Friday, November 16, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: Taking DC By Strategy - A Battle Plan

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Nation

Taking DC By Strategy - A Battle Plan: JoshuaPundit
McCain Smashes Obama Back: You're Incompetent or Corrupt: Breitbart
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: The President Himself Intentionally LIED: Nice Deb

The Need to Explain: Sowell
To Win, Obama Sacrifices House, State Legislatures: Barone
Yes, Obama is still an amateur president: Fox

Petraeus Knew ‘Almost Immediately’ Benghazi a Terrorist Attack: Beacon
10 Myths About Defense Spending: CDN
‘Shirtless’ FBI Agent, A Hero And Conservative: S&L

Economy

Denny's: new 5% 'Obamacare surcharge', will cut employee hours: Cove
Jobless Numbers Highest In a Year -- Week After Election: GWP
Poverty and the welfare state in America: Blazing Cat Fur

State Exchanges - Is This Our Last Hope Against Obamacare?: FreeWork
Number of Food Stamp Recipients Equal to 75% of Obama Vote Total: CNS
Democrats Want To Go Off The Fiscal Cliff: CDN

BREAKING NEWS: The Economy Sucks: RSM
Obamanomics: U.S. Poverty Rate Spiking To Nearly 50 Million Americans: WZ
USPS Burning $250MM a Day, Posts Record $15.9B Loss: ZH

Scandal Central

Remember the MF Global debacle? Yeah, it was totally Jon Corzine's fault: WyBlog
Obama promised transparency, delivered secrecy: Exam
Jill Kelley Visited White House in September: Sentinel

Amazing Coincidence Relayed by CBS: CIA talking points for Rice never mentioned terrorism: Hot Air
E-mails to Jill Kelley, general raised stalking fears: USA Today
Tampa's social scene: Kelleys' lavish life hid troubles: USA Today

Climate & Energy

Obama: Fixing Economy Takes Precedence Over Hotcoldwetdry Legislation: Cove
Why Isn’t Sandy Obama’s Katrina?: Commentary
Government Motors Losing $49,000 on Every Chevy Volt: FPM

Media

NBC’s Brian Williams & Andrea Mitchell thrilled to think Obama’s presser imitated movie: Malkin
America is a Left-Wing Nation: Sense of Events
Gallup: 45% Want Equal Tax Hikes and Spending Cuts: Ace

Hey State Controlled Media - The Country is actually trending Republican!: CommonCts
Media Distressed To Learn That Democrats Are Quite Serious About Their Shameful Pandering on Entitlements: Ace
NBC covers for teachers union at Northwestern Marxist conference: LI

Karl Rove Cannot See the Elephant in the Living Room: Ace
Penitentiary President: RWN
Obama Admin Admits Info Released to Filmmakers Might Pose a ‘security and counterintelligence risk’: JW

World

Muslim Brotherhood Mobilizes for Hamas: FPM
Tel Aviv residents scramble for cover as rockets fired into country’s economic capital: Times of Israel
Kelly Ayotte: The Invisible Senator at the Benghazi event: DTG

Maintaining Clarity in the Debate over Gaza Tactics: NRO
Pictures Coming Out of Israel Are Chilling: Blaze
Silence in Sderot: GoV

2013: A Century of Progress: RSM
Busted! Hamas Tweets Out Bogus Photo of Wounded Child: GWP
Tennessee: Muslim Child Gives Classmates Toy Guns on Islamic Holiday: Fox Radio

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

TNS24 - a fake courier company website, used by online scammers: Sophos
Obama reportedly signs secretive cybersecurity policy directive: CNet
Only nine nations own national Twitter handles: Study: IndiaTimes

Cornucopia

Hamas Bumper Stickers on Twitter, started by @ThePeoplesCube: Cube
The Organic Ambigram: Smashing
A Little Secret About the Nazis: FreeRepublic

Image: USA Today
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QOTD: "The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president." --Prager Zeitungon

Thursday, November 15, 2012

TWEETS OF WAR: IDF Edition

Dude.





Oh, and would you raise your child in this neighborhood?



AHMED JABARI ON FACEBOOK: Major Change in Relationship Status!

Should I write a congratulatory note on his wall?


The official notice of the change in status was posted on Twitter by the IDF:


Good riddance.


FORWARD! HOPE! CHANGE! Illinois Youth Called a "Lost Generation" as Unemployment Reaches Record Levels

How much more misery will Illinois' beleaguered "middle class" tolerate before throwing out the Democrat bums who led them into this rat-hole?

Quite a bit more, if history's any guide.

The 2012 Illinois legislative drive to increase the state’s minimum wage



Illinois is tied with Connecticut and Nevada having the fourth highest minimum wage in the country at $8.25 an hour. Illinois’ rate is a dollar higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 and the highest in the Midwest... most states adhere to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

In short, each time the Democrat masterminds try to engineer society, they fail. Miserably.

