Friday, May 25, 2012
Larwyn's Linx: Former Navy SEAL: "Loose Lips Will Sink Ships"
Nation
Former Navy SEAL Ben Smith: “Loose Lips Will Sink Ships”: ASKNewly Revealed: Obama Featured At 1996 Socialist Event: WZ
NY GOP Trying to Ban Anonymous Online Comments?: MenRec
“Blac Bloc” Video: Destroying SF, Attacking Police: Sooper
Senate Democrats Betray Lilly: Beacon
Flashing Headlights To Warn of Speed Trap Is Protected Speech: Cato
Obviously, Obama’s KY And ARK Beatdowns Were Raaaaacism: RWN
Dewhurst releases false attack ad against Ted Cruz: Breitbart
Obama: Not That Bright: Kelly
Economy
Governments Are Never Cheap: P&FRomney: Why is Obama attacking capitalism?: Hot Air
Poll: Scott Walker Lead Explodes to 12%: Pundit
Bad News for Globalists: RWN
CNN: How Government Blocks Health Care Access for the Poor: Cato
Obama's Economic Attacks Could Backfire: AmPower
Scandal Central
States Join Extortion Racket Against Book Publishers: ObjStdThe Cronyism Board: Tourism Board Stacked With Obama Cronies: Beacon
Republicans Backing Off Holder Contempt Charges, Exemplifies Systemic RINO Problem: AT
Climate & Energy
Necessary Skyrocketing: GreenroomObama’s America: EPA Officials Visit Man For Sending Email: POH Diaries
Newton (MA) saves money by going green. Sort of. Not really.: AT
Media
Convicted Bomber Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser, Ron Brynaert: Their Campaign of Political Terrorism: PattericoLying Felon Can’t Stop Lying: RSM
Brett Kimberlin Update: The Big Guns Are Coming on Board--Cain, Erickson Enter the Fray: Hideout
Newsflash: Liberals Confirm They Have No Sense of Humor or Irony: Bruce
Get Your Story Straight: Conservatory
Is conservative blogger in Georgia another victim of “lawfare”?: LI
Brett Kimberlin Plotted To Have Witnesses, Former Assistant US Attorney Killed: Ace
Who is Brett Kimberlin?: EBL
D-Minus-1: Preparing For Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day: Camp o' the Saints
World
Obama’s Blockbuster Secrets: FoundryHere’s the Real Deal No BS Situation with Europe (Warning What Follows is Extremely Bad).: ZH
US preparing plan to vet members of Free Syrian Army to determine if suitable to receive arms transfers: Fox
Sci-Tech
What Common Objects Used to Be Made Of: WiredInside the Attacker's Toolbox: Botnet Web Attack Scripts: SpiderLabs
Facebook At $22 Seen In Europe’s Structured Warrants: Bloomberg
Cornucopia
Obama and Soviet Agitprop: A Handshake Across Time and Space: Cube"If Fuzzy Wuzzy was Prezzy, he'd do something different.": MOTUS
The Best Quotes From “Maximum Achievement”: Hawkins
Introducing ItsBigFurHat.com!: ItsBigFurHat.com
Anti-Aging Medicine: Amelia’s Look Into A Medical Controversy: WCCO-4
Class: Bill Clinton Poses With Porn Stars: ABC
Image: The Bad
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QOTD: "U.S. taxpayers thinking that they couldn't possibly be forced to stand behind overseas derivatives trading will not be comforted by remarks from Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler. On Monday he emphasized his determination to extend Dodd-Frank derivatives regulation to overseas markets when subsidiaries of U.S. firms are involved.
Readers know Mr. Gensler as the chief regulator of MF Global, which was run into bankruptcy by his old Beltway and Goldman Sachs pal Jon Corzine. An estimated $1.6 billion is still missing from MF Global customer accounts. What an amazing feat Mr. Gensler will have performed if, through his agency's oversight, he can manage to have U.S. customers eat the cost of Mr. Corzine's bets on foreign debt and have U.S. taxpayers underwrite bets in foreign derivatives trading." --The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Old Media Is Bleeding Out Right Before Our Eyes
Consider the following panoply of stories -- from the last few days alone -- courtesy of the national treasure known as NewsBusters.
