Monday, December 22, 2008

Mother of the Year


Casey Anthony is the 2008 award-winner.





WFTV (Channel 9) has the depressing slideshow.

Democrats Preparing to Steal YAE (Yet Another Election)


Al Franken's campaign claimed that the ballot at right represents a vote for the one-time SNL writer, failed Air America host, and silent participant in the Gloria Wise ripoffs.

After the challenge, as you might expect, this vote went to Franken.

Although Norm Coleman won the election and the recount, Democrats (along with their pals at ACORN and its hundreds of affiliates) appear ready to steal the election.

Just like the race for the Governorship in Washington state in '04, won by a Republican.

Won, that is, until the dead walked the Earth and voted Democrat.

Gateway Pundit has the crucial info.

Update: John Lott has the unbelievable images!

Carnac the Magnificent reads the headlines


(Carnac holds the sealed envelope up to his turban)

CARNAC: Bill Ayers and Jihadis.

ED McMAHON: 'Bill Ayers and Jihadis'

(Carnac rips the envelope open and removes the card)

CARNAC (reading): Name two sets of terrorists who tried to kill hundreds of soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Fox News: Jury Finds 5 Men Guilty of Plotting to Kill Soldiers at Fort Dix.
Some dude: Dead Cops, Dead Marines, and their Killers.

Video Professor's 'free offer' may be too good to be true


Intrigued by the incessant cable ads hawking "free" Video Professor instructional CDs?

You may be interested in reviewing the VidProf's complaint database at Ripoff Report.

The litany of 180+ complaints -- as of this writing -- is truly something to behold.

Top 50 Automotive Photographs of 2008


AutoBlog's outstanding collection is definitely worth seeing.


Click either picture to start the show.

Exclusive Photo: Economic Fairness


Papa B sent this one in.

Progressives want a $45 Billion Bailout for the Telephone and Cable Monopolies!


Progressive communications group FreePress is lobbying President-Elect Obama for a $44 billion bailout aimed primarily at the telephone and cable monopolies (PDF). The money would ostensibly be used for various incentives to build out broadband connections to underserved areas such as rural locations.

FreePress calls the $50 billion in taxpayer money a "down payment on a digital future." But what it really appears to be is a duplicate set of payments to the telephone and cable companies for infrastructure they promised to build years ago.

Given the fact that the carriers are government-regulated, possess virtual monopolies over their territories, and spend hundreds of millions lobbying, I like to call them the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of communications.

Telecom analyst Bruce Kushnick opposes the $44 billion bailout for pragmatic reasons. First, he asks how anyone can advocate raising taxes "to bail out the same companies that failed to properly upgrade America’s essential infrastructure"? Second, he asserts that Free Press ignores accountability for the carriers and even a discussion of how the U.S. ended up a broadband backwater when compared to other countries.

FreePress fails to mention that AT&T, Verizon and other carriers, ostensibly the caretakers for our current networks, have failed to live up to their commitments for broadband build-out. AT&T, for example, now controls the telephone networks for 22 states (including California, Florida, and Illinois). AT&T promised to have 19 million homes wired with fiber by 2007 and, instead, as of January 2009, it will have completed less than one million homes.

FreePress also ignores the roughly $280 billion in fees and tax breaks already collected by the telcos: "[o]ver a decade ago, the phone companies made commitments to rewire the country state-by-state. In virtually every AT&T and Verizon state, the company should have been completing rewiring of the states by 2010 as they have already received and continue to receive billions per state in tax incentives or higher phone rates." What the telcos promised for billions in fees and tax breaks were entire states wired with fiber capable of 45 Mbps. What states received, for the most part, is DSL over copper (usually at speeds one-fiftieth of what was promised).

For example, here’s a page from the New Jersey state law giving a timeline through 2010 and showing that 100% of the state would be completed with 45 Mbps fiber.

In state after state, says Kushnick, regulators approved incremental taxes, fees and tax breaks for the telcos in exchange for broadband deployments that never came. Instead, the telcos pocketed the extra profits and never upgraded their networks as promised. Kushnick says this same pattern was repeated in Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland and other states. Kushnick calculates the total amount in extra revenue received by the carriers for non-existent broadband at roughly $280 billion!

