Another day, another hijacked Obama hashtag. Hashtag #EpicFail.
20. @MattDycus (Matt Dycus):
He flew to Afghanistan and killed Bin Laden, then built cars and saved GM. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama
19. @MattDycus (Matt Dycus):
Jimmy Carter is no longer the worst President in history. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama
18. @VodkaPundit (Stephen Green):
Sent flowers to Heidi Klum after Seal dumped her. #saysomethingniceaboutobama No, wait -- that was Clinton.
17. @toddstarnes (toddstarnes):
He likes dogs #saysomethingniceaboutobama
16. @johnhawkinsrwn (John Hawkins):
I admire how low he's able to get when he bows to foreign dictators. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama
15. @LunaticLair (Ree F.):
#saysomethingniceaboutobama his Obama2008 and 2012 bumper stickers made it easier to find the stupid drivers
14. @VodkaPundit (Stephen Green):
Can kill a carton of Newports in four days, easy. #saysomethingniceaboutobama
13. @BarrySux (BarrySux):
He's the best reason to vote for Mitt Romney. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama #cspj #tcot #twisters #lnyhbt #p1 #p2 #p21 #tlot
12. @ih8hippies (I. Hate Hippies):
He apologizes really well. #saysomethingniceaboutobama
11. @P_H_Watts (P. H. Watts):
He hasn't quite bankrupted the US. Yet. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama
10. @slamjoe (Slam Joe):
He knows more about the @NBA than the economy. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama
9. @TheMorningSpew (The Morning Spew):
#SaySomethingNiceAboutObama He never wants anyone punished with a baby.
8. @chungjodad (Joe C.):
#SaySomethingNiceAboutObama Had excellent grades at Occidental and Columbia, so I'm told.
7. @SallyGolf (Sarah Johnson):
He looks good in "mom" jeans. #saysomethingniceaboutobama
6. @crhaney25 (Charles Haney):
I know nothing about basketball so I copied his NCAA bracket and won money in my office pool. #saysomethingniceaboutobama
5. @KeauxbiTweets (Coby Clark):
He added more debt in 3 than Bush did in 8 RT @karlyyann Obama has done more in 1 year than Bush did in 8 years. #saysomethingniceaboutobama
4. @BaseballCrank (Dan McLaughlin):
He didn't keep his promise to repeal all the Bush tax cuts, yet. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama
3. @virginiahume (Virginia Hume):
He speaks excellent Austrian. #saysomethingniceaboutObama
2. @tazmania3333 (BD):
#SaySomethingNiceAboutObama - since he is part black and white neither race is totally accountable for his failures.
1. @rsmccain (Robert Stacy McCain):
He hasn't eaten any dogs, recently, that we know of. #saysomethingniceaboutobama
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
'Breitbart Is Here' - The Music Video
Written and performed by Chris Cassone and directed by Big Fur Hat: "Breitbart Is Here."
I also had the pleasure of meeting one of the video's cameramen -- Mr. Pinko -- this past weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Except when he smacked me around.
I also had the pleasure of meeting one of the video's cameramen -- Mr. Pinko -- this past weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Except when he smacked me around.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Gas Price Headline Hilarity
May I present a panoply of headline hypocridity? That's a new word I invented just for liberal media, a cross between hypocrisy and stupidity. It just fits.
• 22 April 2012 - On Meet the Press, "unemployed douchebag Keith Olbermann declares gas prices [are] set deliberately high to screw Obama." Probably byinvestors evil speculators. Or the Koch Brothers!
• 9 May 2006 - On CBS News, "Bush, Big Oil, Slammed On Pump Prices" blamed a conspiracy of President George W. Bush and his oil buddies for driving prices higher.
• 11 April 2004 - In Time Magazine, the neuron-challenged Andrew Sullivan asserted that gas prices were far too low: "even when they peak this summer [of 2004]..., they will be too low...." Sullivan blamed, in part, Bush's drive to addict Americans to cheap oil.
Respectively, the driver of gas prices -- at least according to the Democrat "intelligentsia" -- are: (a) speculators targeting Obama; (b) Bush conspiring with big oil to keep prices high; (c) Bush conspiring with big oil to keep prices too low.
Not supply and demand. Not the free market.
But malevolent actors imagined by Democrat hacks.
Folks, these people are so stupid I'm surprised they can breathe without mechanical assistance.
• 22 April 2012 - On Meet the Press, "unemployed douchebag Keith Olbermann declares gas prices [are] set deliberately high to screw Obama." Probably by
• 9 May 2006 - On CBS News, "Bush, Big Oil, Slammed On Pump Prices" blamed a conspiracy of President George W. Bush and his oil buddies for driving prices higher.
