Sunday, October 07, 2012

FOREVER SIX: The Traits of a Narcissist

"A person who gives too much importance to himself, to the extent that he does not think about the feelings and sentiments of other people is said to be a narcissist. People who are narcissists consider themselves to be perfectionists who can never do anything wrong. They are governed by their false ego which requires ample amounts of admiration and praise to survive. It is said that narcissists live in a world of their own where they can think only about their problems and issues regarding power, prestige and personal adequacy. This makes them selfish individuals who do not have the ability to understand the problems of people around them. Such people are said to suffer from the problem of narcissistic personality disorder. As their egos are very fragile, a slight disrespect or challenge can lead to the development of fury which can cause harm to the person who was the reason for such provocation..." --Deepa Kartha

Joanna M. Ashmun, a well-known author on the topic of narcissism, writes:

[The narcissist's] moral intelligence is about at the level of a bright five- or six-year-old; the only rules they recognize are things that have been specifically required, permitted, prohibited, or disapproved of by authority figures they know personally.

Ashmun lists the major traits of narcissism, listed as bullet-points below:

• Contemptuous, Lack of Empathy:

How I became George Obama's 'brother':

A few days ago I received a call from a man I recently met named George. He was a bit flustered, and soon informed me that his young son was sick with a chest condition. He pleaded with me to send him $1,000 to cover the medical bills. Since George was at the hospital I asked him to let me speak to a nurse, and she confirmed that George’s son was indeed ill. So I agreed to send George the money through Western Union. He was profusely grateful. But before I hung up I asked George, “Why are you coming to me?” He said, “I have no one else to ask.” Then he said something that astounded me, “Dinesh, you are like a brother to me.”

Actually, George has a real life brother who just happens to be the president of the United States. (George Obama is the youngest of eight children sired by Barack Obama Sr.) George’s brother is a multimillionaire and the most powerful man in the world. Moreover, George’s brother has framed his re-election campaign around the “fair share” theme that we owe obligations to those who are less fortunate.

One of Obama’s favorite phrases comes right out of the Bible: “We are our brother’s keeper.” Yet he has not contributed a penny to help his own brother. And evidently George does not believe, even in times of emergency, that he can turn to his brother in the White House for help.

Obama Went to Bed While Consulate was Under Siege:

Fox News’ Special Report informed us that Barack Obama knew of the attack on the Libyan consulate within 90 minutes of it beginning...

There is no doubt that Obama knew that the attacks involved AK-47s, along with Rocket propelled grenades.

He knew that his ambassador was in grave danger and yet knowing all of this, and not knowing the status of Ambassador Stevens, Obama allegedly went quietly to bed.

• Envious and competitive - According to The New York Times, Obama spends extraordinary amounts of time and energy to compete in — trivialities:

For someone dealing with the world’s weightiest matters, Mr. Obama spends surprising energy perfecting even less consequential pursuits.

He has played golf 104 times since becoming president, according to Mark Knoller of CBS News, who monitors his outings, and he asks superior players for tips that have helped lower his scores. He decompresses with card games on Air Force One, but players who do not concentrate risk a reprimand (“You’re not playing, you’re just gambling,” he once told Arun Chaudhary, his former videographer).

His idea of birthday relaxation is competing in an Olympic-style athletic tournament with friends, keeping close score. The 2009 version ended with a bowling event. Guess who won, despite his history of embarrassingly low scores? The president, it turned out, had been practicing in the White House alley...

Kantor’s piece is full of examples of Obama’s odd need to dominate his peers in everything from bowling, cards, golf, basketball, and golf (104 times in his presidency). Bear in mind, Obama doesn’t just robustly compete. The leader of the free world spends many hours practicing these trivial pursuits behind the scenes...

• Grandiose - Again, according to the Times, "he vastly overrates his capabilities":

...even those loyal to Mr. Obama say that his quest for excellence can bleed into cockiness and that he tends to overestimate his capabilities. The cloistered nature of the White House amplifies those tendencies, said Matthew Dowd, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, adding that the same thing happened to his former boss. “There’s a reinforcing quality,” he said, a tendency for presidents to think, I’m the best at this...

“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Mr. Obama told Patrick Gaspard, his political director, at the start of the 2008 campaign, according to The New Yorker. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my political director.”

• Oddly unaware of the passage of time:

Narcissists often look, or think they look, significantly younger than they are; this youthful appearance is a point of pride to them, and some will emphasize it by either preserving the styles of their golden youth or following the styles of people the age they feel they "really" are. That their faces don't show their chronological age is a good sign that they haven't been living real lives with real life's wear and tear...

Remember the president's odd statement when he appeared on The View last month?

"I told folks I'm just supposed to be eye candy here for you guys," President Obama said during a back-and-forth about him being the only man on the program. The show's five co-hosts are women.

• Disappointing Gift-Givers:

Barack Obama's gift for the Queen: an iPod, your Majesty:

Barack Obama met the Queen at Buckingham Palace today and gave her a gift of an iPod loaded with video footage and photographs of her 2007 United States visit to Richmond, Jamestown and Williamsburg in Virginia. In return, the Queen gave the President a silver framed signed photograph of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh – apparently a standard present for visiting dignitaries.

