Monday, October 15, 2012

HILLARY TRIES TO THROW HERSELF UNDER THE BENGHAZI BUS: Says She Was Responsible For Diplomats' Security

Gee, you mean the Secretary of State is responsible for the State Department? Well, I'll be damned.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday tried to douse a political firestorm around the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, saying she is responsible for the security of American diplomatic outposts.

"I take responsibility" for the protection of U.S. diplomats, Clinton said during a visit to Peru. But she said an investigation now under way will ultimately determine what happened in the attack that left four Americans dead.

The attack on the night of September 11 killed Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans at the American consulate in Benghazi.

The Obama administration has been heavily criticized after Vice President Joe Biden said during last week's vice presidential debate that the White House did not know of requests to enhance security at Benghazi, contradicting testimony by State Department employees that requests had been made and rejected. After the debate, the White House said the vice president did not know of the requests because they were handled, as is the practice, by the State Department.

Clinton said President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are not involved in security decisions... "I want to avoid some kind of political gotcha," she added, noting that it is close to the election.

"Political gotcha"?

An Ambassador is dead and the administration trotted out a series of lies from the outset. And the key questions remain unanswered:

• Who ordered security removed from Ambassador Stevens when he and other personnel were requesting more security?

• Who made up the story about the video and the non-protest in Libya?

• And why were the false stories promoted for weeks on end?

Four Americans are dead and more than a month has elapsed during which the administration has lied, evaded and misdirected. Perhaps a few of these questions will be asked in in the remaining presidential debates. Dare to dream.


FLOTUS DOES HENNY YOUNGMAN: Michelle Obama Says ‘We Are in the Midst of a Huge Recovery’

Oh. You mean to say she was trying to be serious?

First Lady Michelle Obama said in a radio interview on Friday that the United States is in the “midst of a huge recovery” because of what “this president has done.”

Pablo Sato, co-host of Pablo & Free on WPGC 95.5, a Washington, D.C.-area hip-hop radio station, asked the first lady: “Mrs. Obama, you know what, in your words, tell us what you think the state of the union is in right now?”

Mrs. Obama said, “I mean, we are seeing right now that we are in the midst of a huge recovery. Right? Because of what this president has done.”

...According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the real gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.3 percent in the second quarter of 2012, down from 2.0 percent from first quarter 2012.

The BEA data also show GDP growth of (negative) - 3.1 percent in 2009; 2.4 percent in 2010; and 1.8 percent in 2011.

Let's see:

• A record high 1-in-6 Americans are living in poverty.

• A record high 48 million Americans are on food stamps.

• The labor force participation rate is at a 30-year low.

• Democrats have stolen $500 billion from Medicare to fund a new, completely undefined entitlement program the costs of which have already tripled from original estimates.

• Barack Obama has added $6 trillion to the debt in only four years with no plans to reduce the yawning chasm facing future generations.

Oh, and she called many of her supporters' family members and friends "knuckleads":

First lady Michelle Obama is encouraging supporters to reach out to the "knuckleheads" in their life to ask them to vote for President Obama... "Talk to everyone you know -- your friends, your neighbors, that cousin you haven't seen in a while, that student sitting next to you in class. You know he's kind of a knucklehead," the first lady said. "You know the one."

"Tap him on the shoulder. Be nice. Don't call him a knucklehead. Not to his face. You just want to encourage him to get to the polls," Obama said. "But tell him what's at stake."

Michelle, however, may be right about that recovery.

We're about to evict her and her husband from the White House and install leadership that understands the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I call that a recovery.


NOW IS THE TIME WHEN WE JUXTAPOSE: See if you can tie together these two seemingly unrelated stories

Obama Admin Bans Drilling On 11.5 Million Acres Of National Petroleum Reserve

Didn’t President Obama promise to make the United States energy independent? Doesn’t he claim to favor an “all of the above” energy policy? Well, the actions of his administration speak louder than his words.


The latest is the move by the Interior Department to shut off 11.5 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska from drilling.

As gas prices soar, city cycling more attractive

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — ...Statewide, Californians are increasingly pumping air into the flat tires on their dusty old bikes instead of gas into their tanks. Recent historic spikes in gas prices are expected to stay high, forcing many to look at their gas guzzling minivans and SUVs in a new light. ... "Historically there have been spikes whenever gas prices rise, but with the past gas spike, we sustained our ridership; that was breaking the cycle," Coffelt said regarding an earlier spike in 2012.


... Short drives account for 37 percent of all car trips, and use a lot of fuel. "Take any given point in the city and draw a one-mile radius around it, and you've got 10,000 people who live within that radius. Our focus is really on those short bike trips ... to the grocery store and to get the kids to school," Crawford said.

"The question is: How do we get people out of the mindset of getting into their car?"

Pictured above: other countries that have transitioned to bicycles as their most advanced form of transportation, including Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, and Red China.

Under Democrat leadership, America is provably de-industrializing itself by locking away access to our own vast energy reserves. Democrats are slowly and inexorably turning America into a third-world country.

We deserve better. We deserve a president who actually understands energy and jobs.


