Thursday, September 20, 2012
OH, MY: Rick Perry Just Ended the Creepy #ForAll Meme
Well, I don't think we'll be seeing much more of the Obama campaign's embarrassing #ForAll photo bust.
You gonna put some ice on that, Messina -- if that is your real name?
Larwyn's Linx: Wildly Out Of Touch, Antique Media Complain Romney Not Regular Guy
Nation
Wildly Out Of Touch Media Complain Romney Not Regular Guy: CoulterMitt Romney Right: Dependency Subverts Democracy: IBD
Mr. Podhoretz, please read the transcript.: Kuznicki
2012 Will Be Another Tea Party Election, Like 2010: Strata
Race Finished Update: Real RCP Average Shows Dead Heat: Bizzy
UMass/Herald poll: Brown pulling ahead of Warren: Herald
Man of the People: Jay-Z knows what my life is like says Obama: Exam
Mitt Romney’s Remarks are Another Chick-Fil-A Moment: RS
*Sigh* Obama plays the race card... again: AT
Economy
Good Lord, Obama doesn't even know what the national debt is: TwitchyIs Barack Obama America's Most Dishonest Politician?: Power Line
Obama’s First Term Is Like Roosevelt’s Dismal Second: Barone
Obama's $105,000 champagne tower with Jay-Z and Beyonce: MB
Radical Chicago teachers win, taxpayers/students/parents lose: Malkin
Man of the People: DailyMail
Obama to Letterman: National Debt Not a Concern in Short Term: LoneCon
Under Obama, US Drops to 18th in Economic Freedom Ranking: MB
Tungsten-Filled 10 Oz Gold Bar Found In Manhattan's Jewelry District: ZH
Scandal Central
Eric Holder's exoneration by Fast and Furious report strains credibility: GeraghtyReport Blows Huge Hole in Obama's Fake Biography: Lid
DOJ F&F probe: “Pattern of serious failures,” 14 employees up for… sanctions: Hot Air
Alert: Fast and Furious IG report drops this afternoon, DOJ IG scheduled to testify tomorrow: Malkin
CRS report: number of able-bodied adults on food stamps doubled after Obama suspended work requirement: Exam
Going, going, gone: Bankrupt green loan recipient Abound Solar goes to auction: Malkin
Climate & Energy
GOP needs to start talking about EPA reform now: TimesNature editorial dashes alarmist hopes of linking extreme weather events to global warming: Watts
Quote of the week, the hilarious EPIC FAIL of Dana Nuccitelli: Watts
Media
Admitted Socialist Occupies The White House: S&LIllinois Ground Report: HillBuzz
Conservative Student Denied Entry to Michelle Obama Speech: FNR
Barack Obama? Arrogant and Way the Heck Out of Touch? The Deuce You Say!: Sundries
Obama is Living Large while Americans Suffer: PatriotUpdate
Time for an Intervention: Noonan
World
Leader of Assault on US Consulate in Libya was Released From Gitmo in 2007: TatlerLet the record of the Benghazi attack show… whatever Obama needs it to show: DC
Sweet Fancy Moses: Administration Still Trying to Refine Libyan Attack Messaging: Ace
Pictures Matter: Wilson
Obama official: Benghazi was a terrorist attack: ForPol
On being nice to Muslims, or not.: Elephant
Obama's Dangerous Campaign: Phillips
Rampaging Islamists: Pipes
Exclusive: Western report - Iran ships arms, personnel to Syria via Iraq: Reuters
Sci-Tech
Apple gets patent for universal batteries, edges closer to long-lasting wireless peripherals: EngadgetU.S.: Laws of war apply to cyber attacks: ArmyTimes
Awesome Persol Shades Your Friends Will Want to Steal: Gizmodo
Cornucopia
Occupy Wednesday: MOTUSLike Manna For the Agitpropist: iOTW
Lewinsky's Clinton book to reveal his insatiable desire for threesomes and how he trashed Hillary: Daily Mail
Image: Ace o' Spades
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QOTD: "The Political Industrial Complex (made up of Politicians, their Handlers, Lobbyists, the News Media, etc) have not realized that the 2012 election is going to be Part 2 of the 2010 shellacking of the government-knows-best, government-only-solutions party (i.e., Dem0crats). The fact is you cannot screw up indefinitely, throwing away people’s money and destroying their hard earned wealth, without repercussions. Voters will fire failures." --AJ Strata
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Obama Campaign Manager Norman Bates Tweets Uber-Creepy Photo, Sets Blogosphere Afire With Instant Meme Mockery
Would you let this man within a hundred feet of your children?
Update: Messina is now officially a meme. I made this one. You can make yours here.
Here's a quick one:
Well, this is inappropriate:
Update: The Memeorandum thread has
plenty more.
