I wonder if the mockumenatary filmmaker will sue George Lucas for the use of his likeness without permission. Because the resemblance is truly eerie.Saturday, November 05, 2011
Maybe they're both just big-boned...
I wonder if the mockumenatary filmmaker will sue George Lucas for the use of his likeness without permission. Because the resemblance is truly eerie.Larwyn's Linx: 100 Criminal Investigations Of Obama Stimulus Spending
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100 Criminal Investigations Of Obama Stimulus Spending: Hayward
Great: Obama DOJ Says it Won’t Lie About FOIA’d Docs: Tatler
Joe Biden conspicuously silent on Occupier sex-crime spree: DC
Cain Accuser Chooses Not to Explain Settlement: Ace
Jobs Report More Bad News for Obama: Dossier
Time for the Occupy Mob to Call It Quits: RWN
Man Avoids Jail by Faking Illegal Immigrant Status: Bruce
Iowa Cain Accuser Appears To Have Anti-Cain Agenda: NiceDeb
Romney friends give ammo to critics: Politico
Bonuses For the Bankrupt: Hayward
Nine Takeaways From October Jobs Report: IBD
Tiffany-Twisted: Wizbang
For Jobs, Best Stimulus Is No Stimulus: IBD
Helping to Explain Greece’s Collapse in a Single Picture: Cato
Corzine Crony Relents on Rule Change, Maybe Saving $630M: Ace
Chicago ACORN-Like Nonprofit Accused of Mortgage Fraud: Rebel
How to Fix the Housing Crisis: Mises
How One Man With a Shotgun Turned Occupy Oakland on Its Heels: AllAm
Hypocritical Occupy Oakland Supporters Denounce Anarchy and Violence of Occupy Oakland Protesters: AmPow
#OWS Protesters Attempt to Storm AFP Defending the American Dream Summit: RSM
Video: Cafe Near OWS Says Business Down 40% Since Occupation Began: VS
Blogger Visits Occupy Richmond and Is Shocked by What He Finds: VARight
Lawmakers Seek Information on ‘Fast And Furious’ Leaks: WSJ
Border Battle: Mom of Colorado man killed in Mexico says U.S. to blame : 9News
NBC in the tank for Anthropogenic Global Warming: Wizbang
UN: “If You Don’t Believe In Tackling Climate Change, You’re Immoral And Hate Those In Poverty”: RWN
Democrat Jon Corzine Gets A Pass For Role In Derivatives Meltdown: BigJ
Barack Obama’s Faux Populism: Radosh
CAC's US Senate Projections (11/4/2011): Ace
Is Obama Chewing Nicorette at the G-20?: Dossier
Former '60 Minutes' commentator Andy Rooney dies: LAT
Janeane Garofalo Hardest Hit: Glob
Footage That The Mainstream Media Will Not Air: TAB
The Lawless Heart of OWS: Lowry
Who Lost Iraq?: Krauthammer
Abe Foxman tells Jews to sign the pledge: Baehr
Hoping No One Dies at the North Korean Fun Fair!: Vice
Muslims sue Popeyes for sharia-compliant chicken: Creeping
Obama Adminstration Opposes Prayer Plaque at WWII Memorial – It Would “Dilute Message”: GWP
US About to Hit $15 Trillion in Debt; Sarkozy Asks Obama to Help Europe with Debt Crisis: Malkin
Pakistani intel driving around in lightly defended vehicles in traffic with nuclear weapons: Hot Air
Why is U.S. Using X-Ray Security Scanners Europe Rejects as Unsafe?: AllGov
Apple reportedly fires employee for negative Facebook post: CNet
How Twitter Makes Money: Dollard
It's Apache Friday!: Morning Spew
The Seven Differences Between Winners And Losers: Hawkins
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Nation
100 Criminal Investigations Of Obama Stimulus Spending: HaywardGreat: Obama DOJ Says it Won’t Lie About FOIA’d Docs: Tatler
Joe Biden conspicuously silent on Occupier sex-crime spree: DC
Cain Accuser Chooses Not to Explain Settlement: Ace
Jobs Report More Bad News for Obama: Dossier
Time for the Occupy Mob to Call It Quits: RWN
Man Avoids Jail by Faking Illegal Immigrant Status: Bruce
Iowa Cain Accuser Appears To Have Anti-Cain Agenda: NiceDeb
Romney friends give ammo to critics: Politico
Economy
Occupy What?: HansonBonuses For the Bankrupt: Hayward
Nine Takeaways From October Jobs Report: IBD
Tiffany-Twisted: Wizbang
For Jobs, Best Stimulus Is No Stimulus: IBD
Helping to Explain Greece’s Collapse in a Single Picture: Cato
Corzine Crony Relents on Rule Change, Maybe Saving $630M: Ace
Chicago ACORN-Like Nonprofit Accused of Mortgage Fraud: Rebel
How to Fix the Housing Crisis: Mises
Occupy
Add ‘Arson’ To #Occupy Activists Checklist – $10 Million In Damages: SHNHow One Man With a Shotgun Turned Occupy Oakland on Its Heels: AllAm
Hypocritical Occupy Oakland Supporters Denounce Anarchy and Violence of Occupy Oakland Protesters: AmPow
#OWS Protesters Attempt to Storm AFP Defending the American Dream Summit: RSM
Video: Cafe Near OWS Says Business Down 40% Since Occupation Began: VS
Blogger Visits Occupy Richmond and Is Shocked by What He Finds: VARight
Gunrunner & Energygate
WH rejects subpoena request for Solyndra docs: ExamLawmakers Seek Information on ‘Fast And Furious’ Leaks: WSJ
Border Battle: Mom of Colorado man killed in Mexico says U.S. to blame : 9News
Climate & Energy
If You Don’t Believe In The Climate Change Hoax, You’ll Spontaneously Combust: RWNNBC in the tank for Anthropogenic Global Warming: Wizbang
UN: “If You Don’t Believe In Tackling Climate Change, You’re Immoral And Hate Those In Poverty”: RWN
Media
Why Is CBS’s Steve Kroft Ambushing Politicians?: BigJDemocrat Jon Corzine Gets A Pass For Role In Derivatives Meltdown: BigJ
Barack Obama’s Faux Populism: Radosh
CAC's US Senate Projections (11/4/2011): Ace
Is Obama Chewing Nicorette at the G-20?: Dossier
Former '60 Minutes' commentator Andy Rooney dies: LAT
Janeane Garofalo Hardest Hit: Glob
Footage That The Mainstream Media Will Not Air: TAB
The Lawless Heart of OWS: Lowry
World
Occupy Wall Street and Soros’ Fingerprints: VadumWho Lost Iraq?: Krauthammer
Abe Foxman tells Jews to sign the pledge: Baehr
Hoping No One Dies at the North Korean Fun Fair!: Vice
Muslims sue Popeyes for sharia-compliant chicken: Creeping
Obama Adminstration Opposes Prayer Plaque at WWII Memorial – It Would “Dilute Message”: GWP
US About to Hit $15 Trillion in Debt; Sarkozy Asks Obama to Help Europe with Debt Crisis: Malkin
Pakistani intel driving around in lightly defended vehicles in traffic with nuclear weapons: Hot Air
Why is U.S. Using X-Ray Security Scanners Europe Rejects as Unsafe?: AllGov
Sci-Tech
Darpa’s Plan to Trap the Next WikiLeaker: Decoy Documents: InstapunditApple reportedly fires employee for negative Facebook post: CNet
How Twitter Makes Money: Dollard
Cornucopia
On Southern Manners: InstapunditIt's Apache Friday!: Morning Spew
The Seven Differences Between Winners And Losers: Hawkins
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Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund
QOTD: "Remember when the Left was saying that Americans should fear the Tea Partiers because they were a potentially dangerous, violent mob? Well now, we actually have a dangerous, violent mob of thugs, anarchists, hippies, and wannabe revolutionaries committing rape and vandalism in between arrests and breaks to poo on people’s doorsteps. And guess what? Liberals love ‘em!" --John Hawkins
Friday, November 04, 2011
Perfect: Overpaid, Unionized Federal Workers Join #OWS Movement
Based upon these developments, it would seem that the beleaguered private sector isn't doing enough to save public sector union jobs.
