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Saturday, April 03, 2010

Preview of Coming Attractions: EPA Imposes Death Sentences on Thousands of Americans

KMPH in Fresno reports on yesterday's catastrophic accident involving a "smart car":

An accident in Fresno County sent two people to the hospital Friday morning.

Around 7 a.m. California Highway Patrol officers were called to the area of Highway 168, near Sample Road, for reports of a collision between a "Smart Car" and another vehicle.

CHP officials say the two cars crashed head-on, after one of the vehicles cut into the opposite lane while trying to maneuver a turn.

Only two people were involved in the crash; the female driver of the "Smart Car" was taken by helicopter to a nearby hospital, where she was treated for major injuries, while the other driver is said to have suffered minor injuries.

This news comes as the EPA announced its new guidelines for fuel efficiency, which were opposed in Congress by representatives on both sides of the aisle.

The requirements were raised to an average of 35.5 miles per gallon for 2016 model-year cars and light trucks from 27.3 mpg in 2011...

...The final rule issued today will cost automakers $52 billion to comply and add $926 to the cost of buying a car within five years, according to government estimates.

Legacy media has ignored the real impact of CAFE standards: the human toll represented by thousands of deaths on the roads. As cars get smaller and smaller, to meet central planners' guidelines, the mismatches between large and small vehicles become more pronounced -- and far more deadly.

According to a 2006 report by Ryan Bilas of the National Center for Public Policy Research several studies demonstrate the cost in human lives due to CAFE standards:
  • According to a 2001 National Academy of Sciences panel, smaller and lighter vehicle production resulted in an additional 1,300 to 2,600 traffic fatalities in 1993.
  • A 1999 USA Today analysis of crash data found that since CAFE went into effect in 1978, 46,000 people died in crashes they otherwise would have survived. That equates to roughly 7,700 deaths for every mile per gallon gained in fuel economy standards.
  • A 1989 Harvard-Brookings study estimated CAFE to be responsible for 2,200 to 3,900 excess occupant deaths over ten years. It also estimated between 11,000 and 19,500 occupants would suffer serious injury due to these standards.
  • The same study found CAFE has resulted in a 500 pound weight reduction on the average car.
  • Lastly, passengers in smaller, lighter cars die at a rate 12 times that of people driving larger, heavier cars.
To meet increased fuel efficiency standards, automobile manufactures reduced vehicle weight.  There is a direct relationship between vehicle weight and passenger deaths and injuries. 

In short, the EPA has imposed death sentences on thousands of Americans.

Furthermore, its arbitrary, Politburo-style rules will likely "paralyze the recovery" and financially damage auto companies at the worst possible time.

And it's all in support of a charade called global warming climate change, as an eight-part series in Germany's Der Spiegel reports this week. Autos contribute 1% of all human-caused CO2. And CO2 is an infinitesimally tiny portion of all greenhouse gases. Global warming is a scam, through and through, designed to let the government control industrial policy.

It's time to defund the EPA completely and stop their radical progressive agenda. The lives we save in doing so may be our own.


Friday, April 02, 2010

A tale of two time-stamps: Smoking-gun proof that Democrats, the Huffington Post and McClatchy conspired to smear Tea Party activists?

4/2/2010 10:29PM --- Click here for updates, below
4/2/2010 09:54PM --- Click here for updates, below
4/2/2010 06:24PM --- Click here for updates, below

In today's American Thinker, Jack Cashill does an exceptional job describing the timeline related to the events of March 20th, in which members of Congress were reportedly taunted by Tea Party activists with racial and sexual slurs.

[Members of Congress] left the Cannon Building about 2:30 PM on March 20th and returned about 3:15 PM...

I asked because at 4:51 that same day, McClatchy reporter William Douglas posted an article on the McClatchy website with the inflammatory headline, "Tea party protesters scream 'ni--er' at black congressman."

In other words, Douglas, with an attributed assist from James Rosen, managed to interview representatives John Lewis, Emanuel Cleaver, and Barney Frank, compose an 800-word article, and have it edited and formatted for posting within a 90-minute window.

During that same 90 minutes, Douglas would have received and incorporated a press release from Emanuel Cleaver, making the easily disproved claim that he had "been spat upon and that Capitol Police had arrested his assailant."

But Douglas also had two other important sources: he referenced two additional journalists in the very same article.

Frank told the Boston Globe that the incident happened as he was walking from the Longworth office building to the Rayburn office building, both a short distance from the Capitol. Frank said the crowd consisted of a couple of hundred of people and that they referred to him as 'homo.' A writer for The Huffington Post said the protesters called Frank a "faggot."

