Friday, March 09, 2012

Obama Picks Up Key Endorsement

Testing intercontinental missiles? Check. Enriching uranium far beyond the requirements of any peaceful purpose? Check. Promising to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth? Checkety-check. Testing triggers for nuclear weapons? Check and mate.

Iran's Supreme Leader Praises Obama's Israel Stonewalling


...the Israelis are being offered advanced weaponry [by Obama] on the condition that they don’t use it. That’s like offering someone a gun on the condition that they never put bullets in it...

...Of course the Iranians sure are impressed with the fine job Obama is doing on their behalf, and to prove it, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is praising President Obama for trying to dissuade Israel from attacking Iran. And to hedge his bets, the Khamenei also made it clear that “there would be consequences for the United States... if a premature strike is launched on Iran.”

...Khamenei isn’t the only one who sees Obama on Iran’s side as the confrontation between Israel and the Islamic Republic is coming to a head. DNC Chair and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) has also said she’s fielding a lot of email from “her friends and family members... raising doubts about the president’s support for the Jewish state.” Nevertheless, Shultz is standing by President Obama on this one, even writing editorials in defense of Obama’s supposed support for Israel.

In addition to this nation, President Obama has "fundamentally transformed" the Middle East -- into a hotbed of barbaric fundamentalism.


Related: Obama vs. Israel

Hat tip: Dan from NY.

California to Texas Translation Guide

R. F.:

Due to the large number of jobs moving from California to Texas, the Lone Star State has compiled a "Californian to Texan" translation guide.

CALIFORNIA TEXAS
Arsenal of Weapons Gun Collection
Delicate Wetlands Swamp
Undocumented Worker Illegal Alien
Cruelty-Free Materials Synthetic Fiber
Assault and Battery Attitude Adjustment
Heavily Armed Well-protected
Narrow-minded Righteous
Taxes or Your Fair Share Coerced Theft
Commonsense Gun Control Gun Confiscation Plot
Illegal Hazardous Explosives Fireworks for Stump Removal
Nonviable Tissue Mass Unborn Baby
Equal Access to Opportunity Socialism
Multicultural Community High Crime Area
Fairness or Social Progress Marxism
Upper Class or "The Rich " Self-Employed
Progressive, Change Big Government Scheme
Homeless or Disadvantaged Bums or Welfare Leeches
Sniper Rifle Scoped Deer Rifle
Investment For the Future Higher Taxes
Healthcare Reform Socialized Medicine
Extremist, Judgmental, or Hater Conservative
Truants Homeschoolers
Victim or Oppressed Criminal or Lazy Good-For-Nothing
High Capacity Magazine Standard Capacity Magazine
Religious Zealot Church-going
Reintroduced Wolves Sheep and Deer Killers
Fair Trade Coffee Overpriced Yuppie Coffee
Exploiters or "The Rich " Employed or Land Owner
The Gun Lobby NRA Members
Assault Weapon Semi-Auto (Grandpa's M1 Carbine)
Fiscal Stimulus New Taxes and Higher Taxes
Same Sex Marriage Legalized Perversion
Mandated Eco-Friendly Lighting Chinese Mercury-Laden Light Bulbs

Larwyn's Linx: Unite the Right

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Nation

Unite the Right: Malkin
Understanding Derrick Bell And Why We Shouldn't Mock Him: Riehl
Derrick A. Bell Visited the White House Twice in 2010: Foundry

The Rush Limbaugh Boycott Is A Miserable Failure. Ha, Ha, Ha!: Hawkins
Obama's beloved law professor, Derrick Bell: Adams
Michelle Obama: Occupier for Justice While at Harvard: GWP

Bachmann Terms Obama A Health Care Dictator: Cove
Top 8 Moments in the New York Voter Fraud Trial: MenRec
Transparency: Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Secret New York Trip: Publius

Economy

Sebelius has 'no idea' if Obamacare adds to the deficit: Beacon
Gallup: Unemployment jumps to 9.0%, U-6 to 19.1%!: ZH
Why Obama has just a 34.7% chance of being reelected: Peth

The Democrats' Hedge Fund Shakedown: Beacon
The ObamaCare death spiral continues: Hayward
Limbaugh derails Sleep Train: Powers

2012

Pro-Santorum Super PAC targets Gingrich’s coveted southern states: Hot Air
Santorum argues for two-man race with Romney: USA Today
Jim DeMint In Line for Commerce Chairman: Roll Call

Scandal Central

Obama-Funded $100,000 Fisker Electric Car Dies During Testing: WZ
Bachmann becomes 100th member of Congress to endorse Holder ‘no confidence’ resolution: DC
Fast And Furious- Congressional Pressure For Holder’s Resignation Grows: AmmoLand

Climate & Energy

Obama claims oil a “fuel of the past”: Q&O
Genius: Government Pays Subsidized Wind Farms Not to Generate Energy: Moonbattery
Obama lobby of Senate leads to defeat of Keystone pipeline provision: Events

Media

David Axelrod To Appear On Bill Maher Show: S&L
MSM Happily Takes the Bait on Limbaugh’s Bumper Music: Powers
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien Crashes Her Clown Car: Bruce

Why is This Shocking Hate Crime Not News?: VS
Potok Claims ‘Explosive Growth’ Of Militias: S&L
Are you ready for the official Obama campaign documentary?: Hot Air

