Here’s to another year of Obama-fueled fun in 2010. Pull the country over, I want to get off…

I kid, I kid.

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has inquired about the website lately. It’s really a testament to the power that a single person with no formal political or journalistic background can have (save the jokes) when you get e-mails wondering about new content from people across the globe. The internet really had broken down most of the communication barriers of the twentieth century. Citizen journalism and all that.

With a full time career, this website is something that is hard to start back up once it gets stagnant. I’ll find myself ranting in traffic, thinking what a good post it would make, but after a full day of work the sense of urgency is all too often drained away. I’ll definitely make an extra effort to get back into the swing of things because I certainly enjoy it. Knowing that you do as well, be it because you find Neocon News to be a haven for the wacky right-wing conspiracy or a beacon of reason in the blogosphere, makes it all the more enticing. Thanks for not letting this place drop off the face of this earth.

All the more respect to those of you who never slack off despite your real life commitments! I’m still reading all of you as well, even if I don’t comment.

Tags: blogosphere, citizen journalism, life commitments, right wing conspiracy

What better way to herald my completely unnoticed glorious return to blogging than by reporting on a story so close to the beginnings of Neocon News. The good news is that someone else has finally recognized the glory that is John Bolton’s mustache of truth. The bad news is that it’s under assault by Hezbollah terrorists!

This looks like a job for…

Keep watching for further developments. I anticipate some sort of mysterious accident in store for those enemies of the ’stache, which police will possibly attribute to a walrus given the way the wounds resemble a set of mighty whiskers. Truly no man nor boating accident could cause that sort of damage… or could they?

Tags: hezbollah, John Bolton, mustache, terrorists

Here’s what I’m talking about.

Waxman is also interested, say sources, in looking at how the Internet is being used for content and free speech purposes. “It’s all about diversity in media,” says a House Energy staffer, familiar with the meetings. “Does one radio station or one station group control four of the five most powerful outlets in one community? Do four stations in one region carry Rush Limbaugh, and nothing else during the same time slot? Does one heavily trafficked Internet site present one side of an issue and not link to sites that present alternative views? These are some of the questions the chairman is thinking about right now, and we are going to have an FCC that will finally have the people in place to answer them.”

Just think if one of us evil Republicans gets back into office, we’ll force you to carry ad banners for the George W. Bush library on your liberal myspace page.

I sure hope that the next time Barack Obama gives a press conference, he trots up RNC head Michael Steele to offer alternative views after he answers a question.

“The FCC and state and local governments also have oversight over the Internet lines and the cable and telecom companies that operate them. We want to get alternative views on radio and TV, but we also want to makes sure those alternative views are read, heard and seen online, which is becoming increasingly video and audio driven. Thanks to the stimulus package, we’ve established that broadband networks — the Internet — are critical, national infrastructure. We think that gives us an opening to look at what runs over that critical infrastructure.”

Thanks stimulus! Good job focusing on that economy.

Like I said earlier, it just keeps building.

Hot Air gives it a post. Check out the comments– they’re gold.

I’ve always thought that I was a crotchity old man at heart. It explains how I’ve always been politically conservative, throwing the old Churchill attributed adage about age and evolution of thought right out the window as soon as I was old enough to know who the old stalwart was. I just never felt that a lack of personal responsibility, which is what a typical twenty year old’s idea of liberalism practically equates to, was cool. These days I’m feeling the same way about the public at large. There isn’t so much a groundswell of support for the so-called stimulus package so much as an eerie apathy to the systematic dismantling of the American capitalist system. Apathy was never where it was at. I’d rather be tuned-in and angry than drifting and delighted. I said the same thing during the Bush years. I’d rather have liberals paying attention and annoyed than spending the entirety of their news hour clicking on MTV.com.

Apparently Barack Obama isn’t too familiar with Churchill either as he’s thrown away another symbolic vestige of the Bush era by shipping back a bust of the World War II leader that was on loan by the Brits, who had offered to let it remain. I don’t know how to analyze this. Is it a shot against Bush since it was prominently displayed during his term? Is it a denouncement of Churchill’s wartime ideology? Is it more simply discarding a painful reminder of British colonial rule? For all the disastrous decisions Obama has made so far, and there are many, he hasn’t completely shown himself as the liberal foreign policy dove some of us feared him to be.

I don’t have a problem with people supporting Obama. What I am concerned about is how accepting the people seem to be with our Congress passing a TRILLION dollars in new spending without any of them having read it. Without any of us having been able to read it. Obama has already blown through one of his campaign promises to bring sunshine back to the political process and yet there is no outrage from his supporters.

A liberal minded friend of mine recently commented on how he was upset that the Republicans were being ‘obstructionist’. He was concerned that the Republicans weren’t open to trying someone else’s ideas. The problem with that line of thinking is that the Republicans were kept entirely out of the legislative writing process by the Democrats. This tactic was endorsed by Obama, whose idea of bipartisanship is having some commentators who disagree with him over for drinks before completely ignoring them. After being kept in the dark and forbidden from giving any input in the crafting of the bill, the Democrats expected the Republicans in the House to vote in favor of something that ended up being completely opposite their ideological gut instincts. If we’re meant to work together, how can you explain tactics like that? If we’re to put aside our differences, how can you lock roughly half the country out of the decision making process and expect is to come together?

