Saturday, July 14, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: Who Democrats really are and what we must do

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Nation

Who Democrats really are and what must be done about them: TAB
Obama Took Cash from Bain Outsourcing Execs: Breitbart
Marxist/Progressives making Democrats unpatriotic: Exam

TX voter ID: Obama's lawyers have embarrassing day in court: SAB
Hoping to fake change successfully: RSM
Meet Bainers, the New Birthers: RS

Obama's Appeal Is Not Dwindling. It's Just More Selective.: Ace
Obama, Dems Push DISCLOSE Act to Intimidate GOP Donors: Roff
Ted Cruz donations surge as his poll numbers rise: Twitchy

Economy

Obama’s Imperial Presidency Guts Welfare Reform: Foundry
GAO: Obamacare Medicare Cuts Timed to Avoid Election: Beacon
He's One to Talk: Gay Patriot

Capitalism and the Moral High Ground: ObjStd
How a Union Boss got his $574K vacation home: Greenroom
Obama Shows His Total Ignorance About Business: S&L

Scandal Central

Dem Front Sends Voter Registration To Dogs, Dead: S&L
DCCC Covering Up Stalking Videos?: RS
The Top Ten Felons, Fugitives and Miscreants in Obama's Life: Breitbart

Climate & Energy

Obama's crony capitalism and new regulations drive jobs overseas: Exam

Media

Why Would Mitt Romney’s Campaign Manager Deliberately Insult Me?: RSM
Obama Campaign Deputy Says ‘Spread The Smears’: S&L
The Unintentionally Hilarious Trailer for Pro-Obama Movie: CDN

Democratic Underground Friday Comedy Jam: Ace
AP’s Protection of Geithner in ‘Lie-bor’ Scandal Continues: BizzyBlog
Levin calls for impeachment of HHS Kathleen Sebelius for unlawfully gutting welfare reform: Scoop

The Most Accurate Obama Venn Diagram Yet: IMAO
Hard Days Ahead for Obamacare: AT
Brilliant! Romney Smashes Obama With “What Happened?” Ad: GWP

Mitt Romney’s Vice Presidential choice should come from the Sunshine state: RWN
Bolton: ‘Small Arms’ treaty has hidden agenda by gun control crowd: Scoop
Obama Calls Mandate a 'Tax': RWN

The Declaration of Independence Annotated: Volokh (Barnett)
Chief Justice Roberts was against Obamatax before he was for it: Cato
The Titanic of Talk Radio: Lord

World

Obama's Spectacular Failure: Glick
More Deaths Caused By Illegal Aliens: Patterico
Judicial Watch Obtains Records from ICE Regarding President’s Illegal Alien Uncle Onyango Obama: JW

Those Olympic Uniforms That Harry Reid Wants To Burn? They’re Made By A Top Dem Donor's Co.: WZ
Chile at a Crossroads: RWN
Merkel: Germany’s Jews won’t be punished for circumcisions: Haaretz

Sci-Tech

BBC releases Olympics app, streams the glorious Games straight to your iOS or Android device: Engadget
Digg Sold To LinkedIn AND The Washington Post And Betaworks: TechCrunch
Hacking BMW's Remote Keyless Entry System: Schneier

Cornucopia

Bwahahaha! Jimmy Kimmel Introduces the Bawling ‘Boehner Baby’: Bruce
99 Problems: CDN
Autistic man survives 3-week ordeal in Utah desert: AP

Image: Morlock Revolt
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QOTD: "Innocent people dying was the objective of Fast and Furious, not collateral damage.

It would be as if the Bush administration had implemented a covert operation to dump a dangerous abortifacient in Planned Parenthood clinics, resulting in hundreds of women dying — just to give pro-lifers an argument about how dangerous abortion clinics are.

That’s what Fast and Furious is about." --Ann Coulter

Friday, July 13, 2012

Sick: Obama and his minions promote dependency on government using taxpayer dollars and pop culture

Because that's what this president does. As you may know, the Obama administration has spent millions promoting the benefits and availability of food stamps.

The Spanish-language radio ads composed a 10-part miniseries called "Hope Park." In it, the characters were shown persistently trying to convince a character named "Diana" to go on food stamps -- known these days as SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- even though her husband works and she doesn't think she needs it.

"I don't need help from anyone," Diana says in Episode 4. "My husband makes enough to take care of us."

But her friends are persistent, and by Episode 10 Diana is enrolled and singing the program's praises.

The ads drew criticism at a time when one in seven are already enrolled.

The food stamp rolls have swelled since the recession, growing roughly 40 percent since 2009. As of April, more than 46 million people were in the program, which costs $80 billion a year.

A more cynical blogger would claim that Obama is attempting to buy votes using taxpayer funds.

There's no doubt, though, that his efforts strengthen a nefarious culture of dependency symbolized by rap videos like this one (yep: language warning).