Outrage Over 72 Hours Of Network Silence On Catholic Lawsuit Spreads
Fury over the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts’ continued refusal to report the lawsuits Catholic entities have filed against the Obama administration has spread beyond the Media Research Center watchdog group and Catholic leaders to nine additional Christian leaders equally concerned about this decision to deliberately not report national news...Networks Censor News of Massive Democratic Protest Vote Against Obama
42 percent of Democratic primary voters in Kentucky on Tuesday chose "uncommited" over Barack Obama. In Arkansas, a Tennessee attorney finished with 41 percent of the vote. ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today and CBS This Morning all skipped the embarrassing story, despite the fact that CBS and NBC covered the far less interesting Republican primary... During the month of May, Obama suffered through a series of humiliating protest votes in Democratic primaries. On May 8th, the incumbent President nearly lost the West Virginia primary to a convicted felon. Yet, except for a single mention at 4am on May 9th, the networks have buried Obama's bad news.ABC, NBC Punt on Alleged Obama Administration Leak of Classified Information to Hollywood
CBS This Morning stood out as the only Big Three network morning show on Thursday to cover [an] allegation that the Obama administration gave a movie director and writer "special access to government officials involved in the commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden," as reported by Reuters on Wednesday. ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today ignored the story....Anchor Charlie Rose pointed out in his introduction to Reid's report that there was "new information this morning on an alleged security leak by the Obama administration... "Sources tell CBS News the White House put the movie on the fast track, aggressively looking for ways to help."
Was Rev. Wright Offered Hush Money? Nobody In The Media Cares
When the New York Times warned it had been handed a “super PAC” memo suggesting someone, somewhere might plot to make a “hardline attack on Obama” with Wright sermon soundbites, MSNBC expressed outrage hour after hour. But scandalized liberal journalists had no appetite for a different behind-the-scenes Reverend Wright narrative. In Ed Klein’s new book “The Amateur,” he interviewed Rev. Wright on tape for three hours. The most shocking revelation: suggestions that Friends of Barack were trying to suggest Wright take some “hush money” to shut up for the rest of the 2008 campaign. Media interest? Pretty much zero.That's just over the last few days. My conclusion?
Buh-bye, old media. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
Note: if you missed headlines from your favorite news source, you can use the BadBlue news service database to get an up-to-date list sorted by popularity or date. Here's an example for NewBusters: http://badblue.bitnamiapp.com/d.php?did=newsbusters.org.
Double Whammy: Investors Business Daily Pimp-Slaps Rex Nutting's Pravda-Style Propaganda Piece at MarketWatch
The gist of the story is this. Obama is running from his spending record, using manipulated statistics to assign his block-buster "shovel-ready" Stimulus package to... wait for it... George W. Bush. Did Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and George W. Bush pass the Stimulus package? Obamacare? Cash-for-Clunkers? Green energy scams like Solyndra, First Solar, Solar Trust, etc.? So the Obama campaign is busy churning out propaganda that disavows all the work he took credit for in 2009 and Nutting simply regurgitates it, like a good little Marxist.
No human being in world history has deficit-spent like Barack Obama. And everyone knows it, including Rex "Leni Riefenstahl" Nutting.
Today, it's Investor's Business Daily's turn to pimp-slap Nutting. One simple chart is all it takes.
You wouldn't think that, after adding $5 trillion to the U.S.' debt, President Obama would seriously claim he's a fiscal hawk. But thanks to a misleading article on CBS' MarketWatch site, that's just what he's doing.
'Since I've been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years," Obama said on Wednesday. "Think about that."
Obama didn't turn to his own Office of Management and Budget to support this fact, or even the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
Instead, he went to a CBS MarketWatch column by Rex Nutting, which claims spending under Obama has risen by an average of just 1.4%.
"Federal spending," he wrote, "is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s."
Nutting even posted a chart to "prove" his case, which appears to show average annual spending hikes under Obama coming in well under that of his predecessors.
Not surprisingly, this "fact" lit up the left-wing blogosphere, with the White House quickly parading the article to dismiss GOP attacks.
There's just one problem. Nutting had it wrong... In fact, he made two significant mistakes that have the effect of hiding Obama's huge spending spree, mistakes that even Nutting's conservative critics missed...
IBD goes on to point out that, aside from the Stimulus scam and the litany of crap Obama pushed through a compliant Congress, TARP and GSE spending were incorrectly accounted for in Nutting's analysis. In other words, Nutting made giant mistakes, small mistakes, and everything in between.
MarketWatch had better, eh, watch itself. If it continues publishing trash like Nutting's excrement, it will become about as relevant as Daily Kos.
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It's the real-time news site that old media doesn't want you to see. Like me, you probably want to tell old media to shove it. That's what BadBlue is all about.
