Monday, August 13, 2012

Truly Terrifying Quote o' the Day

No additional setup is required:

Obama: "A New Vision Of An America In Which Prosperity Is Shared"


"Too many folks still don't have a sense that tomorrow will be better than today. And so, the question in this election is which way do we go?" President Obama asked at a fundraiser in Chicago on Sunday.

"Do we go forward towards a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared?" Obama asked. "Or do we go backward to the same policies that got us in the mess in the first place?"

"I believe we have to go forward," Obama said. "I believe we have to keep working to create an America where no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, no matter what your last name is, no matter who you love, you can make it here if you try. That's what's at stake in November. That's what is why I am running for a second term as president of the United States of America."

"Shared prosperity" is collectivism. Statism. Marxism. It means taking from those who produce goods and services to fund those who don't, which is certainly outside any legitimate function of government under the United States Constitution.

I wouldn't be all that concerned except... collectivism has failed every time it's ever been tried in all of human history, from Plato's Republic to the Soviet Union. It leads to despotism and tyranny, as surely as night follows day.


Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

As Seniors Flock to Paul Ryan and Fiscal Sanity, Axelrod Campaign Dials Smear-Ray Setting to "100"

David Axelrod just ran to the bathroom to change his Depends: "Ryan’s Popularity Among Seniors Up 18% Since Saturday."

Despite the shameless demagoguery already on display it appears Paul Ryan is quite popular among seniors: As noted, seniors are of interest given Ryan’s proposal to revamp Medicare with a system in which the government would give older Americans a fixed sum with which to buy insurance. They moved in Ryan’s favor, from a 28-28 percent favorable-unfavorable view prospectively to 46-28 percent this weekend. Again a sizable number, 26 percent, are undecided; debate over Ryan’s position on Medicare may inform their views.

Oh, and then there's this report from Roll Call ("Retirees Shower Paul Ryan With Contributions"):

Democrats say presumptive GOP vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan is a senior citizen's worst nightmare, but retirees seem to have no problem writing him checks.

One of the most prolific fundraisers in Congress, Ryan has drawn nearly $400,000 from retirees this election cycle, dramatically outperforming most House lawmakers, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The seven-term Wisconsin Congressman and House Budget chairman has come under fire for the controversial budget proposal he released last year that called for dramatically reshaping Medicare and repealing President Barack Obama's health care law. The plan would transition Medicare into a voucher-like system by 2022 and strike the 2010 health care law

Let me guess the theme of Axelrod's next ad... wait, I've got it! Paul Ryan... killed a man in Reno... just to watch him die.


Images hat tip: NakedDC.


Larwyn's Linx: Romney's Declaration of War

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Nation

Romney's Declaration of War: Rahe
America and Divine Intervention: Marcus
Awww. Poor Obama. Paul Ryan is stealing all of his thunder.: Sarah

Empty Pledges and Broken Promises As "No-man-there" in Chief: Riehl
This is what 2012 looks like: LI
Admission is $51, and the room is only half full at Obama fundraiser: Twitchy

Rasmussen Today: Ace
Obama Birthday Party BUST – Pics Show Empty Room: Sooper
Forget the Pollsters. Ask Your Vegas Odds Maker: PatriotUpdate

Economy

Romney-Ryan Ticket Puts Entitlement Crisis at Center of Campaign: Barone
States Exempt Labor Unions from Stalking, Trespassing Laws: Foundry
Dems in Panic Mode After RNC Raises $3.5MM Following Ryan Pick: GWP

What, Me Work?: Riehl
Boom and Zoom Vs Turn and Burn: Fernandez
Beyond Boycotting, Upset Unions to Picket DNC’s Charlotte Convention: RS

Scandal Central

Darrell Issa to Sue Eric Holder Monday: Roll Call
Solyndra: A Tale of Socialist-like Takeovers of Private Enterprise: Sentinel
As Another Fisker Karma Spontaneously Combusts, "Green" Dreams Go Up In Smoke: ZH

Climate & Energy

Does Drilling in ANWR Make More Sense than the Alaskan Offshore?: RS
Now Even Geothermal Energy Is Verboten By Climate Weenies: RWN
Weird Details of the United Nation’s Creepy, Cult-Like Environmental Religion: CFP

Media

Tom Friedman – Mistaken or Misleading?: Ettinger
Running scared: Obama frantically tweets ‘FACTS’ about Ryan; citizens respond with truth: Twitchy
Scores of women mysteriously appear at Romney/Ryan rally, Andrea Mitchell stumped: Malkin