I ask you patriotic Democrats -- you Reagan Democrats -- who refuse to succumb to the crazy: do you think any country can survive this? I mean the trillions in deficit-spending each year? Promoting illegal immigration and vote fraud? Government consuming 30 to 40 percent of all goods and services produced each year? Endless regulations and federal edicts? Nationalized auto companies and health insurers?

Any sane person knows how this will end. We're seeing it happen in Europe. It's called an economic implosion.

You need to join us, friends. You must help us save this country by electing candidates who will honor the oath they take to protect and uphold the Constitution.

Because our children and grandchildren -- your children and grandchildren -- are counting on us.


Important and Related: The Fork in the Road.


Yoohoo, #TruthTeam, I've found five more secrets about the candidate you'll want to publish!

You may have seen the following Romney "secrets" published by the Obama campaign's ill-named "Truth Team":


Never mind that the economy languishes as the President seemingly spends all of his time on on campaigning, demagoguery, and dividing Americans by race, income, religion and industry.

Of more material concern for independents and thoughtful Democrats are the following Truth Team secrets:


Yoohoo, TruthTeam: perhaps you could research these real secrets and let the American people know the real story of President Buck McPasser.



Oh, my: the most cynical Obama 2012 appeal for cash yet [Updated!]

We thought we'd seen the most cynical and desperate plea for cash by the Obama campaign when they asked engaged couples to forego wedding gifts in lieu of donations to... President Blamey McSandtrap.



It turns out that just when you thought the Obama campaign had hit bottom, they start digging a new sub-basement. Check out the most egregious appeal for money yet:


Update: Oh, my:



Hat tip: Gary R.

Larwyn's Linx: America's coming civil war

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Nation

America's coming civil war: AEI
Obama’s biggest mistake as president: not enough speeches: Treacher
Pic: Biden speaks to empty house at NAACP: WZ

House Repeal of Obamacare Is Way More Than Symbolic: DLim
House Obamacare Repeal Has Real Teeth?: MagNote
Not such a “nice guy” anymore, huh?: Malkin

Moonbats Encourage Violence Against Police at RNC Convention: MB
Shock Poll: Ted Cruz tops Dewhurst in Republican Runoff!: LI
Did Looming Indictment Trigger Jackson Jr.’s “Mood Disorder”?: JW

Economy

Outsourcing for Dummies and Democrats (but I repeat myself): Cato
Graphics on how the welfare state is out of control: Moran
'Wisconsin way or bankruptcy' only way out of union contracts: RCP

9 out of 10 Doctors Are at Odds with Obamacare: Sentinel
The $64,000 Question: CNS
Why Obama’s Still in the Race Despite the Bad Economy: Rasmussen

Scandal Central

Associated Press Repeats Discredited Bain Smear: Power Line
Texas Voter ID Clown Show Ends Today: Adams
Lord have mercy: Obama Administration official calls Solyndra an “enormous success”: Hayward

Climate & Energy

Obama’s Interior Department Still Going Rogue: Malkin
Scientist Prove Earth's Been in 2,000 Yr Long COOLING TREND!: Lid
Jeff Landry Eats Obama Bureaucrat, Dem Congresscritter Alive: HayRide

Media

NBC News Declared Dead: Microsoft Leaves MSNBC: Lord
MSNBC calls NAACP a bunch of racists!: Moe Lane
New Romney Ad Calls Obama Liar, Dishonest: WS

Jay Carney sneers at reporter’s request for Obama’s college records: Exam
Bloomberg’s Bigoted Anti-Mormon Cover: Sooper
So, about that busy schedule that’s keeping Obama from addressing the NAACP: Twitchy

Jerome Hudson tweets: Slavery Democrats are now welfare Democrats: Scoop
BREAKING: NAACP admits that Romney has BLACK supporters!: Scoop
Blitzer rips Obama for skipping NAACP convention: Hot Air

The Media's "Republicans Have No Obamacare Replacement" Myth: Ricochet
A children’s treasury of things that happen when Mitt Romney talks to black people: NakedDC
Kira Davis Introduces Emanuel Cleaver To Her Brickbat: AllAm

Mark Levin: Picking Condi Rice for VP is bad politics and a bad idea: Scoop
Stephanie Cutter: A Liar Or A Fool: RS

World

TSA to Exempt Muslim Women from TSA PatDowns? : MagNote
The Battle With the Olympic Censors: Spectator
Five Things I’ve Learned On The Ground In Portugal: ZH

Would Bloomberg Mock Islam Like That?: Commentary
Arizona Thanks California For “Anti-Arizona” Bill: iOTW
MI6 Chief: Strike on Iran likely by 2014: JPost

Sci-Tech

Disable Windows Sidebar and Gadgets NOW on Vista and Windows 7. Microsoft warns of security risk: Sophos
When Everything Is Clickable: InnovExcellence
The Facebook tweak that killed a billion-dollar industry: Fortune

Cornucopia

Warning: you are about to enter the Obamacare Tax/Penalty Matrix: MOTUS
Obama: I Regret Not Speaking Slower And Using Smaller Words.: Ace
The World's Most Expensive Car Crash: Yahoo!

