Saturday, October 08, 2011

Unofficial confirmation that the White House is behind #OccupyWallStreet

We already knew that the White House was using its bully pulpit to defend the violent, anti-semitic, 9/11 Truther, Marxist mobs on Wall Street and points west.

Via Matt Drudge, we get a little bit more confirmation that the Community-Organizer-In-Chief seems content to align himself with Communists threatening violence against 'the rich', anarchists, Jew-haters, wealthy union bosses like Hoffa and Trumka, and cop-bashers.

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge:

I regret to tell you this, but we're creeping ever closer to civil unrest. Which appears to be the president's aim.


Obama spokesman Jay Carney calls CBS' Sharyl Attkisson a liar

CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson's quest for the Pulitzer continued yesterday with new revelations concerning "Operation Fast and Furious", the disastrous ATF program that handed military-style murder weapons to Mexican drug cartels.

Attkisson reports that Eric Holder's Deputy A.G. received a "detailed Fast and Furious briefing".

Documents recently turned over by the Justice Department to Congressional investigators indicate that then-Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler received a detailed briefing on Fast and Furious more than a year and a half ago.

...The briefing Grindler attended was on March 12, 2010, six months into ATF's Operation Fast and Furious, which allowed thousands of weapons on the street in an attempt to track down Mexican drug cartels. Portions of the documents are redacted.

Her dogged investigation has made Attkisson a target of the White House.

Ingraham: So they were literally screaming at you?

Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me.

Ingraham: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?

Attkisson: Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House...

...They will tell you that I’m the only reporter–as they told me–that is not reasonable... They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it.

Asked about the verbal attacks on the CBS reporter, White House spokesman Jay Carney said, basically, Attkisson was lying.

Again, I don't... I take issue with the report. I don't know that it's true. I know that you are tough enough to handle an extra decibel or two. I don't that's what happened here, but it's surprising to me.

But it was Carney, not Attkisson, who was also caught lying misstating the truth about the burgeoning "Energy-gate" story.

For weeks, the White House’s official line had been that there was no political or donor pressure to approve the [Solyndra] loan and a prominent 2008 Obama fundraiser named Steve Spinner—who advised the Energy Department—had recused himself from the Solyndra matter, in part because his wife’s law firm represented the company.

Even McCurry’s current successor at the podium, Obama press secretary Jay Carney repeated the line a few days ago.

“It’s my understanding, at least with regard to the gentleman you just mentioned [Steve Spinner], that he had no connection to overseeing the loan guarantee program,” Carney declared when asked by ABC about a Spinner connection.

Documents released yesterday show that Spinner squeezed the Energy Department to approve the loan, even invoking the office of the president and the vice president.

“How hard is this? What is he waiting for?” Spinner wrote in an Aug, 28, 2009 email to an Energy Department official. “I have the OVP (Office of the vice president) and WH (the White House) breathing down my neck on this. They are getting itchy to get involved.”

Later that same day, Spinner implored the officials to “walk over there and force him to give you the answer.”

For Jay Carney's next appearance in the White House press room, I suggest wiring him up to a polygraph with a shock collar.

That would make for some entertaining television.


It's official: White House defending violent, anti-semitic, 9/11 Truther, Marxist Mobs

If you're looking for more evidence that the White House is getting desperate and sloppy, look no further than this tactical error:

The White House is criticizing House GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s description of Wall Street protesters as a “mob,” saying the activists compare favorably with the tea party movement.

“I don’t understand why, you know, one man’s mob is another man’s democracy,” presidential press secretary Jay Carney said Friday.

He added that he sees “a little hypocrisy unbound” in Mr. Cantor’s comments because the GOP leader previously has described tea party activists as democracy in action.

“I think that what we’re seeing on the streets of New York is an expression of democracy,” Mr. Carney said. “I think both are expressions that are totally consistent with the American democratic tradition.”

...Mr. Obama said in a news conference Thursday the protests in New York and other cities express the frustrations many Americans feel about the financial crisis and resistance by the banking industry and Republican lawmakers to greater regulation.

“You’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place,” Mr. Obama said. “The protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works.”

Pure, 100% unadulterated demagoguery:

The Obama administration has become a house of mirrors.

Wall Street is the wicked enemy.

Geithner is Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs is everywhere in the Obama admin.

Rise up against the evil bankers!

Pay off the evil bankers!

The evil bankers must direct our economy policy or we are doomed!


Like I said yesterday: If you’re not protesting against President Goldman Sachs, you’re not protesting against “Wall Street.” You’re just a hack. Sorry.

Exactly. Because when I think about Jay Carney's 'American democratic tradition', what immediately comes to mind are:

Communists threatening violence against 'the rich'
Anarchists
Jew-haters
Rich union bosses like Jimmy Hoffa and Dick Trumka
And thuggish attacks on cops

No, Carney: the Tea Party didn't advocate violence, divisiveness, race hatred, class warfare and envy... with ACORN and union hacks bussed in to buttress their ranks.

In fact, the Tea Party represents Americans from all walks of life, from every race, creed, color and socioeconomic class peacefully protesting for individual liberty, respect for private property rights, the Constitution and First Principles.

And how's that class warfare in Obama's "Jobs Bill" going to help address the budget deficit?

Ten years of the Obama "Millionaire's Tax" will pay for exactly four months of Obama's budget deficits.

Once the Democrats get their hands on that money, guess who they're coming for next?

