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Welcome to Obamaville, where 1 in 5 children are on food stamps

This past weekend I had an Obamabot angrily inform me that his Dear Leader has finally fixed George Bush's mess, and our economy is now roaring along like never before. "Just look at the stock market!," he sneered.

The irony of him working 3 part-time jobs (with no benefits) instead of the much higher-paying full-time 9-5 job he had during the Bush Administration was lost on him.

So I guess he won't believe his lyin' eyes today when he reads the latest news out of the Census Bureau. Or he'll blame Rethuglicans for sabotaging The One's munificence again.

So Obama managed to put 7 million additional children on food stamps. Yeah, that's how I measure a successful economic recovery, how about you?

Around 46.5 million people received food stamps last year, according to the Agriculture Department, which oversees the aid, up from around 26 million in 2007.

Twenty million more Americans living on the dole. Wow, I never knew Obama was such an economic genius!

The Obamabots, soon to be Hillary's horde, are deluded. They live in a fantasy universe, where progressive policies don't fail because they're wrong, they fail because they weren't progressive enough. If they could only tax a few more rich people (but not George Soros or Tom Steyer!) then everything would magically be perfect. Rachel Maddow said so! And she's smart!

Meanwhile, children in America go hungry. But well-fed liberals say they care, honest!, so there's that. The thing is, the more they care, the worse off the rest of America gets. Oops.

UPDATE 29 Jan 2015 11:49:
Oh look, the CBO predicts tepid economic growth, rising deficits for the forseeable future.

I guess it's somehow George Bush's fault.

Comrades! Pay no attention to the Reality behind the curtain. MSNBC is truth!

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In a victory for consumers, the FCC says blocking Wi-Fi in hotels is prohibited

Sorry Marriott, you can't block personal Wi-Fi hotspots. Because, freedom!

Good.

Marriott's greed already cost them $600,000 in fines. Now they're officially prohibited from ever pulling the blocking stunt again. Their lame excuse — they block non-Marriott Wi-Fi to protect us from "hackers" — is patently absurd. What's more secure than my personal hotspot, linked only to me, and encrypted via a VPN tunnel?

Nah, their only motivation is money. Logging in to a hotel's Wi-Fi typically adds $15 to $20 per day onto your bill. And some convention venues charge two or 3 times that per attendee. Who wouldn't want to find a less expensive alternative?

Plus, I've rarely encounted a hotel network that wasn't slower than molasses; oversubscribed and underprovisioned is the usual configuration. (One notable exception? Disney World. They do Wi-Fi right!) So forcing me to pay for inferior connectivity isn't exactly a way to win repeat business.

Now let's see if we can guess what new way the hotels will find to nickel and dime us. I can hardly wait.

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Everywhere you go, Obama wants to know, he's tracking your license plate to and fro

He sees you when you're driving. He knows where you came from. He's watching where you're going. And he's waiting for you around the bend.

I'll bet you thought Enemy of the State was a work of fiction.

Nope. While you were singing along to American Idol, fretting about #DeflateGate, or waiting for the Blizzard That Never Was, the Obama administration built a massive database to track us in real time. Millions of license plate scanners mounted along roads nationwide log our every move, with the data freely available to any law enforcement agency who asks for it. Privacy? Yeah, you don't have that. Big Brother Obama sees all.

Seven years ago I predicted just this kind of thing, when I wrote about the Mobile Plate Hunter 900. Back then it was 2 cameras mounted on a police car driving around parking lots. I'm sure the technology has "matured" in the interim, and it looks like they've got years and years of data recorded, now correlated into one big conveniently searchable database.

Which, apparently, the state of Maryland is already using to harass legal concealed carry permit holders. Because the Fourth Amendment is a shadow of its former self. And our Founding Fathers could never have imagined trading our liberty for the illusion of "security."

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Gas prices are too low, so Obama puts 12 million acres of ANWR in reserve, Saudis cheer

Nothing upsets a climate change alarmist more than cheap fossil fuel. Since gasoline prices are approaching an all-time low, Barack Obama needs to find a way to make oil more expensive asap.

