If Obama Brought The Economy Back From The Cusp Of Destruction. . .

. . . Then why are food stamps at an all time high?

The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.

Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website.

Participation has set records for 18 straight months.

Unemployment in July may have reached 9.6 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts in advance of the Aug. 6 release of last month’s rate. Unemployment was 9.5 percent in June, near levels last seen in 1983.

An average of 40.5 million people, more than an eighth of the population, will get food stamps each month in the year that began Oct. 1, according to White House estimates.

One thing I've noticed about this administration's policies is that they all are designed to put more and more people onto the public doll. Every. Single. One.

Obamacare will burden insurance companies to the point of bankruptcy. Ushering in the single payer public option.

Cap And Trade will drive the cost of coal and oil up. Artificially causing the need for 'Green' energy products that will be tax payer subsidized for use.

Perpetual bail outs for Freddie and Fannie. They're 'Too big to fail'.

It will drive the middle class to extinction with a slow bleed on the wallet. Higher costs will mean spending less money on other things like vacations, a nicer car or larger house.

All with an end game of a population at the behest of a government service. At that point, the real control happens.

It's all a bit of an abstraction on what I laid it out above. Much of it depends on a complacent election this November. Which might not happen after all.

Sort Of Related: Government Motors no longer wants to be known as Government Motors. But Ed Whitacre has a problem. He's trying to tell the 800 pound gorilla to get off the couch and leave.

Republican Scandal That's Shocking! Marcela Hoeven Bikini Scandal That Is Scandalous! And Shocking!

Or something.

So who is Marcela Hoeven you may ask? Only the daughter of John Hoeven who happens to be running for Senate in North Dakota.

Robert Stacy has more about the Scandal!!!

Three years ago, when a North Dakota political blog reported that Marcela, 23 at the time, had a modeling portfolio online, the photos disappeared the next day. The existence of this lone remaining photo (posted at a North Dakota State University student forum) was brought to my attention by a source who asked my opinion as a communications professional: Is this a scandal?

Short answer: Of course not.

A scandal would be hearing about Joe Biden's daughter snorting lines of cocaine at a party. Shocking would be John Edwards stooping his whore mistress while his cancer stricken wife was on her death bed. A shockingly good scandal would be news that Barack Obama spent twenty years in a church where the pastor preached how AIDS was invented by the white man and 9/11 was perpetrated by the Jews.

A twenty three year old model in a bikini isn't a scandal by a long shot.

Updated: At The Camp Of The Saints and The Daily Gator are trying to figure out if this is a shocking scandal or a scandalous shocker. But neither of them have yet to ask the question that matters: Who is Taylor Schilling?

Steven Crowder In Detroit

And he made it out alive.

From last winter but it's new to me.



During my time there as a low voltage tech in Michigan, I had to install a replacement alarm system in a house where the original was stolen. Yes, it's that bad there.

Video: Katie Couric Uncensored

From the barbarians over at Conservatives 4 Palin who have more.



The obvious pick-up should be that Katie doesn't go into any of Gov. Palin's accomplishments. No mention of Palin running against an incumbent Republican Governor and then beating him in the primary or anything else like that in Palin's impressive record.

Mooseburgers and beauty pageants are what Couric mentions.

Yes, this Katie Couric:

Thanks to Treacher for the pictures.

Stay classy, Katie.

Who Is Taylor Schilling?

To answer that Rand-esque question, she is the actress who will be playing the role of Dagney Taggart in the long awaited adaptation of Atlas Shrugs.

I can see her at Dagney.

I was halfway through the book when I heard that it was Angelina Jolie who wanted to play her in the movie. After that, whenever I read a line by Dagney, it was Angelina in my mind saying them. But I'm open to Taylor in the role. Too many times the name gets in the way of the movie. See Knight and Day with Tom Cruise for an example.

I shamelessly lifted this video from Donald Douglas. He tipped me off to the news of it being made into a movie. It was about Atlas Shrugs, what would you expect? It's too good not to pass by.



Besides, I still owe him an answer to this and I'm woefully behind on it.

Church Stages Fight To Set Up Officer

When the only tool in your belt is a hammer then the rest of the world's problems are nails. That's the only way I know how to explain the actions of James Harrington when he invited a white officer to his church to speak. Then had the members staged a fight in order to gauge the officer's reaction.

Imagine the headlines if the races were reversed.

Sgt. Matthew Grimes was asked to give a presentation to a church audience on July 24 at Municipal Gardens, in the 1800 block of Lafayette Road.

During the presentation, an altercation broke out in the crowd, and Grimes intervened. The officer was thrown to the ground and drew his Taser, ready to stun one of the people involved, police said.

At that point, someone stepped in and told the officer that the incident had been concocted to test the reaction of the officer to the situation, police said. Grimes suffered severe back spasms after the incident and was taken to Methodist Hospital for treatment.

James Harrington, pastor of the Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church, said he set up the scenario to test a white officer's reaction to a fight between two black men. [Emphasis mine]

Any other person would be arrested for putting an officer in the hospital.

The Long National Nightmare Is Over

Lindsay Lohan is finally out of jail.

For now.

Robert Downey Jr. emailed to say that it's not going to get any easier for her.

"The Federal Government Can Do Most Anything in This Country"

The lady asking the question has a very valid point about Obamacare and how it institutes involuntary servitude. Also known as 'Slavery'.

Rep. Pete Stark answers back in a very honest manner.



For more about Pete Stark "Raving Mad", Michelle Malkin has an older video of him threatening to throw an interviewer out of a window.