Sunday, October 16, 2011

Mark Levin: What kind of political party is it that employs a strategy built upon such truly sick lies?

President Barack Obama:

I ran for President for the same reason many people came to this country in the first place: Because I believe America should be a place where you can always make it if you try; a place where every child, no matter what they look like, where they come from, should have a chance to succeed... I still believe in that America. . . . That's why I put forward the American Jobs Act. . . . But apparently, none of this matters to Republicans in the Senate.

In other words, Republicans don't want minorities or children to succeed!

Vice President Joe Biden:

In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65 and rapes–just to pick two categories–climbed to 229. In 2011, you now only have 125 shields. God only knows what the numbers will be this year for Flint if we don’t rectify it.

In other words, Republicans want more murders and rapes!

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:

Under this bill, when the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor, and health care providers do not have to intervene if this bill is passed. It’s just appalling. I can’t even describe to you the logic of what it is that they are doing.

Mark Levin observes:

As a matter of fact, law -- let along medical ethics -- does not permit a woman to "die on the floor" under any of these circumstances.

Did you know that? Nancy Pelosi knows that.

You've heard the President talking to a Latino group, saying -- basically -- Republicans don't want minorities to experience the American dream.

You've heard the Vice President say that Republicans prefer more rapes and murders.

Now you have Nancy Pelosi saying about Republicans, who are merely trying to enforce what Obama had agreed to (Ed: see "President Obama agrees to sign anti-choice executive order") and what had been policy in this country for three decades or so.

That by raising this and trying to enforce this, that is, no federal dollars for abortions, that Republicans want women to die on the floor and health care providers not have to intervene.

What kind of political party is it that has to build a strategy built upon such truly sick lies?

It is a political party without a soul. It is a political party that is so bereft of ideas and substance, so out of touch with the American people, that it has to resort to this.

This is why there will be a wave election. A landslide of sorts, certainly when it comes to the Congress, I believe. Because the American people are not going to fall for this crap any more.

Even in some families there are Democrats and Republicans. If you're a Democrat and you have a family member who's a Republican, do you believe they support women 'dying on the floor'? And a law preventing medical assistance from treating her?

What kind of a sick mind comes up with examples like this?

Perhaps it's one whose son -- Pelosi's boy -- benefited from his mother's connections to Countrywide, where his name was on the list to be laid off. Suddenly his name's off the list, and he's safe. Could it be that kind of mind?

Perhaps it's a mind that demands a particularly large military aircraft to fly her, her family, and friends back and forth to Washington, while you and I also pay for their booze and their food while she and her husband are worth $60 to $80 million. Could it be that kind of mind?

Or perhaps it's a mind that claims to stand up for unions, when her own winery and restaurants are non-union. That kind of mind?

Yeah, I think so.



Great News: Jamie 'Mistress of Disaster' Gorelick joins Defense Policy Board

What could possibly go wrong?

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and retired Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright are among five new members of the Defense Policy Board, a panel advising top Pentagon officials on matters of defense policy.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also named Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general and member of the 9/11 Commission, former U.S. congresswoman Jane Harman and retired Adm. Gary Roughead, former chief of naval operations.

After all, what's a couple of trillion-dollar disasters between friends?


Unfortunately all-too-real photos: #OWS protesters defecate on, stomp on American flag [Updated]

Among the formal supporters of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement are the Democrat Congressional Committee, Communist Party USA, the American Nazi Party, George Soros, ACORN, the SEIU, and the Obama White House.

And this is "the movement" in action *:

Yes, this is an OWS supporter defecating on the American flag. *

Lest you think this is an aberration, please consider this:

And then there's this:

OWS is fully supported by the Democrat Party, which has been completely and utterly subsumed by the radical left.

Remember in 2012.


* Update and correction: The first photo appears to have been taken in 2007 during an anti-war march in Portland.

Update II: Obama-Endorsed Group Sings “F*** the USA”

Hat tip: JTT.