These leftist hacks are the poster-children for union abuse of taxpayers.
Consider: without even counting Solyndra, there are at least 100 criminal investigations Of Obama Stimulus Spending, according to the Department of Energy's Inspector General.
But I guess we're not paying enough in taxes. So we'll have to pony up 10% more, because we're deadbeats. The public sector unions deserve even more of our money. Our families don't need it as much as the unions do.
So give 'til it hurts.
...at least four federal labor unions rallied in support of the Occupy movement in a Lafayette Square demonstration Thursday... On the day that a House committee approved legislation that would cut the federal workforce by 10 percent and during a time when federal employees are in a battle to protect their pay, benefits and jobs, federal union members gathered with other labor organizations to back the national Occupy movement’s call for economic justice.
...“Most federal employees consider themselves to be part of the 99 percent,” Saul Schniderman, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Library of Congress Guild, said after the rally. “And many of us believe in the principles of social justice, just like the protesters in Occupy D.C. Everyone needs to pay their fair share, and this includes Wall Street corporations with their record profits and their CEOs with their skyrocketing salaries. I rallied today with other federal workers and unions to protest the influence that today’s modern-day robber barons have on our economy.”
...AFSCME, whose Council 26 represents federal workers, has contributed rain tarps and more than 100 rain ponchos to Occupy D.C. campers in McPherson Square, said Carl Goldman, executive director of the council. IFPTE donated umbrellas on a rainy day last week when Junemann and his legislative director, Matthew Biggs, visited the McPherson occupiers...
...“We’re part of what they are fighting for,” said Lane Bodner, a staff member of the American Postal Workers Union. “We’re not trying to impose our agenda on them, but we do think they overlap.”
These leftist hacks are the poster-children for union abuse of taxpayers.
Consider: without even counting Solyndra, there are at least 100 criminal investigations Of Obama Stimulus Spending, according to the Department of Energy's Inspector General.
But I guess we're not paying enough in taxes. So we'll have to pony up 10% more, because we're deadbeats. The public sector unions deserve even more of our money. Our families don't need it as much as the unions do.
So give 'til it hurts.
Some good news on the economic front: Solyndra execs received huge bonuses courtesy of President Obama
The headline in the San Jose Mercury News says it all: "Solyndra executives collected hefty bonuses in months before Fremont company filed for bankruptcy:"
The bonuses were paid despite the fact that "everyone knew that our solar panels were uncompetitive... including President Obama."
Townhall commenter "turfmann" had a rather strong reaction to this news:
With weak-kneed RINOs like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell leading the respective Republican delegations in Congress, it will be impossible to effect change.
There's only one thing we can do, you and I. Vote for the... most... conservative Republicans you can... at every level of government. Men and women like Allen West, Michelle Bachmann, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Jim DeMint, and many others I'm forgetting. Constitutional conservatives. Citizen activists in the mold of Sam Adams, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and other patriots who risked everything to establish this society.
It's time for the Tea Party to roll over the establishment Republicans -- the "neo-Statists" -- and begin to reestablish a Constitutional Republic. We have no choice if we are to save this country.
Related: Your Handy Dandy EnergyGate/Solyndra Cheat Sheet. Hat tips: John Hayward and Mark Levin.
Senior executives at Solyndra collected hefty bonuses -- ranging from $37,000 to $60,000 apiece -- as the Fremont company bled cash and careened toward bankruptcy this summer.
Bankruptcy documents filed in Delaware earlier this week reveal that more than a dozen senior executives at the defunct solar manufacturing company were awarded sizable quarterly bonuses April 15 and again July 8. Solyndra ceased operations in late August and filed for bankruptcy Sept. 6. About 1,100 employees were laid off without severance pay.
The bonuses, awarded to more than a dozen executives, came on top of what were already highly competitive salaries. Karen Alter, Solyndra's vice president of marketing, had an annual base salary of $275,000; she was awarded a $55,000 bonus in April and again in July. Ben Bierman, Solyndra's executive vice president of operations and engineering, had an annual base salary of $300,000; he was awarded $60,000 in April and again in July. Will Stover, the company's chief financial officer, was also awarded a $60,000 bonus in April and again in July.
The bonuses were paid despite the fact that "everyone knew that our solar panels were uncompetitive... including President Obama."
Townhall commenter "turfmann" had a rather strong reaction to this news:
Ladies and gentlemen, what you have just read is a textbook example, a dictionary definition of a conspiracy to defraud the government.Solyndra was not by any stretch of the imagination a viable enterprise. From what I understand, no reputable funding organization that performed a proper due diligence upon this company would give them the spare change in their pockets, never mind billions of dollars.
Not the Obama administration, though. Having no one in their ranks that has run so much as a lemonade stand, they determined that Solyndra was deserving of an exponentially larger sum of money than would ever be sought or approved of in the private sector - our friggin' money - that will never be paid back by the company, but will certainly be exacted like a pound of flesh upon my grandchildren.
As far as the concept of "retention bonuses" is concerned - I say hogwash. The company is dying and if it cannot successfully keep the rats from jumping off the ship without government-supplied ransom then the proper course of action is to let the company go bankrupt.
Bankruptcy is a necessary and proper instrument of capitalism - creative destruction clears the way for competitors to successfully garner market share.
Solyrdra was a failure on each and every level and should have been bankrupted long, long before the government started picking it as a winner when by every objective measure it was a loser.
What occurred here is a criminal conspiracy. What occurred here was criminal fraud.
Bernie Friggin' Madoff went to prison for the rest of his life for defrauding investors of an exponentially smaller sum than Barack Obama and his ilk have stolen from the American people.
Some brain-dead Obama sycophant responded to a post I made yesterday on these pages that (this will come as a shock, I know) that Chicago Jesus was pure and that the evil Darth Cheney should be brought up on war crimes - never mind the fact that for the final two years of the Bush administration Pelosi & Reid had overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress and could have trumped up specious articles of impeachment, could have seen to the indictment of any number of Bush administration personnel on any number of charges, but aside from one notable and trumped up example of Scotter Libby, there was nothing. No charges. None. Zip. Zero. Nada. And nearly three years on into the Obama administration there is no attempt to charge Bush or anyone else with any crime committed while in office - because there were none.
