Saturday, December 17, 2011

Good News: Unions Days Away From Getting Ambush Elections Thanks to Radical Obama Labor Board

Business Management Daily reports:

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently moved one step closer to changes that would give employers much less time to react to union organizing efforts... and make it easier for organizers to gain a toehold in your workplace.

The NLRB is racing to finalize those new election rules—which opponents call “quickie” or “ambush” elections—before an end-of-December deadline. Why the rush? The currently three-member NLRB will likely lose its quorum status with the Jan. 1 term expiration of Craig Becker, a pro-union member of the board.

...the board [forward with its man revision to] shorten the time from the filing of the election petition until the actual election is held.

It’s estimated that the time between an organizing petition and a full union election—currently averaging about 38 days—could be cut in half if this NLRB proposal is finalized.

Advice: If these NLRB rules become final this month, unions will feel emboldened to start organizing drives in previously union-free workplaces

Should this rule go through, the effects on businesses will be -- mark my words -- catastrophic.

These Democrat hacks need to be flushed from office in 2012, at every level of government, if we are to save this country.


Shocking: Gov. Perry Receives Pension Along With Salary (Shhh: No One Discuss Michelle's $200K Raise After Hubby Was Elected to Senate)

Well, this is a stunning revelation (if you're a left-wing hack with a hate on for the U.S. Constitution):

Gov. Rick Perry is double-dipping, drawing retirement income from the state in addition to his salary as governor since late January, newly released records show.

Perry's move to begin drawing from his pension early this year while remaining governor, which his staff says is legal and consistent with state retirement rules, was unknown to the public until federal financial disclosures were made public on Friday.

...The governor's gross annual salary is $150,000; his net salary is $133,000. The net monthly annuity check Perry started receiving Jan. 31 is $7,698. Combined, his net pay from the state is now more than $225,000 annually.

To put this into perspective, the media was curiously silent regarding the timing of a raise of nearly $200,000 that Michelle Obama received after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate.

Below you'll find a helpful chart and timeline explaining Michelle Obama's ultra-critical position at the University of Chicago Hospital (UCH), a position coincidentally created just after her husband's election to the Senate... and dissolved just minutes after she resigned to move into the White House.

Sandwiched, of course, by Sen. Obama's $1M earmark to UCH.

In 2002, Michelle Obama was hired by the University of Chicago Hospital as its "Executive Director for Community Affairs" at a salary of approximately $120,000.

In January of 2005, Barack Obama was sworn in as a United States Senator. "Coincidentally", in March of 2005, Michelle Obama was promoted to "Vice President for Community and External Affairs" and her salary bumped nearly $200,000 (from $121,910 to $316,962). This position was "newly created" for Mrs. Obama.

In February of 2006, Barack Obama requested a $1 million earmark for a new hospital pavilion at the University of Chicago.

Effective 9 January 2009, Michelle Obama resigned her position at UCH. And just five days later, effective 14 January 2009, Michelle Obama's VP position was eliminated, its functions absorbed into another executive's position. This prompted business writer Don Rose to ask "[If] that work can be folded into another guy’s, why was it separate in the first place?"

Operating with this kind of blatant double standard, you simply have to wonder how legacy media stays in business.

Although given their declining subscriber base, that question may be strictly rhetorical.


New EPA rule will cost each taxpaying American $280

By the EPA's own admission, power plants will have to spend $10.6 billion over the next four years to meet new, more stringent standards for anti-pollution controls. The EPA says that these measures will "save $59 billion to $140 billion in annual health costs, preventing 17,000 premature deaths a year along with illnesses and lost workdays."

Of course, just how those ridiculous figures were arrived at is anyone's guess, because the EPA doesn't make that research readily available. Think about it: those statistics are, at face value, patently false. We have 17,000 premature deaths a year thanks to dirty air? Sure we do. And a secret town in Kansas is the source of all baby unicorns.

No, this is another step to de-industrialize America and to "fundamentally transform" our nation into some sort of backwater country. Maybe it's payback, our chickens coming home to roost, in the words of one Jeremiah Wright, Jr.

All that said, what's the impact of these outrageous rules on Americans?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 153,683,000 civilians in the workforce (as of Nov. 2011).

