Shot in the Dark

Category: President Obama

  • Incurious

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember when the US sent a check to Switzerland to be cashed into a pallet of bills and flown to Iran, where hostages were held at the airport until the money arrived?   Remember when President Obama said that was not ransom, that the United States didn’t pay ransom?  Now…

  • The Best Among Us

    Remember when flooding in Louisiana was a massive crisis – when we had a Republican President? The Cajuns are seeing to their own rescue – 15,000 of them: They’re known as the “Cajun Navy,” and in recent days they’ve become possibly the nation’s most important neighborhood watch. Troy Green, from Ascension Parish just south of…

  • Simple Solution

    Leave.  And take your husband. #ProblemSolved.

  • Further Proof…

    …that our current administration is from Planet Progressive.

  • News You Can Abuse

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:  Wow, it’s as if the President doesn’t actually want illegals deported.  I guess all the stuff he said a month ago was bullshit. Peeping Tom drone spying on women?  Hang on a minute, what if it’s operated by a pre-operative transgender?  Then is it okay? Joe Doakes Inconsistent?  Who…

  • Threepeat?

    Apparently President Obama is angling for another Nobel peace prize?

  • Buried In The Details

    Joe Doakes, de Como Park, envía un correo electrónico: I recently vacationed in Mexico.  The shops advertised Cuban cigars.  I remember President Obama normalized relations with Cuba so Americans can now bring home Cuban cigars worth $100 for personal use.   Great, I bought a box. Except . . . I’ve learned not to trust…

  • Extreme Measures

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: It occurs to me that the Obama administration may be quietly supporting a Final Solution to global warming. World population increased from 2 billion in 1950 to 7 billion today.  All those extra people exhaling carbon dioxide, raising cattle that produce methane flatulence, heating their homes with natural gas,…

  • Full Employment – For Propagandists

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama is taking credit for full employment.  The economy is roaring.  The unemployment rate is under 5%.  The recession is over. Or is it?  The BLS says we didn’t gain 195,000 jobs, we lost 665,000 jobs.  So are those people unemployed?  Turns out, it depends on what the…

  • “The President Of All Americans”

    The Lightworker plans to skip Antonin Scalia’s funeral.

  • When Satire And Documentary Collide

    Is it satire? I call it 50-50.

  • Today’s News, A Month Ago

    January:  the Real Americans of the Second Amendment movement watched President Obama’s tearful, angry, and utterly theatrical broadside about guns, gun owners and gun manufacturers, noted that nearly everything he was “proposing” was existing law already, and said that the President’s big “effort” was nothing but a shallow bit of political grandstanding calculated to make…

  • Unprecedented!

    I’ve had some of my Democrat friends chuckling about the idea that the GOP might endorse Donald Trump for President. And I can see why they’re so giggly. The idea that a major political party might endorse someone with almost no relevant experience, whose entire campaign is built on saying things people want to hear…

  • Takeaways

    I went to a “watching party” to check out President Obama’s town hall meeting on guns last night. Just a couple observations. Huh?:  Anderson Cooper was actually pretty good; he kept Obama on his toes with a couple of lines of questioning. For that matter, the President actually did his best to curb his condescending inner…

  • Boys Don’t Cry

    I was among the conservatives who shook their heads in (in my case) muted mockery during the President’s “gun grab” speech on Tuesday. Like most shooters, I’ve prided myself for decades on being able to run factual rings around gun grabbers, whether they be politicians or activists, without breaking a sweat; about knowing their case…

  • Much Ado

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama supposedly issued some Executive Orders relating to guns.  Both sides are in an uproar.  But wait – what did he actually do? The White House has a website, naturally.  It lists all Executive Orders.  There are no new orders relating to guns. Okay, well, maybe the orders…

  • Nothing New

    Reading the President’s “sweeping” new “gun regulations”, it occurs to me – I was right. The “war on guns” is one of this electoral season’s candidates for “war on women”; it’s an attempt to get Democrat, especially Black, voters, to come out for an election where there won’t be The First Black President Ever sending…

  • A Laughing Matter

    While the Democrats love to prate and gabble about “gun violence”, they stay rigorously clear on the one “gun safety” measure that has a proven record of, y’know, reducing gun crime – prosecuting criminals who use guns. The federal legal framework for going after gun criminals has existed for a long, long time – but…

  • Be The Racket You Want To See

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: What the world needs now, is tin pot mayors and local dept heads to flit off to Paris, to save the environment by telling everyone else to stop using fuel to flit about. And to agitate for more outdoor refrigerated hockey rinks so no child ever needs to know…

  • Pay No Attention

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama reminds me of the Wizard of Oz. He claims to have God-like powers and therefore is entitled to do whatever he wants to do. But he doesn’t actually have any powers; it’s all billowing smoke and scornful talk. But people Believe he has the powers, so they…

  • Back To ’67

    The biggest news this past year is the general consensus (among those who are paying attention) that Barack Obama is worse – much worse – a president than Jimmy Carter.  He’s more along the lines of Woodrow Wilson or LBJ. Ed Driscoll on how apt the LBJ parallel actually is: Between the race riots, the campus…

  • Today In Amman, Jordan

    (SCENE:  Major Thomas ASHTON and Sergeant Major Iain MACTAGGART, members of the British 22nd SAS Regiment – Britain’s premiere Special Forces unit – are standing by a helicopter pad.  Both are suited up for a mission that nobody will confirm is a hostage rescue mission deep into ISIS territory; guns, ammunition, grenades, radios, and survival…

  • Today, In Raqqah, Syria

    SCENE:  Abu Bakr AL-BAGHDADI, leader of ISIS and self-proclaimed “caliph” of the new “Khelifa” or Caliphate, is in a conference with a group of his lieutenants, including Sheikh Abu Ali HABIB. AL-BAGHDADI:  Reports from the front look good.  We’re holding the Kurds, we’re gaining ground in Syria, and the Iraqis are folding like  a Salafist…

  • Today In Kurdistan

    (SCENE:  Two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Ali and Sayid, are manning a Russian-built machine gun, scanning a valley warily, watching for ISIS movement.  Suddenly, the radio crackles) RADIO:   Kebab Six to all Kebab.   President Obama is holding a climate change conference.  Six out. ALI:  (scanning with binoculars)  Well, I’ll be. SAYID:   What? ALI:  …

  • Obamas Spectacular Employment Success!

    Employment up between 2000-4000%… …in ISIS.