In the Islamic world natures fills a power vacuum with - you guessed it – Islam!
The Telegraph (UK), 10/23/2011Libya's liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law
Libya's interim leader outlined more radical plans to introduce Islamic law than expected as he declared the official liberation of the country.
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de facto president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source".
Read it all here.
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Mr. Obama, how can we ever thank you?
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Libya: First Liberation Then Submission
Bulletin: French President Sarkozy Finds Gaddafi's Will -- Says It Pledged His Entire $200 Billion Fortune to "Save the EU"
I have summarized the fundamentals in this one graphic: the European dominoes of debt. Simply put, there is no way the EU authorities can stop the first domino--Greek default or equivalent writedown of its impossible debt load--from toppling the over-leveraged banks which will be rendered insolvent when forced to recognize their losses......That leaves each nation with the politically unsavory option of bailing out its premier banks with taxpayer money, and squeezing the money out of its citizenry via higher taxes and austerity. That assumption of bank debt will in turn trigger downgrades of heavily indebted sovereign nations such as France, moves that will raise rates and make the bailout even more costly to taxpayers, who will also be suffering from reductions of income due to global recession.
Once the banks and bondholders accept a 50%-75% writedown in Greek debt, then the other debtor nations will be justified in demanding the same writedown in their crushing debts. This dynamic leads to estimates that 3 trillion euros will be needed to bail all the players out. Alternatively, total losses will equal 3 trillion euros, wiping out banks and bondholders of sovereign debt.
The German economy is simply not big enough to fund a 3 trillion-euro bailout... ...It has recently come to light that in the worst-case scenario (i.e. reality), "solving" Greece's debt crisis would absorb the entire EFSF Rescue Fund's 400 billion euros. By all accounts, every estimate of Greek tax revenue is overstated, and every estimate of its expenses understated; Greek GDP is collapsing. In all probability, the reality is worse than anyone is willing to confess...
I have an ominous feeling in the pit of my stomach that the European debt debacle will make Lehman's failure look like a frolic in the park.
The Genius of Chicago Politics: Top Aide to Rahm Emanuel Enacts Rule to Award Herself a $65K/Year Pension
Mayoral Chief of Staff Theresa Mintle helped enact a special early-retirement plan at her former employer—the Chicago Transit Authority—that entitled her to a $65,000 annual pension she wouldn't have qualified for otherwise....Ordinarily, Ms. Mintle, 47, would have needed 11 years of service to qualify for a pension at the CTA, a milestone she wouldn't have reached until 2014. But in 2008, she was involved in the approval and possibly the design of an early-retirement sweetener for agency executives containing two separate clauses that, together, allowed her to buy extra service credits and lock in her pension in exchange for leaving her job by mid-2011.
After days of avoiding questions from Crain's and the BGA, Mr. Emanuel's office said late Friday that Ms. Mintle has decided to forgo the CTA pension... News of Ms. Mintle's role in the pension deal comes at an awkward time for both Mr. Emanuel, who has been calling for big cuts in benefits owed to rank-and-file city workers, and for the CTA, where President Forrest Claypool last week proposed balancing his 2012 budget with tens of millions of dollars in concessions from CTA employee unions. In Chicago and across the state, pressure is building for cuts in public- employee retirement plans that have left governments with pension-funding shortfalls in the tens of billions of dollars.
...According to the CTA, Ms. Mintle joined the agency's government relations unit in 2003 at a salary of $105,000. A cousin of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, she rose quickly in pay and status, becoming chief of staff to Ms. Brown in 2007. Among the duties she picked up was serving on the boards of both the CTA's regular pension plan and its supplemental pension plan for top agency managers... CTA sources are sharply divided on exactly who came up with the idea for the plan and who wrote its terms. The agency refuses to release internal papers and memos detailing those matters.
...CTA officials say the early- retirement program was meant to replace more expensive veterans with lower-paid newcomers. But it didn't turn out that way in Ms. Mintle's case. Joan Coogan, her successor as chief of staff, gets the same annual salary Ms. Mintle got: $175,000.
Now you know a little bit more about the city where President Obama cut his teeth: the capital of government corruption and taxpayer abuse.
