Sunday, April 08, 2012

It's so touching that CBS News runs an affirmative action program for microcephalics, which seems to explain Andrew Cohen

On Friday, March 30th, Andrew Cohen -- the so-called "chief analyst and legal editor for CBS Radio News" -- authored what could be the most preposterous excuse for analysis this side of Paul Krugman.

Cohen’s cheap shot... came in #7 of [his Atlantic article entitled] “13 Final Thoughts About the Health Care Arguments.”

Cohen, who back in 2005-2007 appeared occasionally on CBS News television newscasts but is now, thankfully, confined to a few brief soundbites on the radio side, asserted in the blog post:

7. Smug justice. I admit I lost my temper on Wednesday. The arguments in the Care Act cases may be funny to Justice Antonin Scalia, the bully that he is, but they aren't funny to the single father who will avoid bankruptcy because of the law, or to the millions of others who will benefit from the Medicaid expansion or from the provision that allows young people to stay longer on their parents’ health care plans. Justice Scalia gets his health insurance from the government. To him, the care act is just another statute. Fine. Let him be so dispassionate when his conservative fellow travelers ask him to endorse an act of Congress.
Let me repeat:

"The arguments in the Care Act cases may be funny to Justice Antonin Scalia, the bully that he is, but they aren’t funny to the single father who will avoid bankruptcy because of the law."

Really?

Avoid bankruptcy? As the country itself is drowning in a cesspool of debt and unfunded liabilities?

But don't believe me -- believe the Medicare Actuaries or the Trustees of the Social Security Administration.

Medicare: $24.8 trillion -- Obligation per household: $212,500

Social Security: $21.4 trillion -- Obligation per household: $183,400

Federal debt: $15 trillion -- Obligation per household $128,000

Hey, Cohen: where's all that "free health care" coming from in your pathetic excuse for an analysis?

From the taxpayers?

From a country headed into a cyclonic funnel of fiscal torment?

Cohen, the sad thing is you're too dim to realize the evil of the unfettered government spending you're espousing. Because you're a mathematic ignoramus, a chronic putz, whose religion is Statism. You're a walking, talking joke.


Larwyn's Linx: Obama Jumps the Shark, Takes One Leap Too Far

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Nation

Obama Jumps the Shark, Takes One Leap Too Far: Foundry
Even 'Politifact' blisters Obama's SCOTUS claims: AllAm
Obama attacks as gullible minions continue drinking the Kool-Aid: CFP

The Real War on Women: Palin Vindicated: Pollak
Oklahoma police arrest two suspects in Tulsa shootings: Fox
Obama, the Happy Drug Warrior: RWN

Economy

IL Admits $137B in Pension, Health Liabilities: Mish
Two OWS Clowns Busted After Recording Vandalism for TV: JWF
Energy Dept. offers prize to create mobile apps that already exist: DC

2012 Elections

Quote of the Day: Do as I say, not as I do edition: Q&O
Court Watching: 2008 Democrat Vote Fraud (IN, VA): Publius
Santorum to spend Monday with hospitalized daughter: Politico

Scandal Central

Dubious Donations Illustrated (Illegal Contributor Edition): Power Line
EPA Overreach: Law.com
Man pleads guilty to gun charges in botched F&F probe: ABC-LA

Climate & Energy

FAIL. Obama’s Favorite Green Energy Success Story – Spain – Halts All New Renewable Energy Projects: GWP
Good News Enviro-Kooks: California Nuclear Plant Shutdown Could Trigger Power Outages: CBS LA
Lisa Jackson's EPA Goes Rogue: USN&WR

Anchorage breaks seasonal snow record last set in 1955: Watts
An about face by China on solar power: Watts
Idiot Marxist Kook Dick Durbin: Drive Hybrids To Stop Tornadoes: IHTM

Media

Obama's Network: Beacon
John Derbyshire’s parental ‘talk’ about race sets off Twitter firestorm: Twitchy
Use ‘Derbyshire’ as a Verb: RSM

