You Say You Want An Evolution

Roll Call notes that Obama has not yet evolved on marijuana reform. The story presents a tough choice - which is funnier, the idea of Obama as a "leader", or this quaint description of an earlier time in US history by White House prerssflack Josh Earnest:

"...At the same time, the president does not — you know, at this point, advocate a change in the law.”

Wait, Obama considers himself to be limited by the actual law? What happened to a simple exercise in prosecutorial discretion, as with his implementation of much of the Dream Act by Executive fiat? Or his ongoing Obamacare revisions?

I guess the polling on marijuana reform isn't where it needs to be at the moment, and the Big Hollywood money hasn't adopted this as the latest fashion.

Comments

[Clarice]

You nailed it, Tom,

[Patriot4Freedom]

First !

Who needs to evolve, when you can just ignore enforcement of existing federal law?

[Patriot4Freedom]

First !

[Patriot4Freedom]

First !

Who needs to evolve, when you can just ignore inconvenient laws?

[P4F is now being monitored by the NSA]

TypePad and the NSA strike again!

[P4F - now being monitored by the NSA]

TypePad and the NSA strike again!

[Jane]

Bradley Manning says he's a girl named "Chelsea".

That should work really well in Levenworth.

What are the odds Obama will pardon him.

[Steve]

Global "Warming" Update - Map of Record Lows and some Record Highs across the USA...

www.commoncts.blogspot.com

[Marlene]

Jane,I also wonder who will be paying for Chelsea's treatments? The taxpayers?

[Marlene]

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[Marlene]

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[Marlene]

Sorry,anyone else having problems this morning?

[centralcal]

Yeah, Marlene - apparently Bradley is going to start hormone therapy to become Chelsea. Who is paying for that indeed?

[Appalled on iPhone]

The suburban women the Dems want in their coalition would not be real happy if it became even easier for Junior to score some pot. This evolution is not happening with this President .

[centralcal]

Appalled, Clarice is looking for a link you posted about Obamacare. She is asking on the previous thread, this morning.

[NK]

This explains the monstrous Okla shooting-- gang initiation. Will Obama say if he had a son he would look like Chris Lane, or Chris Johnson, the victim and near victim of gang shooting? Will Obama stand up and tell young AA men that they need to be men and stay out of gangs? THAT'LL BE THE DAY....http://www.smh.com.au/world/chris-lane-shooting-a-gang-initiation-says-father-who-called-police-20130822-2sdud.html

[Jane]

The taxpayers pay for those treatments of prisoners in MA. I wonder what is the event that gets them transferred to Framingham (the woman's prison).

After reading this we need some lies:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/08/the-dems-rally-their-legions-of-haters-for-2014.php

How about: Under Hillary Clinton some abortions will be mandatory.

[narciso]

Someone else might be smoking something'

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/08/22/video-why-obamacare-might-be-more-popular-than-you-think/

[Rob Crawford]

Bradley Manning says he's a girl named "Chelsea".

Nice try, but no one's going to confuse him for a member of the Clinton family. He's WAY too feminine.

[NK]

Obummer's SpokesLiar is 'not familiar' with the lane murder. The spokeliar denies Obummer 'spoke extensively' about Trayvon. The Obamaniacs are a sick joke and they don't even realize it.

[centralcal]

Breaking News ‏@BreakingNews 7m

On Bradley Manning, US Army says it does not provide hormone therapy, sex-reassignment surgery for gender identity disorder - @NBCNews

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But his/her attorneys said they were suing for this per an appearance on a morning show. We know how fickle the courts are.

[NK]

Narc-- give the WaPo liars like Chris C a bit of a break here; they gotta say SOMETHING. They are Kevin Bacon at homecoming parade with the mantra 'all is well'.

[Extraneus]

Will Obama say if he had a son he would look like Chris Lane, or Chris Johnson, the victim and near victim of gang shooting? Will Obama stand up and tell young AA men that they need to be men and stay out of gangs?

Not exactly in those words.

Josh Earnest, principal deputy White House press secretary, said he was not familiar with the murder of Australian jogger Chris Lane during Wednesday’s White House briefing.

When asked by Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry about the Chris Lane case, Earnest responded, “I’m not familiar with it, actually.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/21/white-house-spokesman-not-familiar-with-chris-lane-murder/#ixzz2chgiYPCw

[Threadkiller]

Speaking of evolving:

Video: Fox News' Bret Baier Reports Obama And Cruz Not Eligible; Dual-Citizens Can't Be President

http://youtu.be/2UPmDfM4xRs

Krauthammer says it is about "allegiance".