Larwyn's Linx: American Nazi Party Declares Full Support for #OWS

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Progressive Occupation

American Nazi Party Declares Full Support for #OWS: WZ
Occupy Boston Ruins Food Bank Fundraiser: RWN
The Occupations: Anarchy Waiting for Crisis: PJM

Adbusters, Soros $$$ and The Confused Kids of #OWS: Nice Deb
OccupyChicago Saturday march pics: Marathon
Democracy in America: Instapundit

Nation

Obama Sidesteps Congress Again: NoisyRm
Judge Blocks Release of Recusal Emails Kagan Sent WH: CNS
Cain – “I’m Building an Electrified Border Fence”: iOTW

Obama administration fights to keep visitor logs secret: Karl
Six RINOs who need to be primaried: C&S
NY Detective Admits to Planting Coke to Hit Bust Quota: Ace

Economy

Critical Thinking on 9-9-9 (And why it could become 8-8-8): PI
How Government Spending Impoverished Us All: ZH
Can Herman Cain Raise 'Romney-esque' Money?: AmSpec

Why Obama Loves Bad News And Occupy Wall Street: Riehl
Illinois Shows that Taxing and Spending Has Consequences: Foundry
Would a 'President Romney' hire Obama’s climate-change guru Holdren?: Hot Air

Gunrunner & Energygate

Hypocrisy and hope, credit and blame in the Gunwalker Scandal -- the long view: SSI
More Excuses From NYT for Lack of ‘Fast and Furious’ Coverage: BigJ
New Documents Highlight Differences in Bush-Era, Obama-Era Gunrunner Investigations: Owens

Media

Who Fact-Checks The Fact-Checkers?: Ace
Why Obama Loves Bad News And Occupy Wall Street: Riehl
The New Improved Percent Movement!: Amerikazam

JOHN ASHCROFT, OTHER TOP TIER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS SUBPOENAED: Driscoll
UI: According to the Press: BigJ
Obama Chief of Staff William Daley Insinuates Fox News “Carries Water” For Republicans: WZ

World

The Trouble With Muslim Democracy: Knish
Radical Islam Has Settled into Ireland: Hudson
Royal Navy Ordered To Turn Ship’s Guns So They Don’t Point At Michelle Obama’s Hotel Suite: BigPeace

Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Decides To Fight Another War In Uganda: RWN
The Most Dangerous Cartel on Earth: Borderland
Copenhagen: Jewish woman attacked by boy who's been told to 'kill all Jews': IIE

Sci-Tech

How an Omniscient Internet ‘Sextortionist’ Ruined the Lives of Teen Girls: Wired
Like iOS 5? Thank a Hacker: Wired
Gang Used 3D Printers for ATM Skimmers: Krebs

Cornucopia

A State Dinner for South Korea and a Dog-gone Good One Too!: MOTUS
Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”: Israpundit
Word Game: iOTW

Image: Diogenes
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Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justicef

QOTD: " I ran for President for the same reason many people came to this country in the first place: Because I believe America should be a place where you can always make it if you try; a place where every child, no matter what they look like, where they come from, should have a chance to succeed.

I still believe in that America. . . . That's why I put forward the American Jobs Act. . . .

But apparently, none of this matters to Republicans in the Senate." --Barack Obama

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Say, how's that 'multi-cultural integration' of Sharia law working out in Europe?

Poland: "Polish fans of Legia Warsaw piggybacked on extreme Islamic rhetoric on Thursday night in the Europa League, as they displayed a ginormous “Jihad Legia” banner in the match with Israeli outfit Hapoel Tel Aviv... To many the unfurling of the giant banner was a distasteful act which stunk of antisemitism. Written in Arabic-style letters, the green banner was construed by many as a thumb in the eye to Hapoel and moreover the Jewish people at large."

London: "This is what London has come to. Halal food in all schools. No eating in front of your Muslim colleagues during Ramadan. Special accommodations for Muslims in public buildings. Officially sanctioned sharia courts.

And above all, no “racist” speech. Muslims may gather and scream “Death to those who insult Islam!” with impunity. But a non-Muslim who objects to the spread of sharia may be arrested, charged, convicted, fined, and slapped with an Anti-Social Behavior Order (ASBO) forbidding him from taking part in any activist events for several years.

This is the reality of 21st century Britain. This is not creeping sharia, it is galloping sharia."

