Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Coordinating With Left-Wing Groups on Vote Fraud?

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Nation

Obama Coordinating With Left-Wing Groups on Vote Fraud?: Power
Supreme Court Takes Up Arizona Immigration Law: Cato
S.F. puts the “X” back in Xmas, Naked Santas Edition: Zombie

Romney’s Record on Judicial and Legal Appointments: Awful: Contrada
Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz Running Scared?: Shark
Gingrich Blasts It Out of Park!: Simon

Gridlock to the Rescue: Sowell
President Obama opines on his achievements: WZ
IN Democrat Chairman resigns over widespread vote fraud: FireAndrea

Economy

Obama Redraws the Laffer Curve: Ricochet
Obama’s Math Works Only in BizzaroEcon World: Hayek
Voters Favor Obamacare Repeal By Massive 20% Margin: WZ

Labor board's Boeing 'retreat' is big win for union bosses: Exam
The U.S. Federal Budget Infographic: CBO
Debunking Depression Myths: CFP

Harry Reid: Millionaire Job Creators are Like Unicorns: Malkin
Wasserman Schultz: unemployment has not gone up under Obama: Toldjah
'Obama sees Democracy as stumbling-block to his greatness': Breitbart

Climate & Energy

Enviromental Scientist Caught On Video Faking Data: Wizbang
Canada exits Kyoto, stage right: Bayonet
Why the Chevy Volt Is Such a Scandal: DailyFinance

Media

"But so far as liberalism goes, this is a pretty devastating graph": Ace
Poor Journalism 101: BS-Bias-Detector Goes Off: BaconTime
Barack Obama, Tax-Cutter: PJM

Glenn Beck jumps the shark, along with Michael Weiner: Nice Deb
Republicans See Gingrich As Man With The Plan: IBD
My Video At Heart of Controversy in Florida House Race: Publius

ABC World News Continues To Ignore Fast And Furious: BigJourn
It’s A Brave New World Out There: Gun Values Board
Stealth Jihad in the Senate: Gaffney

Republican Triumphs and Democrat Lies: Diogenes
Obama’s strange, revisionist history on ‘60 Minutes’: Peth
Evolution of a JournOlist: Politico’s Ben Smith Jumps to BuzzFeed: BigJourn

World

Iran is conducting anti-U.S. operations in Latin America: Foundry
Israeli officials: Obama too soft on Iran: ynet
The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels: Slashdot

Whose photo op do you think this is?: IBD
MPAA Head Chris Dodd on Online Censorship Bill: China's the Model: WS
Eurocrash Update #2: Power Line

Sci-Tech

Was Russia Behind Stuxnet?: The Diplomat
Why even 4 hours of sleep is enough: Hindustan Times
Google and Facebook battle US anti-piracy laws: Telegraph

Cornucopia

Tim Tebow Makes Believers: EIB
Funny Ad Sells Guns As If They're Neglected Puppies Who Just Need The Right Owner To Love Them: Ace
Awesomest Parallel-Parking Job Ever: Marfdrat

Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Eric Holder is Coming to Texas Today! Join the Counter-Rally

QOTD: "Given that Merkozy cannot bring themselves to accept that Europe's debacle stems from the euro itself, from a 30pc currency misalignment between from North and South, and from an over-leveraged €23 trillion banking bubble that German, French, Dutch, Belgian regulators allowed to happen… given that, yes, I suppose they have to find a scapegoat.

They have to whip up a witchhunt against somebody, so why not Anglo-Saxon bankers? Nasty reflexes are at work. German and French politicians in particular should be very careful about inciting populist hatred against a group that makes such easy prey. We have been there before." --Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Monday, December 12, 2011

Photo: after Perry attack, Obama family reluctantly trudges to church

Rick Perry's nickname should be "Muezzin", cuz it appears he successfully issued a call to prayer for the President.

Texas Governor Rick Perry's recent campaign ad vow[ed] to end Obama's "war on religion.

President Obama publicly attended church on Sunday, and spoke about Christ's birth during a Christmas concert program that included Jennifer Hudson, The Band Perry, and Justin Bieber.

...The last time the family publicly attended church on Sunday was in April 2011 for Easter.

To be fair, there aren't any really good Black Liberation Theology churches in the D.C. area, which could explain the president's reluctance to attend services.


Obamas somehow make do with only 37 Christmas trees in White House before they leave on 17-day Hawaiian vacation

Like the movie Fletch, I can imagine President Obama ordering all of these extravagant parties, vacations and over-the-top celebrations and, when the tab comes, he says: "Put it on the Underhill account."

And we're the Underhills.

The economy may be weak, unemployment strong and the first family soon to vacate the White House for another half-month of vacation in Hawaii.

But the Obamas have gone all out in decorating their house this year, including a nearly quarter-ton gingerbread White House.

