Friday, November 09, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: A Thank You Note From An Average American

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Nation

A Thank You Note From An Average American: Jack Finn
Obama Got 99% of Vote at Polls Where GOP Inspectors Removed: PunPrs
Fun fact: Obama Lost in Every State with a Voter Photo-ID Law: Reaganite

Status Quo Ante: RS
“Ein Vaterland . . . Ein Reich . . . Ein Volk”: ProWis
The Case of the Missing White Voters: RCP

When Conservatism Is a Second Language: Lord
Remember GOP Elitists Used Redistricting to Get Rid of West?: MagNote
Allen West Now Leads Initial Vote Count In Dem-Leaning County: WZ

Economy

Forward! To mass layoffs!: Hayward
A victory for creatures of the state: RWN
Time for Introspection, but Not Surrender: RWN

Speaker Boehner is done fighting Obamacare: Scoop
Obama supporters rejoice that they can keep their food stamps: Twitchy
Appalling video captures substitute teacher bullied by students: Daily Mail

Shocker: Obamacare Spurs a Shift to Part-Time Workers: C4P
Obamacare vs. Jobs : NRO
Economic Advisor to State Department: Downgrade of US Likely: CDN

Scandal Central

Obama Lost in Every State with a Voter Photo ID Law: Reaganite
PPP’s polls were rigged all along: RS
FL District 18: West cites 'disturbing irregularities': WPTV

Climate & Energy

Christie Calls to Congratulate Obama… Sends Mitt an Email: GWP
The Hope-a-Nomics Disaster: One Company’s Horror Story: Malkin

Media

It Is Not Just Business, It Is Personal: TL in Exile
Miller: If Romney’s what’s wrong with America, this country has serious problems: Hot Air
Christie Is Dead to Me: Sentinel

Unsure: Rants and other Refinements
Is Chris Matthews a Racist?: Elephant
Axelrod rubs Rove’s face in it: WaPo

Republicans rush to help Obama destroy America: SHN
It Is Time to Throw the Social Conservatives Out of the GOP: RS
Give the People What They Voted For: Glob

67% of single / unmarried / divorced women vote for pro-abortion, pro-gay-marriage Obama: Knight
Yes, Romney Was the Problem: RWN
Now They Tell Us: Instapundit

World

America goes into the darkness: Melanie Phillips
Krauthammer: Obama Administration Hid Drone Attack Until After Election: GWP
Obama Administration Partners With the UN to Attack the Second Amendment: Pavlich

Obama Immediately Moves to Help UN Impose Gun Restrictions on Americans: MB
No Hezbollah in Mexico?: CIS
Did Obama Steal the Election?: Western Journalism

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

The Unmitigated Disaster Known As Project ORCA: Ace
Can the US military fight a war with Twitter?: ComputerWorld
Source: 7 SEALs punished for secrecy breach in video game collaboration: ArmyTimes

Cornucopia

The Case of the Missing White Voters: RCP
We’re Doomed: Young Obama voters on what they know about the Constitution: Scoop
Monet fetches $43M for NY school: USA Today

Image: Has "Tomorrow" Arrived?

QOTD: "We conservatives, we do not accept bipartisanship in the pursuit of tyranny. Period. We will not negotiate the terms of our economic and political servitude. Period. We will not abandon our child to a dark and bleak future. We will not accept a fate that is alien to the legacy we inherited from every single future generation in this country. We will not accept social engineering by politicians and bureaucrats who treat us like lab rats, rather than self-sufficient human beings. There are those in this country who choose tyranny over liberty. They do not speak for us, 57 million of us who voted against this yesterday, and they do not get to dictate to us under our Constitution.

We are the alternative. We will resist. We're not going to surrender to this. We will not be passive, we will not be compliant in our demise. We're not good losers, you better believe we're sore losers! A good loser is a loser forever. Now I hear we're called 'purists.' Conservatives are called purists. The very people who keep nominating moderates, now call us purists the way the left calls us purists. Yeah, things like liberty, and property rights, individual sovereignty, and the Constitution, and capitalism. We're purists now. And we have to hear this crap from conservatives, or pseudo-conservatives, Republicans." --Mark Levin

Bonus QOTD: "Neither side bothered to put forward a serious agenda that stood for much of anything. Barack Obama ran on beating up Mitt Romney and Mitt Romney ran on running away from himself. He stood for nothing and everything at the same time. At least Barack Obama campaigned on the consistent message of hating Mitt Romney.

Compare Romney to Scott Walker. Scott Walker took on the unions in Wisconsin and won big. Romney barely took on Barack Obama. He drew few lines in the sand, made those fungible, and did not stand on many principles. Americans wanted to assess a contrast between the candidates and got blurred lines instead. They went with the politician they knew instead of the one who was different depending on the election season, constituency, and time of day." --Erick Erickson

Thursday, November 08, 2012

CONGRATULATIONS, DEMOCRATS: More Than 45 Companies Go Galt, Announce Mass Layoffs

Dan from New York:

You voted for it, you got it. And the early results are just trickling in.

Boeing Announces Big Layoffs in Defense Division - Reuters


Vegas Employer: Obama Won, So I Fired 22 Employees - CBS


For me, yesterday’s election didn't change a thing. I'm still at the old stand providing you the latest 411 on the decline of America, the end of Israel and the collapse of Western Civilization. Stay tuned. It’s going to be a sight to see!