To my special friend Gordon, 25 DVDs:

As he headed back home from Washington, Gordon Brown must have rummaged through his party bag with disappointment. Because all he got was a set of DVDs. Barack Obama, the leader of the world's richest country, gave the Prime Minister a box set of 25 classic American films - a gift about as exciting as a pair of socks... The Prime Minister gave Mr Obama an ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slave ship HMS Gannet.

• Stingy:

Obama only began donating to charities once he decided to run for President:

Does it not bother you that a guy like Obama can serve a poor district and give away a paltry $1000 to charity? He only stepped up his giving when he decided to run for President and he knew his charitable giving would be made public. How could anyone see that much misery and not try to personally do something about it?

Barack Obama only started making substantial donations to charity when he became a public figure.:

From 2000 through 2004, before being elected to the United States Senate, Obama gave less than 2% of his earnings to charity even though he made $250,000 a year (In the two previous years, Obama gave less than 1% of his income to charity). Since becoming a national figure, that amount has jumped to about 6%.

• Hyper-sensitive to criticism:

Press Corps Increasingly Aggravated at Thin-skinned, Aggressive White House:

The White House has adopted a pugilistic attitude towards the press, lashing out at journalists who criticize the president, shutting others out, and adopting a deferential attitude towards the press corps that has some journalists reminiscing about the openness of -- gasp -- the George W. Bush presidency... One of the most irritating practices of the Obama White House is when aides ignore inquiries or explicitly refuse to cooperate with an unwelcome story—only to come out with both guns blazing when it takes a skeptical view of their motives or success...

• Lack of a sense of humor:

"Obama’s no-humor zone: what does it say about him?":

Obama’s angry reaction to the New Yorker cover has highlighted a fact that has been obvious for some time: the man has no sense of humor.

Oh, I know, every now and then he tries a little quip. But his heart’s not in it. It seems to me that most of these “jokes” have had the same theme: mocking himself for his tendency to be a bit too “perfect,” and the extremity of the adulation he inspires in his supporters. They fall flat, in part perhaps because he believes he is rather perfect and deserves the worship.

• Amoral/conscienceless:

"Obama's silence exposes lack of moral character":

A Democrat Super PAC ad features a man, Joe Soptic, claiming Romney's Bain Capital shut down his plant, terminating his health insurance and resulting in the death of his wife who had stage 4 cancer. Pretty serious stuff... The ad was a bald-faced lie, yet Obama has remained silent even in the face of evidence of his campaign's collusion with the ad's creators. What kind of man would not immediately try to correct such an egregious lie? What kind of man would make himself party to such a lie? Answer: A man without any moral character...

...Obama's absence of moral character, though, has never been in doubt. Rewind to the Illinois state senate in 2001, 2002 and 2003 when Obama thrice opposed the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act that would have required doctors to care for babies born alive after failed abortions.

• Self-imposed, self-invented eccentric dietary regime:

Foods That Barack Obama Eats:

Obama's eating habits are notoriously disciplined. He favors salmon for dinner and trail mix for snacks. His build is lean and muscular with no excess body fat. He might have even less fat now, because he seemed to get thinner the longer he spent on the road.

Forever Six

From the age of five to six, Barack Obama -- who had never known his birth father -- was temporarily abandoned by his step-father Lolo Soetero, who returned to Indonesia:

After living in Seattle, Washington, with her infant son Barack from September 1961 to June 1962 while taking classes at the University of Washington, Ann Dunham returned to Honolulu and resumed her undergraduate education at the University of Hawaii in January 1963. In January 1964 she filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Barack Obama Sr., who had left Hawaii in June 1962 to pursue graduate study at Harvard University.

[Lolo] Soetoro and Dunham met at the East-West Center while both were students at the University of Hawaii. Soetoro and Dunham married in Hawaii in 1965. Soetoro, a geographer, returned to Indonesia in 1966, to help map Western New Guinea for the Indonesian government, while Dunham and her son moved into her parents' house in Honolulu to complete her studies at the University of Hawaii... In 1967, Dunham and her six-year-old son moved to Jakarta to rejoin Soetoro.

Why is the age of six so important to a child's self-esteem? Because, as Ashmun explains, trauma or arrested development around the age of six can be mapped directly to the traits of narcissism.

She writes that, "some psychologists trace NPD to early infantile neglect or abuse..."

Selected Characteristics of Normal Six-Year-Olds


...The items below are not intended to be a comprehensive description of six-year-olds, but only the selected bits that seem to be related to adult narcissists' traits discussed elsewhere... My interest here is in pointing out that many of the narcissistic characteristics that are abnormal in adults are completely normal at six years of age and that the survival of these childish characteristics into adulthood is, essentially, immaturity rather than bad intentions. But bear in mind that, while everyone who grows up passes through this stage of development, most of us spend only a few months this way before moving on to more integrated behavior. Narcissists, on the other hand, apparently spend the rest of their lives in this state of highly volatile ambivalence and uncertainty.

