Tuesday, October 18, 2011

It's come to this: Obama campaign's new fundraising site makes it impossible to know how much your credit card will be charged

Oh, this should be good.

In honor of tonight's GOP debate, the Obama campaign created a bizarre "Debate Bingo" website that makes it virtually impossible for donors to predict how much their credit cards will be charged (no link, intentionally).

Pick one or more phrases and an amount -- and your credit card will be charged that amount multiplied by the number of times the Obama campaign says the phrase(s) were mentioned. Well, that could certainly get expensive.

Call it "Click and Trust".

Although, since the president's party has a long history of registering dead voters, felons and illegal immigrants, I'm not sure I'd actually click or trust.

If you have a few extra bucks, pony up -- exactly the amount you want -- for H-E-R-M-A-N C-A-I-N.


Hat tip: Snarky Basterd.

Odd: Democrats claim to be for the little people, yet "non-profits bear burden of Illinois' unpaid bills"

Society's weakest and most vulnerable hardest hit.

When the owner of a southern Illinois child care center didn't get the state funding he was promised on time and faced laying off employees and cutting service to low-income children, he borrowed money from family members to get by.

...And when an Elgin domestic abuse program was left stacks of unpaid bills and no sign of when the money would come from the state, workers took four weeks of unpaid furlough days, especially difficult for entry level employees earning $25,000 a year.

They are among the thousands of community groups and charities making up Illinois' system for providing human services: the state contracts out the work and agrees to make reimbursements. But as Illinois' budget crisis worsens and the state lags further behind in paying bills, those that serve the state's neediest are forced to make dire decisions and at-times heroic sacrifices to pick up the slack.

...Illinois ranks first nationwide when it comes to nonprofit groups reporting late payments from the government... More than 80 percent of Illinois groups say their money doesn't come on time.

The state's health services function alone has yet to pay 31,000 bills totaling $425 million.

Democrats in Illinois have prioritized payments, however: the top 100 public pensioners alone are estimated to pull in a guaranteed $887,925,790 over their retirements.


California Teachers' Pension System Gets Good News and Bad News. The Good: It's Not $50B In the Hole. The Bad: It's Actually $150B.

Looks like generally accepted accounting principles are anathema to Democrats. But we already knew that.

The California State Teachers' Retirement System already faces a funding gap of $56 billion – the difference between the money it expects to have on hand over the next 30 years and what it will need to pay out in benefits during the same period.

The [GASB or Governmental Accounting Standards Board] proposal would triple the gap – on paper – to around $150 billion...

Right now, funds base their calculation on a forecast of how their investments will do. CalSTRS, for instance, says it will earn an average 7.75 percent a year on stocks, bonds and other investments...

...But because public pensions are guaranteed by taxpayers, conservatives and some academics contend pension funds should use a rate comparable to a super-safe investment like Treasury bills – something on the order of 4 percent.

The state teachers' pension system is just one of several immense public pension liabilities facing California's taxpayers. A 2010 Stanford University study put the state's combined public pension liabilities at well over half a trillion dollars.

As you might expect in the battle between sensible fiscal policy and Democrats, Governor Moonbeam is backing -- that's right -- the unions, not the taxpayers:

The Los Angeles Times summarized the Brown signing and veto flurry with this headline: “Gov. Jerry Brown is giving unions most of what they seek.” As the news story reported, “When the dust settled on Gov. Jerry Brown’s first legislative session in nearly three decades, no group had won more than organized labor, which heralded its largest string of victories in nearly a decade.” Union leaders were crowing with delight.

For instance, the governor signed a bill that makes it nearly impossible for municipalities to declare bankruptcy, forcing them instead to go through a mediation process that is dominated by union supporters who would oppose bankruptcy at all costs. Salaries and benefits are consuming such a large portion of city budgets that officials have no choice but to shut down parks and lay off workers.

The unions won’t budge on benefits, so their goal is to make it impossible to abrogate those overly generous union contracts that are the source of the problem.

Isn't letting Democrats run wild in your state fun?

