Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Pass this along to a teenager: this is 'one sick labor market'

Some brutal facts from David Rosenberg as relayed by Tyler Durden.

• The share of long-term unemployment is at its highest level since the Great Depression (42%).

• Fully 54% of college degree graduates under the age of 25 are either unemployed or underemployed.

• 45 million Americans are on food stamps — one in seven residents.

• 47% of Americans are on some form of government assistance.

• The employment-to-population ratio for 25-54 year olds is now 75.7%, lower than it was when the recession supposedly ended in June 2009.

• The number of people not in the labour force has swelled eight million since the recession ended; absent that effect, the unemployment rate would be 12% right now (about the same as President Obama's election chances would be).

• The number of people confident enough to leave their jobs fell 11% in May for the second month in a row to 891k, the lowest since November 2010.

• The ranks of the unemployed who have been looking fruitlessly for work for at least 27 weeks jumped 310,000 in May, the sharpest increase since May 2011.

• The unemployment rate for males aged 16-19 is 27% and for males between 20 and 24 it is 13%. Draw your own conclusions from a social (in)stability standpoint.

• One in seven Americans are either unemployed or underemployed...

...A mere 16% of the 2009-2011 graduating class has found full-time work, while 22% are working part-time. Even those hired from 2006-08, just 23% are working full-time.

According to a poll cited in the NYT, just 14% of high-school grads today believe they will have a more successful financial future than their parents Line of the day, as depressing as it is, comes from an 18-year old: "Thank God I had a buddy at Burger King who could help me out".

According to Rasmussen, Obama's approval rating has dipped to only 24 percent.

In spite all of this, America's young people -- who have been hammered by Obama's destructive economic policies -- still overwhelmingly support the SCOAMF. So you and I have a lot of education to do between now and the election.

America's youth are literally having their future earning power plundered by the reckless, record deficit spending of Obama and his sycophants.


Why are businesses not investing in new jobs? Ohio Governor John Kasich explains why the Obamaconomy is devastating to business

Wisconsin's Scott Walker is not the only Republican Governor doing a bang-up job in the so-called "Rust Belt". Ohio's John Kasich has also revitalized the Buckeye State in spite of the ongoing Obama depression. When asked recently why businesses aren't investing in new jobs, Kasich's answer was both accurate and poignant.

There's so much uncertainty.

This national debt is growing and they can't seem to get anything done whatsoever in Washington, which tells business people to look out for a big fat tax increase.

They're talking about raising the taxes on capital gains and then you have Obamacare. And if you're a small businessperson, you have no clue how you're going to deal with the unfunded costs of Obamacare. Then you have Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation and no one knows what the rules are you going to be.

Let's just take you and I. If you and I are going to invest in a business, but we don't know what the rules are going to be, we're likely to just wait. And that's what's happening right now.

It's extremely frustrating to me. At the end of the day, and this is a totally unrealistic thing, but wouldn't it be great if the Congress and the President got together and sat down and said, "We've got a crisis here." I mean, Rome is on fire. And it's singeing places like Ohio. I'm very concerned about it. We've been making great progress... but the headwinds, they're kicking up again.

We [in Ohio] finally got out of an $8 billion hole, and we build up a rainy day fund, and we have people in the legislature saying, 'let's just go spend it.' I mean, are you kidding me? ...It's very disappointing to see [the president unable to act]... as someone who was there when we got something done there, I just look at this and just shake my head. [It's] just dysfunctional.

Ohio erased an $8 billion budget deficit, the largest in history. It cut taxes -- including killing the death tax (get it?) -- by $800 million. It brought sunlight and transparency to the budgeting process. And in response, S&P and Moody's both upgraded Ohio's credit rating while while downgrading the United States under Obamanomics.

Methinks we need more straight-shooters like Kasich and Walker in Washington.


Obama: Lord High Executioner

Dan from New York (who now has a well-deserved gig at PJMedia's Tatler) sends this one along:

Finally, Obama finds a job that suits him: playing god.

Barack Obama: Drone warrior

Dead terrorists can’t talk.

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

A very strange story, a 6,000-word front-page New York Times piece on how, every Tuesday, Barack Obama shuffles “baseball cards” with the pictures and bios of suspected terrorists from around the world and chooses who shall die by drone strike. He even reserves for himself the decision of whether to proceed when the probability of killing family members or bystanders is significant.

The article could have been titled “Barack Obama: Drone Warrior.” Great detail on how Obama personally runs the assassination campaign. On-the-record quotes from the highest officials. This was no leak. This was a White House press release.



