Saturday, February 11, 2012

Must-Read Transcript -- Breitbart at CPAC: This Is Not Your Mother's Democratic Party

Transcript by Biff Spackle, Junior Cub Reporter:

Right now, my Twitter feed is already calling me a big fat homosexual. Hello, children at home. No, your Dad's not gay. That's how the Left rolls.

Everybody asks me: why do you retweet? Why do you do that? ...In fact, there's probably no one in the world I respect more than Professor Hugh Hewitt and the other day he took me aside. He said, "I don't think you should do that, Andrew." Well, Professor Hewitt, on this issue I disagree.

Because they've held over our heads -- with contempt -- the false narrative of their innate tolerance. The least tolerant people you'll ever meet in your entire lives -- I know it, I live it every day. And I retweet it to remind them that I know exactly who they are.

...This is my war cry for 2012. You need to join me in my war against the institutional left.

This is not your mother's Democratic Party... duh! John Podesta and George Soros? This is not your mother's Democratic Party You know whose party it is? ...I have a thesis about who we're fighting against on the hard left... [In college] I had no idea these [left-wing academics] people were actually serious about the malarkey they were teaching. The post-structuralist, politically correct garbage.

Unfortunately in 2004, the radical Left [executed] a coup d'etat of the Democratic Party. And basically kicked a person -- that four years was called 'the standard-bearer of decency in the Democratic Party'. And that person was Joe Lieberman.

That was the end of the Democratic Party. And in 2010, the DLC went under.

There's no such thing as a moderate Democrat. And so what do we get now, in Barack Obama?

In this election we're going to vet him


I've got videos, by the way, and in this election we're going to vet him. I've got videos. This election we're going to vet him. From his college days, to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what 'hope and change' was sold in 2008.

The videos are going to come out. The narrative is going to come out: that Barack Obama met a bunch of silver pony-tails [left wing academics] back in the 1980s, like Bill [Ayers] and Bernadine Dohrn who said "one day, we're going to have the presidency.'

And the rest of us slept while they plotted and they plotted and they plotted. And they oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in the Annenberg Challenge, from real capitalists, who gave it to their children and their children's children [who] then became communists. We've got to work on that...

Barack Obama is a radical and we should not be afraid to say it. And Barack Obama was launched from Bill and Bernadine's salon... it became self-evident to me that [Obama enjoyed] many a meal there... And don't tell me, ABC, CBS and NBC that I can't posit that theory, because it is a self-evident truth. Just like it was a self-evident truth that he was with Jeremiah Wright. And just as it was a self-evident truth that when he was at Harvard, he was advocating for the worst of the worst to join the faculty. Radicals. Radicals at "Beirut on the Charles".

And that who's in the White House. And that's who's outside right now [the Occupy movement] telling you that you don't have a right to be here. They would squelch your free speech just as easily as they do at Harvard, Vassar, Yale, Wesleyan - they're a bunch of totalitarian freaks.

The media can no longer be called objective journalists


And they pal around with our friends in the mainstream media. I always thought the media leaned to the left... but when they act like a Provost at a politically correct university and tell people to shut up, [then] no longer can they be called objective journalists. They're playing for the other side.

They've been part of demonizing good and decent people. They tried to defeat the Tea Party and when they failed, just like when they tried to create a [leftist] Rush Limbaugh and they failed with Air America, they want what they can't have. They wanted what they could not have and what did they create?

They created the "Occupy Movement". What is the Occupy Movement, you may ask? It's a natural, organic group of people -- you've never seen before in your life. Wait a sec-- these exact people protested against you at the GOP Welcoming Committee in 2008-- and two of them were arrested for planting Molotov cocktails. [These] are radicals against the police, radicals against you, exactly like Occupy, the same exact people, the same people who organized "Camp Casey" in Crawford, these are the same exact people who went down the highway at the end of the summer when Katrina happened, created Occupy New Orleans.

It's the same radicals, they've been in your life since 'Senator Obama' became part of your vocabulary. They are at war with you. They attack you. They throw eggs at you. And -- guess what? -- the media looks the other way. You're domestic terrorists, you know. Janet Napolitano warned me about that.

Yet when this group emerged, what happened? ...This is my thesis: the anti-war movement was never about anti-war. It was a Saul Alinsky community-organizing tool to get Barack Obama and the Left elected. It went away immediately.

The Occupy Movement is the Definition of Un-American


And the mainstream media created a narrative... Time Magazine's "Person of the Year... this is the anti-war movement! How do I know this? Because if I told this to ABC, CBS and NBC, they'd tell me it's a conspiracy theory -- that it's just a bunch of organic people. There's no organization going on, even though we have the emails to prove it. Or the undercover videos of Natasha Leonard of The New York Times organizing with the radicals. No, that didn't mean anything!

Bernadine Dohrn pointed out to me when I was snarkily asking 'What ever happened to the anti-war movement?', she let loose an affirmation of everything I know to be true. She said, "Well, that's not true... it's more or less what Occupy Wall Street is." And the mainstream media refuses to tell you that these are the same shock troops that have been ... instigating [against] us, instigating riots against the police, these people are the definition of un-American.

