Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Rand Paul: "Kneel Before Aqua-Palin, Democrats"

To be fair, I'm not sure if Rand actually said that. The dogs were barking at someone outside.

But it would have been funny if he had said it on Hannity tonight.

Trey ("Don't call me Alan") Grayson Conway's attacks on Paul's religious beliefs go beyond the pale. Throw Rand a couple of bucks. And help put a stop to this ridiculous excuse of a candidate named Grayson Conway.


Ruh Roh: Bawney Fwank Loans His Campaign $200K

As an aside, where the hell do all of these "public servants" get these vast amounts of personal wealth?

Ed Morrissey's invaluable Twitter feed points us to a troubling Politico report. Troubling, that is, if you're a Democrat.

Longtime Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank has given his re-election campaign $200,000 as he faces his toughest race in years.

A campaign finance report filed Tuesday showed that Frank, the chairman of the powerful House Financial Services committee, lent himself the money Tuesday... ...Frank [also] had former President Bill Clinton campaign for him earlier this fall.

Visit RetireBarneyFrank.com and help put a stake in the metaphorical heart of the "Fat Bastard of Massachusetts Politics" (which is not meant to be insulting -- I hear it's the term he prefers).


Well that's one way a Democrat can win an election: have the GOP challenger's name stricken from the ballot

MNehring reports that there may be some significant voting irregularities in Texas' 30th Congressional District involving none other than Eddie Bernice "The Scholarship Czarina" Johnson.

ALERT--it has been confirmed that in the Duncanville public library voting location, and maybe also at Cedar Hill locations, ONLY Eddie Bernice Johnson's name appears as a choice on the ballot for the US Rep race for District 30...

SO there is no way to vote for Stephen Broden at that location! PLEASE--do not vote any ballot that is missing Broden's name--go to a different location.

If any reader in Texas spots such a ballot, please email me a photo.

In the mean time, please support Stephen Broden for U.S. Congress. And help retire the scholarship scammer.


Reason #711 to Vote Republican In November -- We Can Disband the ACORN Youth Training Center Organized by Steve Driehaus

Reason #711 to Vote Republican In November: Steve Driehaus (D-OH) may be driving a school bus, but this time his name won't be on the sample ballot he's handing out to schoolkids.

Three van loads of Hughes High students were taken last week – during school hours – to vote and given sample ballots only for Democratic candidates and then taken for ice cream, a Monday lawsuit alleges...

The suit alleges three van loads of Hughes High students arrived at the Downtown Board of Elections offices at 1 p.m. Wednesday, supervised by a school employee. School lets out at 3:15 p.m.

When they got out of the vans, the students, the suit alleges, also were accompanied by adults who appeared to be campaign workers or supporters for U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus, D-West Price Hill, the congressman being challenged this fall by Steve Chabot. When the students got out of the vans, the suit alleges they were given sample ballots containing only Democratic candidates...

I like to call this tactic "ACORN Youth".


Tragic Shooting

Papa B smart-phoned this one in:

Linda Burnett, 23, a resident of San Diego, was visiting her in-laws and while there went to a nearby supermarket to pick up some groceries. Later, her husband noticed her sitting in her car in the driveway with the windows rolled up and with her eyes closed, with both hands behind the back of her head. He became concerned and walked over to the car. He noticed that Linda's eyes were now open and she looked very strange. He asked her if she was okay, and Linda replied that she had been shot in the back of the head and had been holding her brains in for over an hour.

The husband called the paramedics, who broke into the car because the doors were locked and Linda refused to remove her hands from her head.

When they finally got in, they found that Linda had a wad of bread dough on the back of her head. A Pillsbury biscuit canister had exploded from the heat, making a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot, and the wad of dough hit her in the back of her head. When she reached back to find out what it was, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains. She initially passed out, but quickly recovered.

Linda is blonde, a Democrat and an Obama supporter, but that could all be a coincidence.

The defective biscuit canister was analyzed and it was determined to be Bush's fault.

I'm pretty sure I've read this story before, but it was positioned as thoughtful news reporting over at Daily Kos.


Good News, Californians: Jerry Brown Thinks You've Got Enough Extra Money to Fund Free College Tuition for Illegal Aliens!

California's debt has tripled in the last seven years alone and the state now must pay $5.5 billion annually in interest payments.

The operating budget is running roughly $20 billion a year in the red.

And its pension system has more than a half a trillion in unfunded obligations, which even the left-leaning Los Angeles Times calls a "fiscal time bomb."