Oops! Democrat Narrative Fail: 1996 Socialist Advertisement Unearthed, With Barack Obama Headlining as a Featured Speaker
And it looks like Andrew Breitbart's legacy -- including the great vetting of Obama that old media never bothered to do -- continues apace, this time courtesy of BuzzFeed (via Weasel Zippers):
It's a reminder that the President presented himself as much more progressive during his time in Chicago. In this little-seen advertisement that ran in the Hyde Park Herald in 1996, Obama was listed on a panel sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), University of Chicago Democrats, and University of Chicago DSA. He also supported gay marriage back then.
The Real Revo explains the strategy that Democrats have in mind. Hint: Obama's promise to "fundamentally transform" America? It's real.
Larwyn's Linx: Are Republicans to Blame for Washington’s Problems?
Nation
Are Republicans to Blame for Washington’s Problems?: RWNOccupy group videos themselves pillaging SF neighborhood: Zombie
Heading Off the Fiscal Cliff: IBD
20,000 Felons Signed Walker Recall Petition: HillBuzz
WI's Tom Barrett: Bragging About Bogus Crime Reduction: Geraghty
Wasserman-Nimrod Likely to Get Canceled at Temple Israel: Shark
Economy
Romney: I’m not willing to borrow money from China to fund PBS: DCActually, the Obama spending binge really did happen: Peth
Paul Ryan's Electrifying Speech at the Reagan Library: Glob
20,000 Felons Signed Walker Recall Petition: HillBuzz
A Graduation Message: Academic Success Begins at Home: Foundry
Labor Force Plummets Under Obama: HillBuzz
Figures Don't Lie. Democrats Do.: Coulter
Five Devastating Numbers That Show Obama’s Incompetence: RWN
Booming Obamaconomy has HP cutting 27,000 by 2014: BBC
Scandal Central
Obama campaign spokesman bears false witness: RSObama wants the Electric Reliability Corporation to stop assessing electric reliability: Watts
Surprise: PR Firm Awarded $20MM HHS Contract Gives 90% of Campaign Donations to Democrats: ConTeacher
Climate & Energy
Ready for Electricity to Skyrocket? Thank Obama!: SooperEPA Overreach Threatens Entire U.S. Economy: ResourcefulEarth
UK Families To See Energy Prices Skyrocket Under Green Energy 'Reforms': RWN
Media
‘He Has No F–king Soul’: RSMCelebrity Fantasy? Hustler's Obscene Misogynist Attack on S.E. Cupp: AmPower
The Booty Bundler: Beacon
Bomber Turned Left Wing Activist, Brett Kimberlin, Tries to Silence Conservative Opposition: RS
What Did Barbra Streisand Know … And When Did She Know It?: DailyPundit
Question of the day: Is this a case of self-destruction for Dear Leader?: AWD
Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand's Morality of Egoism: ObjStd
Alec 'Fat Turd Baldwin (which is the nickname he prefers, I hear) mocks Andrew Breitbart’s death: Twitchy
From an Undisclosed Location to Herman Cain’s Facebook Wall, the Truth Issues Forth: Sundries
Reputable Blogger Needed: XCV
Free speech moment: Standing with Stacy McCain, Patterico, Liberty Chick, and Aaron Walker: Hot Air
The Astute Bloggers Just Screwed Me Over Again: TAB
World
Judicial Watch Obtains DOD and CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Raid Filmmakers: JWGerman Press: "The Greek Exit Is A Done Deal": ZH
Iran: World powers creating 'difficult atmosphere' at talks: ynet
Sci-Tech
Jury Says Google’s Android Does Not Infringe Java Patents: WiredSpaceX rocket lifts off for space station trial run: Reuters
Your Siri questions may be not be a secret: KABC
Cornucopia
Introducing the hot new social network: PhoneBook!: BorowitzExclusive Photo: Rabbis about to throw Debbie Wasserman Schultz out of the Temple?: EBL
A Little Obama P.R. (or B.S.): Unsolicited
Image: iOwnTheWorld
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund
QOTD: "NERC (the North American Electric Reliability Corporation) must have thought it was taking a step up when a 2005 law made the non-profit group an official advisor to Congress, but that law also brought them under the oversight of FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) which just spent months of rummaging through every desk looking for rule violations they could use to embroil NERC in legal difficulties.
It seems that the President’s drive to shut down the coal-fired half of the grid could pose some risk to grid reliability—who’d a thunk it?—so Obama is trying to shoot the messenger. When no violations were found, FERC decided to “audit” NERC’s mission itself, resulting in a finding that this business of “periodic reliability assessments” is all a bit much and “should be revisited.”...