Things Democrats Say in Private
A Magnificent Photo Gallery of Our President's Exceptionally Busy Schedule This Week
Yes, it’s "Talk Like a Pirate Day" which the Preezy of the United Steezy noticed more than the fact that we’re under attack in 20 countries around the world. Oh, and our four Americans in Libya are still dead.
This followed an appearance on The Letterman Show:
And a lavish, $40,000-a-head fundraiser with Jay-Z and Beyonce that featured a $105,000 champagne tower.
...President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser at Jay-Z's 40/40 Club in Manhattan that featured a champagne tower of 350 bottles worth $105,000 - more than twice the median household income of an American family... The tower of $300-a-bottle Armand de Brignac Brut Gold, known as 'Ace of Spades' because of its label, is a permanent fixture at the club.
'It’s floor-to-ceiling gold bottles in the entire space,' a 40/40 representative told the New York Post. 'It’s beautiful—breathtaking. It’s the first thing you see when you walk in.'
...He then compared himself to Jay-Z. 'Jay-Z now knows what my life is like. We both have daughters, and our wives are more popular than we are. So we’ve got a little bond there. It’s hard, but it’s okay.'
Jay-Z is quite the role-model for America's youth, what with his romantic classics "F*** All Nite", N****, I'll throw a Molotov cocktail through your momma's momma's house", South Philly motherf***ers kill at will" and I put the gun to ya, I let it sing you a song"
Oh, and who could forget "Is That Yo Bitch?"
Yes, that's precisely who kids should be seeing the president with. A true American hero.
Meanwhile, as America's embassies suffered 20 attacks and protests throughout the Middle East, the president has extended an invitation to meet Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi -- leader of the Muslim Brotherhood -- in New York.
The Brotherhood's credo was and is, "Allah is our objective; the Quran is our law, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations." Its most famous slogan, used worldwide, is "Islam is the solution."
The Muslim Brotherhood was closely intertwined with the Third Reich during World War II and many of its goals remain aligned: namely, slaughter Jews, Christians and other infidels wherever and whenever possible. Egypt's Jews were run out of the country decades ago and the Coptic Christians are fleeing the Brotherhood's Islamists now.
But in the midst of his busy schedule, President Obama explicitly refused a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister -- who also requested to meet in New York -- as Iran nears completion of its nukes.
For Obama, a pirate, Letterman, Jay-Z, Beyonce, and other fundraisers all receive much higher priority than daily intelligence briefings and the security needs of the nation and our allies.
Because Iran's nuclear weapons are certain to be handed off to its terrorist partners like Hezbollah and smuggled into the United States through the southern border Barack Obama has failed to seal.
I admit it: the videotape probably ended his campaign
Let's allow The New York Times to relay the March 2012 incident. An open microphone happened to catch a private conversation between President Obama and Russian President Medvdev regarding America's missile defense shield.
“On all these [security] issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space,” Mr. Obama could be heard saying to Mr. Medvedev, according a reporter from ABC News, who was traveling with the president.
“Yeah, I understand,” Mr. Medvedev, the outgoing Russian president, said. “I understand your message about space. Space for you …”
Mr. Obama then elaborated, in a portion of the exchange picked up by the cameras and reproduced by news agencies: “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility."
“I understand,” Mr. Medvedev said. “I will transmit this information to Vladimir,” he continued, referring to Vladimir V. Putin, who won another term as president in an election this month.
The most transparent administration ever is, as Jim Geraghty observed, sending "[o]ne message to the voters at home, an entirely different message to leaders abroad."
To recap: a resurgent Russian empire -- ruled by a nascent dictator -- has been America's foremost enemy since 1945. And we have a president, who is already hollowing out America's defenses, secretly negotiating with those dictators behind America's back.
That, my friends, is the most shocking video of this election season.
November is coming.
