Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Mainstream Media Terrorist Translation Guide

With word that a terrorist was caught attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (yep, the same one featured in Die Hard: With a Vengeance), the ne'er-do-wells at iOwnTheWorld broke out one of their classics.


I, for one, blame the Militant Lutheran Movement.



SURELY YOU JEST: Violent Crime Up 17 Percent in One Year Thanks to the Brilliant Leadership of Barack Obama

And don't call me Shirley. And please don't call Mr. Obama the "Food Stamp President", even though that's precisely what he is.

Violent crime in America rose 17 percent last year, a study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics finds. In 2011, 5.8 million Americans age 12 older -- 22.5 of every 1,000 -- were victims of violent crime, up from 19.3 in 2010, [which] includes homicide, rape or sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated or simple assault. About 17.1 million more Americans were victims of property damage crimes, an increase of 11 percent.

Let me assure you that this increase was expected. And it will get worse.



Studies prove -- beyond a shadow of a doubt -- that making it easy to get food stamps and other forms of welfare increase the occurrence of children born out of wedlock. And kids born out of wedlock, irrespective of race, commit significantly more violent crimes than children born to two-parent families.



In a nutshell: the Democrats' multi-decade effort to make welfare checks easier and easier to get have destroyed opportunities for society's most vulnerable children. And the crime wave is only beginning, thanks to Barack Obama and the Democrat Party, who have made food stamps easier to get than a job.


The Top 150 Conservative Websites, October 2012

Here are the latest rankings of conservative news and opinion sites, which are ranked based upon Alexa traffic rankings. Yes, some of these are middle-of-the-road or moderate sites, but they are included because they do publish center-right opinion pieces on a regular basis.
RankTraffic RankWebsite
1165foxnews.com
2233wsj.com
3245telegraph.co.uk
4379usatoday.com
5426drudgereport.com
6454bloomberg.com
7914realclearpolitics.com
8997thedailybeast.com
91031theblaze.com
101196nypost.com
111283dailymail.co.uk
121576breitbart.com
131873zerohedge.com
142185dailycaller.com
152230weeklystandard.com
162263washingtontimes.com
173103hotair.com
183186townhall.com
193332thehill.com
203409washingtonexaminer.com
213776nationalreview.com
224239newsbusters.org
234355rasmussenreports.com
244414jpost.com
255064freerepublic.com
265247investors.com
275252pjmedia.com
285272ocregister.com
295617foreignpolicy.com
305887military.com
316232rushlimbaugh.com
327701debka.com
337758twitchy.com
347967americanthinker.com
358409ynetnews.com
368434reason.com
379375theweek.com
3810283ijreview.com
3911522timesofisrael.com
4011634freebeacon.com
4112418redstate.com
4213472lucianne.com
4313596thegatewaypundit.com
4414074michellemalkin.com
4514823humanevents.com
4615091ace.mu.nu
4715091mypetjawa.mu.nu
4815091rhymeswithright.mu.nu
4916326powerlineblog.com
5017380mises.org
5117443westernjournalism.com
5218216heritage.org
5318650freedomoutpost.com
5419563wattsupwiththat.com
5521825therightscoop.com
5625248creators.com
5727639canadafreepress.com
5828321legalinsurrection.com
5928737stratfor.com
6030102commentarymagazine.com
6130935whitehousedossier.com
6231540patriotupdate.com
6334129thenewamerican.com
6435109freedomworks.org
6535636weaselzippers.us
6636091realclearmarkets.com
6738380lifenews.com
6838413marklevinshow.com
6939366jihadwatch.org
7039490althouse.blogspot.com
7140892globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
7243506atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com
7346025market-ticker.org
7446106the-american-interest.com
7546477mrc.org
7646951ricochet.com
7752867memeorandum.com
7854290frontporchpolitics.com
7955687navytimes.com
8057693hannity.com
8157840dailypundit.com
8259076atr.org
8359781rightwingnews.com
8460351takimag.com
8564082hillbuzz.org
8665831boortz.com
8766046spectator.co.uk
8870344cnsnews.com
8971330cowboybyte.com
9072888borderlandbeat.com
9173118anncoulter.com
9276632city-journal.org
9379797riehlworldview.com
9481766armytimes.com
9585787wizbangblog.com
9686572theothermccain.com
9789537volokh.com
9891812numbersusa.com
9993562firstthings.com
10097514conservativedailynews.com
101104606defensetech.org
102105139linkiest.com
103107539jammiewf.com
104112549israelhayom.com
105119890climateaudit.org
106120811moonbattery.com
107124447conservatives4palin.com
108125746directorblue.blogspot.com
109127275lonelyconservative.com
110131243airforcetimes.com
111131626thecommentator.com
112132942cato-at-liberty.org
113133574gatestoneinstitute.org
114134337maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com
115135144marinecorpstimes.com
116137863danielpipes.org
117142555aim.org
118143837american.com
119146652aei.org
120147536sayanythingblog.com
121148382floppingaces.net
122162809patterico.com
123163547judicialwatch.org
124168032economicnoise.com
125174785datechguyblog.com
126180434polipundit.com
127183567angrywhitedude.com
128187067radicalislam.org
129188371smalldeadanimals.com
130192554steynonline.com
131193336maggiesnotebook.com
132197884redalertpolitics.com
133199870dennisprager.com
134201925allamericanblogger.com
135203409theblogmocracy.com
136204807spectator.org
137215449creepingsharia.wordpress.com
138220031bostonreview.net
139223159fireandreamitchell.com
140223510iowahawk.typepad.com
141232030memri.org
142233937gaypatriot.net
143237288americanpowerblog.blogspot.com
144237326ihatethemedia.com
145238883sultanknish.blogspot.com
146239848shark-tank.net
147242194freeenterprise.com
148244467blackfive.net
149250343noisyroom.net
150251689breitbart.tv
151256298imao.us
152256405proteinwisdom.com
153260250moelane.com
154261455politicsandfinance.blogspot.com
155272305zombietime.com
156273425justoneminute.typepad.com
157276675nicedeb.wordpress.com
158278032thisainthell.us
159288120cafehayek.com
160301834tammybruce.com
Related: The Top 150 Conservative Websites, July 2012.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama, Romney, and the Libya Exchange

