Friday, January 15, 2010

To my brothers and sisters in Massachusetts

To my brothers and sisters in Massachusetts,

Few people ever get a chance to tell their children that they helped save their country. On Tuesday, you have that chance.

By casting a vote for Scott Brown, you can provide the 41st vote in the United States Senate that will block President Obama's agenda.

In casting a vote for Scott Brown, you can stop the 2200-page health care bill that rewards unionized workers, citizens of Nebraska, and medical malpractice lawyers.

In casting a vote for Scott Brown, you can stop "Cap-and-Trade" bills that claim carbon dioxide -- which plants need to produce oxygen -- is a taxable pollutant.

In casting a vote for Scott Brown, you can halt the kind of open borders policy that has destroyed California's economy and which threatens our nation as a whole.

In casting a vote for Scott Brown, you can reject the massive deficit spending, the class warfare, the wealth redistribution schemes, the targeting and nationalization of entire industries.

In casting a vote for Scott Brown, you can quietly state your belief in the founding principles of the United States. That is: limited government, a respect for individual liberty, free enterprise and private property.

Those who oppose your vote 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.

Those who oppose your vote oppose our Constitution and our Declaration of Independence.

Those who oppose your vote refute the notion of God-given rights of man and carefully constructed limits on an all-powerful, centralized, authoritarian government.

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

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

On Tuesday, I humbly ask that you cast a vote for Scott Brown for United States Senate. I ask that you cast a vote for liberty. That you cast a vote for mankind.

Few people ever get this chance. The history books are waiting.


The unveiling

Papa B:


(If you're new around here, suffice it to say that Papa B isn't the most politically correct person you'll ever meet.)

New TSA Training Video

Papa B alerts us to the TSA's new streamlined screening process.

This would appear to be far more efficient than past efforts.

MIT's Food Printer

Tommy writes:

Have you heard about the MIT project called Cornucopia? No? Well here is a description:

* Cornucopia's cooking process starts with an array of food canisters, which refrigerate and store a user's favorite ingredients. These are piped into a mixer and extruder head that can accurately deposit elaborate combinations of food.

Yep, that's right, Cornucopia is a food printer! And as you can see...not just pretty pictures of food or pictures ON food....printed food. Can Star Trek's synthesizer be far behind?

You know, I got to say one thing though... "done that"... looking at how this is done, yep, anyone of us that has had a can of Cheese Whiz, a cracker, pepperoni and Jalapenos has spent a night "printing" up some good eats.

Gizmodo has the background story.

Larwyn's Linx: Truth or consequences or neither

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Nation

Health Care and the Constitution: NRO
Ideological Rationalization of the Senate: AT
Homeschoolers... the new terrorists: Wizbang

Coakley’s worst enemy: Her tongue: Malkin
Obama's Strange Video for Coakley: LegalIns
Poll Shocker: Brown Thumping Coakley: Herald

A portrait emerges of Martha Coakley: Riehl
Coakley freed rapist of 2-year old niece: Ace
US Halves Deportations Upon Request: S&L

A Case Study on How To Hit Back At Liberals: HillBuzz
Top 15 Observations About the MA Senate race: RWN
TSA stops Cub Scout attack cold: WyBlog

Economy

Truth or consequences or neither: Power Line
Stimulus Flop: AT
Which IT firms donated to Obama's campaign?: Wizbang

We want our money back, and we're going to get it: Wizbang
Democrats have plans for your 401(k): PJM
Unions Continue Tradition Of Screwing Over Next Generation: Insider

The Ghosts Haunting America’s Factories and Offices: PJM (Blumer)
Foreclosures Break Record Despite Aid: S&L
Ben Nelson Driven From Pizza Joint By Angry, Booing Constituents: Ace

Climate & Energy

I’m Not (Global) Warming to the Idea of Newt Gingrich for President: Powers
Domestic Drilling Activity Drops 37 Percent in 2009: BMW
That Didn't Take Long: Danny Glover Blames Haiti Earthquake on 'Climate Change' : JWF