Oh, and then there's this:



My guess is many of these management teams were hoping against hope for Republicans to win the Presidency and the Senate -- and that they would begin unwinding the insane complexity represented by Obamacare, Dodd-Frank and other oppressive regulations that are poised to strangle job creation.

But a billion dollars of 90 percent negative advertising convinced the gullible half of the country that Mitt Romney killed someone's wife, that he was a vulture capitalist who outsourced jobs to Timbuktu, and that Paul Ryan rolled Grandma off a cliff.

As the Bible says: As ye sow so shall ye reap.


PHOTO: 2015 in Obama's America

The economy is set to collapse under monstrous debt and runaway inflation but don't worry, kids: your government will be there to give you free condoms.


And soup, if you're lucky.


THE PRICE OF APPEASEMENT AND WEAKNESS: Iranian fighter jets fire on U.S. aircraft in international airspace

Did CNN hold onto this story until the day after the election?

Two fighter jets fired on an unmanned drone in international airspace without provocation


BARBARA STARR: New military tensions now with Iran. CNN has learned it was last Thursday, just one week ago, that two Iranian SU-25–old Russian fighter jets the Iranians operate–flew out in to the Persian Gulf into international air space and fired on a U.S. Air Force predator drone, an unmanned drone in international air space, that the Pentagon insists was conducting routine, although classified, maritime surveillance. The Iranian aircraft fired continuously; they did not hit the drone; the drone was able to return to base in that region. But this does raise some serious new tensions with Iran. It was, of course, just a few days before the presidential election here in the United States. Officials that we have talked to who are confirming it after we questioned them say they just don’t know at this point what the Iranians were up to. Were they just out to cause trouble or were they really trying to bring down that U.S. drone, Brooke.

BROOK BALDWIN: this is clearly raising tensions as you point out. Could this be considered an act of war?

STARR: Well, it’s an interesting question, I suppose for the Pentagon lawyers. The thing is, you know, they fired–the U.S. believes, we’re told–in an unprovoked fashion. They say that the drone was in international air space about 16 miles off the Iranian coast in the northern end of the Gulf, and that it was completely unprovoked and without warning. The Pentagon, through the State Department, has protested to the Iranian government. The Pentagon says they haven’t heard back from Tehran.

Yes, the Obama administration issued a sternly worded memo to Iran.

That laughter you heard came all the way from Tehran as the Mullahs plot the nuclear destruction of the Great Satan and Little Satan.

History's lessons are as real as tomorrow's sunrise: the wages of appeasement against aggression is always more aggression.

But, please, CNN: whatever you do, don't report on Hezbollah operating in Mexico nor on the risk of Iran's nuclear weapons being smuggled over America's unprotected southern border into the U.S.

If a few American cities get taken out by Iran's nukes, after all, we might get a budget underrun for Obamacare -- at least for a week or so. And what an inconvenience that would be for the progressive drones: a single nuke can take out over 100 Starbucks in less than 25 milliseconds.


DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: Another "can't lose" moderate... loses

Jeffrey Lord pens another must-read that is certain to be ignored by the Beltway class and, yet, contains within it certain incontrovertible truths.

Number one: another "can't lose" RINO moderate... fails. Do the terms McCain, Dole, Bush 41 and Ford ring a bell?

Number two: where were first principles in this campaign?

One cannot plunge the country into astronomical debt without there being a financial come-to-Jesus reckoning. One cannot tempt aggression with weakness. One cannot tax one's way to prosperity. One cannot build a behemoth federal government and expect the country to prosper. One cannot, as Mark Levin puts it, not understand the "interconnection of liberty, free markets, religion, tradition and authority" -- and not pay a price for that lack of understanding.

Were these conservative principles true in 1980? Yes. They were also true in 1780 and 1880 and they will be true in 2080. They are to the world of politics and government what Newton's law of gravity is to the physical world. And to the extent that they are ignored, one is -- politically speaking -- jumping off the Empire State Building without a parachute.

Has the country changed since 1980? I would hope so. Change in human life is unstoppable. But as Reagan himself -- a staunch advocate of change -- smartly said: "History comes and goes, but principles endure…"

Barack Obama will come and go. The next Apple iGizmo will appear -- and eventually disappear to be a relic. Katy Perry and Lena Dunham will grow old. America will not even be in this moment of 2012 for very much longer. Life will go on. Time will move on. And yes, some absolutely inevitable and foreseeable crisis will confront the new romance with American socialism and send Americans running back to their roots.

Lord insists we need more "New Reagans" -- people of all backgrounds, all races, all religions -- who are well-versed in conservatism.

And where did Marco Rubio, now hailed by the Republican establishment as a 2016 favorite, come from? Not from the RINO establishment. It backed Charlie "Tan-in-a-Can" Crist and fought Rubio tooth and nail. It was the Tea Party and Constitutional Conservative movement that gave birth to Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, etc.

There are flawed candidates, to be sure, among those backed by the conservative wing of the Republican Party. RINOs point to Sharon Angle and Richard Mourdock, for example, forgetting that no one wins 100 percent of their slate. Until the afternoon of election day, when the unions started busing in voters from places unknown, Angle was in fact leading Harry Reid handily.

