Tuesday, April 17, 2012

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Larwyn's Linx: Obama Blame Database Reaches Impressive Size

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Nation

Obama Blame Database Reaches Impressive Size: RS
Obama’s ‘No Excuses’ Pledge Reaches Its Expiration Date: Geraghty
Report: Democrat-controlled Senate laziest in 20 years: Exam

“Corzine Steals Billions, Whale Watcher Faces Prison”: ProWis
Mixing and Matching: Sowell
White House Discontinues Transparency Tool: Foundry

Oops: 82% Favor Voter Identification: Cove
Project Veritas Proves How Easy Voter Fraud Is Without ID: Hawkins
Barney Frank: Passing Obamacare was a mistake: Malkin

Economy

Senate rejects ‘Buffett Rule’: Malkin
Flashback: Buffett Rule Test Drive in Washington State: ATR
OWS Organizer Attacks NYPD Officer With Metal Pipe: JWF

GSA's Neely: More advance prep gone wrong: Pundette
Obama's Lawless Bureaucracy Now Trying To Unionize America: Ace
Nothing to Cut! Cali Spends $205,000 to Move $15 Shrub.: Reason

Scandal Central

Katie Pavlich’s ‘Fast and Furious’: DLim
Obama-endorsed Occupy Thugs Smash Starbucks, Shout 'All Pigs Must Die': Breitbart
Katie Pavlich exposes “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Cover-Up”: Malkin

2012 Elections

It's Not 2008 Anymore: Seven Ways In Which 2012 Is Different: Ace
We Need Ted Cruz: Erickson
Tea Party Rallies for Romney in San Francisco: Zombie

Climate & Energy

Reuters: Those “green-collar jobs” promises have been a bust, huh?: Hot Air
Obama’s Latest Power Grab: Natural Gas: ConCom

Media

My favorite Obama prediction, headline and photo: LI
RAAAAACISM!: RSM
Many Conservatives Were Shocked By Ann Coulter: RWN

Romney to Obama: Start Packing: Ace
The Obama Strategy: Pandering and Cries of Racism: Flopping Aces
Beckel throws F-bomb on Hannity Show: GWP

Wolf Blitzer Should Apologize to Allen West: Kincaid
Liberals to Ann Romney: Happy Birthday, bitch. Hope you die.: Twitchy
Levin: Romney needs to lay out a principled case of liberty and stop with class warfare: Scoop

World

"Diversity": They Drive Us Out, We Invite Them In: Gatestone
Iranian nuclear scientists were present at failed North Korean missile launch, says source: Haaretz
Israeli Soldier Gives Commie Protestor A Shot In The Mouth With His Rifle: Wzanmentobe

Shock: Obama Sends Millions of US Dollars to Kenya – Where His Socialist “Cousin” Is Prime Minister: GWP
Bumbling Obama Makes an “Uncharacteristic Error”: JWF
Obama Betrayed Netanyahu in Istanbul: Sentinel

Soldier to receive posthumous Medal of Honor: Army Times
‘International Solidarity Movement’ Protester Is Welcomed in Israel: RSM
Why Is Jordan Keeping Out Palestinian Refugees?: Gatestone

Sci-Tech

Netflix CEO Rips Comcast On Net Neutrality: Consumerist
Scariest Fitness Trends: Fox
$35 Raspberry Pi Micro-Computer Now Shipping to Customers: Wired

Cornucopia

An Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Korea, and Vietnam Vet: Mellow
Takes One to Know One: XCV
Looking for a new spring vacation read? Let #ObamaBookTitles suggest a few!: Twitchy

Image: iOwnTheWorld (Headline o' the Day Award)
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QOTD: "George Zimmerman is not on trial because he shot a black teenager during a scuffle. It's not the facts of the case that brought him here. It's his name. Had his last name been Pereira, none of this would have gone anywhere. And it's not the name alone, it's that in this time and place lynching him will help make the political fortunes of everyone from the man in the White House to his cheerful smiling prosecutor who is already counting her campaign cash and book deals." --Daniel Greenfield

Monday, April 16, 2012

Dear Mr. Mataconis at 'Outside the Beltway': I eagerly await your apology to Rep. Allen West

Doug Mataconis at Outside the Beltway is outraged -- outraged! -- that so few Republicans have condemned Allen West's linkage of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) to Communism.

Just to recap, last week Rep. Allen West (R-FL) -- one of the rising stars in Congress -- publicly tied the CPC to the Communist agenda:

He had the intestinal fortitude to call the Congressional Progressive Caucus Communists...