Let's assume that each of these private sector employees are responsible for an equal amount of the EPA's egregious tolls. But Doug, you might say, don't public sector employees also have to pay these bills? Sure, but since the public sector is funded entirely by the private sector, they don't count in this calculation.

Furthermore, only half of workers pay net taxes to the government.

Here's what the EPA's disgusting new rules will cost each of us: $140. Every American will have to pay an additional $140 (really, figure double that because of markup and government inefficiency in these estimates) for the privilege of attaining some arbitrary new air-cleanliness standard that has no merit and no scientific basis.

Kind of like the billions we piss away on the global warming scam.

This administration simply must be turned out of office in 2012 if we are to save this country.


Larwyn's Linx: Inside Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters

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Nation

Inside Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters: Atlas
Wisconsin, the Slave State: Wizbang
World War II and the Genesis of ObamaCare: AT

Dems Cave on Keystone XL: Ace
Obama: Honor Returning Troops By Passing My Jobs Bill: RWN
The Gospel According To Wright: AmSpec

Crips infiltrate, threaten U.S. Army post: C&S
Let's Not Hang Ourselves Quite Yet: Ace
Ron Paul: Not Ready for Prime Time: SAB

Economy

Ryan’s Medicare reform: antidote to financial Armageddon: Peth
A Democrat Reaches Across the Aisle on Medicare: Barone
Keystone cops president: JOM

Obama’s Policies Are Gutting the Middle Class: Blumer
The Supply-Siders Are Right: McArdle
Fed Foreign Bank Lifelines May Hit $1T, Congress Told: BizWk

Gunrunner & Energygate

Happy Birthday Chevy Volt...: Tatler
Eric Holder's continued obfuscation on Fast and Furious: DMN
GOP candidates: Eric Holder must go: CBS

Climate & Energy

Chevy Volt Fleet Sales: More Evidence of GM Deception?: NLPC
33-Year Temp Update: Well Below Computer Predictions: Reason
Canada Withdraws From The Kyoto Convention: ZH

Media

The Results Are In: The Best of the Worst Media Bias Quotes of 2011: NB
I Don’t Want to Hear Another Bleepin’ Word About ‘Reckless Policies of the Past’: BizzyBlog
AP Poll: Obamacare support hits record low of 29%: Exam

Conservative Bloggers - the Chopped Liver of the Right: Zilla
Media Matters: Desperate to Deflect From Charges of Antisemitism: Loesch
Shall We Ask Jennifer Rubin Who Won The Debate? Oh, Why Bother: Riehl

Regardless of what they told you in school, FDR sucked: NoisyRm
Dem congressman: We ‘didn’t know what the hell was going on’ when we passed Obama stimulus: DC
Double Standard: Patriot Allen West vs. Barack Milhaus Obama: Marooned

World

Russia’s North Korean slaves: Toldjah
Federal judge: Iran shares responsibility for 9/11 attacks: Timmerman
What's Up in China: Hint, It's Not War With the U.S.: Fallows

Another tack: The poison in the well: Honig
Pictures from the Arab Spring: Cairo is a war-zone again: Insider
Islamic scholar: "Saying Merry Christmas is worse then fornication or killing someone": JihadWatch

Eurozone: Failing Statists Prescribe…More Statism: PJM
European banks stuck with major losses not marked to market; expect conditions to worsen: Mish
French attack on British economy is 'unacceptable', says Nick Clegg: Telegraph

Sci-Tech

Chrome scores a victory in the browser wars: CNet
Microsoft Makes Keyboard for iPad: Wired
Is Working Good for Mom's Health?: WSJ

Cornucopia

Is This Hell? No, It's Iowa: Iowahawk
Looking for a book, but can't find it?: LaughingCon
Ron Paul Presidential Limousine Proposals?: iOTW

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

QOTD: "...millions of Europeans, particularly in the southern states, are being condemned to decades of high taxes and high unemployment, while having to work longer than they’d expected for reduced pensions and enduring swinging cuts to public services. But all the while the elites will keep pressing for ever-closer union — assuring their citizens that however bad things seem now, they’d be worse off outside the eurozone. British Foreign Secretary William Hague’s warning, made when he opposition leader back in 1998, that a European single currency area would become “a burning building with no exits,” has been thoroughly vindicated.

