Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Obama under a crescent moon. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

An extreme closeup reveals a few additional details.



Hat tip and headline: Doug Powers. Image: White House Image Cache.

Supporting the Leftist Politicians Americans Won't Support: 'Boxer Campaigners Hire Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina'

Q: "Can I ask you a question?"
A: "I don't speak English".
Q: "Did you make this sign?"
A: "There's a lady that pay..."


An amateur videographer appears to have captured proof that illegal immigrants day laborers were paid to protest against Republican Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina.

...one of the men clearly says he did not make the sign -- another appears to say a "lady" was paying them to hold it... "These people don't even know what they're protesting and they're being asked to hold signs," Broes said. "It's a manufactured protest."

The Boxer campaign insists it had nothing to do with the scene. The campaign said it does not pay or offer to pay anybody to hold signs and nobody interviewed in the amateur video was with the Boxer campaign...

...Broes said the lady appeared to be with the Boxer campaign, considering she showed up when an official-looking truck arrived with the campaign signs.

But the Boxer campaign aide said nobody on staff recognized the woman or the people she was with. "They were not ours," the aide said.

The Fiorina campaign could not confirm the claims but said the scenario points to potential problems in Boxer's base... "If these allegations are true it is disappointing. If Barbara Boxer had to pay people to protest on her behalf it is a clear sign that the enthusiasm gap is wider than we thought and a sure sign that the people of California have had enough of her 28 years of out of touch failed policies," the Fiorina campaign said in a statement.

Broes, a former Microsoft executive who worked with Fiorina when she was heading up Hewlett-Packard, said he wasn't planning to shoot video of the Boxer activity when he first showed up at the debate site -- ironically, that debate focused in part on immigration and outsourcing. Broes said he was just carrying a camera to shoot generic footage and decided to videotape when he saw the men from the U-Haul site.

He said the men disappeared, along with the signs, shortly after he started shooting video and asking questions.

"Apparently they thought they were going to get paid," he said. "They're not volunteering their time out there standing in the hot sun."

Watch the video. Then visit Carly Fiorina's website and help end the disgusting political career of Barbara Boxer.


Yikes: Barbara Boxer approved material support for terrorists

Just when you thought California's dwarf Marxist Senator (I hear that's the description she prefers) couldn't be more radical, we discover just a little bit more about the true Barbara Boxer.

On October 12, Scott Swett at the American Thinker reported that Senator Barabara Boxer (D-CA) along with Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) secured diplomatic courtesy letters that allowed anti-American Code Pink activists to travel to Fallujah, Iraq. The radicals traveled to Fallujah in late 2004 to donate $600,000 worth of humanitarian aid to the people who had just killed 51 Americans and wounded 560 more earlier that month. Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah was the heaviest US urban combat since the Vietnam War.

No wonder Senator Ma'am showed such disdain for Brigadier General Michael Walsh. She really does despise the troops.

Perhaps the most revealing window into Boxer’s true feelings towards our military is her close alliance with Code Pink, a radical leftist group that reviles American troops as terrorists and assassins while praising their enemies as freedom fighters. For years, Code Pink has viciously harassed wounded veterans and their families outside Walter Reed Hospital, even telling the mother of a slain Navy Seal that her son “deserved to die.” Code Pink actively supports terror groups such as Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban, Hezbollah and al Qaeda.

The Code Pink website repeatedly praises “our beloved Barbara Boxer.” And why not? Boxer has worked with the group and supported its goals on many occasions. In early 2005, Boxer was the only member of the Senate to oppose certifying the Electoral College result that returned George Bush to office for a second term. Code Pink hosted rallies and participated in various demonstrations and marches to “defend democracy” against the results of the 2004 elections. They wrapped up the event at Senator Boxer’s California office, “singing her songs of thanks.”

Code Pink’s leaders had just returned from Fallujah, Iraq, where 51 Americans had been killed and 560 wounded in the US Marines’ heaviest urban combat since the Vietnam War. Code Pink delivered $600,000 in cash and supplies to the very insurgents the Marines had been fighting against - quite literally giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies in a time of war. As noted in Islam Online, a diplomatic courtesy letter from Barbara Boxer helped make the trip possible.

Spread the news far and wide.