::gasp!!::

For the record I am not Brett Baier. He is obsessed on his own.

Please attack him.

[Threadkiller]

Speaking of evolving:

Video: Fox News' Bret Baier Reports Obama And Cruz Not Eligible; Dual-Citizens Can't Be President

http://youtu.be/2UPmDfM4xRs

Krauthammer says it is about "allegiance".

::gasp!!::

For the record I am not Brett Baier. He is obsessed on his own.

Please attack him.

[NK]

Bradley 'Cpl Klinger' Manning is gonna have a tough time in the Fed Pen, either as Klinger or Chelsea... if Chelsea meets up with some of the female inmates in for Crys. Meth running... especially the Biker chicks, Chelsea's goona wish she had ore testosterone to build muscle mass.

[Old Lurker]

Here we go, as predicted here at JOM:

WSJ:"President Barack Obama on Thursday will announce proposals aimed at combating rising college costs by creating a new ratings system and eventually tying federal student aid to institutions’ performance.

The president will call for rating colleges before the 2015 school year and identifying those that are doing the most to help disadvantaged students. Once that system is in place, Mr. Obama will ask Congress to allocate financial aid based on those ratings by 2018.

Under the plan, which is expected to spur pushback and concern among some colleges, colleges would be rated on measures such as affordability and outcomes, including graduation and transfer rates. Students at top-performing colleges could receive larger federal grants and more affordable student loans.

Mr. Obama also will urge innovation in higher education, encouraging colleges to pursue ideas including three-year accelerated degrees and massive open online courses. The president will return to some familiar ideas as well, calling for an expansion of his pay-as-you-earn program that caps student loan payments at 10% of monthly income and re-upping his funding requests for the Race to the Top program, which is focused on state higher education reforms."

[narciso]

Recall how Nixon was so hounded, he couldn't receive the Dolphins that year;http//hotair.com/archives/2013/08/21/mystery-where-is-the-treasury-igs-koch-report/

[henry]

OL, that recipe worked so well for urban school districts it needs to be everywhere.

[NK]

OL-- correctamundo, several commenters here at JOM (TomM as well?)foretold this. My question is academia and the Dems, which is the parasite and which is the host? Matters not, the Dem politicians will crush the Colleges because their Medicaid/SNAP/Obummerphone constituents far outnumber college administrator votes. NEXT STEP-- Dem Blue Hells TAXING their nonprofits. Buy popcorn.

[Marlene]

NK... Cpl.Klinger, LOL. By the way,speaking of prison,do you know if the women inmates in Danbury are being transferred on schedule? Most of the Dem northeastern Senators wrote a letter to the Bureau of Prisons,asking for a delay.

[narciso]

Sorry, here's the right link;

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/08/21/mystery-where-is-the-treasury-igs-koch-report/

recall the brainslugs of Ceti Alpha 6, eventually drove their hosts mad;

[Dave (in MA)]

If somebody mentions "Choom Tax" maybe he'll evolve at a pace not seen since May 9th of 2012.

[Ignatz]

And so we now have a federal bureau of universities.
The old canard that welfare statists are not socialists is only true to the extent that they are worse than real socialists.

They have precisely the same desire to steal other's liberty and coerce their fellow citizens to live as they believe they should, they just lack the courage to do it openly.
Therefore rather than own the means of production they seek to act as parasites and puppet masters of other's property and lives through crushing regulations and a mind numbing web of laws.

Give me a revolutionary socialist any day of the week; their goals are the same but at least with a socialist they don't pretend as though you have to like the castor oil they're forcing you to swallow.

[narciso]

This is why they are impressing the Capitol One twit into service;

http://www.jammiewf.com/2013/sad-clowns-msnbc-discovers-the-real-irs-scandal/

[pagar]

Clarice, If you have a chance, could you please look at this Dana Milbank article from the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-the-price-gina-gray-paid-for-whistleblowing/2013/08/20/9fe80c98-09cb-11e3-8974-f97ab3b3c677_story.html

It is my contention that America owes Gina Gray a lot for pointing out the disaster hidden in the Arlington Cemetery records. I have written the VFW, but am asking for help bringing her story to the public.

[Account Deleted]

"that caps student loan payments at 10% of monthly income"

So BOzo's gonna weld that titanium serf's collar on Ms Julia Lackwitz's neck? She's using the French Lit degree she borrowed $125K to obtain to hold down a $28K assistant manager position at Starbucks and interest on her student loan is running $5K per annum.