Instead of questioning the telcos about the roughly $280 billion taxpayers already spent on failed broadband deployments, Free Press wants another $45 billion bailout for the telcos. I can just see the lobbyists slobbering now.

Furthermore, FreePress claims it wants open networks and competition but doesn’t address the current state. Verizon's FiOS and AT&T's U-Verse are "closed to competition... [the] customer can not choose to use independent ISPs, for example." Kushnick asserts that If FreePress really cared about open networks, it would advocate rewriting laws to ensure competitive line sharing and network wholesaling, which have been enormously successful in other countries.

Finally, FreePress also wants to increase tax rates for the Universal Service Fund (USF). But independent studies of the USF call it the FCC's "biggest boondoggle". Kushnick characterizes it as an "out-of-control slush fund" with little to no oversight. Free Press proposes a $26 billion dollar tax increase over a 3 year period. And the USF fund is already an "11.4% tax on all ‘interstate’ services [and would] more than double, if not triple the taxes."

As citizens, we should:
  • Oppose a bailout for the enormously profitable telco and cable monopolies
  • Support wholesaling requirements for networks to ensure competition over any and all networks possible
  • Kick anyone with possible conflicts-of-interest (like current FCC commissioner Kevin Martin) out of power
FreePress may have some good ideas (like net neutrality), but higher taxes and subsidies for monopolists aren't among 'em.

Related:
• TeleTruth: The $200 Billion Broadband Scandal
• Heartland Institute: Excessive, Discriminatory Taxes on Wireless Hurt Consumers, Business, and U.S. Economy

Linked by: Michelle Malkin, Say Anything, Flopping Aces. Thanks!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: GM is a "vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary"


A disheartening Detroit bailout (Volokh Conspiracy): "A lot of people object that consumers won't buy a car from a company in Chapter 11. But do we seriously think that many of those consumers will be a car from a company on bailout life-support? If not--and I haven't talked to anyone who thinks it makes a difference whether they are in Chapter 11 or on life-support--then it is hard to see what this action does to fundamentally transform the prospects of the automakers. In other words, bankruptcy still looks inevitable, and it is just a matter of how many billions of taxpayer dollars we're going to throw away before we get there."

• A key plant that will build the Chevy Volt will be delayed.

Where have all the Woodwards gone? (Nolan Chart): "Curious journalists, however, are suddenly a rare breed... Keep in mind that this is the same press that had an insatiable appetite for "guilt by association" during the Bush administration. For the better part of three years we were subject to front-page updates of the Valerie Plame affair, which was far more convoluted a tale. Out of necessity for the reader, every article had to spend several paragraphs just recapping what happened: Joe Wilson, Niger, yellow cake uranium, the Novak column, and a strange form of retribution. Just trying to keep up with the background narrative and discern the actual crime behind the allegations was enough to induce migraines... Was it Dick Cheney, in the White House, with the lead pipe? Who cared? Following along was an effort in futility..."

Could the LA Times turn off its presses?: An excellent complement to the previous article.

Mark Steyn: We're in the fast lane to Bailoutistan: "General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. The UAW is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as "workers" (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people... How do you make that math add up? Not by selling cars: Honda and Nissan make a pretax operating profit per vehicle of around $1,600; Ford, Chrysler and GM make a loss of $500 to $1,500. That's to say, they lose money on every vehicle they sell. Like Henry Ford said, you can get it in any color as long as it's red."

Che Guevara: 'A cold killing machine motivated by hate' (London Sun)

Obama Names Disgraced Crackpot as 'Science Adviser' (Jammie Wearing Fool)

The Rezko-Obama connection you don't know (Team Sarah)

An unnerving image - the day our bridge was destroyed (Sydney Morning Herald): "In [the new movie] The Day The Earth Stood Still... alien invaders arrive on Earth to purge the planet of the one thing that is killing all life - mankind. [The movie] is a retelling of a 1951 science-fiction film which originally had Klaatu arriving to warn the people of Earth of the dangers of the escalating nuclear arms race. This time around, the story has been tweaked to reflect current global ecological and weather concerns. When he arrives, Reeves's alien warns humanity our reckless abuse of the Earth has left his watching species with no choice but to intervene before we destroy the planet and its rare ability to sustain life."

• Fausta is now writing at Real Clear World, specializing in Latin American affairs.