The Administration’s Press: Driscoll
My So-Called Blogging Career: Riehl
Parting Ways: NRO

The Left is Losing the Media Wars: Lifson
Black Male Guns Down Handicapped 'White Hispanic', National Media Curiously Disinterested: JWF
NBC probe centers on staffer in shooting story error: Reuters

The Los Angeles Times Should Release the Khalidi Tape for Passover: Simon
Profiles in Narcissism: Charles Johnson Blinded by His Own Self-Righteousness: RSM
CBS News Analyst Blasts ‘Smug’ Scalia as ‘Bully’ for Daring to Doubt Constitutionality of ObamaCare: NB

World

Muslim Brotherhood’s $1.5 billion Holy Week Windfall: CFP
Men get seven years prison for cartoons of Mohammed on Facebook: Creeping
Avalanche buries 124 Pakistani soldiers and 11 civilians: Reuters

An open letter to Chilean communist student leader Camila Vallejo: Babalu
Pastor Terry Jones Calls Mohammad a “Liar, Pedophile & False Prophet” at Dearborn Protest: GWP
Germany Proposes Youth Tax to Pay for Baby Boomer Pensions and Bills: GWP

Obama Shows Support For Women... By Embracing The Taliban: Jawa
Report: U.S. operated inside Iran to collect information on nuclear program: Haaretz
Malmö: Hatred of Jews in a Swedish city: JPost

Sci-Tech

Inside the Army’s Secret Cold War Ice Base: DefTech
Dan Catt: New Aesthetic isn’t about 8bit retro, the Robot Readable World, computer vision and pirates.: Wired
REVEALED: The Price Of A Bunch Of Surgical Procedures: Insider

Cornucopia

Easter is a good time to learn how to defend the resurrection of Jesus: Wintery Knight
The Great Painters Commemorate Easter Sunday: Barnhardt
Pope marks Easter with call for Syria violence end: AP

Heating Up Our Voting Blocs: MOTUS
Top five regrets of the dying: Guardian
Tip Drill Makes Her Comeback Debut at Dream: Miami New Times

Image: AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "It’s Easter weekend of an election year, and we all know what that means: President Obama will be spouting scripture in every direction. I find the sight nauseating, not just because I have doubts about the faith of a man who could spend 20 years listening to the hate-filled rants of Reverend Wright, but because Obama tends to get his scripture wrong. He desperately wants the Bible to support socialism and when it doesn’t, he hammers the Word into a square hole anyway.

Watching our president quote scripture is like watching a fish ride a bicycle." --J.P. Travis

Saturday, April 07, 2012

Hey, Justin Bieber Fans: Hope You're Ready To Pay Special 'Youth Taxes' To Cover Your Elders' Screw-ups

Via the indefatigable Gateway Pundit comes this delightful news:

Germany set to tax young


GERMANY is proposing to levy extra taxes on the young to pay for the costs of the country's growing numbers of old people, under government plans for a ''demographic reserve'' levy.

...The German Chancellor's ruling party is seeking extra sources of revenue to pay for soaring pensions and bills for social care costs as Germany's ''baby boomer'' generation ages amid a decline in the birth rate.

...The proposals, to be adopted by Dr Merkel's party cabinet after the Easter break, have not yet set a figure on the age tax but officials are considering a special levy of about 1 per cent of income.

Because of a slump in Germany's population, as more ageing Germans retire there are fewer young workers to replace them as taxpayers to fund generous welfare and pension arrangements.

Ain't socialism great, kids?

Supermarket Logic Problem

Uncle Ben sent this one in.

A woman was shopping at the local supermarket where she selected: A half-gallon of 2% milk, a carton of eggs, a quart of orange juice, a head of lettuce, a 2 lb. can of coffee, and a 1 lb. package of bacon.

As she was unloading the items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched as she placed the items in front of the cashier.

While the cashier was ringing up the purchases, the drunk calmly stated, 'You must be single.'

