes it just those lousy dimrats… And the republicans have done what to this economy? Give it a rest…..

          • April454

            Bush burned the economic house down and handed it to Obama. We have spent three years trying to clean up the mess of the GOP.

          • stodghie

            popsmoke  face reality please!  under obama more debt acquired than all presidents in history. we have no jobs, no future, onerous regulations from idiots who are bent on one thing and that is control. no future for you, your family and your children. if you like it that way, fine. i don’t.

            furthermore no one including me never said the repubs have a free pass on this. i see you have no real answers to my other comments except comments not related. ty

          • stodghie

            april, little troll! i won’t be feeding you. next

  • HELENK2

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/04/obama-damns-american-people-with-faint-praise.php

    backtrack damns American people with faint praise.
    what an asshole

    • http://twitter.com/VeronicaVerona1 Veronica Verona

      Where’s one of those countdown clocks?  How many more days do we have to put up with his mental illness?

      • Flop_Flipper

        Any cuckoo clock will do.

  • HELENK2
  • Popsmoke

    Sorry Larry we disagree this time.

    Back in the 80′s and 90′s I worked for two of the top environmental emergency response firms in the US. These firms were primary USEPA Emergency response cleanup services contracts (ERCS) firms ( we were the real guys in the moon suits with SCBAs doing the real work). My specialty was the disposal of shock sensitive and explosive chemicals and explosives. I have some 3000 emergency responses under my belt. Everything from a unmarked bottle of blue liquid, turned out to be windshield washer fluid to chemical train derailments to Superfund sites. Been on countless DoJ raids of illegal hazwaste dumps and storage facilities. The firms I worked with were also contracted to DoD, DOE and the USCG…

    I can tell you that enforcement back in the 80′s under Reagan and 90′s under Bush/Clinton was tenfold worse than now. Matter of fact enforcement is at a all time low unfortunately….

    Let me tell you a little story….

    I live in farm country now. I have a fertilizer plant with two 15,000 gallon LP Gas tanks and three 60,000 gallon Androxide Ammonia tanks within ear shot of my house.

    Two years ago the plant has a valve malfunction on the LP gas Tanks, (we will not talk about the Androxide Ammonia leaks) and we had a 60 meter gas cloud surround the tanks in the early evening. I put in the first 911 call while my neighbors were also closer than I and calling 911. The 911 center did not call out the fire department first it called the facility manager at home and told him he had a LP Gas leak.  The guy lived 30 minutes away. When I saw that no FD was coming I called again. This time demanded FD response. The 911 Center called the FD and they sent one engine with just two volunteers. By the time the engine arrived (the vollies had to come out of the farm fields they were working) the facility manager arrived entered into the tanks area unprotected and closed off the valve, which needed to be replaced later on.  Luckily that gas cloud did not find an autoignition source or I would not be sitting here typing. Nor would my neighbors today  be around either.

    Just to get USEPA to visit the site took a phone call from Senator Lugar’s Office. If this was back during my time. All hell would have broken out. Yes I raised so much hell that 911 procedures were changed and the firm was finally fined.

    By the way, the fertilizer plant? Major corporation with a history of not reporting incidents.

    So I hate to say this, but it is refreshing to hear someone from USEPA Enforcement say, if someone breaks the law….Crucify him…….

    Give that man a cigar!

    • EllenD818

      Thanks, Popsmoke, for telling us your experience.

    • http://www.theindependentview.com Matthew J. Weaver

      You make a good point.  Not all regulation and enforcement is bad.  I trained in the Navy as a nuclear reactor operator where safety and procedures was paramount.  To this day it is a concern–simple things like eye and ear protection, exposure, etc.–yet surprising how many people simply have no clue, no concern, and end up with stupid, avoidable injuries. 

      EPA and OSHA have valid, necessary roles and I dismiss anyone calling for their wholesale termination.  As it is, they’ve been neutered.  Do we need new Love Canals to remind people of the service these organizations do, can, and should provide?

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hank-DeCat/100001190387982 Hank DeCat

         Yes, EPA & OSHA have valid, necessary roles, but trying to shut down industries because of hyped up hysteria that “we are killing the earth” (newsflash, the earth has been here long before we got here & has survived the ice age, massive earthquakes that broke apart continents, heat waves, etc. IOW, the earth is going to kill us long before we kill it). There has to be a balance between no regulation and crucifixion.