But the Huffington Post's article, by Sam Stein, wasn't published until 4:56pm, five minutes after Douglas' article was posted on the web. This mistake would seem to point to wanton collusion between the two authors as they hastily worked to market the smears.

In about 90 minutes, Stein himself cranked out a 400-word piece in record time after interviewing Rep. James Clyburn and a staffer.

First Posted: 03-20-10 04:56 PM

A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) had been spat on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a 'ni--er.' And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a "faggot," as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president's speech, shrugged off the incident... But Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed...

What about the Boston Globe?

It appears that the first Boston Globe article to mention the incident didn't actually hit the website until the following day.

Comment at Mediaite by 'val': March 20, 2010 at 7:34 pm

This is a LIE! I was there and no one spat on that congressman. Maxi waters and her crew walked right through the crowd with a look of contempt on their faces. One aid actually called a protester a cracker and a red neck. The Congressional black caucus was looking for troublE and when they didn’t find any they made s--- up.
So how did Douglas reference both pieces, along with engaging in numerous interviews and tying in a rapidly-generated press release, in only 90 minutes?

Simple.

Why did Pelosi, Frank and members of the Congressional Black Caucus take the long walk directly in front of the Tea Party protests, as opposed to using the tunnel as they do 99.9% of the time?

It appears that it was a conspiracy.

In 90 minutes, a press release was crafted by Cleaver's office, McClatchy and HuffPro "reporters" interviewed a half dozen individuals, wrote lengthy articles, referenced each others material (despite it not having been published) while receiving and incorporating said press release.

This appears to be nothing less than a criminal scam -- a mashup effort by Congress and sympathetic media -- designed to promote racial hatred in order to advance a radical Democrat agenda.
 

Update at 6:24pm: Thanks to links from Michelle Malkin and Jim Hoft, this story caught the attention of McClatchy's DC bureau and its online editor, Mark Seibel. Seibel comments:

I edited the Bill Douglas story in question. As anyone who works in media today knows, the Web isn't a newspaper and its stories aren't created like newspaper stories either. Surely, the author of this piece knows that.

Here's the real timeline:

Bill's first version of the story was posted at 5:01 p.m. (Eastern) Here it is in its entirety: "WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said Saturday that some demonstrators gathered outside the Capitol to protest the health care overhaul legislation called him "ni--er." [Ed: Redaction mine]

Lewis, a longtime civil rights activist who is head of the Congressional Black Caucus, said some demonstrators also spat on black members of Congress as they left the Capitol after meeting with President Barack Obama.

The claim could not immediately be confirmed."

The story then went through 13 additional iterations, each adding detail. The second version, posted at 5:12 p.m., corrected when the incident had taken place (it was on the way to the Capitol that the n-word incident happened, not on the way back) and was nine graphs long. The last graph cited a CNN report on the Barney Frank incident. That citation was changed to HuffPost in version 4 at 5:19 p.m. after I was alerted by a Nico Pitney tweet.

The Boston Globe version of events was added to the story at 6:54 p.m. after Bill heard the audio of the Globe's interview with Frank. At that point the story, in its seventh version, had grown to 16 paragraphs.

James Clyburn's comments were added in Version 9, at 7:35 p.m. The statement from Emanuel Cleaver's office was added in Version 13, at 8:33 p.m. At that point the story was 25 paragraphs long.

The final version, posted three minutes later, made some minor word changes.

That's the timeline from McClatchy's internal audit system.

I sent an email to Seibel asking for some screen-caps from the web site CMS (content management system). I will add updates if I receive responses.

Now there are a couple of additional questions I have for Mark.

1. How is it that an inflammatory word like ni--er wasn't redacted, especially when the story was unconfirmed?
2. Now that more than a dozen videos have emerged of the walks, with none showing the use of a racial epithet, how is that a retraction was never issued for this story?
3. Does it strike you as odd that McClatchy's Nico Pitney re-tweeted an inflammatory HuffPo headline within one minute, apparently without even reading the accusation?
4. Does anyone wonder what's going with HuffPo's CMS when the story says it was "First Posted: 03-20-10 04:56 PM" (see above for screen-shot), yet tweet links started occurring 45 minutes before that timestamp?

Put simply, Mark, this entire story -- from the highly unusual walk through a massive protest, to the instant posting of racially divisive words and inflammatory rhetoric (without a whit of confirmation) -- stinks to high heaven. Are you folks journalists or flacks? Because, from all appearances, it looks like you're the latter.

Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 to anyone who can provide proof that the slur occurred. No one has taken him up on his offer.


Update at 9:54pm: McClatchy DC online editor Mark Seibel was kind enough to respond twice tonight. His first email reads:

I've seen no video of the event. The americanthinker video displayed is not the event -- the Capitol is clearly in the background and the Congressmen are walking away from it, not to it. The n-word incident, as relayed to Bill, happened when they were headed to the Capitol. I went over this afternoon to see where the videographer was standing when he shot what's on the Web. There's no way it could represent the incident as the incident was relayed to Bill -- or at a time consistent with when Bill interviewed both Lewis and Cleaver in the Visitors Center before they left to go back to their offices. If the videographer had been there when the Congressmen left for the Capitol, that would be useful. But I've yet to see a video of that. As for a screen capture of the story versions, I think I can do it. We'll soon find out.

In response to my request for screen-caps of the McClatchy content management system, Mark did relay the following images a bit later (click to zoom):

Ok. here are two png files. I couldn't get one screen grab that captured the whole thing but i think these two together work. you'll notice a version 15; that's something I did today when I noticed I hadn't clicked the correct box for archiving sales on the first version back on the 20th. there wasn't a change in the story, just how its source (McClatchy, AP etc.) was categorized. I'm sorry they aren't more legible, but i think you can make them out. To the right of the headline you'll see a number in parentheses. this is the word count of that particular version, which would include summaries, links etc.


Note the 4:51pm "release date" at the top of the screen. This corresponds to Jack Cashill's time-stamp for the publication of the original story.

I very much appreciate Mr. Seibel's forthright approach and help. That said, answers to the questions I posed, above, would be very helpful. I will update this post as events warrant.


Update at 10:29pm: I've been reconstructing the chain of events on Twitter. Recall that Seibel said he altered Douglas' article to refer "to HuffPost in version 4 at 5:19 p.m. after I was alerted by a Nico Pitney tweet."

Let's ignore the fact that a mainstream media outlet instantly modified a major news article based upon a re-tweet by a Huffington Post associate. Nico's tweets are screen-capped above. About ten minutes after @CrewOf42 tweeted that Rep. Carson said he'd been called the "N-word", the HuffPo DC bureau chief re-tweeted the news. There was no link and no attribution associated with this message.

@CrewOf42 is the Twitter handle for Lauren Victoria Burke, a self-described "unbought and unbossed" blogger reporting upon "the 42 members of the Congressional Black Caucus."

Her first tweet reporting the incident came at 2:34pm, just four minutes after -- according to Cashill's timeline -- the CBC departed the Cannon Building for the Capitol.

Now that's service! Four minutes after setting off on his walk, Carson verbally informed a reporter that he'd been called the N-word? Give me a freaking break.




Thursday, April 01, 2010

The MSNBC Militia

Recognize any of these pasty white folks?


If so, the Nielsen Company wants to speak with you, because a certain cable network's ratings are missing -- and all of these crackpots are "persons of interest".


Update: Dan Riehl sez, "Video - This Is So Wrong: Militia Plotter Was Anti-Bush." I can't watch, but let's guess it's not NSFW.


Idea: Mark Levin. Linked by: Instapundit. Thanks!

Monday, March 29, 2010

"Senator" Al Franken (D-Acorn) flings spittle at Jason Mattera, legacy media curiously unresponsive

When questioned by Jason Mattera about certain features of DemCare, Al Franken lived up to his nickname. The Spiteful Troll responded to a simple question with the delightful, enlightening missive, "You have to shut up -- right now!"

Biff Spackle, using his patented SpackleMatic™ Image Enhancement Suite, analyzed Mattera's video and produced these shocking stills of Franken hocking a lugie at the author.



Although legacy media published roughly 24,000 stories alleging that Tea Party activists had spat upon Democrat representatives -- without evidence of any kind -- Spackle's calls to the Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and Andy Rooney were not returned.


Saturday, March 20, 2010

Instapundit on the Latest Nielsen Disaster for NBC: "With a little luck, MSNBC might catch up to the Hallmark Channel"

MediaBistro, via Glenn Reynolds, offers the latest report on the uproarious joke of a network that is MSNBC.

MSNBC also trails the airport radar channel both in terms of quality of content and viewership.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Great News: Your Refund Check Is In the Mail, But Since the States and the Post Office are Bankrupt, You'll Get Your Check in, say, mid-2011

Man, I can't get me enough of this hope and change.