And one inappropriate and/or misconstrued remark by Mourdock (and a crackpot third-party candidate) helped cook his campaign.

It's not the conservatives who need to go away. It's the RINO establishment that should make themselves scarce. Once again, a mushy centrist -- who supposedly would appeal to wide swaths of the electorate -- lost in a race that should have been a slamdunk.

And in this existential showdown between liberty and tyranny, Mitt Romney could not even attract the same number of voters as... John McCain. Constitutional conservatives, Tea Party conservatives, and fiscal conservatives don't need to retreat. The RINO country club set needs to cede control to the true heart of the party. And if they refuse to cede power, we will defeat them as we have time and time again.


Larwyn's Linx: Don’t Blame Romney, And Don’t Blame The Campaign…

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Nation

Don’t Blame Romney, And Don’t Blame The Campaign…: HayRide
Wilderness: NRO
The Morning After: Tabitha Hale

Solzhenitsyn and the result of yesterday’s plebiscite: Constitution Alley
The Reckoning: Crowley
The American People Get the Government They Deserve: DTG

20 things that went right on Election Day: Malkin
Why We Lost the Republic: AT
Why I was wrong: Morris

Economy

Mourning in America-Here's Those Layoffs We Voted For Last Night: FW
Uncle Sam Weeps: JPA
In a Nation of Children, Santa Claus Wins: Rush

The Era of Big Government is Over: JOM
GS: "Congrats Mr. President, We Are Cutting Q4 GDP To 1.5%": ZH
NLRB gets more aggressive: Crain's Cleveland

California’s Economic Suicide and other News: Mitchell
Paul Ryan's Next Move: Hot Air
If The Archangel Michael Were On The Ballot, Beelzebub Would Still Have Won: RS

Scandal Central

The Holes in the CIA’s Benghazi Timeline: Foundry
House Committee to Hold Hearing on Benghazi Attack, Top Obama Intelligence Officials Will Testify: Blaze
CBS’ Benghazi Timeline Gives the Word “Deceitful” New Meaning: Sentinel

Climate & Energy

GOP Senate Group Warns Against EPA’s New Restriction Outburst After Elections: MyDesert

Media

The Long Game: Klavan
GOP Reaps Its Surrender of Pop Culture: Breitbart
This Is Why Mitt Romney Lost: Glob

Mark Levin Gives "Unvarnished Truth" On Romney Loss: RCP
Disraeli's Ghost: Claremont
"It is profoundly disturbing to watch a once-great power commit suicide in real time.": HyScience

Reagan in '64: A call for reinforcements and fighting the false image of conservatives: Marathon
WashPost's Henneberger Sees Food Stamp Surge As a 'Real Success Story': NB
Conservatives lambast Romney, vow to take over Republican Party: Hill

World

Fill your sandbags: Hayom
Obama supporters celebrate: No more Israel; kill those motherf***ers: RebelPundit
After Obama victory, political knives come out in Israel: Hayom

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

President Obama's Unfinished Business: BankInfoSecurity
Looking Old May Be A Sign Of Heart Trouble.: Instapundit
The Rise of Social Salespeople: Forbes

Cornucopia

The Day After: MOTUS
October Revolution: This Time We Can Make It Work!: Cube
The Day After: Obama Unbound: Camp of the Saints

Image: MOTUS
QOTD: "At a low point in the fortunes of the Tory Party, Disraeli said, “The pendulum swings.” It does indeed, but it is not going to swing back to limited-government republicanism any time soon; in fact such republicanism has for some time been effectively dead in California, New York, and the other arrantly blue states. Nor, to judge from yesterday’s election, is such republicanism especially vibrant in middle-of-the-road states like Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Colorado. Put it another way: only once since the 1980s has a Republican candidate won a greater number of votes in a presidential election than the Democratic candidate (Bush in 2004).

Defeat offers clarity. If we had any doubts as to our position, yesterday’s election put an end to them. Those of us who continue to oppose the fiscal and constitutional overreach of the modern social state now find ourselves in the wilderness.

Insofar as politics are concerned, the best the center-right in America can do, in the foreseeable future, is to act as a check on folly in the political arena, and in doing so hope to prove Macaulay wrong when he said that the American Republic would fail because the poor would plunder the rich and increase the country’s distress by devouring the “seed-corn” of future growth.

At the same time, conservatives ought to recognize that our deeper problems ... are cultural, not political, and are therefore not susceptible of a political solution. The social state was intended to be such a solution: but even were its ever-expanding programs fiscally sustainable, its ideal of social welfare would still be paltry substitute for the older, better approach to the good life it was meant to replace." --Michael Knox Beran

Wednesday, November 07, 2012

And, about blogging...

Fausta, a longtime compatriot, just posted the following missive.

I am considering ceasing to blog on politics.

For eight years I have posted on serious issues taking place in our hemisphere that affect our everyday lives, and, to be honest, I’ve about had it. Every post on Latin America takes time researching sources from the country in Spanish, French or Portuguese, plus English-language reports. And what for? The American media and the American public would care more if the Iranians were making deals with Martians than they care if Hezbollah makes deals with the Zetas right in our own country.


The American politics posts draw more traffic but are clearly out of the mainstream of a coddled, self-absorbed electorate that thinks their vaginas, their abortions, and their welfare checks are more important than national security, chronic unemployment and respect for the Constitution.