I don't care who our candidate is


You want a unity speech? I'll give you a unity speech. I don't care who our candidate is.

I haven't since the beginning of this... ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate!

And that's what the Tea Party is.

We are there to confront [the radical left] on behalf of our candidate!

I will march behind who ever our candidate is. Because if we don't, we lose.

There are two paths! There are two paths! One is America, the other is Occupy! One is America, the other is Occupy! And I don't care, and along the way... I've realized over the last three years that the Republican Party and the conservative movement is not what ABC, CBS and NBC put on the screen.

They try to portray you in the worst possible light... and when I travel around the United States meeting people in the Tea Party who care -- black, white, gay, straight -- anyone that's willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker, and if you're not in that bunker 'cause you're not satisfied with this candidate, more than shame on you. You're on the other side.

Erick Erickson -- you listening?


So soon? State Department warns travelers that the entire country of Mexico is, basically, a freaking war-zone

Although you wouldn't know it by the Obama administration's open-borders policy:

It’s amazing that only now do we get this serious travel warning when more people have been murdered every year in Mexico than in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s absolutely shameful that we’ve been propping up that government (remember that $2 billion we sent over last year?) and sending guns in while tens of thousands get murdered. Horrible.

Yep, no reason to build that wall. None at all.

Travel warning: Violence spreading in Mexico

Americans should avoid all but essential travel to all or parts of 14 Mexican states, the U.S. State Department warns as violence has spread. Shootouts, kidnappings and carjackings have climbed, as have cartels, also known as transnational criminal organizations (TCO), the State Department said this week in a broadened travel warning.

While millions of U.S. citizens safely visit Mexico every year, the country’s ongoing violence and security concerns pose risks for U.S. citizens, and travelers should take precautions, the State Department advises... More than 47,500 people were killed in drug-related violence in Mexico between December 2006 and September 2011, according to the State Department. While most of those murdered were involved in criminal activity, innocent people were also caught in the crossfire, the State Department said. Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared a crackdown on cartels in late 2006.

Say, I've got an idea! Let's have the ATF deliver thousands of weapons to the Mexican drug cartels. Maybe that will help!


Hat tip: BadBlue.

Pictures: Your 3rd-Grader's Social Studies Text Book, a Cornucopia of Left-Wing Crackpottery

Wondering whether elementary school students are truly indoctrinated in the left wing agenda? Well, wonder no more. They are; and it's worse -- far worse -- than you can possibly imagine.

Consider, if you will, McGraw-Hill's Our Democratic Heritage, a textbook designed for third-graders and published in 2010. If you'd assume that it was intended to teach kids about America's founding and its institutions of government, you'd assume wrong.

The book is a veritable cornucopia of left wing spin.

There is but one sentence devoted to the Bill of Rights. It reads, "These rights [of citizens] are listed in the part of the U.S. Constitution called the Bill of Rights".

• Two pages cover the Declaration of Independence
• Two pages describe the Constitution, all of which are devoted to the three branches of government and separation of powers
• No pages are devoted to James Madison and the authors of the Constitution; there is no mention of federalism
• Six pages are spent describing the background of Paul Revere
• Ten pages are devoted to the history of democracy in ancient Greece.
• George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are mentioned only in passing, almost as if they are immaterial scenery on the road to diversity and social Utopia.

In the section entitled "America's Freedom Fighters":

• Eight pages are spent covering the life of Frederick Douglass
• Five pages on Susan B. Anthony
• Six pages on Mary McLeod Bethune,
• Zero pages are devoted to the life of Abraham Lincoln

In fact, the entire Civil War is described only as a backdrop to the lives of Frederick Douglas and Mary McLeod Bethune.

In the section entitled "The Fight for Freedom Continues":

• Seven pages are spent on praise for FDR (including 2 pages on Pearl Harbor)
• Six pages on Eleanor Roosevelt
• Six pages are devoted to Thurgood Marshall
• Six pages are spent on LBJ's life and the wondrous effects of "Great Society"
• Six pages are spent on Cesar Chavez and the lionization of the labor movement

There is no list of American Presidents.

There is no mention of the two-party system, nor the fact that there exists a group called "The Republican Party".

And there is no mention of a Republican President other than Abraham Lincoln, who merits but a picture and a single sentence. In fact, you would not know from reading this book that there ever was a Republican President.

A total of four paragraphs are spent describing World War II. There is no mention of President Harry S. Truman or of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan to mercifully end World War II.

There is, of course, no mention of Ronald Reagan.

One of the goals we Constitutional conservatives must have is to regain control of our public school systems, which appear to be -- if this book is any indication -- completely out of control.