The problem isn't that millionaires -- America's job creators -- aren't paying enough taxes. It's that the federal government is so bloated, so wasteful, so corpulent and so out-of-control that it threatens to subsume the entire economy.

Believe me when I tell you that 2012 is our last chance to turn this ship around.


Larwyn's Linx: Obama Seizes on Wall Street Anarchy for his Campaign

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Nation

Obama Seizes on Wall Street Anarchy for his Campaign: BigG
From Obamacare to Occupy Wall Street: Malkin
GOP: Obama, Biden Incite Wall Street Protests: Max

Why Isn’t Obama’s Teacher Lie National News?: RWN
Obama Lies For "A Higher Truth": AmSpec
Herman Cain: the New Front-Runner: PJM

Blog Comment of the Day: Instapundit
Why Obama’s Flacks Bullied a CBS Reporter: Dossier
Tea Party to Scott Brown: Buh Bye: Hot Air

Economy

‘Occupy' is anarchists for Big Government: Steyn
Fiscal Year 2011 Deficit: Another Disaster: VirtRep
GOP moves to ensure secret ballot union elections: Hot Air

10 Years of Dems' 'Millionaire's Tax' = 4 Months of Deficits: ZH
'Get a damn job, you hippies': iOTW
Down With Evil Corporations!: Power Line

Gunrunner & EnergyGate

Fast and Furious in a Rotten Nutshell: AT
Gunwalker: CBS News says they have lots more evidence: Owens
Mark Steyn: MSM Ignores Hundred of Mexicans Killed By ‘Fast and Furious’ Fallout: BigJ

Friday Solyndra Email Dump: Malkin
Emails suggest Rahm, Obama may have pushed Solyndra despite financial warnings: Hot Air
Official pushed loan to solar company, email shows: Statesman

Climate & Energy

Predicting Our Demise: Hoover
EPA loses battle against W.Va. coal mines: Surber
Louisiana Man Wins $1.7 Million From EPA For Malicious Prosecution: Cato

Media

MSNBC's O'Donnell Accuses Herman Cain -- Who Worked for the Navy -- of Being a Draft Dodger: NB
ObamaCare Is Likely To Die a Painful Death: PJM
Picture the Tea Party: Ricochet

CNN's Cooper Attacks Increasingly Popular Herman Cain with 'Keeping Them Honest' Segment: NB
‘Acceptable’ rebels: Jonah
Mr. Obama Doth Protest too Much, Methinks: Dossier

World

WTF? State Department Apologizes to Dead Terrorist's Family: Jawa
Herman Cain on Iran: Would Tell Ahmadinejad to ‘Make my Day’: CNS
Muslims in Spain Declare "Jihad on Dogs;" Poison Canines in Street: PunditPress

Recognition Sought for Soldier's Heroic Acts: Military
'Introduction: Iranian Regime's Policy of Promoting Holocaust Denial: MEMRI
'This has destroyed us': Near-daily protests cripple Greece: MSNBC

Sci-Tech

Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet: Wired
The Mainstreaming of Survivalism: SurvivalBlog
Remembering Steve Jobs through Apple's products (Apple Talk Weekly): CNet

Cornucopia

Chicago Rules in Play and We’re still # 12?: MOTUS
Teen Girl Says Porn Addiction Led To Burglary: TSG
Enter Sandman Metallica: MiniBand

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QOTD: "When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses ‘no sense of guilt’ for collaborating with the Nazis, you might want to ease up on lecturing the rest of us about the evil rich." --Ann Coulter

Friday, October 07, 2011

Down With Evil Corporations! [Photo]

Via Power Line, this excellent photo is making the rounds on Facebook and other social networks.

Last night, Mark Levin used a caller as a foil to deconstruct this idiocy.

• Who's the biggest health insurer in the country?
• Who's the biggest bank in the country?
• Who's the biggest land-owner in the country?
• Who runs the biggest retirement plans in the country?
• And who alone has the force of law to force you to comply with their decisions?

That would be the federal government, an extra-constitutional monolith that controls every aspect of our lives, from shower-heads, to automobile bumper design, to thermostats, to building codes, to carbon dioxide emissions, to the size of toilet tanks, to health insurance plans, to...

Well, to everything.

Which is the problem. Remember the old Soviet Union? It tried to control everything. It tried to centrally plan the interactions of millions of individuals with five-year plans. With regulations, bureaucrats, agencies and offices.

And how'd that work out, drones?


Pass the popcorn, Nahanni: environmental, flat earth, no-growth Marxists battle union members who need jobs

I love the smell of political napalm in the morning.

As liberal protesters watched forlornly from across the street, a loud, rowdy crowd of about 300 in downtown Washington, D.C., demonstrated in favor of a major oil industry pipeline project... “There are those who oppose the pipeline. They say the oil is dirty,” said one of the speakers. “Let me be as kind and as gentle as I can be: F**k them!” ... Hoots and cheers followed.

Was this the Tea Party counter-protesting against the Occupy Wall Street crowd? Nope. The rally was held by the Laborers International Union of North America. The union was there to back TransCanada’s (TRP) Keystone XL pipeline, a $7 billion project that would bring oil from Alberta to Texas.

The speaker was identified to Capital Hill by union members as Mano Frey, vice president of LIUNA West, which represents Alaska, western Canada and the Northwestern U.S. For him and his members the issue was obvious: The pipeline will mean jobs for them.

