Wednesday, September 01, 2010

When Leftist Drones Attack!

Apparently, asking a question about an unusual display of military medals and ribbons on civilian attire has raised the hackles of the hard left Democrats. In this case, a thread on Free Republic mentioned the magically expanding ribbon rack of one Connie Pillich, an Ohio Democrat legislator and hard-core tax-and-spend liberal in the mold of Nancy Pelosi.

Many veterans pointed out the display of medals and ribbons on civilian attire appeared, well, a bit tacky. But one extremely brave commenter named Anonymous ripped this august journal for even discussing the topic.

The last time someone made fun of a veteran was when Mean Jean Schmidt made her infamous comment that became a Saturday Night Live legend.

Be careful who you piss-off. Veterans don't like to see criticism of one of their own, especially when neither you nor Wilson have done anything to serve your county.

Representative Pillich has served her country.

Questioning her medals was one area you never should have touched, especially as a front for Wilson.

You have discredited yourself and your blog.

I think you can call her Representative Schmidt, nut-rack. As for myself and Wilson, you have no idea who we are or what we've done, crap-clown.

Oh. Yes. I'm sure our proud vets and their families really appreciate the Democrat Party's support:

• John 'Our Soldiers are terrorizing women and children' Kerry: "I am confident it will not work... I am confident it will. Not. Work."

• Nancy 'Stretch' Pelosi: "The surge has failed."

• Little Dick Durbin: "The administration's policy in Iraq has failed."

• Diane 'Franken' Feinstein: "Today a majority of the Senate sees that the Surge is not working!"

• Patrick 'Traitor' Leahy: "We know that the President's Surge policy has not worked."

• Harry 'The Body Odor' Reid: "The war is lost. The surge is not working."

• Barack Obama: "20,000 troops is [sic] not going to make a difference."

Yes, I'm sure all of our veterans, the families of our veterans, our heroes, appreciate this despicable behavior by a political party that openly roots for our troops' failure -- for partisan gain -- while they are on the field of battle!

But don't question their patriotism!

Now get the hell off my blog, you Marxist loser. Never sully the pages of my blog again! And don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.


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Democrats' Recovery Motel: Small Business Goes In and Never Comes Out

Lest you still have doubts that Democrats aren't trying to destroy the economy in a flaming hari kari attack, please consider the following three news stories from earlier today.

• President Obama and the Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, will appear at
the AFL-CIO's Labor Day rally:

It's been announced that President Obama will be attending the AFL-CIO's Labor Day rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin next month. Along for the ride will be Sec. of Labor Hilda Solis... Naturally Obama is still sounding his horn for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) as well as pushing his healthcare ideas.

Now for a question: How seemly is it for a U.S. Secretary of Labor to attend a political rally for Big Labor? After all, the Sec. of Labor is ostensibly supposed to be the middle man between labor and business, the arbiter that decides the big fights between the two antagonists. If the Sec. of Labor is seen glad handing Big Labor, what message does that send the business community?

Of course, it sends the message that government is a friend to Big Labor and [an] enemy to [the] business community. But that message isn't any different than the message that Obama has been sending since the day he became president.

Business groups fighting for their lives:

Business groups plan to go on offense against vulnerable Senate Democrats in their backyards to mark Monday's Labor Day holiday... Local groups will target Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Rep. Paul Hodes, the Democrat running for Senate in New Hampshire, and Kentucky Senate Democratic candidate Jack Conway in their states over their records on labor-related issues.

Local chapters of groups like the National Federation of Independent Business, state Associated Builders and Contractors and other commerce and retail groups will hold events on Monday targeting the incumbents and candidates, particularly on their stance on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, or "card-check").

Top Economist Warns Congress: Passing Pair of Union-Backed Bills Would Create a ‘Ponzi Scheme as Bad as Bernie Madoff’:
An economist at the nonpartisan Hudson Institute says that if House and Senate Democrats pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) -- known as the “card check bill” -- in this Congress, it would create a “ponzi scheme” environment.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, told CNSNews.com on Tuesday that implementing card check would allow unions to swell their ranks with new members who would have to be signed up and pay money into failing union pension plans...

“It shouldn’t be allowed,” she said. “It’s a ponzi scheme as bad as Bernie Madoff.”

Sounds like Social Security, only tinier.