...The perils of shutting down the nation’s largest electricity source can’t be news to the Obama people. They just don’t want the public to get the message." --Alec Rawls
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Obama MarketWatch Propagandist Rex Nutting Gets B****-Slapped By James Pethokoukis
Until Barack Obama took office in 2009, the United States had never spent more than 23.5% of GDP, with the exception of the World War II years of 1942-1946. Here’s the Obama spending record:
• 25.2% of GDP in 2009
• 24.1% of GDP in 2010
• 24.1% of GDP in 2011
• 24.3% (estimates by the White House ) in 2012
What’s more, if Obama wins another term, spending—according to his own budget—would never drop below 22.3% of GDP. If that forecast is right, average spending during Obama’s eight years in office would average 23.6% of GDP. That’s higher than any single previous non-war year.
Yet financial columnist Rex Nutting of MarketWatch tries to portray the president as being downright stingy in a piece entitled, stunningly, “Obama spending binge never happened”:
Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree. As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.” Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true. Government spending under Obama, including his signature stimulus bill, is rising at a 1.4% annualized pace — slower than at any time in nearly 60 years.
And here’s the chart summarizing Nutting’s argument:
As the chart indicates, Nutting arrives at that 1.4% number by assigning 2009—when spending surged nearly 20%—to
George W. Bush...
What a lying sack of s***.
Gee, last time I checked, Nutter -- if that is your real name -- George W. Bush wasn't the guy who jammed the Stimulus package through Congress, which was tacked onto the 2009 budget.
Here is another way Nutting could have framed the spending issue:
The Obama spending record looks a little different now, yes?
Da-yam, Rex: you gonna put some ice on that?
Obama campaign unveils new slogan, logo [Papa B]
The Obama campaign recently unveiled their new slogan and logo.
Seems apt, dontcha think?
Best I can tell, if you're a gun-owner, Bank of America would prefer you move your business to another bank. Immediately.
McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, McMillan Group International have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years.
Today Mr. Ray Fox, Senior Vice President, Market Manager, Business Banking, Global Commercial Banking (Bank of America) came to my office. He scheduled the meeting as an “account analysis” meeting in order to evaluate the two lines of credit we have with them... He spent five minutes talking about how McMillan has changed in the last five years and have become more of a firearms manufacturer than a supplier of accessories.
At this point I interrupted him and asked "Can I possibly save you some time so that you don’t waste your breath? What you are going to tell me is that because we are in the firearms manufacturing business you no longer want my business."
"That is correct", he says.
I replied, "That is okay, we will move our accounts as soon as possible. We can find a Second Amendment-friendly bank that will be glad to have our business. You won’t mind if I tell the NRA, SCI and everyone one I know that BofA is not firearms industry friendly?"
"You have to do what you must," he said.
"So you are telling me this is a politically motivated decision, is that right?"
Mr. Fox confirmed that it was. At which point I told him that the meeting was over and there was nothing left for him to say.
I think it is important for all Americans who believe in and support our Second amendment rights to keep and bear arms should know when a business does not support these rights. What you do with that knowledge is up to you.
When I don’t agree with a business’ political position I can not in good conscience support them. We will soon no longer be accepting Bank of America credit cards as payment for our products.
Kelly D. McMillan
Director of Operations
McMillan Group International, LLC
1638 W Knudsen Dr
Phoenix, Arizona 85027
McMillan Integrity-Global Vision
I later discovered that William Jacobson wrote about this incident a few weeks ago. You can confirm the letter's content on McMillan's Facebook page.
EPA-Driven Apocalypse Predicted for the Electric Grid (Just Don't Mention It In Public, Unless You Want to Get Audited by the Feds)
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, [energy prices] would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was... [t]hey will pass that money on to consumers." --Barack Obama, 1 November 2008
He can run, he can hide, he can evade, he can blame Bush and James Buchanan. But this is one campaign promise Barack Obama actually followed through with. And you. Ain't. Seen. Nothing. Yet.
Clean Technica reports that the EPA's war on coal -- which produces the lion's share of electricity in the U.S. -- is working:
Power generation from coal is falling quickly...
...According to new figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, coal made up 36 percent of U.S. electricity in the first quarter of 2012 — down from 44.6 percent in the first quarter of 2011...