The liberal protesters — in town to mark the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan war — were mostly silent, but one shirtless dreadlocked fellow crashed the union rally. “These (oil business) people will poison you and steal your money!” he shouted.

He was quickly surrounded by union members who shouted “Jobs! Jobs!” drowning him out.

As author Sean Higgins points out, this kind of battle is being seen across the U.S. as the anti-civilization green movement fights to throw America back into some kind of pre-industrial abyss.

Pipeline worker Pete Bardison was interviewed at the rally and said, "If they stop that pipeline, then the government better get ready to dig deep with the unemployment insurance."

Which is the Obama plan, otherwise known as Cloward-Piven government.


Holder Uses Politico in a Furious Attempt to Hold Fast to His Job

"Operation Fast and Furious" was a massive firearm smuggling program orchestrated by the Department of Justice. It was ostensibly put in place to monitor the flow of weapons to Mexican drug cartels. More than 2000 weapons, including military-style assault- and sniper rifles, were intentionally sold to the cartels over the protests of gun-shop owners and ATF field agents. And virtually none of the weapons were actually tracked by U.S. officials.

The murders of at least two American law enforcement officials and roughly 200 Mexican nationals have since been tied to these weapons.

And in an utterly predictable turn of events for a Democrat fighting to keep his job, Attorney General Eric Holder today used Politico to market a defense against charges he lied to Congress about the operation. Among his claims:

• "Fast and Furious Was a Flawed Response" -- so hundreds were killed thanks to Fast and Furious... and the strongest adjective Holder can find is "flawed".

• "...in 2011, after the controversy about this matter arose, I took decisive action to ensure that such operations are never again undertaken. First, I referred the matter to the Department’s Inspector General for review so the facts underlying it could come out." -- This is an outright lie. According to the acting ATF head himself, Holder stonewalled the House at every turn as investigators sought to get to the bottom of Gunwalker.

• "...In addition, new leadership is now in place both at ATF and in the United States Attorney’s Office in Arizona." -- Who was punished? No one. Instead, officials were promoted or shuffled. Which implies a cover-up. In my estimation, they were probably offered immunity in exchange for silence. But certainly no one was punished, which speaks volumes about Holder's actions.

• "Much has been made in the past few days about my congressional testimony earlier this year regarding Fast and Furious. My testimony was truthful and accurate and I have been consistent on this point throughout. I have no recollection of knowing about Fast and Furious or of hearing its name prior to the public controversy about it." -- That is a lie: Holder received at least five progress reports describing the status of the operation. Furthermore, it's inconceivable that thousands of hard-core, military-grade weapons would flow through Holder's shop without his knowledge, especially since he had bragged about the overarching Project Gunrunner on multiple occasions to Mexican law enforcement officials.

• "I cannot help but note that at the same time that some members of Congress understandably criticize the Fast and Furious operation, they vehemently refuse to consider whether ATF has the resources and legal tools it needs to do its job — tools that would be entirely consistent with the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.” - In other words, Holder -- in the midst of his fight -- wants to continue his mission of hammering nails into the coffin of the Second Amendment.

• "Until we move beyond the current political climate — where real solutions take a back seat to both political posturing and making headlines on cable news programs and is deemed more important than actually solving our country’s difficult challenges — nothing is going to change."

Oh, that's rich. No, not Marc Rich -- the recipient of a Clinton pardon that Eric Holder approved back in the day and then claimed ignorance of during his confirmation testimony. No, what's really rich is Eric Holder complaining about partisanship.

Because Eric Holder is a malevolent, partisan hack.

He filled his Civil Rights division entirely with left-wing goons and kooks, an unprecedented and despicable practice for career civil servants.

In addition, Holder has sued Arizona and other states over their enforcement of immigration laws; allowed blatant civil rights violations by New Black Panthers; and worked tirelessly to have Gitmo detainees released into the U.S. proper.

Let me be the first to state that Eric Holder is lying through his teeth. Oh, it looks like I'm second.

A spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif, who as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is leading a congressional investigation into "Fast and Furious," said he found Holder's letter unconvincing... "If Attorney General Holder had said these things five months ago when Congress asked him about 'Operation Fast and Furious,' it might have been more believable," the spokesman said. "At this point, however, it's hard to take at face value a defense that is factually questionable, entirely self-serving, and a still incomplete account of what senior Justice Department officials knew about gun walking."

...After the release of the memos Thursday, Issa said Holder "has failed to give Congress and the American people an honest account of what he and others knew about gun-walking and Operation Fast and Furious," calling "the lack of candor ... deeply disturbing."

In addition, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is calling for a special counsel to look into the matter. And earlier Friday, sheriffs from 10 Arizona counties echoed the call, accusing Holder and the Justice Department of "betraying every law enforcement officer in America, especially Arizona."

In his letter, Holder said it's his most ardent critics who have "heaped" disrespect upon the nation's law enforcement officers.

No, schmuck: we're heaping disrespect on you, because you're a freaking disgrace. And you need to be investigated now.

And one postscript: Holder is Obama's firewall. If Holder goes, I'm betting all kinds of skulduggery will come to light; stuff that makes Solyndra look like a purse-snatching.