Boxer must be politically eradicated. Support Carly Fiorina for Senate and end the political career of this despicable shrew.


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Larwyn's Linx: You May Want to Walk Back From that Remark, Barry

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Nation

You May Want to Walk Back From that Remark, Barry: RedState
My Half-Assed Charmingly Quixotic Online GOTV Project Goes Live: Ace
CO Dem Party Chair Fears Voter Intimidation: NRO

Only 133 safe Democratic seats: Surber
Great Merciful Zeus: Sharon Angle raised $14M in 3Q: HillBuzz
It’s on: Sean Bielat vs. Barney Frank: Hot Air

Federal Judge: I've Decided Democracy Is Unconstitutional: Ace
Beheading On Our Side Of The Border: RWN
N.Y. To GIs: No Votes For You!: IBD

Economy

ObamaCare Will Shut Down Catholic Hospitals Nationwide: RWN
Barbara 'Call Me Ma'am' Boxer and Countrywide: DC
Don't Listen To Me, Listen to the Legal Experts: Denninger

Night Sweats of a Small Businessman: WashReb
The Bank of Central Planning: AT
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: DLSF (2/10)

Stimulate This: AT
'Trumka comes out of a history of militancy'--The truth from the Left: Ameristroika
Not Spending Enough?: JRubin

Climate & Energy

Celebrating American greatness…in Chile: Malkin
Dem Senate Candidate Blasts Climate Change Bill. Literally: RWN
Dems Drill for Enthusiasm: Obama Administration to Lift Gulf Deep Water Moratorium: Malkin

Media

A forgotten day of infamy: 10-year anniversary of the Cole bombing — and still no justice: Malkin
Arianna's $250K Bus to Jon Stewart Rally a 'Shock' at HuffPo HQ: Wrap
David Frum Weasels Out of a Morally-Suspect Corner: The 14 Errors in his Mea Culpa: RWN

Uncle Sam’s Plantation: RWN
Christine O’Donnell Launches New Ad: “The Tax Man”: GWP
Sink the QE2: IBD

The Seal Frontier: Belmont Club
Schooling Matthews: 'Palin's Had A Lot More Experience Than Obama': AT
We Don't Need No (Leftist) Education: AT

World

FBI Raid in MN Reveals New Global Terror Alliances: PJM
Why Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize Matters: PJM
Severed Head of Official Investigating Murdered American Jet-Skier Delivered--In a Suitcase: GWP

SciTech

Detroit Free Press clueless that the Chevy Volt is a hybrid: BlogProf
Nearing 50, Renaissance jock Herschel Walker breaks fitness rules: CNN
Meditation Proven to Boost Brain Efficiency: SmarterTech

Cornucopia

Breaking! Secret Chamber of Commerce Meeting REVEALED!: RedState
Michelle Obama’s Fashion Notebook Featuring Our Fall of Fabrication : MOTUS
Best. Pencil. Ever. (so they say): iOTW

Image: Michelle Malkin
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Bye bye Barney: Bielat has momentum. Help keep it going!

QOTD: "Sharon Angle’s campaign in Nevada just released its 3rd Quarter fundraising totals: it raised $14 million to defeat Harry Reid... This is stunning, folks...

...The reason Democrats have such a hard time understanding what’s going on is because this doesn’t happen for them. There is no 'grassroots', for real, on the Left. It’s pure astroturf. There aren’t millions of dollars that really come in $5 and $10 at a time from regular people. Democrats CLAIM that’s what happens, but in reality those are the unions forcing people to contribute or its money from Saudis and other Muslims that’s been run through money laundering operations on Martinique and broken up into $199 or less contributions so Democrats can mask the true identity of the donors...

...$14 million in the 3rd quarter of a midterm election is just unheard of…regular, average, working class people really, really want Harry Reid out of office in a bad way... Democrats should be terrified of that number, because I bet it’s happening all over the country with all sorts of candidates." -- Kevin Dujan


Tuesday, October 12, 2010

CNN Execs Shocked to Discover That Disgraced Perv and Liberal Media Hack Somehow Don't Resonate With Mr. and Mrs. America

Go figure: a hapless, failed politician with zero media experience and a pathetic drone of an op-ed writer have achieved the lowest Nielsen ratings for CNN in a decade. And, given its programming over that period, that's really quite an accomplishment.