Image: Pro-Assad forces reportedly kill over 220 in assault on Syrian village
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QOTD: "Glad you brought up Holder's statement in Houston, considering this:

All media must present government-issued photo I.D. (such as a driver’s license) as well as valid media credentials

So, you must have a photo ID in order to see Holder make a speech decrying the requirement of photo ID." --The Bad

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Defend Allen West against George Soros

Unbelievable:

CREDO SuperPAC, a radical group bankrolled by progressive billionaire George Soros, has just launched a massive campaign targeting Rep. Allen West and raising unlimited sums of money to take him out this election. Reports indicate Soros has personally pledged $5 million to beat Rep. West.


George F-ing Soros? Are you f-ing kidding me?

I just sent in $50 to the West campaign. If you have a few spare bucks, please consider helping true Constitutional conservatives like Allen West and Ted Cruz.

We need these men in Congress.

We need patriots to defend our Constitution and our country. The time, my friends, grows short to save this magnificent land from bankruptcy and ruin.

So do what you can.



Forward: Americans working six months to pay for the cost of government... only six more months to go, comrades!

Funny, you don't look Argentinian:

This year, Americans have to work until July 15 to pay for the burden of government, more than six months...

"Cost of Government Day is the date of the calendar year on which the average American worker has earned enough gross income to pay off his or her share of the spending and regulatory burden imposed by government at the federal, state and local levels," reads the report [PDF].

The report, Cost of Government Day, shows that Americans will work 88 days to pay for federal spending; 40 days for state and local spending; and 69 days for total regulatory costs.


"From a different perspective, the cost of government makes up 54.0 percent of annual gross domestic product (GDP)," reads the report. "What's more, the largest tax hike in the nation's history is scheduled to take place at the end of 2012 unless Congress acts to protect taxpayers. If this tax increase is allowed to hit, COGD [Cost of Government Day] could permanently be pushed back into August and beyond."

Only five-and-a-half months until we get to Democrat Utopia! And we'll know precisely when we've achieved it: it's the moment when you and I are working side-by-side in the rice paddies, receiving exactly the same health care benefits... and there's zero income inequality.


Related: North Korean Motivational Posters.

The "Demographic Time Bomb" Charts

That's what Mike Shedlock calls these beauts:

Here is a chart from reader Tim Wallace showing social security and disability stats for June of 2012 compared to June in prior years.


Chart shows those receiving benefits. Those not in the labor force claiming a disability is much higher.


...Here is one final chart to ponder... Social Security Benefits in Dollars


As of May 2012, the outlays are $756.9 billion annualized. Fewer worker relatively speaking, support more and more recipients with exponentially growing payments. This is supposed to work?

And if anyone reading this thinks these paths are sustainable, you must be mentally impaired (for which I'm truly sorry). Or a misguided Democrat.

Perhaps the latter is treatable through regular exposure to Mark Levin podcasts. Perhaps.



Headline o' the Month

Navin alerts us to this hilarious headline:


And he adds:

So let me see if I understand the liberal logic.

If you are a white candidate for president and don't show up at the NAACP meeting, it is because you are a racist.

If you show up at the NAACP meeting and get booed for some reason, you are a racist.

So, the only way for a white candidate for president not to be a racist is to show up at an NAACP meeting, refuse to speak, and hand out $100 bills, otherwise risk being booed and therefore a de facto finding that you are a racist.

Why doesn't the liberal media just stipulate that all white Republicans are racist? Or would that be racist?

Don't worry, Navin: vintage media is today operating under the same business model that door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen employed in 1995.


Update: Ricochet:

So, to recap: Mitt Romney wanted to get booed by the NAACP so that he could prove himself to a bunch of racists, so he flew in his own black people to show their support by heckling him, which both proved that he was both loved and unloved by African Americans and yet, somehow, this was designed to prove that he hates minorities.

Quote o' the year

That's what LVN says about this gem:




Larwyn's Linx: Soros-Backed Super PAC Targets Allen West

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Nation

Soros-Backed Super PAC Targets Allen West: Shark
Who Hates Black People Most In This Country?: HayRide
Romney's Brief Date with the NAACP: RWN

Limiting the power of government: everyone's priority: Q&O
The Invincible Lie: Sowell
Rep. Ellmers Pressuring Reid For Senate ObamaCare Vote: Riehl

The World is Changing, Minute by Minute: Hanson
Surprise! Super-rich Pelosi Made Bundle on Asian Investments: JWF
Most Voters Favor Photo ID At Polls: Rasmussen

Economy

Attack Obamacare on All Fronts: Repeal, Defund, Disrupt: RS
Kissing Obamacare Goodbye: NoisyRm
Obamacare Now Estimated to Cost $2.6 Trillion in First Decade: WS

Senate Democrats Block Obama’s Tax-Cut Bill: WZ
The Stossel Solution: Thomas
Terror Graph o' the Day: MB