They have also installed 37 different Christmas trees. Thirty of the trees are live, or were, including one nearly 19-feet tall from Wisconsin. Seven of the three dozen Christmas trees are artificial or homemade including, of course, one from recyclables.

"We have 37 Christmas trees here at the White House--37!" Michelle Obama excitedly told a recent group of visitors. "That's a lot, right? Yes, that's a lot of trees. And we also have a 400-pound White House gingerbread house."

Yeah, and I'll bet the ginger for the gingerbread house was grown by Michelle in her organic garden.

You know, the only members of the "one-percent" I know are the Obama family, Congress and the rest of the overpaid paper-pushers in Washington.


More SmartPower™ From Obama: Hey Iran, Can We Get Our Drone Back?

No, seriously. I'm not making this up.

Even ABC News is chortling as the Organizer-In-Chief tries to push the Reset button... all the way back to the Carter administration.

President Barack Obama said today the U.S. has requested that Iran return the highly sensitive stealth drone that crash landed there two weeks ago, but an Iranian general already said that's not going to happen.

"We've asked for it back. We'll see how the Iranians respond," Obama said at a news conference... A senior Iranian military commander, however, said on Iranian television Sunday that not only would Iran not turn over the drone, but warned of a "bigger response" to the "hostile act" of crossing into Iranian airspace.

"No one returns the symbol of aggression to the party that sought secret and vital intelligence related to the national security of a country," Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps [IRGC] Lt. Commander Gen. Hossein Salami said, according to Iran's Fars News Agency.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said told reporters today that "given Iran's behavior to date, we do not expect them to comply" with Obama's request. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also said he didn't expect Iran to hand over the drone...

Impressive. What's next? A Presidential request to pretty-please-stop-building-nukes-with-a-cherry-on-top?


Needle on Hypocrisy-Meter Breaks Off: Unions require photo IDs to vote in their elections

Gee, I guess the unions are raaacist.

[Via] John Romano at "Yes, But, However!" at the link. He asks the perplexing question of why do Democrats so fear voter ID? Apparently even unions don't see the requirement of a photo ID as too burdensome.

"A picture is worth a thousand words. According to OpenSecrets.org unions belonging to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have donated over $26 million to Democratic candidates and causes since 1990. During that same period, the union gave a paltry $272,311 to the Republican Party.

As you’ll note in the photo below the union requires its own members to produce a photo ID in order to vote. The photo shows a union worker voting earlier today on whether to sanction a new four-year contract with Boeing, clearly the union understands the need for a picture ID in order to help guarantee a clean election:

In America, one needs an ID to vote in a union election, buy liquor, drive a car, board an airplane, use a credit card and a slew of other things in our society. Yet, the Democratic party refuses to back the idea of requiring an ID to vote in state and federal elections under any circumstances. A sensible voter ID law that respects the rights of the poor, elderly, and minorities is a great idea. What are Democrats afraid of? You connect the dots.

The most lawless attorney general in American history -- and I'm including the pathetic John Mitchell in the mix -- is visiting Austin, Texas tomorrow.

And guess what? He will be lobbying for vote fraud, supporting a United Nations resolution that is designed to erode the integrity of the ballot box and, ultimately, destroy the United States Constitution.

If you're in the area (Houston included), I'd strongly encourage you to join the counter-rally.

Like former DOJ official J. Christian Adams says, it's high time this national disgrace was impeached.


Hat tip: @EyeOnPolitics

Larwyn's Linx: Obama, Romney Change Tacks in Week of Political Risks

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Nation

Obama, Romney Change Tacks in Week of Political Risks: Barone
ACORN Returns as ‘Occupy’: RSM
“We Win; They Lose”: Reagan’s Grand Strategy: Foundry

Jihadist Behind Killing of Troops in Iraq To Be Charged As Civilian: NRO
A Note About Romney's "Superior Electabilty": Ace
U.S. Proposes Unmanned Border Entry With Mexico: Fox

Must Be an Election Season: Obama’s Walk to Church: VS
Congress Isn’t Supposed to Be Above the Law: Carter
Governor Perry's Ambitious Plans: Ace

Economy

Obama Blocks The Biggest Shovel-Ready Project Ever: IBD
D12 Guide: Occupiers return to ports for West Coast shutdown: Malkin
Mother and Kids Terrorized By Recall Scott Walker Mob: MBT

Implementing An International IRS In The Name Of Robin Hood: LUR
Eurocrash Update #1: Power Line
Higher Education Bubble Update: Instapundit

Gunrunner & Energygate

Holder may be holding on to private emails about Fast and Furious: DC
Patriots to Rally Tuesday as Holder Plans Major Announcement on Voting Laws: Adams
Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America: SRI

Climate & Energy

Volt hysteria: Why image and perception are everything.: AutoExtremist
Where is evidence for EPA’s claims?: Kansas
The Top 3 Google Execs Have How Many Jets?: Insider