Enter a quid pro quo with his Muslim buddies in Saudi Arabia. They're not exactly fans of cheap oil either dontcha know. So, what better way to nudge those oil futures higher than doubling down on killing the Keystone XL pipeline, and then putting another 12 million acres of Alaska off-limits to drilling?

Add in his EPA's anti-fracking edicts, and you have a full-blown war on domestic oil production, which quite coincidentally will cause global oil prices to rise.

Qui bono?

Mideast Islamic theocracies, and Vladmir Putin, that's who. America's enemies, of course.

Guess where Dear Leader is suddenly interested in going, with all possible haste? Saudi Arabia! Where it just so happens they're sucking wind due to low oil prices. Imagine if he were to whisper in new King Salman's ear, Muslim-to-Muslim, I've got your back?

Go ahead. Tell me it's too far-fetched a notion. And I'll say, this is the guy who gave machine guns to Mexican drug lords, ostensibly to push "gun control" here in America. Nothing is beyond the pale when it comes to pushing his far-left anti-American ideology.

Remember, he's identified the "greatest threat" to our existence. It's not Islamic terrorism. It's not the unsecured border. It's not the $18 trillion dollar federal deficit. It's not a resurgent Russia, or a nuclear Iran. And it's not the 1/3 of Americans on federal welfare programs.

It's the Climate Change Chimera that moves him to act. Even though Global Warming is on hold. And there's the Snow Storm Of The Century bearing down on Chez WyBlog as we speak. Too bad I can't hop a private jet to Davos and pontificate about sacrificing for Mother Gaia. Sorry, but I gotta get my shovels ready.

Remember when Obama promised us $8 per gallon gas? Go ahead, tell me he isn't hell bent on doing everything he can to make that happen.

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Homofascist tolerance in action: CA bars judges from belonging to the Boy Scouts

You're free to believe whatever you want, so long as you believe in the right things. So the homofascist tolerance warriors will punish the Boy Scouts in California, because "equality." Or something.

Tell a homosexual he can't be a scout leader? Discrimination!
Tell a judge he can't be a scout leader? Tolerance!

Hypocrisy? Yeah, they've got that down pat.

So California will deprive their young men of positive role models just to push the homofascist agenda. Because in LGBT land, the only positive role model for boys is Zorro The Gay Blade. Pillars of the law enforcement community aren't good enough.

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It's good to be king: Obama's proposed tax on 529 college savings plans exempts Obama

It figures. Barack Obama's communist proposal to tax your kid's college savings account has an exemption — for Malia and Sasha Obama.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Unless your father is the king!

Rich guys like Obama, who can front-load their kids' 529 plans, won't be subjected to his new tax. But ordinary schmoes like you and me who save a little every week? Yeah, we get hosed.

Oh, but it's for the Common Good dontcha know. And according to the looney lefties at the Star-Ledger it's Obama's version of the G.I. Bill:

This is the president's G.I. Bill, minus the army -- an astute and far-reaching initiative that illuminates a path into the middle class for millions, just as the last G.I. Bill did for their grandfathers. This 21st Century investment in human infrastructure shows the same confidence in the potential of our workforce.

Good grief.

The G.I. Bill was earned through service, and sacrifice. This is just another liberal give-away to buy votes for Democrats. Besides, Obama already has a quasi-free college plan, he'll forgive some of your loans for each year you spend in the Hitler Youth ObamaCorps.

That's already his "G.I. Bill."

So, why the big push for "free" community college?

Because it plays into his long-term strategy to tax all wealth. The money you have sitting in the bank is burning a hole in his pocket. Like all Marxists, he believes he knows how to spend your money better than you do.

Fortunately his whole tax fantasy is DOA in the new Republican Congress. But it's instructive to see just how deviously mendacious he really is. When he says "tax the rich," he makes sure to insulate himself and his cronies from the damage his policies inevitably cause. Know your place, peasant!

