King Barry will not be amused
A federal judge has found parts of President Obama’s new deportation amnesty to be unconstitutional, issuing a scathing memo Tuesday accusing him of usurping Congress’s power to make laws, and dismantling most of the White House’s legal reasoning for circumventing Congress.
Judge Arthur J. Schwab, sitting in the western district of Pennsylvania, said presidents do have powers to use discretion in deciding how to enforce the law, but said Mr. Obama’s new policy goes well beyond that, setting up a full system for granting legal protections to broad groups of individuals. He said Mr. Obama writing laws — a power that’s reserved for Congress, not the president.
“President Obama’s unilateral legislative action violates the separation of powers provided for in the United States Constitution as well as the Take Care Clause, and therefore is unconstitutional,” Judge Schwab wrote.
The judge also said the policy allows illegal immigrants “to obtain substantive rights.”
I hope Judge Schwab has his taxes in order.
Nah, child porn on his home computer.
“Santa” might deliver a drone for the good little judge.
One good Judge. But Congreff is allowing a skew of OBraggart’s appointees to slouch into office.
No need for a counterattack; the Mass Stupidity Media will simply ignore the ruling.
Like it never even happened.
The judge must do his own yard work so does not sympathize like Obama does.
Everything is proceeding as Mickey Kaus has forseen.
Off Topic…. but Happy Hanukkah!
I’d advise the judge to stay away from hot tubs and small aircraft.
Rudolph and Santa, animated gif
Again, there was no presidential executive order creating amnesty, there was no presidential memorandum either. There was simply a “Who will rid me of this troublesome priest” moment.
Jeh Johnson issued the order.
Then impeach Jeh Johnson.
The President can’t legislate, but a Cabinet secretary… also can’t.
Each day a new surrender — which surrender seems to have become the organizing principle of a new American experience. Yesterday, to Iran on the one hand, or to ClownDisaster’s legislative usurpations. Today, to Cuba, or whatever fresh groveling the GOP turns up. What a shiny world.
But, hey, fine cigars and cheap vacations and healthcare await.
Best of all the United States has no enemies . . .
. . . only conquerors.
And who can’t pity the victim in all things?
Victims……………………..
I guess I’m a victim too as I get asked all the time to reach something on the top shelf. And I don’t have a security detail following me around so I’d look even more like “the help.”
My reply to Obama’s “valet” story.
More like “Todos somos Cubanos”.
Writing off South Florida for the Dems, at least for 2016.
McGehee at 1048.
Now that’s funny, McGehee, I don’t care who you are.
Really, that woman got through the cordon of secret service and staffers and media hangers-on to ask M’Chelle to reach a box up high for her?
Well, I guess she is klingonishly tall….
So. Did she help the woman, or did she ask one of her lackies to do it for her?
As for the Manchurian President and Cuba, I don’t remember what exactly Senator Obama said in praise of Gorbachev when he first ran for President (and after six years, how do you even find it?), but I can remember thinking, just because Reagan won the Cold War, doesn’t mean Obama can’t still lose it.
Yet more evidence on what Obama meant by flexibility.
Here is a simple question regarding Mrs. ClownDisaster’s possibly spurious tale: where is the unnamed woman accused of dastardly prejudice? Let her step forward in self-defense.
Define “help.”
where is the unnamed woman accused of dastardly prejudice? Let her step forward in self-defense
I think it was Valerie Jarret.
For Obama’s story, I was wondering if he had taken off his tux jacket. You would look like a valet if you did, I don’t care who you are.
I dunno. Pass a law requiring all store shelves to be no more than 4′ high? Launch a Justice Department investigation into systemic heightism?
That’s another story that’s bullshit, unless it happened before Obama was elected to the Senate.
In which case, why wouldn’t you mistake him for a valet?
And we all shall run naked before the whips of our masters, no walls, no fences, no sanctuary, nowhere to hide or stand.
There is no way Obama was ever mistaken for a valet.
Generally, valets hustle and are polite.
Definitely not the story of Obama.
for frank marshall baracky/shempard “lowes” smith
Michael J. Totten
The Last Communist City
A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see
if obama’s amnesty is unconstitutional then he shouldn’t do it
simple as that
this is why he gets shitty tips
Sir Thomas More said: “And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?”
Of course he does, Sir Thomas. He’s a better theologian than all 12 Apostles.
>The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.”<
"In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
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Rape Culture Hysteria of the 2010s v. Satanic Daycare Hysteria of the 1980s
Well, as bad as things look, at least we can thank God that we still get to make fun of North Korean dictators!
dicktators are all the rage
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Interesting things seem to pop up searching in 2008-9 on “Obama Gorbachev.” Thanks Ernst.
So many common-hopes-and-dreams squashed flat.