...•  "The child is now the center of his own universe." (p. 2, 15) [Emphasis in original]
•  delighted by any silly thing that calls attention to himself; may do silly, show-offy things to call attention to himself when he feels neglected or shut out (pp. 71-72)



•  arrogant (p. 7)
•  self-important ("extremely aware of the importance of being Six") (p. 22)
•  demands rather than asks (twice on p. 6, 16)
•  thinks own way is always right (p. 7)
•  once started, will stick to a course of bad behavior or bad judgment regardless of the inevitability of being punished for it (p. 7)
•  asks to be flattered and praised as "good," even ("rather sadly and touchingly") following his worst behavior (p. 6)



•  can't accept criticism (p. 7)
•  feelings are hurt over very small criticisms, comments, failures (p. 6)
•  "He is so extremely anxious to do well, to be the best, to be loved and praised, that any failure is very hard for him." (p. 6)



•  wants to win every time (p. 4, 21, 45)
•  poor sport, can't stand to lose (p. 7, 16)
•  argumentative and quarrelsome (p. 21)
•  defiant, pert, fresh, snippy (p. 6, 17)
•  competitive, combative (p. 20)
•  belligerent, verbally and physically aggressive (p. 21)
•  threatens, calls names, gets physically violent (p. 21)
•  violent temper tantrums may require physical restraint because of striking out (p. 29)
•  jealous, envious (p. 7, 21)



•  to make sure of winning, will cheat or make up own rules (pp. 21-22, 45)
•  complains that others are cheating and not following the rules (p. 45)
•  some are very cruel to younger children (p. 22)
•  does not always tell the truth (p. 16)
•  will not admit to wrongdoing (p. 41) [Note: A technique is given for getting the facts out of kids that also works with narcissists: instead of asking if they did it, ask how they did it.]
•  goodness means the things explicitly required or allowed by parents or other authority figures; badness means the things explicitly disapproved of or forbidden (p. 66)



•  little forgiveness (p. 22)
•  very critical of others' conduct (p. 22)
•  expects friendships to be resumed immediately following tremendous complaint and conflict (p. 22)



•  wants to boss (p. 21)
•  "Many children think their father knows everything -- even what goes on at home while he is at work."(p. 16)
•  thinks his teacher knows the best and only right way of doing things; may not know which rules to follow when school rules differ from home rules (p. 18)



•  "highly undifferentiated -- everything is everywhere" (p. 7)
•  can't always tell the difference between "yours" and "mine," and so often steals (pp. 39-41)



•  "random and unconstructive expenditure of energy" (p. 31)
•  more interested in merely handling or using tools than in what is accomplished with them (pp. 53-54)
•  less interested in actual final products than in whatever he may be doing at the moment(p. 56)...

To be sure, I'm no psychologist, but the traits are the traits. Whether or not they apply to this president is left as an exercise for the reader.


Larwyn's Linx: A Fantasy Election, an Imaginary Man

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Nation

A Fantasy Election, an Imaginary Man: Klavan
Mitt Romney seizes momentum with 30 days left before election: Hill
After debate failure, Obama consults most trusted adviser: Pundette

Obama Unfiltered: McCarthy
Barack's Debate Notes: SDA
Hilarious: Obama's Friends Explain Why He Lost The Debate: Ace

The Shield Cracks: Rick Wilson
The Real Reason Obama Lost to Romney: RWN
John Kerry thrown under bus for his poor debate prep: Twitchy

Economy

ROMNEY IN COAL COUNTRY: You Call This a ‘Recovery’?: RSM
Team Obama declares ‘War on Social Security’: DC
The ugly truth about that "great" jobs report: Harsanyi

Scandal Central

Top U.S. security official in Libya rips Obama administration: Scoop
Intelligence officials slam cover up of Iranian, al Qaeda surge: Beacon
Swing State Polls are Rigged: Morris

Climate & Energy

NYT: CA gas prices “often high because of regulations”: GayPatriot
Soaring Gas Prices in California: PragCap
Calif. gas prices at all-time high; up 4 cents overnight: USA Today

Media

Not Since Johannes Gutenberg …: RSM
Despite Best Efforts By Obama-Media – Mitt Romney Takes Lead in Latest Polling: GWP
Facebook blocks Twitchy from posting for 24 hours, threatens permanent ban: Twitchy

Washington Post Asks Why Mitt Romney Isn't Richer, and Doesn't That Disqualify Him From the Presidency?: Ace
Elmer Williams Critiques Snoop Dogg’s Voting Rationale: RSM
Boom! Ace of Spades destroys spin that Obama is ‘too professorial’ to win debates: Twitchy

BOOM! New Romney ad calls Obama campaign out for lying about his economic plan: “$5 Trillion”: Scoop
SNL Obliterates MSNBC's Post-Debate Meltdown: Scoop
Video proof: Pelosi eminently qualified to control your health care choices: IMAO

