Sunday, April 15, 2012

It's Here: Form 1040B (the B is for Buffett)

Or is it spelled Buffet? Zombie does the heavy lifting that legacy media long ago dispensed with, offering an exclusive look at the new 1040-B form.

Time to call his bluff.

Obama is still harping on the so-called “Buffett Rule” as some sort of miraculous tax hike, despite the fact that it would only pay off 1% of the debt that Obama has added since he became president.

When Obama first proposed the Buffett Rule last year, I made a post called Voluntary Tax Rates and Personalized Earmarks: How to Solve the Debate over Taxes as the true version of the Buffett Rule. Because, you see, Buffett originally didn’t call for a higher tax rate on the wealthy in general; instead he said that he himself wanted to pay more taxes. Sure, he was just using himself as a personal example, but I thought: Hey, he could be on to something here. Why don’t we all decide at what rate we individually pay taxes? That‘s the Buffett Rule: You want to pay more taxes? Fine — pay ‘em. And if you don’t want to pay more, or even want to pay less — well, we have an option for that too.

To that end, I produced a new version of the IRS’s 1040 form which featured (exactly as the post’s title implied) “voluntary tax rates and personalized earmarks.” But that was last August. Who, after all these months, remembered to use those new forms now that Tax Day has rolled around again?

So I have now updated the revised 1040 form for 2011 and am offering it for download today, April 15, for your convenience.

Obama wants a Buffett Rule? OK, fine — let’s call him on his bluff. Download this “Buffett Rule”-adapted 1040 form, and integrate it into the rest of your IRS forms. As I noted in my original post, this new 1040 form makes everybody happy, because not only can you (like Warren Buffett) pay whatever tax rate you prefer, but you can allocate those taxes to whichever part of government expenses you want...

I've trans-mogrified the new section for ease of reading:


You can download the full version of the 1040-B here.


Larwyn's Linx: President Looter

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Nation

President Looter: Atlas
Napolitano, As Gov., Signed 'Stand Your Ground' Law in 2006: Breitbart
Another NYC shooting death that doesn’t fit the MSM Narrative: CDN

Cheney on Obama: "An unmitigated disaster to the country”: JWF
From Slavery to Freedom: Knish
Real Moms of the GOP battle White House SOP: Malkin

Obama Pre-Surrenders On Immigration Reform, May Try Next Year: RWN
Thousands turn out for Pro-Walker Rally in Wisconsin: GWP
Congresswoman lets air out of student loan industry: Hot Air

Economy

Oops: Obama Pays Lower Tax Rate Than His Secretary: Cove
Biden Earned $21,000 Last Year From the Secret Service: Dossier
Obama's Buffett Rule campaign hits dead end: York

NYC Teachers Union Reinstates Alleged Molesters: Breitbart
Hostile Workplace: White House pays women less than men: Beacon
Judge: NLRB cannot require union posters at work: Post-Bulletin

Scandal Central

Why the Left Doesn’t Care About Voter Fraud: FPM
Report: Obama Promised Solyndra CEO He'd Investigate Buying Solyndra's Solar Panels for Gov’t Buildings: CNS
Unbelievable: Lefty Counter Protesters Mock National Anthem at Start of Wis. Tea Party: MBT

Climate & Energy

Bad Weather Today: Ace
Obama's green jobs fantasy: Betsy
NASA 1986: All Life Extinct In A Few Decades Due To Global Warming: WZ

Media

The real threat that the Ann Romneys of the world represent to the statist Left: Bookworm
Michelle Obama Plays the Mom, Chick Card: Dana Show
Time's Joe Klein Says the Election Isn't About Obama's Record: Blumer

At the Corner of Cultural Disintegration and De-Industrialization: Driscoll
The Media That Ignored Obama’s Beliefs Goes After Mitt’s Mormonism: Townhall
Rasmussen: Romney 48, Obama 44: Ace

World

Eliana Benador: Impeachment-Ready Obama Surrenders American Military to U.N.: GoV
Multiple attacks on Kabul, Taliban claims "spring offensive": Reuters
Army tightens rules on hair, tattoos, makeup: Army Times

74 Democrats sign letter calling for Israel to make suicidal concessions: Matzav
Military ensnared in Colombia Secret Service scandal: Politico
Putting The 'Joint' In Joint Summit: JOM

Sci-Tech

Officials say human remains may be at Titanic shipwreck site: Fox
These Breasts Nailed a Hacker For the FBI: Gizmodo
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG: Guardian

Cornucopia

This Dog is Large-ish: Ace
Powerful Catholic Election Ad Rocks Internet: GWP
‘Fair Share’: Celebrities Called Out For Owing Millions in Unpaid Income Taxes: Blaze

Obama Following “Celebrity Sideboob” On Twitter: WZ
George Washington named Britain's greatest ever foe: Telegraph
Caine's Arcade boy gets $152K college fund check: KABC

Image: "Officials say human remains may be at Titanic shipwreck site"
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD: "The worst slavery is of the most insidious kind. It leaves the slave able to think and act, but not as a free man. It leaves him with cunning, but not courage. He is able to use force, but only to bring other slaves into line. And most hideously, this state of affairs seems moral and natural to him. This is his freedom.

