Sunday, April 03, 2011

Please Do Not Show This Photo to Moonbats Lest Their Fragile Craniums Kerplode

Via Moonbattery, where Van Helsing intones, "Show them this."


Hat tip: The Chive.

Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) Unveils Democrat Roadmap for America's Fiscal Future: Deceit, Demagoguery, and Lies

Is there a more mendacious liar in Congress than the malevolent Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland? I mean besides Chuck Schumer, of course.

Consider the situation America faces. Every expert -- from governmental entities like the OMB, the CBO, and the Medicare Actuaries to private experts like Jim Rogers and the rating agency Moody's -- is warning us that we're headed for a financial cliff.

And, in response, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) appeared on Fox News Sunday today to offer a preview of his committee's 2012 budget plan which projects $4 trillion in savings over the next ten years.

"Where the president has failed to lead, we’re going to lead and we’re going to put out ideas to fix this problem... Democrats could use the plan as a 'political weapon,'" Ryan said.

...We are giving them a political weapon to go out against us, but they will have to lie and demagogue to make that a political weapon. They are going to demagogue us, and it’s that demagoguery that has always prevented political leaders in the past from actually trying to fix the problem. We can’t keep kicking this can down the road.”

He added, “Shame on them if they do that.”

Shame? No, something far worse than shame.

Because even before Ryan's plan has been released, the anti-American loons on the Left -- led by the despicable Van Hollen -- are already demagoguing the proposal.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said Ryan's proposal is not "courageous" or "bold."

"To govern is to choose, and it is not courageous to protect tax breaks for millionaires, oil companies and other big money special interests while slashing our investment in education, ending the current health care guarantees for seniors on Medicare, and denying health care coverage to tens of millions of Americans. That's not courageous, it's wrong," Van Hollen said in a statement.

So how does this loathsome kook address the budget deficit?

Where's his proposal for increasing taxes on "millionaires"? Where's his plan to further increase gas prices by punishing energy companies with even more taxes and regulations? Where's his forecast for increased government revenue by stealing more and more money from the private sector?

Hell, the Democrats couldn't even pass a budget in the last Congress -- the first time in modern American history that's ever happened. Furthermore, they rang up more debt in three years than the world has ever seen. And this sack of excrement is complaining about budget cuts?

I would call Van Hollen pond scum but that would unfairly lump him in with algae, which is provably more productive than the deceitful Maryland Congressboy.


Two nausea-inducing charts

Since Barack Obama took office, roughly 12 million additional people have become dependent on food-stamps. And since Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007, almost 20 million people have joined the rolls of food-stamp recipients.

15 out of every 100 people living in the U.S. are receiving food-stamps.

This disastrous explosion in the welfare state has come in spite of -- or, more likely, because of -- the Democrats' tidal wave of deficit spending.

In his pursuit of "wealth redistribution" strategies, Barack Obama has rung up more debt in three years than any other President in history. More debt than the world has ever seen.

Enough debt to enslave future generations to 70, 80 and 90 percent tax rates.

Maybe that's what meant when he talked about 'change'.

One thing is for certain: these graphs can't keep these trajectories going. The whole system is headed for collapse and -- when it does -- the Democrat welfare state collapses along with it.


Hat tips: Memeorandum and Gateway Pundit. Linked by: Michelle Malkin. Thanks!

The Top 150 Conservative Websites

Using Alexa's traffic rankings, the following represents a tabular view of the top 150 conservatively focused news and blog sites. Each column can be sorted by clicking the column header. And click on the site-name to open a new window and visit the website if it's new to you.

