Saturday, July 28, 2012

"We tried our plan... and it worked!" -- Record 1 in 6 Americans on foodstamps or disability

Historic is one word I'd use to describe this administration, as more than 55 million Americans are now on foodstamps or disability:

America's transition into a welfare state continues, as May saw a new all time high number of American households, 22.3 million to be exact, enter technical poverty and collect foodstamps...


...At the individual level, 46.5 million Americans lived off foodstamps, a 222,157 increase in the month, or nearly three times the number of people who found jobs in June according to the BLS. Next month this too will be a record, as it is currently just 17,367 before the previous all time high set in December of 2011...


...The good news, and we use the term loosely, is that the average benefit per household rose from all time lows of $275.82 to $276.76. Surely, the bottom is in and just like housing, there is on blue skies ahead...

Combined foodstamp and disability recipients: 55,250,723.

So it turns out President Obama's recent statement -- "We tried our plan... and it worked!" -- was entirely accurate. That is, if his plan was the Cloward-Piven-inspired destruction of American capitalism.



Larwyn's Linx: Finding Hope

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Nation

Finding Hope: Hale
Are Obama voters really as solid as they profess?: IBD
DNC Homepage: More Attack Ads Than Accomplishments: CBS DC

Why Obama Has No Intention of Losing This November: NiceDeb
JW Exposes Voter Participation Center Scandal: JW
Man with carry permit ends bloody stabbing spree with handgun: Riehl

Obama’s ‘gaffes’ are what he truly believes: Times
Tweet o' the Week: Glob
Conservative Grassroots Must Claim Texas Victory: DeMint

Economy

Shock: massive waste in fed jobs training programs: Foundry
Obama-Care Could Cost McDonald’s $420M A Year: S&L
‘Abysmal Failure’: RSM

Freak-Out Friday: GDP Report Seen Worst In Over Year: IBD
Mitt Reveals What ‘It’ Is: RSM
Teachers’ Unions Targeting Private Schools: HayRide

Scandal Central

When government chooses not to enforce the law of the land: Q&O
Justice Department Blocks Voter ID at Every Turn: Foundry
Eric Holder supports voter fraud: RWN

Climate & Energy

PETA Taking Bets On Grassley’s Death: Soylent (NSFW)
Oregon Man Sentenced to Jail for Collecting Rainwater on His Own Property?: Patterico

Media

NYT: We've got a bleeder!: Moe Lane
Is 2012 a rerun of 1980?: Power Line
What is this crap about?: CapPrev

British newspaper calls Obama “ineffectual, invisible, the weakest president in history”: IHTM
Yes, the left is happy a man died: Riehl
White Liberal Scolds White Conservatives on the “Black Dialect” of Half-Black, Half-White Guy: Sooper

Wreck-It Barack: Beacon
Tapper to Jay Carney: Hey, remember in 2004 when Obama wanted to bring the country together?: Hot Air
DOJ Violating Nepotism Rules – For The Third Time: S&L

World

The Muslim Brotherhood's American Defenders: Glick
Robert Spencer on Mark Levin speaks about Bachmann, McCain, and the Muslim Brotherhood: JihadWatch
Mark Levin: It is true, Bachmann WAS told to apologize or she might lose her intelligence committee post: Scoop

Repeal Obamacare to Save National Defense: Foundry
The Phony Outrage Over Romney’s Entirely Accurate Olympics Comments: Geraghty
British Embassy Confirms Krauthammer Right, White House Wrong: Churchill Bust Returned in 2009: Mediate

Official Won’t Say Whether DOJ Would ‘Criminalize Speech against Any Religion’ [i.e., Islam]: CNS
The Munich 11 Virtual Memorial: JSpace
Rep. Keith Ellison: Failing America & Supporting Terrorist Front Groups?: NoisyRm

Sci-Tech

Insync for Gmail Syncs Your Attachments to Google Drive (and Dropbox, Soon): LifeHacker
Tubbs And Crockett May Need To Borrow Your Handsome Bluetooth Brick Headset: TechCrunch
Is Google's Handwrite A Step Backwards?: SE Roundtable

Cornucopia

Best ad for a boxing gym ever. Seriously. Ever. (language warning): SF Egotist
Motorcyclist arrested after video that appears to show him speeding at 186 mph goes viral: Yahoo!
Explorers find sunken German U-Boat off coast of Massachusetts: AP

Non-Human Consciousness Exists Say Experts. Now What?: Singularity
That’s the Olympic Spirit: Winning!: MOTUS
What The Housing Recovery Will Look Like Under An Obama Second Term: Looking Spoon

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QOTD: "Once this election boiled down to Chic-Fil-A, dogs riding on cars or being eaten and dancing horses, I knew it was the most vital one ever." --Jazz Shaw

Friday, July 27, 2012

How Low Can It Go? Don't Ask.

I refer, of course, to the economy. Or, rather, what's left of it:

GDP Report Worst In Over Year
Friday's Q2 GDP report will offer the most comprehensive picture of how quickly economic conditions have deteriorated, just days ahead of the Federal Reserve's next policy meeting.


Economists were predicting a second-quarter pace above 2% annualized a few months ago, but the consensus is now 1.2%. That would be the weakest in more than a year and down from 1.9% in Q1 and nearly 3% in Q4 2011.

