It’s Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014…but before we begin, like Albert Popwell in Dirty Harry…
We may be missing something, but this story truly leaves us wondering. Forgetting for the moment the nature of those who take nude photos of themselves in the first place, what idiot would ever…EVER…place naked pictures of themselves anywhere they might even remotely be subject to hacking, let alone in “the Cloud”…then complain about an infringement of their privacy?!?
First-world problem courtesy of third-rate minds.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, for those wondering about The Dear Misleader’s sudden interest in attending tomorrow’s NATO summit in Wales, courtesy of Carl Polizzi, Zero Hedge‘s Tyler Durden offers the answer:
“…That’s right: the NATO summit is set to take place at the magnificent Celtic Manor Resort, the location of the 2010 Ryder Cup.
But not only that: courtesy of an unprecedented security presence, it means that Obama will have no problem sneaking in at least 4 games for the two-day duration of the summit…”
Meanwhile, here are three related headlines guaranteed to help thinking Americans sleep at night:
“We” don’t have the faintest clue what to do about ISIS, let alone a plan to deal with them; but “we” will not be intimidated by them! By which this self-absorbed Marxist means he won’t allow ISIS…
…to spoil his leisure activities.
Next up in the “Why Does This Sound So Familiar?!?” segment, as FOX News Latino reports…
“In Venezuela honoring late President Hugo Chavez is nothing out of the ordinary, so it was not unusual for a congresswoman of Chavez’s political to pay homage to her former leader. It was what she said that is raising eyebrows.
At an event in Caracas Monday, Maria Estrella Uribe said the Lord’s Prayer, changing the words to dedicate it to Chavez, because they could not “leave without this spiritual commitment,” according to La Patilla:
“Our Chavez, who art in Heaven, in earth, in the sea and in us the delegates,” Uribe started in Spanish. “Hallowed be Thy name, Thy legacy come to us to take to the people … gives us today your light to that it guides us all days and lead us not into the temptation of capitalism, deliver us from evil, oligarchy and the crime of smuggling, for centuries of centuries. Amen.”
She finished her prayer with the usual “Viva Chavez.”
Venezuela’s food shortage is so bad the country is mandating that people scan their fingerprints at grocery stores in order to keep people from buying too much of a single item…“
Oh, NOW we remember:
And as the WSJ‘s Bret Stephens notes, hell hath no fury like a deity scorned:
“Barack Obama “has become ‘enraged’ at the Israeli government, both for its actions and for its treatment of his chief diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. ” So reports the Jerusalem Post, based on the testimony of Martin Indyk, until recently a special Middle East envoy for the president. The war in Gaza, Mr. Indyk adds, has had “a very negative impact” on Jerusalem’s relations with Washington.
Think about this. Enraged. Not “alarmed” or “concerned” or “irritated” or even “angered.” Anger is a feeling. Rage is a frenzy. Anger passes. Rage feeds on itself. Anger is specific. Rage is obsessional, neurotic.
And Mr. Obama—No Drama Obama, the president who prides himself on his cool, a man whose emotional detachment is said to explain his intellectual strength—is enraged. With Israel. Which has just been hit by several thousand unguided rockets and 30-odd terror tunnels, a 50-day war, the forced closure of its one major airport, accusations of “genocide” by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, anti-Semitic protests throughout Europe, general condemnation across the world. This is the country that is the object of the president’s rage.
Think about this some more. In the summer in which Mr. Obama became “enraged” with Israel, Islamic State terrorists seized Mosul and massacred Shiite soldiers in open pits, Russian separatists shot down a civilian jetliner, Hamas executed 18 “collaborators” in broad daylight, Bashar Assad’s forces in Syria came close to encircling Aleppo with the aim of starving the city into submission, a brave American journalist had his throat slit on YouTube by a British jihadist, Russian troops openly invaded Ukraine, and Chinese jets harassed U.S. surveillance planes over international waters.
Mr. Obama or his administration responded to these events with varying degrees of concern, censure and indignation. But rage?…”
Moving from the inexplicable to the ill-considered bordering on downright immoral, the great Thomas Sowell examines the perpetual Progressive penchant for…
“The latest Gallup poll indicates that 14 percent of the people “moderately disapprove” of Barack Obama’s performance as president and 39 percent “strongly disapprove.”
Since Obama won two presidential elections, chances are that some of those who now “strongly disapprove” of what he has done voted to put him in office. We all make mistakes, but the real question is whether we learn from them.
With many people now acting as if it is time for “a woman” to become president, apparently they have learned absolutely nothing from the disastrous results of the irresponsible self-indulgence of choosing a President of the United States on the basis of demographic characteristics, instead of individual qualifications.
It would not matter to me if the next five presidents in a row were all women, if these happened to be the best individuals available at the time. But to say that we should now elect “a woman” president in 2016 is to say that we are willfully blind to the dangers of putting life and death decisions in the hands of someone chosen for symbolic reasons…“
And that, in the words of our old friend Joe Dunn, is just plain “stupid”.
Since we’re on the subject of stupid, in today’s Environmental Moment, Andrew Bolt of Australia’s aptly-named Herald Sun offers further proof the climate scammers have no interest whatsoever in science:
More importantly, Bolt goes on to detail how…
With the science against the faith it has so frantically promoted, the UN searches for someone who will turn the debate. Note well: it’s looking for someone who isn’t a scientist but who can play on guilt, racial politics, gender politics and victimhood:
The United Nations is looking for a young woman to, as BBC put it, be the ‘Malala’ of the climate change movement, serving as a voice that will energize this September’s climate change conference.
The organization has put out a call for a woman under 30 to speak at the opening session of the 2014 Climate Summit, which is being held on September 23 in New York City. The woman has to be from a developing country and must have a background that includes advocacy on climate change or work on implementing climate mitigation or adaptation solutions. So far, the call for applicants has drawn 544 women, who emailed short videos of themselves persuading world leaders to act on climate change to the Secretary-General’s office.
The UN has outed itself with this stunt. Its criteria ensure no leading climate scientists need apply. See, this is no longer about science at all.
We’re of the opinion it never has been!
On the Lighter Side…
Lastly, one final funny which, appropriately enough, brought The Obamao to mind:
Magoo
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