Let's hope this is a looooooooonnnnng-running movie



Saturday, December 20, 2008

The lessons of American Motors


American Motors Corporation was the 1954 product of a merger between Hudson Motors and Nash-Kelvinator. In the late seventies, declining sales and competition forced AMC to seek a partner. It formed an unsuccessful alliance with Renault. Eventually the company was purchased for pennies on the dollar by Chrysler in what was, essentially, an orderly bankruptcy.

What caused the meltdown of AMC? Consider its legacy of automotive immortals:

The 1969 AMX.

The 1972 Gremlin.

The 1972 Hornet.

The 1974 Matador.

The 1975 Pacer.

The 1977 Hornet AMX.

The 1979 Spirit GT.

The meltdown of AMC didn't destroy the auto industry. And today's restructuring of America's auto companies under existing bankruptcy law won't mean the end of America's auto manufacturers.

But it will mean a return to rational, free-market principles. If they're given a chance.

Hat tip: AdClassix.

Best. Craiglist. Ad. Ever.


If Detroit's ad agencies could write like this, bailouts wouldn't be necessary.

sale-935623801@craigslist.org:

NINJA HAULER: 2005 Nissan Xterra - $12900 (Ronan / Lake County)

OK, let me start off by saying this Xterra is only available for purchase by the manliest of men (or women). My friend, if it was possible for a vehicle to sprout chest hair and a five o'clock shadow, this Nissan would look like Tom Selleck. It is just that manly.

It was never intended to drive to the mall so you can pick up that adorable shirt at Abercrombie & Fitch that you had your eye on. It wasn't meant to transport you to yoga class or Linens & Things. No, that's what your Prius is for. If that's the kind of car you're looking for, then just do us all a favor and stop reading right now. I mean it. Just stop.

This car was engineered by 3rd degree ninja super-warriors in the highest mountains of Japan to serve the needs of the man that cheats death on a daily basis. They didn't even consider superfluous nancy boy amenities like navigation systems (real men don't get lost), heated leather seats (a real man doesn't let anything warm his butt), or On Star (real men don't even know what the hell On Star is).

No, this brute comes with the things us testosterone-fueled super action junkies need. It has a 265 HP engine to outrun the cops. It's got special blood/gore resistant upholstery. It even has a first-aid kit in the back. You know what the first aid kit has in it? A pint of whiskey, a stitch-your-own-wound kit and a hunk of leather to bite down on when you're operating on yourself. The Xterra also has an automatic transmission so if you're being chased by Libyan terrorists, you'll still be able to shoot your machine gun out the window and drive at the same time. It's saved my bacon more than once.


It has room for you and the four hotties you picked up on the way to the gym to blast your pecs and hammer your glutes. There's a tow hitch to pull your 50 caliber anti-Taliban, self cooling machine gun. I also just put in a new windshield to replace the one that got shot out by The Man.

My price on this bad boy is an incredibly low $12,900, but I'll entertain reasonable offers. And by reasonable, I mean don't walk up and tell me you'll give me $5,000 for it. That's liable to earn you a Burmese-roundhouse-sphincter-kick with a follow up three fingered eye-jab. Would it hurt? Hell yeah. Let's just say you won't be the prettiest guy at the Coldplay concert anymore.

There's only 69,000 miles on this four-wheeled hellcat from Planet Kickass. Trust me, it will outlive you and the offspring that will carry your name. It will live on as a monument to your machismo.

Now, go look in the mirror and tell me what you see. If it's a rugged, no holds barred, super brute he-man macho Chuck Norris stunt double, then contact me. I might be out hang-gliding or BASE jumping or just chilling with my ladies, but I'll get back to you. And when I do, we'll talk about a price over a nice glass of Schmidt while we listen to Johnny Cash.

To sweeten the deal a little, I'm throwing in this pair of MC Hammer pants for the man with rippling quads that can't fit into regular pants.

Yeah, you heard me.

FREE MC Hammer pants.

Rock on.

Hat tip: Bernie.

Bailouts for Everyone!



The SEC's Johnny-on-the-Spot Investigators


Let me see if I've got this straight. The SEC says it's "deeply troubled" over its failure to unravel the Bernard Madoff debacle ahead of time, despite a decade of warnings.

For instance, Madoff competitor Harry Markopolos tried to raise the alarm at the SEC on multiple occasions, alleging that "Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi Scheme."

