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Barack Obama dropped in for a cup of coffee along the Jersey shore with his new BFF Chris Christie and got what is really the only thing he wanted from that visit- a photo-op. A chance to appear as though he cared. A chance to look Presidential. A chance to appear as though he was doing his job.
Christie was sickeningly effusive in this praise of Obama.
Then it was off to Vegas, baby, complete with a newly acquired load of…..er…..gravitas!
From the Obama flacks at Yahoo:
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev.–Gone are the jokes about “Romnesia” and the loose talk of a “campaign marathon extravaganza.” For Barack Obama, the president of a nation reeling from a storm that devastated the Eastern Seaboard, it's time for gravitas.
Standing in front of a skyline of red mountains not far from the College of Southern Nevada, Obama's election address sounded more like the speeches he delivered when he campaigned for president four years ago. His original message of hope and compromise, subdued by four years of a stubbornly high unemployment rate and partisan gridlock, re-emerged Thursday.
The jokes and the ridicule aren't playing and it seems Obama has caught on:
While almost all of his speeches before superstorm Sandy were filled with direct mentions of his GOP challenger, the president mentioned Mitt Romney by name only once during the speech. Obama chose instead to refer to Romney as “my opponent,” “the governor,” or “the guy who's running for president right now.” He also sought to reclaim the word “change” as his own, hammering Romney as a president who would return to policies embraced by former President George W. Bush.
Meanwhile- Drudge's headlines
Gas Shortages May Not End for Another Week…
Mile-long lines, price hits $6…
Fistfights, Guns Drawn…
Some Siphoning From Cars!
'I'm pretty pissed'…
Two massive generators power NY media, not masses…
NYC Official: Red Cross 'Absolute Disgrace'…
Looters Dress Like Con Edison Workers to Gain Access to Houses…
Staten Islanders Plead for Help: 'We Need Food'…
'Please don't leave us'…
New Yorkers are dumpster diving for food:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08_FHWej0oE[/youtube]
In the face of hunger, in the face of peril, Mayor Bloomberg makes what has to be one of the most stupid decisions in history to divert relief supplies from those in need to……….the NYC marathon!
As hundreds of thousands of Big Apple residents suffer in homes left without power by Hurricane Sandy, two massive generators are being run 24/7 in Central Park — to juice a media tent for Sunday’s New York City Marathon.
And a third “backup” unit sits idle, in case one of the generators fails.
The three diesel-powered generators crank out 800 kilowatts — enough to power 400 homes in ravaged areas like Staten Island, the Rockaways and downtown Manhattan.
As of Friday morning, 11 generators sat outside of the park and a food services truck dropped off hundreds of cases of water, sparking angered responses from hurricane victims.
“I am from Coney Island where ev
erything is flooded and underwater,” Yelena Gomelsky, 65, said. “I live 1 block from the ocean where everything is floating. “[Seeing the generators and water] makes me feel so bad. People have no food, no water, nothing.
“They should make all of these runners bring food and water to people's houses who need it. They should bring all of these generators to buildings where old people live and give them power.”
Since emergency executive orders have been issued, the governor, mayor — or even President Obama — could take the generators for a more important use, explained Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman.
Such an emergency action would need the approval of the City Council, state Legislature or Congress. And they would have to compensate the owners of the devices.
And Chris Christie cares so deeply that he'll take help from anyone– unless they're non-union:
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY (WAFF) –
The hurricane-ravaged east coast has been receiving north Alabama help, but crews learned they'll be doing work in Long Island, New York instead of in New Jersey.
Crews from Decatur Utilities headed up there this week, but Derrick Moore, one of the Decatur workers, said they were told by crews in New Jersey that they can't do any work there since they're not union employees.
The crews that are in Roanoke, Virginia say they are just watching and waiting even though they originally received a call asking for help from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
Understandably, Moore said they're frustrated being told “thanks, but no thanks.”
Huntsville Utilities said they were not turned away and are up in storm ravaged areas working.