Larwyn's Linx: It's The Facts, Not The Daily News Cycles, That Determine Election Outcomes
Nation
It's The Facts, Not The Daily News Cycles, That Determine Elections: AceRomney’s “Secret Video” and the Dem Politics of “Squirrel!”: Malkin
Obama loses convention, media bounce: Breitbart
The Greatest Enemy to Liberty: TL in Exile
Media Bias Designed to Save Obama’s Presidency: AIM
A Campaign On The Edge (And it's not the one you think): Ricochet
DOJ + MMFA: Ministry of Truth: RSM
A Golden Opportunity for Mitt Romney: Rush
Barack Obama cannot be serious: LI
Economy
Obama in 1998: "I actually believe in redistribution": FNRMitt Hammers Obama Over Redistribution Tape: GWP
Mitt Romney Just Helped Create 52,000 Jobs: NRO
The Gathering Storm: Greenroom
Romney Shines on Cavuto, Flips “47%” Comments Perfectly: Bruce
Clever: Romney Counters "47%" Questions with "Redistribution": Ace
Scandal Central
Emails reveal DOJ regularly enlists Media Matters to spin press: DCSheldon Adelson Under Attack By Obama Campaign and Media: RWN
Twenty-eight years later, it’s finally 1984: Greenroom
Climate & Energy
Good News: Another Coal Mining Company Slashing 1,200 Jobs: AllAmLevin: If You Think The 'Broccoli Mandate' Can't Happen, Just Try To Buy Gas Under EPA's New Rule: CNS
Is the EPA superagency bigger than the President and Congress?: NetRight
Media
Mitt: Please Read and Memorize: RushIf the tape doesn’t knock Romney out, the media narrative is toast: LI
Boom! James O’Keefe highlights media hypocrisy over hidden camera videos of Romney: Twitchy
STFU and Let's Get This Done!: Alexa Shrugged
Treat the Press as Enemy Collaborators: RS
Shhh! Top-secret Rasmussen poll shows Romney still up by 2: Twitchy
An October Surprise Sprung Early?: Rush
Arrest The Los Angeles Times Editors When I Riot: Ricochet
Bigoted Anti-Islam filmmaker's name revealed: Bill Maher: Cube
The 25 Most Obnoxious Quotes From Barack Obama: Hawkins
In a Perfect World...: Cube
Book: Scalia was 'furious' at Roberts vote on healthcare law: Hill
World
White House Negotiating Release of World Trade Center Bomber: RSNot-So-Happy Hour: 52nd Thwarted Terror Plot Targets Chicago Bar: Foundry
Ben Stein: Hillary Clinton Should Resign: Politico
Mitt Romney Tells the Truth, Media Recoils in Horror: Jawa
Did Iran launch a cyberattack against a major financial institution?: Beacon
A Reminder of Who Israel Is, What They Have Done In The Past, What They Are Capable Of Today: MagNote
Sci-Tech
Two men admit to $10 million hacking spree on Subway sandwich shops: Ars TechnicaAT&T will be slapped with net neutrality complaint over FaceTime blocking: GigaOm
The emerging Obamacare truth is disarray: AEI
Cornucopia
Do Straight People Pick Up on All the Gay Jokes that Drudge Report Makes at O's Expense?: HillBuzz'The Gospel of Jesus's Wife': NYT
$7 Million In Gold Bars Found In Reclusive Man’s Home Month After He Died: CBS Las Vegas
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: America's Comeback Team
QOTD: Mitt Romney is running against Barack Obama.But Barack Obama is running against Mitt Romney, and against a domestic economy in almost existential peril and from an Arab world sinking into chaos and darkness from Algiers to Aleppo, and from two of the world's economic superpowers about to start a hot war in the Pacific and from his “good war” in Afghanistan warming up to become a genocide at the hands of the Taliban as American troops inevitably withdraw, their decade of sacrifice and heroism squandered.
Obama is running against all those glittering, gorgeous promises of economic miracles and civic harmony from 2008, and of powerful stimulus programs that were guaranteed to generate millions of green jobs.
He's running against the grim reality of the real world, foreign and domestic." --Rick Wilson
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
COVER-UP: Hillary Scrubs State Department Memo Downplaying Threat of 9/11 Anniversary Attacks
Wednesday night, one day after the 9/11 anniversary protests/attacks in Cairo, Egypt and Benghazi, Libya, I wrote about a September 6, 2012 memo issued by the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), part of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security under the U.S. Department of State...
...in retrospect the memo is an embarrassing reminder of how the United States and its overseas embassies were caught flat-footed on Tuesday. The phrasing of the last sentence of the memo ("these concerns are the result of increased media attention to the issue, rather than credible evidence" [emphasis mine]) could have even inspired complacency with its rather glib assessment of the potential threat.
There is now evidence that someone at the State Department drew the same conclusion about the memo, because as of today, it is no longer listed on the OSAC website.
Since then, of course, the Libyan government and other sources have indicated that the State Department was indeed warned of the possibility of 9/11 anniversary attacks.
It is plainly obvious that we have not been getting straight answers from Obama officials about what they knew and when they knew it about the dangers facing our consulate in Benghazi and throughout the region. It may be deception, or they may be so incompetent they still don’t know.
There is credible information that there were warnings of trouble to come, and 9/11 itself should have put a consulate in a dangerous section of Libya on high alert with substantial protection afforded the Ambassador. The story told by Susan Rice and Jay Carney the attack was spontaneous is becoming laughable.
There also is evidence emerging that the Ambassador was left with minimal protection... In essence, the Obama Administration tasked an unarmed British firm with security responsibilities that should have been handled by armed American servicemen, and it was all approved by the Secretary of State. Needless to say, the plan failed and an Ambassador was murdered, along with several others.
The cover-up is underway. It will be up to new media to continue to unpeel the layers of this story, since antique media is asleep at the wheel.
Alternate Newsweek Cover
In case you missed it somehow, I’m riffing on the Newsweek “Muslim Rage” cover, which annoyed some and amused some and disgusted others. Yes, that is speck of spittle in his beard. No, I did not P’shop it in...