World

U.S. Soldiers Urged Not to Shoot Taliban at Night so Locals Can Sleep: Breitbart
IDF shoots down drone that penetrated deep into Israel: Times of Israel
Stratfor Sources: U.S. Troops in Mexico as Feds Aid Cartels: NewAm

Compare and Contrast: Rants & Refinements
BTW, Obama Decided Not To Send In The Military To Rescue Our Benghazi Personnel: RWN
Downed drone: Iran testing Israel's capabilities: ynet

Sci-Tech

Can ResearchGate really be the Facebook of science?: GigaOm
Google Puts Its Virtual Brain Technology to Work: TechReview
When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1?: Schneier

Cornucopia

How to make unemployment work for you!: MOTUS
Get the Listing: Godin
So, it Seems Michael Vick Has a Dog: Crossing Broad

Image: Get Ready for Winter With 'Fascionable' Headware for the 1%!
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QOTD: "The mystery Obama—the hollow receptacle of out-sized fantasies left and right—is not a creation of his own making, political chameleon though he may well be. It emanates instead from a journalistic community that no longer in any way fulfills its designated function, that no longer even attempts the fair presentation of facts and current events aimed at helping the American electorate make up its mind according to its own lights. Rather, left-wing outlets like the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, and the like have now devoted themselves to fashioning an image of the world they think their audiences ought to believe in—that they may guide us toward voting as they think we should. They have fallen prey to that ideological corruption that sees lies as a kind of virtue, as a noble deception in service to a greater good.

Theirs are largely passive lies and lies of omission. The active frauds—NBC’s dishonest editing of videos to reflect a leftist worldview, ABC’s allowing Democratic operative George Stephanopoulos to masquerade as a newsman, the Los Angeles Times’ suppressing even the transcript of the video in their possession that shows candidate Barack Obama at a meeting with a PLO-supporting sheik—these are only egregious salients of the more consistent, underlying dishonesty. The real steady-state corruption is revealed in the way Obama scandals like Fast and Furious, Benghazi-gate, and the repeated breaking of federal campaign laws have been wildly underplayed, while George W. Bush’s non-scandals, like the naming of Valerie Plame and the firings of several U.S. attorneys at the start of his second term, were blown out of all proportion." --Andrew Klavan

Saturday, October 06, 2012

SPHINCTER-CLENCHING DRAMA: Iran firing drones into Israel

Not, it's not a Tom Clancy novel. It's actually happening. The Middle East is devolving into chaos, the inevitable outcome of a world without America.

Downed drone: Iran testing Israel's capabilities


Unmanned aircraft shot down by F-16 jets in south Israel was apparently launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah, or perhaps even by the Iranians themselves; IDF looking into possibility aircraft was supposed to photograph Dimona reactor

A few hours after two fighter jets shot down a small unmanned aircraft that penetrated Israeli airspace in the south Saturday morning, it is safe to say that an element operating in Lebanon under the auspices of Iran and with its support, apparently Hezbollah, activated the drone. The drone itself, which was downed in the south Mount Hebron area, was apparently made in Iran.

Operating a drone by remote control from such a long distance requires advanced capabilities, which Israel was not aware Hezbollah had acquired...

...The drone was apparently launched by Iran or one of its allies to test the IDF's detection and interception capabilities, and perhaps even to search for specific targets in south Israel. The drone apparently began its flight in Lebanon and then headed in the direction of Gaza's coastline after flying over the Mediterranean Sea. This route was chosen not only because it utilized the depth of the sea's airspace, but also because Israeli UAVs regularly hover above Gaza...

...Hezbollah tried to conceal the fact that it had sent the drone by selecting a long route that passed through the Mediterranean Sea. It wanted the drone to enter Israel near Gaza, perhaps in an attempt to place the blame on Hamas, which is currently considered hostile to elements that are loyal to Iran...

To put it in simple terms for drones, leftists and other miscreants:

• Iran is arming Hezbollah with increasingly sophisticated reconnaissance and weapons-delivery platforms

• Iran is reportedly weeks away from completing its first nuclear weapon

• Iran's proxy terror group -- Hezbollah -- is also operating in Mexico, assisting drug cartels with the construction of car-bombs and other terror tactics

• The administration's "open borders" policy -- and tacit endorsement of illegal immigration -- raises the possibility of terror groups smuggling nuclear weapons into the U.S. through our southern border

With Obama in office, I'm thinking the Mayans were onto something.


WHEREIN I DRINK THE SWEET, SWEET TEARS OF CHER: After debate debacle, Obama races back to LA to "reassure Hollywood donors"

Allow me to reassure Messrs. Weinstein and the rest of the Hollywood kooks: your ROI on Obama is going to go negative next month.

The president arrives for a star-studded concert and high-roller dinner on Sunday amid "shock" in Hollywood over his Denver debate performance.


President Barack Obama returns to Los Angeles Sunday for a star-bedecked celebrity concert and fundraising dinner. In the wake of his Denver debate troubles, however, the long scheduled visit has acquired another, equally urgent purpose—reassuring his Hollywood supporters that he's fighting to win the race and he's poised for a comeback in the next televised forum with former Gov. Mitt Romney.