Joe Wheeler EMC said they did not respond to New Jersey, but did go up to Maryland and headed home once they were done.
FEMA has reportedly abandoned Staten Island:
NBC's Brian Williams conducted a devastating exposé on the latest developments of the ravaged areas in Sandy's path. “There's no Red Cross,” on resident exclaimed. Multiple residents vented their frustrations at the camera “Where is FEMA?” “Who do we go to for help?” “We need help!” NBC reported on the growing outrage by those hit hardest by the superstorm, cut off from access to necessities they are dependent on government aid to provide for their basic needs until the city has removed enough of the damage for residents to be able to leave. “They are still pulling out bodies,” one resident said. Many residents who claimed they had lost everything have said that they haven't received any help from FEMA or the Red Cross.
The marathon goes on while people sit in the dark and starve. Obama abandons New York and New Jersey for his campaign needs.
Ever notice that when tragedy strikes, Obama has the same destination?
Maybe Obama could get Jay Z, who “knows what my(Obama's) life is like” , to send some relief champagne.
I bet some of that $40,000 per person money could help now.
Heckuva job, Barry.
UPDATE: Bloomberg canceled the marathon under pressure from hundreds of thousands of sensible people
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
Las Vegas has been giving Obama headaches, too.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal published a scathing editorial Thursday that strongly criticizes President Obama’s response to the 9/11 attack on our consulate, and sheds new light on the administration’s feverish attempts to hide Obama’s failure to protect Americans in Benghazi.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/benghazi-blunder-obama-unworthy-commander-in-chief-176736441.html
OUCH!
Add to that Obama is being investigated for having dinner parties more lavish than anything his General Services Administration employees had!
And in Las Vegas they spent $823,000 partying in just 5 days!
http://washingtonexaminer.com/house-panel-wants-answers-on-costly-white-house-dinners/article/2512427#.UJRnXoZj7Si
Almost every single news report I’ve read in the MSM tells nothing serious about Obama. Obama is running out of time and he has NO RECORD TO RUN ON. Obama lies, he distorts, a photo-op here another there; but NO MEANINGFUL MATERIAL AT ALL. None!
Obama, it can be honestly said, is SHOOTING BLANKS. Obama has failed to create jobs; No Jobs, No promises kept, taking jabs at Romney as if people did know otherwise. Romney is an honest, EXPERIENCED, professional man with more integrity in one fingernail than Obama has ever had.
The race is on. Let’s pray for the miracle we deserve; the one that will make Romney president, Ryan vice-president and the country a much stronger, stable, honorable state.
It’s okay. We’re eating out of dumpsters in Vegas too.
Obama is a disgrace to me for what he has done in the oval office.
Look at that fat-pig Christi. Typical Rhino who hates the 2nd Amendment.
Hey NYC residents:
I hope you enjoy dumpster diving for each and every meal-and defecating in the hall-way of your apartments.
What I dislike the most about you-the people who infect that land stolen from the Indians-is that you think you’re so much better than the rest of the nation. You have the gumption to call your international cesspool “The City”-like you guys are THE fecal matter! Get real, you dumpster-diving retards.
Do you have any idea how much I enjoy watching you dig in the trash-bins for food? I mean who in their right mind, after only a day or two after the hurricane-has no food left in their refrigerator? Honestly, you were so ill-prepared for this storm, a mere CAT 1, that you’re reduced to dumpster-diving after 48 hours for food? You, in short, suck donkey penis.
I expect, though, nothing less from people who vote for a Jewish-Nazi like Bloomberg (BARF). He spend all his pathetic time worrying about x > 16 oz. big gulps instead of preparing “THE CITY” (how does that food taste when it’s been soaked in salt-water and frozen over-night?) for the waters of a mere CAT 1?
But hey, THE CITY is safe from Big gulps!
Honestly, as Ben Franklin said, you get the government you deserve. I can just see some rat scurrying away from it’s dinner, a dinner you claimed, leaving it’s saliva all over the Big Mac, and you having to eat it. EAT UP, PUKE.