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Nation

Obama, Romney, and the Libya Exchange: Geraghty
The Big Lie: Obama did not call Benghazi 'terrorism' on 9/12: Breitbart
Former Obama Aide: “He Really Doesn’t Like People”: JWF

Who Lost the Debate?: Instapundit
Romney Wins the Three-Way Debate at Hofstra: AT
Round Two Short Term Draw Long Term Romney: DTG

Alma Gonzalez AFL-CIO Goes Voter Intimidation Route: MagNote
Obama Getting Lowest Jewish Support Since Carter: Commentary
Romney Wins on Points, Not a KO: Tatler

Economy

Reminder: Obama did let Detroit go bankrupt: Exam
Obama Stimulus Funding Goes Abroad, Outsources Jobs: NewAm
Ann Coulter On Single Mothers: The Statistics From Guilty: Hawkins ('09)

New RNC ad: Romney’s powerful debate critique of Obama: Scoop
MSNBC's Undecided Voter Panel Sways Romney: WS
Details of the Auto Bailout You Won’t Hear in a Debate: Cato

Scandal Central

White House Link to Fast and Furious Back in the United States: Pavlich
Despite Obama’s 2008 claims, political relationship with Rev. Wright began as early as 1987: DC
Congressman Issa Responds To DOJ’s Request to Dismiss Fast and Furious Legal Action: CDN

Wasserman Schultz’s ‘Mile-High’ Campaign Dilemma: Shark Tank
Breaking: Another Green Company (Which Received $249 Million in Govt. Grants) Bites the Dust : BizzyBlog
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar Violated Hatch Act: RS

Climate & Energy

Obama fashions himself as a defender of coal, oil gas, Romney calls foul: Events
Obama Sets Aside Area Larger Than Rocky Mountain National Park For Future Solar Boondoggles: GWP
IRS Investigating Green Stimulus Recipient And Obama Donor: LoneCon

Media

Hypnotize Undecideds to Become Comfortable with the Notion of “President Romney”: Zombie
Obama’s Media Allies Struggle to Conceal Red Mentor: AIM
Expect Obama to Underperform Again in Second Debate: Ricochet

Hey, do you want to see Laura Ingraham eviscerate a NYT reporter over Benghazigate?: Moe Lane
What I Got Wrong In My Bazillion "Preference Cascade" Predictions: Ace
Candy Crowley: Romney Was Right on Benghazi: Beacon