National Review's Rich Lowry Destroys MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Meet the Press: NB
#RomneyRyan Ohio: Shout It Out Loud!: RSM
Something You’ll Never See in a Pro-Obama Ad: Powers

Sarah Palin: We’ve got Paul Ryan’s back and will call out the media for their lies and distortions: Scoop
Go Home, Barry: BCB
Cops Shoot and Kill Knife Weilding Maniac in Times Square – One Down, Many, Many More to Go: iOTW

#DebbieDoesntKnow: Wasserman Schultz’s latest lie sparks pointing and snickering mockery: Twitchy
Ryan hunting pics driving libs nuts: Reagnite (language warning)
Democrats back off claim Romney causes cancer: Power Line

World

The IDF's Egyptian fiasco: Glick
HAMAS Leader Takes A Break From Israel Bashing To Get Life-Saving Treatment In Israel For Relative: Jawa
Sharia in action in France: Muslima lifts veil because of the heat, husband breaks her jaw: JihadWatch

A Mosque Is Not Like a Church or a Synagogue: AT
Paul Ryan on Israel: RWN
Muslims Riot in India: Atlas

Sci-Tech

All signs point to new Kindles as Amazon discounts and discontinues older models: Verge
Diagram of next iPhone’s internals puts leaked parts in context: 9to5Mac
Pentagon bankrolls new worm: Sophos

Cornucopia

Music Video: Anti-Obama Road Signs: TAB
Paul Ryan gets in Obama’s kitchen: MOTUS
This is Totally Your Father's Oldsmobile: Ace

Image: Collection of Romney-Ryan 2012 Campaign Graphics
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Kennedy's Angels

QOTD: "The political press and President Obama alike claim they want a campaign about big ideas, an adult debate about policy differences. Now they’ve got it in spite of, not because of, Barack Obama. With Ryan on the ticket, the debate should no longer be about contraception and the deferred cancer-causing capabilities of Bain investments.

It will be about the budget and the $16-trillion debt, the unsustainable trajectory of the federal government and the promises it’s already breaking to generations to come. It will be about Simpson-Bowles and a federal government that hasn’t even bothered to pass a budget since before the iPad existed. It will be about how four years of grossly increased spending has stimulated us into the worst recovery in American history, unless you happen to be an Obama donor or crony. It will be about how creating new entitlement programs cannot possibly fix the ones that are already broken. And, it will be about whether we value an ever more dependent society or an ever more successful one." --Mary Katherine Ham, via Ace

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Scrubbed: Evidence Stanley Kurtz was right about Barack Obama's plot to destroy suburbia

Most. Transparent. Administration. Evah!

A photo of President Obama was suddenly pulled from the website of the group Building One America, whose goals were documented extensively in Stanley Kurtz’s book Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities. The book, which was released ten days ago, reveals what Kurtz refers to as Obama’s plan to undercut the political and economic independence of America's suburbs. Kurtz connects current Obama administration policy with his personal history, and with groups like Building One America in particular.


This website shows a cached viewof how the BuildingOneAmerica.org site looked on July 19th, 2012 -- with a photo of President Obama talking to Building One America’s President Mike Kruglik, which was taken during a 2011 meeting held at the White House. Kruglik’s official biography on the Building One America sitedescribes him thusly:

He has been developing grass-roots citizens’ power organizations since 1973 with the Industrial Areas Foundation, the Gamaliel Foundation and Building One America.

And also says:

From 1984 to 1998, he was co-director of the Calumet Community Religious Conference, the community organization that recruited and hired Barack Obama as a community organizer. Mr. Kruglik’s role as Barack Obama’s mentor has been chronicled in a number of works of history and periodicals.

Who is Kruglik and what is his agenda? Reviewer James R. Holland provides the backdrop:

Kurtz details how Obama has long believed that the residents who fled the cities are racists and need to be dragged back into the cities to help solve the problems festering there. If Obama's plans for this forced redistribution became common knowledge, then it would be cause his re-election campaign to crash and burn...

...For those naïve suburban voters who have only been paying attention to mainstream media, if following the news at all, they don't realize that the so-called trillion-dollar stimulus plan was really just a poverty program that was intentionally mis-named to fool the voters. That's why it had almost no effect and certainly produced no improvements.

