Whoopi and Joy, fasten your seatbelts. If O'Reilly scared you off, just wait 'til you see this:• Three videos of the expert witness testimony for the defense by Simon Admiraal in the Geert Wilders trial.
• Leading Germans giving up on the "multiculti" idea here and here.
• French burqa ban clears last legal obstacle.
• French MP urges Britain to save itself too.
What did I tell you, gang? I said Europe would do what's necessary to defeat Islam's radical Sharia law and preserve its culture, didn't I? Now -- if only Israel could take a hint.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Warning: Do Not Show This Post to Cast-Members of 'The View'
Dan from New York:
Hurtling to Single-Payer: A Reference Guide to ObamaCare's Trail of Destruction
Everything they said about this bill was a lie. And that includes the word "the", "patient" and "protection". Worse still: the bill hasn't truly kicked in yet.
CT: Anthem Approved For Health Rate Hikes As High As 47 Percent.
FL: Blue Cross Blue Shield: Rates Up 10% in 8 Months. Excerpt: "President Obama told us that under his plan, health insurance premiums would go down. I think he forgot to tell Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida."
NC: Celtic: Half of 18% Premium Increase Due to ObamaCare.
NY: Insurance for New York City small businesses rise as much as 74% in 2011. Excerpt: "[The company CFO] wants to know why [the] health care provider, GHI, is asking state regulators for permission to hike insurance premiums by 50% to 74%. ...The only solution he sees to rising rates is maintaining his current staff of 10 employees, instead of expanding—which does nothing to reduce the city's 9.4% unemployment rate."
OR: Regence BlueCross BlueShield: Expect Up to 17% Rate Hikes.
WI: Celtic Insurance Premiums To Rise 18%.
IA: Principal cuts 1,500 jobs, exiting health business. Excerpt: "Principal Financial Group said Thursday that it will leave the medical insurance business, further reducing competition among health insurers in Iowa... Principal will transfer the renewal rights for its health insurance customers in Iowa and 30 other states to UnitedHealthcare over the next 36 months."
MA: Firms cancel health coverage. Excerpt: "The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for state-subsidized care instead."
WA: Regence BlueShield to drop child-only coverage in Washington.
US: WellPoint, CoventryOne to Drop Child-Only Coverage. Excerpt: "In anticipation of the law that will take effect this Thursday, insurers in at least 4 states announced that they would be dropping the child only type coverage... WellPoint and CoventryOne, two of the nations largest insurers, announced that the individual coverage for the children would be discontinued in California, Colorado, Ohio and Missouri."
US: Dozens of Companies Dropping Coverage May Get Waivers. Excerpt: "As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law’s standards."
CT: Squeezed And Blamed: Insurance Increases Aren't Going To Doctors. Excerpt: "On Dec. 1, Medicare physician fees will decrease by more than 24 percent, followed by another decrease of more than 6 percent on Jan. 1. These drastic fee cuts will force many Connecticut physicians either to accept no new Medicare patients or to drop out of the Medicare program entirely, with major implications for Connecticut seniors."
FL: Healthcare reform hitting physicians hard. Excerpt: "Healthcare reform is hitting physicians in private practice hard, said Robin Fielding, CEO of Orthopaedic Center of South Florida in Plantation... 'And the lack of tort reform will continue to push the cost of malpractice insurance through the roof.'"
NY: "It's not going to be easy or cheap". Excerpt: "...employers [are] 'being squeezed'... 'It's not going to be easy or cheap'... adding questions remain how already-distressed medical facilities will handle reforms that can carry financial penalties."
US: Study: ObamaCare will make doctor shortage 50% worse by 2015.
US: Mental Health Crisis. Excerpt: "...it creates a problem for the city's mental health-care providers, who said this week that they are faced with serving thousands of new clients they are not prepared to manage... The complaint by Hall and local mental health providers echoes general concerns about the health-care overhaul raised by hospitals, doctors, nurses and their advocates nationwide who say the mammoth program is being built on a network that cannot support it."
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The disastrous monstrosity known as ObamaCare must be de-funded and repealed. It is a catastrophic piece of legislation in every way. The federal government is poised to control your body: to reward and punish constituents by granting or withholding tests, medicines, and care.
If you want to stop this steaming pile of manure, vote the straight Republican ticket in November, at every level of government. It's the only way to be sure.
![]() | President Obama, March 8, 2010: "Our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current Senate bill, which reduces most people’s premiums." |
CT: Anthem Approved For Health Rate Hikes As High As 47 Percent.
FL: Blue Cross Blue Shield: Rates Up 10% in 8 Months. Excerpt: "President Obama told us that under his plan, health insurance premiums would go down. I think he forgot to tell Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida."
NC: Celtic: Half of 18% Premium Increase Due to ObamaCare.
NY: Insurance for New York City small businesses rise as much as 74% in 2011. Excerpt: "[The company CFO] wants to know why [the] health care provider, GHI, is asking state regulators for permission to hike insurance premiums by 50% to 74%. ...The only solution he sees to rising rates is maintaining his current staff of 10 employees, instead of expanding—which does nothing to reduce the city's 9.4% unemployment rate."
OR: Regence BlueCross BlueShield: Expect Up to 17% Rate Hikes.
WI: Celtic Insurance Premiums To Rise 18%.
IA: Principal cuts 1,500 jobs, exiting health business. Excerpt: "Principal Financial Group said Thursday that it will leave the medical insurance business, further reducing competition among health insurers in Iowa... Principal will transfer the renewal rights for its health insurance customers in Iowa and 30 other states to UnitedHealthcare over the next 36 months."
MA: Firms cancel health coverage. Excerpt: "The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for state-subsidized care instead."