For nine years Markopolos begged the SEC to pursue an investigation of the Democratic fundraiser, dealing with both the Manhattan and Boston bureaus of the SEC, all to no avail.

Madoff is alleged to have "made off" with $50 billion in investments, much of it dedicated to charitable and academic causes.

Just so you're aware: the SEC was doing much more important work like ensuring that executives of the National Lampoon (owners of Animal House and National Lampoon's Vacation) weren't artifically inflating their stock price.

Just a few days ago the SEC arrested NatLamp CEO Donald Lakin and others, alleging they spent $68K trying to pump up the stock.

Thank goodness the SEC was able to shut that massive fraud down before investors got hurt.

And these are the same big-government buffoons who say we don't regulate enough and want to "fix" health care.

If that doesn't send a chill down your spine, I don't know what will.

That's why I've come up with a new name for any government-sponsored "Universal Health Care" program. I call it "KatrinaCare".

Line o' the Day: Katrinacare!


The same government that mishandled Katrina, created the current mortgage crisis, and failed to monitor Mr. Madoff is now going to run our health care. All of this in order to cover a minority of uninsured (mostly illegal alien) patients. Brilliant!

-- Don Surber (via Larwyn)

Friday, December 19, 2008

California Bankrupt, Democrats prescribe higher taxes


California's budget deficit will hit nearly $42 billion over the next 18 months. The Guardian reports that the immense shortfall may force it to pay bills with IOUs.

California is probably the most liberal, eh, I mean "progressive", states in the country. Years of Democratic rule have resulted in onerous environmental regulations, brutally high taxes, open border policies, massive pollution and an exodus of those who desire economic mobility rather than handouts.

The results are easy to predict. California lost 41,700 jobs in November and its unemployment rate hit a 15-year high. Its egregious unemployment record trails only that of Michigan and Rhode Island.

The Democratic leadership's prescription? More taxes. Democrats plan on hiking gas, sales and income taxes through a series of obscure legal maneuvers that intend to bypass Republican oversight.

#1 for unemployment? Democrat-controlled Michigan and the Pee Wee Herman of Governors, Democrat Jennifer Granholm.

#2 for unemployment? Democrat-controlled Rhode Island.

#3, #4, and #5 for unemployment? All Democrat-controlled states: California, Mississippi, and Obama's home state of Illinois.

The five states with the highest overall employment are all controlled by Republicans. No kidding.

Are ya smellin' the trend?

Update: Democrat-controlled Congress just voted itself a well-deserved pay raise, this time to $217,400 a year.

They work hard for their money, so you better treat 'em right.

Holiday Card


Papa B received this holiday card.



It's a keeper.

If you ever see a chart like this, run like hell


If you ever see a chart like this, run like hell:

We've all heard how Bernie Madoff's returns sounded too smooth and consistent to be true. In picture form, however, the returns are even more eyebrow raising. The chart below shows the cumulative returns of $1 invested in the hedge fund Fairfield Sentry Limited, which was a fund run by Fairfield Greenwich Group that essentially directed all of its assets to the stewardship of Bernie Madoff...

...As shown, $1 invested in Madoff back in 1990 was supposed to be worth $6.75 today. NPB Bank, out of Zurich, even offered a version of this fund with three times the leverage. Talk about too good to be true.

Kinda reminds me of various instruments issued by the United States Treasury. Like Social Security and Medicare.

Oops.

Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: "Best Idea Ever!"


Best Idea Ever: Brilliant: Credit Suisse To Pay Top Execs With Illiquid Mortgage Securities: (ClusterStock): "We're shocked that nobody has suggested this before, but on its face this looks like a great idea... Credit Suisse announced today that bonuses for its top executives would be made in illiquid, mortgage-backed securities. Seeing as these guys are responsible for getting this stuff on the companies books, it makes sense to shove it back to them. And if the market gets liquid again, and the stuff goes up, that's going to be a huge windfall for execs..."

Not the Emanuel I thought I new: Thursday Night Blago Wrapup (Marathon Pundit)

My 78 year-old auditor lives in Florida: Harry Markopolos in 1999: "Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi Scheme" (WSJ via The Australian) : "Until at least November, 2006, the firm, which claimed to manage billions of dollars and be among the largest market makers in the stock market, used as its auditor Friehling & Horowitz, a small New City, New York firm... Mr Vos says his firm hired a private investigator and determined that the accounting firm had only three employees, one of whom was 78 and lived in Florida, and another was a secretary, and that it operated in a 13 foot by 18 foot office."

