Saturday, July 17, 2010

WaPo Ombudsman Explains Non-Coverage of PantherGate: We Were Really Quite Busy, What With the Macaca Fallout and All

Washington Post Ombudsman Andrew Alexander took time away from his busy schedule to explain why the dying newspaper hadn't covered the New Black Panther voter intimidation case.

For months, readers have contacted the ombudsman wondering why The Post hasn't been covering the case. The calls increased recently after competitors such as the New York Times and the Associated Press wrote stories. Fox News and right-wing bloggers have been pumping the story. Liberal bloggers have countered, accusing them of trying to manufacture a scandal.

But The Post has been virtually silent.

...National Editor Kevin Merida, who termed the controversy "significant," said he wished The Post had written about it sooner. The delay was a result of limited staffing and a heavy volume of other news on the Justice Department beat, he said.

In related news, the Post did manage to print the word macacca 96 times within a one month period.

Try to imagine the Post ignoring a story about, say, John Ashcroft killing a case involving whites who intimidated blacks with weapons and racial epithets at a polling place.

The Post's agenda is crystal clear. Its purpose is not the pursuit of objective reporting. Its ideology trumps the truth -- and its purpose is to mislead.

Businesses must sell and make a profit to stay in business. The Post is so dedicated to its cause, however, that it will still be manufacturing lies when the last customer exits stage left.

The act of committing fiscal suicide -- wearing ideological blinders as real news stories occur, unreported, around them -- is proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.

Perhaps if the Post ventured into reporting the news accurately, its staffing might not be quite so limited.


Hat tips: Memeorandum, Jack Spratt and other WaPo commenters.

Hey, SEIU Members--Here's a Little Secret You Won't Read in Your Local's Newsletter: 400,000 of You Will Be Fired By This Time Next Year

Attention, Mr. and Mrs. Union Member -- Andy Stern and the rest of the big bosses sold you out. Instead of banking cash reserves to help members make it through difficult financial times, the SEIU, AFSCME and other public sector unions blew through hundreds of millions of your dollars getting Democrats elected.

Now those very same Democrats have implemented economy-killing policies that are definitely going to cost you your jobs.

See, that's the thing about working in the public sector. You're dependent upon the success of the private sector -- you know, taxes -- for your daily bread. If the private sector can't make its tax payments, you don't get paid. Simple, eh?

Moody's Economy.com estimates that 400,000 public sector jobs will be axed over the course of the next year.

Moody’s Economy.com recently estimated that as many as 400,000 public employees could be laid off in the next year. That can only compound growing concerns for the health of the broader economy as the nation’s unemployment rate hovers stubbornly near 10%, and all signs suggest that economic recovery may be a lot further off than previously hoped.

...The current trend does not favor public employees. According to government figures, state, and local governments shed 10,000 jobs in June. That’s in addition to 85,000 public jobs eliminated since the beginning of the year, and an estimated 190,000 in the past 12 months.

Meanwhile, the nation’s 50 states are struggling under the weight of a combined $140 billion budget gap for fiscal 2011, according the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

...Stephen Acquario, executive director of the New York State Association of Counties, said the writing has been on the wall for some time warning elected officials that a financial reckoning was just around the corner... "...unfortunately the well has run dry,” he said. “Going forward we’re projecting the worst of all possible worlds, which is cutting services, layoffs and raising taxes.”

A silver lining -- if there is one -- comes in the form of state and local governments getting back to the basics.

One more benefit: the ugly fiscal reality serves as a sanity check for union members who voted Democrat.

Now they know for certain that they were sold down the river by the same bosses who once pledged to protect them. Just think: you got contribute to the hundreds of millions of dollars that were wasted electing the same numb-skulls whose policies got your fired.


Fascism, Defined

Wiktionary defines the word fascism as follows:



A political regime, usually totalitarian...

...ideologically based on centralized government...

...government control of business...

...repression of criticism or opposition...

...a leader cult...

...and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights.


Too harsh? Too "right wing"? I just relayed the definition. Any conceptual linkages between the words and images are the responsibilities of the reader.


Health Care Bill Mandates Tracking of Your Gold and Silver Coin Purchases

Remember the manufactured outrage and criticism leveled at the Bush administration over its international terror wiretaps? Every leftist front group imaginable -- from the ACLU to MSNBC -- screeched of constitutional crises and White House imperialism.

