Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Perfect -- Eric Holder's DOJ crony leading SB1070 challenge is member of the "Gitmo 9", who represented terrorists in court

The White House is so laser-focused on the environmental tragedy in the Gulf* that the Obama Justice Department today filed suit against Arizona. Its offense: daring to protect Arizonans from the tidal wave of illegal aliens washing in on a daily basis.

Helping to lead the charge against the citizens of the southwestern state is a man named Tony West.

West is notorious for his de facto membership in the "Gitmo-9".

As an attorney in the San Francisco law firm of Morrison & Foerster, West reportedly represented terrorists with direct and/or indirect involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In fact, West joined the firm less than three months after 9/11, presumably to begin defending those who sought to kill American innocents.

The firm's aptly named website -- Mofo.com -- takes great pride in its work defending terrorists, listing several awards from known leftist and anti-American groups for its "work in representing inmates at Guantanamo Bay."

Earlier in his career, West also served under the Mistress of FAIL -- Jamie Gorelick -- as well as the impressive Janet Reno.

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Heavily armed Mexican drug- and human-smugglers have made large swaths of Arizona off-limits to American citizens.


A study released earlier today calculates that illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers $113 billion annually.

And rather than defending America's citizens, which is his primary duty under the Constitution, President Obama instead has unleashed a professional defender of terrorists to expand his practice -- protecting the Mexican crime gangs who now terrorize the southwest.


* Oh, and jobs. Every waking moment, jobs.

Related Reading Just to Tick You Off Even More:
The Shameless Duplicity of the Obama Administration: Napolitano Directly Contradicts Solis on Immigration Enforcement; Media Strangely Silent.
Four Border Stories Guaranteed to Make Your Blood Boil
Obama Administration Unveils Dramatic New Plan to Seal Massive Gulf Leak: Suing Arizona for Arresting Drug- and Human-Smugglers
Anyone know what you call it when heavily armed intruders cross the border into the U.S. unmolested by authorities? Oh, that's right: Arizona.



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Larwyn's Linx: Deeming Themselves Defeated

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Nation

Did Democrats Deem Themselves Defeated?: Hewitt
Obama AZ border claims false, say three … Democrats?: Hot Air
Chicago insider warns Angle campaign on Reid: AT

Economy

Illinois: America’s new fiscal basket case: Malkin
The Burning Question: NiceDeb
President's Economic Adviser: 'Be Patient': AT

Stimulus funds used to bus Mexicans in for free education: RWN
US Has 6 Years Before Debt Surpasses Defense Costs: Insider
Democrats must explain themselves (without blame-shifting): RWN

Climate & Energy

Cleanup Report Documents Deception, Incompetence: Malkin
Big Oil and the Global Warming Skeptics: AT
US climate scientists receive hate mail barrage: Guardian

Media

News Flash: Progressive Hates 4th, Also America: Moonbattery
Obama, Designated Hero: AT
Was Maddow's Criticism of Sharron Angle Also a Swipe at Olbermann?: NewsBusters

CNN Editor Mourns Loss of Hezbollah Spiritual Leader: WZ
Clearly these reporters don't understand ObamaCare: RWN
HuffPo's Creative Photo Crops Sprout Horns: Zombie

World

The Left-Fascist Axis. Again: AT
Iranian Children Appeal Mom's Death By Stoning Sentence: NiceDeb
Churches demand compensation from BP after loss of income: Telegraph

Berwick loves 'urine- and feces-soaked beds': WashExam
Our World: Standing down the hate-filled jury: JPost
Nigeria: No Charges After Muslim Senator Takes Child Bride: Maktoob

'America has elected a tyrant': NewEnglishReview
An Islamophobe in Sweden: GoV
India: Teacher's hand cut off for Prophet slight: Maktoob

SciTech

Is Pornography Only Skin Deep?: Sophos
Apple Will Sell 12M iPhones To Verizon Subscribers For $7B -- Analyst: Insider
Ray Kurzweil Interview: iOTW

Cornucopia

The Left's Haughty Intolerance – Skewering Norman Rockwell: iOTW
Welcome to Rome, Circa 450 AD: Hot Air
Florida’s Lt. Col. Allen West’s Independence Day Address: RWN

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QOTD: "In Britain today, hating Israel has become a valid criminal defense. Last week five people charged with destroying property valued at some $225,000 at the EDO MBM arms factory in Brighton during a January 2009 break-in were found not guilty of all charges. They were found innocent although all five admitted to having committed the crime... As the Guardian reported, the defendants boasted in on-line forums at the time of the incident, their crime was premeditated. It took place during the IDF’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza. Their declared aim was to “smash up” the factory. And they achieved their goal.