Update: Congressman to Holder: We’re not interested in ‘Kumbayah,’ drop your ‘rhetoric’ and resign immediately

Larwyn's Linx: Harry Reid Goes Nuclear

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Nation

Harry Reid Goes Nuclear: Driscoll
It Begins: Democrats Introduce Bill to Seal Obama’s Records: NiceDeb
For those not following along, a note: ProWis

Jeffrey T. Kuhner: “Obama’s October Revolution”: WZ
Cain: I’d be VP for anybody but Perry: Hot Air
Obama’s School Visit: Kids, Let’s Read a Story About Me!: RWN

Economy

Texas Mini-Recovery: Ace
'World facing worst financial crisis in history': Telegraph
Herman Cain's "999 Plan": The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: FW

Organizer admits to paying ‘Occupy DC’ protesters: DC
In 2009 Democrats Fought AGAINST "Millionaires Tax": Lid
From Rich State to Poor State: City Journal

Gunrunner & Solyndra

A Solyndra head rolls: DOE loan exec steps down: Malkin
'Furious' mess has Justice in full panic: Post
Justice Department Accuses GOP of Playing 'Gotcha' With Fast and Furious Memos: Fox

9 US Sheriffs Announce Press Conference to Call for Holder’s Resignation: GWP
Gunwalker: Holder Got ‘At Least Five Weekly Memos’: Owens
Fast and Furious Testimony Fallout: ‘Attorney General Holder Must Step Down Immediately’: Blaze

Media

Inside The Hillary War Room: ‘It’s My Party!’: BigG
The hashtag for the rest of us: LI
Tweetering the Inter-tubes: Ace

At National Press Club, Pigford Attorney Reveals Conspiracy to Defraud Federal Government: Stranahan
Attack Botch: Exurban League
The Obama Recursion: Driscoll

Bringing the Payne: Ace
Video: Media Matters Attempts to Smear Breitbart, Cover Up Pigford Fraud: Riehl
Herman Cain fires back in highly offensive MSNBC interview: Scoop

Neal Boortz: “Obama Is a Bigger Disaster to This Country Than 9-11″: GWP
MSNBC’s Bashir Observes Jobs’ Death with Palin Hatefest: BigJ
Rush Limbaugh on Occupy Wall Street Protests: “No Doubt In My Mind the White House Is Behind This”: GWP

World

Soros Money Linked to 'Occupy Wall Street': NewAm
Muslim Tries to Break into the Cockpit of American Airlines flight Out of New York: Atlas
Ohio pork industry may file countersuits over pork removal for Muslims: Creeping

BBC: "In The Absence Of A Credible Plan We Will Have A Global Financial Meltdown In Two To Three Weeks": ZH
Portfolio: Dexia Bank's Collapse and the European Financial Crisis: Stratfor
Russia: Bombing bikini-clad women to enforce sharia dress codes: Creeping

Sci-Tech

The Steve Jobs I Knew: Mossberg
India announces $35 tablet computer for rural poor: MyWay
The real reason there's no iPhone 5: The carriers: CNet

Cornucopia

The Ascent of Alex Honnold: 60 Minutes
A Double-Dog Dare Gone Bad?: C&S
The IgNobels: The seven most dubious Nobel Peace Prize winners.: ForPol

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QOTD: "As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy pointed out yesterday at National Review Online, Holder’s current amnesia recalls his misleading testimony to Congress about another scandal, President Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Even though Holder helped arrange the pardon, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2001 that Rich’s name was “unfamiliar” to him.

With the 2012 elections looming, the chances of Holder’s appointing a special prosecutor to investigate himself are slim and none. The Obama administration will bury the scandal -- unless the media and public demand otherwise." --Michael A. Walsh

Thursday, October 06, 2011

So President Obama visited an elementary school and read a book to the kids. Can you guess who the star of the story was?

Narcissistic rage and envy: The narcissistic individual ... is prone to intense anger, an irrational rage, which may take the form of acute explosions or be chronic and vengeful. This narcissistic rage is provoked by the slightest—real or imagined—narcissistic insult, such as not being seen, understood, or appreciated, in the way one feels he deserves. Narcissistic envy may arise; one hates anyone who has (or seems to have) ... external acclaim and feels pain about not having what the other has. (The Point of Existence)


If it isn't classic narcissism, please tell me what you would call this kind of behavior:

President Obama visited with some school children in Texas on Wednesday and read a nice little story book to the kiddies. Guess who the star of the book was? You guessed it, himself.

Obama was visiting an early education program Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas and chose to read a book about presidential first dog Bo to a small group of three to five-year-old children. Naturally, the book features a double page spread drawing of the president himself.

Yep, once again it’s all about me, me, me with this president.

As Jim Hoft notes, this isn’t the only time Obama has read a book about himself to school children. Last December Obama read the children’s book published under his name titled, “Of Thee I Sing.”...

Can anyone else imagine, say, Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy in this sort of situation, reading stories about themselves?

Of course not: both would almost certainly read a story of America's founding, of Paul Revere, George Washington or John Adams.

In the world of the Leftist, history begins and ends now.


The Silence of the Lame-stream Media

Flashback:

Yesterday, CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson told radio show host Laura Ingraham that the White House yelled and swore at her over her reporting on the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal tied to the deaths of two U.S. law enforcement agents. Attkisson also revealed that she'd also been yelled at by the Justice Department.

...Today, I called CBS News in an attempt to interview Attkisson. I was told by CBS News senior vice president of communications Sonya McNair that Attkisson would be unavailable for interviews all week. When I asked why Attkisson would be unavailable, McNair would not say.