For more than two decades, Obama and his fellow radical community activists, agitators have been working toward punishing all those people who voted with their feet and fled the cities and left them filled with only poor and minority residents. "Suburbs are for sellouts...For Obama, the suburbs are a defect in the very structure of American life. That is why the president backs his old friends' movement to abolish them."

"'We are battling apartheid in America.' So said Obama's onetime organizing mentor Mike Kruglik in 2005, explaining the philosophy behind his crusade for regional equity. At the the time, Kruglik was directing the regionalist efforts of the Gamaliel Foundation, a national network of community organizations that Obama himself had helped launch in the mid-1980s. Today Kruglik leads the Gamailied offshoot Building One American, which fights for regionalism in partnerships with the Obama White House, although few Americans have any idea that this is the case."

To the radicals, those suburban racists deserve to have their wealth taken away from them and given to the less fortunate but Obama can't publicly proclaim the details of the regulations to abolish the suburbs because, "Much of Obama's base, to say nothing of independents, would be alienated by the regionalist agenda; this explains the president's reticence. Openness about his antisuburban goals would expose Obama as standing to the left of many of his supporters. Middle-class African Americans and modestly successful suburbanites now disposed to vote for the president might think twice if they knew what Obama had in store for them."

"Kruglik and Obama plan to overcome this liability by splitting the suburbs against themselves, creating an alliance between cities and the relatively less well-off inner-ring suburbs."

They hope to achieve this basic change in America by expanding cities into regions that will all come under the control of the nearest cities. Obama and his allies consider everything about the suburbs to be bad. That's where the money has fled. That's where the SUV's and autos pollute the environment. That's where valuable farmland and forests are absorbed to build more urban sprawl. The suburbanites need to be dragged back into the cities and their love affair with the car crushed.

Mass transit is intended to stop the building of highways in order to help eliminate the use of automobiles. The health care laws are really designed to help bring about the redistribution of wealth from the suburbs to the poor.

This is an important goal of Obama and the leftists and if Obama serves another term, he will be able to punish the middle and upper class residents living outside the problems of American cities.

Lest you think all of this sounds outlandish, I encourage you to tick off the items on the checklist.


9 Cool Romney-Ryan Graphics

The one at top right is a contribution from the class warrior Marxists at The Daily Beast, although I don't think it conveys what they'd hoped.


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Another Obama-funded electric car goes up in flames, endangers entire neighborhood with massive blaze

Fisker Automotive, which absconded with $530 million of your money to build $100,000 electric cars in Finland, has encountered a series of all-too-predictable disasters.

First came word that under certain random circumstances, such as letting the battery run down, the entire vehicle could become "bricked" -- or permanently ruined.


Next came the mysterious fires. After this particular blaze in May (above), the local fire department determined the origin was the owner's two week-old Fisker Karma electric vehicle.


Yesterday, another Fisker spontaneously combusted. The owner parked in a Woodside, CA parking lot, entered a grocery store to shop, and returned shortly thereafter to a burning vehicle.


Like the prior incident, the car was new, had never been damaged in a collision, was not plugged in and was not running.

It is worth noting that the car was parked in a heavily wooded area also suffering from a drought; the Fisker could therefore have touched off a significant wildfire. I wonder what the carbon footprint of a wildfire is?

The good news for Fisker? The problem could be in the battery, which is not made by Fisker, but is manufactured by a different company called A123 systems.

The bad news for taxpayers? A123 systems received a quarter of a billion dollars in Obama green grant money.

How many billions of dollars has this administration flushed down the toilet in pursuit of the enviro-Statist agenda? Hopefully the investigations will begin in January.


Hat tip: BadBlue.com/Tech

Larwyn's Linx: Demoralized as Hell: Paul Ryan Edition

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Nation

Demoralized as Hell: Paul Ryan Edition: DTG
Why Obama Won’t Allow Interviews of Supporters at His Rallies: LoneCon
Obama holds big dollar fundraiser at his Rezko mansion: Marathon

The Most Divisive Campaign in American History: Knish
Ryan-Mania: The First Romney/Ryan Ad Appears Online: Nice Deb
50 Shades of Paul Ryan: RWN

Paul Ryan, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee: P&F
Conflict of Visions: Pethokoukis
Optimism for a Change: NoisyRm

