Update: The latest version of the timeline is here.
On October 31st, I heard Newt Gingrich ask for a twin timeline to help illustrate what was happening in Benghazi and in Washington. Newt's wish is my command:
Some interesting observations:
• Hillary Clinton's aspirations for higher office are toast: despite numerous requests for additional security, the State Department adamantly refused each time -- for, what would seem, purely political reasons. Those partisan games cost four Americans their lives.
• The "Internet video" tale was an egregious lie foisted upon the American public by an administration committed to additional spiking of the Bin Laden football -- again, for purely political reasons.
• Methinks any effort to distribute the Bin Laden movie/Obama infomercial before the election will be extremely distasteful for most American.
What are your thoughts?
Sunday, November 04, 2012
BUT, MELVIN, HE'S SO HISTORIC: Obama, Axelrod and Jarrett run the most negative presidential campaign in history
But you already knew that, right?
Obama is so far removed from his 2008 campaign promises that his current campaign is unrecognizable by comparison. His is the first such effort to divide Americans by class, income, gender, race, religion, ethnic heritage, and any number of myriad other, arbitrary categories.
Many predicted this would be the most negative presidential campaign in history, with outside groups blanketing swing-state airwaves with attack ads.
But few thought the hostility would erupt quite so intensely from the candidates themselves...
...The record-setting rancor reflects the circumstances of the 2012 race: Obama couldn’t run on an economic rebound, and some of his biggest legislative accomplishments, such as his health care law, are unpopular in the polls...
Obama is so far removed from his 2008 campaign promises that his current campaign is unrecognizable by comparison. His is the first such effort to divide Americans by class, income, gender, race, religion, ethnic heritage, and any number of myriad other, arbitrary categories.
We Have Come to Our Generation's Fork in the Road
“Greece would not have fallen had it obeyed Polybius in everything, and when Greece did meet disaster, its only help came from him” Pausanias, 8.37.2, Inscription on the Temple of Despoina near Arakesion.
In Book VI of his Histories, the ancient Greek historian Polybius described three basic forms of government, each categorized by the number of those in power. He listed monarchy (rule by the one); aristocracy (rule by the few); and democracy (rule by the many). Polybius described, over time, how each type of government would gradually decline into their various corrupted forms of tyranny, oligarchy and mob rule, respectively.
Polybius believed that Republican Rome had designed a new form of government that could help check this inevitable decline. Rome combined all three forms of government -- monarchy (its elected executives, called consuls); aristocracy (the Senate); and democracy (the popular assemblies). In this mixed form of goverment, each branch would check the corrupting ambitions and power of the others.
Polybius, Aristotle and Cicero all praised the construction of a "mixed constitution" and the requirement of a separation of powers within government.
The French nobleman and legal expert Charles-Louis de Secondat, the Baron de Montesquieu, studied the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. He believed that a properly designed government, in order to prevent tyranny, would require three branches of government. He wrote, "If it is to provide its citizens with the greatest possible liberty, a government must have certain features. First, since 'constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it … it is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power' . This is achieved through the separation of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of government... [to prevent any one] from acting tyrannically."
The British philosopher John Locke was also keenly interested in a design for government that would prevent it from descending into tyranny. In the late 17th century, Locke argued that monarchs had no "divine right" to rule; instead, he asserted that the source of power lay in the people. Furthermore, he stated that humans were born into this world with certain natural and "inalienable" rights including to "life, liberty and property". Locke believed that government could not grant these rights because they were God-given; therefore, no government could take them away or withhold them from the people...Continue reading...
Larwyn's Linx: Confirmed--SEALs killed in Benghazi 7 Hours After White House Informed of Attack
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Senators Call for Select Committee on Benghazi: Beacon
Navy SEALs Blast Obama: GWP
Incompetence: Classified Documents Lay Uncollected In Benghazi: Breitbart
Sean Smith’s Mother Believes Obama Murdered Her Son: RWN
Bloomberg bans National Guard from NY because they have guns: GWP
I’m Even More Confident That Mitt Will Win: DLim
Ohio Math: Numbers Equal Trouble for Democrats: ViralRead
Scott Brown is Totally Going to Win the Senate Race: HillBuzz
Elizabeth Warren Holds Rally, No One Shows Up: ConHideout
Former Hillary aide backs Romney: Politico
Nate Silver statistics and the myth of Harry “Kid” Matthews: DTG
West Chester, Ohio: Massive Crowd for Romney-Ryan Rally: RSM
Obama Support Rally With Stevie Wonder Draws Under 200 People: JWF
The Secret of the Romney Landslide: JOdysseus
Wisconsin Early Voting Gains Solid in GOP Areas: RS
Axelrod: ‘We Don’t Have to Win [Independent] Voters’: NRO
Under Obama, food stamp rolls have increased 75 times faster than jobs: WS
Figures: Obama doesn't even call into monthly "Jobs Council" meetings: GWP
NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama: Pavlich
Bill Maher Warns Romney Backers: 'Black People Know Who You Are and They Will Come After You': NB
IBEW thugs strike again, turn away transformers delivered by non-union truckers: WyBlog
A few miles downstream from Pittsburgh » Gadsden Coal Barge: Chicago Boyz
NYT: Hey, This Romney Guy May Be Surging in Pennsylvania: Breitbart
WaPo: GOP may add to 2010 house gains: Greenroom
It Ain't By the Numbers: VodkaPundit
Media blackout of black Chicago protesters marching against Obama: LI
Scenes from Ohio 'All-Star' Rally: RSM
Liberal Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert Mocks Mother of Sean Smith, Slain at Benghazi: Sooper
Prediction Time: Q&O
Wow: The Romney Crowd is Colorado: Ricochet
Syrian tanks enter Golan Heights demilitarized zone: GlobalPost
