The Obama's celebrate income inequality...

by showing us how the other half lives.

So where is he?

He's at the exclusive Sunnylands Retreat in Rancho Mirage knocking a little white ball around a lush golf course because, after all, he needs to relax from all the fund raising, previous vacations, and speaking at elementary schools, doncha know.

And Mooch?

Since wowing us all with her 12K dress (presented here with no comment) at the recent state dinner for the French serial adulterer and vertically challenged Hollande, she needed a rest. 

So she and the first daughters are enjoying a few days of skiing in Aspen while staying at the home of Jim and Paula Crown.

TMZ summed it up nicely:

Michelle Obama and the extremely rich collided in the air Friday ... when the Aspen Airport apparently shut down for an hour to facilitate a fun-filled ski weekend for Michelle and her kids.

The First Lady flew in late yesterday to the ridiculously in-your-face show of wealth on the tarmac.  According to the New York Post, the airport was shut down for security reasons and some private jet setters were just PISSED.

It's one of the most congested weekends of the year at the Aspen Airport ... several hundred jets descend on the ski city for the long President's Day weekend.

And speaking of presidents ... the current one was not there.  He went to Cali to deal with the drought.

It's kinda funny if some of the whiners are people who support Obama.  Like the old saying goes, "Liberalism ends where inconvenience begins."

The Clowns Crowns:

You just don't get anymore waspy looking than these two (or rich, either.) Well okay, to be fair, there are other people richer than the Crowns.  

Jim is on the board of J.P. Morgan, General Dynamics, and Sara Lee as well as being the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the University of Chicago.  He and Paula also own the Aspen Ski Co.  He spends most of his time hanging with the little people.

Jimbo is a good buddy of Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan who, if you'll recall, was gifted with 25 billion of taxpayer funds under TARP.  Supposedly, they paid it back.

Now Jamie D. is buds of Rahm Emanuel and Timothy Geithner.  

Are we seeing a pattern here?

I would be happy to loan Paula some powder and lipstick.

They live somewhere around here.  No pics seem to exist of their actual home.

Paula, on the other hand, is a big wahoo in the art scene and has recently started making her very own "art" rather than just hosting fancy schmancy art shows and sitting on art boards.  She has lots of time to pursue her bliss since she doesn't have to worry about health insurance

I love her self portrait of her brain.  It would look lovely hanging in my dining room.

And here's Paula standing in front of a work she did at the Chicago Art Institute in 2012.  Lovely.  Oh, by the way, it's called "Clouds".

It's Friday...

and it's not raining.

Hopefully it will not rain before getting the lawn cut.

Isn't today the long anticipated golf game between Obama and Boehner?  It does my heart good to know that the two of them are going hash out their differences while smacking around a little white ball.  The fact that millions of out of work Americans could not even afford to pay the greens fees on one of their local city courses should not stand in the way of those over-paid politicians having a most excellent time.

As Kyle-Ann Shiver says in her fine article at American Thinker: 

Do they not realize how utterly foolish they look to the rest of the Country?  While the citizenry suffers under the yoke of political-class policy failures, and these two leaders cannot -- among all those brilliant-beyond-brilliant policy makers -- find any real solutions, they choose to go play golf together.

 Foolish, indeed.

The present White House also thinks it's a super-dooper most excellent idea to sell raffle tickets in order to win "dinner with Obama."  Really, folks.  This is cringe inducing. 

Maggie, over at her Notebook,  reminds us that while a $5.00 donation gets you entered in a "sweepstakes" for dinner, 500K gets you a cushy job with the Obama administration. 

The Hounds of Hell...

will be unleashed against former football player David Tyree who dared to say marriage should be between a man and a woman.. Already a Yahoo article has called his comment "shocking."  Really?  I think calling what two members of the same sex do with each other, which is subsequently bandied about the airwaves for all to hear, "shocking."

But, wait.  The Daley Gator reminds us:   Most Americans Still Believe In Traditional Marriage, Poll Reveals

So why is a group of no more than 2% of the population dictating to the rest of us about redefining the definition of marriage?

Quin Hillyer thinks we still have a chance of dragging this country back from the abyss. 

[...]At issue is a country that has lost its way, in part because far too many millions of its individual citizens have lost their own way in their daily lives. The full litany of ills is so familiar that anything more than a sample list of them would be boring: out-of-wedlock pregnancies, abortions, hideously trashy prime-time TV shows, raunchy music, attire in public that isn't just slovenly but scandalous, casual acceptance of financial cheating… and more, ad infinitum. Another, less-recognized sin is that of a certain form of sloth, which shows itself in declining standards across the board -- as evidenced, for just one example, in this week's story (similar to dozens of other stories on such subjects in the past two decades) about just how pathetically American children do on tests of the most basic historical (or civic-related) information.

Many will find his solution "shocking." 

Angel, over at Woman Honor Thyself, has even more "shocking" stuff to say. 

Doug Ross asks if you're ready to live in a third-world America?

According to McNorman we already are:  It’s About Time The Question Was Asked

Zilla lets loose on the TSA - and we thank her. I love the smell of rage on Friday.

Here's a little something especially for my loony leftie trolls who, after viewing it, will say, "I don't care.  Obama's smart, and the right-wing religious nuts are just stupid and they're racists, too.  So there!" 

H/T Bad Habit

To prove how dangerous we wild and crazy Christians are, Creative Minority Report adds:  Dem: Christian Militants Might Bring Down This Country!!!

The Reaganite Republican reports on Michele Bachmann:  Poll: Bachmann Surges Nearly 15 Points... Now in Second Behind Romney

Want to know the best reason for liking Michele Bachmann?  Every lefty loon I know in Minnesota loathes her.  They've labeled her with the worst epitaph they can conjure up from their extremely limited vocabulary; stupid.  Never mind that these loons are living in mom's basement.  By gosh - they know "stupid" when they see it.
 
Soloman brings us some artful media fisking:   A Little Media Bias for You, Courtesy of The Los Angeles Times

Ordered Liberty explains:   The hard truth about car production in the United States

My window of opportunity is here.  Rain is predicted for this afternoon. 

See you all later...