A GDP rate less than 2 percent is basically nothing. For comparison purposes, the Reagan recovery -- after the height of the Carter recession -- saw GDP growth rates over 7 (seven) percent.

By the way, can I introduce you to my date for Cotillion?





Rahm-tastic: Six Shot, Five Fatally, Over 12 Hour Span Last Night in Chicago, the Gun Control Capital of the U.S.

The Second City, with gun control laws so outrageous that the Supreme Court struck them down, basically prohibits law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves with firearms.

Which doesn't seem to be working out too well, if the last -- oh -- 50 or 60 years are any indication.

Six people were shot and five of them died during a bloody 12-hour period between 4 p.m. Thursday and 4 a.m. Friday, according to Chicago police.

Among the dead: two men in their early 30s in a gang-related slaying on the Southeast Side, a 22-year-old former CPS basketball player who recently committed to a Division 1 school for basketball, a 35-year-old clerk at a West Side gas station and a 25-year-old man killed in a drive-by attack in the Park Manor neighborhood...

A 22-year-old Chicago man [Micheal Haynes] who recently committed to play basketball at a Division I school died after he was shot trying to break up a fight over a necklace Thursday afternoon, according to family and authorities... Haynes, a 6-foot-7 inch forward was set to play basketball for the 2012-2013 school year in New Rochelle, N.Y., for the Iona College Gaels, according to a statement from the school.

...The lone survivor of the violence was a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the 6700 block of South Carpenter about 11 p.m., police said. He was shot in the arm and torso and treated at Comer Children’s Hospital for his wounds, police said.

As I said the other day, an Aurora massacre occurs every 10 days in Chicago. And no one in vintage media cares.

Strange how criminals don't obey laws, eh? But I'm sure the Democrats' policies are for the children, no matter how many children have to die trying to prove their point.


Hat tip: The incredible BadBlue.com.

Chart: Repeal Obamacare to Save Our National Defense

In January, unless dramatic action is taken, the Defense Department will suffer even deeper, more devastating cuts. Consider: the one damn thing the federal government was chartered to do by the nation's founders, its most important mission, was securing the nation's citizens. And it has been put at dire risk by infantile, Utopian progressive fantasies of wealth redistribution and equality of outcome.

What's the easiest way to prevent the evisceration of our national defense?

Answer: Repeal Obamacare.

...The gross spending for Obamacare’s insurance expansions [now] totals $1.4 trillion for the 2013–2021 period—the same stretch in which $1.2 trillion in across-the-board spending cuts known as “sequestration” would apply...


[The CBO] also shows $400 billion in net 2013–2021 tax hikes, part of the onerous “Taxmageddon” also slated to start in January. Thus, the net cost of Obamacare would be about $1 trillion for 2013–2021. That’s how much could be saved by cancelling the planned spending and taxes in the President’s government takeover of health care.

...The cuts would [otherwise] shrink defense spending by about 10 percent through a crude, indiscriminate, and irresponsible mechanism. They must be replaced. What better substitute than two huge new entitlements that have not yet been implemented, that [more than] half the public doesn’t want, and that the government cannot afford? Take away Obamacare, and the entire sequestration is replaced almost dollar for dollar—without tax hikes.

...The Heritage Foundation previously listed the top five reasons for repealing Obamacare: (1) to stop adding deficits and debt, (2) to help prevent Taxmageddon, (3) to protect religious freedom, (4) to keep health care decisions with doctors and patients, and (5) to clear the way for patient-centered reform. Now make it an even half-dozen: (6) repeal Obamacare, and prevent an indefensible sequestration.

Repeal of Obamacare is paramount.

What can you do? Tell everyone you know to vote the straight Republican ticket.

Taking the Senate, holding the House, and giving Obama a pink slip will help save our national defense apparatus while repealing the Democrats' version of socialized medicine.

We need to do plenty of work on the RINOs, but this much is sure: Obama will devastate the military as surely as night follows day.


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Related: State Welcome Signs... As They Should Be.

Hat tip: R.F.

The Day Old Media Died

I'd be hard-pressed to pick an exact date, but suffice it to say that shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, vintage media committed suicide.

Thanks to Tom Blumer, who spotted the seminal admission in The New York Times, we have confirmation that journalism is as dead as Francisco Franco.

Put simply, the administration refuses to allow old media to report on any White House discussions without quote approval. And these former journalists go along to get along, compromising their principles and ethics to stay in good graces with this ludicrous regime.

• "[T]he (Obama campaign’s) press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name.”

• “Quote approval is standard practice for the Obama campaign, used by many top strategists and almost all midlevel aides in Chicago and at the White House.”

• “From Capitol Hill to the Treasury Department, interviews granted only with quote approval have become the default position.”

• “It was difficult to find a news outlet that had not agreed to quote approval, albeit reluctantly.” Ratner believes that the Associated Press and McClatchy are exceptions; I’m less than convinced.

• “Many journalists spoke about the editing only if granted anonymity, an irony that did not escape them.”

Blumer predicts, however, that vintage media could make a comeback someday.