WA: Regence BlueShield to drop child-only coverage in Washington.
US: WellPoint, CoventryOne to Drop Child-Only Coverage. Excerpt: "In anticipation of the law that will take effect this Thursday, insurers in at least 4 states announced that they would be dropping the child only type coverage... WellPoint and CoventryOne, two of the nations largest insurers, announced that the individual coverage for the children would be discontinued in California, Colorado, Ohio and Missouri."
US: Dozens of Companies Dropping Coverage May Get Waivers. Excerpt: "As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law’s standards."
![]() | On Monday, President Obama touted his healthcare reform plan, which he emphasized was supported by the American Medical Association (and the 150 physicians in white lab coats behind him) |
CT: Squeezed And Blamed: Insurance Increases Aren't Going To Doctors. Excerpt: "On Dec. 1, Medicare physician fees will decrease by more than 24 percent, followed by another decrease of more than 6 percent on Jan. 1. These drastic fee cuts will force many Connecticut physicians either to accept no new Medicare patients or to drop out of the Medicare program entirely, with major implications for Connecticut seniors."
FL: Healthcare reform hitting physicians hard. Excerpt: "Healthcare reform is hitting physicians in private practice hard, said Robin Fielding, CEO of Orthopaedic Center of South Florida in Plantation... 'And the lack of tort reform will continue to push the cost of malpractice insurance through the roof.'"
NY: "It's not going to be easy or cheap". Excerpt: "...employers [are] 'being squeezed'... 'It's not going to be easy or cheap'... adding questions remain how already-distressed medical facilities will handle reforms that can carry financial penalties."
US: Study: ObamaCare will make doctor shortage 50% worse by 2015.
US: Mental Health Crisis. Excerpt: "...it creates a problem for the city's mental health-care providers, who said this week that they are faced with serving thousands of new clients they are not prepared to manage... The complaint by Hall and local mental health providers echoes general concerns about the health-care overhaul raised by hospitals, doctors, nurses and their advocates nationwide who say the mammoth program is being built on a network that cannot support it."
The disastrous monstrosity known as ObamaCare must be de-funded and repealed. It is a catastrophic piece of legislation in every way. The federal government is poised to control your body: to reward and punish constituents by granting or withholding tests, medicines, and care.
If you want to stop this steaming pile of manure, vote the straight Republican ticket in November, at every level of government. It's the only way to be sure.
Perfect: Tides Foundation Nuts Trying to Silence Glenn Beck for Reporting on Tides Foundation's Anti-American Activities--Like Censorship
The Tides Foundation is a frequent target of popular radio and TV host Glenn Beck. Tides was founded in 1976 to advance radical progressive causes. It has contributed tens of millions of dollars to organizations like ACORN, CAIR, Media Matters, the New World Foundation, the National Organization of Whores, PETA, the Sierra Club and other radical leftist front groups.Beck, thankfully, is helping to turn the spotlight on the tangled, symbiotic and often hidden relationships between the Tides Foundation and other radical groups.
So what's the Tides' first tendency? As befits a bunch of Marxist whackjobs, it's to silence free speech. Not sue Beck for libel, I suppose, because they'd get laughed out of court. But to intimidate Beck's advertisers in order to squelch his message.
In an extraordinary move to nip the inflammatory commentary coming from Glenn Beck, the founder and CEO of the Tides Foundation (a frequent Beck target) has written advertisers asking them to remove their sponsorship of the Fox News program or risk having "blood on their hands."
Drummond Pike, who along with his organization was recently targeted by an assassin inspired by Beck's program, penned a letter on Friday to the Chairmen of the Boards of JP Morgan Chase, GEICO, Zurich Financial, Chrysler, Direct Holdings Americas, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Lilly Corporate Center, BP, and The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
Pike calls his foundation's programs "charitable [and] nonpartisan" and are certainly not any part of a "conspiracy to undermine America and the capitalist system". Harumph.
Even the PuffHo ain't buying it.
Rather than chalking up the incident, frightening as it clearly was, to the deranged psychoses of its practitioner, 45-year old Byron Williams, he places the blame on Beck. And in coming to the conclusion that nothing short of financial insolvency will stop the Fox News host, he asks the network's benefactors to take a stand or risk future violence.
Pike's letter (which can be read here) is as deceptive as the organization itself.
Silencing free speech is anti-American. Period.Some crazed crackpot with a gun appears to have been stalking Sarah Palin recently.
Should Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Keith Olbermann, and every other broadcaster who's tarred her be silenced as well?
If Beck is libeling Tides, then sue him. But you won't. Because he ain't. And your behavior proves that you're first, second and last instinct is totalitarian in nature.
In fact, 'Totalitarian' is a better name for your foundation than 'Tides'.
Linked by: Michelle Malkin, Nice Deb, and Verum Serum. Thanks!
4 Most Shocking Photos Stolen From iOwnTheWorld
Cub Reporter Biff Spackle told me that if iOwnTheWorld can't figure out how to copy-protect its images, they're getting lifted and moved over here where they'll find a better, safer, more child-friendly home.



Remember, folks, iOwnTheWorld doesn't have the requisite level of respect for our beloved Democrat ruling class. You know, they don't exhibit the kind of courtesy and admiration for their wonderful policies that we do here. Besides, we serve better drinks including Red White & Blue beer and Big K brand soft drinks.
Image #1: The People's Cube.
Image #2: iOwnTheWorld.
Image #3: HopeNChangeCartoons.
Image #4: Diogenes Sarcastica.



Remember, folks, iOwnTheWorld doesn't have the requisite level of respect for our beloved Democrat ruling class. You know, they don't exhibit the kind of courtesy and admiration for their wonderful policies that we do here. Besides, we serve better drinks including Red White & Blue beer and Big K brand soft drinks.Image #1: The People's Cube.
