Oh, The Irony

About 2,500 people marched across the far eastern port of Vladivostok to denounce the Cabinet's decision to increase car import tariffs, shouting slogans urging Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to resign. Many there make their living by importing cars.

Meanwhile in Moscow arrests were made as about 1,000 diehard Communists rallied in a central square hemmed in by heavy police cordons.

Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov told them the Kremlin must throw out Western capitalism and impose sweeping nationalisation.

Why not? America did that last November.

We just don't have the cool hats. Yet.

Pictures and story at Daily Mail UK.

UT: Drudge

Product Endorsements

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Of course, our Commie Obama hat is still our top pick for those preparing for the 2010 elections:

Too many pledges

First, the original bleeding-heart commie panty-waste version. (You are not expected to sit through the whole rambling thing.)

MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst present The Presidential Pledge


And New Media's poetic response:




Our pledge:

To continue to expose America's Communist Movement at Ushanka.us.

Nugent

This is the kind of nuance we prefer.

I don't like repeat offenders. I like dead offenders.

UT: SondraK

Obama Logic

We anticipate - and regret - that these will be the first of many quotes from our new leader.

Closing Guantanamo - for better security...

...in order to affect the disposition of individuals detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo and promptly to close the detention facility at Guantanamo consistent with national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and interests of justice, I do hereby order.

Tightening Fuel Standards - to help our economy...

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.
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Our goal is not to further burden an already struggling industry, it is to help America's automakers prepare for the future.

We won't comment. But you may...

Inauguration Footage

The Hammer & Sickle make it to Washington!

Skiing is for Commies

We are overdue for another Ushanka Babe post... Forgive us.

Stimulus, or Reparations?

Ushanka.us is a White Guilt Free Zone. We never owned a slave, never wanted to, and would advise our friends to steer clear of the slave trade. While others may support the government taking money from us non-slave owners to stimulate the economy for those freed, we do not.

Why not take this money from the group that has kept these targeted minorities in shackles (low income housing, low income jobs, etc.) for the past 40 years? The group that fought Lincoln's efforts to free the slaves. The group that fought against the Civil Rights legislation in the 60's. The group that excuses, and even praises, single-parenting - the core reason for the decline in the black family and their current inner-city plight. The group that asks these victims to repeatedly vote for them, but then keeps the victims in dire conditions while claiming to fight their cause.

Put bluntly, why don't these slave owners, the Democratic Party, take responsibility for the damage they've done and pay out of their own pocket?

No stimulus plan will reverse the damage done to the communities Robert Reich mentions. It will take a paradigm shift. An end to excuse-making and handout-expectations.

At least Robert Reich didn't try to hide the intent in poetic nuance.

Karl's Weekend Reading

The article that spells it all out - Dick Morris' article at The Hill: The Obama Presidency: Here Comes Socialism.

He will begin by passing every program for which liberals have lusted for decades, from alternative-energy sources to school renovations, infrastructure repairs and technology enhancements. These are all good programs, but they normally would be stretched out for years. But freed of any constraint on the deficit — indeed, empowered by a mandate to raise it as high as possible — Obama will do them all rather quickly.
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...he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government. The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, will now grow to a clear majority of the American population.

We'd like to offer a solution that would stop this train from running us over. Sorry - Obama has the mandate and the congress. Our only advice is to buy a Commie Obama hat, contribute to the discussions at Ushanka.us and the blogs in our Blogroll, and bite the pillow.

Link: The COHB (Commie Obama Hat Ban) is coming soon. Buy yours today before you'll have to face a waiting period and register a hat, or face confiscation!

The news came out this week that the coming $825 billion "stimulus" bill will not create a single job. We were shocked - SHOCKED - as we were confident it would create at least a dozen jobs. The proud owner of a Commie Obama Rally Cap, John R. Lott, Jr., provides expert analysis of just what this stimulus pork bill is meant to do. FoxNews, Whose Money Is It, Anyway?

Unfortunately, though, the $825 billion “stimulus” package has nothing to do with creating or saving jobs -- it has everything to do with moving jobs from industries that Democrats don’t like to industries that they do.

The “stimulus” package is just a wish list of every government program that liberal Democrats have long wanted. As Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of staff, announced after the election last fall: “Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.”

Victor Davis Hanson reacts to the inauguration in his PajamasMedia article, An Uneasy Feeling. He includes a paragraph on the Main Stream Media:

As Obama begins to govern and as the public sees that he simply borrowed Bush’s foreign policy rhetoric, jazzed it up with his cadences and pauses, and then took either Bushites or Democratic centrists and called them hope and change, and as he glued new rhetorical veneers on the Patriot Act and FISA, and as he alienates many by making decisions other than voting present, and as the gaffes begin (Biden and Michelle can’t be put under wraps forever), and the Chicago fumes linger (Blago ain’t through yet), the fawning media will begin to look embarrassed, then ridiculous, and finally completely bankrupt. They offered no audit of Obama, no tough treatment, no honest examination of his flips, no balance in their treatment of Bush, and they will soon pay a terrible price for that derelection and worse, as the public sees them as the state megaphones that they have so sadly become. The only suspense? Will they play Pravda to the end?

UPDATE 8:30AM:

We just found Gerald Warner's article in Telegraph.uk.co via a link at The Jawa Report. Barack Obama Inauguration: This Emperor Has No Clothes. It Will All End In Tears.

It is questionable whether the present political system can survive the coming crisis. Whatever the solution, teenage swooning sentimentality over a celebrity cult has no part in it. The most powerful nation on earth is confronting its worst economic crisis under the leadership of its most extremely liberal politician, who has virtually no experience of federal politics. That is not an opportunity but a catastrophe.

UT: The Jawa Report

Lincoln? Or Lenin?

Just making conversation here...

It is widely known that Lenin presented three primary goals to the Russians after "taking his oath on November 1917":

1) Get the country out of an unpopular war,
2) Spread electricity to all the Soviets, and
3) Enact universal health care.

Of course, history tells us that taking troops off the front allowed Lenin to use them for internal purposes. And, government-run utilities and health care created a dependency which was later used as a weapon against the Soviet people. Millions are not here today to warn us of these dangers...

Here are some quotes from today's inaugural speech:

We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan.

The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.

We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

We will be the first to give President Obama, our President, the benefit of the doubt. Actions speak louder than any blog post with selected snippets. We hope we are wrong in our suspicions, and that the Obama administration puts Ushanka.us, and CommieObama.com, on the ash heap of history!