• 11 April 2004 - In Time Magazine, the neuron-challenged Andrew Sullivan asserted that gas prices were far too low: "even when they peak this summer [of 2004]..., they will be too low...." Sullivan blamed, in part, Bush's drive to addict Americans to cheap oil.Respectively, the driver of gas prices -- at least according to the Democrat "intelligentsia" -- are: (a) speculators targeting Obama; (b) Bush conspiring with big oil to keep prices high; (c) Bush conspiring with big oil to keep prices too low.
Not supply and demand. Not the free market.
But malevolent actors imagined by Democrat hacks.
Folks, these people are so stupid I'm surprised they can breathe without mechanical assistance.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
The 7 Reasons You Will Never Be As Cool As John Hawkins #BlogConCLT
The proprietor of Right Wing News and Linkiest is a man named John Hawkins. Hawkins is famous for his catchy headlines, which often come in the form of lists. Like "The 25 Best Quotes From Thomas Sowell". Or "15 Questions The Mainstream Media Would Ask Barack Obama If He Were A Republican."
In that vein, I present the 7 reasons that you (and I) will never be as cool as John Hawkins:
• John Hawkins will walk up to any woman or group of women -- including the stunning Dana Loesch and Katie Pavlich -- and begin chatting them up for photos. I have a vision of Hawkins' foyer that is lined with hundreds of photos of him hugging every woman on the center-right scene.
• John Hawkins knows everyone. He is an uber-networker and can connect you with the full spectrum of conservative thought, from National Review to Breitbart.com.
• John Hawkins is a prolific reader and he takes copious notes. His collections -- like "The 50 Best Ann Coulter Quotes Of All-Time" -- are outstanding.
• John Hawkins is an entrepreneur. He's leveraged his websites as launching points for a writing career, with his columns appearing at Townhall and PJ Media. I wouldn't be shocked to discover that he has a book and syndicated column in the works.
• John Hawkins is funny. At #BlogConCLT, he had me literally crying and gasping for breath as he outlined various possible "list columns" like "The Top 12 Places You Should Never Wear a Speedo With an Afro-Wig Under It."
• John Hawkins publishes some of the best columns in the business at RightWingNews, with content from Michelle Malkin, Jonah Goldberg, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, John Stossel, and many, many more.
• John Hawkins has one of the best collections of entertaining links -- not just politics -- at Linkiest.com. As an aside, Hawkins observed which headlines got the most clicks at Linkiest and tuned his own headline-writing skills there.
So don't bother trying to be John Hawkins. You can't possibly succeed. It's his world -- and we're just living in it.
In that vein, I present the 7 reasons that you (and I) will never be as cool as John Hawkins:
• John Hawkins will walk up to any woman or group of women -- including the stunning Dana Loesch and Katie Pavlich -- and begin chatting them up for photos. I have a vision of Hawkins' foyer that is lined with hundreds of photos of him hugging every woman on the center-right scene.
• John Hawkins knows everyone. He is an uber-networker and can connect you with the full spectrum of conservative thought, from National Review to Breitbart.com.
• John Hawkins is a prolific reader and he takes copious notes. His collections -- like "The 50 Best Ann Coulter Quotes Of All-Time" -- are outstanding.
• John Hawkins is an entrepreneur. He's leveraged his websites as launching points for a writing career, with his columns appearing at Townhall and PJ Media. I wouldn't be shocked to discover that he has a book and syndicated column in the works.
• John Hawkins is funny. At #BlogConCLT, he had me literally crying and gasping for breath as he outlined various possible "list columns" like "The Top 12 Places You Should Never Wear a Speedo With an Afro-Wig Under It."
• John Hawkins publishes some of the best columns in the business at RightWingNews, with content from Michelle Malkin, Jonah Goldberg, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, John Stossel, and many, many more.
• John Hawkins has one of the best collections of entertaining links -- not just politics -- at Linkiest.com. As an aside, Hawkins observed which headlines got the most clicks at Linkiest and tuned his own headline-writing skills there.
So don't bother trying to be John Hawkins. You can't possibly succeed. It's his world -- and we're just living in it.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Pic Dump #blogconclt
The "Obama ate my dog" meme just won't die.
The Looking Spoon:
Spotted on Free Republic:
What happens when PJ Media's Vodkapundit is confronted with the question: "Why in hell are you drinking bourbon"?
DaTechGuy has more photos of #BlogConCLT, including multiple platters of wings leveled by conservative bloggers:
At least I think they were wings. They tasted like chicken, anyhow.
The Looking Spoon:
Spotted on Free Republic:
What happens when PJ Media's Vodkapundit is confronted with the question: "Why in hell are you drinking bourbon"?
DaTechGuy has more photos of #BlogConCLT, including multiple platters of wings leveled by conservative bloggers:
At least I think they were wings. They tasted like chicken, anyhow.
ABC News Obliterates the Race-Baiters: Graphic Photo of George Zimmerman's Head
Well, this certainly changes the trajectory of the story:
Good on ABC News.
Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and MSNBC hardest hit.
Hat tip: Melissa Clouthier.