Media

Oh, That State-Run Media!: Driscoll
Whew! Obama Pulls Planet Back from Catastrophe: JWF
Red Eye Robot Theater: The Kevin Jennings Job Interview: GWP

Leading Mass Blue Blog: “Yes It Sucks But Vote For Coakley Anyway”: GWP
Garden of Lies: Blair
Obama the Newsweek Scribe: CFB

Pelosi compared Michigan to undeveloped plantation before coming to the auto show: BlogProf
Comedy Gold! Biden Holds Transparency Meeting In Smoky Back-Room Behind Locked Doors: BlogProf

World

Devastation in Haiti – Pt 2: Verum Serum
Pervert for Peace: Blair
The Toothless Visas Viper: AT (Geller)

The Anti-War Rallies Of The Bush Years In 20 Pics: RWN
Ominous, Yet Wholly Unsurprising Intelligence From STRATFOR: TAB

SciTech

Small Group of Bureaucrats Hampering Use of Anti-Terror Technology: PJM
Adopting the Israeli Airport Security Model: Schneier

Cornucopia

Top 8 Men's Fashion Mistakes to Avoid: Asylum
James Carville Spotted in Haunted Scrotum: Powers
Yo, Jimbo... how’s the retirement thing goin’ so far?: Parkway


Thursday, January 14, 2010

'Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution', Chapter 10 billion, 754 million, 480 thousand, six hundred

Not good.

If you're still an IE user, I would recommend downloading Firefox immediately. ThreatLevel has more.

Snowstorm at the White House?

The Save Jersey blog stitches together some fascinating detective work that begins with a discussion thread at 4chan.

A photo of a few lines of coke taken on an iPhone?

Here's where it gets interesting. Really interesting. Someone else logged on to the same site and analyzed the coke photo's point of origin. This second individual was able to ascertain the location where the photo was snapped since it was taken with an iphone. As you may or may not know, iphones transmit GPS data of where pics are taken when they're uploaded to the web if the GPS is turned on. You can look at the metadata and see where it came from. It's a brave new world!

Guess what longitude and latitude turned up? 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. That's the White House for those of you who bombed civics in high school.

I've provided a Google map of the coordinates:

You can also click here to see the basic image photo information, including more evidence pointing to its origination at the White House.

If those coordinates are indeed correct, then somebody on high has an AWFUL LOT of explaining to do. All I know is that you wouldn't have had this problem in the Bush White House!

...An unrelated snort incident from Politico back in October '09 -- Comedian David Cross admits doing coke at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (click here).

...Then-candidate Obama admits using cocaine, a revelation unearthed from his memoir back in early 2007 (click here).

Y'know, all of this could be fudged -- but I have a funny feeling it's on the level. But don't hold your breath waiting for our beloved Justice Department to investigate.


Hat tip: Linkiest. Also: Jawa is skeptical, but still...

Obamacare: the official tax form

Official U.S. Federal Health Choices Board Document G4R7-B11T-Z001
Published by the Agency for Effective Treatment Analysis, the Policy Bureau for Diversity in Health Care and the Office of Health Agency Personnel Management.
Copyright © 2010, All Rights Reserved.
Reproduction without express written permission prohibited.


DO follow these simple rules in calculating your tax liability:

Are you a member of a union? If yes, deduct $4,500 from your tax balance on Line 19. If no, add $4,500 to your balance on Line 19.

Are you a legal resident of Nebraska? If yes, place a zero by your estimated Medicare tax liability on Line 48(b). If no, add $3,000 to Line 48(b).

Are you a member of a federally appointed Community Health Organizing Organization (CHOO)? If yes, place a zero by your estimated federal tax total on Line 63.

Are you a member of the trial bar specializing in malpractice lawsuits? If yes, place a zero by your estimated federal tax total on Line 63.

Are you a member of a Designated Indigent Minority (see Appendix D for complete list including African-American, Buddhist-American, Franco-American, Somali-American, Yemeni-American, Nordic-American or simply an illegal alien)? If yes, check the box on line 192 to receive a Diversity Reparations Credit of $5,000.00.

