Unexpectedly! Again! Obama and his Cheerleaders just can't understand it, all was doing so well

Unexpectedly! Again! | Michael Barone | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

By: Michael Barone 05/31/11

“Unexpectedly,” as I noted in my Sunday Examiner column, is a word that often appears in mainstream media accounts of negative economic developments. Or “unexpected” or even “a real surprise.” Glenn Reynolds, the eagle-eyed Instapundit, has spotted yet another example. “Consumer confidence falls unexpectedly in May,” is yahoo.com’s headline on an Associated Press story whose second paragraph reads: “The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index fell to 60.8 from a revised 66 in April, a sign of the toll that high gas prices, a choppy job outlook and a moribund housing market are taking on people’s psyches. Economists had expected an increase to 67. It was the lowest reading since November.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/05/unexpectedly-again#ixzz1Ny4RwrIk

Time to stop sucking up to incompetence, black or white.

This is the end! Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube in 10.18 Seconds

In the mid- 1970's the fastest Computers could play Checkers, none could play Chess, yet.

Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube in 10.18 Seconds - Alex Knapp - Robot Overlords - Forbes

Alex Knapp ROBOT OVERLORDS MAY 30, 2011

Students at theUniversity of Swinburne have developed the fastest robot capable of solving a Rubik’s cube to date. The robot, nicknamed ‘Ruby’ solved a Rubik’s cubein 10.18 seconds, breaking the previous robot record of 18.2 seconds.

It was built from scratch by six students as their final year project for the double degree in Bachelor of Engineering (Robotics and Mechatronics)/Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering).

“Ruby works by scanning each face of a scrambled cube through a web cam. It then uses a software algorithm to develop a solution which is fed to the high-speed robot through a real-time embedded control system,” said Professor Chris Pilgrim, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies.

“The students’ combined expertise in robotics and software engineering enabled them to construct a robot with a fast computer vision-tracking system capable of very high precision movements and timings.”

You can see the robot in action below:

When I was a Lad...Navy too politically correct for 'old salts'

Defense, that's not important, PC Diversity comes first. So says doofus Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a Democrat and former Mississippi governor.

Navy too politically correct for 'old salts' - Washington Times

May 28, 2011 By Rowan Scarborough

The U.S. Navy is sailing into politically correct waters, sometimes at a speed too fast [even] for the Obama administration to keep up.

Whether it is policies on gays and women, or naming ships after social activists, the Navy is charting a course that has some “old salts” worried.

“It’s pretty dire,” said John Howland, a 1964 U.S. Naval Academygraduate who manages a web site on naval issues called USNA-At-Large.

“We’re back to ‘H.M.S. Pinafore,’ ” he added, a reference to the comic opera about English shipboard life. “The leadership of the military is pretty much politically correct kind of stuff. You like to think that we’re approaching hitting bottom, but these people are not through with us yet.”

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a Democrat and former Mississippi governor, has embraced assigning women to the cramp underwater quarters of submarines, including enlisted females on attack subs. The first female officers are do to report aboard larger ballistic missile submarines this fall.

In addition, Mr. Mabus has left open the possibility of putting women in the decidedly all-male and physically challenging world of Navy SEALs, like the ones who killed Osama bin laden.

“It’s my notion that women should have the same opportunities as men in the Navy,” Mr. Mabus told the Navy Times, an independent newspaper.

read on- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/28/navy-too-politically-correct-for-old-salts/

Laws replaced with regulation - Fireworks shows need new environmental review - FU EPA

Regulation and Bench Legislation-

Worthless busy-bodies and Fathead Judges think they know better with weenie regulations and rulings while California has gone to hell with the Tsunami of Illegal Aliens crashing over the border from Mexico!

Fireworks shows need new environmental review - SignOnSanDiego.com

Court ruling could have sweeping impact

May 27, 2011 By Mike Lee and Christopher Cadelago

Superior Court Judge Linda Quinn said La Jolla’s annual Fourth of Julyfireworks show requires evaluation under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. ...

