Category: President Obama
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Cannon Fodder
Jow Doakea from Como Park emails: Secretary of State Kerry’s remarks about Paris. Revealing quote: “There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that. There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of – not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you…
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Clunked
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There will be no Social Security increase in 2016 because there is no inflation, according to the government. But I notice that prices in the POS market are not slumping: 2004 Saturn L300. 133,000 miles. $2,750 or best offer. 2004 Ford Ranger. 65,500 miles.$9,500 OBO. 2000 Lexus ES300. 141K…
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Doakes Sunday: Fourth Generation Nation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The American Revolutionaries wore brown clothes and hid behind trees and rocks to shoot at British soldiers wearing red jackets marching in straight lines. This was a violation of the “rules of war” of that time period. The familiar Geneva Convention “rules of war” were crafted after World War…
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The Democrat War On Women, Part MCMCLVXXI
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Wow, that’s kind of impressive. Obama sets immigration policy – immigrants get 100% of jobs for women American women end up unemployed, barefoot, pregnant, in the kitchen. But its the Republicans who wage war on women. Damn that Bush! Joe Doakes I’m detecting a pattern, here.
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Things I’ll Never Bet Against
1) The idea that I’ll go to a Twins game and wind up sitting behind a couple of very drunk men in Packers jerseys, who try to pick a fight with me. 2) The chance of going to Walmart and seeing a woman bellowing at her children. 3) The odds of this actually collecting millions…
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Culture Of Failure
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Sanctions are imposed on outlaws; only legitimate governments enter into international agreements. The starting point for the Iran Deal was the US had to recognize the Rouhani Regime – the successor of the people who stormed our embassy in 1979 and held our people hostage 444 days – as…
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Coming Soon To A Poetry Slam Near You
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Obama wants to save the world. It’s in danger from Global Warming. Global Warming is caused by US carbon emissions. Gasoline emits carbon so we need to reduce gasoline usage. Driving gas prices to $5 per gallon would reduce gasoline usage. Obama tried to drive gas prices higher by…
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Imports
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A pair of graduate students from the U of M came to the office to learn about Minnesota’s system of land title records. Seems they’re hoping to institute a new system in Kenya where land records are not reliable, making investment risky which discourages entrepreneurship and that leaves people…
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Disqualifying
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama wants to ban people who can’t manage their budget from possessing firearms. So we can add every Democrat politician to the list? Joe Doakes He might propose disarming Greece, Portugal and Italy… … but then, soon enough, he’ll have to disarm the United States. Wait…
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A Thousand Words
If there’s one thing I cordially detest about social media today, it’s the photo-memeification of all political debate. On Facebook and Twitter, thousands of people can pass along a graphic, often wrong, frequently giggly/snarky photo in lieu of understanding an issue or being able to state a coherent case. But sometimes they’re right: I’ve been…
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Was I The Only One…
…who heard Obama’s performance with the undocumented transgender heckler the other day… …and thought about… …Jimmy Carter and the swamp rabbit?
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“Doesn’t Happen In Other Countries”
But, unfortunately, of course it does.
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Schrimpe Auf Dem Grill
A long-time friend of this blog emails: President Obama specifically said that the Charleston type killings did not happen in other Western countries. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/at-least-two-killed-in-austria-after-man-drives-into-crowd-before-stabbing-passersby-in-graz-10333891.html Perhaps it was lost in translation because we know he can’t speak Austrian. Your friend, [Redacted] On the one hand, I’m inclined to cut people breaks when it comes to languages…
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Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste
Call me a cynic… …no. Call Barack Obama a Cynic. Our Ghoulish President: The bodies were literally not cold from the Charleston shooting when the President started trying to politicize the incident: “I’ve had to make statements like this too many times. Communities have had to endure tragedies like this too many times,” he continued.…
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A Blast
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama’s decision to ban local police from using IED-resistant vehicles comes just two weeks after he learned ISIS has 71 warriors in-country, ready to target five American cities for terrorist attacks. Another amazing coincidence, no doubt. Joe Doakes I suspect it is – but it made…
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I Anticipate A Lot Of Coverage…
…of racial violence, campus sexual assault, and the Kardashians. Why? Just a hunch.
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Who Could Have Predicted?
The economy under wan, feeble socialist Obama has grown at an anemic rate compared to the rates under the healthy, happy free-marketeer Reagan. Ronald Reagan’s economic plan saw GDP surge at a 3.5% clip – 4.9% after the recession. That’s a 32% bump. During the Obama years, thanks to his big government policies, the US…
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Revenue Streamski
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Russians hacked the White House, got sensitive Obama data. I wonder if that “sensitive data” included his college transcript? Birth certificate before it was Photo-Shopped? Original manuscript of his book? The Russians could make a fortune selling the data. Or being paid NOT to sell it. Joe Doakes They could…
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More Like Guidelines
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: May 1st is Law Day. It was the idea of Charles Rhyne, President of the American Bar Association in 1958. He thought Americans should have a day to reflect on the Rule of Law in the foundation of the country and recognize its importance for society. He chose May…
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Devalued
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Obama Administration’s Middle East policy is a puzzle, probably because there is no plan, only reaction to crises. Which is a good thing, according to some. “But amid the confusion, some experts said that there cannot be an overarching American policy in the Middle East at the moment.…
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Priorities
David “Iowahawk” Burge writes a rare, “not funny” tweet: And he’s spent more time and effort fighting domestic dissent in the US – via the IRS’ gundecking conservative groups’ free speech via tax and campaign law and attacking dissenters, via “net neutrality”, and via his eternal campaign’s patrolling masses of droogs (in and out of…
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Temps
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Hilary’s email problem, put in context by Mark Steyn. Love this line: “ . . . she ran a freelance State Department.” Liberals finally adopt a proposal that conservatives have been advancing for years: outsourcing! Joe Doakes Maybe farm the whole thing out to Manpower.
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Hope And Change – 2015 Edition
Black unemployment is double white unemployment, national average, after six years of The Lightworker. Maybe we’ll just pass a law requiring the rate to drop…
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Attention, MPR’s “Poligraph”
I got a high, hanging change-up for you here. Please see to it. That is all.