RUH ROH: Miami Herald Poll Has Obama Leading Romney 51-44 in FL...

...among likely Hispanic voters:

Mitt Romney is closing the gap on President Barack Obama among likely Hispanic Florida voters, a majority of whom say they’re not better off than four years ago, according to a new Florida International University/Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald poll.

Obama is ahead of Romney 51-44 percent among Hispanics, a relatively narrow lead that could spell trouble for a Democratic campaign that’s counting on minority support as non-Hispanic white voters flock to the Republican ticket in droves...

...Cuban-American voters, who are overwhelmingly Republican and who appear to be increasingly excited about Romney’s campaign.

“What’s remarkable is the demographic split in Florida: Puerto Rican and Dominican and other Hispanic voters trust Obama. Cubans just don’t,” said Eduardo Gamarra, an FIU professor of Latin American studies who conducted the poll with his political research firm, the Newlink Group.

I'm not in the prediction business, but if we all continue the full-court press -- marshaling our friends, family members and colleagues -- we are going to evict the current occupant of 1600 Penssylvania and install someone who actually believes in and supports the free market.


A SINGLE DEVASTATING GRAPH: The Real Obama Jobs Record

This could be the single best illustration of the unemployment catastrophe Barack Obama's policies have inflicted upon the population.

Whether you are rich, poor, old, young, fat, thin, female, male, brown, white, Christian or Jewish, Obama's policies of spreading misery are equal opportunity job destroyers.

...since January 2009, for every person added to the labor force, 10 have been added to those not in the labor force. Here's a chart showing the dwindling labor force:


...That is, in nearly the four years, since President Obama took office in January 2009, only 827,000 people have been added to the labor force, while during that same time period, 8,208,000 have been added to those not in the labor force.

The chart relies on data available from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In simple terms, the advertised unemployment rate of 7.8 percent is completely bogus. It ignores all those who have stopped looking for work or are employed part-time but want full-time work.

The real unemployment rate -- the true measure of the Obama Jobs Disaster -- has hovered around 14 percent ever since he came to office. And unless we course-correct quickly, the tax, Obamacare and deficit cliffs are poised to kill millions of more jobs in 2013.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Bob Woodward Slams Obama's Benghazi Lies

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Nation

Bob Woodward Slams Obama's Benghazi Lies: AmSpec
Hillary Strikes Back; Attaches Susan Rice to WH Mess: ConTree
Bill Clinton Gathering Legal Minds to Protect Hillary?: MagNote

Libya Fallout Gives Rise to Obama-Clinton Feud: Breitbart
While Obama Crams, Romney Campaigns: Breitbart
The Most Important Election in History: CDN

Hillary Clinton Throws Obama Under His Own Benghazi Bus: RSM
Re: Biden Won on Points?: Corner
Dembacle: Dems Redistricting Plans Falter in Illinois: Breitbart

Economy

Ohio Coal Miners to Obama: Quit Lying About Us!: GWP
Pictures from Barack Obama's debate camp: TPC
Real Unemployment Is 14.7%, And a Recession's Coming: Forbes

Another CEO asks employees to vote for Romney to save their jobs: Blaze
FL public schools setting ethic-based academic goals: JW
CEOs warn employees of layoffs if Obama is reelected: Yahoo!

Scandal Central

After the Benghazi attack: "A mission accomplished moment": Althouse
Elizabeth Warren obtained federal fee waivers despite high 6-figure income and 8-figure net worth: LI
Axelrod says W.H. unaware of Libya security requests: Politico

Climate & Energy

No Global Warming For Sixteen Years - But The War On CO2 Continues: Wolf Howling
Obama: Carbon Eating Our Planet: LoneCon
Farm Bureau wins right to join suit against EPA: NaturalResource

Obama Campaign Confronts Coal Miners With Lies: RS
Oops! Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals quietly released report: Riehl
California, a grand plan to rein in climate change: NYT

Media

Big Three Networks’ Evening News Shows Suffering Significant Erosion From 2008: BizzyBlog
That So-Called Racist Mitt Romney 'Dog-Whistle' T-Shirt is Almost Certainly Photoshopped: AmPower
Do The Next Two Debates Really Matter?: Mead

NY Times Reporter: The Crowds Romney Is Getting Are ‘Obama-Sized’ Crowds From 2008: GWP
Ross Douthat Misses The Obvious: RS
David Axelrod, call your physician. NOW.: Moe Lane

ABC Censors Spike Characters Calling Obama a Communist on Tim Allen Sitcom: NB
Barack Obama: Whiner-In-Chief: RS
TSA nightmares: Dana Loesch tweets another outrageous account of harassment: Twitchy

World

State Department: We're Too Dumb to Understand Obama's Libya Explanation: Breitbart
Don't risk Israel's security on Obama's words: Adelson
Vaginas and Imams: TAB

Iran and U.S. in Undeclared State of War: Mead
Obama Administration Abandoned Our Citizens in Libya.: HillBuzz
10,000 Muslims at Google's London offices demand removal of Muhammad video: JihadWatch