...The cries from the Democrats can be heard far and wide – calling West irresponsible for calling patriots Communists. Just one small problem – the Congressional Progressive Caucus was founded in 1991 by Bernie Sanders, who is an avowed Socialist and a Congressman from Vermont; Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the radical Washington DC based “think tank,” Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

...Except all of [the media's] video clips are very carefully edited to cut out the next thing West said. Here is the quote in full, with the omitted part presented in boldface:

It’s a good question. I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Which is completely accurate.

It doesn't take much work to prove West right:


According to The Weekly Worker (the Communist Party newsletter of Britain), "...The [Congressional Progressive Caucus] CPC is ‘organised around the principles of social and economic justice’, a ‘non-discriminatory society’ and ‘national priorities which represent the interests of all people, not just the wealthy and powerful’.” ... the CPC platform is “strongly supported by the Communist Party of the United States of America... The CPUSA has served in effect as a loyal tendency inside the Democratic Party for over half a century."


According to the Democrat Socialists of America, "We work with [various radical] movements to strengthen the party’s left wing, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus."

In fact, the agenda of the CPC is virtually indistinguishable from Karl Marx' 10-point Communist Manifesto:

According to Karl Marx, the following ten elements were requisite conditions for "a transition from capitalism to communism."

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. Washington Examiner: The great Obama land grab: "White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of acres of both public and private land... The federal government, as the memo boasted, is the nation's 'largest land manager.' It already owns roughly one of every three acres in the United States... This is apparently not enough."

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. National Taxpayer Union: The top 1% of taxpayers already pay 40% of all income taxes. The top 5% pay 61% of all income taxes. And the top 25% pay 87%. The bottom 50% pay 3% of all income taxes.

3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. USA Today: "Estate tax to return in 2011, and it could hurt ordinary folks."

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants [those leaving the country] and rebels. New York Post: The President's new jobs-killer: "...President Obama explicitly targeted the industry for two massive tax hikes. First, he'd ban oil and gas companies from using the 'Section 199' tax credit, a measure for domestic manufacturers enacted in 2004 to boost US employment... Second, he wants to end 'dual capacity' protection for US energy firms... Without this shield against double taxation on foreign revenues, American companies would be competing on an uneven global playing field... Yet, by the federal government's own economic model, these tax hikes would lead to huge, immediate job losses."

5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. New York Post: Democrats, Fannie Mae still issuing subprime loans, even after meltdown. And CNS News: Obama to Nationalize Student Lending with Pending Budget Bill.

6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. Tom's Hardware: "Bill Allows Obama Power to Shut Down Internet." And "Advertisers on talk radio targeted by Congressional investigations." And "In an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, President Obama made the extraordinary claim that Fox News is 'destructive to [America's] long-term growth.'."

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. National Legal and Policy Center: "Obama Arranges Takeover of GM and Chrysler; Auto Workers Union Gets Huge Stake." And Discover: "New EPA Rules Clamp Down on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining." And News 9 Oklahoma: "EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust."

8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. Wall Street Journal: "SEIU’s Stern Tops White House Visitor List." More recently: "The AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka talks to the White House every day." And "Obama’s OFA, Churches Join Democratic Socialists for Saturday March in Washington."

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country. Heritage: "The Clean Water Restoration Act Means Troubled Waters For Property Owners": "...The Waxman-Markey global warming bill is far and away the most worrisome environmental measure currently working its way through Congress, but it is certainly not the only cause for concern... S. 787, the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA)... would do much more harm than good, especially for farmers, ranchers, developers, energy producers, and other property owners."

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.: Reuters: "Obama says public employees should not be vilified." New York Sun: "Obama Tells Teachers Union He Opposes Vouchers." And Big Hollywood: "[Teachers' Union] NEA: Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda."

In short, the CPC represents a radical Marxist vision for America. It represents Communism. The CPC is antithetical to the United States Constitution, the very document that these Leftists took an oath to uphold! Put simply, they lied under oath.

I encourage you to read the mission statement of the CPC, which represents a laundry list of Utopian dreams that can only be compelled by a massive, centralized, authoritarian federal government. And, that, of course, was something this country's founders feared.

Progressivism is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution. I sincerely hope that, in the not too distant future, any self-admitted "progressive" will be ineligible to hold public office. Because you can't be a progressive and honestly take an oath to uphold the Constitution.