      • Wisewoman2

        My story.  Prior to Nixon setting up the EPA, I understand companies were dumping pollutants into rivers and other bodies of water so much so that a river caught on fire.  Just remember laws were not being broken because there were no laws against dumping.  After EPA and OSHA I was the EPA and OSHA coordinator for my company.  Companies like ours were generating hazardous materials, storing it in drums and burying the drums which was legal at the time.  As drums began rusting and leaking content EPA stepped in with huge fines and manadatory cleanup efforts.  I was put in charge of proper disposal of these organic solvents and other materials.   Prior to my taking over the job our company was paying good money for a company to haul off these materials and dispose of them.  However, the disposal company was ripping off our companies as well as others and simply burying the drums on farm land against the new law.  Our company had to help pay for the cleanup and disposed of drums at that site.  Future hazardous materials were properly disposed of at incineration sites.  I flew to these sites and inspected them before any materils were released to them.  Bill of Ladings and manifestos were carefully prepared.  The country has come a long ways in this area.  We need cooperation to continue the good works that began in the 80s and continued thru to the 90s and beyond.  We do not need the gestapo tactics of this administration slamming the hard fought gains made.  Finally we do not live in a perfect world where things like a valve do not break and wear out.

        • http://twitter.com/VeronicaVerona1 Veronica Verona

          Thank-you.  Why is it that the liberals and now the Obama government see negativity and punitive sanctions everywhere they turn their gaze.  They are the most miserable and dark energy mongers on earth – along with their comrades, the terrorists.

          Really, how many degrees of separation ARE there between islamic terrorists and jerks in the Obama administration,including Obama?

        • Popsmoke

          I hated transportation and disposal…. Its a no win situation. Incineration was the best way to make sure you had a real “death certificate”….. Expensive disposal option but cheaper than a Superfund site cleanup…..

          About those valves? When you perform limited maintenance they break real good! The company I am speaking about was fined and cited many times for its lack of reporting and maintenance. But they take it as a cost of doing business and in Indiana the only way you get IOSHA or IDEM moving is to either rock the hell out of the boat or have a fatality…

          But State Fire Marshall is on the ball….

    • http://twitter.com/VeronicaVerona1 Veronica Verona

      Problem is, the earth still hasn’t died because of big oil and it pisses the EPA off.
       
      Oil companies have always been the target of the EPA.  Big business=bad.  

      With that line of thinking, if Obama or the EPA breaks the law (cough, cough)  should we demand crucifixion?  

      How about if Mr. EPA monger lights that cigar?  Shouldn’t we sue him and the EPA for befouling the air?  Think so.  

      • Popsmoke

         ”Oil companies have always been the target of the EPA.  Big business=bad. ”

        Tell you another story about one of those DoJ raids I was on back in the late 80s. Like most raids on illegal hazwaste sites we never knew what the deal was until we entered the site. Unless it was one of those you prayed not to be on.

        One of the teams I worked with was dispatched to a local hotel where we were told to check in and wait, which we did for three days. The night of the third evening we were notified to be ready by 0530 the next morning. Still had no idea what was up….

        At about 0545 we had assembled with the DoJ team that includes the Feds… State and local Police. We still had no idea what we were heading into. My team which consisted of 10 guys with heavy construction equipment was still in the blind. Which was normal procedures for DoJ and nerve racking.

        We formed a into a raiding party which includes 27 vehicles and hit the road. When we turned into a oil refinery ( I will leave out which one and where) I was almost shocked.

        The Feds delivered the warrants and we were then briefed. Seems like some company execs lied about buried drums in the facilities land fill. All DoJ wanted us to do was uncover a few drums.

        We actually laughed… Buried oil drums in a oil refinery? We asked the lead attorney for DoJ if he wanted us to uncover the flare stack as well? We were told that they knew it sounded stupid but this landfill was actually one that was illegal and all they wanted was evidence. Evidence…. which they reminded us at every step of the way….it was evidence and not to do anything they did not tell us to do. They reminded us of that as well every step of the way.

        Did we find drums? You bet we did. Did those executives get prosecuted? You bet they did.

        So the environmental moral of this story is…. No one knows who the enemy really is until you dig up the bones…..

  • Popsmoke

    By the way.. speaking of another cluster-trucker on the Katrina scale…… http://www.boemre.gov/ooc/press/2011/press0914.htm

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hank-DeCat/100001190387982 Hank DeCat

    Once again proves the adage:

    In 2008, Obama had to spend almost a billion dollars because people didn’t know who he was.

    In 2012, Obama will have to spend almost a billion dollars because we all know exactly who he is.
     

    • Anthony_1

      He can use this if he wants to

  • http://twitter.com/alimhaider Ali M. Haider

    The aforementioned picknose bureaucrat would do well to contemplate his profession’s many possible futures, among which is that described in _Revolution and Citizenship_, 2nd ed. (HSC Press: Farmville, 2010). I quote (pp. 16ff):

    11a. Doctrine.