Image #2: iOwnTheWorld.
Image #3: HopeNChangeCartoons.
Image #4: Diogenes Sarcastica.
Larwyn's Linx: Thank God for Barack Obama
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Thank God for Barack Obama: RightNetwork
Congress Is On to DOJ’s Keystone Kops Show: Adams
Busted: Conyers Rallies with Marxists for Democrat Support: NR
Public Enemy Number One: GOP donors: Malkin
Oh my: Fiorina now within one point of Boxer: Hot Air
Architect of Ruin Aims at Gunmakers: Cato
Weight of Taxation Is Heavier Than Most Know: RWN
Jim Geraghty Gives Us a Riddle: AT
Hinchey Loses Debate, Then Hits Reporter: WashExam
Key Challenge to ObamaCare’s Constitutionality Advances: PJM
Maine Family Robinson: I Bought A House For $25K: RightNetwork
Barbara Boxer’s Sweet Casino Deal for her Son: Uncoverage
Company Retirees Losing Their Health Plans... Now: WashExam
Mitch Daniels: Hey, how about a VAT?: Hot Air
ObamaCare Buyer's Remorse Growing Fast: WashExam
I Sure Hope Blumenthal At Least Knows How To Apply For A Job: Ace
Two for Two!: GWP
Obama promised to destroy the coal industry--now he makes good on that promise: GWP
They Ignored Us: Power Line
Stunningly, CBS Can't Find an 'Independent' Voter Who Likes the Tea Party: NewsBusters
Reid: 'I Never Said Iraq War Was Lost,' Angle is a "Liar": PunPre
Forget Donating to the Chamber of Commerce: Malkin
"Every Democrat elected to the House of Representatives will vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker": GrandOldPartisan
Obama Loses Students, Gets Snippy: RWN
Arrest warrant filed for Rahm's Chicago press thug: AT
Heroism in Afghanistan less known than heroism in Chile: North
Prosecutors of Dutch MP Geert Wilders Ask Court To Acquit on All Charges: PJM
How to Really Reform the U.N.: AT
Contest: Guess Which One Is Ahmadinejad's Wife: LegalIns
Islamists Kill Pregnant Woman & Children For Protesting Public Beatings: GWP
EMC stock rises on Oracle buyout rumor: NetWorld
'Eureka moments' and other myths about tech innovation: CNN
BELTWAY ADVENTURE: IowaHawk
Praise the Blogger and Pass the Ammunition!: CFB
Voting Early and Often in Chicago: MOTUS
Of Cannibals, Crowbars, and Cocktails: AT
Chinese martial arts experts refuse to wed until men can beat them in a fight : Metro UK
Image: Mark Dean.
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Times Up, Ted
Nation
Thank God for Barack Obama: RightNetworkCongress Is On to DOJ’s Keystone Kops Show: Adams
Busted: Conyers Rallies with Marxists for Democrat Support: NR
Public Enemy Number One: GOP donors: Malkin
Oh my: Fiorina now within one point of Boxer: Hot Air
Architect of Ruin Aims at Gunmakers: Cato
Weight of Taxation Is Heavier Than Most Know: RWN
Jim Geraghty Gives Us a Riddle: AT
Hinchey Loses Debate, Then Hits Reporter: WashExam
Economy
Chris Coons: Owned by Anti-American Interests: NRKey Challenge to ObamaCare’s Constitutionality Advances: PJM
Maine Family Robinson: I Bought A House For $25K: RightNetwork
Barbara Boxer’s Sweet Casino Deal for her Son: Uncoverage
Company Retirees Losing Their Health Plans... Now: WashExam
Mitch Daniels: Hey, how about a VAT?: Hot Air
ObamaCare Buyer's Remorse Growing Fast: WashExam
I Sure Hope Blumenthal At Least Knows How To Apply For A Job: Ace
Two for Two!: GWP
Climate & Energy
Eco-fascist: Humans Destroying Climate for 10,000 Years: BlogProfObama promised to destroy the coal industry--now he makes good on that promise: GWP
Media
Left/Right Consensus: Harry Reid Has Lost It: ToldjahThey Ignored Us: Power Line
Stunningly, CBS Can't Find an 'Independent' Voter Who Likes the Tea Party: NewsBusters
Reid: 'I Never Said Iraq War Was Lost,' Angle is a "Liar": PunPre
Forget Donating to the Chamber of Commerce: Malkin
"Every Democrat elected to the House of Representatives will vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker": GrandOldPartisan
Obama Loses Students, Gets Snippy: RWN
Arrest warrant filed for Rahm's Chicago press thug: AT
World
A Metric for Muslim Moderation: ATHeroism in Afghanistan less known than heroism in Chile: North
Prosecutors of Dutch MP Geert Wilders Ask Court To Acquit on All Charges: PJM
How to Really Reform the U.N.: AT
Contest: Guess Which One Is Ahmadinejad's Wife: LegalIns
Islamists Kill Pregnant Woman & Children For Protesting Public Beatings: GWP
SciTech
Father of CSS plans for Web publishing future: CNetEMC stock rises on Oracle buyout rumor: NetWorld
'Eureka moments' and other myths about tech innovation: CNN
Cornucopia
The Pamela Geller Interview: RWNBELTWAY ADVENTURE: IowaHawk
Praise the Blogger and Pass the Ammunition!: CFB
Voting Early and Often in Chicago: MOTUS
Of Cannibals, Crowbars, and Cocktails: AT
Chinese martial arts experts refuse to wed until men can beat them in a fight : Metro UK
Image: Mark Dean.