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57,762,169

Imagine a world where 57,762,169 unborn children weren't sacrificed on the altar of feminism. Imagine a world where the charnal houses of Planned Parenthood stood as silent as the ovens of Auschwitz, grim reminders of depravity, defanged. Imagine a world where the life of an unborn child is as precious as the life of a pig or a bird.

Imagine a world where our representatives had the guts to protect the unborn.

I'll defer comments on their cowardice to my wife, who posted this on Facebook earlier today:

I am so saddened by this news. 18,000 preemies are murdered each year, 18,000. How can such a wonderful nation support these murderers. We act so compassionate for mental health, those bullied, beheading across the world, shootings of innocents, mia, kia, and wounded warriors. But those who passed this 'right' to allow such atrocities be damned. My heart is broken for those 18,000 preemies housed in a warm womb for 6 months, only to be brutally killed and disposed of like garbage. What are those who opposed this bill and those 18,000 mothers each year thinking. Moreso, what are those doctors, nurses, and caregivers, and insurance companies think they are doing for society at large. I am just so sad.

What can I add to that? Somewhere, Satan is smiling. And Jesus is weeping.

Today is the annual March For Life. It's been 42 years since the holocaust of abortion was "legalized" by the forces of evil. 57,762,169 souls snuffed out before they could be born.

Pray with Pope Francis, pray that the hearts of our leaders will be opened.

60 percent of Americans support enacting a 20 week abortion ban. It's inconceivable that anyone could be so callous as to not feel the suffering of these innocent babies.

And yet, abortion is the holy sacrament of feminism. A woman isn't really liberated until she's had one, or so I'm told.

I'll leave you with the wisdom of President Reagan: "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."

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As for tonight's SOTU, pay no attention to the lame duck behind the podium

I have absolutely no intention of watching Dear Leader tell us how great he is tonight. Because for the next 2 years he'll be putting the "lame" in lame duck, and really, will the GOP fall for any of his ridiculously liberal policy prescriptions?

Nah. Obama is about to discover the meaning of the word irrelevant.

Starting with his blueprint for playing class warfare with the part of America that still gets up and goes to work every morning.

No matter what Obama says, his policies have been devasting to the middle class. People are worse off now than they were six years ago. They know it. He knows it. And we know he knows it.

But, he'll never admit he knows it. His narcissism won't let him admit failure.

Wanna know the state of our union?

There's the illusion of falling unemployment.

Of the more than 3,000 U.S. counties, just 65 have recovered from Obama's recession.

Let's look at a few numbers Obama wouldn't dare mention tonight.

The national debt now stands at $18.1 trillion dollars.

Of that, $7.5 trillion came on Obama's watch.

There was a time when he lambasted George Bush as "unpatriotic" for adding $4 trillion to the national debt. I'm pretty sure he wants you to forget that.

Did you know that Obamacare is projected to suck $1.8 trillion dollars out of our economy, along with increasing taxes by $869.3 billion? Yeah, he might have forgotten to mention that.

You're now paying more for electricity than ever before. You might not have noticed, because gas prices are so low. Don't worry. He's got a plan to raise them too.

Then there's his proposal for universal broadband access. Sounds great, right? Yeah, until you get the bill. To pay for it, he'll put a 16.1% tax on your FiOS and cable internet service. Ouch.

Tonight, Moochelle will have an illegal alien sitting with her. But not one of the 46.5 million Americans now on food stamps thanks to her husband's economic policies.

He'll probably tell you how great it is that he bowed down to Castro's Cuba.

But he won't mention how he let Iran and North Korea get The Bomb. Or how he misjudged Putin's Russia. Or completely bungled the Arab Spring. He'll wave a pencil for Charlie Hebdo, but he won't utter the words "Islamic terrorism." And he'll undoubtedly bash Israel for defending herself while praising Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, and Boko Haram.

Osama bin Laden might be dead, but al Qaeda is alive, and growing in power.