If you're due a state tax refund this year, you should probably prepare to wait awhile for that check to arrive. Four cash-strapped states, including Alabama, Hawaii, New York and North Carolina are planning to delay refund payments this year in order to cover budgetary shortfalls. And it's possible that more states may follow suit, in particular Idaho and Kansas.

...at least 41 states face budget shortfalls for fiscal 2010, which in most states ends June 30. Nine states have budget gaps that are more than 10% of their 2010 budget, including Arizona, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Virgina.

Delayed tax refunds may not end up being a one-year phenomena. The Center expects the states' budget shortfalls to be as large or larger in fiscal 2011.

A couple of more years on the Democrat glide-path and we'll resemble North Korea. Come to think of it, the iconography used by the state-run media is already similar.


Hat tip: Bern.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Jihad (er, I mean "ethnic violence") in Nigeria

Dan from New York:

Jihad in Nigeria


By Melanie Phillips (Spectator-UK)

In appalling violence by Muslims against Christians in Nigeria, the latest tally after weekend attacks on three mostly Christian villages is some 500 dead.

What is happening to Nigeria's Christians makes a mockery of the frenzied Western obsession with Israel.

To understand the real cause of global tumult we should look carefully at Africa, and the appalling suffering of those upholding the religion that underpins the Western world.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Narrative? What narrative? I don't see any freakin' narrative.


Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Thomas Friedman's Perfect Record

Dan from New York:

More than a few conservatives (e.g. here and here) jumped for joy today after reading St. Thomas Friedman's NYT column today (sorry, I don't link to, or read, NYT weasels). I am told Tommy admits that Bush was right on Iraq and democracy is truly taking hold there - reversing an earlier ruling. What these right-of-center chumps don't understand is that they, Iraq, Bush and democracy have just been been given the kiss of death.

In the latish 80s St. Thomas wrote a piece for the Sunday Magazine opining Israelis moving to the West Bank were non-ideological yuppies looking for affordable homes and a short commute to their jobs inside the Green Line. Ergo, he went on to say, the Palestinians wouldn't consider them a threat and settlers and Arabs would live happily ever after in Levittown-by-the-Jordan. I'm not sure whether Friedman snagged a Pulitzer for that one or not, but a few months later Intifada #1 broke out, and a brilliant journalism career was launched.

If these same conservative scribblers could have shorted Friedman's foreign policy prognoses from that point on, they'd be writing posts from their yachts off the Mediterranean instead of sitting in some cramped bedroom pecking away on an old Lenovo laptop and staring out at a brick wall. Even in a job where being right is optional, Tommy eventually realized the jig was up. After years of producing flops people might begin to notice. Why do you think in the latter years he's stopped making a fool of himself on the Middle East in favor of making a fool of himself on the "Green" mania, globular warming and the environment? And like clockwork, that's now on the rocks.

Point being, by using Mr. T as proof Bush was right about Iraq, the odds are both the former president's legacy and that benighted country are headed for oblivion - and soon. Sorry, cons, but it's too late to do anything about it now.


Saturday, March 06, 2010

Morongate: Matthew Yglesias Proves, Once Again, He's the Dumbest Blogger Alive (Unless Joe Biden Started a Blog When I Wasn't Looking)

Over at Thin Progress, the intellectually stunted Matthew Yglesias contends that "If The Founders Had Wanted a Supermajority Requirement for the Senate, They Could Have Put One in the Constitution"; although Yglesias doesn't like the Constitution and he explicitly says so in the very same secretion.

Yglesias, apparently, missed Schoolhouse Rock when he was a kid and can't seem to locate the official rules of the Senate.

Senate rules permit a senator, or a series of senators, to speak for as long as they wish and on any topic they choose, unless three-fifths of the Senate (60 out of 100 senators "duly chosen and sworn") brings debate to a close by invoking cloture under Senate Rule XXII.

According to the Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v. Ballin (1892), changes to Senate rules could be achieved by a simple majority; but, under current Senate rules, the rule change itself could be filibustered. In this case votes from two-thirds of the Senators present and voting would be required to break the filibuster.

Yglesias, it would seem, had no problem whatsoever...

...when Democrats created the judicial filibuster, an unconstitutional maneuver designed to prevent President George W. Bush from naming the first Hispanic, Miguel Estrada, to the nation's second-highest court.

The modern, radical left Democrat Party, and its sycophants like Yglesias, are cynical, intellectually dishonest and completely, utterly at odds with our founding, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

That Yglesias attempts to cite the founding -- when he and his ilk routinely ignore the Constitution in their illegal attempts to change the relationship between the individual and the state -- is the very definition of chutzpah. It would, in fact, be high comedy were the stakes not so high.