The Great Recession and the post-recession years have hurt all Americans, but one group particularly hit hard has been teens. From 2002 through 2007, before the recession, an average of 37.08 percent of Illinois teens aged 16 to 19 were employed. The unemployment rate averaged 16.2 percent, with a low in 2006 of 11.5 percent.


...The average unemployment rate for those 16 to 19 years old increased by a stunning 8.15 percentage points, to a recession and post-recession average of 24.35 percent. The unemployment rate more than doubled from 2006-11. The unemployment rate peaked in 2010 at 26.9 percent, a 15.4 percentage-point increase from its low of 11.5 percent in 2006. And as the job market worsened, the average hours teens worked per week fell from a pre-recession average of 8.3 to a recession and post-recession average of 6.65, a 25 percent drop...

"For three decades, we've sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning. And the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan." --Ronald Reagan


Americans still free to use money as weapon against Progressives

...at least, so far.

FROM: Totally Evil and Greedy Tea Party Activist
TO: Comrade Red Square posing as Capitalist Running Dog
SUBJECT: The Campaign to Defund and Defeat Democrats

Don't do business with anyone who supported Obama!

AMERICANS CAN NOW DETERMINE WHERE TO SHOP AND SPEND THEIR MONEY

Election Cycle political donations, as reported by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Shopping

  • Price Club/Costco donated $225K, 99% went to Democrats
  • Rite Aid donated $517K, 60% went to Democrats
  • Magla Products (Stanley tools, Mr. Clean) donated $22K, 100% went to Democrats
  • Warnaco (undergarments) donated $55K, 73% went to Democrats
  • Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia donated $153K, 99% went to Democrats
  • Estee Lauder donated $448K, 95% went to Democrats
  • Guess, Inc. Donated $145K, 98% went to Democrats
  • Calvin Klein donated $78K, 100% went to Democrats
  • Liz Claiborne, Inc. Donated $34K, 97% went to Democrats
  • Levi Straus donated $26K, 97% went to Democrats
  • Olan Mills donated $175K, 99% went to Democrats
  • WalMart donated $467K, 97% went to Republicans
  • K-Mart donated $524K, 86% went to Republicans
  • Home Depot donated $298K, 89% went to Republicans
  • Target donated $226K, 70% went to Republicans
  • Circuit City Stores donated $261K, 95% went to Republicans
  • 3M Co. Donated $281K, 87% went to Republicans
  • Hallmark Cards donated $319K, 92% went to Republicans
  • Amway donated $391K, 100% Republicans
  • Kohler Co. (plumbing fixtures) donated $283K, 100% Republicans
  • B.F. Goodrich (tires) donated $215K, 97% went to Republicans
  • Proctor & Gamble donated $243K, 79% went to Republicans

Spirits


  • Southern Wine & Spirits donated $213K, 73% went to Democrats
  • Joseph E. Seagrams & Sons (incl. Beverage Business and considerable media interests) donated $2M+, 67% went to Democrats
  • Gallo Winery donated $337K, 95% went to Democrats
  • Coors & Budweiser donated $174K, 92% went to Republicans
  • Brown-Forman Corp. (Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Bushmills, Korbel Wines, Lenox China , Dansk and Gorham Silver) donated $644 K -- 80% went to Republicans

Hungry?


  • Sonic Corporation donated $83K, 98% went to Democrats
  • Triarc Companies (Arby's, T.J. Cinnamon's, Pasta Connections) donated $112K, 96% went to Democrats
  • Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (chicken) donated $366K, 100% went to Republicans
  • Outback Steakhouse donated $641K, 95% went to Republicans
  • Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) donated $133K, 87% went to Republicans
  • Brinker International (Maggiano's, Brinker Cafe, Chili's, On the Border, Macaroni Grill, Crazymel's, Corner Baker, EatZis) donated $242K, 83% went to Republicans
  • Waffle House donated $279K, 100% went to Republicans
  • McDonald's Corp. Donated $197K, 86% went to Republicans
  • Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Smokey Bones, Bahama Breeze) donated $121K, 89% went to Republicans
  • Heinz Republicans $64,000 Democrats $21,300! John Kerry's wife's company!!!

Traveling and/or dining


  • Hyatt Corporation donated $187K of which 80% went to Democrats
  • Marriott International $323K, 81% went to Republicans
  • Holiday Inns donated $38K, 71% went to Republicans

END OF TRANSMISSION

This email once again proves that money is the root of all evil.

Fortunately for us, the businesses marked in blue prove Comrade Lenin's words, "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

They will be hung last.


TERRORISTS OR WAR-CRIMINALS: Which best describes Hamas?

But, to be sure, both apply.

In recent days and weeks, Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in Gaza have made normal life impossible for over one million Israelis. No government would tolerate a situation where nearly a fifth of its people live under a constant barrage of rockets and missile fire, and Israel will not tolerate this situation.


This is why my government has instructed the Israeli Defense Forces to conduct surgical strikes against the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza. And this is why Israel will continue to take whatever action is necessary to defend our people.

