Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Stand up to the Bullies: the GOP Must Block Elena Kagan

It's not just that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is, in the words of Mark Levin (MP3), a judicial lightweight. She's written nothing of substance and has no litigation experience to speak of.

It's not that she's an unprincipled political hack from Chicago who pilloried the military for its Don't Ask Don't Tell policy at Harvard, but somehow overlooked the fact that it is not the military's policy. It is a lawful policy of the U.S. government, passed by a Democrat Congress in 1993 and signed into law by Bill Clinton. And Kagan went on to work for the very Clinton administration that implemented the policy she decries.

It's not that she's virulently anti-military, posturing repeatedly against recruiters on Harvard's campus even in the aftermath of 9/11 when our men and women were being sent into harm's way to protect all Americans.

It's not the fact that she has no experience that qualifies her for the post. She's never been a judge on any court, at any level -- and, she "took the extremely unusual step of declining to appear before the Supreme Court during her first term" as Solicitor General.

It's not that she's consistently advocated for the unchecked growth of unconstitutional administrative bodies controlled solely by the president. In her academic roles, she argued for "greater presidential control of [bureaucracies that are] becoming ever more entangled in the daily lives of average Americans. The president has said he wanted judges who would not give strict constitutional scrutiny to his expansive legislative agenda."

It's not that she's a crypto-radical as evidenced by her bizarre academic background and political affiliations. Her senior thesis analyzed -- you guessed it -- why socialism failed in New York City in the first half of the 20th century. She wrote longingly of an era that never was, her laments an obvious paean to a regime of Statism antithetical to our founding: "In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness."

While damning, these elements of her background pale in comparison to one simple fact: we are in a final battle for the solvency of our country.

Five people on the highest court will ultimately decide whether health care is a right. Whether the Commerce Clause of the Constitution can be twisted and perverted to compel you to buy a product from a government-approved entity.

We are at war and it was the Democrats in Congress who launched a Pearl Harbor-style attack on the American people. At midnight on Christmas Eve, they passed a massive new entitlement program against the clear wishes of the American people. They lied about its costs, they used every trick in the book and they squeaked by a tiny legislative victory at a time when our existing entitlement programs are already running dry.

The Democrats bullied Republicans, locking them out of committee meetings, smashing their faces against the metaphorical fence, heckling them and ultimately ignoring them.

The Democrats called Republicans -- black, white, brown, red and yellow -- racists for holding up copies of the Constitution at rallies and town hall meetings, while simply demanding fidelity to our highest law.

The Democrats bullied Republicans on the failed Stimulus bill, the budget-busting Omnibus Spending bill, unprecedented extensions of unemployment and new energy taxes called "Cap-and-Trade".

During the Bush era, Democrats used the unconstitutional judicial filibuster to block conservative Hispanics, African-Americans -- fine jurists of every race, religion and creed -- from serving on the federal court. Schumer, Obama, Leahy and other despicable partisans blocked Miguel Estrada and other monumentally qualified jurists from fair hearings on the Senate floor.

It's not just that Kagan is completely unqualified; that she's a closeted socialist; that she hates the military; and that she has been nominated solely because she will vote the radical Obama line on issues such as the constitutionality of a health care mandate. It's none of those.

It's war. And now it's time for Republicans to stand up to the bullying. It's time to return the favor. Elena Kagan must be stopped. With the country teetering on the edge of Grecian-style bankruptcy, the stakes are too high.

Call your Senators and demand they filibuster Elena Kagan. Call the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee and demand they block Kagan's nomination.

They drew first blood. And now they must pay. Filibuster Elena Kagan.


Hat tip: Mark Levin (MP3).

Email Campaign FAIL

Presented for your review -- what not to do when executing an email campaign.

I know I'm not very popular, but that's just downright insulting.