...There’s also no doubt that the president’s Hollywood supporters were deeply shaken by his lackluster performance in this week’s debate with Republican nominee Mitt Romney... “Everyone is in shock,” said one long-time Democratic activist. “No one can understand what happened.”

At the very least, several longtime Obama supporters told THR, the chief executive should expect some directorial notes on how to tailor his performance to television’s split screen. “Everyone with a connection to the president is reaching out to him,” said another veteran Dem. “At the end of the day, the best coach he has is himself.”

...The cloud of anxious fallout from Denver has all but overshadowed what otherwise would be considered a particularly glittering and gala L.A. appearance for Obama. His Sunday evening will kick off with a concert at downtown L.A.’s Nokia Theater featuring Katy Perry, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, Earth Wind and Fire, and Jon Bon Jovi. Presidential pal Clooney will make a special appearance to introduce Wonder. Afterward, Obama will head next door for a $25,000-per-plate dinner at Wolfgang Puck’s chic WP24. Both events were sold out before the debate. The two events could easily raise more than $5 million for the president's reelection campaign.

Oh, and as for you Hollywood-types: we're not going to forget your anti-American efforts. You live in the lap of luxury, enjoying the fruits of the most magnificent society ever created, while supporting those whose mission is to destroy it.

So when we boot Obama out of office in November, we'll not only be sending you kooks a message. We'll be doing it for the children.


GASMAGEDDON: Before and After Photos

Before and after Obama, that is.


And, as a senator in Washington who knows firsthand says, Obama "has the most aggressive anti-fossil fuel agenda in history."


NFL Trash-talk on Facebook

Heh.


The rest of the conversation -- with the requisite f-bombs included -- is here.


Would Obama and the Democrats have cared more if it had been Big Bird who'd been raped and murdered in Benghazi?

I only ask because Big Bird (who is wealthier than Mitt Romney) appears to have become some kind of cause celebre among the denizens of the Left, who can't seem to find anything to cut from the bloated central government in Washington.


At the same time, Obama and the left are curiously silent about the rape and murder of our Ambassador to Libya:

According to the Arabic website, Tayyar:

...the American ambassador in Libya [Christopher Stevens] was sexually raped before being killed by the gunmen who stormed the embassy building in Benghazi last night [Tuesday, September 11], in protestation of a film insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings upon him.

Then there is this picture, rarely shown on the MSM. Perhaps he is being rescued from the jihadis, but why, exactly, are his pants down?

The al-Qaeda affiliated men who sexually abused and killed Gaddafi are the same sort of men who sexually abused and killed America’s ambassador. We were told that the late Libyan dictator was killed because he was an evil oppressor of his people. Why was the American ambassador killed, who had hailed the revolution and was there helping to “build a better Libya“?

These are the questions the media and the Obama administration need to be answering...

While the usual suspects blather on about a fake issue, the Obama administration continues to cover up what really happened in Benghazi and why it issued a series of fabrications to the American people in the aftermath of the attacks.



ILLUSTRATED: Obama's "Plan" to make America Energy Independent

Tweeted by @JennHanin in D.C.:


I forget: does Obama want to make America energy-independent? Or independent of energy?



EXPLAINED: What the president means when he says we must "grow from the middle out"

When the president first uttered the following, I hadn't really understood what he meant:

This country doesn’t just succeed when just a few are doing well at the top. It succeeds when the middle class gets bigger. Our economy doesn’t grow from the top down -- it grows from the middle out.

We don’t believe that anybody is entitled to success in this count

That is, until Biff Spackle sent me this montage.


Then it all became clear.

Oh, and as you could have predicted, "The First Food Czar’s School Lunchroom Mandate is Failing."



A Soul-Crushing Letter From an Innocent Little Girl To the Cold, Dark Heart of Governor Romney

Spotted at @LOLBuzzFeed:


As an aside, Big Bird makes more money than Mitt Romney yet remains on the government dole.



Larwyn's Linx: Obama, Dems Almost Answerable to No One

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Nation

Obama, Dems Almost Answerable to No One: Anchoress
Another Obama Tape Surfaces: AmSpec
Obama Being Sent to Debate Camp Next Week: Powers

Obama Campaign Shifts Into Extreme Attack Mode: Dossier
PA Dem Refuses to Say Pledge of Allegiance: MenRec
NAACP Official: Obama Campaign Staffer Threatened Me: CBS Chicago

Obama’s Promotion of Racial Hatred Exposed: FPM
Bounce: Romney Surges in Ohio, Florida, Virginia: Benson
Joe Biden Analyzes the Debate: Hopenchange

Economy

Reaction to Chicago Jobs Numbers: Yeah, Right: Nice Deb
Why That 7.8% Unemployment Figure Is Raising Eyebrows: Ace
Why Today’s BLS Jobs Numbers Make No Sense: RS

Unemployment Rate Plummets to 4.3%... For Government Workers: Ace
CBO on Social Security: For Most, It Sucks: ZH
Welch: Obama Manipulates Jobs Number After Debate Disaster: Insider