'The Islamization of British Police': "While sounding friendly, [its mission of 'assistance' of 'minorities'] implies that the working environment for “cultural minorities” is not fair or just at present, a subtle accusation of what would be called 'racism' – so subtly worded that few would identify it and yet fewer object to it.

The 'assisting' would constitute of advice on how to change the police force in order not to offend “cultural minorities”, also known as “sensitivity training”. This, unfortunately, tends to render the police force ineffective in cases where normal police procedure – like the use of sniffer dogs – violates religious law stating that dogs are 'unclean', and the like. Whenever there is a clash between secular and religious law, it is easy to make a qualified guess as to which side AMP will be on.

Before writing this off as 'speculative', it is instructive to see this conflict of interest play out in practice. The National Association of Muslim Police in 2010 rejected the claim that Islam can be blamed for terror attacks."

Denmark: "Five men planning to shoot as many people as possible in a building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were arrested Wednesday in an operation that halted an imminent attack, intelligence officials said."

Sweden: "[Sweden's] daily Metro said it had obtained classified documents that showed the prosecutor believes three men arrested on September 10 had planned to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks...

...An elite counter-terrorism unit arrested four people in Gothenburg and shortly afterward evacuated hundreds of people from a building hosting an art fair "after concluding that there was a threat that could endanger lives or health or cause serious damage."

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The orthodox practice of Islam is inseparable from its legal system, sharia.

And Sharia is incompatible with the United States Constitution.


I've reported the #OccupyWallStreet toxic dump to the EPA

You can thank me later.







Hat tip: Mark Levin.

How to tell when a banana goes bad [Papa B]

Papa B.:



A.P. Coins New Slogan for Illinois

I can't wait for the new license plates:

Drowning in deficits, Illinois has turned to a deliberate policy of not paying billions of dollars in bills for months at a time, creating a cycle of hardship and sacrifice for residents and businesses helping the state carry out some of the most important government tasks.

Once intended as a stop-gap, the months-long delay in paying bills has now become a regular part of the state’s budget management, forcing businesses and charity groups to borrow money, cut jobs and services and take on personal debt. Getting paid can be such a confusing process that it requires begging the state for money and sometimes has more to do with knowing the right people than being next in line.

Isn't Democrat governance fun?

As of early last month, the state owed on 166,000 unpaid bills worth a breathtaking $5 billion, with nearly half of that amount more than a month overdue and hundreds of bills dating back to 2010... The true backlog is even higher because some bills have not yet been approved for payment and officially added to the tally. This includes the Illinois health care agency, which says it is sitting on about $1.9 billion in bills from Medicaid providers because there’s no money to pay it.

But at least Democrats are looking out for the little guy, right?

...Year after year, Illinois builds its budget on the assumption that it will pay its bills months late — essentially borrowing money from businesses and nonprofits that have little choice but to suffer the financial hardship.

The unpaid bills range from a few pennies to nearly $25 million. In early September, for example, Illinois owed $55,000 to a small-town farm supply business for gasoline, $1,000 to a charity that provides used clothing to the poor and $810,000 to a child-nutrition program... Funeral homes were waiting for $2.8 million in overdue reimbursement for burying indigent people.

Leigh Ann Stephens wrote a letter in August “asking, pleading” for $50,000 the state owed to the DuPage Center for Independent Living, where she is executive director... Like their clients, most of the employees are disabled, coping with blindness, loss of hearing, cerebral palsy and more.

...It also reflects resignation from some vendors who no longer expect the corruption-plagued Illinois government to function properly... Illinois leaders join in bemoaning the crisis but haven’t been able to find a solution.

Gee, it's so difficult. All of that Democrat brainpower in Springfield and they can't come up with the following list that would balance the budget in 30 days:

• Slash the state government's administrative costs by 50%

• Ban collective bargaining by state and local employees

• Reform all existing pension programs to comply with accepted accounting and audit principles

• Prosecute every corrupt politician in the state and work to see them sentenced to the maximum possible penalties

...Blagojevich’s replacement, Democrat Pat Quinn, raised income taxes and trimmed spending, but that money was gobbled up by other needs, primarily rising pension costs. Under budget agreements with legislative leaders, all Democrats, bills continued to go unpaid.