With 200 Mexican nationals and two American law enforcement personnel already dead, Eric Holder's Operation Fast and Furious is ten times bigger than Watergate and Iran-Contra combined.

And the White House is actively attempting to suppress media coverage of the scandal.

Before she was muzzled, Atkkisson described their screaming jag as follows: "[The White House and Justice Department] will tell you that I'm the only reporter--as they told me--that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I'm the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I'm unfair and biased by pursuing it."

For the slow learners in legacy media, let me see if I can summarize the events of the week:

• One of your family members, a fellow journalist, is being attacked by the federal government for reporting the news.

• A collection of anarchists, 9/11 Truthers, Jew-haters, Marxists and druggies have assembled on Wall Street and in other urban locations demanding a revolution (in truth, a counter-revolution) against capitalism and the American way of life.

• This assemblage of crackpots is supported by the Democrat Party's political organs including the Soros-funded MorOn.org, rich union bosses like Dick Trumka, and Ron Paul.

• In addition, mainstream Democrat politicians are openly supporting the totalitarian agenda of the Marxist left.

• Furthermore, discredited front groups like ACORN and, by implication, the President's political action wing (Organizing For America) are actively participating in the festivities.

Attention pro journalists: this isn't your Dad's Democrat Party any longer.

This is a totalitarian movement openly bent on the destruction of capitalism and the American system. And you -- ostensibly part of a "free press" -- are tacitly encouraging the destruction of our institutions, including your own livelihoods.

I'd encourage you to rethink your support of this administration... before it's too late.


In Memoriam: 10 Quotes From Playboy's 1985 Steve Jobs Interview

When the history of the personal computing era is written, Steve Jobs' name will appear more than that of any other single person, in my opinion. Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. This world will miss you.

10. We're living in the wake of the petrochemical revolution of 100 years ago. The petrochemical revolution gave us free energy... free mechanical energy, in this case. It changed the texture of society in most ways. This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt light bulb to run and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? This revolution will dwarf the petrochemical revolution. We're on the forefront...

9. A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer. We have no idea how far it's going to go.

8 The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people... as remarkable as the telephone.

7 ...remember that first the public telegraph was inaugurated, in 1844. It was an amazing breakthrough in communications. You could actually send messages from New York to San Francisco in an afternoon. People talked about putting a telegraph on every desk in America to improve productivity. But it wouldn't have worked. It required that people learn this whole sequence of strange incantations, Morse code, dots and dashes, to use the telegraph. It took about 40 hours to learn. The majority of people would never learn how to use it. So, fortunately, in the 1870s, Bell filed the patents for the telephone. It performed basically the same function as the telegraph, but people already knew how to use it. Also, the neatest thing about it was that besides allowing you to communicate with just words, it allowed you to sing.

6 ...The manual for [the IBM PC's] WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel... one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about. It's the first "telephone" of our industry. And, besides that, the neatest thing about it, to me, is that the Macintosh lets you sing the way the telephone did. You don't simply communicate words, you have special print styles and the ability to draw and add pictures to express yourself.

5 ...[Why we added a mouse to the Macintosh:] Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

4 ...We've done studies that prove that the mouse is faster than traditional ways of moving through data or applications. Someday we may be able to build a color screen for a reasonable price...

3 ...How come the Mac group produced Mac and the people at IBM produced the PCjr? We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

2 ...[Smaller portable computers] are OK if you're a reporter and trying to take notes on the run. But for the average person, they're really not that useful, and there's not all that software for them, either. By the time you get your software done, a new one comes out with a slightly bigger display and your software is obsolete. So nobody is writing any software for them. Wait till we do it... the power of a Macintosh in something the size of a book!

1 ...The original video game, Pong, captured the principles of gravity, angular momentum and things like that, to where each game obeyed those underlying principles, and yet every game was different... sort of like life. That's the simplest example. And what computer programming can do is to capture the underlying principles, the underlying essence, and then facilitate thousands of experiences based on that perception of the underlying principles. Now, what if we could capture Aristotle's world view... the underlying principles of his world view? Then you could actually ask Aristotle a question. OK. You might say it would not be exactly what Aristotle was. It could be all wrong. But maybe not.



Larwyn's Linx: ACORN Behind Occupy Wall Street Protest

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Nation

ACORN Behind Occupy Wall Street Protest: JW
This is what a mob looks like: Coulter
It's Origin and Purpose, Still a Total Mystery: Driscoll

Interviewing Rick Perry On Illegal Immigration: RWN
A Talk with Congressman Allen West: PJM
Daley forced TIF winners to give to wife's charity: ChiBiz

Sarah Palin Not Running: LI
McCaskill avoids Obama in Missouri: GWP
The Power of Weakness: Knish

Economy

From “I, Pencil” to iPhone: Malkin
Bush Warned Congress About Fannie Mae 17 Times: NiceDeb
De Tijd Reports Dexia To Be Nationalized: ZH

Obama Doesn’t Want a Vote Now on ‘Pass This Bill Now’: Bruce
Obama Has Now Increased Debt More Than...: CNS
Yes, Obamacare to cover abortion drugs: GWP

Obama-decreed job destruction: Hewitt
How Ben Bernanke Screwed the Banks and Fixed Income Savers: Mish
Boom and Depression in Ancient Rome: Mises