...The Osama-slayer card having been vastly overplayed, what to do? A new card: Obama, drone warrior, steely and solitary, delivering death with cool dispatch to the rest of the al-Qaida depth chart.

So the peacemaker, Nobel laureate, nuclear disarmer, apologizer to the world for America having lost its moral way when it harshly interrogated the very people Obama now kills, has become – just in time for the 2012 campaign – Zeus the Avenger, smiting by lightning strike.

A rather strange ethics. You go around the world preening about how America has turned a new moral page by electing a president profoundly offended by George W...

...You festoon your prisoners with rights – but you take no prisoners. The morality is perverse. Which is why the results are so mixed. We do kill terror operatives, an important part of the war on terror, but we gratuitously forfeit potentially life-saving intelligence.

But that will cost us later. For now, we are to bask in the moral seriousness and cool purpose of our drone warrior president.

And if you're a conservative talk-radio host or a conservative blogger, I wouldn't worry (much) about reports that the administration will now deploy flying drones over the United States.


The View's Barbara Walters: Swapping Favors With a Genocidal Maniac for an Exclusive Interview

Craven and disgusting doesn't begin to describe it.

Barbara Walters acted as a 'adoptive mother' and 'careers adviser' to a glamorous former aide of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.



...In a string of leaked emails between Sheherazad Jafaari and the celebrated broadcaster, Ms Walters, 82, promised to... help the 22-year-old secure a job on Piers Morgan's CNN show and win a place at Columbia University... Mrs Walters first began dealing with Ms Jaafari when ABC News was in talks to arrange the first and only televised interview for an American network with the Syrian leader.



...Ms Jafaari['s] father is Syria's U.S. ambassador... Ms Walters emailed Columbia Journalism School professor Richard Wald, former president of NBC News and vice president of ABC News, to sing Ms Jaafari's praises... 'She is brilliant, beautiful, speaks five languages. Anything you can do to help?' Ms Walters wrote at the end of January.

In short, Walters appeared to violate every journalistic canon just to secure an interview with a mass-murdering dictator.

Although CNN does seem to be an appropriate destination for Assad's pals, given its history with Eason Jordan and the like.


Hat tips: Mark Levin and CTV Photo (AP).

Larwyn's Linx: Teacher’s unions earn an "F" for Wisconsin recall abuse

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Nation

Teacher’s unions earn an "F" for Wisconsin recall abuse: Malkin
Obama attended Bill Ayers Barbecue - 4 July 2005: Breitbart
The Pathetic Legacy of Barack Obama: Power Line

Walker Wins, Democrats Get Swept: CDN
Tonight voters saved Wisconsin, it's time to save America: WyBlog
Priebus memo claims Wis. boost: Politico

Democrats Already Attacking Republican Voters in Wisconsin: Sooper
All Class: President Obama at the Air Force Academy: GWP
Obama approval collapses among Jewish voters: Beacon

Economy

7 scariest facts from the new CBO long-term budget forecast: Peth
Three Charts That Will Blow Your Mind: Hawkins
Liz Warren family flip wigwams for heap big wampum: Wizbang

The national debt isn’t $15 trillion. It’s $50 trillion: Peth
The Wintour of their discontent: Pundette
WI Public Unions unveil their new logo!: Sooper

Government Down $16 Billion on GM Bailout: WS
Hats Off to McDonald’s and Coca-Cola for Protesting Soda Ban: ObjStd
Sounds sustainable: More Than 40 Percent of Americans Are on Some Government Program: Foundry

Scandal Central

Fast and Furious wiretap information obtained by Congress: Attkisson
What Is Obama Hiding?: AT
Chaffetz: Holder Ignoring Fast and Furious Letter is “Embarrassment” For Speaker Boehner: Nice Deb

Climate & Energy

The Greatest Hoax? Global Warming, Says Sen. James Inhofe: AIM
Wind power, solar power, and unintended consequences: AEI
UK Government adviser Bill McGuire says global warming causing... earthquakes and landslides: Watts

Media

The Latest on the Kimberlin Saga: “WWIII” + A Victory For Free Speech In Georgia: Nice Deb
“Kill Scott Walker”: Angry libs flood Twitter with death threats after Wisconsin recall defeat: Twitchy
Fool Me Twice: Fauxbama at Book Expo America 2012: Urban Infidel

The Whupping in Wisconsin: Seven Key Conclusions: Erickson
A Moment To Reflect On Our Valiant Opposition In Wisconsin: Riehl
Meanwhile in California, Pension Reform Winning with Voters: Reason