The young woman was a bit startled by this proclamation, but she was intrigued by the derelict's intuition, since she indeed had never found Mr. Right. The woman looked at the six items on the belt and saw nothing particularly unusual about her selections that could have tipped off the drunk to her marital status.

Curiosity getting the better of the woman, she said, 'Yes you are correct. But how on earth did you know that?'

The drunk replied, 'Cause you're ugly.'

How George W. Bush Destroyed the Economy In Only Eight Short Years

The conventional wisdom among the denizens of the left is that George W. Bush took a surplus and destroyed the economy in only eight short years. The following illustrated story describes just how he pulled off this difficult task.

In 1997 President Clinton's HUD secretary, a man named Andrew Cuomo, claimed Fannie Mae had exhibited "racial discrimination" and proposed that 50 percent of the GSEs' (Fannie and Freddie) mortgage loan portfolio be made up of loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers by 2001.

In August of 2008, Wayne Barrett at the Village Voice wrote, "[Clinton appointee] Andrew Cuomo... made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country's current crisis. He took actions that... helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration...into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded 'kickbacks' to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans."

At the time, Cuomo said "GSE presence in the subprime market could be of significant benefit to lower-income families, minorities, and families living in underserved areas."

As the housing market unravelled thanks to these policies, even The New York Times' Paul Krugman admitted that, "homeownership isn't for everyone," adding that "as many as 10 million of the new buyers are stuck now with negative home equity... So many others have gone through foreclosure that there's been a net loss in home ownership since 1998."

From 2001 to 2008, the Bush administration tried more than 18 times to bring Fannie and Freddie under heel.

For example, Richard Banker opened testimony on October 6, 2004 in the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises with an almost unbelievable summary of a report entitled, "Allegations of accounting and Management Failure at Fannie Mae."

"[This] is indeed a very troubling report... it is a report of extraordinary importance [to] the taxpayers of this country who would pay the cost of cleanup. ....[the report questions] the validity of previously reported financial results, the adequacy of regulatory capital, the quality of management supervision, and the overall safety and soundness of the Enterprise..."

"We all know that the Enterprise is very thinly capitalized, but the potential effect of requiring a responsible capital level would be to adversely affect earnings per share, and consequently make the payment of bonuses [to Fannie executives] much less likely...

...I also wish to inform members of the Committee of another troubling incident... About a year ago, I corresponded with the Director’s office making inquiry about the levels of executive compensation at the enterprise for the top twenty executives...

...Now I understand why the Enterprise [Fannie Mae] was so anxious not to have public disclosure of compensation of an entity that was created by the Congress, and supported by the taxpayer... As a direct result of abhorrent accounting practices, executives have been able to award themselves bonuses they did not earn and did not deserve."

In 2003, the effort to rein in Fannie began in earnest with a GOP bill ("H.R. 2575—THE SECONDARY MORTGAGE MARKET ENTERPRISES REGULATORY IMPROVEMENT ACT"). The bill would have strengthened an independent regulator that did not have to kowtow to the political establishment. Like most efforts aimed at reformation of Fannie, the committee votes were typically on the straight party line.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA): "I think it is clear that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are sufficiently secure so they are in no great danger... I don't think we face a crisis; I don't think that we have an impending disaster. ...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do very good work, and they are not endangering the fiscal health of this country."

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA): "I have sat through nearly a dozen hearings where, frankly, we were trying to fix something that wasn't broke. [sic] ...These GSEs have more than adequate capital for the business they are in: providing affordable housing. As I mentioned, we should not be making radical or fundamental change... If there is anything to fix or improve, it is the [regulators]."

Rep. David Scott (D-GA): "...affordable housing goals for both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae require that 50 percent of units should be built for low-and moderate-income home buyers, and 20 percent for very low-income families... Yet, from 1998 to 2002, African-American home ownership rates only rose from 45.6 percent to 47.3 percent, less than 2 percent compared with the white average increase from 72 percent to 74.5 percent, huge gap remains. Clearly, the mission of Freddie Mac, and especially Fannie Mae, is to close that gap..."