And last but not least, he'll tout he his new "free" college plan. What he won't do is mention how he's going to pay for it — by taxing your kid's formerly tax-free 529 savings account. Because if you planned ahead, you need to pay for the slackers who didn't.

After all, slackers vote Democrat.

So, if you're still with me, and you're looking to sum up Barry's 6th SOTU is one sentence, this comment from a Facebook friend will fill the bill:

Just a word of caution - if you pulled the word investment in the SOTU drinking game, you're going to need medical attention.

All the more reason to tune in to NFL Network at 9 and follow #deflategate!

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Now that same-sex "marriage" is main-streamed, incest is the next taboo to fall

Hey, "love" conquers all, right? That's what the homofascists tell us. They "love." And they want you to celebrate it. Or else.

So, why shouldn't incest be celebrated too?

Hide? Why should they hide? If it feels good, do it! That's the LGBT mantra, and these two perverts are the next logical step.

Here's the best part. They're moving to New Jersey. Because in this idiotic state, where homosexuals just recently got the green light to shove their indecency down our throats, incest is already legal.

Garden State Equality will undoubtedly give the two lovebirds a parade.

Once we opened the door to same-sex deviancy, all sorts of yucky stuff was bound to wander in.

So get ready for sister wives. Sharia. And, sheep.

Why not? When morality went out the window, feelings got top billing. And there are more than a few twisted psychos out there whose feelings revolve around incest, if we're lucky. More likely we'll have to "tolerate" bestiality, pedophilia, or worse.

But, since so many of my liberal friends are eager to quote Pope Francis — who am I to judge?

Right?

Yeah, I'm just a guy who takes no pleasure in saying, "I told you so."

Remember when life was simple? And marriage was between one man and one woman?

Welcome to a world governed by the law of unintended consequences.

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Wait, did the Pope just say it's OK to punch someone who insults your mother?

Remember when Jesus said "turn the other cheek?"

Pope Francis must've been absent from CCD that day.

Whoa.

Violence as a first resort is "normal?" You insult my mother and I can punch you in the nose? You satirize my religion and I can kill you and 16 of your friends?

Did the Pope really just say that?

I would very much like to believe that His Holiness was misquoted.

Because the way I learned the catechism, the proper response to someone who insults your mother is to pray for their soul to be healed.

Sticks and stones, and all that.

By the same token, violence is the proper response, indeed the just response, to protracted, willful, systematic violence. Like, say, to the massacre of Christians by ISIS and Boko Haram. Or to the jihad waged by Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran.

So I await Pope Francis' reconstitution of the Knights Templar. And if we're gonna start bustin' heads, we sure could use a man like Charles Martel again.

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Obama White House warns the press to stop publishing stuff that offends Muslims

Perhaps here's one reason why President Golf Pants didn't attend that Paris anti-terrorism rally — he doesn't want the media publishing stuff that offends Muslims. It's too dangerous.

In other words, shut up or you'll make the Muzzies angry. Because if you make them angry, they'll hurt you. And, stunningly, if they hurt you, your president won't do anything about that.

Submit, Dhimmis!

Nice little newspaper you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

Barack Obama is a traitor to our Constitution. Every president's first "moral responsibility" is to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, where free speech and freedom of the press are sacrosanct. But Obama's highly questionable morality sends him in the opposite direction, into the arms of freedom's enemies.

He's a coward, spineless in the face of murderous thugs. Unwilling to stand up for what's right. Committed to appeasement in the name of expediency.

Hey President Quisling, Fuck You. And the camel you rode in on.

One more thing Barry. Here's a Muslim with more balls than you.

Islam is a virus. Freedom is the only cure.

It disgusts me that a majority of the people in this country voted for a gutless so-called "leader." America used to be better than that.

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Thanks Obamacare, NJ health insurance premiums rising faster than ever

Nineteen times Dear Leader promised he'd reduce our health insurance premiums by $2,500 per year.