The true slave has come to love big brother, to worship at the foot of the system that oppresses him. It is this twisted love that must be torn out of him. It is this idolatry of the whip before which he kneels, this panting to know who his superior and who his inferiors are, this love of a vast order that allows him to be lost in its wonders, to gaze in awe at the empire of tomorrow which builds its own tombs today, that must be broken. These are his gods and he must kill them within himself to be free." --Daniel Greenfield

Saturday, April 14, 2012

New Photo Emerges: Obama in High School

New photo found. I wonder how many other secrets are lurking, unreleased.


You know, like college transcripts. Or how he paid for Columbia and Harvard.

Or his medical records.

Or his law practice client list. Or his Illinois State Senate records.

Et cetera.


'Unlikely To See The Light of Day'

This is how Uncle Ben describes a letter he dispatched to the editors of The Washington Post.

To the Editor:

It is striking what passes as reporting on the pages of The Washington Post. The most recent example is “In TV Land, Legions of ‘Strategists,’” in which readers are told that Hillary Rosen, who made ill-advised comments about Ann Romney, "has no official role in the Democratic Party" and is not "paid by the White House."

However, the article makes no mention of reports that, over the past three years, Hillary Rosen met at least 35 times at the White House with the President's top communications and political strategists as well as with the President himself.

It is possible that Hillary Rosen, the frequent White House visitor, and Hillary Rosen, the “Democratic strategist” on CNN, are not the same person, as the President’s spokesperson has suggested. Of course, getting to the bottom of that issue would require that someone at the Post actually investigate and report the facts rather than merely regurgitate Democratic Party talking points.

Whenever I (reluctantly) deign to read the WaPo, I often find myself imagining a drooling 50-year old "reporter" weaving the text of DNC press releases into articles disguised as "news".


'Best Obituary Ever'

That's what Doug Mataconis calls this:

A guy named Michael "Flathead" Blanchard died in Colorado this week, and this is what the Denver Post printed:

Weary of reading obituaries noting someone’s courageous battle with death, Mike wanted it known that he died as a result of being stubborn, refusing to follow doctors’ orders and raising hell for more than six decades. He enjoyed booze, guns, cars and younger women until the day he died...

Mike was preceded in death by Clyde and Ethel Blanchard, survived by his beloved sons Mike and Chopper, former wife Jane Transue, brother Stephen Blanchard (Susan), Uncle Don and Aunt Cynthia Blanchard(his favorite); Uncle Dill and Aunt Dot, cousins and nephews, Baba Yaga can kiss his butt. So many of his childhood friends that weren’t killed in Vietnam went on to become criminals, prostitutes and/or Democrats...

...He asks that you stop by and re-tell the stories he can no longer tell. As the Celebration will contain Adult material we respectfully ask that no children under 18 attend.

Blanchard was 67.

Rest in peace, Flathead.

As an aside, I think it's the second-best obituary ever. That of Donald Charles Unworth remains number one.


Wasserman-Schultz Gets a New Hair-Do (and a New Face)

In her relentless pursuit of eternal youth, Debbie Washerman-Schlitz appears to have pursued the Pelosi treatment. Which is to say, touching up what God has given her, including a new nose and chin.

Debbie’s had a makeover! I’m all for women looking their best, but this just has to be the most preciously cynical thing I’ve ever seen. Looks like the Libs will throw their “trademark” hair under the bus as quickly as they do their own grandmas, friends, and consultant/strategists... And is it just me or has Debbie Downer also had a nose job? But why should we be surprised–for the Left it’s all about appearance–because you looking beneath the surface would be way, way too scary...


In a video about bullying just a few weeks ago, before she threw her hair under the bus, she proclaimed:

“When I was in school, I was teased mercilessly, all the time, about my curly hair,” she shares. “Kids even made up a mean song about me and sang it over and over. It made me so sad. But now my hair is my signature look, and I wouldn’t change it for anyone, because it’s part of what makes me who I am.”

Until it’s not politically convenient anymore, then I’ll be the new Who I Am!

Pity Debbie didn't get a new personality.

Her annoying voice, combined with a rapid-fire recitation of idiotic Schumer talking points, makes for a nails-on-the-chalkboard experience.

Yes, Deb, we know the Republicans hate children, hate old people, hate the poor, and want dirty air. Because that's apparently what demanding a balanced budget means to Washerman-Schlitz.

Debbie would never live her life the way she demands we run our country. She would never spend double what she made, while in hock to the credit card companies five times what she earns in a year. She would never endanger her own retirement and her own health care.

Yet that is precisely what she's doing to all Americans. Which is why liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid. Or just the corrupt.


Want Jobs and Higher Salaries? Simple. Move to a Right-to-work State

Do you prefer slavery or freedom? I ask that question because the modern-day version of slavery in this country is being forced to join a union -- and pay union dues -- against your will. And, as it turns out, in "union/slave states" there are provably fewer jobs and lower wages.