Now, as the Obama administration inserts all sorts of bizarre and intrusive dictates into its various takeovers of the private sector, these very same leftists are silent. It's clear that "civil liberties" are of little concern so long as the federal government gets to intrude further and further into our lives.

They're watching you... buy gold

Economic Policy Journal relays word from the coin-collecting magazine Numismaster that:

...[s]tarting on January 1st in 2012, US federal law will require coin and bullion dealers to report to the Internal Revenue Service all gold and silver coin purchases and sales greater than $600.

No that is not an error, they tacked the gold coin tracking regulations into the health bill. They are just tacking stuff on wherever they can.

Venturing a guess as to the Democrats' rationale, two tactics come to mind:

• The tracking directly targets a major advertising force on conservative television programs, websites and radio shows (e.g., GoldLine) and puts the cross-hairs on conservatives who purchase bullion.

Like FDR, who confiscated gold from individuals, the Obama Democrats want to begin controlling the flow of real currency -- not just the fiat paper that Ben Bernanke has been printing like a madman.

What's Your Federal Obesity Index?

As for your body, by 2014 you will be legally required to have an "electronic health record". This lovely little dictate was craftily inserted into the $1 trillion "Stimulus" bill of 2009.

Your electronic record will include an "obesity rating", which will be "securely shared" with government agencies and health care providers.

I'll let you imagine the consequences: federal nutrition laws, government-sponsored nutrition initiatives, federally approved healthy food products, etc.

Welcome to Central Planning U.S.A.

Like East Germany in the sixties, the Obama Democrats are turning the country into a statist's dream of authoritarian government, central planning and -- ultimately -- slavery.

Thousands and thousands of pages of new laws -- replete with payoffs, bribery and benefits for special interests -- will be filled in with tens of thousands of pages of regulations.

New bureaucracies, agencies and offices will control more and more aspects of your life. How much you can eat. What kind of health care you can receive. How much money you can earn and save.

This is only the first phase -- accomplished in less than two years -- by a federal government so out-of-control that the founders of this country wouldn't recognize it. Consider what the next few years will hold unless we obliterate the Democrat Party in November.

And from the ACLU hippies and media drones? Crickets are chirping as the White House begins its surveillance of your money and your body.


Larwyn's Linx: America version 2.0--remade in an ancient fascist image

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Nation

America version 2.0: remade in an antiquated fascist image: AT
Probe Grows in MN Felon Voting Scandal: FoxNation
What a Crass-y Guy: Anchoress

History is Hard. For Rep Sheila Jackson-Lee: RWN
Berwick and Kagan DQ Themselves: BizzyBlog
The Seriousness of Governor Palin: Con4Palin

White House Race-Baiting

White House linked to bogus 'Tea Party Racists' video: GWP
The NAACP, Storm Front, the KKK and the Tea Party: GWP
The Ku Klux Klan, Terrorist Wing of the Democratic Party: BigGovt

Economy

The Trial Lawyers Get Paid in 'Financial Reform': Cato
Obamaland Pension Meltdown Update: NRO
Exploding the myth that Bush tax cuts caused the deficit: BlogProf

GOP Budget Proposes Massive Cuts: WSJ
Uh oh. USA Today raises the D-word: RWN
Oops. Federal tax collections have not increased.: BizzyBlog

Climate & Energy

Ken Salazar needs another ass-kicking: Malkin
What Not to Wear to an Oil Speech: Nice Deb

Media

ThinkProgress.org Publishes Completely Fraudulent Video Labeling Tea Partiers Racists: Owens
The Endgame of Liberal Racism: AT
Pwnt -- Janeane Garafolo : iOTW

Washington Post Set To Publish Database Outing Top Secret Facilities and Contractors: Ace
Columbia U.'s Bollinger Oblivious on MSM Bailout: PJM
Heads, Obama Wins; Tails, Bush Loses: AP’s Inconsistent ‘Recession’ Definition: BizzyBlog

World

Putin flips the bird at Obama: PJM
O What a Web: AT
UAE Outsourcing Its National Security to the Israeli Air Force: FirstThoughts

The Dangers of a New Left-Right Alliance: PJM
Suing terror's government-backed funders: Post
Mystery trader buys all Europe's cocoa: Telegraph