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Times Up, Ted
Friday, October 15, 2010
The NRSC is officially an anachronism
The National Republican Senatorial Committee lost its way long ago. Its leader John Cornyn, admirable in many respects, appears to have lost his bearings. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, likewise, has a broken rudder.Consider: despite the tens of millions of grassroots voices begging for adherence to the Constitution, the NRSC missed the memo.
The American people are rising up. They are rebelling against the counter-revolution which is destroying the foundations of our country.
The Tea Party movement is converting Democrats and independents into advocates for limited, fiscally responsible government. It has supercharged the Republican Party by spurning the unprincipled false moderation of "going along to get along".
Yet in spite of this tidal wave, the NRSC supported the abysmal Charlie Crist. The pathetic Mike Castle. The egregious Lisa Murkowski. In race after race, the NRSC backed the wrong horse. The weak horse.
And what did those horses do after their ignominious defeats? Instead of exhibiting class, they turned tail from the GOP and -- essentially -- transformed themselves into weak-kneed Marxist Democrats.
That's the NRSC's wisdom in a nutshell.Don't give a dime to the NRSC. Instead, please contribute directly to the candidates that desperately need your support in these, the waning days of the most important election of your lifetime.
• Joe Miller
• Christine O'Donnell
• Sharron Angle
• Marco Rubio
Drop a few bucks on 'em.
How great would it be to wake up the day after election day and hear that a bevy of Constitutional conservatives are joining Jim DeMint in the Senate.
How great would that be?
Oh, and Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn: I'm not sure you can get with the program.
Prove me wrong. And, if you can't grok the oh-so-hard agenda of limited, Constitutional government, we're going to primary your asses in 2014.
Oh, and that's not a promise. That's as certain as gravity.
5 Examples of Bleeding Edge Technology -- From a Half-Century Ago





Gee, I wonder how many of these magnificent breakthroughs were created by the federal government?
You say none of them?
Perhaps someone should tell Barack Obama and the far left Democrats that it was the free market -- not some centralized, authoritarian government in a faraway city -- that orchestrated the most magnificent society even seen on the face of the Earth.
Excerpted from: 50 Weird And Awesome Inventions From The Consumer Golden Age.
Circle of Death
Professor Mark J. Perry:
Now you can understand why Pajamas Media's Roger L. Simon yesterday asked the question, "Is California Insane?
Simon believes the voters are averse to change.
I believe, instead, that California may have hit the tipping point. The welfare state has exploded. The prison systems are packed with illegal immigrants. Medicaid and Medical are completely out of control. And the public sector unions, which influence every aspect of government, are in complete control.
As Perry says, California is a public sector pension system that happens to run a state on the side. Poorly at that.
The infernal confluence of public sector unions and the Democrat Party will be the death of the American dream unless the people wrestle back control.
If you're not familiar with the state of California, it's a public employee pension management organization that runs a state on the side with a large $19 billion deficit.California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger explains it this way in today's WSJ: "The problem is stark: Over the last decade in California, spending on state employees' compensation rose nearly three times faster than state revenues. This has squeezed resources for programs, such as higher education and job training, that benefit private-sector workers. This year, for the first time ever, our state was forced to spend more on retirement costs ($6.5 billion) than on higher education."
Now you can understand why Pajamas Media's Roger L. Simon yesterday asked the question, "Is California Insane?
One of the famous definitions of insanity is repeating the same mistake over and over again while expecting a different result. Whether that’s a perfect definition is open to debate, but one thing is certain: it’s as accurate a description of the California electorate at this moment in 2010 as you could get.
How else to explain that Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer are still leading Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina by 5.4% and 3.3% (RCP averages) in a state where unemployment is 12.4% (not including the underemployed and the astronomical number that have already given up), and from which businesses are fleeing like rats from the proverbial sinking ship? Even the storefronts on swanky Rodeo Drive are standing empty.
Nevertheless, a plurality of the voters still want the same old, same old.
Simon believes the voters are averse to change.
I believe, instead, that California may have hit the tipping point. The welfare state has exploded. The prison systems are packed with illegal immigrants. Medicaid and Medical are completely out of control. And the public sector unions, which influence every aspect of government, are in complete control.
As Perry says, California is a public sector pension system that happens to run a state on the side. Poorly at that.
The infernal confluence of public sector unions and the Democrat Party will be the death of the American dream unless the people wrestle back control.
Get Rich Quick the Easy Chuck Schumer Way
Want to get rich, but don't have any talent, discipline or energy? Hi, my name's Chuck Schumer and I can show you how to become incredibly wealthy and powerful even if you're a complete dumbass.
Step one: try never to hold a real job... just keep getting yourself elected, no matter what it takes, until you make it to the U.S. Senate.
Step two: when your political party takes power, invite the powerful Wall Street hedge fund billionaires to a swanky dinner and make a few veiled threats about regulation.
Step three: if your experience is anything like mine, you'll immediately triple your "campaign donations".
Now, here's where the magic happens. Step four: get one of your loyal staffers a job at a powerful Beltway firm. Now she can (1) lobby Congress on behalf of hedge funds, and (2) raise money for you from hedge funds.
Start publicly praising her recruitment by the lobbying firm so she'll get clients immediately. When I used this approach with my staffer, she'd registered seven private equity or hedge fund firms as clients in only a matter of months.
Step five: now threaten a huge overhaul of financial regulations. That'll keep the hedge funds hopping -- and contributing to your campaign, big-time. Check this out: Democrats received nearly $12 million in 2008 alone and I got a nice $20 grand 'contribution' through my ex-staffer!
What do the hedge fund billionaires get? Just take care of 'em with beneficial legislation, letting them snuff out smaller competitors. If the little people get hurt with more Wall Street scams and less transparency, so what? I'm rich, b***hes!