Economy

Obama’s “You Didn’t Build That” Debunked in Two Pictures: IMAO
10 Reasons Paul Ryan Should Be Mitt Romney's VP Pick: USN&WR
Six Minutes of Ryan: Hiding Spending Doesn't Reduce Spending: C-SPAN

Scandal Central

Untangling Operation Fast And Furious: Fronteras
Looming F&F report to hit at peak political time: Fox
'Fast and Furious' Fallout at Your Local Gun Shop? : OutdoorLife

Media

Everything You Need To Know About Paul Ryan In One Quote: Glob
Conservatives to Ryan budget-bashers: Go ahead, make our day: Twitchy
The Romney-Ryan Ticket Yields The Best Campaign Catchphrase Ever...: Looking Spoon

Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan Rally A Large, Enthusiastic Crowd In Manassas, VA : Marooned in Marin
Dems Pretend to be Excited Over Ryan Pick; They Celebrated Cheney, Too: Breitbart
Exciting!!! #RomneyRyan2012 #TCOT : Zilla

This Team is Big Fail! : Morlock Revolt
National Jewish Democrats: Who Do They Speak For ?: RWN
Krauthammer Smacks Down Simon's Welfare Ad Dog Whistle Charge: 'Was Clinton Racist?': NB

World

WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network: Insider
Why we should worry about Turkey's missing jet: Gatestone
US Navy ship collides with oil tanker in Gulf: AP

‘American Patriot’: Obama Praises Clinton Aide Huma Abedin During Ramadan Dinner: Blaze
Saudi Arabia plans women-only city: Global Post
Report: Racial profiling alleged at Boston airport : AP

Sci-Tech

Curiosity's mysterious Mars photo stirs speculation: Phys
CERN scientists explain what would happen if you put your hand in the LHC's beam: Engadget
Lost Egyptian pyramids found by Google Earth : Global Post

Cornucopia

This Week in Automotivators, August 6-12: RWN
Clint Eastwood Opines on the Obama Years: IMAO
Crude, Rude, and Not Very Shrewd: MB

Image: The Romney grandkids and Ryan kids "bus surfing"
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Support America's Comeback Team

QOTD: "There is not a single Obama voter anywhere in the land who believes that another four years of him will make this country better. Not a single one from coast to coast. No, what they believe is that he will make the country a worse place for those people that they hate... What they believe is that Obama will grant their group more special privileges and the rest of the country can go to hell...

...This is an election contest between the United States and an emerging Post-American order. That entity will be an American EU run by unelected bureaucrats, governed by politically correct technocrats and upheld by corrupt financial pirates disguising the collective bankruptcy with numbers games so elaborate that they make every billion-dollar con game and pyramid scheme that has come before seem as simple as child's play." --Daniel Greenfield

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Best Reactions to the Ryan Pick

• CNN's Candy Crowley -- if that is her real name -- claims some Republicans are saying picking Ryan is "some sort of ticket death wish."

To whom is she referring? Best I can figure, it's sometimes-Democrat, sometimes-Republican Donald "Attention Whore" Trump whose impact on the race will be exactly... nil. Trump is the P.T. Barnum of politics and for CNN to treat his comments with a scintilla of seriousness is representative of the horrific ratings disaster that is the CNN network.

• Oh, and some twit you've never heard of -- Ryan Lizza at The New Yorker -- says that Ryan is (wait for it...) light on experience? As opposed to President Training Wheels, the All-Cook-County Community Organizer? Or Vice President Hair-Plugs-For-Men, who likewise has spent his entire career on the public dole? HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA AHA AHHAHAHAHHAHAHA AHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA HA AH AHHA HAHAH AHA HAH AHHAAHHAH!!! OUCH. OWWWW. I think I just wrenched my clavicle.

• The Leftist scumbags on Twitter erupted with their usual death-wishes:

@RobbyReyn: The bad news is Paul Ryan might be vp. The good news is that Paul Ryan is mortal and can die
@NatiRabinowitz: According to his family medical history Paul Ryan will die of a heart attack in 11 years.
@JMFlorio: Paul Ryan is the biggest f***ing toolbag on the planet. He can suffocate and die like he wants everyone who can’t afford insurance
@CarolineVGray: Morbid math pattern suggest Paul Ryan will die of a heart attack at 53. All heart attacks. Great grandfather 59. Grandfather 57. Father 55.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Suffice it to say that the "tolerant Left" is a misnomer of epic proportions.

