Another Week In The Life Of Barry Soetoro

The ominous part of this is that he's still got over half his term left, he's already pissed off pretty much the entire country, and he's STILL doubling down....

***Here is what the Obama regime told the U.N. Human Rights Council, which includes such exemplars of enlightened compassion, tolerance, liberty, and decency as Red China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Libya, Russia, and Iran about the state of human rights in Obamerika:

In its first-ever report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on conditions in the United States, the State Department said Monday that some Americans, notably minorities, are still victims of discrimination. Despite success in reforming such inequities as slavery and the denial of women's right to vote, the department said, considerable progress is still needed.

"Although we have made great strides, work remains to meet our goal of ensuring equality before the law for all," it said.

The report noted that although the U.S. now has an African-American president and that women and Hispanics have won greater social and economic success, large segments of American society suffer from unfair policies and practices.

High unemployment rates, hate crime, poverty, poor housing, lack of access to health care and discriminatory hiring practices are among the challenges the report identified as affecting blacks, Latinos, Muslims, South Asians, Native Americans and gays and lesbians in the United States.

Know why this was our "first-ever" such report?  BECAUSE WE DO NOT VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS, THAT's WHY.  Violating human rights used to mean taking and torturing political prisoners and labor camp gulags and suppressing and outlawing dissent and freedom of speech and secret police and, well, the sort of genuine abuses that are standard operating procedure in all the countries Barack Obama wants to suck up and bow down to and otherwise grovel before.  Now its definition might as well have been written in Beijing, Riyadh, Islamabad, Tripoli, Moscow, Tehran, Damascus, Havana, Pyongyang, and/or Caracas.  You might say it was a "collective" effort.  And Red Barry will eagerly accept whatever "verdict" they, the global guardians of "human rights," hand down, because he's already, on behalf of thee and me, pleaded guilty.

***Eeyore sets the stage the only way it can be: "Hey, if air is an environmental hazard worthy of federal regulation, surely bullets are too, no?":

NSSF is springing into action, as the public comment period opens on EPA considering a regulation that will ban all traditional lead ammunition. This would basically end the shooting sports as we know it. Remember this is a no-win situation for us, because bullets made of materials other than lead are often considered armor piercing by law. Copper is your basic material, and copper is expensive, and has much poorer performance properties than lead.

As NSSF has pointed out, there’s no real scientific basis for restricting lead ammunition. Just about all shooting ranges at this point are recycling their lead (it’s too valuable to just leave in the ground). California’s ban has not been shown to reduce lead levels in Condors, and has driven more people away from hunting. Additionally, it’s interfered with lawful self-protection in parts of California that are considered condor habitat.

I'm not even a hunter and this takes my breath away.  Can Barack Obama and the Green Police really not have noticed the McDonald decision?  Or how the gun issue has turned completely against them over the past twenty years?

Here's how they think they'll get around those trifling little constitutional (and other legal) details:

Several environmentalist groups led by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) are petitioning the EPA to ban lead bullets and shot (as well as lead sinkers for fishing) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Although EPA is barred by statute from controlling ammunition, CBD is seeking to work farther back along the manufacturing chain and have EPA ban the use of lead in bullets and shot because non-lead alternatives are available. But here's the catch: the alternatives to lead bullets are more expensive. A ban on the sale of lead ammunition would force hunters and sport shooters to buy non-lead ammunition that is often double the cost of traditional lead ammunition. A box of deer hunting bullets in a popular caliber could be upwards of $55.  

It's like saying, "I'm not going to shoot you in the head four times gangland style, I'll just poison you slowly with arsenic over a period of several months."  Not nearly as direct or spectacular or quick, but the end result is just the same - and just as illegal.