Hollywood’s Hysterical “Cancer Screening” Lie for Obama: Malkin
Yes, Michelle Obama clapped during Obama/Crowley tag-team against debate rules: Twitchy
And now: CNN walks back false “act of terror” fact check: Twitchy

Four Reasons Black Christians Should Not Vote for Obama: NoisyRm
Parents sickened by vulgarity and sex references on Nick Jr.’s NickMom shows: Twitchy
KISS's Gene Simmons: Obama is a piss-poor President: Matzav

World

Candy Crowley Admits Romney Was Right About Rose Garden Libyan Comments – I Think: MagNote
Reminder: Obama said sacked consulate and dead ambassador “bumps in the road”: Hot Air
White House ponders a strike over Libya attack: AP

Sci-Tech

Meet X1, the Exoskeletal Robot Suit that Could Make Astronauts Super-Strong: Techland
Healthrageous Lands $6.5M To Help You Take Control Of Your Health (With Data): TechCrunch
The Shame of Being a BlackBerry Owner: Atlantic

Cornucopia

Post-Debate Debate: Shayne
Man Successfully Reunited With $12,800 In Pot Plants After Calling Cops To Report Theft: Consumerist
Picasso, Matisse, Monets Stolen From Dutch Museum: ABC

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QOTD: "The memory of the second debate most Americans will be left with is how Candy Crowley attacked Mitt Romney to defend the President's Benghazi lie. The tag-team false answer just raises additional questions: if Obama called it terrorism in the Rose Garden, why did his administration continue the cover-up for weeks?" --Me, Just Now.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

STUNNING: Another Green Energy "Investment" Goes Down the Tubes Just After Executives Cash Out

Yet another of President Obama's multi-billion dollar green energy scams investments has come to an untimely demise.

A123 Systems Inc., the electric car battery maker that received a $249.1 million federal grant, filed for bankruptcy protection and said it would sell its automotive business assets to Johnson Controls Inc...


...President Barack Obama called A123’s CEO Vieau and then- Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm during a September 2010 event celebrating the opening of the plant in Livonia that the company received the U.S. grant to help build.

This is about the birth of an entire new industry in America -- an industry that’s going to be central to the next generation of cars,” Obama said in the phone call, according to a transcript provided by the White House. “When folks lift up their hoods on the cars of the future, I want them to see engines and batteries that are stamped: Made in America.”

Instead, when folks lift up their hoods on the cars of the future, they'll see gas engines. Because gas engines are the only practical way to power cars for the foreseeable future.

Oh, and as for A123's executives? You'll never guess what they negotiated just a couple of months ago:

Despite known financial trouble, just a few months ago A123 awarded sweetened severance packages to its top executives...

Vice President and General Manager of Energy Solutions Group Robert Johnson, for example, would see his severance increase an extra $200,000 from the agreement, boosting it from $400,000 to $600,000. Johnson’s base salary is $400,000 this year, up 21 percent from his 2011 base salary of $331,250. That raise is consistent with a pattern of large pay increases top executives at A123 Systems have received.

Why not? The American taxpayer is paying the bills, courtesy of one Barack H. Obama and his Democrat sycophants and cronies.


Questioners at Tonight’s Debate Face $4,492 Tax Hike Next Year

Via @Heritage:

Well, I'm sure that sending even more money to a bloated, unaccountable, fraud-prone, bankrupt, doddering, debt-ridden leviathan of an unconstitutional federal government will help streamline the economy.



IT'S ANOTHER OBAMA RECORD: The Number of Americans on Food Stamps Just Hit Another All-Time High

President Obama's plans for the future? Things are just swell. Let's stay the course.

Food stamps enrollment has hit a new record high. 46,681,833 million are now enrolled in the social welfare program, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, the federal department that runs the program.


..."[The] USDA has engaged in an aggressive outreach and promotional campaign to boost food stamp enrollment. Among these efforts are an ongoing partnership with the Mexican government to advertise food stamps to Mexican nationals, migrant workers, and non-citizen immigrants. Partly as a result of these efforts, the number of non-citizens on food stamps has quadrupled since 2001," explains the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee.

And the cost, the committee explains, is astronomical. "Total spending on food stamps is projected to reach nearly $800 billion over the next 10 years, with no fewer than 1 in 9 people on the program at any given time. Neither food stamp participation nor spending on the program are ever projected to return to pre-recession levels at any point in the next 10 years."