• The Dissociative Press does its usual water-carrying for Democrats with its pathetic propaganda piece entitled "Romney stumbles in running mate announcement". It informs us in large typeface, that Mitt Romney accidentally introduced Paul Ryan as "the next president of the United States". And it conveniently fails to mention that candidate Obama made precisely the same mistake.

• As for those worried about Florida and seniors? They're a tad smarter than Democrats give them credit for: Ryan's favorability rating is 39-to-25, and an astounding 52-to-29 among... seniors.

I support Romney-Ryan 2012: America's Comeback Team.



What Democrats Believe




Democrats believe that you are legally permitted to break into an empty home if you need a place to stay.

Democrats believe that stealing furniture from someone's home -- if it's in the best interest of your family -- is a legally acceptable practice.

Democrats believe that you are within your rights to crash a rich man's party if you're hungry, because he's got plenty of extra food.

Democrats believe that any person, should they require access to clean facilities like showers, toilets, and towels, must be legally permitted to break into a health club.

And because Internet access is a human right, Democrats believe that those without it are legally allowed to break into office buildings to obtain web access.

I know all this to be true.

Because Democrat politicians believe that millions of foreigners have every right to enter our home -- our sovereign republic -- to use our schools, our health care system, our roads, and our infrastructure. Democrats believe that immigration laws aren't laws at all; for, in fact, they are suing states for enforcing the very immigration laws that Congress passed!

These temporary politicians -- these useless Democrats hacks -- no longer represent the people. They represent illegal aliens, who are trespassing in our country; who are entering our land without any background checks or vetting procedures; who are driving up unemployment among citizens; who often come for free health care services or schooling or more nefarious reasons; who do not understand the history or traditions of this country; and whose presence here will ultimately Balkanize this country in ways no one can possibly foresee.

For Democrats, clinging to political power trumps the Constitution; it trumps the laws it already passed; it trumps the concerns of the citizenry; it trumps every moral and ethical tenet of this country. But their appetite for raw power is so insatiable, and it is so naked and malevolent, that they are willing to sacrifice future generations to retain their white-knuckled death grip on power.

Therefore I urge you, America's citizens, to remember the permanent damage these temporary politicians are doing to this country. I urge you to remember this the first Tuesday in November... and to obliterate the Democrat Party politically -- at every level of government.



I really hate it when...

...someone with a cool car takes up two spots in the garage.


Hat tip: Bernie.

10 Photographs from the Democrat Utopia of North Korea

Behance has an entire gallery of spooky, posed photographs from the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) aka North Korea.

How do you photograph one of the most secretive countries in the world?
For Charlie Crane the answer was simple, photograph what they want you to see. If there is no possibility of getting underneath the surface then the answer was to photograph the surface itself. This series is taken from a larger body of work in Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea... Although not commonly thought of as a holiday destination all these photographs have been taken at tourist sites throughout the city.











Remember: this is the inevitable endgame for the Democrat Party's incessant, eight-decade drive for ever more centralized, authoritarian government. Their various mandates -- governing energy, health care, retirement, automobile design, shower heads, you name it -- must be enforced through compulsion. That is: they must use force over the individual to compel adherence to their unconstitutional dictates.

That is what the Democrat Party's failed policies must inevitably devolve into: tyranny.

You can see the whole album here.


Larwyn's Linx: America CAN Be SAVED: The Ryan Revolution Begins!

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Nation

America CAN Be SAVED: The Paul Ryan Revolution Begins!: CFP
Romney chooses Paul Ryan as running mate: Exam
Excerpts of Ryan's Speech: WS

Recent examples of Mitt Romney’s inner-Reagan: Kudlow
Archbishop: Catholic Voters Must Not Vote for Intrinsic Evil: Lopez
Surprise! Obamacare Rebate May Stall In Employers Hands: Cove

Economy

2012 Election Is The Last Exit Ramp Before The Death Spiral: Steyn
'1,200 Days, $5T in New Debt Since Dems Passed a Budget': WS
U.S. banks told to make plans for preventing collapse: Reuters

Washington Post Attempts To Dispell 5 Myths About Stimulus: RWN
Teen Who Ran Hot Dog Stand To Help Family Now Homeless: RWN
Postal Service Losing $42,335,766 Per Day: CNS

Scandal Central

Confused Why Goldman Will Face No Criminal Charges?: ZH
Illegal IRS Rule to Increase Taxes & Spending under Obamacare: Cato
Obama Website Still Features Joe Soptic Lie: Nice Deb