Oh well. At least her birth control is free.

[Clarice]

Thanks, Pagar, I did see it and I think you are right to want to help. I don't think anything I can do will add to the weight of the WaPo and VFW though.

[Captain Hate on an iPhone]

Soooo will the denizens of the old folks home at the kollidge push back against conditions being placed on the money flow like a hooker should? "A nice girl doesn't do those things"?

[matt]

The administration is lawless. It persecutes whistleblowers and has had more inquisitions than Torquemada. All the while the real leaks are coming from the top for political purposes. Leaks that have endangered lives.

There is a sealed indictment of one of the perps of Benghazi. What? Don't the leaders know who they are and that, maybe, the long arm of American law may tap them on the shoulder one day? Why a sealed indictment? Is it of Hillary?

Cheshire cat smiles on the AP scandal, the NSA scandal, Fast & Furious, and the IRS scandal.

And in the meantime the low information voters are really no information voters.

[narciso]

True, matt, Khattalah seems to be at most a button man, in the organization, hence they have hanging out at fashionable hotels, probably with business cards.

[Captain Hate on an iPhone]

Every one of those hoody wearing imbeciles and their DeMFM enablers have Chris Lane's blood on their hands. Frown upon that.

[James D.]

colleges would be rated on measures such as affordability and outcomes, including graduation and transfer rates. Students at top-performing colleges could receive larger federal grants and more affordable student loans.

I'm not at all opposed to tying Federal student aid programs to performance. But obviously if Zero is proposing it, there's got to something awful baked right into the proposal.

...as in the above paragraph. If affordability is one of the criteria used for ranking, then this new program will be funneling more federal aid money to the schools that are the most affordable already; in other words, to the schools whose students would LEAST need that aid.

Am I missing something there?

And of course, since it's the massive infusion of "free" federal student loan money that has pushed up the rising tuition-rate spiral, pumping ever more money into those "affordable" schools will inevitably push costs up, making them less affordable over time. Which is exactly the opposite of what this proposal is presumably meant to do.

[Jane]

"US Army says it does not provide hormone therapy, sex-reassignment surgery for gender identity disorder - @NBCNews'

Thus adding to the pressure to pardon. LGBT v Leakers. Which group helps the DNC more?

[Jane]

Mubarek has been released (to house arrest)

[NK]

'Titanium serf collar' heh--

Listen, Obummer is merely giving the Leftist response (price controls) to a situation that will have to change -one way or the other. The last 30years of 7-8% year -on-year College Tuition and fee increases can't continue, and it won't. The past 5 years with the impoverishing of Americans, the Colleges have turned to the Dems to pay for these increases with Pell Grants, Sallie Mae loans etc. So the Colleges have given Obummer the leverage to dictate to 'the deal' to them. The Elite Colleges (Top 150-200) will respond by cutting administrators and CapEx expenditures, then ending tenure/pensions, and finally when the fed yoke gets too tight they'll drop Fed asssisted students entirely, and go with Chinese/Russian/Arab cash paying students, and more of an On-Line model. Things will change-- maybe not the way Obummer wants... but they will change.

[narciso]

I saw this before Taranto tipped it;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/17/conservatives-dont-get-that-some-problems-are-public-and-its-hurting-them

this is not his first attempt at category error;

[Clarice]

Yes sir, CH--also Oprah and all the celebs and the media who played trayvon as racist murder.

[NK]

our tax dollars at work at DHS: http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/homeland-security-employee-moonlights-race-warrior/68600/

[Threadkiller]

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/22/meet-the-privileged-obama-supporting-white-kids-who-perpetrated-cruel-oberlin-race-hoax/

[Captain Hate on an iPhone]

Damn straight, Clarice. And again, is the best we can expect from this smart diplomacy administration over the completely senseless and barbaric murder of a foreign student is to have Shakedown Inc mumble to the cameras that this is frowned upon?

[Dublindave]

If we'd known Manning was a woman we never would have let him have access to all those secrets.

[Extraneus]

Taranto did turn it on him quite artfully at the end, though, didn't you think narc?

[Clarice]

Obama's proposal is just a way of sending more money to black colleges and students. Wake up.

[Ignatz]

LOL, WeeDavey. Your PC copper friends want a word with you though.

[James D.]

Question about l'affaire Manning...

Has anyone other than Manning been punished, or reprimanded, or lost their job, or been chastised in any way, for deliberately designing a system where an emotionally disturbed 20-year-old was given unfettered access to the entire secret diplomatic correspondence of the State Department?