Larwyn's Linx: Watching the Storm Roll In

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Nation

Watching the Storm Roll In: Con4Palin
A Virulent Anti-Military Justice?: GWP
A Stealth Mission for Elena Kagan: Times

John McCain: America's Toughest Border Warrior?: RWN
New York State Opens Door to Vote Fraud: AT
One of Obama's closest friends part of federal probe : Sun-Times

Economy

Card Check By Obama Administration Fiat: RWN
The Failure of the Unfree Market--The 72-Year Rule: AT (Hoven)
Short sellers in Congress: more financial hypocrisy: PJM

U.S. Market-fraud Enters New Era: Benzinga
Labor Secretary Gives Former Staff Huge Raises: Foundry
The Welfare State's Death Spiral: Samuelson

Climate & Energy

Surprise: EPA's New Repair Rules Do Little: PJM
Atmospheric scientist pimp-slaps 255 warmists: Depot

Media

Most Ethical Administration Evah Waives Ethics Rules…Again!: RWN
Christ: an 'Undocumented Migrant'?: FP
Americans look for Supreme Court to restrain federal power, not expand it: WaPo (Sessions)

Because We Have Faces: Evangel
Bill Maher Digs Himself Deeper: RWN
RINO thrives in the boot heel: BMW

World

Mehsud Declares: 'From Now On, the Main Targets of Our Fidaeen [Suicide Bombers] Are American Cities': MEMRI
The New Middle East Peril: AT (Lewis)
Cuban Bloggers Document Castro's Atrocities: GWP

Greek Debt and Backward Induction: John Hussman
Greece: A Preview of Things to Come: AT
The Nuance of the Nazis: BoTB

SciTech

Whoever Built the “Toy Story 3” Web Site in Flash, Please Report to HR Immediately: AllThingsD
Why you should still quit Facebook: Insider
American Academy of Pediatrics: your dhimmitude is showing: AT

Cornucopia

Did Cowell Discover an 80-Year Old 'Susan Boyle'?: TAB
A Perfect Pair: Moonbattery
Frank Frazetta: 1928-2010: CBullitt

Image: Maktoob Business.
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Chuck DeVore for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "Looking at the current state of the world economy, the underlying reality remains little changed: there is more debt outstanding than is capable of being properly serviced. It's certainly possible to issue government debt in order to bail out one borrower or another (and prevent their bondholders from taking a loss). However, this means that for every dollar of bad debt that should have been wiped off the books, the world economy is left with two - the initial dollar of debt that has been bailed out and must continue to be serviced, and an additional dollar of government debt that was issued to execute the bailout. " -- John Hussman


Monday, May 10, 2010

Big Government Reports That Mullah Omar Was Captured

Big Government's Brad Thor is reporting that Mullah Omar was captured by Pakistani officials. In keeping with the tradition of the Obama administration, he was read his Miranda rights and taken to a jail in Yonkers. Okay, I made that last sentence up. But tell me you didn't buy into it.

Through key intelligence sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I have just learned that reclusive Taliban leader and top Osama bin Laden ally, Mullah Omar has been taken into custody...

At the end of March, US Military Intelligence was informed by US operatives working in the Af/Pak theater on behalf of the D.O.D. that Omar had been detained by Pakistani authorities. One would assume that this would be passed up the chain and that the Secretary of Defense would have been alerted immediately. From what I am hearing, that may not have been the case.

When this explosive information was quietly confirmed to United States Intelligence ten days ago by Pakistani authorities, it appeared to take the Defense Department by surprise. No one, though, is going to be more surprised than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It seems even with confirmation from the Pakistanis themselves, she was never brought up to speed.

It figures. It would be more of a surprise if the Pakistanis hadn't treated the administration like a bunch of clueless n00bz.


'Remind Me Again... Why can't I get a job?'

L.B. writes:

Remind Me Again... Why can't I get a job?

Is it because of the economy, or is it my parents' fault ???

I wore my suit, and even a tie.


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Fun with the Bureau of Labor Statistics Database

As Nancy Pelosi said months ago, it's all about "jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs."

That's why our beloved Democrat leaders have spent all of their time spending money borrowed from our children, creating new entitlement programs and impoverishing the taxpayers of America. If you need more proof, may I present Exhibit A, which I call It's Another Obama Record: 40 million on Food Stamps!?

And if you need still more proof that Democrats are concerned with only one thing -- power, power, power and more power -- allow me to present Exhibits B, C and D, courtesy of our friends at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These are a little set of tables I like to call The slow-motion destruction of the American economy.

The number of long-term unemployed (six or more months) continues to rise, which translates to more foreclosures, more bad loans and more folks having to survive with public assistance.

The U-3, U-4, U-5 and U-6 unemployment measures all continue to rise. This means the economy -- in simple terms -- sucks. Say, Mr. Bernanke, I can't wait for the Bush tax cuts to expire! That ought to really help!