Oh, as an aside, be sure and tune in next week, when I'll show you how to cure baldness with the Do-it-Yourself Hair Plug Kit, the Easy Chuck Schumer Way!
Based upon: Schumer's racket: Lobbyists and hedge funds
Step one: try never to hold a real job... just keep getting yourself elected, no matter what it takes, until you make it to the U.S. Senate.
Step two: when your political party takes power, invite the powerful Wall Street hedge fund billionaires to a swanky dinner and make a few veiled threats about regulation.
Step three: if your experience is anything like mine, you'll immediately triple your "campaign donations".
Now, here's where the magic happens. Step four: get one of your loyal staffers a job at a powerful Beltway firm. Now she can (1) lobby Congress on behalf of hedge funds, and (2) raise money for you from hedge funds.
Start publicly praising her recruitment by the lobbying firm so she'll get clients immediately. When I used this approach with my staffer, she'd registered seven private equity or hedge fund firms as clients in only a matter of months.
Step five: now threaten a huge overhaul of financial regulations. That'll keep the hedge funds hopping -- and contributing to your campaign, big-time. Check this out: Democrats received nearly $12 million in 2008 alone and I got a nice $20 grand 'contribution' through my ex-staffer!
What do the hedge fund billionaires get? Just take care of 'em with beneficial legislation, letting them snuff out smaller competitors. If the little people get hurt with more Wall Street scams and less transparency, so what? I'm rich, b***hes!Oh, as an aside, be sure and tune in next week, when I'll show you how to cure baldness with the Do-it-Yourself Hair Plug Kit, the Easy Chuck Schumer Way!
Based upon: Schumer's racket: Lobbyists and hedge funds
Gee, how can we blame Bush for this? In the last two years, the basic federal budget has exploded by an earth-shattering 21%
Writing at National Review, Veronique de Rugy describes the money-dispensing leaf-blower that is the modern federal government.Fiscal year 2010 ended on September 30th. Looking back, the Congressional Budget Office calculated that during that year the deficit has reached nearly $1.3 trillion. The 2010 deficit is the second-highest shortfall — 2009 is the highest — since 1945, as a percentage of the economy...
...This is stunning: This table, which was put together by the Wall Street Journal, shows that overall, the government has grown by 21.4 percent in two years. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem...
This has consequences.
Our debt is huge, it will get worse, and the interest we could end up paying on that debt might end up eating up all of our wealth if lawmakers don’t change their ways.
Now, here's the really shocking part: that massive spending increase excludes:
• TARP (the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the result of years of failed Democrat housing policies)
• Fannie Mae (aka 'The Job Shop for Connected Democrats')
• Freddie Mac (aka 'The Other Job Shop For Connected Democrats')
• The FDIC (aka 'Johnny-on-the-Spots')
Oh, and one additional factoid. Federal budgets come out of the House of Representatives. These disgusting spending sprees have been spearheaded and approved by the brilliant Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrat ruling class for the last four years.
President George W. Bush made plenty of unsupportable domestic policy decisions -- but he didn't set out to bankrupt the country.
Hat tip: Mark Levin.
Larwyn's Linx: Is California Insane?
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Is California Insane?: Simon
Democrats Lure Voters to Polls With Free Food and Rides: GWP
From Bread & Circuses to Food Stamps & Pot: RWN
We've Got a Bleeder! Doddering Reid wilts in debate with Angle: Malkin
Sean Bielat To Barney Frank, Let Your Ethics Papers Go!: Riehl
Democrats Disenfranchise the Military Vote: AT
Judge gives green light to Obamacare lawsuits: Malkin
Perfect: Coons Lied Repeatedly In Debate With O'Donnell: Riehl
Susan Montee Lit Up Like A Lightbulb At Democrat Days: BIN
Government Regulation: the Silent Economic Killer: PJM
Benishek Responds to Obama on 'Shovel Ready Projects': RWN
GOP plans January takedowns of Obama’s ‘czars’: DC
America's Food Stamp Culture: AT
Jerry Brown: 'We Need More Welfare and Fewer Jobs': GWP
Latest in Enviro-Nut High Fashion: Glacier Hugging Suits: Malkin
Polar Bears and Plastic Bags: RWN
Jon Ralston Finally Comes Out for Harry Reid: LegalIns
Anatomy of Petulance: Hanson
Two Democratic Ads Show You Just How Bad It Has Gotten For The Democrats Out There: RWN
Hypocrite Joy Behar Defends Islam But Has a Long History of Bashing Christians: GWP
Michael Moore: “The Next Time We Have A Hole In The Gulf… We Need To Call In The Chilean Government”: Mediate
Of Course NPR Didn't Have To Warn Its Staff About Attending Beck's Rally: LegalIns
O’Donnell, Coons Debate Highlights Policy Differences: NRO
Cali's NOW President: 'Whitman Could Be Described As A Political Whore': TPMDC
Islamic Relativity Theory: Doswell
Harry Reid On His 'Good Friend' General Petraeus: Calls Him A Liar: Riehl
How To Kill Americans: A Guide to the Really Effective Ways: BRubin
Sharia-Sanctioned Marital Rape in Britain -- And North America: AT
In Global Hunt for Hit Men, Tantalizing Trail Goes Cold : WSJ
Google posts strong Q3 financial results: CNet
State's largest Insurer warns that health premiums may triple: NWCN
Another Careless Cyclist Causes Crash: C&S
The Declaration of Intolerance: R&R
Image: Unknown.
