Saturday, May 28, 2011

Anthony's Weiner Makes Underwhelming Twitter Debut

The recently married Congressman from New York, Anthony Weiner, appears to have bungled the dispatch of a direct message on Twitter, instead sending a very public tweet. The reply, sent to an unnamed female, linked to a photo of a thin white male's groinal area, in brief-style underwear, while in a state of arousal.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY 9″) finds himself in a late night online pickle.

This evening a photo surfaced on Congressman Weiner’s yfrog account and in his verified Twitter timeline of a man in his underwear with an erection. The photo was reportedly sent to a woman on Twitter. We’ve protected her name and her account, which was at one time verified to be active but has since been deleted after the photo in question was deleted...

...Coincidentally, the rest of the photos in the congressman’s alleged yfrog account were also deleted around 11 p.m. eastern...

...Weiner, who married Hillary Clinton’s longtime assistant, Huma Abedin, last year, has been Tweeting about hockey this evening. Confusion reigns online as puzzled Weiner followers wonder what occurred to Weiner’s timeline.

The photo, stored at Weiner’s alleged yfrog account, is connected to his verified Twitter account. Were his yfrog and Twitter accounts hacked as well?

I'm guessing that's the weiner story Weiner is sticking with.

Remember that a Republican -- Rep. Christopher Lee (NY-26) -- resigned after a similar, less lewd, photo was published on an Internet dating site.

But Democrats operate under a different set of rules than the rest of us.

Rep. Gerry Studds continued serving in Congress even after being censured for having sex with a 17-year old Congressional page.

Rep. Barney Frank continues to serve in Congress even after a series of sex-related scandals including the discovery that a gay prostitution ring was operating out of his home.

And so on, ad infinitum.

Anthony's Weiner needs to resign from Congress immediately. It's the ethical thing to do. He won't, of course, because he's a shameless, power-hungry, Marxist hack like his mentor Chuck Schumer. He won't resign because it would be the ethical thing to do.


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The Ladies of the View Have Assured Me That It's Okay to Call the New DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Slut

In an effort to lay down covering fire for "Red" Ed Schultz -- recently suspended from MSNBC for calling Laura Ingraham a "slut" -- the erudite deep-thinkers at The View tell us that it's perfectly acceptable to call women "sluts" and "whores".

(Begin Clip) ED SCHULTZ, liberal talk show host: President Obama is going to be visiting Joplin, Missouri on Sunday. But you know what they're talking about? Like this right-wing slut, what's her name – Laura Ingraham? Yeah, she's a talk slut. (End Clip)

BARBARA WALTERS: I would like to say that Joy Behar, on this program, has called me a slut.

(Laughter)

GOLDBERG: Joy Behar has called many people a slut on this program. Did you hear from this woman's organization? Ever?

JOY BEHAR: Why Barbara, when I call her a slut, the truth is an ultimate defense. That's all I have to say. ...

GOLDBERG: Have they [NOW] ever gotten a hold of you and said you can't – you shouldn't be calling women sluts?

BEHAR: No – ...

BEHAR: Mine is done with humor.

SHEPHERD: Don't you – don't you think it's a difference when a woman is calling another woman a slut verses a man, because he's attacking her –

GOLDBERG: No. Slut is slut. ...

BEHAR: He was angry.

With The View covering for me, I can safely say that a perfectly reasonable nickname for the Marxist crackpot running the DNC is Debbie Wasserman-Slut -- aka "The Best DNC Chair the GOP Ever Had".


Larwyn's Linx: Constitution Still Applies In Dearborn, Even If It Offends Some

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Nation

Constitution Still Applies In Dearborn, Even If It Offends Some: Ace
Sarah Palin's Magic Bus: Toldjah
Texas governor will consider running for president: WashExam

Barney Frank’s Friends with Benefits: Malkin
Wisconsin Ends Vote Fraud: Surber
Bachmann notes 'calling' to run for president: WashExam

Weinergate: Lewd Photo Hits Twitter: BG
The Best DNC Chair the GOP Ever Had: HE
DNC sets sights on Herman Cain: DC

Economy

Dems' plan: kill U.S. healthcare, remake in socialist image: RWN
Poll: Almost 2/3 of Voters Want Balanced Budget Amendment: Lid
The DOJ's Lies About Immigration Cases: WashExam