It isn’t about trying someone else’s ideas. It’s about being railroaded and expected to keep a big smile on our face while it happens. The irony that Rush Limbaugh, someone whose critics have most likely never even listened to beyond ideologically friendly website provided soundbytes, proposed the most fair bipartisan idea shouldn’t be lost on anyone who is still in awe of his high lord Obama. Unfortunately for our country, most of those who would support the bill primarily to ‘try new ideas’ won’t really do much digging to see how the sausage is made, so to speak. They’ll continue to let the administration friendly media tell them what’s important. More bitter irony from those who claim conservatives are FOX drones. No worries, they won’t even have the option of dissent (the highest form of patriotism, remember?) before too long. You won’t have to wonder if the conservatives, republicans, democrats or liberals are lying to you because the former won’t be allowed on the airwaves. And then what will be next?

What it all boils down to is this: we’re being slowly crushed into government dependence in this country. Don’t take my word for it, do some digging while we’re still allowed to argue over it.

Tags: barack obama, churchill, economic crisis, liberalism, mainstream media, Obama, personal responsibility, stimulus

It was old hat long ago on the conservative side of the blogosphere to call Barack Obama a communist but apparently the translation to the mainstream media takes a while. Glen Beck has picked up on the moniker, creating a publicity ploy for his new show on Fox that I’ll gladly fall for hook, line, and sinker. I’ve only caught a few episodes but anyone who has Penn Jillette on regularly deserves to be watched. I think that I’ll have to start making more room on my DVR.

Glen isn’t the only person in the media who is starting to slide the comparisons in. Jim Cramer has been spotted peeking out of his hole and he saw Lenin in Obama, which means that we can expect six more weeks of economic SNAFU on capital hill.

“Thank heavens for the Chinese communists, deeply rooted in a profit government,” Cramer said. “Because we have decided that profits have no place in the system.”

Cramer wasn’t sure what phase of the teaching of Lenin the United States was heading, but he narrowed it down to two.

“It’s the time for nationalization, and I’ll say this,” Cramer said. “Either the new economic policy Lenin, or it’s the initial storm-the-winter palace Lenin. I’m not quite sure yet. It’s a mid-’20s situation. It could go either way.”

All that prophecy being revealed, the bourgeoisie Republicans in the Senate are getting a taste of what it’s like to be in the favor of the one. (h/t Hot Air)

Mr. Obama called Ms. Collins and Mr. Specter, as well as Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, another Republican expected to support the deal, to acknowledge they were acting against pressure from their party and, one official said, to thank them for their patriotism in helping advance the bill at a critical time.

The irony would be delicious if we weren’t all going to soon be financially choking on it. Joe Biden blurts out during the campaign this gem about how the patriotic thing to do is to pony up at the tax table, but the foundation of professor Obama’s economic miracle cure-all tonic is built on doling out spending money to the Americans who don’t actually contribute anything to the system.

In a key concession to Democrats, 35 million families who make at least $3,000 but don’t pay taxes would get $300 rebates.

Will all this be in the final bill? Who knows, we haven’t seen it.

Here’s to hope and change!

Tags: barack obama, economic stimulus, Economy, glen beck, jim cramer, lenin, mainstream media, messiah, new economic policy, Obama, penn jillette, stimulus, winter palace

Remember when Obama wouldn’t pipe up during the Israeli conflict prior to taking office? How he couldn’t be forced to make even a peep about the tough issues while George Bush was still in office? How he kept mum about the specifics of the economy until the last minute? He was such a good sport that he didn’t want to step on any toes when it came to Georgia? Oh wait, he was just holding high level talks with rogue states during the campaign.

US President Barack Obama has already used experts within the last few months to hold high-level but discreet talks with both Iran and Syria, organizers of the meetings told AFP.

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However, even before winning the November 4 election, Obama unofficially used what experts call “track two” discussions to approach America’s two foes in the region.

Nuclear non-proliferation experts had several “very, very high-level” contacts in the last few months with Iranian leaders, said Jeffrey Boutwell, executive director for the US branch of the Pugwash group, an international organization of scientists which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.

Former defense secretary William Perry, who served in Obama’s election campaign, participated in some of these meetings focused on “a wide range of issues that separate Iran from the West: not only their nuclear program but the Middle East peace process, Persian Gulf issues,” Boutwell told AFP.

The Pugwash official declined to name the other participants, except to say they had considerable clout.

“We had very, very senior figures from both the Iranian policy establishment and from the US; people who have very close, good access to the top leaders in both countries,” Boutwell said.

Remember that direct talks without precondition were a mild controversy during the campaign. Obama, and by extension the greater left-wing, assured us that they would lead to productive dialogue and rainbow tea parties. Remember that the root of all our troubles in the Middle East stem from America refusing to talk to Muslim nations and Israel refusing to not exist.

So how effective are talks with Iran now that we’re engaged in them?

The proof is ultimately in the result. If this administration will do anything, it will allow us to prove that many of the negative assertions that we hold about the left’s policies are not just straw man arguments. Silver lining while we go down in flames. Obama’s diplomatic offensive has already proved to be a failure. If the Iranians were truly interested in progress or the slightest bit impressed with the chutzpah it took to run shadow-foreign policy before even taking office, they wouldn’t be saying this right out of the gate, would they?

“This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed,” Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.

“Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change,” he added.

It sounds like they have been talking a lot. Finding out what they have in common. Obama doesn’t seem too confident in the capitalist free market himself given that he’s attempting to systematically demolish it in the name of economic socialism salvation. I can hear it now: we enjoy long walks on the beach, controlled markets… it’s a regular telephone romance, only unlike normal relationships only one partner wants to kill the other. Maybe we’ll all get together after they have another chat till dawn and sing kumbaya. Yeah, and maybe Saddam actually used to get 99% of the vote in Iraq.

Allah at Hot Air examines how this revelation has actually caused stagnation in the Middle East.

Sister Toldjah is just as amused at Obama’s sudden pre-ascension interests.

Tags: Ahmadinejad, barack obama, Democrats, diplomacy, hot air, Iran, messiah, Obama, tehran, Terrorism