---Please continue on page 84---

Obamacare: thousands of pages of backroom, partisan deals; I can't wait to see how they decide who actually gets treatment.


Every Generation Entertains a Liar, For a Time

By Victor the Contractor

This country has gone through a lot lately, what with the toxic political atmosphere and terrorists trying to upend our way of life. Sometimes I wonder which is more of a threat, Al Qaeda and its thousands of minions queued up to strap on explosive vests or our own government, with the full weight and authority of the law on their side, trying to dismantle Democracy as quickly as possible. That a terrorist organization is desperately trying to preserve and foster a pre-Renaissance way of life is understandable, once you parse out their fear of progress and the uber-patriarchal nature of their society. What I find baffling is that the Democrat-controlled Congress and the White House are so intent on tearing down the very apparatus that enabled them to gain control of two-thirds of the Government and cement themselves in the driver's seat, so to speak.

For in doing so, and by that I mean funding groups like Acorn to stuff ballot boxes with convicts and expired persons' votes... and passing legislation that restricts free speech under the guise of 'Fairness'... the ascendant party will cause a firestorm of resistance from all manner of political bent and sink their own career ships, as it were. And it's happening already, due in part to the facetious nature of their aims. No one with a mind for politics really believes in a world where people share unconditionally or where a 'Politburo' will mete out justice on an even basis and a 'Central Committee' will order up the exact amount of bicycle chains to keep Johnny pedaling away until dinnertime. The advocates of the new social paradigm really want to have control all to themselves and are using the dim-witted Liberal pacifist 'perfect worlders' as useful idiots in their quest for national domination.

I'd love to believe that the Government can legislate equality, 'a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage' and 'the right to adequate health care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health', as taken from Herbert Hoover in a 1928 campaign speech and L.B.J.'s Second Bill of Rights. But I know something the liberals in this country won't readily admit but betray by their very avaricious political practices: people are greedy. Self-interested is a more benign phrase, but you get the point. Most people think first of themselves and their families. If a bit is left over, they will give to charities and maybe volunteer at a soup kitchen during the holidays. But by and large, they are adamantly opposed to a wholesale redistribution of wealth on the basis of giving some sort of payback to the unlucky, uneducated or worse, the lazy. And it galls them even more to hear their Government say that hard work gives the successful an unfair advantage. Only a fool or other 'morally challenged' person would believe in legislating fairness or rewarding sloth.

Enter the 'Equality God', who speaks of all enfranchised citizens as being of one mind and resisters as unpatriotic. President Obama is like the Judas goat who leads the unsuspecting sheep down the ramp to slaughter while wearing the mask of a being at peace with himself. Every generation needs a liar: a lost soul who will lead us down the wrong path. This is a good thing in an ironic way. President Obama is reminding us all that freedom requires struggle against those who would enslave us. Whether by skilled tongue or by deceitful wit, the man shows mighty oratory skills that belie a poverty of wisdom. He knows where this leads. The programs that have been enacted and are on the way all culminate in a totalitarian regime that would make Che Guevara proud and compel a nod from Josef Stalin.

Such a man is refreshing for the soul, ironically. President Obama is actually not as likable as President Clinton was, as we are slowly finding out. Although many decried Clinton as a tax-and-spend Democrat while he was in office, he also was seen as a randy free spirit and forgiven for his sexual proclivities by many. His personality seemed open and his anger and predatory nature hidden from public view. It wasn't until he he told the world, "It depends on what the meaning of is, is," that most came to believe him a sociopathic liar who wore an affable mask well.

President Obama was proclaimed a savior to the lower classes and was the great 'equalizer'. He was 'going to give the country back' to the working class by taking it from the rich old Republicans. "If you make less that $250,000, your taxes will not go up," he said, easing the swing voters' fears about him being a tax-and-spend liberal from the old Democrat mold. It's as if many Americans wanted to believe that Obama could avert a bad recession and maybe help out the poorer among us that we were willing to deny the obvious: that he was an un-seasoned legislator who preached Communism and revenge politics as a college professor.