The jury found the five innocent because it accepted as a valid defense their claim that they vandalized the plant because they wanted to prevent Israel from carrying out war crimes in Gaza. EDO MBM does business with the IDF, therefore, the defendants claimed and the jury agreed, it deserved to be attacked." -- Caroline Glick


Monday, July 05, 2010

Who will step up and help me manufacture this breathtaking new product?

Now, if we can only bring it to market by November...



'We are the Cavalry'

Adapted from a comment by Pappy G

There are no more intimate generational relationships than those which exist between members of a family; a parent and a child, a grandparent and a grandchild, etc.

Passing of family heirlooms, traditions, and values symbolizes the importance of these relationships. These precious moments represent the custodial responsibilities one generation has fulfilled in preserving, protecting and defending that which they received by way of inheritance from a previous generation.

When one generation fails to honor their responsibilities, the generational chain of trust is broken.

The current custodial generation received the chain of trust intact and, along with it, numerous opportunities. However, they are finding keeping the generational chain of trust intact overwhelming. For each billion dollars of new debt placed on the backs of their children and grandchildren, the chain weakens.

Nothing demonstrates the dramatic erosion of generational responsibilities better than the current entitlement abuse that began in 1935 with the enactment of Social Security. It has a long history of financial instability and every attempt to repair it has made things worse. Consider 1983, when 'Social Security Reform' legislation was signed into law. It was promoted as a plan to avert near-term Social Security bankruptcy and to fund long term stability. Taxpayers began overpaying their social security taxes by billions of dollars annually. With their over-payments deposited in a 'trust fund', most Americans believed they were doing their part in alleviating seniors' fears. And they were also sold the idea that they were responsibly preparing for the retirements of 78 million baby boomers.

With no choice in the matter, and in spite of significant financial hardships, millions of average Americans struggled to keep their end of the bargain. Politicians however, chose to renege on their end of the deal. From day one, they’ve spent every dollar of the excess Social Security 'trust fund', by transferring the money to the general revenue fund. Once co-mingled with other tax receipts, they lose their unique identity, allowing politicians to fund sweetheart deals for special interests.

Using Bernie Madoff sleight-of-hand deceit, politicians covered up their tax-and-transfer scheme by replacing excess Social Security 'trust fund' cash with special obligation bonds, or IOUs. These slips of paper are represented as assets on the Social Security 'trust fund' balance sheet. The IOU obligations created by this malevolent scheme will have to be paid again plus interest, and the amount owed already exceeds 2.5 trillion dollars, growing at the rate of several thousand dollars a second.

Some inheritance we're passing along.

How can swallowing another Kool-Aid cocktail served up by another political bloviator be considered a viable solution? The answer is: it can’t. The solution resides within the current custodial generation, and their willingness to speak up and reach out in a spirit of cooperation to the next generation. We must end the vigil of silence that permits politicians to violate the Constitution.

Why the Constitution? Because it is the highest law of the land and it was designed to limit government, not men. Over the years, the Constitution has been bastardized by Presidents, Congress and the courts. Far from limiting government, an infinite series of greedy, power-hungry politicians have interpreted the highest law to mean precisely what it does not say. They have squeezed, stretched and torn the law to allow the federal government to grow in size, scope and strength, in every direction, controlling virtually all of our endeavors.

We must end the vigil of silence that's permitting politicians to financially enslave our children and grandchildren.

We are the Cavalry. And we must ride to the rescue in November. Our mission is clear: restore the bonds of generational trust.


Spill continues to pump oil into Gulf, but White House successfully plugs leaks -- of information on websites, from journalists, and local officials

It's day 75 and oil in the Gulf of Mexico continues to flow.