Yet, in the end, you’ll still vote on 11/6 to perpetuate the nanny-state government which brought you to the sad state your “Beautiful CITY” has been reduced to.
I mock you. I laugh at you. I relish each and every story I read of you pigs consuming trash.
And to the rest of the City dwellers of America: Your time is coming. This is just a little glimpse of what awaits you. Boston, Detroit, L.A., S.F., Dallas, Miami, etc. American Cities are highly endergonic as we’ve seen.
Eat trash and expire, Nanny-state denizens.
@Ivan:
What New York’s experience, ongoing still, shows us is how society devolves in the wake of an event that shuts everything down. It ought to worry the hell out of anyone living within, or near, a big city like that. Enough so that they spend some time preparing for the next ‘catastrophe’ that hits. Imagine what our cities would look like if, say, an economic collapse hit.
Ivan YOU ARE ONE SICK M- F-ER
J.G For you to respond to him with some inane statement???
Rich, spare us your faux outrage.
Let’s examine the quotes from Drudge:
Let’s see, I bill my clients $105 an hour. Six times $105…care the 3….$630 just to wait for a gallon of gas.
What are you people eating that makes you so dumb? Oh yeah, TRASH.
Ha! What’s a-matter? Living in the City not a joy?
WTF? But if you live in the city you are close to EMTs!!! I’m so confused. You pay all those tax dollars to live in “THE CITY” and when you call 911 all you get is static?
And Bloomberg cancelled the Marathon, meaning all those poor athletes won’t get their money back at this late date.
SUCKERS!!! BOYCOTT NYC.
If you’re reduced to begging that schmuck for help you deserve to win the Darwin award.
Let’s see, my Excursion has a 44 gallon capacity…44 times $15= $660 a fill-up. Tough choice, eat or drive?
If this happened out west they’d be pelted with .308.
But it’s THE CITY!! I don’t understand. I thought it was bliss? I’m so confused.
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You get what you deserve.
Lazy, Mo-fo’s. You mock and ridicule the prepping community and now they get the laugh last. You know what they say about those who get the last laugh, right? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
To bad.
How myopic are you? You had nearly 5 days to prepare for this small hurricane bug you didn’t? Cry me a river.
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Too late! Obama is in Vegas…YEAH BABY. Enjoy your 39 degrees tonight as your candidate will be nice and warm in Vegas. It’s a fun town, not as fun as dumpster diving for each and every meal, though.
Wow. You guys suck.
Understatement of the year.
HA! Enjoy your retro to 1978.
H.R That ain’t faux. You as sick as him?
@johngalt:
But they wont’ prepare. They never do. Look here:
Throughout its path, Irene caused widespread destruction and at least 56 deaths; Damage estimates throughout the United States are estimated near $15.6 billion,[1] which made it the 6th costliest hurricane in United States history, only behind Hurricane Andrew of 1992,
Irene hit Brooklyn in August of 2011. What the phvck did NYC do since then to prepare: NOTHING. I SAID THEY DID NOTHING.
No attempt to make a levee. No attempt to reasonably control any storm surge.
LAZY AZZ MOTHER PHVCKERS.
DO YOU HEAR WHAT I’M SAYING????? They are like the battered wives who refuse to press charges against their sick husbands and then end up in a comma and everyone sits around wondering why or how this happened.
STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR THEM. THEY SUCK.
@Richard Wheeler:
What do you mean, inane statement, Rich? Have you seen the videos from the area? The ones not shown with Obama in them? They detail a city and area that is helpless in the face of such a disaster. A people that are not equipped to help themselves. What happens when those people cannot receive government help, because there is no government help available?
Rich, I don’t live in a big city for the very reason that people devolve into animals, during such times, in an extremely short period of time. That’s why you’ve seen(maybe, don’t know what tv you really watch) videos of people scrounging through dumpsters. Of people who are relying on the goodwill and help of others, rather than doing for themselves. It’s more a mess than you really know, there in NYC.