Well, we can see who President Obama really is now. To me, he's like a black John Kerry -- he speaks well but is a bit disconnected in his policies. But he's also like Jimmy Carter, ready to badmouth our economy, way of life and make us generally feel bad about being Americans. The only real good news is that as he reveals his true intentions and the Congress trumpets his Marxist agenda we have been awakened to the threat he embodies. No longer are the Democrats even pretending to be civil: they are obnoxious and haughty on camera now. When I saw Nancy Pelosi explain away the President's campaign pledge to cover Health Care negotiations on C-SPAN as, "he made a lot of promises on the campaign trail," and chuckled about it, I almost had a stroke. Yes, the Democrats have overreached and are transparently arrogant about their ascendancy. And that is a recipe for electoral disaster.

When you forget who sent you to Washington you are subject to recall in very short order. And plenty of voters are so angry now that I can predict a change in leadership in both houses in November of 2010. Its a no-brainer. But there is more to this than politics as usual. The Democrats are setting up a form of government under the guise of 'health care reform' that may be well nigh impossible to undo when it becomes law. And they know this. This seems to be a suicide mission for the Democrats. But don't feel so bad for them: They'll have uber-lucrative lobbyist jobs in the medical industry. At least Harry Reid and Christopher Dodd will. President Obama will be a highly paid speaker at the universities where excellence is required of their students but dismissed as greed in the marketplace. Want a lesson in hypocrisy? Go to college and listen to a professor condemn capitalism while preparing you to excel in it. But I digress.

As the days go by this January and the Congress trades our financial future for votes on the health care bill I can't help but note the naked aggression evident in the process. As more Democrats come forward and explain why health care is a Constitutional right and that the successful must support everybody else I watch the zeitgeist of the country swing right. What is the guy making $45,000 a year supposed to do, make do with less take-home as an illegal gets in-state tuition on the collective workers' tab? And all the while President Obama speaks of fairness and equality. Every generation gets a liar who tries to subvert their way of life to support the drooling masses. When I was a child I watched as President Carter, who was an evangelist Christian (oddly enough), despair about the country's problems and offer few solutions. The damage he did took years to undo.

Luckily, we got over that 'malaise' quickly enough with President Reagan. Who elso could be a better example of what a President should represent? Ronald Reagan was a leader who, while being humble, proclaimed the greatness of our country and extolled the virtues of freedom. President Obama seems a pale forgery of a leader: He mouths a calculated agenda with hollow and soul-less verbiage. His lack of emotion reminds me of the heartless meanderings of John Kerry on the campaign trail. Who advises these clowns to sound like a doctor telling his patient of cancer and attaching blame in the same breath with reptilian empathy?

How can a man who sounds so scholarly be so morally empty? As a young man in college I thought the professors had a higher moral standard; something to admire and mirror. Soon enough I learned which professor threw the best parties. It wasn't until later -- that I understood that high-mindedness is not the same as compassion -- when I sobered up. President Obama is a true believer, and that makes him all the more dangerous. He believes in falling on his sword to remake the world in his image; and it is a Marxian image. Obama is an angry man, with an angry wife. And though they have achieved much (and who can begrudge a President for being called successful?), they are mentally beck in the ghetto. Although I still have trouble connecting their Ivy League educations with their populist rhetoric. They are adamantly opposed to success by hard work even as they are a shining example of it. I find it ironic that so many liberals work so hard and accomplish great things only to condemn the system that allowed them to prosper when they finally have attained their idea of success.

President Obama is a glaring reminder of why we must be vigilant in who we vote for and confirmation of that old maxim that there is no such thing as a free lunch. All of those swing voters who truly believed that we could soak the rich to support the rest are now finding out that they are the ones who are considered rich by multi-millionaire Congressmen who set tax policy. Making six figures? You are the target to nourish 'Mother Congress' as she provides for the poor. Never mind that about fifty per-cent of the labor force pay no federal taxes to begin with. But they do qualify for a tax credit (built-in welfare, to me). And if we get the abysmal health care that Massachussets rations to its citizens, we are all in big trouble. If you are over fifty you are completely sunk because you'll have to pay for the fifteen year old's abortion but your heart surgery will be out of the question.

