Given our historic First Gay President’s lack of interest in aspects of politics other than campaigning and the Administration’s laser focus on boosting his cult of personality, the State of Union Address will henceforth be replaced by the State of Barack Address. Here’s a preview, featuring an upbeat tone to counter his approval ratings:

Compliments of Aaron S.

In just a few years, Obama has run up the national debt by a future-canceling $6 trillion. But it’s not as if we aren’t getting anything for our grandchildren’s money. A couple of “stimulus” grants to the University of California at San Francisco serve as examples:

Grant number 1R01HD056950-01A2 was among the thousands of grants funded, receiving $1.2 million dollars. This grant studied how to improve the accuracy of how people responded to questions about their sexual history.

The study consisted of interviewing 200 people about their sex habits at $6,000 per interview. According to Recovery.gov, the grant created a grand total of 0.85 jobs. The number of jobs that were destroyed by this money being sucked out of the economy is unknown.

The other grant provided over $250,000 for “a study into erectile dysfunction involving overweight middle aged men.” Not even the shameless educrats at UCSF wanted to talk about it, but evidently the imaginary obesity crisis served as the justification.

According to the literally insane Keynesian ideology of our liberal rulers, it doesn’t matter what the government spends other people’s money on, just so long as the money is spent on a massive scale. If moonbattery can be an end in itself, why can’t waste?

On a tip from AC.

Spendthrift socialism has brought Greece to the brink of collapse:

Europe’s financial crisis lurched into a perilous new phase as dire predictions emerged of a collapse in Greece’s economy, with a run on its banks bringing an inevitable end to its membership of the euro. …

Raising tensions still further, Germany warned Greek voters that the wrong result in next month’s election will force their country out of the single currency.

Greece’s president warned, perhaps most alarmingly, that its banks risk running out of money, posing a “threat to our national existence”.

The run on Greek banks is already underway:

Political leaders in Athens were due to discuss an emergency government Wednesday to deal with a possible run on banks as it emerged Greeks withdrew almost $900 million in a single day, fearing their country could crash out of the euro currency by the end of the week.

The good news is that if Germany won’t carry Greece on its back, the USA will.

Now for the really bad news:

Even as Greece circles the drain with comparably irresponsible Portugal, Spain, and Italy following close behind, the Keynesian moonbats running our country are outspending all of them. Who is going to carry us on their backs after the inevitable collapse?

On tips from Bob Roberts.

Good thing this guy wasn’t armed; if he had been able to defend himself like George Zimmerman, he would have the entire federal government coming down on his head for committing a “hate crime”:

Police want your help finding four men who teamed up to beat a young U.S. Army soldier in a South Tampa street. …

The attack came when he was walking home and using Iowa St. to get from Westshore to Dale Mabry. At the intersection of Iowa and Renellie Dr., the man came into the view of a neighbor’s motion-activated security camera.

A group of three young men is seen walking ahead of the soldier. Police say one of the men in the group doubled back and asked to soldier to borrow a dollar. When the soldier reached for his wallet, the first punch flew.

The first, tremendous sucker punch laid the victim onto the ground. The other two men joined in, punching and kicking the soldier.

A fourth man comes sprinting into view from the left edge of the video. The new attacker — a man the soldier said he had walked past earlier — joined in the beating. …

Police say they haven’t gotten many useful details about the suspects from the video.

The victim was not able to tell police much more: they’re all in their late teens to early 20′s. Two were black men with an average build, police said. One attacker was possibly Hispanic, also with an average build. The fourth man was also black, but with a heavier build.

Fortunately the victim is expected to make a full recovery. Others who have served our country aren’t so lucky.

On tips from Shawn, Artfldgr, J, Texas12, Bob Roberts, Don M, and Lyle.

When it comes to extending Obama’s absurdly bloated ego backward into history, why stop at adding him to the bios of past presidents on the White House website? The Daily Caller has uncovered some other opportunities to insert the Self-Promoter in Chief, including:

After warning of the Nazi menace during 1930s, Winston Churchill became prime minister of Great Britain in 1939. Perhaps no single person was as valuable as Churchill in winning World War II and saving Western Civilization. Upon taking office in 2009, Barack Obama returned a bust of Winston Churchill that sat in the Oval Office to the British Embassy, even though the British government offered to allow the president to keep it through his administration.

On his desk in the Oval Office, President Harry Truman had a sign that read, “The Buck Stops Here.” After three years in the White House, President Obama’s 2012 campaign has internalized a similar motto: “The Buck Stops with George W. Bush.”

