Our Next Surgeon General: Barbara Bellar

Dr. Bellar is as accurate as she is funny.  If Romney wins she should at the very least be the next Surgeon General if not Secretary of HHS.

Rep. Cleaver- Criticizing Obamacare is racism!

My old buddy (and congressman) Emanuel Cleaver is at it again.  His comments after Mitt Romney's appearance at this week's NAACP convention would suggest that the good Reverend believes any criticism of Barack Obama is racism, particularly when said in front of a group such as the NAACP.

Yes, Romney was booed when he promised to repeal Obamacare.  Hey, I'm sure that didn't come as any great surprise to the GOP nominee.  What many mainstream media outlets aren't telling you is that the NAACP cheered Romney when he talked about the importance of issues like traditional marriage, jobs, and family.

I planned to use this space to go on a diatribe against the despical Emanuel Cleaver, until I found this video from a SACSTW favorite, Kira Davis.  On Feb. 29, we posted one of Kira's videos, and that has gone on to be the most-viewed post in SACSTW history.  Well, Kira has hit another home run with her response to Congressman Cleaver........

R.I.P. America

I remember the last time I ached for my country like I do today.  It was a Tuesday morning, and I was sitting in my office watching television.  The date was September 11, 2001.  I watched fellow Americans leap hundreds of feet to their deaths to escape the flames.  My pain that morning was quickly overshadowed by anger, a desire for vengeance against the perpetrators of such evil.

Today is different.  I feel the same kind of pain and anguish for my country, but I'm all out of anger.  In its place is shame and resignation.  Shame that we have allowed this to happen to the magnificent gift we were given by men like Washington, Adams, Madison, and Jefferson.  Shame that the lives my children have in front of them are now colored by socialism and federal tyranny rather than freedom and personal responsibility.

I feel resigned to the idea that the statists have won.  There are too many people in our country who now expect the government to provide for them cradle to grave, too many who have learned what de Tocqueville warned about.......

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” 
― Alexis de Tocqueville

Three months ago in this space, I wrote the following line...

 If the individual mandate is upheld by the court, then the great American experiment is over. 

And over it is.  Next Wednesday would have been the 236th birthday of that experiment, but we didn't quite make it.  Of course, tomorrow morning the map will still read "United States of America", but that is in name only.  I've heard all the pundits and analysts today down in the weeds of Obamacare, talking penalty versus tax, pre-existing conditions, employer responsibilities, rising premiums, blah blah blah.  

None of that crap matters one whit.  What matters is that the Supreme Court has said that the federal government can now tax you for not doing something.  The federal government can compel you to purchase a product.  It's health insurance today, what will it be tomorrow?  

Those of us who love the Constitution, and believe in the idea of limited government, have been lied to.  We have been told that we should fight for our ideals at the ballot box and in the court rooms.  I never really believed that, but I was willing to play along. Not any more. The federal government has become a living, breathing monster, one that will never allow itself to be defeated by the mere act of voting.  We must now realize that the fight for freedom will require more stringent measures, just as it did almost 236 years ago.

Monday Musings With The Crew

I was just going through some old photos in the SACSTW Historical Archives, and found this one that I sentimentally call "The Great and Yakking Sahib".  Now, on with the countdown!

• A ruling on round 3 of Obama vs. The U.S. Constitution appears to be forthcoming this week from SCOTUS, possibly even today.  This is the last scheduled week of the Court's term, and a ruling is also expected on Arizona's controversial immigration legislation. Nothing more important than the Obamacare decision will happen in the country this week.  It is literally a fork in the road for the nation.  If Obamacare is upheld, then Dear Leader and his statist cronies have the green light to continue "fundamentally transforming" America.  SACSTW will continue to stay on top of this story as it develops during the week.  