Half the country doesn’t even pay federal income taxes. They do not value the effort of those of us who do.

The reelection of Obama ensures a weak economy, which in turn ensures that I will remain unemployed as a translator. At the same time, I have always been interested in literacy. Therefore, I’m considering blogging my Spanish-to-English translation work so it’s available for free for whoever may want to read it or not.

...And to hell with politics.

The Blogmistress General, Tabitha Hale, wrote back to Fausta with some words of wisdom:

Take a couple days. I called a friend last night and said I was done as well. It's hard to figure out why we do it sometimes - I am still struggling with it. It's a huge commitment, one that takes time and energy away from other things we love. For me, I realized that the truth was that I cared too much. I need to do this. I love the people, I love freedom and I love my country. Even if I quit tomorrow, I don't think I could really quit. I wrote this in an email to another list this morning. Maybe it'll help:

The Morning After

This is just one election. We will still fight. We have to.

Thanks for everything you do, Fausta. Whatever you decide, I hope you don't disappear.

I responded as well.

Agreed. Give it a couple of weeks of contemplation. Write a work of fiction. Relax and try to decompress.

We still live in the greatest country on Earth.

Our forebears went through hell to create this great land. They risked everything: life, limb, property.

They knew that defeat was certain only with surrender.

"Give me liberty or give me death"?

Our ancestors' sacrifices were too great and ours too meager to surrender.

Not now. Not ever.

Winter is coming.


The Big Election Post-Mortem Pundit Post

Jim Geraghty:

Phil Klein noted that the exit polls indicated Romney won voters 65 and older by 11 percentage points. So one could argue that the Ryan reform proposals weren't quite as politically difficult to sell as some warned, but . . . the Romney-Ryan campaign offered serious reform of runaway entitlement programs. And the American people -- or at least enough people in enough states adding up to more than 270 electoral votes -- rejected it.

I feel a bit like when Jerry Brown beat Meg Whitman out in California: If you really think that the guy with the tired promises of spending more and taxing more is really going to save you, I can't help you.

Jedidiah Bila:

I always hear "We are a center-right country."

No. A center-right country does not elect Barack Obama twice.

Time to re-evaluate.

Peter Ingemi:

We conservatives will have to double our efforts to teach but the results of the next four years under Barack Obama will do that more effectively than anything else.

Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn in no other. Get ready America you are about to have a four-year course and the joys of socialism with a president who no longer has an incentive to pretend he is anything but the radical he has always been.

May you be Happy in the choice you have made because you’re not going to get another one for four years.

John Brodigan:

Meh, we lost.

Romney was the best of our choices in the primary.

He put Paul Ryan on a national stage, and my money is on Ryan being Speaker of the House.

We start off with our best on the bench for 2016.

We held the House. We can take the Senate in two.

Take a break from the Internets tomorrow.

The Republic stands. God bless America.

Monica Crowley:

A very slight majority---but a majority---of the American people KNOWINGLY chose four more years (at least) of high unemployment, anemic economic growth, break-the-bank spending, unsustainable and record-breaking deficits and debt, unpopular and bankrupting socialized medicine, and record numbers of people on food stamps and living in poverty. They KNOWINGLY chose four more years ... of this.

...When Obama came into office in January 2009, he had three main, overarching goals: first, to expand government as fast and as widely as possible; the ultimate objective of that was to expand the number of people dependent of government as fast and as widely as possible; and the ultimate objective of THAT was to leverage it into a permanent Democrat voting majority. If you are getting a constant stream of freebies from a government promising to stick it to the other guy while providing you with cradle-to-grave "security," you are less likely to vote out the guy doling out the free stuff.

Obama had a multi-pronged strategy to achieve those three goals, but two were particularly effective. First, he chose a path of divide and conquer to pit Americans against each other in order to make it easier to slide in his radical redistributionist agenda. He divided us by class, gender, race, and age. He turned the American motto, "E Pluribus Unum" ("Out of Many, One") upside down. It is now, "Out of One, Many." The American experiment cannot go on as it once did driven by divisions and envy rather than uniting values and common goals.

Jim Geraghty, again:

And just think, Obama thought he inherited a lot of problems back in 2009.

And lastly: me, for what it's worth:

Hurricane Sandy and Crispy Creme Christie didn't lose the election. Racism didn't lose the election. Lack of pandering to various ethnic groups didn't lose the election.

Lack of money didn't lose the election. The choice of Paul Ryan as VP didn't lose the election. Mitt Romney didn't lose the election.

A corrupt Democrat Party and an equally corrupt Vintage Media lost this election.

Folks, whether you are Democrat or Republican, we are set on a course for fiscal collapse.

The math is simple, certain -- and not something with which you can negotiate.

President Obama's debt trajectory of $25+ trillion -- and the Democrats' refusal to pass a budget -- are not matters of conjecture. These points can't be debated.

America just reelected the most fiscally irresponsible government in world history.

No government in world history had ever run a trillion-dollar deficit until Barack Obama and the 110th Congress came along; he has since rung up four such deficits in a row.

No country can survive these levels of debt.

The postmodern Democrat Party and -- most importantly -- old media are responsible for the misery that is to come.