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY): "...I have to go to another hearing, I will try to be just real quick... I am just pissed off at [the regulator] because if it wasn't for you I don't think that we would be here in the first place. ...we are faced with is maybe some individuals who wanted to do away with GSEs in the first place, you have given them an excuse to try to have this forum [to change the] mission of what the GSEs had, which they have done a tremendous job... There has been nothing that was indicated is wrong, you know, with Fannie Mae... The question that then presents is the competence that your agency has with reference to deciding and regulating these GSEs."

Franklin Raines, former Clinton official and then-Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae: "...In 1994, we launched our trillion-dollar commitment, a pledge to provide $1 trillion in financing for 10 million underserved families before the decade was over... In 2000... we launched a redoubled new pledge... to provide $2 trillion for 18 million underserved families before this decade is over. ...we are one of the best capitalized financial institutions in the world, when compared to the risk of our business... ...these assets are so riskless that their capital for holding them should be under 2 percent."

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA): "I don't see any financial crisis."

Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL): "A concern that I have... is you are making very specific... broad and categorical judgment about the management of this institution, about the willfulness of practices that may or may not be in controversy. You have imputed various motives to the people running the organization... That sounds to me as if you have gone from being a dispassionate regulator to someone who is very much involved and has a stake in this controversy... And I will follow up on Ms. Waters's point because I think it is very well taken: Her observation is that the political context surrounding your investigation was that serious doubts were being raised about OFHEO... In fact, frankly, doubts were raised about your leadership of OFHEO. And all of a sudden, the response to that is to produce an enormously critical report."

Late in 2008, even ex-President Clinton admitted that the Democrats were guilty of destroying Fannie and Freddie... and responsible for the current crisis that has left the entire U.S. economy on the brink of depression: "I think that the responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by the Republicans and the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."

And who were the top recipients of Fannie Mae's money-dispensing leaf-blower? The top three were Chris Dodd (D-CT), Barack Obama (D-IL) and John Kerry (D-MA).

And where are these Fannie Mae executives -- all former Clinton administration officials -- now? Are they serving time in prison as they likely deserve? No. They're enjoying their riches:
  • Franklin Raines ($90 million in compensation): Democrat adviser and one-time adviser to Barack Obama
  • Jamie Gorelick ($26 million): left-wing lawyer and Democrat fundraiser
  • James Johnson ($21 million): Democrat adviser and one-time adviser to Barack Obama
These Democrat crony capitalists -- and their friends in Congress -- greased each others' palms in a series of scandals, accounting frauds, and skulduggery that would make Bernie Madoff blush. When Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapsed thanks to their actions, AIG and Lehman Brothers soon followed, their portfolios undergirded by investments in the "ultra-safe" GSEs.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Oh, on second thought, the title of this piece is incorrect. Bush didn't cause the economic meltdown. In fact, he tried to fight it -- on at least 18 separate occasions.

More importantly, the conventional wisdom among liberals -- the dishonest talking points -- are completely and utterly wrong. That is, if you rely upon history, facts, logic and reason. Which appears to be a stretch for many liberals.

No matter your political affiliation, if you value the truth you will vote in November to fire every Democrat running for office. Because there are no "moderate Democrats" left.



Hat tips: Naked Emperor News, Ann Coulter, Barking Moonbat, Country Store ("Jamie Gorelick: the pinup girl for Democrat foolishness strikes again") and Gateway Pundit.

But She's Not Bitter

I refer, of course, to this hilarious report from Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:

Clinton Will Skip Democratic Convention

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not be attending the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the Charlotte Observer reports.

"This year, she's secretary of State. And as the country's chief diplomat, she's expected to stay above all things partisan" as "various federal statutes and the State Department's ethical guidelines will keep Secretary Clinton in Washington."
Hillary Clinton. "Above all things partisan."

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Hold on. Must. Catch. Breath.

I think I just wrenched my clavicle.