Exposed: US Soldiers Told They Are Fighting For Afghan People, Not For U.S.: Loudon
Dearborn Cops Harass Man for Flying Israeli Flags: Atlas
US exports to Iran rise nearly one-third despite sanctions: JPost

Sci-Tech

Amazing Aurora: Best Images From NASA’s Suomi Satellite: Wired
'Fearless Felix' lands safely on Earth after what could be first supersonic skydive: Post
Useful Fireworks Techniques And Features For Large Design Teams: Smashing

Cornucopia

Children's Plastic Army Men Revised for Progressive New Age: Cube
The Revolution Will NOT Be Televised: MOTUS
Conservatives sign the faces of checks. Liberals sign the backs of them.: Cube

Image: Obama's Real Unemployment Rate Is 14.7%, And A Recession's On The Way
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QOTD: "[SNL's] “Cold Open” sketch (the one that comes before the show’s opening credits) was devoted to the Joe Biden vs. Paul Ryan VP debate that happened this week in Danville, Kentucky at Centre College. If you remember what happened in the actual debate, Joe Biden made a complete ass of himself, interrupting Paul Ryan something like 87 times; Biden also made bizarre faces throughout the debate that I felt made him look like The Joker as portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the first Michael Keaton Batman film back in the 80s. Biden laughed when talking about an Iranian nuclear weapon, the obliteration of Israel, and the deaths of American troops and embassy staff in Libya. He was unserious, caustic, and at times, deranged. Paul Ryan was polite, professional, and serious — even when being repeatedly interrupted and cut off by both Biden and moderator Martha Raddatz." --Kevin DuJan

Sunday, October 14, 2012

EARLY SEASON'S GREETINGS: From the Romney Campaign



Hat tips: Mad Magazine and Wanda.

BOOM: Gold Standard of Temperature Data Proves Earth Is Cooling In Spite of Dramatic Increases in CO2

HadCRUT is the dataset of monthly temperature records formed by combining the sea surface temperature records compiled by the Hadley Centre of the Met Office and the land surface temperature records compiled by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. --Source

HadCRUT is the United Nations' gold-standard for the measurement of global temperatures. The data-set proves that over the last 15 years (180 months) the Earth has cooled, not warmed as predicted.

HadCRUT released their latest global temperature dataset today, which confirmed what both NOAA and NASA reported earlier this month - that global temps declined during July 2012.

In addition, the plot of the HadCRUT and CO2 data for the last 15 years, through July 2012, is very revealing.

Contrary to what the mainstream press reports and exaggerates about "global warming," the world has actually been in a stable-to-cooling phase since the El Nino temperature spike of 1997/98.

Of course, if the NYTimes or WAPO or CNN or CBS or the AP were ever to report the actual cooling trend over the last 15 years (despite the massive amounts of human CO2 emissions) this would establish that they have been grossly misleading the public for years about consensus "global warming."

And as the press fully realize, the public that primarily relies on traditional media outlets are extremely gullible with little intellectual curiosity. Thus the media gets away with hysterical fear-mongering, half-truths and deceptions.

Conclusion: Long story short - human CO2 emissions are not causing rapid, accelerating global warming, per the IPCC's favored HadCRUT temperature dataset. Over the last 15 years, global temperatures have been relatively stable, with a slight global cooling trend being exhibited. All the IPCC's and NOAA's climate experts, their climate models and the professional doomsayers have been absolutely wrong about their catastrophic climate predictions, for over a decade now - and not a single mainstream press outlet reports this. Solid advice to gullible: don't believe anything the mainstream press outlets "report."

In a curious semi-coincidence, the invaluable Anthony Watts relays word that over 2000 new low temperature records were set in October.

In the continental USA, there were 137 high temperature type records versus 857 low temperature type records this past week , a 6-1 difference. Last week there were 1154 low temperature type records putting the two week total for October at 2011. There were also 24 new snowfall records set this week in the upper plains.


Once again, if this had been summer, and the numbers reversed, you’d see Seth Borenstein writing articles for AP telling us this is ‘what global warming looks like’. So far not a peep out of Seth on this cold wave and what it is supposed to mean.

But nothing -- not facts, logic, reason or science -- can dissuade the Eco-Statists from their plans to de-industrialize America. Or the hacks at the Dissociative Press and the rest of antique media from spreading their destructive lies.

Which is why we need to flush the Democrat Party from office in November -- at every level of government.


Why California is headed for fiscal collapse, Chapter Bajillion and Seven

I'll let the Mercury News describe the latest episode of public sector unions ripping off taxpayers for hundreds of millions:

An analysis of the last three years of government salary data shows state employees are continuing to store up massive banks of vacation, instead of heading to Big Sur or hitting the slopes at Lake Tahoe. They're cashing in by retiring with whopping final paychecks worth, in some cases, more than $500,000 in unused time off.

From 2009 through 2011, cash-strapped California paid more than $800 million for days off state workers never used -- a problem that has grown by tens of millions of dollars in the four years since this newspaper first investigated the costly practice...

It's an accounting liability that private companies work aggressively to avoid, but one that continues to pile up in Sacramento. And, ironically, the problem grew even worse in recent years when the state tried to save cash by forcing workers to take unpaid furlough days as an emergency budget fix. As a result, banks of unused vacation grew even larger.