Here's the ship that carried weapons from Libya to rebels in Syria: WinSol
Biggest Big Government can't keep lights on: Steyn
But I'm sure defense cuts will help: US Air Force struggles with aging fleet: AP
Fars: Iran not suspending 20% nuclear enrichment: JPost
Humans and rats interact in virtual reality 'beaming' experiment: Verge
Online university students show off achievements with digital badges: Verge
Buyer's Remorse: Lifelong Democrat Says Join Me, Vote Romney: RightNewz
New Obama Campaign Video Claims He’s “Following God’s Command”: WZ
Images: Chicago Boyz and Robert Stacy McCain
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Nation
Confirmed: SEALs killed in Benghazi 7 Hours After WH Informed of Attack: CNSSenators Call for Select Committee on Benghazi: Beacon
Navy SEALs Blast Obama: GWP
Incompetence: Classified Documents Lay Uncollected In Benghazi: Breitbart
Sean Smith’s Mother Believes Obama Murdered Her Son: RWN
Bloomberg bans National Guard from NY because they have guns: GWP
Election Central
If Romney wins, Harry Reid vows to block everything: MalkinI’m Even More Confident That Mitt Will Win: DLim
Ohio Math: Numbers Equal Trouble for Democrats: ViralRead
Scott Brown is Totally Going to Win the Senate Race: HillBuzz
Elizabeth Warren Holds Rally, No One Shows Up: ConHideout
Former Hillary aide backs Romney: Politico
Nate Silver statistics and the myth of Harry “Kid” Matthews: DTG
West Chester, Ohio: Massive Crowd for Romney-Ryan Rally: RSM
Obama Support Rally With Stevie Wonder Draws Under 200 People: JWF
The Secret of the Romney Landslide: JOdysseus
Wisconsin Early Voting Gains Solid in GOP Areas: RS
Axelrod: ‘We Don’t Have to Win [Independent] Voters’: NRO
Economy
FEMA still doesn't have bottled water to distribute for Sandy: BreitbartUnder Obama, food stamp rolls have increased 75 times faster than jobs: WS
Figures: Obama doesn't even call into monthly "Jobs Council" meetings: GWP
Scandal Central
Voter Fraud Alert!: Obama Supporter in NC Brags on Facebook About Voting 4+ Times: Nice DebNAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama: Pavlich
Bill Maher Warns Romney Backers: 'Black People Know Who You Are and They Will Come After You': NB
Climate & Energy
Radical Sherrod Brown Praises Outsourcers Moving Jobs to Mexico Because of Emissions Standards: SooperIBEW thugs strike again, turn away transformers delivered by non-union truckers: WyBlog
A few miles downstream from Pittsburgh » Gadsden Coal Barge: Chicago Boyz
Media
Papers Blast Obama Over Benghazi: WSNYT: Hey, This Romney Guy May Be Surging in Pennsylvania: Breitbart
WaPo: GOP may add to 2010 house gains: Greenroom
It Ain't By the Numbers: VodkaPundit
Media blackout of black Chicago protesters marching against Obama: LI
Scenes from Ohio 'All-Star' Rally: RSM
Liberal Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert Mocks Mother of Sean Smith, Slain at Benghazi: Sooper
Prediction Time: Q&O
Wow: The Romney Crowd is Colorado: Ricochet
World
Exclusive: Security officials on the ground in Libya challenge CIA account: FoxSyrian tanks enter Golan Heights demilitarized zone: GlobalPost
Here's the ship that carried weapons from Libya to rebels in Syria: WinSol
Biggest Big Government can't keep lights on: Steyn
But I'm sure defense cuts will help: US Air Force struggles with aging fleet: AP
Fars: Iran not suspending 20% nuclear enrichment: JPost
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)
CallFlakes Automates Follow-Ups on Your Android Phone: LifeHackerHumans and rats interact in virtual reality 'beaming' experiment: Verge
Online university students show off achievements with digital badges: Verge
Cornucopia
After the Hospital and After the Storm: ZillaBuyer's Remorse: Lifelong Democrat Says Join Me, Vote Romney: RightNewz
New Obama Campaign Video Claims He’s “Following God’s Command”: WZ
Images: Chicago Boyz and Robert Stacy McCain
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QOTD: "Today, Obama asked his supporters to vote for revenge. Today I ask you to vote for love of country." --Mitt Romney (via Moe Lane)
Bonus QOTD: "Last week, Nanny Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, rivaled his own personal best for worst mayoral performance since that snowstorm a couple of years back. This is a man who spends his days micromanaging the amount of soda New Yorkers are allowed to have in their beverage containers rather than, say, the amount of ocean New Yorkers are allowed to have in their subway system – just as, in the previous crisis, the municipal titan who can regulate the salt out of your cheeseburger proved utterly incapable of regulating any salt on to Sixth Avenue. Imagine if this preening buffoon had expended as much executive energy on flood protection for the electrical grid and transit system as he does on approved quantities of carbonated beverages. But that's leadership 21st-century style: When the going gets tough, the tough ban trans fats.
Back in Benghazi, the president who looks so cool in a bomber jacket declined to answer his beleaguered diplomats' calls for help – even though he had aircraft and Special Forces in the region. Too bad. He's all jacket and no bombers. This, too, is an example of America's uniquely profligate impotence. When something goes screwy at a ramshackle consulate halfway round the globe, very few governments have the technological capacity to watch it unfold in real time. Even fewer have deployable military assets only a couple of hours away. What is the point of unmanned drones, of military bases around the planet, of elite Special Forces trained to the peak of perfection if the president and the vast bloated federal bureaucracy cannot rouse themselves to action? What is the point of outspending Russia, Britain, France, China, Germany and every middle-rank military power combined if, when it matters, America cannot urge into the air one plane with a couple of dozen commandoes? In Iraq, al-Qaida is running training camps in the western desert. In Afghanistan, the Taliban are all but certain to return most of the country to its pre-9/11 glories. But in Washington the head of the world's biggest "counterterrorism" bureaucracy briefs the president on flood damage and downed trees." --Mark Steyn
Saturday, November 03, 2012
HELL ON EARTH: New York Neighborhoods "Descend Into Chaos" as Sixth Day Passes Without Power or Help
In Brooklyn, Queen's and Staten Island, beleaguered residents prepared for a seventh day without power. And many have been forced to "scavenge for food like animals":
In what has become a ritual, the president did not deign to answer questions about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Northeast.
