Thursday, October 27, 2011

State treasurer of MA absolutely shreds RomneyCare, which "has nearly bankrupted the state" and is surviving solely because of federal aid

The level of economic illiteracy required to believe that a one-sized-fits-all, individually-mandated, government-controlled health care system could somehow succeed is really quite stunning. Which says a lot about Mitt Romney's belief in free enterprise and the market system.

“If President Obama and the Democrats repeat the mistake of the health insurance reform here in Massachusetts on a national level, they will threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years,” Cahill said in a press conference in his office.

...[T]he state’s health insurance law…Cahill said, “has nearly bankrupted the state.”

Cahill said the law is being sustained only with the help of federal aid, which he suggested that the Obama administration is funneling to Massachusetts to help the president make the case for a similar plan in Congress... "...I would argue that we’re being propped up so that the federal government and the Obama administration can drive it through” Congress.

Commonwealth Connector, the independent state agency established to help residents find the health insurance, has “totally failed,” to create competition and connect people with affordable insurance, Cahill said, pointing out that 68 percent of the residents it serves receive subsidized care.

“We haven’t done anything about driving down costs,” Cahill said. “We haven’t helped small business. We haven’t changed the way we pay for health care and the way we deliver it.”…

Look, if Romney somehow wins the nomination, I'll support him without question against Barack Obama.

But we need to elect a conservative in 2012 who is 100% committed to the eradication of Obamacare. For if it isn't wiped from the books, I fear this country may not survive.


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


Hat tip: Easy Opinions.

Larwyn's Linx: If I were a liberal ...

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Nation

If I were a liberal ...: Coulter
President Saul Alinksy Obama: AmSpec
Can This Presidential Candidate Be Trusted?: Spew

Is Education The Common Thread To Our Political Dramas?: Ace
It's Official: VIPR formally debuts in first U.S. State: Hodges
Scumbag: FBI Saw Dark Side of Dem John Murtha: Roll Call

Economy

“Club for Growth Raves Over Perry Plan”: ProWis
Little Student Loan Relief, and Never for Taxpayers: Cato
Run on the Banks starts in Greece: Mish

CLASS-less Democrats: Wolf
Stunner: ACORN helping orchestrate Occupy movement: WZ
President Cloward-Piven’s Latest Move Adds Billions to Debt: GWP

FreedomWorks reacts to the Flat Tax debate: FW
Video: Wisconsin reforms? Yes, they’re working!: Scoop
AFL-CIO head Trumka says police are "dishonoring America": WZ

Gunrunner & Solyndra

Rep. Joe Walsh to Eric Holder: You better resign immediately, buddy: Hot Air
Video: Big Sis On The Hot Seat For Fast and Furious: Nice Deb
Global Warming -- RIP?: Hanson

Occupy Idiocy

Progressives Gone Wild!: Malkin
Shocker: ACORN Paying OWS Protesters: JWF
Occupy Chicago organizers under investigation by FBI: GWP

Occupy Wall Street Demands Life Without Hardship: RWN
Haftin' To Be Uproared - Occupy Atlanta: Ace
Tea Party Demands Reimbursement of Park Fees, Notes Occupy Isn’t Paying Any: VS

Bring It On: Wall Street Responds With Leaflet Bomb On #OccupyChicago: Dollard
I Am Radically Repeating What I Was Told: Thompson
The Occupy Oakland Riots: A Timeline: Exam

Media

Attention GOP Establishment: Herman Cain Is The Frontrunner, Now – Not Romney: Nice Deb
My Take On Joe Biden’s “Rape” Comment: DPU (Language Warning)
An Anti-Semite?: Erickson

CNN Suggests Obama Should Bypass Congress on Economy, Rule by Executive Fiat: Pollak
Ultra-Lib Daily Beast Rips Leno's Obama Interview: 'Scripted by David Axelrod': NB
It fell to earth I know not where: JPA

Thursday is radical movie screening day at Eric Holder’s DOJ: Tatler
Cain and Perry are targets because they advance conservatism: EIB
Is Romney Melting Down?: RSM

World

The Left's Worst Crime in the Middle East: Greenfield
New Obama Slogan Taken from Swedish Socialist Party?: PunditPress
Thank you Germany: Evans-Pritchard

