Starnes: Day of Doom Is Here

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Human Events:

Starnes: Day of Doom Is Here

By: Todd Starnes 3/1/2013 03:05 PM

 

I’m writing these words from deep inside my sequestration bunker – bracing for the impact of a three percent budget cut that President Obama said would cause our nation to fall into ruin.

 

“The One” prophesied this day would come – when jetliners would fall from the skies, when illegal aliens would roam the streets of our cities, and children would no longer be able to read.

 

The Mayans thought the world would end in 2012 – but President Obama believes it will end today

 

Most Americans believe his administration is manufacturing a crisis

To get to the bottom of the crisis, I called Higgins – my confidential source deep inside the Obama Administration.

 

“Todd, it’s worse than we thought,” Higgins told me –his voice trembling with fear. “We just received some new information from Congresswoman Maxine Waters. She is a mathematician without equal in the Administration. According to her projections, we could lose 170 million jobs.”

 

That didn’t seem quite right – considering there are roughly 145 million jobs across the fruited plain. But Higgins was defiant.

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That's funny.

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Word of the Month: Verlegenheitslösung

 

Posted byUlrichat6:41 PM·

 

A Verlegenheit is a difficulty one may find oneself in, tinged with a whiff of embarrassment, and a Lösung is a solution. In combination, they indicate a solution that is less than ideal, the result of necessity rather than choice—there simply was no better alternative available. The so-called fiscal cliff deal we were treated to two days ago looks very much like a Verlegenheitslösung to me—nobody is happy with it, but something better was not doable, and everybody has some 'xplaining to do to their respective constituents.

 

In Germany, I find the term used particularly often in connection with personnel decisions, like when a coach names someone to a team only because the usual starter or substitute is injured. The whiff of embarrassment comes into play because the implication is that the team does not have enough depth to field a better replacement. It's this whiff that distinguishes a Verlegenheitslösung from what's called in English a stop-gap solution. In addition, it may not (temporarily) stop a gap: A less-than qualified cabinet member, who was a Verlegenheitslösung when appointed, may last for the entire term of a government.

 

H/T Kraut-Blog for this post

http://krautblog-ulrich.blogspot.com/2013/01/word-of-month-verlegenheitslosung.html

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Saturday Movie Matinee: Sequestration Follies

 

March, 2, 2013 — nicedeb

Fox News Special Report: Krauthammer: Obama Only Left Out ‘Pestilence, Earthquake, Brimstone & Plague’ In Sequester Warning:

http://youtu.be/WOuE7gujs2U

http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/saturday-movie-matinee-sequestration-follies/

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March 2, 2013

Famous Presidential Quotes [Darleen Click]

 

 

 

via Political Follies

http://proteinwisdom.com/#sthash.Ck50J7h4.dpuf

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"THE FISCAL CLIFF!! THE FISCAL CLIFF!!! THE FISCAL CLIFF!!!!!!"

 

We've heard it before...it's well past the time we were threatened with this....well past the time when the arguement had "teeth". Well past the time when the "right" used the arguement to attack the left. Yet here we are.

 

And here we stand, for we can do no other.

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4Mar

 

Barackalypse Now: The story of one man’s destruction of the American Dream

 

By: Vince

 

 

By now you have figured out that Armageddon did not occur on Friday and the dire warnings from the White House that the nation would essentially collapse were, shall we say, somewhat overstated.

 

That doesn’t mean however that the nation and American prosperity is in any less danger. Barackalypse Now is indeed upon us, and it has nothing to do with the Sequester. It has everything to do with the deranged economic policies of the Obama administration.

 

Virtually every American would like to be a little better off tomorrow than he or she is today. It makes no difference whether they are rich or poor, or whether they are happy with their current circumstances. Most of us would simply like to be a little better off next year and the years after than we are today. Most of us don’t mind working to make that a reality, but the question is, how we can accomplish it. http://floppingaces.net/2013/03/04/barackalypse-now-the-story-of-one-mans-destruction-of-the-american-dream/