    Revolutionary doctrine stipulates, when once revolutionary forces have secured regional administrative centers, the revolutionary commander or designated representative is t0 select between five and fifty malefactors of the lumpen bureaucratic class. Selection will occur in accordance with the price of said-bureaucrats’ shoes. After divesting selectees of clothing, noses, and left ears, the revolutionary commander or designated representative will then crucify selectees.

    11b. Justification.

    Experience teaches that such spectacles induce remaining lumpen-bureaucrats — “incentivizes them,” if you will –
    (i) to employ suitable manners when speaking of citizens, (ii) to
    empathize with the long-suffering revolutionary masses, and (iii) to know their
    friggin’ place in real order of things.

    11c. Specification.

    Cross shall be standard T-form, wooden or composite, with a minimum height of 11
    feet, as measured from top of hole wherein cross is affixed to top of vertical member. Regarding manner of selectee fixation, in keeping with long-standing tradition, it is preferable to use spikes (clavum form, 8in); salad forks may be substituted, however,
    at the commander’s discretion. If there is a clear and present risk of
    bureaucratic superciliousness, it is permitted that gibbets be substituted, at the commander’s discretion. In re which gibbets, see section 22c, par. 3, as supplemented by Addendum 18 (2009).

    11d. Required Paperwork.

    On completion of said-crucifixion, regional commanders will file form 203c. Beginning March, 2008, forms must be submitted via the web-based document management system, Thawrah-Net. It is encouraged that commanders upload, with form 203c, copies of any and all digital pictures, audio recordings, and/or video recordings. Estimated time to complete and digitally submit the form is two (2) minutes.

    Vive la Revolución

    • Popsmoke

      What no ASTM standards on the spikes? You allowing Japanese spikes made of iron or steel to be used?

  • KenoshaMarge

    I think anyone who is foolish enough to use an analogy like that in public is too stupid to hold the job he has.

    We need rules and regulations enforced by a competent EPA that is capable of combining common sense and a desire to protect us from those that pollute.

    We don’t need ideologues who want to crucify those they see as the enemy.

    • Popsmoke

      Do we really know who the enemy is anymore? There is so much propaganda from all sides going on it difficult to tell until the shit hits the fan.

      We need to go back to the EPA of the 80s and 90s…. Just like we need to go back to the FEMA of old.

      Neither will happen…..

      • KenoshaMarge

        I don’t know if “I” know who the enemy is. But that Bozo sure is one of them.

        I agree that we need to go back to the EPA and FEMA of the 80s and 90s. Competence and reality with the ideology and constant politics.

        Is that even possible anymore?

    • DianaLC

      Absolutely…….by the time my partner retired from the EPA he was so very sick of the constant use of the organization as a political/ideological weapon and as a place for affirmative action hiring that he has never looked back. 

      Yes, he had to be an enforcer, but in his last major project he had to work with the DOE and several state agencies on a cleanup project.  The key here is that I wrote he had to “work with” those agencies to get the job done.  Cricifying people does nothing but send most other people into hiding and to working surreptitiously.

      • Popsmoke

        If a company gets a formal NOV (notice of violation) and it has gone all the way up to an enforcement action? Working with …is no longer an option. Its hammer time.

        Working on a USG inter-agency clean up especially with DoE. One does get get anything done without a joint effort.

        But EPA has always been a political weapon and used by both parties as such. I worked the Gulf Spill and can tell you that the EPA of today is not the EPA I grew up with….

        I just shake my head….

    • jrterrier

      what makes it worse is that he is not talking about punishing murderers and child abusers, or people who have committed other heinous acts.  

      he is talking about regulating companies which may have or are inclined to violate regulations.  regulations almost by definition do not involve conduct that is inherently wrong and thus obviously illegal to anyone.  regulations are rules, which may be nonsensical and counterproductive as they were  adopted by people like the nutjob who is talking in this video. 

      • KenoshaMarge

        I would also think that with the number of rules and regulations there may well be those who simply don’t know what they can or cannot do.

        Mind you I am not referring to chronic offenders who know quite well what they are doing, know it’s hazardous and illegal and do it anyway thinking they can pay a small fine and get away with it. For these types I have no sympathy. Although unlike the “nut-job” in the video, I would stop short of suggesting crucifixion. Way short.

