Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Natural Born Citizens [Papa B]

Papa B:

This just might make your day a little brighter! You, who worry about Democrats versus Republicans - relax, here is our real problem:

In a Purdue University classroom, students were discussing qualifications to be President of the United States. It was pretty simple. The candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years of age. However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair the requirement was to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president. The class was taking it in and letting her rant, and not many jaws hit the floor until she wrapped up her argument by stating: "What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?"

Yep, these are the same kinds of people that are now voting in our elections!

*They breed and walk among us…*

Odd Coincidence: Same Democrats Supporting #OccupyWallStreet Have Also Received the Most Contributions From... Wall Street

Stinky, street-defecating, Marxist hippies hardest hit:

Despite their support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, (who, unlike the Tea Party, believe government is the answer to our economic problems), Democrats have enjoyed large paychecks from the industry.

...the President’s funds are much higher. He’s actually raised $3.9 million just this year so far. But, he has raised nearly $12 million in Wall Street donations for the DNC. In total, that’s more than all the Republican Presidential candidates combined have received from Wall Street...

Damn Democrats: they broke my Hypocrisy-Meter again.


Larwyn's Linx: Why Is Class Hatred Morally Superior to Race Hatred?

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Nation

Why Is Class Hatred Morally Superior to Race Hatred?: Prager
You Can't Wait? Neither Can We: DLim
Bipartisanship: Democrat Senate Kills Jobs Bill…Again: Tatler

The Hobbits March in One Year: Cary
Profits Are For People: Williams
Model: Obama could get just 43.5% of the vote: American

Muslims tell DOJ to find ways to criminalize criticism: Creeping
Great News: Anthony Weiner Still Spending Campaign Cash: JWF
Bachmann's ex-NH staff releases scathing letter: Hill

Economy

My Tax and Spending Reform Plan : Perry
White House prepares to touch off the next housing crisis: CalcRisk
Obama Prepared to 'Act' Without Congress' Approval: PunPrs

Unions Hire Researcher With A Taste For Being Paid Off: GOHP
Union Bosses Don't Answer To You: That Hero
Report: States In Debt Over $4 Trillion: WZ

Occupy Idiocy

OWS: Alleged Statutory Rape, And A Knife-Wielding Maniac Wearing Joker Makeup: Ace
Former Soviet Citizen Explains Socialism to OWS Idiots: JWF
OWS Protester’s Demand the Surest Way to Lose Mayor Bloomberg: Malkin

Gunrunner & Energygate

Solar Power is Free! FREEEEE! (if somebody else pays for it): Ace
"If they can't kill you. . . they'll make you crazy." Behind the Scenes, the Cover-up Games Continue. : SSI
What About Fast and Furious, Mr. President?: Black Quill & Ink

Media

Petty Punishment for the Washington Post: Dossier
'I Have To Say, I’m Afraid For the State of the Nation': JWF
Is the New York Times a news organization or a front for left-wing activists?: IBD

‘For every million dollars Obama raises, $6.4 billion is added to our national debt.’: NRO
John Who? A bizarre denial from the New York Times: Taranto
NBC Admits Obama Mortgage Plan Won't Work, But Cheers it As Good Politics: NB

Green Presidential Candidate Lays Claim To OWS, Panics Democrats: Glob
New Obama Campaign Adviser: Barely Ex-Lobbyist: Malkin
Obama crony Penny Pritzker called out at OccupyChicago by union speaker: Marathon

World

From Tunisia To The Justice Department: A Clean Sweep For Islam: Big Peace
Looking In the Mirror: Flopping Aces
No Victory But Defeat: Sultan Knish

Obama Administration Bans the Truth About Islam and Jihad: Spencer
Arab Sprung: Sondrakistan
Europe’s Crisis May End in a ‘Violent Blow-Up’: Galbraith: Daily Ticker

In Mideast, U.S. Policy Is In Shambles: IBD
PA President Abbas to Pay Released Murderers’ Pensions With U.S. Taxpayer Money: WZ
Tennessee Becomes First State To Fight Terrorism Statewide: News5

Sci-Tech

What did Steve Jobs say about his rivals?: CBS
Republicans Dominate Twitter: PoliticalWire
Jobs abrasive style drove some people away: biographer: Reuters

Cornucopia

TSA Sex Advice? Woman Finds 'Freaky' Note In Luggage: JWF
The Great Apple Exposé: And I’m Not Talking About Steve Jobs: MOTUS
This Watch Has Balls: Yanko Design

Image: Obama's Logo Becomes His Secret Weapon To Win Voters Back
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Perry for President

QOTD: "Ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about (God) more. And I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe it's because I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear...