A president who misrepresents his intention, agenda and policy platform is like a dubious gift to a truth-starved electorate. He is easy to swallow but, oh, the indigestion he causes! And as we choke on the hubris of this over-reaching Congress and Marxist President I take hope in the violent convulsion that is to come. The public at large will reject this sociopathic, free-spending government as it becomes more evident that we are in for a double-dip recession and a zero job recovery. And with inflation knocking at our door after thirty years of benign fluctuations, voters will be inclined to throw out the dominant party. This will not end well for the Democrats.

And we have President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to thank for showing the American people what will inexorably happen when you let greed and laziness supplant responsibility and a hard work ethic when voting for representation. We have a hard time coming, due partly to the spendthrift nature of the party in power, and that alone is enough to ensure a generation of Republican ascendancy in both houses and a majority of President-Elects. For when the true impact of the massive borrowing and confiscatory tax policy comes to fruition we will have a major recession on our hands and only one party to blame. When one party controls everything, there is only one party to blame.

After November we get to see if a chastened Republican majority can govern with restraint and probity, or whether they will cloy to the press and the liberal establishment for approval. I'll bet it will be a mixture of the two. But we will thank President Obama for reminding us what happens when we buy the lie that there is a free lunch. Or that anybody has a constitutional right to be lazy. I wonder what kind of a President Sarah Palin will be, or if she'd even stoop to the job at this point. Its doubtless that the next President, whomever, can not be much more than a caretaker of the national debt and will have no greater ambition than avoiding the national press until some of this crippling debt is paid down... and that may take a very long while indeed.

Victor The Contractor


Larwyn's Linx: Truths We Dare Not Speak On The Road to Serfdom

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Nation

Truths We Dare Not Speak: Hanson
There's something about Martha: AT
Barney Frank Lashes Out: Patterico

Department of Injustice: New Black Panther Party Edition: Malkin
NJ: Elections Have Consequences: Riehl
Obama's Council of Governors: Connecting Dots: FlAces

The Road to Serfdom: Cold Fury
Liberals Resort to Violence -- Again: BMW
The kiss of death for Coakley: Pundette

Maybe there are 'Two Americas', after all…: Cold Fury
John Kerry Displays His Usual Grace: AT
'Diversity Visas' Skyrocket: Atlas

Economy

Unions Make Obama An Offer He Can’t Refuse: BigGovt
Genius: States’ Unfunded Pension Obligations Top $360B: BMW
Unemployment -- State by State: Credit Writedowns

SEIU-affiliated union endorses…Scott Brown: Malkin
The IRS Should Fix Itself First: Malanga
Unions May be Exempted from 'Cadillac Tax': Corner

Geithner, AIG and GS -- Worse Than You Think: RCM
The $290,000 Speeding Ticket: Zombie
After Telling America 'Everyone Must Sacrifice', Obama Throws 1 Party Every 3 Days in First Year: GWP

Climate & Energy

Huge Oil Discovery in the Gulf: Carpe Diem
API President talks about real jobs: Prairie
Antarctica and the Myth of Deadly Rising Seas: AT

Climategate: How to Hide the Sun: AT

Media

Beck. Palin. Apocalypse.: Ace
Palin adds 1 million viewers for O’Reilly: Surber
Oakland Press pens hit piece against tea party protesters: BlogProf

Why Obama’s Speeches Aren’t Very Good Anymore: RWN
Sarah Palin’s debut at Fox News is Intelligent and Eloquent: NewsReal
Book of Eli Review: Verum Serum

Coakley Photoshop Challenge: HillBuzz
HuffPo rips Obama a new one over Grubergate: FlAces
Fortunate to Have These Opponents: Rubin

World

Our duty to mankind: Doc Zero
Relief Efforts for Haiti: Anchoress
Live Blog: Haiti Political Cartoons: Cagle

Radical Islamism: An Introductory Primer: RubRep
Worse and worse: Medical “perfect storm” about to hit Haiti: Hot Air
Al Qaeda Airlines in Venezuela?: Prairie

