American Glob

I only ask because to me, this sounds a lot worse than what’s going on in Arizona…

Jackie Bugnion is an American citizen who has lived in Switzerland for 45 years. She had two securities accounts in her adopted country but in the spring she was told that she should find another home for her money. This summer those accounts were moved into SEC-regulated subsidiaries. “I call them the ‘American ghettos’,” she says. These subsidiaries are subject to higher fees and higher minimum investments than normal accounts. “It makes you feel toxic when this happens to you after you have been the client of a bank for years,” says Ms. Bugnion.

American expatriates are fast becoming the world’s financial refugees. Onerous legislation from the U.S. government is making it too difficult – and too expensive – for banks to service U.S. citizens that live abroad. Expats are being left with a fast diminishing range of options. An increasing number are taking the most drastic step and renouncing their citizenship.

HT to Glenn Reynolds.

For real? Yes.

A foreign leader stands in the American people’s house and condemns a specific state in the USA while the entire Democratic Party stands and applauds. Really? Really?? The words “fucking disgraceful” barely scratch the surface.

Add Arizona to the list of things Democrats & the Obama Administration comfortably deem an enemy. Rush, Beck, FOX, Drudge, The Tea Party, town hall protesters, any and all ObamaCare opponents, The GOP, conservatives, libertarians, Arizonans, banks, the rich, the Cambridge Police Department, etc., etc…

This is new ground. This is beyond stunning.

Obama’s army of leftist twits, known as “Organizing for America” decided to sponsor a video contest in which entrants would produce videos to help support the passage of ObamaCare. What qualifies as a “finalist” video you ask? Why, defacing the American Flag, of course!

Politico has a full report on this which you can read here. If you really want to know how this helps Obama and the Democrats, just read the comments at the bottom of the page.

In Cuba, I mean. He’s headed there to interview his favorite commie dictator for Vanity Fair Magazine.

Via Breitbart:

“Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn flew to Cuba hoping to interview its revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, entertainment news website TMZ reported Sunday.”

“Sean (Penn) is going to the land of Fidel as a journalist, writing a story for Vanity Fair (magazine) about how the (Barack) Obama administration has affected Cuba,” TMZ reported.”

“Penn was traveling with Diana Jenkins: “Actually … it’s her plane … she’s married to the head honcho at Barclays bank,” TMZ added, noting the pair set out from Las Vegas on Saturday.”

“Barclays sources say Sean and Diana are going to meet (Fidel) Castro — presumably because that’s what Diana told them,” the website reported. Penn’s representative also told TMZ a meeting was possible.”

Anyone else as sick as I am of know-it-all rich celebrities sucking up to America hating communists?

You want to impress me, Mr. Penn? Go visit our troops in Iraq or Afghanistan and thank them for defending your right to make movies and spend your wealth visiting scumbags like Castro and Chavez.

Otherwise, do us all a favor and stay in Cuba. You obviously think it’s a better place than America.

Last time I checked, Oregon was part of the United States which leads one to the obvious question… Who among us is offended by the American flag???

“ALBANY, Ore. – At the Oaks Apartments in Albany, the management can fly their own flag advertising one and two bedroom apartments – but residents have been told they can’t fly any flags at all.”

“Jim Clausen flies the American flag from the back of his motorcycle. He has a son in the military heading back to Iraq, and the flag – he said – is his way of showing support.”

“This flag stands for all those people,” said Clausen, an Oaks Apartment resident. “It stands for the people that can no longer stand – who died in wars. That’s why I fly this flag.”

“But to Oaks Apartment management, Clausen said, the American flag symbolizes problems.”

“He was told to remove the red, white and blue from both of his rides, or face eviction.”

“It floored me,” he said. “I can’t believe she was saying what she was saying.”

“Even long-time residents like Sharron White, who has flown a flag on her car for eight years, has been told to take it down.”

“White said management told her that “someone might get offended.”

“I just said to her ‘They’ll just have to get over it,’” White said.”

“Resident we talked to who had been approached to take down their flags all told us the same thing: that management told them the flags could be offensive because they live in a diverse community.”

FULL STORY

This really beats all.

Our elected representatives are repeatedly pushing legislation against the will of the majority.

Children are singing songs about Obama in public schools where Christmas carols have been outlawed.

And now Americans can’t fly the United States flag in our own country for fear of offending people?