See, there's this amazing new tool called "Google" and -- in about 17 seconds -- discovered the following news items from the last couple of months alone. Yes, I discovered the following severely partisan statements by none other than Hillary Rodham:

CNN, 1 April 2012: "Clinton criticizes Romney's remarks on Russia"

The Hill, 27 February 2012 - "Hillary: These Republicans are inflaming the situation in Afghanistan by criticizing Obama for apologizing"

Fox, 26 February 2012 - "Hillary Clinton Urges Muslims To 'Not Pay Attention' To Republicans"

Two more diametrically opposed concepts you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere: (a) Hillary; and (b) Above partisanship.

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U.S. News & World Report: Lisa Jackson's EPA Goes Rogue.

Flowchart for Undecided Voters

With November approaching, please print out a few copies and hand 'em to any undecided voters you know.



New Look for the Blog

After years of putting off a move to Blogger's new templates, I've finally taken the leap and converted over. The advantages:

• Cleaner look on most HTML5 standard browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE9 (earlier versions of Internet Explorer will work fine, but it will look a bit clunkier)

• Better mobile support: it should automatically render correctly on Android, iPhone and iPad browsers

• A much nicer archive: if you scroll down a bit on the right side, you'll see a much more useful archive capability, with post titles of recent articles tagged by date

• Much better navigation: you can now scroll backwards and forwards through the blog using controls at the bottom of each page (I had to write this support myself in the old version and it only worked one way -- i.e., show the prior 10 posts)

Do you like the new look? Hate it? Let me know in the comments, where Biff Spackle will be fielding your responses with heartfelt missives.

And for those bloggers who also would like to upgrade to the new template structure -- but are afraid of losing all of their customizations -- I hope to write a quick guide to best practices at some point. It's not for the faint of heart, especially if you have a lot of custom CSS, HTML and Javascript.

Larwyn's Linx: The coming Libertarian Revolution

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Nation

The coming Libertarian Revolution: Jer Jer
Marion Barry and the Left’s hatred of Asian entrepreneurs: Malkin
Bill Would Suspend Passport Rights For Delinquent Taxpayers: CBS LA

The Administration’s Press: Blumer
U.S. Brags About Quality Medical Care For Detained Illegals: JW
What’s Obama Thinking? Wickard, not Marbury: PJM

Economy

There are now 88 million workers who are “Not In Labor Force": LUR
The big March jobs miss--and why unemployment sure ain’t 8.2%: Peth
4 Months Of ‘Strong Hiring’ Cuts Jobless .2%: S&L

Union Wakes Up to High Price of Hopey Change: MB
Stuart Varney: Why Food Prices Have Skyrocketed: NoisyRm
Another Plunge in Petroleum and Gasoline Usage: Mish

Scandal Central

Access to F&F Witness Blocked; Ball Back In Issa's Court: Nice Deb
Issa, Grassley hammer White House for stonewalling on F&F: DC
Alaska gun stores say ATF engaging in new illegal activity: Examiner

2012 Elections

Wasserman Schultz payoff to big Dem donor with DNC job for daughter: LI
Obama Looks To Patronize Women With A “Female Forum”: Pirate's Cove
Obama White House Reinvents Republican War on Women: GayPatriot

Climate & Energy

Green Energy Fuzzy Math: AT
The Obama Administration’s Dishonest Claims on “Big Oil Tax Giveaways”: CFP
EPA's new farcical carbon mandate: Exam

Media

Kabuki: Arby’s fakes a Rush Limbaugh advertising protest; Update: Walgreen’s joins hands with Soros mob: Malkin
NPR Touts Leftist Campaign Against 'Hardline Conservative Policies': NB
Fox News Hires Supporter of Jeremiah Wright and Derrick Bell: NoisyRm

Breaking: NBC Fires Producer Who Created False Zimmerman Audio: NB
Trayvon Martin - Day Three Of Eerie Silence At NY Times: JOM
Jon Stewart has had it with Obama's fundraising spam: PolWire

Was the White House Press Question About Augusta a Plant?: Tatler
‘Obama’s War On Women’: Driscoll
Mr. Obama's Own War on Women: AT