Jordan’s King Abdallah on how no one trusts Obama’s government: DC
Top Muslim cleric offers $100,000 to anyone who kidnaps Israeli soldiers...: ynet
Greece Pension Plans Insolvent; Can Spain and Portugal be Far Behind?: Mish

Sci-Tech

Modern Algorithms Crack 18th Century Secret Code: Wired
BlackBerry Bold 9900, Curve 9360 Earn MasterCard PayPass Cert, First SIM-Based Devices To Do So: Crunch
Wahoo Fitness Pack Turns iPhone Into Personal Trainer: Wired

Cornucopia

Ronald Reagan on 'What's My Line?': HillBuzz
NY Fed's $40 Billion Iraqi Money Trail: CNBC
Speed Thrills: Nearly-Naked Chick Leads Cops On 128 MPH Chase: Ace

Image: iOwnTheWorld - Underwater Wal-Mart shopping?
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Perry for President

QOTD: "The mind-boggling complexity of the current tax code helps large corporations with lawyers and accountants devise the best tax-avoidance strategies money can buy. That is why Cut, Balance and Grow also phases out corporate loopholes and special-interest tax breaks to provide a level playing field for employers of all sizes.

To help older Americans, we will eliminate the tax on Social Security benefits, boosting the incomes of 17 million current beneficiaries who see their benefits taxed if they continue to work and earn income in addition to Social Security earnings.

We will eliminate the tax on qualified dividends and long-term capital gains to free up the billions of dollars Americans are sitting on to avoid taxes on the gain." --Rick Perry, "My Tax and Spending Reform Plan "

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Rep. Joe Walsh becomes fourth Congressman to demand Eric Holder resign over 'Fast and Furious' Murder Weapons

David Axelrod hardest hit.

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) today became the fourth Congressman to explicitly call for Holder to take responsibility for the lethally reckless Operation Fast and Furious and to voluntarily leave his post because of his presumed authorization of the program...

...Walsh today sent a harshly-worded letter to Holder, in which he asked Holder to “resign immediately and issue an apology to the American people [he has] failed to serve.” Walsh also took Holder to task for his stonewalling of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Fast and Furious.

But the most memorable portion of the letter came ... when Walsh delved into the seemingly-obvious-but-not-yet-confirmed motivation for the program.

Your Department ... instructed federally-licensed firearms dealers to illegally sell at least 2,000 guns that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) intended to be trafficked to drug cartels in Mexico. The results of this [operation] have implicated the United States in well over one hundred deadly crimes and the deaths of two federal agents.

This not only raises serious questions about your ability to serve as the head of the Justice Department, but also begs the question of why an anti-gun Administration would knowingly force licensed firearms dealers to sell guns to violent criminals. I raise this because Operation Fast and Furious — if the facts of this case had not come to light — would have been used by this Administration as another false argument to attack law-abiding American gun owners.

The American people deserve to know if your Department had any intent to link the legal purchase of firearms here in the U.S. to crimes committed near our southern border. Operation Fast and Furious funneled firearms legally purchased at gun shops in the U.S. to known criminal syndicates to prove these syndicates have access to legal purchased weapons. This is a deliberate attempt to vilify and attack the millions of gun owners in America who value our Second Amendment and have never broken the law.


Walsh’s posited explanation appears to be the only plausible one. Why else would the administration authorize the program — then fail to follow up to catch the criminals the program was purportedly designed to catch? Had ATF made any kind of legitimate attempt to track the weapons ... it might have been believable that the administration sought to use the program to disrupt the power of Mexican drug cartels.

Yet, Walsh’s explanation is not a fun one to believe. It’s sickening to think anyone in the administration would really be so rash and so ideologically driven as to risk the nearly inevitable results of this program — the deaths that did, in fact, result — just to prove the point that legally purchased weapons show up at violent crime scenes, just to suggest the government ought to make it harder to legally purchase guns in the first place. It’s even more terrifying to think someone as high up as Holder would be.

The Fail is strong with this one.

As is the stench of corruption, death and destruction.


161 years ago this fall [Juandos]

Juandos:

DO you know what happened 161 years ago this fall... back in 1850, in California?

• California became a state.

• The people had no electricity.

• The state had no money.

• Almost everyone spoke Spanish.

• There were gunfights in the streets.

So basically nothing has changed except back then the women had real boobs and the men didn't hold hands.

And, that is the history lesson for today...