Update: Chicago Tribune: 2 teachers union lobbyists teach for a day to qualify for hefty pensions
Larwyn's Linx: Three Years, $4 Trillion, and ‘All the Right Choices’ Later
Nation
Three Years, $4 Trillion, and ‘All the Right Choices’ Later: BlumerAnchor Babies Sue Flordia Over Tuition: JW
Romney’s Trouble With Truth: Beyond Lawn Care: BigG
Our President Supports This: Surber
The Ugliness Started With Bork: Nocera
Bukchang: What Progressives Are Progressing Toward: MB
Watergate Squared to the Tenth Power: Sword
Democratic Senator wants to see more women raped: GayPat
Movie producer testifies about alleged pay-to-play: Sun-Times
Economy
O's failed stimulus cost more than entire Iraq war: GWPBofA: Another U.S. Debt Downgrade Could Come in Weeks: WZ
The Red State In Your Future: Forbes
Former NLRB Member Drops a Boeing Bombshell: RS
Dems panic after treasurer loots their funds: Dollard
Biden's Fourth-Grade Economics: Steyn
Occupy
130 Occupy Criminals Arrested In Chicago: RWNSuspected Terror Supporter Attacks Jews at Occupy Chicago: RWN
More Death Threats? Occupy St. Louis Sends YAF Chapter Threatening Email: BigG
Occupy Chicago March 10/22 -- Mainstream: Marathon
Nerves Fray in Zuccotti Park Collectivist Utopia: MB
Oakland to Occupiers: Get Out: Hot Air
Climate & Energy
Awesome: Gaia Friendly Fluorescent Bulbs Linked To Increased Eye Diseases: Pirate's CoveGreen Energy's Bad Karma: IBD
Smart Meters: Stimulus-Funded Devices Benefit Green Lobby at Consumers’ Expense: BigG
Media
Maher: If You Showed Michelle Malkin O's Resume Without Naming Him She'd 'Name Her Vibrator "Obama"': NBUnder Fire, The Washington Post Quietly Scrubs Their Marco Rubio Hit-Piece: BigJ
This is just the tip of the iceberg if "Mr Electable" is the GOP nominee: TheRomneyRule
Does She Really Wonder Why She Can’t Find a Job in Her Chosen Profession?: Powers
Occupy Oakland: It’s This “F***ed-Up System That Makes Us Racist And Violent”: WZ
The Democrats Shamefull Support #OWS: DOC
WaPo Factchecker Rates Biden’s Rape and Murder Claims “Absurd” Whopper: Nice Deb
Alleged NYU Prof Encourages #OWS Protesters to Bring Down Capitalism: BigG
The Stupid! It Hurts!: Q&O
World
That didn't take long: Obama campaign already fundraising on Iraq pullout: NROArab Children (In Michigan) Taunt And Throw Shoes At Christian Preacher: BigP
Misjudging the Iranian Threat: Foundry
Monterrey: Army attacked in car bomb ambush: Borderland
Hillary Yucks It Up After Gaddafi Killed: Dossier
Hertz fires 26 Muslim drivers who refuse to sign out for ‘prayer breaks’: Creeping
European Finance Ministers Driven To Despair As Reality Returns: ZH
EU Finance Ministers Decide to Force Banks to Take Bigger Greek Bond Losses: Mish
How the Eurozone Crisis Will Play Out: Moors
Sci-Tech
Steve Jobs leaves apt rebuke of Hewlett-Packard: CNetStrange Form of Life Discovered in Ocean's Blackest Depths: Fox
Facebook: Are You Interfacing with the Russian Mafia & KGB?: NewAm
Cornucopia
Obama Will Cut Off All TV and Radio Broadcasts on Nov. 9, Temporarily, Because He Can: C&SMadonna's older brother homeless and living under Mich. bridge: reports: Post
True Love In and Under the Reeves Center: C&S
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate
QOTD: "An employer or management can make operational decisions, such as where to locate, where to relocate, where to transfer work, whether to outsource. It can take into account the economic consequences of unionization. This is a core managerial right.” --Peter Schaumber, former member of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Gaddafi stashed as much as $200 billion outside Libya. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan hardest hit.
Moammar Kadafi secretly salted away more than $200 billion in bank accounts, real estate and corporate investments around the world before he was killed, about $30,000 for every Libyan citizen and double the amount that Western governments previously had suspected, according to senior Libyan officials.