[Last year, t]he business world [was] abuzz over the National Labor Relations Board's complaint vs. Boeing's new South Carolina production line. For NLRB critics, the case boils down to one thing: "right-to-work" laws.

Right-to-work states have generally lower unemployment, higher job growth, lower taxes and better business climates. They have growing populations and have been attracting businesses from other states.

In most states, once a workplace is unionized, employees are required to join the union or they can't work there. But 22 states, including South Carolina, have passed laws that give employees the right not to join. Hence the term "right-to-work."

Unions dislike these laws for the obvious reason: It reduces their membership.

Critics like the Chamber of Commerce say a union-friendly NLRB is simply punishing Boeing for choosing a right-to-work state, a charge the agency has rejected.

But if the complaint stands, it could stop firms in heavily unionized states from expanding or moving to right-to-work states. [And these states seem] to be a good deal for the workers, too. The U.S. unemployment rate is 9.1%. In right-to-work states the average is 7.9% — 8.6% adjusted for population.

Between 1977-08, employment grew 100% in right-to-work states vs. the national average of 71% and 56.5% in non-right-to-work states. That's according to a January study that Ohio University economics professor Richard Vedder did for the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.

In this period, real per capita income in the right-to-work states grew 62.3% vs. the national average of 54.7% and 52.8% for non-right-to-work states... Between 2000-09, about 5 million people moved to right-to-work states from other states. The population of 25- to 34-year-olds in right-to-work states has grown 16%, according to an American Legislative Exchange Council study, indicating that they "attract the most productive members of society."

Union members: it's time to throw off your shackles. The Democrat-Union Boss alliance -- and their oppressive regulations from the EPA, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Labor, and dozens of other useless bureaucracies -- are funding your destruction.

Fight back.


Larwyn's Linx: Who is this guy pretending to be president?

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Nation

Who is this guy pretending to be president?: Malcolm
The President Who Doesn’t Spend Much Time Campaigning: Powers
West: I'll Expose These Communists Democrats in Congress:

Ouch! Decade of Obamacare Will Cost $1,160 billion: Barone
Black-on-black victims could fill our stadiums: Fountain
Farrakhan Exposed, A History of Anti-American Hate: NoisyRm

Hey, remember 'stay-at-home Mom' Rielle Hunter?: Treacher
ObamaCare Vs. LeninCare: U.S. Copies Soviets: IBD
Did Washerman-Schlitz Just Dis the President?: Shark Tank

Economy

10 Ways Public Schools are Failing Kids and Bankrupting Us: Real
Another Lie: Obama Doesn't Qualify for 'Buffett Rule': WS
The Obama Family Tax Shelter: Beacon

The Obama Legacy: Tax Refunds Used to File for Bankruptcy: Bruce
Obama regs to cut 7 mil car buyers out of market: Exam
Jack Welch Blasts Obama as Blamer-In-Chief: IBD

2012 Elections

Dick Lugar Must Be Defeated in Indiana: AmSpec
Team Mitt’s New Bumper Sticker: “Mom’s Drive The Economy”: Cove
Joan Walsh Slams Ann Romney: CDN

Scandal Central

Shock: Stimulus-Funded Solar Firm Cancels IPO: Beacon
A Dozen Secret Service Agents Sent Home From Columbia After Allegations Of Misconduct Involving Hookers: SAB
Issa: Fast and Furious Isn't Over: Pavlich

Media

Reynolds Destroys Elhauge on Constitutionality of Obamacare: Instapundit
Roll Call’s Cowardly Hit Piece on Ron Johnson: RS
Lying Badly: Axelrod Tips CNN’s Suicide Pact with White House: ConCom

Why do Soros monkeys hate women?: Malkin
Awesomeness: Ann Romney Speaks to NRA: AmPower
Warning: Brain-Bleach Shortage!: RSM

What makes Michelle's head ache and more #waronwomen fun: Pundette
Blunt John Stossel on Why He left Liberal ABC News: 'It Sucked There': MRC
Palin: 'Mama Grizzles' Roar Back at Rosen: Times

World

“North Korea marks founder’s 100th birthday with failed rocket launch”: ProWis
"No Survivors" - Remembering Eagle Flight: BlackFive
The Islamic adult breastfeeding fatwa has returned: Creeping

Report: German ship carrying Iranian weapons to Syria stopped at sea: Haaretz
Weapons Expert Publishes First Issue of 'Al-Qaeda Airlines' Magazine, Focusing on Making Chloroform: MEMRI
Israel fights Palestinian Protesters With Non Leathal Weapon "Skunk Water": BBC

Sci-Tech

Intel’s First Windows 8 Tablet Specs Unveiled With Fancy New Chipsets: Wired
SushiBot Rolls Out 3,600 Pieces per Hour: Wired
New Asus Transformer Pad 300 tablet coming April 22 for $399: CNet

Cornucopia

Buffet Rule: iOTW
Major Obama Crony-Contributor company to count and manage 2012 US Vote results?: CFP
Drop What You’re Doing and Spend a Little Time at Caine’s Cardboard Arcade: iOTW

Image: Ramirez, Investors Business Daily
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Mourdock for Senate --- Fire Dick Lugar

QOTD: "Has anyone seen Barack Obama recently? You know, the optimistic hopeful fellow with the charming smile who promised so many positive things four and five years ago, how he was going to change the harsh, partisan tone of our nation's capital and bring the country together as its first African American president.