In 1940, the novel “Lassie Come Home” was published. In 1943, the story about a fictional pup was made into a film. In 1954, “Lassie” became a TV series. As a child in Indonesia in the 1960s, Barack Obama ate a dog.

As part of the next “stimulus” package, the Regime might commission the reworking of famous paintings, which look incomplete to modern eyes without including the Anointed One:

On a tip from Byron.

Unsurprisingly, George Zimmerman’s account of the Passion of Saint Skittles has been confirmed. Even the “mainstream” media has stopped whipping up a lynch mob long enough to confirm it:

A medical report compiled by the family physician of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged altercation.

Zimmerman faces a second degree murder charge for the Feb. 26 shooting that left the unarmed 17-year-old high school junior dead. Zimmerman has claimed self defense in what he described as a life and death struggle that Martin initiated by accosting him, punching him in the face, then repeatedly bashing his head into the pavement.

As for darling little Trayvon,

WFTV has confirmed that autopsy results show 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles when he died.

The information could support George Zimmerman’s claim that Martin beat him up before Zimmerman shot and killed him.

Unless they can reconvene the O.J. jury, this is an open and shut case of self defense.

But moonbats shouldn’t worry; so long as the likes of Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder are calling the shots in Washington, social justice will be served. The FBI has been sent to investigate Zimmerman for a “hate crime,” upping the ante to a possible death penalty for daring to defend himself from someone who looks like Obama’s nonexistent son.

Scary as the Trayvon Martin types turning our streets into jungles may be, the racist ideologues running the federal government are scarier.

On tips from Sean, Justme, Don M, Bo Jangles, Bob Roberts, and J.

There’s only one way you could top the moonbattery and tastelessness of Newsweek and Time: merge the publications. It might look something like this.

On a tip from Ambisinistral.

The New York Times went completely over the top in a recent diatribe against economic freedom and those who take advantage of it to create wealth and jobs. The alarmingly demagogic piece — which could have come straight out of Pravda under Lenin or Stalin — was accompanied by this graphic:

In the unlikely event that the commies at the Slimes ever see fit to publish a more relevant piece on what the enemies of capitalism are doing to America, they can use this version:

Compliments of Sean.

Via Strange Politics, on a tip from TED.

Too bad the First Black President didn’t feel compelled to make the no-brainer “gutsy call” the First Gay President has been congratulating himself over:

Thousands of lives could have been saved. Electing the irresponsible degenerate party is bound to have consequences.

On a tip from Shawn.

A little reeducation is in order. Warning — includes a disturbing display of the corruption of childish innocence:

On a tip from Gerry.

Daniel Hannan, a rare countermoonbat member of the European Parliament, warns that ever-encroaching statist moonbattery is canceling the future:

On a tip from G. Fox.

Remember this chilling scene in George Orwell’s prophetic 1984?

“You are the dead,” said an iron voice behind them.

They sprang apart. Winston’s entrails seemed to have turned into ice. He could see the white all round the irises of Julia’s eyes. Her face had turned a milky yellow. The smear of rouge that was still on each cheekbone stood out sharply, almost as though unconnected with the skin beneath.

“You are the dead,” repeated the iron voice.

“It was behind the picture.” breathed Julia.

“It was behind the picture,” said the voice. “Remain exactly where you are. Make no movement until you are ordered.”

It was starting, it was starting at last! They could do nothing except stand gazing into one another’s eyes. To run for life, to get out of the house before it was too late – no such thought occurred to them. Unthinkable to disobey the iron voice from the wall. There was a snap as though a catch had been turned back, and a crash of breaking glass. The picture had fallen to the floor, uncovering the telescreen behind it.

Like so much else in the novel our oligarchical collectivist rulers have been using for an instruction manual, talking surveillance cameras are coming to America:

Talking surveillance cameras that bark orders at passers-by and can also record conversations are heading for U.S. streets, with manufacturer Illuminating Concepts announcing the progress of its ‘Intellistreets’ system.

As we first reported last year, high tech street lights with “homeland security applications” are now being installed in major U.S. cities.

The street lights also have loudspeakers that can give audible warnings to individuals, mimicking the talking surveillance cameras in the UK that shout out orders through microphones telling people to pick up litter or leave the area.

A recent press release put out by Amerlux announces the company’s partnership with Illuminating Concepts to further advance the rollout of ‘Intellistreets’. The announcement confirms that the street lights will have a number of “homeland security features” including a loudspeaker system that will be used to “engage captive audiences”.

It’s not too late to stop what’s happening to us. But it will be soon.

On a tip from Sean.