A new photograph obtained exclusively by ABC News showing the bloodied back of George Zimmerman's head, which was apparently taken three minutes after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, gives possible credence to his claim that Martin had bashed his head against the concrete as Zimmerman fought for his life...
The revelation comes as his attorney and prosecutors prepare for Zimmerman's bail hearing today, which could result in his being released from a Florida jail. Zimmerman, 28, is being held on charges of second-degree murder for the Feb. 26 shooting of Martin, 17, which could carry a life sentence if he is convicted.
The exclusive image shows blood trickling down the back of Zimmerman's head from two cuts. It also shows a possible contusion forming on the crown of his head. The original police report that night notes that the back of Zimmerman's head was wet, and that he was bleeding from the nose and head.
Zimmerman told police that night that he shot and killed the teenager in self-defense after Martin punched him and pounced on him.
Good on ABC News.
Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and MSNBC hardest hit.
Hat tip: Melissa Clouthier.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Totalitarian Climate Kook Wants Warming Deniers' Homes to Burn
Someone allegedly named "Steve Zwick" somehow hacked into Forbes' content management system and posted a vicious screed attacking those who believe global warming is a money-making scam. Which, of course, it is.
Tell you what, Zwick -- if that is your real name -- how about you warmists go without fossil fuels instead? See, we Constitutional conservatives aren't wannabe totalitarian despots like you nuts. We just want you to live as if there really is a climate crisis.
So, if you want to impress us, we want to see you living without electricity, without food shipped by truck, without the use of automobiles, without using plastics, without jetting around the planet, without all of the wonders provided by our magnificent civilization.
And this, we know, you will not do.
Which is why you and your unscientific religion of Eco-Statism must be dismissed.
So go stick your head in some sand and live like you preach, Zwitler.
Related: Global Warming Comics -- The Fraudulent And The Immoral. Hat tip: Climate Depot.
...the denial machine is ratcheting up its disinformation campaign, and therein lies the problem. Every time someone validates or fine-tunes the science, ten or twelve well-funded and active propagandists pop up to distorting it – usually by twisting the attempts at fine-tuning into “proof” that the models are fundamentally useless, and then launching childish attacks on the scientists themselves.
This propaganda has already set us back two decades, during which the costs of dealing with climate change have risen and our chances of curtailing it have diminished... Let’s take a page from those Tennessee firemen we heard about a few times last year – the ones who stood idly by as houses burned to the ground because their owners had refused to pay a measly $75 fee.
We can apply this same logic to climate change.
We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies. Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let’s make them pay. Let’s let their houses burn. Let’s swap their safe land for submerged islands. Let’s force them to bear the cost of rising food prices.
They broke the climate. Why should the rest of us have to pay for it? ... The models have proven incredibly accurate when it comes to projecting the overall rise in extreme events, they still can’t tell you exactly which specific storms arose from climate change and which would have happened anyway – and they probably never will. They also can’t tell us which company’s emissions caused which change in temperature – and that’s something they’ll never be able to do, because CO2 emissions all get mixed up in the air.
Tell you what, Zwick -- if that is your real name -- how about you warmists go without fossil fuels instead? See, we Constitutional conservatives aren't wannabe totalitarian despots like you nuts. We just want you to live as if there really is a climate crisis.
So, if you want to impress us, we want to see you living without electricity, without food shipped by truck, without the use of automobiles, without using plastics, without jetting around the planet, without all of the wonders provided by our magnificent civilization.
And this, we know, you will not do.
Which is why you and your unscientific religion of Eco-Statism must be dismissed.
So go stick your head in some sand and live like you preach, Zwitler.
Related: Global Warming Comics -- The Fraudulent And The Immoral. Hat tip: Climate Depot.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Laughable: DNC Press Release Regurgitator Known As Politico Asserts Ted Nugent is Romney's Hilary Rosen
Well, this certainly smacks of desperation:
Hey, Tim Mak -- if that is your real name -- here's a news-flash:
• Hilary Rosen is a professional Democrat political operative linked directly to the Obama administration (having only visited the Obama White House a scant 35 times)
• Ted Nugent is a private citizen with absolutely no role in any Republican campaign
Get the difference, nincompoop?
Progressive bloggers erupted in fury over controversial comments about President Barack Obama by rocker Ted Nugent and complained about a lack of media coverage, especially compared with the super-saturation reporting on Hilary Rosen’s remarks last week about stay-at-home moms.
Nugent, who has endorsed Mitt Romney, said over the weekend, “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November … “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. … Our president, attorney general, our vice president, Hillary Clinton — they’re criminals, they’re criminals.”
Hey, Tim Mak -- if that is your real name -- here's a news-flash:
• Hilary Rosen is a professional Democrat political operative linked directly to the Obama administration (having only visited the Obama White House a scant 35 times)
• Ted Nugent is a private citizen with absolutely no role in any Republican campaign
Get the difference, nincompoop?