...And before you get too complacent, First Worldies, I’m totally not kidding — the McRib has been rolled back to December. It was scheduled to go out in October.
Fortunately, the Baconator is still available at many Wendy's restaurants nationwide.
SCANDAL: White House Revealed Names of SEAL and CIA Operators to Hollywood Filmmakers
Last July, a top Pentagon official gave two Hollywood filmmakers the name of a Navy SEAL involved in training the squad of commandos who carried out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Now, the Obama administration is fighting to keep that same name from the public.
In legal papers filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, the Justice Department argued that the government is under no obligation to make public the SEAL's name or the names of Central Intelligence Agency personnel involved simply because officials shared their names, partial names or identities with the makers of a forthcoming movie about the raid, "Zero Dark Thirty."
"The CIA and DoD did not authorize the filmmakers to make the names they shared with them public, to publicly associate the individuals with the CIA or DoD, or to expose those individuals’ identity in any publicly released film, and there was no reason for the CIA or DoD to have believed that any of this would have happened," the Justice Department brief says. "In fact, [Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Mike] Vickers specifically told [filmmaker] Mark Boal, in providing him with the name of someone he could talk to, that 'the only thing we ask is that you not reveal his name in any way as a consultant.'"
BlackFive's reaction is one of anger:
What's Team Obama going to about this one? Find some amateur donor to make a movie to distract us from the real issue? Oh wait...
Raise your hand if you want to be a part of any TS missions that will save lives and defend our country...but in the process your identity will be given to Hollywood?
Suffice it to say that the nitwits in old media will ignore this outrageous scandal, just one in a series of willful, immensely damaging national security leaks by the Obama administration, all designed to mask the president's disastrous foreign policy record.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Jim Geraghty and Alexis de Tocqueville on the 47 percent
"In the Bronx in April of this year, “huge crowds” lined up at an “income tax business” run out of a “99 cent store” to turn over their financial information and IDs to get a “prepaid debt card” allegedly worth $1,000, claimed to be “Obama stimulus money."
...Or how about the reaction to rent vouchers in 2010?
Sixty people were taken to hospitals Wednesday in this Atlanta suburb after a lengthy wait and an angry mob scene in a sweltering shopping-center parking lot. Those treated for heat exposure and injuries from scuffles were among 30,000 people who had lined up for a waiting list for just 455 vouchers to cover part of their rent.
Some camped out for nearly three days in temperatures that neared 100 degrees, including pregnant women, elderly in wheelchairs and people who drove down from New York City and Philadelphia, hoping to get on the waiting list in East Point for Housing Choice, or Section 8, vouchers.
What’s fascinating is that people will stand on line for hours, for a 1-in-65 chance that they’ll get a voucher for part of their rent, rather than seek more reliable methods of making money to pay for that rent. --Jim Geraghty
The concept of an unchecked entitlement state is anything but new:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." -―Alexis de Tocqueville
This is what we're fighting against: societal collapse.
Larwyn's Linx: Pictures That Change Elections?
Nation
Pictures That Change Elections?: Power LineWe Don't Tolerate Fascism in America: Levin
Nakoula Arrest Photoshops: Best of the Best: Zombie
Demoralized as Hell, The poll the media isn’t talking about edition: DTG
The Disgrace That Is Susan Rice: RSM
Intel Sources: Susan Rice is Lying: Scoop
White House Prepares to Slash Billions from Defense: FreeEnt
Don't Trust the Polls: Storm Coming
Erickson says Romney's losing; Rasmussen begs to differ: Twitchy
Economy
Romney: 47% of electorate dependent on government: Hot AirBrilliant: Romney Responds to Leaked Fundraiser Video: GWP
Romney's New Ads: Power Line
Obama Food Stamp Program Runs Amok in Poor Neigborhoods: Shark
Separated at Birth?: MB
The New Deal was a raw deal for America: JournalStar
Scandal Central
The "Logistics" of Intelligence: Former SpookObama Campaign Tweets Out Anti-Semitic Libels: Twitchy
Obama administration refuses to rule out Sharia Blasphemy Laws: Totten
State Dept Memo Downplaying Threat of 9/11 Anniversary Attacks Disappears: Speak With Authority
Obama has outspent Romney 2-to-1 in key swing states: Exam
Govt Pays $1M For Obama-Care Propaganda: S&L
Media
Our Constitution Is Under Fire: FoundryBen Stein: It's Later In America Than We Dare Think: Ace
What the heck’s wrong with Erik Erikson at RedState?: HillBuzz
The November Referendum on the Liberal Media: Cary
Entertainer-in-Chief to Visit David Letterman, Again: USN&WR
Dear MSM, You’re Part of the Problem. Stop Being Part of the Problem.: Sundries
White House media ignores Obama’s Muslim outreach meltdown: DC
Obama's War on Women: Power Line
Obama Practicing Giving ‘Concise Answers’ at Upcoming Debates: Powers
World
The Day Obama Jumped the Shark: Flopping AcesActs of War: NoisyRm
FAIL: US-Afghan Military Operations Suspended After Attacks: Bruce
