in the bad old days a president was always within arms reach of 'the phone' BO has replaced it with the teleprompter.

'hero'?
Good grief.

In another amazingly Orwellian twist of the language, Americans are now "free" to pay for research on human embryos with their federal tax dollars, whether they like it or not.

I'm not particularly disturbed by the use of "leftover" embryos from fertility clinics for research, IF they are freely donated by their parents and IF no money changes hands in their use. I mean, if they don't get used up in research they go down the sink, right? So no downside I can see.

However! Lots of people violently disagree. I see no reasonable argument being put forth where these people should be forced to pay for something they consider an abomination. Not in a free country anyway.

I guess The One isn't all that interested in the freedom of people he doesn't like, eh?

Now get back to work cranking out those income tax dollars and shut up.

related:

the RCP approval avg has BO at 60%. Rasmussen has him has low as 56%.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

When (not if) he goes below the 50% mendoza line his presidency is finished. Look for many MSM players to sharpen their criticism as much of the more conservative dems are looking to get out from under this guy just as the GOP wanted to get out from under McCarthy (dewey led the charge behind the scenes apparently). My money is on tip o'neill disciple Chris Matthews to break ranks first.

speaking of heros, I finally got around to watching Rush's speech to Carp. I strongly urge anyone reading this to watch it too. It may well the most important speech since Goldwater in '64 - more important most likely. BO's shallow smoothness cannot hold a candle to it.

http://www.cspan.org/Watch/watch.aspx?MediaId=HP-A-15919

Kate, y'think there's a pattern forming with the whole "hero" thing?

And if so, how far is the DOW going to have to fall before they start naming the pictures "Dumb@ss holds the door" or something. ~5000, or are you thinking maybe

Agreed, Tulk. It's a must-view for any red-meat conservative. It clocks in somewhere around 90 minutes, but the time slips away.

Joel has a good rip on the laziness of the CBC so-called journalists who continually broadcast outright lies WRT Obama's decision today on embyonic stem cell redearch.
But he is their hero....

Bush did not cut off funding to 'stem cell research.'
He cut off funding to 'embryonic stem cell research.'

Huge difference.Minor detail to CBC.

So Obama is a hero in the minds of CBC ...and their lies and laziness go unchecked.

http://www.proudtobecanadian.ca/blog/index/weblog/16892/

Actually , I heard Obama's speech...that was untruthful in itself.

Maybe they're typos of 'zero'?

It's a typo, they meant nero.

Actually, Colin I think it is vastly more important that people who are lazziz faire or think cons are bad but have never really understood what conservatism is see the video.

is "hero" he secret service code name? I thought it was jesus.

That would be 'Rero'

There should be a montage ........ f%#$ yeah !

Secret service codename? Nah. Unless they changed it, BHO is Renegade.

Wow, this guy and his staff are really stuck on themselves aren't they! Pride comes before the fall I guess.

The Dow will fall to 3700.

Sell if you own stock. Short selling is the only way to make money in the market currently.

I'm up over 12% in 2 weeks.

bluetech - exactly. FOX has been pointing out that Bush didn't cut off funding for stem cell research but for living embryo stem cell research. Placental stem cell has been funded for some time and produced excellent results.

But, if you listen to the 'regular' news, you won't hear this important, indeed, vital distinction.

Maybe they really meant "reho"; America's answer to Stephane Dion.

You know how the Secret Service gives all their protectees "code names", right? You don't think . . nooo, they wouldn't? HERO???

BTW - Today Michael J. Fox has miraculously been cured ... at least to the point of making some kind of appearance.

ITNBOCD?

Google 'Obama Nobel peace prize' and see what comes up.

Why don't we just cut to the chase here and redo the calender and everything?
Get rid of that tired old Before Christ and Anno Domini BS.
The new Obama Calender will restart at year 0 and everything will be either BT or AT, (before teleprompter or anno teleprompter.

Moses had his burning bush, Obama has his magic teleprompter.

At what point does this become a cult?

At what point does this become a cult?
Posted by: Stan

Sadly, I feel it already has.
and the OWE only feels for himself.

Dear Leader:

"Obama absorbed in reveries of omnipotence"
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama-arrogant-sneer.jpg

"His majesty condescendingly looks down at his scullions "
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obamanoxious.jpg

Obama's secret service codename is "Renegade".

His Exalted and Revered Overlordship

I was joking about 'hero' being his codename with the SS.

Kyla's stock prediction is a leading indicator of the market turning sometime soon BTW.