Yglesias Disses the Constitution

Furthermore, Yglesias -- in the very same eruption of verbal excrement -- slams the Constitution itself, stating, "...US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised."

Really, Ygly? Really? Where is it better? Zimbabwe? Greece? Red China?

We are conservatives, which is to say we believe in the founding principles of the United States of America. That is: limited government, a respect for individual liberty, free enterprise and private property.

You reject America's founding principles: the very tenets that led to the creation of the greatest country the world has ever seen.

In little more than two hundred years, Americans defeated slavery, Nazism, military Shintoism and Communism; refined mass production; invented human flight; created 75% of all medical innovations on the planet; put a man on the moon; invented the telephone, the Internet and the search engine; and advanced humankind in millions of other ways, in every field and endeavor.

You oppose our Constitution and our Declaration of Independence.

You refute the notion of God-given rights of man and carefully constructed limits on an all-powerful, centralized, authoritarian government.

You see the world as rigid classes of people that must be manipulated to advance a political agenda; whereas we conservatives revel in the notion that America has no static class structure; that every day the rich become poor and the poor rich.

You oppose free markets and the power of the individual -- no matter the race, creed, religion or color -- to achieve greatness through hard work, study, inspiration and innovation.

Now go wait in line at the DMV, you whining twit, so you can experience the kind of service you'll receive when your grand socialized health care plan goes into effect.


Hat tip: Memeorandum. Linked by: InstaPundit, Michelle Malkin, The Other McCain, ShoutFirst and The Astute Bloggers, who provide an excellent history lesson for the "progressives". Thanks!

Friday, March 05, 2010

Change: WaPo admits Obama will add $9.7 trillion to U.S. debt by 2020

When you've lost The Washington Post, you've lost E.J. Dionne.

President Obama's policies would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday, including more than $2 trillion that Obama proposes to devote to extending a variety of tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration.

The 10-year outlook by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is somewhat gloomier than White House projections, which found that Obama's policies would add $8.5 trillion to the debt by 2020.

For those of you Democrats keeping score, that's roughly fifteen Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

And when you've lost the Associated Depress, you've lost the Harvard Journalism majors.

Congressional estimates show grim deficit picture...

The deficit picture has turned alarmingly worse since the recession that started at the end of 2007, never dipping below 4 percent of the size of the economy over the next decade. Economists say that deficits of that size are unsustainable and could put upward pressure on interest rates, crowd out private investment in the economy and ultimately erode the nation's standard of living.

Say, I've got an idea!

Let's nationalize one-sixth of the economy and run up another few trillion in debt! After all, those evil insurance companies actually make enough profit to pay for two days of American health care! That's right: the profits of all U.S. health insurance companies equals two days of coverage for Americans.

Oh, those evil, evil bastards!

Come to think of it, I really like waiting in line at the DMV. They gave me a coloring book and everything! So, if I need a kidney, I can entertain myself while I wait.


Hat tip: Drudge. Linked by: Michelle Malkin and Memeorandum. Thanks!

State-run media: Pentagon shooter deranged, right-wing, tea-bagging extremist (plus-registered-Democrat-Bush-hater-and-Truther-but-don't-tell-anyone!)

• The Christian Science Monitor: "John Patrick Bedell: Did right-wing extremism lead to shooting?"

• Drink Progress: "Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist."

• Whiskey Fried: "Shooter was 'anti-Bush' and 'a 9/11 Truther' because he was an Anti Big Government right wing loonball."

Michelle Malkin and Patterico have utterly eviscerated the claims that this troubled young man was "right wing".

A nutball shot two security guards at a Pentagon-area Metro station in D.C. yesterday.

As Patterico reports, he hated Bush and littered the Internet with 9/11 Truther rants...

The Blame the Tea Party push by the MSM begins (h/t allahpundit)...

The Associated Depressed piles on, neglecting all of the glorious Internet tubes that point out that the shooter was a registered... Democrat.

Stunningly, the mainstream media remains perplexed; its management utterly baffled as to why their companies are hemorrhaging like Monty Python's Black Knight.


Hat tip: Memeorandum.

Monday, March 01, 2010

Andrew Sullivan's Boy Robin, Jonathan Bernstein: I don't really understand that filibuster thingy, but it must be kinda bad, I think

Jonathan Bernstein isn't the shiniest tool in the Atlantic's shed, which is why he serves a pinch-hitter for Andrew Sullivan. This is roughly equivalent to, in NBA terms, serving as Jon Koncak's backup in 1996.