Rank Alexa Rank Website
1202wsj.com
22057realclearpolitics.com
33789hotair.com
45281townhall.com
55570dailycaller.com
65610thehill.com
75644nationalreview.com
85732investors.com
96875pajamasmedia.com
107899rushlimbaugh.com
118055washingtonexaminer.com
1210709americanthinker.com
1310731newsbusters.org
1411272michellemalkin.com
1511319reason.com
1611992redstate.com
1712401mises.org
1812799biggovernment.com
1914184weeklystandard.com
2015734stratfor.com
2115865ace.mu.nu (confederate yankee, jawa, etc.)
2216391humanevents.com
2317392cnsnews.com
2417582wattsupwiththat.com
2519555gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com
2619759theatlanticwire.com
2720584blog.heritage.org
2820839globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
2921005spectator.org
3027562newsrealblog.com
3128514powerlineblog.com
3229946bigjournalism.com
3332602rollcall.com
3432653thenewamerican.com
3534166realclearmarkets.com
3634547rightpundits.com
3736050jihadwatch.org
3836787atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com
3937399althouse.blogspot.com
4039744boortz.com
4141505memeorandum.com
4244380commentarymagazine.com
4344630therightscoop.com
4445200volokh.com
4547945blogs.dailymail.com (Don Surber, et. al.)
4648240weaselzippers.us
4751547freedomworks.org
4851679bigpeace.com
4952356anncoulter.com
5055022rightwingnews.com
5155382marklevinshow.com
5258908mrc.org
5361640outsidethebeltway.com
5466371firstthings.com
5566719hannity.com
5666960legalinsurrection.blogspot.com
5770920danielpipes.org
5876769climateaudit.org
5976856theothermccain.com
6078807sayanythingblog.com
6179001moonbattery.com
6280262hillbuzz.org
6382510conservatives4palin.com
6484078armytimes.com
6589769wizbangblog.com
6691152directorblue.blogspot.com
6795235jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com
68102417hughhewitt.com
69103070city-journal.org
70103690patterico.com
71107277redcounty.com
72107999iowntheworld.com
73108365defensetech.org
74117926atr.org
75123104thepeoplescube.com
76125486proteinwisdom.com
77131504aei.org
78131649cato-at-liberty.org
79137935patdollard.com
80147750riehlworldview.com
81148705the-american-interest.com
82150080gatesofvienna.blogspot.com
83156767nicedeb.wordpress.com
84162130steynonline.com
85163451blackfive.net
86167166polipundit.com
87167338floppingaces.net
88167681iowahawk.typepad.com
89172574bostonreview.net
90176192lonelyconservative.com
91176905memri.org
92179314judicialwatch.org
93180063cafehayek.com
94186356yidwithlid.blogspot.com
95190701tammybruce.com
96197602verumserum.com
97204844libertypundits.net
98210865smalldeadanimals.com
99210931bobmccarty.com
100217335americanpowerblog.blogspot.com
101217735imao.us
102230614dennisprager.com
103233355allamericanblogger.com
104234991zombietime.com
105251678cubachi.com
106251762noquarterusa.net
107271383politicsandfinance.blogspot.com
108271434americandigest.org
109276974creepingsharia.wordpress.com
110301231justoneminute.typepad.com
111304925dailypundit.com
112310475scaredmonkeys.com
113321577hyscience.com
114322481theblogprof.blogspot.com
115324584noisyroom.net
116331083deceiver.com
117345456investigativeproject.org
118356687babalublog.com
119369348sweetness-light.com
120370569dougpowers.com
121382313qando.net
122446022chicagoboyz.net
123483752radioequalizer.blogspot.com
124519804punditandpundette.com
125528888islamineurope.blogspot.com
126561339gaypatriot.net
127575328moelane.com
128599910strata-sphere.com
129614278thepiratescove.us
130645915tigerhawk.blogspot.com
131675020ashbrook.org
132687462radicalislam.org
133695989claremont.org
134696144stoptheaclu.com
135839444astuteblogger.blogspot.com
136848083sondrak.com
137884674thedanashow.wordpress.com
138889774pointsandfigures.com
139938967curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com
1401026867parkwayreststop.com
1411148949doubleplusundead.com
1421204865joshuapundit.blogspot.com
1431206177larryelder.com
1441390699coldfury.com
1452643483formerspook.blogspot.com
1462685358bsfootprint.com
1475049763primordialslack.com
1485441551bighollywood.com
1497841185jpattitude.com
15010936745jewishodysseus.blogspot.com

Update: I've missed at least two sites that deserve to be on the list: Fausta's Blog and Uncoverage.net.


Linked by: Don Surber. Thanks!

Larwyn's Linx: Memo to Hill GOP -- It's time to face your giants

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Nation

Memo to Hill GOP: It's time to face your giants: Tapscott
Can the House “deem” a bill into law?: Hot Air
West: I'm Sick of People Demonizing the Tea Party: TRS

Gunrunner update -- Issa subpoenas the stonewallers: Malkin
BOOM! Bachmann beats Romney in Q1 fundraising: AnBlkCon
Reid Still Obsessing Over Tea Party He Says is Irrelevant: Malkin

April 20th: Enviro-Marxists Plan on Civil Disobedience: Exam
List of Obamacare Waivers Grows By 128 in March: HAP
Refusenik Dem Says Fleeing WI Like Being In Combat: GM

Economy

Tea Party Leader: Scott Brown Threw Us 'Under The Bus': HAP
Memo to the US senate Pass Something: DTG
Barnett: Making a case vs. Obama’s health care law: Globe

Blacks flee liberal Utopia of Detroit: RWN
The Inequity of the Progressive Income Tax: Hoover
Issa set to grill postmaster general over losses, union contract: Hill

Climate & Energy

The Quickest Way to ‘Green’ Government? Cut its Size: Malkin (Powers)
The fight for lower gas prices starts at home: Vitter
Record Cold May Cause More Global Warming in England: GWP

Media

You can tell a lot about a person by what they bold when quoting: DTG
CNN shills for Islam and false concept of Islamophobia: Creeping
The Left Finds a Way to Display Their Hate For Palin & Jesus in One Exhibit: GWP