      • FLDemFem

        Obama is talking about punishing people…which people? People who donate to Romney. Check this out.
        http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577368280604524916.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle 
        This has to be illegal..and read about the Executive Order in the pipeline that says that companies submitting bids for government contracts must also submit a list of their political donations. This is the most outrageous thing I have ever heard of. At least Nixon had the sense to keep his enemies list secret.     Obama sticks his right on his web page. Here is the link to the list on his site.. http://www.keepinggophonest.com/behind-the-curtain-a-brief-history-of-romneys-donors/

    • EllenD818

      You’re right Marge, and to make it worse he started out by declaring that he probably shouldn’t be saying it.

      Hint: If you think you probably shouldn’t be saying it – DON’T SAY IT.

  • Dissentispatriotic

    Seems the Department of Labor is also diving into keeping farm children from doing chores and helping out on the family farm.  I have only heard brief snippets about this new ruling so I can’t speak to specifics.  On the surface, it was absurd. 

    • Retired_from_SPOnaj

      They can help out, they just can’t be paid.  If they’re paid, they become “employees” and thus are no longer your kids.

      • shelldoll2

        What happened to those ancient days (the 20th century) when your allowance was based upon the chores you completed?

        My bad. I’m now waiting for Obama to speechify for the 100th time.

        • Popsmoke

          Hey shelldoll2, I have been waiting way to long for things to change. But be my guest and go ahead and give it your best! Who knows maybe you have the magic touch to make thing happen on Capitol Hill….

          But I will not hold my breath!

          • shelldoll2

            I actually have had personal contact with my Congressman and Senators.  I’ve called their offices and written and faxed their staffs.  I actually became  pro-active.  I also served my country and honorably retired.

      • FormerLiberal9

         Hmmmm! Maybe I should start paying my son?

        Just kidding.

  • elizabethrc

    It amazes me how, more often than not, disturbingly so, the folks who ‘head’ these various government agencies, try to turn them into fifedoms.  They quickly forget that they are working for us, not vice versa. 
    If we are not vigilant, tiresome as it is, that’s what we’ll end up with.  It’s too easy to look the other way or consider it someone else’s problem to solve. 
    I’ve just signed up for one of Frank Luntz’s focus groups.  It’s a small thing and I have no idea if I will be called if and when they come to my area, but for me it’s a first step because I realize that I’m no better than most of the people I criticize if I don’t do something besides sitting on the sidelines. 
    The out of control liberals may be the catalyst for more people becoming activists as their actions get more and more outrageous and outlandish. 
    The EPA and all of the government agencies need to be answerable and experience real consequences when they overstep their charter.  As it is now, they seem to do no wrong in Obama’s world.  Just look at Holder and the Justice Dept.  ’nuff said?

    • shelldoll2

      Agreed.  No one is saying we should let companies pollute willy-nilly.  But to see companies as enemies means that these companies will leave.  They will move to countries with a more business friendly environment.  

      There goes even more jobs and we continue to watch the country circle the drain.

    • KenoshaMarge

      I hope they choose you elizabethrc! I love to watch those focus groups.

  • HARP2

    2008……Year of hope.

    2012…….Year of change.

  • no_longer_a_democrat

    omg! I had not seen this before, these people are acting like dictators!  Do these a$$holes know how much gas is???

    what converted the roman republic to the crumbling roman empire were the power got more and more concentrated in the central govt, who started collecting more taxes and making up bullcrap rules because that’s all beaucrats do, even when there is no need for those rules (just think, the new labor rules won’t let kids work on family farms, because of course the fed govt will care and worry about someone’s kids more than the relatives themselves)

    This is what is happening now, power is getting more and more concentrated, rules are made by damn beaucrats who need “to do something” so they just make up rules for no reason.

    Everyday i get more disgusted, and these losers can’t figure out why no one will expand or start their businesses. Why the hell would create more wealth, so Barry can “spread that wealth”!.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hank-DeCat/100001190387982 Hank DeCat

       Yep. Seems no one in DC has ever read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and are determined to repeat the same trajectory.

  • Archiplex

    I think O plays good cop.  And these are his neck-stomping bad cops.  I’ve never heard a conversation come out of O’s mouth in favor of individual rights and the basic equality of all before the law.  Never.  He is toxic in every way.  His corrosion would ruin every social unit that tried to form – from a family to a country.  

  • no_longer_a_democrat

    Tony Robbins seems to get it….we are in deep deep fiscal problems… and its only going to get worse unless we change or it goes over a cliff

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jboTeS9Okak&feature=player_embedded

  • Escoffier

    This rant that was recently listed as a Best of Ulsterman Comments by Elliot seems especially pertinent.  http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/04/19/best-of-the-best-ulsterman-report-reader-comments-april-19th-2012/

    “Since that did not fly they then pumped up the stimulus act funds to
    help the “unemployed”. The unemployed were venture capitalists who
    contributed to Obama. Since they could not control who got energy and
    what kind they had to regulate it. They had to make energy scarcer so “green” tech would appear more cost
    effective. The problem is that even if it is free it doesn’t work. So
    regulate coal plants out of existence, deny drilling permits, deny
    pipeline rights, etc to make traditional energy much more expensive,
    call it dirty, and you get the general idea.”

