Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Priceless: Krugman's Island

Uncle Ben:

James Taranto talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement and Paul Krugman's offer to "accept 'the job of helping to translate' incoherent and hateful nonsense 'into more fleshed-out proposals' for what one organizer has labeled 'Krugman's Army'":

"If these people were stripped of the order imposed by the society they are rebelling against--if they were on a deserted island rather than in a public park in an affluent city with a strong police presence--surely it would not take long to degenerate into 'Lord of the Flies.' Krugman would be Piggy.

Oh, and then there's this:

"Obama has failed, and his supporters are turning to nihilism."


Great news, New Yorkers: if you think Medicaid is 'breaking the bank' now, just wait 'til Obamacare kicks in!

Democrat drones hardest hit:

...New York’s Medicaid program has ballooned into America’s most expensive, and its runaway costs are pushing many localities to the brink of fiscal insolvency. Without question, we need real solutions to reform New York’s Medicaid program, reduce costs, increase efficiency and save taxpayer dollars.

...Medicaid is jointly funded through federal and state government, with the federal financing share constituting approximately 50 percent. In New York, state and local governments share in the program’s cost. The state share is approximately 35 percent; the local share amounts to roughly 15 percent. However, even though localities shoulder a significant portion of Medicaid’s hefty price tag, they have virtually no say in how the program is administered...

Since the program was launched, New York’s Medicaid costs have steadily risen to the highest in America. Medicaid spending in New York is now 69 percent more per beneficiary than the national average. This is why Medicaid was cited by the New York State Association of Counties as the largest of nine state unfunded mandates that consume 90 percent of county budgets and contributes to our having America’s second highest combined state-local tax burden. New York’s Medicaid expenditures have soared due to several factors including our state’s above average share of elderly and disabled residents, higher costs for healthcare practitioners and excessive compliance costs caused by state regulations.

Another reason for our state’s nation-leading Medicaid expenditures is New York’s generous income eligibility levels and extensive optional services, which other states do not provide. All of this contributes to the hefty Medicaid costs state government imposes on localities.

Just how out of control is New York’s Medicaid spending? New York spends more than Texas and Florida combined, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The combined population of Texas and Florida is 43,948,871, while New York’s population is over 19 million, meaning we spend more than Texas and Florida together, even though we have nearly 24 million less residents!

Well, New York drones Democrats: your state's finances have only just begun to bleed, thanks to your politicians' reckless support of Obamacare.

According to a recent study by Ed Haislmaier of the Heritage Foundation, the rolls of beneficiaries and the costs of Medicaid continue to rise, bringing state budgets to the point of crisis. Thanks to Obamacare, this process has been accelerated.

Under Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid can be expected to add 35-40 million enrollees in the next ten years, with cost projections amounting to a 35 percent increase of the current state burden of $190 billion. States will face massive cost-sharing increases...

State budgets are already at the breaking point. Thanks to Obamacare, we will soon see the structural collapse of Medicaid. Doctors, nurses and health care providers will disappear or simply stop treating Medicaid patients to survive.

And rationing of health care services will become a deadly reality.


Obama's 'Pass This Bill Now' Bill Fails to Get Democrat Support in the Senate; Ends Up in Recycle Bin

I blame the 'Occupy Wall Street' for distracting Senate Democrats with all of that public sex, defecation and drug-taking.

President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill failed to clear a procedural hurdle in the Democratic-controlled Senate Tuesday night despite a White House push that accelerated in the 11th hour.

The bill received a simply majority of 51 votes but fell short of the necessary 60 to end debate. Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Jon Tester of Montana were the only Democrats to vote against the bill. Both of them are facing tough re-election campaigns next year.

Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., had said earlier that although he intended to vote in favor of ending the Republican filibuster, he did not intend to support the bill if it reached a final vote.

Perhaps President Obama should have started his messaging with the exhortation "Pass this bill now, Democrats!"

Got that, Axelrod?