Media

Lies, Damned Lies, and ‘Fact Checking’: WS
Andrew Breitbart Resigns From GOProud Advisory Board Over Outing of Perry Pollster: Ace
MSNBC Star Host Al Sharpton Owes IRS $2.6 Million: GWP

CBS Poll: 75% Wrong Direction, 66% No Idea What Obama Wants To Do If Reelected: GWP
I'm Sensing a Trend Here: Ace
Obama Campaign Wants To Know: What Question Do You Have For Barack And Michelle?: WZ

A You Suck List: 10 People, Places, And Things That Suck: Hawkins
Obama Tells 60 Minutes 'Damaging Behavior on Wall Street' Was Legal, Wasn't Asked Who Enacted Laws: NB
The Spread The Wealth Around Game: Soylent Green

World

Sharia Law Already Devouring UK: PJM
Jordan TV: Sheikh Calls "To Annihilate Israel”; Also Jizya Tax for Christians: WZ
GOP debate: Gingrich doubles down on Palestinian comments: Hill

Report: Hamas Sets Up Rocket Production Lines, Forward Operating Bases In Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula: WZ
Back-Door Bank Runs in Europe Have Started: NewAm
United States of Europe One Step Closer to Reality?: PJM

Hollywood Shooter Shouted 'Allahu Akbar'; Media Silent: LoneCon
Newt’s Palestinian comment was more than about history: LI
DhiMITTude: Zilla

Sci-Tech

Bolton: Iranian Jamming Technology Could Be Worse News Than Downed Drone: Fox
What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447: PopMech
Building the bikes of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: AutoBlog

Cornucopia

Where did that horse’s “A” come from?: MOTUS
Shaking that moneymaker for 10 grand a night: Post
The Red Cross and Video Games - Or Why You Might Already Be a War Criminal: Ace

Image: Rob Goebel, Indianapolis Star
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Eric Holder is Coming to Texas on Tuesday: Join the Counter-Rally

QOTD: "On Tuesday, Americans will have a rare chance to voice their disdain of the corruption and lies flowing from this Justice Department.  They will have a chance to speak out against the radical and racialist law enforcement priorities of this Justice Department.  Eric Holder comes to Austin, Texas to make a major announcement about voting laws, probably to acquiesce to some loud demand of the NAACP to block state efforts to ensure voter integrity. But a counter-rally organized by Catherine Engelbrecht and True the Vote will greet Eric Holder’s appearance in Austin, Texas at the LBJ Library at 4 p.m.  America is invited, and here is a flier with details." --J. Christian Adams

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Faux Journalist Steve Kroft Interviews Obama, Forgets to Ask About Calls to Impeach Holder, Kagan Recusal, Corzine, Solyndra, etc.

President Obama received another in-kind donation from CBS News tonight in the form of a fawning 60 Minutes interview by "journalist" Steve Kroft. If that is his real name.

Kroft apparently had a brief case of amnesia and forgot about a few mildly important issues:

• The increasing calls for Eric Holder's resignation and/or impeachment for Operation Fast and Furious, etc.

• The newly revealed Obamacare emails that appear to show Elena Kagan lied under oath

• The catastrophic failure of MF Global, headed by none other than one of Obama's leading fundraisers, John Corzine

• The billions in "green energy" funds that went to Obama's fundraisers and political cronies, Solyndra being only the most visible example

• The "historic" $4.2+ trillion budget deficits thanks to Obama's disastrous stimulus debacle and the Democrats' failure to pass a budget for 1,000+ days

Obama has blamed the weather, earthquakes, ATMs, and the Internet -- among other things -- for the bad economy. In the Kroft interview, he said, "I'm being judged against the ideal. And, you know, Joe Biden has a good expression. He says, 'Don't judge me against the Almighty, judge me against the alternative.' "

There he goes again, comparing himself with God.

No, Mr. President. Our ideal is Ronald Reagan who, having inherited a far worse recession than you, had the economy rockin' and rollin' at the exact same point in his presidency.


Hat tip: BP.

Good News: DHS proposes unmanned border entry with Mexico...

...though I think we already have an "unmanned border entry" -- it's called the entire Southwest.

The bloody drug war in Mexico shows no sign of relenting. Neither do calls for tighter border security amid rising fears of spillover violence.

This hardly seems a time the U.S. would be willing to allow people to cross the border legally from Mexico without a customs officer in sight. But in this rugged, remote West Texas terrain where wading across the shallow Rio Grande undetected is all too easy, federal authorities are touting a proposal to open an unmanned port of entry as a security upgrade.

