I saw this coming when they announced that Obama was coming to California on Thursday for some fundraisers:
Obama spending Father’s Day weekend at golf destination
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama is spending this Father’s Day golfing in California with his high school buddies, while his wife and daughters are on a European tour.
Obama arrived in Palm Springs and headed straight for the course at the Sunnylands estate, which is closed to the public for the summer.
But a forecast high of 115 degrees wasn’t keeping Obama and childhood friends Bobby Titcomb, Greg Orme and Mike Ramos off the fairways.
Remember when Obama said his family was a top priority in his life? Yeah, it was bullshit.
“Closed to the public” doesn’t mean “closed”, it means “members only”. I guess presidents are honorary members.
But wait! There’s more!
Obama Hits the Links in California Amid Drought
President Obama will golf Saturday on a lush, green course in California, even as the state grapples with a drought of historic proportions. As in past golfing trips, this will likely raise more than a few eyebrows.
The golf industry is important to California’s economy, supporting over 128,000 jobs and accounting for $13.1 billion of economic activity, but it takes a lot of water to keep those greens and ponds looking pristine.
There are few places in the Golden State where that’s more apparent than the Coachella Valley, home of Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage; the lux oases nestled in the California desert where Obama will be staying.
Across the state, golf course consume less than 1% of the state’s water, but the 120-plus courses in Coachella Valley consume about 17 percent of the area’s water. In 2014, TIME’s Zeke Miller reported that “each of the 124 Coachella Valley courses, on average, uses nearly 1 million gallons a day due to the hot and dry climate, 3-4 times more water per day than the average American golf course.”
Obama will be playing golf at a man-made oasis in the desert during a statewide drought while the rest of us have to conserve water. Last week the city installed a water meter to my house. Instead of paying a flat rate I’ll get charged based on how much I use.
I already don’t flush the toilet when it’s only mellow yellow, and half the houses in this neighborhood have brown lawns. My lawn gets 15 minutes of sprinkler time twice a week. Half my back yard is bare dirt. I go the car wash instead of washing my car myself. I have a mandatory low-flow shower head and faucets. Farms and orchards around here are drying up and dying.
Meanwhile, the golf courses of the rich and shameless in Coachella Valley use 124 MILLION gallons of water a day. Now that is what I call privilege.
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I gotta go shovel dirt in the morning.
I’ve been thinking about this all day (yes, I have no life), was that a metaphor for something? 😉
Happy Fathers’ Day to all the Dads and Grandads.
Where Have All the Heroes Gone? – Thoughts on Father’s Day
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/where-have-all-the-heroes-gone-thoughts-on-fathers-day#more-42909
Another unbelievable comment! I didn’t know Hillary said this in 2008! If I had heard it, I would surely have remembered!
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Mercenaries vs. holdouts: the Democrats’ 2016 dilemma.
http://www.redstate.com/2015/06/20/democrats-election-hillary-clinton/
I remember that. We even discussed it here. The bigger context was addressing pressures to drop out while she was winning all the primaries. She mentioned all sorts of things that had happened in the past to upset primary races. She included Bobby as mentioned. There was push back for that, and she apologized. I do think it was indeed a streak of nasty coming out.
She was dogwhistling that she wanted her followers to assassinate Obama!
I remember that one as well. And I also recall the interpretation that the Obama-crats gave it. It was “r@cist” of course.
Ouch. Right in the kisser.
Was that an actual campaign thingy?
Hope this link works because it beats Clinton-Gore 🙂
Thanks Denise. I’ve never seen that one. I’d love to make bronco wear that for the remainder of his term.
The quotes tell me Obama said it, I’ve been looking for the speech to see it in context. Can’t trust everything you see on the intertubes 😉 SC was an important state in the ’08 primaries, it sure sounds like what our pandering President would say …..
He added: “Against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country. In South Carolina, where the Confederate flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African-Americans and white Americans.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/politics/18cnd-obama.html?_r=0
lyn, you’re fast! I just found it, the quote was from his “famous” race speech in March 2008.
How’s that message of unity working out for us? 😉
Here is what he REALLY said:
If you are going to quote someone out of context you should link to the full quote. Anything less is dishonest.