The progressives' plans for unraveling the Constitution have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. If you look at the agenda of the Fabian Socialists, virtually every tenet has come to pass thanks to FDR, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Bush and now Obama. Unchecked retirement benefits, rampant proliferation of public sector unions, the takeover of the educational system with progressive curricula, the moral decay of America's youth promoted by the likes of MTV, unchecked illegal immigration and Balkanization, "free" health care, "free" welfare and a myriad of other entitlements have set the country on a course for institutionalized dependency and -- I can assure you with mathematical certainty -- a fiscal calamity.

The only question now is: how much economic pain will people endure (Kroger and Darden Restaurants being the latest examples of Obama's "concern" for the lower-middle class) before they reject the doomed policies of the collectivist? Or will a true economic collapse, war, or other unforeseen events first conspire to shred what remains of the civil society?

We're either reliving the New Deal or the Weimar Republic, but I can't tell which.


Mandate.

Jim Geraghty:

This may strike some folks as rubbing salt in the wound...

Just did this quick math of Obama's margin in key states.

Virginia
107,339

Ohio
100,763

Florida
47,493

Colorado
111,094

Nevada
66,379

Total
433,068

So for less than 500,000 votes where it counted, Romney could have had 281 electoral votes this morning.

In other words, convincing 1/10th of one percent of the American population to vote for fiscal rectitude would have changed the course of history.

Mandate my ass. And if you think this razor-thin margin will make Barack Obama more willing to cooperate with the 49.99% of Americans who voted against him, well, I've got some land on the Whitewater River in Arkansas I'd like to sell you.



Larwyn's Linx: Election 2012 -- Obama gets his “revenge,” but conservatives must stand tall

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Election Central

Obama gets his “revenge,” but conservatives must stand tall: Malkin
Obama Re-election Brings No Change; Is There Any Hope?: IBD
Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption: RSM

Waiving Freedom: Sowell
More Government: Stossel
America Is Two Countries, Not on Speaking Terms: Barone

Our Deviant Society: Williams
Our Disenfranchised Troops Deserve Better: Malkin
Barack Obama the not-so-happy warrior: Politico

Obama’s Missing First Term: Coming Soon?: Kurtz
Connecting the Dots of the Obama Story: Chicago Backdrop: NoisyRm
Fla. Rep. Allen West loses re-election bid, lib racists gloat: Twitchy

Obama victory: four more years with no hope of change: Times
Obama Victory Comes With No Mandate: NatlJrnl
Why Romney's White House bid fell short: USA Today

Donnelly beats Mourdock in Indiana senate race: DC
Democrats keep control of U.S. Senate: USA Today
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, illegal immigration hardliner, reelected: LAT

Economy

Treasury Quietly Warns: 'Expect Debt Limit to Be Reached Near End of 2012': CNS
America Votes for the Status Quo: Bruce
Gold Soars, Futures Plunge As Free Reign For Bernanke Appears Assured: ZH

Scandal Central

Proof: Obama Refused to Call Benghazi 'Terror,' CBS Covered Up: Breitbart
Dems in Houston offer Obama-phones for Obama votes: WZ
Was Obama’s Red Cross Ad Designed to Dodge FEC Rules?: RS

Democrats Suppress Military Vote Yet Again: MB
Dems Shred GOP Voter Registrations, Obama Mural at Polling Venue: LifeNews
Election judges fired after alleged ballot box tampering: WGN-TV

GOP election inspectors tossed from 13 Philly precincts: AT
Obama Mural Looms Over Philly Poll: Beacon
More Dem playbook in action, shredding GOP registrations: RS

Climate & Energy

Are You Ready For A Flood Of ObamaCare Regulations Post-Election?: Cove
Biden: ‘President Clinton Bankrupted Chrysler’: CBS Cleveland

Media

Shameful Media Coverage of Benghazi Scandal and Cover-up: AIM
Four years later, college newspapers that once supported Obama abandon him: DC
Sooper Twitter Pre-Election Speech: Sooper

Krauthammer: Obama Won Small, He has no Mandate, He’s Going to Continue to Govern From the Left: Nice Deb
1980 Flashback, Mainstream Media Shocked By Polls vs. Votes: GayPat
As the College Goes, So Goes the Constitution: Claremont (2001)

A Dreadful Media Campaign: Bozell
Barack Obama, the Victorious Culture Warrior: First Things
The Sad Faces of Fox News on Election Night: AtlWire

World

Why the Ambassador Died: Mead
Russian attack sub detected near East Coast: Beacon
The Infiltration of the U.S. Government: AIM

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Backdoor in computer controls opens critical infrastructure to hackers: Ars Technica
Google updates Chrome browser with battery-saving feature: ComputerWorld
Extremely rare WWII German Enigma enciphering machine on sale with Bonhams: Bonhams

Cornucopia

A Salve for the Evening: Ace
Why You Should Care About Ohio Every Day Of The Year: BuzzFeed
The Customer Is Always Right: Don’t Blame The American People For Romney’s Loss: Hawkins

Image: Fox News Election Results

QOTD: "Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best." --Benjamin Franklin, September 17, 1787

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: What's at Stake

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Election Central

What's at Stake: Babbin
Why Many Blacks Will Not Support Obama’s Re-election Bid: RedAlert
Why 2012 Will Be a Watershed House Election: NatlJrnl

Dear Children, How quickly the time goes!: Dewey
Internals: lead in OH, IA and NH, tied in--PA and WI: Hot Air
Everything -- Except the Polls -- Points to a Romney Landslide: EIB