Scandal Central

Fast and Furious Is Not a D.C. Law Firm: Coulter
Holder Resorts to Race-Baiting in Opposing Voter ID Proposal: Yoo
'Fast and Furious' carnage isn't over yet: Murdoch

Climate & Energy

New Study Thoroughly Debunks Global Warming, Will Media Notice?: NB
This is what global cooling really looks like – new tree ring study shows 2000 years of cooling: Watts
‘Extreme weather is an integral part of the Earth’s climate’: Watts

Media

Separated At Birth: Beckel Boy / Tommy Boy Edition: RSM
Trevor Loudon’s US Summer/Fall 2012 Speaking Tour/Assistance Requested: Loudon
Jay Leno says it’s so hot, ‘Eric Holder is smuggling water pistols’: Twitchy

Why FOX News 'The Five' Is Kicking Ratings Ass: Chickaboomer
Jesse Jr. found! He's in Arizona being treated for alcoholism and addiction: Marathon
Lower Ed: MTV Teaches Savage Sex to Adolescents: MRC

Hilarity Season Begins: Conservatory
A Couple of Great GOP Ads Plus and Epic Mark Levin Rant: Nice Deb
Obama's Stump Speech Myths: Bozell

World

Rubio- “Obama Living Under a Rock”, Turns Blind-Eye on Chavez Threat: Shark
Chávez’s Dangerous Liaisons with Tehran: American
Obama: Chavez doesn't pose serious threat to U.S.: USA Today

Open-Border President Swings Open The Floodgates: IBD
Obama DHS Focusing on Conservative Groups While Ignoring Genuine Terrorist Threats : HySci
Florida DNC Member Resigns over Leaked Anti-Israel Emails: iOTW

Venezuela and Chavez: President Obama Should Read His Intelligence Brief: Foundry
Muslims Combating Islamism: IPT
Army uses ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ as inspiration for new body armor for women: Troglo

Sci-Tech

Tuenti, Telefonica’s Answer To Facebook And Twitter, Opens Up To Users Worldwide: TechCrunch
Megaupload and the twilight of copyright: Fortune
Yoga teacher fired after glare at Facebook worker: AP

Cornucopia

10 Blogging Tips from Someone Who Has Been Blogging a Decade: IMAO
More Practical Jokes for Liberals: Looking Spoon
NTTA names worst toll violators online, with $179,000 bill topping the list: Dallas News

Image: LarsLarson.com
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QOTD: "[T]he government is not adept at micromanaging how health care should be delivered to patients. When the government is given this much authority and discretion, it does not result in higher-quality care for patients. Rather, it leads to price controls and one-size-fits-all regulations that misallocate resources and lead to access problems. It will only be a matter of time before the federal government uses its new powers to impose even more top-down cost controls on the health system, to the detriment of the quality of American health care." --James Capretta

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

A must-read: What happens when the dollar dies?

In Investment News, the brilliant Peter Schiff describes the real fiscal cliff facing Americans.

The current national debt is about $16 trillion (this is just the funded portion...the unfunded liabilities of the Treasury are much, much larger). The only reason the United States is able to service this staggering level of debt is that the currently low interest rate on government debt (now below 2 per cent) keeps debt service payments to a relatively manageable $300 billion per year.

On the current trajectory the national debt will likely hit $20 trillion in a few years. If, by that time interest rates were to return to some semblance of historic normalcy, say 5 per cent, interest payments on the debt would then run $1 trillion per year. This sum could represent almost 40 per cent of total federal revenues in 2012!

In addition to making the debt service unmanageable, higher rates would depress economic activity, thereby slowing tax collection and requiring increased government spending. This would increase the budget deficits further, putting even more upward pressure on interest rates. Higher mortgage rates and increased unemployment will put renewed downward pressure on home prices, perhaps leading to another large wave of foreclosures. My guess is that losses on government insured mortgages alone could add several hundred billion more to annual budget deficits. When all of these factors are taken into account, I believe that annual budget deficits could quickly approach, and exceed $3 trillion. All this could be in the cards if interest rates were to approach a modest five per cent.

If the sheer enormity of the red ink were to finally worry our creditors, five per cent interest rates could quickly rise to ten. At those rates, the annual cost to pay the interest on the national debt could equal all federal tax revenues combined. If that occurs we will have to either slash federal spending across the board (including cuts to politically sensitive entitlements), raise taxes significantly on the poor and middle class (as well as the rich), default on the debt, or hit everyone with the sustained impact of high inflation. Now that's a real fiscal cliff!

By foolishly borrowing so heavily when interest rates are low our government is driving us toward this cliff with its eyes firmly glued to the rear view mirror. For years I have warned that a financial crisis would be triggered by the popping of the real estate bubble. My warnings were routinely ignored based on the near universal assumption that real estate prices would never fall. My warnings about the real fiscal cliff are also being ignored because of a similarly false premise that interest rates can never rise. However, if history can be a guide, we should view the current period of ultra low rates as the exception rather than the rule.