Who Knew?: Former Spook
Paul Ryan slams Obama: “This fraying relationship with Israel bordering on contempt”: Scoop
Insider Attacks Now Biggest Killer of NATO Troops: Danger Room
Netanyahu On US Embassy Attacks: ‘You Want These Fanatics To Have Nuclear Weapons?’: Wellfonder
Howard Dean: Of course I meant tensions with Israel are Netanyahu’s fault, not Obama’s: Twitchy
Hezbollah Leader Comes Out of Hiding, Rallies 500,000 Terror Supporters Against Nobel Peace Prize Winner: ABC
Bachmann to Obama: Cancel Letterman and Jay-Z, Meet with Netanyahu: CNS
Sources: State Department sent gay man to be ambassador to Libya: HillBuzz
Mob Rule Replaces Rule of Law: Gatestone
Sci-Tech
September 2012 Web Server Survey: NetcraftImproved simulation methods help scientists bolster theories of Moon's formation: PhysOrg
Fitbit’s New, Cheap, Anti-Lazy Gadgets Are Adorable: Gizmodo
Cornucopia
No Words – Just Pictures – You Don’t Want To Miss This: It's Big Fur HatFirst they came for your Second Amendment rights...: MOTUS
Newsweek 'Muslim Rage' cover sets off social media. How about sales?: LAT
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QOTD: "There's a lot of carping about the Romney campaign going around on the Interwebs this morning, but I fear there's a more substantive reason than the deep details of how his convention speech was prepared that explains why he doesn't have a double-digit lead over TFG.
People like free stuff. Mean guy Romney wants to take it away and put our civilization back on a paying basis. A significant amount of the SCOAMF's support is just this simple to explain.
This election isn't a battle between the haves and have-nots, as the Democrats want to paint it.
It's a battle between the responsible and the irresponsible; the realistic and the unrealistic; the self-reliant and the dependent.
Frankly, it's a battle between an adult's view of the world and a child's. And the adults are precariously close to losing." --Ace o' Spades
Monday, September 17, 2012
Campaign that wrote off the white working class decries Romney's concerns with the culture of dependency
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney is shown saying in a video posted online by the magazine. "There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it."
"Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax," Romney said... "[my role] is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
President Obama's campaign was quick to jump into the fray:
Obama's campaign called the video "shocking"... "It's hard to serve as president for all Americans when you've disdainfully written off half the nation," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a statement.
Speaking of "writing off" voters, remember this golden oldie from The New York Times?
Obama campaign abandons white working-class voters
President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign will be the first in modern political history to abandon white working-class voters, strategists claim.
For decades, Democrats have been losing more and more blue collar whites. Their alienation helped lead to the massive Republican wave in 2010, when the GOP wooed 30 percent more of them than the Democrats could. Democratic strategists say President Obama is focusing his attention, instead, on poor black and Hispanic voters and educated white professionals...
'All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment... and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic,' longtime political reporter Thomas B. Edsall wrote in an opinion piece in the New York Times... 'The 2012 approach treats white voters without college degrees as an unattainable cohort,' he writes later.
Hot Air notes that this will have the same devastating effect that candidate Obama's "bitterly clinging to their guns and religion" comment had in 2008. Which is to say: none.
Like all of the media-manufactured kerfuffles, it will be all but forgotten within one week or until Iran detonates its first nuke, whichever comes first.
Cheer Up! Things Could Be Worse. It Could Be 2013 Under a Hypothetical Obama Second Term!
The long-term result is certain: hyperinflation. The short-term result can be seen today: commodity prices (gas, gold, etc.) are ratcheting up dramatically as the dollar is devalued by incessant money-printing.
For the second time in U.S. history -- for the second time under the watch of Barack Obama -- the country's credit rating has been downgraded by rating agency Egan Jones:
...the FED's QE3 will stoke the stock market and commodity prices, but in our opinion will hurt the US economy and, by extension, credit quality. Issuing additional currency and depressing interest rates via the purchasing of MBS does little to raise the real GDP of the US, but does reduce the value of the dollar (because of the increase in money supply), and in turn increase the cost of commodities (see the recent rise in the prices of energy, gold, and other commodities).
...The increased cost of commodities will pressure profitability of businesses, and increase the costs of consumers thereby reducing consumer purchasing power. Hence, in our opinion QE3 will be detrimental to credit quality for the US.
As if to confirm the harm QE3 will do to manufacturers, Bloomberg reports .
Industrial production in the U.S. unexpectedly fell in August by the most since March 2009, highlighting risks to the economic outlook a day after the Federal Reserve boosted record stimulus.
Recession. We've never left it.