Gunrunner & Solyndra

Republicans Seek All White House Communication On Solyndra Since Obama Inauguration: ZH
Gunwalker: Did Bush Walk Guns, Too?: Owens
E-mails show Energy Department was moving toward second loan for Solyndra: WaPo

Media

Is CBS News Silencing Fast and Furious Reporter?: WS
Why In God’s Name Is The GOP Letting a Journolist Member Moderate a Debate?: RS
Obama's Solyndra Complex: AmSpec

Anti-Capitalist Protestors Face Dilemma: Should They Buy Stuff?: EIB
I’m Thinking About Writing a Novel Called ‘Two-Faced Backstabbing RINO Bitch’: RSM
The 50 Best Ann Coulter Quotes Of All-Time: RWN

World

Star of David Carved on Infidel’s Back in St. Louis: PJM
Detroit terror suspect accused of vehicular jihad against FBI agent: Creeping
“Peaceful” Shareef Allman is fugitive Cupertino quarry shooting spree suspect: Malkin

U.S. Marines Honor Pamela Geller: AmPower
Republicans Advance a Bill Defunding U.N. Population Control Agency: CNS
Video: F/A-18E Flight Deck Disaster Averted: DefTech

Sci-Tech

A Guide to the Reactions and Tributes to Steve Jobs: AtlanticWire
Steve Jobs: RIP: VodkaPundit
Apple co-founder, Chairman Steve Jobs dies: CNet

Cornucopia

Does it Matter What the Words Are?: C&S
"Chick," 71, And Man, 54, Busted In Naked Car Romp: TSG
Missing Marizela, Month 7: Malkin

Image: GOP Seeks All White House Communication On Solyndra: ZH
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Allen West for Congress

QOTD: FLASHBACK: “No delays. I’m sending this bill to Congress today, and they ought to pass it immediately.” – President Obama, remarks on the American Jobs Act, September 12, 2011

TODAY: “Mr. President, right away is a relative term… so I object.” – Majority Leader Harry Reid, floor remarks, October 4, 2011

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

When Drones Attack

My critics on the various social networks revel in class warfare. They say that the rich don't pay enough taxes. That corporations are evil, almost Borg-like entities.

There is only one word for people like these: drones. They are drones because they don't realize they're echoing the same class warfare rhetoric endemic to failed revolutions throughout history. The French Revolution. Russia in 1917. Peron in Argentina. The game-plan is always the same: demonize the rich, attack private industry, segregate political constituencies by race, gender, creed or religion in order to prey upon the weak-willed.

Such is the populist recipe of one Barack Obama, who has attacked industry after industry: coal miners, oil companies, health insurers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical professionals, and "millionaires and billionaires", among others.

The following are the kinds of messages I often receive on social networks:

• Maybe we should just hand over country to REpub/CorpAmerica

• I found that Laws are about controlling WallSt,but we suffer too. Loopholes/oxymoron clauses have brought #us to the brink.

• UR to smart NOT to believe CorpAmerica wants to pay any Taxes

Unfortunately, we've bankrupted the Treasury with the alternative: the collectivist roadmap. And it's failed like it's failed every other time in history. Central planning by masterminds in some far-off capital has a perfect track record: zero-for-Eternity.

Remember that "Stimulus" program? How's that working out? Or the Department of Education? Helping out low-income students? And that solar technology in which Presidents Carter and Obama have sunk billions? Remember how that revolutionized our energy infrastructure?

Spewing Marxist class warfare rhetoric is simply indicative of a lack of education.

To paraphrase Milton Friedman: who are these angels on Earth that can redistribute everyone's wealth?

There isn't a corporation on Earth that can force you to pay it whether you want to or not.

There isn't a corporation on the planet that can throw you in jail for failure to adhere to its millions of pages of laws, regulations and dictates.

There isn't a corporation anywhere that can make you buy a one-size-fits-all health care plan, or a certain kind of light bulb, or a low-flow toilet, or a certain kind of car, and so on and on.

There isn't a corporation anywhere that can command you -- the citizen -- to participate in multi-trillion dollar Ponzi schemes like Medicare, set to collapse in only ten short years.

No, there isn't any corporation powerful enough to do these things.

Only a giant, enormous, bloated federal government can ruin our economy in these ways. And, then, only because a certain group of power-hungry, easily corrupted politicians, lawyers and judges have ignored our highest law: the Constitution.

Our Framers created the Constitution to prevent the rise of an all-powerful, autocratic, authoritarian central government.

It wasn't the corporations or "the rich" that have ruined the economy: it's the politicians who violate their oath of office every day of the week. That's what the Tea Party is all about. And that is why every one concerned with the future of America should support Constitutional conservatism.

To begin putting lawful restraints on our federal leviathan.


Sarah Palin's Statement: No, I Won't Run for President

It's a shame:

October 5, 2011

Wasilla, Alaska

After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.

My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation's governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the "fundamental transformation" of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.

From the bottom of my heart I thank those who have supported me and defended my record throughout the years, and encouraged me to run for President. Know that by working together we can bring this country back – and as I've always said, one doesn't need a title to help do it.

I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for President where our candidates must embrace immediate action toward energy independence through domestic resource developments of conventional energy sources, along with renewables. We must reduce tax burdens and onerous regulations that kill American industry, and our candidates must always push to minimize government to strengthen the economy and allow the private sector to create jobs.

Those will be our priorities so Americans can be confident that a smaller, smarter government that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people can better serve this most exceptional nation.