Now given that backdrop, consider gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown's promise to pay for free college education... for illegal aliens.

Those of you considering voting for Brown in the California gubernatorial election need to consider this.

"We have enough wealth to continue to have a great university and get every kid into this school that can qualify. Now when I say every young man and young woman, I mean everyone – whether they are documented or not. If they went to school, they ought to be here."

Brown is a fool. California has enough problems already. Hopefully this stupidity will cost him the election.

Anyone who votes for Brown's wealth redistribution insanity deserves their fate.


Larwyn's Linx: The Democrats' Countrywide Scandal: Shhhhhh

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Nation

The Democrats' Countrywide Scandal: Shhhhhh: Malkin
Oops: Dems Take Twice as Much Foreign Money as GOP: RWN
Boxer's Code Pink Pals Disrupt Condi Rice in S.F.: GWP

CAC's House Projections 10/18/2010: Ace
Oh my: Even Loony Tunes Kucinich Up Only Four in Latest Poll: GWP
Harry Reid: “Obama’s like a Chilean miner”: Fausta

Notes from the Schakowsky-Pollak debate last night: Baehr
Schakowsky refuses to answer questions about Soros: Marathon
Open-borders extremist Raul Grijalva running scared: Malkin

Economy

Miracle Worker: 214 Years of Debt in Under 24 Months: Malkin
Just How Ridiculous Are Government Salaries and Benefits?: Adams
Soros, Unions Attempt to Take Over CA Redistricting: RWN

A Lesson He'll Never Learn: Cold Fury
How much does the NEA spend fighting taxpayers?: Greenroom
SPY Flash Crashes: NYSE Cancels $500 Million Worth Of Trades: ZH

Don Berwick Says The Darndest Things!: IBD
The 'Move Your Corporate Headquarters Offshore' Act: AT
Chicago Pension Funds Selling Assets to Meet Obligations: Mish

Climate & Energy

Fish Wrap Has A Snit Fit Over GOP Climate Deniers: RWN
What Happened to All the Hurricanes, Al?: PJM
Ecokooks Prevent Saving Valley Forge Forest: RWN

Media

This Will Be The GOP’s Best Chance To Reach Black Americans For A Generation: RWN
It's Only Castles Burning: Belmont Club
There Are Practical Problems With Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? You Don’t Say: RWN

Fail: DCCC accuses six Dems of 'Nazi' ties: WZ
WaPo: Obama's long game ineptitude sabotaged the Middle East peace talks: Ace
Obama Admission: 15 Senate Seats Are Up for Grabs: GWP

Virginia Attorney General: Obama Worse Than King George III…: WZ
Politics May Need A Fistfight, But Media Needs A Kick In The Balls: Riehl
Substitute Barack Obama For Rand Paul, and You Get Racism and Islamophobia: LegalIns

World

Rep. Waxman Spokeswoman: ‘We Do Not Know’ If We Aided Fallujah Terrorists with Code Pink Letter: BigPeace
How Long Can the Iranian Regime Last?: Ledeen
Ah, the Public Sector Unions: As French Strikes Continue, Country Runs Out Of Gas: ZH

Mumbai Plotter Trained With Terrorists While Working for Feds, WIfe of Muslim Terrorist Warned FBI: Atlas
An Enemy Within -- Code Pink and Its Democrat Enablers: AT
Muslim Dances on Altar of Catholic Basilica in Florence: GWP

SciTech

Obama Insisted Mythbusters Re-Try Busting a Myth?: Powers
Like what little is left of your freedom? Don’t vote for the Tyranny Party: Cold Fury
Ray Ozzie Leaving Microsoft: CNet

Cornucopia

"What Is Your American Dream?": Althouse
I’ve Been Bought by the Koch Brothers or The Change Purse That Changed My Life: Unsweetened Tea
Obama's Auntie Zeituni Expresses More Charming Opinions: Ace

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Monday, October 18, 2010

This Week in ObamaCare -- Connecticut Edition

Check out this hilarious string of events:

• Connecticut Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield requests permission from the state to raise premium rates as much at 47 percent citing ObamaCare's new dictates as prime drivers (e.g., forcing companies to cover non-dependent "children" up to age 26).

• The state's Department of Insurance approves the rate hikes, noting that Anthem's actuarial calculations are reasonable and proper.

• Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal -- who is running a truly pathetic campaign for the Senate Governor, so I'm sure his motives are pure -- attacks the Insurance Commission, demanding to know why they hadn't fully reviewed Anthem's rate request.

• Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan fires back at Blumenthal stating, "[t]he rates that were filed and approved reflect the current cost to deliver care and the impact of more comprehensive benefit designs required under the federal healthcare reform law ... If the attorney general wants to complain to someone, he should complain to Congress."

• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services then slams Sullivan, screeching that "[ObamaCare] cannot be used to justify this huge rate hike and, in fact, includes provisions to empower States to shed light on and guard against this type of excessive insurer behavior."

HHS also threateningly mentioned a $1 million grant (more taxpayer funds, mind you) made in August to the Connecticut Insurance Department (CID), implying that there wouldn't be any more bribes payoffs financial assistance coming if they couldn't get their story straight.

• HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius also launches an audit of Thomas Sullivan's income tax and health records through her enhanced enforcement arm, which you may also know as the IRS.

Okay. I made that last one up. But you were buyin' it, weren't you?

This government is completely out of control. ObamaCare needs to be defunded and repealed. And every Democrat in Congress needs to get a pink slip in November.

I can dream, can't I?


Looks Like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Crossed the Streams Again: Son of Subprime About to Administer the Coup de Grâce to the Economy

You may want to sit down before reading this one.

Bad Chalupa points us to a gut-wrenching economic analysis by John Mauldin of Investors Insight. Read the whole thing, but the following digest version should serve as an adequate introduction.

We are going to quickly review a few charts from Gary Shilling's latest letter, where he review the housing market in depth. Bottom line, the housing market has not yet begun to recover, and it is not only going to take longer but the decline in prices may be greater than many have forecast. I wrote three years ago that it could be well into 2011 before we get to a "bottom." That may have been optimistic, given what we will cover in this letter...

The homebuilding industry, which was the source of so many jobs last decade (aka the good old days), is on its back. This country needs a healthy housing construction market to get back to lower unemployment, and until the overhang in the foreclosure market is cleared out, that is unlikely to happen.

...Shilling thinks prices are likely to fall another 20%. Given what I am writing about in the next section, that is a possibility. There is certainly no demand pressure to push up housing prices...

Finally, [a word] on foreclosures. Residential mortgages in foreclosure are near all-time highs, close to 1 in 21 of all mortgages, up from 1 in 100 just four years ago. That's got to be bad for your profit models.

[Editor's Note: arrow and caption added by your beloved editor.]

The Foreclosure Mess


"Homeowners can only be foreclosed and evicted from their homes by the person or institution who actually has the loan paper...only the note-holder has legal standing to ask a court to foreclose and evict. Not the mortgage, the note, which is the actual IOU that people sign, promising to pay back the mortgage loan...

"...once mortgage loan securitization happened, things got sloppy...they got sloppy by the very nature of mortgage-backed securities. ...These various [securitized bundles of loans or] tranches were sold to different investors, according to their risk appetite... the loans were 'bundled' into REMICs (Real-Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits, a special vehicle designed to hold the loans for tax purposes)...

"But here's the key issue: When an MBS was first created, all the mortgages were pristine...none had defaulted yet, because they were all brand-new loans. Statistically, some would default and some others would be paid back in full...but which ones specifically would default? No one knew, of course. If I toss a coin 1,000 times, statistically, 500 tosses the coin will land heads...but what will the result be of, say, the 723rd toss? No one knows.

"Same with mortgages.

[Since investors didn't know which mortgages would actually default and needed to tie the loan to the tranche,] "Enter stage right the famed MERS...the Mortgage Electronic Registration System... "MERS was the repository of these digitized mortgage notes that the banks originated from the actual mortgage loans signed by homebuyers. MERS was jointly owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (yes, those two again ...I know, I know: like the chlamydia and the gonorrhea of the financial world...you cure 'em, but they just keep coming back).

"The purpose of MERS was to help in the securitization process. Basically, MERS directed defaulting mortgages to the appropriate tranches of mortgage bonds... legally [however]...and this is the important part...MERS didn't hold any mortgage notes: the true owner of the mortgage notes should have been the REMICs.

"But the REMICs didn't own the notes either, because of a fluke of the ratings agencies: the REMICs had to be 'bankruptcy remote,' in order to get the precious ratings needed to peddle mortgage-backed Securities to institutional investors.

"So somewhere between the REMICs and MERS, the chain of title was broken.