SmartPower™: Within Minutes of Discovering Iran's DC Bomb Plots, Obama Rules Out Military Retaliation

Unlike the Democrat losers who launched "Wag the Dog" invectives at the Bush administration whenever an attack was foiled, I'll take the Obama White House at its word.

If the reports are accurate, Iran just escalated its offensive against America tenfold by targeting diplomatic personnel and facilities in Washington, DC. No longer content with existential threats against America and killing our soldiers in Iraq, Tehran's Islamo-Nazi regime just upped the ante.

FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a "significant terrorist act in the United States" tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News today.

The officials said the plot included the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. Bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were also discussed, according to the U.S. officials.

...U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in an announcement today that the plan was "conceived, sponsored and was directed from Iran" by a faction of the government and called it a "flagrant" violation of U.S. and international law... "The U.S. is committed to holding Iran accountable for its actions," Holder said.

Senior Obama administration officials said the U.S. currently does not have any information indicating that either Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad necessarily knew about the assassination plot and said the U.S. will pursue a path of response that would not include the possibility of an armed conflict with Iran.

Yes, you read that right: the Obama administration immediately ruled out the possibility of a military response.

That a foreign government would plot to kill a foreign leader on American soil could be seen as an act of war, but Obama administration officials say the path the U.S. government will purse will align with American interests – and a military response and possible armed conflict with a third Muslim nation would not be part of that.

So if I understand SmartPower™, it's basically to cower and tell your enemies that you won't retaliate.

Once again, the Democrat Party lives up to its longstanding nickname -- The Party of Weakness.

After all, President Bowsalot doesn't exactly strike an intimidating figure on the world stage.

Thought experiment: would the Mullahs have tried this gambit during a Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush presidency? I think we all know the answer to that question.

Because nothing strikes fear into terrorists like the thought of Eric Holder reading them their Miranda Rights.


Hat tip: Memeorandum.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama political adviser linked to Occupy Wall Street protests

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Nation

Obama political adviser linked to Occupy Wall Street protests: GWP
President Obama's 45 Czars: a Special Report: JW
Justice Scalia: “Learn to love the gridlock.”: Patterico

Recall attempt of Walker to begin Nov. 15: Hot Air
2012: the problem of Romney: LFAYA
Hundreds rally in support of Gibson Guitars: Hot Air

‘An Isolated Man Trapped in a Collapsing Presidency’: Driscoll
Is Rick Perry Not Ready For Prime Time?: Commune
The ignorance of the masses – Soviet flag at #OccupyPhiladelphia: LI

Economy

So Obama said it was immoral and not illegal?: Denninger
DCCC All Aboard ‘Occupy Wall Street'!: Malkin
The Innovation Deficit: Thomas

Guns, Guitars and Government Raids: Norris
Working Families Party Won't Pay Employees a Living Wage: AllAm
We Lost Weight Under Obama: Surber

Gunrunner & EnergyGate

Holder Ridge Defenses Overrun. Holder isolated in his bunker, awaiting the coup de grâce: Sipsey
Government adviser defends Solyndra despite ethics agreement: WaPo
Issa: Holder's defense on Fast and Furious ‘has reached a new low': Hill

Next up for “occupiers”? Home invasions, terrorizing the bank executives: ProWis
Company that Owns Zuccotti Park Received Green Loan Guarantee from Obama Admin: LoneCon
Gunwalker: Issa Reveals Drug Enforcement Administration Involvement: PJM

Climate & Energy

New Climate Scare: Europe May be Facing Return Of ‘Little Ice Age’: Watts
Al Gore kicked out of the Global Warming Club: Surber
Ultraviolet light shone on cold winter conundrum: BBC

Media

Five Things Republicans Must Do to Crush the Left in the Propaganda War: Shiver
Occupy Wall Street Heavily Scrubbing Website; Remove Call to Deal with "the Jew": PndtPrss
‘Mr. Cain, Who Is Lawrence O’Donnell to Tell You How to Be a Black Man?’: RSM

Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman joins progs’ war on “plutocrats”: Malkin
The Krugman Army: Driscoll
Tuesday Debate Puts Cain in Line of Fire for First Time: PJM