It's now been 18 months since the election, and unemployment among African-Americans continues to rise. The constituency that voted en masse for this President has been utterly failed by his policies. Utterly and completely failed.

Because socialism, wealth redistribution -- whatever you want to call it -- doesn't work, can't work and has never worked. It's a pity that so many people bought into the populist rhetoric that turned out to be pure mythology.


Obamanomics: Jobless are turning down work so they can surf the web, watch WWE RAW and collect unemployment

In Michigan, the state with the highest unemployment rate in the U.S., people are turning down job offers so they can continue collecting unemployment checks. With the recent federal extensions, those unemployment checks can run as long as 99 weeks (for you liberals, that's nearly two years). At which point it's not unemployment, it's yet another failed welfare-slash-redistribution scheme.

Members of the Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association "have told me that they have a lot of people applying but that when they actually talk to them, it turns out that they're on unemployment and not looking for work," said Amy Frankmann, the group's executive director. "It is starting to make things difficult."

Chris Pompeo, vice president of operations for Landscape America in Warren, said he has had about a dozen offers declined. One applicant, who had eight weeks to go until his state unemployment benefits ran out, asked for a deferred start date.

It's illegal to collect unemployment benefits after receiving a suitable job offer, but that hasn't stopped plenty of workers from doing so. Furthermore, fully 15% of Michigan's economy has been driven underground, with barter and cash transactions escaping government scrutiny. Boy, that Governor Granholm's doing a bang-up job!

The current federal jobless benefits extension "reduces the incentive to find work", according to David Littman, an economist at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. One unemployed landscaper confirms that assertion; he says he'll start searching for work when his benefits expire. He estimates that he only loses about $50 a week staying unemployed.

Gee, these Democrats are just phenomenal at central planning. They remind me of the guys running East Germany in the sixties.


Hat tip: Drudge.

Larwyn's Linx: DOJ Tells Intel Community to Stonewall Congress

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Nation

DOJ Tells Intel Community to Stonewall Congress: Corner
SCOTUS fight: boxing Elena: Malkin
AYFKM? A medal for 'courageous restraint'?: WashExam

Obama's La Raza Ties: RWN
Border Security is President's Job, Like It Or Not: PJM
White House Stopped Monitoring Shahzad?: Strata

Economy

Frank tiptoed through the tulips while GSEs kerploded: VS
The fruits of socialism: ELL
In bed with Fannie and Freddie: Times

Europe prepares nuclear response to save EMU: Telegraph
Latest bill for U.S. to save EU: $57B: ZH
But You Love Bailing Out Greece, Right?: Denninger

Climate & Energy

Cap-and-Trade Is Back: AT
Deepwater Horizon: a Firsthand Account: RigZone
War, Pestilence, Famine: Climate and the Cold: PJM

Media

Why Do They Hate Elena Kagan?: LegalIns
Obama: Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength: Ace
Are Honor Killings Domestic Terrorism?: Chesler

Tea Parties and Racism: AT
Tennesse's Underwater and No One Gives a Dang? (Video): Hot Air
Media Matters' Hysterical and Hypocritical Outrage: Con4Palin

What a Difference a Week Makes: RWN
Chuck DeVore Is So Not The Jerkinator!: Riehl
Nothing Says ‘Happy Mother’s Day!’ Like a Donation to Planned Parenthood: BlogProf

World

Faisal Shahzad, Subprime Terrorist?: Steyn
A Lexicon has been... failed: CFB
The Smoking Gun Document That Could Terminate George Papandreou's Career: ZH

A Misguided Approach to Peacemaking: AT
Melanie Phillips: US not learning from mistakes of UK on Islamic radicalization: Jawa
El-Erian: Europe Is Now In Totally Uncharted Waters: Insider

SciTech

Key Wireless and Mobile Themes from Interop 2010: NetWorld
Hay for Oil Spill is No Plan: Sensing
Report: Apple developing a Flash alternative: CNet

Cornucopia

Betty White - SNL Digital Short: Mediaite (Language)
Offend a Feminist: Love, Honor and Obey: Camp of the Saints (NSFW)
Work in Progress: iOTW

Image: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010)
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QOTD: Obama's new spending will result in a 14.5 percent increase in the number of federal employees in just two years. And he has looked after union interests with particular zeal, whether at General Motors and Chrysler, or by funneling one-third of stimulus spending to state and local governments, or by repealing the rule that required unions to disclose their spending.