Dog: It's Not Just for Dinner Anymore
The Daily Caller's brilliant Jim Treacher discovered the ultimate counter to the progressives' latest pathetic attacks against Mitt Romney. Back in the eighties, the candidate and his family apparently vacationed with their dog, which was transported in a carrier strapped to the family Truckster's roof. Baby boomers will recall that this practice was commonplace in that era.
In any event, Treacher recalled an event recounted in one of Obama's several autobiographies: as a child, young Barry Soetero -- his name at the time -- enjoyed an entree of roast dog. It's not just for dinner any more.
In short, Treacher's response to the Romney vacation allegations turned out to be the rhetorical equivalent of a Blake Griffin dunk over Pau Gasol. The reactions have been priceless.
Sondrakistan offers us the exclusive picture:
And John Hawkins relays this very special Obama campaign button:
It's a "Dog Eat Dog" world in Washington.
I refer, of course, to the outstanding Eddie Bunker crime novel and not the recent canine kerfuffle.
Update: MOTUS:
In any event, Treacher recalled an event recounted in one of Obama's several autobiographies: as a child, young Barry Soetero -- his name at the time -- enjoyed an entree of roast dog. It's not just for dinner any more.
"With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share."
In short, Treacher's response to the Romney vacation allegations turned out to be the rhetorical equivalent of a Blake Griffin dunk over Pau Gasol. The reactions have been priceless.
Sondrakistan offers us the exclusive picture:
And John Hawkins relays this very special Obama campaign button:
It's a "Dog Eat Dog" world in Washington.
I refer, of course, to the outstanding Eddie Bunker crime novel and not the recent canine kerfuffle.
Update: MOTUS:
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Kewl: Memeorandum Helps Visualize Political Spin
Well, this appears to be a useful tool.
Directions to install the add-on are here, near the bottom of the page.
The only quibble: I define any article that's red as American. Anything blue means Marxist.
And since I'm a political centrist, I'm assuming any links to my blog will be utterly neutral in color. Like beige.
...the universe of political blogs is largely split in two, with conservative and liberal blogs rarely covering the same stories or linking to the same sites. But it can be very challenging to tell their political leanings at a glance, especially with names like “Balloon Juice,” “Weasel Zippers,” or “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
So, four years ago, I launched a project with Delicious/Tasty Labs founder Joshua Schachter to visualize the linking biases of various political blogs on Memeorandum by looking at their past behavior.
Using singular value decomposition, the linear algebra at the heart of your Netflix recommendations, we reduced the entire matrix of blogger-to-article relationships to a single dimension. Imagine a single line grouping like-minded blogs together based on the diversity of the stories they cover, with hardcore left- and right-leaning blogs on opposite sides of the spectrum.
Using those precalculated values, we load the data from Google Spreadsheets and color the links on Memeorandum, based on where they fall on the spectrum. The brighter the color, the more frequently they only cover stories by their counterparts.
This simple visualization leads to some interesting insights. Compare these two articles, which were trending on Memeorandum at this writing:
Seeing each site’s potential bias provides the context for understanding how news is spread. Right-leaning blogs are eager to point out new evidence that George Zimmerman was hurt the day he shot Trayvon Martin, but left-leaning blogs aren’t covering that story. Likewise, only left-leaning news sites appear to be covering the news of Ted Nugent’s threatening remarks to the president, but conservative blogs aren’t. This visualization also makes it easy to spot outliers, the sources that are breaking away from their past behavior to link to something beyond their usual circle.
This browser add-on is free and open source. We’ve updated the data sources for the first time since 2008, and Memeorandum Colors now works natively in Chrome, in addition to Firefox....
Directions to install the add-on are here, near the bottom of the page.
The only quibble: I define any article that's red as American. Anything blue means Marxist.
And since I'm a political centrist, I'm assuming any links to my blog will be utterly neutral in color. Like beige.
New look for the BadBlue conservative news service
If you've only recently returned to Earth after being kidnapped by aliens, you may have missed January's introduction of BadBlue.com.
BadBlue helps you discover the hottest stories from center-right news sources, ranging from new media behemoths like Hot Air and The Blaze, to major league blogs like Instapundit and Michelle Malkin, to lesser-known new media outlets like the Free Beacon and CDN, to even small, up-and-coming blogs like Alexa Shrugged and Hoosier Access.
BadBlue doesn't have any human editors. Only the "buzz" a story gets on the social networks will promote it to the front page. Furthermore, BadBlue has no political agenda. It monitors nearly 600 sites, 24 by 7, to make sure you don't miss a thing. You can also use the tabs on the top of the page to review the most popular stories for the last 24 hours, the last week, or even the last month.
In any event, this weekend, we upgraded the cosmetics of the site based upon several concerns we'd heard expressed. The background should be a bit easier on the eyes. And the default typeface (Georgia, 14-point) was selected based upon a study produced by the Software Usability Research Lab. If you don't like the size of the font, use the buttons at top right to adjust up or down.