The case, filed by the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation in Encinitas, targeted San Diego’s approval of the La Jolla event but eventually drew in a broad swath of city permits. San Diego officials said they issue about 400 special-events permits annually, along with up to 20,000 park-use permits for smaller-scale gatherings — most of which would now need environmental assessment....

Environmental impact reports can take a year and cost tens of thousands of dollars....

Alex Roth, a spokesman for Mayor Jerry Sanders, framed the suit as part of a “bizarre crusade to stop fireworks.”

“What’s next, a lawsuit against swimmers for polluting the ocean with their suntan lotion?” Roth said.

Read on at above link.

Spare no Expense - Kate Middleton wears $340 dress by Reiss to meet Michelle Obama in her tasteless $2000 dress

Here she goes again. No taste, no expense spared, and no class. Time and again Michelle Obama dresses in an expensive, gaudy mess only to be shown up by a classy, simple and dignified outfit by the first Ladies of Europe. [See photo]

It could be taken metaphorically, couldn't it? And Kate Middleton was the commoner!

Kate Middleton wears $340 dress by Reiss to meet Michelle Obama - NYPOST.com

The pauper's princess

Style experts say Kate’s the perfect role model as royal recessionista

By KIRSTEN FLEMING

Last Updated: 12:28 PM, May 27, 2011

As newly minted princess Kate Middleton greeted Michelle Obama in the ornate surroundings of Buckingham Palace Tuesday, it was hard to believe she was wearing a $340 dress from British retailer Reiss — a frock any commoner could buy.

Middleton’s appearance in the nude-hued “Shola” dress sparked a shopping frenzy, causing the retailer’s Web site to crash and the dress to immediately sell out. And now style watchers are hailing the Duchess of Cambridge as “the pauper’s princess” — the first stylish royal to embrace affordable trends, and the perfect recession-era symbol. ...

While Michelle Obama has also been applauded for wearing clothes from affordable stores such as J.Crew and H&M, she also favors big-name designers such as Jason Wu and Isabel Toledo. The floral Barbara Tfank dress she wore to meet Middleton this week cost at least $2,000.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/fashion/the_pauper_princess_rfiaz4yU7LIURcFv6aMOEK#ixzz1Nmx0BLU6

Here was the perfect reader's comment to the NY Post

Barbara Gunn

On the other hand, Michelle is dressed like she's attending a 1950s freshman prom. Yuck, doesn't this woman ever look in the mirror?

From the Corkscrew AP in 2004: Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate : Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Amazing!

From the AP in 2004: Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate : Fire Andrea Mitchell!

go see this

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2009/10/14/from-the-ap-in-2004-kenyan-born-obama-all-set-for-us-senate/

Back to the Pre-American World? Living in Appeasement World

Back to the Pre-American World?

Victor Davis Hanson Archive - National Review Online

May 26, 2011

American decline is a choice, and one that would immiserate the world.

Is America’s preeminent world role over?

That’s what a recent New Yorker essay, based on interviews with presidential advisers, claimed. It characterized the new Obama foreign-relations style as “leading from behind” — given America’s supposedly inevitable decline and growing unpopularity. The president is said to agree with pundits such as Fareed Zakaria and Tom Friedman, who have often outlined the parameters of what the post-American world would look like.

But if America abrogates the preeminent leadership position it has held for the last 65 years, wouldn’t the world look a lot like it did in the pre-American days of the 1930s? Then, a Depression-era United States was just one of many powers, and was reluctant to assert leadership abroad.

Eighty years ago, a newly Westernized and anti-democratic Japanese powerhouse, in the fashion of today’s rising China, was carving out uncontested Asian spheres of influence. An oil-, rubber-, and iron-hungry imperial Japan claimed it needed more natural resources to fuel its industrial revolution, and so spread an authoritarian Asian co-prosperity sphere of influence as an alternative to alliance with an economically depressed and psychologically withdrawn America.