Of course, it's not much fun if you're a beleaguered taxpayer in California. That breed of productive citizen is an endangered species, what with all of the easy access to welfare, open borders and millions of pages of regulations.


Good News: OWS Organizers Now Sporting Neo-Swastikas

One of the world's best protest reporters -- Looking at the Left's "El Marco" -- was perhaps the first to notice the troubling iconography of the Occupy Wall Street crowd.

...An Occupy Denver community organizer [led] the bizarre chanting ritual. Never have I seen anything that comes as close to a mind-control exercise in a free society. The orange tape insignia on this woman’s arm indicates that she is a leader. I was told that any questions I had could be addressed to someone with this type of insignia.

When I first saw this militant-looking marking, it reminded me of the Order of the Double-Cross, made famous in the Charlie Chaplin movie, The Great Dictator.”

"Charlie Chaplin, with raised fist. comically portrays a famous mid-20th century socialist dictator speaking out against Jewish bankers and capitalists in general."

Kinda like Occupy Wall Street.


Via: Another of the world's best protest reporters: Zombie.

Larwyn's Linx: OWS Is Almost Entirely Socialist/Marxist

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Occupy

OWS Is Almost Entirely Socialist/Marxist: Ace
Obama and Occupy Wall Street Are One: DLimbaugh
Occupy Wall Street Defaces 9/11 Memorial Statue: PndtPrs

Obama Fist Bumps The Occupiers: Dossier
Occupy: Does anyone care about the anti-Semitism?: JRubin
Figures: CPUSA leader also Obama organizer: GWP

Nation

Obama: GOP Plan Means Dirty Air, Water, and No Health Care: Malkin
Crowd at non-campaign rally chants "Four more years!": Pundette
Lemme check--Yep, O still campaigning on taxpayers' tab: Hot Air

So. Okay to call this unpatriotic?: ProWis
Romney’s Bad Appointments Are Starting to Add Up: Tatler
10 Reasons You Should Vote for Herman Cain: AllAm

Economy

Obama Launches Cultural Warfare: Koffler
Why Is Class Hatred Morally Superior to Race Hatred?: Prager
Damn All This Progress!: Hayek

When Capitalism Fails You, Demand More: Hayward
Outsourcing Hits India: Mead
The Investment Risk That Obama Poses: NewsMax

Gunrunner & Energygate

Solyndra won’t talk about its contracts: Times
Issa: Holder hiding Fast and Furious facts: CBS
Solyndra debacle may be just the start: TMCnet

Climate & Energy

Obama Science Czar Led UN Effort to Hide Proceedings, Subvert FOIA, Records Indicate: CEI
Perry's Jobs Plan: Drill, Baby, Drill: IBD
BREAKING: An IPCC backchannel was established to hide IPCC deliberations from FOIA: Watts

Media

Media Study: We're Too Damn Biased Against Obama: Ace
Herman Cain nailed "Meet the Press.": Althouse
C-SPAN’s Washington Journal: A Platform for Defaming Israel and the Jewish People: CAMERA

So NOW it’s okay to report on Occupy Wall Street’s lack of racial diversity: Malkin
Harbinger: Jesse Jackson Jr. shares his thoughts on how to fix the economic crisis: Belmont Club
Mine Enemy Grows Older: American Digest

To Live or Die 'On the Floor': Cal Thomas
Denninger Is Right: Barnhardt
Heritage to Co-Host Debate with AEI, CNN: Foundry

World

America’s Future Tomorrow, Today In Greece! Part 471: RWN
London Exchange Access Curbed as Protests Spread: Bloomberg
Japan Intercepting Record Numbers of Chinese Planes: DefTech

France Risks AAA Rating on EFSF Leverage; Spotlight on Portugal, the Next to Fail: Mish
In Jordan and Gaza, Opposition to Teaching of Holocaust Studies at UNRWA Schools: MEMRI
A Muslim's journey: From antisemite to Zionist: JihadWatch

Sci-Tech

Abu Dhabi Traffic Accidents Dropped 40% During the BlackBerry Outage: Wire
Twitter CEO: 250 million tweets a day--now what?: CNet
Should iPhone 3GS owners upgrade to iOS 5?: CNet