School Choice is the New Normal: Foundry
Unions Are Major Recipients of Obamacare Waivers: NLPC
Pawlenty was 'open to' mandate in '06 speech: Politico

Climate & Energy

Chris Christie: New Jersey’s Al Gore: JunkScience
Heritage busts Obama gas price myths: TRS
Yes, Chris Christie still believes in global warming climate change: AmSpec

Media

Things That Make You Say Hmm: Potluck
On War and Revolution: Fat in Indiana
Forget the spin. Taxpayers still on the hook for auto bailouts: WashExam

The Selling of Barack Obama: How CBS's 60 Minutes Works Overtime for the Obama Left: MRC
Why Do Michelle Obama’s Staff Members Keep Quitting?: Glob
Loon Professor: Lone Pro-Life Wacko More Threatening to U.S. Than Unconstitutional GWOT: AmPower

What's Really in Those Teen Magazines? (Hint: Nothing Remotely Romantic): NewAm
Krugman Calls Congressman Ryan a Liar and a Sore Loser: NB
CNN's Cafferty blasts Obama on Euro-trip; WaPo slams President on Israel policy: BlogProf

Shock: The New York Times Lied About Israeli Reaction to Netanyahu's D.C. Adventure: Lid
Poll: Palin near top of re-shaped GOP field: WashExam
Know Why Obama Stammers? Cause He’s So Frikkin’ Brilliant!: RWN

World

The Obama Dilemma: Vodkapundit
Wow!… Canada Defends Israel From Obama Administration – Blocks 1967 Line From G8 Statement: GWP
Arab Springtime for Hitler: Egyptian group announces intent to form Nazi party: JihadWatch

Anti-Communist Hero Lech Walesa Snubs Obama Invite – Says He’s Too Busy: GWP
Never Saw This Coming: Goals Shift In Libya Kinetic Operation: RWN
Suspected Rwanda genocide mastermind arrested: GlobPost

Ahmadinejad says Iranian people demand "complete elimination of Israel": JihadWatch
CT: Muslim Brotherhood founded group to hold convention Memorial Day weekend: Creeping
Muslim terrorist group Hamas on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube: Creeping

SciTech

As the World Turns: Sondrakistan
Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On: TorrentFreak
Pioneer demonstrates cool Floating Vision displays: CNet

Cornucopia

"I said, 'Look but don't touch.'": AmDigest
"We’re On a Mission From God… We’re Getting the Band Back Together": MOTUS
Here’s a new cause you can, uh . . . get behind: Madrid

Image: Sondrakistan's Public Service Announcement
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QOTD: "As the stunning and overwhelming response to Prime Minister Netanyahu in Congress showed, Israel matters in American politics like almost no other country on earth. Well beyond the American Jewish and the Protestant fundamentalist communities, the people and the story of Israel stir some of the deepest and most mysterious reaches of the American soul. The idea of Jewish and Israeli exceptionalism is profoundly tied to the idea of American exceptionalism. The belief that God favors and protects Israel is connected to the idea that God favors and protects America." --Walter Russell Mead

Friday, May 27, 2011

15 Photos from the Joplin, Missouri Tragedy: Utter Devastation #joplinrelief #tornado

Lee writes, "The President phoned in his concern between rounds of Guiness in Ireland and botched toasts to the Queen. Photos of the home front attached."
















Please click any of the photos to help out the victims of this catastrophe.


As California's prison system implodes, corrections union blocks random searches and inks deal letting guards bank unlimited vacation time

Every day and in every way, Governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown is proving to be an utter disaster for the beleaguered taxpayers of California. Just a month ago, he approved a deal that will cost taxpayers dearly.

A contract negotiated between Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration and the politically powerful prison guards’ union could prove costly to taxpayers because it lets guards bank unlimited vacation time that must be paid out when they retire, a legislative analyst said Tuesday...

...the average correctional officer already has nearly 19 weeks of accumulated leave time, currently valued at $600 million.

And, despite evidence that some staff members help facilitate a massive smuggling operation into prisons -- corrections unions are blocking all efforts to self-police.

Random staff searches that are part of an effort to curb the smuggling of cell phones into state prisons are drawing objections from the powerful union representing correctional officers...

Union officials contend the monthly searches of all employees are overly intrusive and misguided. The two-year program dubbed Operation Disconnect was enacted after 10,000 cell phones were taken from prisoners last year.