1990 – Thomas Sowell explains Derrick Bell: Scoop
Alabama Democrats scrub un-funny 'comic' Bill Maher fundraiser off website: DC
Barack Obama's Close Encounter with the Weather Underground: Zombie (2008)

Tragedy: TLC cancels All-American Muslim: TAB
White House: No Comment on Derrick A. Bell's 2010 Visits: Breitbart
Please tell me how stupid, on a scale of 1 to 100, Markos Moultisas is?: CDN

World

Obama Promises Bunker Busters To Israel If Netanyahu Delays Iran Invasion Until After US Elections: ZH
No need for Congressional permission to commit troops to combat, international permission will do: BlackFive
A Muslim scholar explains why Jerusalem is not in the Koran: Elder of Ziyon

UK Socialized Medicine Success Story #4,033,054: Daily Mail
How to get ANYTHING through TSA nude body scanners: Blogger exposes loophole in $1billion fleet: Daily Mail
Radio Talker George Noory Narrowly Escapes Kidnap in Mexico: Blaze

Sci-Tech

Microsoft Raises Red Flag Over OnLive’s Windows for the iPad: Wired
Blogger shows world how to sneak anything past TSA’s nude body scanners: Fox
Coke, Pepsi make changes to avoid cancer warning: AP

Cornucopia

Memo to Congress: Impeach Probe Needed Now!: Tancredo
Posting A Photo Of Peyton Manning's Large Tip Costs Waiter His Job: Consumerist
Derrick Bell And Bill Ayers Were B.F.F.: Dear Citizen TV

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

QOTD: "We are on track in the United States to pay more money to 20 million public sector retirees – at an average pension of $65,000 we will pay these retirees $1.3 trillion per year, then we will be paying in social security to 80 million private sector retirees – at an average social security benefit of $15,000 per year that will cost less, about $1.2 trillion per year. Providing a level of retirement security to government workers that only the wealthiest 1% can enjoy in the private sector is not “protecting the middle class,” it is economic enslavement by government unions over the taxpayer." --Wayne Allen Root

Thursday, March 08, 2012

Crowd-sourcing Derrick Bell

Who is Derrick Bell? Given Barack Obama's endorsement of Bell's radical and bizarre views, I thought it worthwhile to research his background.

One of the more interesting items I found is a an article in the Boston College Law Review, published on 1 May 1999. Authored by Jeffrey J. Pyl, its title is Race, Equality and the Rule of Law: Critical Race Theory's Attack on the Promises of Liberalism (PDF).


Take a look. Let me know what you think, either in the comments or privately via email.

Bell was a dangerous brand of crackpot, roughly equivalent to a black David Duke, only more extreme. Obama's devotion to Bell offers us another puzzle piece of a rapidly emerging picture. And the complete image will be assembled by all of us -- an Army of Breitbarts -- who have effectively replaced an old media too crippled by ideology, intellectual dishonesty and stupidity to do any useful work whatsoever.


Toys From Our Youth That Would Be Illegal Today

A while back I wrote about the Johnny Seven One Man Army rifle (a toy from the sixties that Chuck Schumer would personally ban). What other toys from our youth would the Party of Weakness outlaw in this politically correct day and age?

Jarts! a.k.a. "Lawn Darts." I'm not sure how many thousands of punctured limbs these things were responsible for, but the class-action lawyers must have cleaned up.

Tonka Dump Trucks: fabricated entirely from Ginsu knives by Tonka. They could slice fingers off if slightly mishandled.

Stretch Armstrong: the kind filled with jelly. If these were sold today, a hypo-allergenic, ADD nutcase would swallow the jelly, get sick, and his parents would sue the Chinese manufacturer. The entire episode would be the basis for a 20/20 special hosted by John Stossel; Nancy Grace and Greta would also devote a week of shows to the injustice.

Bow and arrows: remove the suction-cups from the ends of the arrows and -- whhoooooeeee -- you really could put an eye out; and I'm sure some kids did.

Bangsite!: evil-smelling, granular crap that came in an industrial-strength toothpaste tube -- it may have been calcium carbide. Mixing Bangsite with water made an explosive gas. Some kids had Bangsite cannons, heavy cast iron things that were relatively safe to use. Normal kids took a metal baking soda can and punched a nail hole through the bottom. This turned the can into a three-man, crew-served weapon. One kid tipped some Bangsite into the can, spat on it, jammed the lid on, and placed the can on the edge of the curb. Second kid put his foot on the can to brace it. Third kid applied the match to the nail hole. KAF---INGBOOM!!! -- with a burst of flame, the lid goes flying clear across the street. I still cannot believe that my parents knew I was doing this, and let me.

Airplane, ship and tank models: yep, we spent hours in our rooms with model glue... and our parents didn't care a bit. These days, an ambulance would be called and our rooms fumigated for a month.

Flexy Racers: a sled on wheels that was missing only one thing: brakes. These mysteriously disappeared from the market after -- I'm guessing here -- some kid rolled onto the Interstate and got pancaked by an 18-wheeler.

Wrist Rockets: basically a weapons-grade slingshot that fit around your wrist and used massive rubber tubes as the bands. The ammo was indistinguishable from a heavy ball bearing. Slightly less powerful than a .357 Magnum, and slightly more powerful than a .38.

Snow sleds with steel runners: on a decent hill, you could hit 70 MPH and some kids did, may they rest in peace.

Water-air rockets: I don't remember the brand, but this was a rocket that you filled with water and then pumped full of air. Let's just say that after a couple of hundred concussions and numerous missing teeth, it was removed from the market.

Also: Airedale remembers Crazy Clackers, "...a string with a golf ball sized glass marble. I use to see those things wrapped around telephone pole lines. They were ninja weapons in the wrong hands....which meant every kind of kid had the ability to give themselves permanent brain damage if they got a bit too curious with these miniature bolos."

Paul J. recalls the Kenner Mold Master (I had one of those!): "Hot soft plastic you poured into into a mold and made toy guns and vehicles. Rarely came out right but you could reuse the plastic. How many times I burned my fingers I could never say. How I didn't burn the house down who knows."

This was a freaking hotplate that allowed you to bake goop in molds. What could possibly go wrong with 300-degree plastic goop?


Related: A Child's First Book of Regulations.

Hypocrisy Meter Shatters: Obama Says Oil a 'Fuel of the Past' As He Jets From Fundraiser to Golf to Fundraiser

Does it get any more ridiculous than this?

As rising gas prices become a key issue on the campaign trail, the president argued that using less oil is an important part of the solution... "...We need to invest in the technology that will help us use less oil in our cars and our trucks, in our buildings, in our factories. That’s the only solution to the challenge, because as we start using less, that lowers the demand, prices come down,” the president told workers at the Daimler Trucks manufacturing plant in Mount Holly, N.C.

Yet in the same speech he call[ed] oil “the fuel of the past”.

...Oil is not a “fuel of the past”. Obama’s agenda actually demands we abandon it. And he would in a New York minute if there wouldn’t be electoral consequences. His administration’s track record concerning oil and gas exploitation as well as new regulatory regime the EPA is implementing and actions of Secretaries Chu and Salazar give lie to the claims made.

Oil and gas are, in fact, the critical fuels of the future. It is and will remain the lifeblood of our economy for decades. An administration that doesn’t realize that and works to curtail it deserves to be shown the door at the earliest possible opportunity. If you think gas prices are high now, remember that without the increase in oil production on state and private land, it would be higher than it is now.

Unicorns and moon-ponies (or pond scum) won’t fuel the economy. Oil will. And an “all of the above” strategy should obviously include massive increases in oil production on federal lands. Don’t let this guy get away with his false claims and destructive energy policy. Help show him the door, November.

For a "fuel of the past", Obama and his wife certainly burn it with reckless abandon.

When President Obama completes his second of four New York fundraisers today, he will pass the total number of fundraisers former President George W. Bush conducted through his whole 18-month reelection campaign.

To put the 100 milestone in perspective, he hasn't played golf that many times, hitting 90 while he was in Hawaii last December for the first family's Christmas vacation, one of 16 the Obama's have taken while in office.

...Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer told Washington Secrets, "The president has spent the equivalent of five work weeks raising money to save his own job rather than focus on the millions of Americans who are struggling to find work. In pursuit of a billion dollar warchest, he has shattered the amount of time and number of events any president has ever spent to focus on saving their own job."

If these Democrats weren't in power, their idiotic, hilariously hypocritical statements would be useful only in a reality show. Kind of like Jersey Shore, only without the clever repartee.


Image Credit: Sad Hill News.

The Bill of Rights, Revised Edition [Dan from NY]

Dan from NY:

Making the rounds. Pass it on.



Image credit: Freaking News.

The Reparations Administration [Updated]

Author's Note: I originally wrote this article nearly two years ago, on July 8, 2010, to address what I perceived to be the unspoken agenda of the Obama White House.

In light of the recent revelations that Obama was a personal advocate for the racial eliminationist Dr. Derrick Bell, I thought it fitting and proper to re-post it.

Observers have characterized President Obama's many efforts to nationalize industries a systematic form of "wealth redistribution." But the activities instigated by the White House go beyond redistribution and devolve straight into reparations. Consider:

Race Gender Quotas in "Financial Reform"

Section 342, which declares that race and gender employment ratios, if not quotas, must be observed by private financial institutions that do business with the government. In a major power grab, the new law inserts race and gender quotas into America's financial industry... ...Section 342 sets up at least 20 Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion.

Racial Preferences in Obamacare

Transfer of wealth and “crucial decisions” aside, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains provisions that provide incentives for racial discrimination...

One provision states that programs with “a record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or from a rural or disadvantaged background” will be given priority for government money. This is only one of several such provisions. Programs and medical institutions that practice racial preferences will be moved further up the money queue than programs and medical institutions that disregard race... The one who disregards skin color is penalized... The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called the provisions racially discriminatory and sent President Barack Obama and Congress letters warning them about the provisions. The politicians ignored the warning, naturally.

DOJ encourages illegal immigration by Mexican crime gangs

A study released earlier today calculates that illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers $113 billion annually... And rather than defending America's citizens, which is his primary duty under the Constitution, President Obama instead has unleashed a professional defender of terrorists to expand his practice -- protecting the Mexican crime gangs who now terrorize the southwest.

Another voter fraud scandal involving the Justice Department.