In the coming weeks I will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing the President, re-taking the Senate, and maintaining the House.

Thank you again for all your support. Let's unite to restore this country!

God bless America.

- Sarah Palin

In the former Alaska governor's exclusive interview with Mark Levin, Palin cited -- among other reasons -- the Left's vicious attacks on her family.


Larwyn's Linx: Indict Eric Holder

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Nation

Indict Eric Holder: IBD
Lord SCOAMF and Screaming Friends: Driscoll
Obama travels to St. Louis, Tea Party breaks out: GWP

Frontrunner: Cain now tied with Romney in new CBS poll: Hot Air
Michelle listed daughters as 'staffers' for trip: GWP
Dems Want Law To Keep Obama Records Secret : JW

‘Anti-Union’ Dem Gov Retains Office in WV Special Election: RS
Chicago's violent crime rates plummets thanks to...: Lott
Chris Christie Not Running for President: Dossier

Economy

Fanniegate Just Got Worse: Mead
#OccupyWallStreet: Pining for the Fjords: LeaPen
US Starts New Fiscal Year $14.8T In Debt: ZH

Obama's Socialist Instincts: Dossier
'Durbin Fees' are coming, thanks to 'progressives': Exam
W.H. Says GOP Blocking Jobs Bill--After Reid Blocks Jobs Bill: WS

Social Security Disaster: Williams
Government Makes Us Poor: Stossel
Video: The Obama Presidency, by the Numbers: WZ

Gunrunner & Solyndra

Gunwalker: House Wants Special Counsel To Investigate Eric Holder: Owens
CBS reporter: White House, DOJ reps ‘yelled’, screamed’ at her over ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal: ProWis
Obama defends loan to Solyndra, calling it a 'good bet': LAT

Media

Justice Department Betrays MLK’s Dream: PJM
Interview: J. Christian Adams, author of 'Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of Obama's DOJ': FSM
Mediaite Reports In English Real Good: Glob

Grover Norquist's Relationships Should Give People Pause: Rep. Frank Wolf
Obama Supporters Cuss At Tea Partiers, Their Kids, Call Black Congressional Candidate “Uncle Tom”: Loesch
Rick's Rock vs. Rev. Wright: RWN

Obama HHS Secretary Sebelius to Host Pro-Abortion Fundraiser: LifeNews
Progressives of Pallor on pointless parade: Malkin
Great new idea from the Hollywood Left: Behead the bankers: Hot Air

Why the left’s concept of government is dangerous and immoral: Q&O
But Who Will Defend David Brooks?: Riehl
How Conservative Candidates Can Give Us a RINO Nominee: AT

World

An EMP Attack on America?: FPM
Here Come the Arab Elections!: BRubin
Mexico Will Not Accept US Troops to Fight Drug Cartels: Fox News Latino

Is Turkey Going Rogue?: Pipes
October 3rd, 1993: BlackFive
Ohio removes all pork from prison menus for Muslim criminals: Creeping

Obama's Terrorist Dilemma: RWN
Can Obama Legally Kill You?: RWN
Europe: Restructuring Plans Underway for Another 21 Banks?: Mish

Sci-Tech

Good news: New iPhone appears to be self-aware: Hot Air
Samsung's next Android phone looks a lot swoopier: CNet
Sprint: 4G wireless can be an alternative to a T-1 line: NetWorld

Cornucopia

“If I don’t have this done in 3 years…”– don’t finish that thought: MOTUS
Obama Schedule || Wednesday, October 5, 2011: Dossier
Shakeweight Now Officially The Second Most Pornographic Exercise Tool You Can Buy: Ace

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QOTD: "[The energy] debate must be... between the rationers and the open energy consensus. The rationers have nothing to offer except global warming scare tactics, misery for us and pork for them. Their vision of 8 dollar a gallon gas, local produce that no one but them can afford and one child families would mean the end of the middle class and the end of the United States. And that is exactly what they want.

The environmental movement, like the rest of socialism, is aimed at killing the economic and political independence created by a rising middle-class through free enterprise. And its net result has made the world a more polluted and more violent place." --Daniel Greenfield

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Another day, another "Smart Car" tragedy

It's actually sickening to me that motorized golf carts like this one are allowed to traverse major thoroughfares:

A multi-vehicle accident involving a prison work detail crew resulted in two people being airlifted in critical condition to an Atlanta hospital and two others being transported to a local hospital, authorities said...

A guard with the Coweta County Public Works Department was airlifted to Atlanta Medical Center, as was a driver in one of the vehicles involved, according to Todd Moore, deputy fire chief with the Coweta Fire Department.

CAFE (fuel efficiency) standards are the product of our fourth branch of government -- an unaccountable, unelected bureaucracy that exists only to create new regulations. And these standards kill people. Oh, and news flash: with the Obama administration dictating 54 MPG requirements by 2025, more will die.

It is inescapable that more weight means lower fuel economy, so heavier vehicles will have to go. So prepare to say goodbye to sport utility vehicles, pickups and minivans, the very vehicles millions of American families and businesses must rely upon every day... By far the worst result, however, will be the fact that thousands will die because Obama, fanatical Big Green environmentalists, and their allies in the federal bureaucracy care more about removing micro-amounts of emissions than they do about the safety and convenience of people on the roads. We know this because the fanatics persist despite the fact that for years government and private sector researchers alike have documented the terrible correlation between CAFE, lighter cars and highway deaths.