"Now, what does 'broken chain of title' mean? Simple: when a homebuyer signs a mortgage, the key document is the note. As I said before, it's the actual IOU. In order for the mortgage note to be sold or transferred to someone else (and therefore turned into a mortgage-backed security), this document has to be physically endorsed to the next person. All of these signatures on the note are called the 'chain of title.'

"You can endorse the note as many times as you please...but you have to have a clear chain of title right on the actual note: I sold the note to Moe, who sold it to Larry, who sold it to Curly, and all our notarized signatures are actually, physically, on the note, one after the other.

"If for whatever reason any of these signatures is skipped, then the chain of title is said to be broken. Therefore, legally, the mortgage note is no longer valid. That is, the person who took out the mortgage loan to pay for the house no longer owes the loan, because he no longer knows whom to pay.

"To repeat: if the chain of title of the note is broken, then the borrower no longer owes any money on the loan.

"Read that last sentence again, please. Don't worry, I'll wait.

"You read it again? Good: Now you see the can of worms that's opening up...

"...Now, the banks had hired 'foreclosure mills'...law firms that specialized in foreclosures...in order to handle the massive volume of foreclosures and evictions that occurred because of the housing crisis. The foreclosure mills, as one would expect, were the first to spot the broken chain of titles.

"Well, what do you know, it turns out that these foreclosure mills might have faked and falsified documentation, so as to fraudulently repair the chain-of-title issue, thereby 'proving' that the banks had judicial standing to foreclose on delinquent mortgages. These foreclosure mills might have even forged the loan note itself...


"Wait, why am I hedging? The foreclosure mills did actually, deliberately, and categorically fake and falsify documents, in order to expedite these foreclosures and evictions. Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism, who has been all over this story, put up a price list for this 'service' from a company called DocX...yes, a price list for forged documents. Talk about your one-stop shopping!

"...[But the] alarm bells started going off when the title insurance companies started to refuse to insure the titles... In every sale, a title insurance company insures that the title is free -and clear ...that the prospective buyer is in fact buying a properly vetted house, with its title issues all in order. Title insurance companies stopped providing their service because...of course...they didn't want to expose themselves to the risk that the chain of title had been broken, and that the bank had illegally foreclosed on the previous owner.

..."The fact that Ally Financial (formerly GMAC), JP Morgan Chase, and now Bank of America have suspended foreclosures signals that this is a serious problem...obviously. Banks that size, with that much exposure to foreclosed properties, don't suspend foreclosures just because they're good corporate citizens who want to do the right thing, and who have all their paperwork in strict order...they're halting their foreclosures for a reason.

"[And] Bank of America halted all foreclosures, nationwide... Why do you think that happened? Because the banks are in trouble...again. Over the same thing as last time...the damned mortgage-backed securities!

"The reason the banks are in the tank again is, if they've been foreclosing on people they didn't have the legal right to foreclose on, then those people have the right to get their houses back. And the people who bought those foreclosed houses from the bank might not actually own the houses they paid for.

"And it won't matter if a particular case...or even most cases...were on the up -and up: It won't matter if most of the foreclosures and evictions were truly due to the homeowner failing to pay his mortgage. The fraud committed by the foreclosure mills casts enough doubt that, now, all foreclosures come into question. Not only that, all mortgages come into question.

"People still haven't figured out what all this means. But I'll tell you: if enough mortgage-paying homeowners realize that they may be able to get out of their mortgage loans and keep their houses, scott-free? That's basically a license to halt payments right now, thank you. That's basically a license to tell the banks to take a hike.

"What are the banks going to do...try to foreclose and then evict you? Show me the paper, Mr. Banker, will be all you need to say.

"This is a major, major crisis. The Lehman bankruptcy could be a spring rain compared to this hurricane. And if this isn't handled right...and handled right quick, in the next couple of weeks at the outside...this crisis could also spell the end of the mortgage business altogether. Of banking altogether. Hell, of civil society. What do you think happens in a country when the citizens realize they don't need to pay their debts?"

...All those subprime and Alt-A mortgages written in the middle of the last decade? They were packaged and sold in securities. They have had huge losses. But those securities had representations and warranties about what was in them. And guess what, the investment banks may have stretched credibility about those warranties. There is the real probability that the investment banks that sold them are going to have to buy them back. We are talking the potential for multiple hundreds of billions of dollars in losses that will have to be eaten by the large investment banks. We will get into details, but it could create the potential for some banks to have real problems.

