Monday, January 10, 2011

Don't be Deniers, Right-Wingers: the Tea-Truthers are Exposing Hidden Ties Between the Tea Party, Sarah Palin and the Illuminati

Paul Krugman and Markos Moulitsas (spelling off? do I care?) are charter members of the Tea-Truth™ movement, which has its mission the exposure of the nefarious relationship between Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and the Rosicrucians.

These men and others -- the Tea-Truthers as they are known -- are dedicated to the principled, ethical investigation of all things Tea Party.

Because we simply must stop the vitriol, hatred and uninformed commentary. We must do it for the children.


Curious: Rep. Giffords' Official YouTube Channel Subscribes to Only Two People: Rep. Ike Skelton and... Jared Lee Loughner

Perhaps Sheriff Dupnik could take a few moments away from his busy television schedule to investigate the following odd connection between the Giffords campaign and her accused shooter?

An anonymous tipster writes:

Don't know if you saw this or not.

Her [Giffords'] Youtube page has only two subscriptions, one links to the shooter's page (lower left corner, name classit10)


Now, her own political page links back to this youtube site, so it must be hers.
I don't know if someone has hacked this page or what. Strange to say the least.

Indeed. But I'm sure Sheriff Dupnik is well ahead of us and is actively attempting to figure out the tie.


Larwyn's Linx: Disgusting Partisanship on Display After Shooting

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Giffords Shooting

Disgusting Partisanship on Display After Shooting: Ace
The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel : Reynolds
Dem Linda Lopez Owes Americans an Apology: HillBuzz

Text of DHS Memo on AZ Shooting: RSM
AZ Sheriff Unsure Why Shooter Acted, But Pretty Sure GOP Involved: Ace
Shooter's Online Suicide Note?: ProWis

'Climate of hate'--An illustrated primer, 2000-2010: Malkin
Pima County Sheriff Dupnik Denounces Arizona: Moonbattery
Will Ron Bloom Be Held Responsible For AZ Massacre?: Found

Nation

Obama--Making It Up as We Go Along: Hanson
Tucson Blame Game: Dems to Push for Gun Control: RWN
Rubio gives a Reaganesque answer on bipartisanship: Cubachi

Why Down Ticket Races Matter: Madison Project
Well, That Didn't Take Long: RWN
Violence, Government Violence, and Anti-Government Rhetoric: Reason

Economy

What's so Elite About Elite Universities?: RWN
The Pay-to-Play Score in Illinois: Marathon
Biggest Pension Funds Demand Banks Review Mortgage-gate: ZH

Climate & Energy

Abandon all hope, ye who read this: WUWT
Saving Polar Bears by Killing Them?: RWN

Media

Left and Media (But I Repeat Myself) In a Fact-Free Frenzy to Blame Palin for Giffords Shooting: Patterico
The Censorship of Madmen: HE
A Tragic Shooting in Arizona: GM's Place

The Left, Not the Right, Owns Political Violence: AT
The Shame -- and Hypocrisy -- of CNN: Hot Air
Jared Loughner's college instructor: I was worried he might have a gun in class: WaPo

The Media and the Shooter: RedState
Journalists urged caution after Ft. Hood, now race to blame Palin after Arizona shootings: York
Marx-loving Loughner wanted to kill cops -- Must be a Tea Partier!: GWP

Loughner and the Violent Rhetoric in the "Communist Manifesto": AmSpec
Network Journalists Advance Leftist Wish to Blame Palin (and Tea Party) for Shooting: NewsBusters
The Real Radio Hatemongers: MRC

World

The Tragedy of Palestinian Democracy: Commentary
Palestinian Terrorists Launch Barrage of Mortar Shells and Qassam Rockets at Southern Israel: WZ
US, Palestinians slam Israeli east Jerusalem move: Maktoob

Lowering the Black Flag of Jihad: GoV
Former UK Home Secretary: Muslim Men See White Girls as ‘Easy Meat’: BigPeace
Muslim website contains addresses of Coptic churches, bomb-making instructions: JihadWatch

SciTech

The Tragedy of Mental Illness: Dr. Keith Ablow
CES: Counting the colors: CNet
U.S. patent awards surge in 2010; IBM still tops: CNet

Cornucopia

Pre-Owned Jeans: American Digest
Pic: Smartest President in History Can't Button His Own Jacket: BlogProf
Camille Grammer's Porn Past Surfaces Thanks to Castmates: Pop Eater

Image: BlogProf
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QOTD: "...the same people who insisted in November 2009 that people should not rush to judgment about the potential connection of radical Islam to the Fort Hood shooting practically broke legs trying to tie an apparent paranoid schizophrenic who hailed Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto to Sarah Palin." -- Ed Morrissey

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Breaking: Sarah Palin responsible for mass bird kills, genocide in the Sudan, and AT&T's loss of exclusive rights to the iPhone

Because there's just as much of a tie between Palin, those events and the tragic shootings in Tucson. Of course, to listen to many Democrats and those in legacy media, you'd think Sarah Palin had home-schooled Jared Lee Loughner.

The unmoored rhetoric of fools like Paul Krugman and Markos Moulitsas is not only divisive, it's destructive.


15% of America's oil supply just shut down thanks to major pipeline leak while Obama's pointless drilling moratorium continues

Thanks to the policies of the no-drill Democrats, we will likely see gas prices hit new 52-week highs within the next few weeks.

Operators of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, shut Jan. 8 while a leak is repaired, can’t say when the pipeline that carries 15 percent of U.S. crude oil output will be flowing again.