...WTH did that Obama go? Have you listened recently to this Chicago Doppelganger who's replaced him? This 2012 Obama is strident and mean, even deceitful, divisive, telling half-truths after half-truths. He's using Air Force One as his personal Brinks truck with wings to collect cash all over the country, disguising the trips as official.

He tries to intimidate the Supreme Court, an equal branch of government, when its thinking might stray from his. He distorts history, and if no one calls him, then it's true. If he's caught, this Obama says you obviously mis-heard. Because, as everyone knows, he could never mis-speak." --Andrew Malcolm

Friday, April 13, 2012

Your future under Obama: Union thugs pressuring you 24/7

That is, if you're lucky enough to have a job.

Unknown figures entering your workplace through the back door without identification. Harassing late night phone calls. Strangers blocking your driveway and studying your exact movements.

These are not just the tactics of common criminals and thugs; they are also the tactics of Service Employees International Union Healthcare Workers West organizers at Chapman Medical Center in Orange County...

"It is just ludicrous," said Marlene Felter of Costa Mesa, a medical coder in Chapman's financial department. "(The company) said the SEIU can come in and organize (without any notice). SEIU organizers were calling people on their jobs and showing up at people's homes at 9 o'clock at night... "They would block people in their homes and driveways. How they got our cellphone numbers I don't know, but we've received numerous calls from different numbers... They wanted to know what my hours were, when I came and left work, and my pay."

You see, SEIU officials and Chapman management entered into a backroom deal known as a "neutrality agreement," designed to grease the skids for workers to be forced into union ranks.

However, the agreement is anything but "neutral:" Company officials granted union operatives access to company facilities to conduct a coercive "card check" organizing campaign in which union organizers pressure workers to fill out cards that count as votes for unionization of the workplace. Meanwhile, Chapman waived the right to have a federally supervised secret-ballot election to determine whether employees really wish to be unionized.

In response to the union's coercive tactics, a majority of hospital workers signed cards, letters, and petitions stating that they do not want the SEIU union bosses' so-called "representation." Instead of respecting the employees' wishes, Chapman officials accepted SEIU officials as the workers' monopoly bargaining agents after a rigged "card count" was held in November 2011.

"The SEIU 'won' by two votes because they kept throwing the votes out," Felter told us. "It was all done behind closed doors."

...Felter has filed federal unfair labor-practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against SEIU and company officials. She seeks an injunction to stop hospital and SEIU officials from illegally negotiating a contract based on the fraudulent "card check" union recognition because the union does not have majority support of the workforce. Because of the gravity of the charges and the overwhelming evidence, the NLRB has authorized investigative subpoenas...

Uhm, hate to be Johnny Buzzkill, Ms. Felter. But I wouldn't get your hopes up with the NLRB. After all, they're not even legitimate appointees.

Card Check - That's a pretty little house ya got there.
It'd be a shame if it got boined up.


Lovely: Nation's Second-Largest Teachers' Union Hires... Militant Communist and 9/11 Truther

I would assume that Van Jones wasn't available.

Remind me why we support public education again? ... At least the Totalitarians are out in the open. The Socialists, Communists, Democratic-Socialists (euphemism for Socialists and Communists) are hiding in plain sight and they are in charge of our children.

They are making public education their base of operations for obvious reasons.

One of their new organizer’s jobs is to unionize charter schools which would destroy alternative public education and continue the failed public education monopoly, while relegating poor children to the fate of an inferior and radical education.

One of the reasons public education is failing is the unions. As an educator, I see them as self-serving socialists who care nothing about the children – schools are not for children in their world, schools are for them. This is something I have been told by many a union leader. The breakdown of our social fiber is no small contributing factor either.

The AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS (AFT) is a national union headquartered in Washington, D.C., and is affiliated with the Socialist, thuggish American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The AFT joined with the NEA to form an NEAFT Partnership in 2001. AFL-CIO affiliation is optional for them since that was always a sticking point. The AFT and NEA collaboration was charted to strengthen the organizations’ abilities to buy politicians’ votes and to negotiate favorable contracts in the twenty-first century.

Hiring radicals at the AFT is nothing new. Albert Shanker, the AFT leader who died in 1997, was an avowed Socialist all his life... Now the AFT has hired a Socialist, Shaun Richman, who is also a Truther and Osama bin Laden apologist... Shaun Richman, the new deputy director of organizing for the AFT, gained his experience organizing for the Socialist Party USA. [Little more than two months ago, Richman wrote:]

Quitting the Socialist Party freed me to commit the twin heresies of reading V.I. Lenin and Michael Harrington. My political perspective hasn’t changed very much, but my perspective has become more nuanced. This leaves me very familiar with American social democratic theory and with the twists and turns of the old Socialist Party, as well as its last major off-shoots, and, thanks to Si Gerson’s library, with the external work and internal factionalism of the Communist Party, at least up until 1960...