But don't worry, peons. Michelle Obama just said that "We are in the midst of a huge recovery!"


CHE CHE CHANGE: President Obama Updates Truman's Iconic Sign


"After joking with reporters, Obama suddenly goes silent on Benghazi question."


Larwyn's Linx: Hillary Makes The Smartest Political Move of this Cycle

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Nation

Hillary Makes The Smartest Political Move of this Cycle: DTG
Fresh Scapegoats in the White House Libya Blame Game: Post
Obama Preps for Debate in Splendor: Dossier

Dems assemble circular firing squad as blame escalates: WyBlog
GOP hopes soar as Romney rolls in Ohio: York
Barack Obama's October Surprises: AT

Romney, Obama and Biden: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Morris
Sick: Axelrod not happy about Hillary-under-the-bus reactions: Twitchy
Elizabeth Warren's Credit Card Fundraising Problem: LI

Economy

Michelle Obama: ‘We Are in the Midst of a Huge Recovery’: CNS
Obama’s Big Tax Increases on Small Business: AEI
‘Biden was wrong’ on HHS mandate, says Archbishop Chaput: LifeSite

Obamacare Extends Its Losing Streak to 114: WS
Why Forcibly Limiting Campaign Spending is Censorship: ObjStd
My Vote Will Not Be Wasted: AT

Scandal Central

Does This Explain Something? What a Cover-Up Looks Like: RSM
PBS Whitewashes Obama's Radical Past, Dissing Romney: IBD
Foreign Wind Company Laying Off 800 Workers, Despite $50 Million ‘Investment’ By Taxpayers: LoneCon

Climate & Energy

Pennsylvania Coal Companies Announce Layoffs, Blame Obama: Hope
Good News: EPA to increase the cost of buying a new car by $3,000: ATR
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released: Burning Platform

Media

Cover-up: WH boycotts BenghaziGate discussion on CBS ‘Face the Nation’: FAM
Bay Buchanan: ‘I haven’t talked to a woman’ who didn’t hate Biden at debate: Raw Story
Who are the Obstructionists?: Caleb Bonham

How Biden won his debate with Ryan (in the febrile minds of liberals like @billmaher) : Ace
Twitter user who vowed to ‘lynch’ Romney threatens to kill Twitchy reader: Twitchy
Desperate Obama Team Peddles 5 Month Old Story as Campaign Crumbles: Sooper

Caddell: NYT Engaging In Near-Complete Suppression of Libya Story To Shill For Loser President: Ace
Obama Camp Blasts Gallup Poll: BuzzFeed
So, why DOES Conde Nast own Reddit? And Barack Obama patronize* it? : Moe Lane

A reminder about the last plant-infested, CNN-run town hall debate: Malkin
Comic relief: Frank Rich analyzes constitutionalist conservatism; hilarity ensues: ProWis
The Fretting Begins: Obama an ‘Imperiled Incumbent’ Facing ‘Must-Win’ Debate: JWF

World

Kissinger: “In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.”: Post
March of Life: Israel Channel 10
Nigel Farage on Barack Obama and Sovereign Debt: CNBC

Photos from the Terrorist Attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya: WS
Libya Situation Under Control, Obama Addresses Other Important International Rift: NakedDC
KGB mole infiltrates the White House: Matzav

GOP Platform Mentions and Condemns Agenda 21 and UN Taxes: VA Right
Stunner: Turkey Infiltrating Native American Tribes — and May Get Congressional Help: PJM
Fidel Castro Hired Nazi SS to Train Military, German Intel Documents Reveal: Fox News Latino

Sci-Tech

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong: Atlantic
Here come bendy, squeezy smart phones: Fortune
Converting sea water to Navy jet fuel: DefTech

Cornucopia

The 25 Best Quips, Quotes, And Excerpts From Ann Coulter’s “Mugged”: Hawkins
Job Biden tells gullible supporters he played college football: hint--he didn't: GWP
Coach Bob Knight Selling NCAA Championship Rings, Olympic Gold Media, Other Gear: IndyStar

Image: Clinton: I'm responsible for diplomats' security
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: America's Comeback Team