CNN’s prime time ratings woes are only increasing with [its] new program Parker Spitzer.

Monday night was the lowest weekday prime time rating average in more than 10 years, since June 28, 2000. And it wasn’t just the 8pmET that was seeing low ratings.

Larry King had even lower ratings tha [sic] Parker Spitzer, with just 196,000 total viewers. That’s less than Rachel Maddow’s A25-54 demo average in the same hour...

My careful analysis has determined that Parker-Spitzer and King's combined ratings trailed those of MSNBC's Mr. Ed show. Another hilarious stat: the re-run of O'Reilly at 11pm beats the 8pm Olbermann slot in prime time. By 150%.

Eh, that can't be good.

I tried to start a helpful meme on Twitter (#ParkerSpitzerReplacements) to suggest some alternative pairings for CNN, but so far the company's executives haven't sent me a thank you note.


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The Perfect Symbols of the Obama Presidency

Reading Dale Brumfield's latest in Style Weekly ("Greek Tragedy"), I was reminded of the iconography of the Obama campaign and its relevance to the quickly crumbling 44th presidency.

On Aug. 28, 2008... Obama took the stage at Denver’s Invesco Field in front of thousands of adoring fans. In a weirdly ostentatious framing of Greek columns and pilasters[, he] decree[d] his intentions to fundamentally transform the world amid a storm of disaffection with George Bush, weariness of war, a lackluster McCain campaign and an economy in free-fall.

Admirers cheered, women swooned, media pundits and journalists pronounced him the savior of America and of the world while the deitylike echo ordered by the campaign producers reverberated. Hailed as a redeemer, his negligible political experience and enigmatic background were summarily dismissed while those of his opponent, Sen. John McCain and especially Sarah Palin, were fiercely examined and ridiculed in shameless displays of journalistic favoritism.

Even Los Angeles Times architectural critic Christopher Hawthorn submitted to his own leg-tingling adoration, writing the day following the speech that when Obama declared, “America, we cannot turn back,” he found himself “thinking about those columns... about how they were employed primarily to suggest time rolling backward all the way to the Greeks..."

Those columns represent the pluperfect symbols of the Obama presidency. They were exquisite reproductions of real columns: lightweight copies of massive cylinders hewn from granite, housing the first Republican governments whose sponsors have long since dissolved into the dust of history.

Obama's columns were, instead, constructed with styrofoam and tossed into a dumpster hours after the convention's conclusion.

As a candidate, Obama represented a transcendent Utopian ideal: a post-racial politician with an unprecedented ability to inspire and motivate through his speeches. He was a president who pledged bipartisanship and offered his bully pulpit as a lever to advance the rights of all Americans.

But within hours of taking office, Obama instead revealed himself to be a cheap copy of the politician who had so magnificently dominated the campaign trail. He was willing to divide Americans based upon race, gender, sexual preference, religion or income. He happily jammed through huge and unpopular pieces of legislation using bribes, threats and hoodwinkery. He escalated partisanship to a level never before seen in federal government, sometimes even threatening private entities for exercising their First Amendment rights.

The columns in Invesco Field represent the perfect icons for the 44th president.

Obama is nothing less than the Styrofoam President.


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The President's Coming to Boston: Is Barney Frank Behind the 8-Ball?

Stacy McCain reports that Barack Obama is coming to Boston, presumably to resurrect some troubled campaigns.

Gov. Deval Patrick’s campaign announced today that President Obama will be here Saturday for a fundraiser and public rally at the Hynes Convention Center.Every Tea Party and 9/12 group in Massachusetts is calling for volunteers to greet the president. We remember the turnout in January when Obama came to Boston to campaign for Martha Coakley.When Democrats have to bring the president to a deep-blue state like Massachusetts in October . . . ?


UPDATE: There are rumors that Barney Frank, concerned about Sean Bielat’s insurgency in the 4th District, has asked Obama to make an appearance in the Newton area. Please give to the Bielat money-bomb at Bye Bye Barney!


UPDATE II: Obama’s Boston event could be another omen of the Democrat mass-extinction event coming Nov. 2.

