Obama Banana (Aka President Camacho)

Barack Obama, Business, Ethics, Law

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry will no doubt deem the word “banana” to be racist, “conceived by a group of wealthy white men who needed to . . . render [a black man] inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments.” This is what our unsharpened pencil thinks of the word “Obamacare.”

It can’t be helped. Under Obama, America’s banana-republic credentials are growing.

Via The US Financial Post:

It seems Attorney General Eric Holder has created a multi-million dollar backdoor kickback for activist groups in the $13 billion JP Morgan Chase subprime loan deal recently settled, WND reports.
It appears the Obama administration has a strategy for reviving subprime mortgage lending by coercing banks to fund community organizing groups that may once more put low-income families into mortgages beyond their means.
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“Annex 2? of the settlement agreement mandates that JPMorgan hand over “any unclaimed or unpaid damages to a nonprofit group that finances Acorn clones and other shakedown groups,” Investor’s Business Daily noted in a recent editorial.
The settlement agreement forces JPMorgan to hand over $4 billion in consumer relief designed to help consumers who were hurt by its packaging of subprime mortgages into securities.

Says Judge Andrew Napolitano: The federal government is extorting billions of dollars from a US bank to give to its political friends and favorite political caused. It is plain unlawful.

What are you gonna do about it?, replies President Camacho.

King Dude Refuses To Bow To The Church Of Mandela

Founding Fathers, libertarianism, Propaganda, South-Africa, Terrorism, The State

The great American spirit is awakening. On the one hand you have the effete, libertarian Independent Institute grieving for Mandela, who was statism personified.

On the other hand you have Sirius’ Mike Church of “The Mike Church Show” roundly rejecting the Mandela-Founding Fathers comparison.

Sacrilege says I.

I believe that only two formidable, liberty loving patriots are with me so far: Jack Kerwick and Mike Church.

Genocide Watch (via Jack Kerwick), whose founder Dr. Gregory Stanton is cited in “The Cannibal,” has kept up its reports of white genocide in South Africa. Needless to say, no mention did these martyrs—upward of 5000—receive from Saint Mandela.

UPDATED: Mandela Myth-Busting With Mr. Mickelson In The Morning

Ilana On Radio & TV, South-Africa

“Into the Cannibal’s Pot,” wrote Jan Mickelson, on November 6, 2013, “may be the most important book I’ve read in a decade. Just the insights in the introduction are worth college credits. Scary good.”

Mr. Mickelson is talk show host at News Radio 1040 WHO, out of Des Moines, Iowa. As we did once before, Jan and I will do some Mandela myth-busting tomorrow morning (Monday, Dec. 9), at the ungodly hour of 9:07 AM, Pacific Time, on Mickelson in the Morning.

UPDATE: Jack Kerwick: “… To cut to the chase, American ‘conservatives’ claim to prize the Constitution and the ‘limited government’ that it enshrines. But the vision of liberty for which the Constitution’s Framers seceded from England, a vision for which they pledged all, is antithetical to that of Mandela. … Mandela’s presidency launched his country on a trajectory that has resulted in making the new South Africa a place in which ‘more people are murdered in one week under African rule than died under the detention of the Afrikaner government over the course of roughly four decades. … ”

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Turley Testifies To The Emergence Of An Über-Presidency

Barack Obama, Constitution, Founding Fathers, Law, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, libertarianism

The Anti-Federalists ought to be the nation’s heroes and not its anti-heroes. Libertarians who are with the Anti-Federalists, and who believe the Constitution is a dead letter (check)—and was doomed to so become (check, again)—will find Jonathan Turley’s testimony, Tuesday, as to the danger our “tripartite system of equal branches” finds itself, endearingly naive.

Still, Turley’s testimony before the Committee on the Judiciary is important (and certainly elegantly written). The Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University is perhaps the only honest constitutional scholar on the left that I can think of, since the death of the great Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.).

Turley spoke about the chief executive’s “circumvention of Congress,” about Obama having “crossed the constitutional line between discretionary enforcement and defiance of federal legislation,” of his “use of executive orders to circumvent federal legislation”; of the increasing “shift toward the concentration of executive power” and the consolidation of the “imperial presidency.”

Obama, contends Turley, has “reduced the legislative process to a series of options for presidential selection.” By “claiming the inherent power of both legislation and enforcement, he risks becoming “a virtual government unto himself”; “the very danger that the Constitution was designed to avoid.”

“The Framers were clear that they saw such concentration of power to be a danger to liberty.”

Well, some—the Anti-Federalists—proved that the Framers were either wrong in the direction they took the country, or wrote a very vague document indeed.

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