The shutdown has forced oil companies including BP Plc to suspend 95 percent of production from the North Slope area. The system, an 800-mile network crossing the northernmost U.S. state, was closed at about 8:50 a.m. Alaska time Jan. 8, operator Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. said in a statement... Oil futures in New York jumped as much as 2.2 percent to $89.98 a barrel, advancing for the first time in three days.

Meanwhile, the president's pointless oil drilling moratorium continues, endangering tens of thousands of jobs, billions in revenue for energy firms and America's national security. Some Texas oil men are considering leaving the U.S. and investing in Israel instead.

I wonder if President Obama's $13-a-week "tax cuts" for the middle class will compensate for $4-per-gallon gas?


Which Democrats objected to the use of mass murder as a vehicle for disseminating propaganda?

I was wondering: which Democrats and liberals objected to those willing to politicize the mass murder in Tucson before the blood had even dried?

Not several unnamed Democrat operatives, reported to have said, "[we] need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers... Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people" and "[there is a] climate of bitter and virulent rhetoric against the government and Democrats."

Not the detestable twerp Markos Moulitsas who immediately tweeted, "Mission accomplished, Sarah Palin."

Not the perverted excuse for a 'news' 'man', Keith Olbermann, who invents threats of violence by conservatives on a nightly basis: "...if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate her own part - however tangential - in amplifying violence and violent imagery in American politics, she must be dismissed from politics."

Not the world's dumbest blogger, Matthew "Iggy" Yglesias, whose disgusting tweet read, "A reminder that gun imagery and electoral politics don't mix that well."

Not the loathsome and bizarre 'economist' Paul Krugman, who published a blog post on The New York Times website before the victims had even been identified: "We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was... for those wondering why a Blue Dog Democrat, the kind Republicans might be able to work with, might be a target, the answer is that she’s a Democrat who survived what was otherwise a GOP sweep in Arizona... And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous 'crosshairs' list."

Not the malevolent hack, Rep. Chris van Hollen (D-MD), who rushed to MSNBC to condemn the very same 'targeting' imagery used by Democrats since the 1980's, "I really think that that is crossing a line... In this particular environment I think it’s really dangerous to try and make your point in that particular way because there are people who are taking that kind of thing seriously."

Not the obsequious Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik who -- in the midst of his investigation -- couldn't wait to appear on Keith Olbermann's show to decry one particular political party though he had not a shred of evidence to suggest such a thing: "When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous." And who, on Megyn Kelly's show, said that this kind of violence occurs when "one party is trying to do something to make this country a better country and the other party is trying to block them."

Not the back-bencher Democrat Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. of New Jersey, who blamed Fox News for the murders; immediately after the incident, he told a local newspaper: "There's an aura of hate and elected politicians feed it, certain people on Fox News feed it.”

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But there are a handful of voices of reason, whose sanity in the face of partisanship should be acknowledged.

Howard Kurtz of The Daily Beast: "One of the first to be dragged into this sickening ritual of guilt by association: Sarah Palin... it's a long stretch from such excessive language and symbols [like crosshairs on a political map] to holding a public official accountable for a murderer who opens fire on a political gathering and kills a half-dozen people, including a 9-year-old girl."

CNN Senior Political Editor Mark Preston, who reported Palin adviser Rebecca Mansour's statement during an interview with radio personality Tammy Bruce: "People actually accuse Gov. Palin of this. It's appalling. Appalling. I cannot even express how disgusting that is."

Aaron Astor at The Moderate Voice: "We need to exercise caution about motives and consequences. In particular, be careful about lumping together Tea Party rhetoric – from Sarah Palin or anybody else – with this murder."

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Those are about the only rational folks I've been able to locate thus far.

In the words of a not-so-great Chicago mayoral candidate, "Never let a crisis go to waste."

Every day the mask slips a little more.

I regret to say that there is a group of American citizens that hates its fellow citizens more than it hates murderous religious extremists and illegal alien invaders.


Linked by: Michelle Malkin. Thanks!

'Who is Jared Loughner?'

KGUN Channel 9 attempts to answer the question: "Who is Jared Loughner?"

...Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told reporters Saturday night "he has mental issues".

The 22-year-old was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, and hasn't been seen publicly since... 9 On Your Side spoke with a young adult who went to school with Loughner in middle school and high school. The friend, who did not want her name used, told KGUN9 News, "When I knew him he was odd. Not psychopath, just odd. Most kids at 12, 13, 24 are weird. He was odd, but not that weird."

She went on to say, "When I heard it was him that did it, it was shocking. He never said creepy, psychopathic things. He would listen to hard core, heavy metal music. But when I knew him he wasn't like crazy our anything. Just odd. It was kind of weird to see this transformation from someone who is like a little bit odd, to like, crazy, 'I'm going to kill a bunch of people."

Loughner as posted some bizarre videos on his YouTube channel. The most controversial video shows someone in a mask lighting an American flag on fire. It's titled "America: your last memory in a terrorist country".

...Loughner has a criminal history and that campus officials at Pima Community College had difficulties with him on campus... What appears to be Loughner's myspace page was captured by website Good Politics before it was deleted. In one of the last messages left this morning, he wrote "Goodbye friends. Please don't be mad at me. The literacy rate is below 5%. I haven't talked to one person who is literate. I want to make it out alive. The longest war in the history of the United States. Goodbye. I'm saddened with the current currency and job employment. I had a bully at school. Thank you. P.S. --plead the fifth!"

Loughner went to Tortolita Middle School in Marana. A district spokesperson says that Loughner spent his freshman through junior years at Mountain View High School. Then, he withdrew from school before his senior year.

Pima Community College issued a statement about Loughner Saturday at 7:35 p.m. The statement described Loughner as a former student who withdrew from the college in October after being suspected for code of conduct violations.