Most Americans then were tired anyway of overseas commitments. Our ancestors felt that their considerable sacrifices in World War I either had gone unappreciated or had solved little — not unlike the way we are becoming exhausted by Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Libya.

A newly confident, united, and ascendant Germany was growing angry at other European countries. It nursed a long list of financial grievances over feeling used and abused. Sound familiar? A weak Britain and France had almost no confidence in their own declining militaries — sort of like the sad spectacle of their impotence in Libya that we have witnessed over the last two months.

Much-vaunted international institutions, like the bankrupt League of Nations, were about as effective in the role of world watchdogs as the corrupt United Nations is today. Europe and America were emerging from the nightmare of financial insolvency.

[read on at links]

Living in Appeasement World - National Review Online

Where Dreams Die

Betting the Farm Mark Steyn 5/26/11 [full post] I enjoy Victor Davis Hanson best when he’s writing about the California he loves and which his family has farmed for generations. Okay, “enjoy” isn’t exactly the word; it’s ineffably sad stuff. But he’s covering something that’s as relevant to the future of this nation as deficits and debt ceilings. “Where Dreams Die” concludes with a bleak list of some recent visitors to the Hanson homestead in “the center of our cry-the-beloved state”: May 2011: two males drive in “looking to buy scrap metal.” They are politely told to leave. That night barn is burglarized and $1200 in property stolen. Later May 2011: a female drives in van into front driveway with four males, “just looking to rent” neighbor’s house. They leave. Only later I learn they earlier came in the back way and had forced their way in, prying the back driveway gate, springing and bending armature. Later May 2011: shop is burglarized — both bolt and padlock knocked off. Shelves stripped clean. Victor adds: It is the little things like this that aggravate Californians, especially when lectured not to sweat it by the academics on the coast and the politicians in Sacramento. I can believe it. That “cry-the-beloved” line is an allusion to Alan Paton’s now mostly unread novel about South Africa. But my thoughts strayed further north, to the white farmers in post-independence Zimbabwe. First, you get some oddly determined visitors and attendant burglaries. Then, the intimidation gets ratcheted up. Your farmhands get beaten. The local authorities take down the details and do nothing. Then you or your wife and kids get beaten, or shot. You sell your land for a fraction of what you would have got a few years earlier. And, if you don’t, you get driven off it anyway. Or killed. White Rhodesians were the planet’s favorite pariahs for a long time, so nobody cares what happens to them. But it’s strange to see the same scenario starting to play out in the Golden State – and in parts of Arizona, too. Where next? Texas? Border immigration on the scale of the south-west is not about people moving but about borders moving. Less enlightened regions of the world understand this as they understand the sun rising in the morning, but it all seems too complicated for Californian sophisticates. Victor calls what’s happening to him “a clue to what’s ahead”. It certainly seems a safe bet that these trends will not diminish over the course of the next decade in an ever more debt-ridden state ruled by kleptocrat commissars far from the sharp end of their policy consequences. When widespread impoverishment meets demographic transformation, you’re not going to want to be standing anywhere near. I suppose his friends on the Stanford campus 180 miles away assume, consciously or otherwise, that, when it comes to their own neighborhood, they’ll be able to hold the line. But, of course, that in turn assumes there is a line. And, as a matter of government policy, there isn’t. go to-

Works and Days » Where Dreams Die

Why does he get a pass? Barney Frank’s Friends with Benefits

Because he is queer in every negative sense of the term!

Barney Frank’s Friends with Benefits - Michelle Malkin - National Review Online

MAY 27, 2011

The Massachusetts congressman’s shady ethics history.

Frank was rather miffed about the recent disclosure that he helped former lover Herb Moses land a job with the behemoth lender while sitting on a House committee that regulates lenders a decade ago. The Boston Herald reported Thursday that Frank immediately played the Everybody Does It card: “It is a common thing in Washington for members of Congress to have spouses work for the federal government. There is no rule against it at all.” ...