And in a corrupt feedback loop that may not be so very different after all from the Greek practice, public employee unions give generously to Democratic candidates, both in cash contributions and by manning phone banks, getting out the vote, and so on.

It's no coincidence that the states with the most powerful public sector unions -- New Jersey, California, and New York -- are facing the most severe budget crises.   -- Mona Charen


Sunday, May 09, 2010

Shock Super-Scandal: Climatards Abuse Sheep

This is how the Climatards (I hear that's the term they prefer) track methane emission from sheep in New Zealand. I kid you not.

In NZ, cows and sheep outnumber mere humans by tens of millions. The Climatards, eh, the 'global warming researchers' are attempting to compute how much they can tax the beasts' belching and frapping. Oh, and they're coming up with a vaccine to help suppress methane emission.

Someone get PETA on the phone, stat. Maybe we can incite a radical Leftist catfight.


In One Month on a Single Remote Trail in 2010, a Hidden Camera Captured 700 Individuals of Unknown Origin Entering Arizona from Mexico

In little more than a month, on a single remote trail between Mexico and Arizona, over 700 illegal aliens entered the United States.


Talk of amnesty is reportedly driving the numbers of illegal immigrants up.

Thousands of undocumented aliens pour over the border every day, unchecked and uncontrolled.

No criminal background checks.

No terrorist watch lists.

No screening for infectious diseases.

No checks for weapons.

No checks for narcotics or illegal drugs.

Who are these people?

No one knows.

On March 27th, 2010, Arizona rancher Rob Krentz was brutally murdered on his own property by an illegal alien.

Today, Phoenix is the kidnapping capital of the world.

Of 75,000 violent and property crimes in 2009, only 18% were 'cleared' (solved).

Of 8,732 violent crimes in '09, only 2,921 arrests were made.

Of the 522 rapes that year, only 72 arrests were made.

Less than half of the murders that year were cleared.

This is not an indictment of the police. This is an indictment of a federal open borders policy that endangers citizens.

An illegal who commits a crime, like Rob Krentz' murderer, can easily disappear back into Mexico.

You can't buy a bottle of beer in this country without showing ID. You can't even board a plane or a cruise ship without a passport or driver's license.

Someday soon, if it hasn't happened already, terrorists bent on destruction will enter the country through the swinging doors in the Southwest.

Millions of pounds of drugs pass through the porous border every year.

It's only a matter of time until chem-, bio- or radiological weapons make their way to our cities through similar means.

Did White House Order Policy Changes That Allowed Times Square Bomber to Gain Citizenship Even Though He Was on a Watch List?

Accused Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad had been on a terror-related watch list since 1998. He was caught bringing $80,000 in cash into the U.S. from Pakistan.

Shahzad, born in Karachi Pakistan, was granted an F-1 student visa in December 1998. He earned a B.A. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Bridgeport in 2000 and was granted an H-1B visa -- reserved for skilled "specialty occupation" workers -- in April of 2002. Three years later, on that same visa, he earned an M.B.A.

On Oct. 20, 2008, he reported to immigration authorities that he had married Huma Asif Mian, an American citizen. Shortly thereafter -- on April 17, 2009 -- he gained his citizenship via a naturalization ceremony in Bridgeport.

The key question that no one seems to be asking is this: how, after showing up on at least one Treasury Department watch list, was Shabazz (whatever) granted his citizenship? No one is talking on the record, but the implication is clear: it is extremely likely there was a policy change directed by the White House and/or State Department.

...Christopher Bentley, a spokesman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), would not comment on Shahzad's case but said generally that all immigrants seeking permanent residency and later citizenship undergo routine background screening. He said the FBI does a name check and looks for any criminal records.

"They run a very detailed look into a person's background for anything that would preclude them from getting citizenship," he said. "They also look at associates who may be connected with a criminal background. It's a very comprehensive look."