...Yeah, but sometimes I think it's just like an on-off switch. Click and you're gone.

...And that's why I don't like putting on-off switches on Apple devices."" --Steve Jobs

Monday, October 24, 2011

Actual sign spotted at Wal-Mart [Papa B]

Papa B:

Remember when America was dumbing down? No more. We have arrived...


Maybe it's just the new math.


Obama's Iraq Pullout: Motivated by Reelection Fundraising Concerns, Not American National Security Interests

And you'd expect anything different from this president?

Yesterday, I had the feeling that... Obama's announced withdrawal of our troops from Iraq was purely political, timed for the 2012 election as a way of rallying his far-Left, anti-military, Code Pinko base.

This e-mail from Obama's campaign today proves it...

Friend --

I'm James Kvaal, the new policy director for President Obama's 2012 campaign... Yesterday, we accomplished one major change when President Obama announced that all American troops in Iraq will be home before the holidays.

With that action, the Iraq war will end. And one of the President's central promises will have been kept... Now, thanks to the actions of this President, we can say that conflict is coming to a close. [Ed: not the military, mind you... "this President"]

...These outcomes are an example of what happens when a leader sets a plan and sees it through. In the last campaign, the President committed to getting American troops home while leaving behind a stable and secure Iraq. You rallied around that vision, and now that promise has been fulfilled.


"And we accept Visa, Mastercard and PayPal!"

Of course, back in the little land we like to call reality, the decision will have significant consequences for our allies in the Middle East.

Up until Friday, the Obama Administration had insisted that negotiations were on track for extending the presence of a small residual force that U.S. and Iraqi military leaders agreed were necessary to support Iraqi operations in key areas such as counterterrorism, air support, intelligence gathering, logistics, and training. But Friday, in a hard-hitting article posted on The Cable blog, Josh Rogin reported that the Administration had bungled the negotiations...

...In the wake of its decision, the Obama Administration is already anticipating the consequences of the power vacuum it has created. In a series of interviews on Sunday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Iran that even though troops will be withdrawn, the U.S. will still maintain a presence in the region. “Iran would be badly miscalculating if they did not look at the entire region and all of our presence in many countries in the region, both in bases, in training, with NATO allies, like Turkey.”

The reality, though, is that the United States has weakened its presence at a time when the region can least afford it.

We may soon find out what happens in a power vacuum when Iran's religious fanatics -- bent on "martyrdom" -- acquire nuclear weapons.


Terrifying Chart o' the Day: It Was the Plan All Along

...yesterday, in Denver, I signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which will create or save -- (applause.) The act will create or save 3.5 million jobs over the next two years -- including 70,000 right here in Arizona, right here -- (applause) -- doing the work America needs done. And we're also going to work to stabilize, repair and reform our financial system to get credit flowing again to families and businesses.

And we will pursue the housing plan I'm outlining today. And through this plan, we will help between 7 and 9 million families restructure or refinance their mortgages so they can afford -- avoid foreclosure. And we're not just helping homeowners at risk of falling over the edge; we're preventing their neighbors from being pulled over that edge, too -- as defaults and foreclosures contribute to sinking home values, and failing local businesses, and lost jobs. --President Barack Obama, 18 February 2009

Interesting how the media -- not to mention Democrats, but I repeat myself -- never go back and examine the results of their policy prescriptions. Perhaps that's because their consistent track record of failure is demoralizing, humiliating and revealing. In any event, here are the actual results of President Obama's two-and-a-half years of centrally managing the mortgage market.

One word: catastrophic. Despite all of the Soviet-style exercises in central planning, all of the endless tax credits, incentives, and authoritarian lever-pulling of the Left, they've actually made things worse, not better.

Here are some of the programs listed under the government's MakingHomeAffordable.com site (888-995-HOPE):


Not to mention the billions wasted on housing in the "Stimulus" package including the Tax Credit Exchange Program (“TCEP”), the HUD Tax Credit Assistance Program (“TCAP”, and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).

Tens of billions of dollars wasted on useless programs that are more payoffs and wealth transfers to political cronies than legitimate functions of a constitutional federal government.

And the President is now proposing yet another foreclosure fix -- opening up the HARP program to everyone. What could possibly go wrong?

Everything this president has touched appears to have turned to fecal matter. Which, if Professors Cloward and Piven can be believed, was the plan all along.