I want to remind you that seven years ago, Israel withdrew from every square inch of Gaza. Now Hamas, they took over the areas we vacated. What did it do? Rather than build a better future for the residents of Gaza, the Hamas leadership, backed by Iran, turned Gaza into a terrorist stronghold.

They fired thousand of rockets at our cities, at our towns, at our civilians, at our children. They’ve smuggled thousands of rockets and missiles into Gaza, and they deliberately place these rockets and missiles in civilian areas: in homes, in schools, near hospitals. This year alone, the fired over one thousand rockets and missiles at Israel, included close to 200 rockets in the last 24 hours.

Hamas is committing -- and has committed for years -- war crimes. War crimes by the thousands.

In fact, its actions over the last few weeks represent a "double war-crime":

Targeting civilians? Check.

Using human shields? Check.

If it were up to me, I'd bomb Gaza into the Stone Age. Which, of course, would be an improvement over a Hamas-led government.


Larwyn's Linx: Petraeus and the Failure of American Intelligence

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Nation

Petraeus and the Failure of American Intelligence: Spengler
Obama and Petraeus: Conspiracy Theory--or Occam's Razor?: BlackFive
Bogus Benghazi Timeline Gets Even More Confusing: Malkin

Why Did Cantor Protect Obama?: AIM
Obama Gears Up to Crack Down on Being White: MB
HHS Head Sebelius Subpoenaed Over Lobbying for Obamacare: RtPlanet

Oh, we forgot to tell you …: Hanson
Communist Teachers Openly Plan Destruction of USA: MB
Newt Gingrich nominated for Speaker of the House: Scoop

Economy

Obama Tax Hikes On Rich Would Shrink Economy, Jobs: IBD
Republicans Have Already Lost Fight on Fiscal Cliff: RWN
Surprise: Obama 'balance' means more spending, higher taxes: Exam

Price gouging? Chris Christie already talking about raising taxes: WyBlog
Obama's 'mandate' math to raise taxes doesn’t add up: RedAlert
For House GOP, millionaire tax isn’t off the table: Politico

Scandal Central

Senators call for special Libya probe, Petraeus agrees to testify: Fox
Busted: ACORN Successor Funneled Money Against West: ClashDaily
FL sends auditors to investigate West vote fraud: Fox

Gee, sorry you died of ovarian cancer--but here's your free birth control: WF
Obama Named Holly Petraeus to $187,605-Per-Year Job: CNS
House GOP Finds Corzine Guilty Of MF Global Collapse; Dems Refuse To Endorse Findings: ZH

Climate & Energy

The Full Script for Matt Damon’s UAE-Funded Anti-Fracking Film: Foundry

Media

The Numbers Game: Sultan Knish
AP's Final Report on October Deficit Equates Bush and Obama Deficits, Blames Wars: Blumer
Uh oh. Nancy Pelosi’s Offended by Age Question: CDN

GOP needs to leave Bush era behind including and especially Karl Rove: Scoop
Washington Post Reboots, Names New Executive Editor: AIM
Democrat-ruled Oakland, California, targets news crews: Bookworm

Who will explain to this child why her family was destroyed?: Matzav
Please help the New York Times make up its mind: Matzav
Graham to Obama: You Failed as Commander in Chief Before, During, and After Benghazi: Tatler

World

IDF Hitting Terror Sites in Gaza: Matzav
Obama: I Made Susan Rice Talk to the American People About Benghazi: WS
Best. Analysis. Of. French. Politics. EVER.: Q&O

Israel Bombarded by Rockets, Human Rights Watch Nowhere in Sight: Gatestone
Timeline of Gaza-Israel Cross-Border Violence: CAMERA
We’d Get a Fairer Election in Zimbabwe: GoV

Lockdown in Sderot: GoV
Southern Israel under fire, air force strikes terrorist targets in Gaza: Times of Israel
Israeli police say 3 Israelis killed in Gaza rocket attack on house in south: Fox

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Five-Hour Energy Linked to Heart Attacks, 'Spontaneous Abortion': AtlWire
Booze calories nearly equal soda's for US adults: AP
Scores isolated after new Ebola outbreak in Uganda: AP

Cornucopia

BENGHAZI 1 Million Twitter Bomb White House Press: FreeWork
Getting Ready for the Big Dance: MOTUS
Our blog friends in Israel: LI

Image: Muqata Blog
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BENGHAZI 1 Million Twitter Bomb White House Press

QOTD: "After four years of strategic withdrawal, and the prospect of another four with the new “flexibility” that President Obama promised then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev over a mike accidentally left open last March, the world’s secondary powers are left to their own devices. Every one of them will play a double game.

• Israel will make its own decision as to whether to attack Iran’s nuclear capacity, on the strength of military criteria that outsiders are poorly prepared to judge;
• Russia will threaten to arm Iran with its best surface-to-air missiles while negotiating with Israel;
• China will maintain its alliance with Pakistan but deal ruthlessly with Pakistani-supported Muslim separatists in Xinjiang, the so-called East Turkistan;
• Turkey will threaten Iran over its intervention with Syria while bartering billions of dollars in gold to the Islamic Republic each month to help it beat the boycott;
• Saudi Arabia will continue to fund Turkey as a bulwark against Iran while sabotaging Turkey’s efforts to put the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Syria; and
• Germany will affirm its commitments to Europe and North Atlantic Treaty Organization while quietly diversifying its energy sources towards Russia.