Answering questions is for mere mortals, it would seem, not an iconic cult figure bent on retaining his white-knuckled grip on power.
...residents of the Rockaways in Queens continued struggling without power, heat or food for a sixth day as their neighborhood slowly descended into chaos.
With little police presence on the storm-ravaged streets, many residents of the peninsula have been forced to take their protection into their own hands, arming themselves with guns, baseball bats and even bows and arrows to ward off thugs seeking to loot their homes.
It has been reported that crooks have been disguising themselves as Long Island Power Authority workers and coming by homes on the peninsula in the middle of the night while real utility workers were nowhere to be found.
...'We booby-trapped our door and keep a baseball bat beside our bed,' Danielle Harris, 34, told the New York Daily News... The woman added that she has been hearing gunshots likely fired in the nearby housing project for three nights in a row... Meanwhile, local surfer Keone Singlehurst said that he stockpiled knives, a machete and a bow and arrow...
Most of the grocery stores in the area have not reopened since the storm, and the neighborhood has been left cut off from the rest of the city, with no trains or even shuttle buses servicing the residents... the Red Cross and FEMA were still nowhere in sight... The Borough President of Staten Island called the reaction of Red Cross - or lack thereof - to the devastation caused by Sandy an 'absolute disgrace'...
'My advice to the people of Staten Island is do not donate to the American Red Cross,' said Mr Molinaro. 'Let them get their money elsewhere... It's an absolute disgrace in a county that has always responded to disasters all over the world... Katrina - we sent them down four trailer loads of food, water and one trailer load of generators. No one's responding to us... Of the 22 people across New York City that have perished, 15 of them died in Staten Island. The borough is still underwater.’
...In a Coney Island apartment block, where tenants huddle together in one room and human waste spills out of the toilet, tenant Jeffery Francis despairs that help is not getting to Brooklyn faster.
In what has become a ritual, the president did not deign to answer questions about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Northeast.
Answering questions is for mere mortals, it would seem, not an iconic cult figure bent on retaining his white-knuckled grip on power.
BUT THEY'RE DOING IT FOR THE CHILDREN: Desperate Obama and His Sycophants Resort to Violent Rhetoric
How else would you characterize statements like these?
• Ryan seizes on Obama's 'revenge' comments in Ohio:
• Valerie Jarrett: ‘After We Win This Election, It’s Our Turn Payback Time’ « :
• Bill Maher Warns Romney Supporters: 'Black People Know Who You Are and They Will Come After You'.
These anecdotes illustrate just how far the hard left Democrat Party has fallen.
But that's what we could expect from a party that divides people by race, religion, gender, income, and any other arbitrary line that permits it to pander on the one hand while demonizing with the other.
We're all Americans. All of us.
This entire Democrat Party needs to be flushed from office on Tuesday. Vote angry, my friend.
• Ryan seizes on Obama's 'revenge' comments in Ohio:
Continuing the Romney campaign’s assault on President Obama’s “revenge” comments, Paul Ryan appeared in southeastern Ohio on Saturday morning, chastising the president for failing to fulfill his promises.
“In 2008, he appealed to our higher aspirations. Now, he’s appealing to lowest fears,” Ryan said before an enthusiastic crowd in a recreation center at Marietta College, located on the Muskingum River on the border with West Virginia. “Just yesterday, he was asking supporters at a rally to vote out of revenge. Mitt Romney and I are asking you to vote out of love of country.”
• Valerie Jarrett: ‘After We Win This Election, It’s Our Turn Payback Time’ « :
Openly declared as “Obama’s Brain”, and the figure whose second story West Wing office has been described by political insiders as the true Oval Office of the Obama White House, Valerie Jarrett is letting it be known that if Barack Obama secures election victory next week, there may be, quite literally, hell to pay for those who opposed him...
...The part that really stuck out to me was when I overheard the rep say that Jarrett told them, “After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.” She was talking directly to about three of them. Sr. staff. And she wasn’t trying to be quiet about it at all. And they were all listening and shaking their heads and smiling while she said it.
• Bill Maher Warns Romney Supporters: 'Black People Know Who You Are and They Will Come After You'.
These anecdotes illustrate just how far the hard left Democrat Party has fallen.
But that's what we could expect from a party that divides people by race, religion, gender, income, and any other arbitrary line that permits it to pander on the one hand while demonizing with the other.
We're all Americans. All of us.
This entire Democrat Party needs to be flushed from office on Tuesday. Vote angry, my friend.
CHART: The Obama Defectors and What They Mean
Interested in determining how Barack Obama's support has eroded since 2008, The Washington Post commissioned a poll to determine which segments have fled the candidate of Hope and Change.
Overall, the Post-ABC poll found that 13 percent of 2008 Obama voters have decided to back Mitt Romney.
Now, I'm no math wizard like The New York Times' Nate Silver, purveyor of statistical butt-hurt salve for Lefists...
...but let's use a little arithmetic to see what this might mean.
• Obama won the popular vote over McCain, 69,456,897 - 59,934,814.
• 13 percent of Obama's vote represents about 9,300,000 votes
Even if that figure overstates defections by 50 percent, the race is a statistical tie... without any increased Republican turnout. And if we turn out in droves, if we muster everyone we can to try to save this Republic, then I think we may have an election result that truly is... historic.