Cornucopia

Godspeed SSG Robert B. "Brian" Cowdrey: BlackFive
Michelle Offends the British: Surber
James Bond's Actual Rolex Watch Hits The Auction Block: Insider

Image: Looking at the Left
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QOTD: "An Israeli soldier held for more than five years by the militant Palestinian group Hamas was traded on Tuesday for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in an elaborate trade that could shake up regional politics." --Ethan Bronner

Monday, October 17, 2011

The European Debt Crisis In Comic Book Form -- So Even Democrats Can Understand

It looks like the European bankers' can-kicking just ran out of road. The yield on a one-year bond from the country of Greece hit a new record high earlier today.

A yield of 172% means that bonds issued by Greece are worth just a few pennies more than the paper they're printed on. Put another way, Greece is dead bang certain to default on its debt.

European banks loaned Greece hundreds of billions of Euros -- the reasons don't matter at this point -- and were issued bonds in exchange for the money. The money's gone, spent on heaven knows what. And Greece is bankrupt, trying to make ends meet by laying off its bloated public sector union bureaucracy. That's why riots are occurring there on a near-daily basis.

Germany is considered the bulwark of the European banking system. But even Germany's most august financial institutions are up to their eyeballs in bad debt. For instance, Deutsche Bank alone has Є3.6 billion of debt issued by Greece (PDF).

Greece owes its creditors an amount equal to 162 percent of its entire gross domestic product (GDP, or the annual output of its economy). Without repealing the laws of mathematics (or Paul Krugman's alien invasion force dropping gold bars on Athens), there is no possible way this debt can be paid off.

The reason for the crisis boils down to this: the banks know they are going to take a horrific beating on their crappy investments (like debt issued by Greece). And they are doing everything possible to avoid recognizing those write-downs, because they do not have the requisite capital to continue operating normally if they do. Deutsche Bank's CEO, for example, is reported to be fighting even a 50% "haircut" (loss) on the Greek debt. But knowledgeable analysts say that a 50% markdown won't be nearly enough.

Worse still, there is the real possibility of "contagion". German banks aren't the worst offenders when it comes to exposure to Greece. French banks are in terrible shape, despite today's protestations by the governor of the Bank of France that "all is well". French institutions have suffered a series of downgrades over the past several months as their vulnerabilities became more evident. That is, to everyone except the governor of the Bank of France.

Oh, but I haven't even gotten to the worst part. Greece is only the beginning of Europe's debt insanity:

European banks have total exposure of $998.7 billion to Italy, $774 billion to Spain and $532 billion to Ireland versus just $162.4 billion to Greece.

Talk of a rescue package for Greece -- which hasn't yet been finalized because no one wants to pony up -- doesn't even contemplate much larger defaults like those of Spain and Italy. Yields on Italian 10-year bonds are now nearing the deadly 6 percent mark, which signal weakening confidence in that country's ability to make good on its debts.

Riots are underway in Italy this week to protest the government's handling of the financial crisis.

This is only the beginning of the shakeout. The worst has yet to unfold.

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The European socialist welfare states are collapsing before our eyes. What we are seeing in Europe is a preview of the Obama-Democrat agenda writ large. Socialism can't work, won't work, and has never worked in all of human history.

2012 may very well be our last chance to save this precious Republic.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. --Ronald Reagan


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I've started my own Occupy movement

And I encourage all Constitutional conservatives to join it.


Larwyn's Linx: A Lesson about Crony Capitalism for the #OWS Crowd

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Occupation Protests

A Lesson about Crony Capitalism for the #OWS Crowd: AT
Occupy Wall Street and Jewish bankers: Baehr
Here are your 1 percent-ers: Obama’s bundlers: Malkin

Thousands of OWS Protesters Cheer Communist Thugs: GWP
Deadbeats, Dopers and Democrats Occupy Denver: LATL
History tries to repeat itself with #OccupyWallStreet: BlkInf

Why, Yes, Obama Will Co-opt OWS Into A Campaign Theme: RWN
#OWS Hatred, Violence, and Antisemitism Compilation: PndtPrs
Cronies: Political extortion created Zuccotti Park: WSJ