The screens are flickering out. Our intelligence services will not know what is happening, because no-one will perceive a need to tell them. There will be no penalty for ignoring the United States. We are flying blind, because we did not wish to see." --Spengler

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

CARTOON O' THE DAY: One's Born Every Minute

Uncle Ben emails us the latest from the finest political cartoonist of the modern era:



Related: "Fiscal cliff? We're headed for collapse, schmucks!"


FASCINATING: How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline

Deep Sea News has some fascinating observations about the ancient Floridian coastline:

Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles apart. Both counties have a population of 16,000 of which around 60% are African American... These two counties share another unique feature. Amidst a blanket of Republican red both Hale and Bamberg voted primarily Democratic in the 2000, 2004, and again in the 2008 presidential elections. Indeed, Hale and Bamberg belong to a belt of counties cutting through the deep south–Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina–that have voted over 50% Democratic in recent presidential elections. Why? A 100 million year old coastline.


During the Cretaceous, 139-65 million years ago, shallow seas covered much of the southern United States. These tropical waters were productive–giving rise to tiny marine plankton with carbonate skeletons which overtime accumulated into massive chalk formations. The chalk, both alkaline and porous, lead to fertile and well-drained soils in a band, mirroring that ancient coastline and stretching across the now much drier South. This arc of rich and dark soils in Alabama has long been known as the Black Belt. But many, including Booker T. Washington, coopted the term to refer to the entire Southern band. Washington wrote in his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery, “The term was first used to designate a part of the country which was distinguished by the color of the soil. The part of the country possessing this thick, dark, and naturally rich soil...”


...The legacy of ancient coastlines, chalk, soil, cotton, and slavery can still be seen today. African Americans make up over 50%, in some cases over 85%, of the population in Black Belt counties. As expected this has and continues to deeply influence the culture of the Black Belt. J. Sullivan Gibson writing in 1941 on the geology of the Black Belt noted, “The long-conceded regional identity of the Black Belts roots no more deeply its physical fundament of rolling prairie soil than in its cultural, social, and economic individuality.” And so this plays out in politics...

None of this explains why Blacks vote Democrat in great numbers. The Republican Party was created to combat slavery. Great men from Lincoln, to Booker T. Washington, to Martin Luther King, Jr. were all Republicans.

And the Ku Klux Klan was well-known throughout the 20th century as "the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party."

In more modern times, Democrats William Fulbright (Bill Clinton's mentor), Robert Byrd and Al Gore, Sr. were well-known racists and segregationists.

And, as we speak, conservative hero Allen West is fighting widespread vote fraud by would-be segregationists in the Democrat Party who have attempted to derail his reelection.

You see, drones, the freedom tent is the biggest tent of all. It embraces all races, religions, creeds and colors. It is the antithesis of the Democrat-Progressive tent that divides Americans by gender, age, income, race, religion and ethnicity for purposes of pandering and demonization.

We conservatives are on the side of liberty -- for all Americans. And that, my friends, is something you'll never hear a Democrat say.


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A MILLION ISRAELIS HAVE 15 SECONDS TO FIND SHELTER: Any other country would have turned Gaza into the Bonneville Salt Flats

If Hillary Clinton weren't ducking the growing Benghazi scandal enjoying "wine-tastings" in Australia, I'd ask her, Hey, Hill, how's that Arab Spring thingamabob workin' out?"

"If an alarm is sounded, people in southern Israel—1 million people—have 15 seconds to find shelter. I don’t know if any of your governments will accept this reality. I cannot accept this." -- PM Netanyahu



Some simple facts about the ongoing Blitzkrieg from Gaza:

  • +120 rockets have been fired at Israel this week.
  • +760 rockets have been fired at Israel in 2012.
  • +2500 rockets have been fired at Israel since 2009.
  • Terrorists hold more than 10,000 rockets in Gaza.
  • One million Israelis, 14% of the population, are under the threat of rocket fire.
    • That is equivalent to 44 million U.S. citizens under the threat of rocket fire.
  • Gaza terrorists targeted an IDF jeep this week, injuring four soldiers. (Video)
  • Hamas rules the Gaza strip and is responsible for all that occurs in Gaza and all that is launched form there.
  • Hamas, supported by Iran, has wielded authority over the Gaza Strip since 2007.

  • No other state would accept a similar reality.
  • The targets of the Israeli operation are all military.
  • Hamas and the other terrorist organizations hide among the civilian population of Gaza. They also deliberately direct their fire at the civilian population of Israel. These acts constitute a double war crime.
  • Israel will make every effort to prevent harm to the civilian population of Gaza, and regrets any injury to civilians.
  • The border crossings from Israel to the Gaza Strip remain open, allowing for the routine passage of goods and humanitarian aid.
  • The international community must act to stop the attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The message to Hamas should be clear: stop the attacks on Israel.
  • Time and again, Israel has warned that it would not tolerate these attacks.