By the spring, kiosks could open up in Big Bend National Park allowing people from the tiny Mexican town of Boquillas del Carmen to scan their identity documents and talk to a customs officer in another location, at least 100 miles away.... The crossing, which would be the nation's first such port of entry with Mexico, has sparked opposition from some who see it as counterintuitive in these days of heightened border security. Supporters say the crossing would give the isolated Mexican town long-awaited access to U.S. commerce, improve conservation efforts and be an unlikely target for criminal operations.

...A public comment period runs through Dec. 27 on the estimated $2.3 million project, which has support at the highest levels of government from both countries... But U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican member of the House Homeland Security committee, questioned the wisdom of using resources to make it easier to cross the border...

...A small military presence protects the [Mexican] town from the drug-related violence that has engulfed other Mexican border towns. Now with news of the port of entry, residents are already making plans for restaurants and shops, he said... "When it closed nobody crossed and everything went downhill. People began to leave," he said. "Now people are going to return."

Yes, people are going to return. Especially the narco-terrorists who have killed tens of thousands of Mexicans over the past several years.


The Toughest Place on the Planet to Shoot Free Throws Is...

Bloomington, Indiana. Exhibit A: last night's stands, right behind the opposing team's goal, during Indiana's upset of #1 Kentucky.

I especially like the depiction of mega-stoner Gobi, who most college kids would recognize but not know why.


In Houston or Austin on Tuesday? So is Eric Holder, who is pushing for vote fraud. Here's how to join the anti-Holder counter-rally.

If you'll be in the Houston or Austin area on Tuesday, check this out:

This coming Tuesday, Eric Holder is coming to Austin, Texas, to make a major announcement about voting rights.  Most likely, it will involve opposing election integrity efforts like voter identification requirements in Texas and South Carolina.  It will have a direct impact on the 2012 election. 

[Holder's] appearance at the LBJ Library will be met by True the Vote, which will hold a counter-rally to which all of America is invited.  It is at 4 p.m. on the grounds of the LBJ Library.  Here is the flyer with more information.

Holder is a disgrace and, in the words of former Justice official J. Christian Adams, should face impeachment.

People wonder what to do about this lawless administration. Well, here's something you can do. Help out TrueTheVote and show up to the anti-Holder counter-rally on Tuesday.

It's time.


Was Newt Gingrich right? An Illustrated History of the Middle East

Newt Gingrich touched off a firestorm of controversy by stating that the Palestinian people are an "invented" group, that its leaders are unreconstructed terrorists and that it's high time America's leaders started speaking the truth about the situation.

Which begs the question: what really happened in the Middle East? Why is it so dysfunctional? What prevents people of all religions from living in peace? The highlights of The Terrorism Awareness Project's presentation helps explain the real backstory.














Continue on to the rest of the story...


I Am The One-Hundred Percent [Casey]

Casey:

There has been much talk about class warfare, and about who holds the majority opinion of how to manage the business of the day. This talk is nothing new to me – I’ve been hearing the discussion my entire life. Now, approaching the age of forty, I have witnessed the rise of the very ideology that I saw defeated in my youth. Socialism both at home under Carter and abroad under the Iron Fist of the Soviets suffered defeat in a globally public forum. I remember adults at the time saying that they would remember and never allow such transgressions occur again.

So, here we all are today feeling a sick sense of déjà vu and we are listening to the left in their greatest voice: that of the civil protest. The Occupy movement has generated much conversation, and that is a good thing. However, it seems to me that very little focus finds itself on the rebuttal to this movement. I recall the media ramping up into overdrive to dilute and minimize the message of the Tea Party movement; yet see the same media operate in equal diligence to legitimize the primary theme of the Occupy movement: a percentage.

Ninety-nine percent is what the far left claim themselves to be. The one percent are the ones they aim to … uhm … what do they aim for? Never mind. As such, since I think the ideology of the left is bad policy, I must be the one percent. True, I make money. True, I make enough to pay taxes. I guess those protesters were right – I AM THE ONE PERCENT!

Should I repent?

The truth is that I really can see myself as the one percent. Those jerks out causing trouble under the banner of their media-approved, Twitter-hash-tagged movement may be right that I am the one percent, but they are wrong about why. If I am the one percent, I am because I contend with a situation most of these people know little about.

I am a man of communication. From a very early age, I began to write. I wrote stories, poems, limericks (one that got me in some trouble), and songs. As years grew on, I began to hone my communication skills verbally. Before too long, I found myself successful in sales specifically due to my ability to communicate with people from all walks in life. I also found success in writing and producing songs – communicating complex emotional states in a way that large cross-sections of people equally comprehend. Suffice it to say that the written, spoken, and harmonized words are the mainstay of my being.

In my mid-thirties, I found new inspiration for my words in a new life with a new wife and newborn son. My wife, like me, is a person of words and song. Our kinship of communication contributed to the forces which brought us together. Our son would become the nexus of our affinity for communication of all things which make us human. Then, we felt as if we became the one percent.