And it's going to get deeper in 2013 as Taxmageddon and Obamacare hit small businesses with devastating force:
The International Franchise Association held a convention in Washington this week where most of the Radio Shack, Dunkin Donuts, Curves and other franchisers were grumbling about new federal regulations, especially the impact of Obamacare.
...he pulled out his powerpoint showing how funding Obamacare will cut his--and likely their--profits in half overnight. With simple math the small business folks understood, he spelled out that their only choice is to slash employee hours so they aren't eligible for company-paid health care or stop offering insurance and pay the $2,000 per employee fine.
Barr has 23 stores with 421 employees, 109 of whom are full-time. Of those, he provides 30 with health insurance. Barr said he pays 81 percent of their Blue Cross Blue Shield policy, or $4,073 of $5,028 for individuals, more for families, for a total bill of $129,000 a year. Employees pay $995.
Under Obamacare, however, he will have to provide health insurance for all 109 full-time workers, a cost of $444,000, or two and half times more than his current costs. That $315,000 increase is equal to just over half his annual profit, after expenses, or 1.5 percent of sales. As a result, he said, "I'm not paying $444,000."
Providing no insurance would result in a federal fine of $158,000, $29,000 more than he now spends but the lowest cost possible under the Obamacare law. So he now views that as his cap and he'll either cut worker hours or replace them with machines to get his costs down or dump them on the public health exchange and pay the fine. "Every business has a way to eliminate jobs," he said, "but that's not good for them or me."
If we don't crush the Democrat Party at the ballot box in November, even more people will fall into poverty -- all races, all creeds, all colors, all religions -- and more people will become dependent upon a government that is bankrupt.
Society is fraying and it is up to each and every one of us to save it in November. Marshal your family members, your friends, your colleagues, your neighbors.
The Democrat Party must be smashed politically if we are to save this country.
Hat tip: Mark Levin. Cartoon: GetLiberty.org.
10 Arab Spring™ Stories You Won't Be Reading in Vintage Media
9. While the Middle East erupted, President Obama watched a whole lot of football this weekend: According to White House press reporter Amy Gardner, the President watched "a [whole] lot of football".
8. And he pretends he's going to work on Saturdays and instead watches 'Homeland': "While Michelle and the two girls go play tennis on Saturday afternoons, I go in the Oval Office, pretend I’m going to work, and then I switch on ‘Homeland.’"
Between the football, the Homeland, the golf, Letterman, Jay-Z, Beyonce and other fundraisers, it's a wonder he has any time for intelligence or economic briefings. Oh, you say he doesn't have time for those? Gotcha.
7. Oops. Former DNC Head Crazy Howard Dean Admits Obama at Fault for Rupturing Alliance With Israel: In an interview, Howard Dean accidentally blurted out the truth:
Because it’s incredibly foolish for one of our critical allies to make that relationship worse. My guess is the personal relationship between Netanyahu and President Obama is not all that good. I think most of that has to do with President Obama. If you look back at our relationship with Israel, which is historically incredibly strong and remains strong, this is really a personality problem.
After the usual cattle-prod and taser treatment, Cory Booker-style, Dean appeared in a hostage video walking back his statement.
6. Mitt Romney is not getting the intelligence briefings his predecessors received.
Given the gravity of issues facing a prospective commander-in-chief, it has become customary for each party's nominee to receive regular intelligence updates during the run-up to the fall election. In 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama received his first briefing just five days after accepting the Democratic nomination.
So why hasn't Mitt Romney received the same courtesy? According to a spokesman for the Director of National Intelligence, it's a matter of "logistics."
5. The Obama administration has refused to rule out Sharia Blasphemy Laws. It's that pesky First Amendment again! Thomas Perez, Obama's assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, refused to say on the record that the DOJ won’t try to criminalize blasphemy in the future.
4. In Pakistan, "Gunmen" opened fire on a bus full of nuns: A gunman opened fire on a van in Hyderabad that was carrying nuns and other women, wounding the driver. Also in Hyperabad, an unknown gunmen opened fire on the St. Xavier church also in Hyderabad, killing one. I, for one, suspect Militant Quakers are behind these attacks.
3. Netanyahu On US Embassy Attacks: ‘You Want These Fanatics To Have Nuclear Weapons?’. It's a simple question. And one that no one on the Democrat side of the aisle seems to want to answer.
2. As for turning around the perception of the United States by "the Arab Street"...? Yes, that too is an epic fail... it's now lower than that of the evil Booooooosh.
Arab approval of the United States in the Middle East has plummeted so drastically that it now is lower than it was during the presidency of George W. Bush, according to a startling new survey... The poll of over 4,000 citizens in six Arab nations -- Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates -- shows the favorability rating of the United States dropping precipitously
1. Unbelievably, the Obama administration states it's "very proud" of its foreign policy record. Perhaps World War III would mark a bigger success.