Once a person passes that initial screening, the pathway to citizenship includes being able to speak English and pass a test about U.S. government and history... ...Soon after Shahzad took that oath and got his U.S. passport -- and no longer had to pass muster in the eyes of U.S. immigration and law enforcement officials -- he reportedly traveled to Peshawar. According to the criminal complaint filed today, Shahzad admitted to undergoing bomb-making training in Waziristan, a hotbed of extremists not far from the Afghanistan border. He returned in February after a five-month stay in his native country. According to The New York Times, he used two Pakistani passports and one U.S. passport in his travels.

...Under a new National Security Entry-Exit Registration System adopted in 2002, all noncitizens over the age of 16 from predominantly Muslim countries -- including Pakistan -- as well as North Korea were required to register and be fingerprinted.

Did the White House order the State Department to loosen background checks on those applying for citizenship from Muslim countries.

Set the wayback machine to June 3, 2009, Mr. Peabody...

That day's update from Stratfor Research described the background of a then-recent attack on U.S. soldiers in Little Rock, Arkansas. One soldier was killed and another critically wounded by a lone gunman who began shooting from a pickup truck.

Police quickly apprehended a suspect, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a 21-year-old African-American man and convert to Islam. In his vehicle, police recovered an SKS rifle and two handguns. Muhammad reportedly admitted to the shootings and claimed he had specifically targeted U.S. military personnel; he stated had more soldiers been in the parking lot, he would have shot them too.

A disturbing aspect of the attack is that Muhammad had been brought to the FBI’s attention months ago, according to ABC News.

But U.S. counterterror teams may have been intentionally prevented from investigating radicalized converts to Islam:

Several weeks ago, STRATFOR heard from sources that the FBI and other law enforcement organizations had been ordered to “back off” of counterterrorism investigations into the activities of Black Muslim converts. At this point, it is unclear to us if that guidance was given by the White House or the Department of Justice, or if it was promulgated by the agencies themselves, anticipating the wishes of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.

Stratfor implies, however, that the investigations were canceled for purely political reasons.

...politics have proved obstructive to all facets of counterterrorism policy. And politics may have been at play in the Muhammad case as well as in other cases involving Black Muslim converts...

Is it possible that the White House or Eric Holder's Justice Department blocked counterterror investigations that could have saved the targeted soldiers? That would indeed appear to be the case.

Did the White House order the State Department to "loosen up" background checks on those applying for citizenship from terror watch-list countries? That would be consistent with the reports from Stratfor that "outreach" to Muslims is precluding basic security practices.

Congress must demand an immediate investigation of these reports. Too much is at stake to play politics with the lives of American citizens and our military personnel.


Update: DOJ Tells Intel Community to Stonewall Members of Congress! (hat tip: Jay.Mac)

Larwyn's Linx: The last word on Arizona's immigration law

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Nation

The last word on Arizona's immigration law: SixMeat
Flag Flap High School Hides Racist Secret: PJM
What I Learned From Bill White About Immigration: Hindenblog

Buh Bye, Bob Bennett: iOTW
Obama has awakened a sleeping giant: InstaPundit
'Teabagger' attends Organizing for American training: Marathon

Economy

Welcome to the Long Run: AT
I love when my predisposed notions are confirmed: RWN
Yes, we're bailing out Greece: Hot Air

Climate & Energy

Goracle pops up to illuminate us on the dangers of oil spills: RWN
Warming fears seen in OCD patients: Voxy
The Problems with Al Gore: AT

Media

State-Run Media Absolves Obama for Spill Non-Response: GWP
Editor vandalizes brand new $5M bridge: BlogProf
The Hard Hat Riots, 40 Years On: Driscoll

No More Mr. Nuanced Guy!: BOTB
President Obama Talking Crap: PJTV (Klavan)
Machete "Illegal" Trailer: YouTube (Language Warning)

World

The Submarine That Snuck Into Beirut: Greenroom
Our Complacency Will Bring About Our Demise: PJM
The Real “War to End All Wars”: STACLU

16 months ago, MEP Nigel Farage predicted the Greek-and-Euro collapse: TAB
The Greek Debt Crisis for Economic Morans: Moran
Armed with Scuds, Hezbollah announces its ready for war with Israel and beyond: GWP

SciTech

The Pill at 500: Unhappy Un-birthday: RSM
Cheap as Hay: C&S
Five hidden dangers of Facebook: CNet

Cornucopia

Bikini Lawncare: WyBlog
Gabourey Sidibe Named On People’s World’s Most Beautiful People List: iOTW
Tea and a Lot of Sympathy: MOTUS