    Read the whole thing. While I do not agree with the whole thing he certainly has the gist of the thing of it.
     

  • HELENK2
    • HELENK2

       http://freebeacon.com/inhofe-slams-epa-administrators-comments-obama-energy-policies/

      video of Inhofe on EPA nutjob and backtrack’s energy policies

    • HELENK2

       http://freebeacon.com/inhofe-slams-epa-administrators-comments-obama-energy-policies/

      video of Inhofe on EPA nutjob and backtrack’s energy policies

    • HELENK2

       http://freebeacon.com/inhofe-slams-epa-administrators-comments-obama-energy-policies/

      video of Inhofe on EPA nutjob and backtrack’s energy policies

    • HELENK2

       http://freebeacon.com/inhofe-slams-epa-administrators-comments-obama-energy-policies/

      video of Inhofe on EPA nutjob and backtrack’s energy policies

  • HELENK2
  • Flop_Flipper

    Obama’s Night of the Long Nails. How appropriate. Catholics are, no doubt, overjoyed.

    Beyond the absurdity called a Mission Statement, is what passes for a regulating arm of this administration. Like the GSA, it is filled with radical, irresponsible tools fools with the unfortunate disability of wielding power.

    I fully support the Americans with Disabilities Act. But the Affirmative Action inclusion allowing idiots such as this to even be considered qualified points to a need for an urgent revision of the just plain stupid exemption.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack-Kolkmeyer/1081903515 Jack Kolkmeyer

    The big problem here is that we are now seeing how deeply ingrained the federal government is with thinking that is so opposed to real fairness…..and, heaven forbid, supporting entrepreneurship. While this is a very disturbing video, it is the way most government works…..sad but true. I for one truly hope there will soon be change.

    • jrterrier

      i hate to paint all fed workers with such a broad stroke. i know many who are conscientious and hard working.  but it’s hard to argue against your position when there are more and more of these egregious examples that have been in the news. 

      unfortunately, two adages come to mind.  power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  also some wise person once said that often the worst evils are done by those who think they are in the right (ie, the inquisition) because they feel smug in their belief that they are acting righteously.  

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack-Kolkmeyer/1081903515 Jack Kolkmeyer

        Yes, you are right about the broad stroke sense of my comment although I did not intend it in a demeaning way. I worked for local government here in Santa Fe for 35 years….I know intimately how politics works…and I’ve worked with many very talented public servants. I’ve often wondered, however, if government gets worse as you move up from the local level, to the state level, and then to the federal level…..or does it get better??? The problem is the policies that public sector employees have to carry out. Why are they policies? Whose policies? Who do they benefit? This is the point from which “power” of the politician is derived. The other interesting “broad stroke” comment that I would also make though, is that there are lots of these “egregious examples”, you just don’t know about them unless you really dig or are intimately involved in one of them.

      • KenoshaMarge

        I prefer Frank Herberts opinion although I suspect both are true.

        “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.” ― Frank Herbert

  • Popsmoke

    “Inhofe also questions Jackson to determine if these types of actions
    such are evidence of “the Agency’s preconceived conclusions and
    increasingly apparent political activism in an ever-intensifying pursuit
    to link hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contamination.”

    http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/senator-launches-probe-epas-houses-could-explode-scare-tactics-crucify-them

    The latest report out: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/02/16/energy_insitute_hydraulic_fracturing_groundwater_contamination/ …. finds no correlation but is filled with concerns with state(s) capacity to “enforce” regulations …….

    “The report identifies regulations related to shale gas development and
    evaluates individual states’ capacity to enforce existing regulations.
    In addition, university researchers analyzed public perceptions of
    hydraulic fracturing, as derived from popular media, scientific
    literature and online surveys.”

    Of course this report is sponsored by the industry.. Like I said its tough to know who the real enemy is anymore…..

    • EllenD818

      Like I said its tough to know who the real enemy is anymore…..

      Like Pogo said “I have seen the enemy and he is us.”

  • Popsmoke

    “Inhofe also questions Jackson to determine if these types of actions
    such are evidence of “the Agency’s preconceived conclusions and
    increasingly apparent political activism in an ever-intensifying pursuit
    to link hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contamination.”

    http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/senator-launches-probe-epas-houses-could-explode-scare-tactics-crucify-them

    The latest report out: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/02/16/energy_insitute_hydraulic_fracturing_groundwater_contamination/ …. finds no correlation but is filled with concerns with state(s) capacity to “enforce” regulations …….