Obama: 'We Don't Believe Anybody Is Entitled to Success in This Country': WS
1,035,000: Construction Jobs Lost Under Obama: CNS
Devastating Video: A Dinner Table All Too Common In The Obama Economy: LoneCon

Scandal Central

Email Shows State Department Rejecting Request of Security Team at US Embassy in Libya: ABC
Jack Welch Wasn’t Kidding, Explains Tweet Claiming Jobs Numbers Were Fixed By Obama Admin: Bruce
Obama Policy Encouraging Immigrants to Go on Public Dole: Volpe

Obama’s Untraceable Donations: Hundreds of Millions From Overseas? : MagNote
Florida officials investigate 2 Dem groups for vote fraud, one is La Raza: Riehl
Cancer, heart and stroke specialists face NHS ax: Guardian

Climate & Energy

Are Those High Gas Prices Ever Going To Come Down?: CBS Los Angeles

Media

Krauthammer: Romney dissolved $150 million in negative ads and turned them to dust last night: Scoop
Former NBA Star Greg Anthony Endorses Romney; Left Responds With Its Usual Tact and Decorum: Scoop
PRESIDENTIAL: Ice-T offers President Obama debate advice: ‘No weed’ next time: Twitchy

Buzzfeed "Reporter's" Tweet: Romney Vehicle Passes Hill Flying Confederate Flag: Ace
Surprise! Unemployment Down to 7.8%; Yes, Economists & Others Are Calling Shenanigans: Bruce
An empty Obama chair on the cover of The New Yorker smells like … victory: LI

Jack Welch Refuses to Back Down on Unemployment Numbers in Fiery Debate With Chris Matthews: Blaze
Two Obama Aides Admit Being ‘Shell-Shocked’ and no one respects John Kerry: Riehl
Pew Research Center: Republicans More Knowledgeable Than Democrats (Again): CFIF

World

Benghazi: Obama’s end of watch: JPA
The Left's Only Enemy: Glick
Hyperinflation Hits Iran; Monthly 70% Inflation Rate; Reflections on Economic Warfare: Mish

Profs. on Mideast Turmoil: Blame America, Israel, and Free Speech: FPM
The Rape of America’s Ambassador to Libya: Ibrahim
North Korean soldier defects to South across land border: JPost

Sci-Tech

More evidence that Voyager has exited the solar system: Chron
Foxconn's iPhone plant 'paralyzed' as thousands strike: Report: EconomicTimes
A Democrat Orc Runs for Office?: Mellow Jihadi

Cornucopia

Romney-Obama debate: a lost chapter of "Atlas Shrugged": Cube
Hitler Finds Out That Obama Lost the Debate: Zilla
Video: “A Good Day to Die Hard” trailer: Hot Air

Image: You'll Never Guess Who This Is...
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QOTD: "This country doesn’t just succeed when just a few are doing well at the top. It succeeds when the middle class gets bigger. Our economy doesn’t grow from the top down -- it grows from the middle out.

We don’t believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country.

But we do believe in opportunity. We believe in a country where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded, and everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same rules." --Barack Obama

Friday, October 05, 2012

STUNNING FRIGHTFUL SHOCK: Is the Editorial Staff of the New Yorker Comprised of Racist Xenophobes?



Baseless charges of racism?

Check.
And.
Mate.




Betches.


The Philosophy of Jack Reacher

Papa B serves some Lee Child.

Eat when you can because you never know when the next chance will be.

Sleep when you can so you won’t need to when you can’t.

Don’t mess with the special investigators.

Don’t own anything that doesn’t fit in your pockets.

Buy new clothes and throw old ones away rather than wash and keep them.

Carry your passport.

Think like them; feel like them; be them.

We investigate, we prepare, we execute. WE find them, we take them down and then we piss on their ancestors' graves.

The more we know, the luckier we get.

His life and his history lacked many things. He had never known stability or normality or comfort or convention. He had never counted on anything except surprise and unpredictability and danger. He took things exactly as they came, for exactly what they were.

“I don’t make plans, Karla.”

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

“Do you ever get afraid?” “No, I get mad. Not at myself for being afraid…I got mad at the things for making me afraid.”

Back to the wall. All exits in view, if possible.

One advantage of being ex-military was almost any place was serviceable. There was always somewhere worse to compare it to.

“I like cockroaches better than those people.. they are just little packets of DNA scuttling around, doing what they have to do. Walker and his buddies didn’t have to do what they did. They had a choice. They could have been upstanding human beings. But they chose not to be…So, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.”

He had never really lived anywhere. That was the defining feature of his life. It made him what he was.

He owed no money. He had never stolen anything, never cheated anybody. Never fathered any children. He was on as few pieces of paper as it was possible for a human being to get.

He was pretty sure he didn’t want to live in a house. The desire had just passed him by. The necessary involvement intimidated him. It was a physical weight, like the suitcase in his hand.

He had never known stability, he had never completed a year in the same school, he had never worked nine to five, Monday to Friday, he had never counted on anything at all except surprise and unpredictability.