Given how disappointed and disillusioned Obama’s supporters are, my slow-typing friend Pete Da Tech Guy thinks Obama will actually hurt Democrats here...Speaking of fat guys: Bye Bye Barney!

And please: don't ask about Barney Frank's internal polling.*

Rimshot!

(*Not that there's anything wrong with that).


Ruh Roh: In 2010 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Gave 43% of its Contributions to Democrats

Jim Geraghty tweets, "As of September 13, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce PAC gave 43 percent of its donations to Democrats."

Oops.

Source: OpenSecrets.org.

Larwyn's Linx: Speaking of foreign money: Soros closes his wallet

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Nation

Speaking of foreign money: Soros closes his wallet: RWN
Schakowsky's Lousy Counter-Terror Policies: AT
Figures. Book Tosser Is a Crackpot Obamabot: GWP

The Democrats' Latest Cynical Ploy: NRO
Obama: Our First Post-Racial Failure: AT
Hey, Axelrod, Where's Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate?: Tapper

New York: Once Again Disenfranchising Military Voters: Adams
How to Get an Endorsement From N.O.W.: FA
Countermoonbat Ruth McClung Takes Off: Moonbattery

Economy

The Stupidity of Obama Attacking the Chamber of Commerce: Riehl
Union Realizes Labor Is Too Expensive, Proposes Cutting Rates: RWN
Public Sector Union Attacks Taxpayers With Propaganda Films: GWP

FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years: UCLA (2004)
No Margin of Safety, No Room for Error: Hussman
Shutting Up Business: WSJ

Climate & Energy

The Original Enviro-Nazis: AT
The Scientist Vote: IBD
5 Killed in Michigan Micro-Car Accident: BlogProf

Media

The Electric Tea Party Acid Test: Zombie
Outpouring of Affection for Cheney After He Appears at California Event: JWF
There Will Be (Electoral) Blood: DPU (Language Warning)

Dems Drop Complaint Against Fox for Donating to GOP, Media Mum: RWN
George Will Smacks Down Paul Krugman With Simple Reaganomics: NewsBusters
Whore-Gate: Who’s in Bed With Jerry Brown?: PJM

MSM Indifference Over Obama Book Incident Explained: Thrower is an Obamaniac, Not a Teabagger: Powers
CBS's Rodriguez: 'Undignified' Obama 'Offering No Evidence' of GOP Taking Foreign Money: NewsBusters
How to Make Moonbats' Heads Explode: Moonbattery

BradBlog

Brad Friedman’s Partner and 'Buddy': Patterico
Proof BradBlog Is Censoring Mention Of Brett Kimberlin: DFQ2
Brad Friedman’s Terrorist Pal Posing with Karl Rove: Patterico

World

North Carolina Muslim Admits Working with al Qaeda: 'Proud to be an American Traitor': Jawa
Foreign-Connected PACs Have Donated More to Dems Than Republicans: WZ
Ahmadinejad on Israel's Border: AT

The Once and Future Republic: PJM (Solway)
North Korean Succession, Unveiled and Demystified: PJM
Sharia: Muslim Policeman in Britain doesn't have to protect a Jew: BlogProf

SciTech

Windows Phone 7 debuts: One phone won't rule them all: CNet
Resurrecting the Electronic Fraud from the Obama Presidential Campaign: WZ
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 keynote video now available to watch... again and again: Engadget

Cornucopia

More Vacation Photos: Moonbattery
Obama Streaker Went Buff for the Big Bucks: Uncoverage
The P.J. O'Rourke Interview: RWN

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Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Go West 2010 -- Drop an O-Bomb on the Dems!

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Monday, October 11, 2010

Krugpression

I'm serious. I can quit photoshopping. Anytime I want.

Stealing a page from FDR's failed playbook, The New York Times' Paul Krugman thinks more borrowing and spending is in order. As an aside, Krugman's nickname is "Contrary Indicator."




Moonbattery also dug up some shocking new photos.


You'll never guess who's behind the foreclosure crisis about to crush the housing market again (hint: it begins with a Fannie and ends with a Mae)

The financial blogs have been atwitter for months over paperwork problems in the housing industry related to foreclosures. Around one-quarter of all recent home sales are foreclosures and now it appears many of those transactions -- and, worse, the mortgage-backed securities that undergird much of the economy -- may be at risk.