Bryan D. Palmer’s “James P. Cannon and the American Revolutionary Left” begins to fill in some of that gap. Cannon is best known (to the extent that he’s known at all) as a father of American Trotskyism and founder of the Socialist Workers Party. Palmer’s volume focuses on the period when he was a founder of the Workers (Communist) Party. Along with such odd bedfellows as William Z. Foster and Jay Lovestone, Cannon helped foster a native expression of Marxist-Leninist agitation in America, while navigating intense and ever-changing factional intrigue in the party and the International...

...[Members of] the Socialist Party are Truthers... The Truther argument conveniently works with the Socialist anti-war platform and they get to pick up more members from the vulnerable in the peace movements and Libertarian movements. It’s a political ploy as are most of the Socialist agenda items. They want Totalitarianism at all costs and will say anything to pick up members.

So what does this Totalitarian make as a salary? Comrade Richman makes a capitalistic $212,746 salary because, like all good totalitarians, the rules don’t apply to him. He just wants you to make minimal salaries for your labors.

Just the kind of leadership we want in our schools, no?

I have asked this question over and over again: when did it become acceptable for Communists to infiltrate American institutions and the Democrat Party's leadership?

Communism is mass-murder. It is genocide. It is antithetical to the United States Constitution. And it must be stamped out in this country.

Which is why the Democrat Party must be obliterated at the ballot box in November. O. Blit. Eh. Rated. I will march on broken glass to vote, and I will for vote every non-Democrat I can. Because this party is defective. It's been poisoned. It is anathema to the American family and American values.

We must politically crush this virus. November is coming.


Hat tip: BadBlue.

WaPo whines about donor to GOP Super PAC, omits fact that Obama's once again disabled all credit-card security on his website

In 2008, Barack Obama collected as much as $100 million from illicit sources.

On the grubby little racket of his online credit card fraud, Senator Obama merely has to run out the clock now. If it’s not exposed before Tuesday, no one is going to have any appetite for investigating it once he’s won. So he must be relieved that this off-message headline — “Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations” — only gets as far as Page 2 of The Washington Post. (There is an element of art to these calculations: The Obamatron editors in the media want to be able to cover themselves by saying they raised the story, but the trick is to do so at a time and place that prevents it going anywhere before November 4th.) ….

So two-thirds of Obama’s record haul derives from a website that intentionally disabled all the default security checks that prevent basic fraud like fake addresses and no-name matches ….Here’s the bottom line: Two-thirds of the record-breaking haul Obama raised for the final stretch of the campaign comes from a racket set up to facilitate fake names, phony addresses and untraceable cards.
With this as context (not to mention hundreds of millions in donations from public sector unions), we relay this whiny missive from the Washington Post:

An anonymous donor gave $10 million late last year to run ads attacking President Obama and Democratic policies, escalating the money race that is defining the 2012 presidential campaign. And in the new, free-wheeling environment of independent political giving, the identity of this donor, like many others, is likely to remain a permanent mystery.

The donation went to Crossroads GPS, the conservative nonprofit group founded with the support of political strategist Karl Rove. Another donor gave $10 million in the 2010 midterm elections, according to draft tax returns that provide the first detailed look at its finances...

...The tax returns show that Crossroads GPS has collected the vast majority of its donations from the super rich. The forms show that nearly 90 percent of its contributions through the end of 2011 had come from as few as two dozen donors, each giving $1 million or more. Overall, the nonprofit group raised more than $76 million since it was founded in May 2010 through the end of 2011.
The super-rich?

You mean like George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, a myriad of Hollywood types, and the rest of the mega-rich who support President Subprime McDowngrade?

Oh, but that's different. Somehow.


Related: "'Sir, Mr. Soros is on the line'."

Hilarious: 1,800-word article on John Edwards trial doesn't mention the word 'Democrat', but manages to mention 'Republican' 5 times

Erstwhile presidential candidate and world-class philanderer John Edwards is profiled Wednesday in a monumental Atlantic article entitled "Why the John Edwards Trial Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think."

Jury selection in the federal criminal trial of John Edwards begins Thursday April 12th in a Greensboro, N.C., courtroom. As the world now knows, Edwards chose to cheat on his cancer-stricken wife during his 2008 presidential run. Two wealthy political supporters then spent hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting Edwards's mistress as part of a failed effort to keep the affair quiet. Prosecutors decided that the financial support constituted unreported, excessive and thus illegal campaign donations, and indicted Edwards for his role in the arrangement.

Author Hampton Dellinger does yeoman's work in avoiding the D-word over the course of the 1,800-word tome, which could be applied copiously to the dirtbag, douche, and dimwit in question.

However, Dellinger does manage to slip in the word Republican a scant five times.

In one respect, Edwards was right. There really are two Americas: the Democrat-media elites who think they are our betters, and the rest of us.