Small business is being squashed under the oppressive heels of the Democrats. It's gotten so bad that even members of the Federal Reserve board are arguing about the cause of the recession.

...Federal Reserve officials wrestled with a slew of questions about the disappointing recovery before deciding at a fractious Aug. 10 meeting to prevent their securities portfolio from shrinking...

High unemployment was one issue. Several Fed officials argued that business was frozen by uncertainty about taxes, regulations and health- care costs. Others said the job market was paralyzed by structural changes, "such as mismatches between unemployed workers' skills and the needs of employers with job openings." Several agreed that the economy lacked sufficient demand from consumer spending and business investment to get firms to hire.

Gee, ya think?

It's a summer of recovery, alright. For unions.


Oh My: Budding Comedy Writer Steve Driehaus (D-OH) Says He's a 'Fiscal Conservative'

Can't... Breathe... Laughing... Hold... Hold... On... Must... Catch... Breath...

Wow. I think I just wrenched my clavicle. Okay.

Sorry about that. Just watched... this commercial:

In which Nancy Pelosi's cabana boy and erstwhile 'Blue Dog' Democrat Steve Driehaus (OH-1) claims to be a fiscal conservative. Seriously. After he voted for the:

• Cap-and-Trade Energy Tax
• The $787 $860 billion 'Stimulus' Bill
• The half-a-trillion dollar Omnibus Spending Bill
• ObamaCare Socialized Medicine
• The 'Financial Reform' Boondoggle That Didn't Touch Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac

And who certainly didn't read any of these massive, oppressive bills. Driehaus barely won his Congressional seat in 2008 in a very conservative district. He was also one of the so-called pro-life Stupak Democrats who caved for an empty promise by the most radical pro-abortion President in American history.

Now Driehaus won't even mention his party. And I don't blame him.

But everyone knows Driehaus is a Democrat. And calling Driehaus a fiscal conservative is somewhat akin to President Axelrod running this kind of campaign in 2012:

Expect it. But everyone knows now that there are no moderate Democrats. At least not since the hard left Soros Marxists took over the party.

So please send a few bucks over to Conservative Republican Steve Chabot. He's a former Congressman, running against Steve "Pelosi's Cabana Boy" Driehaus, and who actually is who he says he is. Which would be a refreshing change from the modern National Social Democrat Party.


Larwyn's Linx: Amnesty -- It's Already Happening

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Nation

Amnesty -- It's Already Happening: RWN
Palin's Advice to Obama: Certain to be Ignored: GWP
Oh Dear, Break Out the Pudding -- Murkowski Concedes: Ace

Let's Review--How Palin Dominates GOP: AmDig
A Communist Agent in Bernie Sanders' Camp?: NoisyRoom
What American President Would Do That?: AT

Economy

Iowa Electronic Markets update: TigerHawk
Caution: Big Labor hypocrisy at work: Malkin
It's the Spending, Stupid: Blumer

The Arrogance of The Public Employee Union Member: RWN
Even in Ohio, Communists Back Dem Bill O’Neill: NoisyRoom
A Termite-Riddled House: Treasury Bonds: ZH

Proof: Democrats at Fault for Recession: RHP
Oops: Left Can't Blame War for Deficit: Investors
Investment Implications of Votto's At Bat: Sargen

Climate & Energy

Very interesting read on Sarah Palin: NoisyRoom
A climate warmer guru bails and talks about it--and Al Gore: MagNote
Three More Outrageously False Statements from NOAA: PJM

Media

Carlson: I'll Donate $1K to Charity if the Idea Wizard Behind ‘Recovery Summer’ Steps Forward: WZ
The Left Brought The Wave Down On Itself: LegalIns
Go Ahead, Ed: R&R

The Media Loses Readers and Viewers to its Own Radicalism: Sultan Knish
Liberals Just Can't Figure Out The Tea Party: Gormogons
CNN’s Zakaria Presents Hezbollah as a Model of Religious Tolerance: GWP

The Couric-Rich Model--The Five Stages of MSM Grief: Driscoll
WaPo: Beck Rally Raises Questions: Patterico
Beck launches 'Conservative HuffPo': Treacher

Fair and Balanced: Today Show Hosts Race Hustlers: BlogProf
C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' -- Home of the Anti-Jewish Lunatic Fringe: AT

