Obama Likes Chavez’s Policies So Much, He Wants To Duplicate Them

Yeah, yeah, I know all you liberals out there hate to have to admit that Barack Obama’s policies mirror many of those by other leftists currently and throughout history but you’ll have to get over that phobia. Here is a nice summary of how Obama’s “windfall profits tax” mirrors that of his fellow traveler Hugo Chavez:

To compete with Hillary Clinton’s pandering on a gas tax holiday, Barack Obama proposed a windfall profits tax on oil companies of his own last moth. The Obama plan is not unlike the windfall oil profits tax passed by Hugo Chavez just two weeks earlier. Obama would slap a 20% tax on the cost of a barrel of oil above $80 for all domestic oil companies. Chavez tax hits only foreign oil companies and charges a 50% rate for the cost of a barrel of oil above $70. The difference between Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama is only a slight matter of degree.

But no … he’s no socialist right?

SEIU/CNA Fight Still Roiling

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) suffered a stinging rebuke when nearly 47% of the nurses at three St. Rose Dominican hospitals in Nevada voted to join a rival union this week. It wasn’t enough to decertify the SEIU – 50% was necessary – but with nearly half of the members voting against the union, this shows quite a widespread dissatisfaction with the SEIU.

Asked to explain why this vote against the SEIU was so large, SEIU Nevada Executive Director Jane McAlevey said, “Smart people do stupid (expletive).”

While this might explain why people who are claimed to be so “smart” would join a union at all, it doesn’t necessarily serve as a satisfactory explanation of why the SEIU has lost so many members’ confidence. McAlevey went on to posit that the SEIU isn’t really being rebuked and that this large anti vote was really only a result of the “dirty campaign tactics” of the California Nurses Association (CNA) SEIU’s rival union.

For her part, CNA chief Rose Ann DeMoro said, “This historic vote is a window to a rebellion brewing among SEIU nurses across the nation.”

Troubles for the SEIU have been plenty over the last several years with SEIU chief Andy Stern facing a stiff challenge to his leadership from within his own union as well as assaults from other competing unions. Charges have been made that Stern rules the union with an iron fist from the top down and has gerrymandered local union boards to rubber stamp his own presidency.

It could all come to a messy head in Puerto Rico at the SEIU convention the first week of June where members will be able to cast their vote on Stern’s presidency.

Anti-Conservative Hollyweird Update — BDS and Globaloney Galore

-By Warner Todd Huston

They make anti-American films that bomb at the box office and lose money. Then they make more films that make fun of the conservative base of the country, they lose more money. They make films that attack, belittle and infantalize our men and women at arms – all as we are in a war, adding insult to injury – and they lose still more money. So what do they do? They make yet more films like these previous lemons. Any guesses what will happen next? That’s right, box office poison.

There is a whole raft of new projects that are sure to become box office stinkers that make Americans rather want to stay home instead of stream to the movies. There’s Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) extravaganzas, anti-capitalist potboilers and global warming scaremongering galore all coming to a theater near you!

Of course, we all know of the Oliver Stone movie about George W. Bush that is beginning principle filming now. We’ve heard how everyone that has any knowledge of president Bush is saying that this schlock entirely misses Bush the man and presents a silly, unbelievable caricature instead of a serious movie (when even the entertainment press is reporting that the Stone debacle is over-the-top, you know we have trouble). But, then again, it is Oliver Stone who has proven over and over again that truth is not what he is interested in. On the contrary, his own special brand of far left propaganda is his real goal.

But, Hollyweird has no shortage of leftist tripe masquerading as “entertainment” soon to be forced upon the country. At least three more such exercises in leftist tropes are making news in moviedom. First up is the announced sequel to Point Break, the 1991 Patrick Swayze/Keanu Reeves flick that featured bank robbers that wore U.S. President masks in the execution of their crimes. A Sci Fi channel extravaganza called Lost City Raiders that absurdly features a post global warming world that is almost entirely under water (even though there isn’t that much water on the planet!). And yet another anti-war flick, this one disguised as a comedy.