Watch the videos. It's like the Battle of Britain being reenacted in Israel.

If I were commanding the IDF, my calculus would be very simple: we will level block by block, town by town, city by city, until the attacks stop.

No other country on Earth would tolerate a million citizens fleeing for bomb shelters dozens of times per day.

It's time to draw a line in the sand. And if that line happens to be as wide as Gaza, so be it.


WHY TRY TO TEACH LIBS CONCEPTS THEY'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND? Instead, stop working, relax, and play "Stash-o-Cash", the Obama Slot Machine!

Class warfare. The progressive income tax. Single-payer health care. All of these progressive policies come straight out of the Communist Manifesto and each is destined to end up just as successfully as their predecessors in the Soviet Union, Cuba and North Korea.

But, hey: why try to teach a progressive something he, she or it will never comprehend? Instead, stop working, relax, and play "Stash-o-Cash" - the Obama slot machine!

...in celebration of Barack Hussein Obama's re-selection as President of the United States, I present "Stash-"O"-Cash", an entertaining 3-reel slot machine. If you've had your work hours cut, lost your job, been forced into early retirement, or become house-bound because of rising living expenses, why not take a break and watch some "accomplishments" of Obama's first presidential term fly by as you try to match symbols on the pay line? Play long enough and you may even see the elusive "Stash-O-Cash Jackpot!" or even the equally-elusive "SUPER 'Blame Bush' MEGA-JACKPOT!".


And, don't worry about getting a free payoff or keeping track of your winnings: The Government will take care of that for you!

Hey, since we're headed for fiscal collapse anyhow, why not have fun along the way?


Larwyn's Linx: Krauthammer: White House blackmailed Petraeus for false testimony on Benghazi

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Nation

Krauthammer: White House blackmailed Petraeus for false testimony: NB
Levin To House GOP: ‘Subpoena Petraeus, Subpoena Hillary Clinton’: CNS
Kelley’s financial strife adds clues to FBI email investigation: DefTech

Can We Replace John Boehner With Paul Ryan?: RS
"You Have Two Years to Live" : Loudon
Nice Losers: Sowell

The Frogman's Prophecies: Dissident Frogman
Yep: Eric Holder to stay on as Obama’s attorney general: Hot Air
Petraeus Love Pentagon has Evil Twin Story Now: NakedDC

Economy

The Obamacare Nightmare Comes True: Rush
Gee, why'd they wait 'til after 11/6 to mail these letters?: Malkin
Look Who's Refusing To Compromise To Avoid The Fiscal Cliff: IBD

Obama Presides Over a $120 Billion Deficit in October: Virtuous
US could be on path to fifth straight $1 trillion deficit: Fox
Parasitic Unions Kill Their Hosts (or, in this case, Hostess): RS

Scandal Central

Levin: Fiscal cliff? We’re facing a COLLAPSE: Scoop
Apparently, Everybody Involved in the Petraeus Scandal Is a Swinging Sex Freak: RSM
Who's doing who in the Obama team's sex scandals: A handy guide: Malcolm

The GOP Says It Can Not Legally Help Stop Vote Fraud, No Joke: NoisyRm
Voter Identification Laws Are Trouble For Democrats: IBD
Election Fraud in Philadelphia (Audio): TUOwl2009

Climate & Energy

CEI Sues To Force Release of Carbon Tax Emails: CEI
The Third Bucket of Fiscal Cliff Negotiations: FreeEnt

Media

Barack Obama tacitly admits Eric Holder is as guilty as sin about Operation Fast & Furious…: RS
Has the Petraeus Affair exposed a potentially darker scandal?: TAB
GOP Must Close Media Gap To Close Youth, Minority Gap: IBD

Media: Republicans Are So Stupid They Thought They Could Win...: Ace
Fighting Words: Zilla
Did Freedom Win?: Stossel

Amusing Bunni Needs Our Help: Camp o' the Saints
If You Were Saying to Yourself, ‘This Petraeus Scandal Isn’t Crazy Enough …’: RSM
Scott Walker for Speaker of the House: AmSpec

World

Instead of Benghazi Hearings, Hillary Clinton Heads For Wine Tasting in Australia: JWF
"The Sphinx and Pyramids Must be Destroyed": Gatestone
Saudi tells U.N. Iran trespassing on its territory: report: Reuters

Valerie Jarrett’s Radical Roots: FPM
EXPOSÉ: Qatar’s takeover of Europe: INN
Disaster Ignorance: Williams

OH, GOOD GRIEF: Susan Rice Secretary Of State, John Kerry At Defense?: IBD
Camp Bastion Families Want Answers About Afghanistan: Malkin
Jay Carney: White House wasn’t informed about the Petraeus mess until the day after the election: Malkin

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

The Wrong Man For The Job, Microsoft In The Aftermath of Steven Sinofsky’s Departure: TechCrunch
Microsoft User CAL Changes: What it means for you: SHI
Adobe investigates alleged customer data breach: CompWorld

Cornucopia

Sticky Post: Happy Birthday, BigFurHat!: iOTW
The Wizard of Oz in One Sentence: PS Mag
White House website deluged with secession petitions from 20 states: DC

Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: National Papa John's Appreciation Day - Friday, Nov. 16th

QOTD: "Jill Kelley, 37, is not from Tampa Bay. She grew up in Pennsylvania with her four siblings. She is first generation American. Her parents moved to the U.S. from Lebanon in the 1970s.