Media

AP Report on West Coast Gas Prices Moving to $4 Ignores They’re Already There: Bizzy
MSNBC's Alter: 'A Lot of People Will Die' If Romney Is Elected: NB
8-Year-Old Girl With Asperger's Denied Entry Into Obama Campaign Event : MenRec

AWESOME: PAC does MSM job for them, exposes collusion between OFA, Burton’s SuperPAC: Scoop
MSNBC's Alter: 'A Lot of People Will Die' If Romney Is Elected: NB
NYT introduces us to couple Romney didn’t try to kill with cancer: Hot Air

It’s About Time… Romney Releases Ad Highlighting Obama’s Ugly Character Flaws: GWP
Obama's Campaign One Of The Dirtiest In Modern Times: Goldberg
AP’s Fahey Worries That High Gas Prices Might ‘Put Pressure’ on Obama Re-elect Effort: Bizzy

Time, CNN Suspend Zakaria for Plagiarism: NB
The Hashtag That Changed History: RSM
Shock: Bogus GOP candidate Huntsman to speak at DNC: Breitbart

World

Iran’s nuclear program designed to ‘finish off’ Israel, Hezbollah MP says: Times of Israel
The Looming War for Syria's Chemical Weapons: CuttingEdge
Dershowitz says NJDC should apologize to Adelson: Hayom

University of California Infested With Anti-Semitism, Students Fight To Dismiss Report: RWN
Saudi Arabia media ignores historic Olympic Games of female athletes: StlToday
Obama praises Muslim Brotherhood's Abedin as 'patriot' at White House Ramadan dinner: Politico

Krauthammer: Our men are getting shot in Afghanistan and Commander-in-Chief is AWOL: Scoop
Former Illegal Immigrant Carries US and Mexican Flag After Winning Silver Medal: AllAm
Paul Ryan Gave One Hell Of A Campaign Speech Last Night: Ace (2011)

Sci-Tech

This Is Curiosity's Latest Masterpiece: AtlWire
New 'Gauss' Computer Virus Prowling Middle East: AP
Building soldiers Spider-Man suits: DefTech

Cornucopia

Go ahead, steal my pen: C&S
Hi Bob! Hi Joe!: MOTUS
Tell Us How Mitt Romney Has Destroyed Your Life!: Cube

Image: Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: America's Comeback Team -- Romney/Ryan

QOTD: "Joe Biden just sharted his Depends." --JTT

Friday, August 10, 2012

Shock: Obama toadie, faux Republican, and professional wuss to speak at Democrat National Convention

You may know him as "Jon Huntsman", if that is his real name.


Gee, and he had well over 0.5 percent of the vote in the GOP primary.



Oh, Noes: Mitt Romney Once Ran a Nazi Death Cult!

At least that's the latest claim from President Axelrod's Obama's campaign:

By now everyone has heard that Mitt Romney Hood is a felon, a tax cheat, and an accomplice to murder - but those current truths only scratch the surface of his deviancy.

The Party™ plans to remedy this with a new magazine that will deliver a full spectrum of korrekt information about Romney to the oppressed masses - and much more! That's not to say that the NYT, WaPo, NBC, CBC, ABC, and CNN are not doing a fine job of this already, but an extra $3 contribution to Obama's campaign will not hurt. And this is exactly how much you must pay in order to get the first issue absolutely free!


Inside you will find:

- Drugs-and-sex-crazed GOP convention
- Dependent-of-the-Month centerfold
- Capitalist vampires living on virgin blood
- Cher: Ghost of Republican Sonny Bono is forcing me to have a baby
- Lead story - Mitt Romney's Nazi torture cult: only a woman's screams can make him smile.

In a Single Chart: Why Goldman Sachs, Jon Corzine, and the Rest of Wall Street Will Never Face Prosecution From Democrats

Yes, it's. Just. This. Simple.


Hope and change, baby. Hope and change.



Democrats' Massive Tax Hike on the Middle Class, Conveniently Deferred Until After the Election

It's pretty hilarious that the Obama campaign is wasting money advertising on this august periodical with its usual litany of outrageous lies. This one, for example, is a classic:


What a crock. The actual Obama budget, according to The Washington Post, does anything but reduce the deficit.


As for "slashing taxes on the middle class", that's complete bunk as well. The actual toll from Obamacare alone will hit that segment hardest:


And let's not even discuss the onset of inflation -- from gas to food and everything in between -- thanks to Obama's deficit-spending and attendant money-printing.