If the Times, with what remaining power and influence it has, began to document and report every instance where a sycophantic administration flunky demanded quote approval and it firmly refused, I’ll bet things would change — and quickly. But either [they don't] have the stones to try, or for the time being would prefer not to.

Perhaps the day [those] in this sadly compromised calling will find the nerve to be journalists again will arrive on about January 21, 2013 — but only if someone other than Barack Obama begins to occupy the White House.

It's worth repeating early and often. This administration is as lawless as any in U.S. history. From shipping assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels; to declaring the Senate in recess when it clearly was not; to bribing Senators to pass Obamacare; to failing to prosecute a single Wall Street executive related to the financial crash, co-mingling of client funds or outright fraud; to publishing "enemies lists" of those who dare to contribute to their opponents' campaigns; to actively promoting vote fraud; to ordering the "DREAM Act" by executive fiat, when it couldn't pass Congress; to disabling credit-card security in order to accept illegal campaign contributions; and the list goes on and on and on.

There's not much in the Constitution this administration likes, and the First Amendment -- whether through its attack on the Catholic Church or its virulent hatred of free speech -- is a primary target.


Hat tip: Instapundit.

A Brief, Illustrated History of the Obama Administration's New Pals, the Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brotherhood has been making headlines of late, whether through its takeover of the Egyptian government, its invitation to the White House, or its shadowy ties to the State Department through longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin. But what is The Muslim Brotherhood?

Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama has refused to use the word "terror", let alone "Islamic terrorism", when it comes to describing the unceasing series of attacks launched at the behest of a fanatical ideology.

In October 2005 President George W. Bush used the term “Islamic fascist” for the first time to describe the Muslim barbarians at war with the West. He denounced them as movements that have a “violent and political vision”, and call for “the establishment... of a totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom.”

The Muslim groups which today seek to bring about a global totalitarian empire are not only fascists, but can trace their origins to Nazism and its genocidal ambitions.

The ideology of the Islamists whose ranks today include not only al-Qaeda but also Hamas and Hezbollah -- originated with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. And the Muslim Brotherhood finds not just its roots, but much of its symbolism, terminology, and common cause deep within the origins of Nazism.

Hassan al-Banna (1906 - 1949) was born into the family of a poor watchmaker in southern Egypt. As a child, he was attracted to the extremist aspects of Islam, which were hostile to Western secularism and to its system of rights, particularly women's rights.

While still in his teens, the young al-Banna and friends (they referred to each other as ‘brethren’) met frequently to discuss the situation in the Middle East, to argue about the ills of Arab society, and to lament the decline of Islam. Their angst was in large part a reaction to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the end of the Muslim Caliphate, the British occupation of Egypt, and the resulting exposure of Arab society to Western values.

In order to strike back against these evils, al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. Among the perspectives he drew on to address these issues were the anti-capitalist doctrines of European Marxism and especially fascism.

The group expanded during the 1930’s as Al-Banna would describe, in inflammatory speeches, the horrors of hell expected for heretics, and consequently, the need for Muslims to return to their purest religious roots, re-establish the Caliphate, and resume the great and final holy war, or jihad, against the non-Muslim world.
 
The first big step on the path to the international jihad came during “The Great Arab Revolt” of 1936-9, when one of the most famous of the Muslim Brotherhood’s leaders, the Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti (Supreme Muslim religious leader) of Jerusalem, incited his followers to a three-year war against the Jews in Palestine and the British who administered the Mandate. By the end of the 1930’s there were more than a half million active members registered, in more than two thousand branches across the Arab world.

It was during this time that the Muslim Brotherhood found a soul mate in Nazi Germany. The Reich offered great power connections to the movement, but the relationship brokered by the Brotherhood was more than a marriage of convenience. Long before the war, al-Banna had developed an Islamic religious ideology which previewed Hitler’s Nazism. Both movements sought world conquest and domination.

Both were explicitly anti-nationalist in the sense that they believed in the liquidation of the nation-state in favor of a trans-national unifying community: in Islam the umma (community of all believers); and in Nazism the herrenvolk (master race). Both worshipped the unifying totalitarian figure of the Caliph or Führer.

And both rabidly hated the Jews and sought their destruction.

As the Brotherhood’s political and military alliance with Nazi Germany developed, these parallels facilitated practical interactions created a full-blown alliance, with formal state visits, de facto ambassadors, and overt as well as sub rosa joint ventures.

Al-Banna’s followers easily transplanted into the Arab world a newly Nazified form of traditional Muslim Jew-hatred, with Arab translations of Mein Kampf (translated into Arabic as “My Jihad”) and other Nazi anti-Semitic works, including Der Sturmer hate-cartoons, adapted to portray the Jew as the demonic enemy of Allah.

The single best known and most active Nazi sympathizer in the Muslim Brotherhood was not al-Banna himself, but the Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and one-time President of the Supreme Muslim Council of Palestine. As one commentator has noted, to understand the Hajj’s influence on the Middle East in the 1930s and 40s is to understand the ongoing genocidal program of the Arab terrorist organizations warring against the Jews of Israel today.

Al-Husseini used his office as a powerful bully pulpit from which to preach anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist, and (turning on his patrons) anti-British vitriol. He was directly involved in the organization of the 1929 riots which destroyed the 3000-year-old Jewish community of Hebron. And he was quick to see that he had a natural ally in Hitler and in the rising star of Nazi Germany.