Overall, the Post-ABC poll found that 13 percent of 2008 Obama voters have decided to back Mitt Romney.
Now, I'm no math wizard like The New York Times' Nate Silver, purveyor of statistical butt-hurt salve for Lefists...
...but let's use a little arithmetic to see what this might mean.
• Obama won the popular vote over McCain, 69,456,897 - 59,934,814.
• 13 percent of Obama's vote represents about 9,300,000 votes
Even if that figure overstates defections by 50 percent, the race is a statistical tie... without any increased Republican turnout. And if we turn out in droves, if we muster everyone we can to try to save this Republic, then I think we may have an election result that truly is... historic.
Larwyn's Linx: The President, the State Department and Benghazi
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Benghazi Timeline: More Lies Exposed: Feldman
Most Senior Marine in Congress Sends Letter to Obama: RtPlanet
The Photo Op Presidency: Malkin
An Unpredictable End to a Very Predictable Election: Rasmussen
Barone: Going out on a limb: Romney beats Obama, handily: Exam
25,000 vs. 4,000 in Ohio: GWP
Election Bulletin: North Carolina: GayPatriot
Anti-Mourdock polling games in Indiana?: LI
Nonunion utility crews turned away from New Jersey: Scoop
New York’s Incredible Shrinking Mayor: Mead
Crispy Creme: I’ll take help from anyone--unless they’re Non Union?: DTG
4 in union truck charged with receiving stolen property?: Thurber
The Choice: Krauthammer
Breaking News On The Postponed Greenwich Village Parade: iOTW
Authorities Allow Male Freakazoid to Sprawl Naked in Girls’ Locker Room: MB
Obama urges voters to take 'revenge' on Election Day, Romney team rips 'terrible' message: Fox
After Taking a Victory Lap Photo Op, Obama Leaves NE a Wasteland: Victory Lap
Obama campaigns in Vegas while New Yorkers eat from dumpsters: Flopping Aces
Hey, You Know “Climate Change Is Like Racism”: RWN
Romney supporters shout down CNN’s Jim Acosta over Libya: Red Alert
As Obama motorcade rolls by, Ohio citizens demand truth about Benghazi: Twitchy
Why Was There No October Surprise?: Zombie
Washington Post: 9 million Obama voters now Romney’s?: Moe Lane
Best. Biden Gaffe. Ever.: OTB
ABC and CBS Ignore Their Own Reporters As Benghazi Blackout Reach 7 Days: MRC
Powell: Black First, Then American?: NoisyRm
Axelrod: Obama's energy comes 'from his loins': Hill
U.S. sold $40 billion worth of weapons to Muslim nations in 2011 (to be used against us?): Creeping
'You Have the Blood of an American Hero on your Hands': U-T San Diego
Rumsfeld Says What Everyone Is Thinking: There’s a White House Cover-Up Going On Over Benghazi: Stockton
Obama’s background: who will you vote for Tuesday?: JPA
Why didn't our president defend America and American soil when attacked?: WinSol
Twitter Is Trying to Be Instagram By Adding Photo Filters: Gizmodo
Restoring wired service after Sandy may take 2 weeks, Verizon says: ComputerWorld
Biden vs. Biden: NTRC
New York marathon canceled, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office says: LAT
Image: Dems Tap Radical Islamists for Cash
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Nation
The President, the State Department and Benghazi: RiehlBenghazi Timeline: More Lies Exposed: Feldman
Most Senior Marine in Congress Sends Letter to Obama: RtPlanet
The Photo Op Presidency: Malkin
An Unpredictable End to a Very Predictable Election: Rasmussen
Barone: Going out on a limb: Romney beats Obama, handily: Exam
25,000 vs. 4,000 in Ohio: GWP
Election Bulletin: North Carolina: GayPatriot
Anti-Mourdock polling games in Indiana?: LI
Economy
NYC Residents Rage as Generators Power up Marathon Tents: JWFNonunion utility crews turned away from New Jersey: Scoop
New York’s Incredible Shrinking Mayor: Mead
Crispy Creme: I’ll take help from anyone--unless they’re Non Union?: DTG
4 in union truck charged with receiving stolen property?: Thurber
The Choice: Krauthammer
Scandal Central
US Intelligence knew THREE hours before Benghazi attack that terrorist group was gathering weapons: ScoopBreaking News On The Postponed Greenwich Village Parade: iOTW
Authorities Allow Male Freakazoid to Sprawl Naked in Girls’ Locker Room: MB
Obama urges voters to take 'revenge' on Election Day, Romney team rips 'terrible' message: Fox
After Taking a Victory Lap Photo Op, Obama Leaves NE a Wasteland: Victory Lap
Obama campaigns in Vegas while New Yorkers eat from dumpsters: Flopping Aces
Climate & Energy
Great News: Obamamobiles Explode When Wet: HaywardHey, You Know “Climate Change Is Like Racism”: RWN
Media
Why Jay Cost does not take polls at face value: GayPatriotRomney supporters shout down CNN’s Jim Acosta over Libya: Red Alert
As Obama motorcade rolls by, Ohio citizens demand truth about Benghazi: Twitchy
Why Was There No October Surprise?: Zombie
Washington Post: 9 million Obama voters now Romney’s?: Moe Lane
Best. Biden Gaffe. Ever.: OTB
ABC and CBS Ignore Their Own Reporters As Benghazi Blackout Reach 7 Days: MRC
Powell: Black First, Then American?: NoisyRm
Axelrod: Obama's energy comes 'from his loins': Hill
World
Real News: LIBYA: THE TRUTH: NoisyRmU.S. sold $40 billion worth of weapons to Muslim nations in 2011 (to be used against us?): Creeping
'You Have the Blood of an American Hero on your Hands': U-T San Diego
Rumsfeld Says What Everyone Is Thinking: There’s a White House Cover-Up Going On Over Benghazi: Stockton
Obama’s background: who will you vote for Tuesday?: JPA
Why didn't our president defend America and American soil when attacked?: WinSol
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)
How to Effectively Listen on the Social Web [Infographic]: SocMedTodayTwitter Is Trying to Be Instagram By Adding Photo Filters: Gizmodo
Restoring wired service after Sandy may take 2 weeks, Verizon says: ComputerWorld
Cornucopia
Not content with 'Salesman of the Year', Obama wins 'Century' award...: SHNBiden vs. Biden: NTRC
New York marathon canceled, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office says: LAT
Image: Dems Tap Radical Islamists for Cash
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QOTD: "The notion of taking one cop, one first responder, one resource, one asset and diverting it so that they stand at a post to watch runners [in the New York City Marathon] go by when we’re still searching for bodies? It’s sinful to me!" --Staten Island Councilman James Oddo
Friday, November 02, 2012
YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO ARMED FORCES BALLOTS MAILED FROM AFGHANISTAN: Yep. They Were "Lost".