The idea behind BadBlue is to promote stories based upon merit, not the whims of editors, and -- best of all -- to bypass the filters that old media still tries to enforce. So check out BadBlue, if you would, and let us know what you think in the comments!
BadBlue helps you discover the hottest stories from center-right news sources, ranging from new media behemoths like Hot Air and The Blaze, to major league blogs like Instapundit and Michelle Malkin, to lesser-known new media outlets like the Free Beacon and CDN, to even small, up-and-coming blogs like Alexa Shrugged and Hoosier Access.
BadBlue doesn't have any human editors. Only the "buzz" a story gets on the social networks will promote it to the front page. Furthermore, BadBlue has no political agenda. It monitors nearly 600 sites, 24 by 7, to make sure you don't miss a thing. You can also use the tabs on the top of the page to review the most popular stories for the last 24 hours, the last week, or even the last month.
In any event, this weekend, we upgraded the cosmetics of the site based upon several concerns we'd heard expressed. The background should be a bit easier on the eyes. And the default typeface (Georgia, 14-point) was selected based upon a study produced by the Software Usability Research Lab. If you don't like the size of the font, use the buttons at top right to adjust up or down.
The idea behind BadBlue is to promote stories based upon merit, not the whims of editors, and -- best of all -- to bypass the filters that old media still tries to enforce. So check out BadBlue, if you would, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Saturday, April 14, 2012
'Unlikely To See The Light of Day'
This is how Uncle Ben describes a letter he dispatched to the editors of The Washington Post.
Whenever I (reluctantly) deign to read the WaPo, I often find myself imagining a drooling 50-year old "reporter" weaving the text of DNC press releases into articles disguised as "news".
To the Editor:
It is striking what passes as reporting on the pages of The Washington Post. The most recent example is “In TV Land, Legions of ‘Strategists,’” in which readers are told that Hillary Rosen, who made ill-advised comments about Ann Romney, "has no official role in the Democratic Party" and is not "paid by the White House."
However, the article makes no mention of reports that, over the past three years, Hillary Rosen met at least 35 times at the White House with the President's top communications and political strategists as well as with the President himself.
It is possible that Hillary Rosen, the frequent White House visitor, and Hillary Rosen, the “Democratic strategist” on CNN, are not the same person, as the President’s spokesperson has suggested. Of course, getting to the bottom of that issue would require that someone at the Post actually investigate and report the facts rather than merely regurgitate Democratic Party talking points.
Whenever I (reluctantly) deign to read the WaPo, I often find myself imagining a drooling 50-year old "reporter" weaving the text of DNC press releases into articles disguised as "news".
Friday, April 13, 2012
WaPo whines about donor to GOP Super PAC, omits fact that Obama's once again disabled all credit-card security on his website
In 2008, Barack Obama collected as much as $100 million from illicit sources.
You mean like George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, a myriad of Hollywood types, and the rest of the mega-rich who support President Subprime McDowngrade?
Oh, but that's different. Somehow.
Related: "'Sir, Mr. Soros is on the line'."
With this as context (not to mention hundreds of millions in donations from public sector unions), we relay this whiny missive from the Washington Post:On the grubby little racket of his online credit card fraud, Senator Obama merely has to run out the clock now. If it’s not exposed before Tuesday, no one is going to have any appetite for investigating it once he’s won. So he must be relieved that this off-message headline — “Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations” — only gets as far as Page 2 of The Washington Post. (There is an element of art to these calculations: The Obamatron editors in the media want to be able to cover themselves by saying they raised the story, but the trick is to do so at a time and place that prevents it going anywhere before November 4th.) ….
So two-thirds of Obama’s record haul derives from a website that intentionally disabled all the default security checks that prevent basic fraud like fake addresses and no-name matches ….Here’s the bottom line: Two-thirds of the record-breaking haul Obama raised for the final stretch of the campaign comes from a racket set up to facilitate fake names, phony addresses and untraceable cards.
The super-rich?An anonymous donor gave $10 million late last year to run ads attacking President Obama and Democratic policies, escalating the money race that is defining the 2012 presidential campaign. And in the new, free-wheeling environment of independent political giving, the identity of this donor, like many others, is likely to remain a permanent mystery.
The donation went to Crossroads GPS, the conservative nonprofit group founded with the support of political strategist Karl Rove. Another donor gave $10 million in the 2010 midterm elections, according to draft tax returns that provide the first detailed look at its finances...
...The tax returns show that Crossroads GPS has collected the vast majority of its donations from the super rich. The forms show that nearly 90 percent of its contributions through the end of 2011 had come from as few as two dozen donors, each giving $1 million or more. Overall, the nonprofit group raised more than $76 million since it was founded in May 2010 through the end of 2011.
You mean like George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, a myriad of Hollywood types, and the rest of the mega-rich who support President Subprime McDowngrade?