Larwyn's Linx: Breitbart: We're going to vet Obama this time around

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Nation

Breitbart: We're going to vet Obama this time around: Hot Air
The US is Morphing Into East Berlin: Pelerin
Obama Keeps Fundraiser Totals Secret: Dossier

Obama’s fraudulent abortion mandate “accommodation”: Malkin
Obama's contraception "compromise" worse than the original: WyBlog
Of course: Obama's wimmin pushed him toward HHS mandate: Pundette

Were the President’s Recess Appointments Constitutional?: AEI
'Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term': Times
How Obama Betrayed His Constituents, and Why They Won't Care: AT

Economy

Budget? Why follow a budget?: Foundry
Obamacare architect: Expect steep increase in health care premiums: DC
Rubio called it: Obama offers another ‘blank piece of paper’: Peth

Global Financial Crisis: A World In Debt: Demonocracy
Obama mandate will cost insurance companies $2.8B: ProWis
Friday News Dump: MF Corzine Actually Lost $1.6B: JWF

The Economy Grows—and with it Obama's Approval Rating: WS
Price Tag Of The Entitlement Generation: SDA
Italy doesn't need firewalls, Europe does: Monti: Reuters

GOP Primary

Santorum surges nationally after three-state sweep: Fox
Rick Santorum was 'the rock star of CPAC': JW
CPAC Video: The crowd during Santorum’s speech: ConCom

Scandal Central

Issa Wusses Out on Holder Deadline, giving me another chance to explain why I'm doing what I'm doing.: SSI
Former DEA Chief says 3 Other Federal Agencies Tried to Stop Fast and Furious: TexasInsider
John Boehner To Halt Fast And Furious Investigation?: Western

Climate & Energy

Inhofe Oversight of EPA’s $2.26 Billion in Uncommitted Funds Ongoing: CFP
11 states sue EPA over soot rules: Boston
House, Senate Lawmakers Highlight Concerns with EPA 'Sue & Settle' Tactic for Backdoor Regulation: WaterWorld

Media

Ameritopia's Mark Levin: Alarming New Issues Injected Into Presidential Race: Fox
CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Suddenly Skips Accepting Award at CPAC: NB
Dog Whistle Progressives Fabricate Racial Incident at CPAC: BigJ

SC Justice, NY Times: US Constitution Outdated and Uncool?: Mead
No MSM, Santorum Is Not A Racist: BigJourn
Talking with conservative bloggers at CPAC: Q&O

World

Obama’s Catastrophic Dithering on Iran: Dossier
Kim Jong Un: Dead or alive: GlobalPost
The difference between a Sharia state and a Christian state: Bookworm

It’s About Time–US Issues Travel Warning As Violence in Mexico Spreads: Bruce
Meanwhile, Michelle Obama tells the military how to feed the troops … : ProWis
Syrian army general assassinated by gunmen in Damascus: Haaretz

Sci-Tech

Prepare for Liftoff With Automotive Cheat Codes: Wired
Microsoft Set To Release Windows 8 Preview Feb. 29: Consumerist
Malware devs embrace open-source: Register

Cornucopia

Is it just me, or is Hillary channeling her inner Elvira Gulch?: SSI
Dead bottlenose dolphins have washed up in their hundreds on Peru's beaches: GlobPost
Police Stop Left-Wing Protesters’ Second Attempt At CPAC Invasion: Breitbart

Image: Newser
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "Conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart says he has video of Barack Obama from the president's "college days," and he plans on using it in the coming election cycle to show "why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008," reports Mediaite. In a speech at CPAC, Breitbart said the videos will show how Obama met "a bunch of silver ponytails" such as Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohm, "and the rest of us slept as they plotted and plotted" a takeover of the presidency.

"Barack Obama is a radical, we should not be afraid to say that," he said. "Barack Obama was launched from Bill and Bernadine's salon." --Mark Russell

Friday, February 10, 2012

Question Time For Professor Dershowitz [Dan from NY]

Dan from NY:

“...it is Chamberlain who has come to symbolize the failure to prevent Hitler's ascendancy. So too will Mr. Obama come to symbolize the failure of the West if Iran acquires nuclear weapons on his watch.”

-Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 3/23/10

Professor Dershowitz, if Obama hasn’t struck Iran by election day, will you recommend that we extend his “watch” thru January 20, 2017 and delay judgment until then?


Rubio obliterates Obama's budget proposals: POTUS offers another 'blank piece of paper' on entitlement reform

A fitting description for President Mails-It-In's latest prescription for destroying the country's finances. And we're at, what, day 1019 without a Democrat budget? Any comment on that, President McDowngrade?

From the WSJ:

President Barack Obama’s budget proposal Monday will offer several measures to trim the federal deficit in the next 10 years. But it would leave largely unchanged the biggest drivers of future government spending: the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security programs that are expanding rapidly as the baby boom turns into a senior boom.

Senator Marco Rubio saw this coming.

As he said yesterday in his CPAC speech:

So, where is the President’s plan to save Medicare? Let me show it to you. Here it is. [Holds up blank sheet of paper.] He doesn’t have one. It is a blank piece of paper. This is his plan when it comes to Medicare. His plan is wait for a Republican like Paul Ryan to offer a plan and then attack him. He hasn’t been in office three or four weeks. He’s been in office a little bit over three years. Two of those years, his party controlled both houses of Congress. And he’s dealt with none of these issues I’ve just outlined.

And it now looks like President Obama will end his term with a whole stack of blank sheets of paper... And why hasn’t Obama outlined some long-term plan since a coming debt deluge will make a “built to last” economy impossible to achieve otherwise?