"Is the system broken? Obviously the system's broken," said Tim Malan, a supervising dentist at Avenal State Prison, who retired in 2009 with 247 days off still on the books, sweetening his final paycheck by an extra $317,000... Like Malan, more than 4,000 people retired from the state over the past three years with an extra $50,000 more for unused vacation and comp time, the newspaper's analysis of pay data from 153 state departments shows. That's almost four employees cashing out at least that much money every day. An additional 16,302 state workers retired during the three-year period with payments from $10,000 to $50,000 each...


...Topping the list was Napa State Hospital psychiatrist Dr. Gertrudis Agcaoili, who retired after 33 years with 642 days of accrued vacation and comp time. It cost taxpayers nearly $609,000.

How did she manage to bank so much time?

"It's none of your business," Agcaoili said in a brief telephone interview...

No, it's none of the taxpayers' business.

California is broke, its system of government is broken, and the infernal alliance of Democrats and public sector unions are the primary culprits.

It's hard to imagine how it gets fixed without a complete collapse and a reboot from scratch.


THERE IS NO REST: Biblical Passages Perfectly Describe Joe Biden's Embarrassing Debate Performance

Proverbs 29:9: "When a wise man debates a foolish man, the foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest."


Dennis also notes that Proverbs 30:32 is also apt: "There is one who has appeared foolish, after he was lifted up on high; for if he had understood, he would have placed his hand over his mouth."

And other passages seem to speak directly to those liberals who reveled in Biden's giggling, gesticulating and lying:

Proverbs 1:22: Little ones, how long will you choose to be childish, and how long will the foolish desire what is harmful to themselves, and how long will the imprudent hate knowledge?

Proverbs 3:35: The wise will possess glory. The exaltation of the foolish is disgraceful.

Proverbs 10:14: The wise store away knowledge. But the mouth of the foolish is a neighbor to confusion.


Hat tip: Black & Right.

Larwyn's Linx: Who’s ‘Politicizing’ Benghazi?

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Nation

Who’s ‘Politicizing’ Benghazi? : Steyn
Top 10 Worst Lies by Joe Biden in the VP Debate: Breitbart
My Body, My Choice? Not for the Federal Government: AllAm

Columbus paper rips White House "incompetence, dishonesty": Hot Air
Ryan’s Reason Contrasts Biden’s Buffoonery: RWN
Timeline of Libya attack reveals administration contradictions: Hill

Obama: If people read transcript, they’ll think I won last debate: Exam
Mona Eltahawy Has No Clue How First Amendment Works: Greenfield
Look who parks their cash at Bain: Murdock

Economy

Apples and Oranges: Elephant
A Modest Proposal To Ensure California's Rich Don't Leave: Williams
Contra His Whining, Obama Inherited a Recovery: Bystanders

Obama Owns Shares of Sensata, Outsourcers to China: Sooper
12 Obama Debate Lies And Counting…: GOP
Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals: CBS Tampa

Scandal Central

DNC worker fired after telling people how to vote twice: Click2Houston
Ohio Coal miners Slam Obama’s Lies - Ask Him to Immediately Stop His False Ads: Nice Deb
Connecticut Dem Jokes About Corruption: WS

Obama Administration Didn’t Reach Benghazi For 17 Days Because They Were WAITING ON Visas: GWP
Col. David Hunt on the Administration's Lies, Lies and More Lies on Libya: WRKO
Disorder and Corruption in a New World Order: CFP

Climate & Energy

Obama's War on Nuclear Power: AT
EPA may slash use of ethanol in gasoline as corn crop wilts: NBC
Exclusive: India's HMEL bought 2 million barrels of Iranian oil: sources: Reuters

Media

A Letter to Joe Biden: Ricochet
No More Bonhomie for Bubba and Barry?: NRO
Evidence that Democrats are in “Last Days of Pompeii” mode: HillBuzz

PERFECT: Politico Hires Race-Baiting Leftist Kook Fired From Yahoo: Breitbart
What's behind Obama's 'disdain' for Romney?: Fox
Kid Rock Wins Debate With Sean Penn: MagNote

World

Former USS Cole Commander on Benghazi: Obama only cares about power and getting reelected: Scoop
Reminder: Biden Supported Iraq War in 2002: WS
Okay, the Rules of the Debates Have Been Set: Winter Soldier

OOPS: Biden Acknowledges Obama 'Leading from Behind': WS
Hezbollah’s CFO flees to Israel carrying stolen money, classified documentsf: Al Arabiya
Hamas warns it is ‘ready to battle the occupation’: JPost

The UN Tries to Become a Global Government: Morris
Sharia Law Hits the UK: Democracy Forum
Zawahiri Calls For Holy War Over Mohammed Video: RWN

Sci-Tech

Stem cell Nobel Prize: JPA
T-Mobile's holiday roadmap leaked: LG Optimus L9, HTC Windows Phone 8X spotted: Engadget
Political spats on Facebook spill into real life: USA Today

Cornucopia

David Axelrod provides his keen insights on the election, MLB edition: RS
The I-Can’t-Post-Mortem For The VP Debate: R&R
Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web: Gawker

Image: Yankees' Derek Jeter out for the remainder of the postseason with a fractured left ankle
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QOTD: "... it seems, that Team Obama has decided to try and save U.N. ambassador Susan Rice — whose reputation in the IC could hardly be lower — and perhaps press secretary Jay Carney as well by tossing the nation’s spooks under the bus, in which direction they’re also nudging Hillary Clinton.