Juandos appears to have inherited the same un-P.C. gene that Papa B possesses.


#OWS "just like the Tea Party" (except for the riots, cop-killer worship, and battles with law enforcement)

Yes, it's exactly like the Tea Party.

That is, if the Tea Party routinely battled cops, destroyed private property, defecated and had sex in public, and falsely accused law enforcement of malfeasance.

Oh, and if the Tea Party staged riots and espoused antisemitism and hatred of certain segments of American society.

Oh, and if the Tea Party's leaders included a fat, thuggish, oaf-like Marxist who despises the police.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka responded to the recent mass arrests of Occupy Wall Street protestors Thursday, calling them a “tremendous dishonor to America.”

Protestors at an Occupy Oakland demonstration clashed with police Wednesday as did protestors in Atlanta. More than 100 people were arrested in Oakland and 53 in Atlanta.

“The Occupy Wall Street movement has elevated the national conversation by shining overdue attention on the struggles of the 99% for whom the economy is broken,” Trumka said in a statement. “When people can’t raise their voices around pervasive inequality, there is a fundamental problem with how we’re functioning as a nation.”

Trumka urged officials to follow in New York Mayor Bloomberg’s footsteps and refrain from disbanding peaceful protests...

Yes, these are "peaceful riots." Kinda like the "Moderate Islamists" that have quietly assumed control of the Obama Caliphate.


Exactly one year before the 2012 election, Obama FCC schedules first-ever nationwide test of emergency broadcast system

Nothing to see here, please go about your business

Last night, just before midnight, C&S commenter "Ten Mile Island" described the FCC's bizarre demands to enact the country's first-ever nationwide test of the emergency broadcasting system.

Tonight, broadcasters across the country found out about a new, federal requirement.

On November 9th, the broadcasters and cable operators of this nation, will be airing the first national test of the Emergency Activation System. The message will be aired as an "EAN," the code for an Emergency Activation Notification.

Tonight, within hours of this post, broadcasters and cable operators learned, for the first time, that the requirements for those federally licensed operators, are required to have a new "EAS Handbook" at their individual control points. So, for more than 15,000 operations, we will be required to have, on-hand, a new document, that none of us has ever heard of before tonight.

Additionally, unknown before this evening, all broadcasters and cable operators are required to list information about their operations;

None of this was known to any of us before this evening. There was no process.

I've gone through the registration process. But there are literally thousands upon thousands of broadcasters and cable operators who will learn of this tomorrow. There will be thousands of broadcasters and cable operators who will never see this requirement pass their desks before the test, November 9th.

Why?

Because the process was entirely avoided. Is it legal? As a broadcaster, duh, yes. We live on the string pulled by Uncle Sam. Broadcasters have no rights. Only responsibilities. Is it fair? Who said anything in life is fair. Is it gentlemanly?

Are you kidding? Democrats and their stooges gentlemanly? Are you taking drugs?

Not to worry: it's just coincidental that this date is almost precisely one year to the day before the 2012 presidential election.

As an aside, can you imagine the hue and cry had Bush 43 tried this sort of thing?

If you're not just a wee bit concerned with the timing of this test, you're not paying attention.


Larwyn's Linx: Romney Chickens Out On Ohio Public Union Ballot Question

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Nation

Romney Chickens Out On Ohio Public Union Ballot Question: Ace
No Photos, Please, of Obama’s L.A. Fundraisers: Dossier
DOJ Proposes Lying, Hiding Info From FOIA Requests: STACLU

Obama Spokesman: Ignore Constitution, Act Like Dictator: WZ
Battleground: Ohio; Update: Romney waffles: Malkin
Time to Cut Off NPR: Bozell

Jeb's lame ultimatum: Are you with the sane GOP or Not?: Riehl
Joe Biden, Beltway Bubble Boy: Malkin
Failed Democrat Pol Sues Critics Over Election Loss: USN&WR

Economy

Ryan declares war on Obama’s class-warfare: Pethokoukis
California's Economic Suicide: IBD
Work One Day, Qualify for IL Pension of Over $100K/Year: AllAm

It's Not Class Warfare, It's Math: Ace
The global debt apocalypse approaches: WklyStd
Inflation Up Globally: Sinclair

Occupy

Rioting in downtown Oakland as Occupiers clash with police: Zombie
Is Occupy Oakland as bad as they say?: Zombie
They're Heeeerrrrrreeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: Zilla