The new estimates of the deposed dictator's hidden cash, gold reserves and investments are "staggering," one person who has studied detailed records of the asset search said Friday. "No one truly appreciated the scope of it."
If the values prove accurate, Kadafi will go down in history as one of the most rapacious as well as one of the most bizarre world leaders, on a scale with the late Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire or the late Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.
Kadafi's death after he was captured Thursday outside his birthplace, the coastal town of Surt, not only all but ended the armed uprising that erupted in February. Revelation of the stunning size of the portfolio may stir anger among Libya's 6.5 million people — about one-third of whom live in poverty.
You can't help but think that President Obama's "spiritual mentor", Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr., is privately mourning Gaddafi's death.
After all, Wright and his spiritual mentor -- Louis Farrakhan -- visited Gaddafi in 1984.
Occupy Wall Street's latest popcorn-passing hilarity: protesters occupy Obama crony Jeff Immelt's front lawn
Occupy Wall Street protesters took a field trip from Zuccotti Park on Saturday morning, all the way to the wealthy suburban enclave of New Canaan, Conn., where they took their anger at income and tax disparity to GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s front lawn.
“In the land of the free they tax me but not G.E.!” read the invitation to protesters to take an hour bus ride to Immelt’s family home. “General Electric made billions last year; they paid no taxes, outsourced thousands of jobs, and got over $3 billion in tax refunds! Join us on a free bus trip to G.E’s CEO’s front lawn to see how our friends in the 1% live.”
...A crowd of about 100 protesters, both from New York and local offshoot Occupy New Haven, spent the afternoon standing outside Immelt’s 6-bedroom, 10-bathroom, $5.25 million home. Photos from local news site New Canaan Patch show a police officer guarding Immelt’s gates while protesters hold placards reading “Mr. Immelt, Meet the 99%” and “Jobs Not Bailouts”...
GE's CEO is one of President Obama's biggest supporters and the current poster-child for crony capitalism. From Chevy Volts, to Obamacare, to selling critical aircraft technologies to Red China, Immelt's been at the heart of it all.
Oh. And Immelt "actually came out in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement last week at a Thomson Reuters event in New York."
I love the smell of blue-on-blue napalm in the morning (or evening, in this case).
Here's My Guess: the Title and Subject of Mark Levin's Next Book
Best-selling author Mark Levin is a Constitutional renaissance man. Not only is he the author of several New York Times bestsellers, but he's also the fastest-growing radio talk show host in America. Oh, and on the side he runs Landmark Legal Foundation, a law firm that takes up significant Constitutional issues.His most recent book -- Liberty and Tryanny -- arrived in 2009 to massive acclaim (it has since sold over 1.2 million copies). Jeffrey Lord of The American Spectator called it "The Book That Changed America"; it was a common sight at Tea Party rallies during the fight against President Obama's brand of socialized medicine.
Since that time, Levin's hinted on his show about his work on a new book. Reportedly completed in July, its title and subject are embargoed until the week before its release. That said, I've gathered enough information from his circuitous references to offer an educated guess.
Title: From Democracy to Despotism
Subtitle: The Left's Fatal Assault on Individual Liberty
Description: As our society frays thanks to the machinations of Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress, we would be well-served to review history. The strategies and tactics of the modern Left are not new; we have seen these machinations before and we must recognize them today.
From Russia's bloody 1917 revolution, to Mao's "People's Army"; from the Palestinian elections of Hamas to Mugabe's Zimbabwe; the world has seen populist and democratic movements many times before.
Most importantly, the Statists of the Left use the democratic process itself to destroy government and the civil society. Most recently, Saul Alinsky (the father of modern community organizing) and Columbia Professors Cloward and Piven have articulated strategies that undermine the American republic from within.
The bulwark standing in their way is the United States Constitution. As the Left's termites eat away at our legal foundation, it's incumbent upon patriotic Americans to learn from history's lessons and politically obliterate the infestation of those who mean to unravel our society.
Whether or not my prediction is accurate, I can say with confidence this about Levin's next book. It will be great.
Graphic Photos: Gaddaffi Begs For His Life, Louis Farrakhan Hardest Hit
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The following photos show the terrorist begging for his life as rebels argue over his fate.