David Axelrod Reaches New Depth of Desperation in Spin: Geraghty
Best Line of the Night: Sarah Palin on Wisconsin Recall: “Obama’s Goose Is Cooked”: GWP
Ed 'The Red' Schultz: ‘This is not going to be an easy night for this broadcaster’: DC

World

Remember when Top Secret meant something?: BlackFive
Senate Democrats blast national security leak on Iran cyber-attack: Hill
Baghdad Dreaming: Bolton

Sci-Tech

Researchers reveal how Flame fakes Windows Update: ComputerWorld
Buttons Morph Out Of Your Touchscreen With Tactus: SingularityHub
Once Deemed Evil, Google Now Embraces “Paid Inclusion”: MarketingLand

Cornucopia

Breaking the Circle of Poverty, One Election at a Time: MOTUS
First They Came For Our Soda...: Lady Liberty
Forest Service hit for Border Patrol call: Times

Image: Urban Infidel
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QOTD: "At present, Germany appears to respond to events rather than anticipate them. That increases uncertainty and the risk of a major financial crisis. If Germany acted with clarity, though, the outcome would not be a crisis, but rather the deliberate amputation of gangrenous parts of the financial system in order to salvage the whole.

Ultimately, [Germany] will have to sacrifice Spain. That will compromise the French banks, which in turn will require German support. Spain is unsalvageable. It is better to take the pain early and deliberately, rather than later and chaotically. Dealing expeditiously with Spain, moreover, should convince Italy to adopt the reforms which can prevent it from following Spain and Greece into de facto national bankruptcy. " --Spengler

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Non-partisan CBO: dude, we keep trying to run our computer models with the Obama budget and we keep getting blue-screens

The smartest man in Congress, Paul Ryan (R-WI), believes that America has only two or three years to slash federal spending and reduce the deficit before it's too late. And by too late, I mean let's imagine Mad Max in Road Warrior, only without the fancy amenities.

And it would appear that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) agrees.

A stunner from the Congressional Budget Office in its new long-term budget forecast [Ed: PDF]. When the government budget scorekeepers took into account the worst-case scenario impact of debt on the U.S. economy, its economic forecasting model, well, broke:

Under the assumptions leading to the most negative effect on GNP, debt would reach 250 percent of GDP by 2035.



CBO’s model cannot reliably estimate GNP after debt reaches that amount, in the agency’s judgment
: The assumptions about private saving and capital inflows incorporated in CBO’s model are based on historical experience, and if interest rates and the debt-to-GDP ratio rose to levels well outside of that experience, those assumptions might no longer be valid. In 2035, GNP would be 21 percent below the benchmark under the assumptions leading to the most negative effect on GNP; beyond 2035, the negative effect on GNP would grow under those assumptions as debt continued to increase relative to the size of the economy.

The above chart shows the U.S. economy in a long recession starting in the early 2020s and then just … stopping... Debt is so high, a massive 250% of GDP, that the CBO can no longer calculate its harmful impact on the economy...

Folks, they talk about important elections, but to say that 2012 is make-or-break for this country is an understatement.

No country can sustain trillion-dollar deficits, year after year, without catastrophic repercussions.

Tell your family, your friends and your colleagues. Mobilize them. We need to crush the Marxist Left at the ballot box. We have no choice if we are to save this country.


Exclusive Glitterati Fundraising Poster Released!

Oh my gosh - I'm so excited about donating $3 to the Obama campaign for a 1-in-60,000 chance to win a dinner with the gorgeous and brilliant Sarah Jessica Parker!


Sarah, why the long face? *


*Shamelessly ripped off from commenter Boobie the Rocket Dog

Three Gut-Wrenching Slides From Mary Meeker's Presentation on the Future of the Internet

Famed technology analyst Mary Meeker, now a partner at venture capital firm KPCB, gave a lengthy, fascinating glimpse into the future of technology and economics at the recent D10 conference. Her topics covered everything from mobile devices to America's fiscal health.

It is the latter topic that should be of the most concern for all of us. Meeker's summary for the U.S.? "A lot to be excited about in tech, a lot to be worried about in other areas."

Three slides, in particular, stood out for me.



Consumer confidence has never recovered from the housing bust thanks to the policies of Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress. They were more interested in passing draconian, centralized programs for socialized medicine and "financial reform" than spurring job creation. Now, for you drones out there: compare the Obama "recovery" with that of the Reagan era. Under Reagan, consumer confidence at this stage of the presidency was skyrocketing as the private sector began to thrive. Under Obama? No hope and no change.



Deficits, thanks to the massive Stimulus and its progeny, are at record-setting levels. All of the trillions of dollars Obama has wasted haven't solved any of America's economic problems. Because stealing money from the private sector and laundering it through government bureaucracies can't increase productivity. Wealth redistribution robs the productive sector and prevents job creation.