Media

Herman Cain tops Mitt Romney in latest CBS/NYT poll: MoneyRunner
Actor Orlando Jones: Liberals Need to Kill Sarah Palin: NB
Why Herman Cain Electrifies the Grassroots: Five Voters Speak Out: PJM

Sniveling Biden Still Whining About Jason Mattera Asking Tough Questions; Update: Mattera Responds: JWF
Confirmed: Dirty, Corrupt Congressman Who We Suspected Was Dirty, Corrupt Was In Fact Dirty, Corrupt: Ace
Terrorist Ayers Teaches Revolutionary Theory to Young Leftists at Occupy Chicago: GWP

WaPo Puts a Romney Blogger on the Payroll to Attack Romney’s Opponents: RS
Perry and the Birth Certificate: Well Played, Mainstream Media: Tatler
Networks and Cable Still Mostly Silent on Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street Protests: NB

World

Welcome to the Islamist Middle East and It’s Not Going to Be Moderate: BRubin
Who Lost the World?: Gaffney
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first render mad”: Western Rifle

Ah, Democracy: Arctic Patriot
Report: Obama’s Muslim Advisers Block Middle Eastern Christians’ Access to the White House: BigPeace
Mexican ID Becomes Valid ID in Sonoma County: NBC Bay Area

Sci-Tech

Confessions Of An iPhone User Who Recently Switched To Android: Insider
Anonymous threatens Fox News Web site over Occupy coverage: CNet
IBM names Virginia Rometty president and CEO: NetworkWorld

Cornucopia

Won’t You Please Consider Sponsoring A Protester, Today?: Morning Spew
Save Economy -- Impeach Bush Now!: NB (2008)
State Department Buys $70,000 Worth of Obama’s Memoir To Hand Out As Gifts: WZ

Image: BarkingCrayon.com
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Herman Cain for President

QOTD: "On the morning of July 23, 1952, the Middle East entered a new era. The Free Officers Movement took over Egypt and there followed more than a half-century of war, anti-Western hysteria, terrorism, repression, social stagnation, and the basic Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse type stuff in the Middle East. That was the Era of Arab Nationalism.

On February 11, or October 23, or November 28, 2011, the Middle East entered a new era. Whether you date it to the fall of Mubarak, the Tunisian election, or the Egyptian election, what do you think is going to happen in the next half-century in the region? This is now — I call it officially — the Era of Revolutionary Islamism." --Barry Rubin

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Perfect: Obama DOJ wants to respond to Freedom of Information requests as if certain records "do not exist"

Say, this sounds a bit -- how you say? -- Orwellian? But don't trust me. I'm just a run-of-the-mill centrist blogger. Let's pop on over to London's Telegraph:

Barack Obama accused of breaking transparency pledge


President Barack Obama has been accused of breaking his promise to make the US government transparent, after it emerged public bodies may soon be allowed to lie about what records they hold.

Mr Obama's justice department has proposed that if documents requested by the public are exempt from freedom of information laws, federal agencies should be able to "respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist."

Transparency campaigners described the move as a "stunning" reversal of Mr Obama's pledge to run "the most transparent administration in history" during his campaign for the presidency.

In a joint statement, the American Civil Liberties Union, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and OpenTheGovernment.org said the plan threatens to "destroy integrity in government".

"It is very problematic," said Patrice McDermott, the director of OpenTheGovernment.org. "There are options open to them other than this nuclear option of lying to requesters".

The plan is the latest in a string of controversial moves by Mr Obama, who earlier this year even insisted on collecting an award for his commitment to transparency behind closed doors at the White House...

...Mr Obama also promised to release logs of visitors to the White House. Yet only one per cent of meetings have been listed and officials reportedly hold meetings in nearby coffee shops to deliberately avoid being subject to official logs.

"The administration has an official commitment to transparency, but it has been very disappointing," said Ms McDermott. "There is widespread distress among openness and civil liberties campaigners."

Gee. This is as surprising as the fact that unemployment didn't drop after the Stimulus package passed. Or that health care premiums didn't go down by an average of $2,500 a year after Obamacare was rammed through.

And all of the other failed promises/predictions made by the charismatic demagogue that the drones voted into office in 2008.


The Real Wealth Gap

Joan:

And then the fight started [Papa B]

Papa B:

My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, 'What's on TV?'