But there's one thing the administration appears to have plugged: information flow related to the spill. The President, seemingly more concerned with his image than anything else, wants to suppress the graphic evidence of his bumbling response.

WKRG Mobile reports that the government has taken "tighter control" over the spill response website that had been co-managed with BP. In short, "who can post information to the site would change. Details are still being worked out... [a government spokesman] said the government wants to be as transparent as possible and increase Americans' access to information."

It appears clean-up equipment is provided to local officials to "shut them up". After a series of appearances on TV, a parish president was shocked to find two White House officials show up at his office on Father's Day. They asked him what they needed to do to "keep you off TV". These and similar accounts "raise serious questions about whether the Administration is more concerned with fighting a public relations battle than combating the oil spill.”"

A photographer taking pictures of a BP refinery while on a public road was reportedly detained by BP security, local police and a DHS official.

The union of television and radio professionals -- AFTRA -- has created a new section of its website to handle reports of journalists who are denied reasonable access to cover the effects of the spill. CNN's Anderson Cooper has been vocal in protesting the suppression -- some would call it censorship -- of information by the government.

It only took the White House 75 days to get the A-Whale Super Skimmer to the Gulf; 53 days to accept help from the Dutch and British and 58 days to mobilize the military. The administration also shut down cleaning barges for "infractions" like not enough fire extinguishers on board; prohibited sand berm dredging in Louisiana; and lied to state officials about the cleanup efforts.

But don't worry, folks -- it's like 9/11. Except for all of the golf.

And the fact that the spill continues to pump oil into the Gulf. And that the government can't seem to get anything right, other than threatening local officials to shut the hell up and censor the increasingly dire news.

I give Obama a good, solid B+ on this oil spill thingie.


What's the definition of insanity again?

Obama announces plan to sink $2 billion into solar energy projects


07/03/2010 -- "Facing sluggish job growth, President Barack Obama on Saturday announced about $2 billion in new investments to help build clean energy technology and create thousands of jobs."

Clinton's goal: a million solar system on roofs by 2010


8/16/1997 -- "At the United Nations conference on global warming this summer, President Clinton introduced the ''Million Solar Roofs Initiative'' as part of the nation's halting efforts to slow the increase in ''greenhouse'' gases produced by burning fossil fuels...

...The goal is to put a million solar systems on the roofs of commercial and residential buildings by 2010 -- whether photovoltaic units that convert sunlight into electricity or thermal systems for space heating and hot water."

Conservation Bank for Solar Energy Will Spend $3 Billion


1/20/1981 -- "From fiscal years 1979 through 1981, in fact, Carter got more solar-energy subsidy dollars than he asked for. A residential tax credit was put in place for 40 percent of the first $10,000 spent on photovoltaic solar-energy systems. A business tax credit of 15 percent was granted through the end of 1985. A "Solar and Energy Conservation Bank" was established and authorized to spend $3 billion between fiscal years 1981 and 1984 to provide subsidized residential and commercial loans for solar energy and conservation investments."

Carter wants 20% of America's electricity from sun, wind by 2000


7/15/1979 -- "On a sunny June day in 1979, President Jimmy Carter held the first and only press conference on the White House roof. Atop the West Wing, he unveiled a $28,000 solar cell system that captured the sun's energy to provide hot water for the White House. He also launched a sweeping drive aimed at harnessing the sun, the wind, and other renewable resources to generate 20% of America's electricity by 2000."

Carter announces multi-billion solar energy R&D effort


6/20/1979 -- "President Carter announces program to increase Nation's use of solar energy, including solar development bank and increased funds for solar energy research and development."

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This is why liberalism needs to be classified -- officially -- as a mental disorder. History, facts, logic and reason are of no concern to the liberal. Their repeated attacks on oil (which, based upon the unstanched flow in the Gulf, does not appear to be in short supply) while they burglarize the Treasury to pay for faerie dust and solar panels on every roof.

Only the free market can deliver "green" solutions. No amount of government central planning, "free" money for crony capitalists, solar boondoggles, bureaucrats and lawyers can create new sources of energy.

Only the free market can solve the problem of renewable energy. It will take decades -- and can only occur if government gets the hell out of the way.