No cliffhanger here: they capped his ass.
Hopefully with his own golden handgun.Couldn't happen to a nicer mass-murderer.
Update: New Footage of Captured Gaddafi.
Larwyn's Linx: The United States of Mexico
Nation
The United States of Mexico: TimesAn Interview with Herman Cain: CYInt
Bachmann says reports of NH staff exodus “not true”: Henderson
A Mea Culpa on Herman Cain and Abortion: RS
Iowa: Cain 37, Romney 27, Paul 12, Gingrich 8: Hot Air
10 Reasons You Should Vote For Herman Cain: AllAm
Poll Shows Most #OWS Protesters Are Militant Leftists: Nice Deb
Rape Crisis Centers On High Alert: Ace
Gun, Knives Pulled at Obama-Endorsed Occupy Event: GWP
Economy
Fannie and Freddie: the Nexus of Corruption: PirrongNew York's Disappearing Millionaires: LI
Elsewhere (50): Daivd Thompson
"Solyndra on Wheels:" Half Billion To Finnish Workers: Ace
The left’s effort to clean up the Occupy Wall Street crowd: JRubin
The Business of Government: Sultan Knish
Gunrunner & Energygate
ATF Fast and Furious investigation: Congress tells FBI: clarify evidence in Brian Terry murder: AttkissonAs Issa Closes in on FBI Role in Gunwalker, Dems Feign Outrage: Owens
ATF Whistleblower Backs Up Latest Allegations Against William Newell: PJM
Obama on Fast and Furious: “People Who Screwed Up Will be Held Accountable”: Tickle
Charlie Daniels blasts Justice Department, suggests political persecution against Gibson Guitar: DC
Solyndra to Auction Assets, But Taxpayers Won’t See a Dime: Foundry
Climate & Energy
Cult of Global Warming Is Losing Influence: BaroneSenate Confirms Eco-Fascist As Commerce Secretary: Soylent Green (Language Warning)
Sceptical Berkeley Scientists Say, “Human Component Of Global Warming May Be Somewhat Overstated”: Watts
Media
“Jeremiah Wright is back on the table” Tweet of the Day: LIAllen West: Obama should dust off that Nobel Peace prize and give it back!: Scoop
Conservatives Stand Up! — Zilla's Resistance Honor Roll Keeps Getting Bigger!: AmPower
BigGovernment.com Contributor Puts Lech Walesa Some F'n Knowledge About OWS: Ace
The 50 Most Popular Conservatives on the Web (According to Google 2011): RWN
LOL!: I've Been Banned From Commenting At Mediaite: Jawa
Barack Obama and Karl Marx: Dossier
Team Obama: ‘Must … Stop … Rubio!’: PJM
MSNBC's Martin Bashir: “Do You Think Herman Cain Can Spell The Word ‘Iraq’?": WZ
World
Obama Speaks on Iraq: All Troops Out by End of Year: DossierOn Iraq, Obama Trips and Says "I Meant to Do That": AmSpec
Is Another Conflict Coming to Korea?: PJM
Obama administration pulls references to Islam from terror training materials, official says: Timmerman
Islamist op-ed threatens FBI: Don’t teach truth about jihad or Muslims in US will not cooperate: Creeping
An Odd Case in Governance: LI
Report: Islamic terror plot to bomb U.S. embassy in Mexico in 2010: Creeping
The Truth Behind Europe's (€1.7 Trillion) "Triangle Of Terror": ZH
Denmark: Islamic group seeks to introduce "Sharia zones" in Copenhagen: JihadWatch
Sci-Tech
Twitter’s Mobile Audience Up 75% Year-On-Year, Beats Facebook, LinkedIn: MediaBistroJobs Threatened ‘Thermonuclear War’ on Google: Bloomberg
Apple's Siri Uses Female Voice In USA, Male In Britain: Guardian
Cornucopia
Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory -- A Very Special Announcement, by T. Coddington Van Voorhees VIIHuman Slingshots Are Probably the Most Fun You Can Have on Land: Gizmodo
Man Aiming a Laser Pointer a Police Helicopter Is Quickly Arrested: Laughing Squid
Image: Adapted from IowaHawk
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate
QOTD: "Even though the ECB, EU, and IMF cannot figure out what to do about Greece, Spain is simmering and the lid has blown off Portugal." --Mike Shedlock
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thanks, Janet and Eric: Mexican Cartels Recruiting Texas Children as "Expendable" Drug Runners
Texas law enforcement officials say several Mexican drug cartels are luring youngsters as young as 11 to work in their smuggling operations.
Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told Reuters the drug gangs have a chilling name for the young Texans lured into their operations.
"They call them 'the expendables,'" he said.McCraw said his investigators have evidence six Mexican drug gangs -- including the violent Zetas -- have "command and control centers" in Texas actively recruiting children for their operations, attracting them with what appears to be "easy money" for doing simple tasks... "Cartels would pay kids $50 just for them to move a vehicle from one position to another position, which allows the cartel to keep it under surveillance to see if law enforcement has it under surveillance," he said.
"Of course, once you're hooked up with them, there's consequences."...This month, "we made an arrest of a 12-year-old boy who was in a stolen pickup truck with 800 pounds of marijuana," he said. "So they do recruit our kids."
...Law enforcement officers say children are less likely to be suspects than adults, are easily manipulated by relatively small sums of money, and face less severe penalties than adults if arrested.
...Last month, Texas officials released a report indicating Mexico-based drug gangs are intent on creating a "sanitary zone" on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande, and are "intimidating landowners" in south Texas into allowing them to use their property as "permanent bases" for drug smuggling activity.
Say, I've got an idea: let's keep our border with Mexico wide open to allow the drug cartels free rein.
What's that? You say Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama have already been doing that? Roger that.
The Five Butt-Ugliest
5. 2012 Honda Odyssey - Is it just me, or does it look like this van's rear quarter-panel just got T-boned? But maybe that's the look they were going for.
4. 2011 Nissan Cube - I'm guessing the Cube's designer was related to Salvador Dali. All that's missing is the melted clock hanging off the side.
3. 2012 Cadillac EXT - It's a pickup! No, it's a luxury SUV! No, it's a luxury pickup! Uhm, to be fair, a far better handle is the Cadillac WTF.
2. 2012 Chrysler Town and Country Minivan - 1983 called and they want their van back.
1. 2012 smart fortwo - Looking for a golf cart that's both slow and unsafe? Well, have we got a deal for you!Images: Edmunds.com.
Illustrated: Inside the Obama 2008 Money-Laundering Machine
Imagine a campaign website that intentionally turned off all credit-card security, which allowed the entry of fake names and addresses for donations. Obama's 2008 fundraising website intentionally allowed this to occur.
Imagine a campaign that accepted made-up credit-card numbers, which were probably tried one after another until valid card numbers were found. Obama's 2008 fundraising website intentionally allowed this to occur.
Or a campaign that retained forged computer addresses for its donations instead of the addresses of the real donors. Obama's 2008 fundraising website intentionally allowed this to occur.
Or a campaign that accepted untraceable prepaid cash cards that could easily have been used to evade contribution limits or mask contributor identities. Obama's 2008 fundraising website intentionally allowed this to occur.
Or a campaign that secretly shared donor lists with Project Vote and ACORN, the latter a group reportedly under a RICO investigation for multi-state vote fraud involving hundreds of thousands of fraudulent registrations and other misdeeds. Obama's 2008 fundraising operation allegedly did just that.
Now imagine hundreds of millions of dollars in undisclosed, suspect donations orchestrated by foreign nationals and other persons unknown. Obama's 2008 fundraising website intentionally allowed this sort of activity to occur.
Roughly two-thirds of Barack Obama’s record haul derived from a website that intentionally disabled all security checks that prevent basic fraud. In other words, his website facilitated crooked donations complete with fake names, phony addresses, no donation limits, untraceable cards and bogus computer addresses.
Let me repeat that last point. The Obama campaign's website intentionally allowed the use of fake computer addresses (known in the tech world as IP addresses). In my opinion, there is only one reason a website would allow the submission of a fake IP address: money-laundering. Logging of the true IP address would mean that the real source (including the city and country) of the contribution could be traced. Allowing a fake address to be logged instead would prevent authorities from ascertaining the true origin of the donation.