I said, 'Dust.'

And then the fight started.



My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds..'

I bought her a scale.

And then the fight started.



When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive.

So, I took her to a gas station.

And then the fight started.



After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver's license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home.

I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.

The woman said, 'Unbutton your shirt'. So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair.

She said, 'That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me' and she processed my Social Security application.

When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office.

She said, 'you should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too.'

And then the fight started.



My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.

My wife asked, 'Do you know her?'

'Yes,' I sighed, 'She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since.'

'My God!' says my wife, 'who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?'

And then the fight started.



I rear-ended a car this morning. So, there we were alongside the road and slowly the other driver got out of his car. You know how sometimes you just get soooo stressed and little things just seem funny?

Yeah, well I couldn't believe it... he was a DWARF!!!

He stormed over to my car, looked up at me, and shouted, 'I AM NOT HAPPY!'

So, I looked down at him and said, 'Well, then which one are you?'

And then the fight started.

Welcome to the New Middle East, or What I Like to Call "The Obama Caliphate"

Perhaps some Democrat foreign policy expert -- if there is such a thing -- can explain "The Obama Doctrine" to me. Let's review, shall we?

Tunisia - democratic elections in this once-peaceful Mediterranean state have installed an Islamist party. Curiously, the aptly named State Department blog ("DipNote") congratulated the country's new extremist overlords.

Libya - a NATO-supported rebel force helped defeat the terrorist dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but also left the country in control of one Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, who has declared his government's "fealty to Shariah, Islam's brutally repressive, totalitarian political-military-legal doctrine."

Egypt - once the peaceful ally of both Israel and the United States, the overthrow of President Mubarak was quickly and publicly supported by President Obama. In Mubarak's place, a hard-core Islamist leadership has arisen under the direction of the feared Muslim Brotherhood. The country's downtrodden Coptic Christian community is also being systematically eliminated, the hallmark of religous governments in majority Islamic countries.

Syria - a similar anti-government rebellion in Syria was curiously ignored by the administration, leading to the slaughter of at least 3,000 civilians by Iran's puppet dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Iran - Likewise, a liberal, democratic revolt in Iran against the country's extremist leaders -- the so-called "Green Revolution" -- was brutally repressed with nary a word from President Obama. The country's thinly veiled pursuit of nuclear warheads therefore continues apace.

Iraq - is slated for abandonment by the end of the year to the tender mercies of Iran's Mullahs (coincidentally, just in time for the 2012 campaign)

Israel - our most steadfast ally in the entire world was told in no uncertain terms by President Obama to unilaterally withdraw to its 1967 borders, otherwise known as the "Holocaust lines".

We are witnessing something historic. But not-in-a-good-way historic. The die has been cast for a new and even more hyper-violent Middle East.


Natural Born Citizens [Papa B]

Papa B:

This just might make your day a little brighter! You, who worry about Democrats versus Republicans - relax, here is our real problem:

In a Purdue University classroom, students were discussing qualifications to be President of the United States. It was pretty simple. The candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years of age. However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair the requirement was to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president. The class was taking it in and letting her rant, and not many jaws hit the floor until she wrapped up her argument by stating: "What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?"

Yep, these are the same kinds of people that are now voting in our elections!

*They breed and walk among us…*

Odd Coincidence: Same Democrats Supporting #OccupyWallStreet Have Also Received the Most Contributions From... Wall Street

Stinky, street-defecating, Marxist hippies hardest hit:

Despite their support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, (who, unlike the Tea Party, believe government is the answer to our economic problems), Democrats have enjoyed large paychecks from the industry.

...the President’s funds are much higher. He’s actually raised $3.9 million just this year so far. But, he has raised nearly $12 million in Wall Street donations for the DNC. In total, that’s more than all the Republican Presidential candidates combined have received from Wall Street...

Damn Democrats: they broke my Hypocrisy-Meter again.


Larwyn's Linx: Why Is Class Hatred Morally Superior to Race Hatred?