But you can’t burn all your friends, and the Obama forces already have a lot fewer allies than they think they do. The disrespectful way they treated former White House chief of staff William Daley is likely to come back to haunt them in the graveyards of Chicago, and the bad blood between them and the Clintons hasn’t gone away, despite Bill’s bonhomie at the convention." --Michael Walsh

Saturday, October 13, 2012

POP QUIZ: Intrade Obama Futures vs. Tech Crash

Ed Driscoll, writing at Instapundit, relays this comparison:


With that said, let's remember that Intrade is notoriously volatile. We must stay focused and determined.

November is coming.


2008 FLASHBACK: Obama Operatives Run False Flag Operations

Because that's what would-be totalitarians do.

One of two people suspected of shattering 11 windows Tuesday morning at the state Democratic Party headquarters has an arrest record and a history of helping a Democratic political candidate, public records show.

Police said that about 2:20 a.m., 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, now in custody, and an at-large accomplice took a hammer to the picture windows displaying posters touting President Barack Obama and his health care reform efforts.

Early Tuesday, Democratic Party chairwoman Pat Waak said the damage to her building in Denver's art district was a consequence of "an effort on the other side to stir up hate." She tempered her statement after Schwenkler's political history was revealed.


...Schwenkler is charged with [doing an] estimated $11,000 in damage and could face a felony conviction.

...[He] received $500 in November 2008 to walk door-to-door in support of Democrat Mollie Cullom, who lost her race to Republican state Rep. David Balmer of Centennial... Schwenkler was one of dozens of paid canvassers bankrolled by the Colorado Citizens' Coalition, a political 527 committee...

...the vandalism might have been aimed at making the GOP look bad. "This sounds like the type of Democratic tactic from the left fringe trying to make Republicans look mean-spirited," Balmer said. "In this case, it blew up in their face. He was caught red-handed."

I post this because a desperate Obama administration may try the very same tactics again in 2012.


Update: Well, that was quick. Robert Stacy McCain describes just such a false-flag operation marketed by the loathsome Andrew Kaczynski.


DOOM ANTIDOTE FROM KEVIN DUJAN: These are the Last Days of Pompeii for the Democrat Party

During the last presidential election cycle, Hillbuzz founder Kevin DuJan was a major Hillary Clinton supporter. As the 2008 primary unfolded, he became outraged with reports of systemic cheating by Obama's hard left Chicago Machine, especially in Caucus states. His focus then turned from supporting Hillary to crushing the Marxist left.

Most recently, he has been on the frontlines of keeping conservatives focused on victory. His ongoing Doom Antidote series has been especially valuable in reminding us of the big picture.

Evidence that Democrats are in “Last Days of Pompeii” mode


...Democrats [were certain they had solved the demographic challenge in] 2008, with Howard Dean and Donna Brazile convincing them that they could dominate the country demographically by streamlining the party into one of “blacks, urban elite, college voters, Jews, Muslims, gays, and women who want to kill their babies”. The Clintons’ Democrat Leadership Council (a “DLC”, but not the one that Barack Obama belonged to) would be purged from the party and anyone Obama saw as “bitter, clinging” would be shown the door because Donna Brazile, in particular, felt these people were no longer wanted or needed for Democrats to win. Brazile, it should be noted, is also the rocket scientist who advised Al Gore not to use the Clintons in the 2000 election when Bill wanted to be deployed to bring home Arkansas and Tennessee for Gore (two states Gore lost... which would have landed him in the White House if the Clintons had campaigned aggressively in just those TWO STATES).

...Democrats were absolute fools to believe Donna Brazile and Howard Dean back in 2008. Deciding to push Barack Obama to the presidency and give the Left absolute control over the country was a fatal error that’s going to be corrected on November 6th. [The Ministry of Truth] Minitru insists this is not happening, and continues to pretend that Democrats will hold power for many years to come. The volcano is rumbling, and these people are still lounging on couches and eating their grapes, completely oblivious to what’s going to happen in just three weeks now...

...If they’d have run Hillary Clinton in 2008, then Democrats would have cruised to her re-election this year; Obama would have most likely been her VP and he’d have spent 8 years in the Naval Observatory (most likely observing his own naval) and would have been setup to be president himself in 2016. Democrats would have likely had 12 years in the Oval Office, with Obama destined to be president no matter what (sadly). The Left wanted everything all at once, and it got just four years before the country woke up and booted them out of office (hopefully for generations).