Nation

Did 2008 Come True?: Hanson
Not a good day for the President: Where Are My Keys?
Intrepid Crime Fighter Or, Politically-Driven Leaker?: ILP2P

Lenin’s 99 Percenters: NoisyRm
Adult leadership comes from the House, not Obama: Barone
Romney's Smoking Gun Picture: AT

Economy

More Reasons to Like Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Tax Plan: LoneCon
Mort Zuckerman: Hey, This Obama Is Kind Of a SCOAMF, Isn't He?: Ace
Former Fed colleagues praise Herman Cain: Politico

Can We Credibly Compare the Current Economic Crisis to the Great Depression?: AmPower
The Trap the Left Has Created For Itself: RWN
The Chart That Should Get Obama Fired: HyScience

Gunrunner & Energygate

Is this any way to run a coverup?: SSI
Green Tesla Motors: Another Day, Another Solyndra: PJM
Wake Up And Smell The Stupid: Occupy DC Goes Solar: Soylent

Media

Stand Against Evil - Never Let it Win: Zilla
CNN: Rick Perry's Energy Plan is Stupid: Ace
Journolist 2.0: OccupyDC Emails Show MSM, Dylan Ratigan, Working With Protesters To Craft Message: Loesch

Full Interview: Herman Cain on Meet the Press: Scoop
Does Obama Endorse This?: WklyStd
We can afford to be average no more: TL in Exile

World

Breaking Tehran: Iran is at war with us, and we must win: McCarthy
Never have so few been blamed for so much by so many: Spengler
DNCC Chair, Rep. Israel Adds OWS to the List of Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Causes He Supports: Lid

Pics From the Front: WZ
21st Century Statecraft: Meet The Private-Public Partnership Supporting #ArabSpring & #OccupyWallSt: LUR
Organizer Behind “Occupy Wall Street” Has History of Anti-Jewish Writing: Commentary

Sci-Tech

Sights and sounds of the old and new Lancia Stratos in San Marino: Autoblog
Get (almost) any Verizon phone for a penny: CNet
2011 tech industry graveyard : NetWorld

Cornucopia

Cherry Picking More POWS: "Resist We Much": MOTUS
The 100-year old insurance agent: CNN
Moneyball Review: Viking Pundit

Image: iMaksim
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QOTD: "...even as we marvel at the perfidy of our leaders, conservatives have something to cheer in this failure. [The CLASS Act] is the first major component of Obamacare to collapse under its own weight, but by no means is it likely to be the last. The law is replete with nonsensical economic assumptions and shameless gimmicks. Democrats may have hoped these would not start to become clear until after the 2012 election, but we now already have a good idea of what the world will look like under Obamacare: waivers for the politically connected, rising premiums for the rest of us, and massive spending programs that can’t survive their own assumptions. " --NRO

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Batman weighs in on #OWS

Via Ace o' Spades:

"I am the one percent"


Seafood dinner in the age of Obama



Hat tip: Bernie

The Overt and Underlying Message of #OWS

Hundreds of "Occupation" protesters were arrested today including 175 in Chicago and 45 in Phoenix. Yesterday, several police officers were hospitalized after protests turned violent in Manhattan.

Democrat leaders praised the protesters' condemnation of Wall Street bankers and "millionaires and billionaires".

As have Communists, Nazis, George Soros, ACORN, and the SEIU.

And protesters continued to demonize Jews.

Curiously, the President is targeting -- by name -- America's only Jewish Republican Congressman. Days ago, Obama publicly pilloried Cantor, whipping up the crowd with statements like, "I'd like Mr. Cantor to come down here to Dallas and explain what in this jobs bill he doesn't believe in!"

Why would Obama not address the Speaker of the House -- the most powerful Republican in Congress -- John Boehner? Could it be because Boehner isn't Jewish, but Cantor is?

And why won't Democrats distance themselves from the overt anti-semitism seen at these protests? Not to mention the hatred and the violence?

The reader is left to speculate on these mysteries and the media's kid-glove treatment of the protesters.


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."

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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.