J. Christian Adams,, a former career Justice Department lawyer who resigned recently to protest political interference in cases he worked on, made some news yesterday in testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights... As expected, he claimed that Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, an Obama appointee, overruled a unanimous recommendation by six career Justice attorneys for continued prosecution of members of the New Black Panther Party on charges of voter intimidation in an incident I detailed here yesterday...

...But Mr. Adams leveled an even more explosive charge beyond the Panther case. He testified that last year Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes made a jaw-dropping announcement to attorneys in Justice's Voting Rights section. She said she would not support any enforcement of a key section of the federal "Motor Voter" law -- Section 8, which requires states to periodically purge their voter rolls of dead people, felons, illegal voters and those who have moved out of state.

This Administration is Lawless

The Civil Rights Act prohibits racial discrimination and preferences. But the White House has chosen to ignore applicable law -- and the Constitution itself -- to promote a racially divisive and potentially explosive agenda.

This morning, a Wall Street Journal op-ed asked, "Who Will Investigate the Investigators?".

I would phrase it differently: "What recourse is there when the White House and the Justice Department are operating lawlessly?"

Obama has spurned wealth redistribution for something even more extreme: a political form of reparations.

We know from a series of painful examples -- throughout history -- that wealth redistribution does not work. In fact, one need only point to the wealth redistribution approach advocated by Carter, Clinton, Reno and Cuomo -- the Community Reinvestment Act and its ilk -- which led directly to the implosion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The reparations model that Obama is pursuing could tear apart the very fabric that led to the creation of the most inclusive society in the world. It is destroying the integrity of the ballot box; corrupting health care; destroying financial services; and eradicating American sovereignty.

The reparations model advocated by the White House represents lawlessness. Ergo, this administration is lawless.

It's November or never. And citizens of every race, creed, religion, color and culture should reject the systematic destruction of America, before it's too late.


Larwyn's Linx: Sarah Palin Initiates Rush Limbaugh’s 'Operation Chaos'?

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2012 Elections

Sarah Palin Initiates Rush Limbaugh’s 'Operation Chaos'?: Shark
Obama goes full Carter: Surber
How Romney Still Might Not Win: PolWire

Fundraising Gap between Romney, Santorum Narrows: WS
Good News: RomneyCare Now Funding FREE Abortions: Contrada
Roll Call Casualty List: Roll Call

Nation

Obama's Mentor: We Hid Video During '08 Campaign: Driscoll
Obama: Folks Faint All the Time at My Events: WS
Dennis Kucinich’s Career Crashes: MB

Professor Obama's Radical Syllabus: AmPower
Secretive SEIU network partners with Occupy movement: DC
Obama Campaign Hunts for Support: WSJ

Economy

This Is the Nightmare of an Obama Second Term: Hedgecock
Government Spends $11 Million to Clothe Two People: Ace
Switzerland wants its gold back from the NY Fed: ZH

Government Employees – The True “1%”: UnionWatch
Lefty Wisconsin Judge Rejects Voter ID Law in Scott Walker Recall Election: Patterico
$1MM lottery winner still on food stamps: Blaze

Scandal Central

Obama Admin Drops $16 Billion In “Green” Energy Subsidies During 2011: WZ
It’s still on: Six more members of Congress call for Eric Holder’s resignation: Hot Air
Wisconsin Judge Grants Temporary Injunction Against Voter ID Law: Malkin

Climate & Energy

API President Jack Gerard Mocks Obama’s Oil Double-Speak During Congressional Hearing: GWP
Obama ignores crippling EPA reg during speech on the economy : Beacon
Polar bears to die from harmless trace gas and hail of hot lead, but mostly hail of hot lead: Bayonet

Media

Ameritopia and the Death of Ivan’s Cow: NRO (Michael Walsh)
Sarah Palin Dazzles CNN Poobahs: Riehl
Obama’s press conference today would make Pinocchio proud: NoisyRm

The Constitution According to Kos, or How Conservatives are Like Earworms: Sundries
Clearing Up Misinformation on Our Sponsors: Rush
Sandra Fluke: Get Out of My Uterus, But Buy Stuff for It: LifeNews

Harvard Obama clip: Breitbart’s Big Government team vs. Buzzfeed: Twitchy
Breitbart.com Rolls Out Video of Obama at Harvard: Driscoll
Game Change "Stars" and Execs Gave $200K to Democrats, Zero to Republicans: NB

Dem Senators Refuse to Condemn Misogynistic Language from Top Obama Donor: Driscoll
Olbermann Apologizes To SE Cupp And Michelle Malkin, Suspends Worst Persons Again: Mediaite
Democrat war: Rep. Luis Garcia blasts Wasserman Schultz, DCCC chief for disrespect, dishonesty: Miami Herald

World

Jimmy Carter Pops Up And Blames Israel Over Iran: Cove
Define Ironic: Netanyahu gave a copy of the Book of Esther to Obama: WZ
Islamic States Walk Out Of U.N. Meeting On Violence Against Gays: WZ

Panetta on Syria: ‘International Permission’ Trumps Congressional Permission: RightSphere
China Unveils New Nuke Missile: Beacon
FBI's Mueller: Special terror interrogation group used 14 times in last two years: KSBW

Sci-Tech

A Year Later, Mysterious Space Plane Is Still in Orbit: Wired
4 awesome slides showing how page speed correlates to business metrics at Walmart.com: WebPerfToday
Diet advice from Israel: Eat your vegetables: JPost

Moonbat Hacker Jeremy Hammond Arrested: MB
Hackers attack Panda Labs site after Anonymous arrests: BBC
CDC: 'Superbug' transmitted outside hospitals: Fox

Cornucopia

The Fourth Best President™ in American History ~ Barack Obama ~ Compare and ContrastHid: Granny Jan
To Fight and Fight Hard: TL in Exile
New account tells of bin Laden’s family riven by suspicions, holed up in his final hideout: WaPo

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

QOTD: "President Obama had a Jimmy Carter moment this afternoon when he dragged his daughters, 10 and 13, into his re-election campaign, using them as political props in the way Jimmy Carter used his youngest daughter, Amy Carter, then 13, to try to score points in the 1980 presidential debate — a debate that turned a close race into the biggest humiliation of an incumbent president in 52 years...

...Real men do not hide behind little girls, especially their daughters. Presidents try to shield their families from the glare of the public eye. Jimmy Carter used her to shield him. Besides, who asks a 13-year-old for advice on nuclear disarmament? She’s pretty much his echo chamber, is she not, telling Daddy what she thinks he wants to hear." --Don Surber

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

"Government Employees Are the True 1%"

We are on track in the United States to pay more money to 20 million public sector retirees – at an average pension of $65,000 we will pay these retirees $1.3 trillion per year, then we will be paying in social security to 80 million private sector retirees – at an average social security benefit of $15,000 per year that will cost less, about $1.2 trillion per year. Providing a level of retirement security to government workers that only the wealthiest 1% can enjoy in the private sector is not “protecting the middle class,” it is economic enslavement by government unions over the taxpayer.

Wayne Allen Root explains how public sector unions are bankrupting the United States, by the numbers:

How did America become broke and insolvent? How did we build up an unimaginable $115 trillion in debt and unfunded liabilities? How did we allow the American Dream to become a nightmare?

...The truth is that government employees are the true 1%. We have far too many of them (21 million), many of them are paid too much, and their union demands are straining taxpayers to the breaking point.

They have become a privileged class that expects to be treated superior to the taxpayers — the same folks who pay their salaries and pensions. But it is their obscene pensions that are the big problem moving forward for America.

• A retired New York City toll-taker will received a taxpayer-funded pension of $120,000 a year for the rest of his life. And he's only 50 years old.

• Nearly 80,000 federal employees earned more than the governor of their state of residence.

• The compensation of the average federal worker is more than $123,000-a-year, more than double the average private sector worker.

• The average firefighter in Las Vegas, NV earns $199,678 per year.

• Over the course of his or her career, the average janitor working in government makes over $600,000 more than a private sector janitor.

• More than a third of the Las Vegas teachers' union's entire $4.1 million annual budget went to pay just nine union leaders (including salaries of $632,546 and $546,133).

• Roughly 50% of all Clark County (Las Vegas, NV) firefighters retired with work-related injuries in recent years and received an average bonus payment of $320,000 each, in addition to gold-plated pensions for life.

...do you know any small business owners who retire with $5 to $10 million? They are few and far between. But that’s exactly what a private sector employee would need in the bank on the day of his or her retirement to match the $100,000 per year pensions (plus health care benefits and cost of living increases) of government employees paid out over 30 to 50 years.

Keep in mind that government employees never risk a dollar of their own money. They have lifetime job security. And they rarely work beyond 9 to 5, let alone weekends or holidays.

Yet government employees are paid millions by taxpayers to retire early, often on pensions fattened by gaming the corrupt system.

They are the true 1%.

No country anywhere in the world can afford this insanity.

The arithmetic is unassailable. If this country is to survive, public sector unions must be eradicated.


Related: A Brief, Illustrated History of the Public Sector Unions That Are Bleeding America Dry With the Full Support of the Democrat Party

Sandra Fluke scores first product endorsement! [The Looking Spoon]

From The Looking Spoon:

So she's got that goin' for her.


Congratulations, it's another Obama record! Home prices 'down to nearly the same levels as 10 years ago'

Say, I've got an idea! How about another massive, taxpayer-funded rescue package for distressed homeowners? The ninth time is a charm, right?

...national home prices, including distressed sales, declined on a year-over-year basis by 3.1 percent in January 2012 and by 1.0 percent compared to December 2011, the sixth consecutive monthly decline.

...Excluding distressed sales, year-over-year prices declined by 0.9 percent in January 2012 compared to January 2011, but that same metric posted a month-over-month gain, rising 0.7 percent in January. Distressed sales include short sales and real estate owned (REO) transactions.

“Although home price declines are slowly improving and not far from the bottom, home prices are down to nearly the same levels as 10 years ago,” said Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic.

I guess I have to update my Complete List of President Obama's Historic Firsts.


The Vetting of Obama begins: Breitbart reveals video of young Obama embracing racial eliminationist Derrick Bell

The legacy of Andrew Breitbart is manifold and it will begin to be revealed this week. The vetting of Barack Obama begins tonight at 9PM ET on Hannity.

Earlier today, Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.” However, the video has been selectively edited...

The video, which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows a young Barack Obama leading a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, a radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright--about whom we will be releasing significant information in the coming hours.