Unchecked Democrat-slash-union control of the state has left California with "the walls closing in on both prisoners and lawmakers."

On Monday, a Supreme Court ruling ordered California to shed some 30,000 prisoners over the next two years. The ruling underlines the cold reality that our current prison system’s lock-up-as-many-people-as-possible-and-throw-away-the-key philosophy is a bad idea. It was always a bad idea. But now it’s a bad idea that officially violates the constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.

It was only a matter of time.

Indeed.

Everything the Democrat Party touches turns to crap. Its incessant push for Statist policies, central planning and union control of the workplace, is killing California, Illinois and New York. People and businesses are fleeing and well they should.

The modern Democrat Party is a disaster, whether measured in economic, ethical or moral terms. They represent the antithesis of the principles of America's founding.


Dear President Obama... [Papa B]

Papa B:

27 May 2011

Dear President Obama:

I am writing today with a somewhat unusual request. First and foremost, I will be asking that you return America to its August 20th, 1959, borders so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you are no longer a citizen.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Heh.

Larwyn's Linx: SCOTUS upholds Arizona illegal immigration sanctions

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Nation

Supreme Court upholds Arizona illegal immigration sanctions: Malkin
Marco Rubio, "a man in a field of mice": sisu
A Storm Chaser's First-Hand Account of the Joplin Tornado: Atlantic

Some People Will Believe Anything: Cobb
Pawlenty knocks out Obama in one tweet: Tatler
Obama boasts he's secretly destroying Second Amendment: RWN

Governor Palin Will Go On a “One Nation” Bus Tour: C4P
The rhetorical clarity of moral clarity: Bookworm
Jon Huntsman's Common Sense Campaign for America: Morgenr

Economy

The world will not end on August 2nd: FW
New Jersey courts not interested in Democracy: RWN
Good News / Bad News for Debbie Wasserman Schultz!: RS

Out of Business: Atlas
It's the MediScare, stupid: Riehl
$500MM Obamacare Program to Help Kindergartners 'Sit Still': CNS

The Obama Administration’s ‘Sidam Touch’: Blumer
Obama Regime Threatens to Cut Off Texas Air Traffic: RWN
Former ECB Chief Economist Says "Greece is Insolvent": Mish

Climate & Energy

Genius: U.S. Transportation Secretary rolls up in 7MPG SUV to unveil new fuel economy stickers: BlogProf
Know What “Climate Scientists” Hate? Having To Show Their Work: RWN
Morbidly Obese Film Director: Since Obama Controls Car Companies, He Should Make Them Build Trains: BlogProf

Media

MSN Money Finds 10 Reasons 'You Should Love $5 Gas': NB
Sarah Palin for President: Greenroom
Fleebagging TV: Democrat Walks Off TV Show: RWN

NPR ombud: Yeah, that Soros money might be a credibility problem: Hot Air
Keith Olbermann Hint from Morning Joe: Wayne Barrett
Hey, who’s up for banning Hot Air? : Hot Air

Rush: Obama scared of real conservative like Palin: TRS
How to argue entitlement policy, Democrat-style: Hot Air
Know Why Obama’s Having Problems? Raaaaacism!: RWN

World

Brain Bran: It clears out sclerotic synapses: Primordial Slack
The Dreamer Goes Down For The Count: Walter Russell Mead
Israel as Middle Eastern hegemon: Spengler

Disposable Lives: Pundette
Arab Spring… Egypt Now Has a Nazi Party: GWP
Poll: 12% of Israeli Jews consider Obama to be pro-Israel: JPost

U.S. Congressman Says The Obama Administration Materially Supporting Terrorists: BigPeace
Pro-Palestinian-in-Chief: Kurtz
Nasrallah (Hezbollah Leader) Proudly Endorses The Murderous Assad (Syria): Jawa

SciTech

Startup Wants To Be The First Facebook Competitor, Has Big Money Behind It: Insider
How secure is your wallet in Google's hands? (FAQ): CNet
Field Cam Makes iPad Camera Easier to Use: Wired

Cornucopia

Anguish: Wizbang
Getting Our Doobie Face On: MOTUS
So You Have a College Diploma: IowaHawk

Image: How to argue entitlement policy, Democrat style
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QOTD: "The only remaining question is whether [Obama's] perverse and ultimately self-defeating policy is born of genuine antipathy toward Israel or of the arrogance of a blundering amateur who refuses to see that he is undermining not just peace but the very possibility of negotiations." --Charles Krauthammer

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Pipsqueak Media Correction of the Day

Oh, this is rich:

Brilliant.