Bluetech: Bear also in mind that the only funding cut off was FEDERAL -- any other institution (Harvard, e.g., with its huge endowment)could fund embryonic stem cell research to its heart's content. Also, federal research was actually ongoing regarding certain specific embryonic stem cell lines at the time the ban was imposed, and the ban did not discontinue that research nor require that it be torn up or buried, a point that the Left conveniently forgets every time this issue arises. That research has continued, with Federal funding, throughout the Bush administration. It just could not expand beyond the limited group of stem cell lines that it started with, a restriction which sent the Left into an uncontrollable rage apparently. There is no end to their hypocrisy, and their memories are a Moebius strip whenever it suits them.

Actually, Colin I think it is vastly more important that people who are lazziz faire or think cons are bad but have never really understood what conservatism is see the video.
Posted by: Gord Tulk at March 9, 2009 8:00 PM

On this point, I cannot disagree.

I'd be a lefty from Kate's POV, and I generally support some of Obama's initiatives, but I have to admit this is quite hilarious, if not a bit sad.

Back in the old days, you had to do something special to be a hero. You know, like risking your life as a fighter pilot and then being shot down and held captive for 5 and half years, where you are tortured and held in solitary confinement for two years, all the time refusing offers of release because they refuse to release all the other prisoners with you. Then when you get home you suffer years of grueling physiotherapy but never fully recover the full use of your limbs. But you do receive the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, and Navel Commendation Medal.

Stuff like that.

I knew this signing would be an Obama-Nation(tm).

Gord Tulk: I commend you on the Rush Limbaugh video exhortation as he neatly encapsulates conservatism in this speech down it's core essentials.

"Codename with the SS"?

Would that be "Uber-Messiah?"

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von
Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

The best picture was the Superbowl one. I'm so happy the Steelers won! The rest of it is bullshit, you people are so pathetic. It's very depressing that all of you are unable to even give the man a chance.

"Hero" or not, when he put that grey, dried-up withered old war criminal on the helicopter on Jan. 20 it was, for most of the world one of the greatest days in memory.

SDA,

Thanks for linking to my site.

Speaking of heroic images, apparently the Wikipedia web page on The Hero, Obama, is being watched over by..whoever. Any time a whisper is put in about Obama's long, long relation with the militant anti-American Rev. Wright, or the terrorist Ayers..in two minutes, that reference is removed.

Obama's Unwicked Wiki Page

It's called 'whitewashing' or an 'inconvenient memory'. Or just plain manipulation.

Cbailey: what part or parts of his agendado you think should be given a chance. I have seen zero items of any significance and lot and lots of things that literally make me fear for the future of my country, my family and myself.

hero , zero , hiro hito and zero.big o. big owe.

but does he have pipes like Michelle?

last night whilst flipping thru the channels I came across another CNN Obamafest, headline was
"he can sing too"

leading happy birthday to Ted Chappadiwick Kennedy.
Is there nothing Obamessiah cant do?
soon CNN will have him writing the song like Kim jong-il list of opera.

I miss that withered war criminel.

Friend, better sell short while you can. Obama will soon outlaw it.

cbailey - "It's very depressing that all of you are unable to even give the man a chance."

He has had many chances to do something useful with his life. He chose not to. Rather, he chose pride and self-worship.

He is now being driven mad with the realization that he must deliver. "Present" is not an option. He will either flip his lid completely or do a Nero...and he is well on his way to the latter.

God help us.

That would be 'Rero'

Scooby-Doo works for the White House?

"It's very depressing that all of you are unable to even give the man a chance."

cbailey, please read A Tale of Two Resumes which ET linked to in an earlier thread. The man has done nothing of note since Harvard (and possibly not much there, either) - 20 years is plenty of "chance". Only in the stock market is past performance not an indicator of future performance.

A chance now as well? Does that come before or after 'hope and change', 'yes we can' and all that BS.
This is not like going to your first gas attendant or variety store job.
Not to knock this line of work, but a reality check is HE and a bunch of unscrupulous folks got himself there, only the rational minded can see HE's in it for HIMSELF.
No do overs, no easy reset buttons in real life.
Ever hear of the expression 'follow the money'?
Now assess the stock market's response to date.

It is sad however that so many took a chance on "hope and change" based on hype and conniving goals.

Is there a "whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/mistakes French window for French door.jpg"? I looked around for one, but couldn't find it. Maybe I should try "superhero" instead?

Try this one... Obama is rating now:

loser site:http://www.whitehouse.gov/

But you do receive the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, and Navel Commendation Medal.