Oh, but that's different. Somehow.
Related: "'Sir, Mr. Soros is on the line'."
Hilarious: 1,800-word article on John Edwards trial doesn't mention the word 'Democrat', but manages to mention 'Republican' 5 times
Erstwhile presidential candidate and world-class philanderer John Edwards is profiled Wednesday in a monumental Atlantic article entitled "Why the John Edwards Trial Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think."
Author Hampton Dellinger does yeoman's work in avoiding the D-word over the course of the 1,800-word tome, which could be applied copiously to the dirtbag, douche, and dimwit in question.
However, Dellinger does manage to slip in the word Republican a scant five times.
In one respect, Edwards was right. There really are two Americas: the Democrat-media elites who think they are our betters, and the rest of us.
Update: Tom Blumer notes that the author ran for Lt. Governor in NC as a... Democrat.
Hat tip: JTT.
Jury selection in the federal criminal trial of John Edwards begins Thursday April 12th in a Greensboro, N.C., courtroom. As the world now knows, Edwards chose to cheat on his cancer-stricken wife during his 2008 presidential run. Two wealthy political supporters then spent hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting Edwards's mistress as part of a failed effort to keep the affair quiet. Prosecutors decided that the financial support constituted unreported, excessive and thus illegal campaign donations, and indicted Edwards for his role in the arrangement.
Author Hampton Dellinger does yeoman's work in avoiding the D-word over the course of the 1,800-word tome, which could be applied copiously to the dirtbag, douche, and dimwit in question.
However, Dellinger does manage to slip in the word Republican a scant five times.
In one respect, Edwards was right. There really are two Americas: the Democrat-media elites who think they are our betters, and the rest of us.
Update: Tom Blumer notes that the author ran for Lt. Governor in NC as a... Democrat.
Hat tip: JTT.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
My custom-designed outfit for #BlogconCLT
Monday, April 09, 2012
Hilarious Jamie Gorelick Quote o' the Day
What's funnier than Bill Clinton talking about the virtues of chastity? That would be Jamie Gorelick extolling the high ethical standards required by members of the bar.
The same ethical rules as lawyers?
The... same... ethic --- HAHAHHAHAH AH AH AHA HAH AHHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA HA HA HAHAHAHAHHA AHHWHWAHAHHA AHWH AHW AHW HA HAHA HA HA HA AH AH AHHAHAW HA H HA AHHA (*choke*) AHHAWHAHA (*gurgle*) AHWHAHA (*wheeze*) ---
Must. Catch. Breath.
In 2004, observers were "astonished" to discover that a key member of the 9/11 Commission had a fatal conflict-of-interest. Jamie Gorelick had served as a Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997.
It was later revealed that Gorelick had established a pre-Patriot Act "wall" that prevented the foreign intelligence and criminal investigative communities from collaborating.
Her 1995 memo, entitled "Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations", stated explicitly that they would "go beyond what is legally required, [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation."
The result: shortly before 9/11, Gorelick's wall "specifically impeded the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui", the so-called "20th hijacker."
At the time, an enraged FBI investigator wrote a memo to headquarters which included the sentence, 'Whatever has happened to this -- someday someone will die -- and wall or not -- the public will not understand why we were not more effective..."
The 2004 disclosure that Gorelick's service as a 9/11 Commissioner was the archetypical conflict-of-interest should have triggered a cacophony of complaints and demands for a new investigation. Instead, the mainstream media turned deaf and dumb and the controversy faded into the background.
Gorelick's "wall" wrapped a blindfold around America just when it needed its vision to stop the attacks that killed thousands and which sucked a half a trillion dollars out of the economy.
Where did Gorelick turn up next?
Though she had no training or experience in finance, Gorelick was appointed the Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae and served in the role from 1997 to 2003. During that six-year period, she earned over $26 million.
During Gorelick's tenure, FNMA suffered a $10 billion accounting scandal, an ominous harbinger of the firm's looming troubles. One of the falsified transactions helped FNMA hit earnings targets for 1998, which triggered bonuses for top executives including nearly $800,000 to Gorelick.
Put simply "Jamie Gorelick was one of the Fannie executives who benefited from inflated bonuses based on Enron-style accounting."
In 2002 Business Week interviewed Gorelick concerning the health of FNMA. She responded, "We believe we are managed safely. We are very pleased that Moody's gave us an A-minus in the area of bank financial strength -- without a reference to the government in any way. Fannie Mae is among the handful of top-quality institutions."
Less than a year later regulators "accused Fannie Mae of improper accounting to the tune of $9 billion in unrecorded losses."
Gorelick's highly unethical involvement with the 9/11 Commission, her malevolent entanglement with Fannie Mae, her ill-fated defense of Duke College [Ed: intentional Dukie antagonism] against its Lacrosse Team, etc. etc. long ago earned her the nickname "The Mistress of Disaster."