As recently as June 2008, Illinois paid its bills seven days after state agencies finished the paperwork. A year later the delay had reached 99 days. It stood at 118 days in June of this year, the comptroller’s office said.

Hold up... I've got an idea: maybe Illinois could borrow more money to cover these unpaid bills?

Oh. You say Democrats are already trying to do that?

Never mind. People of Illinois: please continue to elect corrupt Democrats, the same toadies of the unions, the Marxist left and the illegal immigration lobby. We'll gladly accept the successful people and businesses that have given up on Illinois and its Statist agenda.


Larwyn's Linx: Half of Obamacare's deficit reduction wiped out

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Nation

Half of Obamacare's deficit reduction wiped out: Exam
Not "Inevitable": Pundette
Heed the 99 Percent: Lowry

Obama surges to another new record: GWP
600,000 Illegal Aliens May Be Registered To Vote In Texas: CitRep
More on the Perry Plan: Cold Fury

Mitt Romney’s Troubling Appointments: RS
Why is Obama worsening our nation’s polarization?: Gerson
Coast Guard member spit on at Occupy Boston: FoxBoston

Economy

Perry's Energy Plan Gets Government Out of the Way: Tatler
Detroit Holds Ex-Cons-Only Jobs Fair: NBC Chicago
Pelosi Left Out of Leaders Meeting on Super Committee: RollCall

More Alarming Shipping News: Mish
US to Play 'Very Major Role' In Helping Europe: Geithner: CNBC
Greece Is So Last Week – Now It's All About Spain: FXstreet

Gunrunner & Energygate

"Grenade-walking" part of "Gunwalker" scandal: Attkisson
‘Hiding in plain sight’—How did Obama know about ‘Gunwalker’ before Holder?: Codrea
In Holder Subpoena, Issa Also Probes White House Press Aide: RollCall

Fast and Furious update: I’d walk a grenade for you, yeah, yeah, yeah: Malkin
Lanny Davis defends Gunwalker. Which tells you Hillary is in it up to her eyeballs: SSI
Fast and Furious Demonstrates ‘Ruling Class,’ Country Divide: PJM

Climate & Energy

Grim News: Nine Billion People Will Die of Global Warming This Century: JWF
EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding is Endangered: AT
Gun Groups Decry 'Unacceptable' Proposal to Ban Target Shooting on Western Parkland: Fox

Media

Violence shows Andrew Breitbart was right: Surber
Is this the weasel way of saying “you smell bad and you scare me?”: Bookworm
Did Ron Paul's eyebrows fall off during the Dartmouth debate?: Mediate

This means war -- eventually: Cold Fury
Sean Penn Calls Tea Party the ‘Get the N-Word Out of the White House Party’ Which Wants to ‘Lynch’ Obama: NB
James Wolcott’s Blog Is Full of Fresh, Penetrating Observation: Conservatory

#OccupyLA Protester: 'Zionist Jews Running The Banks Need To Be Run Out Of The Country': MBT
Hollywood Versus Emilio Estevez: RWN
Anti-Semitism at the Occupy Wall Street protests?: Althouse

World

The Islamization of London: A Photo Tour: Gates
Koran-burning Ann Barnhardt's appearance before Loveland group scrapped: Loveland Reporter-Herald
A pact signed in Jewish blood: Glick

Obama's Disastrous Foreign Policy: Missing Libya Missiles Turn Up in Gaza: Atlas
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Decides To Fight Another War In Uganda: RWN
Sweet: U.S. Airstrike Vaporizes Egyptian Son of “Blind Sheikh” Fighting In Afghanistan: WZ

The Diminishing Returns of Reasonableness: RWN
French Government Bond Yields Widen to Record vs. Germany; Portugal Faces National Emergency: Mish
Uganda’s power outages spark scrutiny, criticism: Times

Sci-Tech

Verizon Admits It’s Tracking Your Location and More for Better Ads and Market Reporting: Blaze
Google Engineer Calls Google+ a Complete Failure: Minyanville
One Smart Phone, Two Personalities: TechReview

Cornucopia

Man Posts Story On Reddit, Gets Movie Deal: Mediate
Ancient Green History: Chevy Volt No Better Than 115-Year-Old Car: RightPundits
Obama Using His Twitter Account To Sell SEIU Swag: WZ