Reverse Racism: Sowell
Occupy Wall Street – What Happens to the Money that’s being Donated?: Koch's Tour
The left, the race card, and Herman Cain: Jacoby

You Say You Want a Revolution?: City Journal
Guess which President has raked in the most Wall Street bucks in a generation?: Hot Air
Obama Schedule || Tuesday, October 11, 2011: Dossier

World

Arab Fall, Arab Fail: Coptic Christians slaughtered in Egypt; Plus: Nadarkhani update: Malkin
Bolton Rips Obama After He Calls For Restraint From Egyptian Christians As They’re Being Slaughtered: WZ
The Shape of the Middle East to Come: Ledeen

The Mounting Hezbollah Threat in Latin America: AEI
Not a Single Christian Church Left in Afghanistan, Says State Department: CNS
The 5 Most Likely Scenarios For The European Monetary Union: Insider

Sci-Tech

Free texts to hurt carriers' bottom line?: CNet
Minor flaw in green energy business model: “Solar panels do not work that well": Scoop
Justice Department ramps up WikiLeaks e-mail probe: CNet

Cornucopia

The Top Ten Occupy Wall Street Pick-Up Lines: RWN
Costumed Kook Busted In Seattle Street Assaults: TSG
Obama golfs with his personal chef: Dossier

Image: Protein Wisdom
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Herman Cain for President

QOTD: "BEGALA: Out of the box, you’ll need some encouraging poll numbers, my Queen. I’ll task Gallup to run one with this question: “Given President Obama’s incompetence, narcissism, and arrogance, will you be more likely or less likely to vote for him?”

HILLARY: Good. Any other ideas??" --Steve Grammatico

Monday, October 10, 2011

Terminal Stupidity: the California Story

Well, what the hell else would you call this:

...In California, illegal immigrants enrolling in college will be eligible for state scholarships and financial aid beginning next July.

Over the weekend, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the second portion of the state’s Dream Act into law. The legislation allows illegal immigrants who graduate from high schools in California to apply to the state’s public universities as residents, granting them a reduced tuition rate
...

...In light of the "Dream Act" passage, please consider California Nears Automatic Spending Cuts With Revenue $705 Million Short:

California’s revenue for the fiscal year that began three months ago has fallen $705 million below what Governor Jerry Brown and Democrats projected, approaching a level that may trigger automatic university spending cuts and higher community college fees...

...Education costs are poised to rise for everyone in California except illegal aliens who get a reduced rate. Is this a dream or a nightmare? The answer depends on whether or not you are an illegal alien (or a politician who gets elected pandering to them).

Illegal immigration costs Californians at least $10.4 billion a year.

Oh, and that figure was tallied before the state's insane "Dream Act", which rewards illegal immigration and encourages more of it.

If illegals were entering the state and taking Democrat legislators' jobs, I feel certain they wouldn't be quite so welcome.


Eric Holder Comics

3 March 2011
Fast and Furious? I love Vin Diesel movies!

4 February 2011
No s***. I swear on the Holy Kor-- Bible that the ATF makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally! Plus, to prevent their transport into Mexico! Pinky swear!

3 May 2011
I swear on a stack of pancakes that I first heard about Operation Fast and Furious... uh... just a few weeks ago!

6 June 2011
Okay, I'm serious this time. Operation Fast and Furious was a rogue operation carried out by the Phoenix field division of the ATF!

6 July 2011
Look. The cat's out of the bag. Knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious was limited to the ATF only!

6 August 2011
Would you believe that it was limited to the ATF and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona?

7 September 2011
Seriously, dude: no reports -- NONE! -- concerning Operation Fast and Furious ever reached the upper levels of the Justice Department!

7 October 2011
I never saw those seven separate memos about Fast and Furious that were sent directly to me and only me!

10 October 2011
How about those Brewers???


Based upon: Holder Ridge Defenses Overrun. Holder isolated in his bunker, awaiting the coup de grâce..