...As bad as things are, and as much damage as Barack Obama has done as president, just imagine how much worse things could have been if Democrats had moved slowly and done things under the radar over 12 years instead of trying to cram it all into four years of Obama. Democrats got greedy and wanted Obama to do all the crazy things upfront, thinking they could overpower Americans and force radical change on the country quickly before anyone could resist them. Donna Brazile, in particular, believed that a black president was key to pushing the Left’s agenda because all criticism of him would be countered with charges of — let’s see if you can guess — RACISM so his skin color would give cover for the craziest things Democrats wanted to do.

...When the books are written on the last four years, I think it will be clear that most of what Democrats tried to shove through couldn’t have been done if the President was white…because racialist demagoguery was key to making a lot of these things happen. From 2008 through 2010 or so, it was nonstop screams of “If you don’t support Obama, you are a racist!”. Democrats who weren’t leftists (and there used to be some of these in the party) had to go along with whatever Obama wanted because they, too, would have been declared racists for not supporting him. Hence, that Christmas Eve 2009 vote for Obamacare in the Senate where not a single Democrat read the bill or understood what it would do to the country…but they all voted for it anyway. Democrats needed a black president to make that happen, because only the threat of being called racists could make all Democrats in the Senate abandon their constituents and their duties as elected officials and vote for something they never read and didn’t understand.

At the time, Democrats danced around laughing and cheering at what they had done.
They weren’t cheering when the Midterm elections happened in 2010, however.

And they won’t be cheering in three weeks either.

The days of wine, roses, and using false accusations of racism to get whatever they want are coming to an abrupt end when voters’ anger at the party erupts on November 6th.

From Kevin's lips to God's ears. Take nothing for granted, my friends. Use this time to talk to your friends, your neighbors, and your co-workers (if you're lucky enough to have a job in the ongoing Obama Depression). And if you need a cheat sheet to hand folks, here's one you can print out. It specifically hits the economic catastrophe that is the Obama record.


MUST WATCH: CBS News' Lara Logan Smashes the Obama Administration's Lies About Terrorism and the Middle East

I guess Lara isn't too concerned with invitations to the Beltway Cocktail Circuit, because with this blast she's joined the group of "hawks" (i.e., realists) who understand those who would destroy civilization.

The quotes and excerpts of Lara Logan’s speech don’t really properly capture it the way that watching the video does. This is an emotional speech and it’s unusual because it’s been a while since we’ve heard anyone talk like this. It’s a speech that takes us back ten years to the early days of the War on Terror. And those ideas are apparently a core part of what she believes.

Lara Logan’s theme is that abandoning Afghanistan will turn it back over into a base for Islamic terrorists. And in between advocating serious engagement with Afghanistan and blasting the refusal to talk about Pakistan’s role in Al Qaeda, she slips in the occasional dangerous unexplored idea about the nature of the enemy...


It’s amazing to me that we are still comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam.

The Viet Cong didn’t care what you did when you went back to America. The Viet Cong didn’t fight for an Islamic caliphate. The Viet Cong didn’t fight a global struggle. It’s amazing to me that we constantly ignore … what all these groups tell us every day in their own in their own statements.

They share something. They share an idea. Al Qaeda is not an organization. You don’t have to have a membership card or badge… this is terrorism, it is a completely and utterly different fight from anything we have faced in our history.

Our way of life is under attack and if you think that’s government propaganda, if you think that’s nonsense, if you think that’s warmongering, you’re not listening to what the people who are fighting you say about this fight.

In your arrogance, you think you write the script, but you don’t. There’s two sides and we don’t dictate the terms. In fact after eleven years of war in Afghanistan, we’re rushing for the exits as fast as we can, not only do we not dictate the terms, but we have less power to dictate anything on the world stage.

Ambassador Ryan Crocker said, ‘We’ve killed all the slow and stupid ones. The ones that are left are more committed and they didn’t become any kinder or gentler in the last eleven years.... We think we’ve won the campaign and they haven’t even begun to fight.’

If you fail to identify the ideological component to this fight, if you fail to identify what your enemy is really fighting for, if you lie about who they really are, I don’t see how you can possibly have the right strategy.

There’s a narrative coming out of Washington, much of it driven by Pakistani lobbying money and by Taliban apologists. One of my favorite things to read about is how the Taliban today is so unlike the Taliban of 2001, they’re a more moderate, gentler kinder Taliban who just can’t wait to see women in the workplace occupying an equal role in society and great economic prosperity for all of Afghanistan and they don’t really want to take us back 3,000 years into that terrible place I witnessed.

And when I look at what’s happening in Libya, this big song and dance, whether this was a terrorist attack or a protest, and you just want to scream for God’s sake, are you kidding me, the last time we were attacked like this was the USS Cole which was a prelude to the 1998 embassy bombings which was a prelude to 9/11. And you’re sending FBI to investigate. I hope you’re sending in your best clandestine warriors who will go in to exact revenge and let the world know that the United States will not be attacked on its own soil, that its ambassadors will not be murdered and that the United States will not do nothing about it.

Watch the whole thing. And pass it on.