    “The report identifies regulations related to shale gas development and
    evaluates individual states’ capacity to enforce existing regulations.
    In addition, university researchers analyzed public perceptions of
    hydraulic fracturing, as derived from popular media, scientific
    literature and online surveys.”

    Of course this report is sponsored by the industry.. Like I said its tough to know who the real enemy is anymore…..

  • Popsmoke

    “Inhofe also questions Jackson to determine if these types of actions
    such are evidence of “the Agency’s preconceived conclusions and
    increasingly apparent political activism in an ever-intensifying pursuit
    to link hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contamination.”

    http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/senator-launches-probe-epas-houses-could-explode-scare-tactics-crucify-them

    The latest report out: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/02/16/energy_insitute_hydraulic_fracturing_groundwater_contamination/ …. finds no correlation but is filled with concerns with state(s) capacity to “enforce” regulations …….

    “The report identifies regulations related to shale gas development and
    evaluates individual states’ capacity to enforce existing regulations.
    In addition, university researchers analyzed public perceptions of
    hydraulic fracturing, as derived from popular media, scientific
    literature and online surveys.”

    Of course this report is sponsored by the industry.. Like I said its tough to know who the real enemy is anymore…..

  • jrterrier

    this is amazing.  i just watched a DEM operative on Fox try to defend this by evading the questions. 

    but just imagine how the DEMS would be up in arms, if the person talking about crucifying wrongdoers were a military officer fighting the Taliban.  that would be unacceptable.  But when a domestic bureaucrat, whose job is to regulate otherwise legal entities portrays his job as a murdering thug, they defend.

    WTF.  who are these people? 

    GSA, HHS (contraceptive rule), DEA/USAO (fast and furious), Marines throwing a prostitute out of a car in Brazil, even the storied Secret Service.  They all fit the pattern of a runaway bureacracy. 
      

  • wellbeing

    I couldn’t understand a word.  I feel like I’m really missing something.

  • jrterrier

    Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that “no one knows” if gasoline prices in the United States will reach $9 per gallon, and acknowledged that the possibility is outside his control.
    “I don’t think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy,” Salazar told reporters when asked if gas prices could reach $9 per gallon, as they have been in Greece. “Where it will all end, no one knows.

  • Popsmoke
    • jrterrier

      very interesting.  hope it doesn’t create some superbacteria that ends up doing damage elsewhere.

      nature is wondrous.  while mere mortals go around like chicken littles, the earth heals itself. 

      • Popsmoke

         ” hope it doesn’t create some superbacteria that ends up doing damage elsewhere.”

        No bets on anything like this…. But your right about mother nature….

      • KenoshaMarge

        Mother Nature may not take us mere mortals into consideration when she is healing herself.

  • HARP2

     Report: Russian Troops to ‘Seize’ CIA Facility in Elaborate War Game… on U.S. Soil

    According to reports, the U.S. and Russian military will be engaging in
    an anti-terrorism exercise that will involve Russian paratroopers using
    U.S. weapons to “take and hold” the main facilities of the CIA and
    Denver International Airport in Colorado and the National Security
    Agency in Utah.

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-russian-troops-to-seize-cia-facility-in-elaborate-war-game-on-u-s-soil/

    • no_longer_a_democrat

      wow.  I guess we know how they took Soetero’s “more flexibility after the elections”

      no wonder they just looove Barry.

  • HARP2

     Lovely people, these friends of Obama.

    Syrian rebel ‘buried alive’ at gunpoint in most horrific video yet to emerge from brutal civil war

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135413/Syrian-rebel-buried-alive-gunpoint-horrific-video-emerge-brutal-civil-war.html#ixzz1t9unmp00

  • HELENK2

    republicans are not playing this year. they use backtrack against backtrack

    latest ad

    http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/04/26/celebrity-obama-crushed-rove-ad

  • HELENK2

    Iowa Hawk

    If farm kids & bureaucrats swapped chores, you could enjoy an efficient government while starving to death.

  • HARP2

     Outrage as Egypt plans ‘farewell intercourse law’ so husbands can have sex with DEAD wives up to six hours after their death

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Outrage-Egypt-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-dead-wives-hours-AFTER-death.html#ixzz1t9sYTQpY

    • antielitist

       I’ll bet this is one law for which Egyptian women will not demand equality.

  • foxyladi14

    that is the goal of this regime to destroy.