Now we have a criminal organization occupying the White House. There are actual crimes that are being committed, from the murder of a U.S. Border Agent with smuggled firearms to the looting of the U. S. Treasury.
I demand justice for my nation!
I demand that these people be indicted for their crimes, tried, and if guilty sent to prison for a very long time! That goes for the nameless bureaucrat in his cubicle in a windowless office right up to the man in the Oval Office. In this nation, no one is above the law - most certainly the ones most responsible for upholding it.
With weak-kneed RINOs like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell leading the respective Republican delegations in Congress, it will be impossible to effect change.
There's only one thing we can do, you and I. Vote for the... most... conservative Republicans you can... at every level of government. Men and women like Allen West, Michelle Bachmann, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Jim DeMint, and many others I'm forgetting. Constitutional conservatives. Citizen activists in the mold of Sam Adams, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and other patriots who risked everything to establish this society.
It's time for the Tea Party to roll over the establishment Republicans -- the "neo-Statists" -- and begin to reestablish a Constitutional Republic. We have no choice if we are to save this country.
Related: Your Handy Dandy EnergyGate/Solyndra Cheat Sheet. Hat tips: John Hayward and Mark Levin.
The true value of money
What is the true value of money? Perhaps the best way to assess its value is to melt down the coinage and sell the raw metal:
Which reminds Tyler Durden of this story about Kyle Bass, the investor who made millions from the subprime meltdown.
Don't bother asking about the true value of paper bills.
Or the bits in the computer that represent the bulk of your net worth.
Hat tip: Coinflation.
Which reminds Tyler Durden of this story about Kyle Bass, the investor who made millions from the subprime meltdown.[Bass] still owned stacks of gold and platinum bars that had roughly doubled in value, but he remained on the lookout for hard stores of wealth as a hedge against what he assumed was the coming debasement of fiat currency. Nickels, for instance.
“The value of the metal in a nickel is worth six point eight cents,” he said. “Did you know that?”
I didn’t.
“I just bought a million dollars’ worth of them,” he said, and then, perhaps sensing I couldn’t do the math: “twenty million nickels.”
“You bought twenty million nickels?”
“Uh-huh.”
“How do you buy twenty million nickels?”
“Actually, it’s very difficult,” he said, and then explained that he had to call his bank and talk them into ordering him twenty million nickels. The bank had finally done it, but the Federal Reserve had its own questions. “The Fed apparently called my guy at the bank,” he says.
“They asked him, ‘Why do you want all these nickels?’ So he called me and asked, ‘Why do you want all these nickels?’ And I said, ‘I just like nickels.’”
He pulled out a photograph of his nickels and handed it to me. There they were, piled up on giant wooden pallets in a Brink’s vault in downtown Dallas.
“I’m telling you, in the next two years they’ll change the content of the nickel,” he said. “You really ought to call your bank and buy some now.”
Don't bother asking about the true value of paper bills.
Or the bits in the computer that represent the bulk of your net worth.
Hat tip: Coinflation.
The one word missing from Microsoft's product plans
CNet's Jay Greene offers an inside look at Microsoft's decision to kill its innovative Courier tablet, deferring instead to a more conventional tablet design. The Courier team was led by a season innovator named Jay Allard...
The Courier was killed off soon thereafter.
The entire article is well worth reading. It's instructive because nowhere do I sense that Microsoft's executives are asking "what's right for the consumer?" or "what's the right user experience?".
Instead, they seem to be asking, "What's right for the legacy business?"
My own philosophy is that a company can't focus on its legacy business because technology is moving too rapidly. The finance guys might talk about the risk of cannibalizing your own sales. But there really no such thing as cannibalizing your own sales any more -- because if you don't do it yourself, someone else will happily cannibalize your sales for you.
RIM's killer BlackBerry platform has been swallowed whole by Apple and Android, a sea-change that's occurred in only three scant years.
If Microsoft truly hopes to turn things around in consumer devices like smartphones and tablets, it had better focus on the user experience. Because, believe me, the consumer doesn't care about the accounting details: he or she is buying the experience, panache and attitude.
At one point during [a critical] meeting in early 2010 at Gates' waterfront offices in Kirkland, Wash., Gates asked Allard how users get e-mail. Allard, Microsoft's executive hipster charged with keeping tabs on computing trends, told Gates his team wasn't trying to build another e-mail experience. He reasoned that everyone who had a Courier would also have a smartphone for quick e-mail writing and retrieval and a PC for more detailed exchanges. Courier users could get e-mail from the Web, Allard said, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
But the device wasn't intended to be a computer replacement; it was meant to complement PCs. Courier users wouldn't want or need a feature-rich e-mail application such as Microsoft's Outlook that lets them switch to conversation views in their inbox or support offline e-mail reading and writing. The key to Courier, Allard's team argued, was its focus on content creation. Courier was for the creative set, a gadget on which architects might begin to sketch building plans, or writers might begin to draft documents.
"This is where Bill had an allergic reaction," said one Courier worker who talked with an attendee of the meeting. As is his style in product reviews, Gates pressed Allard, challenging the logic of the approach.
It's not hard to understand Gates' response. Microsoft makes billions of dollars every year on its Exchange e-mail server software and its Outlook e-mail application.
The Courier was killed off soon thereafter.
The entire article is well worth reading. It's instructive because nowhere do I sense that Microsoft's executives are asking "what's right for the consumer?" or "what's the right user experience?".Instead, they seem to be asking, "What's right for the legacy business?"
My own philosophy is that a company can't focus on its legacy business because technology is moving too rapidly. The finance guys might talk about the risk of cannibalizing your own sales. But there really no such thing as cannibalizing your own sales any more -- because if you don't do it yourself, someone else will happily cannibalize your sales for you.
RIM's killer BlackBerry platform has been swallowed whole by Apple and Android, a sea-change that's occurred in only three scant years.
If Microsoft truly hopes to turn things around in consumer devices like smartphones and tablets, it had better focus on the user experience. Because, believe me, the consumer doesn't care about the accounting details: he or she is buying the experience, panache and attitude.
Gallery of Twitches: Stop-Action Photos of Nancy Pelosi as She Faces Blistering Questions from 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft
What emotions do you see when former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi faced uncharacteristically tough questions from a member of legacy media?
Pelosi's net worth during the last three years somehow tripled (from approximately $12 million to over $35 million) during one of the worst economic downturns in American history.
When 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft leveled a series of questions about her passage of laws regulating the very industry she was profiting from, I saw a range of emotions.
A face flickering with scarcely-concealed, twitching anger. Licking her lips repeatedly. Rage and disdain.
This is what an oligarch looks like.
It's time to turn all of these Democrat bums out in 2012, from the White House down to your local school board. Because this is the most corrupt gang of organized criminals in government since the Teapot Dome scandal.
Pelosi's net worth during the last three years somehow tripled (from approximately $12 million to over $35 million) during one of the worst economic downturns in American history.When 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft leveled a series of questions about her passage of laws regulating the very industry she was profiting from, I saw a range of emotions.
A face flickering with scarcely-concealed, twitching anger. Licking her lips repeatedly. Rage and disdain.
This is what an oligarch looks like.
It's time to turn all of these Democrat bums out in 2012, from the White House down to your local school board. Because this is the most corrupt gang of organized criminals in government since the Teapot Dome scandal.