Hey, look over there!: May 2001's Madoff tops charts; skeptics asks how (MAR/Hedge): "Skeptics who express a mixture of amazement, fascination and curiosity about the program wonder, first, about the relative complete lack of volatility in the reported monthly returns. But among other things, they also marvel at the seemingly astonishing ability to time the market and move to cash in the underlying securities before market conditions turn negative; and the related ability to buy and sell the underlying stocks without noticeably affecting the market."

Not the Rezko I thought I knew: Feet in the Fire: Rezko/Obama (Team Sarah): "During 2004 and 2005, the FBI takes notes of repeated visits by Obama and Gov. Blagojevich to the offices of Rezmar Corporation. During the corruption trial of Rezko, an FBI mole, John Thomas helped investigators build a record of repeat visits to the offices of Rezko, at 853 N. Elston, by Obama and Blagojevich, though the purpose of the visits is not clear. [Chicago Sun-Times]"

Revenge of the $80K Forklift Drivers: Detroit's Downturn: It's the Productivity, Stupid (Rand Simberg at Pajamas Media): "I supervised a loading dock and 21 UAW workers who worked approximately five hours per day for eight hours’ pay. They could easily load one-third more rail cars and still maintain their union-negotiated break times, but when I tried to make them increase production ever so slightly they sabotaged my ability to make even the current production levels by hiding stock, calling in sick, feigning equipment problems, and even once, as a show of force, used a fork lift truck and pallets and racks to create a car part prison where they trapped me while I was conducting inventory. The reaction of upper management to my request to boost production was that I should 'not be naive.'"

Schumer's Pornography: The Clintons Make Blagojevich Look Like a Piker (Rush Limbaugh): "This Rod Blagojevich in Illinois, the governor, this guy is a piker... while he's looking for payoffs, the Clintons got them. The Clinton team has finally released some of the donors and the amounts for the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor, and there are 205,000 donors on this website. The Clintons have ended ten years of resistance to identifying the sources of its money. Saudi Arabia is among the biggest donors to the Clinton Foundation. It turns out that Blago is a piker. If you're out there selling influence, don't look for a couple low-paying jobs for you and your wife and some low six-figure donations. If you're out there looking to peddle influence, you gotta go get tens of millions of dollars from international players, and then after you do that, you get yourself named secretary of state so that the back scratching can continue."

Not the Blago I thought I knew: Emanuel's deep involvement with Blago (Chicago Sun-Times): "A source with the Obama camp strongly denied Emanuel spoke with the governor directly about the seat, saying Emanuel only spoke with Blagojevich once recently to say he was taking the chief of staff post... But sources with knowledge of the investigation said Blagojevich told his aides about the calls with Emanuel and sometimes gave them directions afterward. Sources said that early on, Emanuel pushed for the appointment of Jarrett to the governor and his staff and asked that it be done by a certain date."

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Why did Valerie Jarrett drop out of contention for the Illinois Senate seat on November 12? One possible answer


What possessed Valerie Jarrett to abruptly and decisively drop out of the competition for the Illinois Senate seat? Did someone leak word of the federal wiretap to Jarrett, thereby causing her to remove herself from consideration?

From all reports, Fitzpatrick is a stand-up guy who would not leak details of the tap. I'm guessing his staff members were sufficiently vetted that they would remain silent as well.

So how could Valerie Jarrett have found out about the investigation of Blago? And how could she do so without alerting Rahm Emanuel, who continued to engage in conversations (21 in total by some accounts)? I'm betting Jarrett found out from an insider, who was aware of the investigation, and counseled her to stay as far away as possible.

And that insider may have had the means, the motive and the opportunity to dissuade Jarrett from pursuing the seat.

What follows is a hypothetical timeline. The non-italicized text is based upon the events documented in the Complaint against Governor Blagojevich. The italicized text is pure speculation on my part.

November 5: Blago meets with SEIU official to discuss Valerie Jarrett's interest in the vacant Senate seat (deduced from 11/12 transcript).