Image: Stylite: 'Did Ron Paul’s Eyebrows Fall Off During This Week’s GOP Debate?'
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: The Email Archive of the #OccupyWallStreet Movement: Anarchists, Socialists, Unions, Democrats and Their Plans

QOTD: ""(W)e conclude that there is substantial uncertainty about what would follow if solvency or legal problems prevented the CLASS program, once operational, from continuing to implement the plan," the report reads. "We cannot with any confidence predict that the CLASS program would beable to honor its commitments to individuals who had already enrolled or entered beneficiarystatus in the program, or avoid leaving them worse off, or that such individuals would be able to recoup their paid premiums." --HHS Report on the CLASS Act

Friday, October 14, 2011

Liberate Wall Street: Infiltrate and Humiliate!

Red Square:

In the glorious spirit of erstwhile Protest Warriors and Communists for Kerry, disorganized multitudes of pro-capitalist miscreants and saboteurs are getting organized again! Meet Liberate Wall Street - a loose coalition of the willing to mock, satirize, and expose the leftist absurdities of the Wall Street Occupussies.

The Occupussies demand free lunch in exchange for a total Big Government takeover of their lives. That would have been funny if that didn't involve the takeover of everyone else's lives as well - including yours and mine. They are too misguided and too misinformed to realize that "A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have." Their favorite politicians, celebrities, teachers, and mass media are on their side and that doesn't help.

So let's help them to start thinking. OK, the thinking part may not happen right away, but we could plant sound seeds that may later sprout in their polluted brains. And if that fails, at least we'll kick some hot air out of their enormously inflated egos and have fun in the process.

Join the Facebook page, crash the Occupussies in your local areas, take pictures of your actions, make videos, and post them below on this thread...

...With this in mind, General Secretary and I have prepared a number of simple black-and-white PDF signs that you can download (below) and print in any size at home or at your local print shop. You may as well think of your own signs, or reproduce ours with markers on a poster board. We can always add more later.

Right-click on the individual links to download, or get them all at once in a ZIP folder.

Will Chaos in America Be Obama's October Surprise? [Dan from New York]

Dan from New York:

Watch the trajectory of “Occupy (name goes here)” protests carefully. It may tell us a lot about what the atmosphere in the country might be during the election campaign next year. I for one don’t think Obama will let a little thing like the polls stand in his way.

Oh, while we’re on the subject, Mayor Bloomberg has decided to handle these proles with kid gloves. Wouldn’t want to ruffle their feathers, would he? They might get angry and go on a tear. What’s more, while the lumpen marched uptown to picket the homes of some of NYC’s wealthiest residents earlier this week, they passed over hizzoner’s townhouse and George Soros’s pad... Meanwhile, over at the Washington Post two of their worthies, Krauthammer and Gerson, have weighed in.

Krauthammer: “Obama is too intelligent not to know what he started. But so long as it gives him a shot at reelection, he shows no sign of caring.”

Gerson: “We are being asked to reelect a political figure who no longer exists.”

That's a powerful, powerful line.

"We are being asked to reelect a political figure who no longer exists."


The Lemon Lady [Papa B]

Papa B:

Sally Mullihan of Coral Springs , Florida decided to take one of the jobs that most Americans are not willing to do.

The woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed to be far too qualified for the job.

She had a liberal arts degree from the University of Michigan and had worked as a social worker and school teacher.

The foreman frowned and said, "I have to ask you, have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?"

"Well, as a matter of fact, I have! I've been divorced three times, owned two Chryslers and voted for Obama."

As I've said before, Papa B appears to be missing the political correctness gene.


Most transparent administration ever won't release Obama's BlackBerry messages regarding Solyndra

Gee, I wonder why.

President Barack Obama won't be sharing his BlackBerry messages with House investigators seeking communications about Solyndra, the White House told Hill Republicans on Friday.

White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler told House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders that they should still be happy with the trove of Solyndra-related documents they’re getting from federal agencies including DOE, the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget.