He had developed a habit of buying new stuff instead of washing the old stuff. It defended him against carrying any kind of big valise and it defended him against learning the techniques of laundering.

One: “I have never seen a pack that stayed together after the first few heads hit the pavement.”
Two: “An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.”
Three: “Most guys who don’t check new equipment are alive, but by no means all of them.”
Four: “All you need, and nothing you don’t.”

Tom Cruise? Are you f'in kidding me?



CHART: Labor Commissar Announces Obama Created 8.4 Million Jobs in September, Unemployment Now at 0.3%

Fiction. It's not just for novels any more. Biff Spackle created today's Soviet-style jobs chart


Noel Sheppard, writing at NewsBusters, describes why today's jobs report was just as legit as a Timmah Geithner $7 bill.

....more shocking, total employment, as measured by the Household Survey, rose by 873,000 in September... the biggest one month jump since June 1983.

As such, total employment now stands at the highest level it's been since December 2008 before Obama was inaugurated.

But even more mysterious is the divergence in the two surveys done by the Labor Department.

The Household Survey showed a gain of 873,000 people employed in September - resulting in the surprise drop in the unemployment rate - while the Establishment Survey only showed a rise of 114,000.

Seriously: why not 8 million jobs added? That makes just as much sense.



TURBOTAX SHERROD BROWN: Ohio's far left Senator keeps hiking our taxes while dodging his own

According to the National Journal's rankings, Sherrod Brown was the most left wing Senator based upon his votes in 2010.


But that's not the worst of it. While voting for some of the most massive taxpayer ripoffs in history -- including Obamacare -- Brown was avoiding paying his own taxes.

Ohio Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown was more than four months delinquent in paying taxes on his Washington, D.C., apartment and had to pay a penalty and interest last week.

This was not the first time, records show.

Brown also was delinquent in 2006 and 2007 and paid penalties and interest, according to tax records from the District of Columbia.

"I was late," he said on a conference call with reporters when asked about the recent delinquency. "I misplaced the bill and I paid it as soon as I found out. I paid a penalty for being late, and it won't happen again."

When a reporter noted that it also happened five and six years ago, Brown said: "I misplaced it then. This is a small apartment. I'm not in D.C. nearly every week, I'm here when the Senate's in session, I'm here three or four nights a week. I paid the penalty. And in no way, obviously, was I avoiding taxes."

Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel -- an ex-Marine and a brilliant financial mind -- has faced an onslaught of negative advertising from Sherrod Brown and his far left cronies.

Click here to pink-slip this disgraceful hack and send him back to wherever the hell it is he came from.


SOMEONE IN SACRAMENTO NEEDS TO LAY OFF THE PEYOTE: Gas prices in Cali spike an all-time record $0.20 in one day

The working people of California have to be extremely pleased with the left-wing eco-Marxists who control their state. Sacramento's insane push towards non-existent green energy sources -- wind, solar, and unicorn farts -- seems to be working out really well... if the goal is to de-industrialize the state.

Supposedly good news for Obama in the unemployment report, but very very bad news for commuters in Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES – The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County recorded what is believed to be its largest single-day increase today, rising 19.2 cents to $4.539 — its highest amount since July 12, 2008.

The average price has increased by more than 1 cent on each of the past seven days, including 8.8 cents on Thursday and 5.8 cents on Wednesday. It is now 40.3 cents more than a week ago, 36.4 cents higher than a month ago and 71.5 cents greater than at this time last year, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.

Yesterday it was reported that prices were so high, some gas pumps are simply shutting down:

Gasoline station owners in the Los Angeles area… are beginning to shut pumps as the state’s oil refiners started rationing supplies and spot prices surged to a record.

“We’re going to start shutting pumps Friday,” Sam Krikorian, owner of Quality Auto Repair in North Hollywood, said by phone yesterday. “Gas is costing me almost $4.75 a gallon with taxes. There’s no sense in staying open. The profit margins are so low it’s not worth it.”

This is exactly why Capitalism just doesn’t work – they should keep their pumps open not for filthy dirty profit, but for their love of community!

But, hell, who needs Keystone XL, Alaska, or offshore oil anyhow?


KRUGPRESSION: Single Graphic Obliterates the Obama-Axelrod-Cutter Economic Talking Points

As Investors Business Daily puts it, President Obama's case for reelection rests on five economic claims, every single one of which is false. Every. Single. One.