We are happy to debate — and there is certainly ample time and appropriate time to debate foreign policy approaches, this president’s record on foreign policy,” [White House spokesman Jay] Carney told reporters during the press briefing when asked if the attacks stemmed from “perceived American weakness” that stems from Obama’s leadership. “We’re very proud of the president’s record on foreign policy and are happy to make the case at the appropriate time.”
Just wondering:how many Nobel Prize Winners have touched off a World War?
Talk amongst yourselves.
The Perfect Visual Metaphor for Obama 2012
Why, yes. Yes it is.
And you know this drone is a Democrat because he's peeing uphill.
Oh. And lookie here:
Rasmussen: in both daily tracking and swing state polling, Mitt leads 47-45 among likely voters. Obama has sunk to the mid-40s again.
— Ken Gardner (@kesgardner) September 17, 2012
The loathsome Paul Krugman hardest hit.
Larwyn's Linx: For Barack Obama, 'Defending Islam' Now Supercedes Our Constitution
Nation
For Barack Obama, 'Defending Islam' Supersedes Constitution: JoshuaThe Fatal Racism and Arrogance of Barack and Hillary: JOdysseus
Rice: Benghazi attack was spontaneous; Libya: No, it wasn’t: Hot Air
Who Had the Worst Week in DC? WaPo Says... Romney: Conservatory
Liberal Smear: Romney’s War for the Jews: Commentary
Hijacking the First Amendment: Creeping
The Consequences of Obama’s Bungled Mideast Policy: Barone
You ever wonder about those polls?: LoneCon
Finally–Rep. Allen West Gives Weekly Republican Address: Bruce
Economy
Levin rips county judge decision to strike down WI union law: ScoopIslamists step up pressure for U.S. media curbs, Obama equivocates: DC
Rahm Emanuel to seek injunction forcing teachers to work: ChiBiz
Scandal Central
Another Lutheran Extremist!: RSMObama tweets: 47 for Jay-Z and Beyonce; 1 for Libya killings: WZ
This Is What Democrats Mean by Tolerance and Inclusion: IMAO
Climate & Energy
Email From Lead Analyst, Weekly Petroleum Supply Team on Possibility of Recession: MishMedia
American Pravda: HawkinsJournalists for Obama: CNN’s Peter Hamby tweets out donations for Obama link: Twitchy
How the Media Lies: trying the same thing as in 2010 to drag Democrats across the finish line: HillBuzz
NBC Ignores Libyan President’s Denial of Anti-Islam Film Blame: State Dept. Scrubs Website: MagNote
How Did Saturday Night Live Portray Obama and Romney Last Night in its Season Premiere?: HillBuzz
Quoted and Linked by a Member of Congress: Winter Soldier
Black Pastors Tell Congregants to Stay Home on Election Day: Dollard
Krauthammer: 6 Times in 20 Years We Have Gone to War on Behalf of Oppressed Muslims: MagNote
AP on 9/10: 'It Will Be a Rare Day' When National Security or Terrorism Will Be 'Center of Attention': NB
World
Libyan Govt: Attack On U.S. Embassy Was 'Planned — Definitely, It Was Planned by Foreigners': AmPowerNetanyahu: Obama Should Get Tougher with Iran: NewsMax
Ahmadinejad: US leaders realize Israel is ‘no longer beneficial’: Times of Israel
US Refused Even Standard Security at Benghazi Consulate Despite Four Previous Attacks: MB
Say, Why Is The Arab World So Easily Offended?: Cove
The Incredible Muslim Hulk proves to be no friend of Islam either: smh
Acts of War: NoisyRm
Taliban Attack Destroys Six Harrier Jets at 180 Million Dollar Cost: FPM
Afghan insider attack kills 4 U.S. troops: ArmyTimes
Sci-Tech
Introducing PicaQuote - Content for your Facebook Page or Website: PicaQuoteRe-Envisioned Modern Day Sling Launches Steel Balls Like Nobody’s Business: Gizmodo
US, Russian Space Trio Lands in Kazakhstan: AP
Cornucopia
America's Estate Sale For Obama: What Will You Sell?: CubeNakoula Arrest Photoshops: Best of the Best: Tatler
This Administration in Automotivators, 2009- Present: Troglopundit
Image: smh.com.au
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: WeCheck.org - People-based Fact-Checking
QOTD: "Religious liberty was considered so important by our Founders that it was written into the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a country populated by those fleeing the religious oppression of governments.
We considered religious liberty a bedrock of freedom and democracy and, as stated in our Declaration of Independence, we believed we were endowed with Unalienable rights by our Creator, not by men or governments.
The U.S. in recent years has grown increasingly indifferent to the lack of religious tolerance around the world as it has taken an increasingly violent turn.
Christians in places like Nigeria and Iraq, along with Coptic Christians in Egypt, have been subject to ruthless persecution by those for whom religious tolerance and freedom are a threat...
