Weekend News Roundup -- If you are reading this today, you should consider getting a life. [krakatoa]

What does that say about me?

Shaddup, that's what!

President Obama shocks the world and continues yet another Bush-era policy. Let the Kossack wailing begin -- this one is over wiretaps:

The filing said President Barack Obama has authorized access to classified information on a "need-to-know" basis and argued that the government "cannot be sanctioned for its determination that plaintiffs do not have a need to know classified information."

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US offers condolences to Iranian victims of terrorist attacks on Thursday... I presume Bill Ayers dissents from his Protege's administration on this, as these sort of consciousness-raising activities are his very bread & butter.

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Following up in that vein President Obama is to make a speech at the University of Cairo that aims to make Muslims love us.

"The speech will outline his personal commitment to engagement, based upon mutual interests and mutual respect," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

The president's foreign policy advisor Mark Lippert says it will touch on "difficult issues."

"He doesn't hesitate to take on the tough issues in his speech, just harkening back to his Senate career when he delivered a very, very powerful message on corruption in Kenya."

Ah yes, that groundbreaking, world-shaking Kenya speech -- I remember it well. What, you neither? I looked up a report on it; It was a diplomatic speech, and I think we are all coming to the realization that the d-word is not an adjective so much as a topic for this president. It also dawns on me that Kenya may have done the influencing vis-a-vis corruption:

The senator also said that ethnic-based tribal politics in Kenya had to stop. Such politics was rooted in the bankrupt idea that the goal of politics or business is to funnel as much of the pie as possible to one's family, tribe, or circle with little regard for the public good, he said.
Mr Obama said that this stifles innovation and fractures the fabric of the society. Instead of opening businesses and engaging in commerce, people come to rely on patronage and payback as a means of advancing. Instead of unifying the country to move forward on solving problems, it divides neighbours, he added.

Or maybe those were some types of corruption that Obama is intimately familiar [cough]Chicago[cough] with.

Bah! I have it on good authority, he is incorruptible.

He is, as always, the Great and Powerful OzBama!

Posted by: Open Blog at 12:20 PM

Comments

1 Drudge has a link to this story in Pravda (the real Pravda). Here are a few excerpts

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 30, 2009 12:29 PM (aD7Bp)

I've sent links to a bunch of stories to Ace (and genghis) this morning, but alot of them can be found here, at Tim Blair's Aussie blog, and at five feet of fury, Kathy Shaidle's blog. Check out the U.S. and international stories there; they're all first class today.

BTW, speaking of Russians, apparently a Russian naval vessel, at least a frigate by the sounds of it, has mistakenly shelled a village near St Petersburg during an exercise.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 30, 2009 12:38 PM (MB+jN)

I wonder how long he can keep up the Rodney King diplomacy before the world's tyrants, dictators and terrorists collectively laugh in his face rather than behind his back.

He reminds me of the fat, rich kid in elementary school who offered to buy Cokes for his tormentors if they would be his friends. They stopped beating him up and were his friend... until the Coke was finished.

Posted by: Max Entropy at May 30, 2009 12:38 PM (7FgWm)

4 "If you are reading this today, you should consider getting a life. [krakatoa]" Seriously? I come here to get a couple of minutes for me. Right now I have no less than ten things going at once and another ten in warm up. As I pass the computer I stop in for a respite. I have always "gorilla posted" cause there is no time to breathe anymore, lol. It is a beautiful day Also, I've seen people post to blogs on line waiting to do an activity on their phone! so, with tech as it is, I think you can't assume we are all in the basement in our underwear. lol

Posted by: muffy at May 30, 2009 12:43 PM (zplc6)

Gorillas--those assholes?

Posted by: dr zaius at May 30, 2009 12:45 PM (MB+jN)

6 I think you can't assume we are all in the basement in our underwear.

For me, it's not so much an assumption as it is a fantasy.