New York Times Food Critic Confirms He's a Socialist Douchebag: MRC
Marxist Columbia Prof, Obama Backer, Died Just Before New Book is Published: TAB
Your Headline o' the Day: Wizbang

Life Imitating Art?: Power Line
Rand Paul's Amendment Causes Reid To Adjourn Senate: Ace
America's Marxist Media: PJM

World

Mark Steyn: If there's no mission, when's it accomplished?: Steyn
Judge Richard Goldstone’s Stunning Re-evaluation of His Own Report: Radosh
Why Veena Malik’s Smackdown of an Egyptian Mullah was a Seminal Moment for Feminism: Greenroom

2010 Flashback: US Apologizes for Criticizing Gaddafi after he called for "Jihad": PunPre
FL Pastor Terry Jones’s Encore: A Trial for the Prophet Muhammad: Greenroom
Oops! Obama's "Epic" Fail in Naming "Kinetic Military Action" an "Odyssey": Cobb

Former Gitmo Detainee Helps Lead Libyan Rebels: EOF
Among Kenya's Exploding Jewish Population: Instapundit
Ivory Coast: aid workers find 1,000 bodies in Duekoue: Telegraph

SciTech

Why Microsoft had to make Windows the center of its tablet strategy, even if it kills them: Insider
Instagram 'is a new entertainment platform': TechCrunch
Japanese Mayor, Disgusted With The Government's Crisis Response, Appeals to World for Help: ZH

Cornucopia

HOLY CRAP: The Roof Blew Off My Southwest Plane At 36,000 Feet!: Insider
The 11 Guys You'll Always Find Playing Pickup Basketball: Josh Sneed
Family dog kept watch over missing 2-year-old overnight: WISTV

Budget Busters: MOTUS
Joe Vega: Kicking, Singing, Running, Racing Through Retirement : ChiHeights
Next Best Thing to a Cruise: BrutHon

Image: Shawna MalviniRedden
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QOTD: Marxism didn’t work so the Left called it Communism

Communism didn’t work so the Left called it Nazism

Nazism didn’t work so the Left called it Fascism

Fascism didn’t work so the Left called it Stalinism

Stalinism didn’t work so the Left called it Collectivism

Collectivism didn’t work so the Left called it Socialism

Socialism didn’t work so the Left called it Progressivism

Progressivism won’t work so what will the Left call it when it also fails miserably?
--Commenter Galt2009

Saturday, April 02, 2011

In Pictures: Evolution of the Cellphone

Via a list at PC World, my personal highlight reel for the evolution of the cellphone.

SRA/Ericsson MTA (Mobile Telephone System A) - Year: 1956

In the days before cellular phone networks, the world's mobile phones lacked a unifying standard. Instead, they used varying communication methods defined on a company-by-company basis.

The 88-pound MTA phone, shown here, is typical in size and weight of early mobile phone systems from the pre-integrated-circuit era. Most were so heavy and power-hungry that they required permanent installation in a car or other vehicle. Very few people owned, used, or even encountered such devices; for example, the service for the model shown here existed in only two Swedish cities and served a mere 125 subscribers from 1956 to 1967... [it was the] first automatic mobile telephone system (it didn't require a human operator to manually connect the user to an outside phone line).


Motorola DynaTAC 8000X - Year: 1983

Though Motorola announced the world's first handheld mobile phone--a prototype of the DynaTAC 8000X you see above--in 1973, it took ten years for the DynaTAC to reach the market... Upon its release in 1983, the DynaTAC 8000X became an instant cultural icon, both as a status symbol for the rich (thanks to the $3995 retail price--$8657 in 2009 dollars) and as an almost miraculous wonder-phone that a person could use anywhere. With the DynaTAC, the cell phone revolution had finally begun...


Motorola MicroTAC - Year: 1989

After the success of the DynaTAC, Motorola followed up with the much smaller and lighter MicroTAC phone in 1989. The MicroTAC included a novel space-saving idea: Motorola engineers placed part of the phone's hardware in a hinged section that could fold inward or outward as needed, thus reducing the phone's size when it wasn't in use. The flip concept lives on in many cell phones today...


Motorola StarTAC - Year: 1996

In 1996, Motorola further shrank its line of pocket cell phones, producing the 3.1-ounce StarTAC--which immediately proved popular and influential. The StarTAC expanded on the partially collapsible design of its precursor, the MicroTAC, by allowing users to fold the phone in half when they weren't talking on it. We now call this design "clamshell," for its resemblance to the way a clam opens and closes. The StarTAC's general design was widely imitated, and a large percentage of mobile phones still use it today...


RIM BlackBerry 5810 - Year: 2002

The BlackBerry brand began in 1999 as a simple two-way pager, but it morphed into a line of full-fledged smartphones in 2002 with the BlackBerry 5810, the first of the series to include integrated cell phone support. Thanks to top-of-the-line mobile e-mail and text messaging (the QWERTY keyboard didn't hurt either), BlackBerry phones soon became indispensable tools for businesspeople and other professionals... [it was the first] BlackBerry with an integrated voice cell phone [and] push e-mail support...