November 7: Blago discussed the open Senate seat in a three-way call with his advisor John Harris and Advisor B, a Washington D.C.-based consultant. Blago indicated in the call that if he was appointed as Secretary of Health and Human Services by Obama, then Blago would appoint Valerie Jarrett to the open Senate seat.

November 10: Blago, his wife, Harris, Governor's General Counsel William Quinlan Jr., and various Washington-D.C. based advisors, including Advisor B, discussed the open Senate seat during a conference call. Blago said that the consultants (Advisor B and another consultant are believed to be on the call at that time) are telling him that he has to “suck it up” for two years and do nothing and give this “motherf***er [Obama] his Senator. "F*** him. For nothing? F*** him.” Blago states that he will put [Deputy Governor Louanner Peters] in the Senate “before I just give f***ing [Valerie Jarrett] a f***ing Senate seat and I don’t get anything.” Blago stated that he needs to find a way to take the “financial stress” off of his family and that his wife is as qualified or more qualified than another specifically named individual to sit on corporate boards. According to Blago “the immediate challenge [is] how do we take some of the financial pressure off of our family.” Later in the phone call, Blago stated that absent getting something back, Blago will not pick Valerie Jarrett.

November 10: Blago and Advisor A again discussed the open Senate seat. Blago and Advisor A discussed leaking to the same particular Chicago Sun-Times columnist that Blago is seriously considering Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. for the open Senate seat, in order to send a message to the President-elect that there are options for the Senate seat beyond Valerie Jarrett. At the end of the conversation Advisor A agreed to call the Sun Times columnist to leak the story (believed, based on other intercepted conversations, to be untrue), that Blago had a “long, productive discussion” with Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. regarding the open Senate seat.

November 10: Advisor A alerts Jackson to the forthcoming leak and that he could be positioned to supercede Jarrett.

November 11: Blago talked with Harris about the Senate seat. Blago suggested starting a 501(c)(4) organization (a non-profit organization that may engage in political activity and lobbying) and said he knows that Obama wants Valerie Jarrett for the Senate seat but “they’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation. F*** them.”

November 11: Jackson calls Jarrett and implies that the federal investigation of Blago is heating up. The message to Jarrett: you'd do well to avoid dealing with Blago due to forthcoming charges against the governor; take a position with the President-Elect, because it will be safer.

November 11: Blago talked with Advisor A. Advisor A indicated that he will stay “on top” of getting the Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. information leaked to the particular Sun Times columnist.

November 11: Jarrett tells Obama that she would like to withdraw from consideration for the Senate seat. She indicates she'd like to serve in the administration instead as she would prefer to serve by his side and continue to assist with policy. Obama agrees and proposes a senior-level position.

November 12: Jarrett emails the Tribune saying, "I am not interested in the Senate seat."

November 12: Blago talked with Harris. Blago noted that CNN is reporting that Valerie Jarrett does not want the open Senate seat.

November 13: Jarrett named Obama's Senior White House Adviser.

Could Jesse Jackson Jr. have attempted to kill two birds with one stone by telling Jarrett to stay away from Blago?

The means: Jackson had knowledge of the federal investigation and could speak convincingly of the trouble Blago was in.

The motive: in a best case scenario, triple-J advances himself in the Senate pecking order; in a worst-case, the feds sully Rahm Emanuel's name and triple-J becomes part of smaller circle of Obama confidantes.

The opportunity: Jackson, with a single, well-positioned communication, had time on his side.

Furthermore Jarrett and federal informant Jesse Jackson, Jr. are friends and colleagues. Jarrett contributed to triple-J's Congressional campaign. They both belong to the Black Law Student Association Alumni group. And they are generally considered among Obama's closest confidantes.

Did Jackson sabotage Jarrett's chances for his own benefit? Or did he candidly warn her of a Governor gone wild? Methinks we won't have to wait much longer to find out.

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The diabolical fruit of global warming: snow in Vegas, Malibu and Flagstaff, Arizona


It snowed in Malibu, California today.

It was the first time in recent memory that snow snarled traffic in southern California.

Yesterday Las Vegas received 3.6 inches of snow, breaking a record for the heaviest December snowfall since record-keeping began in 1937.

In Arizona, DOT crews in Flagstaff worked 12-hour shifts to clear highways of snow.

But rest assured, the Climate Grifters will continue to insist that the record-breaking freeze is due to "global warming".

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