Posted by: krakatoa at May 30, 2009 12:45 PM (FuVvK)

I don't get this Muslim speech. Will Obama also be giving speeches to the Buddhist world, or the Judeo-Christian world? the Hindu world perhaps.

Posted by: exceller at May 30, 2009 12:47 PM (6beBT)

8 "The speech will outline his personal commitment to engagement, based upon mutual interests and mutual respect" That shit is straight out of a Soviet press release, c. 1973.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 30, 2009 12:47 PM (7r8Am)

And I do have a life, dammit! I'm just about to have a snooze, for example. [See you in a few hours.]

Posted by: andycanuck at May 30, 2009 12:48 PM (MB+jN)

Er, he better not tell them his daddy in Indonesia put him down as a Muslim in school, since he now says he not, doesn't that make him an outcast or something?

Kemp

Posted by: kempermanx at May 30, 2009 12:55 PM (2+9Yx)

"The speech will outline his personal commitment to engagement, based upon mutual interests and mutual respect," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

Hahahahha; his speeches are always full campaign mode flowery bullshit that mean nothing.

Posted by: Vic at May 30, 2009 12:55 PM (BYokb)

12 I had a life, but it was redistributed by federal mandate, in the spirit of fairness. Apparently now the government has 75% of it, the UAW has 15%, and ACORN gets the rest.

Posted by: George Orwell at May 30, 2009 12:58 PM (AZGON)

13 The senator also said that ethnic-based tribal politics in Kenya had to stop. Such politics was rooted in the bankrupt idea that the goal of politics or business is to funnel as much of the pie as possible to one's family, tribe, or circle with little regard for the public good, he said.

Wait, doesn't that remind you of something? Something that happened recently? I think it involved car manufacturers. Or maybe I'm thinking of a court nominee who wants to make laws to favor her race over others. Nah, I must be imagining it.

Posted by: lmg at May 30, 2009 12:59 PM (Qt4Y7)

14 Ref #2.

Speaking of Blair's Blog, take a look at this.

http://tinyurl.com/lfww5b

Ted Rall, Ted Rall!, is demanding Obama's resignation.

Mua ha ha ha ha. Ha.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at May 30, 2009 01:05 PM (l+oXB)

15 "6 I think you can't assume we are all in the basement in our underwear.

For me, it's not so much an assumption as it is a fantasy.

Posted by: krakatoa at May 30, 2009 12:45 PM (FuVvK)"

hahhahahhaha so you know about the victoria's secret addiction?

Posted by: muffy at May 30, 2009 01:20 PM (zplc6)

16 The LA Times whines to the Great Ozbama: Obama, Save Us!

lat.com and scroll down

Posted by: PJ at May 30, 2009 01:44 PM (oUBw8)

17 Kemp, We see very little real religiosity in him. It would be nice to know that he truly believes in a faith, in God, in a higher power than himself.

Posted by: muffy at May 30, 2009 01:58 PM (zplc6)

18 That's interesting. Bess Levin who totally avoids popping in to post on weekends just did a post about MBA's at Harvard taking an oath not to do anything wrong, laminated on little cards. Reminds me of the hypocratic oath and the oath lawyers take when they are sworn in. Maybe as Martha would say "it's a good thing" but, didn't realize, they didn't have to take one. http://www.dealbreaker.com/

Posted by: muffy at May 30, 2009 02:10 PM (zplc6)

19 The senator also said that ethnic-based tribal politics in Kenya pork-barrel politics, fake stimulus packages, and government takeover of entire industries had to stop. Such politics was rooted in the bankrupt idea that the goal of politics or business is to funnel as much of the pie as possible to one's family, tribe, or circle or political patrons with little regard for the public good, he said.

FIFY

Posted by: chemjeff at May 30, 2009 02:12 PM (kw6LA)

20 Hope, change, seig heil!

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21 I'm laid off and drawing unemplyment. It totals 443 bucks a week including 25 bucks from the "stimulus". I'm reading the blogs, OK?

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