Is Obama engaged in a concerted effort to dismantle American power?: PJM (Zigfeld)
CIA Suicide Bomber -- a UNRWA employee: Atlas
U.N. Remains Uninterested in Oversight and Accountability: Corner

China's Army Sends Armoured Vehicles To Iran: Jawa
Dutch TV: The miserable fate of Christians in "moderate" Turkey: Jawa

SciTech

Twitter saves lives in Haiti: RWN
Microsoft brings kids developer tool to the PC: CNet
Sheep Gives Birth to Human-Faced Lamb in Turkey: Pravda

Cornucopia

Wearing those pants: how it's done: AmDig
A Preview of Oliver Stone's 'Hitler': Powers
Children & Monsters: Maggie's Farm

"There seems to be a bug in the human nature hard-drive... that is causing us, the desendents of a people who were able to author such paradigm-shifting documents as the Declaration of Independence and [the] Constitution... and then use it to reach heights unimagined, [only] to revert to our medieval default mode of feudal collectivism." -- High Noon


Wednesday, January 13, 2010

'This is our moment': US Government running annualized $1.55T deficit as hope, change and central planning policies poison economy

Another economic record has fallen by the wayside as President Obama's plan for reshaping the economy takes hold. Virtuous Republic points us to the Treasury Department's December 2009 Budget numbers (fetchingly titled "SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS AND THE DEFICIT/SURPLUS BY MONTH") -- and they represent startling evidence of the Democrats' ruinous fiscal policies.

...despite running an almost $92 billion dollar deficit in December and a $388 billion fiscal year deficit, the Obama administration and the 100% controlled Democratic Congress have little to show for it. Unemployment remains at 10% and 85,000 Americans lost their job in December.

So Soviet style, top down, 5 year like plans have failed miserably throughout history and they are failing now. I guess that is policy you get when your ruling elite class attends a university system that is the last refuge for aging Marxists.

It gets better, well better if one is lecturing a bunch of leftists who hate the capitalistic system that allows them to excel. Tax revenues are down and of course that points out the obvious, that the Soviet like economic policies of our Democratically controlled government are failing to revive American business and the fortunes of the employed (or those who would like to be employed). Declining revenues might be one thing if they were caused by actual tax reductions for individuals and business, but that isn’t the case as the Obama “tax cuts” are only reductions in withholding (just wait until April comes around).

So, after running a record-setting $1.4 trillion deficit, the Obama recovery translates to a... $1.55 trillion deficit for 2010.

And the hits just keep on coming.

Yep, you read that right: individual income taxes are down nearly 20% year-over-year, while corporate income taxes have dropped nearly 33%!.

But remember, folks, President Obama says the recession is over.

Perhaps that's because it's transitioned to a flat-out depression. And, don't look now, but socialized medicine represents the coup de grâce to an economy that is wheezing, flat on its back.

Hello, Dr. Cloward? Dr. Piven? Your students' plan is working to perfection.


Update: Jim Hoft illustrates the Cloward-Piven strategy in action.

Fasten your seatbelts, kids -- it's gonna be a bumpy ride.


Linked by: Patterico. Thanks!

McCain's Skinhead

Dan from New York:

This bitter, ham-fisted loser would probably have spelled David Axelrod in a McCain administration.

In retrospect, makes you wonder whether we got the lesser of two jerks after all.

[And it seems] like the MSB (mainstream blogosphere) is trying to figure out what motivates Steve Schmidt's fink-like behavior. Jennifer Rubin over at Commentary cuts through all the nuance and arrives at the common-sense explanation. To paraphrase Rubin and Freud, sometimes a jerk is only a jerk.

MSB... I like that!

Haiti Relief Efforts

Reports of the earthquake damage in Haiti are shocking. The Anchoress has the best and most comprehensive roundup of coverage, blogospheric reactions and links to relief efforts.



The Boston Globe's Big Picture site has heart-wrenching photographs of the unfolding disaster. And North Shore Journal has the comprehensive list of ways you can help.