As early as the spring of 1933, he assured the German consul in Jerusalem that “the Muslims inside and outside Palestine welcome the new regime of Germany and hope for the extension of the fascist, anti-democratic governmental system to other countries.”

The youth organization established by the Mufti used Nazi emblems, names and uniforms.

During the “Great Arab Revolt” of 1936-9, which al-Husseini helped organize and which Germany funded, the swastika was used as a mark of identity on Arabic leaflets and graffiti. Arab children welcomed each other with the Hitler salute, and a sea of German flags and pictures of Hitler were displayed at celebrations. The Grand Mufti declared certain zones in Palestine to be “liberated” from the Jews and British; and he mandated Shari’a - Islamic religious law. Christian as well as Muslim women were forced to veil themselves. Opponents were liquidated.

The British sent massive reinforcements to put down the revolt. Al-Husseini fled to Lebanon, where he worked tirelessly on behalf of Germany and Nazism. He played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in instigating a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in 1941, in urging Nazis and pro-Nazi governments in Europe to transport Jews to death camps, in training pro-Nazi Bosnian brigades, and, after Hitler’s cause was lost, in funneling Nazi loot into post-war Arab countries.

His Muslim “Hanjar” division was credited with the murder of roughly 90% of Bosnian Jewry.

He succeeded, almost single-handedly, in engraving on the Arab consciousness the image of the Jew as the demonic apotheosis of all things evil. Not only was everything Jewish evil; but under al-Husseini’s deft diatribe, everything evil was Jewish.

After meeting with Hitler on November 21, 1941, Husseini praised the Germans because they “know how to get rid of the Jews, and that brings us close to the Germans and sets us in their camp.”

On March 1, 1944, the Mufti called out in a broadcast from Zeesen: “Arabs! Rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. Kill them with your teeth if need be. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor.” His goal, with the help of the Nazis, was “to solve the question of the Jewish elements in Palestine and in other Arab countries as required by national interests, and in the same way as the Jewish question in the Axis lands is being solved.”

His own memoirs, and the testimony of German defendants at the Nuremberg trials later on, showed that he planned a death camp modeled on Auschwitz to be constructed near Nablus for the genocide of Palestine’s Jews.

It was the Mufti who urged Hitler, Himmler, and General Ribbentrop to concentrate Germany’s considerable industrial and military resources on the extermination of European Jewry. The foremost Muslim spiritual leader of his time helped in his own way by lobbying to prevent Jews from leaving Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, even though those governments were initially willing to let them go.

As Eichmann himself recounted: “We have promised him [the Mufti] that no European Jew would enter Palestine any more.”

But Germany’s defeat in North Africa meant that the Einsatsgruppen, which had murdered more than one million of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, never took its ghastly show to Palestine. The Mufti suddenly found himself a prisoner of war in France, and condemned as a war criminal by the Nuremberg prosecutors.

But with the Cold War looming, the British and the Americans sought to curry favor with the Arab world (and prevent the USS R from making political headway there) by allowing him to escape. He fled first to Egypt, and later to Syria. From Damascus, Hajj Amin al-Husseini reestablished himself as the foremost spokesman for the Arabs of Palestine.

A few years later, when the question of Palestine came before the United Nations, he and Hassan al-Banna urged the Arab world to unite in opposition to it. The two men saw in the UN resolution for the partition of Palestine an example of the “Jewish world conspiracy,” even though the plan provided for an Arab state in Palestine alongside of the Jewish one. But in their view a state for the Arabs of Palestine took a back seat to the eradication of Zionism and the annihilation of Palestine’s Jews.

As the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Arabia and Morocco invaded Israel in 1948, the general-secretary of the Arab League, Abd al-Rahman Azzam (aka Azzam Pasha), who had previously stated privately that he considered the partition of Palestine to be the only rational solution, now stood shoulder to shoulder with the Mufti. “This war,” he declared on the day of the Arab attack, “will be a war of destruction.” It was: but it was the armies assembled by Arab generals, many of whom had fought with Rommel in behalf of the Third Reich that were destroyed.

Al-Husseini’s Nazi ambitions, even though they were now seen as part of the Holocaust that he had helped in his small way to engineer, continued to be a source of pride for his Arab supporters after his death in 1948.

And he found admirers elsewhere in the decades ahead as well. Professor Edward Said -- an associate of Barack Obama -- praised al-Husseini, former partner with the Nazis in their crimes against humanity, as “the voice of the Palestinian people.”

Yasser Arafat, a cousin of al-Husseini, referred to him as “our hero.”

In short, Islamofascism is simply an offshoot of Nazism, a twisted ideology with genocide as its mission. And, contrary to President Obama's wishes, there is no 'ending' such a war -- there is only victory.

And this administration's ostensible embrace of Islamofascists is bizarre, un-American, and extremely troubling, to say the least.


Source: The Terrorism Awareness Project's The Nazi Roots of Palestinian Nationalism and Islamic Jihad (PDF)


Larwyn's Linx: A Lot On His Plate

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A Lot On His Plate: Ace
Huma Abedin’s Muslim Brotherhood Ties: McCarthy
Obama Amnesty: Top Immigration Officials Describe Border Chaos: Fox

Boehner Will Fund Obamacare: MB
Elections and Gun Control: Ace
Obama now has teleprompter vets: Protein Wisdom

BFD: A Biden Fabulist Dud: Malkin
Romney Busted? No, Obama: RSM
California GOP on verge of extinction: Times

Economy

Obama’s Welfare Abuses: From Worse to Worst: CFIF
Unions Offer Reward For Romney Event Locations: S&L
More Welfare == More Poverty: MB

Obama: I Defy You To Believe What I Said About Business: DLim
Declining views of the economy put Obama's reelection at risk: Rasmussen
Is Harry Reid The Most Hypocritical Man In The World?: ZH

Scandal Central

NYT: Journalism Is Dead — For Now: Blumer
Jon Corzine's Get Out of Jail Free Card: Eric Holder: WyBlog
Speaking of Reducing Gun Violence, What About Fast and Furious, Mr. President?: CFP

Media

Indicator poll: Democratic enthusiasm way down: Q&O
The Hill: Apparently Obama Has Nothing To Do With the Current Economic Situation: Bizzy
Four Little Words: Strassel

World

White House spokes-idiot refuses to name capital of Israel: Colossus
John Bolton defends GOP reps for requesting investigation into Muslim Brotherhood policy shift: Scoop
Did Netanyahu take a subtle swipe at Obama admin?: Times

Remembering Obama’s Humiliating 2011 Visit to Britain: Sooper
Romney: 'Looking Forward to the Bust of Winston Churchill Being in the Oval Office Again': WS
A Moment of Silence for Jews? You Must be Joking: CDN

Oh, Looky Here – It Seems Michele Bachmann’s “McCarthyism” Has Struck Paydirt: iOTW
Sodomy "For the Sake of Islam": Gatestone
Piers Morgan Defends Romney’s Olympics Comments: ‘He Was Just Speaking The Truth’: Mediaite

Sci-Tech

Changing My Mind on Microsoft: Bronte
Old Termites Blow Themselves Up to Protect the Nest: Science
Microsoft admits Surface might ruffle OEM feathers, vindicates Acer in annual report: Engadget

Cornucopia

Just a Reminder: DailyPundit
Rifling: Protein Wisdom
Liberal officials penalizing free speech: Barone

Image: Washington Times
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QOTD: "The combination of the two welfare-policy reversions could be devastating, especially when combined with the Obama-backed massive expansions of food stamps and of eligibility for unemployment insurance. As others (including the American Enterprise Institute) have noted, the Obamite re-invigoration of the welfare state will almost assuredly catch millions of people anew in a “dependency trap” in which it is actually less financially beneficial to work than it is to game the system. Or, at least, that calculation of benefits would apply in the short term and the near horizon; the long-term social pathologies, of course, could be devastating for those who fall into (or willingly hurl themselves into) the dependency trap." --Quin Hillyer

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Freelancer's Fast 50 Reveals Fastest Growing Tech Jobs

Interesting data from a roll-up of 190,000 tech job listings, with some observations after the table.

FREELANCER FAST 50 (FASTEST MOVERS)

Rank

Category

Q2 2012

Q1 2012

Growth

1

Word

1594

728

118.96%

2

Web Scraping

3232

2025

59.60%

3

Objective C

1809

1140

58.68%

4

User Interface / IA

1756

1234

42.30%

5

Mobile Phone

5709

4209

35.64%

6

iPhone

5112

3926

30.21%

7

iPad

2308

1826

26.40%

8

C Programming

2501

2068

20.94%

9

Android

3444

2859

20.46%

10

HTML5

2108

1763

19.57%

11

PDF

1647

1385

18.92%

12

Virtual Assistant

3770

3202

17.74%

13

jQuery / Prototype

2247

1927

16.61%

14

Data Processing

21274

18331

16.05%

15

Excel

22947

20282

13.14%

16

Software Architecture

5095

4530

12.47%

17

Shopping Carts

2647

2370

11.69%

18

Telemarketing

1104

999

10.51%

19

Banner Design

1810

1672

8.25%

20

Technical Writing

2250

2119

6.18%

21

Copy Typing

2835

2709

4.65%

22

Logo Design

5768

5569

3.57%

23

Linux

1270

1239

2.50%

24

Magento

1752

1723

1.68%

25

Social Networking

5308

5250

1.10%

26

Website Design

23098

22945

0.67%

27

Data Entry

30943

30805

0.45%

28

Illustrator

2096

2103

-0.33%

29

HTML

22281

22533

-1.12%

30

Twitter

2184

2213

-1.31%

31

Flash

2522

2594

-2.78%

32

PHP

29381

30254

-2.89%

33

Article Submission

2681

2792

-3.98%

34

Proofreading

1377

1447

-4.84%

35

Internet Marketing

13848

14667

-5.58%

36

AJAX

3709

3978

-6.76%

37

Report Writing

1220

1313

-7.08%

38

SEO

9397

10133

-7.26%

39

C++ Programming

1921

2074

-7.38%

40

Link Building

6529

7120

-8.30%

41

C# Programming

1935

2122

-8.81%

42

Article Rewriting

6298

6941

-9.26%

43

Blog

3581

4086

-12.36%

44

Customer Support

1022

1171

-12.72%

45

Facebook

6510

7537

-13.63%

46

Articles

11282

13064

-13.64%

47

Academic Writing

3579

4219

-15.17%

48

eBay

1042

1284

-18.85%

49

Classifieds Posting

661

826

-19.98%

50

.NET

2919

4748

-38.52%


Mobile and user experience (UX) is hotter than a firecracker.

In what may be an anomaly, Microsoft's .NET stack fell off a cliff this quarter.

Open standards, with HTML 5, Javascript and the ubiquitous jQuery, continue to dominate.


Top Immigration Officials Describe Border Chaos Resulting From Obama Amnesty Policy

IN a clear violation of the Constitution's separation of powers, President Obama issued an executive order last month that implemented the DREAM Act. A law that could not pass Congress, even when Democrats held a super-majority during Obama's first two years in office, has now been legislated by executive fiat.

And, as you could have expected, lawlessness begets lawlessness:

Union heads representing thousands of America's immigration agents slammed the Obama administration Thursday over a policy they claim is forcing officials to ignore the law and allowing illegal immigrants to exploit the system...

In a startling allegation, the president of the union representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claimed illegal immigrants are "taking advantage" of a new directive [which] ends up allowing illegal immigrants to avoid detention without any proof -- particularly so-called "dreamers," or those illegal immigrants who would benefit under the "DREAM Act" proposal, which Congress has not passed but the administration has partially implemented...


"Prosecutorial discretion for dreamers is solely based on the individual's claims. Our orders are if an alien says they went to high school, then let them go," he said at a press conference with GOP senators. "Officers have been told that there is no burden for the alien to prove anything. ... At this point we don't even know why DHS has criteria at all, as there is no requirement or burden to prove anything on the part of the alien...

Crane cited one case in which, he said, an immigrant facing criminal charges was let go under the policy. Further, he complained that officers are "under threat of losing their jobs" if they defy the policy.

Folks, we are seeing the civil society unravel right before our eyes. If we don't stop this madness in November, we may well have lost the Republic.


Hat tip: NoisyRoom.


HOLY CRAP: Jon Corzine's "MF Global", which disappeared $1.6 billion in client funds, represented by Eric Holder's law firm

Just when you think the most lawless attorney general in U.S. history has hit bottom, Eric Holder breaks out a jackhammer and starts digging through the foundation.

Those wondering why the Department of Justice has refused to go after Jon Corzine for the vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client funds need look no further than the documents uncovered by the Government Accountability Institute that reveal that the now-defunct MF Global was a client of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer’s former law firm, Covington & Burling.

...Records also reveal that MF Global’s trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy retained as its general bankruptcy counsel Morrison & Foerester--the very law firm from which Associate Attorney General Tony West came to DOJ...

...Until now, the conventional wisdom for why Holder wouldn’t throw the book at Corzine was that Corzine is an Obama campaign bundler. Indeed, as Breitbart News reported, four of the top officials at the Department of Justice--Eric Holder, Thomas Perrelli, Karol Mason, and Tony West--were also big money bundlers for Obama...


...At least 65 members of Congress have already signed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate MF Global’s collapse and the loss of $1.6 billion in customer money...

...What’s more, even progressives have begun to wonder whether Holder’s Covington & Burling connection explains why the Department of Justice has not charged, prosecuted, or jailed a single Wall Street executive after the biggest financial collapse in American history...

...More and more Washington insiders are asking a question that was considered off-limits in the nation's capital just a few months ago: Who, exactly, is Attorney General Eric Holder representing? As scandal after scandal erupts on Wall Street, involving everything from global lending manipulation to cocaine and prostitution, more and more people are worrying about Holder's seeming inaction -- or worse -- in the face of mounting evidence.

The only jobs Obama appears to be creating are roles for special prosecutors.

It's always enlightening to look back on the Republicans who supported Holder -- over the warnings voiced by conservatives who had actually researched his egregious track record. Thanks to Michelle Malkin, their names will be etched in history and include:

...Susan Collins, R-Maine, Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, ... Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., ... John McCain, R-Ariz., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, ... Olympia Snowe, R-Maine

They deserve the ridicule, the blame and the shame they've brought upon themselves and this country.

Eric Holder is a disgrace. In a just, lawful society, he would have been impeached long ago.



Eat More Chikin

Uncle Ben writes:

The anti-gay views openly espoused by the president of a fast food chain specializing in chicken sandwiches have run afoul of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a local alderman, who are determined to block Chick-fil-A from expanding in Chicago.

“Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values. They’re not respectful of our residents, our neighbors and our family members. And if you’re gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values,” Emanuel said Wednesday.

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Chicago values? What would those be? Corruption, violence, inept government, voter fraud, bad baseball teams? The list practically writes itself.

Illinois blogger Marathon Pundit ruminates along similar lines.



Great News: Clinton aide Huma Abedin tied directly to Muslim Brotherhood and the "Godfather" of Al Qaeda... post-9/11

Rep. Michele Bachmann and four other members of Congress were slammed this week and last by vintage media, Democrats and RINOs (but I repeat myself) for questioning the
influence that longtime aide Huma Abedin wields over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Abedin now serves as Deputy Chief of Staff to Clinton; Bachmann and others have questioned her family's close ties to known terrorist organizations and how she received a security clearance with such ties.

For daring to ask this perfectly reasonable question, Rep. Bachmann, Rep Gohmert and other patriotic Americans have withstood a firestorm of attacks from the likes of:

The Washington Post's editorial board ("Michele Bachmann’s baseless attack on Huma Abedin")

Slate Magazine ("Michele Bachmann Still Pushing Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Despite GOP Disaproval" [sic])

The Los Angeles Times ("Michele Bachmann's dangerous paranoia")

• And idiotic, big-government sellout RINOs like John McCain and so-called "Speaker of the House" John Boehner.

It turns out that national security expert Ryan Mauro has unveiled tangible evidence that Abedin has direct ties herself -- not just through her brother, mother and late father (as if they weren't enough) -- to violent radicals :

Her mother, Dr. Saleha Abedin, is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, the Brotherhood’s female counterpart... She is also a member of the Muslim World League, which terrorism expert Andrew McCarthy describes as “the Muslim Brotherhood’s principal vehicle for the international propagation of Islamic supremacist ideology.”

...the organization wants to get rid of laws against marital rape, permit marriage below the age of 18 and institute other elements of Sharia Law. She is also a board member of the International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief (which the group she leads is part of), a group banned in Israel because it belongs to Qaradawi’s Union of Good, a network of “charities” set up to fund Hamas. The U.S. froze the Union of Good’s assets in November 2008...


...Huma Abedin’s late father, Dr. Syed Abedin, was also intimately involved with Islamists. He led the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs based in Saudi Arabia. It is backed by the Muslim World League and is an entity of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, a very extreme Islamist group. The Institute also published Mrs. Abedin’s book. Huma herself was an assisstant editor of the Institute’s journal as far back as 1996 and as recently as 2008, which means she was there when it published her mother’s extremist book. This screenshot from September 2008 shows that Huma, her mother and brother were all simultaneously editors of the journal.

Furthermore, Walid Shoebat has now delivered ironclad proof that McCain and the other apologists for Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood were dead wrong (PDF).

Saleha Abedin is Vice Dean at Dar El-Hekma College in Saudi Arabia, Saleha was also one of the institution’s founders, along with Yaseen Abdullah Kadi—a designated terrorist by the U.S.—and members of the bin Laden family...

...Courtesy of Internet Archives, we were able to learn that Huma Abedin served as an Assistant Editor with IMMA from at least December 2, 2002—September 24, 2008. Her name fails to appear on the IMMA website some time before February 14, 2009. Presumably, Abedin left IMMA to accept her current position as Deputy Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton... Huma worked and partnered together with her family at IMMA...

...From at least December 2, 2002—December 3, 2003, none other than Abdullah Omar Naseef served on the Advisory Editorial Board [with Huma]...

On October 12, 2001, the U.S. Treasury Department designated the Rabita Trust, a charity in Pakistan "for its close ties to senior al Qaida leadership and for providing logistical and financial support to Al Qaida." The Rabita Trust was founded in 1988 by Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef, the former secretary general of the Muslim World League (MWL) in the 1980s.

...Obviously, this means that more than two years prior to Huma Abedin serving on a board with Naseef—and one month after the 9/11 attacks—Naseef was formally connected to Al-Qaeda by the U.S. Government.

...Bachmann’s argument stands; with this evidence presented, the burden of proof is on McCain to show that Huma was vetted and does not present a threat to National Security. Bachmann’s 16-page letter was not only regarding the Abedins, but “Brotherhood infiltration” in general... After examining this we believe that we provide ample proof for Huma’s involvement, ties and relationship with members of the Muslim Brotherhood... It becomes then obvious that Huma Abedin likely knew:

1—That the organization to which her family belonged was founded with the help of Al-Qaeda Godfather Abdullah Omar Naseef.
2—Her family ties existed well after IMMA’s inception, after 9/11, and well into 2006—2008 without any degrees of separation as claimed by CNN. The Abedins could not deny knowing about the widely known SAAR Network charity that Naseef managed.
3—Her mother was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Huma arranged for Hillary Clinton to speak alongside two Muslim Brotherhood members; Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin and Suheir Qureshi who is listed by Al-Dustur and Al-Jazeera as a member. The complete list, including the 12 Saudi women members and the names of all 63 members are listed here. Evidence of these being involved with the Muslim Brotherhood is overwhelming.
4—That her brother is a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) with Abdullah Omar Naseef as the Chairman of the Board at OCIS with Muslim Brotherhood Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi serving on the OCIS Board.
5—That leaving her job as editor at IMMA was necessary for her new job at the State Dept.
6—That her mother leads a group that endorses marital rape, under age marriage, and female genital mutilation...

No less an expert than John Bolton has defended Bachmann, Gohmert and other GOP representatives who are demanding an explanation of this seismic policy shift: Why are terrorists being granted access to the White House?

And does this "pivot" have anything to do with Hillary Clinton confidante Huma Abedin, who has proven and documented connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and a "Godfather" of Al Qaeda?