"From February to September 2010, Loughner had five contacts with PCC police for classroom and library disruptions at Northwest and West campuses," the statement read. "On September 29, 2010, college police discovered on YouTube a Loughner-filmed video made at Northwest Campus. In the video, he claims that the College is illegal according to the U.S. Constitution, and makes other claims."

The college said it told Loughner that if he wanted to come back to school, he must "must resolve his Code of Conduct violations and obtain a mental health clearance indicating, in the opinion of a mental health professional, his presence at the College does not present a danger to himself or others." ...The college said it had no further contact with him after that...

The Arizona Star adds a few more details:

The man arrested on suspicion of [the shootings] tried to manipulate his dreams and posted rambling messages on the Internet... A former classmate of Loughner at Pima, from which he was suspended Sept. 29 for code-of-conduct violations, said he was "obviously very disturbed."

"He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts," said Lynda Sorenson, who took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College's Northwest campus... Dupnik said the suspected shooter has made death threats before and been contacted by law-enforcement officers. The threats weren't against Giffords, Dupnik said.

...As a middle school student, Loughner was "kind of an outcast," said Shannin Macey, who said via e-mail she attended Tortolita and Mountain View with him. In high school, Loughner was in jazz band and played the saxophone but he dropped out in junior year, said Tommy Marriotti, who was a high-school friend of Loughner.

At the time he dropped out, Loughner was having drug problems, Marriotti said, but he seemed to do well once he started taking classes at Pima... Loughner attended Pima courses from summer 2005 until he withdrew in October after his suspension, the college said.

He tried to enlist in the Army in 2008 but was rejected, said First Sgt. Brian Homme, who oversees Army recruiting in Tucson. Loughner was sent to Phoenix to take a test and physical, but "he was found to be unqualified," Homme said... Loughner registered to vote for the first time in 2006, said Chris Roads, Pima County's registrar of voters. He registered as an independent and last voted in the 2008 general election.

Sorenson, Loughner's classmate at Pima, said he was asked to leave the pre-algebra class several times and eventually was barred from class... Another Pima classmate, Lydian Ali, said Loughner would frequently laugh aloud to himself during the advanced-poetry class they attended. Only about 16 people were in the class, so Loughner's behavior stood out, Ali said... "It almost seemed like he was on his own planet, because his comments would have nothing to do with what we were talking about," Ali said.

Loughner's online accounts contain some political comments but are dominated by bizarre discussions of his desire to establish a new currency and his disdain for what he considered the public's low literacy rates. He also wrote threatening and despairing messages... "WOW! I'm glad i didn't kill myself. I'll see you on National T.v.! This is foreshadow .... why doesn't anyone talk to me?.." he posted on MySpace Dec. 14. [The day before,] he wrote: "I don't feel good: I'm ready to kill a police officer! I can say it." ... In a posting on YouTube, Loughner wrote repeatedly about a new currency.

Loughner has had at least two minor run-ins with police, online court records show... In October 2007, Loughner was cited by the Pima County Sheriff's Department for possession of drug paraphernalia, a charge that was dismissed in November 2007 when he completed a diversion program... One year later, in October 2008, Loughner faced a "local charge" in Marana Municipal Court. That charge was also dismissed following the completion of a diversion program in March 2009.

KOLD fleshes in Loughner's problems at community college.

[He] was a former PCC student who voluntarily withdrew last October after he was suspended for code of conduct violations...

...PCC says Loughner and his parents met administrators on October 4, 2010, and Loughner indicated he would withdraw from the College.

...Search warrants were served in the Tucson area, including the home of Loughner's parents in the 7700 bock of North Soledad Avenue, Pima County Sheriff's department spokesman Rick Kastigar said...

Deputies recovered a pistol with an extended handle [Ed: probably an extended magazine], Kastigar added...

Further information on what was seized by deputies was not immediately available.

Loughner's YouTube channel has three videos detailing his opinion on government failures.

Here's a look at Loughner's MySpace page, which has been restricted from public view.

This young man is a very sick individual, which makes the efforts of the Democrat Party and legacy media to politicize the shootings all the more disgusting.


The Poisonous Paul Krugman and Kos: Willing to Use Evil and Madness to Advance Their Political Agenda [Updated]

It took roughly seven seconds after the shooter was tackled in Tucson for the despicable loon known as Paul Krugman to blame conservatives.

The New York Times' Paul Krugman writes, "You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers."

In his eagerness to tar the alleged Arizona shooter as some sort of conservative tea-bagger, Paul Krugman has once again proven that he is completely unhinged.

Krugman's not the only one. The malevolent crackpot known as Kos is knee-deep in his usual agit-prop, blaming Sarah Palin for the shootings.

Turns out, however, that making political hay out of this tragedy -- while par for the course for the Leftists -- is so far off base that it's quite literally sickening.

Phoenix New Times:

Jared Loughner, Alleged Shooter in Gabrielle Giffords Attack, Described by Classmate as "Left-Wing Pothead"


A classmate of the man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning describes him as "left wing" and a "pot head" in a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon... [she] paint[s] a picture of Jared Loughner as a substance-abusing loner who had met Giffords before the shooting. She says, Loughner described the congresswoman as "stupid and unintelligent."

...Parker "tweets" that she and Loughner were in the band together and were friends until 2007 when he became "reclusive" after getting alcohol poisoning and dropping out of college... She describes him as "quite liberal" and as a "political radical."