Pat Robertson off his meds again: blames Haiti's earthquake on Satanic rituals and 'awfully spicy' Shrimp Gumbo recipe

This is just flat-out embarrassing.

The Rev. Pat Robertson is offering his own absurd explanation for why a quake hit Haiti: Many years ago, the island's people "swore a pact to the the devil... They were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you'll get us free from the French'."

Robertson continued: "True story. And so the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal.' They kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got themselves free. Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other."

Pat Robertson needs to be wheeled back into the Alzheimer's Ward for some Clockwork Orange-style rehab.

If you have a few bucks to spare, visit Google Crisis Response.


Update: Michelle Malkin has a list of ways you can help.


Larwyn's Linx: Coakley admits she is in deep trouble

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Nation

Martha Coakley: The voice for Fat Cats and Corruptocrats: Malkin
Coakley admits she is in deep trouble: LegalIns
Senator Landrieu and the Protesters: SIGIS

Another Day, Another Executive Order: NoisyRoom
Records Show Keith Gladney Firing Unusual Event: BMW
DNC Memo: Everyone Panic!: NRO

Our Health Care System Sucks: Gormogons
Shocker: SEIU Places $685K Ad Buy for Coakley: JWF
I Want Harry Reid to Stay Right Now: STACLU

Feingold gets town-hall fury over ObamaCare: Hot Air
Coates speaks as best he can: Corner
Comedy Gold: Obama's Racist Pastor Blasts DemCare: BlogProf

Economy

Stimulus II: Certain to Fail: Tapscott
The Only Thing “Shovel-Ready” is the Horsesh*t: Cold Fury
And the Government Said: 'Be Healthy!': Rumbler

Forecasters: Unemployment Will Peak at 10.5%; Democratic Policies Succeed: Ace
How 4 Deaths Became 401,309: AT
No Buggy Required to Avoid Health Care Mandate: BMW

Woodhill: 13.4% unemployment: Surber
Annals of Transparency: You'll get the AIG Info -- in 2018: Corner
Granholm's parting gift to Michigan: $1.8-billion deficit in 2011: BlogProf

Climate & Energy

Shake and Take: AT
Carbon trading fraud in Belgium: 'up to 90% of the whole market volume caused by fraudulent activities': WUWT
Global Warming Hits Texas: DPU

Media

MLK’s Niece Calls Reid’s Racist Comments “Sadly Outrageous”: GWP
Make Harry Reid and the Liberals Pay: PJM
The Top 10 Barack Obama Quotes of 2009: Hawkins

Huffington Post Writer Hid Bill Clinton’s 2008 Affair to Protect Hillary: GWP
Pelosi’s a horrible woman, says … Jack Cafferty: Hot Air
How Republicans Should Handle Racial Controversies In The Future: RWN

Free Speech in the Dock: GoV
Guess who posed for pictures?: BigGovt

World

Why Intelligence Keeps Failing: AT
A Murderous Deception in Tehran Marks a New Escalation in the Islamic Republic’s Struggle for Survival: Ledeen
It's Time to Play Ball: AT

Hani Abdulelah Bukhari is Saudi Man Arrested Dressed as Pilot in Manila: Maggie
Three Dead in Muslim Hijacking: Saudis Storm Plane: Atlas
Northwest Flight 243 4 Unruly Passengers detained: NW 243 Amsterdam to Detroit: Maggie

Exclusive: Brzezinski and CFR Promote Appeasement of Iran: FSM
The Chinese have tested an ABM system: Gormogons
Smart Diplomacy --- Duck!: Commentary

SciTech

Pentagon Scientists Target Iran’s Nuclear Mole Men: Danger Room
Google Considering Pullout After ChiCom Hacks: Corner
Would AT&T or Comcast Have Created Google?: Insider

Cornucopia

Can you ride a roller coaster on the 4-month anniversary of stepping on an IED? : Cnossen
Dimocrat Laxatives: Denny


Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Detroit Auto Show 2010

The New York Daily News posted a gallery from the Detroit Auto Show.



It's definitely a unique year when Buick's designers appear to be outclassing those from Honda.

