Sunday, October 09, 2011

15 Photos from #OccupyWallStreet you'll never see in legacy media
















Hat tips: ReasonTV, ClaireDelune49, and Buzzfeed.

Photo: Chicago's working men and women express how they feel about the point-nine-nine percent

In Chicago, hard-working Americans are just mocking the "occupiers":

I call the "occupiers" the 0.99 percent: the Communists threatening violence against 'the rich', the anarchists, the Jew-haters, the union drones, and cop-bashers.

In other words, the Democrats' base.


The FBI's 'Controversial' Training Presentation on Jihad

Last month, Wired's Spencer Ackerman revealed a few slides of four presentations describing the nature of jihad. The presentations seem to have been used for a time by the FBI for training purposes. Ackerman's headline ("FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’") was designed to generate controversy and indignation.

But the real story was far more tame: an FBI intelligence analyst had simply prepared the presentations to describe the theological basis for jihad using a multitude of Islamic sources. In other words, there was almost no opinion offered in the presentations; instead, the analyst simply quoted from Islamic texts to describe the roots of the multi-century war between Islam and the West.

Judge for yourself. Here are the "highlights":









Really?

This is supposed to be controversial?

Suffice it to say that the breathless release of these documents and the fact that Eric Holder is Attorney General shouldn't come as much of a surprise.

The entire presentations (all in PDF format) may be viewed here:

Militancy Considerations
Strategic Themes and Drivers in Islamic Law
Doctrinal Basis for Jihad
Chart: Violence and Adherence to the Torah, Bible and Koran


Larwyn's Linx: American Autumn

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Nation

American Autumn: Steyn
Photographs from Occupied Cincinnati: Virtuous
The difference between Wall Street protestors and the Tea Party: AEI

The Tea Party vs. the Establishment: CNS
How Taking the Black Vote For Granted Is Racist: Razor
Mitt Romney's Greatest Hits: WZ

Cain: Problem's Not Wall Street, It's 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.: Blaze
Child-like protesters silence civil rights legend Lewis: RWN
Organizer admits to paying Occupy Wall Street protestors: DC

Economy

Numbers Don't Matter to Socialists: RedCounty
Incomes are Created, Not “Distributed”: Hayek
Bloomberg blasts Wall Street protests: Post

Obamacare requires companies to publicly defend rates: DC
Los Angeles Occupiers Call For Burning Down Banks: WZ
An entire system of global trade is at risk: Telegraph

WaPo: Taxpayer-funded Green 'Investment' is a Bad Idea: RWN
Hmmm: Zuccotti Park Owners Got $135M in Tax Money for Wind Farm: JWF
Stimulus!: Althouse

Gunrunner & Energygate

Telling the Truth Slowly: Daily Beast
Deputy AG received detailed Fast and Furious briefing: Attkisson
Uncontrolled Delivery: How the Fast and Furious Scandal Leads All the Way to the White House: VS

It is nice to be loved. I make my second Clinton "Enemies List.": Sipsey
Gunwalker: Punch-Drunk Eric Holder Swings Back at Critics, Hits Self: Owens
This Isn’t ‘Lending’ — It’s More Like Looting: Blumer

Climate & Energy

Gore blowback on severe weather links to climate: Watts
Chinese Thought-leader: “Global warming is a bogus proposition…”: Watts
£5billion of sea cables to import electricity as ministers fear UK blackouts: This Is Money

Media

WaPo Double Standard: Surber
The Kids Aren't All Right: Pundette
Herman Cain Endures Lecture on Blackness from MSNBC White Guy: EIB

Obama hit the links for a record-breaking 83rd round of golf today: WZ
Tea Party Terrorists? Here's What Should Really Terrify You: RedCounty
What Sharpton Doesn't Know Would Fill a Book: NB

On NPR, Guest Compares Herman Cain to...Southern Segregationists?: NB
CNN says death penalty for leaving Islam is “nuance” of sharia law: Creeping
Confusing Array of Conflicting Same-Day Headlines About Greece, Troika, Defaults: Mish

World

Alone in the Muslim World: Sultan Knish
Bombs on the Beach: Atlas
Mosqueing the Workplace: Hertz suspends 35 Muslim Workers for Abusing Special Prayer Break times: Atlas