• Here is a story that tells you all you really need to know about Barack Hussein Obama.  We all know that he "loves" Hispanics, particularly the 60-70% of them that are solid Democrat voters.  He has railed about the inherent racism of securing our borders, blasted the GOP for being anti-Latino, and even sued the state of Arizona to curry favor amongst Hispanics.  Obama feels a close bond with his brown-skinned brethren, and holds them close to his heart......unless they have silverware.  Last Friday, Dear Leader made an appearance at a luncheon of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials in Lake Buena Vista, FL.  An announcement was made towards the end of the meal that all silverware would have to be turned in to Secret Service personnel before Obama entered the room.  So all you lib Latinos out there, Barry loves ya, but he still thinks one of you might try and shank him with a dessert fork in the rope line.  Next time you see him, why don't you ask him if he made George Clooney and Sarah Jessica Parker turn in their forks too.  Read the full story here at politico.com.

• In what I can only assume is a completely fabricated crime update, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that 2 people were killed (including a 13 year old boy) and 13 wounded in 12 separate shootings within the city Saturday night.  I say fabricated because as we all know, there are no more guns on the streets of Chicago after the Police Department conducted their annual Murder Weapon Turn In and Evidence Disposal Gala on Saturday afternoon.  If the Trib is correct in its reportage, then we are left with the conclusion that liberal feel-good shams like gun turn-ins are colossal wastes of time, resources, and Other People's Money.  What?....you didn't think Rahm Emanuel was kicking in the 100 bucks per piece on Saturday did you?

• Hey, here's a candidate for the worst thing I've ever heard.  Last year, Loretta Robinson's son Justin was killed by a drunk driver in Greenville, SC..  By the way, the drunk driver, Anna Gonzalez, is an illegal immigrant who has been in this country for 12 years and has never had a driver's license.  If that isn't outrageous enough, Ms. Robinson received a bill for $50 from the city for cleaning the street of her son's blood.  So.....it's not enough to just allow illegal immigrants into our country, provide them healthcare, education, employment...  Now we have to pay to clean up after them when they murder our children.  Anybody had enough yet?

Oh gee, I don't know what makes me think this is a bad thing.

• The Arab Spring that swept Hosni Mubarak from power in Egypt was roundly hailed by Dear Leader as the beginnings of freedom, tolerance, and equality in the Arab world. Uh, not so much.  Muslim Brotherhood puppet Mohammed Morsi won the presidential run-off election in Egypt over the weekend.  If you are a U.S. citizen or a Christian of any nationality in Egypt, run, don't walk to the nearest embassy and get out of the country.  It is lost.  

• Let's end on a more lighthearted note this week.....I was trying to do some research on amphibious assault over the weekend, but all I could find was this....

Obama Grilled By Joe Friday On Lost Episode Of Dragnet!

Many thanks to the Crew's brother for pointing out this great video.....

Seriously Barry, just the facts.......

Obama vs the U.S. Constitution- Round 3

Amidst all the finger pointing, death threats, and general mayhem going on in Sanford, FL this week, let's not forget that meanwhile our constitutional republic has been fighting for its very life.

Recapping Obama vs the Constitution to this point.....

Round 1 saw the Constitution deliver a sharp jab to Obama, rocking him back on his heels.  Dear Leader rebounded in Round 2, forcing his recess appointments past the Constitution's defenses.  Bloodied but unbowed, the venerable champ now takes aim at the "transformational" upstart in Round 3- Obamacare.

After 3 days, the arguments before the Supreme Court on Obamacare have ended.  Most observers in the court room have indicated it has been a very bad week for Dear Leader and the obamination that is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Monday arguments centered around whether the fee imposed on those who don't comply with the individual mandate is in fact a penalty or a tax.  This is a critical point, as it gives the Supreme Court its standing to render an opinion.  If the fee is deemed a tax, then SCOTUS can not rule on it until someone has actually paid the tax, which won't occur until 2014.  If the fee is a penalty, then the court has the ability to rule on it now.  Throw out the lawyer-speak, and let's examine those two words.  A tax is a sum assessed based on a citizen's actions, ie the purchase of a vehicle, the earning of income, the ownership of a home.  A penalty is assessed for a citizen's inaction, i.e. the failure to file a tax return, the failure to comply with local codes, etc.  If we allow the government to "tax" us for actions we don't take, then we have lost what little freedom we have left.

 Tuesday was the real centerpiece of the case, with discussions of the constitutionality of the individual mandate taking center stage.  U.S Solicitor General Donald Verrilli argued Obama's case.  Undercover SACSTW correspondents were able to smuggle out video of Verrilli's appearance before the court, Verrilli is the one in the white trunks...........