But I'm sure Eric Holder will launch a thorough investigation any second now:
Once again, the votes of our best and brightest are suppressed, while the Obama administration tacitly encourages illegal immigrants, felons and the dead to vote Democrat.
You know what we need to do on November 6th. And hopefully the margin of victory will be sufficient to represent a complete and total repudiation of the Democrat Party.
Flush twice. It's the only way to be sure.
Postal officials are investigating the apparent loss of some absentee ballots mailed from Afghanistan.
A contractor who sent an email to Military Times said his county elections clerk in Texas had not received his ballot or his co-worker’s ballot by Thursday, although they mailed the ballots Sept. 27. “The Bagram Airfield Army post office placed Express mail tracking numbers on them, placed the ballots in an orange ‘Ballot Box,’ and probably in a dedicated mail bag.
“If our ballots got lost, how many other ballots are lost as well?” he wrote.
Military Postal Service Agency officials are working with the U.S. Postal Service to resolve the issue, said James Clark, chief of the operations division of the Military Postal Service Agency. It’s unknown whether other ballots may have been affected.
The contractor stated the tracking information shows their ballots are still in Bahrain, and have been sitting there since Sept. 30.
Once again, the votes of our best and brightest are suppressed, while the Obama administration tacitly encourages illegal immigrants, felons and the dead to vote Democrat.
You know what we need to do on November 6th. And hopefully the margin of victory will be sufficient to represent a complete and total repudiation of the Democrat Party.
Flush twice. It's the only way to be sure.
President Photo-Op Goes AWOL as Lower Manhattan and Staten Island Descend Into Chaos
Through Gothamist, via Ace and Hot Air, we get a picture of a Manhattan below 38th Street that is nearing the onset of a humanitarian disaster. Jonathan Maimon made a 5-hour, 12-mile run through some of the devastated areas and what he saw is... well, unbelievable.
Where's President Photo-Op and his Bomber Jacket, I mean, besides jetting to his usual Vegas fundraisers and speechifying at campaign stops while hawking a Republican "War on Women"?
Where's Mayor Bloomturd, aside from moving giant generators into Central Park to power the NYC Marathon, hosting the Brooklyn Nets NBA game, and banning 16-oz. colas, that is?
The real "War on Women" (and children, and the elderly, and the infirm) is occurring in the Northeast, as President Training Wheels parties on, oblivious to the unfolding catastrophe--just as he was to the disaster in Benghazi.
1) Virtually every retailer, restaurant and grocery store south of 38th street is CLOSED. This is in an area covering 8 square miles. I only observed a handful of bodegas in Soho and the East Village, along with Ben’s Pizza on W3rd and MacDougal serving customers. Whole Foods Union Square had a sign reading “because there is no electricity, we cannot open.” There is no food, other than what you have in your refrigerator.
2) To that point, there are close to 400,000 people living below 38th street without power. The mayor earlier said it could be 3 days without power; some Con Ed guys I spoke with in the East Village think it could be longer. Nobody knows.
3) No working traffic lights in this region (drivers are generally being cautious and appropriately yielding to pedestrians). Apartment stairwells are pitch black. High rises have no elevator access...
5) There is no running water or flushing toilets for people living in the Jacob Riis Houses and surrounding NYCHA buildings on the Lower East Side. In my estimate, this is roughly 20,000 people. One family I spoke with is packing their bags and moving to Brooklyn until services are restored. But it did not appear that all residents were evacuating, even as their toilets did not flush.
6) I did not witness a single Red Cross Truck or FEMA Vehicle or in lower Manhattan. Recall the assistance these agencies provided after 9/11 - this is NOT HAPPENING. There are bound to be hundreds of elderly people, rich and poor, who live on the upper floors of buildings with elevators that are now disabled. IF POWER IS NOT RESTORED, THIS WILL MOVE FROM BEING AN ECONOMIC DISASTER TO A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER.
Where's President Photo-Op and his Bomber Jacket, I mean, besides jetting to his usual Vegas fundraisers and speechifying at campaign stops while hawking a Republican "War on Women"?
Where's Mayor Bloomturd, aside from moving giant generators into Central Park to power the NYC Marathon, hosting the Brooklyn Nets NBA game, and banning 16-oz. colas, that is?
The real "War on Women" (and children, and the elderly, and the infirm) is occurring in the Northeast, as President Training Wheels parties on, oblivious to the unfolding catastrophe--just as he was to the disaster in Benghazi.