Spec ops, CIA first in, last out of Afghanistan: ArmyTimes
Due Process With a Bullet: Sultan Knish
Wisconsin: Muslim Attacks Man For "Criticizing" Islam: Jawa

Sci-Tech

What I learned from Steve Jobs: CNet
Counterterrorism: Why President Obama Loves Travel Data As Much As He Love Drones: Volokh
Chrome extension enables remote computer control: CNet

Cornucopia

The Mystery Of Steve Jobs' Plateless Car: Insider
eBay Find of the Day: Rinspeed Porsche 911 R69 is spectacularly Eighties: Autoblog
#OccupyWallStreet TwitPic of the Day: LegalIns

Image: The People's Cube
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QOTD: " An elite Obama fundraiser hired to help oversee the administration’s energy loan program pushed and prodded career Department of Energy officials to move faster in approving a loan guarantee for Solyndra, even as his wife’s law firm was representing the California solar company, according to internal emails made public late Friday.

“How hard is this? What is he waiting for?” wrote Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate before being appointed to a key job helping oversee the energy loan guarantee program. “I have OVP [the Office of the Vice President] and WH [the White House] breathing down my neck on this.”…

The emails occurred less than two weeks after Spinner received a three-page ethics agreement in which he pledges he will “not participate in any discussion regarding any application involving [his wife's law firm] Wilson [Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati].”" --ABC News

Saturday, October 08, 2011

Occupy What Street?

Down, down with evil cookie-grubbers.



Idea via Don Surber.

Leftist Mob Silences Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis

Who will be the first to cry "racism"?

...A bunch of child-like protesters in Atlanta, Georgia refused left-wing Congressman John Lewis — a civil rights icon to many — to be allowed to address the crowd this weekend. The whole scene is reminiscent of the worst, hackneyed, new age-styled preschool program devised for 5-year-olds by one of the most idiotic leftists imaginable. But it makes for hilarious video entertainment.

Apparently these people decided that their “assembly” would employ pure democracy. But if there was ever a more annoying way to do it, I’ve never seen it.

A scraggly, bearded, hippie wannabe playing the part of the crowd’s conscience spoke to those gathered over a megaphone system. He would say a few words and the crowd would, like five-year-olds in a preschool class, repeat his words verbatim.

Ali Akbar, speaking for many Tea Party conservatives, has officially offered Lewis a forum in which to speak his mind.


Hat tip: All American Blogger.

Chicago handgun ban success story #14,380: 20 shot last night, 3 fatally

What's that old saying? "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns"?

Well, liberals: it's called a truism because it's, eh, true.

Say, how's that Chicago handgun ban working out for you, schmucks?

At least three people were killed and at least 17 others wounded, including nine teenagers, in shootings across the city late Friday night and early Saturday morning.

- Two sisters were shot in the head...
- A man was shot in his chest and possibly stabbed...
- A 29-year-old man was shot and killed across from the Lake View High School...
- A boy and a girl, both aged 17, were shot at about 2:15 a.m...
- A 25-year-old man was shot in his back at 71st and Halsted Avenue Street at about 2:15 a.m...
- A 56-year-old man was shot in the 4100 block of West Adams Street...
- A 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were shot in the 13200 block of South Langley Avenue...
- A 17-year-old boy was shot in the back...
- At about 12:30 a.m., a 22-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were shot in the 2600 block of South Ridgeway Avenue...
- A 41-year-old man was shot in his forearm, buttocks and suffered a graze wound to his head...
- A 24-year-old man was shot in the 8400 block of South Carpenter Street...
- A 17-year-old boy was shot in his neck while sitting in a car at a stop light...
- A 37-year-old man was shot in his groin in the 800 block of North Noble Street at about 10 p.m....
- Two other boys, age 16 and 17, were shot as they left a restaurant...
- A 15-year-old was accidentally shot in the 7900 block of South Christiana Avenue ...

Curiously, cities where law-abiding citizens can freely carry concealed weapons appear to be experiencing considerably less gun violence.

Which is just more evidence that liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid.


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

Image: NewsMax
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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.