World

Just in time for election, 9/11 mastermind to face Gitmo trial, death penalty: Creeping
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez heading to Brazil for medical emergency: Babalu
Camel testifies in Saudi court room: Bikya Masr

Why Israel Will Attack Iran: Forbes
The Obama Administration loves tax cuts….in China: Hawkins
Report: Obama Tells Iran He'll Accept Their Nuclear Program If They Promise Not To Build Weapons: WZ

Sci-Tech

Prototype Google Glasses spotted in the wild: CNet
Controversy Deepens Over Pesticides and Bee Collapse: EPA
Is Wind Spreading a Mysterious Disease Across the Pacific?: Discover

Cornucopia

Them’s the Rules, them’s the breaks: Cold Fury
CBS announces new venue for the next Survivor series: CrimeInChicago
Pilots eject as Navy jet crashes in Virginia Beach, wiping out part of apartment complex: Fox

Image: iOwnTheWorld
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: DEFEND HIM NOW: Marine to be Discharged for being a Tea Partier

QOTD: "I don’t know which is scarier—if Israel attacks Iran or if they don’t attack Iran." --Gen. David Petraeus

Friday, April 06, 2012

And now: a word from our sponsor, Skyrocket Gasoline


Hat tip: Son of Soylent Green (NSFW).


Ignore the Government's Propaganda: The Real Unemployment Rate Is 10.9%

The American Enterprise Institute's James Pethokoukis uses the tools that legacy media won't bother with in their effort to regurgitate government propaganda. Which is to say: he uses arithmetic, logic, history and common sense.

Recall that back in 2009, White House economists Jared Bernstein and Christina Romer used their old-fashioned Keynesian model to predict how the $800 billion stimulus would affect employment. According to their model—as displayed in the above chart, updated—unemployment should be around 5.8% today.

But the true measure of U.S. unemployment is far worse:

1. 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. 63.8% today down from last month—the U-3 unemployment rate would be 10.9%.


2. But what if you take into the account the aging of the Baby Boomers, which means the labor force participation (LFP) rate should be trending lower. Indeed, it has been doing just that since 2000. Before the Great Recession, the Congressional Budget Office predicted what the LFP would be in 2012, assuming such demographic changes. Using that number, the real unemployment rate would be 10.5%.

3. Of course, the LFP rate usually falls during recessions. Yet even if you discount for that and the aging issue, the real unemployment rate would be 9.4%.

4. 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 14.5%.

5. The employment-population ratio dipped to 58.5% vs. 61% in December 2008. An historically low level of the U.S. population is actually working.


6. The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or longer) account for 42.5% of the unemployment. That number is basically stuck. It was the same, for instance, in August 2010 and last December.

As Tyler Durden noted a few days ago, governmental entities like the Bureau of Labor Statistics are about as trustworthy as a slip-and-fall lawyer who's hooked on crack.


There's not a white America or a black America... there's only an America where Republicans want to poison kids

Is there any rhetorical device to which this president won't resort to retain his white-knuckled grip on the reins of power? His latest -- divisive and dangerous -- claims: Republicans want to poison children.

President Obama suggested this evening that the Republican governing agenda will lead to "poisoning our kids" with pollution.

"I believe that it is part of our solemn responsibility to future generations that we look after this planet; that we make sure our air is clean and our water is clean; that we’re not poisoning our kids," Obama said at a campaign fundraiser tonight. That credo came as he explained that "the contrast between visions in this election could not be more stark, because I believe that America is stronger when we’re looking for one another."

Obama's line evokes his Associated Press speech this week, when he said Republicans believe that if the government "let businesses pollute more and treat workers and consumers with impunity, that somehow we’d all be better off."
This kind of rhetoric is the sort of thing that you'd typically hear from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez or Cuba's Fidel Castro. That we hear it from an American president is indicative of how far the once-mighty Democrat Party has fallen.

There are no moderate Democrats left. There are only Marxists.