Obama vs. Romney – The Monday Night Football Interviews: HayRide
How to report voter fraud - Crash Course: FreeWork
Tuesday Is The Last Chance To Stop ObamaCare: IBD

Nation

Benghazi: Critical Information and Unanswered Questions: Gatestone
A President Without Shame: Feldman
Giuliani: Where the hell are the generators?: Hot Air

Wave goodbye to the Obama media: DC
Video: Sandy Victims Beg for Help as Obama Ignores Them: JWF
Senator Obama Voted against Aid for Hurricane Katrina Victims: AmJrnl

Public Podcast: Claudia Rosset with a Benghazi Update: Bruce
Lame Obama Campaign Ends with a Whimper: Reaganite
Clinton admits lack of enthusiasm for Obama: Hoosier

Economy

ObamaCare begins to have its predicted effect: Q&O
U.S. Debt Per American Under 18 = $218,676: CNS
If Oklahoma Wins Lawsuit, ObamaCare ‘Starts to Fall Apart’: Cato

Black Depression: Mead
'U.S. Per Person Debt Now 35 Percent Higher than that of Greece': WS
Obama's EPA set to crush coal country.: FreeWork

Scandal Central

GOP senators: Thousands of ballots unlikely to reach military voters in time: Hill
Echoes of ACORN from Liberal Campaign Company FieldWorks: RS
How many noncitizens are registered to vote?: LVRJ

Media

The Punditry About Tomorrow’s Vote Is Absolutely Off The Wall Today: HayRide
Proof: Obama Refused to Call Benghazi 'Terror,' CBS Covered Up: Breitbart
Get Obama out of the American saddle! : Fox Valley Initiative

An Election Eve Prayer: LoneCon
My Prediction for Tomorrow: Ace
Obama Appeases Muslims, Offends Catholics: Sooper

World

Medal of Honor Winner Blasts “Ditherer-in-Chief” Obama over Benghazigate: FPM
Obama Budget Would Slash Defense Spending Sharply: IBD
Obama Spikes Bin Laden Football Using Soviet-Style Propaganda: WZ

CBS Sat on Key Obama Benghazi Quote: Commentary
By ‘Research’, Furr Means ‘Whitewash’: RSM
Iranians burn US flags to mark embassy seizure: AFP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts?: Ars Technica
AMD unveils Opteron 6300, hopes to put servers in a Piledriver: Engadget
After Stuxnet: The new rules of cyberwar: ComputerWorld

Cornucopia

Solitude and the City: Alpha Game Plan
Rockin’ La Vota Loca: MOTUS
75 Mysteries of Science Gorgeously Illustrated: Fastcodesign

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QOTD: "If the polls are right, then Obama wins. Romney doesn't somehow squeak a hair's-breadth electoral win if the polls are right.

The only way Romney wins is if the toplines in the polls is wrong for whatever reason -- overweighting young and minority respondents, too few people responding to pollsters at all (now it's around 9-10%), and too many of the people responding to pollsters happy to offer the Socially Preferred answer.

The socially preferred answer is "I'm voting for Obama." After all, voting for Obama in 2008 didn't prove you weren't a racist. In 2008, Obama seemed like a reasonably good candidate (for those without any savvy or history or ideological underpinnings).

No, voting for the catastrophically disastrous Obama 2012 proves, beyond any doubt, that you're not a racist.

Even racists will hire a highly competent black man. But only the most anti-racist people in the world will re-hire the incompetent one, the one who seems to spend the bulk of his time golfing and chatting up Sir Paul McCartney." --Ace

Monday, November 05, 2012

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG: Valerie Jarrett reportedly in secret negotiations with Iran's Mullahs

The woman who told Obama he would bring the Olympics to Chicago and who blocked the Bin Laden raid on three separate occasions is said to be negotiating with the Mullahs (you know them, they're the suicidal mystics with nukes):

One of US president's senior advisors is secretly making efforts to establish line of communication with Iran

A Chicago lawyer is the key player behind the secret talks between the US and Iran. Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday. A close friend of Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett is assisting the US government communicate behind the scenes with the representatives of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei... Jarret, who was born in the Iranian city of Shiraz, is a senior advisor to US President Barack Obama.

Last month, The New York Times reported that the US government is engaged in secret talks with Iran aimed at establishing a direct line of communication once the US presidential elections are over... The US has tried to keep the secret contacts under wraps since some of the countries involved in the public negotiations, such as Russia, were excluded from them.

...Israel was originally surprised to learn of the talks, but state officials now reveal that they were going on for several months. The talks, they claim, were initiated and led by Jarret, and took place in Bahrain.

The US State Department estimated the economic pressure on Iran will peek in February or March, immidiately after the president-elect takes office, rendering the talks over Iran's nuclear program – in case they materialize – with potentially positive results.

Of course, Jarrett's timing is -- as you would expect -- impeccable:

Iranians burn US flags to mark embassy seizure


Thousands of Iranians chanting "Death to America" burnt US flags on Friday to mark the 33rd anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, just days before the American presidential election.

The demonstrators also chanted anti-British and anti-Israeli slogans, and burnt Israeli flags, in front of the site of the former embassy, dubbed the "den of spies" by the authorities who sponsor the annual commemoration, an AFP photographer reported.

