Is a Dictatorship Coming?

Robert Ringer thinks its a strong possibility. He lists the odds on that and a number of other possibilities in a blog post:

#The chances of a declared state of emergency and ensuing dictatorship prior to the 2010 elections: 25%

#The chances of a declared state of emergency and ensuing dictatorship prior to the 2012 elections: 50%

#The chances of the U.S. dollar becoming worthless within three years: 25%

#The chances of the U.S. dollar becoming worthless within ten years: 90%

#The chances of the Republicans cutting back on major entitlements if they regain power in the 2010 elections: Zero

#The chances of the Republicans cutting back on major entitlements if they win the presidency and an overwhelming majority in Congress in 2012: 5%

I have to admit that the possibility of an event being engineered that results is some kind of martial lot before the 2012 election has crossed my mind.

President Obama doesn't seem to be overly concerned with his declining poll numbers. This means he thinks he can turn them around by the 2012 elections, he would be content being a one term president, or he has other plans.

Ringer's thinking on what those other plans might be and how they are executed are here.

A Hint of Racisim from the President?

Paul Krugman says, "No."  But, I wonder, given that our President is one to give out subtle messages.

Remember the middle finger near the eye when he talked about Hillary Clinton, during the primary?

The Israelis were upset when the White House released a picture of the President while talking to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

In the photo, President Obama has his feet propped up on a desk inside the Oval Office, and a number of Israeli newscasters called the posture insulting, since in many Arab countries, it is considered an insult to show someone the sole of your shoe.

It wasn't given much coverage, but in an Administration that attempts to increase government spending in every nook and cranny, the Administration did announce that "...cotton storage would no longer be financed by the federal government." I guess you can give him that one.

But now we have a tax of 10% on tanning salons as part of the healthcare bill. The tax will be one of the first to go into effect. Tanning salons will be required to collect the tax starting in July. Further, it's one of the few services that has a specifically designated tax.

Interesting.

Are More People Sneaking Into the White House?

A whole lot of people President Obama claims to hardly know, or with whom he has supposedly disasociated with, are visiting the White House quite often. Anthony Martin reports at the Washington Examiner:

 Major news is breaking concerning the White House visitors list. The log shows that several unsavory characters, at least 2 of whom Obama denied knowing personally, have been regular visitors at the White House.

The most eyebrow-raising of these visitors is none other than domestic terrorist William Ayers, who, along with his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, established and ran the subversive Weather Underground in the 1960s and 70s, which bombed federal buildings...

Controversy ensued in the Obama campaign of 2008 when stories surfaced that Ayers and his wife were personal friends of the Obamas. Obama vehemently denied it on several occasions, claiming that he knew of Ayers only because of his work and his writings, but that since Ayers was significantly older than he, it was unlikely that he would have opportunity to become friends with him.
Obama went further to say that as far as he knew Ayers was just "somebody who lived in the neighborhood."...

Back to the visitors list at the White House. None other than domestic terrorist William Ayers has been a guest on at least 3 separate occasions....

Other regular guests include Reverend Jeremiah 'G-D Amerikkka' Wright,

Wright is the former pastor of Barack Obama. Obama gave a speech titled "A More Perfect Union", in which he sought to place Wright's comments in a historical and sociological context. In the speech, Obama again denounced Wright's remarks, but did not disown him. The controversy  was renewed in late April when Wright made a series of media appearances, including an interview on Bill Moyers Journal, a speech at the NAACP and a speech at the National Press Club. After the last of these, Obama spoke more forcefully against his former pastor, saying that he was "outraged" and "saddened" by his behavior, and in May he resigned his membership in the church.

As for Ayers, there is very strong evidence that he ghost wrote, Dreams from My Father, for Obama.

Okay, so they are not sneaking in. Which leads us to the BIG question, what else is Obama lying to us about?