And, as Meeker observers, on the Obama trajectory, the American economy is headed for collapse.

The laws of mathematics are immutable. And yet Democrats, because they think they're immune to facts, logic and reason, persist in their destructive plans. And it will not be you or I that bear the brunt of their foolishness; it will be our children and grandchildren.

November is coming.


Hey, don't worry about the Dept. of Injustice interfering in Wisconsin's election: John Boehner just put Eric Holder on 'Double Secret Probation'

What will it take for House Speaker John Boehner to go after the most malevolent and lawless attorney general in American history? Not, apparently, helping directly facilitate the murders of two U.S. law enforcement personnel and 300 Mexican nationals.

How about Eric Holder dispatching his Department of Justice to the racist hotbed of... Wisconsin for a bogus "election monitoring" stint?

Typical Democrat strategy, why wait until the votes are counted? We already know we want a recount, if we don't win! "Wisconsin recall: Democrats prepare for recall recount" That's the mark of a sore losers party; Democrats are that. Sadly, their whiny persistence does pay off on the margins. Politics is getting increasingly worse in America.  

Today is the day and I can't say I'm thrilled about this development. The right doesn't have much faith in Holder's DOJ for good reason. Can you say, Fast and Furious?  

...Frankly, the entire thing is a fiasco, with much of it going ignored beneath the headlines.

John Boehner is a coward and a disgrace.

And he must be replaced as House Speaker by a conservative in November.


Tweet o' the Day: That's a bold strategy, Cotton

Gotta give RNC head @Reince some credit for this one.


Obama's refusal to visit Wisconsin means one of two things: (a) DNC internal polling indicates that Wisconsin is going to go for Walker in a big way; or (b) the president is pure poison for any Democrat campaign, even in an ostensible blue state.


Larwyn's Linx: National Day of Blogger Silence -- This Friday

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Nation

National Day of Blogger Silence -- This Friday: Ace
Arrested for Blogging About a Public Figure: Patterico
Contempt: Free speech-trampling judge in Kimberlin case exposed: Malkin

88% of Obama's 2008 $200+ donors AWOL in 2012: Lane
Intrade Has Walker’s Chances over 90%; NY Times in Panic Mode: Mead
Obama Gets Left Behind: Forbes

The Great Destroyer: RWN
Axelrod: Rubio as VP would be insult to Hispanics: Shark
Playing With Words: Sowell

Economy

WI: Barrett supports school choice, just not for you: GWP
Democrat-Backed Group Intimidates Voters in WI: Foundry
Is Democrat-tied Wisconsin group violating election law?: Breitbart

Obama Obfuscates His “Prairie Fire of Debt”: FreedomWorks
The Lowlights Of Obamanomics: IBD
Don’t blame Wall Street for the financial crisis, blame the CRA: Peth

Scandal Central

IL: No pension reform but guide horses approved for Muslims: Creeping
Top Colorado Democrat Currently Registered to Vote in Both D.C. and Colorado: RS
Justice Department Is Already In Axelrod's Pocket: IBD

Climate & Energy

World’s Most Predictable Headline: “Buyers’ Remorse For California’s ‘Bullet Train To Nowhere’”: RWN
New eco-friendly trains should be exempt from environmental regs, says Calif. gov: Malkin

Media

History repeats itself Democrats attempting to intimidate a Southern Black Activist & family: DTG
Ouch: Crowd Boos When Biden Mentions Obama During High School Commencement: WZ
I am Barack Obama's Worst Nightmare: AT

New York Mets brag about new partner Bill Maher; Twitter backlash ensues: Twitchy
Seems more like tailwinds: Hopenchange Cartoons
Obama's Latest Bailout Plan Summarized In 4 Words: "3000 Bucks For Thingamajigs": ZH

Move Along: Associated Press Spins Wisconsin Recall As Meaningless Nationally: NB
The Mainstream Media Calls Out the Mainstream Media: Cato
The RNC …cuts and pastes OfA’s Anna Wintour ad.: RS

Try As They Might...: ushanka
Wisconsin: Barrett Campaign Cracks Down On Objective Reporters: Riehl
Apt: Erupting Urinal Soaks House Press Gallery: NatlJrnl

World

Special Report: George Soros: Godfather of the Left: MRC
Open letter to Chancellor Merkel: Sacrifice Spain: Spengler
Muslims in New Jersey rally to get ‘Jew out of office’ : Creeping