QOTD: "Liberals used to go gaga over the man who promised that Guantanamo and renditions would be part of our distant criminal past, only to gag that he has embraced and expanded almost every one of the Bush-Cheney protocols that he once demagogued. Obama even recruited Yale Law Dean Harold Koh, who used to sue the government on behalf of Guantanamo detainees, to write surreal briefs explaining why stepped-up Predator missions can quite legally vaporize American citizens suspected of terrorism, and why American planes dropping bombs over a foreign country do not constitute warlike acts. A Yale Law dean who does that is like the proverbial dog walking on two legs, eliciting wonder not just that it is done, but why it is even attempted." --Victor Davis Hanson, via Moe Lane

Monday, October 15, 2012

HILLARY TRIES TO THROW HERSELF UNDER THE BENGHAZI BUS: Says She Was Responsible For Diplomats' Security

Gee, you mean the Secretary of State is responsible for the State Department? Well, I'll be damned.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday tried to douse a political firestorm around the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, saying she is responsible for the security of American diplomatic outposts.

"I take responsibility" for the protection of U.S. diplomats, Clinton said during a visit to Peru. But she said an investigation now under way will ultimately determine what happened in the attack that left four Americans dead.

The attack on the night of September 11 killed Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans at the American consulate in Benghazi.

The Obama administration has been heavily criticized after Vice President Joe Biden said during last week's vice presidential debate that the White House did not know of requests to enhance security at Benghazi, contradicting testimony by State Department employees that requests had been made and rejected. After the debate, the White House said the vice president did not know of the requests because they were handled, as is the practice, by the State Department.

Clinton said President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are not involved in security decisions... "I want to avoid some kind of political gotcha," she added, noting that it is close to the election.

"Political gotcha"?

An Ambassador is dead and the administration trotted out a series of lies from the outset. And the key questions remain unanswered:

• Who ordered security removed from Ambassador Stevens when he and other personnel were requesting more security?

• Who made up the story about the video and the non-protest in Libya?

• And why were the false stories promoted for weeks on end?

Four Americans are dead and more than a month has elapsed during which the administration has lied, evaded and misdirected. Perhaps a few of these questions will be asked in in the remaining presidential debates. Dare to dream.


FLOTUS DOES HENNY YOUNGMAN: Michelle Obama Says ‘We Are in the Midst of a Huge Recovery’

Oh. You mean to say she was trying to be serious?

First Lady Michelle Obama said in a radio interview on Friday that the United States is in the “midst of a huge recovery” because of what “this president has done.”

Pablo Sato, co-host of Pablo & Free on WPGC 95.5, a Washington, D.C.-area hip-hop radio station, asked the first lady: “Mrs. Obama, you know what, in your words, tell us what you think the state of the union is in right now?”

Mrs. Obama said, “I mean, we are seeing right now that we are in the midst of a huge recovery. Right? Because of what this president has done.”

...According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the real gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.3 percent in the second quarter of 2012, down from 2.0 percent from first quarter 2012.

The BEA data also show GDP growth of (negative) - 3.1 percent in 2009; 2.4 percent in 2010; and 1.8 percent in 2011.

Let's see:

• A record high 1-in-6 Americans are living in poverty.

• A record high 48 million Americans are on food stamps.

• The labor force participation rate is at a 30-year low.

• Democrats have stolen $500 billion from Medicare to fund a new, completely undefined entitlement program the costs of which have already tripled from original estimates.

• Barack Obama has added $6 trillion to the debt in only four years with no plans to reduce the yawning chasm facing future generations.

Oh, and she called many of her supporters' family members and friends "knuckleads":

First lady Michelle Obama is encouraging supporters to reach out to the "knuckleheads" in their life to ask them to vote for President Obama... "Talk to everyone you know -- your friends, your neighbors, that cousin you haven't seen in a while, that student sitting next to you in class. You know he's kind of a knucklehead," the first lady said. "You know the one."

"Tap him on the shoulder. Be nice. Don't call him a knucklehead. Not to his face. You just want to encourage him to get to the polls," Obama said. "But tell him what's at stake."

Michelle, however, may be right about that recovery.

We're about to evict her and her husband from the White House and install leadership that understands the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I call that a recovery.


NOW IS THE TIME WHEN WE JUXTAPOSE: See if you can tie together these two seemingly unrelated stories

Obama Admin Bans Drilling On 11.5 Million Acres Of National Petroleum Reserve

Didn’t President Obama promise to make the United States energy independent? Doesn’t he claim to favor an “all of the above” energy policy? Well, the actions of his administration speak louder than his words.