World

Barack Obama on Iraq: Then and now: Malkin
Terrorist Trial Run Intercepted: RWN
Iraq, Obama and the Surge: Captain's Journal

Muslim Brotherhood Gets Direct Access to White House, Gov. Rick Perry -- Not So Much: MagNote
History Written By the Losers: Doc Zero
Iranian Regime: The Zionist Nation Is Going Nowhere But Towards Annihilation: GWP

SciTech

HP Holds Navy Network ‘Hostage’ for $3.3 Billion: Wired
HP to pay $55 million to settle kickback allegations: CNet
DOJ New Website Banner: Janet Reno Eric Holder Both Fond of New Quote: MagNote

Cornucopia

Economics and Wars and Religion. Oh My!: MOTUS
There Was Edison, Tesla, Oppenheimer, Ford – Now There is Zable: iOTW
Alcoholic Animals – Drunk Baboons: Sad Hill News

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Still Life With President Obama Metaphor


Via Victor the Contractor.

Bank of America's Jeffrey Rosenberg: Smell the Change, As Expiration of Bush Tax Cuts Will Kill 1.3% of America's Entire Economic Output

Prepare for the powerful thrusts of the Obama recovery.

As our economics team has highlighted, the policy implication of most pressing concern is the expiration of Bush tax cuts. They estimate an impact of 2% annualized reduction in household income worth about 1.3% of GDP, and that such an increase if not reversed could trigger a double-dip recession.

...The political shifts affect that outcome with one school of thought that a divided congress raises the odds of no legislation (and hence a default scenario of expiration). In the face of increasing evidence of a slowing economy, a compromise to avoid a fiscal tightening that could exacerbate the risks of a double dip likely rises, in our view. The question will be one of timing – can a compromise be reached ahead of the election (in our view, unlikely), in a lame duck session (again unlikely).

...In our view, that leaves a retroactive extension passed in January as the most likely compromise. But the damage to confidence in the intervening period may already be done under such a potential scenario. A further deceleration in the data may yet change that assessment, but in the intervening period, political uncertainty will not positively contribute to the economic outlook already diminished by a successive wave of negative data.

I can summarize this in one sentence: Democrats are economic illiterates.

By the way, you can also thank John McCain for the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. 'Cause he's a 'maverick'.


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The Obama Crime Wave of 2020

Caution: this is not a snarky post. Zero-percent snark. I want to connect a few dots for you. Additional caution: you may want to sit down.

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 1  USA Today headline: Record number in government anti-poverty programs

Government anti-poverty programs... now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand... More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, the federal-state program aimed principally at the poor...

...More than 40 million people get food stamps, an increase of nearly 50% during the economic downturn, according to government data through May. The program has grown steadily for three years...

...Close to 10 million receive unemployment insurance, nearly four times the number from 2007. Benefits have been extended by Congress eight times beyond the basic 26-week program, enabling the long-term unemployed to get up to 99 weeks of benefits. Caseloads peaked at nearly 12 million in January — "the highest numbers on record," says Christine Riordan of the National Employment Law Project, which advocates for low-wage workers.

More than 4.4 million people are on welfare, an 18% increase during the recession...

In February 2009 Robert Rector, quoted in the London Sunday Times, predicted that the Obama Democrats' expansion of welfare, food stamps and unemployment would be disastrous.

One of the few undisputed triumphs of American government of the past 20 years – the sweeping welfare reform programme that sent millions of dole claimants back to work – has been plunged into jeopardy by billions of dollars in state handouts included in the president’s controversial economic stimulus package...

...Robert Rector, a prominent welfare researcher who was one of the architects of Clinton's 1996 reform bill, warned last week that Obama’s stimulus plan was a “welfare spendathon” that would amount to the largest one-year increase in government handouts in American history... Despite dire warnings that reduced benefits for single mothers and deadlines on entitlement would create a social calamity – one liberal senator warned at the time that children would be “sleeping on grates” – the 1996 reforms cut welfare rolls from more than 5m families in 1995 to below 2m a decade later without a discernible increase in hardship.

In other words, the Obama 'Stimulus' program was intended to massively expand the welfare state. But wait! There's more!

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 2  Increasing welfare and food stamps leads to more kids born to unwed mothers

The statistical link between the availability of welfare and out-of-wedlock births is conclusive. There have been dozens of studies that link the availability of welfare benefits to out-of-wedlock births.