Say, how's that super-aggressive legal pursuit of the guy who jailbroke the Playstation working out for Sony?

You don't tug on Superman's cape ... You don't spit into the wind ... You don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger ... And you don't mess around with Jim


Technical geniuses enjoy challenges. They like puzzles -- unlocking secrets. One such person -- going by the online nomme de guerre "Geohot" -- is famous in the hacker community for, among other things, "jailbreaking" the Sony Playstation 3. The term "jailbreak" simply means that the hardware was "unlocked" so that it could run software of the owner's choosing, not just Sony's.

Quite a "crime", eh?

Well, Sony went after Geohot with a vengeance and, in retrospect, it turns out that targeting the hacker community may not be the soundest business strategy.

Unless you have been living under the rock, you must have heard of the lawsuit that sony has filled against Geohot for making PlayStation 3 exploits and jailbreak tools public. No matter what, there’s something that Sony always gets back from Geohot, pwnage for life...

...In a latest effort to publicly pwn Sony, Geohot gives you "The Light It Up Contest"...

...He sums everything up in a single phrase "You’re f***ing with the dude who got the keys to your safe".

Lyrics:

Yo it’s geohot
And for those that don’t know
I’m getting sued by Sony

Let’s take this out of the courtroom and into the streets
I’m a beast, at the least, you’ll face me in the northeast
Get my ire up, light my fire
I’ll go harder than Eminem went at Mariah

The lawsuit was unexpectedly resolved in April when George Hotz ("geohot") consented to a permanent injunction.

Since then, as you have probably heard, Sony suffered a catastrophic data breach. An attacker compromised the personal information of more than 100 million people and literally brought the Playstation Network (PSN) to a grinding halt.

Sony just announced that the breach could cost it more than $171 million -- and that figure will likely rise substantially.

The breach of Sony's PlayStation Network will end up costing the electronics giant at least $171 million, according to a preliminary financial forecast released Monday.

Expenses related to the compromise, which also affected Qriocity and Sony Online Entertainment services and exposed the personal information of more than 100 million people, likely will rise... Anticipated losses already tower over those experienced by other companies that experienced massive breaches, including TJX and Heartland Payment Systems.

Not included in the $171 million figure are the expenses related to defending against a number of class-action lawsuits that already have been filed or are expected in the near-term.

Jailbreaking a device became a crime (in quotes) with the passage of a highly questionable law called DMCA (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act). Looking at it in purely scientific terms, a user that jailbreaks a phone might be voiding the warranty, might be performing a scientific experiment with their own property, might be experimenting with running "unauthorized" software... but, unless done for profit, doesn't seem to pass the smell test as a "crime".

It is unknown whether the attack on Sony was related to its aggressive legal pursuit of Geohot. But one thing is certain: attacking the hacker community for questionable "crimes" doesn't appear to be a viable business strategy.


Hat tip: Carlos.

Party of the rich: Democrats in Congress score 'abnormal' stock profits

Corporate executives are banned from trading stocks based on inside knowledge, but apparently Democrats in Congress operate under no such restriction.

An extensive study released Wednesday in the journal Business and Politics found that the investments of members of the House of Representatives outperformed those of the average investor by 55 basis points per month, or 6 percent annually, suggesting that lawmakers are taking advantage of inside information to fatten their stock portfolios.

...Despite the GOP’s reputation as the party of the rich, House Republicans fared worse than their Democratic colleagues when it comes to investing, according to the study. The Democratic subsample of lawmakers beat the market by 73 basis points per month, or 9 percent annually, versus 18 basis points per month, or 2 percent annually, for the Republican sample...

...Strict laws ban corporate executives from trading on their insider knowledge, but no restrictions exist for members of Congress. Lawmakers are permitted to keep their holdings and trade shares on the market, as well as vote on legislation that could affect their portfolio values...

Government is the most powerful, unaccountable and monopolistic "corporation" of all. Which is why the Framers created the Constitution the way they did: to constrain government, not us.

Consider the Democrat swamp un-drained


Related: The Secret Garden (and Mansion) of Christopher Dodd

Democrats: yep, we're going to continue scaring Seniors until Medicare collapses under its own weight

Look up pond scum in the dictionary and odds are you'll find the logo of the Democrat Party.