In 2003, for example, a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study estimated that for every 100 pounds of weight taken out of a car weighing under 3,000 pounds, the death rate goes up more than 5 percent; the increase is slightly less than 5 percent for those weighing more than 3,000 pounds. Two years before that, a National Academy of Sciences study estimated that the lighter vehicles required to satisfy CAFE were responsible for as many as 2,600 highway deaths in one year alone. And in 1999, a comprehensive multiple regression analysis by USA Today of the government's Fatality Analysis Reporting System data concluded that 7,700 people died for every one additional mpg attributable to CAFE regulation.

54 MPG?

Remember in 2012.


The Top 150 Conservative Websites -- 4Q11

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 just click on the site-name to open a new window and visit the website. And, yes, I know that some of these sites are truly left-leaning (e.g., Politico). That said, conservatives often cite and reference them, so I've included them for purposes of completeness.


Rank Website Alexa Rank
1wsj.com204
2politico.com1066
3realclearpolitics.com1373
4zerohedge.com1965
5theblaze.com1989
6hotair.com3642
7thehill.com3680
8freerepublic.com4138
9dailycaller.com4362
10townhall.com4959
11mediaite.com4992
12nationaljournal.com5049
13nationalreview.com5084
14foreignpolicy.com5119
15pajamasmedia.com,instapundit,driscoll,etc.5803
16washingtonexaminer.com6180
17investors.com6302
18rushlimbaugh.com6734
19military.com6877
20thesmokinggun.com6966
21theatlanticwire.com7315
22weeklystandard.com8168
23reason.com9166
24americanthinker.com9313
25newsbusters.org9767
26mises.org10190
27globalpost.com10744
28ace.mu.nu,mypetjawa,confederateyankee,...11210
29redstate.com11306
30biggovernment.com12205
31cnsnews.com12288
32humanevents.com12490
33cbn.com14137
34michellemalkin.com14967
35blog.heritage.org16713
36wattsupwiththat.com17045
37globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com19015
38powerlineblog.com22406
39thegatewaypundit.com23807
40spectator.org25045
41stratfor.com27013
42thenewamerican.com29113
43realclearmarkets.com30434
44bigjournalism.com31413
45jihadwatch.org32590
46commentarymagazine.com32977
47whitehousedossier.com33710
48therightscoop.com36923
49atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com37754
50freedomworks.org38703
51blogs.dailymail.com,Surber39682
52marklevinshow.com42415
53althouse.blogspot.com43198
54anncoulter.com46085
55rollcall.com47328
56lifenews.com48746
57memeorandum.com49755
58weaselzippers.us51879
59boortz.com54990
60volokh.com58995
61rightpundits.com60699
62hannity.com64381
63legalinsurrection.com65959
64danielpipes.org69137
65bigpeace.com69138
66outsidethebeltway.com72724
67armytimes.com78369
68radicalislam.org78730
69rightwingnews.com79624
70theothermccain.com81513
71wizbangblog.com84353
72the-american-interest.com84471
73conservatives4palin.com85699
74firstthings.com86299
75numbersusa.com87321
76city-journal.org87967
77patdollard.com88291
78defensetech.org90187
79sayanythingblog.com92226
80cato-at-liberty.org93047
81climateaudit.org93773
82redcounty.com97815
83iowntheworld.com97889
84borderlandbeat.com102914
85gatesofvienna.blogspot.com107541
86linkiest.com108206
87directorblue.blogspot.com119874
88viralfootage.com119889
89mrc.org121326
90moonbattery.com121469
91lonelyconservative.com123555
92steynonline.com125306
93hughhewitt.com128849
94ihatethemedia.com129365
95judicialwatch.org131741
96uncoverage.net133475
97hillbuzz.org137338
98jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com137421
99ricochet.com140533
100aei.org142137
101cafehayek.com148513
102memri.org149480
103thepeoplescube.com158211
104allamericanblogger.com168069
105bostonreview.net175407
106yidwithlid.blogspot.com182862
107patterico.com184584
108floppingaces.net188683
109atr.org193087
110sultanknish.blogspot.com201135
111noquarterusa.net203079
112americanpowerblog.blogspot.com205971
113varight.com207501
114smalldeadanimals.com210309
115bobmccarty.com210568
116creepingsharia.wordpress.com212844
117iowahawk.typepad.com220727
118riehlworldview.com221592
119dennisprager.com226277
120blackfive.net229373
121polipundit.com238978
122verumserum.com251802
123zombietime.com252161
124proteinwisdom.com252166
125newsrealblog.com257162
126scaredmonkeys.com259263
127imao.us271958
128tammybruce.com273616
129politicsandfinance.blogspot.com294721
130americandigest.org299518
131allgov.com312513
132dailypundit.com318905
133sweetness-light.com335805
134hyscience.com355049
135babalublog.com383344
136moelane.com399694
137sundriesshack.com408479
138pointsandfigures.com427038
139deceiver.com441974
140justoneminute.typepad.com453056
141shark-tank.net458590
142investigativeproject.org463028
143strata-sphere.com466075
144theblogprof.blogspot.com466751
145islamineurope.blogspot.com469264
146fireandreamitchell.com471989
147theblogmocracy.com474851
148punditandpundette.com480244
149winteryknight.wordpress.com484407
150wyblog.us501128



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