No doubt he’ll spring the Homophobia Card on critics at an opportune moment to ice his multi-tiered cake of excuses.

Funny thing. Not too long ago, it was Frank himself counseling fellow Democratic scandal magnet Rep. Maxine Waters to butt out of Boston-area OneUnited Bank’s bid for $12 million in federal TARP bailout funds because of conflict-of-interest odors. Waters’s husband, Sidney Williams, was an investor in one of the banks that merged into OneUnited and owned stock holdings estimated at $350,000. ...

Frank’s exact words to Waters: “You should stay out of it. . . . You should stay away from this.”

Read on at the above link, and it barely skims the surface of this arrogant fruit's corruption!

How Many Hours a Day are Wasted on Tyrannous Regulation? Six±

Do you go wondering where all your time and money gets wasted? It is no mystery.

It goes to "a zillion crankings of the government vise," "tooth-level surveillance," the EPA directive requiring milk to be treated the same as petroleum for the purposes of storage and transportation .... And there are as many there are dollars in our debt count!

"When you replace “law” with “regulation,” equality before it is one of the first casualties. In such a world, there is no law, only a hierarchy of privilege more suited to a sultan’s court than a self-governing republic."

Tyrannous Regulation - National Review Online

Mark Steyn May 28, 2011

Equality before the law disappears in rule by regulation.

Cass Sunstein is head of something called the “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.” I’ve seen enough conspiracy thrillers to know that when someone has so obvious a blandly amorphous federal-job description as that, it means he’s running some deeply sinister wet-work operation of illegal targeted assassinations in unfriendly nations that the government spooks want to keep off the books and far from prying eyes.

Oh, no, wait. Actually, Covert Operative Sunstein passes his day doing more or less what the sign on the door says: He collects information about regulatory affairs. More specifically, he is charged by the president with “an unprecedented government-wide review of regulations” in order to “improve or remove those that are out-of-date, unnecessary, excessively burdensome or in conflict with other rules.”

How many has he got “removed” so far? Well, last week he took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to crow that dairy farmers will henceforth be exempted from the burdens of a 1970s EPA-era directive classifying milk as an “oil” and subjecting it, as Professor Sunstein typed with a straight face, “to costly rules designed to prevent oil spills”. But Ol’ MacDonald and his crack team of Red Adair–trained milkmaids can henceforth relax because now, writes Professor Sunstein, Washington is “giving new meaning to the phrase, ‘Don’t cry over spilled milk.’”...

Read on - http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/268331

American Culture is Being Slowly Erased and Replaced

Saberpoint: American Culture is Being Slowly Erased and Replaced

May 28, 2011 see the above link (full post here)

With my breaking the story of the Soquel High School suspensions, I got my very first Memeorandum page, a blogging milestone. That was nice. Lots of local folks weighing in on the Soquel post, some saying the kids deserved their suspensions for past "sins" (like wearing American flag t shirts to school on Cinco de Mayo).

Apparently, someone has been putting Nazi symbol graffiti around the school, and this group of white students is suspected of being the culprits, and suspicion is good enough to want to suspend them. They couldn't prove the graffiti guilt, so they had to prove something easier, i.e. that the students were wearing white t shirts.

It seems to me that the program and goal of many universities and high schools in America is to erase America, replacing it with something else. In general, they do this by:
(1) Supporting and celebrating the culture, traditions, language and history of "the other," that is, nonwhite minorities, while claiming that doing the same for the white majority is offensive and racist;
(2) Instilling in the minds of the white students that they and their ancestors are evil oppressors, and that by the very color of their skin they are suspect and untrustworthy, deserving of shame and repentance;
(3) Justifying anti-American and anti-white attitudes in minorities by giving undue credence to their grievances and prejudices, and by reinforcing their status as "oppressed victims" at the hands of Americans or white people;
(4) Instilling in the minds of all students that it is a crime for any white people to be proud of their race or their heritage, causing knee-jerk reactions against any alleged "thought crimes," e.g. that celebrating Cinqo de Mayo may not be appropriate or desirable for a public school activity in America. (Hispanic kids should be assimilated into American culture and become Americans, instead of encouraged to remain separate and apart from, and hostile to, America.)