This year's rally came just days before Tuesday's US presidential election in which Republican challenger Mitt Romney has made Iran's controversial nuclear programme a top foreign policy issue...

...After long denying the impact of the [sanctions], Iranian leaders are now beginning to acknowledge the extent of the damage and denouncing what they say is an "economic war" against the Islamic republic.

"Those who say that by compromising with the US, the economic situation will improve... (should know that) this is a big lie and deceit," Naqdi said... "We have declared a 10 kilo (22 pounds) in gold reward for researchers and historians, who have 10 years to prove that there is a more criminal country than America in the world... the US is the most hated among all nations."

And, heaven knows, Jarrett is eminently qualified to act as a global negotiator, what with her vast foreign policy experience. I'll ask again: what could possibly go wrong?


Third Anniversary of Ft. Hood "Workplace Violence"

Dan from New York:

Via Michelle Malkin:

Thirteen men and women, plus the unborn child of Pvt. Francheska Velez, died in the bloody terrorist rampage at Fort Hood three years ago today.

Never forget.

1. Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, Havre de Grace, Md.
2. Maj. Libardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, Va.
3. Cpt. John P. Gaffaney, 54, San Diego, Calif.
4. Cpt. Russell Seager, 41, Racine, Wis.
5. Staff Sgt. Justin Decrow, 32, Plymouth, Ind.
6. Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, Kiel, Wis.
7. Spc. Jason Hunt, 22, Tillman, Okla.
8. Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, Mountain City, Tenn.
9. PFC Aaron Nemelka, 19, West Jordan, Utah
10. PFC Michael Pearson, 22, Bolingbrook, Ill.
11. PFC Kham Xiong, 23, St. Paul, Minn.
12. Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, Chicago, Ill. and her unborn baby
13. Michael G. Cahill, Cameron, Texas [civilian]

The current appeaser-in-chief refuses to abandon the dhimmi definition of the attack as “workplace violence.” Need more reason to get out tomorrow and vote him out?

Listen to the families of those who were murdered.

America's national security hangs in the balance with this election. The debacle in Benghazi and President Obama's whispered promises of "flexibility" to Russia's President are only the most obvious signs of an impending disaster.


NEVADA VOTE-FRAUD SCANDAL: Union registering non-citizens to vote, dragging them to polls, and forcing them to vote Democrat

I thought vintage media and the Democrat Party (but I repeat myself) said that there was no proof of systemic vote fraud?

Perhaps they should inform Glenn Cook of the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Voter registration fraud is not a groundless conspiracy. It is not a hypothetical threat to election integrity.

In Nevada, a battleground state that could decide the presidency and control of the U.S. Senate, it is real.

Last week, I met with two immigrant noncitizens who are not eligible to vote, but who nonetheless are active registered voters for Tuesday's election. They said they were signed up by Culinary Local 226... [As] the election drew closer. Then the Culinary canvassers started seeking them out and ordering them to go vote.

One of the immigrants was visited at home by a Culinary representative and said the operative made threats of deportation if no ballot was cast.

...After a few days of early voting, the union knew the immigrants still hadn't voted. So union canvassers kept visiting.

One day, when a Culinary representative was told the immigrant wasn't a citizen and wouldn't vote, things got testy. The immigrant was "in so much trouble," the Culinary operative said, according to Brenda Moraine, a local immigrant advocate who was there... They're afraid of reprisals from the union, they're afraid of losing their jobs, and they're concerned that their signatures are on a government document [could lead to perjury charges]...

I verified their identities, their lack of citizenship and their status as active registered voters in Clark County... One of the immigrants validated my worst fears about Nevada's weak voter registration standards and voting safeguards...

"There are others," the immigrant said.

Other noncitizen Culinary workers are registered to vote?

"Yes."

...how many of these ineligible voters have done the Culinary's bidding and submitted ballots, whether out of ignorance or fear, and how many have the knowledge and courage to follow the law and stay away from the polls[?]...

In Nevada you never have to prove you're a citizen to register to vote or cast a ballot. Forget about showing government-issued photo identification at the polls, as several states now require. You don't have to show a photo ID at any point in the process. The immigrants I met could vote Tuesday just by showing a Culinary health insurance card and a power bill.

...I spoke with Yvanna Cancela, political director for the Culinary Local 226, on Friday about what these immigrants have experienced... Cancela asked me to identify the workers so the union might be able to learn which Culinary canvassers had made contact with them and who had registered them to vote. When I said I couldn't under the terms of my interview with the immigrants, she added that if they came forward, the union would take corrective action against those canvassers to make sure they understood the law...

Cancela did not know how many noncitizens are represented by the Culinary Local 226...

Earlier columns by Glenn Cook outlined how Nevada mails voter registration invitations to noncitizens, felons and the dead and how it facilitates vote fraud through ultra-lax identification requirements.

As Cook observes, Nevada's system makes it "exceedingly easy to cheat and gives political parties and politically active groups a powerful incentive to break the law without much risk of being caught."

Which perhaps explains Harry Reid's last-minute surge to beat Sharon Angle in 2010.

But don't worry: I'm sure Eric Holder will launch an investigation any minute now.


Images: Las Vegas Sun.


TWEET O' THE DAY: Expect a Romney bump at 5:30pm

Not the real Tim Tebow, but still:




Hat tip: Jennifer.