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Harry Reid Needs to Go: Support Sharron Angle
Nation
Is California Insane?: SimonDemocrats Lure Voters to Polls With Free Food and Rides: GWP
From Bread & Circuses to Food Stamps & Pot: RWN
We've Got a Bleeder! Doddering Reid wilts in debate with Angle: Malkin
Sean Bielat To Barney Frank, Let Your Ethics Papers Go!: Riehl
Democrats Disenfranchise the Military Vote: AT
Judge gives green light to Obamacare lawsuits: Malkin
Perfect: Coons Lied Repeatedly In Debate With O'Donnell: Riehl
Susan Montee Lit Up Like A Lightbulb At Democrat Days: BIN
Economy
Greed is Good: Cold FuryGovernment Regulation: the Silent Economic Killer: PJM
Benishek Responds to Obama on 'Shovel Ready Projects': RWN
GOP plans January takedowns of Obama’s ‘czars’: DC
America's Food Stamp Culture: AT
Jerry Brown: 'We Need More Welfare and Fewer Jobs': GWP
Climate & Energy
Science vs. Scientific Consensus On Global Warming: RWNLatest in Enviro-Nut High Fashion: Glacier Hugging Suits: Malkin
Polar Bears and Plastic Bags: RWN
Media
Media Admission: Tea Party Not Racist: Verum SerumJon Ralston Finally Comes Out for Harry Reid: LegalIns
Anatomy of Petulance: Hanson
Two Democratic Ads Show You Just How Bad It Has Gotten For The Democrats Out There: RWN
Hypocrite Joy Behar Defends Islam But Has a Long History of Bashing Christians: GWP
Michael Moore: “The Next Time We Have A Hole In The Gulf… We Need To Call In The Chilean Government”: Mediate
Of Course NPR Didn't Have To Warn Its Staff About Attending Beck's Rally: LegalIns
O’Donnell, Coons Debate Highlights Policy Differences: NRO
Cali's NOW President: 'Whitman Could Be Described As A Political Whore': TPMDC
World
'The Aim Is to Make Israel a Pariah': Rupert MurdochIslamic Relativity Theory: Doswell
Harry Reid On His 'Good Friend' General Petraeus: Calls Him A Liar: Riehl
How To Kill Americans: A Guide to the Really Effective Ways: BRubin
Sharia-Sanctioned Marital Rape in Britain -- And North America: AT
In Global Hunt for Hit Men, Tantalizing Trail Goes Cold : WSJ
SciTech
Pen-and-Paper SQL Injection Attack Against Swedish Election: SchneierGoogle posts strong Q3 financial results: CNet
State's largest Insurer warns that health premiums may triple: NWCN
Cornucopia
Rescued miner says he saw God, devil during captivity, "I buried 40 years of my life down there...": BlogProfAnother Careless Cyclist Causes Crash: C&S
The Declaration of Intolerance: R&R
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Dare to Dream
Ripped (and slightly modified) from an image spotted at the invaluable Moonbattery.
Dare to dream, Van Helsing, dare to dream.
Dare to dream, Van Helsing, dare to dream.Join Me On The Impeach & Convict Tour 2011
I posted the following article on March 22, 2010, the evening after the Democrats jammed their enormous socialized health care law down the American people's throats without even taking the time to read the bill.
I want you to remember how angry you were then.
I want you to recall your frustration, your powerlessness.
Because November is coming.
Dear Democrats,
I don't think you have any idea how angry we are.
So you would institute an authoritarian bureaucracy like the one our founders despised and revolted against? You would completely disregard public opinion? You would bribe, threaten, reward and punish legislators -- with our money! -- to jam through an unprecedented agenda completely antithetical to our founding? You would saddle generations yet unborn with trillions in debt when your unfunded entitlements are already crushing us? You would redistribute trillions of American wealth in futile central planning schemes that can't work and have never worked in the entire history of the world? So you would destroy the greatest health care system in the world?
And, to top it all off, you would blatantly violate your oath to uphold the Constitution?
November will come. And paybacks are hell.And we promise to pursue you and your ilk to the ends of the Earth. To unearth your crimes. To impeach those in power and to prosecute the rest. To unwind your Marxist schemes. To politically crush the Democrat Party and leave it as much of a force as are the Whigs.
What you are doing is nothing less than child abuse. Punishing the next generation and generations yet unborn. Which seems to be the only skill the Democrat Party possesses.
So enjoy these next few months. Anticipating that ambassadorship to Aruba. Or that cushy job on K street. Or some high-paying job as a bureaucrat in Fannie Mae.
Be warned. We will pursue you. And we will punish you. Guaran-damn-teed. It's not a threat. It's not a promise. It's an oath.
Amazon Kindle Number Two Goes DOA
Right in the middle of reading the first of two novels I purchased last Sunday, I get this:
Yes -- the screen is almost entirely black with a few horizontal lines scattered throughout.
Less than a year ago, my first Kindle -- that was only a few months old -- suffered a similar fate, though the screen was still somewhat readable.
Notice the discolored band near the top of the 'digital ink'-based screen. That appeared one day as a permanent reminder that a bunch of finicky electrons hold the keys to a dozen of my books.
No need to throw these away yet:
And I hear that when the SHTF, they'll be worth some serious coin.
And at the rate these Democrats are spending, we won't have long to wait.
Yes -- the screen is almost entirely black with a few horizontal lines scattered throughout.Less than a year ago, my first Kindle -- that was only a few months old -- suffered a similar fate, though the screen was still somewhat readable.
Notice the discolored band near the top of the 'digital ink'-based screen. That appeared one day as a permanent reminder that a bunch of finicky electrons hold the keys to a dozen of my books.No need to throw these away yet:
And I hear that when the SHTF, they'll be worth some serious coin.And at the rate these Democrats are spending, we won't have long to wait.