FREE ON KINDLE TODAY ONLY: 'The Obama Confession'

I haven't read it yet, but the reviews certainly sound intriguing:

...Psychiatry and technology are strange bed-fellows. However, in this book eminent psychiatrist and forensic profiler, Andrew Hodges MD, not only throws open the curtain revealing the innermost secrets of the mind of a sitting president but introduces a recently discovered scientific methodology, Thoughtprint Analysis. As with DNA and fingerprints it turns out that we have a deeper Super Intelligence that is completely unique and individual, and is always at the ready to subconsciously tell the truth, often in complete defiance of the charade our conscious mind presents.

President Obama's personal press corps and spin doctors are no match for the complete transparency of this all-star witness, always trying to tell his story in the language of naked truth. While he may be surrounded by all manner of personal protectors, he is completely vulnerable and exposed to the unalterable truth-telling of his own subconscious Super Intelligence.

Not only will the reader meet a president he never knew, but will be introduced to the child, Barack Obama, who has suffered untold personal trauma from one of the most pathetic journeys through childhood ever imposed on a future occupant of the oval office. Hodges extends a masterful sensitive and compassionate observation of these years of abuse and the lifelong wounding of this lad who to this day still bears the scars from that abuse. Only now, America--and the world!--become the laboratory where he can flesh out his 'untrammeled fury' and concoct his potions of political, religious, and economic retaliation to inflict on all those he can identify as contributors to his life-long walk of pain....

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STUDY IN CONTRASTS: The VP Debate in One Picture

This one -- sent in by Redman Bluestate -- seems to capture the unseriousness of the Vice President and vintage media.


On a related note, Breitbart did us a public service with a true fact-check, documenting the top 10 lies by Joe Biden in the VP debate.


HEY, EVERYTHING'S JUST SUPER BETWEEN THE CLINTONS AND OBAMA: At least, according to the Administration Press

Some AP propagandist-in-training named "Andrew Miga" (if that is his real name) was apparently instructed to push back against reports of open and escalating warfare between the Clintons and the White House.

Which is how piece of dreck came to be posted about an hour ago on the AP wire.

Bill Clinton's back in the campaign game big time

...The Obama campaign said Saturday it was pairing Clinton with another heavyweight, rocker Bruce Springsteen, at a rally this coming Thursday in Ohio, one of the most pivotal states.

Obama himself has cracked that he should appoint Clinton "secretary of explaining stuff." ... The lighthearted tone and determined cooperation between Obama and Clinton is hard-won and may not end with the 2012 campaign.

...If Obama has Bill Clinton to thank for a second term, one way to pay back the debt could be Obama's support for a Hillary Clinton campaign of the future.

Among voters generally, Bill Clinton is more appealing than Obama. A CBS News/New York Times poll in September found 66 percent of registered voters with a favorable view of Clinton, compared with 45 percent for Obama. ... Clinton rocketed out of the party's convention in Charlotte, N.C., last month energized by the massive crowd's roaring reaction to his partly ad-libbed call to arms. Clinton plunged into a two-day swing in Florida and has since added stops for Obama in a string of political battlegrounds.

During one recent week, Clinton:

• joined Obama at a meeting with about a dozen supporters at a private residence in Los Angeles.
• hosted a fundraiser with about 160 people who bought tickets starting at $1,000.
• spoke at a rally for four northern California Democrats in tight House races.
• was in Nevada for a rally for Obama and Democratic Senate candidate Shelley Berkley.
• was at Arizona State University rally with Democratic Senate candidate Richard Carmona.
• then came stops in Iowa and Indiana for more rallies with Senate and congressional candidates as well as fundraising events.

He's expected to keep up the pace until Election Day, Nov. 6... All told, Clinton has appeared at no fewer than 32 fundraisers and 15 rallies for Obama. One big-ticket reception at a private New York City residence with Clinton last June drew 47 people who paid $40,000 apiece.

...Some Democrats fret Clinton could overshadow Obama. A Pew Research Center poll last month showed 29 percent of those surveyed said Clinton's convention speech was the highlight of the party gathering, while just 16 percent called Obama's speech the highlight.

But there's no hiding the Clinton magic during an election year.

And there's no hiding the spin of an Associated Press "news" article during an election year!

When I think of Bill Clinton, I don't think of magic. I think of a convicted, impeached perjurer who sexually abused a series of women including an intern in the White House, opening himself up for blackmail, thereby putting the entire country at risk.

But this is the AP we're talking about; they'd find themselves quite at home covering Chavez, Castro and North Korea's bloated dictator, whatever the hell his name is.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Laughing at the Serious Issues: The Astounding Obama/Biden Miscalculation

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Nation

Laughing at the Issues: The Astounding Obama/Biden Miscalculation: Bruce
Brokaw: Not a good idea to be laughing during nuclear Iran discussion: Exam
Ryan to Biden: If you're protecting Catholics, why are they suing you?: Knight

Biden, Obama run a campaign straight from the 1980s: Barone
When Biden was being a jerk to Paul Ryan, he was being a jerk to you!: Scoop
Biden and Obama aren’t part of the White House: Hayward

New Hobby: Speculating How Hillary Will Retaliate Against Obama: HillBuzz
Hillary tossed under the bus to provide cover for Biden, White House: Malkin
As Benghazi blame nears Hillary, Clintons grow furious: DC