Our Cowboy President Is Making The World Hate Us: RWN
Egypt vs. Gaza: BRubin

SciTech

A Mystery Over China: Buzz Log
U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs: TorrentFreak
Steve Jobs grits teeth, solves the iPhone 4 'crisis': CNet

Cornucopia

Introducing The Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit: NewsBusters
Monsters from the Id: Good-bye to All That's Democrat: AmDigest
America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution: AmSpec

Special Thanks to: W.
Images: iOwnTheWorld.
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QOTD: If Bill Clinton had oil inside him this is what the dress would look like. -- Wayne Pistey


Friday, July 16, 2010

Good Times: Louis Farrakhan Declares War on ‘Negroes’ at 1997 NAACP Conference

I'm looking around, but I don't see the NAACP complaining about this racist claptrap from Louis Farrakhan. In this delightful secretion, Farrakhook threatens blacks who side with America against the likes of Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.

"Any Negro leader who is against these brothers for what they have done... I pray to the almighty God that from this night forward...

...there will be war on every 'so-called negro' that don't want to u-nite for the benefit of all of our people.

Good times... good times.

Fortunately, our current Democrat leadership would never, ever pull the race card. They'd never target blacks who believe in the free market and the American dream.

Would they?

Political Incorrectness Personified: Papa B Offers a Parable

You can't stop him. You can only hope to contain him.

That would be Papa B, our reigning King of Political Incorrectness.

It's a comin'


Three strangers strike up a conversation in the passenger lounge in the Bozeman, Montana airport, while waiting for their respective flights...

One is an American Indian passing through from Lame Deer, another is a Cowboy on his way to Billings for a livestock show and the third passenger is a fundamentalist Arab student, newly arrived at Montana State University from the Middle East.

Their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon, the two Westerners learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Muslim and the conversation falls into an uneasy lull.

The cowboy leans back in his chair, crosses his boots on a magazine table, tips his big sweat-stained hat forward over his face, and lights a cigarette. The wind outside is blowing tumbleweeds around, and the old windsock is flapping; but still no plane comes.

Finally, the American Indian clears his throat and softly he speaks, 'At one time here... my people were many... but sadly, now we are few.'

The Muslim student raises an eyebrow, smiles, and leans forward, 'Once my people were few,' he sneers, 'and now we are many. Why do you suppose that is?'

The cowboy removes his cigarette from his mouth and from the darkness beneath his Stetson says in a smooth drawl . . .

'I reckon that's 'cause we ain't played Cowboys and Muslims yet, but I do believe it's a-comin'.'


Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have a Wiener (Part II)!

Atomic Roach sent us a pictorial version of the winner of our recent contest.

Yes, I'm well aware there are some very sick puppies who frequent iOwnTheWorld.

Trust me: Atomic Roach is the sane one.


In their Bogus Financial Reform Bill, Democrats Create Another Fannie Mae

Rather than doing the hard work of actually repairing the financial system, the architects of the 2008 mortgage meltdown -- Chris Dodd and Barney Frank -- have instead created a maze of new financial regulations that none have read and fewer understand.

Consider: it's not yet certain that the United States has even weathered the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; the economy is still wobbling and real unemployment is around 20%. Yet Frank and Dodd have constructed another monument to themselves and to authoritarian government.

While the "reform" bill completely ignores Fannie and Freddie, it does fulfill one desire of the hard left Democrat Party: it funnels millions of dollars to unions, community activists and other anti-American special interests.

Diversity Cops: buried deep inside the thousands of pages, article 342 commands each financial regulatory agency to add an "Office of Minority and Women Inclusion". Each office is charged with assessing the diversity policy of all the institutions it regulates. In other words, bribery on a grand scale will be commanded by federal statute. Don't want to pay off ACORN? My guess is you'll get your financial institution shut down.

Corporate Control: the bill gives unions, environmental groups and other activist fronts special abilities to put their representatives on the boards of every corporation in America. The "proxy access" provision is opposed by nearly every business consortium because it is wholly unrelated to financial services; it is simply a change in corporate governance that benefits radical Democrat Statists.

Regulates Airlines and Utilities: the "financial reform" bill also regulates unrelated businesses in other ways. Any company that uses derivatives -- like airline companies that hedge on fuel prices to protect against wild swings in their costs -- now come under the jurisdiction of new laws. This kind of hedging had absolutely nothing to do with the financial crisis; yet Democrats wanted to control these industries -- and therefore included them.