Larwyn's Linx: Why our blacks are better than their blacks
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Why our blacks are better than their blacks: Coulter
OWS-supporting Men's Wearhouse Vandalized by Protesters: PunPre
Wasserman-Schultz on when life begins: CNS
Former NRA Chairman on Cain Hit-Piece: "It's a Hatchet Job": DC
The Cain Disaster: Tabin
Don't Underestimate Cain: AmSpec
More ugly Occupy pictures that won’t make your front page: Malkin
ObamaCare's Billions In Hidden Pork For Unions: IBD
Obama’s Drug Shortage Demagoguery: RWN
Planned Parenthood Accused of Medicaid Fraud: LifeNews
#OccupySetup: Dems Intro 'Steal From Rich, Give To Poor' Tax Act: RS
40 House GOP Petition for More Revenue?: Hot Air
Pelosi: Without Obama Stimulus, Unemployment Would Be 15%: CNS
Freddie Mac: A Bottomless Pit Of Taxpayer Losses?: IBD
For Sen. Feinstein, Gunwalker Still an Excuse to Push Gun Control: Owens
FBI: House majority leader's family threatened: AP
Sen. Paul seeks Dem backing in EPA floor battle: Hill
Trenberth: null and void: Watts
Networks Hit Cain Story 50 Times in Less Than Four Days; Ignored Clinton Scandals: NB
ACORN Officials Firing Workers and Shredding Documents After Exposed as Behind Occupy Wall Street: Fox
Media Finally Reporting Rapes, Sexual Assaults at Occupy Sites: Ace
South Park Mocks Occupy Wall Street, Michael Moore: WZ
40 Of The Most Bad-Ass, Masculine, Manly, Alpha Male Quotes Of All-Time: RWN
Photo of the Day: Obama (Literally) Embraces Anti-Israel, Pro-Iran Islamist on the World Stage: BigPeace
As Athens Debates Bailout, EU Weighs Greek Exit: CNBC
CAIR Outraged Christians Holding Prayer Event At Detroit’s Ford Field: WZ
Indonesia: Islamist Group Calls For Destruction of “Un-Islamic” Statues of Other Religions: WZ
MF Bankruptcy Ignites Foreign Bank Liquidity Scramble, Harbinger Of Major Eurobank Stress: ZH
Bank catches thief in the act - the yucky world of insider fraud: Sophos
Siri, we have to talk; our communication stinks: CNet
Ten Things You May Not Know About James Bond's Employers: Insider
#OccupyChristmas – “Buy Nothing Day” Is Here!: Spew
Image: Looking At The Left
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund
Nation
Why our blacks are better than their blacks: CoulterOWS-supporting Men's Wearhouse Vandalized by Protesters: PunPre
Wasserman-Schultz on when life begins: CNS
Former NRA Chairman on Cain Hit-Piece: "It's a Hatchet Job": DC
The Cain Disaster: Tabin
Don't Underestimate Cain: AmSpec
More ugly Occupy pictures that won’t make your front page: Malkin
ObamaCare's Billions In Hidden Pork For Unions: IBD
Obama’s Drug Shortage Demagoguery: RWN
Economy
Obama Justice Dept. Looking to Legalize Perjury?: PJMPlanned Parenthood Accused of Medicaid Fraud: LifeNews
#OccupySetup: Dems Intro 'Steal From Rich, Give To Poor' Tax Act: RS
40 House GOP Petition for More Revenue?: Hot Air
Pelosi: Without Obama Stimulus, Unemployment Would Be 15%: CNS
Freddie Mac: A Bottomless Pit Of Taxpayer Losses?: IBD
Gunrunner & Energygate
House Panel Votes To Subpena White House Documents Related To Solyndra: AceFor Sen. Feinstein, Gunwalker Still an Excuse to Push Gun Control: Owens
FBI: House majority leader's family threatened: AP
Climate & Energy
Newsbytes: New Research Reveals IPCC In Bed With Green Lobbies: WattsSen. Paul seeks Dem backing in EPA floor battle: Hill
Trenberth: null and void: Watts
Media
What did Politico know and when did they know it?: ProWisNetworks Hit Cain Story 50 Times in Less Than Four Days; Ignored Clinton Scandals: NB
ACORN Officials Firing Workers and Shredding Documents After Exposed as Behind Occupy Wall Street: Fox
Media Finally Reporting Rapes, Sexual Assaults at Occupy Sites: Ace
South Park Mocks Occupy Wall Street, Michael Moore: WZ
40 Of The Most Bad-Ass, Masculine, Manly, Alpha Male Quotes Of All-Time: RWN
World
The left’s push for “change” is stunningly familiar to me: I worked for Ceausescu.: PacepaPhoto of the Day: Obama (Literally) Embraces Anti-Israel, Pro-Iran Islamist on the World Stage: BigPeace
As Athens Debates Bailout, EU Weighs Greek Exit: CNBC
CAIR Outraged Christians Holding Prayer Event At Detroit’s Ford Field: WZ
Indonesia: Islamist Group Calls For Destruction of “Un-Islamic” Statues of Other Religions: WZ
MF Bankruptcy Ignites Foreign Bank Liquidity Scramble, Harbinger Of Major Eurobank Stress: ZH
Sci-Tech
Don't get scammed when selling your old iPhone: CNetBank catches thief in the act - the yucky world of insider fraud: Sophos
Siri, we have to talk; our communication stinks: CNet
Cornucopia
Life imitates art at Occupy Wall Street: BookwormTen Things You May Not Know About James Bond's Employers: Insider
#OccupyChristmas – “Buy Nothing Day” Is Here!: Spew
Image: Looking At The Left
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund
QOTD: "Nothing has changed and absolutely nothing has been accomplished. There is no “solution” to the crisis that will not result in massive pain, confusion and wealth decimation. The reason is patently obvious. At least half the continent is completely and helplessly bankrupt. There are only two outcomes to the entire situation. Either the sovereign debts are written off aggressively and the banking system declared insolvent and restructured or the ECB decides to turn on those printing presses to the tune of trillions and destroys the purchasing power of the union in Zimbabwe-like fashion. People will read this and think I am exaggerating . The phrase “it takes 5 minutes” keeps running through my head because all it takes is a small amount of time to see the situation for what it is. I am not that smart. This is obvious. The scary thing is that it is abundantly clear that the vast majority of U.S. investors have not bothered to take the 5 minutes necessary to understand how extreme and binary the outcomes to all this is. Their clients will suffer massively in the months and years ahead as a result of their laziness and lack of macro curiosity." --Mike Krieger
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Time-Space Continuum May Have Warped: Is 60 Minutes Investigating Nancy Pelosi's Financial Skulduggery?
AJC's Jamie Dupree reports on an overheard conversation:
Pelosi was also heard to shriek: "Are you serious? Are you serious???"
But I'm sure the curious confluence of events surrounding Pelosi's ascent to the Speakership while her bank accounts rapidly swelled were purely coincidental.
Image hat tip: PoliNation.
I was working on other stories at the time, but the questions - and answers - caught my ear, as Steve Kroft, the veteran correspondent for the CBS program "60 Minutes" was pressing Pelosi about some of her investments... Kroft is not a regular in the Capitol, so his presence and his questions certainly merit some attention...