Sanyo SCP-5300 - Year: 2002

Who would want a camera in their cell phone? When news of such combination devices trickled over from Japan in the early part of the decade, the idea seemed silly and excessive to some people. In 2002, Sprint and Sanyo released the first American cell phone with a built-in camera, the SCP-5300--and the public went crazy for it.

The camera phone became a bona fide cultural phenomenon, allowing the average Joe to quickly and personally share both mundane and earthshaking events with the rest of the world. Today, camera phones are so common that we don't call them "camera phones" anymore...

Pity the geniuses in Washington haven't figured out that all of this innovation is due solely to the free market, not Crony Capitalism™.


Judge Goldstone: Gee, In Retrospect, Having a Bloodthirsty Terrorist Group Investigate 'Israeli War Crimes' Might Have Been a Mistake

Schmuck says what?

Goldstone asserts, “We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding commission.” Poppycock! As Goldstone’s numerous critics pointed out as soon as the report was issued, its many vulnerabilities were known at that very moment.

...As Goldstone admits underhandedly, saying that his critics were correct,

Some have suggested that it was absurd to expect Hamas, an organization that has a policy to destroy the state of Israel, to investigate what we said were serious war crimes. It was my hope, even if unrealistic, that Hamas would do so, especially if Israel conducted its own investigations. At minimum I hoped that in the face of a clear finding that its members were committing serious war crimes, Hamas would curtail its attacks. Sadly, that has not been the case. Hundreds more rockets and mortar rounds have been directed at civilian targets in southern Israel. That comparatively few Israelis have been killed by the unlawful rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza in no way minimizes the criminality. The U.N. Human Rights Council should condemn these heinous acts in the strongest terms.

...there has been no effort by Hamas in Gaza to investigate the allegations of its war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. ...In the end, asking Hamas to investigate may have been a mistaken enterprise.

No kidding. It seems it has just occurred to the judge that a terrorist organization committed to destroying Israel cannot, unlike democratic Israel, have any stake in investigating its own human rights violations. Did the judge really not comprehend this in 2009?

[But] whatever Judge Goldstone’s current obfuscations, and his intent to pass off his report’s failures as the fault of Israel’s non-cooperation rather than his own weaknesses and lack of impartiality, his current re-evaluation is more than welcome... So I, for one, thank Judge Richard Goldstone for his going public to help minimize the damage to Israel that he and his report have already produced.

Wow. So a bloodthirsty crew of barbarians who revel in the slaughter of women and children... who have genocide as their stated mission... who threw members of opposing terror groups off the roofs of buildings... can't be trusted?

What a surprise.


Hat tip: Memeorandum.

Utterly random, non-Islamophobic news items o' the day

I suppose that CAIR could have been reached for comment, but I didn't bother.

3 'Strange' Men Cause Flight Diversion: 'A Portland, Ore.-bound flight made a "level two emergency" stop in Chicago Tuesday night after passengers said three men, reportedly of Middle Eastern descent, were acting strangely, even fighting with flight crews.'

Indonesian Muslim protesters hold a banner during a protest against the military attack on Libya by the United States in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, April 1, 2011. (OC Register)

Dry Run or Wrong Turn? 3 Mid-East Men Try to Enter Calif. Marine Base After Allegedly Making Terror Threats: 'Marine base Camp Pendleton — one of the largest military bases in the country — is reportedly on high alert after three Middle Eastern men tried to enter the base last weekend on multiple occasions in multiple vehicles. And while the men initially claimed they didn’t know each other and simply took a wrong turn, new information from a local gas station about “hateful comments” and “terrorist threats” casts doubt on their story.'

Only 321 Murders and 2 Beheadings Since Koran Burned in Florida: "Only 321 people were slaughtered this week by Muslims in at least 26 terror attacks including two UN workers who were beheaded in Afghanistan after prayers."


Oops! New Black Panther Reveals Barack Obama dined with Louis Farrakhan and received counsel from the Nation of Islam leader

Race-baiter Malik Zulu Shabazz had some harsh words for Barack Obama last week. And while conservatives have focused mainly on the New Black Panther's hateful rhetoric, I focused instead on one particular snippet of his delightful soliloquy.

Malik Zulu Shabazz, National Chairman of the New Black Panther, personal friend and admirer of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, unleashed his vitriol toward Obama, whom he lashes out at for representing “the ideology of the white man... policies of the white man..."

..."represents the CIA set-up sabotage lie on an African leader and bomb [sic] that man like he’s George Bush ... And his wife should leave the n***er tonight. She should walk out, and his beautiful daughters should walk out on this bamboozling, buck-dancing Tom...