The leaders of Democrats' campaign committees said Thursday they wouldn't get "cocky" about their victory in New York's 26th Congressional district but promised to keep attacking Republicans over Medicare.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (Wash.) spoke to reporters about their plans, attempting to use Rep.-elect Kathy Hochul's win to gain momentum without sounding overly optimistic.

"Today I can tell you that I fundamentally believe that the House of Representatives is in play," Israel said during a briefing at the Democratic National Committee. He said Hochul's victory doesn't mean Democrats would win back the 24 seats necessary to recapture the House in 2012, "yet." He said the Tuesday special election would not make Democrats "cocky."

...Israel hammered home three points: Democrats are recruiting good candidates, the DCCC is out-raising the National Republican Congressional Committee even though the GOP is in the majority and the party apparatus for mobilization is strong, which he called "a critical element for taking the House back."
Israel told reporters that earlier this month 43 recruits visited Washington. After Hochul's win, Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) "made 50 calls to our top 50 recruits," he said.

...Murray criticized the GOP for saying they would focus on jobs and the economy but instead focusing on "changing Medicare as we know it today in order to protect the wealthiest Americans and tax cut subsidies for oil companies."

The Democrat game-plan can be summarized thusly: lies, demagoguery, class warfare and, finally, a tragic collapse of the entire system.

I can't remember who said it, but the GOP needs to run a very simple tag-line from this point forward: Democrats lied, Medicare died.

Because every expert agrees: without changes, Medicare is set to collapse. And the Democrats are lying to the American people in a petty, last-gasp attempt to stay in power. Which is why pond-scum now talks down to Democrats.


Hat tip: TrendingRight.

Larwyn's Linx: The Summer That Gave Us the Constitution

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Nation

The Summer That Gave Us the Constitution: Foundry
The Lessons of NY-26: LegalIns
Preview of Sarah Palin’s new movie: TRS

Obama: We’re working on gun control “under the radar”: Hot Air
Barone: GOP Must Go on Offensive in MediScare Campaign: Ace
White House Propaganda Czar Married to 'Betray-Us' Crank: GWP

White House bans newspaper for printing Romney op-ed: RWN
Clinton admits Dems playing politics with Medicare: GWP
Loughner ruled incompetent to stand trial: GWP

Economy

Porkulus: Cash for Tax Cheats: Malkin
Jailbreak: Mac Donald
How Prison Unions Helped Create Overcrowding Problem in CA: AllAm

Ryan Video Counters Dem Lies About Medicare: GWP
ObamaCare: Survival of the Well-connected?: NewAm
Obama budget: 0-for-97: WZ

You Will Respect My Authoritah!: NoisyRoom
Court Orders U. Va. to Release Michael Mann Documents: ATI
Chrysler parties after paying off borrowed money with borrowed money: BlogProf

Climate & Energy

57% Of Americans Think Electric Cars Suck: RWN
Oh noes! The abalone must be saved so we can eat it!: WUWT
Socialism in action: Oil-Rich Venezuela Suffers From Energy Crisis: RWN

Media

AP Factchecks Netanyahu--I Return The Favor: Daled Amos
More misogyny at MSNBC: Neanderthal host attacks Laura Ingraham as a “slut”: Malkin
Don Surber Strikes Again: American Digest

Bursting liberal assumptions about the peace process: Elder of Ziyon
Mainstream Media Marvel Over Michelle: NB
The Best Quotes From Laura Ingraham’s “The Obama Diaries.”: RWN

The Republic is saved: Obama says he’ll only serve for eight years: IHTM
MSNBC Cruelly Suspends Mentally-Challenged Man With Few Job Prospects: Ace
Joe Klein: The result in NY-26 was a “victory for socialism”: HotAir

World

Obamacare for Israel: McCarthy
Former Attorney General Mukasey: Prosecuting CIA Agents ‘Unconscionable’: Foundry
Vacationer-in-Chief Plans Trip to Resort Island of Bali: WZ

DNC Head Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Demands That Republicans Not Make an Issue of Israel In 2012: Ace
British Press Pans Obama’s Empty TelePrompter Speech to Parliament: GWP
The Joys of Socialized Healthcare: UK Doctors Prescribing Water to Keep Elderly Patients From Dying of Thirst: WZ