  • Retired_from_SPOnaj

    Totally OT:  A great new development in Egypt’s Arab Spring, possibly inspired by the marriage of Barack and Michelle Obama.  NOW is rejoicing at this great step forward.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Outrage-Egypt-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-dead-wives-hours-AFTER-death.html#ixzz1t9sYTQpY

    • Popsmoke

       This is not even funny…..

      • http://noquarterusa.net Larry Johnson

        Actually, it is funny in a macabre way.  Totally sick and disgusting but that’s what Arab Spring brings.

        • Retired_from_SPOnaj

          Kind of reminds me of a friend who had sex with his wife the day before their divorce was final.  Of course, she was alive…

          • HARP2

             Muslim joke.

            “Doc, I think my wife is dead.”
            “You think? What do you mean, ‘You think?’”
            “Well, the sex is the same, but the dishes are piling up.”

        • Popsmoke

          Send this link over to McCain and Grahams Office…. You know the two national security experts…or are the two national security risks?

          • Kickhimtothekerb

            Puts a whole new meaning on “till death us do part” ;)

      • Retired_from_SPOnaj

        I spent two years in Egypt dealing with this mentality.  But I never hit upon the Obama tactic of apologizing to them for being an American.

        • Popsmoke

          War on terror is over! Didn’t you hear? http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/can-obama-safely-embrace-islam.php

          ”
          The president realizes he has no choice but to cultivate the Muslim
          Brotherhood and other relatively “moderate” Islamist groups emerging as
          lead political players out of the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia and
          elsewhere.”

          We are all brothers now…..

          • Retired_from_SPOnaj

            If I were the President, I’d be damned careful about trying to cozy up to a fundamentalist Muslim.  He is, after all, an apostate from Islam and the Quranic penalty for that “crime” is decidedly  unambiguous.

          • Hokma

            I think the new definition of a “moderate” Muslim now is one that will not cut your head off on national television.

            I know Egyptians who left there to live here and they despise the Muslim Brotherhood and dear for the relatives that still live there.

        • Popsmoke

          ” He is, after all, an apostate from Islam and the Quranic penalty for that “crime” is decidedly  unambiguous.”

          We they would have to get through the “laid’er” of Secret Service protection first!

    • EllenD818

      I’m not sure this article is real. It also says:
      “He also said that women have the right to have sex with her dead husband, alarabiya.net reported.”

      Look I don’t know how much Viagra that would take but….

  • HELENK2
  • EllenD818

    I enjoy No Quarter because of the personal experiences of people like Popsmoke and Wisewoman2. Firsthand experience is always the best.

    I have in the past been commissioned by large companies (and once personally by a billionaire) to report on companies in my field that they were interested in acquiring or doing business with.
    Yes, I had meetings with the top execs. But I learned much more by changing my clothes and going out to lunch and hanging out with the guys who actually did the work.

  • Retired_from_SPOnaj

    OK, Armendiariz (the EPA guy) apologized so everything is OK.  If you apologize after raping someone, doesn’t that make it all better?

  • HELENK2

    Did anyone watch Greta tonight?
    not only guns but now grenades. Holder’s arms dealer to the cartel not only lost the guns but lost the granades and refused to prosecute a confessed grenade runner.
    Tell me do these guys get a salary from the cartels in addition to the pay from the American taxpayer?????

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    everytime backtrack talks about the  death of ben ladin remember this memo

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/04/26/Get-bin-laden-memo-CYA

    • foxyladi14

       drug him in from the golf course.. popped his little butt down in the kiddie chair to watch. lol  lol   lol

    • KenoshaMarge

      Yes indeedy.

      In the following article I absolutely love the remarks about how back in 2008 the “wittiest” slam was that all Guilianni ever said was

      a noun, a verb and 9/11

      and now the same thing is being said about Obama and Biden,

      a noun a verb and Bin Laden

      .

      Obama’s Bin Laden pitch jumps the shark
      http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/04/27/obama-bin-laden-pitch-jumps-the-shark/

      I also don’t think it says good things about us as a people or a country when “killing” someone becomes a campaign slogan. I’m not sorry he’s dead, I’m just sorry we seem to be dancing on his grave. Wherever the hell that is.

  • http://wiskeytangofoxtrotoscar.blogspot.com/ James Ala

    Taken down by Copyright holder, David McFatridge. > _ <

  • HARP2

     The President Has a List

    Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt
    Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your
    democratic right to send a check.

    Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on
    the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney
    donor, shames you for “betting against America,” and accuses you of
    having a “less-than-reputable” record. The message from the man who
    controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which
    can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a
    mistake donating that money.

    Are you worried?