The culprits, once again, are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the job-shop for connected Democrats that has utterly and completely destroyed the housing market.

And these are the same geniuses who tell us they can run the health care system using a Soviet-style, authoritarian, centralized bureaucracy.

What's that number for Goldline again?


Supermarket Logic Problem

Uncle Ben sent this one in.

A woman was shopping at the local supermarket where she selected: A half-gallon of 2% milk, a carton of eggs, a quart of orange juice, a head of lettuce, a 2 lb. can of coffee, and a 1 lb. package of bacon.

As she was unloading the items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched as she placed the items in front of the cashier.

While the cashier was ringing up the purchases, the drunk calmly stated, 'You must be single.'

The young woman was a bit startled by this proclamation, but she was intrigued by the derelict's intuition, since she indeed had never found Mr. Right. The woman looked at the six items on the belt and saw nothing particularly unusual about her selections that could have tipped off the drunk to her marital status.

Curiosity getting the better of the woman, she said, 'Yes you are correct. But how on earth did you know that?'

The drunk replied, 'Cause you're ugly.'


Reason #708 to Vote Republican In November


Backstory: Pelosi's Children and Grandchildren Used Military Jets As Cross-Country Shuttle Service So They Could Avoid Dealing With the Rabble.

Larwyn's Linx: How the Left Twists 'Civil Rights' to Seize Power

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How the Left Twists 'Civil Rights' to Seize Power: RWN
Democrat Dirty Tricks: The Next Round: AT
AK: Unhinged lefty 'journalist' attacks Miller --and-- Carrying Water: Riehl

Under the Bus, Liberals: Surber
Chris Coons: greed, corruption and douchebaggery: NoisyRoom
Dems pulling plug on liberal House members: Marathon

Keeping it classy: Barney Frank's boyfriend heckles Sean Bielat: WZ
Alcee Hasting has a message for the Democrats: HAP
Does Ken Buck Really Believe Being Gay is a Choice?: GayPatriot

Economy

Axelrod, the Chamber of Commerce, and glass houses: WashExam
Surprise: Democrats misrepresent Fair Tax: Hill
Soaring Gold and a Sinking Dollar Signal Trouble Ahead: AT

'Influence-Peddling at Its Most Basic Level': JWF
Barack Obama and the Pitfalls of Fraudulent Branding: PJM
Prez Manages to Squeeze in Golf Between Campaign Stops: JWF

Climate & Energy

The Three Chinas: WUWT
As Predicted, Warmers Waxing Weirder: CBullitt
An Important Moment in Science History: WUWT

Media

Legacy media ignores the 38 black Republicans running for national office: BlogProf
Restoring Sanity: Doc Zero
Clueless NYT on Ft. Hood Killer: “The Gunman, His Motive Remain an Enigma”: GWP

AP Poll: Obama Voters Giving Up Hope in Droves: Malkin
David Brooks: Obama told me “shovel-ready” was a crock… a year ago: Malkin
An Additional Note On Libertarianism: Riehl

The Surber Poll: Surber
We Are So Screwed...: GrandRants
'Change' not to believe in: Goodwin

World

The Code Pink Killing Fields: How Far Left Activists and Barbara Boxer Aided the Enemy in Iraq: GWP
Obama: We Trail China's Infrastructure... again: MagNote
It's Logical to Be 'Islamophobic': AT

Geert Wilders and the Rise of Islamic Correctness: AT
Mutilated Taliban Victim Reappears: JWF
Key to Afghanistan: 'Time. It will take some time': SignOn

SciTech

Barack Obama, Identity Thief: Wizbang
Busted: Wall Street Journal Catches Facebook, Zynga Giving Your Info To Advertisers: Insider
Check Out The Extreme Racial Segregation In America's Biggest Cities: Insider

Cornucopia

Mosque Victimized by Shameful 'Bacon Attack': Instapundit
Say a Prayer: Rutgers Player Paralyzed on Gridiron: JWF
When Pigs Fly: CFB


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Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fight NBC and the Democrats--Support Allen West

QOTD: "Never underestimate the opposition , the polls haven’t closed. military ballots AWOL, the union/ACORN ground team has lots of experience GOTV..the dirty tricks will increase in intensity…and MSM will put out early polling results during Election day to try to derpess the GOP voters- ..and the candidates leading slightly need even more to win- at least 3-5% above the fraud factor- Remember Franken. So it’s all hands on deck for the next couple of weeks. Focus on the fact that the major legislation has already been passed to make the U.S. into a socialist country. The ideologues will continue their path unless they lose handily on Nov 2…and that means getting your family and friends and their friends to the voting booths." -- John MacDonald


Sunday, October 17, 2010

Ron Klein (D-FL) Calls In Reinforcements Against Allen West: NBC Magically Shows Up, Runs Hit Piece #GoWest #FL22

Writing at Michelle Malkin's site, Doug Powers points us to one of the more egregious examples of media bias you'll ever see -- which is truly saying something. Incumbent Florida Congressman Ron Klein must be in very deep trouble against Lt. Col. Allen West, bonafide war hero and Constitutional conservative.