It has been announced that the Point Break sequel will feature a new gang of bank robbers. For those unaware, in the last film the bank robber gang that wore masks of past U.S. presidents was called “The Ex-presidents” gang. Well, impugning all the presidents jointly wasn’t intense enough for the sequel, apparently. The new gang in the film will be called “The Bush Administration” because, well, we all know what crooks Bush and his administration are, right? This is deep writing, folks. I guess “deep” and “Keanu Reeves” aren’t compatible concepts, though.

When Billy Dalton, military special ops and star surfer, is disqualified from the pro-surfing tour, he takes off for the coast of Bali looking for the perfect wave. While there he’s recruited by a private security force who are trying to find a gang known as The Bush Administration, surfing outlaws and modern day pirates who work like “The Ex-Presidents,” a bank robbing crew from Malibu twenty years ago.

I would like to suggest that the new film be titled “Point Bleak” for the box office bomb it will surely become.

Another film, this time premised on Goregasmic global warming hype, is so far titled Lost City Raiders. It is set in 2079 after that eeevil global warming has melted all the ice caps and flooded the entire Earth with the ocean’s waters. In this flick a roving band of explorers in their own little yellow submarine will spend their damp days visiting the sites of submerged cities looking for a sacred object that will reverse “the rising.” Apparently, a Catholic leader at the Vatican sends the explorers looking for this object of power. I am pretty sure that by the end of the film we will all discover that what they seek is Al Gore’s Oscar statuette. After all, what else could have such globaloney power? But in this one we get global warming AND a nice diminution of the Catholic Church taking the Church from one of the World’s greatest religions to glorified treasure hunters. That’s a two for one deal for Hollyweird, folks.

I found a great article on this project published in German, but there is a small recap of it on the homepage of one of the actors in the flick, too. (Here is the full article in German, for those Teutonicly inclined readers out there.)

Lastly, soon to open, is the new anti-war flick starring John Cussack called War,Inc.. This one tries to make a comedy out of America’s supposed war-like interests in the Middle East. Turaqistan, a fictional country, is invaded and taken over by a warmongering former U.S. vice president who is in control of a private corporation with its own army – shades of Darth Cheney and his henchmen in Haliburton, we can only assume. See, this one is funny cuz it’s an American corporation stealing oil from a helpless Middle Eastern country… see, funny stuff man! I mean, it’s funny cuz it’s so true, right? All sorts of American corporations have taken over countries and are stealing their oil we all know. Just hilarious stuff.

There are several other projects in the works, like the dreary Watchmen which I will be writing about when this film gets closer to completion. These are just some of the latest attempts by Hollywood to attack, impugn, and ridicule the ideas and values held by most Americans, folks that these producers imagine to be their customers, curiously enough.

Yes, with this long line of stinkers about to accost you at the cineplex and your paraded across your TV screens, I’d say this calls for a renewal of your library card, or refamiliarizing yourself with your local book store. Maybe even taking up golf or hiking. Obviously Hollyweird isn’t interested in making films that most Americans care to see, anyway.

SEIU/CNA Fight Still Roiling

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) suffered a stinging rebuke when nearly 47% of the nurses at three St. Rose Dominican hospitals in Nevada voted to join a rival union this week. It wasn’t enough to decertify the SEIU – 50% was necessary – but with nearly half of the members voting against the union, this shows quite a widespread dissatisfaction with the SEIU.

Asked to explain why this vote against the SEIU was so large, SEIU Nevada Executive Director Jane McAlevey said, “Smart people do stupid (expletive).”

While this might explain why people who are claimed to be so “smart” would join a union at all, it doesn’t necessarily serve as a satisfactory explanation of why the SEIU has lost so many members’ confidence. McAlevey went on to posit that the SEIU isn’t really being rebuked and that this large anti vote was really only a result of the “dirty campaign tactics” of the California Nurses Association (CNA) SEIU’s rival union.