Arizona Star:
Saturday afternoon, police surrounded a house at 7700 N. Soledad Ave., which is the address listed by a man with the same name on a variety of online accounts and in the volunteer registry for the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books. The home is near West Magee Road and North Thornydale Road on the northwest side, about five miles from the shooting scene... The suspected shooter has made death threats before and been contacted by law-enforcement officers, but the threats weren't against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Dupnik said. The suspect is unstable, Dupnik said, but the sheriff would not say he is "insane."

A former classmate of Loughner at Pima Community College said he was "obviously very disturbed... He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts," said Lynda Sorenson, who took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College's Northwest campus... Sorenson doesn't recall if he ever made any threats or uttered political statements but he was very disruptive, she said. He was asked to leave the pre-algebra class several times and eventually was barred from class, said Sorenson, a Tucson resident.

Another Pima classmate, Lydian Ali, said Loughner would frequently laugh aloud to himself during the advanced-poetry class they attended. Only about 16 people were in the class, so Loughner's behavior stood out, Ali said.

As for Kos: Daily Kos blogger BoyBlue is alleged to be Loughner.

And Democrats -- including Kos -- routinely use bullseye symbols in their graphics.

The poison spilled by Krugman and Kos is harmful to society, for they are happy to use pure evil and madness to advance their political agenda.


Update: Democrats Plotted to Blame Tea Party for Slaughter:

Democrats plotted to blame the tea party patriots for yesterday’s slaugher in Arizona

A democratic operative admitted this to The Politico. Of course, Politico buried it in their story.
One veteran Democratic operative, who blames overheated rhetoric for the shooting, said President Barack Obama should carefully but forcefully do what his predecessor did.

“They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”Another Democratic strategist said the similarity is that Tucson and Oklahoma City both “take place in a climate of bitter and virulent rhetoric against the government and Democrats.”

This Democrat said that the time had come to insist that Republicans stand up when, for example, a figure such as Fox News commentator Glenn Beck says something incendiary.

The shooter was a pro-Marxist, anti-flag, anti-Constitution, anti-religious crackpot. He was hardly a tea partier.

So… Is this why DHS is going after a hate group that just happens to have Gadsden Flags ads on their website?… And, the media is trying to link the pro-Marxist lunatic to the tea party?

Does this really come as a surprise for a Party that lies as a matter of course?


Connecticut Media Invents New Term for Illegal Alien

You've got give WTNH some points for creativity.

Illegal cit. arrested for sex assault


CLINTON, Conn. (WTNH) - An arrest was made after a four month investigation involving a 19-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by illegal citizens.

Police say two men who are both from Ecuador have been arrested for the crime.

William Matute 36, and Carlos Celi 29, originally from have had federal detainers placed on them pending their deportation back to Ecuador.

The investigation alleges that Celi assisted Matute in the crime, but did not have sexual contact with the victim.

Both Celi and Matute will be arraigned in Middletown Superior Court on Jan. 10.

'Illegal citizen'? It would appear legacy media will do anything to confer rights on non-citizens while they race to blame actual citizens -- especially conservatives -- for random acts of madness.


Giffords Shooting Update--Second Man Sought as 'Person of Interest' [Update: Cleared 'of Any Involvement']

Update: The Sheriff has cleared the second man "of any involvement in an attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords" (via American Digest).

KGUN Channel 9 in Tucson reports that a second man is sought by the local Sheriff as a 'person of interest' in yesterday's tragic shootings.

Pima County Sheriff's Deputies are asking for the publics help in locating a person of interest in connection with the mass-shooting and assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Jason Ogan with the Sheriff's Department told KGUN9 that they are trying to find a 40-50 year old male with dark hair. Authorities say the man was last seen wearing blue jeans and a dark blue jacket.

If you have information on the identity of the individual, please call 9-1-1, 88-CRIME, or the FBI at 520-791-6974.

Update: Arizona shooting suspect may be linked to anti-Semitic group
An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo quoted by FOX News Channel revealed the gunman - named by the media as Jared Loughner, 22 - is "possibly linked" to American Renaissance... The group subscribes to an ideology that is "anti-government, anti-immigration, anti -ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government), anti-Semitic," according to the DHS memo.

Larwyn's Linx: Two Sicknesses On Display in Arizona

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Giffords Shooting

Two Sicknesses On Display in Arizona: LegalIns
Six Innocents: the Murder Victims Identified: Malkin
Memo to Krugman and Van Hollen: Results of My Search: Verum

AZ Shooter Seen as 'Desperately Needing Mental Health Care': RSM
Horror: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot at Tuscon event: Malkin
Second Suspect Sought in Tucson Shooting: RWN

Nation

How Many Czars Are There?: Mish
Reid: Obamacare 'Is Not Going to Be Repealed': CNS
Lunatic Fred Phelps to Picket Dead Child’s Funeral: Patterico

Economy

Tax-payers versus Tax-eaters: Hyscience
Democrat Utopia of IL: Prepare for a 75% income-tax increase: IBD
Detroit Public Schools Laptop Stimulus: BlogProf

Five Programs the GOP Can Cut Today: RWN
Fed Governor Says Fed Will Create 3M Jobs by 2012?: Mish
ObamaCare's Reality Deficit: WSJ

Climate & Energy

Deep-Water Drilling Permits Down 88% in Gulf Since Obama Lifted Moratorium: Foundry

Media

Seizing on Tragedy: Instapundit
Kos Blames Palin for Giffords Shooting — But There’s Just One Problem: Kos Put a Bulls Eye on Giffords: Patterico
Buck Up and Stop Obamacare: Wolf

Paul Krugman Blames Giffords Shooting on Palin, Limbaugh and Beck: NewsBusters
A Tragedy and Politics on the Hudson: Wolf Howling
Was Shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Political?: Atlantic Wire