Update: Tom Blumer notes that the author ran for Lt. Governor in NC as a... Democrat.

Hat tip: JTT.

Death Panels: They're Real, and They're SPECTACULAR

You didn't read about it in the funny papers, but Massachusetts introduced its brand of Death Panels on April 1st. And, no, it wasn't an April Fool's joke -- unfortunately.


On March 20, 2012, Massachusetts' Office of Health and Human Services wrote to inform all Acute Care Hospitals, all Emergency Rooms, all Long-Term Care facilities, all Directors of Nursing, all ambulance services, all EMS training institutions, and all affiliated hospitals that MOLST (Medical Orders for LifeSustaining Treatment) would begin on April 1st.

What is MOLST? As a presentation on Patient Care Link (PDF) explains:


In short, MOLST is in place to prevent "unnecessary hospitalizations" for you pesky older folks who just refuse to die when it's time. MOLST forms are available anywhere people might be in danger of using precious health care resources, because -- as the form notes -- "The form is effective immediately upon signature. Photocopy, fax or electronic copies of properly signed MOLST forms are valid."


Note that the three options (A, B, and C) are all designed to prevent the use of expensive health care services. Massachusetts health care is breaking the bank. So the powers-that-be are encouraging, in every way possible, what Goldfinger told Bond: No, grandma -- we want you to die.

You can't be trusted to have these forms ready on your own.

Oh -- and Massachusetts, of course, was the template for Obamacare.

I'll publish more details soon about Obamacare's version of death panels, which are 100% real. Sarah Palin was right.


Larwyn's Linx: Breitbart Disciple Exposes Red Influence in Congress

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Nation

Breitbart Disciple Exposes Red Influence in Congress: NoisyRm
Allen West Versus the Communists: Hayward
Rule of Law Collapses: MB

Real Moms of the GOP vs. White House SOP: Malkin
Democrats Own the 'War on Moms': Breitbart
Dem Hit-woman Rosen Visited White House 35+ Times: Malkin

#OWS American Spring Agitprop: The Lynch the NYPD Edition: Urban
White House Continues War on Religion With HHS Fines: Sentinel
Michelle Takes Fire for 2004 Defense of Partial-Birth Abortions: LifeNews

Economy

Why There Are No Such Thing As Unncessary Tests: Razor
Jobless Claims Rose Last Week ‘Unexpectedly’: S&L
Your Tax Money (Almost) Going for This Dude’s Bail: Patterico

Ann Romney Hasn’t Had It Tough Like Michelle Obama: Patterico
Joe Biden Even Lying to Babies Now: Hawkins
Obama's Budget Priority: Destroy D.C. Voucher Program: Foundry

Scandal Central

Bread and Racial Circuses: Sultan Knish
Dershowtiz: Zimmerman arrest affidavit is irresponsible, unethical: Bruce
It Begins… Leftists Call Ann Romney a C---, B----, Wh--e for Being Stay-at-Home Mom: GWP

Climate & Energy

GM Electric Car Battery Explodes, Again Raising Chevy Volt Questions: Tatler
How airports like BWI help set outlier high temperature records: Watts
Tim Ball: Claims Global Warming Increases Severe Weather Are Scientifically Incorrect: JunkScience

Media

Noted Hfistorian Mel Gibson: "Holocaust Was Mostly A Lot of Horse S**T: Lid
Dana Loesch Explains Her Ephesians 6 Tattoo, Jolly Roger Necklace and More: RSM
Which is it Mr. President, 'Professor' or 'Senior Lecturer'?: IL Review

Politico's Vandehei: Obama Campaign 'Insanely Political', Buffett Rule 'Total Gimmickry': NB
Obama Campaign Slogan Contest Winners: Patterico
MSNBC discovers the body count of Communism: DTG

Post Racial: La Raza President: Blacks, Hispanics Should Team Up "To Attack Common Enemies": Equalizer
Ann Romney Attacked By Crazed Lesbian: Camp o' the Saints
Feminism, Careerism, Lesbianism: RSM

Thank You, Mrs. Rosen: DLim
Wolf Blitzer Puts Hilary Rosen Through the Wringer, Forces Her to Apologize to Ann Romney: NB
Rush reads 1994 Ann Romney interview which obliterates left’s “out of touch” narrative: Scoop

World

Hillary Clinton Gives $147 Million (of your tax dollars) to Hamas: Creeping
Retiring Public Employee to 500 Colleagues: I Haven’t Worked in 14 Years!: Blaze
US Navy Develops Robot 'Jellyfish' Powered Exclusively by Seawater: Reaganite

One Hundred Broken Mirrors: Sultan Knish
Europe now sees its financial crisis never really went away: Samuelson
MMFA Researcher: Shame on Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: Beacon

Sci-Tech

Behind the scenes video reveals Google's attention to search detail: Engadget
Death to Word - It’s time to give up on Microsoft’s word processor.: Slate
BMW: The Greatest Car Ever Made Says Top Gear’s Hammond: Yahoo!