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Your Tax Dollars At Work: 'Professor' Rallies Students for an Armed Revolt Against 'Occupied Mexico', eh, I mean the United States of America

Have you seen this UCLA "professor", captured on tape inciting students to overthrow the U.S. government in pursuit of a master race? [Update -- better yet, this gentleman is reportedly a high school teacher who happened to be rallying his troops at UCLA when caught on camera. See below for details]

I want to start by saying that the young man who spoke a little while ago is one of my students! Our people will need strong leaders for years and years to come. (applause)

As a Revolutionary Mexican Organization here, we understand... it's not just about Mexico, it's about the global struggle against imperialism and capitalism! (applause)

We know that all of that is happening in the context of where we now stand is stolen, occupied Mexico! (applause)

The message that we bring is that we want to bring more of a revolutionary context to this. Why is that these people... these frail, racist white people want to keep us out of this country? It's not simply because the color of our skin, it's not simply that they just want to exploit us, let me tell you why: because on this planet right now, six billion people... at the forefront of the movement is La Raza (the race)...

...We have nine... nine... governments right now and they know something that a young Argentine named Che Guevara said... it was called the domino theory... and he knew that every single country would launch revolutionaries one after the other after the other!

So what do they fear? They know that every single country... they know that we no longer fall to these lies called borders... they know that the Salvadorans, the Guatemaleans, the Ecuadoreans, the Mexicanos, there's no damn difference, we are all one people. So with that in mind, we see ourselves -- all of us here -- as The Northern Front of a Latin American Revolutionary Movement!

There are over 40 million of our people north of the Rio Grande. That means to them there are over 40 million potential revolutionaries north of the border! Inside the belly of the beast! So when you think why do they want to kick us, our people, out -- that's why! Because they know that we now know the truth, they know we are La Raza, we are professionals, we are educators, we are revolutionary students, what does that mean?

We are not just a regular culture any more! We are a culture of revolutionary spirit! And that's the fear! (applause)

That being said, I want to leave you with this... as a revolutionary context, let's be clear about one thing... our enemy is not the Minutemen... our enemy is not the Minutemen... because the Minutemen have not killed over 4,600 people at those borders... our enemy is the same enemy as Hugo Chavez has... our enemy is the same enemy that keeps Africa poor... our enemy is the same enemy that keeps Asia poor... our enemy is Capitalism and Imperialism! (applause)

I'll finish with this... if we are serious about making change... if you are serious about making change, let me tell you... the struggle will go on for many more years after we leave UCLA... what you do 24 hours a day, as a professional revolutionary, that will lead our people to liberation!

These people luxuriate in the most magnificent society ever created and they use the comforts, the wealth, the capital they accumulate to undermine the very structure that enriches them.

I don't see any "militias" preaching the subversion and overthrow of the U.S. government -- I see left-wing crackpots like this Hitler-wannabe doing so. But, please, no one tell the media or Janet Incompetano. We wouldn't want to spring any surprises on them, what with SUV's smoldering in Times Square and all.

It's time to start prosecuting, convicting and imprisoning people like this for sedition, treason, you name it. Just listen to the tape and tell me you don't hear Adolf Hitler, circa 1933, screeching about a master race.


Update: At Gather, this nutcase is reported to be Sanchee H.S. history teacher Ron Gochez at a La Raza Rally held at UCLA. Contact information is available at the link. You can also rate Ron Gochez' teaching performance if you wish.

There is a Santee Falcons Contact Form for the school; Richard J. Chavez is the principal and the main number is 213-763-1000. The LA Unified School District Superintendent is Ramon Cortines and the main number is 213-241-1000.

You can report waste and fraud at the Office of the Inspector General by calling 213-241-7778. Given the fact that Santee's California Standardized Testing results are dismal -- 13% proficient at English, 3% proficient at math, 11% proficient at science, and 8% proficient at History (Gochez' specialty) -- I'd say that there's plenty of waste and fraud in the system.

Update II: Here's the loathsome Gochez threatening to go on a hunger strike (because of budget cuts).

Based upon his pudgy face, I'm guessing Gochez' hunger strike lasted about eighteen minutes.

Update III: American Power tracks down more delightful information.