As for the white kids who understandably feel alienated by the leftist culture that surrounds them on campus, they should find more effective means of resistance. Shouting "white power" or adopting Nazi symbols (if that is the case) is absolutely not the way. Also, being white is something many patriots have in common, but no one should be excluded from a pro-American resistance movement based simply on their race. Attitudes and beliefs are more important. We need all the friends we can get.

What is an effective way for alienated pro-American kids to resist leftist indoctrination on campus? That is a question worthy of some serious thought. I don't currently have the answer. Suggestions?

Warning Signs: 600 More Days of Obama

Here is a meaningful link for us.

Warning Signs: 600 More Days of Obama

By Alan Caruba

As of May 30, 2011, America has 600 days more of rule by President Barack Hussein Obama.

He is the 44th President and, while we have had incompetent Presidents in the past, we have never had one determined to destroy the nation. It has taken a year and a half for most sentient Americans to grasp this extraordinary threat. He has not solved problems. He has exacerbated them.

It is Official, Meghan McCain is geographically a Valley Girl

Like, Air-head media darling (to prove how dumb all Republicans are) of the press now not only talks like a "Valley Girl," now

she like lives in California, like in LA near the Valley. She is like the extra 'right-wing' pundit on ABC Sunday Morning Show, This Week
with the international Air-Head Christiane Amanpour, for sure. Meghan "Valley Girl" McCain follows in her father's footsteps as like the "maverick" republican. This means she like sucks up to the press and they like give her "air-head Press." The press will even like turn on her, like her father, if she ever like agrees with another like conservative... but like that isn't like going to happen, for sure.

And if things go bad, its like Sarah Palin's fault, for sure.

Meghan McCain Responds To Glenn Beck | Jay Leno | Beck Vomit | Mediaite

5/28/11

... it’s because of Sarah Palin. Whenever she goes on dates, apparently the guy always asks her for gossip on Palin, which she admits “doesn’t put me in the mood, talking about Sarah Palin.” Therefore, since she’s sick of talking about Palin, she’s on a hiatus from dating. So sorry Beck, looks like you won’t be able to make it up to Meghan by taking her out on a date.

Like Watch the clip from NBC below:

Repairman Faces Charges Of Cleaning Out Bay Area ATMs, Refilling Them With Photocopy Bills

"The stuff that dreams are made of"

Repairman Faces Charges Of Cleaning Out Bay Area ATMs, Refilling Them With Counterfeit Bills « CBS San Francisco

He went into seven of these machines, took the cash out and replaced it with counterfeit, and not sophisticated, just simply taking some bills, placing them on the Xerox machine, cut them up and put them in its place in the machines,” said Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo County District Attorney.

The real money, $200,000, was on its way out of town, along with 64-year-old service man Samuel Kioskli, police said. Two weeks ago, Kioskli, of San Francisco, was arrested in Phoenix....

He’s not a 21-year-old. This man was in his sixties, and he suddenly decided to flee the area to go for a new life. The why of it is the answer we hope to get in the proceedings,” he said. “He did get 10 months of a new life, we’re not fully sure what that new life was, but it certainly satisfied him down in Arizona I guess.”

This was a story within a story, told by Sam Spade, fictional SF Private Detective. It was originally told in 1929.

Dashiell Hammett, creator of the hard-boiled detective novel, applied an existential viewpoint to his writing. His novel The Maltese Falcon is an excellent example of literature in which existential themes run through the story. ...

In Hammett’s novel, Spade tells Brigid the story of Flitcraft – a person from an earlier case solved by the detective. Mrs Flitcraft asked Spade to find her husband. The man had left his family with enough financial resources to be comfortable, but could not be found.