A National Day of... Celebrating Terror: Post
Morality and Sanity Demand an End to Drug Prohibition: ObjStd
Jihadi Professor who shouted 'death to Israel' at public lecture remains at Kent State University: Matzav

Sci-Tech

Facebook to experiment with access for under-13s: Engadget
The Oracle v. Google aftermath: Ars Technica
‘Fit2Fat2Fit’ Author Drew Manning’s Top 5 Weight-Loss Mistakes to Avoid: ABC

Cornucopia

Nine-year old boy donates Disney trip he earned to family of fallen soldier: BlackFive
Video re-enactment of the Holder-Axelrod fight: EBL
Another blogger targeted by Brett Kimberlin supporters; a National Day of Blogger Silence Friday: Twitchy

Image: The Bad
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QOTD: "The American media has become virtually indistinguishable from the Russian and Chinese media, in its hysterical support for the regime and vindictive smears of opponents. The only difference between Newsweek, Pravda and Xinhua is their level of sophistication. Pravda and Xinhua have never been anything more than vulgar organs of the regime, but the American media is descending into savagery while leaving behind a legacy of civilization. Like a citizen turned cannibal, it still has some of the cultural trappings of its past, but it's discarding them as quickly as Newsweek can photoshop new covers. Like the Russian media, the favorite topic of its American counterparts is the inscrutable divinity of its leader, who has not so much failed, as succeeded on a higher level that mere mortals, concerned with paying their bills and having a job, are not privy to. If he has failed, it's only because of the obstructionism of the running dog Republican capitalists who would rather see the country burn than concede his unearthly genius.

The problem with propagandists is that they get so taken in by their own illusion of power, that they stop noticing when no one is paying attention to them. Barely a quarter of the country digested and accepted the swill that the media had poured out over it in 07 and 08. What the public noticed was that there seemed to be a consensus that the One was the one. They didn't notice it by reading every screed that the American heirs to Goebbels were scribbling up at Time and the New York Times. Like a television that is on in the room, while you're vacuuming or doing laundry, they noticed it mainly as background noise in their lives. " --Daniel Greenfield (corrected)

Monday, June 04, 2012

Announcing Obamatopia: the Official President Obama Commemorative Miniature Golf Course!

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never forget your experience at Chicago's Official Obama Commemorative Miniature Golf Course, opening in December of 2012 (owned and operated by Jarrett Industries).


1. City of Detroit: You'll get chills putting through an exact replicate of a burned out house in the abandoned city center, the by-product of decades of unchecked Democrat rule!


2. Escape from New York: Watch out for the water hazard! It's an exact replica of New York City, flooded by the rising sea waters of global warming in just two short years -- as was presciently predicted by Al Gore in 1994.


3. Get a Charge: Experience the world's first on-course fire hazard, courtesy of a real Chevy Volt and its exploding battery pack!


4. Almost Heaven: Muster all of your skills to navigate through the West Virginia ghost town laid barren by the EPA's destruction of the coal industry


5. Grove Parc: Gaze in wonder at this scale-model replica of the immense, federally-subsidized apartment complex -- which only cost the taxpayers millions of dollars -- run into the ground by Valerie Jarrett and other Obama cronies backers


6. To the Shores of Tripoli: You'll marvel at the desert-like sand traps and left-over carnage of the U.S. NATO attacks on Muamar Gaddaffi's forces, which brought Al Qaeda to power in Libya!


7. Green-collar Jobs: Putt on an actual solar panel made by Solyndra, before it went belly-up and took $500 million of the taxpayers' money with it.


8. It's Automatic: One of the most difficult holes in America, you'll have to gently putt past real, loaded AK-47s from Operation Fast and Furious without touching off an accidental trigger pull!


9. Breath of Fresh Air: And what miniature golf course would be complete without an actual working windmill, in this case powering one of the light bulbs in the concession area (weather permitting)?

Another historic Obama economic record: distribution of food stamps hits (yet another) all-time high

How's that third annual Summer of Recovery™ going?

Last month, when the USDA released the latest foodstamps numbers for the month of February, there was some hope that following a third month of declines, we may just have seen the peak of US foodstamp usage and going forward we would only see the number decline. Sadly, the latest numbers refutes this: in March a total of 46,405,204 persons were at or below poverty level and thus eligible for foodstamps, a 79K increase in the month...



...Yet while many individuals have learned to game the system, and this numbers at the peak may fluctuate, when it comes to the far more comprehensive and difficult to fudge "households on foodstamps" number, there was no confusion: at 22,257,647, the number of US households receiving the "SNAP treatment" rose to an all time high, even as the benefit per household dropped to the second lowest ever. At least all these impoverished believers in hope and change have FaceBook IPO profits to look forward to. Oh wait.