She started to volunteer at MacDill after Kelley “organized galas and fashion shows benefiting the American Red Cross and the Tampa Museum of Art,” according to the Tampa paper... The Kelley family soon befriended Petraeus and his wife as well as other leading members of the military brass who frequently visited CentCom headquarters. Those connections combined with her family’s financial problems would have motivated the FBI to look deeper into Kelley’s past.

“I can’t think of a better target for a foreign intelligence source than a woman who is connected to America’s top military leaders and who is also struggling financially,” said a Pentagon security official who asked not to be named." --Mike Hoffman

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

CHART: The Democrat-Lite Party's Amnesty Delusion

The Democrat-Lite Party is what I call the RINO establishment. With data from Pew Research (hat tip: Free Republic), let's examine the historic trend line of Hispanic support for Democrats and Republicans.


Please note: whether Republicans support amnesty or not, the share of the Latino vote captured by Republican candidates stays in the same narrow band.

Because, as has been explained over and over and over again, Hispanic support for Democrats has nothing to do with "amnesty".

Hey, Boehner: you listening?


HEY, BOEHNER AND KRISTOL: Yes, by all means, let's go back to the Clinton-era tax rates!

I want to address the rocket scientist RINOs typified by House Speaker John Boehner and commentator William Kristol, both of whom have expressed a willingness to "compromise" with Democrats and raise taxes on "millionaires". And by "millionaires", they of course mean any individual making over $200,000 and any family making over $250,000. And, as everyone knows, a substantial number of these folks are small business owners, who account for roughly half of all the jobs created by small business.

I would like to unleash a rant on these two, but first, please read this item spotted while surfing the web.

I’m a California Republican (I know, masochistic, right?) and the local talk radio is full of small business owners calling in and discussing their plans.

One man, owner of a trucking firm in Ventura — 75 employees, $6 million payroll — discussed how even as times have been tough over the last few years, he’s made it a point to make his payroll, even dipping into his own savings.

He was walking by the breakroom and heard some of his employees snickering about the election and they had wanted Obama to stay President to make sure the rich pay. He then thought “what am I putting myself at risk?" He then went and canceled his order for six new trucks (approximately $600,000 worth of an order) and is planning to layoff 20 or more people.

What Mr. Kristol and Mr. Boehner don't understand -- aside from basic arithemetic, logic, history and reason -- is that small business doesn't need to tighten its belt. Government does.

But why, asks the President, can't we go back to Clinton-era tax rates? That seems reasonable, right?

Oh, sure. We can go back to Clinton-era tax rates.

Just as soon as we go back to Clinton-era housing prices.

And Clinton-era college tuition prices.

And Clinton-era health insurance premiums.

And Clinton-era state, local and property taxes.

You starting to get the picture, geniuses? Democrats are never satisfied! Never! In good times and bad, government grows like an enormous, metastasizing tumor, eroding our liberty and eating away at our private property rights.

Democrats tamper with housing prices (see: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) and they destroy the housing industry. They back student loans, making it easy for colleges to raise tuition prices far faster than the rate of inflation. They nationalize health care for the elderly, indigent (and now, everyone) and health care prices skyrocket.

Democrats grow the government. That's what they do.

In other words, Democrats constantly try to evade the very Constitution they took an oath to uphold! They incessantly evade the very document that was explicitly designed to check their own corrupting ambitions!

And accomplices like Boehner and Kristol don't have the common sense to even figure out that they are being played. In fact, guys like this aren't real Republicans. They are Democrats Lite. They're a slightly watered down version of the Marxist Left; they are so addicted to the concentration of power in Washington that they can't even see the diminishing circle of liberty -- a veritable noose -- tightening around our collective necks.

Boehner, Kristol, Rove, and the rest of these Democrats Lite must be ridiculed at every turn. They must be mocked. They need to be shunned. And they need to be cast out from the real Republican Party.

They're not statesmen, they're not thoughtful, and -- worst of all -- they're not leaders. They are useless and they need to be ignored.


FOOD FOR THOUGHT: The Petraeus-Broadwell-Kelley Timeline

For your consideration, I've assembled an approximate timeline of the various skulduggery involving Petraeus, Broadwell and Kelley.