One study found that a 50 percent increase in the value of AFDC and foodstamp payments led to a 43 percent increase in the number of out-of-wedlock births.

A 1996 paper describes the correlation in ominous terms.

...Out-of-wedlock births are strongly related to welfare dependency. A 1 percent increase in the welfare dependent population in a state increases the number of births to single mothers by about 0.5 percent...

...Welfare dependency reduces employment. A 1 percent increase in the dependent population increases the number who are not employed by about 0.1 percent... An increase in welfare benefits reduces employment by increasing the number of welfare dependents. An increase in AFDC benefits by 1 percent of average income increases the number who are not employed by about 0.5.

In other words, if you ratchet up welfare benefits, you get reduced employment and more single-parent families.

Now, why am I telling you this?

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 3  Single-parent families correlate to higher crime rates

In 1995, Dr. Patrick Fagan wrote a seminal summary of the situation: "Over the past thirty years, the rise in violent crime parallels the rise in families abandoned by fathers... High-crime neighborhoods are characterized by high concentrations of families abandoned by fathers... The rate of violent teenage crime corresponds with the number of families abandoned by fathers...

"Neighborhoods with a high degree of religious practice are not high-crime neighborhoods... Even in high-crime inner-city neighborhoods, well over 90 percent of children from safe, stable homes do not become delinquents. By contrast only 10 percent of children from unsafe, unstable homes in these neighborhoods avoid crime... Criminals capable of sustaining marriage gradually move away from a life of crime after they get married."

Of 23 peer-reviewed U.S. studies since 2000, 20 found that family structure directly affects crime and/or delinquency.

"[R]esearch strongly suggests both that young adults and teens raised in single-parent homes are more likely to commit crimes, and that communities with high rates of family fragmentation (especially unwed childbearing) suffer higher crime rates as a result."

For example, a 23-year study found that nearly 90% of the change in violent crime rates can be attributed to the change in percentages of out-of-wedlock births (divorce rates, on the other hand, had no relationship with crime).

In The Atlantic Monthly, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead noted that the "relationship [between single-parent families and crime] is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime. This conclusion shows up time and again in the literature. The nation's mayors, as well as police officers, social workers, probation officers, and court officials, consistently point to family break up as the most important source of rising rates of crime."

Let me repeat the most important statement -- "controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime."

Single-parent families generally lead to increased levels of crime; and there are no significant differences between blacks, whites, or any other race when it comes to this simple fact.

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 4  Recap:

• Fact: There are a record number of Americans dependent upon government anti-poverty programs thanks to the Obama Democrats
• Fact: Expanded access to welfare and food stamps greatly increases the number of children born to unwed mothers
• Fact: Single-parent families correlate to higher crime rates
Conclusion: with the unprecedented increase in welfare, food stamps and unemployment, we will also see an unparalleled increase in violent crime within the next dozen or so years.

Obama and his Democrats sycophants in Congress will have created hundreds of thousands of single-parent families. These kids, born out-of-wedlock, will find themselves trapped in lives of criminality at far higher rates than kids from two-parent families.

Fast forward a dozen years, give or take a couple, and we will see a true Obama Crime Wave. I predict that we will see an unprecedented increase in crime. In fact, you could call it historic.

And the question is not whether it will happen. The question is whether the Obama Left is doing it on purpose.


Laser-focused on jobs, Obama 'Justice' Department files another Arizona lawsuit to intimidate employers into hiring more illegal immigrants

This should help the unemployment rate

The Washington Post reports that the Obama Justice Department has filed yet another lawsuit in Arizona. This one is intended to intimidate employers into more permissive hiring practices, which will translate into more jobs for illegal aliens. And therefore more undocumented Democrats.

The Justice Department filed another lawsuit against immigration practices by Arizona authorities, saying Monday that a network of community colleges acted illegally in requiring noncitizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs...

In Monday's lawsuit, Justice officials said the colleges discriminated against nearly 250 noncitizen job applicants by mandating that they fill out more documents than required by law to prove their eligibility to work. That violated the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, the department said... The government is asking a judge within the Justice Department unit to order the Maricopa colleges to pay a civil penalty of $1,100 for each of the 247 non-U.S.-citizen job applicants it says were required to produce the additional documents. It says the colleges ended the practice in January.