Even as Arizona Shooting Unfolded, Media Rushed to Blame Tea Party and Sarah Palin: RWN
Progressives and the 'Bad Stuff' in the Constitution: AT
The Best Line from Gov. Walker's Inauguration Speech: RWN

World

Sarkozy warns Christians in Middle East are victims of ‘religious cleansing’: Cubachi
The Iranian War of All vs. All: Ledeen
Egyptian Muslims Attend Coptic Christmas Mass, Hoping to Deter Violent Attacks by Muslim Extremists: Volokh

Stopping the Euro Contagion?: Mish
The Constitution and Slavery: AT
Failed Narco State Watch--15 of 28 Bodies Are Beheaded in Acapulco Assaults: Jawa

SciTech

Be Scientific (Skeptical) about Scientific Research: AT
Verizon Finally Lands the iPhone: WSJ
Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon racer rendered by reader: Autoblog

Cornucopia

A Small Beer Is Really A Large Beer At Qwest Field, And Vice Versa: Consumerist
Mom and the TSA: JPA
A Conversation With My Father : Zilla

Egypt To NYC: Conserve Cleopatra’s Needle or We’re Taking it Back: WZ
Save This Tweet For Use In Political Emergency: LegalIns
Still Fascinating: iOTW

Image: Andrew Greenhill, TwitPic.
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Saturday, January 08, 2011

Photos of Jared Lee Loughner, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Alleged Shooter, and What May Be His Online Suicide Note

The Associated Press is reporting that the gunman being held in custody in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and more than a dozen other people has been identified as Jared Laughner [Ed: it would appear his name is actually Jared Lee Loughner].

Little information is known immediately about Laughner — such as his background or a possible motive in the attack... U.S. officials who provided his name to the AP spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release it publicly.

Loughner is 22 years old and was born in September, 1988.

A bit of searching took me to a series of YouTube videos allegedly authored by Loughner including one titled "My Final Thoughts." The video was uploaded just three weeks ago.






Tyler Durden reports that Loughner lists Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto among his favorite books.

Name: Jared Lee Loughner
Channel Views: 271
Joined: October 25, 2010
Website: http://Myspace.com/fallenasleep
About Me: My name is Jared Lee Loughner!

Hometown: Tucson
Country: United States
Schools: I attended school: Thornydale elementary,Tortolita Middle School, Mountain View Highschool, Northwest Aztec Middle College, and Pima Community College.
Interests: My favorite interest was reading, and I studied grammar. Conscience dreams were a great study in college!
Movies: (*My idiom: I could coin the moment!*)
Music: Pass me the strings!
Books: I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.

Well, this certainly seems to fit a 'lone nut' theory.

Update: A commenter points us to this photo of Loughner from The Arizona Star.


Update II: Despite numerous reports that Rep. Giffords had died, attending surgeons state that she is alive, but in critical condition.

Update III: A high school photo of Loughner, circa 2006, via LGBT POV.


Update IV: More on the suspect:

On MySpace and YouTube web pages, a man who identifies himself as 22-year-old Jared Loughner posted anti-government messages that talk about mind control and suggested he will soon be adopting a new consciousness.

"Goodbye," Loughner posted on his MySpace account at approximately 5 a.m. Saturday. "Dear friends ... Please don't be mad at me."

Photos on MySpace show a close-up picture of an automatic handgun sitting atop a book or paper titled "United States History." This picture is accompanied by several videos posted to Loughner's Youtube account, including one of a masked man burning a U.S. flag and another with the words, "Don't trust the current government, listener!"

It is unclear if Loughner is the person burning the flag in the video.

Additional pictures show a coded message, Loughner on the street and a close-up of his face.

On both the MySpace and YouTube web pages, Loughner mentions his concern over literacy rates and the fact that few people speak English. He also talks about his distrust of the government and suggests that anyone can call anyone a terrorist.

"I can't trust the current government because of fabrications," Loughner wrote in a YouTube slide presentation. "The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar."

KVOA identifies several of the victims.

News 4 now knows the identities of two more people killed in the tragic shooting this morning: Gabe Zimmerman, one of Gifford's aides, and Dorwin Stoddard, a pastor of Mountain Ave. Church of Christ... Zimmerman, 30, was Giffords' director of community outreach, and had worked for Giffords since 2007.

Pastor Dorwin Stoddard, 75, was shot while he was in line to speak with Giffords.

It has been previously reported that John Roll, a federal judge had been shot and killed during the incident.

Update V: The Left's poisonous attempts to use Loughner to lash out at Palin and the Tea Party: doubly sick.

Photos, Details of Rep. Giffords' Shooting Filtering In: Suspect in Custody

More details of the tragic shooting of Rep. Giffords are filtering in.

Fox 11 relays word from law enforcement sources who say "a suspect is in custody... [who is] described as a male in his early 20's."

The Arizona Star is reporting that "Giffords was talking to a couple when a gunman rushed her, shouting as he fired his weapon... The gunman fired at people in line and got within 4 to 5 feet of the congresswoman, said Mark Kimble, a former Tucson newspaper executive who is now on her staff."

KVOA reports that at least 13 other people were shot with at least six fatalities.










Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of those impacted by this horrific attack.


In Memoriam: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords [Updated: Reported Alive and in Critical Condition]

Update: Despite receiving numerous reports that Giffords had passed away, the attending surgeons at the local hospital state -- thankfully -- that she is still alive and are "about as optimistic as it can get in this situation". 18 people were reported as shot; one of the fatalities was a 9-year old girl.

The alleged shooter apparently left an online suicide note.

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Gabrielle Giffords, 1970-2011

This is Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on her wedding day in 2007. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her husband, family members, staffers and friends.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot and killed at a shopping center in Tucson Arizona earlier today. CNN reported that as many as a dozen others were wounded or injured in the incident.

An employee at a store nearby told a reporter for CNN that he heard a series of shots. The shooting occurred at a Safeway supermarket during an event Ms. Giffords called "Congress on Your Corner."

The New York Times notes that these types of constituent events allowed residents of the Arizona 8th Congressional District to meet with her individually. In one such event in 2009, the Times notes, "a protester was removed by police when his pistol fell on the supermarket floor."

In March, the glass front door of her office was reportedly broken just hours after the House vote to pass the Democrat health care overhaul.

Ms. Giffords was 40 years old and was married to a NASA astronaut and Naval aviator, Commander Mark Kelly.

Rest in Peace, Gabrielle Giffords.


Media Matters Beclowns Itself Anew: Still Unable to Demonstrate a Single Fox News Lie After Four Attempts

The Soros-funded Marxist front group known as Media Matters has been busy trying to document a single lie by Fox News. The reason: they want the 1-oz. Krugerrand I pledged to the first person to describe a lie by FNC reporters. The rules are simple and Media Matters, to its credit, did try to follow them. Of the hundreds of other 'progressives' who responded, I think a grand total of two figured out what the grade-school-level rules were.

That said, let's examine Media Matters' track record -- the four lies they've attempted to document. Note, too, the nature of their entries -- they can't come up with real lies like the Dan Rather "Air National Guard Memo", or "If you like your health care plan you can keep it", or "Your premiums will go down an average of $2,500 a year", or the "Al Qaqaa" smears of our military or the "John McCain Lobbyist Affair" fabrication. Instead, Media Matters attempts to use slight variations in grammar or diction to document a "lie".

But don't believe me, check out their four attempts:

Attempt #1: Elena Kagan Never Banned Military Recruiters From Harvard Law


This was a particularly humorous attempt, since Kagan's ban of recruiters was well known and one of the more controversial aspects of her confirmation hearing. After I uncovered DOD emails from multiple branches of the service that described how they had been refused permission to visit and couldn't so much as even post a job opening on campus, I stopped hearing back from their representative, 'Matters' Gertz.

Attempt #2: The 'Slaughter Rule' was really a Democrat vote to pass health care


In the words of Media Matters, FNC "repeatedly reported that by passing health care reform through a self-executing rule, Democrats would be doing so 'without actually taking a vote'".

Of course that's precisely why Democrats attempted to pass health care reform without actually voting on it -- it was to avoid the scrutiny of voters if they could have deemed the bill as having been passed without a vote. Deem-and-pass, as it is known, had never been done with legislation this controversial, which is why it received so much attention in 2010 and was ultimately discarded as a tactic by Democrats.

But how were members of Congress, and other news reporters and analysts, describing this issue? Oh, gee, lookie here:

The New York Times: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is eyeing a strategy by which the Democrats include the Senate bill in the rule that will set the terms of the House floor debate on the health care legislation. Once the rule is adopted, the Senate bill would be “deemed” to have passed without House members actually voting on it."

The Wall Street Journal: "How Democrats may 'deem' ObamaCare into law, without voting... Under this amazing procedural ruse, the House would then vote only once on the reconciliation corrections, but not on the underlying Senate bill. If those reconciliation corrections pass, the self-executing rule would say that the Senate bill is presumptively approved by the House—even without a formal up-or-down vote on the actual words of the Senate bill."

John Boehner, House Minority Leader: "Democrats Prepare “Slaughter Solution” to Ram Unpopular Health Care Takeover Through Congress Without a Vote... House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill, the chairwoman said Tuesday."

Daniel Foster, National Review: "The sense around here for the last week or so has been that 'only the House vote matters' in deciding the fate of Obamacare. But what if the Democrats can pass the bill with no House vote at all? Astoundingly, House Democrats appear to be preparing to do just that..."

Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner: "House Democrats looking at 'Slaughter Solution' to pass Obamacare without a vote on Senate bill... "

The Heritage Foundation: "Yesterday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) endorsed the rumored Slaughter Rule to send the Senate passed Obamacare bill to the President without a direct up-or-down vote in the House. Don’t believe those on the left who are trying to argue that because Republicans used deeming resolutions when they were in power, it is okay for Democrats to use a similar tactic to pass legislation without a vote."

LifeNews: "House Republicans have unveiled a new move to force Democratic leaders to vote directly on the Senate pro-abortion health care bill. Democrats have been looking at using the controversial Slaughter Rule that would allow the House to adopt a procedural rule declaring the bill passed without voting on it."

In essence, Fox News Channel simply reported the Democrats' disgusting machinations regarding the Slaughter Rule using the same language that members of Congress (and others in the media on both sides of the aisle) were using.

Verdict: FAIL.

Attempt #3: ClimateGate Emails Really Didn't Show Scientists Trying To "Hide The Decline" In Global Temperatures


Gertz asserts that "Fox News reporters falsely claimed that stolen emails "reveal that scientists use, quote, 'tricks' to hide evidence of a decline in global temperature."

Unfortunately the real climate scientists agree with FNC.

So far one of the most circulated e-mails from the CRU hack is the following from Phil Jones to the original hockey stick authors – Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes [which states] ' I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline...'

...The e-mail is about WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 1999 -report, or more specifically, about its cover image.

...grafting the thermometer onto a reconstruction is not actually the original “Mike’s Nature trick”! Mann did not fully graft the thermometer on a reconstruction, but he stopped the smoothed series in their end years. The trick is more sophisticated, and was uncovered by UC over here...

...When smoothing these time series, the Team had a problem: actual reconstructions “diverge” from the instrumental series in the last part of 20th century. For instance, in the original hockey stick (ending 1980) the last 30-40 years of data points slightly downwards. In order to smooth those time series one needs to “pad” the series beyond the end time, and no matter what method one uses, this leads to a smoothed graph pointing downwards in the end whereas the smoothed instrumental series is pointing upwards — a divergence. So Mann’s solution was to use the instrumental record for padding, which changes the smoothed series to point upwards as clearly seen in UC’s figure (violet original, green without “Mike’s Nature trick”).

...TGIF-magazine has already asked Jones about the e-mail, and he denied misleading anyone but did remember grafting... 'Jones told TGIF he had no idea what me meant by using the words “hide the decline”... “That was an email from ten years ago. Can you remember the exact context of what you wrote ten years ago?”'

Actually, FNC got it precisely right, which is why in 2007 about 17,200 scientists signed a petition to Congress disputing anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming. Or should I say 'glo-bull warming'?

Verdict: FAIL.

Attempt #4: Using Budget Reconciliation to Pass Obamacare Wasn't a 'Nuclear Option' and Didn't Involve a Violation of Senate Rules


In the words of Matters Gertz, "Fox News reporters claimed that by passing health care reform using the reconciliation process, Democrats would be 'changing the rules' and using the 'nuclear option'."

This is a curious attempt indeed, since it involves (among other things) relatively obscure nomenclature. Avoiding the filibuster by using the reconciliation process has been called by many parties (not just Fox) a 'nuclear option'.

Here's The New York Times describing this exact situation in 2009.

Some Republicans have likened the building struggle over budget reconciliation to the 2005 Senate fight over Democratic filibusters against judicial nominees chosen by President George W. Bush.

Frustrated at the opposition, Republicans warned they would invoke the “nuclear option” and change Senate rules to ban filibusters against executive branch nominations. Democrats characterized that as an assault on the very nature of the Senate... But now that they are in the minority, some Republicans have begun suggesting that if Democrats insist on reconciliation, Republicans will gum up the Senate works to the greatest extent possible, using their remaining procedural rights to essentially shut down the Senate.

...Republicans have another hurdle as well. The so-called nuclear option represented a change in Senate rules...

In other words, even the Democrat National Committee's public relations arm uses the term 'nuclear option' to describe wrapping a conventional bill into the protective coating of a budget reconciliation process.

But perhaps Matters intended to concentrate instead on the Senate rule process. If they did, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, just before he passed away last year, described the real situation (much to Media Matters' chagrin).

Sen. Robert Byrd warned Democratic colleagues against changing filibuster rules in order to advance their legislative priorities... In a "Dear Colleague" letter dated Tuesday, Byrd, the longest-serving member of the Senate, said that the Senate's rules on ending debate shouldn't be changed, but he encouraged forcing senators to actually sustain debate in a real, live filibuster...

The frustration over the filibuster has been especially manifest in the healthcare debate, where all 41 Republicans, sticking together, have been able to sustain a filibuster.

So both The New York Times and Democrat icon Senator Robert Byrd effectively eviscerated this attempt.

Verdict: EPIC FAIL.

Say, Media Matters: what the hell are you doing with all of that money George Soros gave you? I do this for free, working on my blog perhaps 10 hours a week. You'd think all of that media watching would allow you to identify some real lies by Faux News.

If I were Soros, I'd ask for my money back.


Larwyn's Linx: Alexander Warns Dems Against Senate Power Grab

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Nation

Alexander Warns Dems Against Senate Power Grab: HE
The other new Chicago crony chief of staff: Malkin
Insane Pelosi: We Lost the Congress Because of Bush: JWF

House Judiciary Committee Fires First Shot at DOJ: RWN
The Limits of Federal Power: ObamaCare on Trial: AT
Bachmann on '12: ‘I’m Going to Iowa. There’s Your Answer’: WZ

Marginalizing Obamacare: VIMH
Priebus To Fast Track Barbour's Presidential Bid: Riehl
Lynn Woolsey: A National Embarrassment: AT

Economy

In which I eventually dump on Obama for appointing Bill Daley: Corrente
Democrats need a new argument to save ObamaCare: JRubin
Foreclosure-gate: MA Court Deals Blow to Banks: FDL

The "nanny state" of Great Neck, New York: The PC
A bipartisan target: Obama’s czars: Malkin
IRS dithers as prisoners file phony tax returns, collect refunds : York

Abuse Industry Paves the Royal Road to the Welfare State: PJM
Obama can't answer basic questions on jobs: WZ
Is Any Part of the Constitution Unconstitutional?: AmSpec

Climate & Energy

Obama's $5 gas dead ahead: Tapscott
GOP Looks To Block EPA Climate Alarmism Regulations: RWN

Media

Republicans Criticized for Violating Constitution by Neglecting Something the Constitution Doesn’t Require: TrogloPundit
Dems and allied media mislead on CBO cost for ObamaCare repeal: USR
Teach Your Daughters to Shoot: Fort Liberty

Biggest political lies of 2010: Elder
Progressives Want to Read Slavery Back Into Constitution: AmPower
Kathy Griffin Vows to Attack Teenager Willow Palin in 2011: Saber Point

'10 Census Says CA State Budget is $254B, Not $90B: RWN
About That New Obama Chief of Staff, William Daley: P&F
WaPo’s Ezra Klein: Obamacare is ‘Best Thing’ Dems Have Done ‘In a Generation’: NewsBusters