For example, the title insurance business -- which protects homeowners from the risk of faulty ownership paperwork -- may be next to implode.

Old Republic National Title Insurance, among the nation's largest title insurance companies, will no longer write new policies for homes foreclosed upon by J.P. Morgan Chase and Ally Financial's GMAC Mortgage unit –– a sign that concerns about faulty foreclosure paperwork could now endanger new sales of foreclosed homes.

Just when you think things can't get any worse, we discover that Democrats are thinking of implementing a foreclosure moratorium, which would literally freeze the entire housing market in its tracks.

A major securities lobbying group said on Monday that a U.S.-wide foreclosure moratorium would be "catastrophic" ...Investors who buy mortgage-backed securities free up money that can be used by lenders to make new loans...

The market for such securities nearly dried up during the height of the 2007-2009 financial crisis but the instruments have rallied since March 2009 as investors bet depressed prices more than account for losses that will come as homes backing bad loans are liquidated... Moody's Corp warned on Monday that most residential mortgage-backed securities could see losses increase because of delays in foreclosures.

Who's behind the effort to stop foreclosures, even though no one is disputing that the homes really should be foreclosed upon? I'll give you three guesses and all of them end with "Reid".

[Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid's latest ploy has been to demand a moratorium on home foreclosures because of a faux scandal about banks using robo-signers to sign massive numbers of foreclosure documents. Never mind that Nevada, a subprime ground-zero where thousands of Mr. Reid's constituents are defaulting on loans they never could afford, is not a state where the document snafu is even alleged to have occurred.

Did criminality occur? Absolutely -- and it should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Just how much fraud occurred during the foreclosure process? Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism describes the sort of bogus paperwork used by the foreclosure mills.

We’ve said for some time that document fabrication is widespread in foreclosures. The reason is that the note, which is the borrower IOU, is the critical instrument to establishing the right to foreclose in 45 states... The pooling and servicing agreement, which governs the creation of mortgage backed securities, called for the note to be endorsed (wet ink signatures) through the full chain of title...

Evidence is mounting that for cost reasons, starting in the 2004-2005 time frame, originators like Countrywide simply quit conveying the note. We are told this practice was widespread, probably endemic... We finally have concrete proof of how widespread document fabrication was... you can view the entire Lender Processing Services price sheet here, and here are the germane sections:

Not only are there prices up for creating, which means fabricating documents out of whole cloth, and look at the extent of the offerings. The collateral file is ALL the documents the trustee (or the custodian as an agent of the trustee) needs to have pursuant to its obligations under the pooling and servicing agreement on behalf of the mortgage backed security holder...

...This revelation touches every major servicer and RMBS trustee in the US... And this means document forgeries and fraud are not just a servicer problem or a borrower problem but a mortgage industry and ultimately a policy problem. These dishonest practices are so widespread that they raise serious questions about the residential mortgage backed securities market, the major trustees (such as JP Morgan, US Bank, Bank of New York) who repeatedly provided affirmations as required by the pooling and servicing agreement that all the tasks necessary for the trust to own the securitization assets had been completed, and the inattention of the various government bodies (in particular Fannie and Freddie) that are major clients of LPS.

Put simply, if there is a widespread issue -- and despite Yves' sensationalistic descriptions, there really is no proof of structural problems at this point -- but if there is, the Democrat payoff centers known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are once again at the center of the storm.

James Howard Kunstler asks the proper questions even if the name of his blog can't be repeated in mixed company.

Did nobody, for instance at Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, review any of the paperwork fluttering in from places like Countrywide or Ditech and scores of other boiler rooms where mortgages were hatched like Peking ducklings? There was an awful lot of it, I'm sure, but aren't there a lot of seat-warmers at Fannie and Freddie who collect their salaries for the express purpose of reading mortgage documents? Was nobody the least bit suspicious about the mysterious flurry of "restaurant employees" and "lawn-care technicians" buying million-dollar condominiums with no money down at terms that would make a three-card monte dealer weep with laughter?