>Interesting things seem to pop up searching in 2008-9 on “Obama Gorbachev.” <
Communists Win the Day. Frank Marshall Davis Would Be Proud Of Obama
>8}Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them. As the repository of something suprapersonal and objective, it enables people to deceive their conscience and conceal their true position and their inglorious modus vivendi, both from the world and from themselves. It is a very pragmatic but, at the same time, an apparently dignified way of legitimizing what is above, below, and on either side. It is directed toward people and toward God. It is a veil behind which human beings can hide their own fallen existence, their trivialization, and their adaptation to the status quo. It is an excuse that everyone can use, from the greengrocer, who conceals his fear of losing his job behind an alleged interest in the unification of the workers of the world, to the highest functionary, whose interest in staying in power can be cloaked in phrases about service to the working class. The primary excusatory function of ideology, therefore, is to provide people, both as victims and pillars of the post-totalitarian system, with the illusion that the system is in harmony with the human order and the order of the universe. . . .
{9}The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
{10}Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system. <
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Follow Me
Obama’s remarks in Pendelton, Ore., on May 18, 2008
Little – weak presidents surrender to their country’s “tiny” enemies because….?
baracky
“who is this man that calmed the seas”?
The Mouse that Roared?
There’s rather a lot elided there, don’t you think?
>There’s rather a lot elided there, don’t you think?<
baracky? idiot ruining class mostly sir. him and billy arsehole.
I was speaking more of all that stuff that crazy idiot dinosuar ropin’ hollywood cowboy did that would have blown the world up if Gorbachev hadn’t been so wise and restrained in the face of such terrible provocation.
> {11}Why in fact did our greengrocer have to put his loyalty on display in the shop window? Had he not already displayed it sufficiently in various internal or semipublic ways? At trade union meetings, after all, he had always voted as he should. He had always taken part in various competitions. He voted in elections like a good citizen. He had even signed the “antiCharter.” Why, on top of all that, should he have to declare his loyalty publicly? After all, the people who walk past his window will certainly not stop to read that, in the greengrocer’s opinion, the workers of the world ought to unite. The fact of the matter is, they don’t read the slogan at all, and it can be fairly assumed they don’t even see it. If you were to ask a woman who had stopped in front of his shop what she saw in the window, she could certainly tell whether or not they had tomatoes today, but it is highly unlikely that she noticed the slogan at all, let alone what it said.
{12}It seems senseless to require the greengrocer to declare his loyalty publicly. But it makes sense nevertheless. People ignore his slogan, but they do so because such slogans are also found in other shop windows, on lampposts, bulletin boards, in apartment windows, and on buildings; they are everywhere, in fact. They form part of the panorama of everyday life. Of course, while they ignore the details, people are very aware of that panorama as a whole. And what else is the greengrocer’s slogan but a small component in that huge backdrop to daily life?
{13}The greengrocer had to put the slogan in his window, therefore, not in the hope that someone might read it or be persuaded by it, but to contribute, along with thousands of other slogans, to the panorama that everyone is very much aware of. This panorama, of course, has a subliminal meaning as well: it reminds people where they are living and what is expected of them. It tells them what everyone else is doing, and indicates to them what they must do as well, if they don’t want to be excluded, to fall into isolation, alienate themselves from society, break the rules of the game, and risk the loss of their peace and tranquility and security. . . .
{14}Let us now imagine that one day something in our greengrocer snaps and he stops putting up the slogans merely to ingratiate himself. He stops voting in elections he knows are a farce. He begins to say what he really thinks at political meetings. And he even finds the strength in himself to express solidarity with those whom his conscience commands him to support. In this revolt the greengrocer steps out of living within the lie. He rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game. He discovers once more his suppressed identity and dignity. He gives his freedom a concrete significance. His revolt is an attempt to live within the truth. . . .
{15}The bill is not long in coming. He will be relieved of his post as manager of the shop and transferred to the warehouse. His pay will be reduced. His hopes for a holiday in Bulgaria will evaporate. His children’s access to higher education will be threatened. His superiors will harass him and his fellow workers will wonder about him. Most of those who apply these sanctions, however, will not do so from any authentic inner conviction but simply under pressure from conditions, the same conditions that once pressured the greengrocer to display the official slogans. They will persecute the greengrocer either because it is expected of them, or to demonstrate their loyalty, or simply as part of the general panorama, to which belongs an awareness that this is how situations of this sort are dealt with, that this, in fact, is how things are always done, particularly if one is not to become suspect oneself. The executors, therefore, behave essentially like everyone else, to a greater or lesser degree: as components of the post-totalitarian system, as agents of its automatism, as petty instruments of the social auto-totality.
{16}Thus the power structure, through the agency of those who carry out the sanctions, those anonymous components of the system, will spew the greengrocer from its mouth. The system, through its alienating presence in people, will punish him for his rebellion. It must do so because the logic of its automatism and self-defense dictate it. The greengrocer has not committed a simple, individual offense, isolated in its own uniqueness, but something incomparably more serious. By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game. He has shattered the world of appearances, the fundamental pillar of the system. He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together. He has demonstrated that living a lie is living a lie. He has broken through the exalted facade of the system and exposed the real, base foundations of power. He has said that the emperor is naked. And because the emperor is in fact naked, something extremely dangerous has happened: by his action, the greengrocer has addressed the world. He has enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain. He has shown everyone that it is possible to live within the truth. Living within the lie can constitute the system only if it is universal. The principle must embrace and permeate everything. There are no terms whatsoever on which it can co-exist with living within the truth, and therefore everyone who steps out of line denies it in principle and threatens it in its entirety. . . .