And what happens when our colossal debts truly become unmanageable? Chris Martenson provides the sobering lessons from one such episode that occurred less than a century ago in "Our Money Is Dying."

In the book When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson, which details Weimar Germany's inflation over the period from 1918 to 1923, the most riveting parts for me were the first-hand accounts from the people caught in the storm.

So many people left their wealth in the system only to watch it get eroded and utterly destroyed over time. The reasons were many: patriotism, inertia, disbelief, and denial cruelly fed by hope every time prices moderated or even retreated momentarily.

The simple observation is that many people had a blind belief in the money system. They lost their wealth because they were unable or unwilling to allow reality to challenge their beliefs. It's not that there weren't numerous warning signs to heed -- in fact, they could be seen everywhere -- but most willfully ignored them.

Most mysterious is the fact that in Austria and Germany, where the inflation struck most severely, there were numerous borders and currencies into which people could have dodged to protect their wealth. That is, protecting one's wealth was a relatively straightforward and simple manner. And yet…it did not happen.

What can you do to protect yourself? I'm no expert, but according to the real financial gurus like Mike Shedlock, investing a portion of your assets in gold could help protect your portfolio. Shedlock recommends GoldMoney to do so.

I would just recommend preparing. Because annual trillion-dollar deficits are certain to end in disaster, unless we return this country to Constitutional conservatism.


Perfect: Obama adviser outsourced hundreds of jobs to India last year

Curious: didn't see any stories on this outrage on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC or read about it in The New York Times-Democrat or The Washington Post-Democrat:

About a year ago, Xerox told some 600 employees, many of them engineers, that their jobs were being transferred to an India-based IT services firm.

How has that worked out? Neither company is disclosing detail about what's been going on, but information is leaking out about some layoffs.

The move by Xerox goes to the heart of the outsourcing debate between President Barack Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.

It involves outsourcing product engineering employees, a skill set often linked to the nation's innovation capacity, to an offshore company. Will Xerox's moves result in a net gain or net loss of jobs? The answers may still be in the future, but one of the people involved has the president's ear.

Xerox's CEO, Ursula Burns, is playing a prominent advisory role in the Obama administration as the vice chair of the President's Export Council as well serving on the President's Jobs Council.

As Jim Geraghty observes, Mitt Romney has outsourced a grand total of zero jobs, while our beloved President Zippy McStatist has spent about $29 billion of your money outsourcing. At least.

Oh, and vintage media hacks: don't bother picking up this story and running with it. We've got it handled, thanks.


Larwyn's Linx: Let Me Be Perfectly Clear…Barack Obama Is Losing

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Nation

Let Me Be Perfectly Clear…Barack Obama Is Losing: RS
Levin: Obama re-election would be ‘national suicide’: DC
NAACP Requires ID to See AG Speak in State DOJ Suing Over ID: Pavlich

Democrat Attack Poodle Wasserman Snider Invested in Swiss Bank: JWF
Jarrett's Bermuda Bank: Beacon
In Obama's Chicago, A Trayvon Martin Every Day: IBD

Economy

IRS Gearing Up to Enforce Obamacare Tax: Foundry
USDA Gives Millions to Farmers Who Aren’t Actually Farming: Foundry
Bloomberg Proposes Apartments the Size of Prison Cells: MB

Our Offshoring President: Geraghty
Our Money Is Dying: Martenson
Blue State Utopia: San Bernardino seeks bankruptcy protection: LAT

The Associated Press Embraces Corporatism: Driscoll
A Difference Of Economic Opinion: LoudTalker
Ex-Teachers Union head hit with racketeering, fraud: SunSent

Warning: Obama May Be Intentionally Destroying Our Economy!: RWN
Ex-Obama Bundler Fundraising From Ex-Obama Donors-For Romney: Ace
Nobody Wants To See Paul Krugman Get Discredited and Embarassed To His Face, Do They?: Ace

Scandal Central

Eric Holder's Greatest Hits: CFIF
MO Dem Running for Sec of State Is a 9/11 Truther Who Claimed No Jews Died on 9/11: Nice Deb
Fast and Furious Indictment Unsealed, Issa Questions Timing, Gowdy Doesn’t Suspect Foul Play: Nice Deb

Climate & Energy

Energy Department sneaks offshore moratorium past public: Times
Texas Judge: Atmosphere is protected "Public Trust": Soylent (NSFW)

Media

The Little Blue Book: Quotations from Chairman Lakoff: Zombie
Allen West will not be bullied, thank you very much: Hot Air
John Sununu Laughs at Andrea Mitchell Using Obama's Bogus Romney Outsourcing Claims: NB

President Obama: "Why not name your son Barack?": FAM
Journalists Required To Show IDs at Eric Holder’s Talk On The Evil of IDs: Glob
Jesse Jackson Jr. mystery deepens: Politico

Obama’s Inane Comments To WWL’s Karen Swenson: HayRide
White Liberals Tell Black Americans Who They Can and Can't Like: Breitbart
Confidence in TV news at all-time low: Politico