Meanwhile, the best golfers in the world are playing on the moon this weekend. (Chambers Bay Golf Course, WA)
That looks like some of the rural, wild and wooly golf courses in Scotland. All they need is a 30 knot gale and a few sheep.
Why do Scotsmen wear kilts?
Because zippers scare sheep.
Yesterday I saw an old guy with a kilt on at the grocery store, and I don’t live in Scotland.
lol
Even Irishman Rory McIlroy’s struggling with this one. It’s really much, much browner than the photo I found. I guess Washington state is droughty too.
Owners of the private golf course Obama’s playing on are probably BIG Dem donors and pals with Jerry Brown. Why aren’t the eco-nuts screaming about this? Even when Virginia has the occasional drought condition we automatically cut back with the frivolous waste….watering golf course fairways, washing cars and watering lawns.
I didn’t realize that his “high school buddies” all live in California and belong to that very golf club. Coincidence? or a lie.
Its ok Leslie, they fly them in for special occassions 😉
The poor babies are complaining about it too.
Jason Day suffers from vertigo and has collapsed a couple of times, yet he’s still one of the leaders (last time I checked). Let the whiners whine, bless their hearts 😉
I actually thought it was a re-run when I first saw it on teevee the other night. It was late, late in the day and I was just switching to find a newscast and came on the golf tournament coverage. It didn’t realize it was “real” until much later.
Obama should be ashamed. for real. But he won’t be because he and shame have not been introduced. He thinks it’s “for others only”.
It’s a treat to watch a golf major in prime time on the east coast, thanks west coast time zone !
I agree I can’t remember when I got to see golf in prime time. 😉
Love, love, LOVE these guys ❤
AWESOME ! ! !
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to all our dads here!
HAPPY FATHER’s DAY !!!
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Emanuel AME church service live:
http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=3
I have no words except fucking crazy!!!
http://www.thesocialmemo.org/2015/06/huffpo-writer-i-will-not-have-children.html
“I wanted to be a special, different White person. The one and only. How very White of me” she adds.
Just another case of Special Snowflake Syndrome
Wasn’t there a Huffpoop snowflake that wrote she would abort any male fetus because she didn’t want to bring another MAN into this world ?
probably.
Interesting that some of the left embrace gender and race based abortions.
I think it has more to do with Clickbait based journalism on the left. Huffpom Vox, Salon, et al.
Even some of the conservative sites are doing it too, especially on twitter and FB. You know the type headline ” You’ll never believe what Obama has planned…..” then you have to click to find out and greeted by the most annoying pop-up ads, strobe lights, jumpy videos and what not. Then I unfollow them 🙂
Didn’t I tell you? A bunch of vile prog white people admire Dolezal for what she did. This is a problem for black vile progs.
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Your results from the Vocabulary IQ Test have been calculated.
You got 45 questions right and 0 questions wrong, which produces a raw score of 45 and converts to an IQ score of 135.
An IQ score is relative to a population. The average is 100 and the scores are distributed like in the graph below.
You can see in the graph that 34.1% of people have IQ scores between 100 and 115 and 0.1% of people have IQ scores above 145.
That was fun 🙂
Mine, I’ll take it.
You got 37 questions right and 8 questions wrong, which produces a raw score of 34.2 and converts to an IQ score of 117.
Smarty pants. I got 131.
I got 2 wrong. I demand a recount!
I want one, too….Recount that is. 😉
Your results from the Vocabulary IQ Test have been calculated.
You got 43 questions right and 2 questions wrong, which produces a raw score of 42.3 and converts to an IQ score of 130.
Given that ” IQ POINTS” can vary by as much as ten or fifteen points on any given day, I would say we are all in the same range 🙂 and well above average.
We are, indeed. 😉
I don’t care about the IQ points but I’m really curious to know what words I got wrong.
I wonder if I got punished not using “I don’t know”. Tempted a couple of times, but then thought outside the box on my final answer 🙂
That’s it, just add those 15 points to mine 😀
😀
Just an observation …. skimming through news and twitter feeds:
Left media: Showing photo of Roof holding confederate flag (Racist!)
Right media: Showing photo of Roof holding burning American flag.(Not a Republican!)
I know I sound like Gwen Ifill, but I did wonder, right away, who took the photos. Do phones have timers on their cameras so it could have been a selfie?