These deliberate steps permitted the Obama campaign to accept illegal co-mingled funds, illegal foreign contributions and illegal structured donations.In 2012, I urge you to be on the look-out for this kind of diabolical rule-breaking as a desperate Democrat Party scrabbles to hold onto power.
Larwyn's Linx: ObamaCare's Broken Promises
Nation
ObamaCare's Broken Promises: SamuelsonWhile you were sleeping: Sneaky midnight-hour Senate moves: Malkin
Dem Rep. announces retirement -- then blasts Obama: GWP
Islamic Speech Police Lobby Eric Holder’s DOJ: Tatler
Trial lawyers, shakedown artists and the Obama administration: IBD
Pentagon's nightmare: $1 trillion in budget cuts: CNN
Economy
9-9-9 For Dummies: Strata-SphereMurders, Rapes, Falling Bridges and Phantom Jobs: DLim
Harry Reid: private sector is "doing just fine": IBD
Was Steve Jobs a closet Republican?: Stiletto
European debt crisis: Worst-case scenarios: WaPo
Avg. fed employee makes $126,000 a year: Bloomberg
Steve Jobs to Obama: “You’re headed for a one-term presidency”: Hot Air
Louisiana Bans Cash Transactions: Tatler
Squatting on Wall Street: WSJ
Occupy
Report: Occupy Oakland Devolves into “Lord of the Flies”: VSNYC residents angry at OWS: “They are defecating on our doorsteps!”: Scoop
Occupy . . .Whatever: Cliffs
Gunrunner & Solyndra
SSI Exclusive: The 3rd Gun & "K1" -- not the same thing.: SSISheriff Bebeu on Fast and Furious: "We'll Know Exactly What Barack Obama Knew": Nice Deb
Be Furious Over Operation Fast and Furious : HuffPo
Climate & Energy
Good news: EPA to begin killing jobs even before court hearing contesting their killing jobs: TatlerBefuddled Warmist Richard Muller Declares Skeptics Should Convert to Believers!: Depot
AGW Hubris Of The Week: One Million Fewer In Fuel Poverty: Soylent Green
Media
Occupy MTV: SurberKrugman's Not-So-Excellent Adventure: IBD
Networks Won't Admit Occupiers Want 'Socialist' Revolution: MRC
Seven Images That Will Make The Occupiers Cry: PJ Lifestyle
White House Backs Up Biden on ‘Rape and Murder’ Claims: Malkin
Biden Sticks to the Playbook: Goldberg
Many Americans Are Scared of Socialism: Cube
Rubio Rips Washington Post Story: WklyStd
Jon Stewart On GOP Reaction To Gaddafi’s Death: ‘What The F*** Is Wrong With You?’: Mediaite
World
What Gaddafi’s Death Teaches the Middle East…And Should Teach the West: BRubinU.S. Deports Mexican Criminals, Mexico Doesn’t Like it.: PJM
Is the Occupy Movement Anti-Democratic?: Slate
Khadafy's Dead! Barry Did It! Media Celebrates!: EIB
Robin Hood vs. The Occupiers: Malkin
Muslim on Southwest flight: ‘You’re all going to die, Allahu Akbar’: Creeping
Sci-Tech
It’s Not Too Late to Learn How to Code: Jean HsuApple Manager Breaks Rule, Makes 10-Year-Old Girl's Dreams Come True: Consumerist
Microsoft sees strong Office and flat Windows in quarter: CNet
Cornucopia
Teach Your Children Well: MOTUSObama’s Last Words To Gaddafi: Sad Hill News
Exclusive: #OWS “I am the 99%” Graphic Reveals Mastermind Behind the Movement: AllAm
Image: Flopping Aces
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Herman Cain for President
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Five Months
Just five short months ago, Barack Obama's favorability-to-unfavorability ratio was essentially the opposite of what it is today.Which shows how quickly public opinion can shift.
Especially with a compliant legacy media.
Hoping that Obama's failed policies will simply materialize as electoral victories for conservatives is begging for disaster. Marshal your friends, your family members and your co-workers, because 2012 is coming.
Should I be concerned that I found these in my tub last night after bathing?
A submarine exploring the ocean's depths recently returned with an unexpected visitor: a crablike critter that has left many readers startled and horrified...In a posting to social bookmarking site Reddit, a deep-sea technician detailed the finding, asking the site's readers to help identify what exactly the bizarre looking creature was.