And have any changes been made so that such a thing can't happen again?

I'm just wondering...

[Ignatz]

--Obama's proposal is just a way of sending more money to black colleges and students. Wake up.--

Do tell;

WH SPOKESMAN: Obama 'has a bias in favor of historically black colleges and universities'....

[Ignatz]

--I'm not at all opposed to tying Federal student aid programs to performance.--

I'm not all opposed to tying Federal Student Aid programs and those who administer and vote for them to a large rock and dropping it in the Potomac.

[NK]

I've had a long term suspicion that DD takes the money to troll at JOM, in part, because he likes the comments here-- and agrees with a fair number of them. No proof, just a suspicion.

[Extraneus]

We'd tell you, James, but then we'd have to kill you. These things are top secret.

[Danube of Thought]

If Cruz is going to run for president, I think he would be wise to renounce his Canadian citizenship. I know of no existing law that requires him to do so, but if he doesn't there are a number of questions that would be raised that certainly won't help his electoral chances.

[Captain Hate on an iPhone]

Anybody even remotely familiar with Oberlin and its setting knew that story was a steaming pile immediately. Anybody reporting it as anything other than a hoax is embarrassingly gullible.

[rse]

James D-it's called the Lumina Diploma Qualifications Profile and it was laid out in a January 2012 shindig at the WH. This aligns us with the UN Bologna Process that insists credentials must be equitably awarded across population groups so that life circumstances do not impact achievement.

You get the revolution from the unsatisfiable expectations that occur when you divorce credentials from genuine knowledge while supplying propaganda and a sense of entitlement.

[Extraneus]

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[jimmyk]

I'm not at all opposed to tying Federal student aid programs to performance.

Of course the real problem is that there is any Federal program at all, never mind the fact that they have taken over the program in its entirety. But given that, it would make more sense to tie aid to the field of study than to the school. No aid for gender studies or comparative lit majors, generous aid for engineering and the hard sciences.

[rse]

The hole I see beyond what I think of all these so-called reforms generally is to base the rating in part on what grads earn. That would seem to me to further cement the workforce development alliance being deliberately created as the government/higher ed/ Big Business Corporatist nexus which nurtures a stagnant economy as it treats the current large employers as the always employers.

[pagar]

Thanks Clarice, I haven't gotten the VFW National organization on board yet. In fact, no one on JOM besides you has mentioned the Gina Grey mistreatment yet that I have seen. I' just thinking that any mention of the story any where might get a few more people on board. Can't imagine that many Americans really believe it doesn't matter that some of our American Heroes at our most revered cemetery were in the wrong graves. Can't believe that many Americans really believe that the Administrators of that cemetery would have came forward with out the efforts of Gina Gray and volunteered that they had dishonored the memories of so many veterans.

The This ain't Hell Blog did pick up the story.
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=37177

[Ignatz]

One of the joys of owning timberland;
Currently watching this fire burning a few miles south of our property to the west of Cherry Lake near Yosemite.
16,000 acres in four days, only 5% containment and in some of the damndest canyon land this side of Arizona.

[Clarice]

I can't believe that veterans groups won't be joining in, pagar.

[Extraneus]

Looks like Texas may be able to secede after all!

This One Map Shows How Americans Really Feel About Each Other

[NK]

Ignatz-- stay safe-- the 'west' has had a hoy dry period, I assume things will burn.

[Jane]

"If Cruz is going to run for president, I think he would be wise to renounce his Canadian citizenship."

I think he already did - or at least said he was going to. What does it take to renounce citizenship other than to say it?

[Extraneus]

How will the gov't be able to determine the earnings of graduates, anyway? Will the IRS require us to enter academic degrees and associated institutions of learning on our tax returns?

[James D.]

By the way - I've said it before and I'll say it again, but it bears repeating.

Thanks to all of y'all for being so supportive and also for helping me with my research questions on my books (and for not chasing me away when I post about them!)

I've got the latest book coming out on Monday (I'll post a link when it's up on Amazon), and the audio version of the second book will be out probably the end of September (I'll post that when it's ready, too).

I've got an offer for y'all as well. If anyone wants it, I'll send you a copy of the first audiobook for free (and/or the second, when it's finished), if you agree to give it a review on Audible.com when you've finished it. Shoot me an email at jamesd at elevendayempire dot com and I'll send you the link to download it (it's a huge file, so make sure you have a decent connection if you want it).

I'm pretty sure I can trust everyone here not to run out and share it on some pirate file-sharing site :)

[MarkO now being monitered by the NSA on this site]

"How will the gov't be able to determine the earnings of graduates, anyway?"

