In case you missed it, Obama had the Oval Office redone while he was on one of his many vacations. The Obama decided to so for a suburban rec room theme for the most powerful  office in the world. They also have violated one of the traditions of the office and I wonder if they even know. I'll give you guys a few shots at it before I point out yet another Obama insult.

Update: I was mistaken. Truman moved the eagles head from left to right and many (Including myself and Dan Brown) thought that the eagles head faced right in times of war and left in times of peace. Snopes says that this is a rumor.

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Christina Romer, chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, was giving what was billed as her "valedictory" before she returns to teach at Berkeley, and she used the swan song to establish four points, each more unnerving than the last:

She had no idea how bad the economic collapse would be. She still doesn't understand exactly why it was so bad. The response to the collapse was inadequate. And she doesn't have much of an idea about how to fix things.

OK, who here is surprised that a Professor from Berkeley had no fucking clue? Yeah, I didn't think so. She is the poster child for what is wrong with the BO administration. Barry O hired a bunch of liberal academics with no real word experience. Now they all have to admit that the real world has kicked their asses, so it's time to go back to poisoning young minds with ideas that don't work.

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The poorly named Birther movement has just had a major boost. For those of you that have dismissed the whole idea that the commander-in-chief of the US military should be held to the same requirements as a 16 year old getting a drivers license, Lt. Col. Terry Lakin has been court martialed for not obeying a deployment order from Barak Obama. 

Lt. Col. Lakin has stated that he will gladly deploy when Barak Obama produces a real birth certificate. To date Obama has only provided an image of a registration form and has yet to provide a copy of his original birth certificate.

Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (ret.) has signed an affidavit supporting court martialed birther Lt. Col. Terry Lakin

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Last night Barak Insane Obama compared the patriotism of GW Bush with the deranged liberals that hated the Iraq war. Here is a sampling of what Uber-leftyist liberal Obama thinks is patriotism.

Dick Durbin compared the thankless efforts of U.S. interrogators to the work of "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings." This was not a flip comment by a Durbin caught on tape after a few drinks. He said this on the Senate floor, reading from a text, on June 14, 2005, amid the worst stretch of killings of American soldiers by terrorists inside Iraq.

Taking a page from Durbin's playbook, Congressman John Murtha accused Marines of killing "innocent" Iraqi civilians "in cold blood." The Pennsylvania Democrat, himself a veteran, said that Marines from the 3^rd Battalion were "cold blooded killers" who "murdered innocent civilians." So slanderous were Murtha's comments that the acquitted Marines filed a lawsuit.

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The Sazerac is one of the oldest known cocktails^[1], with its origins in pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana. The original drink is based on a combination of Cognac and bitters created by John D Gertsen in the 1830s, and is reported to be the first cocktail ever invented in America.^[2] Since its creation, many different recipes have evolved for the drink, usually involving some combination of Cognac, rye whiskey, absinthe or Herbsaint and Peychaud's Bitters.

Current recipe served at the Eberly Mansion:

One double Old Fashion glass

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Are you opposed to Obamacare or illegal immgration? You’re a racist. Are you opposed to gay marriage? You’re a homophobe. Did you oppose Elana Kagan’s appointment to the Supreme Court? You’re a sexist. After less than two years of complete Democrat control of government, there aren’t many Americas progressives haven’t accused of some sort of bigotry for simply having an opinion different from theirs. The politics of “hope” and “change” have devolved into exactly what those espousing them claimed they would end. Is this really Democrat’s plan to win votes in November?

Obama and his liberal enablers in the media has called at least 70% of Americans racists, homophobes, sexists, xenophobes and of course, morons. They now wonder why they are set to lose a massive number of seats in November?

Maybe Americans are sick and tired of being insulted by liberal morons that have no common sense?

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US companies face a “logistical nightmare” from a new rule forcing them to disclose the ratio between their chief executive’s pay package and that of the typical employee, lawyers have warned.

The mandatory disclosure will provide ammunition for activists seeking to target perceived examples of excessive pay and perks.

The Obama is more worried about class warfare than actually understanding the economy and why his Keynesian policies have failed.

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Acknowledging flaws in its reports and growing public skepticism toward the theory of manmade global warming, the United Nations hired an independent review panel in March to audit its climate-science arm. The group found plenty of problems.

The InterAcademy Council, an independent group of scientists representing agencies from around the world, presented the findings of its five-month investigation Monday morning at the United Nations. The group took issue with the structure, methods and leadership of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the group responsible for a 2007 report that erroneously forecast the imminent melting of Himalayan glaciers, the rate of melt of polar ice caps and dwindling Amazon rainforests.