The U.S. coal industry if facing major headwinds... factors that will assist in pushing coal out of the electricity mix: An aging fleet of plants, cost-competitive renewables, new clean air regulations, and a strong anti-coal movement are working together to reduce the attractiveness of coal. Since 2010, plant operators have announced 106 retirements of coal facilities — representing 13 percent of the U.S. fleet, according to the Sierra Club.
Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/1bVMC)
What's this mean for you and me? Electricity prices are going to rise like nothing you've ever seen before (curiously, only after the 2012 elections).
Last week PJM Interconnection, the company that operates the electric grid for 13 states (Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia) held its 2015 capacity auction. These are the first real, market prices that take Obama’s most recent anti-coal regulations into account, and they prove that he is keeping his 2008 campaign promise to make electricity prices “necessarily skyrocket.”
The market-clearing price for new 2015 capacity – almost all natural gas – was $136 per megawatt. That’s eight times higher than the price for 2012, which was just $16 per megawatt. In the mid-Atlantic area covering New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and DC the new price is $167 per megawatt. For the northern Ohio territory served by FirstEnergy, the price is a shocking $357 per megawatt.
Why the massive price increases? Andy Ott from PJM stated the obvious: “Capacity prices were higher than last year's because of retirements of existing coal-fired generation resulting largely from environmental regulations which go into effect in 2015.” Northern Ohio is suffering from more forced coal-plant retirements than the rest of the region, hence the even higher price.
These are not computer models or projections or estimates. These are the actual prices that electric distributors have agreed to pay for new capacity. The costs will be passed on to consumers at the retail level.
The only thing that can stop this massive price hike now is an all-out effort to end Obama’s War on Coal and repeal this destructive regulatory agenda.
The Senate will have a critical opportunity to do just that when it votes on stopping Obama’s most expensive anti-coal regulation sometime in the next couple of weeks. The vote is on the Inhofe Resolution, S.J. Res 37, to overturn the so-called Utility MACT rule, which the EPA itself acknowledges is its most expensive rule ever.
This vote is protected from filibuster, and it will take just 51 votes to send a clear message to Obama that his War on Coal must end. ...Of course, Obama could veto the resolution and keep the rule intact, although that would force him to take full political responsibility for the massive impending jump in electricity prices.
That's not the only problem. Late last year, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation reported that new EPA regulations "threaten the stability of power grids". Blackouts, anyone?
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) released a report yesterday concluding that proposed EPA regulations “may significantly affect bulk power system reliability depending on the scope and timing of the rule implementation and the mechanisms in place to preserve reliability.”
As this Platts report notes, NERC says that these proposed rules could create “insufficient generating resources” and “threaten the stability of power grids in Texas and New England within the next decade.”
Not to mention job losses and economic ruin. Hooray!
And what do you think happened after the NERC reported its concerns over the stability of the electric grid? What do you think? It was, of course, investigated by another arm of the Obama administration for publicizing the truth. Seriously. Reminds one of the old Soviet Union, no?
Mark my words: should this egregious disaster of a president win a second term in November, I can predict exactly what will happen.
Electricity rates, as candidate Obama promised, would "necessarily skyrocket".
And the Democrats will blame the electric companies -- having sabotaged them through regulation and intimidation.
And they will then attempt to nationalize those companies, Chavez-style, under the banner of efficiency and "fairness".
Mark my words.
Tell your friends. Tell your family members. Tell your colleagues.
Unless we boot these Statist hacks out in November, America is destined to become a Third World country faster than you can say "Jeremiah Wright".
Update: Obama wants the Electric Reliability Corporation to stop assessing electric reliability
Visit: WarOnCoal.com to voice your concerns. Hat tip: Mark Levin.