SciTech

YouTube Turns 6 Years Old, Daily Views Shoot Up To 3 Billion (Yes, 3 Billion. Daily.): TechCrunch
Yahoo Paid $20M for a 12-Week-Old Company: A Brilliant Move: FoxBiz
WebP, Google's answer to JPEG, gets better quality: CNet

Cornucopia

Dogs Make Employees More Productive At Work: Insider
New report and map chronicles the visceral reality of 47,000 preventable pedestrian deaths: T4America
Allen West is asking for your help now!: We the People

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QOTD: "...here is the situation in California. Tens of thousands of prisoners are scheduled by a U.S. Supreme Court order to be released. But why this inability to house our criminals when we pay among the highest sales, income, and gas taxes in the nation? Too many criminals? Too few new prisons? Too high costs per prisoner? Too many non-violent crimes that warrant incarceration? God help us when they are released. We know what crime is like now; what will it be like if thousands are let go? I doubt they will end up in the yards of the justices who let them out." --Victor Davis Hanson, 'Where Dreams Die'

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Pass the Popcorn, Nahanni: Democrat Lawmaker Accuses President Obama of Favoring Hamas Terrorists Over Israel's Freedom Fighters

Well, this ought to help Democrat party unity.

House lawmakers from both parties are siding with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over President Obama in their differing approaches to the Israel-Palestine border dispute... Obama last week called for Israel's 1967 borders to mark the "foundation" for renewing stalled peace talks between the two sides – a concession to Palestine that Netanyahu has bluntly rejected [as indefensible]...

...Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) said Tuesday that Obama is "tilting toward Hamas" – a reference to the Palestinian group the United States and Israel consider a terrorist organization. He emphasized that Congress would never base its approach to Israeli aid on such a position.

"A majority of the Congress disagrees with him,” Andrews said of Obama.

Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), for one, said the president "absolutely … made a mistake" with his 1967-borders proposal, and suggested it would harm — rather than bolster — the chances of renewed peace talks.

"With all of the political turmoil and unrest in the Middle East, I don’t understand why the president injected himself into that issue right now," he said.

Uhm, because he marinated in the race hatred of Jeremiah Wright's church for two decades? Because he associated with known PLO figures and Hamas sympathizers? Because his political career was launched in the home of two domestic terrorists?

Nah, couldn't be any of those things.


Good news: media controlled or influenced by George Soros reaches a third of a billion people a month

Like some sort of Bond villain, the malevolent financier George Soros directly reaches 330 million people through 180 different media outlets he funds, controls or otherwise influences. And his agenda is nakedly partisan and outright Statist, from the pathetic Media Matters to Think Progress; from NPR to the hilariously named Center for Public Integrity.

Books, newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, websites and cutting edge videos... [the] pieces of the George Soros media empire are as diverse as the nations of the world and just as widespread. From nakedly partisan left-wing media like Think Progress, the blog for the Center for American Progress, and a TV show on MSNBC, to the supposedly impartial National Public Radio, Soros has impact on the flow of information worldwide.

It gives him incredible influence. Every month, reporters, writers and bloggers at the many outlets he funds easily reach more than 330 million people around the globe. The U.S. Census estimates the population of the entire United States to be just less than 310 million.

...Just counting 13 prominent operations of the 180 media organizations he has funded equals 332 million people each month. Included in that total are big players like NPR, which received $1.8 million from Soros, as well as the little known Project Syndicate and Public News Service, both of which also claim to reach millions of readers.

And that's really just the beginning. That tally takes into account only a few of the bigger Soros-funded media operations. Many numbers simply aren't available. 'Democracy Now!' - 'a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez' - is known for its left-wing take on global news. Its vitriol ranges from attacks on Blackwater founder Erik Prince and supporters of Andrew Breitbart (whom it calls 'Electronic Brownshirts'), to claims the U.S. is opposed to Arab democracy. Just that one Soros-funded operation is heard 'on over 900 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the United States.' But it posts no formal audience numbers. Phone calls to 'Democracy Now!' were not returned.

Laughably, Soros denies he has a media empire, despite spending easily more than $48 million on that empire and having top journalists from more than 30 major news organizations serving on the boards of groups he funds...

And people are worried about the power of Google or Fox News?

George Soros and Barack Obama are partners in a global effort to undermine the United States Constitution and American exceptionalism. Of that, there can be no doubt


And so it begins: one of DNC's largest contributors, billionaire Haim Saban, breaks with Obama over his antipathy towards Israel

Even uber-liberals were hit by the clue bat last week after President Obama's outrageous call for Israel to return to its 1967 borders.