Pethokoukis is more forgiving than I am. He concludes that President Obama will simply propose more tax increases on the middle class (because the rich simply can't be taxed enough to make up for this monstrous shortfall).

Obama won’t tell you that he wants to raise taxes on all Americans. I just did.

I disagree.

President Obama, in my estimation, is trying to "fundamentally transform" this country (his words) into some Statist Utopia. And to do so, it will require a complete economic collapse. Which is precisely where we're headed if we don't remove this disaster from office in November.


Muslim Brotherhood: "Let's Skip The Foreplay" [Dan from NY]

Dan from NY:

Law of history #2: Whenever and wherever Islam reaches a certain critical mass, Islam tries to dominate the surrounding community.

Law of history #3: In the Islamic world, nature fills a power vacuum with – wait for it – Islam.

If you live in a dream world (or the White House), this will reinforce your fantasies about democracy blooming in Arabia and North Africa. But down here on earth, it’s proof positive that Egypt has already fallen into Islamofascist hands. How can we ever thank you, Barack Hussein Obama? They couldn’t have done it without you.

twincities.com, 2/9/12

Muslim Brotherhood Demands Egypt’s Military Rulers Cede Control


CAIRO - The Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday demanded that Egypt's military rulers cede control of the government, stepping closer to a long-anticipated confrontation between the ruling generals and the Islamist-dominated Parliament.

In a statement on its website and a television interview with one of its senior leaders, the Brotherhood called for the military to allow the replacement of the current prime minister and cabinet with a new coalition government formed by Parliament, which would amount to an immediate handover of power.

The Brotherhood, the formerly outlawed Islamist group that now dominates Parliament, had previously said it was content to wait for the June deadline by which the generals had pledged to turn over power, which they seized with the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.

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The entire story is here. And you might like this: Islam on the March in Europe.


Time to short Amazon: Mistress of Disaster Jamie Gorelick Joins $AMZN Board of Directors

Oh, my: what could possibly go wrong with this?

Amazon board adds Jamie Gorelick, former Fannie Mae and DOJ official


Amazon.com just added a new board member: Jamie S. Gorelick, a veteran of the U.S. government and no stranger to controversy. The company announced the appointment in an SEC filing a short time ago. Gorelick, a litigator at the law firm WilmerHale, was a long-running U.S. Deputy Attorney General who... blah, blah, blah...

Gorelick is best-known for her leading roles in two epic, trillion-dollar catastrophes, which earned her the nomme de guerre "The Mistress of Disaster".

• In 2004, observers were "astonished" to discover that a key member of the 9/11 Commission had a fatal conflict-of-interest. Jamie Gorelick had served as a Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997. It was later revealed that Gorelick had established a pre-Patriot Act "wall" that prevented the foreign intelligence and criminal investigative communities from collaborating. Gorelick's wall "specifically impeded the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui", the so-called "20th hijacker."

• Where did she turn up after that delightful stint in Justice? Though she had no training or experience in finance, Gorelick was appointed the Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae and served in the role from 1997 to 2003. During that six-year period, she earned over $26 million. During Gorelick's tenure, FNMA suffered a $10 billion accounting scandal, an ominous harbinger of the firm's looming troubles. FNMA's 2008 collapse, of course, helped touch off the mortgage meltdown.

It's not often that one person plays key roles in two -- count 'em, two -- trillion-dollar disasters. Welcome, my friends, to the world of well-connected Democrat Jamie Gorelick.

You've been warned.


Larwyn's Linx: PA: Santorum blows past Gingrich, edges Romney

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GOP Primary

PA: Santorum blows past Gingrich, edges Romney: Hot Air
Rasmussen: Santorum Even With Obama in Ohio: WS
Brokered Convention?: Ace

Santorum: Obama Wants Iran to Have a Nuke: JWF
The GOP Race Gets Messy: DLim
Insulting our intelligence: the Romney strategy: LI

Nation

“To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit”: Malkin
Archbishop Dolan "Betrayed" by Obama: NRO
Reid Whines on Mandate: GOP Talking of Constitution: LifeNews

Obama Brags About Role In ACORN Election-Stealing: Dollard
Senate Dems bailing out over contraception mandate: Hot Air
Senate Dems Use Obama's Mandate for Fundraising: WZ

Economy

Obama declares himself dictator of education: Exam
Letter: Wisconsin, Illinois: A study in contrasts: FDLRep
Inside the White House as America circles the drain: MB

DOJ/States Shake Down Lenders For $25B: S&L
The Economic Sabotage of the West: Knish
In Mortgage Settlement, Obama Blames Everybody But The Government: IBD

"Wisconsin on Steroids:" Arizona Moves To Regulate Unions: Ace
Want To Eat Breakfast With Obama? Then Cut a Check For $35,800: WZ
Obama Gives Ten State Waivers for NCLB On His Own Authority; The Law Does Not Include a Waiver Provision: Ace

Scandal Central

Obama Wants to Ban Guns in U.S. to Reduce Crime in Mexico: GWP
Fast and Furious, and what 2010 meant: LI
Fast and Furious: Targets of gun sting were FBI informers: AZ Central