{17}The original and most important sphere of activity, one that predetermines all the others, is simply an attempt to create and support the independent life of society as an articulated expression of living within the truth. In other words, serving truth consistently, purposefully, and articulately, and organizing this service. This is only natural, after all: if living within the truth is an elementary starting point for every attempt made by people to oppose the alienating pressure of the system, if it is the only meaningful basis of any independent act of political import, and if, ultimately, it is also the most intrinsic existential source of the “dissident” attitude, then it is difficult to imagine that even manifest “dissent” could have any other basis than the service of truth, the truthful life, and the attempt to make room for the genuine aims of life.
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> By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game. He has shattered the world of appearances, the fundamental pillar of the system. He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together. He has demonstrated that living a lie is living a lie. He has broken through the exalted facade of the system and exposed the real, base foundations of power. He has said that the emperor is naked<
Cruz: I’m Not Trying to Play the Washington Rules, I’m Trying to Change the Rules
Speak loudly and burn-bury your own stick. Or all hat and no cattle to use another old saying.
The pieces from back then allude that it was Gorbachev who, wisely, magnanimously, saved the world and brought about world peace by [himself] unilaterally dismantling the Warsaw Pact, the Communist Party, and the USSR because it was the only way to assuage the blood lust of that cowboy and his crazy nation.
Obama is just following that saintly example.
ted cruz/havel/me good luck. do it!
>“I am not trying to play the rules of Washington, because I think Washington’s broken, I think it’s profoundly broken,” Cruz said. “And I think the only answer is to change Washington. Let me give you a tech example. In the tech world, you have disruptive apps that come in and disrupt the means of distributing a good or service. Let’s take for example, Uber coming in or Lyft coming into a city… The taxi commissions have done everything they can to kill Uber and Lyft. What we’re trying to do in the political world is very much the same thing, which is change the means of decision making, take it out of the smoke-filled rooms, where decision making is done in Washington between career politicians and lobbyists and instead empower the people. In my view, the only way we can turn this country around is if the American people rise up and hold every one of us accountable.”
“So I’m not trying to play the Washington rules,” he added. “I’m trying to change the rules and make elected officials, myself included, accountable to the people who elected us.”ld be looking for whoever is standing up and leading, we should be standing up for whoever is fighting today. Whoever is making the case that the Obama economy is a disaster, that we have got to restore America’s leadership in the world. My advice, by my measure, there are a whole bunch of republican senators who are thinking about running in 2016. My advice to every one of them is stand up and lead. I would be thrilled if a year from now, we see a half dozen senators and governors arm in arm, leading together and making the case that the Obama agenda isn’t working and there is a better path.”<
As several wise people keep saying, Leftism is a mental illness.
And we all shall run naked before the whips of our masters, no walls, no fences, no sanctuary, nowhere to hide or stand.
Though the pretensions of the ClownDisaster and his types aim at a sort of enslavement of his subjects, nevertheless the subjects are yet empowered to notice that it’s the Emperor who is naked. It only takes the tiny voice of a naif to point this out. To that end, I wrote yesterday of the simple question: “where is the unnamed woman accused of dastardly prejudice?”
Lo and behold, her sister (a naif) has stepped forward to defend her honor. And the possibility remains that the accused herself may be persuaded to speak, saying something along the lines of ** look at the nakedness of this Mrs. ClownDisaster as she sqwacks her lies **. To which, taking her cue from Mr. KimJongUn no doubt, Mrs. ClownDisaster can bark ** Silence!, peasant, lest your movie theaters meet with a terrible destruction! **
She who self-refutes herself.
I find it very interesting that mark levin was giving a history of the revolution tonight. I wonder if he is already looking beyond a failed article V convention.
>I wonder if he is already looking beyond a failed article V convention.<
well if i had the luck to talk to m. levin about his art. v convention it would be this:
1) Keep It Simple Stupid
2) 12 year term limits for house, senate, courts, and bureaucrats
3) debt ceiling set @ $10 trillion sell assets to meet figure. 2/3 state legislatures approval to raise it.
the article v actions at this point are failshitamerica bankruptcy proceedings.
proggtardia explained
The Literary Sources of Haven Monahan’s Glitch in the Matrix Email
Well. In keeping with the spirit of this latest revelation about Jackie then:
That girl’s brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell the crazy on her.
My pet rock can smell the crazy on her. As for cats, if she owned any, she’d own 100 — and by now they would have killed and eaten her.
In self-defense.
It’s here!
Hello you good old Christmas, Hawaiiah?
keep the narrative going
Washington Post Denounces “Frat at Center of U-Va. Sexual Assault Controversy”
narrative news
Embarrassing to a Leftwing Pressure Group, Devastating to the Leftwing Media, So Of Course It’s Almost Entirely Embargoed