Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: Sarah Palin for Czar-Czar

According to PolitiFact.com the Obama administration has thus far appointed twenty-eight czars! You may have missed some of these but we now have a Great Lakes Czar, so those lakes stay in line and don’t opt for moving to Canada.  Come to think of it, some of the Great Lakes already belong to Canada. I wonder if Canada has their own Great Lakes Czar? If they do and there is a conflict would it be Czar Wars?

We now have a Sudan Czar. I thought they had their own Czar, but hey, if it helps improve our image in the Arab world I am all for loaning them a Czar or two. We have a Health Czar despite the fact we have a Surgeon General and to be honest I’m not sure who’s in charge of health. You might think a Czar would outrank a general but a number of third-world countries with tons of Generals are run by colonels. (more…)

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Tags: Afghanistan, Canada, Czars, Janet Napolitano, President Obama
Posted Aug 19th 2009 at 10:34 am in Politics | 205570158 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/08/19/stand-up-notes-from-flyover-country-a-capo-di-capi/Stand+Up+Notes+from+Flyover+Country%3A+Sarah+Palin+for+Czar-Czar2009-08-19+17%3A34%3A50Jeffrey+Jena

Hero-Worship and God-Kings

God-kings are not new on the stage of human history, nor do they exclusively occupy the dusty corners of the distant past. One need only look to the Japanese worship of Emperor Hirohito during World War II to see that an industrialized, modern country can still vest in its leaders supernatural authority. And there are far more subtle ways of making divinity out of men as well.

The Apostle Paul was warned two-thousand years ago that, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Certainly his intention was to illuminate to the self-righteous that they do not live up to an actual standard of perfection, but perhaps there is more. For as surely as a man might be blind to his own failings, there seems to be some propensity in man to be selectively blind to the failings of others as well. This selective blindness may have many causes and find many expressions.  Some in our society carry cultural guilt and fear of accusations of bigotry that cause them to hold entire social, racial, and religious groups to different standards of judgment than others.  Still, it is the elevation of individuals above common scrutiny that creates idols of men. Whether it is a rock-star or actor, sportsman or elected leader, holding any man above reproach is folly, for in ceding to anyone our power to critique them, we grant them power man was not meant to have. (more…)

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Tags: Emperor Hirohito, Evan Thomas, george w. bush, George Washington, God
Posted Jun 14th 2009 at 12:36 pm in Uncategorized | 1584708 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jdboreing/2009/06/14/hero-worship-and-god-kings/Hero-Worship+and+God-Kings2009-06-14+19%3A36%3A09Jeremy+D.+Boreing

Government Motors

For context, see BlogDeVore.

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Tags: auto bailout, bankruptcy, GM, Obama, TARP
Posted Jun 1st 2009 at 5:21 pm in Politics | 149246One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cdevore/2009/06/01/government-motors/Government+Motors2009-06-02+00%3A21%3A44Chuck+DeVore

Lies Obama Told Me

Remember way back in 2008 when George Bush was still the President and everyone on the left was screeching about lies?  If you can’t remember that far back just flip over to MSNBC and wait a few minutes they’ll be happy to remind you. I thought I would write a short piece about the lies we have already heard from President Obama. I did little research and there are plenty of websites that focus on a lot of picayune stuff and things from long ago.

I decided to stick to direct quotes from the President within the last 18 months. Some I have commented on, the others, as they say at Harvard Law, res ipsa loquitur.    

1)  ”…not because I believe in bigger government — I don’t — not because I’m not mindful of the massive debt we’ve inherited — I am.”   Speech to Congress, February 24, 2009

2) “And that is why I have ordered the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and will seek swift and certain justice for captured terrorists…” Speech to Congress, February 24, 2009 (more…)

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Tags: big government, Economy, federal budget, lies, President Obama
Posted May 28th 2009 at 2:44 pm in Politics | 1451267 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/05/28/lies-obama-told-me/Lies+Obama+Told+Me2009-05-28+21%3A44%3A45Jeffrey+Jena

Barack the Re-Gifter?

I have a gift for Obama but I’ll get to that in a minute.

Awhile back I wrote an essay about how the policies of the new administration and comments of leading Democrats had negatively impacted my business. Since my personal economic downturn was directly due to the government I thought I might be able to scam, I’m sorry, receive some TARP money from Uncle Sugar. Twice I wrote to one of my senators, Sherrod Brown (D-OH) requesting a modest bailout. I explain how just a few hundred grand would put me on solid footing and allow me to help stimulate the economy by buying a new pick-up truck and a big screen TV.

Senator Brown ignored my first letter and sent me a form e-mail reply to the second. I may try again but thus far no Tarp money for me. So I am still picking up empty cans, striping copper wire out of abandoned houses, and standing on the corner with my “ I’m like Obama, I just want change!” sign to help make ends meets. I look in the want ads and sometimes I go out and apply for a job as a painter or drywall hanger just to practice my Spanish and see what other jobs are being taken from Americans under the guise that illegals only do jobs Americans don’t want. Does anyone in Washington realize that if we got serious and stopped illegal immigrants from taking jobs from working class Americans our unemployment rate would be zero? Hey, maybe that would stimulate the economy for less than ten gazillion dollars. But I digress. (more…)

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Tags: G-20 Summit, Gordon Brown, Obama, Queen Elizabeth II, Re-gifting
Posted Apr 2nd 2009 at 8:35 am in Politics | 95390140 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/04/02/barack-the-re-gifter/Barack+the+Re-Gifter%3F2009-04-02+15%3A35%3A14Jeffrey+Jena

Bailout: Isn’t Doing Nothing, Doing Something?

I’ve been out at sea on a working cruise all week and get limited television in my cabin. Two of my five choices are CNN and Fox News so I get my fill of every news cycle, but never more than during this past week when every other talking head on Fox and every single one on CNN was some important Democrat repeating the Obama line of the week: “We have to do something!” Usually this is followed by one of the following sub-talking points: (more…)

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Tags: bailouts, Congress, Economy, Obama, TARP
Posted Feb 10th 2009 at 10:23 am in Political Humor, Politics, Uncategorized | 4655447 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/02/10/isn%e2%80%99t-doing-nothing-doing-something/Bailout%3A+Isn%E2%80%99t+Doing+Nothing%2C+Doing+Something%3F2009-02-10+18%3A23%3A30Jeffrey+Jena