Anyone quoting Gorelick in an article about "ethics" deserves a heaping helping of ridicule. But this is The Washington Post we're talking about, after all.
And, if there were any justice to be found in the District whatsoever, Jamie Gorelick would be serving a 25-to-Life with a 5'9", 350 lb. cellmate -- and soon to be soulmate -- named Tina.
An American Bar Association group plans to meet this week to mull a question stirring up debate around the legal community: can someone who is not a lawyer own part of a law firm?
For 21 years, the answer has been no — except in the District of Columbia, the only jurisdiction in the United States that allows law firms to share fees and profits with non-lawyers...
...“Traditionally, law firms have been owned and controlled solely by lawyers, and they’re bound by a certain regulatory structure,” said Jamie Gorelick, a partner at WilmerHale who co-chairs the Commission on Ethics 20/20. “The concern is that a non-lawyer would not be similarly bound and doesn’t have the same ethical rules as lawyers.”
The same ethical rules as lawyers?
The... same... ethic --- HAHAHHAHAH AH AH AHA HAH AHHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA HA HA HAHAHAHAHHA AHHWHWAHAHHA AHWH AHW AHW HA HAHA HA HA HA AH AH AHHAHAW HA H HA AHHA (*choke*) AHHAWHAHA (*gurgle*) AHWHAHA (*wheeze*) ---
Must. Catch. Breath.
In 2004, observers were "astonished" to discover that a key member of the 9/11 Commission had a fatal conflict-of-interest. Jamie Gorelick had served as a Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997.
It was later revealed that Gorelick had established a pre-Patriot Act "wall" that prevented the foreign intelligence and criminal investigative communities from collaborating.
Her 1995 memo, entitled "Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations", stated explicitly that they would "go beyond what is legally required, [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation."
The result: shortly before 9/11, Gorelick's wall "specifically impeded the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui", the so-called "20th hijacker."
At the time, an enraged FBI investigator wrote a memo to headquarters which included the sentence, 'Whatever has happened to this -- someday someone will die -- and wall or not -- the public will not understand why we were not more effective..."
The 2004 disclosure that Gorelick's service as a 9/11 Commissioner was the archetypical conflict-of-interest should have triggered a cacophony of complaints and demands for a new investigation. Instead, the mainstream media turned deaf and dumb and the controversy faded into the background.
Gorelick's "wall" wrapped a blindfold around America just when it needed its vision to stop the attacks that killed thousands and which sucked a half a trillion dollars out of the economy.
Where did Gorelick turn up next?
Though she had no training or experience in finance, Gorelick was appointed the Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae and served in the role from 1997 to 2003. During that six-year period, she earned over $26 million.
During Gorelick's tenure, FNMA suffered a $10 billion accounting scandal, an ominous harbinger of the firm's looming troubles. One of the falsified transactions helped FNMA hit earnings targets for 1998, which triggered bonuses for top executives including nearly $800,000 to Gorelick.
Put simply "Jamie Gorelick was one of the Fannie executives who benefited from inflated bonuses based on Enron-style accounting."
In 2002 Business Week interviewed Gorelick concerning the health of FNMA. She responded, "We believe we are managed safely. We are very pleased that Moody's gave us an A-minus in the area of bank financial strength -- without a reference to the government in any way. Fannie Mae is among the handful of top-quality institutions."Less than a year later regulators "accused Fannie Mae of improper accounting to the tune of $9 billion in unrecorded losses."
Gorelick's highly unethical involvement with the 9/11 Commission, her malevolent entanglement with Fannie Mae, her ill-fated defense of Duke College [Ed: intentional Dukie antagonism] against its Lacrosse Team, etc. etc. long ago earned her the nickname "The Mistress of Disaster."
Anyone quoting Gorelick in an article about "ethics" deserves a heaping helping of ridicule. But this is The Washington Post we're talking about, after all.
And, if there were any justice to be found in the District whatsoever, Jamie Gorelick would be serving a 25-to-Life with a 5'9", 350 lb. cellmate -- and soon to be soulmate -- named Tina.
Sunday, April 08, 2012
It's so touching that CBS News runs an affirmative action program for microcephalics, which seems to explain Andrew Cohen
On Friday, March 30th, Andrew Cohen -- the so-called "chief analyst and legal editor for CBS Radio News" -- authored what could be the most preposterous excuse for analysis this side of Paul Krugman.
"The arguments in the Care Act cases may be funny to Justice Antonin Scalia, the bully that he is, but they aren’t funny to the single father who will avoid bankruptcy because of the law."
Really?
Avoid bankruptcy? As the country itself is drowning in a cesspool of debt and unfunded liabilities?
But don't believe me -- believe the Medicare Actuaries or the Trustees of the Social Security Administration.