11/15/11 Affair between Petraeus and Broadwell said to begin
01/24/12 "All In", Broadwell's biography of Petraeus, released
05/15/12 Jill Kelley begins receiving threatening emails from Broadwell
07/04/12 Affair between Petraeus and Broadwell said to end
08/15/12 A.G. Holder notified of affair between Petraeus and Broadwell
09/11/12 Ambassador Stevens, three other Americans killed in Benghazi
09/14/12 Petraeus testifies under oath that killings started as protest over video
10/26/12 Broadwell reveals secret CIA prison in Benghazi during Denver speech
10/27/12 Republicans including Eric Cantor informed of Petraeus affair
11/07/12 White House claims it was first notified of Petraeus affair
11/11/12 Jill Kelley hires law firm

The timeline is intriguing.

Investors Business Daily muses that the administration may have used their discovery of the Petraeus affair as leverage for false testimony before Congress.

What say you, dear reader?



HARD TO KEEP UP WITH THE SCANDALS: EPA said to have broken law by using secret email accounts to hide radical agenda

At the rate this administration is going, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Kim Kardashian is involved in a secret love triangle with Jay Carney and David Axelrod.

I refer, of course, to the daily stream of scandals involving the Obama administration and its many tentacles. The latest shoe to drop, outside of the Benghazi-related sex scandals, is the unsurprising report that the EPA's top dogs have been routinely breaking the law for years.

The name Richard Windsor may sound innocuous, but it is allegedly one of the secret “alias” email accounts used by Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

...In his book [“The Liberal War on on Transparency", author Chris] Horner revealed the existence of “alias” email accounts used by EPA administrators. The first such transparency dodge, he writes, came from Carol Browner, former director of the Obama White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy and Bill Clinton’s EPA administrator.

“You remember Ms. Browner, the lady who suddenly ordered her computer hard drive reformatted and backup tapes erased, hours after a federal court issued a ‘preserve’ order … that her lawyers at the Clinton Justice Department insisted they hadn’t yet told her about?... The one who said it’s all good because she didn’t use her computer for email anyway? That one.”

Horner said two former “fairly senior” EPA officials contacted him while he was researching his book, and gave him the name of one of the email alias names used by EPA Chief Jackson... “Richard Windsor” was just “[o]ne of the alternate email addresses she used...”

...“These alias accounts, from their origin and use under Browner to their use by Browner’s successor, are now the subject of a lawsuit..." [because] all government employees are required by federal law to use official email accounts to conduct government business...

Jackson, of course, is a hard left "eco-warrior" who has pushed the EPA to enact the most radical, anti-business regulations in American history.

And Horner asserts that other top officials are also using private email accounts to avoid Freedom of Information requests.

That Jackson would illegally hide her agenda from public scrutiny is precisely what we've come to expect from "the most transparent administration ever".



Larwyn's Linx: How Boehner Can Use Alinsky's Tactics on Obama

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Nation

How Boehner Can Use Alinsky's Tactics on Obama: Hayward
Cover-Up: Petraeus Affair Known About Since Summer: WS
Romney Got ZERO Votes in 59 Philadelphia Voting Divisions! Zero!: NB

Are You Effing Kidding Me With This Right Now?: Ace
Romney lost because the GOP behaved like undisciplined clowns: RWN
Finally, the 2016 presidential race gets started: IBD

Assimilation, not amnesty: Malkin
Why Hispanics Don’t Vote for Republicans: Mac Donald
In Ohio, the GOP puzzles over missing white voters: Exam

Democrats Better Start Soul Searching: Commentary
Paul Ryan supporters begin online campaign to oust Boehner: Twitchy
The FBI has some explaining to do: ForPol

Economy

Triumph of the Moochers?: Ace
I Change Lives, You Don't: Captain Capitalism
Out of business avalanche: Small biz owners give up fight: Twitchy

Bummer: Feds May Not Have ObamaCare Operational on Time: Cato
Misdiagnosing the Fiscal Cliff: Mish
Walter Williams on the Morality of Free Markets: Hayek

Scandal Central

Report: FBI Suppressed Petraeus Scandal to Protect Obama: FoxNation
L'affaire Petraeus: second woman identified, and Gmail metadata outed Broadwell and Petraeus: Boing Boing
CIA denies claim from Petraeus’ girlfriend that Benghazi annex held Libyan prisoners: DC

Obama and Terror: A Four-Year Scandal: Mukasey
Obama assault on religious liberty rolls on: Pundette
BREAKING: FBI Is Busting into Paula Broadwell’s Home!: GWP

Climate & Energy

The ‘Regulatory Cliff’: NRO
LIPA exec tells customers who have no power to download forms on the Internet: Post
Chevy Volts Fail to Electrify Customers: CAGW

Media

Rebranding the Democrats: AT
The Credulous Press: Shoestring Millionaire
Allen West: Democrats complain about Republican diversity but then viciously attack minorities in GOP: Scoop

Fun With Numbers: JOM
Layers and Layers of Fact-Checkers: Transterrestrial
Mitt Romney Lost, Not Conservatism: Hawkins

World

Fox News source: Yes, the CIA was holding prisoners at the Benghazi annex: Hot Air
Why Did Al-Qaeda Target Ambassador Stevens?: PJM
Friend: Petraeus began affair after taking CIA job: Philly