Larwyn's Linx: Hermantum: '100% Pro-Life' Cain Leading In The Polls

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Nation

Hermantum: '100% Pro-Life' Cain Leading In The Polls: Nice Deb
Biden visits future Dem voters in York, PA: Pundette
RomneyCare subsidized illegal immigrants: AmPower

Five Truths That Sentence America to Ruination: iOTW
Liberals try to discredit Justice Thomas with baseless attacks: DC
The Bork Nomination, 24 Years On: Kimball

Economy

Eurocide: Surber
Rearranging the EU's Deck Chairs: Mish
No Way To Stop Europe's First Domino From Falling: Insider

Scratch a Democrat, Find a Dictator: Ace
Metro DC now America's richest neighborhood: Wizbang
Enough with the 'fair share' horses*** already: PRS

Rage On—and on and on…: Hanson
DHS Job Fair for Illegals: AT
Interest adds to Illinois debt woes: Pantagraph

Occupy

More Jew-Hatred at Obama-Endorsed #OWS Protests: GWP
Wall Street Occupiers Turn NYC Zuccotti Park Into a Cesspool, “It’s Like Walmart For Rats”: WZ
Total Number of Arrests At Occupy Protests: 2,222: WZ

Climate & Energy

Everything you need to know about Obamanomics in one sentence [Facepalm]: Wolf
Lubos Finds The Idiotic AGW Headline Of The Week: Soylent Green
Sticker Shock For Local Chevy Volt Car Shopper: WUSA-9

Media

Exclusive interview with Senator Marco Rubio on WaPo’s story about his family history: Hot Air
Aww: Sony will postpone opening of The Obama Is Totally Awesome blockbuster movie: Hot Air
Facts In Exile: Washington Post’s Sen. Marco Rubio ‘Exposé’ Is Identity Politics At Its Worst: Mediate

Stopping Obama From Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America: RWN
The Week in Doug: IMAO
WaPo Punked by Berkeley Warmist Posing as Skeptic: NB

New York Times Reporter Natasha Lennard Is #OccupyWallStreet Activist, Supporter: BigG
WaPo ombud: Man, our Koch Bros hit piece was kind of unfair, huh?: Hot Air
Jack Welch: Obama Jobs Policies 'Crazy': FoxNation

World

'Stay Tuned for the Next Pro-Democracy Upheaval in the Middle East. It’ll Be the First One': JWF
What, Him Worry?: Driscoll
Egyptian TV: Jews Behind Spread of Depravity And Sin In The World; Have Brainwashed Europe: WZ

Priorities: Obama Offers Saudis Condolences From the Golf Course: Dossier
Q&A: The future of the Arab Spring?: Global Toronto
'Old Fuzzhead is Dead': iOTW

The Transnationalist Tell Behind America’s 2011 Protests: GardenSerf
The Death of Gaddafi: JPA
Eurozone summit - despair and backbiting in the corridors of power: Telegraph

Sci-Tech

Massive Child Pornography Server Taken Down By Anonymous, User Names Leaked: Mediate
Did Vegan Quackery Kill Steve Jobs?: First Things
Science fiction-style sabotage a fear in new hacks: AP

Cornucopia

Finding Marizela: The Dread Void of Uncertainty: Malkin
POWS, COWS, DOWS and ROWS: Wow!: MOTUS
Ninja standing in front of sign that says "Fight Me" leads to unexpected situation: CBS

This Week in Automotivators: RWN
Zombie Boy as you've never seen him before...with NO tattoos: DailyMail
Gun Control: Racist Motivations vs. Racist Outcomes: SNBQ

Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Herman Cain for President

QOTD: "Oh, he can do a lot about the economy. He could look at drilling for oil. He can, by himself, can drive that posture. He could put a moratorium on regulation until we've got unemployment below a certain level. He could do it. And he could, most importantly, change the posture. Everything we do in this administration is more punitive than it is incentivized. Let me give you a perfect example. Let's take the jobs bill. They put in there Section 371. That is an ability to sue for unemployed people who are out looking for a job to sue for $300,000, for example, if they hire Andrea who has a job and don't hire me, unemployed. It's crazy. They, they give a $4,000 incentive to hire an unemployed person, then they give a $300,000 penalty if you happen to discriminate against an unemployed person." --Jack Welch

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Funniest Global Warming Headline o' the Day, No--Week, No--Month, Ah, F- It... of the Year

Someone named "Fred Grimm", if that is his real name, penned the funniest climate fraud headline of 2012 (via Soylent Green):

Sea levels will rise, washing away climate deniers

The rising sea will wash across great swaths of South Florida. Salt water will contaminate the well fields. Roads and farmland and low-lying neighborhoods will be inundated. The soil will no longer absorb the kind of heavy rainfalls that drenched South Florida last weekend. Septic tanks will fail. Drainage canals won’t drain. Sewers will back up. Intense storms will pummel the beachfront. Mighty rainfalls, in between droughts, will bring more floods.