Payoffs for Community Organizers: The flagship of the "reform" bill is a so-called "consumer protection agency" . It provides "substantial employment opportunities and funding for Democratic and social-activist groups such as the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN)" -- the same groups that precipitated the mortgage meltdown with false accusations of 'redlining'.

Executive Summary: there's no financial reform in this bill. It is intended to expand government control over the private sector. Like "health care reform". And the takeover of GM and Chrysler. And "Cap-and-Trade".

This is how societies collapse, folks.

A reminder: it's November or never.


Larwyn's Linx: ''Tea Party Racists' -- Think Progress Caught Red-Handed

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Nation

'Tea Party Racists': Think Progress Caught Red-Handed: ConfYank
Black Tea Partiers Rebut NAACP: Politico
NAACP Tries to Weasel Out of Racist Allegations: GWP

DOJ Colleagues Confirm Whistleblower Adams' Accusations: PJM
Surprise! States Receive Tax Money for Abortions: RWN
Bagman for Obama and Clinton Gets a Dozen in the Big House: JWF

Economy

The Dodd-Frank Monstrosity Passes 60-39: Malkin
Obama's Call for 'Economic Justice': AT
Poverty-stricken Bell, CA's bloated municipal budget: AmPower

No Problems With Union Nap Time: RWN
The CBO Warns the Nation: Anyone Listening?: AT
Obama Saves, Creates Korean Jobs With Stimulus: BlogProf

Climate & Energy

ClimateGate and the Big Lie: Ace
The 'Well Integrity Test' Is a Sham: Zero Hedge
84 days later, BP says it stopped the spill: GWP

Media

Democrats Turn Their Attention to Control of the Media: AT
Does anyone even read NY Times editorials?: WashExam
Cherry-Picked Constitutionality: AT

Senator Specter's Votes: Patterico
Tucker Carlson to Strap-On: We Own You!: Insider
A Phone Call from the Associated Press: AT

CNN Doofus Argues with Black Tea Party Member: Civil War is 'Modern History': NewsBusters
Specter: I'd Like To Keep Sucking At The Public Teat Please: Ace
Andrea Mitchell: House Democrats' Spat With Gibbs is 'Unfortunate': NewsBusters

World

Janet Napolitano offers to help put stop to illegal border crossings — in Saudi Arabia: WorldTrib
New START and Obama’s Mysterious Trip to Russia: AIM
'Civil Rights' Lawyer Lynne Stewart Receives New 10-Year Sentence: NY1

Tentacles of Hate Reach Philadelphia: AT
Fired Ohio Homeland Security Official Alomari Secretly Worked in Jordanian Government: Jawa
Breaking: Leftist Hero Hugo Chavez Jails Opposition Leader On Bogus Explosives Charges: GWP

SciTech

The New York Times Goes Nuts, Says The Government Should Regulate Google's Search Algorithm: Insider
Inception Is Brilliant and Baffling: PJM
What we know about the iPhone 4's antenna: CNet

Cornucopia

Nice Wine Rack!: JWF
The Case For and Against College: Denninger
Oh, My: Mel Gibson's Latest Tape Kinda Just Gets Worse and Worse Even Without Racial Slurs: Ace

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Well done, Mitch McConnell. GOP slams the door shut on Obama nominees in retaliation for Berwick recess appointment.

I haven't exactly been impressed with the leadership and charisma of Mitch McConnell over the years. But he definitely deserves credit for pimp-slapping Rahm Emanuel and the White House earlier today.

Senate Republicans are still fuming over the recess appointment of Donald Berwick to head the federal agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid.

Top 10 Rejected DemCare Slogans

10. Why choose an expensive treatment when pain-pills will do?
9. Assisted Suicide: Do it for the Children
8. We Put the Rash in Rationing
7. Ask Us About Our Discount Placebo Program!
6. Only Selfish People Beg for CAT Scans.
5. Take a Number! The Bureau of Health Waiting Rooms reports the average wait time is now down to 123 minutes (in some locations)
4. Quack isn't just the sound a duck makes: we're importing medical experts from Mexico as part of our new Health Amnesty Program!
3. Shut up, take a seat and wait for your number to be called, Mr. GB21708-4.
2. Rahm Emanuel perusing your medical records: what could go wrong?
1. Sound mind, sound body -- take your pick.
In retaliation, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) blocked a Democratic request Wednesday evening to advance two of President Obama’s nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Also Wednesday evening, Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee demanded a public hearing on Berwick.