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Election Central

50,000 Feet Looking Down: Erickson
2012 Senate Balance of Power: Rasmussen
Ohio's Cuyahoga County under a microscope and by the numbers: Picket

Massive Decrease in Early and Absentee Voting—in Chicago: WS
Tweet/YouTube o' the Day, Wallace Makes Axelrod Squirm edition: Lane
Mitt Romney's Best Ad: Ace

Demoralized as Hell, the Final Gasp Pew Poll: DTG
Ohio or Boston?: RSM
Polls: Virtual ties in Michigan, Pennsylvania: Hot Air

Nation

Benghazi's Smoking Gun?: Bracken
Benghazi: CIA Operators Waited For Air Cover That Never Came: WZ
Benghazi: Who was Watching, Which Assets Were Available: Scoop

Someday: Doubleplusundead (Language Warning)
Marathon Mike: Driscoll
FEMA Taps Private Vendors to Meet Sandy Victim's Needs: Breitbart

Scandal Central

NBC Viewers Get First-Ever Reference to Fast and Furious: Breitbart
Armed Services Chairman Denounces Benghazi Cover-Up and Muzzling of Military Leaders: Foundry
Lights in lower Manhattan, misery in outer regions: MyWay

Climate & Energy

November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation: Exam
Interview: Author Elizabeth Nickson Discusses her new book, Eco-Fascists: Driscoll
A Dozen Obama-Subsidized Fisker Electric Cars Exploded in a Port Lot After Being Flooded by Sandy: Ace

Obama’s Katrina? America’s Northeast Suffers As President Puts Re-Election Ahead Of Relief: RS
Shades of Nixon: Cato
Looking back at ‘Earth In The Balance: The First Draft’: Driscoll

Media

Obama the Post-Partisan Uniter on Fox News: Fox News (2008)
Nate Silver is the Rodney Dangerfield of Polling: Daley Gator
Wisconsin State Journal flips for Romney: WaPo

Shock: Journalists Found Donating Heavily to Obama Campaign: Breitbart
Warning to mainstream media: CDN
Landslide Watch: GWP

Paul Krugman and Nate Silver agree: New York Times reporting is ‘lazy’ and ‘stupid’: DC
Obama campaign getting crowds totally excited about voting for Bill Clinton on Tuesday: Malkin
Tarnished Silver: assessing the new king of stats: MacLeans

URGENT!: Geraldo Rivera Needs Your Help: Ace
Barone: Romney Wins 315 EVs; Takes PA, WI, and OH: Ace
Final 2012 Election Predictions: Romney wins; 100% chance that Nate Silver’s career collapses into ruin.: HillBuzz

World

Mitt's unwitting campaigner in Florida: Hugo Chávez: AT
Surprise: Ahmadinejad backs Obama: Matzav
Code Red in Sderot: JDL-UK

DCCC Chair & Long Island Cong. Steve Israel Raised Campaign Cash From The MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: Lid
Axelrod: Evidence Obama Is Committed To The Military Is That He Meets The Coffins: Jawa
What kind of regime imprisons people for what they tweet? Oh, hang on…: Spectator

Clinton Calls Military ‘Racist, Sexist, and Homophobic’ — Will the President Disavow It?: NRO
GEN Tommy Franks, GEN Henry Shelton, 500 American Warriors Buy Full-Page Ad Endorsing Romney: Tatler
Why Americans of Mideast Descent Have Shifted to Romney: Phares

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Anonymous hacking spree hits PayPal, Symantec: CNet
Invert Your Phone’s Colors For Easier Night Reading: LifeHacker
Apple drops to 50.4% tablet market share in Q3, as Samsung grabs 18.4%, Amazon takes 9.0%: NextWeb

Cornucopia

Hilarious: Steven Crowder again uses own words of Biden, Reid to troll the Left: Twitchy
The Facebook entry that defines this election.: Moe Lane
Polling Conservative Bloggers on the 2012 Election: RWN

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QOTD: "Because I believe the talking heads will melt on the screen come Election Night because none of the results coming in will match the polls the Left relied on for their mental health in the last days of this campaign, I intend to watch MSNBC all day next Tuesday because I want to document in real time the implosion of the Ministry of Truth. This is the only time in my life that I will ever say this, so mark it in the history books, but I encourage all of you to watch MSNBC if you can on November 6th because decades from now you will want to describe to your progeny how unhinged the Left became on live tee-vee as the Obama Regime came to an abrupt end. This would be like you being able to tell someone in the future that you were there when Mount Vesuvius erupted and leveled Pompeii…and you had time-traveled back to sit in a lounge chair and sip chianti while you watched it all happen LIVE." --Kevin DuJan

Bonus QOTD: "President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.

More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.

The rush is a major sign of panic by environmentalists inside the Obama administration. If Obama wins, the EPA would have another four full years to implement their anti-fossil fuel agenda. But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo." --Conn Carroll

Sunday, November 04, 2012

CHART: Wind speed and Mean Sea Level Pressure, East Coast of the United States, Last Wednesday Night

Spotted at @RyanMaue's Twitter feed:


As an aside, President Bomber Jacket McPhoto-op doesn't appear in this photo from the Dissociative Press:


More than two million people in New York and New Jersey remain without power.

So let me be the first to say, "Heckuva job, Bammy!"