Leading Iranian Nuclear Physicist Dies in Fall from Ladder and Remote-Controlled Bomb, but Mostly Remote-Controlled Bomb

He's gonna feel that in the morning:

A leading Iranian nuclear scientist was murdered in Tehran on Tuesday in a rare bomb attack that the government quickly blamed on "mercenaries" in the pay of archfoes the United States and Israel.

The daylight killing came amid an increasingly bitter standoff between Iran and world powers over Tehran's controversial nuclear drive, which the West suspects is masking an atomic weapons programme.

Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a particle physics professor at prestigious Tehran University, died when a bomb strapped to a motorcycle was triggered by remote control as he was getting into his car outside his home in the capitals well-to-do northern suburbs, state media and a senior official said.

"One can see in preliminary investigations signs of evil by the triangle of the Zionist regime, America and their mercenaries in Iran in this terrorist incident," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said.

There's only one thing worse than the triangle of evil. That's one of Chuck Norris' shurikens, the mere sight of which causes grown men to lose control of their bodily functions.


Failing Socialist News-hacks in U.K. Slander Tea Party Conservatives While Awaiting Dental Care and X-Rays

London's predictably Marxist Guardian newspaper is doing its level best to tar the Constitutionally-grounded Tea Party movement in the US. Its smears are simplistic and painfully revealing, as the Guardian fears nothing more than a return to Reagan-era conservatism for the GOP. The non-bylined capsule summary of the movement is reminiscent of a Michael Moore trailer only without the funny.

A collection of tax-hating gun nuts and single-issue cranks who bombard the White House with teabags


Appearance: Annual Picnic for the Disgruntled.

What is it? A loose coalition of disaffected American conservatives gathering sporadically to protest big government generally, President Obama specifically and socialism, vaguely. Initially they objected to the government's fiscal stimulus package, but the movement has grown to encompass an amorphous range of gripes both national and local.

Amorphous gripes like a "Health Reform Bill [that] Makes Bernie Madoff Seem Like A Piker".

Like the rating agency Fitch stating that the "US Will Hit 94% Debt to GDP Ratio Next Year, Surpassing the Level Where Debt Starts Reducing Economic Growth."

Like an economy so abysmal even the AP is ripping the failed Stimulus package as "unemployment [remains] unchanged by [the] projects -- and that "more than 6 jobless workers [now] chase 1 [job] opening."

These are amorphous complaints, you see, according to the brain-trust at the Guardian.

What's it got to do with tea? The name echoes a seminal moment in American history when colonists chucked a shipment of tea into Boston Harbour, in protest against taxation by the Crown without the consent of their own elected representatives.

Does the Tea Party movement go in for similar direct action? They have a form of protest called teabagging – putting a teabag in an envelope and sending it to the White House...

Note the typical accuracy level of the modern Left. The only teabagging I'm aware of has nothing at all to do with the Conservative Tea Party movement.

I may disagree with their politics, but if it's a genuine grassroots movement who am I to say they're a bunch of morons? Critics contend it's merely an "astroturf" movement, funded by rightwing thinktanks and heavily promoted by conservative media outlets such as Fox News, masquerading as a populist uprising.

Has it got a future? In February the first Tea Party National Convention is being held in Nashville, with the aim of uniting disparate organisations under one ideological banner.

What sort of person could unite this rag-tag collection of tax-hating gun nuts and single-issue cranks? Sarah Palin will be the keynote speaker.

Do say: "OBAMA: SOCIALIST PIG"
or, alternatively,
"OBAMA = HITLER"

Don't say: "Mine's milk, no sugar, thanks."

Gee, the only person I ever saw holding an Obama as Hitler poster turned out to be a paid Democrat union hack.

And the only racists around the Beltway appear to be Harry Reid and Joe Biden.


Photo: the couple that sneaked into the Whitehouse without any credentials!

Papa B sent this one in:

The couple that sneaked into the Whitehouse without any credentials!!!!!


Well, no one ever said Papa B was P.C.

The Post-Racial Democrat Party

Nate Beeler: