Saturday, March 10, 2012

Obama's 9-9-9 plan



Hat tip: The Looking Spoon.

10 disasters America will face if Obama is reelected

Anyone who plans on sitting out this election -- no matter who the GOP candidate is -- has only themselves to blame for the collapse of this society. Think I'm overstating things?

Marc Thiessen explains the simple math:

I asked a number of conservative thinkers what they feared most from a second term, and compiled this list of the top ten disasters that would befall America if Obama were re-elected this fall

1. Obamacare will not be repealed.

2. The unprecedented levels of spending in Obama’s first four years will become the new floor, as America sets new records for fiscal profligacy and debt.

3. Job creators will face massive tax increases, and more Americans will come off the tax rolls—resulting in fewer citizens with a stake in keeping taxes low and more with a stake in protecting benefits.

4. Government dependency, already at record levels, will continue to grow.

5. Four lost years in dealing with the entitlement crisis will become eight—digging us into a hole from which we may not be able to emerge.

6. Obama, unworried about the impact of gas and electricity prices on his reelection, will finally wage the regulatory war on fossil fuels the Left demands.

7. He will unleash the Environmental Protection Agency to impose crushing new burdens on U.S. business.

8. His administration’s assault on religious freedom will go on and expand to new areas.

9. The Defense Department will be gutted, with cuts so deep that America will no longer be a superpower.

10. Obama could have the opportunity to appoint more liberal Supreme Court justices, ending the Roberts court in all but name for a generation.

In short, Obama's reelection guarantees a debt-fueled depression; much higher real unemployment (not the propaganda marketed by media); single-payer health care and medical rationing; blackouts and brownouts as his EPA continues shutting down electric generation capacity; and an America in decline as China becomes the world's largest economy.

It's what Derrick Bell and Jeremiah Wright wanted, after all.


Peace In Our Time



Obama and Iran: The Man Who Didn't Bluff

Little more than a week ago, President Obama again addressed growing concerns that Iran's Mullahs were preparing nuclear weapons for regional attacks. He insisted that more time be given for diplomacy, noting that, "as president of the United States, I don't bluff."

Yet, on May 18, 2009, President Obama was asked about Iran and any deadlines for his “policy of engagement.” He responded: “You know, I don’t want to set an artificial deadline ... We should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction.”

On September 15, 2009, a deadline issued by President Obama for Iran to come to the nuclear negotiating table was ignored by Iran's Mullahs.

On October 11, 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, "The international community will not wait indefinitely for evidence that Iran is willing to live up to its international commitments."

On October 23, 2009, an Obama-backed UN deadline for Iran to begin drawing down its nuclear stockpile was ignored by Iran's Mullahs.

On November 29, 2009, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, "Time is running out for Iran to address the international community’s growing concerns about its nuclear program."

On December 31, 2009, President Obama's deadline for Iran to respond to his diplomatic outreach was ignored by Iran's Mullahs.

On January 31, 2010, President Obama's new deadline of the end of the month was ignored by Iran's Mullahs.

On May 25,2011, Hillary Clinton stated: "Time is running out for Iran to address the world's concerns over its nuclear intentions."

On March 1, 2012, a bill signed by President Obama that required his administration "to begin enforcing new financial penalties on foreign firms that do business with Iran passed... with no fresh action from Washington."

On March 6, 2012, Obama said: “To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to prove to the international community that the intentions of their nuclear program are peaceful. … They know how to do it, and the question is going to be whether in these discussions they show themselves moving clearly in that direction.”

When war comes, and it will, the ramifications will be all the more dire because of the intransigence and cowardice of the Democrat Party. Somewhere, Neville Chamberlain is smiling, because -- very soon -- history will no longer look upon him as the world's most pathetic and gullible weakling. It will instead view Obama as history's greatest appeaser.


Bonus Party of Weakness Quote: Hillary Clinton warned Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, that "time is running out [to] begin a genuine transition to democracy"... on July 11, 2011.

Larwyn's Linx: Reaching Critical Mass

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Nation

Reaching Critical Mass: Just One Minute
Liberals and the Suborned Media Employ Hegel’s Dialectic: XCV
10 disasters America will face if Obama gets a second term: Thiessen

Shock: Obama’s Mentor Derrick Bell Hated Jews: RSM
Surprise! “Cosmic Slop” Director a Big Obama Donor: JWF
When even casual sex requires a welfare program...: Steyn

First American President to Embrace Critical Race Theory: Nice Deb
Obama's Supreme Court and Critical Race Thory: Breitbart
Gingrich Says Panetta Should Resign Over Syria Remarks: NatlJrnl

Economy

Laying the Groundwork for Nationalizing Food: MB
Jobs Recession Now 49 Months: Longest Since WWII: IBD
Buffett's NetJets Sued By Feds For $366MM In Unpaid Taxes: WZ