See, Bernstein hasn't quite figured out the nuance of the filibuster.

The complex, advanced mathematics.

And all of the political machinations that make it so daunting to comprehend. Like, something about 60 votes.

...[It has become] a Senate in which the minority insists that almost every single item, controversial or not, needs 60 votes to pass (the new GOP standard in 2009) has changed the game...

Gee, Robin, and I thought the Democrats were the ones to invent the unconstitutional judicial filibuster: something that had never been done before! And they began engaging in this despicable practice specifically to prevent the first Hispanic judge -- Miguel Estrade -- from reaching DC's Court of Appeals.

If the Republicans had filibustered the stimulus, the climate/energy bill, the health care bill, and a handful of other things (card check, a few nominations) that their constituents intensely oppose, then I think filibuster reform would have remained a minor issue -- and the Republicans would be, as far as I can tell, not a whole lot worse off in terms of preventing legislation they actually care about. In fact, I think they would have been better off in many ways.

Last time I checked, Boy Wonder, a climate/energy bill and card check never made it to the Senate (thankfully) despite a Democrat supermajority.

Get it? Supermajority? That means the Republicans couldn't filibuster these things, Einstein. Get out your calculator and check. Don't worry, I'll wait here.

As for the ill-fated stimulus and health care bills, one additional news flash: a Republican was just elected Senator from Massachusetts. That means representative government worked. And the people, best I can tell, don't want their representatives screwing up anything more than they already have.

Now I know this article was really hard to understand, what with all the calculations and such, but get Andy to explain it to you one evening. Uncork a bottle of Pinot sometime this summer (I hear the Cape has beautiful beaches), and have Sully describe what all of this means in single-syllable words. Although, just to warn you, wine does not appear to be Andy's first choice as a recreational adjunct (*nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*).


Sunday, February 28, 2010

Dinosaur Media AWOL as Hundreds of Children Unearthed in Mass Grave, Executed by the Barbaric Regime of Saddam Hussein

Three mass graves were unearthed in the Dibuz neighborhood of Kirkuk last week. The graves contained hundreds of bodies of innocent children, who were executed by Saddam Hussein's genocidal regime.

ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, The New York Times and the Washington Post are among the news outlets purposefully ignoring the story. Bush bad. Democrats good. War bad. Opposition to war good.

Not one word from the legacy media on this story, which resembles something out of the annals of Nazi Germany's horrors.

Hundreds of Chilldren Found in Mass Grave


By Mihemed Eli Zalla 25/02/2010

Three mass graves were discovered in the sub district of Dubiz in Kirkuk. Announced the Kurdish daily news paper ASO on Sunday, Feb.21st. These graves are to be excavated by the Ministry of Anfaled and Martyrs of Kurdistan regional government in a near future.

“The graves are holding remnants of children from both Chamchamal and Garmyan areas”. Sayd Fazil Amin the head of KRG martyrs office in Kirkuk told ASO, these kids were taken into captivity during 1988 Anfal campaign against the Kurds.

Anfal genocide was a campaign against the Kurds in 1980s. It was aimed at the elimination of the Kurds in Iraq, by destroying and burning Kurdish villages down. Killing and burying alive the people of these villages. It costed over 200,000 lives of innocent Kurds.

The media channels have not yet been invited to publish the unearthing of these three ‘out of hundreds of’ mass graves. We will soon invite the Arabic as well as other foreign media and officially announce the discovery, added Amin.

“We were jailed in a prison in Dubiz for a while. The only thing we knew then was that of, our crime was being a Kurd. In Dubiz they separated us into men, women and children” Bafraw, an Anfal survivor told Hawler Tribune, “Amanj, my 7 year old son, before taken away was very sick, I asked if I could go with him. They [soldiers] told me, do not worry we will put an end to his sickness, I know how they did it”

Kurds know all their beloved Anfaled ones are dead somewhere in the deserts of Iraq. All they are awaiting for is the return of their remnants. As said Bafraw “Ever since then I have been waiting for him”

A group of experts from ministry of Anfaled and Martyrs are to excavate these graves soon. The graves hold remnants of 272 children and the oldest one among them is a 16 year old girl. A pregnant woman is also among them, added Amin.

Will the U.K.'s "Iraq Inquiry" include this news?

Will President Obama claim this is just a cultural misunderstanding?

Will some of the legacy media outlets in this country begin to actually report the news before they finally slip into the abyss of bankruptcy?