In the U.S., meanwhile, there’s growing concern both over the level of banks’ exposure to European debt, and the prospect of a default or another credit rating downgrade on the continent causing a new credit crunch and plunging the country back into recession. But whatever the immediate consequences, the crisis engulfing Europe might at least help to persuade Americans that they need to step back from the edge of the statist abyss to which President Obama has led them." --Mike McNally

Friday, December 16, 2011

Photo: Stress Taking Its Toll on Former Democrat Presidential Candidate John Edwards

Former Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards faces charges of using illegal campaign funds to hide an extramarital affair. His trial is ready to begin within the next several weeks and -- as you can see -- the stress has taken quite a toll on Silky Pony:


Edwards is alleged to have taken a million dollars from two wealthy campaign contributors to help cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, which resulted in a love child.


* Our lawyers tell us that the accompanying photograph may not be real.

Once again discrimination rears its ugly head [Papa B]

Papa B:



Will it never end?


Obama: I'm only the 4th most awesome president in history (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Truman, JFK, Reagan hardest hit)

Humility:

60 Minutes Broadcast Edits Out Laughable Obama Claim as 4th Best President


George Washington was the father of our country.

Eh! No big deal. Barack Obama is better...at least in his own mind. Such was the laughably absurd claim of President Obama on 60 Minutes last Sunday. What? You didn't see it? That was because 60 Minutes conveniently left it out of its broadcast...

KROFT: Tell me, what do you consider your major accomplishments? If this is your last speech. What have you accomplished?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, we're not done yet. I've got five more years of stuff to do. But not only saving this country from a great depression. Not only saving the auto industry. But putting in place a system in which we're gonna start lowering health care costs and you're never gonna go bankrupt because you get sick or somebody in your family gets sick. Making sure that we have reformed the financial system, so we never again have taxpayer-funded bailouts, and the system is more stable and secure. Making sure that we've got millions of kids out here who are able to go to college because we've expanded student loans and made college more affordable. Ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Decimating al Qaeda, including Bin Laden being taken off the field. Restoring America's respect around the world.

The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president -- with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln -- just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.


...One can only guess just how extensive the trademark Kroft look of bemused skepticism would have covered his face if, say, George W. Bush had made the same claim of presidential greatness. When Obama makes it, the laughable claim just gets edited out of the broadcast even though it was by far the highlight of the interview.

I think this nicely summarizes the bizarre worldview of the radical Left and legacy media. But I repeat myself.


Statement from Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Eric Holder's Lawless Behavior

Attorney General Eric Holder has gone all in. Not only is he neck-deep in Murdergate and Kagangate, but he is also trying to make an example of Sheriff Joe Arpaio for the lawman's willingness to enforce federal immigration law.

Arpaio's statement (PDF) is one for the history books.

On the surface, it may appear that today’s findings and actions by our federal government are directed towards this Sheriff and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The truth of the matter is that this is a sad day for America as a whole.

Today, the federal government moved to do everything it can to put this agency out of the illegal immigration enforcement business.

We are proud of the work we have done to fight illegal immigration. We have been responsible for finding and identifying 25% of the nation’s illegal alien criminal offenders through the 287G program. Sadly, much of that work will no longer be permitted by the Obama administration.

Today the federal government cancelled our 287 G agreement. What that means is that we are no longer able to verify the immigration status of any criminal offender brought into our jails. This was a program responsible for detecting over 44,000 illegal alien criminal offenders since 2007, many of whom we can assume were deported by ICE officials back to their country of origin. [Ed: Knowing this administration, I'd say that's wishful thinking.]

Now with the cancellation of this agreement, illegal criminal offenders arrested and brought into my jails will go undetected and ultimately dumped back onto a street near you. For that, you can thank your federal government. By their actions today, President Obama and his band of merry men might as well erect their very own pink neon sign at the Arizona-Mexico border saying "Welcome All Illegals to your United States." Our home is your home.