For her part, CNA chief Rose Ann DeMoro said, “This historic vote is a window to a rebellion brewing among SEIU nurses across the nation.”

Troubles for the SEIU have been plenty over the last several years with SEIU chief Andy Stern facing a stiff challenge to his leadership from within his own union as well as assaults from other competing unions. Charges have been made that Stern rules the union with an iron fist from the top down and has gerrymandered local union boards to rubber stamp his own presidency.

It could all come to a messy head in Puerto Rico at the SEIU convention the first week of June where members will be able to cast their vote on Stern’s presidency.

McCain Continues On Global Warming Train

Once again, if anyone needs to know why I will not vote for John McCain you only have to understand his insanity on certain issues. Issues such as Global Warming:

PHOENIX (AP) - Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles.

Really? Undeniable huh? Only to Al Gore and his disciples.

This man is a loon. We just came out of an incredibly cold April and he is talking like this? You cannot have “free market” solutions as McCain suggests to a bogus claim (i.e. man made Global Warming). This is like saying you believe in free market solutions to the collapsing universe.

John, you can keep saying over and over again that the grass is purple but it doesn’t make it true!

I shutter to think what is going to happen when these enviro-retards like McCain figure out that water vapor is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2. We’ll have to cap every lake, river, ocean and stream to prevent them from emitting their lethal pollutants into our atmosphere.

But don’t bother them with facts – they just get in the way of a good story.

Michelle Wants To Be Queen Bee

Apparently talk of an Obama/Clinton ticket for the Democrats come November may be only wishful thinking for liberals. Michelle Obama wants to be Queen of the White House and doesn’t take too kindly to the thought of another woman sharing the spotlight.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.

The Democratic front-runner’s wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party’s nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.

Of course we all know where Michelle Obama stands – not being proud of this country until her husband became a front runner for the nomination and all. She also apparently doesn’t care much for the idea of a woman as vice-president. Much less a white woman.

Sooner or later I’m sure she will let her true feelings about Hillary slip in public and verify this. She does have a problem keeping her pie hole shut after all.

Obama, Wright, Farrakhan, Together on 2006 Church Newsletter Cover

-By Warner Todd Huston

My friend Tom Blumer over at the bizzyblog found an interesting image showing an advertisement that appeared in the February 12, 2006 edition of the Trinity United Church of Christ’s newsmagazine, The Trumpet. It depicts Barack Obama along with other – um, shall we say “notable"? – folks like Louis Farrakhan, the racist Reverend Wright, and Elijah Muhammad (founder of the nation of Islam, the extremist branch that Farrakhan now heads up). These faces appear on a purportedly Christian Church’s newsmagazine.

It makes one wonder, if all the way back in 2006 Barack was on the cover of a magazine with Farrakhan, Wright and Muhammad, how can he claim he never knew of the extremist views of his “spiritual mentor” the racist Rev. Wright? It stretches credulity that Obama could have been so long oblivious of what was going on in his own church. doesn’t it? To be coupled with Farrakhan and Muhammad like that? It would be absurd to imagine that they put Obama’s face on the magazine without his knowledge and approval, wouldn’t it?

As Tom says about the extremist bent of Trinity United and Wright: what did Obama know and WHEN did he know it?

(For a bigger version of the image, clickHERE)

**Little Green Footballs ids some of the other faces on the cover for us…

Notice who’s missing? Martin Luther King, Jr.!!

Toledo Blade Article Gets University Employee Fired

-By Warner Todd Huston

We are certainly used to seeing the MSM causing trouble for conservatives and this one is no different at least on that level. But the interesting thing here is that the trouble a social conservative discovered was as a result of what she wrote in the MSM as opposed to what was written about her by the MSM. It seems that the opinion editorial written by Crystal Dixon for the Toledo Blade got her fired by the University of Toledo because… well, you know how universities are all about free expression and speech, right? Unfortunately for Dixon, though, hers wasn’t the proper, politically correct sort of speech that is officially approved of by the thugs at the University of Toledo.