So, imagine an economic collapse across the country where no one in the big cities is able to receive help. What do you think that will look like?
And, as well, I can respond to whomever I wish, Rich.
So instead of “let them eat cake”, it’s “let them eat garbage”. Obama, classy until the bitter end.
@Richard Wheeler:
You have some balls calling me that. I’m not stupid enough to eat from a garbage can like they are doing.
They are beyond stupid on so many levels it’s beyond imagining.
You don’t see me fighting with rats for my meals. You don’t see me defecating in the hall of my home.
DON’T CONFUSE ME WITH THESE VERMIN.
@Ivan:
Didn’t make excuses for them, Ivan. Just saying that given a nation-wide catastrophe, like an economic collapse, that’s what people can expect within all of the big cities. Quite disturbing, really. Sometimes the fictional accounts don’t do reality justice. It ought to scare the living crap out of people, in my opinion. But given what some people believe, it won’t, and they will be the next ones crying out for help when they should have helped themselves.
@Richard Wheeler:
Says the guy who supports greg and tom. Definitely faux rage on your part.
Go back to bragging what a hero you are and how you are better than those that couldn’t serve you P.O.S.
@johngalt:
That’s right. They have only themselves to blame-each and everyone of them.
They live in the nanny-state of nanny-states and that is who they threw in with.
what do you know? The state abandoned them!!! All they have left is the ability to bellow like a lamb or cow before the slaughter. 100% incapable of helping themselves.
Yet we find people making excuses for them! Sorry, I’m an AMerican, not a dumpster-diving New Yorker.
John Galt and Ivan You guys from the same mold. Add H.R. Who else?
The great city of New York will come back stronger than ever just like it did after 9/11.
Semper Fi
@johngalt:
This “catastrophe” was 100% AVOIDABLE. It’s not like an economic collapse. It’s about people depending upon the state and the state NOT GIVING A RIP ABOUT THEM.
The Cities are death-traps, you and I agree on this- but they have only themselves to blame.
EVERYONE: LEAVE THE CITIES AS THEY ARE DEATH-TRAPS.
@johngalt:
Survival can be an ugly thing. It could happen anywhere people are not prepared. I don’t think you are faulting them for that and neither am I. You simply pointed out how it is and rich got his panties in a wad just so he could feel good about himself and superior to others.
@Richard Wheeler:
HOW AM I WRONG.
YOU CAN’T DISPROVE ME.
HAHAHAHAHA. I GET THE LAST LAUGH.
@Ivan:
I’m not in the mood to tolerate you. So go back to pissing on your dead buddies graves by voting for obama.
@Richard Wheeler:
Great? They eat out garbage cans. How strong are they if a CAT 1 can kill so many of them and render the place a HAZMAT ZONE.
It will take years to clean just the toxic sludge out of the place. YES!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Only a glimpse of what awaits all socialists in the US.
@Hard Right:
Yes!!! RISE UP AND PUT THEM IN THEIR PLACE.
NEW YORK DOESN’T RESPECT THE US CONSTITUTION. THUS, THEY ARE A CITY IN A STATE OF INSURRECTION.
GOD HAS SMOTE THEM. HE HAS RENDERED HIS JUDGEMENT ON THEM.
@Richard Wheeler:
You been drinking, Rich? If not, go screw yourself. My comments aren’t directed in any mean, derogatory way, as you suggest they are. They are simply an observation of what we could possibly, and most likely, would see given a massive disaster, across the nation, based on images and video shown of NYC. If you don’t think that will happen, fine, then debate that point.
@Hard Right:
You blinked! Shame.
You are, in fact,a hard-lefty.
@Hard Right:
Exactly, and Rich’s comments about me and my postings are quite out of line, in my opinion.
As I suggested, he can debate the point of whether or not all big cities would look like NYC in the face of a nation-wide disaster all he wants. But to suggest that my comments somehow are equal to Ivan’s, that verge on reveling in the problems that city is facing, is just wrong.
Ivan, God had nothing to do with this.