Spade traced his quarry to Canada. It turns out Flitcraft was a successful businessman. As he was returning from lunch one day a beam from a construction site fell and nearly killed him. This led Flitcraft to reflect on his life, and he concluded that he had not made enough of it. His near-death-experience made him decide to leave San Francisco and seek a better life elsewhere. He took care to see that his family was well provided for, then left.

read on- http://www.philosophynow.org/issue75/Sam_Spade_Existential_Hero

He is two steps backward into Socialism, so why wouldn't Lech Walesa snub Obama

Lech Walesa snubs Obama, fellow Nobel winner

Can't ever stop watching these thieves - A 62% Top Tax Rate? - WSJ.com

Stephen Moore: A 62% Top Tax Rate? - WSJ.com

As if things weren't bad enough for people, now a killer Horse Virus

Horse virus cases double to 75; at least 11 deaths

News from The Associated Press

May 27, 2011 by JOSH LOFTIN

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Cases of a deadly strain of a horse virus have more than doubled in the past week and suspected cases have forced the quarantine of 15 more facilities.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Friday there are 75 confirmed cases in 9 states and 61 facilities have suspected or confirmed cases.

The agency says 11 horses have been euthanized and 17 more have shown signs of the neurological problems that often lead to death.

Last week, there were 34 confirmed cases and 9 horses had died.

Horses from Alberta and British Columbia were also infected. Canadian officials are not reporting new cases.

The outbreak of the equine herpes virus started at an Ogden, Utah, horse show earlier this month and has forced the cancellation of multiple events.

Go to Equine Diseases - Herpes

Humanity at its highest and saddest. Wife talks about moment husband gave life to save her

Joplin MO tornado: Wife talks about moment husband gave life to save her | Mail Online

By JOHN STEVENS

Last updated at 11:46 PM on 26th May 2011

He is the husband that made the ultimate sacrifice to save his wife’s life.

As the roaring winds of the 200mph tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, Don Lansaw did everything he could to protect his wife.

Bethany Lansaw, 25, revealed today that as the devastating tornado tore their home apart, her husband, 31, threw his body over her in the bath tub to cover her.

‘He got on top of me to take the brunt of most of it and he’s my hero,’ Mrs Lansaw said in a tearful interview.

'I mean the house was ripping apart, it all happened so fast. All the pillows were flying off of us, the only thing I managed to do was keep one in front of my face.'

As the winds died down, Mrs Lansaw looked up to see that her husband was turning blue.

Hoping she could still save him, she flagged down a pick-up truck to get help finding an ambulance, but it was too late.

After six years of marriage, her childhood sweetheart had died.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391145/Joplin-MO-tornado-Wife-talks-moment-husband-gave-life-save-her.html#ixzz1NWP7gKsK

Is That All!? Report says federal research agency mismanaged $3 billion

Tax dollars fund shrimp on treadmills, Jell-O wrestling - Washington Times

By Stephen Dinan

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The Washington Times May 26, 2011

The Senate’s top watchdog on government waste, in a new report Thursday, said taxpayer money has gone to fund such programs as Jell-O wrestling at the South Pole, testing shrimp’s exercise ability on a treadmill and a laundry-folding robot, all funded by the National Science Foundation.

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, said he identified more than $3 billion in mismanagement at NSF, ranging from questionable studies to exorbitant operating costs, and in some cases duplication by the science agency of operations performed by other agencies.

Fed Funded Short List: Jell-O wrestling at the South Pole, testing shrimp’s exercise ability on a treadmill, a laundry-folding robot, a YouTube rap video, a review of event ticket prices on stubhub.com, a ‘robot hoedown and rodeo,’ or a virtual recreation of the 1964/65 New York World’s Fair,” (its a Small World After All, they could have gone to Disneyland where it moved in 1965).