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Nation

Why Is Class Hatred Morally Superior to Race Hatred?: Prager
You Can't Wait? Neither Can We: DLim
Bipartisanship: Democrat Senate Kills Jobs Bill…Again: Tatler

The Hobbits March in One Year: Cary
Profits Are For People: Williams
Model: Obama could get just 43.5% of the vote: American

Muslims tell DOJ to find ways to criminalize criticism: Creeping
Great News: Anthony Weiner Still Spending Campaign Cash: JWF
Bachmann's ex-NH staff releases scathing letter: Hill

Economy

My Tax and Spending Reform Plan : Perry
White House prepares to touch off the next housing crisis: CalcRisk
Obama Prepared to 'Act' Without Congress' Approval: PunPrs

Unions Hire Researcher With A Taste For Being Paid Off: GOHP
Union Bosses Don't Answer To You: That Hero
Report: States In Debt Over $4 Trillion: WZ

Occupy Idiocy

OWS: Alleged Statutory Rape, And A Knife-Wielding Maniac Wearing Joker Makeup: Ace
Former Soviet Citizen Explains Socialism to OWS Idiots: JWF
OWS Protester’s Demand the Surest Way to Lose Mayor Bloomberg: Malkin

Gunrunner & Energygate

Solar Power is Free! FREEEEE! (if somebody else pays for it): Ace
"If they can't kill you. . . they'll make you crazy." Behind the Scenes, the Cover-up Games Continue. : SSI
What About Fast and Furious, Mr. President?: Black Quill & Ink

Media

Petty Punishment for the Washington Post: Dossier
'I Have To Say, I’m Afraid For the State of the Nation': JWF
Is the New York Times a news organization or a front for left-wing activists?: IBD

‘For every million dollars Obama raises, $6.4 billion is added to our national debt.’: NRO
John Who? A bizarre denial from the New York Times: Taranto
NBC Admits Obama Mortgage Plan Won't Work, But Cheers it As Good Politics: NB

Green Presidential Candidate Lays Claim To OWS, Panics Democrats: Glob
New Obama Campaign Adviser: Barely Ex-Lobbyist: Malkin
Obama crony Penny Pritzker called out at OccupyChicago by union speaker: Marathon

World

From Tunisia To The Justice Department: A Clean Sweep For Islam: Big Peace
Looking In the Mirror: Flopping Aces
No Victory But Defeat: Sultan Knish

Obama Administration Bans the Truth About Islam and Jihad: Spencer
Arab Sprung: Sondrakistan
Europe’s Crisis May End in a ‘Violent Blow-Up’: Galbraith: Daily Ticker

In Mideast, U.S. Policy Is In Shambles: IBD
PA President Abbas to Pay Released Murderers’ Pensions With U.S. Taxpayer Money: WZ
Tennessee Becomes First State To Fight Terrorism Statewide: News5

Sci-Tech

What did Steve Jobs say about his rivals?: CBS
Republicans Dominate Twitter: PoliticalWire
Jobs abrasive style drove some people away: biographer: Reuters

Cornucopia

TSA Sex Advice? Woman Finds 'Freaky' Note In Luggage: JWF
The Great Apple Exposé: And I’m Not Talking About Steve Jobs: MOTUS
This Watch Has Balls: Yanko Design

Image: Obama's Logo Becomes His Secret Weapon To Win Voters Back
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Perry for President

QOTD: "Ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about (God) more. And I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe it's because I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear...

...Yeah, but sometimes I think it's just like an on-off switch. Click and you're gone.

...And that's why I don't like putting on-off switches on Apple devices."" --Steve Jobs

Monday, October 24, 2011

Actual sign spotted at Wal-Mart [Papa B]

Papa B:

Remember when America was dumbing down? No more. We have arrived...


Maybe it's just the new math.


Obama's Iraq Pullout: Motivated by Reelection Fundraising Concerns, Not American National Security Interests

And you'd expect anything different from this president?

Yesterday, I had the feeling that... Obama's announced withdrawal of our troops from Iraq was purely political, timed for the 2012 election as a way of rallying his far-Left, anti-military, Code Pinko base.

This e-mail from Obama's campaign today proves it...

Friend --

I'm James Kvaal, the new policy director for President Obama's 2012 campaign... Yesterday, we accomplished one major change when President Obama announced that all American troops in Iraq will be home before the holidays.

With that action, the Iraq war will end. And one of the President's central promises will have been kept... Now, thanks to the actions of this President, we can say that conflict is coming to a close. [Ed: not the military, mind you... "this President"]

...These outcomes are an example of what happens when a leader sets a plan and sees it through. In the last campaign, the President committed to getting American troops home while leaving behind a stable and secure Iraq. You rallied around that vision, and now that promise has been fulfilled.