U.S. to Legitimize Horrific U.N. Human Rights Council for Three More Years: Bayefsky
Why did Paula Broadwell think the CIA had taken prisoners in Benghazi?: WaPo
Russia Helpfully Reminds Obama of His Missile Defense Promise: JWF

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Aakash 2 Android tablet materializes, costs around $21 for Indian students: Engadget
Flu During Pregnancy Linked to Autism, Says Survey: ABC
Microsoft Just Dismissed the Mastermind Behind Windows 8: AtlWire

Cornucopia

Holocaust survivor unites with family of benefactor: Globe
Exclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder : Gizmodo
“We let Obama get away with…”: iOTW

Image: Foreign Policy
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Prosecutors Gone Wild, by Michael Volpe

QOTD: "...let’s hope the Speaker and the rest of the Republican negotiators are smart enough to propose revenue increases that will hurt liberals the most. Start by taxing the ever-loving crap out of Hollywood. I’ve suggested this before, and the esteemed Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, was on the same wavelength last August when he suggested bringing back the 20 percent excise tax on motion picture gross revenue from the 1950s.

“The movie excise tax was imposed in response to the high deficits after World War Two,” Reynolds recalled. ”Deficits are high again, and there’s already historical precedent. Of course, to keep up with technology, the tax should now apply to DVDs, downloadable movies, pay-per-view and the like. But in these financially perilous times, why should movie stars and studio moguls, with their yachts, swimming pools and private jets, not at least shoulder the burden they carried back in Harry Truman’s day – when, to be honest, movies were better anyway.”

As Reynolds noted, one side effect of such proposals is that it causes far-Left Hollywood types to suddenly begin babbling about the depressing effects of high tax rates upon economic growth, as though they had been suddenly possessed by the ghost of Milton Friedman. That’s fun even if the tax proposals end up getting defeated. Especially now that we have YouTube to disseminate and immortalize their panicked bursts of “trickle-down economic” wisdom." --John Hayward

Monday, November 12, 2012

MUST READ: We Have Lost

Spotted at Denny's Place, a guest post by Casey:

Dear Friends:

The most productive people, the small business owners, the entrepreneurs and the honest wage earners of America are so demoralized right now I am not sure we will recover as a country. We have lost the most important election of our lifetime and did so after giving our best effort, spent the most money ever and working the hardest we have ever worked. The very people that America needs the most to generate a real recovery now have the least motivation to do so and worse, lack the confidence necessary to even justify the effort.

We opposed a foe who was so obviously incompetent, corrupt and inept in leadership we really expected a landslide victory and a redeeming mandate to return the nation to conservative values. Instead what we got was a harsh slap in the face by an American public telling us it is not like us and it no longer believes in what we believe in.

As a country we are hopelessly divided by a malignant polarization approaching that which divided us prior to the Civil War. Our side will not march in the streets, but the rebellion, protests and resistance will be just as determined -- though more subtle. The American can-do spirit, our optimism, our traditional dependence on our own ingenuity is now mere kindling on the advancing flame of an insidious yet steadily advancing socialism.

Those of us who create real jobs, invest our capital, our fortunes and take the risks to build America, feel betrayed. The fundamentals of honest effort and hard work rendering the rewards associated with capitalism seem now like a cruel joke. We are now a targeted enemy not to be governed but coerced into submission by a lazy, corrupt, vindictive, arrogant government that is out for revenge, redistribution -- and to add a final insult -- one we believe is too morally bankrupt to lead.

The usual safeguards for a democracy found in a vibrant, independent press have lost any semblance of objectivity and instead have joined a side. What used to be principled, independent reporters have morphed into dishonest pundits spewing a disgustingly relentless partisan bile that neither informs nor educates. They are shallowly manipulated by the political marketers to the point that their words lack meaning. The "fourth branch" of government has become nothing more than an empty cathode ray irradiating a mind-numbed audience like a repetitive Beavis and Butthead rerun.

We have elected a President who not only feels we did not work for what we have, but feels we do not deserve it either. Had it gone the other way, Obama supporters would have torched America. Instead they will now legitimately consume it by gnawing at the soft underbelly of what was once her prosperity. Our Judeo-Christian culture -- that those on the left revile and call "extreme" -- now has as much relevance as a three-minute YouTube video.

Fighting for God and Country has now a new meaning, they will fight for Obama-Bucks, work the system, because this President gave them the right to do so.

C.W.

P.S. For starters, my next car(s) will be built, at a non-union plant, located in Lincoln, Alabama.

Denny adds, "My two BMW's were both built in South Carolina. I will never purchase an American car built by the UAW."

I agree. For starters, anything built by a union here in America should be ignored. If they're at war with us, we need to return the favor.


Hat tip: Wanda.

WHAT HAPPENED IN BENGHAZI? Michelle Malkin spotted this SUV while driving around today

Via @Roswell2001:


Investors Business Daily asks an intriguing question -- and backs it up: "Was David Petraeus blackmailed by his own government??"