On Sept 28, 2011, President Obama was questioned at the White House, by Hispanic journalist and asked why there was no resolution in the civil rights investigation against me for allegedly racially profiling Hispanics. He stated that he had to be careful to comment on individual cases handled by the DOJ. The president stated he challenged the AZ Law (1070) that was supported by me, because he thought there was a great danger of naturalized citizens with Latino surnames could potentially be vulnerable to questioning. It is interesting that after 100 days in Office by President Obama, that the Democrat Chairmen of the judiciary Committee in Congress initiated this investigation.

After all this time, the head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, who reports to Attorney General Holder, held a press conference December 15, 2011, which is 2 days after the Supreme Court agreed to accept the 1070 lawsuit. It’s also interesting that Perez came to Phoenix for the press conference on the anniversary of the brave border patrol agent Brian Terry’s death, who was killed because of the failed Justice department’s “Fast and Furious” case, which is presently holding hearings this week on Attorney General Eric Holder. Just this week, 2 Democrat Latino US Congress men from Arizona, joined by several other Latino Legislatures want me to resign my office. All of these same Democratic elected officials, throughout the years, have been criticizing my enforcement of State and Federal Illegal immigration laws...

...We have a civil rights racial profiling case brought by the ACLU, which will be before a federal judge with oral argument on summary judgment next week. Is the DOJ press conference, among other reasons, geared to poison the court against our position in this civil rights case?

Question for John Boehner: how many more offenses against the American citizenry must Eric Holder commit before the Republican leadership begins impeachment proceedings?


Times are tough, but you shouldn't skimp on a fire alarm [Papa B]

Papa B:



Good News: EPA Funding Modern Dance Troupe

But there's nothing to cut.

A small troupe of highly trained dancers will soon appear before Salt Lake City schoolchildren gliding, leaping and twisting into shapes that intend to teach them about air pollution and the environment.

The program is funded by a federal grant... [namely] $25,000 that the Environmental Protection Agency awarded Monday to the Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) as part of its environmental-justice grants.

All told, the EPA handed out more than $1 million to 46 nonprofit and tribal programs.

This country is headed for fiscal calamity -- and that's not me saying it, it's President Obama's former chief economic adviser, Peter Orszag! -- and I can come to no other conclusion that it's intentional.


Image: Earth Beat Radio.

Outrage over West's Goebbels remark (Obama likening the U.S. to Nazi Germany on NPR remains in memory hole, however)

Please consider this report from The Hill:

Dems call on Rep. West to apologize for Joseph Goebbels comparison


Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) landed in hot water on Friday for his remarks the previous day comparing the Democrats’ proficiency in getting out their message to the notorious head of the Nazi Party’s propaganda department under Hitler.

“If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party, because they have an incredible propaganda machine,” West said Thursday... “Shame on him,” tweeted Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.). “Rep. West needs to apologize now for insulting the memories of the millions who lost their lives during the Holocaust.”

Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) also called on West to apologize.

Curiously, these Democrat hacks were utterly silent when then-candidate Barack Obama was revealed to have compared the United States to Nazi Germany during an NPR interview.

None other than Charles (or the "Chuckster", as he prefers to be known) Johnson of LGF -- then in the patriotic phase of his career -- discovered Obama tarring America as a fascist regime.

The audio recording of Barack Obama espousing his socialist philosophy of “redistribution of wealth” is all over the internet and Fox News today (although the other media outlets are ignoring it), but there’s another disturbing section on that tape that has so far escaped notice.

The link to the audio is here: Chicago Public Radio - Audio Library: Odyssey.

At about 15:30, Obama compares what was going on in the United States during the time of Brown vs. the Board of Education to ... Nazi Germany. Yes, really. Here’s the quote:

“...just to take a, sort of a realist perspective...there’s a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you’ve got World War II, you’ve got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what we have going on, back here at home.”

There you have it. America is close to electing a President that compares his own country to Nazi Germany.

Countdown to media analysis of Obama's egregious statements in: 3... 2... never.