30 times worse than Solyndra

Say, how's that GM investment working out for taxpayers?

BailoutCost.com calculates to the second and to the penny how much we are in the hole on the Government Motors bailout.

Briefly: We own about 500 million GM shares. To break even, they need to be sold at $53 per. Right now they're trading at about $23.

Which loses us about $15 billion.

Remember, Solyndra lost us: $0.5 billion.

I'm not real good at math, but that seems like a lot more.

20-30 times more (again, depending on the share price whence we sell).

Besides abrogating bankruptcy law to hand the UAW an immense payoff, let's not forget the administration's skulduggery surrounding Dealergate and the hundreds of selective dealer closings that seemed curiously -- how you say? -- selective and partisan.

When the complete history of the Obama-Holder administration is finally written, I'm certain it will make Nixon-Mitchell look like the kids who stole fizzy-lifting drinks from Willy Wonka's factory.


Guess the Missing Word. "Bankers," Wall Street," "....."

Dan from New York:

Watch these two videos. It didn’t take long before “Occupy Wall St.” got around to the Jews.

http://youtu.be/l3Y9CARUwio
http://youtu.be/NWwK5TBcoUY

Considering it was allegedly one racist sign (never photographed) that got the MSM to paint the whole Tea Party 'racist,' you can bet our enquiring reporters will be all over this like bears on honey.

Actually, Dan, if memory serves, the only racist sign I ever saw at a Tea Party was brought in by an SEIU member hoping to get away with a 'false flag' operation.

But your point is a good one: I'll bet ABC, CBS and NBC will be leading off coverage of the #OWS kooks with this angle.


Larwyn's Linx: The OWS Crowd Gets Tough

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Nation

The OWS Crowd Gets Tough: Dewey
What Obama's Second Term Would Look Like: McClintock
Issa blasts administration over ATF, Solyndra affairs: Times

Impeach Eric Holder: Kelly
OWS' Neo-Communist 'Collaboratism' Revealed: LUR
GOP vows retaliation after Reid uses nuclear option in Senate: Hill

The Occupiers’ Siren Song: NoisyRm
Obama Team Split on How To Rally Unruly Coalition: Barone
US Military 1 — Occupy Movement 0: Zombie

Economy

Can't Wait for Occupy Detroit: Finley
The Durbin Amendment Explained: NerdWallet
California bans tanning beds for minors, abortions still okay: GWP

Obama attacks banks while raking in Wall Street dough: DC
'Working Families' Paying $650/wk. to Protesters: PunPre
How To Hide Your Gold: A Bloomberg Primer: ZH

Gunrunner & Solyndra

Under the Radar: Ace
Fast and Furious weapons were found in Mexico cartel enforcer's home: LAT
Files: ATF knew gun sales were a problem: Azstar

Media

Occupy Wall Street – Lighting The Fuse To Begin A Bloodbath: Sword
In Eric Holder’s Pocket: A Review of Christian Adams’ Injustice: Simon
Obama's Career Mismatch: JRubin

Herman Cain Schools Yet Another White Journalist Trying to Tell Him What Black People Think: BigJ
On NPR, ESPN Hack Compares Herman Cain to...Southern Segregationists?: NB
Kirsten Powers Flashback: Ace

Proving Darwin's Theory: Bookworm
The USS Carl Vinson rocks!: Bookworm
Head on a Stick: MBT

Wall Street and Its Occupiers: Both State Welfare Junkies: RWN
Scary Stupid: JPA
Info Leaked: Communist Party USA Conference Call On Occupy Wall Street Future Plans: BIN

World

Old and Busted: Olive Drab ... The New Hotness: Green: Ace
6 Dead in Clashes Between Christians, Army Over Cairo Church Attack: Blaze
Riots over church attack in Egypt kill 19: Yahoo!