Our son, diagnosed with Autism, is a joy and a true miracle to our lives. Neither of us thought we would be able to conceive based on our prior life experience. Nonetheless, we have a beautiful and healthy boy – a boy who has a funny personality, sense of humor, and loving disposition … and Autism. We are fortunate that he does actually have the personality and emotional response that so many with this affliction lack. However, he has a severe impairment with communication.

Put simply, our son’s condition inhibits the one thing my wife and I understand. His disability is centered on communication. While we hold hope that we can overcome these obstacles in his ability to communicate and to assimilate into society, I cannot help but fret at the unfairness of it all. I have always been a man of passionate communication and I can barely connect with my own son.

One thing is for certain: I have heard enough from the “ninety-nine percent”. They complain incessantly about fairness. Perhaps they are right that ninety-nine percent of people get the unfair side of life. Regardless, they seem to be asking for someone else to make it fair. That’s where my situation illustrates it all best. There is no government agency, program, mandate, edict, law, or otherwise generated program that can make my situation fair. I am a man of communication and am facing the possibility that I might never be able to communicate with my own son – ever. Do I or should I ask the government to make this fair? What would the government solution to my unfair situation look like?

When viewing my situation locally, I considered myself the one percent. It hurts so much to know that I may never be able to communicate with my son that I can barely finish a day without tears of sorrow. As a songwriter, it is hard to think that your son might not like your music. It is crushing to think he might not ever understand it. Then, I hear and read about others who endure so much worse than my situation. Epilepsy, Down’s syndrome, etcetera; mine is a situation that could be so much more severe that I pause to even lament it.

When viewing my situation nationally, I am really more along the lines of the middle thirty-three percent. If I were to “zoom out” to a global view, I would estimate myself to be in the top eighty-five percent. So, what does this whole rant mean?

Anyone claiming to be ninety-nine percent of anything is completely disingenuous. Anyone identifying anyone else as one percent of anything is equally deceitful. Regardless of color or creed, wealth inherited or earned, poverty inherited or earned, or defect of body or spirit, we all have our paths to walk. Rarely is this path devoid of pitfall or pain. How we traverse this path defines us, and I will not have others so easily dismiss my path with an arbitrary percentage used to punctuate a point which otherwise makes little sense.

No matter the pain, my wife and I raise our son with pride. We do so without looking to blame anyone else or looking for others to pay us their fair share for having a better situation than ours. We don’t begrudge those with children free of disability – we celebrate them. We don’t for a moment think that these people owe us anything because their kids don’t have Autism and our does. How is this different from income levels?

We are all the one-hundred percent. The only intellectually honest percentage that can be applied is that we are all human. We all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.


Liberal Legal Expert: Kagan must recuse herself or "the integrity of the Supreme Court is at stake"

Professor Eric Segal is a widely published constitutional attorney who is a self-professed liberal. Therefore, when the subject of Elena Kagan's recusal is seen by most Democrats as a partisan issue -- rather than simply an issue of obvious, judicial integrity -- his Slate opinion piece ("A Liberal’s Lament on Kagan and Health Care") represents a breath of fresh air.

...Elena Kagan is a loyal Democrat who owes her Supreme Court appointment to President Barack Obama.* She is poised to review the constitutionality of Obama’s health care statute, which, if invalidated, might do serious damage to his re-election campaign as well as the Democratic Party. Even though it would be a hard decision to make, Elena Kagan should recuse herself from hearing challenges to the act.

So far it appears that only Republicans and conservatives want Kagan to recuse herself from hearing the case, while liberals and Democrats take the opposing view. I have been a liberal constitutional law professor for more than 20 years, and a loyal Democrat. I believe the Affordable Care Act is constitutional... That said, I believe that as a matter of both principle and law, Kagan should not hear the case.

...As many have pointed out, there are legitimate arguments that these rules point to recusal. Was Kagan a “counsel” or “adviser” on this issue? We know that she was on an e-mail exchange between her top deputy, Neal Katyal, and Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, about a meeting to discuss the litigation strategy for the ACA litigation, and lawyers in her office would be present. We also know she attended at least one meeting where the litigation was discussed... We don’t know how fully Kagan was involved because the White House (perhaps for legitimate reasons unrelated to this controversy) has not released all of the relevant emails about the matter...

We also know that Kagan wrote an e-mail to Laurence Tribe, a famous Harvard constitutional law professor who was also working for the administration at the time the law passed, in which she said, “I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing.” The email's subject line was "fingers and toes crossed today!"

...She served as the solicitor general of the United States during the time that the ACA was furiously debated in Congress, discussed in town halls across the country, and enacted... [and] We know she celebrated the passage of the law.