World

Report: Obama Regime Set to Close Nine Border Patrol Stations Across Four States: WZ
The Dearborn Mob Video and National Security: WorldThreats
Why the West Loves Lying to Itself About Islam: Sultan Knish

Fervent Liberal Polemicist: Why, This Obama Character Certainly Murders A Lot of Innocents With His Drone Attacks: Ace
The economics of confrontation in Egypt: ATimes
Obama Invites Egypt’s President – Morsi Likely to Seek Freedom for ‘Blind Sheikh’: JPress

Sci-Tech

General Motors Will Slash Outsourcing In IT Overhaul: InfoWk
Websense adds 'criminal encryption' detection to security gateway: CompWrld
Facebook wants to be your online bank: Fortune

Cornucopia

Photo - True: First Pic Ever Posted On The Web Was A Photoshop: Riehl
Super Tax Man Bites Again!: MOTUS
Unfortunate headline/picture placement: C&S

Image: Little Cells For All Those Liberal Worker Bees: NY’s Bloomberg Wants ‘Micro’ Apts Built
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QOTD: "So, just to clarify on the amount of business contracts each candidate has sent to foreign and overseas companies:

President Obama: Almost $29 billion.

Mitt Romney: $0." --Jim Geraghty

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

"Dude, how do you find all of these stories?"

That's the question I get asked from time to time.

Fact is, I use BadBlue.com. It mines Twitter, 24 by 7, to see which headlines are getting the most buzz.

There are now three BadBlue news feeds: one for politics (BadBlue.com/News), one for technology (BadBlue.com/Tech), and one for finance (BadBlue.com/Money).


Check 'em out if you get a chance. They seem to be one of the fastest ways to keep up with breaking news.

Great news: Chevy Volt almost gets its owner -- and I quote -- "seriously injured (or killed)"

Maybe the "green jobs" the president was planning on are related to Volt repairs. Or mortuary services.

...This past Sunday marked 10 weeks that we've had the 2012 Chevy Volt. In that amount of time, it's been back to the dealership four times due to problems. One of the issues we were told was definitely fixed (a problem with the tire pressure monitor system) came right back two days after it was repaired. Another time the car simply would no longer charge, or rather, would start and stop charging very quickly, as if it was being plugged in and unplugged and plugged back in every few seconds... None of the trips were quick fixes either, requiring at least a few days before we'd have the car back.

These were all annoyances and inconveniences, though. It sucked having a new vehicle that we saw as the future and having it in for service three times over the course of the first few weeks, but we weren't in any danger. That changed with the latest issue that cropped up with the Volt.


I took a quick trip to the store, about a mile or so from Gear Live HQ, with no problem. On the drive back, things seemed fine as well. I stopped in a turn lane to wait for traffic to pass before I made my left across 2 lanes of highway traffic. Once it was good, I hit the gas to complete my turn... and the car stopped going mid-turn. The cars that were coming towards me slammed on their brakes once they realized that I was no longer in motion (if I had been, their speed wouldn't have been an issue.) Two cars narrowly avoided hitting me at 45-50 MPH, which would have resulted in injuries to me, and the drivers of the other vehicles. Unexpected high speed collisions are just bad all around. Thankfully, there was no contact. One driver was able to stop just a few feet from me, while the other swerved to the side to avoid hitting me.

This all happened without warning from the Volt. No check engine light or chime alerted me that anything was wrong. I continued to step on the gas, and the car would only go a maximum of 3 MPH. It would stall out, and start back again going a couple of miles per hour, but never more than 3 MPH. Because of this, it took me about 30 seconds to cross the two lanes that typically takes 2 seconds to do.

After that turn, my final destination was 3 blocks away with no stop signs or traffic, and it took minutes to get there. There's a slight incline--two small hills--and the Volt continued to stall, slide backwards down the hill, then move forward again at a snail's pace. The car was going to need it's fourth trip to the dealership to be serviced in the two months that we'd had it…but this time, the problems with the car put us directly in danger.

It's so weird that central planning doesn't seem to be working out for GM's Volt product line. After all, it was so successful for the Soviet-era automotive classic known as the Volga.

Thanks anyhow, eco-tards, but I'll stick with my gas-guzzling internal combustion engine.


Gee, libs, if health care's a right, then who's going to be delivering that "right" if 83 percent of doctors quit?

I love how liberals pretend that government can grant infinite "rights" to you that involve compelling others to deliver those "rights".

Except when they won't.

83% Of Doctors Have Considered Quitting Thanks To Obamacare

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

The DPMA, a non-partisan association of doctors and patients, surveyed a random selection of 699 doctors nationwide. The survey found that the majority have thought about bailing out of their careers over the legislation, which was upheld last month by the Supreme Court.

Even if doctors do not quit their jobs over the ruling, America will face a shortage of at least 90,000 doctors by 2020.

Oh. And it gets better.

The DPMA found that many doctors do not believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will lead to better access to medical care for the majority of Americans, co-founder of the DPMA Kathryn Serkes told TheDC.