Hat tip: Boy Moto. Linked by: iOwnTheWorld. Thanks!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Dubai Now Says 145,000 Involved in Hamas Hit

Dan from New York:

Dubai Dragnet Uncovers Widening Jewish Conspiracy


Al Jazeera, 2/25/2010

Dubai's investigation of possible Israeli involvement in the killing of a popular Hamas mass-murderer has turned up another 145,000 Jews suspected of being Mossad agents who used forged Western passports to carry out the plot. Dubai's police chief, Inspector Mohammad al-Clouseau, told reporters that his investigation so far "has only exposed the tip of the iceberg." "We're making steady progress, but scouring Facebook for swarthy people who don't look like Arabs, right-clicking their photos, saving them to the desktop and 'shopping them into British and Australian passports is tedious and exacting work," he added.


In a related development that has Israeli officials bracing for a new round of world condemnation, a report in the leftist Hebrew daily, Ha'aretz, revealed that the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a Hamas founder and one of its leaders in the West Bank, served for over a decade as the Shin Bet security service's most valuable source in the militant organization's leadership. In a companion editorial, Ha'aretz described the recruitment of Mosab Hassan Yousef as another "botched Mossad job that will only succeed in getting the international community even more pissed off than they are now. Terrorism is here to stay and Israelis should learn to live with it. Instead of acting like bellicose animals and butting in where they're not wanted, Netanyahu's right-wing government needs to get a grip and concentrate on extending the hand of friendship to our Arab neighbors."

Related: The Hit on Hamas in photographic form -- When You Want to Say Goodbye, Say It With Bullets.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Striking Headline Juxtaposition o' the Day

Headline #1: Breitbart.tv »

Dems Mark Anniversary of Stimulus Bill With GOP ‘Hypocrites’ Video


Headline #2: Business Insider »

How Can Obama Be Taking A Stimulus Victory Lap, When We Don't Even Know Where The Money Went?


Greg Mankiw calls the Democrats' tactics "illogical":

The Democratic Party is attacking some Republican congressmen for both opposing the stimulus bill and also helping direct some stimulus spending into their districts.

...Let me offer an analogy. Many Democratic congressmen opposed the Bush tax cuts. That was based, I presume, on their honest assessment of the policy. But once these tax cuts were passed, I bet these congressmen paid lower taxes. I bet they did not offer to hand the Treasury the extra taxes they would have owed at the previous tax rates. Would it make sense for the GOP to suggest that these Democrats were disingenuous or hypocritical? I don't think so. Many times, we as individuals benefit from policies we opposed. There is nothing wrong about that.

Illogical? Hypocritical? From the Democrats?

That seems implausible to me.

 

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Because They Can't Get Their Way, Mainstream Democrats Advocate Abolishing the U.S. Senate. Not Just the Filibuster, the Entire Senate.

You remember that "Constitution" thingy? You know, the anachronism from a bygone era, which Democrat politicians and judges take an oath to uphold and then promptly forget about -- or claim that it's a "living and breathing" document?

To show you how far left the Democrat Party has moved over the last couple of decades, a serious debate appears to be raging within the party over the role of the United States Senate. Not just procedures like the filibuster, mind you, but whether there actually should be a Senate at all.

The anti-American Statists -- disguised as mainstream Democrats -- are debating this topic over at Laura Flanders' neck of the woods at FireDogLake in a panel discussion headlined "Should We Do Away With the Senate?".

With the election of Scott Brown to Ted Kennedy’s former Senate seat, Democrats in DC seemed to give up on getting any major legislation passed. 59 votes (well, 58 and Joe Lieberman) was just not good enough. The blame has been flying–it’s Obama’s fault, Rahm Emanuel’s, Harry Reid’s–but what if the problem simply is the Senate?

What can we change? Would eliminating the filibuster–the so-called “nuclear option” back when Republicans were suggesting it–be enough, or is the Senate, with its two-Senators-per-state-regardless-of-population mandate, just too fundamentally undemocratic? We ask the New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg, author of ¡OBÁMANOS!: The Rise of a New Political Era, Lawrence Lessig, Harvard professor and author of a new Nation cover story on the subject, and Nancy Scola of the Personal Democracy Forum.

The panel discussion involves four prominent Democrats who bandy about falsehoods -- like "the filibuster is unconstitutional" -- with reckless abandon.

The program ends with the suggestion that the United States Senate and the Electoral College both be eradicated.

This discussion aligns nicely with news that President Obama now plans to legislate by Executive Order and dispense with the niceties of working with Congress.

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Like spoiled children, anti-American Leftists are willing to dispense with the Constitution and literally toss thousands of years of human experience down the memory hole because they can't get their way.