Eeyore envisions even this Congress warping back to D.C. to ram through a bill nullifying an EPA lead ban, which I do buy (it would go into effect two days before the election), and Red Barry signing it (based on his own re-election ambitions), which I do not.  I think The One would veto that bill and vigorously and publicly defend that ban.  Why wouldn't he?  ObamaCare, Arizona, Armus, Recovery Summer, the Ground Zero Mosque - It's not as if he hasn't spent the past nineteen months governing in "Fuck You Mode," and it hasn't slowed down the lower his poll numbers have plummeted.  In for a penny, in for a pound.  It's almost to the point where he already has very little left to lose.

***Lede by Slublog:

During the campaign, Obama repeatedly insinuated that the Bush Administration's approach to terrorism suspects was a violation of this country's values and stated time and again that he trusted the courts to bring terrorism suspects to justice. The unspoken message was clear: George W. Bush's approach to terror suspects proved that he didn't care about American values. Obama promised Americans that his administration would deal with terrorists in a way that he said would be more consistent with our nation's values.

He specifically made this guarantee to the families of those who lost loved ones in the al Qaeda attack on the U.S.S. Cole:

President Obama [in early February of last year] assured family members of Americans who were killed in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole and in the September 11th attacks that the terror suspects will be prosecuted and brought “to a swift and certain justice.”

However, the day before he made this guarantee the regime dropped existing charges against Abd al-Rahim Al-Nashiri, the leader of the Cole attack, and now has abandoned his prosecution altogether.

Why?  Because he's still in the military tribunal system, and the regime wants to finagle some way of transferring him and more jihadis to the Stateside civilian criminal justice system:

This is actually less outrageous than it could be.  Regardless of when, or if, the regime ever gets around to trying al-Nashiri, there's no indiction - yet - that they're going to do what you would ordinarily do with a "detainee" against whom you drop criminal charges in the civilian criminal justice system - let them go.  As long as as many captured jihadis as possible are kept "on ice" and out of the war against us, I personally couldn't give a frog's fat leg how long they're stash at Gitmo.  Sure beats the high likelihood of Eric The Red botching prosecutions and building the leftwingnut howls for transferring them Stateside - or....letting them go.

'course, the reason why The One doesn't release them is because that's about the one area where he has shrunk from acting out HIS "values" because even he has recognized how politically suicidal it would be, so he's had to content himself with merely indulging in the hypocrisy of aping the Bushitler.  This he knows he can get away with, because his grumbling cultist followers have no place else to go.

But if I may venture a prognostication, the further B.O.'s political fortunes fall, especially after the November midterm massacre, the less I think he'll be restrained by even the spectre of turning loose the Islamic mass murderers we've got left in custody to launch even more spectacular and deadly attacks against American civilians.  After all, by rejecting first his congressional allies and then himself, we'll have proven our "unworthiness" and how richly we deserve what we end up getting.

I bet Lucifer will be the one to cut the ribbon at the Victory Mosque's grand opening - assuming the radiation has died down by then.

***Not the it matters, but the regime's own Armus commission has issued another study that concludes that there's no need for a drilling ban:

President Barack Obama’s moratorium on deep-water drilling is no longer needed because new rules reduce the risk of an uncontrolled spill, according to a report for a panel investigating BP Plc’s blowout.

Rules issued in June by the Interior Department “provide an adequate margin of safety to responsibly allow the resumption of deep-water drilling,” according to the report today from the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington-based research group. The rules, if followed by BP, Apache Corp. and other drillers, and enforced by regulators, “will achieve a significant and beneficial reduction of risk.”

The report was prepared for the presidential commission investigating the BP spill. Its leaders, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Reilly and former Democratic Senator Bob Graham of Florida, have questioned the need for the moratorium, which is scheduled to expire November 30.

“It confirms what we’ve been saying in Louisiana, that a six-month moratorium is arbitrary and capricious,” Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Scott Angelle, a Democrat, said today in an interview. The rules “have created an environment where a bipartisan, independent group says we can get back to work. We need to start issuing permits.”