However, the video has been selectively edited--either by the Boston television station or by Buzzfeed itself. Over the course of the day, Breitbart.com will be releasing additional footage that has been hidden by Obama's allies in the mainstream media and academia.

Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro will appear on The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the tape. The full tape will be released tonight on Fox News' Hannity.

And just who is Derrick Bell?

Bell was credited with developing “critical race theory,” which suggested that the U.S. legal system was inherently biased against African Americans and other minorities because it was built on an ingrained white point of view. He argued in his many books and lectures that the life experiences of black people and other minorities should be considered in hiring decisions and in applying the law.

In a 1998 review of one of Bell's books, The New York Times' Neil A. Young outlined the racial divisiveness inherent in the former Harvard professor's philosophy.

Bell's long-expressed pessimistic view of racial relations, and the principal pillar of most black critical-race theorists, is that the civil rights movement, with its emphasis on integration, has been largely a failure and that racism has not abated. But to press these arguable positions, Bell sees no need to prove or demonstrate anything; he merely asserts conclusions. In these and previous tales, his truths are simple: black people always behave nobly while white people behave atrociously. In those few instances in which they don't, it is solely because of a cynical if submerged self-interest.

In one section, for instance, Bell recounts how Government leaders are secretly paying for something known as ''the black sedition papers,'' collecting writings to use as evidence that blacks are unfit citizens. The papers will eventually be used to justify the curtailment of rights in order to suppress the black population. Now how exactly is this fable of a Government-underwritten conspiracy to abrogate the Constitution different from, say, ''The Turner Diaries,'' a piece of fiction much favored by the loonies of the militia set?

In another section, Bell explores the issue of the black-Jewish divide by offering a dialogue between himself and a fictionalized Jewish law school colleague, Ben Hirsch. Poor Hirsch, the straw man here, doesn't stand a chance, and Bell, handling both sides of the argument, is quickly victorious.

One of Bell's arguments is that Jews fail to understand why it is so hurtful to blacks when demands are made that they, one and all, denounce Louis Farrakhan for anti-Semitic remarks. After all, Bell tells Hirsch, Jews are not pressed to denounce racist statements by their own prominent members. Which racist statements does he have in mind? Well, he cites attacks on affirmative action in journals like Commentary and The New Republic. Are arguments against affirmative action, however tendentious, equivalent to Farrakhan's remarks?

In short, Bell was a Jeremiah Wright-style kook, who saw only evil, inherent racism in America. Like Wright, he reveled in the luxuries of the country -- the greatest society mankind has ever created -- while fomenting race hatred and defending the likes of Louis Farrakhan.

And Barack Obama was his biggest fan.

Since legacy media long ago abandoned the journalism trade, it's time for citizen journalists to take over. And that, in part, is the Breitbart legacy.


Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.

Larwyn's Linx: Romney and Santorum Win, Tea Party Claims First Scalp

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Super Tuesday

Romney and Santorum Win, Tea Party Claims First Scalp: RS
Romney can't seal the deal on Super Tuesday: Exam
Post-Super Tuesday Analysis: Hawkins

Where Romney Won in Ohio: Commentary
Jean Schmidt Loses GOP Primary in Big Upset: Roll Call
Ron Paul's Not So Super Tuesday: Reason

Nation

Think Progress: The Stalinists Are Here: Riehl
How Democrats Are Using Women As Pawns: iVillage
Maynard Sez: Obama Wants Civil War: Bruce

Silencing the Right: Erickson
Cardinal: Obama Admin Lectured Bishops on Catholic Teaching: LifeNews
Ex-Obama aide appeals to black voters: USA Today

Obama Ally won't release Alinsky tape: Breitbart
MD handgun permit law unconstitutional, judge rules: Exam
Conservatives' Top Goal Should Be Full GOP Control Of Congress: Will

Economy

State attorneys general report tackles Obama's unprecedented lawbreaking: AT
It Just Ain't So: Williams
Class: MOTR

Transgender Illegal Aliens Will Get 'Hormone Therapy' Courtesy of ICE: CNS
World's richest man getting richer off Obama's free government cell phones: IHTM
Utah on verge of passing bill demanding Feds relinquish public land: Fox

Obama Skips Tornado Destruction, Heads West to Raise Money: Dossier
CBC: Ethics Investigations Against Our Members Are Racist: WZ
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Congress: Union News

Scandal Central

Ripping the lid off of Colorado’s Solyndra: Malkin
Green Firms Get Fed Cash, Give Execs Bonuses, Fail: ABC
Was Boy in K.C. Fire Attack a Victim of His School's Racist Teaching?: AT

Climate & Energy

Gas Prices Have Gone Up 102% Under Obama; Obama Flip Flops - Now He Wants Lower Gas Prices: GWP

Media

Announcing The Carbonite Accountability Project: LI
Who Is James Wolcott? And Why Would Anybody Want to Know? Or Care?: RSM
Limbaugh Radio Show Faces New-Media Backlash as Advertisers Flee: SFGate

Call Them Out By Name: Sandra Fluke, David Gregory and David Friend: Alexa
Silence from Carbonite as its Stock Price Tanks: PJM
No Class: Obama's Super Tuesday news conference: USA Today

The War on Conservative Women: Malkin
Capitol One “drops” Rush, sticks with serial misogynist Alec Baldwin: Malkin
Group sues for Michelle Obama vacation records: Politico

World

Obama makes the case for an Israeli strike on Iran: Glick
China Trying to Influence Obama Administration on Military Build-up: Beacon
Leaked E-mails Suggest bin Laden Not Buried at Sea: NewAm

The Arabs as Seen Fifty Years Ago: Pipes
Ex-CAIR official leads racist, anti-American charge inside Florida capitol: Creeping
Women’s Day: Taking a stand with women in the Middle East: Amnesty International

Barack Obama: From Amateur to Fool in Forty-Eight Hours: Lid
Iran and Obama: Sowell
European Banks Now Face Huge Margin Calls As ECB Collateral Crumbles: ZH

Sci-Tech

Infamous international hacking group LulzSec brought down by own leader: Fox
Verizon Just Figured Out How To Bring Screaming Fast Internet Everywhere: Insider
In China, Apple faces its "Nike moment"?: Reuters

Why Hayek Would Have Hated Software Patents: Cato
Finder of 'Lost Tomb of Jesus' details ancient evidence of Jonah: Fox
The Chinese Are Probably Squatting On Any Trademark You Can Imagine: Insider

Cornucopia

I like to think of this as a 'Power Bayonet': C&S
Hero Mom, Stephanie Decker, Loses Legs Saving Kids From Tornado: ABC
My 25 Favorite Tweets From February: Hawkins

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

QOTD: "The Weekly Standard sent reporter John McCormack to a Target store near the Georgetown campus where he learned that birth control pills are available for nine dollars a month. The same price can be found at Wal-Mart. That would be $324 over the course of three years, not $3,000. CNSNews, in an article that used the words "sex-crazed co-eds" in the headline, pointed out that condoms at CVS Pharmacy are only one dollar, therefore to spend $3,000 in three years Fluke is talking about having sex almost three times a day...

It’s an absurd conclusion but absurd conclusions are what you get when Nancy Pelosi invites phony “experts” to blatantly lie in front of congresscritters, passes the charade off as “testimony,” and releases the video to evening news shows who lap it up with the gullibility of Golden Retriever puppies." --J. P. Travis

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

WARNING: Do not show this chart to a liberal (unless wearing headgear to protect you from a cranium exploding into high-velocity brain-shrapnel)

A couple of observations about this graph:

• The vaunted "Clinton Surplus" was, in fact, the work of a GOP House that was willing to fight for fiscal sanity (current Ohio Governor John Kasich was one of the architects of the surplus); in addition, two events conspired to turbocharge the economy -- in spite of Clinton, not because of him.

• Liberals like to talk about Reagan's deficits, but they ignore the fact that every budget Reagan ever sent to the Democrat-controlled House was declared "dead on arrival". Reagan supported a Balanced Budget Amendment, sought to eliminate useless agencies like the Department of Education, and otherwise believed in the U.S. spending within its means.

• Since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, they have jammed through the most fiscally irresponsible spending programs in world history (I won't use the word "budget", because they've refused to propose a budget for roughly 1,029 days).

In short, Democrats never propose less spending than Republicans -- unless we're talking about defense. And now, after four years of Democrat-controlled spending, the federal government is forced to borrow 40 cents for every dollar it spends.

And that, my friends, is bound to end badly since the hard left Democrat Party and the RINOs appear ready to turn the spending on auto-pilot -- right into the tarmac.


Bathroom Remodeling Idea

Spotted at Sunshine State Sarah:

In related news, President Subprime McDowngrade has a message for Congressional Democrats: "You'll get nothin' from me... and you'll like it."


Boycott This! [Dan from NY]

Dan from NY:

I know there are many people on my mailing list who would rather die before they’d purchase an Israeli product. Good. Your opportunity is here.

New blood test offers early cancer detection


The simple new check shows a 90 percent detection rate in clinical tests for multiple types of cancers.

Israeli researchers have developed a simple and cheap blood test that was found to provide early detection for many types of cancer in clinical trials.

The promising new blood test, developed by scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheva, can detect minuscule changes in the blood of a person with a cancerous growth somewhere in the body, even before the disease has spread...


WE are the 99 percent

As James Pethokoukis describes it, "For 99 percent of Americans, the Obama recovery has been no recovery at all."

Liberal economist Emmanuel Saez has updated his much-referenced income inequality research. Here’s how the recovery is going after the Great Recession:

In 2010, average real income per family grew by 2.3%, but the gains were very uneven. Top 1% incomes grew by 11.6% while bottom 99% incomes grew only by 0.2%. Hence, the top 1% captured 93% of the income gains in the first year of recovery. Such an uneven recovery can help explain the recent public demonstrations against inequality. It is likely that this uneven recovery has continued in 2011 as the stock market has continued to recover...

1. So this isn’t exactly an endorsement of the Obama recovery is it? I mean, for 99 percent of Americans there has been no recovery, according to Saez...

2. Saez embraces and promotes the back-to-the-1950s nostalgia economics of Obamanomics and modern liberalism: “A number of factors may help explain this increase in inequality, not only underlying technological changes but also the retreat of institutions developed during the New Deal and World War II—such as progressive tax policies, powerful unions, corporate provision of health and retirement benefits, and changing social norms regarding pay inequality.” Indeed, Saez thinks the top marginal tax rate should more than double to 80 percent...