A submarine exploring the ocean's depths recently returned with an unexpected visitor: a crablike critter that has left many readers startled and horrified.
The post reads, "I work for a Sub-sea Survey Company, recently this beast came up attached to one of our ROVs. It measures a wee bit over 2.5 feet head to tail, and we expect it latched onto the ROV at roughly 8,500 feet depth. Unfortunately, the e-mail that these pictures were attached to came from a contractor, and the ship he was operating from (and therefore location) is unknown, so I can't tell you what part of the Earth this beast was living."
The pictures reveal the creature to be a giant isopod, a large crustacean that dwells in deep Atlantic and Pacific waters. This particular creature is a Bathynomus giganteus, a deep-sea scavenger that feeds on dead whales, fish and squid.
Update: Papa B: "I'd recommend seeing a dermatologist."
More Green Grift: EPA Certifies Taxpayer-Funded Luxury Electric Vehicle With Total Range of... 32 Miles
Fisker's Karma extended-range EV just received its official certification from the EPA, but the numbers aren't exactly what the company hoped for.While Fisker had predicted a rating of 67 mpge and an all-electric range of 50 miles, the EPA disagreed, certifying the car with 52 mpge, a range of 32 miles, and 20 mpg in gasoline mode after that. Ouch.
Of course, the affordable price makes up for it:
Our tax dollars at work… a half-billion dollar loan (actually $529 million) from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a hybrid toy for the wealthy and/or celebri-licious (like Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the first customers) that, in real world driving, won’t get much better mileage than your average crossover utility vehicle. Not only that, but the cars are manufactured in Finland — that’s right, Finland – and shipped here for sale, where their purchasers will then receive a $7,500 tax credit for buying one (the “cheap” base model starts at $96,895, with the full-zoot Eco Chic model going for a bargain $108,900).
...the Federal government [was] a major financial partner in Fisker Automotive... We the taxpayers are on the hook for more than half a billion dollars, about the same amount that got loaned to Solyndra, another “green manufacturer,” before they went bankrupt. At least Solyndra was manufacturing their products in this country, providing American manufacturing jobs (if short-lived jobs), and making a product that average Americans could conceivably afford. Fisker is manufacturing these gorgeous Leonardo DiCaprio toys in Finland. And the kicker, for those of you who would still claim that the risk of half a billion tax dollars is justified by environmental gains… contrary to the company’s initial hype, the Karma will only run for thirty-two miles on its electric motors before its turbocharged gasoline engine needs to kick in (as opposed to the initial estimate of fifty miles). Once that occurs, the Karma gets about the same mileage as a Ford Explorer. Not the new Explorer, even. The older, gas-hog, body-on-frame model. We’re talking twenty miles per gallon, folks. So much for your “green investment.”
...Al Gore is on the list of customers waiting to receive their Fisker Karmas, having put in his order before the DOE signed off on the company’s half-billion dollar loan. Oh, and by the way, it just so happens that several major investors in the company are also major donors to the Democratic Party. And here’s information on John Doerr, an advisor to President Obama who is also a major investor in Fisker Automotive. Can you say, “crony capitalism?”
Oh, good.
Our children and grandchildren will pay for this green scam with interest.
I wonder how many billions have been laundered from the taxpayers to President Obama's contributors under the banner of "green jobs"?
Exclusive First Look: New Democrat Ad Sells the Obama Jobs Bill
Hey, folks, I'm Vice President Joe Biden speaking to you today about the importance of passing President Obama's jobs bill.
As I speak to you, the President is busy traveling the country, telling folks like you about the urgency of passing this bill.
He's working tirelessly to get the message out.
Look, folks, Americans simply cannot get work without this new bill!
We need bridges and roads and bike paths. It's a big f***in' deal!
The number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S.
Jobs for cops and teachers, dues-paying cops and teachers.
In fact, if you don't support this bill, more women like this one will get raped.
So call your representative today and tell them to say "no" to Republican rape-supporters and "yes" to the Obama jobs bill.
No to rape. Yes to jobs. Paid for by the Solyndra Political Action Committee, La Raza, Obama-Biden 2012, the AFL-CIO and the Soros Foundation to Advance One World Government 'n' Stuff.