There never was any legitimate justification for the moratorium.  Its purpose was always ideological - to artificially extend the crisis bequeathed the White House by the BP spill, especially after nature took care of it all by its lonesome, in order to use it as an additional tool in The One's anti-energy jihad.  And by Barack, they're gonna keep it in place right through November 30th, even if the Supreme Court itself strikes it down.  And then Ken Salazar will make the ban permanent, even if the Republican 112th Congress negates it by veto-proof majorities.  If it costs him his presidency, False Messiah will bid hail & good riddance to every last drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf states economy right along with it.  Even if he has to go down in a bathyscape and personally re-break the Deepwater Horizon pipe himself.

***To all the U.S. servicepeople in Iraq he'll be hypocritically patting on the back next week, don't worry, your betrayer-in-chief still really hates your guts:

I have written previously here at PJM that all waiver requests should be denied. Unfortunately, if you are an overseas servicemember from Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington, the protections in the MOVE Act aren’t going to apply to you this year. And if you are from one of the states who still aren’t in compliance with MOVE — like Colorado, Wisconsin, or Alaska — don’t be surprised if you get scant help from Attorney General Eric Holder.

Waivers can be granted from MOVE only if states find a way to make sure the votes of servicemembers are still counted.

Washington, despite having plenty of time after an August 17 primary to get the job done, received a waiver today. Washington was unwilling to change their schedule of ballot preparation to allow for forty-five days mailing time. Though modern printing technology makes the Washington waiver unnecessary, it was granted.

Delaware election director Elaine Manlove says the state can get ballots out in time — but applied for a waiver “just in case.” Delaware’s waiver was motivated by caution, but caution isn’t a basis for the granting of a waiver. The law says “undue hardship.” However, waiver granted.

Rhode Island shared Delaware’s risk aversion: Spokesman Chris Barnett says they asked for a waiver in case they had a recount in the primary. A hypothetical “undue hardship.” Waiver granted.

Since MOVE passed last October, Massachusetts did nothing to adjust their late September 14 primary to comply. (This was the same state that introduced and passed legislation in mere days so that Senator Paul Kirk could be sworn in to vote for ObamaCare. The legislature previously stripped Republican Mitt Romney of the power to appoint replacements and required a special election.) It’s a shame soldiers aren’t as important as Senator Kirk’s vote was. Waiver granted.

New York sought a waiver. No surprise there: seven years after the passage of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, New York still wasn’t in compliance. Waiver granted. 

See, you can still enjoy the privilege of serving our country, even though Obamunist surrenderism will leave you with little else to do than peel potatoes, dig ditches, and be "models" in sodomy hygiene videos.  Or you can wuss out and return to civilian life, and enjoy the right to vote, until the regime finally formally does away with democracy altogether. 

But not both.

Call it a "less drastic" sacrifice than the one you may face now.  I'll guarantee you they will.

***Wow, looks like the Obama EPA are a bunch of dirty water and dirty air-lovin', globe-warming, polluter-hugging planet-killers after all:

Responding to a grassroots outcry from gun owners, the Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has denied a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and other radical groups that had sought to ban the use of lead in ammunition.

Agreeing with the position of the NRA and the firearms industry, the agency explained in a news release that it “does not have the legal authority to regulate this type of product under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).”  Further crushing the hopes of anti-gun and anti-hunting activists, the release added: “nor is the agency seeking such authority.”

“It’s outrageous that this petition even went this far,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA-ILA Executive Director.  “We applaud the EPA for its understanding of the law and its common sense in this situation — both of which were totally missing in the petition filed by these extreme anti-gun and anti-hunting groups.”

Because the EPA has no power to regulate ammunition, it will not move ahead with a public comment period on the petition.  However, a comment period will remain open until September 15 on the other part of the petition, which asks EPA to ban the use of lead in fishing sinkers.

Be sure to watch for more coverage of this important victory in next week’s Grassroots Alert and in NRA’s magazines.

Pussies.  They'll probably roll over, ass-skyward, for the National Rod Association, too.