“Doctors clearly understand what Washington does not — that a piece of paper that says you are ‘covered’ by insurance or ‘enrolled’ in Medicare or Medicaid does not translate to actual medical care when doctors can’t afford to see patients at the lowball payments, and patients have to jump through government and insurance company bureaucratic hoops,” she said.

So "healthcare is a right"? Well, who's going to deliver that health care service if 83 percent of doctors quit?

For you drones: that's a rhetorical question, which means you can't answer it.

Because you're drones.

Postscript - Article 42 of the Soviet Constitution of 1936:

Article 42. Citizens of the USSR have the right to health protection.

This right is ensured by free, qualified medical care provided by state health institutions; by extension of the network of therapeutic and health-building institutions; by the development and improvement of safety and hygiene in industry; by carrying out broad prophylactic measures; by measures to improve the environment; by special care for the health of the rising generation, including prohibition of child labour, excluding the work done by children as part of the school curriculum; and by developing research to prevent and reduce the incidence of disease and ensure citizens a long and active life.



The Dissociative Press: No Longer in the News Business; Now Professionally Lying for Democrats

I'm not sure when the Associated Press (also known as the Dissociative Press, which is the term they prefer, I hear) decided to get out of the news business and into republishing Democrat National Committee press releases. But it's clear from the last couple of election cycles, that the transition occurred sometime before 2008.

Consider the latest lies promoted by the contemptible Eric Holder regarding voter ID:

Speaking to the NAACP in Houston Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder decried the state’s controversial voter ID law as a modern equivalent to Jim Crow-era poll taxes...

The state is trying to become the tenth to require photo identification to vote.

To a wave of applause, Holder said, “After close review, the department found that this law would be harmful to minority voters and we rejected its implementation.”

Of course, the nitwits at the Dissociative Press echo the official DNC talking points almost word-for-word:

Keesha Gaskins, a senior counsel at the Brennan Center who has opposed voter ID laws, said she believes the numbers are significant and also underestimate the impact of voter ID laws. She said those numbers don't take into account people who were discouraged from showing up to vote in the first place or who may be turned away by poll workers. Even voters in states with less-strict ID laws may not get the proper explanation about how the process works without ID... "These are still people who attempted to vote and who were unable to do so," Gaskins said. "When you compare that to the actual evidence of fraud, the difference is exponential."

Let's ignore, for the sake of argument, that you can't board a plane, buy alcohol, receive a welfare check, or even attend Holder's speech at the NAACP without a photo ID. No, just ignore that for the moment. Is vote fraud really so rare that the AP repeats this lie like the parakeets they are?

Debunking the DNC talking points requires a lot of difficult research -- using a spanking-new tool called Google -- apparently unfamiliar to the nincompoops at the AP.

600,000 fraudulent voters nationwide: In 2008, a study by PJM estimated that nearly half of the 1.3 million voters registered by Acorn, the Democrat-linked criminal front group, were bogus.

Washington Governor's Race: In 2004, Dino Rossi, the Republican candidate, won the state of Washington's governorship by a narrow margin. But that victory proved short-lived. Election officials: (a) discovered uncounted ballots weeks and months after the election; (b) counted votes from people without valid registrations; and (c) permitted "felons without voting rights, as well as a few dead people, to cast ballots". After the recounts, Rossi lost by a mere 133 votes.

Thousands of fraudulent voter registrations discovered in Nevada: "[In 2009,] Nevada officials charged Acorn, its regional director and its Las Vegas field director with submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms last year. Larry Lomax, the registrar of voters in Las Vegas, says he believes 48% of Acorn's forms "are clearly fraudulent." On Thursday, prosecutors in Pittsburgh, Pa., also charged seven Acorn employees with filing hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations before last year's general election."

The Al Franken Senate "Victory": in 2008, After initially leading failed radio host Al Franken by 725 votes, incumbent Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota ended up losing the race after a series of bizarre recounts. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that "the state Canvassing Board approved the use of Election Day results for 133 Minneapolis ballots that can't be found and also recommended that counties sort and count absentee ballots that were mistakenly rejected." This decision gave Franken most of his winning margin. In Ramsey County, "the recount showed that there were 171 more ballots than recorded votes", yet the ballots were counted, and Franken picked up nearly 40 more votes.

Up to 200,000 bogus voters in Ohio: In 2008, a Democrat Secretary of State apparently committed to rampant vote fraud "streamlined" the voter registration process. As a result, over 600,000 new Ohio voter registrations were obtained, but the Secretary of State refused to use verification databases to validate the registrations. She later confessed that 200,000 registrations failed to match driver's license, social security and other database checks. Later, a federal judge ruled she was breaking federal law by failing to perform the verification and blocking voter validation.

Oh, and AP hacks: this list is by no means complete. It's what I found in an exhaustive, 17-minute search.

As a result of your obvious incompetence, I'm offering free classes on how to use Google. Email me for a schedule and required study material, schmucks.