Everything this man says is a lie. And if he caught himself telling the truth, he'd tell a lie just to keep his hand in (to paraphrase Harry Truman describing Richard Nixon).



Handicapping the VP race based upon Wikipedia edits

The concept of predicting a VP candidate based upon the volatility of their Wikipedia biographies, as CNN explains, is not new.

In the past, Wikipedia activity has spiked for vice presidential picks the day before an official announcement was made. In 2008, hours before Republican candidate John McCain announced his vice presidential choice, Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page was getting a heavy edit. According to The Washington Post, the then-Alaska governor's page was changed 68 times the day before the announcement. In the 24 hours leading up to Obama's running mate announcement, Joe Biden's page was edited 40 times.

So I decided to take an updated look, heading into the weekend, at activity for "the Big Four" ostensible VP contenders.

Wikipedia modifications to VP contender biographies over the last week:

• Rob Portman: 159 changes.
• Paul Ryan 96 changes
• Marco Rubio 83 changes
• Tim Pawlenty 34 changes

Wikipedia modifications to VP contender biographies over the last day:

• Paul Ryan 38 changes
• Rob Portman: 33 changes.
• Marco Rubio 24 changes
• Tim Pawlenty 11 changes

If recency is any indicator, it looks like Paul Ryan is coming on strong.

I can't imagine Rob Portman -- a pasty, boring white guy, affiliated with the Bush administration and who is largely unknown outside Washington -- as the VP candidate. Sorry, I just can't.

As for Tim Pawlenty: based on the stats, he looks like a non-entity when it comes to VP contender status. Which is as it should be. The guy dropped out of the GOP primary in what seemed to be about four days.

Marco Rubio or Paul Ryan would both make outstanding choices. Charisma. Principles. Brains. All of the things, in other words, lacking in Joe Biden.


Larwyn's Linx: Welcome To ‘You Didn’t Build That,’ Part Two

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Nation

Welcome To ‘You Didn’t Build That,’ Part Two: HayRide
Landslide on the Horizon: Ricochet
To win, Obama needs to get white voters to stay home: Greenroom

The Democratic Party Pig Sty: Power Line
Obama Complains: The Press Hates Me!: Mead
Ann Coulter Is Right: Fix Romney Press Operation: Lord

Economy

Screwed Delphi employee speaks out on Fox News: Scoop
Camden NJ, Population 77,344 Fires Entire Police Force: Mish
Tim Kaine Suffers Amnesia on Failed Tax Hike Attempts: ATR

Congratulations - You Bought a New 2012 BMW M3 Coupe: Ace
The United States Of Dependency?: IBD
Businesses Know There's a Policy Uncertainty Problem: FreeEnt

California: First in Liberalism, Last in Everything Else: CFIF
Obama Policies Hurt Less-Skilled Workers Most: IBD
Warren’s Daughter Heads Welfare Voter Drive: S&L

Scandal Central

Sinaloa Cartel Operative Makes Explosive Allegation About F&F: Blaze
Collusion between Obama for America and Priorities USA on ‘their’ lying Soptic ads: Lane
Obama camp acknowledges knowing man's story: Politico

More Obama Donors Benefit From USDA’s Latest Loan Guarantee: Foundry
Obama Prepares Yet Another Amnesty Measure For Illegal Aliens: Shark Tank
CancerGate: Obama Campaign's Cold-Blooded Lies: IBD

Climate & Energy

Dear NOAA and Seth, which 1930's were you comparing to when you say July 2012 is the record warmest?: Watts
Do Greens Have A None-Of-The-Above Energy Policy?: IBD
Over 1 Million GE Dishwashers Recalled As Flames Shouldn’t Be Part Of The Rinse Cycle: Consumerist

Media

Media Actually Bothered By Obama's Malignant Ad: Ace
Wait a Minute: Joe Soptic's Wife Wasn't Even Diagnosed With Cancer Until 2006?: Ace
MSM ignores Soptic ad, the back story of which continues to change: Greenroom

Obama: Let's Repeat The "Auto Industry Bailout Success" With Every Industry: Ace
Malkin to Romney: It’s time to nail the Obama admin and campaign for obvious illegal coordination: Scoop
Mark Levin: Obama sounds just like Hugo Chavez: Scoop