Consider how the three branches of government came to be.

In Book VI of his Histories, the ancient Greek historian Polybius described three basic forms of government, each categorized by the number of those in power. He listed monarchy (rule by the one); aristocracy (rule by the few); and democracy (rule by the many). Polybius described, over time, how each type of government would gradually decline into their various corrupted forms of tyranny, oligarchy and mob rule, respectively.

Polybius believed that Republican Rome had designed a new form of government that could help check this inevitable decline. Rome combined all three forms of government -- monarchy (its elected executives, called consuls); aristocracy (the Senate); and democracy (the popular assemblies). In this mixed form of goverment, each branch would check the corrupting ambitions and power of the others.

Aristotle and Cicero likewise praised the construction of a "mixed constitution" and the requirement of a separation of three powers within government.


The French nobleman and legal expert Charles-Louis de Secondat, the Baron de Montesquieu, studied the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. He believed that a properly designed government, in order to prevent tyranny, would require three branches of government. The British philosopher John Locke followed suit and his powerful works inspired Thomas Jefferson as he authored the Declaration of Independence.

As well, America's Founding Fathers repeatedly cited Montesquieu's seminal Spirit of the Laws and its emphasis on checks and balances within government. As James Madison wrote, "the oracle who is always consulted and cited on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu."

History teaches us that the decline of a society and the demise of a government comes with the institutionalization of corruption and a wanton disregard for the written law. Such is our situation today, wherein the states have become puppets of an all-powerful federal government that confiscates more and more private property while exerting increasing control over every aspect of our lives.

The greatest bulwark against tyranny in America has always been the Constitution, which instantiates our carefully designed system of private property, God-given individual liberties and free enterprise.

Yet today the Speaker of the House can't articulate why a federal takeover of the entire health care system is constitutional. And mainstream Democrats seriously debate the destruction of the U.S. Senate.

This crowd of leftists are literally advocating the overthrow of the United States government. Tossing aside thousands of years of human experience and advocating a return to a centralized, authoritarian form of government that can't work and has never worked.

What these Democrats offer is nothing less than treason.


Hat tip: W. Related: Whom Despots Fear. Linked by: Ed Driscoll and Blogmocracy. Thanks!

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Oh my: Dianne 'Franken' Feinstein Scrawled Notes On Her Hand, Violating Rules of a Televised Debate

In light of the Sarah-Palin-had-notes-on-her-hand kerfuffle, let's set the Wayback Machine to October 1990:

Veteran California political scribes recalled... that now-senior Senator Dianne Feinstein pulled the same stunt during a crucial debate when she unsuccessfully ran for governor against Pete Wilson.

Back in October 1990, Feinstein and Wilson had their one-and-only debate of the campaign; nervous before the statewide televised event, DiFi scrawled three words — “growth, education, choice” on her palm in blue marker, to remind her of the policy themes she wanted to sound.

Her action technically violated a ground rule, on which the campaigns had agreed, against bringing notes to the podium. When reporters challenged her about it after the debate, Feinstein hid her hand behind her back, said, “I’m not going to show you,” and walked away.

Her bizarre reaction only fed the story for several days; an L.A. TV station showed blown-up pictures of her scrawled hand, and the Wilson campaign paid for a computer-enhanced picture that they circulated to the press corps. It was a superficial issue, but it helped the Republican candidate advance the notion that his Democratic rival — the first woman to win a major party nomination for governor — was too unknown to trust in the job. Whether or not the handwriting flap was a factor, Wilson beat Feinstein in November.

Perhaps the media and Robert "Bringing Hope to the Mediocre" Gibbs will mock the feckless Feinstein as well.

But I forgot the meme that the media incessantly markets: All Dems are smart; all Republicans are stupid.


Larry O'Donnell's Pulitzer-Prize Winning Interview of Author Marc Thiessen Opens With "Well, you're lying"

Got derangement? MSNBS' Larry O'Donnell suffered a bout of Tourette's earlier today in a futile attempt to resemble an honest analyst. His interview of author Marc Thiessen opened with the balanced question: "Well, you're lying."

You're a disgrace, Larry. I'm betting Marc Thiessen had every kind of security clearance imaginable. What do you have, besides an inner thigh rash and skid marks in your undies?

You're a loser, Larry: a sixth-tier personality on a ninth-tier network. Ever wonder why your ratings are lower than hospital EKGs? This is why, you fish-breathed truther.


Update: Drew at Ace of Spades suspects O'Donnell is auditioning for Olbermann's slot.