But take heart, friends, I'm sure there's very little fraud associated with the explosion in food stamps.


Hat tip: BadBlue.com.

Old America: Citizens Get to Go Where They Want Inside the United States. New, Improved Obamerica: No-Go Zones, Thanks to Open Borders.

Please try and contain your surprise at this report from ABC News:

US Bodies Found in Arizona Related to Drug Cartels


Five people found burned beyond recognition in an abandoned SUV in an area of Arizona frequented by smugglers were likely the victims of one of the same drug cartels that have ravaged parts of Mexico with their rampant violence, the local sheriff said today.

A border patrol agent noticed a white Ford Expedition stopping around 4:30 a.m. Saturday in Vekol Valley, a desert area that's a well-known smuggling corridor for drugs and illegal immigrants from Mexico. Suspecting the car stopped to pick up drugs, the agent tried to make contact with the vehicle, but the vehicle fled.

When the sun came up, the agent noticed car tracks leading offroad and followed them for a couple miles into the desert. The agent found a smoldering vehicle and called for back-up. When other agents arrived, they used fire extinguishers to put out the fire and found five charred bodies inside the car, police say...



...The Vekol Valley is located 70 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border. Babeu called the area a "hotbed for human and drug smuggling."

The federal government put up 15 billboards that read "Danger Warning, Travel Not Recommended, Drug Smuggling, Active and Armed Gunmen" in the area along Interstate 8.

Last year, the Vekol Valley was the site of the largest drug bust in the history of Arizona.

Seventy-six members of the Sinaloa cartel were arrested in the bust, known as Operation Pipeline Express. The suspects had 108 weapons, including scoped rifles, AK47s and two weapons from the U.S. government's Fast and Furious program.

Super.

So not only did the Holder Justice Department provide thousands of military-grade weapons to the Mexican drug cartels in order to spur renewed calls for gun regulations, but they have also done their level best to keep the borders wide open, in part to promote cartel gang violence inside the U.S., innocent victims be damned. Call it gun control by any means necessary.

Oh, but that's right: Democrats are for the little people.


Free citizens of Wisconsin: Reject the Democrats' Despicable Voter Intimidation Efforts #wirecall #walker #wiright #wigop

Attorney and blogger Ann Althouse recently received the following mailer in Wisconsin.

Incredibly creepy mail today from the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund:



I obscured names and addresses, but be assured, this was a list of real names and addresses of people who live near me, with the information about whether they voted in the last 2 elections. This is an effort to shame and pressure people about voting, and it is truly despicable. Your vote is private, you have a right not to vote, and anyone who tries to shame and an harass you about it is violating your privacy, and the assumption that I will become active in shaming and pressuring my neighbors is repugnant.

Not voting is a valid choice. If you don't have a preference in the election, don't vote. If you think no one deserves your vote, don't vote... This may be the most disgusting thing I have ever received in the mail.

And just who is "The Greater Wisconsin Political Fund"? You guessed it: a bunch of Democrat- and union-affiliated thugs bent on intimidating voters.

The implication seems to be that if you don’t vote, they will know. And like Liam Neeson in that movie where they steal his daughter and whatever they will find you. And they have the money to do it. According to MSNBC, Greater Wisconsin Committee, the parent of the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund, took $500,000 donation from AFSCME and a $900,000 donation from the Democratic Governors Association to fuel  massive GOTV campaign ahead of the Tuesday vote. They’re also the motivating force behind such stellar things as RecallScottWalker.org. As a C4, their donors are protected in return for giving up the ability to take a tax deduction, but a significant list of public contributors is available here (its public record, after all)...

The Greater Wisconsin Committe does have a number of board members. At the very least, Jane Gellman, GWC’s VP is a major Democratic donor who appears to have once supported John Edwards. The others appear to be major movers and shakers for Democratic and “social justice” causes as well. SHOCKER.


There's a way to fight against this kind of mischief, and it's called a "tidal wave election".

Free citizens of Wisconson: it's time to take your state back and reject the despicable, "any means necessary" tactics of the SEIU-Obama Marxists. It's time to punish the Left at the ballot box.