Larwyn's Linx: Pity Poor Jon Corzine

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Nation

Pity Poor Jon Corzine: FSM
Nancy Pelosi: Down and Dirty: Malkin
Bachmann smashes Paul over suicidal foreign policy: Scoop

DOJ: Arizona Sheriff Arpaio violated federal law: Times
Obama NDAA Bill allows indefinite detention without trial: CBS
Gingrich, GOP Rivals Split On Foreign Policy: IBD

Ron Paul's Earmark Problem: Ace
Second Look, Santorum?: Riehl
Mayor Says Occupy Seattle Have Become Too Violent: VS

Economy

Q&A with Paul Ryan on his new Medicare reform plan: Peth
Obama’s economic historical ignorance: Q&O
Report: MF's Corzine Made Lots of Calls to the Fed: Ace

Pelosi: Extending Unemployment Creates ‘600,000 Jobs’: CNS
Michelle’s Solo Hawaii Trip Likely to Exceed $100,000: Dossier
Tell Roubini that the case for gold hasn't changed: Shedlock

Gunrunner & Energygate

Obama’s Watergate: Officials cover up culpability for gun smuggling and murder: Times
Jet-Fuel Gate: The next Solyndra takes wing.: Hayward
Perry on Fast & Furious: If I were president I’d have Holder resign immediately: Scoop

Climate & Energy

Obama's Justice Department joins Britain's 'Climategate' leaker manhunt: Exam
Climategate: Obama's boot boys strike back: Delingpole
Spending bill blocks light bulb standards: Politico

Media

Townhall/Hot Air primary results: Gingrich 36.5, Romney 18.8, Paul 17.7, Bachmann 17.4: Hot Air
Media Matters sucks: JPA
Barbara Boxer, once again, demonstrates that she is an idiot, a shill, or both: Fox

In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011: Hot Air
OccuMom Tries To Stop Train With 4 Year Old Daughter: Spew
A Voter's Guide to Republicans: Whittle

About Those Self-Evident Truths: DLim
I think that you should watch this Rick Perry video: Lane
Giuliani Brings His Knife to Morning Shows to Carve Up Romney: ABC

World

Islamists Ready To Pounce As U.S. Lowers Flag In Iraq: IBD
Thoughts on the End of The Iraq War: AmSpec
Idiot Lib Rabbi: A Tim Tebow Win Will Cause Christians to Burn Mosques, Bash Gays: Publius

Chinese neighborhood tries to ban veils and Arab clothing: Blaze
China Skids Towards Hard Landing; Hot Money Outflows Increase; Risk of Devastating Trade Wars Increases: Mish
Inside Wukan: the Chinese village that fought back: Telegraph

The U.S. could be out $1 trillion if the euro zone collapses: Peth
Who’s REALLY Blowing Up Iran?: Ledeen
Come home, little drone: Iran bags a big one: GWP

Sci-Tech

U.S. Teens Triple Data Usage: TechCrunch
Congress Authorizes Pentagon to Wage Internet War: Wired
An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Galaxy Nexus: TechCrunch

Zeitgeist 2011: How the world searched: Google Blog
We're watching: malls track shopper's cell phone signals to gather marketing data: ArsTech
Hubble Captures Violent Birth Pangs of Enormous Star: Wired

Cornucopia

Rider On the Storm: Ace
Britons 'drunk in three quarters of Facebook photos': Telegraph
Schools bans Christmas cookies, cakes, candy bars, and soda: CBS Boston

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

QOTD: "To review: The UK police and the US DOJ, Criminal Division, are pursuing a leaker of public records subject to one or more FOIA, records that were unlawfully withheld under those laws, which leaks indicate apparent civil violations (tortious interference by seeking dismissal of certain “skeptics”), and raising reasonable questions of fraud against taxpayers.

And they are pursuing the leaker." --Christopher C. Horner

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Papa B's Christmas Decorations



Holder DOJ, with no pressing matters to deal with, pursues Climategate leakers in the United Kingdom

The Holder Justice Department, having stonewalled Congressional investigations of Murdergate and Kagangate, appears to have a lot of spare time on its hands.

So much so that it is investigating Climategate -- the release of emails that show scientists hiding, destroying and changing data to fit the global warming agenda.

I have learned that last week DOJ sent a search-and-seizure letter to the host of three climate-change "skeptic" blogs. Last night, UK police raided a blogger’s home and removed computers and equipment.

The leaked [Climategate] records derailed “cap-and-trade” legislation in the U.S. and, internationally, as well as talks for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. The emails and computer code were produced with taxpayer funds and held on taxpayer-owned computers both in the US and the UK, and all were subject to the UK Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and state FOIA laws.