...And what of the numberless agencies, federal on down, starting with, say, the Office of Thrift Supervision, or the Comptroller of the Currency, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, or the chairpersons of a dozen senate and house subcommittees on matters related to finance, or the various inspectors general from sea to shining sea or the attorneys general of all fifty states plus the US Department of Justice, or the countless fiduciary officers of the pension funds who tripped over each other buying all the tainted paper churned out like so much Purina Rat Chow - or, for Godsake, a lonely loan officer here or there with something resembling a conscience?

Yes, what indeed?

I'll say it for the umpteenth time: whenever the government gets involved with extra-constitutional pursuits, it screws them up. This is a failure of Democrat policies, not the free market. Agency after agency, bureaucracy after bureaucracy, politician after politician failed to unwind the disastrous policies of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD and the other Statist programs hatched by Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo and Janet Reno to make homes "affordable".

Fannie and Freddie were raped and pillaged by connected Democrats like Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, Tom Donilon, and many others. It was wracked by accounting scandals that mysteriously spawned generous bonuses for these executives. With the help of Democrats in Congress, it blocked eighteen separate attempts by the Bush administration to audit the entities and to implement traditional risk management controls.

Should the housing market collapse again, a large part of the blame must once again be assigned to the Democrat Party and its policy of wealth redistribution. The central planners' plans can't work, won't work and have never worked.

And you and I -- the beleaguered taxpayers -- are on the hook for their idiocy.

Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters and the rest of the social engineering geniuses who protected Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from regulatory oversight during the Democrat housing boom -- and their own outrageous and damning testimony can be seen here -- should be serving life sentences in Leavenworth.


Easy-to-Follow Instructions: How to Cause a Moonbat's Head to Explode

Actually you can do it in one step. Via Moonbattery, where Van Helsing intones, "Show them this."


Hat tip: The Chive.

Larwyn's Linx: Nativist Democrats and their own foreign funny money

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Nation

Newly nativist Democrats and their own foreign funny money: Malkin
You Want To Investigate Foreign Donations? Start With Obama: FA
The Soros Web and the Spiders Within: AT

‘Voter Fraud Watch’ — Uncle Pajamas Wants You!: PJM
'Winning' by losing: The Impolitic
Democrat Bastions Besieged by GOP: WSJ

Redefining Feminism: Sarah Palin And The Smart Girls: RWN
'We Will Build Our Victory Mosque – On Top Of Your Grave': LW
Dems Fret as Scary Harry Slides in Latest Polls: GWP

Economy

Dems use Stimulus bucks to pay off supporters: Moonbattery
Dems don't even bother trying to write a budget: UrbanGrounds
Illegal Alien Stumps Napolitano: AT

Social Justice and Fair Taxes: AT
Liberalism’s Moral Bankruptcy Has Bankrupted America: PJM
NOW endorses Crazy Alan Grayson: PunditPress

Climate & Energy

UCSB Physicist: Global warming is a scam: Surber
Lessons Learned From Swedish Temperature Records: RWN
Surrender: Obama wants US tanks, battleships to be solar powered or something: BlogProf

Media

1,078 Articles Written About Obama’s Philly Speech – Only One Mentions A Book Was Hurled at His Head: GWP
How The Media Reported Reagan's Recession vs. How They Report Obama's: Ace
Black Republicans offer hope after Barack Obama's failures on race: Telegraph

It’s Attack A Strong Conservative Woman Day At The NY Times: iOTW
Courageous MSM Outlet of the Day: Washington Post: Malkin
Please Block My View: iOTW

The Hollywood Culture That Spawned Roman Polanski And The Casting Couch: What Liberalism Has Wrought: RWN
Andy At the Hostages Gets Results: Ladd Ehlinger Jr. Now At Sean Bielat HQ to Do a Commercial: Ace
The new logo for the Democratic Party. And the Republican response.: Swerens

World

Newly Declassified Iraqi Testimony Shows Why Saddam Had to Be Removed: PJM
Terrorist Street Art in Brooklyn: Urban Infidel
Terrorists-in-Training Stone Cars in Israel: JOdysseus

What Is Islam?: Imani
Freedom is Fragile: Primordial Slack
Leftist Hypocrisy All the Way Down: AmPower

SciTech

Web traffic redirected to China still a mystery: CNet
BBC Asks, "Which Nation Has the Best Brains?": TAB
Top cyberthreats outlined in report: UPI