...the guy's a rabid anti-Semite. In 2002, he published a Letter to the Editor, at SDSU's Daily Aztec, entitled "The Jewish-owned media continue to blind the masses with propaganda to keep them in fear." The letter's been taken down, but not the responses to it. For example, here's Tevia Schriebman, Jewish Student Union President:
I am writing in response to Ron Gochez's letter to the editor. His empty words are filled with racist remarks and lies. As the President of the Jewish Student Union at SDSU, I take personal offense at his comments and beliefs that "Jewish-owned media continues to blind the masses with propaganda to keep them in fear." This lie is the language of hate speech perpetuated by anti-Semitic groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
And check the link. Schriebman's not alone in denouncing Gochez's racist bigotry.

And it's not as if Ron Gochez's anti-Jewish diatribes were a matter of youthful indiscretion. He's cited as the lead organizer and contact person for an event in January 2009, "
Raza in Solidarity with Palestine - Saturday, January 17th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - At Centro Cultural Francisco Villa - 2100 Maple Ave. LA - END the OCCUPATION NOW!



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Saturday, May 08, 2010

Crony Capitalism: Did Warren Buffet Get a 'Heads Up' That Rating Agency Moody's Had Been Served by the SEC with a 'Cease-and-Desist' Warning?

Legacy media has been so busy labeling conservatives 'racists' because they oppose Grecian-formula governance that they've missed, oh, a few hundred really important stories this year. Like that which Tyler Durden just unearthed: Moody's Investors Service (MIS) received a 'Wells Notice' on March 18, 2010, which means the SEC is commencing 'cease-and-desist' proceedings against the rating agency.

Well at least it took Moody's under two months to report this massively material development, which while we are not positive on how to read the C&D action on the NRSRO registration, could mark the beginning of the end for the rating agency. If the firm is enjoined from providing additional rating research should the SEC action find fault and proceed with a lawsuit, it would mean game over for the business.

Durden goes on to speculate that he wouldn't be surprised to find out that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway -- a major investor in Moody's -- had begun cashing chips in ahead of the public finding out this disturbing news.

Well, in March, starting on the very date of the notification, it would appear that Berkshire and other insiders began selling.

After 3/18 and for the next two weeks, Berkshire dispensed with over $30 million in Moody's stock. Moody's CEO and Chairman Raymond W. McDaniel also sold off $2.9 million on March 18th.

In fact, since the summer of 2009, Berkshire has dispensed with around half a billion dollars worth of Moody's, whittling its total shares from 40 million to 30 million. So I've got a whole bunch o' questions:

Did Buffett, a noted Obama supporter, get a nod from the SEC regarding what was going down?

• What motivated McDaniel to sell a good chunk of his shares the very day that the SEC served its intent to C&D?

• Why didn't Moody's disclose this quite material news from the get-go?

• And is anyone, anywhere, going to investigate this foul-smelling skulduggery?

Inquiring minds want to know. But, please, no one tell the legacy media. Democrat crony capitalists could be exposed to the daylight, and we know that our beloved "pro journalists" oppose that sort of thing. Because it's racist.


Internal AT&T presentation: we'll save $4.1 billion a year if we drop all employee health care benefits

You know how President Obama relentlessly marketed his health care takeover with the slogan 'If you like your current health care plan, you'll be able to keep it™'?

Here's a news flash that you won't see in the legacy media: he lied.

Someone inside AT&T leaked an internal Powerpoint presentation that measured the financial impact of DemCare.





AT&T estimates that it can save upwards of $4 billion annually by dropping health care coverage and paying the penalty tax instead.

They'd be foolish to keep their health care benefits and, in fact, shareholders should demand the company capture that income and return it in the form of increased dividends and R&D.

Like the Soviet central planners of a bygone era, today's Democrats are marching us into an abyss of unintended consequences for our entire health care system. They're pushing us, shoving us, against our will, over a cliff of fiscal irresponsibility. They're killing a legacy of prosperity that we could otherwise bequeath to subsequent generations.

The modern, hard left Democrat Party leadership is intentionally trying to destroy the Republic: open borders, votes for felons, statehood for Puerto Rico -- using any and all means to gain the votes necessary to stay in power, no matter how catastrophic the effects are on the country.

As someone told me a while back: it's November or never.


Hat tip: William Teach.