Oops: Obama spokes-hack David Plouffe busted instantly in his outright lies about campaign fundraising

Obama Deputy Propagandist David Plouffe (pronounced Fluff) can't be too pleased with the timing of his latest fabrications:

“You’ve got a few very wealthy people lining up trying to purchase the White House for Mr. Romney,” said Plouffe on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “We’re going to have to have everybody out there who wants the president to continue to a second term to step up and help the campaign.”

The timing was especially poor because within a few hours of Fluff's statement, The Wall Street Journal published a shocking report on the true state of campaign contributions.

The executive summary: political spending by labor unions blows away private contributions by the rich, the poor, and everyone in between:

Organized labor spends about four times as much on politics and lobbying as generally thought...

...The new figures come from a little-known set of annual reports to the Labor Department in which local unions, their national parents and labor federations have been required to detail their spending on politics and lobbying since 2005...

...The result is that labor could be a stronger counterweight than commonly realized to "super PACs" that today raise millions from wealthy donors...

...The hours spent by union employees working on political matters were equivalent in 2010 to a shadow army much larger than President Barack Obama's current re-election staff, data analyzed by the Journal show...

In short, Fluff was once against exposed as the disgraceful propagandist he truly is. He'd be at home in the old Soviet Union, working for Tass.


Larwyn's Linx: America: This Time It's Personal

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Nation

America: This Time It's Personal: Dyer
Holder to La Raza: We Support Your Racist Agenda: C&S
DNC Chief Called on to Release Tax Returns: WS

Obama Announces He’s to the Left of Pelosi: Dossier
Democrats Now Sending Staffers to Stalk Republican Opponents: MenRec
Is President Obama Intentionally Destroying America?: DLim

Economy

Obama: Horrid Jobs Report a Step in the Right Direction: S&L
Biggest Financial Fraud in History Receives Scant Attention: CFP
White House Has Literally Said to Ignore Job Reports For Years: MenRec

Obama Transportation Sec.: U.S. Should Be Like Red China: Foundry
Global Collapse In Auto Sales Coming Right Up: Mish
Ruh Roh: Futures Brokerage PFG Best Suffers 'Accounting Irregularities': ZH

Progressives keep urging those failed economic policies: Bookworm
Obama: No Bush Tax Cuts For Incomes Over $200K: S&L
Florida: Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret: Riehl

Scandal Central

SunPower: Twice As Bad As Solyndra, Twice As Bad For Obama: Events
5 'Fast and Furious' Suspects Indicted: Fox Latino
California's High-Speed Rail: Unsafe at Any Speed: RWN

Climate & Energy

GE Solar Delay Shows Timing Will Never Be Good: NLPC
Green Jobs Count: Fewer than Before, Sillier than Ever: Foundry
This is what global cooling really looks like: Watts

Media

56% of Likely Voters Feel Obama Has Changed the Country for the Worse: STACLU
ABC News: Obama Tax Increases Will Effect 900,000 Small Businesses: Fox
How Huffington Post's Clever Traffic-Generation Machine Works: Slashdot

Fraud: CNN Airs False Accusation That Romney Broke Tax Laws: Breitbart
Michael Moore Apparently Doesn’t Believe He Deserves Electricity: Powers
HBO's 'Newsroom' Becomes MSNBC: Trashes Tea Party, Compares Bachmann to McCarthy: NB

World

Obama To Sign Anti-Second Amendment U.N. Gun Treaty: IBD
Europe Speeds Up Aid to Spanish Banks: BizWk
Europe must act fast to avoid the risk of a bank run: Fortune

Obama Pursues “Reset” While Putin Pursues “Get Set”: Foundry
Arafat Suffered from Leukemia, Medical Treatment Exasperated His Condition: IsraelDefense
New crisis loom over Egypt over legislature's fate: BizWk

Sci-Tech

July 4th fireworks fiasco in San Diego? Computer virus gets the blame: Sophos
OneClick Downloads Torrents Directly in Chrome: LifeHacker
TopHQBooks Is a Search Engine for Free PDF Ebooks: LifeHacker

Cornucopia

Fun Bob (NSFW): C&S
so why did the big bang make hydrogen?: Winter Soldier
The Greatest Game Nobody Ever Saw: Sports Illustrated

Image: Europe Speeds Up Aid to Spanish Banks
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QOTD: "...according to a recent Gallup survey, 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed. Since Gallup started asking that question in the early 1970s, dissatisfaction has never been higher.

And Rasmussen polls find that consistently two-thirds to three-quarters of Americans say our country is on the "wrong track." They may not know exactly why, but most Americans believe their government is changing our nation for the worse.

What is the answer? We caught a glimpse of it in 2010, when a movement of ethical populism—the tea party—mobilized millions of Americans to read the United States Constitution and demand politics that reflect the majority's values. And while woefully misguided in its diagnoses and policy solutions, the Occupy Wall Street movement was at least right to protest the malignant cronyism in our economy. That energy must re-emerge in 2012 and become a permanent part of our political landscape." --Arthur Brooks