Cornucopia

Hilarity Rosen: Glob
Open Thread: MB
JK Rowling announces title of first adult novel: BBC

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QOTD: "...understand that Rosen’s comments also transcend her opinion of stay-at-home moms. She’s articulating the narrow, intolerant leftist view that if you are a member of a particular group, you must adopt the attitudes of the left, or you won’t measure up. If you are black, a woman or gay and don’t subscribe to liberalism and embrace its hostile identity politics, you are not an authentic black person, woman or gay person. If you are a pro-life woman, you can’t fully identify with real women.

Rosen’s view that the “Romney-Ryan” budget victimizes waitresses further displays the left’s habit of seeing everything through the prism of identity politics. Like President Obama, she places people in economic classes, too — the haves and the have-nots — and the only solution they offer the “have-nots” is government assistance, not the hope of advancement through greater opportunity." --David Limbaugh

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Graphic: the True Size of Africa

Very cool graphic from FlowingData.


Puts things in perspective.


Spokes-hack Jay Carney Beclowns Himself, Episode 828: "Hilary Who?"

Great find by Red State's Moe Lane as White House spokes-idiot Jay Carney does his level best to weasel away from the disastrous Hilary Rosen implosion.

Rosen, of course, had pilloried mother-of-five, MS sufferer and breast cancer survivor Ann Romney as being out of touch and having "never worked a day in her life".

And, as Michelle Malkin reveals, Rosen had also visited the Obama White House a stunning 35 times.

First of all, I haven't seen the records, uh, I don't, uh, know that Hilary Rosen, I know three [holds up three fingers] personally -- women named Hilary Rosen -- and don't know those represent the person we're, uh, talking about. Necessarily.


So I really can't comment on the number of visits, 'cause I'm not sure that's accurate.

Rosen visited the White House 35 freaking times, including five visits to the president himself, one to David "Red Diaper Baby" Axelrod, three to Valerie "Grove Parc" Jarrett, and another to the Maoist Anita Dunn.

And Carney's never heard of her. I would give my Media Matters Kruggerand to Carney if he'd agree to an interview while strapped to a polygraph.


Crappy Career Choice o' the Day: North Korean Rocket Scientist

Two words to describe North Korea's vaunted multi-stage rocket launch, which lasted all of about 90 seconds. Epic. Fail.

North Korea's attempt Friday to launch a long-range rocket has failed, according to U.S. officials. A senior U.S. official who is receiving updates from U.S. military launch observers tells Fox News the rocket broke apart between 90 seconds and 2 minutes after launching.


In Pyongyang, there was no word about a launch, and state television was broadcasting video for popular folk tunes. North Korean officials said they would make an announcement about the launch "soon."

North Korea had earlier announced it would send a three-stage rocket mounted with a satellite as part of celebrations honoring national founder Kim Il Sung, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated Sunday.

For those DPRK scientists who survive the purge, I predict a long and painful stint in a "re-education" camp.

You know, the kind that Barack Obama and his pal Bill Ayers would like to throw regular Americans in, if they had the power.

Priorities: Obama Won't Spend 1/30th of 1% of Bloated Dept. of 'Education' Budget on Inner-City DC Kids

If you needed additional confirmation that President Obama doesn't give a damn about urban youth, please consider "President Obama’s Budget Priority: Eliminate the D.C. Voucher Program:

“Budgets are about choices,” stated President Obama in recent remarks to governors about his massive fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget request. Nothing more clearly demonstrates the Administration’s priorities than Obama’s decision to once again place the successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP) on the chopping block while simultaneously growing the Department of Education’s (DOE) budget more than any other federal agency.


In so doing, President Obama is showing low-income D.C. families that his priority is maintaining the unacceptable status quo—at least when it comes to other programs—while bowing to special interest groups like the education unions to eliminate the DCOSP. The Washington Post editorialized yesterday:

Surely, it shouldn’t be among the president’s priorities to single out for attack a tiny federal program that not only works—in the judgment of federal evaluators—but also enjoys bipartisan support. If it is, we trust that [House Speaker John] Boehner [R–OH] would step in, as he did last year, to save a program that D.C.’s poorest families value for their children.

Boehner did in fact save the voucher program last year. The Speaker leveraged last year’s heated budget negotiations to secure a five-year reauthorization of the DCOSP. And as the Post notes today, families “welcomed the certainty.” But once again, poor families in the nation’s capital, home to some of the lowest-performing and least safe public schools in the country, are left to wonder why President Obama has singled out this small, yet effective, school choice program.

And the program actually saves money: "...at between $8,000 and $12,000, the vouchers are a fraction of the more than $18,000 spent per-pupil in D.C. public schools."

Barack Obama cares about one thing: votes.

He will throw anyone -- kids included -- under the bus in order to retain his white-knuckled grip on the reins of power. Teachers' unions send millions to his campaign coffers. Kids send nothing. Easy choice for a demagogue.

Which is why Obama won't even spend $20 million -- out of total of $69,800 million (or 1/30th of 1%) that goes to the bloated, unconstitutional, and irrationally named Department of "Education".