They also were being unlawfully withheld in both the UK (by the University of East Anglia) and the U.S. (Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including stonewalling me for two years, and three other requesters for longer).

...In the U.S., the academic and political Left have had fits about Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli exercising even more specific, anti-fraud authority to seek further records from University of Virginia in following up on indications from the first Climategate release of possible fraud against the taxpayer.

Apparently, that represented an abuse of the police power. No word yet if they are outraged by DOJ’s current foray or that of the UK raiding team.

...This is a case which has members of the Virginia faculty and establishment beside themselves and demanding an all-out effort to oppose production of the requested documents in an effort to wear us and Cuccinelli down.

So far UVA has spent upwards of $1 million fighting Cuccinelli’s request, and school officials continue to fight us in court every step of the way.

Clearly, this is no small matter in the quarters insisting that this taxpayer-financed information never see the light of day. Even the criminal legal apparatus of the U.S. and UK must be invoked against this threat, apparently.

To review: The UK police and the US DOJ, Criminal Division, are pursuing a leaker of public records subject to one or more FOIA, records that were unlawfully withheld under those laws, which leaks indicate apparent civil violations (tortious interference by seeking dismissal of certain “skeptics”), and raising reasonable questions of fraud against taxpayers.

And they are pursuing the leaker.

But the law works both ways. Former Margaret Thatcher adviser Christopher Lord Monckton is pursuing his own brand of justice.

Now that six policemen from the Norfolk and Metropolitan forces have invaded the home and “borrowed” the computers of “Tallbloke”, the first blogger in the UK to reveal the existence of the 5000 Climategate 2.0 emails, you may ask why the British police seem so much more interested in tracking down and punishing the whistle-blower/“thief” than in dealing with the many crimes by crooked IPCC “scientists” that the emails expose.

...What offenses have been committed? Serious frauds, that's what. Some of the most prominent Climategate emailers appear, on the face of the evidence in the emails, to be engaged with each other and with others in an elaborate series of connected deceptions calculated to enrich themselves and their associates, impoverish everyone else and destroy key industries and national economies wholesale by systematically and often greatly exaggerating the supposed threat and costs of anthropogenic “global warming”, the certainty of the science that underlies the IPCC's claims, and the effectiveness of the various methods proposed for the attempted mitigation of anthropogenic “global warming”, while correspondingly understating the benefits of that warming and the costs of its attempted mitigation.

...In many jurisdictions, fraud is a common-law offense: that of obtaining a pecuniary advantage for oneself, or inflicting a pecuniary disadvantage upon another, by deception. The twin tests are money gain or loss, and deception.

...Suppose that the lead author of an IPCC chapter admits that he allowed a flagrantly incorrect value to appear in the Fourth Assessment Report because “I wanted to influence governments”, and suppose that notwithstanding the objections of the “reviewers” the erroneous value was printed, and suppose that for several months the IPCC, at the highest levels, tried to conceal the deception. That is fraud.

...In each instance, the perpetrators of the fraud will be named and their roles described.

Read the whole thing.


Detention Notice [Papa B]

Papa B:



No Offense, But Republicans Can't Be the 'Stupid Party' With Nancy Pelosi Saying Stuff Like This

Moronic, botox-addicted, Statist hacks hardest hit.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that extending unemployment benefits would add “600,000 jobs to our economy.”

She also said that the money from unemployment benefits creates a “safety net” for the U.S. economy because it “injects demand into the economy -- creating jobs.”

...“The unemployment insurance extension is not only good for individuals. It has a macroeconomic impact. As macroeconomic advisers have stated, it would make a difference of 600,000 jobs to our economy.”

Pelosi did not name those “macroeconomic advisers.”...

Of course not, because those -- ahem -- advisers' names all start with the letter K and end with rugman. You know, the same nincompoop who was lauding Europe's economic model just two short years ago.

Sorry, folks, RINOs are plenty dumb, but they can't compete with this trio of Democrat leaders:

• Harry Reid -- a man with a truly feeble, if not failing, mind. Each day he seems more and more likely to give an incoherent, rambling speech (remember "cowboy poetry"?). For that reason, he is prohibited from speaking to the public without Chuck Schumer standing next to him, usually with a hand up the back of Reid's shirt like a ventriloquist.