We Need a Real Conservative at the Washington Post
The Washington Post is running a contest called America's Next Great Pundit. Uncle Ben writes in to tell us that one of his conservative compadres -- John Buttarazzi -- is a genuine contender for the honor.
Read his column.
Now I'd like you to imagine this scene: An enraged Buttarazzi comes stomping down editor's row screaming for Richard Cohen after the pencil-necked weasel squirted out one of his more outrageous excretions. We pan to Cohen, who is hiding behind the copying machine with a curious dark stain slowly running down the inseam of his khakis.
Support John Buttarazzi for anti-tingler.
Read his column.Now I'd like you to imagine this scene: An enraged Buttarazzi comes stomping down editor's row screaming for Richard Cohen after the pencil-necked weasel squirted out one of his more outrageous excretions. We pan to Cohen, who is hiding behind the copying machine with a curious dark stain slowly running down the inseam of his khakis.
Support John Buttarazzi for anti-tingler.
Larwyn's Linx: Left-Wing Radicals and the Conservative Growth Spurt
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Left-Wing Radicals and the Conservative Growth Spurt: AT
FLOTUS begs voters to give her hubby more time: GWP
Illinois military disenfranchisement scandal: Marathon
Harry Reid about to be hit with new ethics complaints: WZ
Second Prize is TWO dates with Michelle Obama: WyBlog
Barbara Boxer approved material support for terrorists: BigGovt
Destroying Schools to Achieve 'Racial Justice': AT
Paid $25M in Stimulus Funds; Cut 18,000 US Jobs: RWN
Court refuses FOIA access to Fannie Mae contribution records: WZ
Great: Obama learns there's no such thing as 'shovel-ready': Hot Air
A Positive Feedback Loop That Will Collapse The System: Insider
Three Things Government Cannot Do: AT
We're further down the Road to Serfdom than you think: TAB
So who's left to demonize? Girl Scouts? Rotary Clubs?: Harsanyi
EPA Set To Greenlight Use Of Ethanol 15 This Week: RWN
Behar Rips Bachmann: 'She’s Against Children'; Ignores She Raised Her 5 Children, Fostered 23: NewsBusters
Obama just threw Congress under the bus: MoneyRunner
Media Pushes NOW Is the ‘Voice of Women’ Lie: RWN
And After All They've Done for Him: Driscoll
Swastikas Painted On A Jewish Candidate’s Sign: Why Isn’t This A Front Page Story?: RWN
A Matter of Accountability: AT
Allen West: “If I were a fiscally irresponsible person, I’d be a member of the Democrat Party”: Cubachi
Mr. President, I demand that you attack me!: Surber
How's That Socialism Workin' Out for Ya?: AT
Hezbollah Thugs Offer Ahmadinajad Dead Sheep For His Visit: GWP
Why Not a 'Fortress America' Policy?: AT
Congressional Muslim Staffers Hosted Second Al-Qaeda Cleric on Capitol Hill: PJM
Heartwarming News o' the Day: Explosion Kills 18 of Iran's Revolutionary Guards : JWF
Killing 'The Jetsons': CNS
Apple now third-largest PC seller in U.S.: CNet
The Amazing Photo That Took 40 Years to Get: TAB
Murkowski Camp: No Comment On Senator's Alleged History Of Cocaine Abuse: Riehl
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Nation
Left-Wing Radicals and the Conservative Growth Spurt: ATFLOTUS begs voters to give her hubby more time: GWP
Illinois military disenfranchisement scandal: Marathon
Harry Reid about to be hit with new ethics complaints: WZ
Second Prize is TWO dates with Michelle Obama: WyBlog
Barbara Boxer approved material support for terrorists: BigGovt
Economy
White House strategy: Export jobs. Import debt. Repeat: MalkinDestroying Schools to Achieve 'Racial Justice': AT
Paid $25M in Stimulus Funds; Cut 18,000 US Jobs: RWN
Court refuses FOIA access to Fannie Mae contribution records: WZ
Great: Obama learns there's no such thing as 'shovel-ready': Hot Air
A Positive Feedback Loop That Will Collapse The System: Insider
Three Things Government Cannot Do: AT
We're further down the Road to Serfdom than you think: TAB
So who's left to demonize? Girl Scouts? Rotary Clubs?: Harsanyi
Climate & Energy
Smacking Down Ross 'Doughboy' Douthat: RiehlEPA Set To Greenlight Use Of Ethanol 15 This Week: RWN
Media
Chamber of Commerce to Jake Tapper: WH Wants Our Donor Lists So Its Allies Can Intimidate Our Donors: Nice DebBehar Rips Bachmann: 'She’s Against Children'; Ignores She Raised Her 5 Children, Fostered 23: NewsBusters
Obama just threw Congress under the bus: MoneyRunner
Media Pushes NOW Is the ‘Voice of Women’ Lie: RWN
And After All They've Done for Him: Driscoll
Swastikas Painted On A Jewish Candidate’s Sign: Why Isn’t This A Front Page Story?: RWN
A Matter of Accountability: AT
Allen West: “If I were a fiscally irresponsible person, I’d be a member of the Democrat Party”: Cubachi
Mr. President, I demand that you attack me!: Surber
World
Al-Qaeda Magazine Urges Attacks on ‘Soft’ Targets: PJMHow's That Socialism Workin' Out for Ya?: AT
Hezbollah Thugs Offer Ahmadinajad Dead Sheep For His Visit: GWP
Why Not a 'Fortress America' Policy?: AT
Congressional Muslim Staffers Hosted Second Al-Qaeda Cleric on Capitol Hill: PJM
Heartwarming News o' the Day: Explosion Kills 18 of Iran's Revolutionary Guards : JWF
SciTech
Final Miner Rescued. 33 For 33: AceKilling 'The Jetsons': CNS
Apple now third-largest PC seller in U.S.: CNet
Cornucopia
The Original Marty McFly in Back to the Future: AceThe Amazing Photo That Took 40 Years to Get: TAB
Murkowski Camp: No Comment On Senator's Alleged History Of Cocaine Abuse: Riehl
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
You Won't Believe What They're Up To Now
Regular readers -- all seven of them -- know that I am not a conspiracy theorist. But I can put two and two together. Earlier this evening Papa B pointed me to an oozing secretion from the Puffington Roast, which markets the idea that 401(k) retirement savings accounts are evil and should be abolished.