Now that Klein has run into a buzzsaw, NBC News 'coincidentally' showed up and tried to manufacture a hit piece on West from whole cloth.

In 2007 and 2008, the media went all-out to expose Barack Obama’s past connections with controversial people and organizations (pause for laughter), so now they’re setting their unbiased sights on the background of Republican Florida congressional candidate Allen West.

Lisa Myers goes out of her way to try and strengthen some fairly weak links here. Most of these ties are looser than the ones on my son’s sneakers, and if West was a Democrat, a story with this kind of “evidence” probably wouldn’t have gotten the green-light (if it had even been produced in the first place)

In short, Myers attempts to assail West's heroic military service and, failing at that because he is a gen-you-eye-in hero, she moves on to one of the more tenuous assertions ever heard on a so-called news show.

Did you know that West once spoke about the Constitution to a group of patriotic citizens who happen to ride motorcycles -- some of whom may have known members of The Outlaws bike gang? Which means, obviously, that West supports giving meth to kids.

As Powers points out, the media didn't vet Barack Obama as well as they have West. If they had, they might have noted:

Growing up in Hawaii, Obama's mentor was described in his autobiography as only "Frank". It turns out that this man was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist who had left Chicago reportedly because the FBI was after him.

Obama had a long and deep affiliation with ACORN, the group that was disbanded after numerous criminal charges and allegations involving hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registrations. Obama even trained ACORN community agitators.

And Obama appears to have been a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America's New Party -- and received a glowing endorsement from them.

Of course, slumlord Tony Rezko was one of Obama's first financial backers and helped him purchase his Chicago mansion. In turn, Obama appears to have performed several favors for Rezko's company, which ended up cost the taxpayers millions of dollars.

And no list of Obama's bizarre affiliations would be complete without mentioning terrorist Bill Ayers. Obama and Ayers served on several boards together, dispensed money to a series of radical groups, shared an office, and the candidate's political coming-out party was even held at Ayers' house. And the media never said a word.

Obama's friend and spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright, is of course an avowed Marxist, racist and anti-Semite. As an evangelist of Black Liberation Theology, which preaches race hatred, Wright even traveled to Libya with Louis Farrakhan to visit dictator Muammar Gaddaffi.

Obama and Michelle also had a close relationship with Edward Said of the Arab-American Action Network dinner. Said was an official with the Palestinian Liberation Organization for a time and was proud of his hatred of Israel.

But Allen West once spoke to some bikers who may have known some members of The Outlaws.

Ron Klein must be in one hell of a fight if NBC is riding to the rescue. You can help West here. Donate a couple of bucks. It will help fight this loathsome network and its sycophants in Congress.




If Christine O'Donnell isn't competitive with Chris 'the Bearded Marxist' Coons, why did Obama and Biden both visit Delaware this weekend?

The President and Vice President don't bother raising money for campaigns that are in the bag. And, for Biden, it was his third trip to prop up Coons in recent weeks.

Which means one thing: Coons' internal polling is showing a far more dire situation than anyone is letting on.

Northern Delaware motorists got whacked on two fronts Friday when President Barack Obama arrived in Marine One from Philadelphia and Vice President Joe Biden flew in on Air Force Two from the south to the New Castle Airport.

There were the usual traffic jams and congestive confusion along Del. 141, I-95 and, naturally, downtown Wilmington, where both appeared at a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Chris Coons at The Grand.

Funnier still, over the last few weeks, Coons has sought to "distance himself from Washington Democrats and President Barack Obama".

As for the meltdown of the Coons campaign? I blame witchcraft.




A Day at the White House







Seriously--St. Louis Post-Dispatch Endorses Democrats Alex 'The Mob Banker' Giannoulias and Incumbent IL Gov. Quinn 'With Fingers Crossed'

Say, maybe this is why the legacy media is hemorrhaging readers faster than Internet Explorer picks up viruses.