A quarter of a million dollar fine will definitely have employers thinking twice about checking job candidates' bonafides. And that is the intent.

And it's but one step among many.

Humiliating: The Obama State Department reported Arizona's new immigration law to the United Nations' Human Rights Council for its review. A bigger cast of despots, tyrants and torturers you'd be hard-pressed to assemble anywhere. The UN 'Human Rights' Council includes China, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, Tunisia and Egypt. The State Department is asking the council to review possible human rights violations by Arizona.

Demeaning: The Obama 'Justice' Department has also announced its intent to investigate Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Arizona's popular law enforcement official. His 'crime'? Pursuing illegal immigrants.

Destructive: In the midst of a civil war in Mexico, with at least 28,000 fatalities, President Obama decided to declare war -- on Arizona. Its lawsuit against the beleaguered state was preceded by a series of affronts.

The president has stiffed Gov. Jan Brewer's call for meaningful assistance in efforts to secure the border. And the White House has accused Arizona's junior senator, Republican Jon Kyl, of lying about an Oval Office discussion with the president over comprehensive immigration reform... [and] Brewer was appalled to learn the Justice Department's intentions not from the Justice Department but from an interview done by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with an Ecuadorian TV outlet.

This administration -- and its 'Justice' Department -- is completely out of control. It is acting without restraint and in clear violation of federal law. Its one goal is not protecting American citizens--it is to create as many Democrat voters for the midterm elections as possible.

America, it's November or never. And that's no joke.


Hat tip: Sad Hill News.

Larwyn's Linx: Grassroots Organization... For Morons

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Nation

Grassroots Organization... For Morons: Ace
Delaware, GOP need fresh blood: Christine O’Donnell: Malkin
'The most divisive president since Nixon': Driscoll

It's (Joe) Miller Time!: RWN
How to Boot Barney Frank: Malkin
Possible vote tampering by Murkoswki observer?: Riehl

Economy

DOE head urged employees to attend Sharpton rally: WashExam
Culture of dependency: Record number on government dole: Malkin
SEIU Stands Up for “Amercan” Dream: GWP

Ideological War Spells Doom for America’s Schoolkids: Zombie
Covering up for George Soros: AT
He Needs to Check His Economic Garmin: Geraghty

Like a bad recording, Obama blames Bush: GWP
All This and Weimar, Too: The Million Reichsmark March: Driscoll
Obama's Xavier Speech, Deconstructed: Hayride

Climate & Energy

What If They Held A Climate Creationist Event, And No One Came?: RWN
Obama Climate Czar Carol Browner Is Causing The Bedbug Epidemic: BlogProf
EPA backs off on Second Amendment, but will be back: RWN

Media

Interview: Ladd Ehlinger, Jr.: Ace
Muslim Brotherhood Applauds Newsweek for Attacking “Stealth Jihad and Creeping Sharia” as Racist Terms…: WZ
A Disservice To 9/11 Victims And Andrew Roman: RSM

Journolister Creates Unintentionally Ironic Newsweek Cover: iOTW
The Huffington Post has editorial standards, apparently: Treacher
Obama's "Spiritual Advisers": Hindenblog

The Secret Behind Those Big Conspiracy Poll Numbers: RWN
Smells Like Teen Spirit: Driscoll
Decrying Witch Hunts By … Hunting Witches!: GM's Place

World

Pair on Chicago-Amsterdam Flight Arrested for Terrorism: Driscoll
Death Threats and Security: Atlas (Language)
Predictable: Canadian Jihadi Tied to Mastercard Islamic Charity: Jawa

Likely Terror Attack ‘Dry Run’ Exposes Dangerous TSA Missteps: PJM
Total Costs of Iraq War Less Than Obama-Democrats' Economic Porkulus Package: AmPower
Enforced Misery: The PA and the Balata ‘Refugee’ Camp: PJM

SciTech

World's most amazing subwoofer has no woofer: CNet
BlackBerry Yields in India Squeeze: Maktoob
Microsoft hungry to eat VMWare's lunch: CNet

Cornucopia

Once In a Life Time: With God’s Will and Your Votes: MOTUS
Lawsuit of the Day: No Oil for Pacifiists
Report: Scout clocks Reds' pitching prospect Chapman at 105 mph: Yahoo!

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