...Oh yeah, I said it. We’ve held back on this Negro for a long time... he caved in like a punk... You should have listened to Louis Farrakhan a long time ago when you were at his table.

...But you wanted to follow the white man and the white man's time is up! ...We pray that our Gaddafi survives... we see the same thing with the white man comin' after us all the time... [Obama] wanted to be the white man's n***er...

We didn't know that Obama and Farrakhan were close enough to dine together -- perhaps more than once. And that the Nation of Islam's chief racist counseled Obama.

So Farrakhan joins the collection of skeletons in Barack's closet, a veritable Star Wars cantina of freaks, Communists and anti-American kooks. From Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, "Father" Pfleger, Van Jones, Imam Hassan Qazwini, Susan Power, Anita Dunn and a host of other crackpots we'll likely never know about.

Now we discover that Obama received advice from the hateful nut Louis Farrakhan. Let me guess: legacy media will hush this story up too.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Golf Cart-like "Smart Car" Claims Another Victim

In the U.K. another driver of a "Smart Car" is dead:

A woman has died and five people were rushed to hospital after a serious head-on crash in the Westcountry... Two vehicles were involved in the collision at the B3274 between Roche Cross and Castle-an-Dinas.

The female driver of a Smart Car, aged in her 60s, died from her injuries sustained in the collision... A Peugeot 308, registered to a Plymouth driver, was also involved in the smash...

Police say the five occupants of the Peugeot all have minor injuries.

The federal government -- through its oppressive and bizarre CAFE standards -- wants you to drive Smart Cars and similarly-sized vehicles. The government, in essence, tells you what kind of cars you are required to drive.

What kind of light bulbs you're allowed to purchase. How much water your toilets can flush. What types of shower heads you can install.

This out-of-control, massive, budget-busting federal government now intrudes into every aspect of our lives. And everything it touches turns to crap: from the housing market, to the banking system, to health care and beyond.

It has moved so far beyond the limits placed upon it by the Constitution that our current federal government would be unrecognizable to this nation's founders.


Barack Obama: Losing $84 billion a big success

Though Democrats tout the auto bailout as a success, recent reports illustrate the taxpayer cost of the GM auto bailout was substantially larger than the Obama administration and a Congressional Oversight report has owned up to. ... In Obama's world, success mean tax payers only lost as much as $84 billion. --Kerry Pickett



Yesterday was another April Fool's Day for the American taxpayer:

Barack Obama has some 'splaining to do about tax payers' profitable "investment" in General Motors. It turns out the president is imagining things.

Though Democrats tout the auto bailout as a success, recent reports illustrate the taxpayer cost of the GM auto bailout was substantially larger than the Obama administration and a Congressional Oversight report has owned up to.

...a March 16 Congressional Oversight report ... estimates taxpayers will be out of $25 billion. Additionally, the report points out that “full repayment will not be possible unless the government is able to sell its remaining shares at a far higher price.”

That's only the beginning. Both the White House and the Congressional Oversight report omit the fact that during its bankruptcy, GM got a $45 billion tax break, courtesy of the American people.... GM will also get a $14 billion dollar domestic tax break...

...[Yet] the Obama administration and its allies presently continue to celebrate the success of the auto bailout, regardless of the facts. "I don’t think there’s any doubt that this was a success," said ... acting assistant secretary at the Treasury Department Tim Massad, who oversees the TARP program at Treasury, to a House panel on Wednesday.

Repeat: In Obama's fantasy world, "success" means you, the taxpayers, only lost around $84 billion.

And the liberals complain about corporatists and banksters when the federal government is the world's biggest and most wasteful corporation -- with more power than any crime gang ever dreamed of having.


Hat tip: Deep Volt. Linked by: Michelle Malkin. Thanks!

Larwyn's Linx: Do Challenges to Wisconsin Labor Law Have Merit?

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Nation

Do Challenges to Wisconsin Labor Law Have Merit?: PJM
Palin endorses Prosser in Wisconsin supreme court race: Hot Air
Powerful new Prosser ad may be game-changer: Nice Deb

Stop the ATF's Anti-Gun Zealots: Malkin
'U.S. Debt more dire than anyone thinks': ProWis
Selective Racial Outrage: Tatler

Napolitano: There’s 'Misconception' the Border Is 'Out of Control': WZ
AZ Sheriff: Federal Agents Told to Reduce Border Arrests: Fox
Justice Department Clears Itself on Black Panthers Outrage: RWN

Economy

Wisconsin Union’s Boycott Likely Illegal: RWN
Wisconsin Store Owner Thumbs Her Nose At Union Bullies: WZ
GOP senators to House Tea Partiers: Make a deal already: HotAir

Unions deploy money and muscle in Battle of Wisconsin: York
Compromised WI Judge Rewrites Stop Order… Again: RWN
WI: All Votes Must Take Place in Front of Screaming Mobs: LegalIns