Climate & Energy

The IPCC that cried 'Wolf!': Strata-Sphere
And the house of cards starts to come down: Power Line
‘I Feel Duped on Climate Change’: NRO

Media

Why I Support Rick Santorum: Lid
Obama and how he got that way: TAB
Liberals SHOCKED to reap what they've sown: Glob

Paul Ryan and Mark Steyn on the Left's Hatred of Rick Santorum: Hewitt
Report: CNN Israel fires all its Jewish journalists?: Matzav
CNN Host Grills Tony Perkins Over Beating of Homosexual Man: NB

World

Anonymous Message To The State of Israel: Anonymous
Israel's Mossad trained assassins of Iran nuclear scientists, report says: Haaretz
Minneapolis adopts Sharia law to help Muslim businesses: Creeping

“Sharia Free Zone” – New British Freedom Poster: Creeping
Egypt: Salafi Islamists Attempt To Purge Village Near Alexandria of Its Christian Population: WZ
GOP Rep. Peter King Says He Plans To Hold More Congressional Hearings On Muslim Radicalization In 2012: WZ

Sci-Tech

Alleged Foxconn hack allowed bogus orders to be placed for vendors: AppleInsider
Paper Robots: Wired
Jury strikes down Eolas' 'Interactive Web' patent: CNet

Cornucopia

Fly Me To Ramallah On Delta Airlines: Rusty Mike
The President's Persistently Peculiar Habit: MB
Have You Noticed That Barack Obama Never Gets Glitter Bombed?: Glob

Requiring IDs to Vote is Oppressive: Looking Spoon
Modern treasure hunters claim they've found billions in sunken ship off Boston: Fox
Watch Will Ferrell's witty NBA player introductions: Post

Image: The Looking Spoon
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "...leftism has never been based on idealism. It has always been based, for the most part, on hate and envy. So when Communism was conclusively proved to be a failure, leftists (including not only leftists in politics, but more important, leftists in the media and in academia) didn’t change their minds or admit their mistake. For in their eyes, while there may have been disappointment, there was no mistake. Their resentments and hatreds remained. They merely sought other vehicles, other terminologies, other tactics to bring down the West and the free enterprise system and democratic institutions that define it. Yesterday’s socialists are today’s progressives. They barely missed a beat." --John Hinderaker

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Gaia hammers more nails in the coffin of global warming: global sea level... drops during 2010

Brought to you by the right-wing, racist, Tea Party extremists at... NASA:

NASA Satellites Detect Pothole on Road to Higher Seas


The red line in this image shows the long-term increase in global sea level since satellite altimeters began measuring it in the early 1990s. Since then, sea level has risen by a little more than an inch each decade, or about 3 millimeters per year.


While most years have recorded a rise in global sea level, the recent drop of nearly a quarter of an inch, or half a centimeter, is attributable to the switch from El Niño to La Niña conditions in the Pacific. The insets show sea level changes in the Pacific Ocean caused by the recent El Niño and La Niña (see NASA for more information on these images). Image credit: S. Nerem, University of Colorado.

Faux scientists and United Nations eco-Marxists hardest hit


Hat tip: Free Republic.

So much for the Democrats' vaunted "separation of church and state" [Cagle Cartoons]

I heard that the vaunted 'hands-off President' -- Obama himself -- came off the links long enough to make a decision. No more leading from behind for Barack, not when it comes to mandating that Catholics, Orthodox Jews and other religious groups provide abortion pills for free... whether they like it or not!

According to The New York Times (no link, Google it if you need to):

In the end, it was Mr. Obama himself who made the decision, aides say, calculating that at the end of the day, the issue of public health access outweighed the concerns of the religious institutions.

If, as some contend, that Obama truly is a narcissist, it may be difficult for the president to reverse course.

Narcissistic personality disorder symptoms may include:

• Believing that you're better than others
• Fantasizing about power, success and attractiveness
• Exaggerating your achievements or talents
• Expecting constant praise and admiration
• Believing that you're special and acting accordingly
• Failing to recognize other people's emotions and feelings
• Expecting others to go along with your ideas and plans
• Taking advantage of others
• Expressing disdain for those you feel are inferior
• Being jealous of others
• Believing that others are jealous of you
• Trouble keeping healthy relationships
• Setting unrealistic goals
• Being easily hurt and rejected
• Having a fragile self-esteem
• Appearing as tough-minded or unemotional

When you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may have a sense of entitlement. And when you don't receive the special treatment to which you feel entitled, you may become very impatient or angry. (Source: Narcissistic Personality Disorder - The Mayo Clinic)


Please note: any relationships you may see between these symptoms and Mr. Obama are solely the responsibility of the reader.


Best Illustration Ever: Democrat Color Wheel!

Spotted (and shamelessly ripped off) from the peerless Moonbattery (update: the original came from The Looking Spoon):

And I couldn't resist creating the equivalent version for the real Republican Party (not big government Statists, but Constitutional conservatives and the Tea Partiers):

Bold differences, sharp contrasts.

Which is why I support Rick Santorum for President. The nattering nabobs and paid lackeys can decry Santorum as a big government hack all they want. I'll let the various conservative groups we care about rank him: judge for yourself.