"We found in the summary for policymakers that there were two kinds of errors that came up -- one is the kind where they place high confidence in something where there is very little evidence. The other is the kind where you make a statement … with no substantive value, in our judgment." 

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The Republican leads of 6, 7, and 10 points this month are all higher than any previous midterm Republican advantage in Gallup's history of tracking the generic ballot, which dates to 1942.

Yeah, Americans just love Obamacare, siding with illegals and against the rule of law in Arizona and gay marriage by judicial fiat. November will be worse than most pundits expect. Americans have had it with Obama, socialism and the sycophantic Democrats that have spent our nation into near bankruptcy.

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Yeah, Putin is worried about dealing with the Obiker.

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Dumb and dumber?

Obammy needs George Soros for a consult?

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Economic growth was revised down to a sluggish 1.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter, dampened by the largest increase in imports in 26 years, the government said on Friday.

Anthem Blue Cross is allowed to move ahead with rate hikes

Anthem said it intends to put the new rates — averaging 14% and as high as 20% — into effect Oct. 1 for nearly 800,000 individual California policyholders.

Insurance rates all over the country are sky rocketing as insurers adjust to the new mandates of ObamaCare. This is another area where Obama has made things worse.

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Intel Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini offered a depressing set of observations about the economy and the Obama administration Monday evening, coupled with a dark commentary on the future of the technology industry if nothing changes.

As a result, he said, "every business in America has a list of more variables than I've ever seen in my career." If variables like capital gains taxes and the R&D tax credit are resolved correctly, jobs will stay here, but if politicians make decisions "the wrong way, people will not invest in the United States. They'll invest elsewhere."

Take factories. "I can tell you definitively that it costs $1 billion more per factory for me to build, equip, and operate a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the United States," Otellini said.

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A small sample of jobs (and lives) that have been destroyed thanks to Barak Hussein Obama.

They’re employees of companies like Assurant Health, which announced last week that it would slash 130 jobs at its offices in Milwaukee and Plymouth, Minn. to prepare for costly Obamacare mandates.

They’re employees of medical device firms in Massachusetts, where officials say they’ll be forced to cut back on operational costs and jobs thanks to a little-noticed Obamacare tax on their products that goes into effect in 2013.

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Sales of previously occupied homes in the United States fell 27 percent in July, the weakest showing in 15 years, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. It was the largest monthly drop in the four decades that records have been kept.

"The housing market is undermining the already faltering wider economic recovery," said Paul Dales, U.S. economist with Capital Economics. "With the increasingly inevitable double-dip in prices yet to come, things could yet get a lot worse."

Sales were particularly weak among homes in the lower- to mid-priced ranges. For example, in the Midwest, homes priced between $100,000 and $250,000 tumbled nearly 47 percent.

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Explain what you mean by "Don and Jim believe that the stock market reflects accurate values for companies. Younger people see it as just another area where the government picks winners and losers."

The answers have pretty much been posted. JR: " I contend that now is a good time to invest in mutual funds if you have the cash to do it and you invest for the long term."

I disagree. I have previously noted that the last two recessions and this current one have shown ever increasing gaps between corporate profits and employment. Many have questioned if historical standards for the "end" of a recession are still valid in the age of jobless recoveries. I say that they are not. Multinational corporations can return to profitability without hiring Americans, or even have the American economy recover.

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Investors withdrew a staggering $33.12 billion from domestic stock market mutual funds in the first seven months of this year, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund industry trade group.

If that pace continues, more money will be pulled out of these mutual funds in 2010 than in any year since the 1980s, with the exception of 2008, when the global financial crisis peaked.

After past recessions, ordinary investors have typically regained their enthusiasm for stocks, hoping to profit as the economy recovered. This time, even as corporate earnings have improved, Americans have become more guarded with their investments.

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Senior Obama administration officials concluded the federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling would cost roughly 23,000 jobs, but went ahead with the ban because they didn't trust the industry's safety equipment and the government's own inspection process, according to previously undisclosed documents.

Yes, Barak Obama is incompetent. Almost everything he does makes things worse.

Nearly half of the 1.3 million homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration's flagship mortgage-relief program have fallen out.

The program is intended to help those at risk of foreclosure by lowering their monthly mortgage payments. Friday's report from the Treasury Department suggests the $75 billion government effort is failing to slow the tide of foreclosures in the United States, economists say.

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It is similar to Bizzaro World, only much scarier.

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