Q: Madam Leader, I wanted to ask you why you and your husband back in March of 2008 accepted and participated in a very large IPO deal from Visa at a time there was major legislation affecting the credit card companies making its way through the House. Did you consider that to be a conflict of interest?Leader Pelosi. I don't know what your point is of your question. Is there some point that you want to make with that?
Q: Well, I guess what I am asking is do you think it is all right for a Speaker to accept a very preferential, favorable stock deal?
Leader Pelosi. Well, we didn't.
Q: At a time when there is major legislation affecting that company in the House?
Leader Pelosi. Well, first of all let me say this. What we are talking about is an industry. What we are talking about is a Congress that passed more protections for credit card holders. The [Credit Cardholder’s Bill of Rights] bill, you know Carolyn Maloney has been our champion on, to the point where the industry spent $3 million to try to defeat her last time.
So the issue that you are talking about, first of all, what you are contending is not true. But second of all, we are very proud of our record of what happened.
Now, what Congressman or Senator Durbin was able to do in the Senate is quite remarkable, and when he was able to achieve that, then it was on this same issue, it was included by our Chairman Barney Frank in the bill.
Q: That was 2 years later though.
Leader Pelosi. But it was when we had a President who could sign the bill, and that is when we passed what Carolyn Maloney had. There was no interest on the part of President Bush to sign such a bill. But the fact is your basic premise is a false one, and it…
Q: I don't understand. Why is it false? You participated in the IPO.
Leader Pelosi. Well, I have many investments.
Q: You were Speaker of the House, and there was a bill very unfavorable to the credit card companies.
Leader Pelosi. Well, I will hold my record in fighting the credit card companies, as a Speaker of the House or as a Member of Congress, up against anyone. We had passed the Credit Cardholder Bill of Rights. I don't know what your point is. You like one bill better than another bill. No, this was the big powerful bill, and in fact we were able to achieve both once we were able to have a Democratic President. That is really all I am saying.
Q: You don't think it was a conflict of interest or have the appearance of a conflict of interest?
Leader Pelosi. No, it only has the appearance if you decide that you are going to elaborate on a false premise. But it is not true, and that is that.
Q: I don't understand what part is not true.
Leader Pelosi. That I would act upon an investment.
Pelosi was also heard to shriek: "Are you serious? Are you serious???"
But I'm sure the curious confluence of events surrounding Pelosi's ascent to the Speakership while her bank accounts rapidly swelled were purely coincidental.
Image hat tip: PoliNation.
The rich fight back: Mercedes bulls over #OccupyOakland punks who blocked it and pounded on hood
Pity Michael Moore wasn't involved:
Rumor has it that in tomorrow's edition of Politico, Jonathan Martin and Ken Vogel will allege that Herman Cain was the driver.
...Though the Post can’t independently verify what is seen in the video, the cellphone footage appears to show a Mercedes Benz trying to drive through a crowd of protesters at Wednesday night’s Occupy Oakland march. It nudges up to two protesters, one of whom bangs on the hood of the car. The driver then speeds up and plows through the crowd.The San Francsico Chronicle reports that the police questioned the driver and let him leave the scene. The two people who were hit, a man and a woman, suffered leg and ankle injuries that were not life-threatening, but required hospital treatment.
The protest was largely a peaceful march, though there was a small group of protesters that clashed with police and vandalized property...
Rumor has it that in tomorrow's edition of Politico, Jonathan Martin and Ken Vogel will allege that Herman Cain was the driver.
New Gang of Bloodthirsty Throwbacks Screws Up the State Department Style Guide [Dan from New York]
Dan from New York:
Now that's what I call SmartPower™!
Just when we were getting comfortable with Hamas, out of nowhere comes another Gaza terror organization, Islamic Jihad, who wants to share the spotlight.
Hey, cool uniforms guys!
###
Reuters, 3 November 2011Truce with Israel will not last: Islamic Jihad
GAZA — The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, which traded deadly fire with Israel over the weekend in Gaza, does not expect a subsequent truce to last long and has at least 8,000 fighters ready for war, a spokesman said...
...While Hamas has recently spent much of its energy on the business of government, Islamic Jihad has kept its focus firmly on the conflict, gaining in prominence and enjoying significant backing from Muslim supporters, including Iran...
###
The emergence of this group is going to pose a double semantic problem for Obama & Co. How will they be able to describe “Islamic Jihad” without mentioning its name and breaking the rules in the new State Dept. style book?
Now that's what I call SmartPower™!
Larwyn's Linx: I Declare Politico’s Attack On Herman Cain Racist
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I Declare Politico’s Attack On Herman Cain Racist: RWN
Iowa Cain Accuser Appears To Have Anti-Cain Agenda: Nice Deb
Herman Cain, Amazing Grace Under Fire: AT
They're Throwing Mud at Cain: AmSpec
Soros-Funded Vote-Fraud Deniers Hold Election Law Confab: Adams
Good News! Occupiers Cause 21 Layoffs: RWN
Obama: Corzine 'is our Wall Street guy': JWF
FBI: You Know, Maybe We Should Investigate Corzine: Ace
Unleash the Entrepreneurs: City Journal
Obama’s Student Loan Gift to Occupy Wall Street: Foundry
'Public-School Teachers Overpaid, Study Finds': ProWis
Soros Trader Involved in Bankrupt Firm Tied to Obama: NoisyRm
Debt Increased $203 Billion in October alone: CNS
Corzine couldn’t sell MF -- there was $700M missing: Fausta
More ugly Occupy Oakland pictures that won’t make MSM front pages: Malkin
Photos of the Anti-Capitalist Revolution in Denver: LATL
Shock OWS Study: 'The Group is Very Liberal and Part of the Democratic Base': JWF
Confirmed: Scott Olsen’s Injuries Were Not Caused By Sheriff’s Deputies: GWP
Democratic Socialists of America Goes National For Occupy Wall Street: NoisyRm
Disturbing Photos from the “General Strike” in Oakland: VS
Occupy Oakland Protests Turn Violent: Mercury News
Protests shut Oakland port, tensions flare in streets: Vancouver Sun
Dragged into Georgia Geriatric Terrorist Plot, courtesy of Gunwalker apologists at TPM (and apparently DOJ): SSI
"Georgia Geriatric Terror Gang" at their arraignment.: SSI
Expert: Global Warming Is Over: Express
Why the fall of Solyndra was expected: Element14
Time Stands Still: Driscoll
Impressive Romney: PJM
What did Politico know and when did they know it?: ProWis
Time Magazine Writer: French Newspaper That Got Firebombed By Jihadists Deserved What It Got: Ace
Time Magazine to Firebombed French Paper: Sorry, But You're Islamophobic and Childish: NB
Why Obama Believes He Can Tame the Islamists and Why He's Dead Wrong: Lid
Satirical French Newspaper Firebombed After Sharia Story: Spew
Game Over Berlusconi? Italian Anti-Crisis Bill Fails: ZH
Papandreou’s bailout referendum bombshell: has a broader German agenda inspired it?: The Slog
Cannes sheds its black tie image for G20 riot gear: Reuters