Hat tip: BadBlue.com.

Larwyn's Linx: The attacks on Santorum have begun in earnest

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GOP Primary

The attacks on Santorum have begun in earnest: PW
Rick Santorum’s Sweep Changes the Race: RWN
Santorum In Second Place In Delegate Race: S&L

Santorum Kicked The Mitt Out Of Romney: Riehl
Tim Tebow, Tom Brady register to vote in MN: PJM
What is Low Republican Turnout Saying?: RLC

Nation

Justice Ginsburg Should Resign: AmSpec
DREAMers” promise action against Rubio at CPAC: Hot Air
FBI Announces that Americans Are Now a Threat to America: RLC

White House advises Senate to not lead in an election year: RS
Democrat state senator attempts to ban masturbation: Lane
Cancel Leviathan’s Invitation to the Wedding: NewAm

Report: Obama doubles down at Democrat retreat: Hot Air
Weak Obama May Back Off Church Attack: Tobin
Air Force trains flight attendants for VIP trips: Chron

Economy

Dependency Index Surges 23% Under President Obama: IBD
Obama planned to give Russian steel company a loan: Blogmocracy
NC's Renee Ellmers Waxes Henry Waxman: Riehl

Hoyer: ‘The Fact Is You Don’t Need a Budget’: CNS
2 charts: Obama’s ‘Buffett Rule’ is completely phony: Peth
War on Salt Heats Up: Moonbattery

House Conservatives Support Barack Obama’s Latest Stimulus: RS
Are Government Unions Out Of Control? An Infographic: ZH
#Occupiers Pillage Portland: GWP

Scandal Central

Fast and Furious: While Holder Makes Excuses, Mexico Is Making Arrests: BigG
Obama Weaponizes DOJ Against Murdoch: BigJ
Judicial Watch sues Energy Dept. for documents related to $529M Fisker loan: Hill

Climate & Energy

Little Green Morons: Caruba
Polar ice not melting as fast as you were told: Hot Air
The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows.: Instapundit

Media

MRC Study: ABC and NBC Anything But Fast and Furious On Gunwalking Scandal: NB
Rush: Santorum is last real conservative still standing: Scoop
CNN’s Roland Martin suspended for homophobic tweets: WaPo

WSJ: Waking Up To Dangers Of ‘Obama-Care’: S&L
Another sign of the plague of idiocy and sloth that is spreading across our nation: TAB
Breaking: Rick Santorum’s unironic wearing of sweater vests an electoral dealbreaker: PW

Ex-MSNBC GM Slams Chris Matthews, NYT, 'Media’s Shameful, Inexcusable Distortion' of Citizens United: NB
Does The Obamacare Mandate Further Religious Liberty?: Howling
Oh my: Majorities of liberal Democrats now support drone strikes, keeping Gitmo open: Hot Air

CBS Evening News Finally Covers 'Firestorm' Between Catholic Church and Obama: NB
Covering Up JFK’s Roguish Behavior for 50 Years Not Long Enough for NBC’s Viewers: NB
Elementary School Kids Indoctrinated About Obama’s Incredible Awesomeness: Breitbart

World

Christians Facing Genocide in Muslim World: IPT
Egypt: As many as 100,000 Christians have left in recent months: JihadWatch
BBC tells journalists to stop calling Qatada 'an extremist' - and showing pics of him looking fat: Daily Mail

Iran 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0: Hanson
New Illegal Alien Advocate Undercuts Border Control: IBD
Farewell to the Free Market?: CityJournal

Sci-Tech

The Latest, Terrifying Drone Dog: DefTech
Fatah official Facebook page glorifies terrorists: Creeping
FBI Puts Cloud Providers on Notice Over Security Rules: Wired

Cornucopia

A Fistful of Rebates: IowaHawk
Let’s Move: Tug of War in the White House: Powers
Superbowl Snipers: iOTW

Historic! Sales Soar for Famed Obama Painting: JWF
Moonbat Fashion: iOTW
Video: Parody of Clint Eastwood's Chrysler ad: Marathon

Image: Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum could use your help

QOTD: "The CAFE rule is the fleet-wide average fuel economy rating manufacturers are required by Washington to achieve. The new rule — issued in response to a 2010 Obama directive, not to specific legislation passed by Congress — would require automakers to achieve a 40.9 mpg CAFE average by 2021 and 54.5 mpg by 2025...

...Total costs, as calculated by the EPA, will exceed $157 billion, making this by far the most expensive CAFE rule ever. For comparison, the previous rule in 2010 cost $51 billion, according to the EPA. But the EPA doesn’t include this fact in its calculation: Annual U.S. car sales are 14-16 million units, yet over time, this rule will remove the equivalent of half a year’s worth of buyers." --Washington Examiner via Q&O

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Chicago Mayor Creepy Ballerina Forced to Pay for Violating Citizens' Second Amendment Rights

Ted Cruz alerts us to this outstanding development:

Very, very cool. Here’s a shot of the actual check that Rahm Emanuel had to write to the Second Amendment Foundation for the City of Chicago’s violating our right to keep and bear arms.