If Barack Hussein Obama is reelected, he won’t need a Democrat-controlled Congress to finish “fundamentally transforming” American into a place no American would want to live in. Congress is irrelevant so long as Obama sits atop the faceless, unaccountable, ever-growing, utterly malevolent blob known as the federal bureaucracy:

For example, in the 2,700 pages of ObamaCare there are more than 2,500 references to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. There are more than 700 instances when he or she is instructed that they “shall” do something and more than 200 times when they “may” take at their sole discretion some form of regulatory action. On 139 occasions, the law mentions that the “Secretary determines.” In essence one person, appointed by and reporting to the president, will be in charge of the health care of 310 million Americans once ObamaCare is fully operational in 2014.

The same is true in the 2,319 pages of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act which confers nearly unlimited power on various agencies to control by fiat the nation’s financial, banking and investment sectors. The bill also creates new agencies, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, not subject to any oversight by Congress. This overall process was repeated numerous times with other legislation all with the intent of granting unfettered power to the executive branch controlled Barack Obama and his radical associates.

Additionally, the Obama administration has, through its unilaterally determined rule making and regulatory powers, created laws out of whole cloth. The Environmental Protection Agency on a near daily basis issues new regulations clearly out of their purview in order to modify and change environmental laws previously passed and to impose a radical green agenda never approved by Congress. The same is true of the Energy and Interior Departments among many others.

None of these extra-constitutional actions have been challenged by Congress. The left in America knows this usurpation of power is nearly impossible to reverse unless stopped in its early stages.

As for even a Republican Congress stopping him,

Barack Obama knows after his re-election a Republican controlled House and Senate will not be able to enact any legislation to roll back the power previously granted to the Executive Branch or usurped by them. His veto will not be overridden as there will always be at least 145 Democratic members of the House or 34 in the Senate in agreement with or intimidated by an administration more than willing to use Chicago style political tactics.

As ObamaCare proved, vociferous public opposition will be ignored. Obama will continue to exist inside a bubble of moonbattery in which he is the hero who saves America from individualism. The “mainstream” media will keep propagandizing on his behalf, even as the nation is destroyed.

The increasingly arrogant federal government will continue to metastasize explosively. Taxes will shoot into the stratosphere, yet fail to keep pace with the swelling debt. Inflation will wash our savings away. Our standard of living will crumble, along with our liberties. We will leave to the next generation the shabby ruins of what was once America.

On the brighter side, liberals will be able to smugly congratulate themselves on their historic political correctness.

Establishment thought cop Rich Lowry of National Review has fallen down on the job. Soon after he sanctimoniously fired John Derbyshire for attempting to speak honestly about race, Thomas Sowell has acknowledged at NRO that the recent appalling attack in Norfolk was part of a censored epidemic of black on white mob violence:

Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by young black gangs against white people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls, or in other public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles, and other places across the country. Both the authorities and the media tend to try to sweep these episodes under the rug.

In Milwaukee, for example, an attack on whites at a public park a few years ago left many of the victims battered to the ground and bloody. But when the police arrived on the scene, it became clear that the authorities wanted to keep this quiet. …

A wave of such attacks in Chicago were reported, but not the race of the attackers or victims. Media outlets that do not report the race of people committing crimes nevertheless report racial disparities in imprisonment and write heated editorials blaming the criminal-justice system.

What the authorities and the media seem determined to suppress is that the hoodlum elements in many ghettoes launch coordinated attacks on whites in public places.

Maybe the liberal media is just trying to prevent the full-blown race war we could have if whites start fighting back…

It may be understandable that some people want to head off such a catastrophe, either by not reporting the attacks in this race war, or by not identifying the race of those attacking, or by insisting that the attacks were not racially motivated — even when the attackers themselves voice anti-white invective as they laugh at their bleeding victims.

Trying to keep the lid on is understandable. But a lot of pressure can build up under that lid. If and when that pressure leads to an explosion of white backlash, things could be a lot worse than if the truth had come out earlier, and steps taken by both black and white leaders to deal with the hoodlums and with those who inflame them.

The latter two groups are responsible for the tsunami of violence, bleeding heart duckspeak about oppression notwithstanding.

Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty, discrimination, and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.

The openly evil Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson aren’t the only grievance mongers and race hustlers we have to worry about. In light of the propaganda pageant that was made of the Passion of Saint Skittles, most if not all of the “mainstream” media fits the definition.

Don’t worry, Lowry won’t fire Thomas Sowell; he’s black.

On tips from Artfldgr and Just TheTip.

This gives an idea of why America is running on empty:

Via RedState, on a tip from J.