As for rich, it’s just another example of a far left P.O.S. using any excuse to feel good about himself while trolling.
@Richard Wheeler:
There is a difference between the two, and Ivan is somewhat right about one thing. Most, if not all, of what the videos are showing is/was avoidable. Sure NYC will come back. Just like New Orleans did. Just like Miami did. Just like anyplace that has experienced similar, or worse, storms has. It won’t necessarily be stronger, or worse off, either.
@johngalt:
The only ever “comeback” due to the suckage of tax dollars from the nation.
They are endergonic. They only exist because they suck energy from the surrounding country-sides.
They are a drain, a user. They only contribute decadence and servitude to the BEAST OF A ALL-CONSUMING FEDERAL GOVERMENT.
DIDN’T YOU SEE THAT THEY ARE DEMANDING THE FEDS PICK UP THE ENTIRE TAB?
ARE YOU BLIND? WAKE UP.
J.G., like you I do not enjoy the suffering of the folks in NY or NJ. I pray they find the help they need, and I’m not usually the praying type. The fact is people will do what they must to survive. I undertsand this and do not judge them for it. Because people like rich would enjoy the suffering of Conservatives, he assumes we do as well when it’s people like him on the receiving end.
He likes to pretend he is a moderate lib, but I think he has proven otherwise in many a post.
AsI have stated several times before, rich revealed his true character when Cathy Giffords was shot.
Pure, unadulterated moonbat.
@Hard Right:
To accomplish what you “pray” for requires them to throw off the chains which bind them-and they won’t.
They will continue to vote for enslavement WHERE WE HAVE TO PICK UP THE TAB.
Don’t you get it? YOU AND I SUBSIDIZE THEIR LIFE-STYLES.
They won’t even build a phvcking levee. NO PREVENTION-only asking for us to pick up the tab.
You are way too soft to call yourself a right-winger.
J. G “Ivan’s comments VERGE on reveling in N.Y.’s problems.” Ya think? Where’s your backbone John?
H.R. Use this tragedy in my home state to “feel good about myself.” AND “I would enjoy the suffering of Conservatives.” You’re crazier than I thought.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest.” – Proverbs 6:1-8 (KJV)
The New Yorkers ignored this biblical advice. Now, many of you wish to forgive their folly.
Why? Why do you mock God?
@Richard Wheeler:
You are even more of a dense, delusional, hypocrite than I thought.
Lie to yourself all you want, but stop trying to make us buy your bullsh*t.
This is most certainly about your massive ego. Anyone who has read your posts for a while knows this.
@Richard Wheeler:
I revel at those who mock God and support a city in a constant state of insurrection.
BTW rich, I love how you try to lump JG and myself with Ivan’s joy over the destruction of NY and NJ.
You copped out when Giffords was shot and excused the bile spewed by the dems by claiming each group has extremists and REFUSED to condemn those extremists in the dem party. In fact, you have been doing this FOR YEARS when I point out the violent, criminal bigots in your party.
You challenged me on Akin and I told you how disgusted I was by him and how he should drop out.
Yet here you are being a major hypocrite….again.
There is definitely a place in hell for you.
@Richard Wheeler:
Really, Rich? You demonize my comments as being something they are not, and then change tack? Are you unwilling to admit you were wrong about the tone of what I stated above to Ivan? If not, and again, go screw yourself.
Don’t you people understand that New Yorkers brought this down upon themselves????
Why feel bad for them? It’s like feeling back for the drug-addict.
J.G Ivan SAID he’s reveling in N.Y.’s misery You said he was VERGING on it. Your tone? Very weak.
Even that ever so friendly smooth talking H.R. denounced Ivan’s comments.
Is this really what we’re talking about? Another boring repost by Dr Skookum, minimum effort; zero impact. There used to be something resembling a coherent argument here once in a while, a coherent conservative opinion for sure. Now its just an embarrassment full time.
@Richard Wheeler:
Perhaps you would like to explain to us what the Eastern seaboard (New York and New Jersey) did to prepare for this storm? It is not like they didn’t know that the hurricane was not only on its way, but was going to join in with another storm front that would intensify the storm.