...[House Republicans had] asked for the internal White House communications earlier this month as part of their probe into Solyndra's $535 million federal loan guarantee and the company’s subsequent financial collapse.

...“So if there's nothing on his BlackBerry, that's fine," Stearns said Oct. 6. "But if there's something on his BlackBerry, I would assume that would include that."
Obama had to fight his lawyers just to be able to become the first president to use a BlackBerry, and so far no one has successfully gotten access to the messages.

Please consult the handy-dandy EnergyGate cheat sheet for complete information on the Democrats' multi-billion dollar green energy heist.


Business Week Spotlights President SCOAMF

I can't tell whether this is a parody cover or not:

Okay, yes, I know it's a parody (courtesy of John E., via Jammie). The story precipitating the cover is truly shocking. Namely, the White House is already shredding the major 'features' of Obamacare that were used to game the CBO's assessment of its budget impact.

What's a guy to do when he's mired at a 38% approval rating? Why, abandon his signature achievement, of course.

The Obama administration says it is unable to go forward with a major program in the president's signature health care overhaul law — a new long-term care insurance plan.

Officials said Friday the long-term care program has critical design flaws that can't be fixed to make it financially self-sustaining.


Gee, maybe they should have read the bill before they passed it.

But a central design flaw dogged CLASS from the beginning. Unless large numbers of healthy people willingly sign up during their working years, soaring premiums driven by the needs of disabled beneficiaries would


...They knew it was a lie. Their actuaries told them so. The math was clear. They didn't care. If CLASS goosed the numbers for the broader bill -- thus helping secure the historic power grab they'd been salivating over forever -- these Statists were thrilled to adopt an "ends justifies the means" mentality. And that, my friends, is how the White House and Democrats manipulated the CBO score, lied their asses off to the American public, and passed their unaffordable, unwanted healthcare monstrosity under deliberately false pretenses. This. Crew. Must. Go.

Which reminds me of the bumper-sticker I just made.

Off topic: I really need a business manager to help me start selling some of this swag -- like my exclusive Fast & Furious t-shirt.


The Dumbest Sign From #OccupyWallStreet

Correspondent Amalaur sends us some photos from Manhattan's collection of kooks, anti-semites, 9/11 truthers, druggies, escapees from the loony bin, and parole violators. You may know them as "Occupy Wall Street".

Oh, there's also the bussed-in union hacks, who carry the professionally made signs like this one.

See, Republicans are apparently to blame for President Obama receiving more money from Wall Street than any other politician over the last 20 years. And shredding the economy over the last two years with his Democrat Congress.

But that's not the dumbest sign at #OWS. It's this one:

Yes, this really reads "STOP BUYING THINGS (ask me how)".

So unless this moonbat stole the cardboard and magic marker he used to make the sign, like, he's part of the system, dude! And even if he, like, ripped off the cardboard and the pen, he couldn't have even made the sign without the system, yo!

That sound you heard was me sighing. You know, if they weren't in power, these lunatic progressives would be useful only as comic relief. Or door stops.


Attention Moonbats: Please read The Progressive and the Pencil. It has pictures to keep your attention.

Larwyn's Linx: Jesse Jackson Jr.: Damn the Constitution, Obama’s Got Stuff to Do

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Nation

Damn the Constitution, Obama’s Got Stuff to Do: Hayward
10 Greatest Moments From The OWS Protests So Far: RWN
We Are the 53%: The53

Rubio Staffer Said to Push for Early FL Primary for Romney: RSM
Costs of the Occupiers: Malkin
GOP Elite Declares War on Tea Party: EIB

More Anti-Semitism at Occupy Los Angeles: Zombie
The Anti-Jewish Organizer Behind “Occupy Wall Street”: Cmntry
Unsanitary Conditions At Protesters' Park: MyFoxNY

Economy

Obama got more from WS than anyone over last 20 years: FAM
Paul Ryan ‘loves’ Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan: DC
Pelosi: Pay for abortion or women 'die on the floor': Exam

Flip Flop: Romney Now Accepting OWS Premise?: RWN
Hoffa threatens to run Gov. Kasich over with a truck: FAM
Jackson, Jr.: 'Time to declare Congress in rebellion': Toldjah