'Obama has created a wasteland of economic ruin and depression that looks much like... Mad Max'

Wayne Allen Root calls Obama "The Great Jobs Killer":

You won't find proof of the damage Obama is doing on Wall Street, but rather on Main Street. My friends are all part of the economic engine of America: Small business. Small business creates 75 percent of new jobs (and a majority of all jobs). I called one friend who was a wealthy restaurant owner. He says business is off by 60 percent. He's drowning in debt. He won't last much longer. His wealth is gone.

I called another friend in the business of home improvement. He says business is off 90 percent from two years ago. My contractor just filed personal bankruptcy. She won't be building any more homes. The hair salon where I've had my hair cut for years closed earlier this year. Bankrupt. But here's the clincher -- ESPN Zone just closed all their restaurants across the country. If they can't make it selling cheap food and overpriced beer with 100 big screens blaring every sporting event on the planet to a sports-crazed society, we are all in deep, deep trouble.

I've polled all my friends who own small businesses -- many of them in the Internet and high-tech fields. They all agree that in this new Obama world of high business taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, and workers compensation taxes, the key to success is to avoid employees. The only way to survive as a business owner today is by keeping the payroll very low and by hiring only independent contractors or part-time employees provided by temp agencies.

Over at CNBC, analysts say that Dow is repeating the "Great Depression Pattern":


The Dow Jones Industrial Average is repeating a pattern that appeared just before markets fell during the Great Depression, Daryl Guppy, CEO at Guppytraders.com, told CNBC Monday... “Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it…there was a head and shoulders pattern that developed before the Depression in 1929, then with the recovery in 1930 we had another head and shoulders pattern that preceded a fall in the market, and in the current Dow situation we see an exact repeat of that environment,” Guppy said.

The Dow retreated 457.33 points, or 4.5 percent last week, to close at 9,686 Friday. Guppy said a Dow fall below 9,800 confirmed the head and shoulders pattern.

The view abroad confirms Guppy's observation: "The US is still trapped in depression a full 18 months into zero interest rates, quantitative easing (QE), and fiscal stimulus that has pushed the budget deficit above 10pc of GDP."

The share of the US working-age population with jobs in June actually fell from 58.7pc to 58.5pc. This is the real stress indicator. The ratio was 63pc three years ago. Eight million jobs have been lost.

The average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks. Nothing like this has been seen before in the post-war era. Jeff Weninger, of Harris Private Bank, said this compares with a peak of 21.2 weeks in the Volcker recession of the early 1980s...

...The housing market is already crumbling as government props are pulled away. The expiry of homebuyers' tax credit led to a 30pc fall in the number of buyers signing contracts in May. "It is cataclysmic," said David Bloom from HSBC.

Root concludes:

It has now become clear that, outside of the burgeoning field of Census takers, there will be no major increase in new jobs for years to come. Outside government, Obama has created a wasteland of economic ruin and depression that looks much like the landscape of Mel Gibson's first movie "Mad Max." Without a printing press in Obama's world, you're just plain out of luck.

What if, as some believe, this is all intentional? In 2009, James Simpson came to just that conclusion:

It is time to cast aside all remaining doubt. President Obama is not trying to lead America forward to recovery, prosperity and strength. Quite the opposite, in fact...

...The real goal of "health care" legislation, the real goal of "cap-and-trade," and the real goal of the "stimulus" is to rip the guts out of our private economy and transfer wide swaths of it over to the government to control. Do not be deluded by the propaganda. These initiatives are vehicles for change. They are not goals in and of themselves except in their ability to deliver power. They and will make matters much worse, for that is their design.

You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to recognize the very real strategies advocated by Cloward and Piven. If you care about this country, you'll do everything you can to organize, raise money, and spread the word about the malevolent cabal that is systematically deconstructing America from within.

It's November or never.