Read on: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/26/tax-dollars-shrimp-treadmills-jell-o-wrestling/

Stranded Limos, Wrong Dates, Botched Toasts: Obama Has Rough Time in Europe, What a Joke

But I'm not a queen (thank God) and I don't have to be gracious. Queens are gracious by nature. There is a well-known story that when Queen Victoria hosted a dinner for an African chief, when the finger bowls were served, being unfamiliar with the custom, he lifted it to his mouth and drank. After a few embarrassing seconds, Queen Victoria took her finger bowl and did the same, in order guard her distinguished guest from humiliation. Everyone then courtesously followed the Queen, all drinking the contents of their fingerbowls.

This is out of a screwball comedy.

How did he miss toasting Queen Elizabeth in an Irish Pub?

My favorite line (I wish it were mine) was from Dennis Miller. Dennis Miller noted that Obama first stood up at the state banquet, turned to Lady Camila [Parker-Bowles] next to him and said, "Helen Thomas, you have the first question."

Stranded Limos, Wrong Dates, Botched Toasts: Obama Has Rough Time in Europe

[short post, full length]

President Obama is certainly having a rough time during his trip to Europe. Several small gaffes seem to be adding up.

First, Obama's eight-ton armored limo nicknamed "The Beast" got stuck on a steep driveway while leaving the American embassy in Dublin. Ireland. He had to be switched to an inferior limo. Some say it was a Ford Festiva [what, no Volt charged up in the trunk?]. Not Obama's fault, but still.

Then while signing the guestbook at Westminster Abbey, Obama tried to turn back the hands of time, signing the date "24 May 2008." Maybe he secretly longs for the less turbulent days before he was president.

Then he botched a toast to Queen Elizabeth. This one was only partly his fault. While delivering his toast, the orchestra started playing "God Save the Queen" a bit too early. Instead of just stopping, Obama plodded on, and when he raised his glass, no one else did, instead getting a tisk-tisk glance from the Queen (you Americans are still my subjects!). The London Telegraph reports it is customary for people to stand at attention in the U.K. during the playing of the national anthem. [He may have thought it was 'My Country 'Tis of Thee']

After the song was over, Obama again raised his glass, and everybody then followed.

Obama shrugged off the incident, joking to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg that the orchestra gave him a soundtrack to his closing passage, according to the New York Daily News.

Check it out:

Dictator Obama: “I’m working on gun control under the radar”

When I was growing up, Dictator was dirty word.

It still is! Who needs that inconvenient, government restricting Constitution?

We do!♘

Obama: “I’m working on gun control under the radar” | Greeley Gazette

Plans include enacting restrictions via executive order, bypassing Congress

by Jack Minor

While the Obama administration said it is committed to gun rights, a gun control advocate has spilled the beans, saying Obama is using stealth to work on firearms restrictions.

The Washington Post did a story on Steve Crowley, the White House gun control czar. Crowley is considered to be an expert on regulation and tort law. His approach to gun control appears to be a regulatory one.

According to the article, Jim and Sarah Brady visited Capital Hill on March 30, the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan; to push for a ban on "large magazines."

The couple reportedly were meeting with press secretary, Jay Carney, when, according to Sarah Brady, the President came in. She said the President told her he wanted to talk about gun control and "fill us in that it was very much on his agenda."

She went on to say Obama told her, "I just want you to know that we are working on it. We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar."

,,,

Dudley Brown, president of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, says he is not surprised to hear the President is trying to unilaterally enact gun control regulations. "It’s clear that President Obama and Sarah Brady have been using the ATF to enact what they can’t get through Congress: a ban on the importation of self defense shotguns, new reporting requirements for multiple rifle sales, and the attempt to smuggle firearms across the border to Mexican gang members are just a few examples."

[read on and other link at above link]

This has far deeper implications, The ATF had its failed sting, trying to catch gun shops selling to Mexican smugglers. It created false sales of thousands of guns that went over the boarder. The guns got to drug gangs, and one of these guns was used in killing a boarder agent. Good "under the radar" work.

And then there is Sarah Brady, This control freak is another sick story.