Gunrunner & Energygate

Solyndra Redux?: IBD
Lanny Davis Arrives to Spin Gunwalker: ConfYank
Who will pay price for Fast and Furious?: Navarrette

Climate & Energy

EPA plan to switch from coal to natural gas criticized: Jacksonville
EPA lawsuit against Indiana County power plant dismissed: Post-Gazette
Solar and climate- no longer taboo: Watts

Media

More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine: C4P
Idiot Reporter to '99%': I'm One of You!: JWF
Shocking: New York Times reports that New York Times Will Reduce Its Staff: MediaDecoder

A Tale of Two Protests: Media Cheer Wall Street Occupiers But Jeered Tea Partiers: NB
Is Matt Drudge Is Trying To Make A Point Here?: Glob
Herman Cain and the Death of the Political Pro: Simon

Big Journalism Joins Anderson Cooper’s Anti-Bully Crusade: Stop the Media Bullies!: BigJ
'Romney Inevitable?' AP Sure Seems to Hope So: NB
Pres. Obama to Ed Henry: ‘I didn’t know you were the spokesman for Mitt Romney’: MediaBistro

World

Los Zetas: Organized crime puts the brakes in illegal immigration to the USA, aids Iranian terrorism: Fausta
Obama Regime wins right for Muslim teacher to take 3 weeks off: BNI
NYC imam calls on Muslims to show solidarity with Wall St. occupiers: Creeping

Obama Vows to Round Up the Usual Suspects: Dossier
“Unusual”: U.S. ambassador confronts Iranian officials over terror plot: Hot Air
Iran suspect met DEA informant through acquaintance: Reuters

Sci-Tech

Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On: Wired
Google Earnings Blow Past Expectations; Shares Surge: CNBC
Iran Admits Its Mission To Send Live Monkey Into Space Ended In Failure: WZ

Cornucopia

Street Poopers on the Record: C&S
Tons of WWI silver found in Atlantic: Bdnews24.com
ICYMI: The cutest thing you’ll see all day: Hot Air

Image: Shorpy
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD:

Thursday, October 13, 2011

'Not including the Ocean, more than half of all the water in California is polluted, according to the EPA'

Gee, I wonder if this means another unconstitutional power grab by the EPA?

The Environmental Protection Agency released a new report on the condition of the lakes and rivers in California. Over a million acres of waterways aren't meeting safety standards.

Not including the Ocean, more than half of all the water in California is polluted, according to the EPA. Water officials say pesticides, bacteria, and metals are the most common pollutants.

Really? So half of all of California's water is polluted?

Then it should be easy to point to statistical evidence including increased numbers of birth defects, instances of poisoning, premature deaths and other symptoms in areas suffering from "pollution". Right?

Don't hold your breath waiting for the EPA to show evidence before it uses a tyrannical ruling to seize more power.

If we don't obliterate these leftists at the ballot box in 2012, this country is toast.


Odd: NYT reports that NYT Forced to Reduce Staff Due to its Extreme, Unpopular Liberal Positions

Here's an interesting, if not outright recursive, mathematical problem: who will report on the final layoff at The New York Times when it finally collapses?

In the midst of a deteriorating advertising climate, The New York Times plans to eliminate up to 20 newsroom positions and seek additional savings in the business units, the company said Thursday.

The reductions, described by the New York Times Company as a rebalancing [sic], were announced to employees on Thursday morning. The company will seek volunteers for buyouts in The Times newsroom, Jill Abramson, the paper’s executive editor, said in a memo to the staff, adding that no newsroom employee would be laid off. She said there would be “fewer than 20” buyouts.

The Times will also seek to cut costs on the business side by eliminating positions that are vacant and by offering a limited number of buyouts, said an executive who insisted on anonymity because the company was not commenting publicly on the details or scale of the reductions.

Analysts are likely to link the cuts to the Times Company’s third-quarter earnings, which will be reported on Oct. 20 and which are expected to be relatively weak. Late last month, the company’s chief executive, Janet Robinson, told analysts, “Economic conditions have been getting more difficult since the second quarter.”

Gee, it's so... weird that the economy continues to suffer after their dream candidate was elected three years ago.