"And we accept Visa, Mastercard and PayPal!"

Of course, back in the little land we like to call reality, the decision will have significant consequences for our allies in the Middle East.

Up until Friday, the Obama Administration had insisted that negotiations were on track for extending the presence of a small residual force that U.S. and Iraqi military leaders agreed were necessary to support Iraqi operations in key areas such as counterterrorism, air support, intelligence gathering, logistics, and training. But Friday, in a hard-hitting article posted on The Cable blog, Josh Rogin reported that the Administration had bungled the negotiations...

...In the wake of its decision, the Obama Administration is already anticipating the consequences of the power vacuum it has created. In a series of interviews on Sunday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Iran that even though troops will be withdrawn, the U.S. will still maintain a presence in the region. “Iran would be badly miscalculating if they did not look at the entire region and all of our presence in many countries in the region, both in bases, in training, with NATO allies, like Turkey.”

The reality, though, is that the United States has weakened its presence at a time when the region can least afford it.

We may soon find out what happens in a power vacuum when Iran's religious fanatics -- bent on "martyrdom" -- acquire nuclear weapons.


Terrifying Chart o' the Day: It Was the Plan All Along

...yesterday, in Denver, I signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which will create or save -- (applause.) The act will create or save 3.5 million jobs over the next two years -- including 70,000 right here in Arizona, right here -- (applause) -- doing the work America needs done. And we're also going to work to stabilize, repair and reform our financial system to get credit flowing again to families and businesses.

And we will pursue the housing plan I'm outlining today. And through this plan, we will help between 7 and 9 million families restructure or refinance their mortgages so they can afford -- avoid foreclosure. And we're not just helping homeowners at risk of falling over the edge; we're preventing their neighbors from being pulled over that edge, too -- as defaults and foreclosures contribute to sinking home values, and failing local businesses, and lost jobs. --President Barack Obama, 18 February 2009

Interesting how the media -- not to mention Democrats, but I repeat myself -- never go back and examine the results of their policy prescriptions. Perhaps that's because their consistent track record of failure is demoralizing, humiliating and revealing. In any event, here are the actual results of President Obama's two-and-a-half years of centrally managing the mortgage market.

One word: catastrophic. Despite all of the Soviet-style exercises in central planning, all of the endless tax credits, incentives, and authoritarian lever-pulling of the Left, they've actually made things worse, not better.

Here are some of the programs listed under the government's MakingHomeAffordable.com site (888-995-HOPE):


Not to mention the billions wasted on housing in the "Stimulus" package including the Tax Credit Exchange Program (“TCEP”), the HUD Tax Credit Assistance Program (“TCAP”, and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).

Tens of billions of dollars wasted on useless programs that are more payoffs and wealth transfers to political cronies than legitimate functions of a constitutional federal government.

And the President is now proposing yet another foreclosure fix -- opening up the HARP program to everyone. What could possibly go wrong?

Everything this president has touched appears to have turned to fecal matter. Which, if Professors Cloward and Piven can be believed, was the plan all along.


Larwyn's Linx: Hermantum: '100% Pro-Life' Cain Leading In The Polls

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Nation

Hermantum: '100% Pro-Life' Cain Leading In The Polls: Nice Deb
Biden visits future Dem voters in York, PA: Pundette
RomneyCare subsidized illegal immigrants: AmPower

Five Truths That Sentence America to Ruination: iOTW
Liberals try to discredit Justice Thomas with baseless attacks: DC
The Bork Nomination, 24 Years On: Kimball

Economy

Eurocide: Surber
Rearranging the EU's Deck Chairs: Mish
No Way To Stop Europe's First Domino From Falling: Insider

Scratch a Democrat, Find a Dictator: Ace
Metro DC now America's richest neighborhood: Wizbang
Enough with the 'fair share' horses*** already: PRS

Rage On—and on and on…: Hanson
DHS Job Fair for Illegals: AT
Interest adds to Illinois debt woes: Pantagraph

Occupy

More Jew-Hatred at Obama-Endorsed #OWS Protests: GWP
Wall Street Occupiers Turn NYC Zuccotti Park Into a Cesspool, “It’s Like Walmart For Rats”: WZ
Total Number of Arrests At Occupy Protests: 2,222: WZ