...Here at home we find a different kind of war on religious liberty, not violent but insidious, conducted by a government intent on imposing its beliefs regarding access to contraceptives and mandating that religious institutions violate their beliefs and consciences in the name of government health care edicts." --Investors Business Daily
Sunday, September 16, 2012
OUTRAGE: But Hillary said they were taking him to the hospital: New Video Shows Crowd Cheering as Amb. Stevens is Dragged Through Streets
YouTube user "Abdalgadar Fadi" has uploaded a video on the arabic language version of the video sharing site purporting to show US Ambassador Christopher Stevens dragged from the consulate in Benghazi.
The translation of the text below the video reads: "Moment directed the U.S. ambassador before his death" and the headline translates to: “U.S. Ambassador and the people of Benghazi rescue attempt before his death.”
The victim in the video appears to be wearing the same pants, belt and t-shirt seen in this photo of Amb. Stevens.
The validity of the video and the accuracy of the description of the events it depicts are still under investigation, but through Twitter and Facebook the video has already taken a life of its own.
Developing... (John Sexton and Morgen Richmond contributed to this report)
Which represents another in a series of lies promulgated by this administration: "Hillary Clinton said Libyans tried to save Ambassador Steven’s life and brought him to a hospital."
The Independent said the Obama administration had 48 hours notice that the embassies in Cairo and Benghazi were targets but they did nothing to warn them or put them in lockdown. The attack might have been an inside job. [Update: 9/14: Jay Carney denied today that the U.S. had any knowledge of the upcoming attacks]
Documents revealing the names of Libyans working with the U.S. government were lost as well as information on oil contracts... One witness said that there were at least 400 of these violent protesters and nothing would have stopped them. Our State Department said there were 20.
Hillary Clinton said Libyans tried to save Ambassador Steven’s life and brought him to a hospital. There are conflicting reports about whether he was tortured or brought to the hospital to be rescued... Other reports say that Stevens went missing first and his corpse was later taken to the hospital with his body being returned at an airport 12 hours later.
...Information now leaking out points to the attacks being planned for the 9/11 anniversary... There were no U.S. military personnel at the Benghazi Embassy even though it had been attacked before.
But according to dinosaur media, it was Mitt Romney that had a really bad week.
Just to recap: this week, we discovered the president missed all of his intelligence briefings leading up to 9/11. He ignored multiple warnings of attacks on U.S. interests. The Ambassador to Libya and several other State Department personnel were subsequently murdered by Islamist terrorists and dragged through the streets. Dozens of U.S. embassies and consulates around the globe were targeted for attacks and protests, which are ongoing even today.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced more money-printing in the form of additional quantitative easing, after two bursts failed to spur an economy descending into an outright depression. The labor-force participation rate hit a 31-year low. And the U.S. just registered its fourth consecutive trillion-dollar deficit.
But it was Mitt Romney that had a bad week.
The good news: left-wing print media is bleeding out as we speak.
Administration Beclowns Itself Once Again: Amb. Susan Rice Picks a Fight With Libya's Government Over the Fatal Attack in Benghazi
BOB SCHIEFFER: Was this a long-planned attack, as far as you know? Or what-- what do you know about that?
MOHAMED YOUSEF EL-MAGARIAF: The way these perpetrators acted and moved, I think we-- and they're choosing the specific date for this so-called demonstration, I think we have no-- this leaves us with no doubt that this has preplanned, determined-- predetermined.
BOB SCHIEFFER: And you believe that this was the work of al Qaeda and you believe that it was led by foreigners. Is that-- is that what you are telling us?
MOHAMED YOUSEF EL-MAGARIAF: It was planned-- definitely, it was planned by foreigners, by people who-- who entered the country a few months ago, and they were planning this criminal act since their-- since their arrival.
On ABC's This Week, however, Ambassador Susan Rice directly contradicted Libyan officials and said the attack was not premeditated:
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi last week was not premeditated, directly contradicting top Libyan officials who say the attack was planned in advance.
“Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo,” Rice told me this morning on “This Week.”
...Ambassador Christopher Stevens, along with three other Americans, were killed in Libya following the assault on the American consulate in Benghazi, on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Rice said the FBI is examining the attack, saying their investigation “will tell us with certainty what transpired.”
Rice’s account directly contradicts that of Libyan President Mohamed Yousef El-Magariaf, who said this weekend that he had “no doubt” the attack was pre-planned by individuals from outside Libya.
Now let's back up a couple of steps. Clear your head. Take a deep breath. And ask yourself:
What would be more likely to prompt a deadly attack on a U.S. Embassy? Incessant grandstanding by Obama about killing Bin Laden and relentless drone attacks that indiscriminately kill -- or a sad-sack YouTube video that no one watched?
Everyone knows that Rice is covering for the president's feckless foreign policy (or lack thereof) and his obvious dereliction of duty (namely, his refusal to regularly attend his daily intelligence briefings).
Call it by its true name: bleeding from behind.
Hat tip: PHS.


