Economy

CEO Wynn: ‘I’m Afraid of the President': CNS
Obama Scores Dictator Trifecta: JW
Ex-TSA agent: We steal from travelers all the time: RT

Are Budget Cuts to Blame for Benghazi, as Biden Suggested?: Beast
Damn You to Hell, James Pogue: RSM
WaPo: Mr. Obama, Stop Blaming Bush for the Economic Crisis: CFIF

Scandal Central

ATF Whistleblower Fired For Exposing Corruption: Pavlich
On 9/11/12, There Was A Marine Detachment In Barbados, But Not Benghazi: Cove
Jesse Jackson Jr. under federal investigation over alleged financial improprieties: NBC

Climate & Energy

Germany’s Renewable Energy Unicorn Hunt Stumbles, Again: Mead
Ethical Investing In Green Energies Has Turned Into A Nightmare: Insider

Media

Hillary, Barack Needs You To Take The Fall And Kiss Your Political Career Goodbye: Flopping Aces
Media To Candy Crowley: Protect Obama And Praise You Like Martha Raddatz: Ace
Raddatz Visited Biden at His Residence in March: WS

The Clinton-Obama Rift: Klein
Laughing All the Way to the Bank Collapse: Steyn
Romney Rising? Tied with Obama in Nevada, Leads in Swing States: AIM

American Jewry's cherished values: Glick
Democrats’ Folly: How bad will Obama’s loss really be?: HillBuzz
Obama's refusal to deport illegal aliens unconstitutional, say law professors: Fox

World

Did Intelligence Tell WH There Were Protests in Benghazi?: Commentary
Ex-CIA head slams Biden: ‘blaming those who put their lives on the line’ is not leadership: Riehl
Muslim comic book teaches kids how to make Molotov cocktails: Creeping

Intercepted Benghazi Phone Call: Al Qaeda Would Proceed With Planned Attack: Ace
VP Debate: Joe Biden’s Three Most Misleading Foreign Policy Statements: Foundry
Meet Obama’s Wahhabist Relatives: FPM

Lara Logan: “Our Way of Life is Under Attack”: FPM
Democrats launch sexist attack against Warthog driver Martha McSally (R CAND, AZ-02): Moe Lane
Ryan warns gun control is coming if Obama reelected: Exam

Sci-Tech

Stop UN Regulation of the Internet: Morris
What Kids in 1977 Thought the Year 2000 Would Look Like: Gizmodo
Google readying on-device malware scanner for Android: Register

Cornucopia

Plugs, Unplugged.: MOTUS
LMAO! New RNC Video: Joe Biden Says What He Means: NoisyRm
New Video Puts Biden On The Funny Farm: Spew

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QOTD: "On the campaign trail in the week after the presidential debate, Obama mentioned Big Bird 13 times — 13 times more than he mentioned Libya.

And the Obama campaign rolled out a 30-second spot showing Mitt Romney saying “Big Bird” several times. Even liberals labeled it the worst TV ad they had ever seen.

But someone in the Obama campaign — and remember that the campaign always reflects the candidate — thought hitting Romney for defunding PBS, “Sesame Street” and Big Bird would be devastating.

Never mind that “Sesame Street” gets little money from the government and has an endowment in the hundreds of millions. As the Sesame folks assured us, Big Bird is going to continue to be on the air whatever Romney does." --Michael Barone

Friday, October 12, 2012

CHARTERS CRUSH UNION-CONTROLLED SCHOOLS IN CHICAGO: The ludicrous kook Karen Lewis hardest hit

As if you needed more proof -- aside from parents begging to get their kids into charter schools -- that teachers unions are destroying public education, please consider this report from Illinois Policy:

...In 2012, charter schools held the top nine spots for open-enrollment, non-selective public high schools in Chicago. Another charter school ended up in a three-way tie for tenth. The Noble Network of Charter Schools led the pack, with a total of nine schools in the top 10, one of which was included in the tie. The average ACT score for charter schools in the top 10 was 20.6, with Noble Network’s UIC College Prep campus scoring 21.9 – the highest-ever average at an open-enrollment, non-selective CPS high school.

Not only are charter schools outperforming their peers on the ACT, a comparison of Chicago’s top 10 charter high schools to the top 10 open-enrollment, non-selective, traditional public high schools shows that charter schools’ pace of improvement is significantly greater. Since 2007, top charter school scores have increased by 17 percent, while the top traditional schools have gained nearly 5 percent.


Charter school students, like other students in CPS, primarily come from low-income backgrounds (91 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch), represent mostly racial minorities (60 percent African-American, 35 percent Hispanic), and must overcome a range of challenges (9 percent English Language Learners, 12 percent special needs). They are not untouched by the violence plaguing many of the city’s neighborhoods. And, yet, despite all of these obstacles, they are succeeding.

Let me repeat: charter schools are succeeding, despite unceasing attacks by useless, illiterate hacks like Karen Lewis and the rest of the Obama-SEIU-AFT-NEA apologists.

The solution is obvious: public sector unions must be abolished. They are a disease, infecting inner-cities with institutionalized apathy and ignorance. And competition in the form of vouchers is the only known cure.