Obama to Skip Out on Memorial Day at Arlington

Boy, oh boy.  When was the last time a sit­ting pres­i­dent didn’t lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Sol­dier?  Accord­ing to the AP, Obama won’t be doing it — Joe Biden will.  Obama and his fam­ily will be going home to Chicago for “vacation”:

The White House says Obama and his fam­ily will travel to their home­town on Thurs­day and stay through the week­end. It will be their first trip back home since a visit for Valentine’s Day week­end in Feb­ru­ary 2009.

He will, however, attend a cer­e­mony at Abra­ham Lin­coln National Ceme­tery in Elwood, Illi­nois.  I know it’s not a require­ment for the Pres­i­dent to do it, but it is a mat­ter of respect and rever­ance for the ser­vice and sac­ri­fices made by our sol­diers.  If it was a one-time deal, I wouldn’t really care.  But this reminds me of the time that, shortly after assum­ing the office, Obama went to Europe and rejected vis­it­ing Nor­mandy to avoid offend­ing the Ger­mans.

I think that, and this is just a guess, Obama is trav­el­ing to Chicago so he can apol­o­gize to Rev­erend Wright for “throw­ing him under the bus”.  I won­der if he will attend Trin­ity United Church of “God Damn America”?

The Audacity of Harangue

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That’s exactly what it was yes­ter­day and today with “Pres­i­dent” Obama and “President” Felipe Calderon of Mex­ico, regard­ing ille­gal immi­gra­tion and the Ari­zona anti–ille­gal immi­gra­tion law.  (That’s what it is, folks — NOT anti-immigration.)

Obama said this:  “We’re exam­in­ing any impli­ca­tions espe­cially for civil rights because in the United States of Amer­ica, no law abid­ing per­son — be they an Amer­i­can cit­i­zen, ille­gal immi­grant, or a vis­i­tor or tourist from Mex­ico — should ever be sub­ject to sus­pi­cion sim­ply because of what they look like.”

And Calderon said this:  “We are and will con­tinue to be respect­ful of the inter­nal poli­cies of the United States and its legit­i­mate right to estab­lish, in accor­dance to its Con­sti­tu­tion, what­ever laws it approves,” he said, “But we will retain our firm rejec­tion to crim­i­nal­ized migra­tion so that peo­ple that work and pro­vide things to this nation would be treated as criminals.”

Crim­i­nal­ized migra­tionCRIMINALIZED MIGRATION????  It’s ILLEGAL to come into this coun­try with­out the proper pro­ce­dure and papers.  HEY OBAMA — I have a news flash for you:  A per­son, if they’re com­ing into this coun­try ille­gally, is NOT a law-abiding per­son!!  This law passed by Ari­zona, S.B. 1070, re-affirms what is in our fed­eral law, and does NOT dis­crim­i­nate NOR encour­age racial pro­fil­ing.  It is quite appar­ent that no one that has come out crit­i­ciz­ing this law (i.e. Eric Holder, Janet Napoli­tano, Obama, Calderon, etc.) has actu­ally read said law.  Do your­self a favor before mak­ing an ass out of your­self:  READ THE $@%& LAW!!

I stand by Ari­zona, and from now on I will buy every­thing I can that is made there.  I will sup­port this state whole­heart­edly, and I am hope­ful that my own state and other states will fol­low suit soon.  As per the United States Con­sti­tu­tion, “The Con­gress shall have Power To lay and col­lect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and pro­vide for the com­mon Defence and gen­eral Wel­fare of the United States”.  Also, “The pow­ers not del­e­gated to the United States by the Con­sti­tu­tion, nor pro­hib­ited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respec­tively, or to the peo­ple.”  The right to secure the bor­der of the State is not pro­hib­ited by the Constitution.

Oh, and another thing:  The AUDACITY of our so-called Pres­i­dent, allow­ing noth­ing but a glo­ri­fied drug dealer to address OUR Con­gress, is despicable. S.B. 1070 is noth­ing but a re-statement of the FEDERAL LAW, which Obama and his pre­de­ces­sors have FAILED to uphold, giv­ing the Ari­zona law enforce­ment the abil­ity to ENFORCE the law. I’m so sick and tired of our topsy-turvy gov­ern­ment. Obama’s speech with Calderon yes­ter­day was sedi­tious, and he ought to be thrown out on his..err, ears. It’s high time Obama be impeached for his crimes against the United States.