O's 2012 Campaign Manager Asks Top Donors For $350K Each: WZ
The Golden Years of AARP: IBD
Daley: Hard to get rid of sleeping Teamsters: Marathon

Climate & Energy

Snap! New UN Report Mostly Blames Liberals For ‘Climate Change’: RWN
Emperor Obama decrees 100% of federal vehicles must be green compliant by 2015: WZ
The “Clean Energy” Of Unicorn Farts: CBullitt

Media

Red Reps 5 Michael Paymar – Soros Linked Secret Socialist in the Minnesota State Legislature: Loudon
NYT: Fannie, Freddie executives earned millions: GM's Place
But Glenn Beck is the Crazy One: SDA

World

American Soldiers Forced to Wear Hijabs: MB
UN Ignores Its Own Data to Promote Gun Ban: PJM
Cheap Vintage Port: P&F

Egyptian Liberal Groups Admit the Obvious — Islamists Are Going to Trounce Us in the Elections: WZ
Saudi Islamic Scholar: The Day Is Coming When Islam Will Rule the World Again: MEMRI
Endgame? Libyan rebels calling for ‘ceasefire’: Tatler

‘What are You Willing to Stop Doing to Avoid Offending Violent Religious Zealots?’: Driscoll
Rand Paul outsmarts, embarrasses slow-witted Democrat: HotAir
It would be nice if our politicians paid attention to the strategies of other nations: Boyz

SciTech

Introducing Gmail Motion: Google
Android Trojan Highlights Risks of Open Markets: Wired
Can Social Media Help Your Trading?: P&F

Smart Phone App Panic Button for Rebels: NewAm
How to lose weight: A cardiologist's story: Trib
Pin Sites in Internet Explorer 9: Wired

Cornucopia

Josh's Puppy: Josh Sneed
PBS to Try Capitalist Experiment: Diogenes
Are U.S. government microwave mind-control tests causing TV presenters' brains to melt down?: Daily Mail (UK)

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Friday, April 01, 2011

Militant Quakers behead innocent UN staff members because someone called them Militant Quakers

As I understand it, the cycle of tolerance could be described as:

• Innocents are slaughtered in the name of religion... spawning...
• Criticism of said religion... spawning...
• More innocents slaughtered in the name of religion...

With that as context, please consider "UN staff killed in Afghanistan by angry mob over US Quran burning":

A furious mob in one of Afghanistan's most peaceful cities killed at least 12 UN workers and wounded many more as the anger rose as the reports of an American man in Florida burning the Quran spreads across the country.

But let's all agree on one thing:

It's some kook in Florida, not an Imam preaching genocide in his sermon, who is to blame here.

Right? Right???


Chevy Volt Sales Slump, Prompting GM to (a) Ask for More Taxpayer Handouts; and (b) Introduce New, Unsellable _Convertible_ Volt

"It’s electric unless you’re driving in it."

Need a $41,000 gas-electric-nuclear-and-coal-powered hybrid? Well, neither did everyone else in America.

Recent reports find that General Motors (GM) is lobbying for the passage of legislation by Michigan [Democrat] Senator Debbie Stabenow that would turn a $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit into a rebate that will be available to all consumers at the point of sale. It's been dubbed "Cash for Clunkers II".


...Apparently, Chevy is not pleased with its sales -- 321 units sold in January and 281 in February -- out of 30,000 cars made for 2011, and a planned 45,000 to be made in 2012... At that rate, just 3,600 of the cars will be sold this year, [only] 12 percent of the supply.

...Since GM's initial public offering in November, the government sponsored automaker has been desperate to boost overall sales on a monthly basis. As such, GM boosted buyer incentives for the past four months. GM's incentive spending averaged about $3,663 per vehicle in January, and $3,732 in February, more than $1,100 over the industry average.

...According to the CarConnection.com, "That's increased GM's market share - albeit at the expense of image, resale value, and even company profits - oddly, at a time when most other automakers have admitted that such a strategy doesn't make long-term business sense."

Since they can't sell units to actual customers, GM has convinced Barack Obama to buy costly, inefficient, ghastly vehicles on your dime.

Which also prompted the geniuses at GM to introduce a... yes, you asked for it... a Volt convertible.

Chevrolet has pulled off a surprise announcement with news that a 2-door convertible version of the brand’s Volt electric hybrid will come to market as early as this summer. Set to make its debut next month during the New York Auto Show, the Volt convertible will be powered by the same hybrid gas/electric powertrain found in the sedan. Power comes from a lithium-ion battery pack or, when extra range is needed, a generator connected to a 1.4-liter 4-cylinder engine. Range is approximately 40 miles in electric-only mode, with about 200 additional miles provided by the small-displacement engine...

...Unlike most modern power-top convertibles, the Volt’s is lowered and raised manually to conserve the vehicle’s pure electric range. The entire process is faster than a power system and a rigid tonneau easily pops into place over the folded top for a nice, clean and fuss-free design. The one hand operation also means the top can be lowered while the vehicle is in motion.