Stuff like that.

Posted by: rabbit at March 9, 2009 10:12 PM

You've got it all wrong Rabbit, you've got to be a neighbourhood organizer and sue the US Government because they won't loan money to bad credit risks, that just happen to be black. Can't have that now can we!!

There, you have officially been corrected. LOL

The more I see of Zero, the less use I have for him. The handful of DVD's for the PM of the UK. The guy's a dolt!!

Red State won't load right now - somebody didn't like the content I guess.

"It's very depressing that all of you are unable to even give the man a chance."

Let's see, as a person who comes from an area where women commonly hunt and fish, and who admired Sara Palin, and who occasionally can be seen at church, I would like to say that Obama ran a campaign demonizing us. He ran a campaign that was based on hate for our kind, and I am pretty sure you shared in that hate. He has weekly hates against everybody from Joe the Plumber to Jim Kramer. How many people can Obama and his ministry of hate gin up hatred for before we start returning the favor.

See if you can get this through your stupid head: Obama ran a campaign of hate against half the country, then expects us to fall in line like conquered peasants. Dream on.

If you think his campaign wasn't about hate, you weren't on the receiving end of it.

At what point does this become a cult?
Posted by: Stan at March 9, 2009 9:05 PM

That would be about a year or so ago.

mhb23re

"Hero" is a common term used by photographers and photo editors for the best image on a contact sheet. There are untold zillions of file photos throughout this country with the term "hero" appended to them. Don't let it get to you.

Or maybe it's "Reho", as in Stephane Dion considering himself a "reho". Same incompetence, same over-inflated ego.

Urbaniak, I doubt any of those photos on the white house site have anything to do with the picture being a hero photograph in the technical sense of the term. Generally when one uploads a hero photograph, they rename it to describe something like oh say...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/obama/stemcell_main2.jpg (not an actual link)

rather than

http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/hero_stemcell_main2.jpg (yea, the actual link)

Notice how the first link is informativ, you know that Obama is featured, you know that it is a photo having to do with stemcells. You know what the link is about, you will know what the photo is about. Now, onto the actual link! Notice how hero is located in the actual link twice, only one of those could possibly be misconstrued as a Hero Photograph name, but that leaves one more hero, so one can assume that it has to do with a hero (I'm thinking batman but only cause he wears rubber suits) and again, stemcells. This means, unless someone at the white house is a complete ninny (aside from the One) and cant rename photographs, a conscious choice was made to put hero in the link and the title of the photograph, meaning this is not a hero photo, but rather a photo of a hero.

This is a cult in its early phases, all the sane members of the population can do is hope that the spaceship takes off soon.

For a couple of people who've asked:

His SS name is "Renegade" and if you look that up in Websters, it means "lawless one." If that phrase sounds familiar to you, it's a Biblical to the antichrist. "He will be called 'the lawless one.'"

It's somewhere around that verse that refers to the antichrist as the "abomination who brings desolation."

My husband is convinced that God is slapping His forehead and saying, "Obama Nation, people! You needed a less subtle hint?"

I've worked in graphic design and now web design for 10 years now, and the term "hero image" or "hero shot" has long since referred to the lead image.

In my opinion, every photo in the hero directory was most likely used with one of the lead stories on the home page at one time. Currently the images tied to all 4 lead stories are in the hero directory.

Example;

This image is currently on the home page, and is in the hero directory.

This is a bigger version of the same image, that is not from the home page, and is not in the hero directory.

The first image is in a folder called assets and another folder inside there called hero. Likely all photos in there appeared on the homepage. Also notice the file name there is travis_hero.jpg, nothing about Obama being the hero. The second version of that image exists in a location that makes sense again for its use, it is in the assets folder, and then a folder called slideshow, as it appears in a slideshow, and then a folder that seems to sort photos by their size. It seems quite obvious the photos are organized into folders that are named by how and where they are used on the site.

There are numerous shots of Obama throughout the site that are not in the hero directory.

This is a non-issue that is running wild with no real basis.

Como se dice, "Gag me with a pitchfork," en Espanol?

Yep. The term "hero" as Dustin points out, has long been a term referring to lead images in webdesign.

But oh, look, Kate, your fellow nimrod over at Redstate "caught" this too!

Whatta bunch of maroons. A 56-post thread, yet, dedicated to this crap.

Looking forward to your retraction, Kate.

And how 'bout oen for the "Recession Watch" posts, too?

SDA: consistently wrong.