The walking bedsore known as Saul Friedman is a Communist. Yes, I said it. Oh, Doug -- that's so harsh. No it's not. Friedman advocates that the government -- legally -- confiscate Americans' hard-earned money and redistribute it to their union allies who intentionally underfunded their pensions.
That's what this is really about. Connie Hair at Human Events describes the real intent of Friedman's covering fire.
Guilarducci and the Democrats are advocating legalized theft of the juicy trillions of dollars Americans have saved in their retirement plans. Nationalizing those accounts would support massive new spending programs plus payoff the unions and crony capitalists looking for more bailouts at the "workers'" expense.
As Hair concludes, "The lame duck session would offer the last chance for unions and companies to be able to place liability for their underwater pensions on the taxpayers' backs before the new FASB rule goes into effect."
In short, while I'm not a conspiracy theorist, when Harry Reid promises plenty of legislation during a lame-duck session... when the Stuffington Toast prints agit-prop... and a Marxist-led recess session considers an outrageous new way to steal your money... well, I get chills down my spine.
These Democrats need to be kicked to the curb next month -- politically. And in every election from this point forward, if we are to save this Republic.
Hat tip: RL
Here's a novel idea. Instead of worrying that Social Security will go bust in 30 years (it won't) and considering absurd and unnecessary cuts in benefits for millions of Americans, why not expand this, the most popular social insurance program in the country, to provide for a universal defined benefit pension for every worker and his/her family? [Ed: Eh, because it's a giant Ponzi scheme? And the government stole all the money from the 'Trust Fund'?]It's really not such a novel idea; most modern and civilized industrial nations have in place such pension systems... [Ed: Oh. Like Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland? How's that working out?]
...A favorite of mine, economist Teresa Ghilarducci, of the New School for Social Research, was the first to call the 401(k) a failure for retirees and she shocked lawmakers when she suggested they be ended in favor of what she calls a Guaranteed Retirement Account that would be as safe and secure as defined benefit pension plans... [Ed: More on Teresa below.]
...Now, according to Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, "only 13 percent of workers say they are very confident about having enough money for a comfortable retirement-that's the lowest level in 16 years...With the enactment of Social Security and the growth of union-negotiated pensions, elderly Americans became [and are still] the least impoverished age group." [Ed: Because who knows better about wasting money than Trumka?]
...Ghilarducci makes the same point, that 401(k)s and IRAs, in which taxes on earnings are deferred, reduce tax receipts by $193 billion a year. But, she says, 80 percent of these tax breaks go to the top 20 percent of taxpayers. Her solution: "Guaranteed Retirement Accounts", to which employers and employees would each be required to contribute 2.5 percent of salaries, with a $600 refundable tax credit for the employee's contribution... [Ed: Net-net, confiscate the 401(k) monies, increase taxes, and create brand new revenue streams that can be stolen to bankrupt future generations even more.]
The walking bedsore known as Saul Friedman is a Communist. Yes, I said it. Oh, Doug -- that's so harsh. No it's not. Friedman advocates that the government -- legally -- confiscate Americans' hard-earned money and redistribute it to their union allies who intentionally underfunded their pensions.
That's what this is really about. Connie Hair at Human Events describes the real intent of Friedman's covering fire.
Democrats in the Senate on Thursday held a recess hearing covering a taxpayer bailout of union pensions and a plan to seize private 401(k) plans to more "fairly" distribute taxpayer-funded pensions to everyone.Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee heard from hand-picked witnesses advocating the infamous "Guaranteed Retirement Account" (GRA) authored by Theresa Guilarducci... (listen to the outstanding 2007 interview with Guilarducci by Mark Levin)
...the pressing issue for the lame duck [session] is the union pension bailout with new Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) rules currently set to take effect December 15. These new rules would force companies to account for the cost of penalties to extract themselves from these union pension plans against their bottom line...
...In a nutshell, under the GRA system government would seize private 401(k) accounts, setting up an additional 5% mandatory payroll tax to dole out a "fair" pension to everyone using that confiscated money coupled with the mandated contributions. This would, of course, be a sister government ponzi scheme working in tandem with Social Security, the primary purpose being to give big government politicians additional taxpayer funds to raid to pay for their out-of-control spending.
Guilarducci and the Democrats are advocating legalized theft of the juicy trillions of dollars Americans have saved in their retirement plans. Nationalizing those accounts would support massive new spending programs plus payoff the unions and crony capitalists looking for more bailouts at the "workers'" expense.
As Hair concludes, "The lame duck session would offer the last chance for unions and companies to be able to place liability for their underwater pensions on the taxpayers' backs before the new FASB rule goes into effect."
In short, while I'm not a conspiracy theorist, when Harry Reid promises plenty of legislation during a lame-duck session... when the Stuffington Toast prints agit-prop... and a Marxist-led recess session considers an outrageous new way to steal your money... well, I get chills down my spine.
These Democrats need to be kicked to the curb next month -- politically. And in every election from this point forward, if we are to save this Republic.
Hat tip: RL
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