Obama used his constitutional prerogative to circumvent Senate confirmation of Berwick by appointing him the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service during the July 4th recess.

Republicans struck back by blocking an effort to schedule a vote on two of Obama’s judicial picks: North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Jim Wynn and North Carolina Superior Court Judge Albert Diaz. Obama tapped both for the Fourth Circuit.

Berwick's recess appointment magically transformed him into the most influential man in the health care industry, wielding the power to set prices and regulate every aspect of health care delivery.

Berwick's appointment was historic for a couple of reasons. For the first time in memory, a President bypassed the Senate confirmation process without so much as a hearing. And Berwick is the only Medicare head to praise England's National Health Service, which provides measurably inferior care compared to the U.S. and, as a bonus, is bankrupting the Exchequer.

Berwick has written lovingly of Britain's bankrupt NHS: "I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it... All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at healthcare in my own country [which is governed by] the darkness of private enterprise."

Berwick has repeatedly claimed that the NHS delivers superior care when compared to the U.S. He is a liar. And he is dangerous.

Not only does Britain rely upon America's pharmaceutical innovations, not only does it rely upon America's medical devices, and not only does it piggy-back upon our cutting-edge procedures and treatments -- but it does so far less effectively and with far more waste than nearly any modern health care system.

The infinite series of statistics don't lie. Berwick does, but not the statistics.


Related:
Good News for Seniors: the Most Powerful Man in the Medical Industry Has a Love Affair with Urine- and Feces-Soaked Beds
Some people never learn. Unfortunately for us, it's the Democrats, who think more marketing will help people swallow ObamaCare


Hat tip: @EdMorrissey.

The Obama Tsunami

Mish says to prepare for an economic tsunami as states go belly-up and consumers hunker down, preparing for the inevitable tax hikes. They'll include carbon cap-n-trade, the expiration of Emperor Chimpy McBushitler's tax cuts, a possible VAT tax, new health care taxes and dramatically increased entitlement bills.

• Illinois let $5 billion of bills go unpaid.
• Minnesota is delaying corporate and sales-tax refunds, postponing school and medical aid and setting up a $600 million bank line of credit.
• New Jersey is planning to refinance about $250 million of general-obligation bonds to push $202.5 million of debt-service costs into future fiscal years.
• Illinois, is selling $900 million of bonds for capital projects this week.
• 22 states put staff on temporary leave.
• Arizona sold its House of Representatives and Senate buildings.
• California solicited bids for 11 of its office complexes.
• Delaware saved $29,000 by eliminating flowers at the state psychiatric hospital and health department.
• California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, facing a $19 billion budget deficit for the year that began this month, is trying to force 200,000 state workers onto minimum wages temporarily.

All of those half-assed measures assume the economy is going to get better later this year. Instead I suggest states should expect a Second-Half Housing and Durable Goods Crash.

California alone is $19 billion in the hole and that is after California enacted a temporary 1 percentage point increase in the sales tax rate (expected to generate about $4.5 billion in fiscal 2010) and after it accelerated income tax collection.
It is also after patching a $24 billion hole earlier in the year.

Literally no state is remotely prepared for the second-half tsunami coming down the pike.

Aren't these Democrat policies great? Like open borders, limitless welfare and public sector unions that control government spending priorities?

Oh, and trial lawyers. Can't forget the trial lawyers!


Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have a Wiener!

The window to submit entries for iOwnTheWorld's latest prestigious contest closed earlier this afternoon.

We’ve been waiting for a good theme. It has revealed itself. In the spirit of the Mega Mosque at Ground Zero we are looking for Inappropriate Shrines, Symbols, Awards, Tributes etc.

An example would be a Benihana at the Arizona.

Or, as Mr. Pinko said, a loving tribute to Bucky Dent at Fenway Park.

My custom-coded HumorBoy 2000™ algorithm has completed its nightly batch run and calculated the winners with the highest crackariffic humor quotient.

Drumroll, please...