The latest is the move by the Interior Department to shut off 11.5 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska from drilling.

As gas prices soar, city cycling more attractive

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — ...Statewide, Californians are increasingly pumping air into the flat tires on their dusty old bikes instead of gas into their tanks. Recent historic spikes in gas prices are expected to stay high, forcing many to look at their gas guzzling minivans and SUVs in a new light. ... "Historically there have been spikes whenever gas prices rise, but with the past gas spike, we sustained our ridership; that was breaking the cycle," Coffelt said regarding an earlier spike in 2012.


... Short drives account for 37 percent of all car trips, and use a lot of fuel. "Take any given point in the city and draw a one-mile radius around it, and you've got 10,000 people who live within that radius. Our focus is really on those short bike trips ... to the grocery store and to get the kids to school," Crawford said.

"The question is: How do we get people out of the mindset of getting into their car?"

Pictured above: other countries that have transitioned to bicycles as their most advanced form of transportation, including Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, and Red China.

Under Democrat leadership, America is provably de-industrializing itself by locking away access to our own vast energy reserves. Democrats are slowly and inexorably turning America into a third-world country.

We deserve better. We deserve a president who actually understands energy and jobs.


RUH ROH: Miami Herald Poll Has Obama Leading Romney 51-44 in FL...

...among likely Hispanic voters:

Mitt Romney is closing the gap on President Barack Obama among likely Hispanic Florida voters, a majority of whom say they’re not better off than four years ago, according to a new Florida International University/Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald poll.

Obama is ahead of Romney 51-44 percent among Hispanics, a relatively narrow lead that could spell trouble for a Democratic campaign that’s counting on minority support as non-Hispanic white voters flock to the Republican ticket in droves...

...Cuban-American voters, who are overwhelmingly Republican and who appear to be increasingly excited about Romney’s campaign.

“What’s remarkable is the demographic split in Florida: Puerto Rican and Dominican and other Hispanic voters trust Obama. Cubans just don’t,” said Eduardo Gamarra, an FIU professor of Latin American studies who conducted the poll with his political research firm, the Newlink Group.

I'm not in the prediction business, but if we all continue the full-court press -- marshaling our friends, family members and colleagues -- we are going to evict the current occupant of 1600 Penssylvania and install someone who actually believes in and supports the free market.


A SINGLE DEVASTATING GRAPH: The Real Obama Jobs Record

This could be the single best illustration of the unemployment catastrophe Barack Obama's policies have inflicted upon the population.

Whether you are rich, poor, old, young, fat, thin, female, male, brown, white, Christian or Jewish, Obama's policies of spreading misery are equal opportunity job destroyers.

...since January 2009, for every person added to the labor force, 10 have been added to those not in the labor force. Here's a chart showing the dwindling labor force:


...That is, in nearly the four years, since President Obama took office in January 2009, only 827,000 people have been added to the labor force, while during that same time period, 8,208,000 have been added to those not in the labor force.

The chart relies on data available from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In simple terms, the advertised unemployment rate of 7.8 percent is completely bogus. It ignores all those who have stopped looking for work or are employed part-time but want full-time work.

The real unemployment rate -- the true measure of the Obama Jobs Disaster -- has hovered around 14 percent ever since he came to office. And unless we course-correct quickly, the tax, Obamacare and deficit cliffs are poised to kill millions of more jobs in 2013.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Bob Woodward Slams Obama's Benghazi Lies

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Nation

Bob Woodward Slams Obama's Benghazi Lies: AmSpec
Hillary Strikes Back; Attaches Susan Rice to WH Mess: ConTree
Bill Clinton Gathering Legal Minds to Protect Hillary?: MagNote

Libya Fallout Gives Rise to Obama-Clinton Feud: Breitbart
While Obama Crams, Romney Campaigns: Breitbart
The Most Important Election in History: CDN

Hillary Clinton Throws Obama Under His Own Benghazi Bus: RSM
Re: Biden Won on Points?: Corner
Dembacle: Dems Redistricting Plans Falter in Illinois: Breitbart

Economy

Ohio Coal Miners to Obama: Quit Lying About Us!: GWP
Pictures from Barack Obama's debate camp: TPC
Real Unemployment Is 14.7%, And a Recession's Coming: Forbes

Another CEO asks employees to vote for Romney to save their jobs: Blaze
FL public schools setting ethic-based academic goals: JW
CEOs warn employees of layoffs if Obama is reelected: Yahoo!