New Ambulance Design Spotted in Texas

From (who else?) Papa B:


Trayvon Martin? Perhaps Obama Could Explain Kesler Dufrene

The Washington Free Beacon calls Kevin Dufrene "Obama's Willie Horton." That's because Obama blocked the deportation of this illegal alien and convicted burglar. Said non-deportation then resulted in the utterly predictable murder of a 15-year old girl.

President Obama commented on the controversial killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin in a widely noticed Mar. 23 press availability.

The president has yet to comment, however, on another shooting victim whose death is connected to an administration immigration policy and may pose problems for his reelection campaign.

On Jan. 2, 2011, Kesler Dufrene is alleged by local police to have shot and killed 15-year-old Ashley Chow in Miami... Dufrene, a 23-year-old illegal immigrant from Haiti, was convicted on burglary charges in 2006.

Already on probation for stealing a car, he pled guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison... The Miami Herald reported that in August 2007 a U.S. immigration judge ordered Dufrene to be deported to Haiti when his sentence was up.

However, the Obama administration halted deportations to Haiti following that nation’s devastating 2010 earthquake...

Dufrene was released in October of that year, three months prior to the January 2011 shooting that killed Chow and two others... Immigration authorities did not have to release Dufrene, despite the administration’s order to stop deportations to Haiti. In 2001, and again in 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that illegal immigrants unable to be deported could still be detained for up to six months.

Hey, Romney advisers (notice that I was polite and didn't say, "Hey, schmucks!"): maybe you could make an ad out of this all-too-typical result of Obama's disastrous open borders policy.


Larwyn's Linx: I Cannot Stand Him

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Nation

I Cannot Stand Him: RightTruths
What Happened to Black Pride?: Jackson
Muslim Brotherhood In Our White House: NoisyRm

DOJ, liberal groups opposing voter ID require photo ID: Hot Air
Striking Down Obamacare: Obama Has It Backward: DLim
Is Obama 'Dangerously Close To Totalitarianism'?: IBD

Economy

Beware the Taxmageddon: Foundry
Congressman questions Labor Department propaganda: Beacon
March Top 10 sellers: Altima surprises, Prius soars: USA Today

Obama Misquotes Bible on Wealth Redistribution: AT
Obama energy policy: very few of the above: RWN
36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes: IBD

Scandal Central

An Update On The EPA’s Den Of Thieves: Wizbang
Fed Audit Confirms Govt. Corruption In Solyndra Deal: JW
He's At It Again: DayByDay

2012 Elections

Obama Reelection Strategy: Voter Fraud: MB
Santorum’s campaign releases their delegate count: Romney 571, Santorum 342: Scoop
Rubio Working on GOP Version of DREAM Act: CNS

Climate & Energy

Obama’s War On Coal Finally Dawns On Union Boss: “Our people’s jobs are on the line.”: LUR
How Reagan Cut Oil Prices And Why It Won't Happen Now: IBD
Obama Regulations Hand a Mining Monopoly to China – And Americans Suffer: GWP

Media

Romney slams new media at liberal journo event; conservative new media slams back: Twitchy
CBS reporter to Carney: President ‘made a mistake and you can’t admit it’: Beacon
Identity Theft: Another Tool for the Politics of Personal Destruction from the “Tolerant” Left: Zilla

Time Magazine's Disgusting, Condescending, Racist Interview With Nikki Haley: Glob
Conservatives take over Obama’s latest hashtag: Twitchy
Most Secretive, Least Vetted President In History Demands To Know, “What’s Romney Hiding?”: WZ

Former entitlement lib tells Rush Limbaugh that he saved her life: Scoop
Understanding the Slave Mentality: Alt Market
Huffington Post Promotes ‘Queer Christ’: MRC

Leftist Utopianism: ProWis
Guaranteed Not to Be Aired by the “Mainstream” Media: MB
Palin Bests Couric In Morning Show Ratings: 4029

World

Obama welcomes Muslim Brotherhood in the White House: Creeping
Concerns Endure over President Obama’s “Flexibility” Comments: Foundry
Rocket fired from Egypt hits Israeli city of Eilat: BBC