Really? Really???

I am offended. Deeply offended.

I am getting more offended by the day.

Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com is suddenly shocked, just SHOCKED that an American politician would travel to a foreign country and badmouth the United States of America.

Is he shocked that Obama has repeatedly badmouthed the United States of America all over the world?

Of course not!

He’s mad as hell that Mike Huckabee visited Israel and voiced his support of the Jewish people. HOW DARE HE???

The report Greenwald cites is from the Jerusalem Post which has this SHOCKING quote from Governor Huckabee:

“It concerns me when there are some in the United States who would want to tell Israel that it cannot allow people to live in their own country, wherever they want.”

How dare Mike Huckabee criticize Obama for his total lack of support for Israel, a sentiment shared by many Israelis and American Jews themselves?

“Many American supporters of Israel who voted for Barack Obama now suspect they may have been victims of a bait and switch. Jewish Americans voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Obama over John McCain in part because the Obama campaign went to great lengths to assure these voters that a President Obama would be supportive of Israel. This despite his friendships with rabidly anti-Israel characters like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and historian Rashid Khalidi.”

“Now, some of them apparently have voters’ remorse. According to Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, “President Obama’s strongest supporters among Jewish leaders are deeply troubled by his recent Middle East initiatives, and some are questioning what he really believes.” I hear the same thing from rank-and-file supporters of Israel who voted for Mr. Obama.”

Perhaps it’s because Obama likes to give medals to anti-Semites and pal around with a “reverend” who uses expressions like “them Jews.”

Note to Glenn Greenwald: Before you attack pro-Israel Conservatives, perhaps you should hover a magnifying glass over the president for whom you’re so desperate to provide cover.

There’s only one American politician currently traveling the world, repeating a mantra of “America sucks” and it certainly isn’t Mike Huckabee.

It’s amazing how much you can know about someone by what they read…

Hat tip to the posters at FREE REPUBLIC.

How’s this for a joke? A terrorist and an anti-Semite walk into a “peace” rally…

“The day before President Barack Obama was to meet with Israel’s prime minister, community activists, clergy and residents marched through Oak Park on Sunday to call for a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

“And they were led in their efforts by a politically provocative pair from Chicago: Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and William Ayers.”

“When he was running for the presidency, Obama was dogged by the two figures: Wright, Obama’s former pastor, with his fiery words from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ, and Ayers, for his radical past as a leader in the 1960s and 1970s of the violent Weather Underground group.”

You know what’s even funnier than that? The first reader comment after the article from “Mario” in Illinois:

“Why do you keep associating wright and ayers with obama? obama already said he barely knew these people…and had already thrown wright under the bus and disowned ayers. let’s not give these 2 twerps anymore importance.”

Yeah Mario, you’re right. It’s “the media” that keeps associating Obama with Ayers and Wright. Obama bears absolutely no responsibility for his relationship to these two scumbags.

Keep telling yourself that.

Remember when the furor erupted over Jeremiah Wright’s racist, America hating, anti-Semitic rants at Trinity United Church and the Obama camp feebly asserted that Obama wasn’t in church that day?

Well this weekend, the President of the United States sat through another anti-American diatribe and once again had nothing to say about it.

“PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — President Obama endured a 50-minute diatribe from socialist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that lashed out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America and included a rambling denunciation of the U.S.-imposed isolation of Cuba’s Communist government.”

“Obama sat mostly unmoved during the speech but at times jotted notes. The speech was part of the opening ceremonies at the fifth Summit of the Americas here.”

“Later, at a photo opportunity with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Obama held his tongue when asked what he thought about Ortega’s speech.”

“It was 50 minutes long. That’s what I thought.”

Sound familiar?

Seeing a pattern?

Isn’t the President supposed to defend the United States?

The Huffington Post cares about partisanship.

The Huffington Post cares about their idealized version of America and everyone else can go to hell.

The Huffington Post cares about protecting Barack Obama from any criticism and immediately labels anyone who dissents as a “racists” and “whores.”

The Huffington Post cares about people who murdered Americans and committed acts of domestic terrorism.

The Huffington Post cares about the rights of 9/11 terrorists.

The Huffington Post cares about Michelle Obama’s clothes.

The Huffington Post cares about Sarah Palin’s clothes.

The Huffington Post doesn’t care about America.

The Huffington Post certainly doesn’t care about journalistic integrity.