All of that information is, of course, private and beyond the reach of government because we are secure in our papers. Right?

[Threadkiller]

Probably the same set of hurdles Obama jumped to renounce his Indonesian citizenship, Jane.

Remember all the press coverage of that event?

Wait, what? We don't know if Obama ever renounced the Indonesian citizenship his mom and stepfather claimed he had when he went to school in Jakarta?

/traffic robbing commentary

[Threadkiller]

ht tp://ww w.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/renounce.asp

[rich@gmu]

I thought after reading the post and comments, I'd have to start drinking.

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generous aid for engineering and the hard sciences.

Posted by: jimmyk | August 22, 2013 at 10:54 AM

Cheers! thanks jimmyk.

[rich@gmu]

not working again...

[rich@gmu]

but all my comments are in the que, just waiting there in typhuspad...

[Account Deleted]

Extraneous,

I like this map much better. The taxes hemorrhaging due to Flight from Blue Hell won't kill progressive stupidity but they certainly advance the date with destiny.

[Danube on iPad]

It's clear from his actions that he feels an allegiance to Indonesia. And Kenya. And Queen Elizabeth. All laws and orders he has signed are null and void.

[Old Lurker]

What Iggy said at 10:44...

[pagar]

Marlene, Your governor gets a mention.

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/22/dhs-employee-calls-for-mass-murder-of-whites-says-black-men-are-being-homosexualized-by-whites-to-make-them-weaker/

"Black supremacy was the implication of Maine Governor Paul LePage’s reported comments that President Obama “hates white people,” for instance. Kimathi’s site is not in this vein of this imagined threat — on the contrary, War on the Horizon calls Obama a “a treasonous mulatto scum dweller,” and lists him among the movement’s enemies (also on the list?"

A DHS employee says this? Anyone remember an Army Major at Fort Hood having issues?

[Extraneus]

Which state would you like to see kicked out of America?

Max: Texas, 301 of 1422 votes, 21%

[escape]

Pot is the China of 21st century. A Dem couldn't go to China, but Nixon could.

As for TG Manning, he kept files for utility like J. Edgar. Manning gave the files out and came out...end the analogy.

[Marlene]

pagar @ 11:37-yes, his "reported comments" are part of the narrative now. Funny how that happens.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Extraneus | August 22, 2013 at 11:06 AM

Tax returns (parents and students) are already tied into the IRS via the FAFSA.

and anyone here that wants to help out since I've got to pay my tuition and my reimbursement is late::

1 Broke College Student Way
Fairfax VA 22033

thanks. I'll spend your money on bar tabs and pizza...

[bgates]

I also wonder who will be paying for Chelsea's treatments?

Oh, come on.

Clearly the line there is, "I also wonder who will be paying for Bradley's unmanning?"

Have I taught you nothing?

[centralcal]

lol, brilliant, bgates.

[rich@gmu]

and for repayment, if it is an income contingent plan, your tax return is also tied into your loan servicer and DoE. they can also look at survey data at both the state and federal level.

[bgates]

If Cruz is going to run for president, I think he would be wise to renounce his Canadian citizenship.

Or promise to invade, drive out the populace, and salt the earth (not just the highways, though that has to be done too).

Canada delendo est!

[NK]

Is bgates 11:58 a jest? because it seems to be working for Obummer's Commie/Indo/Kenyan hideous takeover plan for this country.

[rich@gmu]

Blame Canada.

[Old Lurker]

If they throw Texas out, I'm going with it. Porch can provide temporary housing.

[narciso]

So L&O eleventy, will do a 'torn from the headlines' take on Zimmerman, with Cybill Shepherd, oh frabjous joy.

[Rob Crawford]

Holdonaminnit...

Doesn't this remove the "gay" category from Manning?

Will he lose the support that tag brought?

And doesn't it remove his excuse for committing treason in the first place?

[Rob Crawford]

Canada delendo est!

See this plate of poutine, fresh from their orchards?! Why, if it can reach here in just a day, so can their fleet!

And did you know that 90% of the population of Canada lives within a day's march of the US border? An accident? I THINK NOT!!!

[Rob Crawford]

So L&,O eleventy, will do a 'torn from the headlines' take on Zimmerman, with Cybill Shepherd, oh frabjous joy.

Will she be pinned down and have her head beaten against concrete? If so, do they need a volunteer for that role?

[narciso]

So Assange and Snowden are confortably out of US/UK reach, and we got a guppy in Manning, is that the size of it?