...The Supreme Court is increasingly seen as a partisan political institution making political decisions instead of a true court deciding cases under the law. Justice Kagan has a golden moment to display that at least one Supreme Court justice has integrity and character that exceed her party loyalty and political past. If she sees herself as a political official who, because of the office she occupies, gets to cast an important vote on an issue that may decide an election, she should stay on the case. But, if she views herself as a judge of law who is obligated to approach legal issues objectively and open-mindedly without regard to partisan political outcomes, she ought to step aside. Nothing less than the integrity of the Supreme Court is at stake.

Thank you, professor, for demonstrating that at least one Democrat is capable of publicly advocating an ethical and intellectually honest course of action for Justice Kagan.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Larwyn's Linx: It's Time to Impeach Holder for DOJ Lies

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Nation

It's Time to Impeach Holder for DOJ Lies: Adams
let's be clear about my political persuasions...: Winter Soldier
The Left's Cult of Murder Groupies: PJM

The Osawatomie Speech: A Defining Moment In History: DailyCap
Ron Paul Is Despicable: Surber
Drunkblogging Tonight’s Debate in Iowa: VodkaPundit

Statist Delusions: Steyn
“Electable” Romney’s Actual Record in Elections: 5-17: C4P
CBS poll: 54% say Obama doesn’t deserve re-election: Hot Air

Economy

Bobblehead Blames Bush: MB
Obama: “I don’t control the weather.”: ProWis
The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah!: Forbes

Corporate Greed versus Government Greed: AT
John Taylor: ECB Taking On Massive Risks: Insider
Allen West Apologizes For Congressional Failure: Hayward

Gunrunner & Energygate

Attorney General George Costanza: Sunshine State Sarah
Fast and Furious Stonewallings Call For Eric Holder's Impeachment: Forbes
Navy buys biofuel for $16 a gallon from company with... Obama fundraising ties: Greenroom

Climate & Energy

Tilting at Windmills: JPA
GM working on a fix for Chevy Volt battery: Bend Bulletin
America Has A 250 Year Supply Of Oil: SAB

Durban Wrapup: Landmark Deal To Do Something Later And Party Now: RWN
Science Boxes in Barbara Boxer: AT
$5B later, Obama's green car revolution finds little traction: Chron

Media

Kathleen Parker - If You Don't Support Mitt, You Are An Idiot: Wolf Howling
Hopey Change Hits the Fan: MB
Barry Does Hanukkah His Way…: Driscoll

Advertisers pull spots from “All American Muslim”: Hot Air
Obama's Trail of Broken Promises: AT
College Mate: Obama Was an “Ardent” “Marxist-Leninist”: NewAm

The Top 50 Examples of Liberal Media Bias: Western
MTV, Both Sleazy and Sour: RWN
ABC and CBS Eat Up Obama’s ‘Sharp’ and ‘Pointed’ Retorts: NB

World

Swiss, Germans Set To Unleash Capital Controls As European Companies Prepare For End of Euro: ZH
Gingrich Describes Palestinian People as 'Invented': Fox
Worries grow over IMF loans to Europe: Yahoo!

Juarez copkiller may be a U.S. Army soldier: Borderland
Saudi Textbook: The Enmity between the Muslims and the Jews Is Everlasting: MEMRI
Raymond Ibrahim testifies about the plight of Egypt's Christians: JihadWatch

John Kerry Meeting With Muslim Brotherhood Officials In Egypt: WZ
Time for Jews to wake up and smell the stench of bigotry and hatred: PJM
Jail and Impeach Overspending European Leaders: RWN

Finally the Truth: Gingrich calls Palestinians an ‘invented’ people: Bruce
Newt Defends Israel: YouTube
Codrea: Georgia Gun Owners Going For Constitutional Carry – HB 679: Western Rifle

Sci-Tech

Renault Opens Up the ‘Car as Platform’: WSJ
Windows Phone 7.5: What will make it a winner?: CNet
Snowe rips Amazon for 'incentivizing consumers to spy on local shops': Hill

Cornucopia

Keep Safe in the Woods: Exurban
Death by, uhm, Male Enhancement: RSM
Hulk Hogan sues ex-wife Linda over abuse accusations: LAT

Image: @GayPatriot
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "I am concerned that Wall Street is becoming little more than a glorified crack house. Day after day, the sole focus of Wall Street is on more sugar, stronger sugar, Big Bazookas of sugar, unlimited sugar, and anything that will get somebody to deliver the sugar faster. This is like offering a lollipop to quiet down a 2-year old throwing a tantrum, and expecting that the result will be fewer tantrums.