One of the most important Democratic donors in the past two decades, whose generous contributions helped pay for the DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C., has indicated that he will not contribute to President Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012, because of the administration’s stance on Israel.

Billionaire financier Haim Saban told CNBC last night that Obama hasn’t done enough to show support for Israel. He also said that he has no plans to contribute to the president’s campaign.


“President Obama has raised so much money and will raise so much money through the Internet, more than anybody before him. And he frankly doesn’t, I believe, need any of my donations,” said Saban.

“I’m very perplexed as to why the president, who's been to Cairo, to Saudi Arabia, to Turkey, has not made a stop in Israel and spoken to the Israeli people,” he continued. “I believe that the president can clarify to the Israeli people what his positions are on Israel and calm them down. Because they are not calm right now.”

There have been reports that Obama is losing Jewish support after his clash with Prime Minister Netanyahu last week, but this development is the most significant so far. If a key donor like Saban has decided to break with the president, then there are likely others who will follow suit.

We were warning people about President Obama's bizarre ties to crackpots and extremists well before the 2008 election.

We welcome Saban and others who were finally hit by the clue train. Better late than never.


Hat tip: TrendingRight.com.

Larwyn's Linx: Palin's Secret Weapon

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Nation

Palin's Secret Weapon: Bruce
Seventy-One Shots: The Death of Jose Guereña: PJM
An Anti-Israel President: WSJ

CAIR: Realistic homeland security drills are raaaaaacist: Malkin
DNC hacks try to use Netanyahu to stifle debate: WklyStd
T-Paw’s Five Greatest Challenges: NRO

Economy

Goodbye, New York: City Journal
Where Dreams Die: Hanson
Shades of 2008: A Greek Default Won’t Be ‘Contained’: Mauldin: Yahoo!

Regime Appoints New Deputy Minister of Propaganda: Cary
Our Lawless President’s Crooked Favor Factory: RWN
Good News for School Choice: AT

NLRB’s Ominous Attack on Free Enterprise: LUR
SEIU Purple Army blunder of the day: Malkin
Norquist Emerges as Barrier to U.S. Debt Deal: Bloomberg

Climate & Energy

An Inconvenient Truth Five Years Later -- Science Fiction: MRC
Vitter To Salazar: You Want A Pay Raise? Fine – Do Your Job First: HayRide
Transcript: Al Gore Got ‘D’ in ‘Natural Sciences’ at Harvard: CNS

Media

Study: Liberal Academia Consistently Ranks GOP Presidents 10 Spots Lower Than The Public: WZ
What Say You to the Palestinian Perspective?: RWN
Mediaite Reveals Stunning Bottom-Line Numbers Behind Failed Media Matters: Dollard

Online political activists fret about Facebook bias: Hot Air
The Left's Dirty Little Secret: AT
A Texan Riding To Republicans' Rescue?: IBD

"Listening to Netanyahu was like listening to our collective conscience...": LegalIns
No Dog in That Fight, Mr President?: AT
Bumbling Barry's Bodaciously Bad Week: Diogenes

World

Pro-Terror Code Pink Loon Interrupts Netanyahu in Congress... Again: GWP
Texas: Muslim cab driver arrested after bomb squad raids apartment: JihadWatch
The Greek Bankruptcy: One Year Later - Exposing The Charlatans: ZH

The Controversial Anti-Palestinian Video That Was Banned From YouTube As 'Hate Speech': RWN
AIPAC Leftist: Please Don't Use Obama’s Support For Hamas-Fatah Terrorists as Political Football: GWP
NATO operations in Libya: data journalism breaks down which country does what: Guardian

SciTech

Schmidt: Want to get rich? Build a platform: CNet
Twitter Buys TweetDeck for $40 Million: TechCrunch
Report: 20,000 users added to 'Hurt Locker' suit: CNet

Armageddon 1958: Belmont Club
How Tech Legend Bill Gross Blew The TweetDeck Deal: Insider
IT Downtime Costs $26.5 Billion In Lost Revenue: InfoWeek

Cornucopia

Egypt finds 17 lost pyramids: GlobPost
1500 Still Missing In Joplin, Missouri – More Tornadoes on the Way: GWP
Navy Chief Dreams of Laser Warships, Ocean-Spanning Robots: Wired