As the Solicitor General of Texas, I was honored to lead the States before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Heller case, which resulted in a landmark 5-4 victory, protecting our fundamental Second Amendment rights.

As an aside, Ted is a wonderful, truly conservative candidate for the Senate in Texas who deserves your support.

You've gotta love a candidate with a "Fire Holder" button on his home page.


Hat tip: Iowahawk.

The Hidden Taxes That are Crushing America's Poor

Barack Obama likes to claim he's a tax-cutter. Never mind that Obama's signature health care overhaul contains dozens of new taxes poised to take effect, curiously, right after the 2012 elections. Never mind that the "Bush Tax Cuts" that Obama now repudiates (just months after agreeing that they were necessary) are set to expire.

No, Obama's secret, insidious "tax hikes" are rising energy prices (PDF), which hit lower-income households hardest. The president's energy policy is simple: prevent exploration, drilling and refining; close electric power plants; and regulate new power sources to death.

Energy costs are growing and eating up a disproportionate share of low and fixed-income families’ budgets. The 60 million households that earn less than $50,000 per year, or half of all U.S. families, will devote an estimated 21 percent of their after-tax incomes to energy, compared to 12 percent spent in 2001.

Energy cost burdens are greatest on the poorest families. The energy bills of families earning less than $10,000 have risen to 78 percent of their after-tax income.

Minority families are burdened by higher energy costs. More than 60 percent of Black and Hispanic families had pre-tax household incomes below $50,000 in 2010, compared with 39 percent for Asian families and 46 percent for white households.

Lower and fixed-income senior households are among those most vulnerable to energy price increases. Food, health care and other necessities compete with energy for a share of the household budget. The $31,408 median income of senior U.S. households means that half of these households depend on incomes below this level.

EPA regulations drive up electricity prices... [Yet, e]lectricity is the bargain among all consumer energy products. This is due, in part, to the utility industry’s reliance on affordable coal. Electricity prices have increased by 51 percent in nominal dollars since 1990, while the nominal prices of residential natural gas and gasoline have nearly doubled and tripled, respectively.

Remember this golden oldie?

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, [energy prices] would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was... [t]hey will pass that money on to consumers." --Barack Obama, 1 November 2008

Hey, you know what? I've finally discovered a campaign promise that Obama actually followed through with!


The Obama Legacy: Sloth, Dependency and Depression

If you're wondering why the economy just can't seem to get rolling, please remember that the White House is motivating a record number of people not to work. It's called "building a culture of dependency (and a constituency of dependents)".

The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program...

[The] annual Index of Dependence on Government tracks money spent on housing, health, welfare, education subsidies and other federal programs that were "traditionally provided to needy people by local organizations and families."

The two-year increase under Obama is the biggest two-year jump since Jimmy Carter was president... The rise was driven mainly by increases in housing subsidies, an expansion in Medicaid and changes to the welfare system, along with a sharp rise in food stamps...

If there's anything the last half-century of failed Leftist policies have taught us, it's this: when you reward sloth, you get more sloth. Not to mention rampant fraud and monstrous waste.


Related: More than a third of all U.S. wages and salaries come from government confiscating wealth and redistributing it

Jimmy Carter to The 2nd Power = Barack Obama [Dan from NY]

Dan from NY:

Hostage crisis redux. I guess we could argue all day that Obama is naïve, stupid or complicit. But the damage is already done, and at the end of the day he’s allowed our country to look like a gullible tourist in the Arab bazaar. If you’re still looking for a reason to send Obama packing, I can’t think of a better one.

Egypt outlines evidence in case against Americans


CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian judges say the evidence collected in the case against 19 Americans referred to court for their alleged involvement in banned political activity through nonprofit groups includes maps, cash and videos taken of churches and military facilities.

Egypt's crackdown on pro-democracy and rights groups has soured relations between Cairo and Washington, which has warned Egypt that it could cut some $1.5 billion in aid over the dispute.

Sameh Abu-Zeid, one of two judges investigating the case, for the first time outlined for reporters Wednesday the evidence authorities have collected in the investigation.

The comments echoed allegations repeatedly made by Egypt's ruling military council that "foreign hands" are plotting unrest in Egypt.

Among the Americans referred to court is the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Barack Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like Idi Amin Dada.


Too good to check: Barry Soetoro's Columbia University ID Card

Dave Blount posts the following mysterious image (Photoshopped? You make the call) under the banner "No Wonder Obama’s College Records Are Top Secret":

Luckily for the Indonesian citizen Barry Soetoro, or Barack Hussein Obama as he now calls himself, foreign students can get special assistance compliments of American taxpayers. The downside is that they are not eligible to be President...

...This document is guaranteed to be at least as genuine as the birth certificate [he] finally coughed up.

While the ID card could very well be a fake, Columbo's questions remain unanswered:

Ah... Sorry to bother you President Obama, Sir.