Larwyn's Linx: No Wonder Bill Clinton Calls Obama an Amateur

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Nation

No Wonder Bill Clinton Calls Obama an Amateur: Driscoll
Obama's 'Truth Team' Engaging in Deceptive Propaganda: Sentinel
GOP Whistling Past the End of America: Coulter

Barack Obama, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, ...: Loudon
Reuters Probes George Romney’s Citizenship: S&L
The EPA Could Ban Lead Ammo: Sentinel

Shame On Attorney General Eric Holder For Racial Antagonism: RWN
Bishops Prepare for Largest Civil Disobedience Since the 60s: LifeNews
Jim Crow Democrats Require Photo ID at Their Convention: Breitbart

Barrett Thugs Escort Conservative Reporter From Rally: GWP
Race Matters... To Racists: RWN
AFL-CIO Defends Union Violence As 'Legitimate' Activity: LUR (2011)

Economy

Soros on Europe: Mead
Obama and the Soft Machine: Driscoll
Democrat Workers Paradise Of Detroit Can't Fix Its Streetlights: IBD

The State at the End of the Universe: Sultan Knish
For Genuine Economic Recovery, Ask “What Would Mises Do?”: ObjStd
U.S. Jobs Disaster: Even Worse Than Reported: Mish

Scandal Central

Obama, Ayers and Klonsky: The Three Marxist Amigos: Lid
In Defiance Of US Justice Department, Florida To Continue Voter Purge: IBTimes
Obama Helps Soros Drill For Oil In Brazil: S&L (2009)

Climate & Energy

Judge Milan Smith Has Had It With the Ninth Circuit's Environmental Cases: Ace
This is just too funny: Power Line
New Study Finds Obama Is 'No. 1 Regulator': Fox

Media

When You've Lost Maureen Dowd...: Driscoll
Blogger's Head Explodes: Dossier
Delusional Obama: “Most people agree with us”: JWF

Silencing the Clarions: NoisyRm
Obama's Praetorian Guard (Media Battalion) Thinks They Have Found Romney's Solyndra: Ace
Obama says the Constitution argues against absolute truth: Sooper (2010)

Paul Krugman on Solyndra: Come on, We’re Talking as if a Billion Dollars is a Lot of Money: Powers
ABC Botches Jobs Report: Touts Incorrect, Obama-Favorable Unemployment Numbers: MRC
Far left crank Juan Williams not too happy with Obama’s Anna Wintour ad: FAM

World

Obama Offends the British, Again: LoneCon
It's Not Our World: Steyn
China challenges dollar with Yen-Yuan deal: Japan Times

Twenty Years of Illusion about Islamism: Pipes
Seattle Muslim Pleads Guilty To Car Attacks on US Marines: Creeping
France: Muslim mob attacks three Jewish students with hammer and iron bars: JihadWatch

‘Venezuela’s Chavez Bans Gun Ownership and Firearms Sales’: NoisyRm
Emerson on Fox News discussing cyber warfare on Iranian nuclear facilities: IPT
Graphic Video: Muslims Slaughter "Apostate" in Tunisia: Gatestone

Sci-Tech

Online Classes See Cheating Go High-Tech: Chron
"Flame" malware was signed by rogue Microsoft certificate: Ars Technica
AT&T Bites the Hands that Feed It...Again: NoJitter

Cornucopia

8 Simple Rules Liberals Use for Arguments: VARight
Trending on Twitter – #WIUnionDesperation: iOTW
Tattoo Removal Booms in Slow Job Market: ABC

Image: Andrew Breitbart Fight Prints
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QOTD: "The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade could postpone the start of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean until the beginning of August, a delay of up to two weeks, Shell Alaska officials said...

“We’re seeing multiyear ice that they’ve not seen in such large quantities in over a decade, and it could impact our ability to start the well,” Slaiby said. Of particular concern, he said, is the region of the Chukchi Sea around the company’s Berger Prospect – potentially the crown jewel of the company’s offshore oil inventory – which in normal years would be accessible by mid-July. This year, it may be unreachable until late July or early August." --Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times

Sunday, June 03, 2012

Citizens of Wisconsin: On Tuesday, The Election Represents Scott Walker Versus Barack Obama

Free citizens of Wisconsin: on Tuesday, you have a chance to choose between two agendas. You can kowtow to the public sector union bosses who are proxies for Barack Obama. Or you can choose fiscal sanity and a sustainable future for your children.


If I lived in Wisconsin, I would walk on broken glass to cast a vote for Scott Walker... and to repudiate the destructive agenda of the current administration and its union backers.


Good News: World Economic Forum Ranks U.S. 46th for Manageability of Public Debt

Every year, the World Economic Forum publishes a Financial Development Report (PDF), which -- among other measures -- ranks 60 of the world's largest countries for their financial stability.


The news for the United States is decidedly poor: due to the phenomenal (and some would say historic) levels of debt rung up by President Obama and Democrats, who have gone a record 1,100 days without passing a budget, it ranks the United States 46th of 60, behind such stalwarts as Turkey, Tunisia, Pakistan and Spain.