You see, Crystal Dixon made the mistake of believing that this whole silly idea of “freedom of religion” also applied to our institutions of higher learning. She foolishly asserted in her Toledo Blade op ed that as far as her religious beliefs are concerned, homosexuality is a choice made by the individual instead of some genetic predisposition, that someone chooses to engage in homosexual activities instead of assuming that being gay is forced upon one by “nature.”

Of course, Dixon based her entire op ed on her Christian religious beliefs. It was no hate filled rant and was quite civil, even tempered, and to the point. But the gay mafia inside the University of Toledo must be awfully powerful. Or, at the very least, fear of them was enough to stifle – no, execute – Mrs. Dixon over what the president of UoT must imagine is her wretched religious extremism.

President Dr. Lloyd Jacobs dashed off a letter summarily firing Mrs. Dixon from her $134,383 a year job as associate vice president for employee resources.

A letter to Ms. Dixon informing her of her termination, stated “The public position you have taken in the Toledo Free Press is in direct contradiction to university policies and procedures as well as the core values of the strategic plan which is mission critical.”

It went on to say her position calls into question her ability to continue in her role as an administrator in charge of personnel actions and decisions and that “the result is a loss of confidence in you as an administrator.”

Don’t you DARE have any religious beliefs in an American university. Well… unless it is the church of Satan, or Islam, global warming, anti-Jewish or feminism you want to belong to. Those are perfectly fine religious opinions in the halls of our fetid universities it should be noted.

So, what sort of evil, no good, rotten thing did Mrs. Dixon say in her op ed for the Blade? I mean, it HAD to be the most scurrilous thing on record, right?

She began with this:

I respectfully submit a different perspective for Miller and Toledo Free Press readers to consider.

SHOCKING! Wanting to be respectful of her opponents and to add to the debate? Say it ain’t so! She is off to a bad start with this. We all know that no university wants any different perspectives, don’t we? As soon as she finished her first words she should have known her job was lost.

First, human beings, regardless of their choices in life, are of ultimate value to God and should be viewed the same by others. At the same time, one’s personal choices lead to outcomes either positive or negative.

OUTRAGE! Speaking of God dooms this woman to the educational purgatory reserved for conservatives and other nefarious inhuman cretins as far as the denizens of our universities are concerned.

I won’t replay her entire op ed here, but it’s filled with some great stuff. But I do have to reiterate one of her themes before I close this article of mine.

As a Black woman who happens to be an alumnus of the University of Toledo’s Graduate School, an employee and business owner, I take great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual lifestyle are “civil rights victims.” Here’s why. I cannot wake up tomorrow and not be a Black woman.

You know, I have often wondered why the civil rights establishment has allowed homosexual extremists to co-opt the mantle of civil rights for their own twisted agenda? Dixon is exactly right. I can no more “decide” not to be white as she can “decide” not to be black. And, if people are to attack Mrs. Dixon because of the color of her skin, this is something so inherently wrong as to be axiomatic that a civil right would be violated by oppression based on that reality. But, it is possible to decide not to be gay. It is something eminently under the control of the individual to change. It is a behavior, not an unalterable fact.

But, all that aside, if Mrs. Dixon’s religious beliefs dictate that homosexuality is a choice, then how is it the right of the university to fire her over that belief? Has it affected her job in the past? I don’t see how it could have. After all, she has risen through the ranks of the university to a rather high position. If no one noticed her religious beliefs had affected her job by now, then it is safe to say that she was not acting in a discriminatory manner in the execution of her duties.


I hope Mrs. Dixon sues the University of Toledo and Dr. Lloyd Jacobs into oblivion. If you’d like to send this so-called educator a little note, try this email address: UTPresident@utoledo.edu. Or give him a call and set up a nice lunch with him at: (419) 530-2211. Then there is the ever popular yet slightly technologically backwards fax number: (419) 530-4984. I think the good doc would love to respectfully hear another perspective from all of us. He looks like just the sort of fella that enjoys a good chat, doesn’t he?