I’m more concerned about that “friend” who said Roof told him he was going to shoot up the College of Charleston so he was surprised to learn he picked a church.
also 😀
Awwww….
Golfing in drought stricken California with high school buddies on Father’s Day while the rest of the leeches are on a European vacation. So presidential and inspiring.
I wonder if the media will notice? I did see a blurb in the Obama friendly USA Today, but it mostly let the golf course owner defend and respond to the drought “well, we pump our OWN water out of the ground !”
Nothing like spending FATHER”S DAY away from your children. An entire continent away from your children . Inspiring indeed.
Yeah, at the @propaganda sites like whitehouse, potus and flotus, they’re just twitting away all their guilt with mooshy sentiments and guilt.
Who are those friends? We know it can’t be Ray, the drug dealer:
http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/obamas-hs-drug-dealer-killed-with-a-ball-peen-hammer-by-scorned-gay-lover/
Oh, maybe it’s his friend Bobby:
http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/obamas-hs-drug-dealer-killed-with-a-ball-peen-hammer-by-scorned-gay-lover/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374267/Obamas-friend-Robert-Bobby-Titcomb-arrested-soliciting-prostitute-Hawaii.html
Or maybe it was his friend Keith, who was arrested for a brutal rape:
http://www.examiner.com/article/keith-kiyoshi-kakugawa-charged-with-rape-humboldt-obama-s-friend-school
Maybe he picked them up on Craig’s List or Rent – A – Classmate.
For those following the Open and the horror that is Chambers Bay, here’s a little golf humor I stole from a FB friend…..
For all you golf fans I understand that the PGA is running a raffle for Chambers Bay. First place is a week at Chambers Bay, second place is two weeks at Chambers Bay and free golf every day, third place is a month there with unlimited golf and train rides. Every golfer in the country will be automatically enrolled, the only way you won’t be considered is to buy a “get out of Chambers Bay” ticket. The money will be used to train (no pun intended) the camera crew to track the golf ball in flight, and buy another tree for the course. For the first time in my life I’m actually considering watching soccer!
My redneck dirt farmer ancestors would be ashamed of me. Moving 500 lbs of loose dirt from someone else’s back yard to mine using wheelbarrows, shovels and a pick up truck took me several hours and left me too sore to do anything more than drink beer and binge-watch True Detective.
I didn’t quite have a heart attack or a stroke, but it was touch and go a few times. The pick’em up truck was so fucking high off the ground I had to use a ladder to climb into it.
GMTA, I just responded to your first comment on this thread, clueless as always (but my IQ is only 117) be kind to your special needs commentors 😉 And you need more dirt…why?
You can never have too much dirt.
Very true.
Hey TCHguys on twitter, if you’re ever feeling down and gloomy, go read Razor’s feed, s/he makes me laugh…. https://twitter.com/hale_razor
On the topic of IQ i always thought those things were a poor indicator of anything. However, I was speaking to a psychiatrist about my eternal court proceedings and she said my nemesis having an IQ of 74 explains a lot of his behavior. Specifically he is not aware he is dumb as a post, thinks his view is all there is and likely does not comprehend actions and consequences. Couple that with copious amounts of quotidian pot and you get a clueless person. Everything happens to him. Personal actions play no role. Would be entertaining if it were not involving a small child’s life.
He never played football in H.S. but tried out for the Steelers, he plans on buying stocks so he can retire early– he can’t keep a cell phone turned on, but he thinks he’s Warren Buffet. Scary because he resides in the self deluded world. Beat his girlfriend so badly knocked out her front teeth when she dropped charges she said she provoked him.
I look at them and the only thing that makes any sense is that they are stupid and lack the ability to see any perspective. Battery is not notmal. He called the other day and asked little one to spell no. He then informed her that there was another no(know). She has yet to get a B going into 4th grade and that is his taking part in her education.
Would feel sorry for him but he is not a nice person. Took her shoplifting one day. Walks down the street checking for unlocked cars and steals change. Constantly in and out of jail. Petty shit.
Sweetest thing
The other day when I had three girls for several hours I could take no more of one being left out and crying so I took over the games. Decided we were going to play my favorite thing about Tim is( feel in the blank). I would pick the winner after being showered with complements. Little one said “I’ll give you this you are funny”. Made me happy.