Repeat after me: Barack Obama is a lying sack of shit.

Since Obamacare kicked in, health insurance premiums in New Jersey have risen faster than ever.

I'm thinking that 7.4 percent number is a little low. My day job's small group plan's premiums rose an average of 18 percent a year over the same time period. And that's for crappier coverage with higher deductibles and whopping out-of-pocket / coinsurance costs. Pre-Obamacare we had an awesome Aetna plan which really was "affordable." Post-Obamacare our prescription drug copays have trebled, the family max out-of-pocket quadrupled, and the number of doctors in our network went way down. For this we pay premiums that are almost double what they were 6 years ago.

The only person who ever told the truth about Obamacare was Jonathan Gruber.

Oh, but the Obamabots will call him (and me) a liar, and claim Obamacare is "working." 9 million more people are insured! OK, then riddle me this, Batman. The US population is about 320 million. So to allegedly help 2.8% of the people, Obama screwed over the other 97.2%.

Yeah, that's some mighty fine government work alright. No wonder he's the Best President Evuh.

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Will the last person to leave New Jersey please turn off the lights?

The exodus from New Jersey is becoming a stampede.

People are moving out of state at twice the rate they're coming in.

Where are they going? To states with lower taxes, lower cost of living, and more freedom. Texas. The Carolinas. Florida. Red states primarily, because socialism sucks.

And another 1,000 folks are headed to Atlanta, because the cost-savings for Mercedes-Benz are too good to turn down.

They're voting with their feet. They're voting against the two Steves (Fulop and Sweeney) who both covet the allure of Drumthwacket, and who both promise to enact a ruinous "millionaires' tax" immediately after succeeding Chris Christie.

Because we don't pay enough taxes already in this state.

Alas, the takers are never satiated. And we sure do have a lot of takers; consumers of government, who always vote for Democrats and their fatuous promises of more free stuff.

Things are only going to get worse. Which is why so many makers are fleeing from New Jersey.

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Hilllary's sycophants freak out over Chris Christie's Cowboys tickets

Hillary Clinton can extort $225,000 for a 15 minute speaking engagement. That's commerce, because, after all, she's poor.

But Chris Christie can't attend a Dallas Cowboys football game as a guest of Jerry Jones; that's somehow improper, if you're a Hillary sycophant.

American Bridge is the brainchild of David Brock, founder of the radical lefty website Media Matters. Totally impartial dontcha know!

Brock is outraged that Christie would use taxpayer dollars for his security entourage. But all the taxpayer dollars wasted on Dear Leader's Hawaiian vacations? Not on his radar. Doesn't matter.

Hypocrisy. The lefties don't want you to notice it. And the clowns at the Star-Ledger shamelessly exploit this non-story, because in Jersey there's no sin greater than rooting for the Cowboys, except, of course, for voting Republican.

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New Obama Administration nutrition guidelines: "Become a vegan for Gaia"

In 2015, Every time you eat a hamburger, a climate scientist cries.

Why?

Because, according to the Obama Administration, you need to go vegan, or the planet will die.

Hyperbole, it's what's for dinner. Maybe it tastes better than broccoli.

In case you haven't noticed, the oceans aren't rising, and the sea ice isn't melting.

Nevertheless, the True Believers will not be deterred.

Their first target? Beef.

The study said that compared with other popular animal proteins, beef produces more heat-trapping gases per calorie, puts out more water-polluting nitrogen, takes more water for irrigation and uses more land.

Well, I suppose we could always Eat Mor Chikin!

Seriously though, the constant drumbeat for Globull Warming is tiresome. And every time the Obamunists come up with another hare-brained regulatory regime, more Americans inevitably lose their jobs while the rest of us end up paying higher prices for basic necessities.

Sometimes a steak is just a steak, and not a political statement, or a dagger in the heart of Mother Gaia.

Oh, by the way, guess what I'm having for dinner tonight?

That sound you hear? It's Gina McCarthy's head exploding. Yowzah!

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