Scandal Central

After the Benghazi attack: "A mission accomplished moment": Althouse
Elizabeth Warren obtained federal fee waivers despite high 6-figure income and 8-figure net worth: LI
Axelrod says W.H. unaware of Libya security requests: Politico

Climate & Energy

No Global Warming For Sixteen Years - But The War On CO2 Continues: Wolf Howling
Obama: Carbon Eating Our Planet: LoneCon
Farm Bureau wins right to join suit against EPA: NaturalResource

Obama Campaign Confronts Coal Miners With Lies: RS
Oops! Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals quietly released report: Riehl
California, a grand plan to rein in climate change: NYT

Media

Big Three Networks’ Evening News Shows Suffering Significant Erosion From 2008: BizzyBlog
That So-Called Racist Mitt Romney 'Dog-Whistle' T-Shirt is Almost Certainly Photoshopped: AmPower
Do The Next Two Debates Really Matter?: Mead

NY Times Reporter: The Crowds Romney Is Getting Are ‘Obama-Sized’ Crowds From 2008: GWP
Ross Douthat Misses The Obvious: RS
David Axelrod, call your physician. NOW.: Moe Lane

ABC Censors Spike Characters Calling Obama a Communist on Tim Allen Sitcom: NB
Barack Obama: Whiner-In-Chief: RS
TSA nightmares: Dana Loesch tweets another outrageous account of harassment: Twitchy

World

State Department: We're Too Dumb to Understand Obama's Libya Explanation: Breitbart
Don't risk Israel's security on Obama's words: Adelson
Vaginas and Imams: TAB

Iran and U.S. in Undeclared State of War: Mead
Obama Administration Abandoned Our Citizens in Libya.: HillBuzz
10,000 Muslims at Google's London offices demand removal of Muhammad video: JihadWatch

Exposed: US Soldiers Told They Are Fighting For Afghan People, Not For U.S.: Loudon
Dearborn Cops Harass Man for Flying Israeli Flags: Atlas
US exports to Iran rise nearly one-third despite sanctions: JPost

Sci-Tech

Amazing Aurora: Best Images From NASA’s Suomi Satellite: Wired
'Fearless Felix' lands safely on Earth after what could be first supersonic skydive: Post
Useful Fireworks Techniques And Features For Large Design Teams: Smashing

Cornucopia

Children's Plastic Army Men Revised for Progressive New Age: Cube
The Revolution Will NOT Be Televised: MOTUS
Conservatives sign the faces of checks. Liberals sign the backs of them.: Cube

Image: Obama's Real Unemployment Rate Is 14.7%, And A Recession's On The Way
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QOTD: "[SNL's] “Cold Open” sketch (the one that comes before the show’s opening credits) was devoted to the Joe Biden vs. Paul Ryan VP debate that happened this week in Danville, Kentucky at Centre College. If you remember what happened in the actual debate, Joe Biden made a complete ass of himself, interrupting Paul Ryan something like 87 times; Biden also made bizarre faces throughout the debate that I felt made him look like The Joker as portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the first Michael Keaton Batman film back in the 80s. Biden laughed when talking about an Iranian nuclear weapon, the obliteration of Israel, and the deaths of American troops and embassy staff in Libya. He was unserious, caustic, and at times, deranged. Paul Ryan was polite, professional, and serious — even when being repeatedly interrupted and cut off by both Biden and moderator Martha Raddatz." --Kevin DuJan

Sunday, October 14, 2012

EARLY SEASON'S GREETINGS: From the Romney Campaign



Hat tips: Mad Magazine and Wanda.

BOOM: Gold Standard of Temperature Data Proves Earth Is Cooling In Spite of Dramatic Increases in CO2

HadCRUT is the dataset of monthly temperature records formed by combining the sea surface temperature records compiled by the Hadley Centre of the Met Office and the land surface temperature records compiled by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. --Source

HadCRUT is the United Nations' gold-standard for the measurement of global temperatures. The data-set proves that over the last 15 years (180 months) the Earth has cooled, not warmed as predicted.