Larwyn's Linx: Rick Santorum Sweeps Trio of States

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GOP Primary

Rick Santorum Sweeps Trio of States: CDN
The 'GOP base really does not want Romney': Corner
How Mitt Could Be Beat: RSM

Romney gets Rick-rolled; Santorum sweeps: Malkin
Romney Would Fit Right In On The Ninth Circuit Court: Riehl
Your Choices: Romney, Santorum or Sweet Meteor of Death: RSM

Nation

Our Constitution Is Out of Step with the Rest of the World: Cato
Obama Amnesty: Deportations At Record Low: JW
9th Circuit finds "Constitutional right" to gay marriage: Howling

Rant on HHS Mandate: Pundette
Dem. idiot wouldn't have voted for Obamacare if regs were known: WS
ObamaCare: the gift of Kafkaesque Statist absurdity...: PW

Economy

The unemployment chart Obama doesn’t want you to see: Peth
Barack Obama, Super-hypocrite on SuperPACs: Patterico
The Well-Deserved Death of California's Redevelopment Scam: Reason

Meet Pepe Cardona, the next Marc Rich: WyBlog
Government Can't Make Us Happy: Stossel
Sessions: Under Obama, Government Gets Bigger as Middle Class Gets Smaller: NoisyRm

Scandal Central

Fast and Furious, as a police operation, doesn't make sense, but as a...: MoneyRunner
Fast and Furious: Three Questions Not Asked: Owens
How many dead Mexicans would it have taken for Eric Holder to fire people?: Moe Lane

Climate & Energy

Two more scientists change sides in the AGW debate: Q&O
Scientist: global warming causes worst winter in years: Surber
Vlad in Vostok: Bayonet

Another Green Prophet Defects: Power Line
McIntyre catches the University of East Anglia in a web of lies: Watts

Media

The Secular Media vs. Religious Liberty: Bozell
WaPo: Politicians loot treasury for personal gain. Apparently that’s news: Q&O
Rush Limbaugh Parody of Clint Eastwood “Halftime in America”: Scoop

Think Progress, Media Matters Downplay Iranian Nuke Threat: Free Beacon
The Good, the Ad, and the Ugly: Daily
Maynard’s Reaction to that Detroit/Clint Eastwood Commercial: Bruce

The Blaze Jumps the Shark: Nice Deb
Mark Levin: We're Living In A Post-Constitutional America: RCP
U.S. authorities go after Murdoch: Reuters

World

Watch Eastern Saudi Arabia: Commentary
Two can play the same ‘BOYCOTT’ game: BNI
Greek Economy Implodes: Budget Revenues Tumble 7% In January On Expectation Of 9% Rise: ZH

Good News: U.S. Taxpayers Subsidize More Overseas Mosques: Creeping
Shariah law: Aceh’s morality police seek greater power: GlobalPost
Soros Warns Of Chaos, But Supports People Creating It: IBD

Are We Losing the War in Afghanistan?: Max Boot
Military ties mark Kim Jong Un’s inner circle: ArmyTimes
China leader-in-waiting carries heavy political baggage to U.S.: Reuters

Sci-Tech

Facebook governance a concern for California pension fund: Reuters
'Doomsday Preppers' highlights extreme survival techniques: USA Today
Google's HUD glasses have been sighted: CNet

Cornucopia

Obama's War on the Church: Spew
Problems Solved: Check!: MOTUS
Oh, Brother: Braves Throwback Uniform Praised for "Lack of Racism": Modicum

Last known WWI veteran dies at 110: ArmyTimes
Sea World’s Shamu ‘Slavery’ Case – PETA Demands Civil Rights For Animals: SHN
OWS & the planned “endgame” for the U.S: CFP

Image: Lars Larson
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "Operation Fast and Furious was specifically conceived so that “walked” guns would be recovered at crime scenes in Mexico. Their serial numbers would be provided to the ATF by Mexican authorities for tracing. Regardless of motive, the entire operation was premised on weapons being recovered at crime scenes in Mexico, and law enforcement agencies are well aware that criminals primarily abandon weapons only after they’ve been used in serious felony crimes such as murder or attempted murder.

Operation Fast and Furious was conceived knowing that Mexican nationals would be sacrificed in significant numbers if the tracing operation had any chance of working." --Bob Owens

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

At last: Regulations.gov website makes it easy to track the millions of pages of edicts levied upon us by our federal overlords

It's about time the federal government gave us Regulations.gov, a helpful Internet portal that indexes the hundreds of thousands of pages of laws, regulations, and dictates that we're expected to know.

Suffice it to say that Regulations.gov uses a powerful, clustered set of web, application, database and storage servers that require enough electricity to power all three of Al Gore's mansions.

Thankfully, this new portal makes it straightforward to find out that:

Tomatoes are governed by 7,789 existing and proposed regulatory documents.
Window cleaning is regulated by 5,579 documents.
Light bulbs, by 4,038 documents.
Dry peas, by 1,775 documents.
Lint filters, by 439 documents.
Home gardens, by 436 documents.
Lemonade, by 175 documents.

Give it a try and let us know in the comments what you find.

Word has it that Regulations.gov tried to add a Twitter feed, but all of the Obama administration's new bureaucracies were producing so many new regs that it melted Twitter down.


Related: A Child's First Book of Government Regulations.


Hat tip: Brad.