Why didn’t Christy and Bloomberg facilitate an evacuation plan? Why leave people, who are clueless on how to prepare for such a major storm, sitting in their homes like ducks in a shooting gallery? Now we hear of how the Red Cross is handing out donuts and hot chocolate when people need blankets and food. Whattsup with that? And how are all those people who have been sitting in gas lines all night going to react when they learn this morning that they are not on the list to get gas today due to rationing?
The leaders in those areas failed their people. It is just that simple. And the Golden Boy thought that a photo-op with a pandering Chris Christy was all that was needed. And what’s with Smuckie Schumer telling a woman he understands what she is going through as he stands in front of the lot where her house once stood and then gets back in his heated Suburban to go home where he is not suffering one iota?
Yeah, it’s hard to feel sorry for people who continue to elect incompetent leaders and then expect the rest of the nation to take care of them.
IVAN
and you forgot to mention, that some of them even go as far as robbing the others,
how low can human go,
but IVAN,
you also know how high is the human spirit when tragedy arrive,
those who attain that high level are the one with compassion for the less gifted physicly and mentaly,
where are you and other doing nothing but scolding them without balancing it with helping them
where are we grading in the SPIRIT LEVEL,
which way are we deciding to lean,
lower or higher? we have the mind to know which is the way to go,
but we cannot allow ourself to punish other who need us to lean on, who need a bread, who need toilet paper also, who need us to give them hope, because they are humans like us,
and we cannot let them down like OBAMA did let down the best of the braves, we could not afford to be without, he is even more less interested to help the one who also demand for help,
no matter their poor minds, they all are AMERICANS from the tallest to the smallest,
our anger is not the solution to help any one, they don’t need it.
They are no, Bees. They deny the rights of the constitution to the people, and the people are fat, dumb and happy about that.
New York despises most of the US. They consider people who live in the country “unsophisticated” and to be “country bumpkins.”
Don’t you get it, bees??? They routinely vote for people who engage in Nanny State activities-regulating Big Gulps-and do NOTHING to improve the infrastructure of their land.
THEN THEY DEMAND THE REST OF THE NATION PICK UP THE TAB FOR THEIR LACK OF FORESIGHT OR PREPARATION.
To Hades with them. They brought this down upon themselves.
is that true?
the UNIONS preventing the help to come, unless they are UNIONYZE
in the last 4 years you never heard the PATRIOTIC AMERICAN SONG PLAYED
with OBAMA PRESENCE,
NOW at the end of his presidency he call for the CROWD to sing AMERICA,S SONGS,
how’s that for a sudden bright idea, to show his love for AMERICA,
HE SURE NEGLECTED THIS PART, SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE.
HE TOOK IT OUT OF THE SCHOOLS, REPLACED IT WITH OBAMA’S PATRIOTISM, AND AS WELL AS HE REPLACE THE FLAG WITH HIS LOGO PIN, AND FOR THE CONSTITUTION HE BAN IT TO BE LEARNED IN SCHOOL,
HEY DON’T BE A FOOL AMERICA
I saw a slobbering headline this morning for Obama.
Made him look so generous!
ACTUAL HEADLINE:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227195/Superstorm-Sandy-Obama-buys-22-million-gallons-fuel-help-desperate-drivers-road-Sandy-dries-supplies.html#ixzz2B9pjdCRh
Sort of makes it sound like OBAMA opened his wallet.
Of course WE taxpayers PAID FOR THE FUEL!
But that’s in the fine print.
IVAN
you know that, but where is the solution right now?
I think is compassion and giving kindness, the message of the CREATOR,
the highest COURT of the UNIVERSE, WHO GAVE US THE SMALL TO THE SMALLEST TO BE UNDER OUR PROTECTION.
IVAN, you are very angry, so you should redirect that power into helping them instead.
A further description of Obama voters! http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/332375/dumb-vote-kevin-d-williamson