Good News: Eric Holder Promoting Black vs. Hispanic Race War

Every time you think Eric Holder has hit bottom -- as the most malignant and lawless attorney general in American history -- he starts digging a new sub-basement.

CNS News has found some interesting video of Attorney General Eric Holder praising controversial Rev. Al Sharpton during a speech at Sharpton’s National Action Network conference on Wednesday.

CNS has the quotes:

At the opening of NAN’s 14th annual convention in Washington, D.C., the attorney general first thanked MSNBC’s Rev. Sharpton “for your partnership, your friendship, and your tireless efforts to speak out for the voiceless, to stand up for the powerless, and to shine a light on the problems we must solve, and the promises we must fulfill.”

The glowing speech is curious considering Sharpton has been an advocate for Zimmerman’s guilt before he was even charged with a crime.

“MSNBC’s Sharpton has led several rallies, shouting Arrest Zimmerman Now!‘ and has called for civil disobedience and an “occupation” in Sanford, Fla., if an arrest is not made,” CNS notes.

Yesterday several callers to the Mark Levin radio show -- who self-identified as Hispanic/Latino -- were livid with Holder's endorsement of "Reverend Al". In the new media, Hispanic websites are tracking the case with what I interpret as a distinct sense of unease.

• "Why are they calling him a white Hispanic?’… That shows a lack of understanding about the Latino community"

Zimmerman Case Ignites Dialogue on Latino Racial Identity

• Kelly Virella defends Zimmerman: "My son is Hispanic and not a racist"

Latino Rebels is tracking George Zimmerman Incarceration Information

• Julie M. Rodriguez argues that "George Zimmerman Proves Latinos Can Be Racist, Too"

Racial animosities between the African-American and Latino communities are simmering, thanks to tacit encouragement by Eric Holder and Barack Obama. It's gotten so bad that the shadow arm of the Mexican government, the radical separatist group La Raza (literally: "The Race" or "The Master Race"), has ridden to the rescue of the White House.

Just in case tensions weren't high enough in the Trayvon Martin case, the head of a controversial Hispanic group appears happy to pour gasoline on the fire.

Calling for an African-American-Hispanic alliance against "common enemies", La Raza President Janet Murguia used Wednesday's Al Sharpton radio show to spread an incendiary message of hate. Happy to conveniently overlook George Zimmerman's Peruvian ancestry, Murguia made her divisive agenda abundantly clear...

JANET MURGUIA (PRESIDENT, LA RAZA) (36:39): I think for us it’s about understanding that we have common interests and we have to be able to understand that our demographics today, a lot of people want to pit who’s the largest minority vs. who’s taking over as the largest demographic and all that.

We need to understand that when you put those two demographics together you know when you put sixteen percent of the Latino population now in the US combined with fourteen percent of the African American population is what can we do together now to attack those common enemies? To attack the common barriers that present themselves for us.

When violence results, will these extremists take responsibility, or continue to deflect blame everywhere else? Who will be hurt or killed thanks to their reckless rhetoric?

I will vote for Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, or any other Republican in November to get rid of Barack Obama and his henchmen. These people must be thrown out of office and, if necessary, prosecuted by a real attorney general.


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West: 80 House Democrats Are Communists: WZ

De-Radicalizing America: Hewitt
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Economy

Obama’s inequality argument just utterly collapsed: Peth
The Buffett Rule Obfuscates the Real Debt Crisis: RS
Warren Buffett Sued by Obama’s IRS: NoisyRm

Public Pensions: Rushing In Before Cuts: ConCom
Obama's Fairness Fiction: The wealthy did not create our debt.: Events
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Healthcare accounting scandal at huge, bankrupt organization!: Peth
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2012 Elections

Romney: Obama's Vision Is Of A "Government-Centered Society": Ace
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Scandal Central

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Climate & Energy

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Media

Most Awesomest Fact Check Ever: Ace
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AP: SCOTUS Doesn’t Understand Obama-Care: S&L
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Democrats Now Say They Never Said ‘War Against Women’?: Erickson
Hillary Rosen & The Liberal Contempt For Stay-At-Home Moms: Hawkins
Hilary Rosen Launches Democrat War on Women: Politico

World

Pentagon’s ‘Operation Chimichanga’ Tests Stealth Strike Force: Wired
Report: Head of CIA Counter Terrororism Unit a Muslim: Creeping
Far Left Vandals Destroy Pro-Israel Billboards: Beacon

Fearless - The Story of SEAL Team Six Operator Adam Brown: BlackFive
War games: Israel attacks Iran: Matzav
Israel Prepares for "Air Flotilla": IPT

Death to Churches - Christian Holidays in the Islamic World: Gatestone
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Saudi woman gets 50 lashes for obscene text: ArabianBusiness

Sci-Tech

Wi-Fi complaints prompt Apple to replace some 3rd-gen iPads: NetworkWorld
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Cornucopia

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QOTD: "In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensation for injustices – leading to worsening behavior by the recipients." --Thomas Sowell