Larwyn's Linx: Obama in Wisconsin: Al Qaeda has been decimated
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Fred Thompson: Benghazi 'Biggest Cover-Up in U.S. History': AmSpec
White House Failed to Convene Counterterror Group During Attack: FNI
War Slogans: Rants & Other Refinements
Five unanswered questions about Benghazi attack: Times
The Benghazi Drip-Drip-Drip: Tapper
Obama Briefed on Libya Threats Day Before Benghazi Attack?: Nice Deb
WI Sen. Johnson: We'll Deliver 10 Electoral Votes to Mitt Romney: Breitbart
Virginia early-voting tallies suggest large turnout edge for Romney: Twitchy
New Obamacare Tax Form: You Must Give Personal Health Info to IRS: ATR
Eco-Taxes? IRS May Link Tax Code to Carbon Emissions: Fox
Study: Immigrants Soaked Up 2/3rds Of The Jobs Gains: Cove
'Students for Obama' becomes 'Students no longer for Obama': Alert
Democrats resort to despicable, hypocritical tactics in state races: Ralston
Dem Super PAC Donor Owes IRS $11.1 Million: Beacon
‘Let’s Win This Motherfu**er!’: White House Official Delivers Shock Speech at Phone Bank Rally: Blaze
Obama's Problem With Fast And Furious Hasn't Gone Away: IBD
AFL-CIO mailer warns Oregon voters: We know your voting history: IHTM
Fisker Electric Cars Explode In Flames After Being Flooded In New York: SAB
Cheers to the Heroes Driving the American Oil and Gas Boom: ObjStd
As Big Three Nets' Evening News Shows Ignore Benghazi, Their Audience Decline Continues: NB
Benghazi should be the story of this election: Q&O
Benghazi blunder: Obama unworthy commander-in-chief: LVRJ
Romney's Secret Voting Bloc: the Evangelicals: Henninger
Latest Liberal Ad: Obama Supporters Shoot, Hack, Bludgeon and Bomb Romney Supporters: GWP
Is Nate Silver’s value at risk?: DC
Virginia early-voting tallies suggest large turnout edge for Romney: Twitchy
Pennsylvania: Republicans Trouncing Dems In Absentee Ballots By 19 Points: WZ
More Radicalism From Another White House Guest: IPT
Member Of President’s Secret Service Detail Found Dead: OTB
Fox News Finds Benghazi Smoking Gun, Raises Serious Questions: Foundry
CBS Sources: Key Counterterrorism Task Force Not Convened During Benghazi Attack: Blaze
Criminal Negligence: Benghazi Gave 1-Month Warning: IBD
New Film Exposes Shocking Muslim Duplicity: IBD
Valerie Plame Is Still Alive: Flopping Aces
US citizens in Israel vote 85% Romney, 14% Obama: Matzav
Security firm VUPEN claims to have hacked Windows 8 and IE10: NextWeb
Manhattan Evacuation Plan Reveals Island’s Old Contours: ManhattanPast
Honey, we don’t just think you’re stupid. We’re counting on it.: MOTUS
Romney’s Friday Night Ohio Rally Features… Everyone. EVERYONE.: Geraghty
Image: Washington Times and Redman Bluestate (lower)
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Nation
Obama in Wisconsin: Al Qaeda has been decimated: MalkinFred Thompson: Benghazi 'Biggest Cover-Up in U.S. History': AmSpec
White House Failed to Convene Counterterror Group During Attack: FNI
War Slogans: Rants & Other Refinements
Five unanswered questions about Benghazi attack: Times
The Benghazi Drip-Drip-Drip: Tapper
Obama Briefed on Libya Threats Day Before Benghazi Attack?: Nice Deb
WI Sen. Johnson: We'll Deliver 10 Electoral Votes to Mitt Romney: Breitbart
Virginia early-voting tallies suggest large turnout edge for Romney: Twitchy
Economy
September Jobs Numbers Revised Almost In Half: LoneConNew Obamacare Tax Form: You Must Give Personal Health Info to IRS: ATR
Eco-Taxes? IRS May Link Tax Code to Carbon Emissions: Fox
Study: Immigrants Soaked Up 2/3rds Of The Jobs Gains: Cove
'Students for Obama' becomes 'Students no longer for Obama': Alert
Democrats resort to despicable, hypocritical tactics in state races: Ralston
Scandal Central
Obama Campaign Staffer Arrested For Sexual Assault: RSDem Super PAC Donor Owes IRS $11.1 Million: Beacon
‘Let’s Win This Motherfu**er!’: White House Official Delivers Shock Speech at Phone Bank Rally: Blaze
While Obama Parties in Vegas, New Yorkers Dumpster-Dive for Food: Scoop
State Island Abandoned by FEMA, Red Cross: Breitbart
‘We Need Food, We Need Clothing’: Staten Island Residents Plead for Help 3 Days After Sandy: ABC
Obama's Problem With Fast And Furious Hasn't Gone Away: IBD
AFL-CIO mailer warns Oregon voters: We know your voting history: IHTM
Climate & Energy
Sierra Club Overruled By Utah Supreme Court: IHTMFisker Electric Cars Explode In Flames After Being Flooded In New York: SAB
Cheers to the Heroes Driving the American Oil and Gas Boom: ObjStd
Media
Bozell Statement: Liberal Media Are Accessories to Benghazi Cover-up: NBAs Big Three Nets' Evening News Shows Ignore Benghazi, Their Audience Decline Continues: NB
Benghazi should be the story of this election: Q&O
Benghazi blunder: Obama unworthy commander-in-chief: LVRJ
Romney's Secret Voting Bloc: the Evangelicals: Henninger
Latest Liberal Ad: Obama Supporters Shoot, Hack, Bludgeon and Bomb Romney Supporters: GWP
Is Nate Silver’s value at risk?: DC
Virginia early-voting tallies suggest large turnout edge for Romney: Twitchy
Pennsylvania: Republicans Trouncing Dems In Absentee Ballots By 19 Points: WZ
World
Benghazi Stand Down Denials Don't Stand Up To Reason: ForbesMore Radicalism From Another White House Guest: IPT
Member Of President’s Secret Service Detail Found Dead: OTB
Fox News Finds Benghazi Smoking Gun, Raises Serious Questions: Foundry
CBS Sources: Key Counterterrorism Task Force Not Convened During Benghazi Attack: Blaze
Criminal Negligence: Benghazi Gave 1-Month Warning: IBD
New Film Exposes Shocking Muslim Duplicity: IBD
Valerie Plame Is Still Alive: Flopping Aces
US citizens in Israel vote 85% Romney, 14% Obama: Matzav
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)
Big Data Visualization Startup Partners With StockTwits: TechCrunchSecurity firm VUPEN claims to have hacked Windows 8 and IE10: NextWeb
Manhattan Evacuation Plan Reveals Island’s Old Contours: ManhattanPast
Cornucopia
Today’s Gun Toting Bank President Foiling Robber’s Escape Brought To You By Troy, Missouri: AllAmHoney, we don’t just think you’re stupid. We’re counting on it.: MOTUS
Romney’s Friday Night Ohio Rally Features… Everyone. EVERYONE.: Geraghty
Image: Washington Times and Redman Bluestate (lower)
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fire Sherrod Brown; Support Josh Mandel for U.S. Senate
QOTD: "One woman said [Democrat Senator Bob] Menendez wooed her with compliments like “beautiful” before they slept together. The other woman recounted, with apparent bitterness, receiving from an intermediary only $100 of the $500 she had been promised.