Paul Krugman, Taegan Goddard, and Cher hardest hit.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: What Was Best About Last Night’s Debate Was…

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Nation

What Was Best About Last Night’s Debate Was…: HayRide
Absentee Ballot Data Ohio Shows Bad News: Ace
Desperate Dems Hide Behind Big Bird: Malkin

Honey, I shrunk the president!: Instapundit
Hmmm… Pro-Obama Super PAC Pulls Ads From WI and FL: GWP
Matthews Meltdown Mirrors Mainstream Media Panic: IBD

McLaughlin exposes rigging of swing-state polls: Morris
Obama collapse in Illinois?: Breitbart
Next (Taiwanese) Animation Makes It Official...: Ace

Economy

Joe Biden Continues to Campaign for Romney/Ryan: RS
AARP to Obama: Don’t mention us again: Exam
Anarcho-Laziness: Occupy LA’s one-year anniversary rally: Zombie

Obama's Re-Election Case Rests On 5 Phony Claims: IBD
Eric Holder's Brother Employs Illegal Immigrants: Breitbart
DSA Marxists Use Obama to push their health care takeover: Loudon

Scandal Central

Was Obama rattled by developing donor scandal story?: Exam
Benghazi: House panel names source - Regional Security Officer confirmed Libya threats: Riehl
House Ways and Means Chairman says docs make clear Delphi pension decision included Obama officials: Exam

WH Aide Involved in Fast and Furious Was 'Suddenly' Transferred to Iraq; Issa Threatens Subpoena: CNS
The Cleveland Clinic, cited as a "model" by Obama, is actually illegal under Obamacare: WyBlog
BTW, Obama Decided Not To Send In The Military To Rescue Our Benghazi Personnel: Cove

Climate & Energy

'Drunken' Broker Sent Oil to 8-Month High in 2009: Report: OilPrice

Media

The Left Goes To Their Last Refuge Defense, Axelrod Calls Out To The MSM For Support: Wolf Howling
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Grimaces: VodkaPundit
Does Obamacare Cover Butt-Kickings?: Breitbart

Last Night, I Said To MSNBC’s Touré What Millions Of Americans Have Wanted To Say For Years: Hawkins
Comedy gold: New York Times declares ‘unhelpful debate’ pretty much a draw: Twitchy
UK Media: Romney Humiliated Obama in the Presidential Debate: FoxNation

Good For Him. George Zimmerman Sues NBC Over Edited 911 Tape: Bruce
Man of the Hour: Former Spook
Obama Adviser Axelrod Calls on Media to Attack Romney: Blaze

Remember That "$5 Trillion Tax Cut" Obama Was Blathering About? Yeah, He Was Lying: Ace
Obama Twitter feed takes over WaPo’s website: Exam
Real Obama Revealed In Bumbling Debate Performance: IBD

World

October Surprise? Obama plans major airstrike in Libya before election: Breitbart
Somalia Community Organizing Comes to Maine: Mellow Jihadi
Israel Builds a Model Farm in South Sudan: Cutting Edge

More Documents Found In Unsecured Consulate: S&L
Obama’s “Muslim World” Journey and Its Consequences for America: NoisyRm
Egypt's Christians - Distraught and Displaced: IPT

Sci-Tech

Video Marketing Strategy 101: SocMedToday
Free online identity risk calculator: NetSec
Tumblr Woos Brands with Analytics Showing How Content Spreads: Clickz

Cornucopia

Important Obama Debate Highlights: Spew
Obama debacle: not a good idea to believe your own press clippings: MOTUS
A female Marine lieutenant got through the USMC's Combat Endurance Test: C.J. Chivers

Image: MOTUS
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: The life and legacy of slain Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie

QOTD: "...Mitt Romney did show up ready to be President. Obama showed up with — as — the Empty Chair. He stared at his feet. He grimaced. Occasionally a smile would flash on his face, with all the spontaneity of Bush 41′s “Message: I Care.” He was whiny, he was defensive. Worst of all? Empty Chair’s body language did just show contempt for Romney. He displayed contempt for the setting, for the requirement that he be there, and I think it even showed contempt for the office he (still) holds.

Barack Obama is tired of being President. I’m not sure he ever enjoyed it. That is what he brought to the debate last night, and that is why he lost." --Stephen Green

Thursday, October 04, 2012

Debate photo reveals fatal flaw in Obama strategy

MOTUS says things might have turned out better for the president had only the chair showed up:


Or, to paraphrase Teresa, "Never bring a radical progressive to an economics fight."


OH, THE HUMANITY: Obama SuperPACs pulling ads from Florida, Wisconsin to concentrate on... Nevada

The venerable Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit drinks the sweet, sweet tears of The New York Times:

The pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action pulled ads from Florida and Wisconsin this week. This seems a bit odd considering there are only a few weeks left before the election... The Caucus reported:

The pro-Obama “super PAC” that has spent millions of dollars attacking Mitt Romney in ads is pulling commercials from Florida and Wisconsin, part of what the group says is a realignment of its advertising campaign.

The cancellations by Priorities USA Action, coupled with new purchases of television time in other key swing states, indicate where Democratic strategists think the presidential race may and may not be competitive with a month left to Election Day.

President Obama was always polling strongly in Wisconsin, so the need for him to have a strong television presence advertising there was less crucial.

But Priorities, which has been pulling in more money than its pro-Romney counterpart recently and will continue to aggressively fund-raise through much of October, is also going up on the air in states where the polls are much tighter, like Nevada, which is a first.

To paraphrase the great Ricky Bobby, "Did that blow your mind, because that just happened!"


Image hat tip: @VeronicaCoffin.