Was Barack Obama A Foreign Exchange Student?: IBD
Barry Soetoro, the Invisible Man: CFP
Mark Levin calls Obama out for lying about his mother’s death again: Scoop

World

The New War Against America: Ledeen
Former U.S. attorney: Michele Bachmann is right to question Clinton aide’s background: Events
Dem Court Defends Bush, Overturns Warrantless Wiretapping Jihad Ruling: Creeping

Sci-Tech

Xbox Kinect makes finding the perfect pair of jeans easy: IT World
Google Chrome for Windows gets more secure Flash player, gives users a browsing sandbox safety net: Engadget
40 percent of world's top brands already on Instagram: CNet

Cornucopia

Harry Reid Arrested for DWI, Resisting Arrest While Naked: Cube
Corporate Wives: Doing their Fair Share in order to get a Fair Shot: MOTUS
All US Presidents (Except Van Buren) Descended from One English King: RefBroker

Image: People's Cube
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defend Michele Bachmann and Defeat Nancy Pelosi

QOTD: "In my opinion, none of the psephologists [Nate Silver, Sean Trende, Charlie Cook, Jay Cost, and the others who make a profession of political prognostication] has reflected on the degree to which the administrative entitlements state – envisaged by Woodrow Wilson and the Progressives, instituted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and expanded by their successors – has entered a crisis, and none of them is sensitive to the manner in which Barack Obama, in his audacity, has unmasked that state’s tyrannical propensities and its bankruptcy. In consequence, none of these psephologists has reflected adequately on the significance of the emergence of the Tea-Party Movement, on the meaning of Scott Brown’s election and the particular context within which he was elected, on the election of Chris Christie as Governor of New Jersey and of Bob McDonnell as Governor of Virginia, and on the political earthquake that took place in November, 2010. That earthquake, which gave the Republicans a strength at the state and local level that they have not enjoyed since 1928, is a harbinger of what we will see this November." --Paul Rahe

Thursday, August 09, 2012

Wonderful: Facebook moves into online gambling

I didn't think running an electronic gambling establishment (even for other countries) was legal in the U.S., but what do I know?

Facebook has launched a bingo game that uses real money, only for users over age 18, in the UK. The "Bingo & Slots Friendzy" app has 90 slot machine and bingo games that take real money, not Facebook Credits.

The move could be a money maker for the company as Facebook takes 30% of the revenue. UK-based Gamesys, the app developer, will take the other 70% of revenue. Certainly it seems a positive move given all the negative attention the company has recieved.

In true Facebook fashion, activity on the app will appear in users' timelines, but Facebook's age-gating and geo-location technology will restrict those posts from appearing to underage users and those outside the UK.

Kewl! And maybe the app will automatically update the player's status to read, "I've got a serious gambling problem... please arrange an intervention for me!"



Genius: California Considering Giving Free, Taxpayer-Funded Life Insurance to All State Employees... and Retirees!

What could possibly go wrong with this plan?

Here's how [California's Assembly Bill 2451] would work:

Firefighter Jones or police Officer Smith retires in 2012 at age 53. Twenty-five years later, Smith or Jones die of a heart attack. Although there is a presumption in current law that heart ailments in firefighters and cops are job-related, there had been no evidence of a heart condition for either retiree before the fatal attack. Neither Jones nor Smith filed workers' compensation claims. Neither retired on disability. Their deaths occurred well beyond the 4 1/2-years-after-injury statute of limitations that governs job-related death benefit eligibility today.

Nonetheless, under this bill their survivors could claim a death benefit worth a quarter of a million dollars at minimum.

This benefit would cover not just current firefighters, police officers, prison guards and other public safety workers but retirees as well. So, on the day AB 2451 becomes law, when any ex-firefighter dies of a heart attack at age 80 or cancer at age 90, his widow or children, or other relatives -- the list of eligible survivors is extensive -- becomes eligible for a benefit typically valued at between $250,000 and $300,000...

...This benefit would cover not just current firefighters, police officers, prison guards and other public safety workers but retirees as well. So, on the day AB 2451 becomes law, when any ex-firefighter dies of a heart attack at age 80 or cancer at age 90, his widow or children, or other relatives -- the list of eligible survivors is extensive -- becomes eligible for a benefit typically valued at between $250,000 and $300,000.

It's almost as if California's Democrat leaders are all racing each other to see who can bankrupt the state first.


Hat tip: BadBlue.com/Money.