Cornucopia

Brace for Impact: It's that good: Primordial Slack
Hello, Dolly!: MOTUS
Sad O and the Cold-Stimulus Headache: iOTW

My 21st consecutive Chicago Marathon: Marathon Pundit
It's What's for Breakfast!: iOTW
Grover Does The Old Spice Dude On Sesame Street: Mediaite

Image: Right Wing News.
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: New Sean Bielat Ad: Deport Barney Frank from Congress

QOTD: "Ralston thinks the potentially lethal combination of votes to [fake Tea Party candidate] Ashjian and the 'none' category are the whole ballgame for [Harry] Reid. 'It’s the only way he can win,' he said.

History supports the view. Consider the case of John Ensign’s narrow loss when he challenged Reid back in 1998. Voter turnout was over 400,000; roughly 19,000 votes went to “none” or to third-party candidates; and Reid won the election by just 428 votes.

Reid is hoping to tread a similarly narrow path to victory this year, and has to hope that as many voters as possible are fooled by Ashjian." -- Elizabeth Crum


Sunday, October 10, 2010

I seriously cannot stop

If someone could recommend a Photoshoppers Anonymous, I would really appreciate it.







Axelrod: Chamber of Commerce turned off credit card verification on its web site and allowed money-laundering through prepaid cash cards

David Axelrod would make a wonderful satirist. Long after most folks had forgotten about the hundreds of millions of dollars reportedly raised by the Obama campaign from suspicious sources, the White House senior adviser demanded that the United States Chamber of Commerce prove a negative.

Axelrod: Chamber must prove foreign money allegations false:

White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has the burden of proving false the charge by Democrats that the business group is funneling foreign money to Republican campaigns... President Obama and Democrats have attacked the Chamber and outside conservative groups... [asserting] that foreign-based individuals or corporations could funnel money through those groups to influence the election. The Chamber has denied being involved in such practices.

So Axelrod wants the Chamber to prove a negative. Well I demand that Axelrod prove that he isn't George Soros' illegitimate child.

Say, that reminds me: did you remember that, of the $744 million Obama raised for his presidential campaign, only $485 million could be accounted for?

Obama's campaign website intentionally turned off all credit-card security, an unprecedented step that allowed fake names and addresses for donations. The website intentionally allowed this to occur.

And Obama's contribution website accepted made-up credit-card numbers, which were probably tried one after another until valid card numbers were found. Obama's 2008 fundraising website intentionally allowed this to occur.

The Obama website also retained forged computer addresses for its donations instead of the addresses of the real donors.

The Obama website accepted untraceable prepaid cash cards that could easily have been used to evade contribution limits, mask contributor identities or launder foreign contributions.

And the Obama campaign secretly shared donor lists with Project Vote and ACORN, the latter a group reportedly under a RICO investigation for multi-state vote fraud involving hundreds of thousands of fraudulent registrations and other misdeeds.

The Obama website permitted hundreds of millions of dollars in undisclosed, suspect donations reportedly orchestrated by foreign nationals and other persons unknown.

Roughly two-thirds of Barack Obama’s record haul derived from a website that intentionally disabled all security checks that prevent basic fraud. In other words, his website facilitated crooked donations complete with fake names, phony addresses, no donation limits, untraceable cards and bogus computer addresses.

Let me repeat that last point. The Obama campaign's website intentionally allowed the use of fake computer addresses (IP addresses). In my opinion, there is only one reason a website would allow the submission of a fake IP address: money-laundering. Logging the true IP address would mean that the real source (including the city and country) of the contribution could be traced. Allowing a fake address to be logged instead would prevent authorities from ascertaining the true origin of the donation.

Should the GOP take one of the houses of Congress, a first order of business should be the subpoena of David Axelrod, the executives of Blue State Digital (the company that created the Obama website) and others obfuscating the sources of contributions.

Thanks for reminding us, Ax.


Hat tips: Memeorandum and AppleButter.

10 New Obama Depression Photos (Damn You, Moonbattery, Damn You)

Moonbattery has gotten me addicted to creating these damn Obama Depression photos! I can't stop!










Someone please help. I can't stop. Please tell me these aren't funny. Please. Do it for the children.


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