The Post-Dispatch, one of the whackiest, far left publications you will ever read, just endorsed Alexi 'The Mob Banker' Giannoulias (D) for U.S. Senate and incumbent Pat Quinn (D) for governor. No, I'm not kidding.

Alexi Giannoulias is the choice for Senate because he understands the existential threat caused by the reality that 20 percent of Americans control nearly half of the nation's earned income and 84 percent of all forms of wealth... "Income inequality has been the cause of the downfall of every great nation," he said.

The Senate is a place where those inequalities can begin to be reversed, through tax policies, job creation and public spending on infrastructure and education.

Really? What level of wealth redistribution is right? Why look at the top 20%? Why not the top 50%? And we can simply steal redistribute wealth from the top half to the bottom? Level the playing field, so to speak.

What kind of masterminds could figure out the proper way to redistribute the nation's wealth? The kind running the Post-Dispatch, of course!

By the way, isn't this nonsensical Marxist class warfare rhetoric brilliant?

Are Democrat billionaires Gates and Buffett enemies of society? Even though they've spawned hundreds of thousands -- perhaps millions of jobs? Amazing how a few left-wing journalist majors are now the world's most brilliant economic minds, able to plan the entire economy from their perches in St. Louis. Never mind that they can't even keep their own newspaper solvent!

In the governor's race, one issue matters more than all the others combined: How to close a budget deficit of $13 billion without profound repercussions to essential state services... Mr. Quinn, 61, inherited the mess after succeeding to the governor's office after Mr. Blagojevich's impeachment. He had the courage to say that a permanent budget fix means tax increases. He finally began to confront, albeit tepidly, the state's out-of-control pension costs.

He wound up patching and borrowing, the same kick-the-can-down-the-road policies that brought Illinois to its parlous state... Mr. Quinn is a man whose heart is the right place. But he'll need some steel in his spine to build a coalition that can solve the huge budget crisis. On his heart, and on the chance he'll find more spine, we recommend Pat Quinn for governor.

Oh my: what a gutsy policy prescription -- pray that Democrats will find the spine to raise taxes, Michigan-style. One hopes that the fine people of Chicago will reject this nonsense once and for all.

Otherwise, they can plan for a reprise of Detroit.


Larwyn's Linx: Therapist-in-Chief explains our 'inability to think clearly'

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Nation

Therapist-in-Chief explains our 'inability to think clearly': Pundette
Socialism Is Theft: AT (Lewis)
Constitutionality: O’Donnell Is Right, Coons Is Wrong: PJM

Whore is as Whore Does; NOW is over: Anchoress
Latino Tea Partiers: Instapundit
Palin Rallies GOP at 'Victory 2010' in Anaheim: AmPower

Economy

Guess Who’s Behind Obama’s Attack On The Chamber: AmGlob
Home Depot Co-Founder Langone Blisters Democrats: NiceDeb
10 Reasons Americans Will Be Squeezed Dry: DayMark

The Selling of Obamacare and Union Collusion: Virtuous
Foreclosure-gate: Cloward, Piven and the President: Blumer
Drug lobby sticks with Dems through hard times: WashExam

The Value-Added Tax: Ace
Pelosi’s Website Claims She 'Cut Bush Deficit By More Than Half': GWP
The Unions, the Trial Lawyers, and Mr. Chekhov: AT

Climate & Energy

Global Warming will destroy our cities!: RWN

Media

Anti-Obama Billboard Removed After Leftist Threats…: WZ
Genius! Old Spice Parody Ad from Joe Miller in Alaska: CaffThoughts
An Interview With iOwnTheWorld.com: AmGlob

Jackwagons of the Left can't tolerate free speech for all: Tapscott
Why the New York Times, ABC, CBS and PBS are doomed: sisu
Report: Obama will hang onto his impeachment insurance: Pundette

Response to Jonathan Chait on the Morality of Wealth and Poverty: Verum
Maureen Dowd confirms what we already knew: Riehl
The Problem With Government Schools: AT

World

Tolerance of Shariah leads to intolerance of free speech: West
Indonesia: Sword-Wielding Muslim Hardliners Attack Puppet Show…: WZ
Afghanistan's dirty little secret: SFGate

Moderate Muslims Crave New Holocaust For Jews At Their Hand: BlogProf
German Chancellor Angela Merkel: Multi-Culturalism Has Failed: GWP
Blast at Iranian missile site kills 18 Rev Guards: AT