Hey, Mataconis: I'll be looking forward to your next post, which should be a well-written apology to Lt. Col. West.


Photo o' the Day: Jihad-Promoting Communist Assaults IDF Soldier With His Face, Loses

Here's a comforting word for this kook, who's protesting Israel for... allowing Arabs to vote and serve in Parliament, I guess.

Hey, tool: if you'd tried this little "protest" in Egypt, Iran, Libya, or Syria, odds are you'd have been double-tapped on the spot.

So give thanks!

An officer in the IDF had a belly full of taunts from a bunch of pro-Palestinian activists and gave one guy a taste of his rifle magazine.

Naturally the commies are crying brutality and the Israeli government is falling for the propaganda by calling the incident disturbing and starting an investigation...


One thing to note in this video. As soon as the commie gets knocked on his ass and the troops advance on the protestors the crowd quickly melts away in fear. Maybe there’s a lesson to be learned here at home when the Occupy rabble tries to bully the police.

I love how these useful idiots always protest where they can't get in any real trouble.


Moving to Detroit [Papa B]

Papa B:

On a flight getting ready to depart for Detroit...

Jack was sitting on the plane when a guy took the seat beside him. The guy was an emotional wreck, pale, hands shaking, moaning in fear.

"What's the matter?" Jack asked.

"I've been transferred to Detroit... there's crazy people there. They've got lots of shootings, gangs, race riots, drugs, poor public schools, and probably the highest crime rate in the nation!"

Jack replied, "I've lived in Detroit all my life... It's not as bad as the media says. Find a nice home, go to work, mind your own business, enroll your kids in a nice private school. It's as safe a place as anywhere in the world."

The guy relaxed a bit and then stopped shaking.

After a while he turned back to Jack with a grateful comment, "Oh, thank you so much. I've been worried to death...

"...But if you live there and say it's okay, I'll take your word for it. Mind if I ask what do you do for a living?"

"Me?" said Jack. "I'm a tail gunner on a Budweiser truck."


Rimshot, please.


Brilliant: Looming Obama Tax Hikes Threaten To Send Economy Into Real Depression

The invaluable Jim Pethokoukis explains the anchor about to lasso the economy and drag it under.

If you combine all the other tax increases from 1980-1993, they add up to 3.3% of GDP, according to the brilliant budget team at Strategas Research. The coming “taxmageddon” of 2013 surpasses all those tax hikes combined!


How could the Obama White House even toy with the idea, which it has, of letting them happen?

How could Democrats let this happen?

Simple. For this group of radical Leftists, ideology trumps reason, history, experience and logic.

Plus, our beloved Golfer-in-Chief is "historic".


Larwyn's Linx: Hiding Behind Names

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Nation

Hiding Behind Names: NoisyRoom
Race-Baiting in the Era of Obama: Regan
Al Qaeda Attorney Becomes Number Three Man in the DOJ: Sentinel

We Are All George Zimmerman: Sultan Knish
Times accuses White House of taking bribes, selling access: Ricochet
Secret Service Agent Stiffed Hooker $47 — and Lost Everything: WZ

Economy

The Obama Great Failed Recovery: LI
Fantasies of Social Darwinism: Goldberg
Why the Eurozone Crisis Is Getting Worse: Roubini

Will Senate Democrats Finally Write a Budget?: Power Line
Solis: Government Services are the American Dream: FAM
Colombia the winner of the Summit of the Americas: Blogmocracy

2012 Elections

Which Dem Incumbents Are Most Vulnerable?: Baehr
Darwin Vs. Free Markets: RWN
Poll: Tea Party support on the decline?: Hot Air

Scandal Central

Former Dem. Congressman Kennedy Alleges 'Quid Pro Quo' for Access to White House: WS
White House Allowed Hilary Rosen Back-Door Lobbying Privileges: Breitbart
Obama withholds judgment in Secret Service scandal: LAT

Climate & Energy

Obama Administration Won’t Let Arizona Town Fix Water System Unless They Use Horses: SAB
Obama's Eco-Lies: CFP
NOAA's Unusual Saturday Media Advisory: Watts

Media

Larry Lessig: If the Republican Justices Do Not Agree With Me They Will Be Acting Politically: Volokh
Charles Johnson: An Unlikely Crusader Against Racist Comments: Patterico
Warning: No Betas Need Apply: RSM