Top iPad Alternatives for Business: CIO
The End of an Era: Internet Explorer Drops Below 50 Percent of Web Usage: WebMonkey
Sometimes you just have to eat your peas: MOTUS
The Latest in Terminator Tech: DefTech
Image: CTV
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Ohioans: Vote YES on ISSUE 2
Nation
I Declare Politico’s Attack On Herman Cain Racist: RWNIowa Cain Accuser Appears To Have Anti-Cain Agenda: Nice Deb
Herman Cain, Amazing Grace Under Fire: AT
They're Throwing Mud at Cain: AmSpec
Soros-Funded Vote-Fraud Deniers Hold Election Law Confab: Adams
Good News! Occupiers Cause 21 Layoffs: RWN
Economy
On MF: KrastingObama: Corzine 'is our Wall Street guy': JWF
FBI: You Know, Maybe We Should Investigate Corzine: Ace
Unleash the Entrepreneurs: City Journal
Obama’s Student Loan Gift to Occupy Wall Street: Foundry
'Public-School Teachers Overpaid, Study Finds': ProWis
Soros Trader Involved in Bankrupt Firm Tied to Obama: NoisyRm
Debt Increased $203 Billion in October alone: CNS
Corzine couldn’t sell MF -- there was $700M missing: Fausta
Occupy
Occupy Oakland: Window smashing, vandalism; Teamsters in the house; port shut down; trucks overrun: MalkinMore ugly Occupy Oakland pictures that won’t make MSM front pages: Malkin
Photos of the Anti-Capitalist Revolution in Denver: LATL
Shock OWS Study: 'The Group is Very Liberal and Part of the Democratic Base': JWF
Confirmed: Scott Olsen’s Injuries Were Not Caused By Sheriff’s Deputies: GWP
Democratic Socialists of America Goes National For Occupy Wall Street: NoisyRm
Disturbing Photos from the “General Strike” in Oakland: VS
Occupy Oakland Protests Turn Violent: Mercury News
Protests shut Oakland port, tensions flare in streets: Vancouver Sun
Gunrunner & Energygate
“Solyndra Executive Bonuses Kept Coming in 2011″: ProWisDragged into Georgia Geriatric Terrorist Plot, courtesy of Gunwalker apologists at TPM (and apparently DOJ): SSI
"Georgia Geriatric Terror Gang" at their arraignment.: SSI
Climate & Energy
NASA on the Antarctic Crack: WUWTExpert: Global Warming Is Over: Express
Why the fall of Solyndra was expected: Element14
Media
Nancy Pelosi House-keeping? You be the judge: WashExamTime Stands Still: Driscoll
Impressive Romney: PJM
What did Politico know and when did they know it?: ProWis
Time Magazine Writer: French Newspaper That Got Firebombed By Jihadists Deserved What It Got: Ace
Time Magazine to Firebombed French Paper: Sorry, But You're Islamophobic and Childish: NB
World
Benjamin Netanyahu seeks cabinet support for Israeli strike on Iran: TelegraphWhy Obama Believes He Can Tame the Islamists and Why He's Dead Wrong: Lid
Satirical French Newspaper Firebombed After Sharia Story: Spew
Game Over Berlusconi? Italian Anti-Crisis Bill Fails: ZH
Papandreou’s bailout referendum bombshell: has a broader German agenda inspired it?: The Slog
Cannes sheds its black tie image for G20 riot gear: Reuters
Sci-Tech
Web Security Expert Warns Of Cyber World War: SkyTop iPad Alternatives for Business: CIO
The End of an Era: Internet Explorer Drops Below 50 Percent of Web Usage: WebMonkey
Cornucopia
Health News: McRibs Contain Same Ingredient As Shoe Soles: JWFSometimes you just have to eat your peas: MOTUS
The Latest in Terminator Tech: DefTech
Image: CTV
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Ohioans: Vote YES on ISSUE 2
QOTD: "I congratulate the FBI on their ability to sniff out and entrap old, feeble minded Georgia morons with dreams of terrorist grandeur. Now if they could just apply some of that industry to telling us the truth about the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, we'll all be better off." --Mike Vanderboegh, "Lazy journalist's guide to my reaction to the evil bad scary Georgia Geriatric Terrorist Plot."
Politico's Top Secret Scandal Selector, by Jonathan Martin and Kenneth Vogel
Biff Spackle located the screening tool used by Politico journolists Jonathan Martin and Kenneth Vogel to determine whether a political scandal is newsworthy:
To assess the scandal factor, please check all that apply:
Did the politician emit spooge on a young intern's blue dress?
Did the politician drive drunk into a pond, leaving his passenger to helplessly drown, flee the scene, and fail to report the incident to authorities in time for a rescue?
Did the politician spend decades as a Ku Klux Klan member, rising to the level of Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops?
Did the politician have a three-decade history of sexual violence against women?
Did the politician accept sweetheart loans and donations from the very organizations he was supposed to be regulating?
Did the politician steer billions in contracts to companies controlled by her spouse?
Did the politician's gay lover run a bisexual prostitution ring out of the politician's apartment?
Did the politican use campaign funds to support a mistress and love child while his wife was dying of cancer?
Was the politican accused of inappropriate behavior by two unnamed persons several decades ago?
IMPORTANT: Please select the politician's party affiliation: Democrat Republican
Press button to determine this story's scandal status:
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Obama-Friendly GE Building Aircraft Factory in Right-to-Work Alabama; Curiously, Unlike Boeing, NLRB Utterly Silent
Do the math:
1. Alabama is a wonderfully free "right-to-work" state, which simply means it prevents unions from extracting dues from workers who do not wish to join.
2. General Electric's CEO Jeff Immelt is the poster-boy for crony capitalism, having backed Obama's rush to socialized medicine and green energy to benefit various of its business units.
3. It turns out that GE's Aviation division is breaking ground on a new factory in Alabama. And, unlike Boeing, which tried to build a factory in a right-to-work-state, the National Labor Relations Board hasn't uttered a peep. But I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
Remember the Boeing case?
The NLRB wants Boeing to build all its Dreamliners in Washington State, which is not a right-to-work state.
If I were a more cynical man, I would think that this is yet another example of crony capitalism and big government at its very worst. Companies rewarded and punished by regulators based upon crass partisan hackery. Somewhere, Richard Nixon is smiling.
The fact that Obama-friendly GE is building a plant in Alabama without a whisper of a complaint from the NLRB while Boeing is challenged at every turn must be a coincidence. It simply must be.
1. Alabama is a wonderfully free "right-to-work" state, which simply means it prevents unions from extracting dues from workers who do not wish to join.
2. General Electric's CEO Jeff Immelt is the poster-boy for crony capitalism, having backed Obama's rush to socialized medicine and green energy to benefit various of its business units.
3. It turns out that GE's Aviation division is breaking ground on a new factory in Alabama. And, unlike Boeing, which tried to build a factory in a right-to-work-state, the National Labor Relations Board hasn't uttered a peep. But I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
Remember the Boeing case?[The NRLB] wants to stop the Boeing Corporation from using its new aircraft manufacturing plant in South Carolina. Construction began in November 2009 and is almost complete... [It] has charged that Boeing's decision to build a new plant in [right-to-work] South Carolina-to expand production of its Dreamliner 787-was made in retaliation for strikes at its Everett, Washington plant...
...If Boeing is penalized from locating where costs are lowest and production most reliable, then many other companies will be charged.
The NLRB wants Boeing to build all its Dreamliners in Washington State, which is not a right-to-work state.
If I were a more cynical man, I would think that this is yet another example of crony capitalism and big government at its very worst. Companies rewarded and punished by regulators based upon crass partisan hackery. Somewhere, Richard Nixon is smiling.
The fact that Obama-friendly GE is building a plant in Alabama without a whisper of a complaint from the NLRB while Boeing is challenged at every turn must be a coincidence. It simply must be.
Today's 'Paul Krugman Hoisted On His Own Petard', Self-Beclownment Edition
Is there a more hilarious propagand-conomist than Paul "The Problem with Keynesian Economics Is That We're Not Borrowing Enough" Krugman? I don't mean his looks. Ignore the elf-boy physique, concentrate on his record.He's got enough face-plant-style failures to shame Milli Vanilli.
Today, Krugman is crying doom-and-gloom for the Euro, predicting bank runs, dogs and cats sleeping together, total fiscal apocalypse -- all thanks to the failed Eurosocialist welfare state. But it wasn't too long ago that Elf-Boy was championing the Eurozone...
• In "The Comeback Continent" (Jan. 2008), Krugman told us that the Eurozone was a bulwark of the world economy, worthy of emulation by the U.S.:
The G.D.P. of the European Union is roughly comparable to that of the United States; the euro is almost as important a global currency as the dollar; and the governance of the world financial system is, for practical purposes, equally shared by the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve.
But there’s another thing: it’s important to get the facts about Europe’s economy right because the alleged woes of that economy play an important role in American political discourse, usually as an excuse for the insecurities and injustices of our own society......What European countries definitely haven’t done is dismantle their strong social safety nets. Universal health care is a given. So are a variety of programs that support families in trouble, helping protect Europeans from the extreme poverty all too common in this country. All of this costs money — even though European countries spend far less on health care than we do — and European taxes are very high by U.S. standards.
In short, Europe continues to be a big-government sort of place. And that’s why it’s important to get the real story of the European economy out there.
According to the anti-government ideology that dominates much U.S. political discussion, low taxes and a weak social safety net are essential to prosperity. Try to make the lives of Americans even slightly more secure, we’re told, and the economy will shrivel up — the same way it supposedly has in Europe.
But the next time a politician tries to scare you with the European bogeyman, bear this in mind: Europe’s economy is actually doing O.K. these days, despite a level of taxing and spending beyond the wildest ambitions of American progressives.
• In "Why Oil Isn't Gold" (May 2008), Krugman told us how useless gold is as a store of value and, in "Wingnuts, wingnuts everywhere", he openly mocked gold-bugs.
Based on my analysis, a Ouija Board would do a far better job at predicting macroeconomic events than the embarrassment known as Krugman.My Daughter [Papa B]
Papa B:
My daughter just walked into the living room and said "Dad, cancel my allowance immediately, rent my room out, throw all my clothes out of the window, take my TV, and stereo, and iPhone, and iPod, and my laptop. Please take all of my jewelry to the Salvation Army or Cash Converters. Then sell my new car, take my front door key away from me and throw me out of the house. Then disown me and never talk to me again.. And don't forget to write me out of your will and leave my share to my brother."
Well, she didn't put it quite like that. She actually said:
"Dad, I have decided to work for Obama's re-election campaign."
Iran's First Line Of Defense Against Israel [Dan from New York]
Dan from New York:
To paraphrase Bill Ayers: it doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. I predict a revised forecast for the 'Arab Spring'.
Hopefully it involves darkness, followed by a bright flash of 8,000° heat in and around the compound protecting Ahmedinejad and the Mullahs.
Military history will record Israel’s failure to vanquish Hizbullah in the Second Lebanon War as one of the great strategic blunders in the modern era of warfare. Israel had the golden opportunity to sever Iran’s right arm in the region, but PM Olmert and his military commander Halutz botched it. Olmert would then go on to compound his mistake two years later in Gaza, leaving Hamas - Iran’s left arm in the region - intact. Today, both Hamas and Hizbullah have grown much stronger, and so has their controller, Iran.
Here is a summary of a report from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. You can read the whole thing right here. It shouldn’t be a mystery why Iran would put this “information” into the news stream now. They’re trying to scare off an attack on their nuclear weapons program by hyping the response. But you be the judge. Even if Iran isn’t bluffing, what would prove more costly, an elective attack before they get the H-bomb, or an obligatory attack after? Failing to act decisively now could be fatal.
###Hizbullah Discusses Its Operational Plan for War with Israel: Missile Fire on Tel Aviv and Conquest of the Galilee
In recent weeks Hizbullah leader Hasan Nasrallah held a series of meetings with his top-level military command as well as field commanders responsible for preparing for war with Israel. According to a source close to Hizbullah, Nasrallah's operational directive was that in the next military conflict with Israel, Hizbullah will hit Tel Aviv with missiles at the outset of the war, while also dispatching forces to conquer the Galilee.
Hizbullah forces are being trained to fire at least ten thousand missiles, right at the war's outset, at military and strategic targets such as airfields, military camps, and vital facilities including maritime ones, followed by the firing of rockets from launch sites whose location will come as a surprise to Israel.
The operational plan was formulated in tandem with senior Iranian strategic experts and will include a force of five thousand fighters who have recently trained in Iran, tasked with taking over designated zones in northern Israel including Nahariya, Shlomi, and Carmiel.
It was said that engineering units of the Iranian army had mined areas in the eastern Bekaa Valley that were seen as possible landing sites for Israeli special forces, and that Hizbullah had equipped itself with "smart" Iranian anti-tank missiles that can disrupt the defensive systems of Israel's Merkava tanks.
Nasrallah's recent escalation of public statements stems from heightened fear in Hizbullah that an Israeli and/or American attack on Iran is drawing nearer. As a strategic arm of Iran, Hizbullah sees itself as Iran's first line of defense against Israel.
To paraphrase Bill Ayers: it doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. I predict a revised forecast for the 'Arab Spring'.
Hopefully it involves darkness, followed by a bright flash of 8,000° heat in and around the compound protecting Ahmedinejad and the Mullahs.
Brilliant: DHS head Napolitano monitoring Twitter for civil unrest; could just head to #OccupyOakland instead
Let me guess: this little surveillance project will cost billions:
Here's a free, money-saving tip for our beloved baritone DHS head: why not just send an agent to each of the Occupy protests to take pictures of the leftist kooks vandalizing private businesses?
Or, better still, just read the funny papers:
Remember, folks: President Obama, Vice President Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and a host of other radical leftists support this civil unrest.
2012 is coming.
The world has seen a wave of civil unrest sweep across nations this year and as a result the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking measures to prevent any sign of social disturbance from happening within America. One of the measures include monitoring social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter, for clues on growing civil disobedience...
...the DHS would create new guidelines to focus on “gleaning information from sites such as Twitter and Facebook for law enforcement purposes.” However, she went on to mention, that the guidelines would be implemented under strict laws “meant to prevent spying on Americans.”
Still, many social media users express concern that the government would track what they do on social sites.