So its got that going for it.


Hat tip: Instapundit.

The inscrutable genius of Senator Scott Brown (R-MA)

Exhibit A: Scott Brown calls $61 billion in federal spending cuts "irresponsible."

Reducing and eliminating needless spending and programs are appropriate, but a wholesale reduction in spending, without considering economic, cultural, and social impacts is simply irresponsible.

And then there's Exhibit B: Scott Brown joins all 46 other Republican Senators in calling for passage of The Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA).

Today, with the backing of the whole Senate GOP Caucus, Senator [Mike] Lee introduced an amendment to the Constitution to balance the federal budget... The Hatch-Lee Balanced Budget Amendment is aimed at putting the country on a path to fiscal sanity. The central theme of this bill is that total spending for the fiscal year not exceed total receipts and must not exceed more than eighteen percent of the economy, as measured by gross domestic product.

Let's do the math. The U.S. GDP is $14.12 trillion. 18% of that amount is $2.54 trillion -- in other words, the maximum amount the federal government could spend in toto under the BBA.

2010 approved federal spending was $3.56 trillion.

Which means Scott Brown also supports cutting... $3.5 trillion minus $2.5 trillion... hmmm, carry the one... cutting one trillion freaking dollars from the budget.

* * * * * * * * *

To paraphrase Scott Brown: "$61 billion in cuts is too much, but I support the Balanced Budget Amendment that would slash a trillion in annual spending."

What a dips***.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Awesomest Infographic of the Year: Iraq vs. Libya

RedState's Caleb Howe wins our coveted 2011 Infographic of the Year Award, which I just made up because of how awesome this illustration is. I know, my diction sucks. But, hey, this drawing doesn't!


Thanks to Caleb for permission to reprint this most wicked depiction of the Left's duplicity. You can follow Caleb on Twitter at @CalebHowe.

Bumper Sticker o' the Day: Nostalgia

Papa B:

Spotted this today in the mall parking lot.

I do too.


Larwyn's Linx: The Left's baseless smear attempt to defeat WI justice

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Nation

The Left's baseless smear attempt to defeat WI justice: Pundette
Here's the Deal: AmSpec
Pence: if we can't strip $61B, shut it down: Cubachi

All 47 Senate GOP support balanced budget amendment: Cubachi
Stop ATF's Anti-Gun Zealots: Malkin
The Wit and Wisdom of Barack Obama: AT

Economy

CA Teachers: Retirement Pay Exceeds Most Active Teachers: Perry
How the CRA fueled the housing bubble: Mish
The Real Budget Debate?: Ace

AARP: the ACORN of ObamaCare: RedCty
WI teacher charged with threats to kill GOP lawmakers: GWP
Wal-Mart US CEO To America: "Prepare For Serious Inflation": ZH

Civility: MI Teachers Assocation Features Walker as Devil: RWN
Higher Ed Bubble Update: Instapundit
Lawfare Continues: WI Judge Says Union Law Not In Effect: Joshua

Climate & Energy

Obama's Stealth Executive Order on Global Warming: RWN
U.S. Gives Major Obama Donor Half-a-Billion Dollars for 'Green' Projects: JW
EPA chief Lisa Jackson’s conduct ‘grossly improper’: Tatler

Media

Public Broadcasting Leftists Rake in Huge Salaries: MB
Will AOL Remove Van Jones from HuffPost Front Page for Hateful Attack on America Day After 9/11?: Breitbart
NPR Toes the Line for President Obama's Energy Policy: NewsBusters

The Missing Headline: "Obama Support Among Millennials Plummets Since 2008": LegalIns
Most Open Government Ever!: Ace
Schwarzenegger Returns to Entertainment, Starring As…: Malkin (Powers)

Paul Krugman: Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt: AT
MSNBC Contributor on Obama's Low Approval Rating: 'Polls Are for Strippers': MRC
Funny If It Weren't So Sad: Ace

World

The Shores of Tripoli: Mudville Gazette
Obama Cried, Kids Died: Coulter
Oh No: Libyan Rebels Number Less Than 1,000, According to One Reporter... Plus, Grim Tidings: Ace

A Friend of Friends Goes Under the Bus: MB
Unreported Soros Event Aims to Remake Entire Global Economy: MRC
What Should Asma al-Assad Wear to the Syrian Revolution?: Rosett

Discovered A Network of Facebook Third Palestinian Intifada Websites Pages : Lid
Obama Warns Rebels Against Attacking Civilians -- Say What?: Atlas
Terrific! Al-Qaeda Declares South Yemen an Islamic Emirate: GWP

SciTech

Microsoft to file antitrust complaint against Google: CNet
DOA: Blackberry PlayBook to Ship Without Mail, Messaging or Contacts: Wired
How Peer Review Doesn't Work: Schneier

Cornucopia

Reflections - Reagan vs. Anti-Constitution Politicians : Phatic1
Attention Bookworms: This is Your Dream Home!: Ned Hardy
Parents of the Year: MyFox8

Image: via iOwnTheWorld.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Tea Partier Arrested in Wisconsin and Charged With Death Threats

Did I say Tea Partier? I meant far left progressive moonbat. Hash-tag #NewTone:

A 26-year-old woman was charged Thursday with two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts for allegedly making email threats against Wisconsin lawmakers during the height of the battle over Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill.

Katherine R. Windels of Cross Plains was named in a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Criminal Court.

According to the criminal complaint, Windels allegedly sent an email threat to State Sen. Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay) March 9. Later that evening, she allegedly sent another email to 15 Republican legislators, including Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau).

The subject line of the second email was: "Atten: Death Threat!!!! Bomb!!!" In that email, she purportedly wrote, "Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks."

"I hope you have a good time in hell," she allegedly wrote in the lengthy email in which she purportedly listed scenarios in which the legislators and their families would die, including bombings and by "putting a nice little bullet in your head."

...Windels was charged with two felony counts "bomb scare" and two misdemeanor counts of "computer message-threatening injury/bodily harm." If convicted, each felony count carries a maximum penalty of three years and six months in prison and a $10,000 fine, and each misdemeanor count carries a maximum penalty of 90 days in prison and a $1,000 fine.

Want to take a guess as to which Democrat front group and/or public sector union she reports into?

Choose from: AFSCME, Organizing for Libya, the SEIU and WEAC.

I'm going with WEAC.

Update: Yep. Looks like WEAC.


Cartels Threaten to Kill Texas Rangers and ICE Agents as GAO Finds That Less Than 7% of Southern Border Is Secure

There's incompetence and then there's Janet Incompetano.

Richard M. Stana, director of homeland security and justice issues at the Government Accountability Office (which is responsible for “auditing agency operations to determine whether federal funds are being spent efficiently and effectively”), told the Senate Homeland Security Committee yesterday that the federal government can actually prevent or stop illegal entries into the United States along only 129 miles of the 1,954-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border.

That leaves 1,825 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border where the Border Patrol cannot prevent or stop an illegal entry.

To add to the good news, the Mexican drug cartels -- now more powerful than the armed forces of some African countries -- are threatening to kill Texas Rangers and ICE agents.

A new law enforcement bulletin warns that members of drug cartels have been overheard plotting to kill federal agents and Texas Rangers who guard the border, officials in Washington reported Thursday.

The bulletin, which was issued in March, said cartel members planned to use AK-47 assault rifles to shoot agents and Rangers from across the border.

But whatever you do, Barry and Janet, don't -- do not -- build a security fence.

I mean, what's a few thousand violent crimes a year versus many times that number of fraudulent Democrat votes?

These news stories go hand-in-hand with those exposing "Project Gunrunner", the biggest White House scandal in modern history, yet one that has been curiously underplayed by legacy media. Only excellent original reporting by CBS News has broken through the censorship of state-run media.

"Project Gunrunner" was a bizarre ATF project -- run by the likes of Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder -- that allowed weapons to flow to the Mexican drug cartels. Straw buyers for the cartels purchased nearly 600 AK-47s from Arizona gun shops, over the objections of the owners.

Sources tell CBS News several gun shops wanted to stop the questionable sales, but ATF encouraged them to continue...

Jaime Avila was one of the suspicious buyers. ATF put him in its suspect database in January of 2010. For the next year, ATF watched as Avila and other suspects bought huge quantities of weapons supposedly for "personal use." They included 575 AK-47 type semi-automatic rifles.

ATF managers allegedly made a controversial decision: allow most of the weapons on the streets. The idea, they said, was to gather intelligence and see where the guns ended up. Insiders say it's a dangerous tactic called letting the guns, "walk."

One agent called the strategy "insane." Another said: "We were fully aware the guns would probably be moved across the border to drug cartels where they could be used to kill."

On the phone, one Project Gunrunner source (who didn't want to be identified) told us just how many guns flooded the black market under ATF's watchful eye. "The numbers are over 2,500 on that case by the way. That's how many guns were sold - including some 50-calibers they let walk."

50-caliber weapons are fearsome. For months, ATF agents followed 50-caliber Barrett rifles and other guns believed headed for the Mexican border, but were ordered to let them go. One distraught agent was often overheard on ATF radios begging and pleading to be allowed to intercept transports. The answer: "Negative. Stand down."

CBS News has been told at least 11 ATF agents and senior managers voiced fierce opposition to the strategy. "It got ugly..." said one. There was "screaming and yelling" says another. A third warned: "this is crazy, somebody is gonna to get killed."

Indeed, it would appear that at least two federal agents may have been killed by guns supplied by Napolitano and Holder.

If there has been a more feckless, dangerous and ill-intentioned administration in American history, I have yet to read about it.


Hat tip: Drudge Report.