Well, I guess it's officially official now. The U.S.A. is the world's biggest human rights nightmare ... according to Obama:

Move over Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. The State Department has made it official: The United States violates human rights. In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration submitted a report to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights detailing the progress and problems in dealing with human rights issues in this country. The document is a strange combination of left-wing history and White House talking points.

It describes how the United States discriminates against the disabled, homosexuals, women, Native Americans, blacks, Hispanics and those who don't speak English. There is the expected pandering to Muslims, noting that the government is committed to "challenge misperceptions and discriminatory stereotypes, to prevent acts of vandalism and to combat hate crimes," offenses that the American people evidently keep committing. And the current economic woes are blamed on the housing crisis, which itself was the result of "discriminatory lending practices." The implication is that if Americans had only been less racist, they would be enjoying prosperity today.

The report notes that until recently, the U.S. engaged in torture, unlawfully detained terrorist suspects and illegally spied on Americans communicating with terrorists - but the report assures readers that Mr. Obama has been putting a stop to all that.

The main impact of the document will be to confirm critiques of the United States as a haven for hatred and rights abuses. [...]

Harmless enough, you say, it's just the idiotic U.N. ... Heh! I say:

Dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and theocracies competing for legitimacy on the world stage have been handed a potent new weapon, the kind of assessment they would never offer about their own governments.

Read in full at The Washington Times. And here is Report of the United States of America Submitted to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights In Conjunction with the Universal Periodic Review

You may now reach for your coffee ... or something stronger.

Inconceivable that British troops would march past the portrait of history's bloodiest tyrant?

How would you feel if they were our boys?

According to the Daily Mail UK, the U.S. Embassy confirmed that its soldiers will take part in Moscow's Victory Day parade.

How's that hope and change working for you?

Read it here.

The U.S. and Cuba held a rare, unusual, unprecedented meeting over at the United Nations yesterday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills was there, sitting down to talks with Bruno Rodriguez, the foreign minister of Cuba.

It would be normal to think the topic of this meeting would be Cuba's political prisoners, given that Cubans like Guillermo Farinas are in grave condition, one of many willing to die so that Cubans can be free. Or that Orlando Zapata Tamayo died last month. These acts have moved millions of people across the world, drawing hundreds of thousands to march in the streets in demonstrations that span the political spectrum - democratic leftists are among them - all to support these authentic heroes, and their families.

No such luck - and no surprise, given who's running Washington.

Instead, the U.S. is teaming up with castro to provide "free" medical care for the Haitians who have been devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake. See here.

That would be the SAME Cuban doctors who are literally slaves in castro's medical racket (can Hillary be sued for slavery?), and who have brought lawsuits in U.S. courts over their conditions. Court documents show that these Cuban doctors do not serve of their own volition, are abysmally paid, are subject to slavecatchers, and live in fear. With this new "alliance," the U.S. is going to support that!

That would also be the SAME Cuban doctors within whose ranks lurk spies and agitators for the Cuban regime. Countries like Paraguay and Honduras have already kicked quite a few of them out for meddling, trying to overthrow their host governments in the past, so can there be any doubt that they'll try this in Haiti too, given the weakness of the Haitian government and the green light Hillary is giving them to go for it? Castro doesn't give these doctors away for free.

And this would be the SAME castroite racket whose doctors cannot even provide Band-aids to its own people, let alone Haiti. I have had more than one conversation with State Department people about the Haiti aid effort and they've already told me the Cuban doctors have been highly ineffective in Haiti because they are poorly trained and don't have any supplies. The U.S. at the time was providing supplies to them because they were helpless otherwise. The U.S. never sought to publicize that, but there you have it. The cooperation being talked about will be for Americans to provide supplies, castroites to sell them on the black market and castroites to obtain another steady stream of gringo cash, and Haitians to end up with nothing.

It's pretty obvious what castro gets out of this - free resources and the U.S. imprimatur for whatever shenanigans he's got cooked up for Haiti. He also gets to deflect world attention from his horrific treatment of political prisoners - some of whom have DIED because of castroite medical care - and tout his new cooperation effort with the U.S.

Worst of all, castro gets to claim credit for leading the Haiti aid effort, snatching the crown of credit right off our heads and putting it on his own - something he and Hugo Chavez have been trying to do from day one. Never mind that any aid he gives is something that would not be possible at all were the U.S. not backing him up. It was the U.S. that expended the heavy resources and did the dangerous jobs in delivering relief to Haiti. Castro's agents tried to smear the effort and spread lies about the U.S. Navy causing the quake.

Perceptions are all, and poor Haitians respond to the guy who's in front of them. So instead of seeing vast American generosity upon receipt of free medical care, a Haitian will see that castroite doctor in front of him providing a(n American-paid) Band-Aid and immediately will conclude that castro is the generous one and those gringos (who denied him his emigration visa) are the stingy ones. castro will be Lady Bountiful and America will be Scrooge.