Here's a free, money-saving tip for our beloved baritone DHS head: why not just send an agent to each of the Occupy protests to take pictures of the leftist kooks vandalizing private businesses?
Or, better still, just read the funny papers:Anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland have vandalized a Whole Foods store and shattered windows at two downtown banks.
Windows were shattered at a Bank of America branch, where someone also spraypainted "Class War" and "Shut it Down," near Lake Merritt and a Chase bank at 20th and Webster streets.Police officers on Wednesday afternoon stood outside the Chase bank, where vandals also defaced the ATM machines, spraypainting them black.
"For the Commune," one graffiti message reads.
"Withdraw Only," another reads.
Remember, folks: President Obama, Vice President Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and a host of other radical leftists support this civil unrest.
2012 is coming.
Larwyn's Linx: Politico smear merchant Vogel worked for Soros group
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Politico smear merchant Vogel worked for Soros group: Bozell
Occupy Oakland's Dangerous Strike Follies: Malkin
White House battles bullying…of Muslims: Creeping
E-Verify use soaring in… California!: PoliPundit
FBI arrests 8 in Florida for absentee ballot fraud: RS
Gun ownership in U.S. soars: Gallup: MarketWatch
Colorado bellwether: Voters reject statewide tax increases: Malkin
US Food Stamp Usage Hits New Record: ZH
The Stupidity of “Buy American”: Stossel
How US Banks Are Lying About Their European Exposure: ZH
Lethally Leisured: Steyn
You Want More Equality? Support More Capitalism: RWN
MF Global Stole Hundreds Of Millions From Customers?: ZH
Let's Consider The Possible: Denninger
Gunwalker: Lanny Breuer Fails to Take Pressure off Eric Holder: Owens
Feinstein may have inadvertently confirmed Gunwalker ulterior motive: Martin
Democrat Blanche Lincoln To Obama: Stop Regulating: IBD
October Leaf vs. Volt Sales: Daily Bayonet
NYTimes pretends Corzine isn't a Democrat Obama donor: Exam
Convicted Sex Offender Arrested for Rape of 14 Year Old at Occupy Dallas: VS
Gabbi Gifford Liberals Create Video In Which They Violently Murder "Republicans" (Warning, Graphic): PunditPress
Editor Shortage Showing at L.A. Times: Patterico
Four Lily White Liberals Smear a Black Man: AT
Nemesis: Beward Greeks Bearing Gifts: Belmont Club
Greece Replaces Top Brass; Is Papandreou Preparing for a Military Coup or Afraid of One?: Mish
The White Aborigines of the Post-Racial Left : Knish
Democracy Is Impossible: Williams
US Professor: "Death To Israel": JoshuaPundit
Fast cars and loose fiscal morals: more Porsches in Greece than taxpayers declaring 50K incomes: Telegraph
Fury in Germany after Greek referendum call: Reuters
S. Korea Plans $50B Fund for Reunification: Bloomberg
The iPhone 4S battery problem: USA Today
Twitter App --- Review: Wired
Mother of ‘Six Billionth Kid’ Blasts Deadbeat UN: Camelback
Something to Offend Everyone: C&S
Image: Michelle Malkin
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate
Nation
Politico smear merchant Vogel worked for Soros group: BozellOccupy Oakland's Dangerous Strike Follies: Malkin
White House battles bullying…of Muslims: Creeping
E-Verify use soaring in… California!: PoliPundit
FBI arrests 8 in Florida for absentee ballot fraud: RS
Gun ownership in U.S. soars: Gallup: MarketWatch
Economy
Pelosi: Work union or don’t work at all: IBDColorado bellwether: Voters reject statewide tax increases: Malkin
US Food Stamp Usage Hits New Record: ZH
The Stupidity of “Buy American”: Stossel
How US Banks Are Lying About Their European Exposure: ZH
Lethally Leisured: Steyn
You Want More Equality? Support More Capitalism: RWN
MF Global Stole Hundreds Of Millions From Customers?: ZH
Let's Consider The Possible: Denninger
Gunrunner & Energygate
Documents detail early knowledge by Lanny Breuer and subordinates of "gunwalking": SSIGunwalker: Lanny Breuer Fails to Take Pressure off Eric Holder: Owens
Feinstein may have inadvertently confirmed Gunwalker ulterior motive: Martin
Climate & Energy
REIN in Regulations: No Regulation Without Representation: MagFarmDemocrat Blanche Lincoln To Obama: Stop Regulating: IBD
October Leaf vs. Volt Sales: Daily Bayonet
Media
Judge Richard Goldstone’s Mea Culpa, in the Pages of the New York Times!: PJMNYTimes pretends Corzine isn't a Democrat Obama donor: Exam
Convicted Sex Offender Arrested for Rape of 14 Year Old at Occupy Dallas: VS
Gabbi Gifford Liberals Create Video In Which They Violently Murder "Republicans" (Warning, Graphic): PunditPress
Editor Shortage Showing at L.A. Times: Patterico
Four Lily White Liberals Smear a Black Man: AT
World
Egypt's Massacre of Christians: What the Media Does Not Want You To Know: IbrahimNemesis: Beward Greeks Bearing Gifts: Belmont Club
Greece Replaces Top Brass; Is Papandreou Preparing for a Military Coup or Afraid of One?: Mish
The White Aborigines of the Post-Racial Left : Knish
Democracy Is Impossible: Williams
US Professor: "Death To Israel": JoshuaPundit
Fast cars and loose fiscal morals: more Porsches in Greece than taxpayers declaring 50K incomes: Telegraph
Fury in Germany after Greek referendum call: Reuters
S. Korea Plans $50B Fund for Reunification: Bloomberg
Sci-Tech
UK Cops Using Fake Mobile Phone Tower to Intercept Calls, Shut Off Phones: WiredThe iPhone 4S battery problem: USA Today
Twitter App --- Review: Wired
Cornucopia
U.S. Glossed Over Cancer Concerns Associated with Airport X-ray Scanners: BruceMother of ‘Six Billionth Kid’ Blasts Deadbeat UN: Camelback
Something to Offend Everyone: C&S
Image: Michelle Malkin
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate
QOTD: "Whether Greece defaults or gets bailed out one mo' time doesn't really matter: It's insolvent, and there isn't enough money in Germany to obscure that fact indefinitely. The longer "political reality" tries to dodge real reality, the bloodier the eventual reacquaintance will be. Europeans are going to have to relearn impulses three generations of Continentals have learned to regard as hopelessly vulgar. Can they do that? A land of 30-year-old students and 50-year-old retirees has so thoroughly diverted the great stream of life that it barely comprehends what's at stake. " --Mark Steyn
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Holder Justice Department on Both Sides of Obamacare's Tax Status
Well, this figures:
I'm so surprised that a 2,200-page bill that no one read could cause this much confusion.
In anticipation of the Supreme Court choosing to hear the suits filed against the federal health care reform law, referred to by critics often as “ObamaCare”, the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice is pointing to issues they think the justices should address. Although the administration is alleging the penalty for running afoul of the law’s individual mandate should not be considered a tax, they have previously argued the penalty is a tax......This seemingly contradictory stance raises a significant issue … Read more here and here.
I'm so surprised that a 2,200-page bill that no one read could cause this much confusion.
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