• Nancy Pelosi -- a woman who's had so much work done on her face that her eyes appear ready to pop right out of her head -- has made tens of millions of dollars over the last few years thanks to insider trading crony capitalism savvy investing. And she's going to teach us how to create jobs.

• Finally, Barack Obama -- a man who has no transcripts from Occidental College, no transcripts from Columbia University, no transcripts from Harvard, no thesis papers, no law practice client list, no state senate records, and no ex-girlfriends -- but he's going to tell us how much electricity is going to cost, what kind of health care we should receive, what kind of cars we need to drive, how much our credit-card fees must be, why we shouldn't drill or refine oil, and why we should borrow trillions of dollars from the Chinese government to give to his public sector union boss buddies (hint: so it goes back into his reelection campaign coffers).

No, my friends, you can call the establishment Republicans many things, but only a claque with Pelosi, Obama and Reid in charge can be called "the Stupid Party".


Tales From the Obamaconomy: Debtors' Prisons Make a Comeback

The perfect complement to today's report that "1 in 2 Americans are now poor or low income" is the fact that Dickensian debtors' prisons are returning to America.

As if life wasn't already tense enough for Americans who can't pay their debts, collection agencies are now taking advantage of archaic state laws to have some debtors arrested and sent to jail. More than one-third of US states allow debtors to be arrested and jailed, says Jessica Silver-Greenberg in the Wall Street Journal.

...Of course, the reason debtors have failed to make court-ordered payments is often the same reason they didn't pay their debts in the first place: They don't have any money... In September, a 53 year-old woman named Vivian Joy was stopped for a broken tail-light in Champaign, Illinois. And then, because the cops discovered that she still hadn't paid $2,200 to a collection agency, she was cuffed and carted off to jail.

Joy's excuse? She doesn't have any money.

Jailing debtors for not paying their debts is apparently especially popular in Illinois...

Since the state of Illinois itself is months late paying $4.8 billion to its vendors and suppliers, my question is this: when does Governor Quinn and the rest of the Democrat machine get thrown in the clink to share cells with Bubba and Rodney?


Larwyn's Linx: DOJ: Kagan ‘Substantially Participated’ in Obamacare

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Nation

DOJ: Kagan ‘Substantially Participated’ in Obamacare: CNS
Not Over: Pundette
Constitution, Anyone? Obama to Rule… Without Congress: Foundry

Working at Wal-Mart: Why We Need Welfare Reform: CC
Obama Campaign Asks For Republicans’ Names: Nice Deb
Exactly What Is Crony Capitalism, Anyway?: RCM

Republicans: Racist, Sexist, Homophobic — and Elitist: Elder
Little Progress on Key Bills After Leaders Meet: Roll Call
New Haven mayor: Let illegal immigrants vote!: Hot Air

Economy

“The real 99 percent can’t afford the Occupiers”: ProWis
Improving the Horrifying Heritage Chart: Bizzy
Corzine: the truth. Rezko: whitewashed with emotion.: Geeez

How much down the UAW hole again?: Eggs
Public School Teachers Are Highest Paid State Workers: CNS
Obamacare costs 100,000 jobs in January: Surber

Realtors Double-Counted Home Sales For Last 5 Years: SHN
Witness: Democrat Jon Corzine Knew: Daily Beast
Citi: Gold $3K-6K In "The Next Two Years": ZH

Gunrunner & Energygate

Documents Show Justice's Breuer Misled On 'Furious': IBD
The murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry: One year ago today: Malkin
Terry family marks one year anniversary of death of their son, Brian Terry, murdered border patrol agent: Attkisson

Climate & Energy

Hang Keystone Around His Scrawny Neck: Cold Fury
UK police seize computers of skeptic blogger in England: Watts
EPA Air Toxics Rule Will Close Some W.Va. Power Plants by 2015: StateJournal

Media

Mark Levin calls out Krauthammer, Will, Coulter, and Rubin: Scoop
Perry Would Be A Better Change Agent Than Gingrich: Riehl
Time’s POTY: “The Protester”: Hot Air

