Obama Gets his Grade

And it is not good for him. Guess he will have to get his disciples to flood this poll like he has all of the others, to make him look good. For now though this is probably a much more accurate score of how American's fee about His highness.

We will chack back on this poll in a few days to watch the MIRACLE change in the vote once the Obamites find out about it and stuff the ballot box again. Gotta give them credit, stuffing ballot boxes is one theing they do really well.


From the LA Times

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/04/obama-100-days-aretha-franklin.html

Besides the hat, the oath flub, the Cabinet tax problems and cheesy gifts for Britain's leader, how's Barack Obama doing?


6.2 %
Really well
1.7 %
Good
2.2 %
So-so
6.5 %
Disappointing
8.6 %
Bad
74.8 %
Scary bad


3623 total responses
Obama's policies are:


90.0 %
Too liberal
2.9 %
Insufficiently liberal
6.0 %
Just right
1.1 %
Too conservative


3607 total responses
Obama's spending plans and deficits:


2.5 %
Inspire me
0.6 %
Don't matter
4.2 %
Are about right
7.9 %
Worry me
84.8 %
Really scare me


3626 total responses
Slowly withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq for now and sending more to Afghanistan strikes me as:


23.3 %
Just the right thing
9.5 %
Doesn't matter
21.1 %
A betrayal of his anti-war stance
46.2 %
Real trouble later

3588 total responses
Talking with Iran and North Korea about their nuclear weapons programs is:


8.8 %
Appropriate
11.4 %
Naive but necessary
79.8 %
Hopeless


3601 total responses
Watching and listening to Obama speak makes me feel:


5.5 %
Hopeful
2.9 %
Confident
73.2 %
Suspicious
18.4 %
Sleepy


3609 total responses
What I like most about Obama so far is:


7.8 %
His confidence
1.5 %
His speeches
0.6 %
His spending
0.7 %
His Cabinet
5.4 %
His family
84.0 %
His dog


3517 total responses
What I like least about Obama so far is:


30.2 %
His arrogance
2.4 %
His speeches
33.0 %
His spending
16.1 %
His national security plans
18.3 %
His other plans like healthcare reform


3524 total responses
As a vice president who was a senator since Obama was in elementary school, Joe Biden has turned out so far to be:


1.7 %
An inspiration
3.4 %
Better than I expected
5.0 %
OK
57.8 %
An embarrassment
32.1 %
Who cares?


3618 total responses
Overall, so far I'd give the Obama administration an:


3.0 %
A+
3.2 %
A
1.8 %
B
2.4 %
C
11.7 %
D
15.6 %
F
62.5 %
Whatever comes beneath F


3638 total responses

PETA Kills

The following story is from This is True dated 17 July 2005. It is Copyright 2005 Randy Cassingham, all rights reserved, and reprinted here with permission:

"Ethical" Defined

After more than 100 dead dogs were dumped in a trash dumpster over four weeks, police in Ahoskie, N.C., kept an eye on the trash receptacle behind a supermarket. Sure enough, a van drove up and officers watched the occupants throw in heavy plastic bags. They detained the two people in the van and found 18 dead dogs in plastic bags in the dumpster, including puppies; 13 more dead dogs were still in the van. Police say the van is registered to the headquarters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the two occupants, Andrew B. Cook, 24, and Adria Joy Hinkle, 27, identified themselves as PETA employees. An autopsy performed on one of the dogs found it was healthy before it was killed. Police say PETA has been picking up the animals -- alive -- from North Carolina animal shelters, promising to find them good homes. Cook and Hinkle have been charged with 62 felony counts of animal cruelty. In response to the arrests PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said it's against the group's policy for employees to dump animals in the trash, but "that for some animals in North Carolina, there is no kinder option than euthanasia." (Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald) ...Oops, my mistake: that's "Playing God" Defined.

In his author's notes section, Cassingham had more to say about this story:

The more I learn about PETA, the less I think of them. The story of them killing animals isn't even unusual. According to PETA's own filings, in 2004 PETA killed 86.3 percent of the animals entrusted to its care -- a number that's rising, not falling. Meanwhile, the SPCA in PETA's home town (Norfolk, Va.) was able to find loving homes for 73 percent of the animals put in its care. A shortage of funds? Nope: last year PETA took in $29 million in tax-exempt donations. It simply has other priorities for the funds, like funding terrorism (yes, really). But don't take my word for it: I got my figures from http://www.PETAkillsAnimals.com -- and they have copies of PETA's state and federal filings to back it up. The bottom line: if you donate money to PETA because you think they care for and about animals, you need to think some more. PETA literally yells and screams about how others "kill animals" but this is how they operate? Pathetic.

And you know what I wonder? PETA's official count of animals they kill is 86.3 percent. But if they're going around picking up animals, killing them while they drive around and not even giving them a chance to be adopted, and then destroying the evidence by dumping the bodies in the trash, are those deaths being reported? My guess: no. While 86.3 percent is awful, the actual number is probably much, much higher. How dare they lecture anyone about the "ethical" treatment of animals!

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