World

Human Rights Watch: Covering up an Arab Trade in Black Slaves: Big Peace
Greek Debt is Ouzo – ing: Clarion
Is a bank run about to bring Europe to its knees?: Fortune

Islamic Countries Most Dangerous for Christians: BMW
Great news: Some military experts freaking out about new Chinese stealth fighter: Hot Air
Pamela Geller explains "Dawa" at Atlas Shrugs: Winter Soldier

Rosie O’Donnell gets her eyes opened when a Canadian calls in who is on a 7-year wait list for surgery: RWN
Palin: Obama Is “Hell Bent on Weakening America”…: WZ
Hope and Dismay About Haiti's Future: Cato

SciTech

Confirmed: Study that linked autism to vaccinations a total fraud: Hot Air
Who's Keeping Tabs on Tablet Security?: TNW
Android invasion arrives at CES: CNN

Cornucopia

Our Precious Bodily Fluids: Belmont Club
Of Course the Homeless Guy With the Voice of Gold Would be a Convicted Felon. Does It Matter?: Pundit Press
Janet Napolitano Responds To Blackbirds And Other 'Random' Events: SHN

Image: People's Cube.
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Friday, January 07, 2011

Curious, yet entertaining: President Obama claims credit for disastrous unemployment report

The official unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was released earlier today. True to form, President Obama immediately grabbed TOTUS, found some cameras, positioned himself in front of them, and started claiming credit.

President Obama today called the job numbers released this morning “positive news”... The numbers showed a drop in the nation’s unemployment rate to 9.4 percent in December.

“Overall, the decline in the unemployment rate is positive news, but it only underscores the importance of us not letting up on our efforts... We know these numbers can bounce around from month to month, but the trend is clear,” Obama added, noting that this marks 12 straight months of private-sector job growth for the first time since 2006. “The economy added 1.3 million jobs last year, and each quarter was stronger than the previous quarter, which means that the pace of hiring is beginning to pick up.”

The president said they are seeing “optimistic” economic forecasts for the year ahead, in part due to the tax cuts package he signed into law last month, including a payroll tax cut for workers and tax breaks to encourage investment, innovation and hiring in businesses.

Back in the little land we like to call "Reality", the situation is dire.

The reported unemployment rate fell a substantial .4% to 9.4%. However, much of that that gain is a statistical mirage. The BLS reports a whopping 260,000 people dropped out of the work force. As a result the [labor] participation rate fell to a new low of 64.3%.

In short, the percentage of Americans participating in the workforce fell to an all-time low. And this depressing statistic helped artificially slice the unemployment rate.

Bear in mind, were it not for millions of people allegedly dropping out of the labor force over the last year, the unemployment rate would be over 11% right now...

The official unemployment rate is 9.4%. However, if you start counting all the people that want a job but gave up, all the people with part-time jobs that want a full-time job, all the people who dropped off the unemployment rolls because their unemployment benefits ran out, etc., you get a closer picture of what the unemployment rate is... 16.7%. Moreover, both the official rate and U-6 would be much higher were it not for huge numbers of people dropping out of the workforce.

Things are much worse than the reported numbers would have you believe.

Not to worry, folks -- President Obama, with all of his vast private sector experience, is on the job.

What could possibly go wrong?


Where's Mayor Bloomberg When You Need Him? Major Waterway Clogged With... Fat

I'm guessing Mayor Bloomberg is too busy regulating salt and soft drinks to worry about this disaster in Houston.

Texas authorities were forced to close part of the Houston Ship Channel Tuesday after 250,000 gallons of beef fat spewed out of a shore-based storage tank. That's right — what you see isn't ice — it's gelatinized beef fat.

Approximately 15,000 pounds (or 250,000 gallons) of the animal fat spilled into the Houston Ship Channel this week out of a tank owned by agricultural company Jacob Sterns and Sons. Representatives of the company say the rupture was the result of an employee error.

The Coast Guard and the Texas General Land Office sent workers into the gulf to capture the beef tallow, which thickens in the cold water, by picking up the foot-long thickened bits. These bits aren't the edible portions but rather the bits leftover and used for cosmetics and soap... Here's one more image — just in case you had any thoughts of eating any food for the rest of the day.


I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.


Same party that continually feeds the Constitution into a shredder suddenly worried about two representatives voting before taking oath

Does it get any more hypocritical than the miscreant known as Anthony's Wiener?

Yesterday, Reps. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) failed to take the oath of office on the House floor along with the other 433 members of Congress which caused the GOP caucus to scurry, worrying that some of the congressional actions Sessions and Fitzpatrick took yesterday may not have been valid. This morning, the House passed a resolution to fix this problem by a vote of 257-159 — with 27 Democrats voting in favor, three House members voting “present” (including Sessions and Fitzpatrick), and 16 others not voting. The resolution invalidated any votes Sessions and Fitzpatrick had taken yesterday, but also said that “all other actions the members took would count as if the two representatives were sworn in on the floor.”

After the resolution was introduced, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) took to the House floor to criticize the new Majority for violating its own newly-instituted parliamentary rules. “A new section was created…that required at least three days notice to consider legislation,” he said, adding, “It is particularly important in this case since we’re dealing with a constitutional issue, one that is without precedent.”

Gee, but I thought the Constitution was an anachronism?

Or over 100 years old, which means no one can understand it?

The New York Times has even attempted to paint the Constitution as "irrelevant".

So why would the progressives care whether the oath was taken a few minutes after the vote?

After all, it's a living and breathing document. It means whatever they want it to mean. Because they routinely mock and disregard the Constitution.

It's what they do. It's who they are.