AP Laments: Poor Obama “Distracted” By Repeated Scandals: JWF
America Elected an Ignoramus: CFP
Mort Zuckerman Once Again Corrects Eleanor Clift's Stupidity: NB

Crazy Louis Farrakhan to blacks – Breeding with whites is the ‘end of your race’: FAM
Anthony Cromartie: 10 Children 8 Mothers: MagNote
Phil Donahue injects race into 2002 vote authorizing force against Iraq: Marathon

World

Israel TV Shows Air Force Preparing for Iran Attack – Says Moment of Truth Is Near: GWP
Obama pushes back at Israel, says US is offering no ‘freebies’ to Iran in nuclear talks: WaPo
Exclusive: Briton killed after threat to expose Chinese leader's wife: sources: Reuters

Jew-Haters suffer setback: Atlas
Muslim Brotherhood refuses to accept ban: USA Today
UK: Lord offers bounty for capture of Obama, Bush: IIE

Israeli TV report shows air force gearing-up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near: Times of Israel
Bolton: Bin Laden was killed while Obama was president, not because he was president: Scoop
Albert's Unluckiest Farmer: SDA

Sci-Tech

Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin: Guardian
Word Game Dabble Will Stretch Your Brain in New Ways: Wired
PureGear’s iPhone Extreme Protection: Eye-Catching: Wired

Cornucopia

Wow! Can we move on to the issue of fairness?: MOTUS
This Week in Automotivators, April 9-15: RWN
Loyal dog braves highway to remain by fatally struck dog's side: Fox

Image: Answer To Zimmerman Skittles Portrait
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QOTD: "Hilary Rosen, the Democratic National Committee consultant who told CNN last week that Ann Romney had “never worked a day in her life,” has used her power with the White House to swing special lobbying privileges for her friends – all without meeting reporting requirements...

...SKDKnickerbocker has been using its “ins” at the White House to sign up its biggest clients. As The Nation reports, Kaplan Education hired SKDKnickerbocker to help block Obama’s anti-college companies legislation; Win America, a lobbying campaign, has used SKDKnickerbocker to push for big tax breaks; food manufacturers paid SKDKnickerbocker to battle food regulations. The list goes on and on. Anita Dunn, Hilary Rosen’s partner over at SKDKnickerbocker, even used her access to the White House to sign up big businesses for anti-Buffett Rule lobbying while working as a “paid media” advisor for another PR firm." --Breitbart News

Sunday, April 15, 2012

David Axelrod pulls a Hilary Rosen, Accidentally Endorses Mitt Romney

Methinks David 'Red-Diaper Baby' Axelrod just made a boo-boo:

Breaking news with a hat tip to Kevin Eder for highlighting it for me:

David Axelrod, Chief Strategist for President Barack Obama, endorsed Mitt Romney for President on Fox News Sunday this morning. He told Chris Wallace, “The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead and an economy that continues down the road we’re on.”


That is precisely right and precisely what Mitt Romney’s campaign has been telling people. Good to see David Axelrod agrees.

Here are the key bits of the transcript.

WALLACE: And that is, David, if I may, I wanted to ask you in the final question I have. In one paragraph, two or three sentences, what's the choice in this election?

AXELROD: The choice in this election is between economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and an economy that continues down the road we are on, where a fewer and fewer number of people do very well, and everybody else is running faster and faster just to keep pace.

We need to take that first route that honors our fundamental economic values, the values that made this country great. And we need to do some things to promote that kind of economy. We can't sit back and go back to the same failed policies that were so disastrous in the last decade.

Looks like Axelrod just pulled a Hilary Rosen.


PM Netanyahu Brings the Snark, Pillories Anti-Humanitarian 'Flytilla'

All other things being equal, when intelligence fights idiocy, the mentally defective generally lose.

Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists were prevented from boarding Israel-bound flights on Friday, due to the fact that their names appeared on the blacklist distributed by the Israeli government to a number of European airlines.

Police are planning to intercept participants in the "Welcome to Palestine" actions at the airport and prevent their entry into the country. Hundreds of police officers are expected to be stationed at the airport ahead of their arrival, most of them unarmed and clothed in civilian dress.

Of the reported 1,500 pro-Jihad activists who had planned to arrive in Israel for a 'Welcome to Palestine' rally, nearly 1,000 received notice that their flights were canceled. Any making it to Israel were to receive the following letter from Prime Minister Netanyahu.


He might as well have added, "Fat, stupid and evil is no way to go through life, son."


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"
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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'."