Obamacare mandate will destroy Little Sisters of the Poor: Pundette
Frances Fox Piven: “We Have to Give the Banks a Big Scare”: VS
The European Bailout-And-Borrow Train Has Run Out Of Track: ZH

Scandal Central

Lawyers Who Backed Obama Advised on Failed Loan Programs: NLPC
The Racist Ravings of Derrick Bell: FPM
Obama's Supreme Court and Critical Race Theory: Breitbart

Climate & Energy

Wife of Climate Kook Energy Secretary Drives Gas-Guzzling BMW Sports Car: Times
Study: 30% of People With OCD Obsess Over Effects Of Global Warming: WZ
Legal Incandescent Bulbs are Here: Rush

Media

Scandal at The Washington Post: Fraud, Lobbying & Insider Trading: NoisyRm
Soledad O'Brien: Derrick Bell Fan: Breitbart
Ed Schultz Paid Nearly $200,000 By Unions in 2011, According to Labor Dept.: NB

Turns out the media did vet candidate Obama – they just hid what they found: IBD
What will happen to all the left-wing comedians after all the attention to Limbaugh's "slut" controversy?: Althouse
Do We Burn It To The Ground?: TL in Exile

This is the Disgusting Racism of the Left…: Publius
MRC President on Louis C.K.’s Pulling out of Radio & TV Association’s Correspondents Dinner: MRC
Some newspapers refuse to run 'Doonesbury' comics on abortion, Texas ultrasound law: Fox

The Left's War on Christianity: Hawkins
Mark Levin Interview with Reagan Foundation about 'Ameritopia': My Freedom Post
Thomas Sowell Destroys Derrick Bell: Breitbart

World

NAACP Asking U.N. Human Rights Council to Condemn American Voter ID Laws: CNS
U.S. State Department Actively Promoting Islam in Europe: Creeping
Muslim & Arab Nations Walk Out of UN Meeting on Anti-gay violence: GayPatriot

Obama vs. Israel: Krauthammer
Iceland May Adopt Canadian Dollar: MB
Palestinian Terrorists Fire Barrage of Over 40 Rockets At Southern Israel: WZ

Sci-Tech

What the new iPad tells us about the next iPhone: CNet
Brand new bags: expandable, collapsible luggage wins awards: USA Today
Teen Exploits Three Zero-Day Vulns for $60K Win in Google Chrome Hack Contest: Wired

Cornucopia

Weakly Review: Only the Schtrong Survive: MOTUS
Research finds women feel happy when their husband or partner is upset: Telegraph
Hiker missing for almost a month found in New Mexico: USA Today

Image: iOwnTheWorld: The Not-So-Lovely Randi Rhodes
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "Ever since Plato’s “Republic,” imaginative writers have promoted the idea of utopia, a paradisiacal existence in an ideal, managed society. Combine this with democracy’s tendency to descend over time into a soft tyranny and you have what Mark Levin calls “Ameritopia,” the title of his latest book, subtitled “The unmaking of America,”

Levin went to great lengths to validate his assertion that, in defiance of our founding principles, an insidious, managed collectivism is permeating our culture and supplanting the individualism under which we prospered. Levin believes that the centralization and consolidation of power in a political class similar to Plato’s “guardians,” that insulates its agenda in entrenched experts and administrators, is apparent all around us and growing more formidable. He reminds us of Ronald Reagan’s warning that “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” He puts us on notice that, while the tea party limited government movement is a hopeful sign, “many more blissfully indifferent citizens must be aroused and enlisted lest our civil society continue to unravel and eventually dissolve into despotism.”

Can passionate writers and aroused citizens change America’s course? Maybe. But I recall the words of a Persian poet: “The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Not all your piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.”" --Elbert Menees

Friday, March 09, 2012

Climate clowns curiously silent: Air Force pulls nine (9) cargo planes from military ops to support Obama campaign events

But I thought it was a "Climate Emergency"!?!

Eh, I guess not.

The U.S. Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Barack Obama’s stepped-up visits to campaign events.

The five medium-capacity C-130s and four heavyweight C-17s will be used to ferry security vehicles, armored limousines and communications gear into cities ahead of Obama’s campaign appearances.

In the months before November, the president is expected to fly into multiple cities per week, and speak at multiple sites per day. On Mar. 8, for example, the president will fly to Richmond, and then drive over to a Rolls-Royce aircraft-parts factory. That evening, he’ll fly down to Houston, Texas.

His wife, Vice President Joe Biden and many of his cabinet secretaries are using the Air Force’s fleet of VIP aircraft to visit more states as the election season speeds up.

The nine cargo aircraft will begin operations in April, said Maj. Michelle Lai, communications officer for the Air Force’s 89th Airlift Wing. “They’ll stand down in November 2012,” she said.

Of course they will.

Does any liberal out there want to venture a guess how many years I'd have to drive my sports car to equal the carbon footprint of a single Obama campaign trip?

I've got $15 burning a hole in my PayPal account, just waiting to be awarded to the first drone fine progressive to get within an order of magnitude.


Hat tip: Paco Enterprises.

Truck Dealers Association: EPA 'Grossly Underestimated' The Enormous Costs of Their Byzantine Regulations

Gee, this news comes as quite a surprise. And who needs freight hauled around by trucks, anyhow?

A report released yesterday by The National Automobile Dealers Association and American Truck Dealers questions the Environmental Protection Agency's cost analysis of 2004-2010 emissions control mandates. Data collected by ATD shows EPA's cost estimates were off by a factor of between two and five.

As a result, ATD says, last decade's emissions mandates resulted in substantially higher prices for commercial vehicles, which depressed vehicle sales and created massive disruptions in normal business cycles, as well as delaying the environmental benefits that the EPA originally sought.

"While EPA can mandate what truck and engine makers have to build, they can't dictate what customers will buy," said Dave Westcott, vice-chair of NADA... the study sounds a stern warning about EPA's cost projections on the upcoming fuel economy standards for heavy and light vehicles -- which extend out to the 2017 to 2025 timeframe...

The study notes that when the EPA implemented its 2004-2010 rules for heavy trucks, it failed to predict and account for what truck and engine manufacturers had to accomplish to comply with those rules, and how the market would react...

Everything this enormous federal leviathan touches turns to crap.

The EPA can't even figure out ahead of time how much damage their insane regulations will cause the private sector. So they continue anyhow, issuing reams of new rules in their unceasing efforts to de-industrialize America. To centrally manage the economy. To create a Utopian society that can't be and never was.

I can't wait until these geniuses run the entire health care system. It'll be kinda like the medical version of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, only without the great customer service.


I Told You He Was Historic, Melvin: Jobs Recession Now Officially Longest Since World War II

It's another Obama record!

The U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in February vs. expectations for 206,000, continuing a recent trend of decent hiring activity. The unemployment rate held at 8.3%.

But America remains mired in the longest jobs recession since the Great Depression. It's been 49 months since the U.S. hit peak employment in January 2008. And with nonfarm payrolls still 5.33 million below their old high, the jobs slump will continue for several more years.

The previous jobs recession record — 47 months — came during and after the comparatively mild 2001 recession, which saw unemployment climb to only 6.3%... The labor market won't truly return to health until some 10 million positions are created to rehire all those who lost their jobs and to absorb new workers.

The longest jobs recession in decades coincides, not coincidentally, with the longest stretch of anemic economic performance on record.

And the jobs recession also coincides, not coincidentally, with the regulation-happy Obama administration.

As for the "8.3 percent unemployment rate" reported earlier today, well, that's about as reliable as everything other statement this administration makes. Which is to say, it's about as genuine as a Hillary Clinton $11 bill.

Even if it were a legit number, the 8.3% February unemployment rate, released today by the Labor Department, would be simply terrible—and unacceptable. It would still extend the longest streak of 8%-plus unemployment since the Great Depression. The U.S. economy hasn’t been below 8% unemployment since Obama took office in January 2009. And back in May 2007, unemployment was just 4.4%.

But, unfortunately, the true measure of U.S. unemployment is much, much worse.

...If the size of the U.S. labor force as a share of the total population was the same as it was when Barack Obama took office—65.7% then vs. 63.9% today—the U-3 unemployment rate would be 10.8%.

...Then there’s the broader, U-6 measure of unemployment which includes the discouraged plus part-timers who wish they had full time work. That unemployment rate, perhaps the truest measure of the labor market’s health, is still a sky-high 14.9%.

Maybe next month the Bureau of Labor Statistics will pull another million Americans "out of the workforce" to get unemployment down to, say, 7.5 percent.

That way useful idiots like Mike Dorning at Bloomberg can continue spewing the administration's propaganda without a hint of thoughtful analysis.


Good News! Eight Decapitated Bodies Turn Up In "Safe As It's Ever Been" Texas-Mexico Border Region

Thankfully the border -- true to the promise of our beloved, baritone DHS secretary Janet Napolitano -- is "as safe as it's ever been".

Eight decapitated bodies were found in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, according to multiple Mexican news media outlets.

Details are still coming, but the bodies were found today by the Army on the highway that connects Matamoros with Ciudad Victoria, according to El Universal, the Mexico City based media company.

Authorities have not shared any insight into the killings, but the region has been marked recently by intense fighting between two factions of the Gulf Cartel drug-trafficking organization.

Because this is a family blog, I've refrained from posting pictures of the decapitated heads found on the border and here in the United States.


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.


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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.