What we have increasingly observed over the past decade is nothing but the gradual destruction of the ability of the financial markets to allocate capital for the benefit of future growth. By preventing the natural discipline of the markets to impose losses on poor stewards of capital, and to impose interest rates high enough to force debtors to allocate the capital usefully, the world's policy makers are increasingly wrecking the prospects for long-term economic growth. The world's standard of living (what we can consume for the work we do) is intimately tied to its productivity (what we can produce for the work we do). That productivity requires our scarce savings to be allocated to productive physical capital, and to productive human capital (primarily education)." --John Hussman

Saturday, December 10, 2011

More Bad News For the Climate Crooks™: U.S. Has Only 575 Years of Gas and 500 Years of Coal Left in Ground

But, gee, let's not drill. It could contribute to warmal colding. The Institute for Energy Research (PDF) has the bad news for the climate crime gang.

In 1980, official estimates of proved oil reserves in the United States stood at roughly 30 billion barrels.

Yet over the past 30 years, more than 77 billion barrels of oil have been produced here.

In other words, the green energy kooks underestimated supplies by about 150%... just the last time they tried to panic the public.

North Dakota, for example, was barely among the top ten oil producing states less than ten years ago. Today it is the fourth largest producer due to rapid growth in developing the massive oil resources in the Bakken formation in the western portion of the state. North Dakota’s unemployment rate is 3.5 percent, compared to a 9.1 percent unemployment rate for the United States.

But President Obama -- who is opposed to job creation -- continues to refuse to allow massive projects like Keystone XL to proceed.

...the Congressional Research Service... released a report showing that the United States’ combined recoverable oil, natural gas, and coal endowment is the largest on Earth. ...When combined with resources from Canada and Mexico, total recoverable oil in North America exceeds 1.7 trillion barrels... [which] is more than the world has used since the first oil well was drilled over 150 years ago in Titusville, Pennsylvania. To put this in context, Saudi Arabia has about 260 billion barrels of oil in proved reserves.

For comparative purposes, the technically recoverable oil in North America could fuel the present needs in the United States of seven billion barrels per year for around 250 years.

...Moreover, it is important to note that that “reserves” estimates are constantly in #ux. For example, in 1980, the U.S. had oil reserves of roughly 30 billion barrels. Yet from 1980 through 2010, we produced over 77 billion barrels of oil. In other words, over the last 30 years, we produced over 150 percent of our proved reserves.

...Restrictions in the form of federal bans and leasing combined with declining offerings of lease acreage mean only about 2.2 percent of America’s offshore acreage is currently leased for production...

...there is enough natural gas in North America to last the United States for over 175 years at current rates of consumption... [and its] coal supplies are even more staggering. The United States, Canada, and Mexico have over 497 billion short tons of recoverable coal, or nearly three times as much as Russia, which has the world’s second largest reserves... North American recoverable coal could provide enough electricity for the United States for about 500 years at current levels of consumption.

...While the United States and North America contain enormous energy wealth, U.S. policies have increasingly made exploration, development, production and consumption of that energy more difficult. Therefore, a scarcity of good policies, not a scarcity of energy, is responsible for U.S. energy insecurity.

Anyone who opposes the exploitation of America's massive energy treasures should be forced to live for a year without electricity and gasoline.

Of course, if they're like most limousine liberals (***cough*** Al Gore ***cough*** Barack Obama), it's only folks like us who are supposed to go without.


Hat tip: Say Anything Blog.

Citizen Obama Makes a Health Care Decision


What if Barack Obama were just a normal citizen? A normal, taxpaying schmoe like you and me. These are his stories. These are the travails of Citizen Obama.

Mr. Obama, I'm sorry to say that your wife's mother is suffering from some serious ailments.

We'll need to do an extensive battery of tests. Her white blood cell count is elevated, which could mean a variety of things.

Also, it appears she needs a hip replacement.

Doctor, thank you. Even though this is family, I don't want you to go to extraordinary lengths.

You know what? We should cut costs.

It pains me to say this, but don't do any tests.

Don't give her that expensive drug. It treats a rare disease and is very expensive. The last thing I'd want to do is run up costs for other Americans.

No, she's getting up there in years, and according to Ezekiel Emanuel's "Complete Lives System", she's consumed enough of our precious community health care resources.

No, we're not going to go to the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins or some other top-notch facility.

Who am I to demand cutting-edge treatment? Those extra tests? Cutting-edge drugs? No, we don't want any of those.

And look. She's 79, for heaven's sake. Forget about the hip replacement.

She can handle it, she's tougher than nails.

Look, bottom line: just give her some painkillers.

It's just the progressive thing to do.

Enviro-scams, Episode LXXXIV: The next person to die from Radon will be the first

Responding to "The Radon Business is a Scam", an anonymous commenter observes:

...As an expert on radiation effects, and a research career that spans over 35 years, I can assert that Radon detectors (and the level set as "safe" by the EPA) are pseudo-science.

The human body contains enough potassium-40 (a radioactive isotope) to register more than 4 pCi! So far as I know, the K-40 in our bodies has never been linked to an increased rate of cancer. One only need sit or sleep beside one of the detectors for most of the "collection" period to register positive for Radon.