SciTech

The Zel Custom .50 Rifle: Instapundit
How American industry aided the Chilean rescue: Tapscott
Environmentally Correct Cars Eaten by... Rabbits: RWN

Cornucopia

HMS Hope N' Change -- the Musical: Primordial Slack
Bacon Bits: iOTW
Bicycle Skill: Wimp

She’s So Got What it Takes: A Little Happy Talk, Please.: MOTUS
You Won't Sass Me Like This When I Can Summon Wolves: Ace
Jerry Brown Flashback--Solution to Immigration--'Slow Down the Process of Modernization in Mexico': Verum

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QOTD: "You voted for Obama to prove you're not a racist. Now, who are you going to vote for to prove you're not an idiot?" --Commenter at NBC-11


Saturday, October 16, 2010

El Perplexed Presidente



The Declaration of Dependence

IN WASHINGTON DC, JANUARY 20, 2009
The unanimous Declaration of the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Executive Branch

hen in the course of political expediency it becomes necessary for one party to ignore its country's Constitution and legal system which hath guided it for 233 years, Gaia and Generation Investment Management require that it declare the causes which impel them to high treason.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all workers can be divided into races, income levels, religions, genders, and so on, to advance Statism; that they possess certain unalienable rights, that among these are health care, food stamps, iPhones, MTV, and a three-bedroom condo within walking distance of a Starbucks --

That to redistribute these rights, Governments are seized by politicians, deriving their powers by the theft of private property and the confiscation of liberty --

That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of centralized, authoritarian Government, it is the Right of the Democrats to ignore the Constitution or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on the teachings of Marx, of Engels, of Alinsky, of Cloward and of Piven.

Prudence, indeed, would reject our claim to change government for light and transient causes, seeing as how we must reject facts, logic, history and reason to advance our tyrannical measures. Indeed, we rely upon our experience that hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer so long as government cheese and Jersey Shore are freely available to anyone who asks, whether citizen or not.

And when some object, after a long train of abuses and usurpations by we, the callous, unheeding Democrat leadership, it is our right, and it is our duty, to play the race card, to tar them as 'extremists' and 'crackpots', to use the media to ridicule them, and to create a "Civilian National Security Force" to ensure their ultimate destruction.

Such has been our suffering abuse of these Tea Parties; and such is now the necessity which commands us to eradicate their former Systems of Government. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a receptive media.

- He has refused to allow the vaporization of our Laws including the Constitution, which is no more useful to Democrats than a piece of toilet paper and which, may in fact, be emblematic of witchcraft.

- He has expressed feigned outrage over so-called 'lawlessness' by our Department of Justice, which has offered reparations to the New Black Panthers, illegal immigrants, and other workers deserving special treatment.

- He has refused to accept our order to adhere to socialized medicine and death panels, despite our agitprop designed to fool the general public.

- He has harangued our House of Representatives and our Senate, causing them to skip town hall meetings because of their loaded questions.

- He has endeavoured to prevent our de-population of these States; whether through abortion or in pursuit of our green agenda; both of which command us to reduce the numbers of the human virus.

- He has resisted our dictates to nationalize more than the one-third of United States land that we already have federalized.

- He has complained endlessly about our refusal to enforce the borders, which can only strengthen our numbers in subsequent elections with cadres of dependent migrants.

- He has resisted our assignation of Wise Latina Marxists and Socialists to the Highest Court.

- He has rejected our multitude of New Offices, Agencies and Bureaucracies, and all of our swarms of Officers that must harass them to ensure we confiscate as much of their private property as is our just due.

- He has fought our imposition of new Taxes, which must be installed to combat carbon dioxide pollution, light pollution, non-conforming toilet tanks, and sound pollution.

We, therefore, the Democrats of the united States of america, in General Congress and in the Executive, Assembled, appealing to Mighty Gozar the Traveler; We ask that he will come in one of the pre-chosen forms--During the rectification of the Pelosi transjunction, the traveler came as a large and enchanted Mikulski! Then, during the third resolution of the Reid supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Barney! Many Tea Partiers and Free-Marketeers knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Barney that day, I can tell you!

And for the support of this Destruction, with a firm reliance on the Proletariat, we mutually pledge to Gaia our support, unless it interferes with our pursuit of personal wealth, aggregation of power or the acquisition of our third home -- this one in the Hamptons.


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