Tom Friedman, hitting rock bottom: JRubin
MSNBC's Klan Smear Of Romney So Slimy, Even Sharpton Shuns It: NB
MSNBC’s “Appalling Lack of Judgment”: Bruce

Adolf Hitler & Mickey Mouse Recall Petition Signatures Ruled OK: Urbanski
Obama’s latest ’60 Minutes’ interview: Thomas
Research: Fewer Americans Are Tying the Knot: WSJ

World

The Shocking Truth about Lowe's and All American Muslim: JihadWatch
Take Your Sharia and Shove It, Long Live Punk Rock Edition: Zilla
European Banks Stop Serving American Customers: Spiegel

State Dept pays off 56-nation Islamic coalition for truce on free speech: Creeping
U.S. authorities probing alleged cyberattack plot by Venezuela, Iran: Times
Opponents in Philadelphia say bill on Sharia law unfair to Muslims: Newsworks

Unprecedented Uprising in Chinese Village Chases Out Communist Party: RSM
The Hundred Years’ German War: Hanson
The Real Scandal Regarding Newt's Words: IBD

Sci-Tech

Why Microsoft suddenly wants its software on the iPad: CNet
New Armed Stealth Drone Heads to Afghanistan (And Maybe Iran, Too): Wired
Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at U.S. Airports: SciAm

Cornucopia

The Truth about Violence: 3 Principles of Self-Defense: Sam Harris
Freeway explosion: Tanker truck fire may close 60 for days: LAT
Drowning in the Shallowness of it All: MOTUS

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

QOTD: "Are we in a situation where every day rockets are fired into Israel, while in the U.S. the current administration tries to pressure the Israelis into a peace process? Hamas does not admit the right of Israel to exist, and says publicly not a single Jew will remain. The Palestinian Authority Ambassador to India said last month there is no difference between Fatah and Hamas: We both agree Israel has no right to exist.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth: These people are terrorists, they teach terrorism in their schools. They have textbooks that say, 'If there are 13 Jews and 9 Jews are killed, how many Jews are left?' We pay for these textbooks through our aid money.

It's fundamentally time for somebody to have the guts to say, 'Enough lying about the Middle East.'" --Newt Gingrich

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Sweet Fancy Moses: Obama Stimulus Signs Even Pollute the Grand Canyon

There really are no limits for the Obama propaganda machine.

They want you to know that they... did something or other to improve the Grand Freaking Canyon. I guess they made it more magnificent by dint of the Great Leader's imprimatur.

People like myself travel to places such as Grand Canyon National Park to enjoy the natural beauty of God's creation. So imagine my disappointment when Mrs. Marathon Pundit and I--not even 500 yards inside the park--encounter an Obama stimulus campaign sign.

I've seen these signs in Yosemite and Mesa Verde national parks.

Five million people visit Grand Canyon National Park, most of them enter the park at the South Rim entrance, where this sign stands.

Doesn't this strike you as the kind of thing Hugo Chavez would do?

And at the rate we're going, Venezuela may be our next stop on the economic totem pole.


USA Today: Electricity Prices Necessarily Skyrocket

Remember how, in May of 2009, the president said that, "under my plan... electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket"?

Well, I'm sure the "middle class" -- whoever that is -- appreciates the one campaign promise that Barack Obama kept.

Electric bills have skyrocketed in the last five years, a sharp reversal from a quarter-century when Americans enjoyed stable power bills even as they used more electricity...

...Households paid a record $1,419 on average for electricity in 2010, the fifth consecutive yearly increase above the inflation rate, a USA TODAY analysis of government data found. The jump has added about $300 a year to what households pay for electricity. That's the largest sustained increase since a run-up in electricity prices during the 1970s...

...Electricty [sic] is consuming a greater share of Americans' after-tax income than at any time since 1996 — about $1.50 of every $100 in income at a time when income growth has stagnated, a USA TODAY analysis of Bureau of Economic Analysis data found...

...High taxes, limits on air-polluting fuels and the expense of maintaining an underground transmission system keep consumer costs high, says ConEd spokesman Chris Olert.

But then again, maybe USA Today is some kind of propaganda arm for the right wing Visigoths.

Or perhaps the EPA is just an out-of-control, unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy bent on de-industrializing America in pursuit of the United Nations' thrice-debunked climate scam.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.