Meanwhile, how can a gas which is much, much heavier than air "rise" up through a home? Heck, Radon is even heavier than ALL commonly occurring metals, including Gold! It can only FALL out of the cracks in basement walls (if those walls contain or are near a high concentration of Uranium), where any Radon will turn to Lead within a few weeks. It must constantly be "replenished" by some source (that source is Uranium).

If you had a true Radon problem in your basement, you'd also have a problem with Lead on your basement floor, and Uranium in-or-behind your basement walls. There's no need for a Radon detector at all, and ventilation systems will do almost NOTHING to mitigate any problem with Radon -- it is too heavy to ventilate.

The entire Radon mitigation industry is a scam perpetrated by environmental activists pushing an agenda to grow the power of the federal government to control our environment, and who are ignorant about physical science.

Cancer is "linked" to a great number of factors using statistics. When I studied advanced probability & statistics, I was taught that figures don't lie, but that liars do it with figures. This is the case for "Radon"-induced cancer.

The EPA justifies the Radon scam by claiming that up to 21,000 people die annually from Radon-related lung cancer.

The problem is, the EPA's study failed to separate... wait for it... smokers from non-smokers.

Of course, anyone with an ounce of sense would ask: why do I have to spend $1,000 to "fix" a problem that no one can see, that no one can smell, has never hurt a single person, and apparently didn't exist until 1984?

Oh, right. It's for the children.


Telegraph: 'Eurozone banking system on the edge of collapse'

But no amount of facts, history, logic and reason can convince the Democrat Party that their Utopia, the European social welfare state, is dead.

The eurozone banking system is on the edge of collapse as major lenders begin to run out of the assets they need to keep vital funding lines open.

10:01PM GMT 09 Dec 2011

Senior analysts and traders warned of impending bank failures as a summit intended to solve the European crisis failed to deliver a solution that eased concerns over bank funding.

The European Central Bank admitted it had held meetings about providing emergency funding to the region's struggling banks, however City figures said a "collateral crunch" was looming.

"If anyone thinks things are getting better then they simply don't understand how severe the problems are. I think a major bank could fail within weeks," said one London-based executive at a major global bank.

Many banks, including some French, Italian and Spanish lenders, have already run out of many of the acceptable forms of collateral such as US Treasuries and other liquid securities used to finance short-term loans and have been forced to resort to lending out their gold reserves to maintain access to dollar funding. [And] lenders are increasingly distrustful about funding one another.

... [Some] think the eurozone banks are heading for a catastrophe and the worry is growing that a major bank could collapse within weeks... Moody's on Friday downgraded France's three largest banks, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole and Societe Generale in light of what the US rating agency said were "liquidity and funding constraints"... Two weeks ago, rumours abounded that it was the near failure of a major French lender that had been the trigger for a massive co-ordinated intervention by the world's largest central banks to shore up the banking system.

The delusional politiconomist Paul Krugman hardest hit.


"Follow me, into the futu --" ***Ka-Thwack-Bumpity-Bumpity-Splash-Ka-Shunk!!!!!!!!!***


Hat tips: Papa B and The Bad.

Why Barack Obama Chose Osawatomie For His Speech Attacking Capitalism

The reactions to Barack Obama's speech in Osawatomie, Kansas this week were, if nothing else, consistent:

• It "sounded like what you'd expect to hear in Caracas or Buenos Aires."
• "Those who pride themselves on belonging to the party of smart people should be embarrassed."
• The speech "was deceitful, inaccurate, revisionist, and demagogic... a recreation, a fabrication if you will, of history, economics, and philosophy into a Pandoran construct of collectivist statism whereby society can demand the individual’s obedience and obeisance."
• The speech was "a thick coat of whitewash layered all over it, and the failure of the last three years lies underneath."
• The "elected president of the United States said in Osawatomie, Kansas, trying to be Teddy Roosevelt, that the United States of America has never worked. That is a quote, 'has never worked.'"
• A "Marxist attack on America."

Why did Obama choose, of all places, Osawatomie? One of the new media's living legends, Trevor Loudon, explains:

Why would Barack Obama choose to give a controversial speech attacking American capitalism in Osawatomie, Kansas? Hang on? Where have I heard that name before? Osawatomie? ...back in the ’70s? Weather Underground terrorists… Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn. Didn’t Obama used to hang out with those guys?

I remember! Osawatomie was the publication of the Weather Underground!

No, surely it's a coincidence...

I'm certain Mr. Loudon wrote that sentence with a wink at the end. The choice of Osawatomie was a signal, a coded message, a symbolic flag-raising for the progressive Left.

The Marxist class-warfare rhetoric, which divides one American against the other and which is utterly foreign to this nation, is going full-bore for the Obama reelection campaign. 2012 is our last chance to save this Republic from the Fabian counter revolution.


Update: Osawatomie: the Weather Underground newspaper