“He lies,” she said of Menendez. “He says one thing and does another. I should have checked his party affiliation before I slept with him." --Daily Caller (note from our lawyers: I made up the last sentence)
Thursday, November 01, 2012
PHOTO: Leaked photo depicts an especially presidential Obama touring damage from Hurricane Sandy
The invaluable Looking Spoon beats Biff Spackle to the punch with another scoop:
Obama's handlers chose the photo op strategy, according to Mark Levin, because the old strategy wasn't working.
Here's a helpful hint for Messrs. Axelrod and Plouffe: the new strategy ain't gonna work either.
Obama's handlers chose the photo op strategy, according to Mark Levin, because the old strategy wasn't working.
Here's a helpful hint for Messrs. Axelrod and Plouffe: the new strategy ain't gonna work either.
CHART: Yo, Johnson -- How's that "Great Society" workin' out for ya?
Not too well, if both quantitative and qualitative measures are to be trusted.
But don't worry: facts, logic, reason, history and a track record of unmitigated failure never dissuaded a "progressive".
Majority of Americans Say Government Spends Too Much on Welfare
Welfare spending has been growing for decades and is at a record level, approaching $1 trillion annually. Putting that amount in perspective, if the cost of welfare were converted to cash, it would be five times the amount necessary to pull all poor Americans out of poverty. Yet under President Obama’s plan, welfare spending is on track to keep climbing...
...Such low confidence in government welfare may be due to the fact that despite massive rates of spending, the number of Americans considered “poor” has stayed roughly the same. Instead of eliminating poverty and promoting self-sufficiency, welfare has led to government dependency. Today, roughly one-third of the U.S. population—100 million—receives some type of welfare aid.
The vast majority of government programs don’t require work for able-bodied recipients. Tragically, the Obama Administration has been whittling away at the very few programs that have included a work requirement, gutting work requirements from the 1996 welfare reform law and suspending work requirements in the food stamps program.
This course of dependence is not helpful to the poor, and it’s not helpful to taxpayers. The American people know this, too. The vast majority—84 percent—say that work for able-bodied adults should be a requirement to receive welfare.
...Work requirements led to the successes of the 1996 welfare reform. Within just five years of the law’s implementation, which inserted work requirements into the largest cash assistance welfare program, welfare rolls dropped by half. Child poverty rates plummeted, and employment rates among low-income individuals climbed.
Work requirements should be applied to the rest of the government’s 80 welfare programs. The food stamps program, which has seen massive growth in spending and participation rates during the last decade, would be a good place to start...
But don't worry: facts, logic, reason, history and a track record of unmitigated failure never dissuaded a "progressive".
Larwyn's Linx: Ambassador Chris Stevens Called for Help in the Midst of the Bengahzi Attack
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Consulate warned it couldn't withstand 'coordinated attack'!: Fox
Contradictory Evidence Swallows Administration Libya Cover-Up: Foundry
Hannity on Benghazi Slaughter: the Tapes are Damning: GWP
Gingrich: Senator Said Networks Have Libya Emails: Powers
Final CBS/NYT/Q-polls in OH, FL, VA show Obama up …: Hot Air
The Obama Campaign’s Most Honest Surrogate: HayRide
Levin: They didn't have to die, that's the point!: Scoop
Women: Dem Sen. Bob Menendez paid us for sex: DC
So Much for the Obama Early Voting Advantage: ScarMonk
Democrat Mayor: Let's Face It, We're Losing Wisconsin: Ace
New Polls Confirm Romney Momentum in Battleground States: LifeNews
September Surprise! Jobs Count Revised Down, October Bleak: Riehl
No love connection: Chuck Woolery outraged at AARP: Fox
Fast and Furious: Where Was the Leadership at the Department of Justice?: Foundry
Critics say AG Holder’s ties to abortion industry create conflict of interest: Watchdog
The U.S. Energy Boom in Four Charts: FreeEnt
E-mails Contradict Obama On Involvement With Yet Another Green Energy Failure: JoshuaPundit
Obama campaign sign in L.A. modeled after Fascist Mussolini portrait: Zombie
Feinstein Refuses to Debate Republican Opponent: OCR
The Uncool President: Hanson
Liberals So Stressed By Election That They Can’t Exercise Or Sleep: STACLU
Pic: Detroit News front page highlights Romney’s momentum in Michigan: Twitchy
Uh Oh: Jay Leno Brings Up Benghazi: JWF
There You Go Again: New York Times In Futile Attempt to Save Obama in Ohio: Forbes
Why New Jerseyans, Vermonters can’t enter NatGeo photo contest: Overlawyered
Press hurls hardball questions at Mitt on FEMA while lobbing softballs to Obama on Benghazi.: IBD
Pew backs up Gallup on Obama losing early voting totals: Moe Lane
The mysterious media Benghazi bugout: Post
Rumors of General Officers Arrested, Relieved, or Resigning in Protest: BlackFive
The Latest Disasters in Greece: Mead
Former A.G. Mukasey: Obama Knows What Happened In Benghazi: Ace
OMG! Is this what happened in Benghazi?: Matzav
Al-Qaeda Linked Radical Was Hired By Obama Administration to Run Security at Tripoli Embassy: GWP
Cell networks struggle under Sandy: Fierce Government IT
Unboxing Photos from Early iPad Mini Delivery Surface in France: MacRumors
Where's Howie?: Jawa
Fabulous New Ad From Independent Women’s Voice on Breaking Up with Obama: Bruce
Image: Paul Ryan goes trick-or-treating with his niece Zaydee May in Janesville, WI
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Make Calls for Romney-Ryan!