How do you like that means of expending taxpayer dollars? This is one stupid, harmful alliance to make with a murderous machiavellian monster.

Gitmo terrorists are now Guantanamo refugees. How's that for change? As Humberto would say, unreal.

From Human Events:

REPORTER QUESTION: Talk to us a little bit about response and talks and any commitments that you may have gotten from our European and other friends in the international community about taking in Guantanamo detainees as the camp in Guantanamo is expected to close at some point in the near future. Have you gotten any commitments from our European friends and anybody else?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY PHILIP J. CROWLEY: Ambassador Dan Fried continues his efforts to resettle, you know, Guantanamo refugees to various places around the world.

Listen in at 24:10 minutes.

As we continue to slide into the abyss…

They lit up The Empire State Building in Red and Yellow to celebrate the 60^th anniversary of The People’s Republic of China last night.

We’re not really celebrating fried rice, fortune cookies  and cheap flat - panel TV's here.

We’re celebrating a system that has mass murdered MILLIONS.

Nobody’s even sure how many Chinese died at the hands of the Chinese communists. The Black Book of Communism estimates that it could be 44.5 to 72 Million. This great page summarizes different estimates from experts. The average falls between 47.75 and 52.5. But hey, what’s 4.75 Million dead chinos more or less? Who cares?

Lighting up the Empire State Building to celebrate the birth of the system is a disgrace and akin to dancing on the graves of all the victims…if you knew where they were since many are in unmarked mass graves.

Maybe next January 1^st they’ll light the Freedom Tower in Miami red and black to celebrate the Cuban revolution and mock the pile of Cuban bones resting at the bottom of the Atlantic just offshore.

Presenting the teachers classroom activity guide for their students, PreK-6 for Obama's address to students across America. You can read the Department of Education guide here.

The classroom, and we're talking preschool through 6th grade, is no place for politics, period. Young American children do not need to be talked to by any elected representative, and that includes the president. My children are grown, but if I had kids in school, I'd keep them home, and I'd damn well let my local board of education know why.

H/T: Rick Moore

Kendrick Meek, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Albio Sires, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, all members of the Congressional Cuba Democracy Caucus,  have stepped up to the plate on behalf of Cuban political prisoner Ariel Sigler Amaya.  The lack of action by other members of Congress, as well as international Human Rights organizations, and the MSM, is indicative of their hypocrisy and true disregard for Human Rights.  They are all worthless baggage.

From Capital Hill Cubans, the Congressional letter on Ariel Sigler Amaya: (Click to enlarge)

Obama wants all of us to eat right and get enough exercise, and he knows how to make it happen. Get ready for the lifestyle police folks:
Barack Obama says shape up now:

Any health care reform plan that Obama signs is almost certain to call for nutrition counseling, obesity screenings and wellness programs at workplaces and community centers. He wants more time in the school day for physical fitness, more nutritious school lunches and more bike paths, walking paths and grocery stores in underserved areas.
The president is filling top posts at Health and Human Services with officials who, in their previous jobs, outlawed trans fats, banned public smoking or required restaurants to provide a calorie count with that slice of banana cream pie.

Even Congress is getting into the act, giving serious consideration to taxing sugary drinks and alcohol to help pay for the overhaul.

Goes to Awni Shatarat, 45, a clothing storeowner in the Palestinian refugee camp of Baqaa in Jordan, one of the Muslim voices quoted in an AP editorial on Obama's upcoming speech at Cairo University.

Giving "The One" credit just for being himself, the article credits Shatarat with this breathless gush, ""It's so exciting to have a black man run the entire world."

I can't wait to hear the apologies Obama will hand out during this speech.

Police state, anyone?

WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.

A solid eight years of hearing liberals and Democrats decry the evil George W. Bush's "destruction" of our civil liberties and shredding of the Constitution and yadayadayada and I'll bet a crisp sawbuck that you wont hear a peep from them over this incredibly disturbing news. I'm actually willing to bet they'll be defending this policy in droves.

The TOTUS ("Teleprompter Of The United States") will come out and read some carefully prepared speech "explaining the need" for this barbarity and liberals and Democrats will swoon in delight and gush with support as they slide off their chairs.

Venceremos!!!

How about another heapin' bowl of change for you all?

The man who is President Obama's newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers' money, a Daily News probe found.

Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion often received contributions just before or after he sponsored money for projects or approved important zoning changes, records show.

Most donations were organized and well-timed.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm starting to grow a little tired of all this change; it just doesn't taste as good as they said it would.

How much longer do we have left?

Slimy.

Fishy.

Obama....

SUSHI?

It's the fish of change!!

P.S. MAKE IT STOP!

Thanks, Scott.

From Maggie over at PatDollard.com comes this video about fake Obama coins sold to unsuspecting worshipers.

A fool and his money are soon parted. (And that applies to his bailout, too.)

They're actually selling these on Amazon....

(H/T InstaPundit, via RedState)