By the way, I have an idea that could, by itself, resurrect the Times: hire the world's smartest pundit -- Mark Levin -- to write a weekly column.

Hey, Pinch: want to wager what that would do for circulation?


Oh, Super: Romney Consulted With Obama Mass Sterilization Expert and Science Czar John Holdren

The ever-morphing policy positions of Mitt Romney are sufficiently disturbing on their own.

But if it's true that Romney consulted with Obama's crazed 'Science Czar' John Holdren, he should step out of the GOP race today.

Barack Hussein Obama has clotted the executive branch with unaccountable “czars” — unsavory characters too extreme to be confirmed for cabinet positions even by a hyper-partisan, Democrat-controlled Senate. Among the most alarming of these malevolent lunatics is Science Czar John Holdren, a participant in ClimateGate who has advocated de-developing America and putting sterilants in the public water supply...

...Holdren has also spoken in favor of forced abortions, confiscation of babies, targeted as well as mass involuntary sterilization, bureaucratic regulation of family size, and global authoritarian government. If there is a line between ultra-left ideologue and evil maniac, Holdren clearly crosses it. No one to the right of Pol Pot would want John Holdren advising our leaders.

This brings us onto still more common ground between Barack Obama and Willard “Mitt” Romney. From an official memo released by Willard’s office when he was Governor of Taxachusetts, announcing “Strict New Clean Air Regulations“ [i.e., Cap and Trade]...

...Sound familiar? Obama wanted to impose Cap & Trade nationwide, but it would so obviously cripple the economy that he couldn’t get it through a Democrat Senate that was radical enough to pass ObamaCare — the national version of RomneyCare.

Now to the even scarier part: In the development of greenhouse gas policy, Romney Administration officials have elicited input from environmental and economic policy experts. These include John Holden [sic], professor of environmental policy at Harvard University…

Of course, that was back in 2005. By now everyone knows that global warming is a hoax, and CO2 is harmless. Everyone except Mittens, that is. He continues to proclaim that economic activity makes it be too hot out.

This comes on the heels of reports that President Obama met with Romney's key advisers while designing Obamacare.

Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”

Romney's shape-shifting positions are so flagrant that even Democrats are producing flip-flop videos of the sort that pulverized John Kerry in 2004.

Look, folks: I'll support Mitt Romney against Barack Obama if he's the nominee. But he's not the nominee. Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are all vastly superior candidates -- and vastly more electable in the general -- than Mitt Romney.

We don't need another John McCain or Bob Dole. We don't need another mushy centrist with ill-defined principles. Too much is at stake this year. While there may not be a Reagan in the race, there are Constitutional conservatives to choose from. And choose from them we must if this Republic is to survive.


Hat tip: TrendingRight.

*** Sniff *** California Kids Face Days Without Class as Revenue Falls Short. Hey, Let's Subsidize Tuition for Illegal Aliens!

I've diagnosed this aspect of modern liberalism as disorganized schizophrenia.

Public schools in California, which already spend less per student than those in 28 states, are bracing for a $1.7 billion cut that may wipe out high-school sports and student busing, and trim the academic calendar by seven days next year.

Automatic cuts built into this year's budget, intended to protect bondholders if revenue falls short of projections, are drawing new attention after California fell $705 million behind estimates in the first quarter.

A shortfall of $1 billion will slash hundreds of millions of dollars from universities and care of the elderly and disabled. A deficit of $2 billion will trigger reductions to public schools, creating "a fiscal emergency" that could leave some districts insolvent, a group of superintendents told Governor Jerry Brown in a Sept. 15 letter...

What would you do if you were Governor Brown?

You guessed it, Kreskin: subsidize illegal aliens with California's own, delightful version of 'The Dream Act':

Undocumented students now receive access to public aid.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 131 — the second part of the DREAM Act — into law on Oct. 9, making undocumented students eligible to receive state financial aid to attend California community colleges and universities...

In other words, even though illegal aliens cost the state's taxpayers at least $10.4 billion a year, Governor Brown wants to subsidize illegal behavior and encourage more of it. All while kids are forced to go without an ever-increasing number of school days.

Which leads to my definitive conclusion that Democrats are disorganized schizophrenics.

And painfully stupid to boot.