Climate & Energy

Everything you need to know about Obamanomics in one sentence [Facepalm]: Wolf
Lubos Finds The Idiotic AGW Headline Of The Week: Soylent Green
Sticker Shock For Local Chevy Volt Car Shopper: WUSA-9

Media

Exclusive interview with Senator Marco Rubio on WaPo’s story about his family history: Hot Air
Aww: Sony will postpone opening of The Obama Is Totally Awesome blockbuster movie: Hot Air
Facts In Exile: Washington Post’s Sen. Marco Rubio ‘Exposé’ Is Identity Politics At Its Worst: Mediate

Stopping Obama From Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America: RWN
The Week in Doug: IMAO
WaPo Punked by Berkeley Warmist Posing as Skeptic: NB

New York Times Reporter Natasha Lennard Is #OccupyWallStreet Activist, Supporter: BigG
WaPo ombud: Man, our Koch Bros hit piece was kind of unfair, huh?: Hot Air
Jack Welch: Obama Jobs Policies 'Crazy': FoxNation

World

'Stay Tuned for the Next Pro-Democracy Upheaval in the Middle East. It’ll Be the First One': JWF
What, Him Worry?: Driscoll
Egyptian TV: Jews Behind Spread of Depravity And Sin In The World; Have Brainwashed Europe: WZ

Priorities: Obama Offers Saudis Condolences From the Golf Course: Dossier
Q&A: The future of the Arab Spring?: Global Toronto
'Old Fuzzhead is Dead': iOTW

The Transnationalist Tell Behind America’s 2011 Protests: GardenSerf
The Death of Gaddafi: JPA
Eurozone summit - despair and backbiting in the corridors of power: Telegraph

Sci-Tech

Massive Child Pornography Server Taken Down By Anonymous, User Names Leaked: Mediate
Did Vegan Quackery Kill Steve Jobs?: First Things
Science fiction-style sabotage a fear in new hacks: AP

Cornucopia

Finding Marizela: The Dread Void of Uncertainty: Malkin
POWS, COWS, DOWS and ROWS: Wow!: MOTUS
Ninja standing in front of sign that says "Fight Me" leads to unexpected situation: CBS

This Week in Automotivators: RWN
Zombie Boy as you've never seen him before...with NO tattoos: DailyMail
Gun Control: Racist Motivations vs. Racist Outcomes: SNBQ

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

QOTD: "Oh, he can do a lot about the economy. He could look at drilling for oil. He can, by himself, can drive that posture. He could put a moratorium on regulation until we've got unemployment below a certain level. He could do it. And he could, most importantly, change the posture. Everything we do in this administration is more punitive than it is incentivized. Let me give you a perfect example. Let's take the jobs bill. They put in there Section 371. That is an ability to sue for unemployed people who are out looking for a job to sue for $300,000, for example, if they hire Andrea who has a job and don't hire me, unemployed. It's crazy. They, they give a $4,000 incentive to hire an unemployed person, then they give a $300,000 penalty if you happen to discriminate against an unemployed person." --Jack Welch

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Funniest Global Warming Headline o' the Day, No--Week, No--Month, Ah, F- It... of the Year

Someone named "Fred Grimm", if that is his real name, penned the funniest climate fraud headline of 2012 (via Soylent Green):

Sea levels will rise, washing away climate deniers

The rising sea will wash across great swaths of South Florida. Salt water will contaminate the well fields. Roads and farmland and low-lying neighborhoods will be inundated. The soil will no longer absorb the kind of heavy rainfalls that drenched South Florida last weekend. Septic tanks will fail. Drainage canals won’t drain. Sewers will back up. Intense storms will pummel the beachfront. Mighty rainfalls, in between droughts, will bring more floods.

The economic losses and the mitigation costs associated with the effects of global warming over the next few decades will be overwhelming. It will cost a medium-sized town like Pompano Beach hundreds of millions just to salvage its water and sewage systems...

Grimm cites a Florida Atlantic study as the source for his dire predictions. Of course, whether the FAU study was funded by the billions the federal government has wasted invested in the global warming grift is -- apparently -- too daunting a task for Mr. Grimm to research.

For those unfamiliar with how the United Nations touched off the global warming climate change scam as a purely money-making ruse, please see "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow...."


My #OWS Image Gallery [Reggie]

Reggie sends us this fine collection: