Tuesday, August 07, 2012
The EBT President
Joanne writes:
It's like what Texas Senatorial candidate Ted Cruz said earlier today:
Ted, it's called "The Cloward-Piven Strategy". It's time we referred to it by its proper name.
Related: "Not even the USDA knows what people are buying with food stamps"
I've attached two receipts someone gave me within the last month.
The short hand "MRBL SHT CKE" is for a decorated marble sheet cake that costs $46.99.
In both cases, each were paid with food stamps or EBT cards as they are known today.
That's right, two different people, supposedly down on their luck, paid for birthday cakes with your money. Did they get box of Betty Crocker cake mix, a container of frosting, and some eggs for less than $5 and make their own cake?
Nope! Instead, they billed a premium -- some would say non-essential -- party item to the taxpayer. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
With scanners and UPC's, items like this could easily be excluded from purchase under the EBT program. Yet, in essence, our government is subsiding the lifestyles of those on welfare.
It's like what Texas Senatorial candidate Ted Cruz said earlier today:
Right now, we’re engaged in a national debate over big government solutions versus individual responsibility and I think this issue powerfully illustrates the different approaches between President Obama and Governor Romney.
In my view, there are three critical failings behind President Obama’s new policy on welfare. Number one, it’s fiscally irresponsible. At a time when our nation has sixteen trillion dollars in national debt, the idea that this president would eliminate one of the key requirements that reduced the welfare caseload and reduced federal government spending makes no sense.
Number two, it is yet another action of executive arrogance by this president—President Obama, if he disagreed with requiring welfare recipients to work or to seek work. He could have gone to Congress. He could have proposed new legislation. He could have tried to make the case to the American people. But he did not do that. He didn’t try to make the argument to anybody that work requirements were unnecessary or were counterproductive in welfare. Instead, he simply decreed it by executive order and this has been a pattern of this administration where they believe their own ideology trumps the views of the American people.
And the third critical failing of this new policy is that it hurts the recipients of welfare. The most compelling reason behind the bipartisan welfare reform that we saw is that helping those receiving government assistance to get jobs, to stand on their own feet fundamentally transforms their lives. We are not doing anybody a favor by giving them welfare in perpetuity and making them dependent on government.
Ted, it's called "The Cloward-Piven Strategy". It's time we referred to it by its proper name.
Related: "Not even the USDA knows what people are buying with food stamps"
Geraghty: If Reid, Pelosi or Biden were struck by genuine neurological dementia, how would we be able to tell?
At the risk of ripping off borrowing too much of Jim Geraghty's latest at National Review, I can only respond by asking:
If, Jim? If? If???
We need a conservative fighter, not a squish (see: Pawlenty, Portman) or a centrist with questionable values (see: Christie).
Which is why either Marco Rubio or Allen West must be named Mitt Romney's running mate.
If, Jim? If? If???
Whomever Mitt Romney picks as his running mate, I hope that person understands the need to come out of the gate as a fighter... right now, millions of Republicans and independents feel like the world has gone crazy, and no one seems intent upon setting it right.
• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is basically making things up, claiming that “a number of people” have told him about felony-level tax evasion by Mitt Romney. (Technically, zero is a number.)
• House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declares, “it is a fact” in response to Reid’s charges and his unnamed sources, and labeling the opposition party, “the E. Coli club.”
• A new ad from President Obama’s SuperPAC declares, “Mitt Romney killed my wife.” (The man’s wife died seven years after Romney left Bain Capital.)
• The Obama “Truth Team” distributes a charge that Romney’s ad hitting Obama for changing the work requirements for welfare “has racial overtones.”
...If, God forbid, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, or Joe Biden were to be struck by genuine neurological dementia, how would we be able to tell?
...Reid, Pelosi, the president, his campaign, and his allies continue to throw out weapons-grade nonsense into the media environment with absolutely no consequence whatsoever.
...There was a time, not long ago, when if the Senate Majority Leader was going to accuse his opponents of a crime, he had to at least point to some evidence, lest he be derided as a McCarthyite, a demagogue, a liar and a toxic influence to public discourse. There was a time when presidential campaigns did not casually accuse their opponent of murder. There was a time when not every criticism of an opponent’s policy triggered a knee-jerk accusation of “racism!”
No one wonders why our political class is so disappointing. It’s because no sane person would want to step into the BS maelstrom that is modern politics... perhaps Romney thinks he can embody this by taking the high road. Perhaps he is correct... But somebody has to call out this nonsense for what it is – and I think many, many Republicans are waiting, with growing impatience, for someone to do that.
We need a conservative fighter, not a squish (see: Pawlenty, Portman) or a centrist with questionable values (see: Christie).
Which is why either Marco Rubio or Allen West must be named Mitt Romney's running mate.
Larwyn's Linx: Hometown newspaper exposes Harry Reid's scandal
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Obama’s College Classmate: ‘The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia’: Blaze
Democrats begin abandoning Reid, beg him to shut up: Lid
Hundreds of Millions in Taxpayer Losses Are Just ‘Minor Blips’: DLim
Dems Terrified They Can't Fill Seats For Obama DNC Speech : MenRec
Obama Attempts To Suppress Ohio Military Vote: IBD
160 Counties Have More Registered To Vote Than Eligible Voters: Cove
Behind Reid's Big Lie About Romney Is A Big Motive: IBD
Obama cheers Mars Rover after slashing NASA's budget: Malkin
The Incredible Shrunken Economy: Blumer
Chicago businesses close wallets to Obama this time around: ChiBiz
It Begins… Holder Justice Department Goes After Top Romney Donor: GWP
Solyndra Revelations: Time to Close the “Bank of Washington”: Foundry
Obama's War on coal totally unjustified: Vindy
Judges Rule That EPA Can't Conjure Up New Permit Veto Authority: Forbes
Obama's Radical Agenda Ruined His Chance To Be Leader: IBD
Why I've Always Written So Much With Such Intensity And why I won't stop now: BRubin
Sununu: Obama campaign definitely behind Reid’s outlandish accusation: Scoop
The Real Poll Numbers: Morris
U Mad, Bro? Obama Hates Romney Because He's Not a War Hero Or Something: Ace
My (Ohio) Neighbor, the Hamas Leader: Creeping
An Olympian Congratulations to Kirani James, Oscar Pistorius—and Össur Kristinsson: ObjStd
Sikh temple shooter said to be white supremacist: CNS
Panetta Gets Earful From Netanyahu and Barak on Iran; Wolf Blitzer, Call Your Office: Breitbart
Criticism In Iran Over Children Attending Public Executions: MEMRI
The Canter Family – Soviet Propaganda, Frank Marshall Davis, David Axelrod and Barack Obama: NoisyRm
The Ticking Time Bomb of Iran and Obama: Norris
Palestinians Balance Pursuit of Statehood With Getting Obama Re-elected: Breitbart
Yes, I was hacked hard: EmptyAge
Humans send their Curiosity to Mars!: Discover
Progressive Fast Food: Because the World Can't Wait!: Cube
Obama That I Used To Know: Just New Productions
WTF: Ace
Sports Versus Politics: Sowell
A One-Man Department of Justice: WS
Image: What is Wasserman Schultz Hiding?
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Nation
Hometown newspaper exposing Harry Reid's scandals: Nice DebObama’s College Classmate: ‘The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia’: Blaze
Democrats begin abandoning Reid, beg him to shut up: Lid
Hundreds of Millions in Taxpayer Losses Are Just ‘Minor Blips’: DLim
Dems Terrified They Can't Fill Seats For Obama DNC Speech : MenRec
Obama Attempts To Suppress Ohio Military Vote: IBD
160 Counties Have More Registered To Vote Than Eligible Voters: Cove
Behind Reid's Big Lie About Romney Is A Big Motive: IBD
Obama cheers Mars Rover after slashing NASA's budget: Malkin
Economy
Speaking Truth to Incompetence: AceThe Incredible Shrunken Economy: Blumer
Chicago businesses close wallets to Obama this time around: ChiBiz
Scandal Central
The 10 Most Revealing Solyndra Emails: FoundryIt Begins… Holder Justice Department Goes After Top Romney Donor: GWP
Solyndra Revelations: Time to Close the “Bank of Washington”: Foundry
Climate & Energy
Wind Energy Is Extraordinarily Expensive And Inefficient: WattsObama's War on coal totally unjustified: Vindy
Judges Rule That EPA Can't Conjure Up New Permit Veto Authority: Forbes
Media
WH Press Corps Goes Seven Weeks Without a Question: DossierObama's Radical Agenda Ruined His Chance To Be Leader: IBD
Why I've Always Written So Much With Such Intensity And why I won't stop now: BRubin
Sununu: Obama campaign definitely behind Reid’s outlandish accusation: Scoop
The Real Poll Numbers: Morris
U Mad, Bro? Obama Hates Romney Because He's Not a War Hero Or Something: Ace
World
Say, Remember Those WMDs Saddam Hussein Didn’t Have?: IMAOMy (Ohio) Neighbor, the Hamas Leader: Creeping
An Olympian Congratulations to Kirani James, Oscar Pistorius—and Össur Kristinsson: ObjStd
Sikh temple shooter said to be white supremacist: CNS
Panetta Gets Earful From Netanyahu and Barak on Iran; Wolf Blitzer, Call Your Office: Breitbart
Criticism In Iran Over Children Attending Public Executions: MEMRI
The Canter Family – Soviet Propaganda, Frank Marshall Davis, David Axelrod and Barack Obama: NoisyRm
The Ticking Time Bomb of Iran and Obama: Norris
Palestinians Balance Pursuit of Statehood With Getting Obama Re-elected: Breitbart
Sci-Tech
Huawei: The company that spooked the world: The EconomistYes, I was hacked hard: EmptyAge
Humans send their Curiosity to Mars!: Discover
Cornucopia
5 Differences Between Boys and Real Men: HawkinsProgressive Fast Food: Because the World Can't Wait!: Cube
Obama That I Used To Know: Just New Productions
WTF: Ace
Sports Versus Politics: Sowell
A One-Man Department of Justice: WS
Image: What is Wasserman Schultz Hiding?
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QOTD: "The difference could hardly be starker. What Obama says “has never worked” brought real per capita GDP back to its previous peak in four quarters and outperformed the Obama economy in post-recession per capita income growth by over ten percentage points.
Let’s split the difference, and assume that if Obama and his administration had done what they should have done instead of what they have done, real per capita GDP would have grown by five more points in the past three years than it actually has. If that were the case, the economy would currently be producing almost $2,400 more in goods and services (5 percent times the $47,589 trough seen in the first graph) for every man, woman, and child in America, or about $9,500 for a family of four. A majority of that would be making its way into the pockets of American workers and their families.
Instead, we have falling wages, rising poverty, dangerous levels of dependency on the government, and a previously unthinkable chance of turning into the 21st century’s Argentina. Only a change in who is in charge, accompanied by a wholesale housecleaning and permanent pruning of the federal leviathan, can alter this unsustainable situation." --Tom Blumer
Monday, August 06, 2012
Blue State Ransacking: "The fiscal mayhem has only begun."
The perfect Democrat Utopia of California -- governed by loopy environmentalists, public sector unions and La Raza -- is melting down as we speak. One editorial board in Southern California goes so far as to call the state's economic policies "Fiscal Ransacking":
It gets worse. Much worse.
What do California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York have in common? They've suffered for decades under craven Democrat governance.
Vote accordingly in November. It may be your last chance.
Related: Great News: ex-World Bank Official Says United States Debt Has Finally Achieved "Death Spiral" Status.
Californians fill ... special funds, which are separate from the state’s general fund, through fees dedicated to specific programs. The fee on bottled drinks, for example, goes toward the cost of recycling bottles and cans. These special funds account for a sizable share of state spending: $39.4 billion this fiscal year, compared to the $91.3 billion general fund budget.
A hidden stash of special fund money does signal a disturbing fiscal carelessness. But a report issued last week by the Department of Finance also suggests recklessness in the handling of this money. The document shows that the state’s general fund owes $4.3 billion to hundreds of special funds across state government. Four years ago, the general fund owed only $749 million to the special funds, but the borrowing snowballed as the economy melted.
So the billions in special fund borrowing the state eventually has to repay, for example, includes $40 million to the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund, $139 million to the Vehicle Inspection and Repair Fund and $350 million to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund. The state also has to repay hundreds of millions of dollars legislators have grabbed in recent years from a variety of transportation special funds...
...Since 2011, the state has borrowed $616 million from a disability insurance fund — dollars from a payroll tax on California workers — to make interest payments to the federal government. The state required a federal loan to pay unemployment benefits, because the state’s unemployment insurance fund has a $10 billion deficit. The Legislature helped create that mess in 2001 by boosting unemployment benefits without providing any way to fund the higher costs.
Borrowing to cover ongoing expenses is a pathway to insolvency, and a sign of political — if not actual — bankruptcy. Ransacking specially funded programs and hoping the economy improves is not a workable plan.
It gets worse. Much worse.
California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York are even securitizing their future tax revenue—that is, not merely borrowing with bonds that must be serviced but selling their projected tax collections to investors. So to "balance" their budgets today, they're making it far harder to correct them in the future and locking in higher tax rates. Even Greece doesn't do that.
The message of the Ravitch-Volcker report is that some large portion of the states are replicating the dysfunctions of Washington—adding to entitlements that crowd out priorities like schools and bridges, and then concealing the real danger when they're not ignoring it. State and local governments now spend $2.5 trillion, and rising. Without 49 more Scott Walkers, the fiscal mayhem has only begun.
What do California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York have in common? They've suffered for decades under craven Democrat governance.
Vote accordingly in November. It may be your last chance.
Related: Great News: ex-World Bank Official Says United States Debt Has Finally Achieved "Death Spiral" Status.
Elegant: Serena Williams celebrates her dominating Olympic performance with... "The Crip Walk"
And all this time, I thought tennis was supposed to be the classiest of sports.
Serena Williams dropped it like it was hot on Saturday, celebrating her first singles gold medal by performing an impromptu crip walk, a short dance move popularized by gang members in her hometown of Compton.
The move mostly passed by without incident because crip walk controversies date from the same era in which a bare bottom on "NYPD Blue" was considered risque. The dance was just a dance, a nice homage to Serena's hometown. But then someone overreacted and ginned up a phony controversy on this side of the Atlantic and now the very fabric of our culture is threatened because Serena chose to do a rhythmic shout-out.
Hey, it's great that Serena won a gold medal for the U.S.
I'm just not sure about the wisdom of turning each tennis match into an NFL touchdown celebration.
Hat tip: BadBlue.
The Real Poll Numbers: Don't Believe Vintage Media's Lies
Dick Morris does the heavy lifting that the Democrat-infested vintage media can't be trusted with.
The ludicrous Taegan Goddard hardest hit.
Related: That's a bold strategy, Cotton: Obama campaign appears to have spotted Mitt Romney the state of Indiana.
The media is trying to create a sense of momentum and of inevitability about the Obama candidacy. One benighted Newsweek reporter even speculated about a possible Democratic landslide.
On Friday, I saw the real numbers. These state-by-state polls, taken by an organization I trust (after forty years of polling) show the real story. The tally is based on more than 600 likely voter interviews in each swing state within the past eight days.
The trend line is distinctly pro-Romney. Of the thirteen states studied, he improved or Obama slipped in nine states while the reverse happened in only four. To read the media, one would think that Romney had a terrible month. In fact, the exact reverse is true.
Romney is currently leading in every state McCain carried plus: Indiana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, and Colorado. If he carries these states, he'll have 228 electoral votes of the 270 he needs to win.
To win the election, Romney would then have to carry Florida where he trails by two points, and either Virginia (behind by two) or Ohio where he's down by only one.
If he carries all three of these states and also wins all the others where Obama is now at 50% or less - Iowa, New Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey -- he will get 351 electoral votes, a landslide about equal to Obama's 363 vote tally in 2008.
The strong probability is that Romney does, in fact, carry Florida, Ohio, and Virginia and a share of the other states where Obama is below 50% of the vote.
So don't believe the garbage being put out by the media. The attempt to portray Romney as not catching on and as dropping in the polls is ludicrous. It is, at best, the product of incompetent polling and, at worst, the result of deliberate media bias. But Romney is winning and expanding his lead each week. That's the real story.
The ludicrous Taegan Goddard hardest hit.
Related: That's a bold strategy, Cotton: Obama campaign appears to have spotted Mitt Romney the state of Indiana.
Billboard Campaign o' the Day: Stop Digging
I like the idea.
If you care to donate to the campaign, click here.
Oh. And there's always my favorite bumper-sticker, which isn't affiliated with the billboard campaign:
Bankrupting America, a project of Public Notice, today announced the posting of 48 billboards in 10 different states across the country highlighting the harmful impact of America’s skyrocketing national debt and urging policymakers in Washington to take meaningful action to cut spending. This is part of Bankrupting America’s “Stop Digging” campaign sending the message to Congress and the president to focus on reducing the debt in the run-up to the November elections.
...The billboards are located in major media markets in Ohio, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. Three different designs, titled “Not-So-Sweet 16,” “$16 Trillion in the Hole,” and “The Debt Falls on Their Shoulders” – each conveying the severity of our fiscal crisis – will run from Aug. 6 through Sept. 30.
If you care to donate to the campaign, click here.
Oh. And there's always my favorite bumper-sticker, which isn't affiliated with the billboard campaign:
Larwyn's Linx: Questions Harry Reid won’t answer, part I
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‘Pretty Much a Hate Crime’--7 Dead in Sikh Temple Shooting : RSM
Chick-fil-A and "Free Water": Ace
The Wealthy Liberal Elite: AK Dart
238-Acre Beach to be Shut Down for Obama Fundraisers: Powers
Ted Cruz at #RSG12 gives credit to Marco Rubio and bloggers: RS
The Morphing of the Tea Party: Cary
The Reparation Agenda: Obama’s religion of reparations: RBO2
Sikh Temple Shooting Already Being Blamed on Republicans: LoneCon
The Big Boob Conundrum: Koch's Tour
Fiscal Ransacking: Press-Enterprise
Obama's Solution To Housing Problems: Repeat Same Mistakes: RWN
Unions, GOP raise alarm on Obama's amnesty power-grab: Events
Built By Obama: What You See Is Not What You Get: Cube
John McLaughlin: New Solyndra Revelations 'Will Become Damaging to Obama's Reelection': NB
Rahm 'Super Hot for This'—the Mayor's Role in Solyndra: ChicagoMag
James Hansen Blames Every Weather Event On Hotcoldwetdry: Cove
Inhofe Asks EPA to Withdraw Greenhouse Gas Regulations: Power Engineering
It’s Not What Global Warming Looks Like, It’s What Mother Nature Looks Like.: Elephant
Climate Realist Quote Of The Day: Cove
Military adding more electric vehicles to fleet: Stars & Stripes
David Plouffe: Democrats Have the Momentum: Ace
Reuters suffers double hack: Register
NRA, Republicans, Tea-Party and Christians get blamed for Sikh Temple shooting on Twitter (as usual): FAM
How to Politicize a Tragedy: Sooper
Harry Reid Is A Corrupt, Dirty Lying Suspected Pederast: Riehl
Two administration in one: Summer of Recovery Edition: Driscoll
Jenna Jameson Speaks Her Mind, Proggies Attack: RWN
Team Obama Refuses To Repudiate Reid's Lies: YouTube
“We Need Leaders, Not Appeasers”: GoV
Gunman kills 6 in rampage at Sikh temple in WI: Post
Rumsfeld: 'If I were Israel, I wouldn't tell the US before I attacked Iran' : Matzav
Are American Jews Feeling Buyer’s Remorse?: Power Line
Israeli officials slam Obama's 'wretched' Iran red line: ynet
Obama's '08 campaign manager got $100K from Iranian affiliate : Matzav
IDF in heavy firefight with terrorists on Gaza border: JPost
Islamists kill 15 Egyptians, Israel strikes attackers: Reuters
NASA rover reaches surface of Mars: Post
15 handy Twitter tips and tricks: TechRadar
Birthday Blues: MOTUS
1 dead, 9 injured in lightning strike at Pocono: 6-ABC
Image: Sondrakistan
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Nation
Questions Harry Reid won’t answer, part I: Hot Air‘Pretty Much a Hate Crime’--7 Dead in Sikh Temple Shooting : RSM
Chick-fil-A and "Free Water": Ace
The Wealthy Liberal Elite: AK Dart
238-Acre Beach to be Shut Down for Obama Fundraisers: Powers
Ted Cruz at #RSG12 gives credit to Marco Rubio and bloggers: RS
The Morphing of the Tea Party: Cary
The Reparation Agenda: Obama’s religion of reparations: RBO2
Sikh Temple Shooting Already Being Blamed on Republicans: LoneCon
Economy
70 Econ Facts Obama Doesn’t Want You To See: BlazeThe Big Boob Conundrum: Koch's Tour
Fiscal Ransacking: Press-Enterprise
Obama's Solution To Housing Problems: Repeat Same Mistakes: RWN
Unions, GOP raise alarm on Obama's amnesty power-grab: Events
Built By Obama: What You See Is Not What You Get: Cube
Scandal Central
The Hysteria In Mexico Caused By Fast & Furious: BreitbartJohn McLaughlin: New Solyndra Revelations 'Will Become Damaging to Obama's Reelection': NB
Rahm 'Super Hot for This'—the Mayor's Role in Solyndra: ChicagoMag
Climate & Energy
EPA Moving to Control All Water in the United States: SentinelJames Hansen Blames Every Weather Event On Hotcoldwetdry: Cove
Inhofe Asks EPA to Withdraw Greenhouse Gas Regulations: Power Engineering
It’s Not What Global Warming Looks Like, It’s What Mother Nature Looks Like.: Elephant
Climate Realist Quote Of The Day: Cove
Military adding more electric vehicles to fleet: Stars & Stripes
Media
Some Things Never Change: DriscollDavid Plouffe: Democrats Have the Momentum: Ace
Reuters suffers double hack: Register
NRA, Republicans, Tea-Party and Christians get blamed for Sikh Temple shooting on Twitter (as usual): FAM
How to Politicize a Tragedy: Sooper
Harry Reid Is A Corrupt, Dirty Lying Suspected Pederast: Riehl
Two administration in one: Summer of Recovery Edition: Driscoll
Jenna Jameson Speaks Her Mind, Proggies Attack: RWN
Team Obama Refuses To Repudiate Reid's Lies: YouTube
World
Captain Bullcrap Steps On Himself: RS“We Need Leaders, Not Appeasers”: GoV
Gunman kills 6 in rampage at Sikh temple in WI: Post
Rumsfeld: 'If I were Israel, I wouldn't tell the US before I attacked Iran' : Matzav
Are American Jews Feeling Buyer’s Remorse?: Power Line
Israeli officials slam Obama's 'wretched' Iran red line: ynet
Obama's '08 campaign manager got $100K from Iranian affiliate : Matzav
IDF in heavy firefight with terrorists on Gaza border: JPost
Islamists kill 15 Egyptians, Israel strikes attackers: Reuters
Sci-Tech
Why Internet Pirates Always Win: SlashdotNASA rover reaches surface of Mars: Post
15 handy Twitter tips and tricks: TechRadar
Cornucopia
NASA's Curiosity Mars landing successful, first pictures trickling in (video): EngadgetBirthday Blues: MOTUS
1 dead, 9 injured in lightning strike at Pocono: 6-ABC
Image: Sondrakistan
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QOTD: "Sometimes, and in some places, in California I think we have nearly descended into Miller’s dark vision [of The Road Warrior] — especially the juxtaposition of occasional high technology with premodern notions of law and security. The state deficit is at $16 billion. Stockton went bankrupt; Fresno is rumored to be next. Unemployment stays over 10% and in the Central Valley is more like 15%. Seven out of the last eleven new Californians went on Medicaid, which is about broke. A third of the nation’s welfare recipients are in California. In many areas, 40% of Central Valley high school students do not graduate — and do not work, if the latest crisis in finding $10 an hour agricultural workers is any indication. And so on...
...Illegal immigration did its share. No society can successfully absorb some 6-7 million illegal aliens, in less than two decades, the vast majority without English, legality, or education from the poorer provinces of Mexico, the arrivals subsidized by state entitlements while sending billions in remittances back to Mexico — all in a politicized climate where dissent is demonized as racism. This state of affairs is especially true when the host has given up on assimilation, integration, the melting pot, and basic requirements of lawful citizenship." --Victor Davis Hanson
Sunday, August 05, 2012
EXCLUSIVE PHOTO Must Credit @directorblue: Alleged Harry Reid Pederasty Victim Comes Forward!
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - With rumors of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's pederasty flying fast and furious, at least one reported victim has come forward.
At their request, we are protecting the victim's identity. However, the victim did visit our offices in Las Vegas to offer details of Reid's alleged crimes.
"Reid promised to take me to his own 'amusement park' and that we would get to ride on a really awesome new ride called 'The Sphincter'.
"Of course, we didn't really go to an amusement park and I later found out there isn't any ride called 'The Sphincter'.
* * * * * * * * * Only one question remains: when will Senator Reid address these disgusting allegations?
At their request, we are protecting the victim's identity. However, the victim did visit our offices in Las Vegas to offer details of Reid's alleged crimes.
"Reid promised to take me to his own 'amusement park' and that we would get to ride on a really awesome new ride called 'The Sphincter'.
"Of course, we didn't really go to an amusement park and I later found out there isn't any ride called 'The Sphincter'.
That's a bold strategy, Cotton: Obama campaign appears to have spotted Mitt Romney the state of Indiana
David "Red Diaper Baby" Axelrod hardest hit:
Aside from Rasmussen, I don't trust any of these polls that show Obama leading Romney.
My suspicion is that we will see the return of "The Bradley Effect" come November, as the most racially divisive president and attorney general in history are pink-slipped.
Hat tip: BadBlue.
Four years ago, President Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Indiana. He looks unlikely to repeat that feat.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds challenger Mitt Romney picking up 51% of the vote while the president earns just 35%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and 11% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The Indiana survey of 400 Likely Voters was conducted July 31-August 1, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
Aside from Rasmussen, I don't trust any of these polls that show Obama leading Romney.
My suspicion is that we will see the return of "The Bradley Effect" come November, as the most racially divisive president and attorney general in history are pink-slipped.
Hat tip: BadBlue.
Crikeys: Former Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Demands the President Release His College Transcripts
This morning on State of the Union, former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs took a surprising stand and issued a demand that his old boss release his college records.
Gibbs' exact statement: "Put [them] out... Candy, have you ever, have you ever seen anybody go to such great lengths to not put something out? When you generally don't put something out, isn't it because you're generally hiding something?
This may not be a precise transcript of Gibbs' comments because my dogs were barking during the show. But I'm pretty sure Robert Gibbs just insisted that Barack Obama reveal how he was admitted to top-notch, Ivy League schools despite his self-admitted drug abuse in high school. And Gibbs went on to ask that Obama's campaign reveal the president's grades.
Thank you, Robert Gibbs: the American people deserve to know. End the hiding, Mr. President.
Gibbs' exact statement: "Put [them] out... Candy, have you ever, have you ever seen anybody go to such great lengths to not put something out? When you generally don't put something out, isn't it because you're generally hiding something?
This may not be a precise transcript of Gibbs' comments because my dogs were barking during the show. But I'm pretty sure Robert Gibbs just insisted that Barack Obama reveal how he was admitted to top-notch, Ivy League schools despite his self-admitted drug abuse in high school. And Gibbs went on to ask that Obama's campaign reveal the president's grades.
Thank you, Robert Gibbs: the American people deserve to know. End the hiding, Mr. President.
Larwyn's Linx: “Social Justice” is a Con
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The Speed of Progressivism: Knish
Obama: Negative ratings in 37 states, but king of DC: Exam
Obama Using DREAM Act to Enforce Full Open Border Policy: Sentinel
The Illegals’ Charge To Stay In The U.S. = $465: RWN
White House Proposes Race-Based School Discipline System: CFP
My Black Dad and Chick-fil-A: Marcus
Obama Fundraisers Deny Thousands a Day at the Beach: Dossier
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Vic Stacy: MB
Interview With A High-Frequency Trader: ZH
Birthday Golf for Obama (104 rounds so far): WS
Debt Bomb, The Musical (NSFW): TPC
Bailed-Out GM Spends $170MM on British Soccer: SHN
Tricare defends fee hikes in face of $708m surplus: This Ain't Hell
How President Obama Is Using Your Address: PolMath
Antoine Dodson: ‘The gay community — we have went from being bullied to becoming bullies’: DC
NBC Apologizes for Olympic Ad Placement: Powers
Liberal Graphic: “You’ll Never See That Many Christians Lined Up To Help At A Food Bank”: Hawkins
What Unemployment Rate Increase? Headline Writers Avoid Friday's Reported Uptick; AP Scrubs Rates: Blumer
The Best Question for Chik-fil-A Haters: IMAO
Top Ten Best Looking Right Wing Websites : Waznmentobe
Syrian Rebel Video Claims to Show Captured Iranians: AP
Eye on Iran and Syria, Israel hardens missile shield: Reuters
IAF to receive upgraded Arrow interceptor soon: JPost
Syria conflict: Heavy fighting stepped up in Aleppo: BBC
Lithuania Warned Over Crowd Racism at Basketball: WSJ
Franken doesn’t believe AT&T should be able to charge extra for FaceTime: 9to5mac
I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code—what now?: Ars
Harry Reid Fathers Two Cubs With Underage Occupy Girl: Cube
“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”: Teresa in Fort Worth
Image: Support for Chick-Fil-A Rachel
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Breaking: “Occupy the Truth” March 8/18 Set For Cleveland, Ohio!
Nation
“Social Justice” is a Con: XCVThe Speed of Progressivism: Knish
Obama: Negative ratings in 37 states, but king of DC: Exam
Obama Using DREAM Act to Enforce Full Open Border Policy: Sentinel
The Illegals’ Charge To Stay In The U.S. = $465: RWN
White House Proposes Race-Based School Discipline System: CFP
My Black Dad and Chick-fil-A: Marcus
Obama Fundraisers Deny Thousands a Day at the Beach: Dossier
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Vic Stacy: MB
Economy
ABC's unemployment report deals with... Romney’s taxes: ScoopInterview With A High-Frequency Trader: ZH
Birthday Golf for Obama (104 rounds so far): WS
Debt Bomb, The Musical (NSFW): TPC
Bailed-Out GM Spends $170MM on British Soccer: SHN
Tricare defends fee hikes in face of $708m surplus: This Ain't Hell
Scandal Central
IRS sent 5 billion, with a “B”, to identity thieves: Q&OHow President Obama Is Using Your Address: PolMath
Antoine Dodson: ‘The gay community — we have went from being bullied to becoming bullies’: DC
Climate & Energy
Harry Reid Wants to Raise the Electricity Rates on His Own State to Help His Son: LoneConMedia
Tennessee Democrat Party Denounces Democrat Senate Candidate: RSMNBC Apologizes for Olympic Ad Placement: Powers
Liberal Graphic: “You’ll Never See That Many Christians Lined Up To Help At A Food Bank”: Hawkins
What Unemployment Rate Increase? Headline Writers Avoid Friday's Reported Uptick; AP Scrubs Rates: Blumer
The Best Question for Chik-fil-A Haters: IMAO
Top Ten Best Looking Right Wing Websites : Waznmentobe
World
Criticizing Religion (Read: Islam) May Become a U.S. Criminal Offense: RadicalSyrian Rebel Video Claims to Show Captured Iranians: AP
Eye on Iran and Syria, Israel hardens missile shield: Reuters
IAF to receive upgraded Arrow interceptor soon: JPost
Syria conflict: Heavy fighting stepped up in Aleppo: BBC
Lithuania Warned Over Crowd Racism at Basketball: WSJ
Sci-Tech
Nerve Cell Transplant Clinical Trial for Spinal Cord Injury Approved: First ThingsFranken doesn’t believe AT&T should be able to charge extra for FaceTime: 9to5mac
I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code—what now?: Ars
Cornucopia
It’s Half Time in America: Are You Feeling Lucky?: MOTUSHarry Reid Fathers Two Cubs With Underage Occupy Girl: Cube
“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”: Teresa in Fort Worth
Image: Support for Chick-Fil-A Rachel
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Breaking: “Occupy the Truth” March 8/18 Set For Cleveland, Ohio!
QOTD: "The idea that the office on the corner will always be able to dispense Government Cheese does not reflect the normal historical experience. Rather it reflects that peculiar period of stability and prosperity which followed the end of the Second World War: the Pax Americana, which the Left hates. Our civilizational attitudes have been formed on the basis of the exception, not the rule.
But though they may hate the Pax Americana, the Greens probably can’t live without it. Can’t live without the Ipods, the connectivity, the store-bought food, the cafe-bought lattes — all the ugly things made by private industry. And by paring down the redundancies in the system as wasteful and unsightly; by reducing the energy reserves of the system in favor of such fairy schemes as windmills and carbon trading the Greens have made the system far less robust than it could have been. Because they are never going to need the Design Margin. Ever. Until they do." --Richard Fernandez
Saturday, August 04, 2012
David Plouffe: Obama has "Clear momentum" on the economy
Obama adviser David Fluff says "The president and Democrats in Congress move into the August recess with clear momentum on the question of who to trust on taxes."
Indeed they do.
Hat tip: JWR.
Indeed they do.
Hat tip: JWR.
Photo: Female Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen looks perfectly natural to me
Oops. My bad. This is a photo of Vera De Milo.
On the other hand, this is Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen:
She looks perfectly natural to me, though she was reportedly ejected from a Tesco store for carrying around a six pack and two guns.
I'll be here all week. Remember to try the roast beef special... and to tip your waitresses.
On the other hand, this is Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen:
More than a few eyebrows were raised when Ye Shiwen, a 16-year-old Chinese swimmer, knocked five seconds off her personal best in the 400-meter individual medley. She even swam the last lap faster than [male] U.S. medal winner Ryan Lochte.
Commentators watching the race called it "unbelievable." But John Leonard, head of the American Swimming Coaches Association, went a big step further, saying her race "was reminiscent of some old East German swimmer."
... "If there are suspicions, then please lay them out using facts and data," Xu Qi, head of the Chinese swimming team. told the state news agency Xinhua. "Don't use your own suspicions to knock down others. This shows lack of respect for athletes and for Chinese swimming."
The final world from Olympic officials cleared the Chinese swimmer's name.
"She's clean. That's the end of the story," said Colin Moynihan, chairman of the British Olympic Association reporting on the results of official drug tests.
She looks perfectly natural to me, though she was reportedly ejected from a Tesco store for carrying around a six pack and two guns.
I'll be here all week. Remember to try the roast beef special... and to tip your waitresses.
Who knew? The Hill's Amie Parnes says that rising unemployment numbers help Obama!
Someone named "Amie Parnes", if that is his/her/its real name, posted an inadvertently comic article at The Hill entitled "As jobs picture improves, so do Obama reelection chances."
The latest jobs numbers, however, were a disaster.
Not only did the "official" unemployment number (or U-3) jump up a notch to 8.3 percent, but the real picture is far more dire. Mike Shedlock explains.
That's not all: James Pethokoukis relays a chart from the St. Louis Federal Reserve (above) that highlights the awesome failure of the Obama-Democrats: the economy needs to create 11 million jobs to return the country to Bush administration numbers.
And, as real journalists know, the true U-3 unemployment rate is in double digits.
Forward!
As for Blaming Bush: it never gets old for President SCOAMF. Every time he does it, he's simply telling us he doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
But you already knew that.
The latest jobs numbers, however, were a disaster.
Not only did the "official" unemployment number (or U-3) jump up a notch to 8.3 percent, but the real picture is far more dire. Mike Shedlock explains.
This month, those "not" in the labor force increased by 348,000 to 88,340,000, another record high. If you are not in the labor force, you are not counted as unemployed... In the last year, those "not" in the labor force rose by 2,027,000...
Over the past several years people have dropped out of the labor force at an astounding, almost unbelievable rate, holding the unemployment rate artificially low...
Given the complete distortions of reality with respect to not counting people who allegedly dropped out of the work force, it is easy to misrepresent the headline numbers.
Digging under the surface, the drop in the unemployment rate over the past two years is nothing but a statistical mirage. Things are much worse than the reported numbers indicate.
That's not all: James Pethokoukis relays a chart from the St. Louis Federal Reserve (above) that highlights the awesome failure of the Obama-Democrats: the economy needs to create 11 million jobs to return the country to Bush administration numbers.
And, as real journalists know, the true U-3 unemployment rate is in double digits.
Once again, a bad jobs report comes out, and both the White House and the media trumpet it as "good" news and a sign the economy's turning around. It is in fact a dismal jobs report, as the numbers clearly show.
On the surface, the headline numbers don't look so bad. The Labor Department reported that U.S. businesses created 163,000 net new payroll jobs in July, while the unemployment rate was "essentially unchanged" at 8.3%.
No sooner had the numbers come out than President Obama was standing at a podium before the cameras, claiming credit for the job growth and again blaming former President Bush for the bad state of the economy.
"This morning we learned that our businesses created 172,000 new jobs in the month of July," he said... But "we" haven't in fact created any jobs. As a matter of fact, since Obama has entered office, some 1.1 million payroll jobs have disappeared.
This year, businesses have created 151,000 new jobs a month on average — way below the 300,000-plus per month job creation in a typical recovery-expansion.
If that still sounds good, understand this: Just to keep up with the natural rate of growth in the workforce, the economy has to create about 130,000 new jobs a month. So at this rate, it'll take us four years and four months just to get back to the number of jobs we had in 2007.
Sound like progress to you?
Forward!
As for Blaming Bush: it never gets old for President SCOAMF. Every time he does it, he's simply telling us he doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
But you already knew that.
Obamanomics: Ryan Lochte's parents face foreclosure in Florida
And if the Dissociative Press says it, it must be true:
As most folks who live in the real world know, the American economy remains in the Obama Depression.
The parents of U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte are facing foreclosure in Florida.
According to a lawsuit filed in May in Volusia County, CitiMortgage is suing to foreclose on Steven and Ileana Lochte. The bank is seeking to recoup $250,000. The news was first reported by TMZ.
Court records show that Ileana Lochte asked the court to dismiss the case last month. Messages left Saturday for her attorney were not immediately returned.
The Lochtes divorced last year. Court records did not show whether Steven Lochte had an attorney. Both parents have been in London recently to watch their son compete.
Ryan Lochte has won five medals, including two gold medals, in swimming events at the London Olympics.
As most folks who live in the real world know, the American economy remains in the Obama Depression.
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