Larwyn's Linx: Democrats Think You're a Moron: The Evidence
Nation
Democrats Think You're a Moron: The Evidence: SooperWe Are Robbing Our Children: Brooks
Jimmy Fallon: "The President Booked Himself On Our Show": RCP
Oops: Labolt didn't get Booker memo: Beacon
Man, is there anywhere that Obama’s NOT failing?: Lane
Obama struggles in Kentucky, Arkansas: Poitico
Hawaii verifies Obama's birth records to Arizona: Townhall
Gov't Propaganda Comes to America: What Took So Long?: Cube
Obama Admin Signs $20M Contract for Obamacare P.R.: LN
Economy
Rendell: Hey, can you believe these Bain attacks from Obama?: Hot AirDem Clyburn Says Bain Was 'Raping Companies': Beacon
Obama Donor Tied to Bain Layoffs: ABC
Doctors Have Those Single Payer Blues: Smoke
Libs Cheer As Union Chief Smashes Female GOP Piñata: Glob
Reid Blames Tea Party Extremism for Looming 'Taxmaggedon': Yahoo
Scandal Central
GOP closer to holding Eric Holder in contempt: PoliticoObama bundler’s husband has received more than a billion in DOE solar loans: Bundler of Sunshine
Harvard Law succeeds in taking down anti-Holder Fast and Furious protest website: LI
Climate & Energy
Flat Earthers Worried About Earth’s Water Cycle: CoveMedia
Watch Jay Carney Squirm When Asked If Obama Supports Occupy: GlobThe Signs Are Popping Up All Over: LI
Confirmed: Superman Might Be Gay: Hot Air
Stacy McCain’s Wife Harassed – Family Fears For Safety: Camp o' the Saints
Kitty Genovese and the Conservative Media: Ace
Who Is Brett Kimberlin?: Jawa
7 Non-Political Differences Between Liberals and Conservatives: Hawkins
Are You Ready For “Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day”, May 25?: Nice Deb
Latest media Romney “scoop”: His wife’s horse hobby is pretty expensive: Hot Air
World
Don't let him fool you: Obama allowed Israel to be excluded from the NATO summit to satisfy the Turks: MatzavSurprise! Women Now Second-Class Citizens In Egypt: RWN
Israeli Everest climber saves Turkish ‘brother’: JPost
Sci-Tech
Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut Facebook’s Revenue Estimates In Middle Of IPO Roadshow: Yahoo!How Facebook's IPO Got Hijacked by Computers: BuzzFeed
The Curious Timing of Mark Zuckerberg's Wedding: AtlWire
Cornucopia
This Week in Automotivators, May 14-20: RWNKim Jong-il Owns Some Cool S*#t!: Ranker
Obama’s Rather Impressive List Of “Accomplishments”: Western Journalism
Image: Ace o' Spades
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund
QOTD: [On Elizabeth Warren's claims that she is 1/32nd American Indian and also published a crab with mayonaisse recipe in a Native American cookbook]
"She remembers sitting around the teepee listening to her great grandfather, Dances With Mayonaisse, tell exciting stories of the great crab herds.
"When the crab herds were spotted on the plains, all of the warriors would swing on to the backs of their ponies and chase the herd. They would fiercely grasp the ponies between their thighs so both hands could be free to shoot arrows into the running crabs." --Ace o' Spades commenter Walrus Rex
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Curiously Juxtaposed Obamacare Headlines o' the Day
Exhibit A: Obama Loses 14 Points with Catholic Voters Over HHS Mandate
As more than 40 Catholic groups file suit against the Obama administration over its HHS mandate forcing them to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs for employees, new poling data shows President Barack Obama is tanking with Catholic voters... [Recent Pew Surveys show a] huge 14-point loss the pro-abortion president has had with Catholics in recent months...
Exhibit B: Obama Admin Signs $20M Contract for Obamacare Public Relations
Not only are Americans forced to fund abortions, and potentially rationing, in the Obamacare health care scheme, but new reports reveal they are spending $20 million on an election-year public relations plan to promote it.
The Health and Human Services Department signed a $20 million contract with a public-relations firm to promote Obamacare in a new multimedia ad campaign designed to educate the public about its supposed benefits. The Hill indicates the ad campaign was a mandate included in the final health care law.
As Mark Levin noted last night, if we had any House leadership at all, Kathleen Sebelius would be called in front of Congress and the responsible HHS managers charged with illegal campaign contributions to Obama's reelection effort.
But John Boehner is an intellectual and leadership lightweight. We've all had enough with the Repubicans, the wimps and the weaklings, who are more worried about consolidating their own power than saving America.
If we can get a couple o' dozen more Constitutional conservatives elected in November, I truly believe we can get Michele Bachmann or Allen West installed as Speaker of the House. Just think of it.
Hat tip: BadBlue.com.