Egypt descends into chaos: Spengler
Our one-sided trade war with China: Samuelson
Scot made millions making moonshine in Saudi Arabia - but he landed in torture cell : DailyRecord

Sci-Tech

Google debuts Dart, a JavaScript alternative: CNet
Steve Jobs’s secret legacy: Dying Apple boss left plans for four years of new products: DailyMail
Forget iPhone 4S: Nine High-End Apple Alternatives : NetWorld

Cornucopia

Jane Jamison, 1955-2011: Dell
Occupy the American Empire: Czars, left, peasants on the right: MOTUS
Wingsuit stuntman Jeb Corliss soars through China mountains: Telegraph

Image: Ace o' Spades
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Herman Cain for President

QOTD: "It’s just like the TEA Party — except with paid protesters, union participation, Soros funding, anti-capitalist organizers, largely anti-Semitic overtones, and now, finally, sh**!

As these astroturfed spectacles gain more and more media attention, remember this: the Democrats, and the Obama Administration in particular, own this. And the problem with enlisting the aid of anti-Semitic Marxist anarchists to try to turn the “middle class” against the banks and corporations (incidentally, a necessary, manufactured and orchestrated step for bringing about a public outcry for socialism, according to Cloward-Piven and Alinsky), is that you can’t spell “useful idiots” without “idiots” — and at the end of the day, your revolutionary foot soldiers are precisely the kind of people who will erupt in violence, gin up race hatreds, give voice to anti-capitalist/anti-Semitic sentiment, and, of, course, begin taking dumps on cars.

– And all for a demonstrable lie." --Jeff Goldstein

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Ten Arizona sheriffs demand probe as 1,500 Fast and Furious weapons are still unaccounted for; Eric Holder hardest hit

The natives are getting understandably restless:

Led by Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, 10 Arizona sheriffs are calling for an investigation into what U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder knew about "Operation Fast and Furious," a gun-running operation that put weapons into the hands of violent drug cartels in Mexico.

...Babeu, an outspoken critic of the federal government's enforcement of immigration law, was joined outside the Arizona Capitol building Friday by the other sheriffs, representing nine of Arizona's 15 counties. Babeu called "Fast and Furious" a betrayal of state law enforcement. He said the issue is not partisan, but a public safety issue and that guns allowed into Mexico have been linked to dozens of crime scenes on both sides of the border.

"I want the truth, I want the truth from the attorney general, I want the truth from all of those people who are involved," Babeu said... If Holder is found to have lied about his knowledge of "Fast and Furious," he should resign, Babeu said.

Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, whose county borders Mexico, said U.S. authorities are in a fight for our country, our Constitution and our very lives.

"While our own government is blaming America for exporting arms and cash south of the border, they're complicit," Dever said.

Babeu said "Fast and Furious" is no small scandal... "I believe that this is a much larger scandal than anything that took place in Watergate because off of this information has had to be dragged out through Congress," he said.

Babeu said 1,500 weapons remain unaccounted for and there's no doubt more bloodshed will occur.

Over 200 Mexican nationals and two American law enforcement officials are dead thanks to Eric Holder and Barack Obama.

And 1,500 weapons are still out there.


Who you should thank for Bank of America's new $5 monthly debit card fee

I'm assuming you've heard about Bank of America's controversial decision to add a $5 monthly fee to each debit card account. Here's why they did it (hint -- thank the Dodd-Frank "financial reform" bill):

The new $5 monthly fee Bank of America is charging debit card holders wasn't just picked because the spreadsheet guys really like Subway $5 footlongs. There's actually a calculation behind it. Here's the math.

ConsumerAffairs.com explains how under the old rules, debit card fees usually amounted to an average of 44 cents per transaction. The new rules cap the fees at 24 cents per transaction. That's 20 cents per swipe they're not making.

Now, the average consumer has 25 debit card transactions per month. Multiply the 20 cents 25 times and you get $5 as the amount, on average, Bank of America stands to lose per debit card holder per month.

So there you have the business reason for the $5.

Gee, I'm stunned.

You mean central planning didn't work (again)?

Pity the Obama Democrats can't and won't ever learn this simple economic truth.


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
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Herman Cain for President

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.