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Larwyn's Linx: Obama’s New America -- Running on Silly Fantasies

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Nation

Obama’s New America: Running on Silly Fantasies: Strata-Sphere
SCOTUS ruling shows how far gun rights have come: Reynolds
Kagan: Unfit for the Supreme Court: AT

Institutionalized Gangster Government: PJM
Kudos to Obama for letting in the sunlight: WashExam
DeMint: Graham 'wrong' on tea party: Politico

Economy

America The Screwed: Field Guide To a Dismal Economy: Insider
Wells, Wachovia Linked to Mexican Laundering Schemes?: Mish
Photog detained as All Pensacola-area Reservations Canceled: ZH

Climate & Energy

Remember this number: 96.6: FromOnHigh
EPA verdict still out on Taiwan tanker, 'A Whale': FlAces
Climate change skepticism ain't holocaust denial: PJM

Media

Happy Unbirthday, America: Simon
Is Krugman Heartless, Clueless or Confused (Pick One)?: LegalIns
Bitterly fractured: right-wingers, left-wingers and the folks who don't care: RWN

Why do liberals celebrate independence from the British at all since they now want to be just like them?: BlogProf
CNN/Money Does 100 Great Things About America: RWN
Democrats told to press Social Security fears over recess: TheHill

Breitbart Launches National Security News Site: BigPeace

World

Will Obama stand up to Chavez?: McCullough
What Obama Doesn't Understand About Zionism: AT
U.S. And Israel Further Divided: Obama Caves to Arabs, Stabs Ally In The Back Over Nukes: Dollard

SciTech

NASA Now Tasked With Building Muslim Self Esteem: RWN
Best Buy Wants to Fire Employee For His iPhone 4 vs. HTC EVO Video: C&S
Why The iPhone 4 Is "Really Bad News" For Mobile Carriers: Insider

Cornucopia

Can you imagine President Obama giving a speech like this one?: LegalIns
How Europeans Invented the Modern World: AT
Bush Derangement Syndrome: 4th of July Fireworks Edition: Malkin

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Sunday, July 04, 2010

Photo: July 4th at Turner Field

Papa B emails this photo from his iPhone:



Welcome to Indonesia, land of tolerance and one-time home to Barack Obama, where Muslims relentlessly attack Christians

Perhaps if the Christians would only stop their illegal occupation of uhm, Palestine... or something...

A banner with a picture of a young, bespectacled Christian man is draped in front of a mosque, a fiery noose around his neck and the words, "This man deserves the death penalty!"

Churches are shut down. And an Islamic youth militia held its first day of training.

Though the events all occurred less than nine miles (15 kilometers) from Indonesia's bustling capital, making headlines in local papers and dominating chats on social networking sites such as Facebook, they've sparked little public debate in the halls of power.

...Members of the Islamic Defenders Front, or FPI, have been known to smash bars, attack transvestites and go after minority sects with bamboo clubs and stones.

Now, they are targeting Christians in the fast-growing industrial city of Bekasi.

Outsiders have steadily poured into the Jakarta suburb in search of work, bringing with them their own religions, traditions and values. That has made conservative Islamic clerics nervous. Some have used sermons to warn their flock to be on the lookout for signs of proselytization.

So, when 14 busloads of villagers arrived on June 30 at the home of Henry Sutanto, who heads the Christian-run Mahanaim Foundation, rumors quickly spread that he and Andreas Sanau, the condemned man whose face appeared on the mosque banner, were planning a mass baptism.

... "He should be executed!" said Murhali Barda, who heads the Bekasi chapter of the FPI. "He tried to carry out mass baptisms!"

Days later, Barda's group joined nine others in recommending at a local congress that Bekasi mosques help set up youth militias to act as moral police and to intimidate Christians who are trying to convert Muslims.

They started training Saturday morning, about 100 young men turning out on a field wearing martial arts uniforms. Barda stressed there was no plan to arm them.

"We're doing this because we want to strike fear in the hearts of Christians who behave in such a way," he said. "If they refuse to stop what they're doing, we're ready to fight."

A regional leader of the Indonesian Muslim Forum, Bernard Abdul Jabbar, said the youths were given physical training and taught about Islam. "They will guard the Islamic faith and preach the right path to the people," he said.

...Mobs have forced shut two churches this year. Last month, a statue of three women was torn down by authorities after hundreds of hard-liners wearing skull caps and white robes took to the streets, claiming the monument symbolized the Holy Trinity.

Weeks earlier, black-clad youths attacked a Catholic-run school over an anonymous blogger's "blasphemous" website...

I blame Bush. Or the militant Quakers. I forget which.