Funniest Elizabeth Warren Cherokee Cookbook AoS Comments
• "Sure the Cherokee were famous for their tomato-mayonaisse dressing." --Fozzy
• "Cherokee had mayonnaise? They kept in the fridge, right?" --CUS
• "She remembers sitting around the teepee listening to her great grandfather, Dances With Mayonaisse, tell exciting stories of the great crab herds." --Walrus Rex
• "#CherokeeCrabRecipes ... Don't know if that's there, but it might be good." --CUS
• "The title of the cookbook is offensive, too. If she was claiming to be Asian, would she title the cookbook Ching Chong Chow? Of course not." --Soothsayer
• "When the crab herds were spotted on the plains, all of the warriors would swing on to the backs of their ponies and chase the herd. They would fiercely grasp the ponies between their thighs so both hands could be free to shoot arrows into the running crabs." --Walrus Rex
• "Hey, we bought that recipe off 'em for a bunch of beads." --The French
• "I can assure with complete authority that freshwater crabs and mayonnaise were widely available before teh White Man gave smallpox to all of the Indigenous Peoples of America." --MFM
• " I tried to order the cold omelets with crab meat at a Cherokee restaurant but I couldn't get a reservation." --Walrus Rex
• "Remember that scene in Dances With Wolves where Kevin Costner's character sat down with the Indians to a meal of Quenelles de Brochet with Seafood Risotto and Lobster Foam, paired with a nice bottle of slightly chilled Meursault-Perrières?" --Albie Damned
• "You forgot the tiramisu." --Mama AJ
• "This is what Cherokees ate traditionally: Squid ravioli in lemon grass broth, goat cheese profiteroles and arugula Caesar salad, swordfish meatloaf with onion marmalade, rare roasted partridge breast in raspberry coulis with a sorrel timbale and, of course, grilled free-range rabbit with herbed french fries." --rdbrewer
Innovative new stadium with retractable roof for Charlotte, NC
Here is an artist's conception of Charlotte, North Carolina's innovative new stadium with a one-of-a-kind retractable roof.
This amazing design should be ready just in time for the Democratic National Convention this summer.
And, of course, that means it will be ready for President Obama's historic speech.
I wouldn't miss it!
The Five Charts You MUST Show Every Undecided Voter You Know
1. The labor force participation rate, which tracks the percentage of working age Americans who are employed (source: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000):
2. Retail gas prices, the national average price-per-gallon as compiled by GasBuddy.com (source: http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx?time=24):
3. Medicare Reimbursements to Health Providers Have Been Slashed Since the Passage of Obamacare: by slashing payments to health care providers, costs are shifted to private insurers (source: Price Waterhouse Coopers Health). According to PWC, employer health costs are expected to rise an astonishing 8.5 percent nationally in 2012 (source: http://www.pwc.com/us/en/press-releases/2011/employer-medical-costs-expected-to-increase.jhtml).
4. Gold prices have skyrocketed since the President's Stimulus package was passed: as a measure of real inflation, many economists believe gold represents an excellent measure of the strength of the dollar. Because of the never-before-seen trillion-dollar annual deficits (and lack of budgets) since the 111th Congress and President Obama took office, rising gold prices represent an attendant weakness in the U.S. dollar (source: http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx.
5. The 2009 Stimulus Package was built into the baseline budget - this recurring expenditure has become the cause of the largest budget deficits in American history.

All of these graphs (and many more, like food stamp distribution and unpaid "green energy" loans) collectively represent why President Obama only talks about the future. His new slogan -- Forward -- is a tacit reminder not to look back!
There are trillions of reasons the President doesn't want to look back. Instead, he must promise more Utopian fantasies in the hope that enough Americans will fall for the same, 2008-era rhetoric all over again.
I urge you to share these five graphs with your friends, your family members and colleagues -- especially those who are uninterested in politics or otherwise disengaged. This election is about you. It is about individual sovereignty and containing government. It is about saving this Republic.