Ladies and gentlemen, you're winners are:

20. A Sizzler Restaurant at Waco - Roach Liberation Front
19. The Billy Graham Revival TV Special Live from Mecca, Saudi Arabia! - Kool Kracker (mod.)
18. NOW office in Tehran - Effin' Cracker
17. The Ted Kennedy First Responder Award - Call Me Lennie
16. CAIR's First Annual Miss Gorgeous Goat Pageant at the Ohio State Fair - Crackatoa (mod.)
15. Brady Institute Civilian Marksman Program - ANA
14. Space Shuttle Challenger Simulator Theme Ride - Cracker Snatcher (mod.)
13. The Michael Jackson Preschool and Daycare Center - The Bad
13. The Jane Fonda USO Tour - Grand Cyclops Abe
12. Obama hitting the first tee to open the Masters – Kool Kracker
11. A cracker factory in South Central LA – Crackatoa
10. A National Rifle Association endorsement of Harry Reid… oh, wait… - My2Crackers
9. A planned parenthood at Vatican City – Effin’ Cracker
8. Singing ‘He’s a jolly good fellow’ at Barry’s birthday party – Crackatoa
7. The Martin Luther King Award for helping to bring about the end of racism to the NAACP – Dan Ryan Galt
6. A sushi stand at the Iwo Jima memorial in Washington, D.C – Betula
5. Henry Waxman on the cover of GQ magazine. Or worse, Barney Frank in Playgirl – Even Steven
4. A rifle range in the Texas schoolbook Depository Building – Roach Liberation Front
3. Barack Obama Presidential Library in Independence Hall – Illustr8r
2. A mushroom burger in Nagasaki – Crackatoa
1. Photo of Obama throwing a baseball on the Wheaties box – Even Steven

Let me be the first to congratulate all of our winners, a talented bunch all. As for the losers, better luck next time, FAILures!


Kewl: Obama Stimulus Program 'Saves or Creates' Three Million Homeless!

When a relatively affluent town like Annapolis, Maryland begins suffering from wave after wave of homelessness, you know the Democrats' "trickle-up economics" program is working to perfection.

In Annapolis, less than half a mile from the State House and Governor's Mansion, a colony of homeless people live under the College Creek Bridge on Rowe Boulevard. On Friday, no one was there when a reporter and photographer visited, but clothing, chairs and drying laundry showed the site to be home to at least two groups of people.

Figures provided by the county Department of Social Services show that homelessness is indeed on the rise. In 2009, the department recorded more than 1,000 homeless adults, compared with 550 two years earlier. The number of homeless children jumped from 429 in 2007 to 960 last year, figures show.

"We are seeing an increase, mostly in the area of homeless adults, because people are losing their jobs and their homes," said Marci Kennai, county director of social services.

...Zerhusen founded HOPE in 2004 .. Last year, the charity helped 83 families. This year, volunteers have assisted nearly 100 - and the year's only half over... "A lot of what's happening is because of the economy," Zerhusen said.

Other charities are experiencing the same crushing need... The Rev. Ed Jansen, director of the Emmaus Center in Glen Burnie, said he is "absolutely swamped" with people in need. The center, which he opened with his wife in 2008, serves breakfast and lunch to homeless people and also provides counseling services. Jansen estimates that he serves about 1,200 meals a month.

"We're adequately serving our people, but we're just overwhelmed by the need," Jansen said.

Obama's wealth redistribution model -- "trickle-up economics" -- makes about as much sense as teaching trigonometry to reindeer.

So -- you feel stimulated yet?


Larwyn's Linx: The Tea Party Isn't Racist; The Key to a Real Revolution

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Nation

The Tea Party Isn't Racist: Daily Beast
Grandma's Dying Wish - Vote Harry Reid Out of Office: LegalIns
A Ten-Step Reset Regimen for the President: Hanson

The Key to a Real Revolution: AT
Attn: Bart Stupak--ObamaCare Now Funding Abortion: RWN
9 states back Arizona immigration law: WashExam

Economy

Berwick: Rationing for thee, lifetime coverage for me: Pundette
Krugman creeps up on an insight: JOM
Dying Illinois Announces Another Massive Bond Offering: Insider

American Reinvestment and Recovery Act signs big business: Caller
Flashback: Taxpayer-designed porkulus signs: Malkin
Obama Sues IL County For Enforcing Immigration Law: RWN

Climate & Energy

Hold Your Nose: I Smell Cap-And-Trade: AT
Dems block amendment to ensure press access to spill: WashExam
Not all oil wells and oil companies are alike: Marathon