The Obama administration maintains that the individual mandate is permissible under "the commerce clause" of the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 8).  The clause reads.."[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes;".  Commerce of course, is economic activity.  Buying, selling, manufacturing, shipping, etc.  Commerce is not economic inactivity.  An individual who does not buy health insurance is NOT participating in commerce.  It is as simple as that.

The individual mandate in Obamacare is the most venomous threat to our liberties that the progressive left has ever concocted.  It was summed up beautifully by Justice Kennedy when he said that the individual mandate "changes the relationship of the government to the individual in a very fundamental way".  You bet it does.  If the individual mandate is upheld by the court, then the great American experiment is over.

Yesterday, the court heard arguments about the "severability" of the individual mandate.  In other words, if the mandate is properly struck down as unconstitutional, does that invalidate the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  Of course it does.  Some on the left would have you believe that the individual mandate can just be "carved out" of Obamacare, leaving the rest of its odious and onerous provisions standing.  That's like the car dealership telling you they can lower the price of your new car by selling it to you without wheels.  The mandate is what allows Obamacare to function, without it the entire bill must be abandoned.

Make no mistake folks, this is it.  This is the fight for the very existence of the American way of life that Barack Obama has been itching for since he said this 5 days before the 2008 election..

The future of our nation, the oceans of blood we have shed for our freedom, the chance for our children and grandchildren to live as free citizens of the greatest nation on Earth, all of this now hangs in the balance.

Monday Musings With The Crew

• The most important thing we learned during last week's contraceptive kerfluffle is that the Obama Administration, like SACSTW, is in possession of a time machine.  Dear Leader fired that sucker up last week and gave us all a glimpse of what government healthcare will look like in our near future.  Federal interventionism is going to reach stratospheric new heights under Obamacare, and forcing religious entities to violate their own tenets is just the beginning.  Who knows, maybe even as we speak Obama is making plans to force mosques in America to serve pulled pork sandwiches on plates emblazoned with a likeness of Muhammad.  Yeah, probably not. 

• For all of us Star Trek fans out there, one of the great mysteries of life is how super-villain Khan rose to power on Earth.  You know, before he was banished to Ceti Alpha V by Captain Kirk.......

Well, now we know.  Khan got his start as Barack Obama's Health and Human Services Secretary...

Huh, I thought a Prince of the Eugenics Wars would be taller.

• Oklahoma State Senate bill 1433 seeks to define human life as beginning at the moment of conception. Predictably, this has pro-abortion progressives all abuzz..  An article by Jessica Pieklo at www.care2.com said this...."Like all other personhood measures, this one would afford that homeless cluster of cells full and equal rights under the law".  The Crew would humbly ask Ms. (i'm guessing) Pieklo exactly when that "homeless cluster of cells" becomes human life in her learned opinion.  The best part of this story is a proposed amendment to 1433.  Known as the "Every Sperm is Sacred" amendment, it reads "Any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a women's vagina shall be construed as an action against an unborn child".  The amendment was proposed by pro-abortion Democratic State Senator Constance......(wait for it)........Johnson!  Look people, I can not make this stuff up.  Fortunately, the Johnson amendment was prematurely withdrawn before further action was needed.  I'm sure all the voters of Oklahoma are so proud.  

• Of course the big news over the weekend was the death of Whitney Houston at 48 years of age.  A monumental talent, Houston's life was derailed by a long history of poor decisions.  Her death is an opportunity for parents to teach their children the consequences of bad decisions, and of surrounding yourself with those that make bad decisions.  Rather than dwell on the sordid circumstances surrounding Houston's demise, I'd rather just leave you with this memory of her finest moment.....

Young, Wild, and Naked: A Deadly Threat!

Hello devoted readers!  I know that you clicked on the link to this blog post to see naked, ax-wielding supermodels, or because you were thinking "What did Morgan Freeman do now?"  Here you go. Sort of...   (Sorry, this blog safe viewing for everyone but liberals.)