    This past week, one of his campaign websites posted an item entitled
    “Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors.” In the post,
    the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had
    donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having
    “less-than-reputable records,” the post went on to make the
    extraordinary accusations that “quite a few” have also been “on the
    wrong side of the law” and profiting at “the expense of so many
    Americans.”

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577368280604524916.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

    • jrterrier

      oops, i just posted the same thing.  didn’t see this.  great minds think alike…

  • jrterrier

    and the intimidation doesn’t stop with the EPA:

    “Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You
    want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a
    check.

    Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the
    planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney donor, shames
    you for “betting against America,” and accuses you of having a
    “less-than-reputable” record. The message from the man who controls the Justice
    Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS
    (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.

    Are you worried? ”

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577368280604524916.html

    • HoosierinDixie

      It’s a great article. The last paragraph pretty much sums it up……
      Politics is rough, but a president has obligations that transcend those of a candidate. He swore an oath to protect and defend a Constitution that gives every American the right to partake in democracy, free of fear of government intimidation or disfavored treatment. If Mr. Obama isn’t going to act like a president, he bolsters the argument that he doesn’t deserve to be one.

  • HELENK2

    the ending of a dream

    http://instagr.am/p/J7TpGgR91m/

    • Hokma

      I just left. I went to an area near JFK Airport and watched the landing of the plane with the shuttle.  – - – - Awesome.

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    http://freebeacon.com/live-not-by-obamas-lies/

    the red ink must be waking the media up

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2
  • DianaLC

    I liistened to that clueless idiot again just now.  You could see the smarta#$ braggadocio as he (proudly) pretends to have too much area to cover.  He then smugly tries to show off his (very limited) knowledge of history by regaling people with his theory of how enforcement should work. 

    This is a great example of letting the students run the school, the prisoners run the prison, the patients run the mental hospitals–you get the picture.  Doesn’t this administration know anyone who is a mature adult to put into important positions?

    I also saw it on various news shows:  the Five, Bret Baier during the very limited time I had yesterday to turn on the t.v.  I expected that Fox might have something, but I am happy to read that CNN might be deciding to try to gain an audience by reporting things that might paint a more negative image of THEE ONE’S administrative abilities.

    What I am reading mostly this morning, however, are the glowing letters and the op-eds in our local rag singing O’s praises for his recent visit here to the la la land of CU in regard to student load interest rates.  (I was also happy to see the bear’s visit to CU’s campus also got as much coverage.)  I get nothing but concern for the poor college students, and I am concerned for them, but I want some intelligent (rather than maudlin and emotionally saturated) discussion about the way we are funding these kids. 

    I am currently teaching the pre-college level writing courses for those students who enter the community college system and do not test high enough to take the college-level transfer courses.  (I have taught the college level courses in the past so know what is required–just don’t want to do that now while I’m supposed to be retired.) 

    My classes are limited to 20 students.  We start the semester at 20 but usually end it with only, if we’re lucky, 15.  So many come to class, realize that indeed they must attend, must turn in writing homework and other exercises, and it becomes too much for them to do because they won’t be able to skate through it as they did in our woefully lenient high schools. 

    As a teacher and a taxpayer, I am becoming so disgusted because I know that most are on subsidized loans and Pell grants.  These students just drop out and don’t officially withdraw (so I have to give the F) and then come back the next semester so they can hang out on campus with friends, act cool, take more classes and drop out on a few more classes. 

    I want some discussion about putting financial burdens back on the students who have grants and use them that way.  There must be some discussion about that sort of thing along with this discussion about interest rates.  But then that might not play well with his obot base.

  • HELENK2

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303990604577367881972648906.html

    the American people should be asking ” why is this happening”

    American companies creating job, but doing it overseas

  • HELENK2

    awesome picture

    http://twitpic.com/9eedq3

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    what the hell is wrong with these people

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/04/25/Obama-Donors-Blocking-Relief-for-Families-of-Victims-of-Beirut-Bombing

    backtrack and donors blocking relief for families of victims of Beirut bombing

  • http://twitter.com/ChimpelleObongo Chimpelle Obongo

    They will stop at nothing to keep Hussein in power.  NOTHING.

  • April454

    Investment in oil & gas has been up huge since Obama became President. The oil industry is making record profits.

    Oil and gas are commodities and the only thing that impacts investment is the price of that commodity. Regulation has no real impact on investment in this sector.

    Nothing wrong with enforcing the law, particularly with the terrible on the environment oil & gas sector.

    There is no controversy here, just more FOX BS.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hank-DeCat/100001190387982 Hank DeCat

    Took them long enough for this asshat to resign.

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