Media

Not an Idea, But a Warning: GoV
Next Up in Washington, a Media Czar?: Rosett
Top Ten most Left-Biased American Journalists: #10 = Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times: RWN

Do The 13 Keys To The Presidency Mean Obama Is Destined To Be Reelected?: RWN
Black civil rights activist Michael Meyers: 'the NAACP is now a political arm of the White House': BlogProf
NAACP, Media Owe Tea Parties Major Apology: Cashill

An Uncomfortable Position: VodkaPundit
Hope and Change and the Scariest Movie Scene Ever: Grand Old Partisan
Fed loses it; publishes essay bashing econ bloggers: EPJ

World

A Letter to the President on Libya: NewZeal
Obama Looks Backward: at Lenin: AT
Britain's Tax Grab Backfires: Malkin

'A Nation Free of Sharia': Malkin
Khamenei Assures Iran of Victory Over Evil Enemies: GWP
Maryland nuclear reactor raises foreign ownership concerns: WashExam

SciTech

Net neutrality comes back to haunt Google: FT
Should You Be Allowed to Know What’s in Your DNA?: PJM
Boeing's Hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye Preps For Ground: AviationWeek

Cornucopia

Tee Party: SondraK
Robo-Love Experiment #1: MNR
Todaze haute couture oil spill vear wtf: SondraK

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Slavery, Democrat-style

Is there anything worse than a person who intentionally hurts a child? Who abuses a child? Who steals from a child?

Last year in Greenville, South Carolina, a man approached a mother and daughter selling Girl Scout cookies at the Bi-Lo on West Wade Hampton Boulevard.

He asked to buy a box of lemon cookies. When the mother turned around, he grabbed their cash box -- which contained $300 -- and fled.

The suspect was described as "a white male with dirty blonde hair between the ages of 25-35, approximately 5’8 and 170 pounds, wearing blue jeans, a denim coat and a baseball hat."

The little girl -- a first year Girl Scout -- was heartbroken. The suspect was never identified.

In the spring of 2009, Idaho high school students visited Washington and carried with them a petition. The students -- fearful of massive deficit spending -- called for a balanced budget.

Democrat budgets for the foreseeable future quadruple the annual deficit: the record-setting figure for 2010 is roughly $1.9 trillion. Obama's claim about cutting the deficit in half in a few years is a fairy tail -- like "slashing prices" by 50 percent the day after you’ve doubled them.

And the administration blatantly lied, stating that tax increases would not affect 95 percent of taxpayers. New taxes on energy -- under the fraudulent "cap-and-trade" regime -- will force every business in America to raise its prices. Taxpayers will be wounded... directly and indirectly.

Democrats also used every budgeting gimmick, every payoff and bribe, every sleazy tactic possible to pass socialized medicine, a failure everywhere it's been tried -- into the Statists' plans. As for the $45 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities represented by Medicare and Medicaid? On that subject, Obama is utterly silent.

Obama and the rest of the Democrats want to tell you how much energy you can use (smart grids that can automatically shut off your air conditioner), whether you can give money to charities and which kinds of toilets you can buy.

Even ignoring his oppressive energy taxes, every dollar of Obama's new debt means that future taxes must be $1 higher in present-value terms. This translates to a discounted present-value legacy of $6.5 trillion of new, future taxes.

The tax burden each family of four can expect? $163,000. Let me repeat that: $163,000 for each and every tax-paying household in America.

Your children... my children... our grandchildren... are all slaves to the Obama budget. Because Barack Obama and his comrades in Congress are ideologues. They could care less about the economy.

They're beholden to ACORN, the SEIU, the NEA, the AFT, the ACLU and trial lawyers of every vintage and variety.

As subscribers to a failed ideology, Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the radical Statists are consigning our descendants to slavery. Girl Scouts. Boy Scouts. Toddlers. Infants. The unborn.

If you don't vote in November to throw out every Democrat possible, I would simply apologize in advance to your kids for the inevitable destruction of their unchecked policies.


Obama's Debt Commission: Obama's Debt Will Destroy Us

Erskine Bowles is head of President Obama's "Deficit Commission". Populated mostly with academics, union hacks and other Statists, there's little doubt that the commission has a singular task. Its recommendation -- to solve America's burgeoning deficit -- will assuredly involve new and higher taxes. The commission is such a partisan farce that its recommendations are being deliberately delayed until after the November midterm elections.