Nation
Ambassador Chris Stevens Called for Help During Bengahzi Attack: GWPConsulate warned it couldn't withstand 'coordinated attack'!: Fox
Contradictory Evidence Swallows Administration Libya Cover-Up: Foundry
Hannity on Benghazi Slaughter: the Tapes are Damning: GWP
Gingrich: Senator Said Networks Have Libya Emails: Powers
Final CBS/NYT/Q-polls in OH, FL, VA show Obama up …: Hot Air
The Obama Campaign’s Most Honest Surrogate: HayRide
Levin: They didn't have to die, that's the point!: Scoop
Women: Dem Sen. Bob Menendez paid us for sex: DC
So Much for the Obama Early Voting Advantage: ScarMonk
Democrat Mayor: Let's Face It, We're Losing Wisconsin: Ace
New Polls Confirm Romney Momentum in Battleground States: LifeNews
Economy
The economy is why Romney wins: RWNSeptember Surprise! Jobs Count Revised Down, October Bleak: Riehl
No love connection: Chuck Woolery outraged at AARP: Fox
Scandal Central
Bob Menendez and Hookers?: RSMFast and Furious: Where Was the Leadership at the Department of Justice?: Foundry
Critics say AG Holder’s ties to abortion industry create conflict of interest: Watchdog
Climate & Energy
MACT – The End of Coal as an Energy Source: RSThe U.S. Energy Boom in Four Charts: FreeEnt
E-mails Contradict Obama On Involvement With Yet Another Green Energy Failure: JoshuaPundit
Media
Romney Is What The Country Needs Now: CoulterObama campaign sign in L.A. modeled after Fascist Mussolini portrait: Zombie
Feinstein Refuses to Debate Republican Opponent: OCR
The Uncool President: Hanson
Liberals So Stressed By Election That They Can’t Exercise Or Sleep: STACLU
Pic: Detroit News front page highlights Romney’s momentum in Michigan: Twitchy
Uh Oh: Jay Leno Brings Up Benghazi: JWF
There You Go Again: New York Times In Futile Attempt to Save Obama in Ohio: Forbes
Why New Jerseyans, Vermonters can’t enter NatGeo photo contest: Overlawyered
Press hurls hardball questions at Mitt on FEMA while lobbing softballs to Obama on Benghazi.: IBD
Pew backs up Gallup on Obama losing early voting totals: Moe Lane
The mysterious media Benghazi bugout: Post
World
Libyan Leaks: Secret Document reveals Al-Qaeda ‘brother’ put in control of U.S. Embassy in Tripoli: JihadWatchRumors of General Officers Arrested, Relieved, or Resigning in Protest: BlackFive
The Latest Disasters in Greece: Mead
Former A.G. Mukasey: Obama Knows What Happened In Benghazi: Ace
OMG! Is this what happened in Benghazi?: Matzav
Al-Qaeda Linked Radical Was Hired By Obama Administration to Run Security at Tripoli Embassy: GWP
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)
The Case of the Unexplained FTP Connections: RussinovichCell networks struggle under Sandy: Fierce Government IT
Unboxing Photos from Early iPad Mini Delivery Surface in France: MacRumors
Cornucopia
No One Left Behind...In A Swing State: MOTUSWhere's Howie?: Jawa
Fabulous New Ad From Independent Women’s Voice on Breaking Up with Obama: Bruce
Image: Paul Ryan goes trick-or-treating with his niece Zaydee May in Janesville, WI
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Make Calls for Romney-Ryan!
QOTD: "There is a rumor — I want to be clear, it’s a rumor — that at least two networks have emails from the National Security Adviser’s office telling a counterterrorism group to stand down. But they were a group in real-time trying to mobilize marines and C-130s and the fighter aircraft, and they were told explicitly by the White House stand down and do nothing. This is not a terrorist action. If that is true, and I’ve been told this by a fairly reliable U.S. senator, if that is true and comes out, I think it raises enormous questions about the president’s role, and Tom Donilon, the National Security Adviser’s role, the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who has taken it on his own shoulders, that he said don’t go. And that is, I think, very dubious, given that the president said he had instructions they are supposed to do everything they could to secure American personnel." --Newt Gingrich
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
BOOM: Hey, How's That "Ignoring Benghazi" Strategy Working Out for Antique Media?
Let's compare Mondays -- one before Benghazi, one after -- and remove as much noise as we can from the equation (debates, Hurricane Sandy, etc.).
Fox News must be praying that the Leftist kooks running the other cable news operations continue their embargo on the biggest political scandal since Watergate.
Fox News must be praying that the Leftist kooks running the other cable news operations continue their embargo on the biggest political scandal since Watergate.
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