Beautiful and Deadly! (not)

Titillating and scary sells.  How else could we have such venerable Hollywood classics like "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers"?  So if I had titled this post "The Hidden Dangers of Federal Regulation", would you have clicked on it?  I know I wouldn't have.  It would have met with a yawn and a "Pass!"

Americans suck at evaluating risk.  You are three times more likely to die from tipping over a vending machine than from a shark attack, but I must have missed the "When Snacks Attack!" special on the Discovery channel during Vending Machine Week

Here is a picture of something a million times deadlier than the attractive young lady above.  If your children are near, shield their eyes.

Code of Federal Regulations Books:  Boring and Deadly (VERY)

New federal laws are the sexy ax-wielding Victoria's Secrets models riding a shark.  Federal regulation is the vending machine tipping over on you after you've had a heart attack from high blood pressure.  Let me illustrate with an example currently in the news.

There's a relatively new law of which you may have heard.  We lovingly refer to it as Obamacare.  It was the cause of much brouhaha and ballyhoo.  What you may not know is that it is packed with HIPAA regulations that will cost billions to implement.  These are not part of the obese monstrosity that is already the law.  These are "add-ons".  These regulations get ZERO press.  New regulations, departmental "guidelines", and level of enforcement are everything.  With the right regs and enforcement, you can make just about any law mean anything you want.

Recently however; the Obama administration has inexplicably tipped its hand.  Feeling 50 foot tall and bullet-proof because they hadn't been previously taken to task, they decided they were up to tangling with the Catholic Church.  Obamacare forces employer provided healthcare plans to include contraceptive coverage as part of those plans.  As per Obama administration instructions to HHS, the scope of religious exemptions is to be very narrow and enforcement to be vigilant.  Needless to say, Catholics around the country (including Obama supporters) are not amused.

The moral of this tale dear readers, is that elections matter.  Who the president is matters. Not in the sexy veto, state-of-the-union, commander-in-chief sort of way, but in the boring departmental and lower-court appointee way. Obama must go!  If Mr. BoTingles Chris Matthews thinks the president has gone to far, then WOW!



H/T Laughing Conservative

Obama vs the U.S. Constitution- Round 2

How I got Mrs. Crew to pose for this
I will never know!

Ding Ding Ding Ding

Round 2- Recess Appointments

     A shaken and wobbly Obama retreated to his corner after a beatdown from the US Constitution in Round One.  With cutman Bill Ayers and manager Jeremiah Wright exhorting him to continue, Obama answered the bell for Round Two on January 4th by appointing 3 new members to the National Labor Relations Board and Richard Cordray to be the director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  Normally such appointments require Senate consent, but Obama sidestepped that little detail by labeling the moves "recess" appointments.

    Appointment of senior Federal officials requires the advise and consent of the U.S. Senate.  Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution allows the President to apppoint such officials without consent during times the Senate is in recess.

3:  The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

     Such recess appointments have been used by Presidents of every party since Washington, so hey, what's the big deal right?  Really, it isn't a big deal to the Crew, except as an example of the rampant hypocrisy of the left (that means you Bill).  

     Here's the rub... When Dear Leader made his recess appointments on January 4th, the Senate had only been in "recess" for 2 days, not the 3 required by law. In addition, Senate Republicans have been meeting in what is called "pro forma" sessions, meaning the Senate is technically not in recess at all.  Lefties are crying foul, saying Republicans are using political tricks and technicalities to deny Obama the power to make recess appointments.  They are right, that is exactly what Senate Republicans are doing.  

     If you are starting to feel a weird sense of deja vu, don't fret.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid used exactly the same tactics to prevent President George W. Bush from making recess appointments.  The difference is that President Bush had enough respect for the Constitution to not ignore the "technicalities" of the Senate rules.  Barack Hussein Obama has no such respect, and has demanded his recess appointments go through.

     Looks like Obama has won on points in Round 2, knotting the bout at one round each.  The big showdown comes in Round 3 scheduled for late March.  That's when the Supreme Court will take up the issue of Obamacare's constitutionality.  In my humble opinion, the individual mandate is CLEARLY unconstitutional.  SCOTUS should stand tall, strike down Obamacare, and continue the championship reign of the U.S. Constitution.