So when Bowles got a chance to give his opinion on Sunday, he stunned observers with a frank assessment that -- truth be told -- was a harsh indictment of every Democrat President from FDR to BHO.

As a president, it's one thing to know you have a big fiscal problem. It's quite another when a panel you appointed tells you the policies you have in mind will only make things worse.

That's what happened Sunday, when leaders of President Obama's deficit commission offered up the darkest of outlooks for our financial future — calling current trends in U.S. budgets a "cancer" that will "destroy the country from within" unless halted soon.

Though Bowles further opined that higher taxes wouldn't be the answer, he did hint that "increased government revenue" -- a codeword for higher taxes -- could be in the cards.

Studies show that government spending should remain below 20% for optimal efficiency and highest growth rates. Problem is, the current Obama budget is already around 25% of GDP (versus a long-term average of 18%). By 2030, that figure will rise to an oppressive 32% of GDP. Americans would have to pay around 80% higher taxes -- nearly double what they pay now -- to fund the massive bureaucracies.

What Bowles is really saying is that: Democrat policies are dead in the water. Our society will collapse unless we get our fiscal house in order.

We've tried the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Square Deal, Great Society, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Amtrak and every program in between. All are bankrupt. The Democrats stole the money and lied to you, the American public, about "trust funds" and "lock boxes".

They stole the money. If we give them more money, they'll steal that too. And remember: they're not just stealing from us. They're stealing from our children, grandchildren and generations into the future.

Bowles said, "This debt is like a cancer... It is truly going to destroy the country from within."

Whether he intended it as an indictment or not, his statement served its purpose. Bowles agrees with conservatives that the policies of Obama, Pelosi and Reid are disastrous. Dangerous. And they must be stopped -- the Democrats must meet political obliteration in November.

The alternative -- Democrats remain in power -- is too ugly a scenario to contemplate; but suffice it to say that the future would then look a lot like a place called Thunderdome.


Last gasp of a desperate NAACP: follows White House orders, plays race card to prevent even more blacks and Hispanics from joining Tea Party

The NAACP was founded in 1909 to advance the cause of equality for black Americans. Over the years it defended the rights of disenfranchised voters, fought segregation, and battled southern Democrats who continually attempted to craft legislation to harm African-Americans.

That proud history, however, has been subsumed in recent years by a series of increasingly partisan decisions that emphasize victimhood and reliance on government handouts. In essence, the NAACP leadership relies upon the Democrat Party -- no matter how awful their policies are -- and vice versa. An example is its implicit tolerance of teachers' unions at the expense of charter schools that benefit poor, urban kids most.

The group's latest embarrassment involves a resolution that claimed the grass roots Tea Parties were, by and large, "racist". The assertion was so patently ludicrous that even legacy media outlets couldn't keep a straight face.

...former Alaska governor Sarah Palin sent out a Twitter message about the group Tuesday, helping to make the NAACP convention a hot topic on conservative Web sites. She condemned the organization's passage of a resolution denouncing what it called "racist elements" within the "tea party" movement... The statement, which won overwhelming support among the group's voting members, sparked a round of denials from grass-roots conservatives and lots of media coverage.

The notion that the Tea Party movement is racist is laughably outrageous. Active Tea Party members belong to every race, religion, creed, color and culture.

Michael Meyers, New York's Civil Rights Coalition Leader slammed the NAACP yesterday for its idiotic claims.

So why would the NAACP market such a lie?

They're scared of even more blacks and Hispanics joining the Tea Party. Better to label them racists and hope that some folks are scared away.

The only thing even remotely racist about the Tea Party is the NAACP's bogus assertion.

To top things off, the NAACP has been reduced to the traditional Jackson-Sharpton modality of corporate shakedowns.

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous also released a letter to BP chief executive Tony Hayward, asking to meet with company officials to discuss his "outrage" that minority contractors are apparently being left out in the cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Today's NAACP is an anachronism and a laughingstock -- not necessarily in that order.


Related:

Tea Party Express Spokesman: 'Send The NAACP to the Trash Heap of History Where They Belong With The Other Vile Racist Groups'
Ron Miller -- From Justice to Joke
Black Sphere -- the NAACP is Racist.
NAACP to vote Tuesday on resolution decrying racism of Tea Party; also vows to emulate Tea Party to achieve success

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