Larwyn's Linx: Pictures from the Chicago anti-NATO protest you won't see in old media
Nation
Pics from the anti-NATO march you won't see in old media: MarathonBlack Bandanas Are The New White Hoods Of The KKK: Glob
It’s Illegal to Say ‘None of Your Damn Business’: Cato
Five Devastating Numbers That Show Obama’s Incompetence: Hawkins
Bain Backfire: Obama campaign in 'full damage control mode': Breitbart
Levin: The Left's Philosophy Is Austerity: Scoop
Economy
America's Welfare Mess: Dissecting LeftismObama met with AFL-CIO, ACLU lobbyists 50+ times each: WZ
NLRB Region Unleashes Micro-Unit On Retailer: LUR
The truth about college aid: It's corporate welfare: AEI
The NEA: Poverty Pimp #1: Publius
Meet Obama's Left-Wing Base: Glob
A blog post from 1956 highlights tactics of union thugs: Zombie
Leftists rush into restaurant with bats, hammers, beat patrons bloody: Atlas
Facebook IPO Post-Mortem For Dummies: ZH
Scandal Central
Protesting Eric Holder over Fast and Furious at Harvard Law: LIObama Bundler Corzine Snagged $8.4 Million in Year Before MF Global Collapse: JWF
W.H. pressured government contractors to change job loss estimates: Beacon
Climate & Energy
James Hansen Tells Us Big Numbers Are Scary: ConservatorySure, the EPA may be annexing Alaska: ProWis
Has the EPA overstepped its bounds with Pebble Project assessment?: MineWeb
Media
Creative Ideas About Media Bias: RSMWashington Post Hires Left-wing Blogger to Bash Conservatives: AIM
Did White House Doctor Photo of President "Throwing" Football?: PunditPress
WaPo: Wow! Look How Many Lobbyists Visit the White House: LoneCon
If you want to understand the risk involved in using your 1st Amendment rights…: DTG
Never Doubt That God Answers Prayer: RSM
Newly Released Police Timeline: Zimmerman Was the One Screaming: Patterico
Complete Liberal Meme Meltdown: Trayvon Martin Fight Club Video Found: AmPower
Stacy McCain And Family Forced To Flee Threats: Camp o' the Saints
Furious Chris Matthews Explodes: Cory Booker 'Betrayed' and 'Sabotaged' Obama: NB
Rush: If Bain is so evil, why does Obama have to lie about them in their ads?: Scoop
Dearborn Arab shoots black customer in back, kills, media ignores: Creeping
World
What the Nazis Borrowed From Marx: MisesPakistani Women Denounce Islamic Clerics' Fatwas Against Use Of Cell Phones And Access To Education: MEMRI
'Donkey rape' sparks tribal massacre in Yemen: Emirates 24/7
Mostly Peaceful Chicago Rioters: “What do we want? Dead cops!”: JWF
China's secret? It owes Americans nearly $1 trillion: McClatchy
China fake parts 'used in US military equipment': BBC
Sci-Tech
Time-Lapse Video of Incredible Annular Solar Eclipse: WiredMount Everest Death Toll at Four with One Missing: ABC
Teen's Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostic Wins $75,000 Intel Prize: Reason
Cornucopia
Philosophy in the News and Elsewhere: ScovilleCory Booker Hashtag hijackers flood the zone: Twitchy
DOJ’s Favorite New Black Panther Wants to Hang ‘Crackers’: LoneCon
Image: Marathon Pundit
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: The Breitbard Awards
QOTD: "And where’s the harm in it? Everybody does it — at least in the circles in which Obama hangs. At Harvard Law School, where young Barack was “the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review,” there’s no end of famous firsts: As The Fordham Law Review reported, “Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995.” There is no evidence that Mrs. Warren, now the Democrats’ Senate candidate, is anything other than 100 percent white. She walks like a white, quacks like a white, looks whiter than white. She’s the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of Wite-Out. But she “self-identified” as Cherokee, so that makes her a “woman of color.” Why, back in 1984 she submitted some of her favorite dishes to the Pow Wow Chow cookbook, a “compilation of recipes passed down through the Five Tribes families.”
The recipes from “Elizabeth Warren — Cherokee” include a crab dish with tomato mayonnaise. Mrs. Warren’s fictional Cherokee ancestors in Oklahoma were renowned for their ability to spear the fast-moving Oklahoma crab. It’s in the state song: “Ooooooklahoma! Where the crabs come sweepin’ down the plain . . . ” But then the white man came and now the Oklahoma crab is extinct, and at the Cherokee clambakes they have to make do with Mrs. Warren’s traditional Five Tribes recipe for Cherokee Lime Pie." --Mark Steyn
Monday, May 21, 2012
Bummer: Obama's Reelection Intrade Odds Plummet Through 50- and 100-Day Moving Averages
Here’s the Intrade betting market contract for “Barack Obama to be re-elected President in 2012.”
As you can see, not only have the odds of reelection fallen, the contract has decisively broken through both its 50-day (brown line) and 100-day (purple line) moving averages. Now, I am not a professional technical analyst. But I am pretty sure that when stocks do that, it’s usually seen as a negative sign, especially if it happens on higher trading volume, the case here.
My personal suspicion is -- if we effectively marshal all of our family members, friends and colleagues -- that Barack Obama will lose in a, yes, historic landslide. It's not just a feeling. It's also data points like Obama edging out an imprisoned felon in a state primary.
We just need to do our part. We need to convince everyone we know the importance of this election. It's not an overstatement that the Republic hangs in the balance: even according to the CBO, a few more years of trillion-dollar deficits will destroy this country.
