[And j] ust what is the right level of inequality? And how much economic growth is Saez willing to sacrifice to get it? ... Let me repeat this bit from a 2008 study on income inequality from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis:

It is important to understand that income inequality is a byproduct of a well-functioning capitalist economy. Individuals’ earnings are directly related to their productivity. Wealthy people are not wealthy because they have more money; it is because they have greater productivity. Different incomes, thus, reflect different productivity levels. The unconstrained opportunity for individuals to create value for society, which is reflected by their income, encourages innovation and entrepreneurship. Economic research has documented a positive correlation between entrepreneurship/innovation and overall economic growth. A wary eye should be cast on policies that aim to shrink the income distribution by redistributing income from the more productive to the less productive simply for the sake of “fairness.”

The National Social Democrat Party -- and its court jester, Paul Krugman -- hardest hit.


Hilarious Stock Chart o' the Day ( $CARB )

Business. Strategery. At. Its. Finest.

Cake, meet icing: "Announcing The Carbonite Accountability Project."


Larwyn's Linx: Welcome to Total Political War

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Nation

Welcome to Total Political War: LI
Stand WIth Rush or Lie Down and Die Alone: Riehl
Obama to Dems: You're on your own, chumps: Cove

I Have a Right to A Bacon Sandwich in a Muslim Deli: AllAm
Sorry, I'm arguing with a Frumbag: Ace
Limbaugh, Fluke and the war on women: Ziganto

Advertisers Who Don't Want Your Business...: Rush
Fluke: Mandatory Coverage for Sex-Change Surgery: RSM
Why No Consequences For Lefty Hate Talk?: RE

GOP Primary

Santorum, liberty, morality, and the culture wars: Carney
Green donors bet on Mitt Romney Climate Change flip-flop: Politico
Bubba To Appear With Obama On Big Fundraising Tour: WZ

Economy

10 Questions for Obama's Tue. Press Conference: Foundry
Historic: First Year in Decades No U.S. Bank Created: JWF
Citigroup: Gold At $2,400/oz In 2012, $3,400/oz not long after: ZH

What a Worst-Case Scenario In Iran Would Mean For Oil Prices: Insider
IIF Doomsday Memo: Disorderly Greek Default To Cost €1 Trillion+: ZH
McDonald's new Happy Meals ads to pitch nutrition: ChiBiz

Rush: At the Tip of Liberty’s Spear: DLim
ObamaCare Costs Added to Expired Bush Tax Cuts: 2013 Happy New Year!: MagNote
All the Advertisers Who Are Sticking by Limbaugh: AtlWire

Climate & Energy

The “Times,” It Ain’t A’Changing: Commentary
Awesome. Even At 60 Percent Of The Old Site’s Traffic, I’ll Qualify For Aussie Censorship: Soylent (NSFW)

Media

Chasing Andrew: BXX
Want to know why the left hated Andrew Breitbart so much?: DC
We Are at War. Is the Media Scared to Really Cover It?: Erickson

Attention Media: Walmart and Target Have Been Offering $9 Birth Control Since 2007: NB
Obama’s Transgender Ex-Nanny Living in Fear, White House Has No Comment: JWF
Liberals Losing Their Collective Minds Over Rush Comments: Cove

The left’s respect for women: a look back: Treacher
Escaping Carbonite: Bayonet
Rush Limbaugh’s Was Hardly The Most Offensive Comment On The Radio In The Last Week: HayRide

World

Netanyahu to Obama: Israel will decide for itself whether to strike Iran: Beacon
Historic and Unprecedented: Most Well-Spoken President Ever Says “Uhh” 96 Times in Under Five Minutes: JWF
McConnell says US should be ready to use force against Iran: Fox

What a Real War on Women Looks Like: Sundries
Benjamin Netanyahu AIPAC Speech Transcript 3-5-12: MagNote
Quietly, this President Takes Dead Aim at our Troops, Veterans: RedCty (West)

Sci-Tech

Here’s Why the Government Thinks It Can Kill You Overseas: Wired
Look Out, Google -- "Amazon Is Already Doing More Than $1 Billion In Ad Revenue": Insider
'Cheetah bot' sets new world record for legged robots: Telegraph

Cornucopia

Political Theatre and the Fluke Files: Dewey
Cheap Popcorn At The Movie Theater: Your Next “Right?”: Hawkins
Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk: Forbes

Image: The People's Cube
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "How does the far left play this blacklisting game? They exploit race and gender to try and destroy First Amendment protections. People who support a philosophy long on record as supporting every racial gambit from slavery, segregation, lynching and the Ku Klux Klan right on through to the violation of voting rights by the Black Panthers, racial quotas and illegal immigration have no scruples. Genderism, as Sandra Fluke demonstrates anew, is not about individuals, it's about the left's concept of one gender. And, as Ed Schultz's slut comment about Ingraham demonstrated, if you don't fit that profile well -- you're a slut.

No one disputes the right of any would-be sponsor to choose where they place their advertising dollars. That simply isn't the question.

The question is: do these sponsors listed above, all willing participants in this thuggish behavior, understand that they are going out of their way to self-identify with those who have quite effectively demonstrated themselves to be anti-free speech thugs?" --Jeffrey Lord