(Photo credits, the Toledo Blade for Mrs. Dixon and the University of Toledo for the prez)

Border Fence Ruins Mother’s Day for Mexican Families

-By Warner Todd Huston

If you are looking for an eyerolling, maudlin Mother’s Day story, you don’t have to go any farther than the pages of the Washington Post to get a doosie. You see, Ashley Surdin of the WaPo gave us a tear-jerker of a tale about how the border fence between Mexico and the United States keeps Mothers from being with their children. Yes those mean Americans and their insistence on border security hurts Mommies. To that all I can say is, Oh brother!

In fact, the WaPo is even claiming that those poor Mexican Mothers can’t put their fingers through that nasty, rotten fence to touch the tears on their baby girl’s face because if they did they would be punished by the eeeevil U.S. government. And these poor, innocent Mommies are worried that things are getting worse because the U.S. is building “more fences.”

Again, I have to say “Oh, brother.” Are these people serious with this nonsense?

Look at this schmaltz…

You can walk to the U.S. border, Francelia Menchaca’s immigration lawyer advised her, but don’t put your fingers through its fence. It may hinder her immigration paperwork, the lawyer said.

But when, after a year apart, Menchaca’s mother arrived in her flowered straw hat to the border in Tijuana on Saturday and put her small, wrinkled hands up to the cast-iron gate, Menchaca reached out and touched them.

“Were you anxious to touch my hand?” Menchaca asked in Spanish. Tears stood on her lashes.

“Yes,” said her mother, Francisca Rodriguez, a resident of Tijuana, as her three grandchildren, including a 10-month-old girl she had never seen, strained to be near her.

What rot!

Then, after whining that the fence is only “just wide enough to slip a hand or a homemade taco through” the WaPo regales us on how things are getting worse for these poor Mothers.

Safe gathering spots such as these are few along this increasingly violent boundary, and Saturday may mark the last time families can use them. Amid escalating drug wars — which have recently erupted in bloody nighttime and daytime street shootouts, sending people into hiding in their homes — officials are fortifying the border.

Within the next few weeks, the U.S. government will build more fences in this beachside area. The idea anguishes visitors such as Rodriguez.

Interesting how the WaPo doesn’t mention that these drug wars are fought between Mexicans and all the violence is on the Mexican side of the border!

Now, I’m all for Motherhood, it must be pointed out. I feel that all Mothers everywhere should love and nurture their children. But, much as I think this story is all kleanex and BS, I have a solution for all the Mexican Mothers straining to touch the faces of their little girls that reside on the U.S. side of the border. Keep your kids in Mexico with you! See, I do want to keep families together.

Anyway, if anyone can divine the purpose of this WaPo story other than to make it out as if the U.S. is the bad guy for daring to want to keep their borders under control, I’d like to know what it is?

(Photo credit: Sarah I. Voisin, the Washington Post)

Dept. of Labor Tightening Unions Financial Disclosure Rules

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Dept. of Labor (DOL) has announced that it is changing the requirements for internal financial disclosures of unions requiring more details on finances and spending, the AP report on the 8th.

Unions are required annually to submit forms to the DOL detailing their financial information, but Federal officials have decided that the current forms lack enough detail to assure that unions aren’t engaging in fraud. The DOL is also proposing that smaller unions can use the less detailed forms unless they fall under indictment or other legal troubles which then will find them required to fill out the more detailed forms.

The full info on the proposed changes will be released next week. But the AP detailed some of those changes.

These are the kinds of oversight actions against unions that will cease once Democrats get into a controlling majority in Congress, of course. These sorts of things will certainly be rolled back allowing unions, traditionally steeped in corruption and criminal action, to have far more leeway to go about their business unrestrained by government.

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