Some def­i­n­i­tions for you:

Harangue:  a scold­ing or a long or intense ver­bal attack; diatribe.

Ille­gal:  for­bid­den by law or statute.

Impeach­ment:  Impeach­ment, in the U.S. and Great Britain, pro­ceed­ing by a leg­is­la­ture for the removal from office of a pub­lic offi­cial charged with mis­con­duct in office. Impeach­ment com­prises both the act of for­mu­lat­ing the accu­sa­tion and the result­ing trial of the charges; it is fre­quently but erro­neously taken to mean only the removal from office of an accused pub­lic offi­cial. An impeach­ment trial may result in either an acquit­tal or in a ver­dict of guilty. In the lat­ter case the impeached offi­cial is removed from office; if the charges war­rant such action, the offi­cial is also remanded to the proper author­i­ties for trial before a court.

Obama’s Nobel Speech: My Analysis

I didn’t get to watch it, but I have read it — a cou­ple of times.  As a con­ser­v­a­tive and a Chris­t­ian, I will applaud Obama and his speech­writ­ers for devel­op­ing and deliv­er­ing a speech that does, in fact, edify Amer­ica and cham­pi­ons our cause against global ter­ror­ism.  Below are some excerpts of the speech that jumped out at me.

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Obama and the Nobel

Here’s just a short quote for you today, straight from yours truly:

Award­ing the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Hus­sein Obama is like award­ing the Heis­man tro­phy to kid that has just started Lit­tle League football.

–Eric Lee

Weekend Edition for 9÷13÷08

Good morn­ing, all.  The wife and I were up at the crack of dawn this morn­ing (my nor­mal time of get­ting up — around 5:30 a.m.) to get ready for her Praxis II test.  We left the house around 6:30 this morn­ing and drove over to the Uni­ver­sity of South Alabama in Mobile.  After I dropped her off, I headed over to the Shell sta­tion across from cam­pus.  The price there was $3.799 per gal­lon, but lo and behold they were out of 87 octane.  Since I was run­ning on vapor, I had to go some­where close.

The next sta­tion down the street was a BP.  It was a quar­ter of a mile down the road, and the price was $3.899 per gal­lon!!  I sup­pose this is all the supply-demand thing since Hur­ri­cane Ike has shut down a good por­tion of the oil rigs off­shore of Texas and Louisiana as well as the refiner­ies in the Houston/Pasadena area.  Still, I couldn’t believe the jump in price in that short of a dis­tance.  But it’s bet­ter than most areas that are start­ing to see the price spike above $4.00 a gal­lon — some places even near­ing $5.00.  Crazy.

If you want some inter­est­ing read­ing this week­end, here’s some links of the news sto­ries that broke yes­ter­day and today.  They’re bro­ken down by area of interest.

U.S. News:

Hur­ri­cane Ike Slams into Hous­ton and Galveston

Fif­teen peo­ple killed when com­muter and freight trains col­lide in Los Angeles

Sci­ence and Technology:

Anti-Spam Law Over­turned; Spam­mer Walks

Google buys Korean blog­ging soft­ware com­pany — Oh Nos!

Pol­i­tics:

Obama Regrets Not Pick­ing Hillary — Biden even dissed him­self and lifted Hillary up.

Obama Back­ers Jit­tery, Obama starts get­ting des­per­ate and calls McCain ‘Out of Touch’

Sports:

Bran­don Webb hits 20 wins as the D’backs beat Reds 3–2.

Titans’ Vince Young was sui­ci­dal?

Alright, folks.  Enjoy the read­ing.  It’s time for me to head over to Barnes & Noble and see if I can find some PHP/MySQL/Wordpress books…Time to start devel­op­ing my hobby!  Have a good rest of your Sat­ur­day and a great Sunday!