• Medicare: $24.8 trillion -- Obligation per household: $212,500
• Social Security: $21.4 trillion -- Obligation per household: $183,400
• Federal debt: $15 trillion -- Obligation per household $128,000
Hey, Cohen: where's all that "free health care" coming from in your pathetic excuse for an analysis?
From the taxpayers?
From a country headed into a cyclonic funnel of fiscal torment?
Cohen, the sad thing is you're too dim to realize the evil of the unfettered government spending you're espousing. Because you're a mathematic ignoramus, a chronic putz, whose religion is Statism. You're a walking, talking joke.
Cohen’s cheap shot... came in #7 of [his Atlantic article entitled] “13 Final Thoughts About the Health Care Arguments.”Let me repeat:
Cohen, who back in 2005-2007 appeared occasionally on CBS News television newscasts but is now, thankfully, confined to a few brief soundbites on the radio side, asserted in the blog post:
7. Smug justice. I admit I lost my temper on Wednesday. The arguments in the Care Act cases may be funny to Justice Antonin Scalia, the bully that he is, but they aren't funny to the single father who will avoid bankruptcy because of the law, or to the millions of others who will benefit from the Medicaid expansion or from the provision that allows young people to stay longer on their parents’ health care plans. Justice Scalia gets his health insurance from the government. To him, the care act is just another statute. Fine. Let him be so dispassionate when his conservative fellow travelers ask him to endorse an act of Congress.
"The arguments in the Care Act cases may be funny to Justice Antonin Scalia, the bully that he is, but they aren’t funny to the single father who will avoid bankruptcy because of the law."
Really?
Avoid bankruptcy? As the country itself is drowning in a cesspool of debt and unfunded liabilities?
But don't believe me -- believe the Medicare Actuaries or the Trustees of the Social Security Administration.
• Medicare: $24.8 trillion -- Obligation per household: $212,500
• Social Security: $21.4 trillion -- Obligation per household: $183,400
• Federal debt: $15 trillion -- Obligation per household $128,000
Hey, Cohen: where's all that "free health care" coming from in your pathetic excuse for an analysis?
From the taxpayers?
From a country headed into a cyclonic funnel of fiscal torment?
Cohen, the sad thing is you're too dim to realize the evil of the unfettered government spending you're espousing. Because you're a mathematic ignoramus, a chronic putz, whose religion is Statism. You're a walking, talking joke.
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Beautiful: Four Weeks of Government Unemployment Propaganda, As Regurgitated by Legacy Media
Annual budget of the fat, bloated and utterly useless Department of Labor: $14,000,000,000.00 ($14 billion)
Annual budget of the fat, bloated and utterly useless Bureau of Labor Statistics: $1,800,000,000.00 ($1.8 billion)
Tyler Durden deconstructing the Bureau of Labor Statistics' laughable propaganda: priceless!
In other words, the BLS continues to revise prior numbers -- after the fact -- to disguise the ongoing Obama Recession.
• On 3/15, 351,000 unemployment claims represented a four-year low
• On 3/22, 348,000 also was a four-year low
• On 3/29, 359,000 also was a four-year low
• On 4/05, 357,000 also was a four-year low
Only in the mind of a propagandist does that math make sense.
Ain't our media great?
Annual budget of the fat, bloated and utterly useless Bureau of Labor Statistics: $1,800,000,000.00 ($1.8 billion)
Tyler Durden deconstructing the Bureau of Labor Statistics' laughable propaganda: priceless!
For everyone who wants to see a simple yet explicit example of how the BLS' relentless propaganda courtesy of perpetual prior "adjustments" trickles down in terms of media propaganda, here it is.
All of this would be great... if only the March 15th original number of 351,000 wasn't lower than the April 5th pre-revision number of 357,000, and which next week will be revised to 361,000!
In other words, the BLS continues to revise prior numbers -- after the fact -- to disguise the ongoing Obama Recession.
• On 3/15, 351,000 unemployment claims represented a four-year low
• On 3/22, 348,000 also was a four-year low
• On 3/29, 359,000 also was a four-year low
• On 4/05, 357,000 also was a four-year low
Only in the mind of a propagandist does that math make sense.
Ain't our media great?
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Hilarious Upside-Down Hockey-Stick Graph o' the Day
And it couldn't happen to a more deserving industry:
My question about newspapers is a simple one: why do I need printouts of Democrat National Committee press releases when I can read them online?
The Newspaper Association of America reported that advertising revenue for print newspapers in the U.S. fell to $20.7 billion in 2011. Adjusted for inflation, that’s the lowest annual advertising revenue for newspapers since 1951, sixty years ago. It took 50 years to go from about $20 billion in inflation-adjusted annual newspaper ad revenue in 1950 to $63.5 billion in 2000, and then only 11 years to go from $63.5 billion back to about $20 billion in 2011. This could be one of the best examples ever of “Schumpeterian creative destruction” displayed in a single graph.
My question about newspapers is a simple one: why do I need printouts of Democrat National Committee press releases when I can read them online?
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