Blog Heap of Links for the day 1 July 2011

The Obama administration has a history of sympathizing with evil, betraying our allies, and appeasing our adversaries at America's expense, especially when it comes to coddling islamonazis and throwing Israel under the bus, but his latest actions should leave no doubt in any thinking person's mind that Obama is clearly an advocate for the advancement of islamonazi jihad and not only a ruthless anti-Semite but he is also undeniably anti-American.

Earlier this week, I wrote about the real world problems with the National Labor Relations Board's new proposed rules to speed up union elections, which would punish small businesses in an attempt to expand union membership. Having written about the rules themselves, it's also worth elaborating on the insane process the NLRB is using to ram them through, which undercuts President Obama's own transparency guidance. [Obama's own transparency guidance -- that was ironic humor, right?]

President Barack Obama said Saturday he remained committed to working with Congress to find a solution to the government's debt problem, but the focus could not only be on spending cuts. ... "Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members of both parties to cut our deficits and debt. But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity." [MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY, FOO'S!]

Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, former technology executive Bernard Schwartz and banking executive James Staley were among 30 well-connected figures in the business and finance world who met with President Barack Obama at the White House in March for an unusual economic discussion organized by the Democratic National Committee. The White House released the names on Friday under a policy Obama instituted in 2009 to disclose nearly all White House guests approximately three months after they visit. Continue Reading POLITICO 44 The March 7 meeting in the Blue Room of the residence has drawn attention and criticism because most of the attendees were donors or fundraisers and the session was arranged by the DNC. Good-government advocates said hosting the event at the White House was ill-advised. ... In addition to the Wall Street financiers and business executives, the session was attended by Andy Tobias, the DNC treasurer; Patrick Gaspard, the former White House political director and current DNC executive director; and Brad Thompson, a DNC fundraiser who works with high-dollar donors and bundlers in New York.

Now Obama will establish formal contacts with the genocidal, racist Islamic supremacist group. Now Obama will establish formal contacts with the genocidal, racist Islamic supremacist group.

Israelis will now be subject to extra screening because the country arrests terrorists. That makes sense? ... North Korea was on the list proposed in 2008; it is not on the May 2011 list.

After months of stonewalling by the Obama Department of Justice, Republican Senator Charles Grassley has successfully brokered a deal between himself, Democrat Senator Pat Leahy, and DOJ officials to allow full access to documents pertaining to the Fast and Furious/Gunrunner scandal. The fact Senate Republicans and Democrats are now working together to unblock the Obama administration's refusal to turn over repeatedly requested documents is a significant development that poses potentially great risk to Obama administration officials.

after the speech the president delivered the 13th of April regarding the federal budget, one that was chock full of lies, deceit, and crass fear-mongering, it must be said that Barack Obama is the most dishonest, deceitful, and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed. ... he may well be the most dishonest and disingenuous occupant of the Oval Office in history, and will do more damage to the nation than all his predecessors combined. ...

according to the President, if only the members of congress could move as fast as a pair of 10 and 13 year old girls, they'd be able to fix the mess he's created. However, if the President is to be believed, they have no intention of doing so. Congress is just too busy taking vacations. Obama lashed out at this practice, claiming that while Senators and Representatives have been in and out of town, vacationing and partying like latter day F. Scott Fitzgeralds, he's been left alone in Washington, doing all the work. "They're in one week. They're out one week," Obama scolded. "And then they're saying Obama's got to step in — you need to be here, I've been here, I've been doing Afghanistan, bin Laden, and the Greek crisis. You stay here." Really? A president who's played more golf in two years that most can squeeze into eight is taking the anti-vacation moral high ground? Is this the same Barack Obama who, in 2009 and 2010 enjoyed frighteningly expensive Martha's Vineyard vacations? Is this the same Barack Obama that is currently planning a third such excursion? Didn't we all watch with rapt attention as the President and first family took multiple vacations to Hawaii, one of which he reluctantly interrupted to deal with a pesky terrorist attack over metro Detroit? Wasn't this the man who once used the hundred thousand dollar per hour Air Force One to whisk his wife away for a Broadway dream date? Evidently, no. This Barack Obama is new.

A U.S. drone aircraft fired on two leaders of a militant Somali organization tied to al-Qaeda, apparently wounding them, a senior U.S. military official familiar with the operation said Wednesday. The strike last week against senior members of al-Shabab comes amid growing concern within the U.S. government that some leaders of the Islamist group are collaborating more closely with al-Qaeda to strike targets beyond Somalia, the military official said.

U.S. Designates Israel as Country That Tends 'To Promote, Produce, or Protect' Terrorists; Also Calls Israel Anti-Terror Partner

New York Times columnist [and crack-head] David Carr responds to Bill Maher implying Alabama and Kansas are not the "smart states." David Carr: "If it's Kansas, Missouri, no big deal. You know, that's the dance of the low-sloping foreheads. The middle places, right? [pause] Did I just say that aloud?" [I'll take GOOD over that kind of SMART any day. A whole show full of a-ho's!]

A Chicago woman who played witness to a beach melee on Memorial Day weekend wants Chicago police and officials to come clean about what happened along the lakefront in May. City officials said they closed North Avenue Beach on May 30 because of excessive heat, but Amy Schwartz says no one is talking about the excessive violence that prompted her to call 911 that day.

As of today, July 1, the historic United Media is officially shutterinig its Madison Avenue doors. "Peanuts" and "Dilbert" recently took their fortunes to Universal Uclick in Kansas City, and then, early this year, the other shoe dropped: United Media announced that come June, it would outsource its newspaper features to Universal, ceasing to operate as a full-service syndicate and developer of talent. The Madison Avenue castle is dead. Long live the queen.

A veteran officer with a clean record is being investigated by the St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) after he warned the father of a robbery victim about a dangerous part of town.

When Illinois Senator Dick Durbin looks at a crowd of Tea Partying American citizens, he sees extremists and a bunch of fringe wackos who don't speak for America. When he looks at a roomful of illegal aliens he sees the future of America, and maybe even the next US president.... He must also see a constitutional amendment to allow that to happen — but why should Durbin let a little piece of antiquated paper mess up his DREAM?

Talks imploded Thursday between DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders in the final hours before a midnight deadline, and Minnesota began a historic government shutdown.