Brother of Ohio Soldier: 'We Are a Nation at War': ABC
Carney on Engagement: We’ll Judge Muslim Brotherhood by Actions, Not ‘Religious Affiliation’: Tatler
Tsunami 'ghost ship' sinks after US coastguard opens fire: Guardian

Sci-Tech

'Rude awakening' for Mac users: serious Mac flaw needs urgent fix: smh
First Google Android Bootkit Found: Dark Reading
Researchers Release New Exploits to Hijack Critical Infrastructure: Wired

Cornucopia

You Look Mahvelous, Dahling!: MOTUS
Audio: Saints’ defensive coordinator apparently targets 49ers for injuries in pre-game speech: Hot Air
Marine lawyers urge that sergeant be booted over Obama comments: LAT

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QOTD: "I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK.

That is someone impersonating me. You just "friended" heaven-only-knows-who. CREEPY. Why are you even doing that Facebook crap? It cracks me up that people email me all of these stories about government surveillance and then are on Facebook all day every day, posting verbal and visual records of their entire lives. Uh, hello? Facebook is a giant self-service surveillance net." --Ann Barnhardt

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Obama's Got a Gun

Sad Hill News:


Obama says, ‘There is going to be a tug-of-war within the US between those who see globalization as a threat, and those who accept it’...

Yes, there is.

Among all the factors pushing up prices at the gas pump, the weakness of the U.S. dollar is one of the most important and least discussed. Ultimately, supply and demand set the price of oil, gasoline and all other sources of energy. But the fact that oil is priced globally in dollars also has consequences for American consumers.

When the dollar buys less, Americans pay more for oil. And right now the dollar is weak, its buying power diluted by easy money and huge budget deficits...

[Oil] plunged in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan and the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker moved aggressively to tamp down inflation and restore confidence in the dollar. The effort succeeded.

In some ways the world oil market has changed little since then. The Mideast is still the center of the action, and Iran is still the threat at center stage. But it's a different world for the dollar. Budget deficits under Barack Obama dwarf those under Ronald Reagan (and red ink back then broke peacetime records).

The Fed under Ben Bernanke has flooded markets with liquidity every bit as aggressively as Volcker's Fed worked to tighten. Though a weak-dollar policy is not official, it is widely recognized as a fact. Reversing that policy is possible, but it would take commitment and courage that we don't see from the government today.

It's not courage. It's ideology. Call it Obama's Cloward-Piven Energy Policy.



Headline o' the Day Award

Via Business Insider:

'Blake Griffin Dunked On Pau Gasol's Entire Family Tree...Twice!'


There is nothing to say here except "Pau, look out!"


I think the technical term is "double posterization".



Sign o' the Times [Papa B]

Papa B:

Texas Tan Line



Beautiful: Four Weeks of Government Unemployment Propaganda, As Regurgitated by Legacy Media

Annual budget of the fat, bloated and utterly useless Department of Labor: $14,000,000,000.00 ($14 billion)

Annual budget of the fat, bloated and utterly useless Bureau of Labor Statistics: $1,800,000,000.00 ($1.8 billion)

Tyler Durden deconstructing the Bureau of Labor Statistics' laughable propaganda: priceless!

For everyone who wants to see a simple yet explicit example of how the BLS' relentless propaganda courtesy of perpetual prior "adjustments" trickles down in terms of media propaganda, here it is.



All of this would be great... if only the March 15th original number of 351,000 wasn't lower than the April 5th pre-revision number of 357,000, and which next week will be revised to 361,000!

In other words, the BLS continues to revise prior numbers -- after the fact -- to disguise the ongoing Obama Recession.

On 3/15, 351,000 unemployment claims represented a four-year low
On 3/22, 348,000 also was a four-year low
On 3/29, 359,000 also was a four-year low
On 4/05, 357,000 also was a four-year low

Only in the mind of a propagandist does that math make sense.

Ain't our media great?