Or the fact that the White House approved $1.5 billion of your tax dollars going to the Nazi-aligned totalitarians known as the Muslim Brotherhood?

And as for the likes of John Boehner, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham: all three of you are embarrassments to the real Republican Party. I would urge all of you to resign, but your egos are too bloated, your sense of self-worth too inflated, and your ignorance far too pervasive to recognize the damage you are doing to this country. Suffice it to say that we will ignore you; and hope to place you on the back-benches in November.


Related: What is Islamofascism?


Larwyn's Linx: The Theater Shooter Was Caught, but the Real Joker Just Keeps On Laughing

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Nation

Theater Shooter Caught, but the Real Joker Keeps Laughing: Oleg
Congress Blasts Napolitano Over Major Security Breaches: JW
Busted: O Campaign Plants Vets at Portland Diner: GWP

What It Means To Be A Top Conservative On Twitter: CDN
Heh: White House website still says "You didn't build that!": JWF
Obama has no patience for 'you didn't build that' attacks: Politico

Mitt Romney the Bad Ass: Alexa
VFW Gives Romney STANDING O After He Hammers Obama: GWP
Idiot Mayor Walks Back ‘Police Strike’ Call: Bruce

Economy

Small businessmen push back against Obama: Power Line
DHS immigration plan could cost $585M, report says: Fox
Wasserman Snider Confirms “Once in a Lifetime” Luxury Cruise: Shark

Federal Debt Jumps More Than $1T for 5th Straight Year: CNS
"Audit the Fed" Passes the House: Hayward
Obama plays defense with dishonest campaign ad: Pundette

Scandal Central

What It Means to Make Obama’s Enemies List: MB
DOJ IG meets secretly with Gowdy, Chaffetz: 'fast and furious' report to be released 'in weeks not months': Times
Oil Group Files Second Lawsuit Over EPA Biofuel Standards: BizWk

Climate & Energy

Hockey-sticking it to the Mann: Steyn
The Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Trifecta of Doom, now with skin cancer!: WyBlog
Are Brown Jobs More Egalitarian?: Kaus

Media

Barack Hussein Obama – 2004 tax cheat? Did Obama underreport his income to IRS?: FAM
"White girl bleed a lot": Glazov
Raleigh TV station @WRAL continues to face heat over publishing of CCW database: Toldjah

The Best Quotes From Neal Boortz’s “The Terrible Truth About Liberals.”: RWN
Best “you didn’t build that” political cartoon: LI
Rep. Jason Chaffetz schools Bill O’Reilly on the Second Amendment: FAM

An open letter to Christopher Nolan, Sean Penn and Warner Brothers: Times
Obama no patience for 'you didn't build that' attacks because they're kicking his butt: Riehl
Since his false Tea Party report: Brian Ross issues only two RTs, including one of an anti-Romney story: Marathon

8 Ways Blacks Perpetuate Racism and the Only Way to Thwart It: Hudson
AWESOME: New Romney ad features NAACP members saying “We need Romney”: Scoop
Presidential Debate Schedule Set: PolWire

World

Huma Abedin: Assistant Editor of Islamist Journal: Mauro
Suppose Michele Bachmann is right?: Thomas
Levin: GOP leadership trashing Bachmann while FBI investigates over 100 suspected Islamists in military: Scoop

The Great Muslim Cover Up: Sultan Knish
Terrorist Invited To White House: HillBuzz
Transparency? Obama’s Secretive Soros-Funded Money Machine: Publius

UK’s The Sun uncovers Pakistani passport/visa scam to get terrorists into London Olympics: BNI
Iraqi ironies: Hanson
Turkey Transfers Chemical Weapons Personnel to Syrian Border: Gatestone

Sci-Tech

Hacker finds flaw in hotel locks, can ruin your vacation with $50 DIY gadget: Engadget
Learning F-35 Lessons From F-22 Oxygen Errors: DefTech
The AP's Social Media Guide Explains the Trouble with 'Liking' People: AtlWire

Cornucopia

Thoughts on the Aurora Murders and Armed Citizens: ObjStd
Your Lying Ears: And Don’t Talk About My Ears!: MOTUS
Accused murderous scumbag sent notebook to psychiatrist: report: Reuters

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QOTD: "As for you, Sean Penn, you paragon of endless moralizing, we would like to thank you, too, for underwriting last week’s ultra-violence and real-life carnage at the movie theater. One of the last scenes that 6-year-old saw in her precious life was a trailer for your movie.

In the final clip of a trailer filled with orgiastic bloodshed, you have some classy “actors” with machine guns unload from behind a movie screen into a crowd seated in a theater, watching a film. Ring a bell, Sean? Sound familiar?

I realize how busy you are, so loudly and obnoxiously jet-setting around to save the world, but do you have time to think about what you have done here? What your life amounts to at this moment? ...No, you did not pull the trigger in this case. You did not don the gas mask. But you were the inspiration, and you are the architects.

Your celebrations of diabolical mayhem and pornographic violence prey on the fantasies of sick, fragile minds. You insulated them from the painful reality of bloodshed. You have inspired mass murder. You are the Osama bin Laden of this travesty." --Charles Hurt