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QOTD: "As information, I was in the gallery for Netanyahu's speech this morning before the joint session of Congress. A friend of mine, who is chief of staff for a Republican congresswoman from New York, was able to snag me a ticket. It was a great experience... Bill Kristol was sitting in the next section, and I was four sections over from the woman who started waving a "Free Palestine" banner and screaming about Israel being a terrorist state (she was quickly and forcibly removed, as I believe I heard her face hitting one of the steps to the gallery as she was whisked away by security)." -- Uncle Ben

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Obama's "Outreach" to Islam Finally Taking Hold

Dan from New York:

The President and First Lady are in Britain on a goodwill tour. Pictured here are a few of the locals who were on hand to give BHO a proper British greeting.

The Bin Laden backlash: Angry Muslims demonstrate outside Downing Street as Obama visits Britain (UK’s Daily Mail)


Hat tip: Ruthfully Yours





Good to see Obama’s Muslim charm offensive has won over so many converts to our side. Of course, those pictured here are on the radical fringe. Most Britain’s “moderate” Muslims keep to themselves and avoid being photographed.

I say we give these tolerant souls a state!

As an aside, anyone willing to bet me $100 that we'll never see these photos in The New York Times?


Taxpayer Cash Inferno Chapter 5,034: Obama Will Spend Millions on Coal-Powered Chevy Volts and Charging Stations

Good news, peons: the Obama administration says it's going to burn a few more millions of your dollars funding our national automobile company (you may know it as "GM").

The Obama administration will announce today it is buying more than 100 Chevrolet Volts and install charging stations in government buildings in five cities, including Detroit, according to a report in The Detroit News... [It] says the General Services Administration — which oversees most of the federal government's 600,000 vehicle fleet — plans to buy the General Motors' Volts, 10 battery electric Nissan Leaf vehicles, and five Think City EV models from Finish EV startup.

In that regard, please consider the sources of electricity generation in this country, all of which are being gradually strangled by the White House.

Coal is, by far, the biggest single source of electricity. Which makes the Chevy Volt a coal-powered vehicle.

Of course, Obama did correctly predict that energy prices would "necessarily skyrocket" under his administration's policies.

As far as I know, it's the only prediction he's made that's come true.


Did you know that the U.S. has 57 states, that 10,000 people were once killed by a single tornado and that this is 2008?

Did you know that the United States has 57 states?

Or that 10,000 people were killed by a single tornado in Kansas?

Or that it's 2008?

All of these assertions were made by none other than Barack Obama. Most recently, New York Magazine reports that President Obama signed the guestbook in Westminster Abbey with a date that was only three years off.

This is how President Obama signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey earlier today, where he got a tour from the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall and laid a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior.

It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice.

Barack Obama

24 May 2008

It was really nice until he got the date wrong by three years. Granted, 2008 was a great year for him, and we might try to live it for as long as possible, too, if we were him. Also, though, he may have had a stroke.

Can you imagine the outcry from legacy media had George W. Bush committed just one of these gaffes?

Of course, media double-standards are nothing new for #44. We have Bush's college transcripts. Where are President Obama's?


It's come to this: Toyota creates in-car social network so your car can be all up in your grill with its wants and needs

I love technology, so I'm fine with this, but I could see how some people could think it's overkill. Geezers.

We've gone far beyond that "check engine" light now: Toyota has created a social networking function for its cars so you can friend it on Facebook or have it Tweet you when the gas is low or just chitchat about shoes with it. Because you know, checking the gauge when you're actually in the car would just be too much work.

Toyota will be launching its own private social network, Toyota Friend, CNNMoney reports. Beyond the private realm of Toyota Friend, users will be able to extend the communication to friends and family via Facebook/Twitter, receiving updates in your feed and such.

Commenter George4478 wins our prize for the best example of a tweet from your car.

Tweet: My accelerator is stuck. Please drive with caution.

Driver: I KNOW! Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!

To be fair, Toyota's brake problems were proven to be non-existent. As Kevin Hassett observed last March, "[President Obama] is using the power of government to harass the main competition of his union backers--a company, Toyota, that happens to have a mostly nonunionized workforce... This is the kind of thuggish government action one might expect from Vladimir Putin... It isn't acceptable behavior in our democracy."

Oh. You mean we still live in a democracy? That wasn't apparent to me.