The economic losses and the mitigation costs associated with the effects of global warming over the next few decades will be overwhelming. It will cost a medium-sized town like Pompano Beach hundreds of millions just to salvage its water and sewage systems...

Grimm cites a Florida Atlantic study as the source for his dire predictions. Of course, whether the FAU study was funded by the billions the federal government has wasted invested in the global warming grift is -- apparently -- too daunting a task for Mr. Grimm to research.

For those unfamiliar with how the United Nations touched off the global warming climate change scam as a purely money-making ruse, please see "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow...."


My #OWS Image Gallery [Reggie]

Reggie sends us this fine collection:














Libya: First Liberation Then Submission

Dan from New York:

In the Islamic world natures fills a power vacuum with - you guessed it – Islam!

The Telegraph (UK), 10/23/2011

Libya'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?


Bulletin: French President Sarkozy Finds Gaddafi's Will -- Says It Pledged His Entire $200 Billion Fortune to "Save the EU"

Okay, I made that up. The European Union is toast and the only question is when the dominoes fall. If the bond markets are any indication, it won't be long.

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

Isn't a massive, unchecked, Democrat-controlled bureaucracy awesome?

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

Exclusive Photo of Papa B...

...with an unnamed friend.



Larwyn's Linx: Three Years, $4 Trillion, and ‘All the Right Choices’ Later

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Nation

Three Years, $4 Trillion, and ‘All the Right Choices’ Later: Blumer
Anchor 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: GWP
BofA: 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: RWN
Suspected 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 Cove
Green 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"': NB
Under 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: NRO
Arab 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: CNet
Strange 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&S
Madonna'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.

Aren't despotic tyrants awesome?

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

I can just see General Electric's CEO now, screeching from his porch: "Don't you know who I am???"

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).


#Winning!

Via GayPatriot's Twitter feed.


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

********* CAUTION: GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF GADDAFI BELOW *********
Libya's late, unlamented dictator Muammar Gaddafi (misspelled? Who cares), you'll recall, ordered the terrorist attack on Pan Am 103. A Libyan bomb hidden in a suitcase exploded aboard the flight and killed all 270 passengers and crew. Among the dead were entire American families including many children, toddlers and babies:

Asrelsky, Rachel M., 21, New York, NY, American
Concannon, Bridget, 53, Banbury, England. Irish
Concannon, Sean, 16, Banbury, England. Irish
Concannon, Thomas, 51, Banbury, England. Irish
Davis, Shannon, 19, Shelton, Connecticut. ,American
Gibson, Kenneth James, 20, Romulus, Michigan American
Herbert, Pamela Elaine, 19, Battle Creek, Michigan, American

Hudson, Melina Kristina, 16, Albany, New York. American
Ivell, Elizabeth Sophie, 19, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England. British
Jeffreys, Rachel, 23, Kingston-upon-Thames, England. British
Jermyn, Kathleen Mary, 20, Staten Island, New York. American
Johnson, Beth Ann, 21, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. American
Owen, Bryony Elise, 1, Bristol, England. British
Owens, Laura Abigail. 8, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, American
Owens, Martha, 44, Cherry Hill, New Jersey. American
Owens, Robert Plack, 45, Cherry Hill, New Jersey . American
Owens, Sarah Rebecca, 14, Cherry Hill, New Jersey . American
Rattan, Anmol, 2, Warren. Michigan. American (Indian)
Rattan, Garima, 29, Warren, Michigan.,American(Indian)
Rattan, Suruchi, 3, Warren, Michigan. American (Indian) ("The little girl in the red dress...")

Roller, Edina, 5, Hungary. Hungarian
Stevenson, Hannah Louise, 10, Esher, England. British
Stinnett, Stacey Leanny, 9, Duncanville, Texas. American
Thomas, Jonathan Ryan, 2 months, Southfield, Michigan. American
Williams, Brittany Leigh, 2 months, Crown Point, New York American
Williams, Stephanie Leigh, 1. Crown Point, New York. American
Woods, Chelsea Marie, 10 months, Willingboro, New Jersey. American
Woods, Joe Nathan, Jr., 2, Willingboro, New Jersey . American

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

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Nation

The United States of Mexico: Times
An 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: Pirrong
New 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: Attkisson
As 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: Barone
Senate 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: LI
Allen 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: Dossier
On 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: MediaBistro
Jobs 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 VII
Human 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
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