Even better, the U.S. is ranked 55th for its high frequency of banking crises (fun reference quote, courtesy of Joe Biden: "The first guy we called for economic advice is Jon Corzine.") and 51st for the "distortive effect of taxes and subsidies on competition" (additional fun reference quote from President Obama: "The true engine of economic growth [is] companies like Solyndra.").

The policies of this administration are literally turning the United States into a third-world country.

Grim Milestone: As Americans Suffer, President Poised to Surpass 100 Rounds of Golf This Weekend

Other than retirees, who has time for 100 rounds of golf over the course of three-and-a-half years? Apparently our beloved president does, since there are no pressing matters of national concern, least of all the economy and endemic joblessness.

According to Keith Koffler, last week the President completed his 98th (documented) round of golf. White House watchers anticipate that by the end of this weekend, the president may well have completed his 100th round of golf since becoming president.

But not to worry, dear citizen: that's not all the president spends his time on.

According to London's Daily Mail (not our old media, of course), Obama has spent more time fundraising than the previous five presidents combined.

And last week, White House Dossier reported that Obama, desperate for cash, held six fundraisers in one day, likely a record for a presidential campaign in June.

So for the record-setting number of long-term unemployed, those about to be foreclosed upon thanks to a worsening housing market, folks losing their jobs courtesy of a rogue EPA, and all others suffering because of this disastrous, faltering economy, please take heart: the president's handicap has reportedly dropped four strokes since he assumed the presidency.


Larwyn's Linx: What if Barack Obama was president?

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Nation

What if Barack Obama was president?: JPA
Is Obama Deliberately Revealing National Security Secrets?: Bruce
Even CNN wondering about disastrous serial leaks: Hot Air

WI: another political letter using public data to intimidate: Althouse
Raaacist MA Dems: No Entry to Convention Without Photo ID: Jawa
Report: Axelrod, Holder Close to Blows in West Wing: NewsMax

Economy

Time For Boehner To Go: Debt Up $1.59T Under GOP House: CNS
GSA spent $750,000 on travel for work-from-home employees: Malkin
In tough fight with Romney, Obama longs for McCain: Exam

Ungridlocked: City Journal
Ruh Roh: Morgan Stanley Bonds Trade at Junk Pricing: Mish
Did The SEC Hint At A 7% Market Plunge?: ZH

Scandal Central

Seriously, Sierra Club?: RS
Busted! 80% of Green Energy Loans Went to Obama Donors: GWP
Man Says He Signed 80 Petitions To Recall Gov. Walker: WISN-12

Climate & Energy

UK Guardian: Only 100 Months Left To Save The World: RWN
The Guardian’s ridiculous claim of 75% Arctic sea ice loss in 30 years – patently false: Watts
Holy Freaking Crap: DHS Warns of... Hurricanes: WS

Media

NY Times: Obama’s Pretty Much Blameless For Horrible Economic News: Cove
Not The Boston Globe’s headline: Scott Brown maintains lead, Warren negatives rise: LI
Finally, a major news service looks into the birth certificate story: ProWis

World

12 Things Missing from the Pentagon's China Report: Diplomat
Government of Iran creates Hitler fan site: Vlad Tepes
'Beware a rerun of the Great Panic of 2008': Head of World Bank warns Europe: Daily Mail

Why Is This Not Treason?: GoV
Iran's plans to launch a new space center raises alarm in the West: Global Post
NJ Democrat primary race, Muslims attack Jewish Congressman: ‘We want this Jew out of office’: Atlas

Der Spiegel: Israel's Dolphin class submarines equipped with nuclear weapons: Matzav
IAF strikes back again at 5 terror targets in Gaza: JPost
Egyptians March in Outrage Over Former Ruler Mubarak's Life Sentence: ABC

Sci-Tech

Happy 20th anniversary, Hubble!: Discover
How Do Top Android Developers QA Test Their Apps?: TechCrunch
Roche Cancer Drug Performs Well: WSJ

Cornucopia

Transforming America, One Thingamajig At A Time: MOTUS
Kangaroo Jack: Velociworld
The Guilt Trip Notepad: Alltop

Image: Atlas Shrugs
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "There are just a few more months until election day when the people will decide who will be the next President of the United States. The person elected will be the president of all Americans, not just the democrats or the Republicans. It's time that we all need to come together, Democrats and Republicans alike. In a bi-partisan effort for America:

If you will support Mitt Romney, please drive with your headlights ON during the day.
If you support Barack Obama, please drive with your headlights OFF at night.

Together, we can make it happen." --The Bad