HadCRUT released their latest global temperature dataset today, which confirmed what both NOAA and NASA reported earlier this month - that global temps declined during July 2012.

In addition, the plot of the HadCRUT and CO2 data for the last 15 years, through July 2012, is very revealing.

Contrary to what the mainstream press reports and exaggerates about "global warming," the world has actually been in a stable-to-cooling phase since the El Nino temperature spike of 1997/98.

Of course, if the NYTimes or WAPO or CNN or CBS or the AP were ever to report the actual cooling trend over the last 15 years (despite the massive amounts of human CO2 emissions) this would establish that they have been grossly misleading the public for years about consensus "global warming."

And as the press fully realize, the public that primarily relies on traditional media outlets are extremely gullible with little intellectual curiosity. Thus the media gets away with hysterical fear-mongering, half-truths and deceptions.

Conclusion: Long story short - human CO2 emissions are not causing rapid, accelerating global warming, per the IPCC's favored HadCRUT temperature dataset. Over the last 15 years, global temperatures have been relatively stable, with a slight global cooling trend being exhibited. All the IPCC's and NOAA's climate experts, their climate models and the professional doomsayers have been absolutely wrong about their catastrophic climate predictions, for over a decade now - and not a single mainstream press outlet reports this. Solid advice to gullible: don't believe anything the mainstream press outlets "report."

In a curious semi-coincidence, the invaluable Anthony Watts relays word that over 2000 new low temperature records were set in October.

In the continental USA, there were 137 high temperature type records versus 857 low temperature type records this past week , a 6-1 difference. Last week there were 1154 low temperature type records putting the two week total for October at 2011. There were also 24 new snowfall records set this week in the upper plains.


Once again, if this had been summer, and the numbers reversed, you’d see Seth Borenstein writing articles for AP telling us this is ‘what global warming looks like’. So far not a peep out of Seth on this cold wave and what it is supposed to mean.

But nothing -- not facts, logic, reason or science -- can dissuade the Eco-Statists from their plans to de-industrialize America. Or the hacks at the Dissociative Press and the rest of antique media from spreading their destructive lies.

Which is why we need to flush the Democrat Party from office in November -- at every level of government.


Why California is headed for fiscal collapse, Chapter Bajillion and Seven

I'll let the Mercury News describe the latest episode of public sector unions ripping off taxpayers for hundreds of millions:

An analysis of the last three years of government salary data shows state employees are continuing to store up massive banks of vacation, instead of heading to Big Sur or hitting the slopes at Lake Tahoe. They're cashing in by retiring with whopping final paychecks worth, in some cases, more than $500,000 in unused time off.

From 2009 through 2011, cash-strapped California paid more than $800 million for days off state workers never used -- a problem that has grown by tens of millions of dollars in the four years since this newspaper first investigated the costly practice...

It's an accounting liability that private companies work aggressively to avoid, but one that continues to pile up in Sacramento. And, ironically, the problem grew even worse in recent years when the state tried to save cash by forcing workers to take unpaid furlough days as an emergency budget fix. As a result, banks of unused vacation grew even larger.

"Is the system broken? Obviously the system's broken," said Tim Malan, a supervising dentist at Avenal State Prison, who retired in 2009 with 247 days off still on the books, sweetening his final paycheck by an extra $317,000... Like Malan, more than 4,000 people retired from the state over the past three years with an extra $50,000 more for unused vacation and comp time, the newspaper's analysis of pay data from 153 state departments shows. That's almost four employees cashing out at least that much money every day. An additional 16,302 state workers retired during the three-year period with payments from $10,000 to $50,000 each...


...Topping the list was Napa State Hospital psychiatrist Dr. Gertrudis Agcaoili, who retired after 33 years with 642 days of accrued vacation and comp time. It cost taxpayers nearly $609,000.

How did she manage to bank so much time?

"It's none of your business," Agcaoili said in a brief telephone interview...

No, it's none of the taxpayers' business.

California is broke, its system of government is broken, and the infernal alliance of Democrats and public sector unions are the primary culprits.

It's hard to imagine how it gets fixed without a complete collapse and a reboot from scratch.


THERE IS NO REST: Biblical Passages Perfectly Describe Joe Biden's Embarrassing Debate Performance

Proverbs 29:9: "When a wise man debates a foolish man, the foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest."


Dennis also notes that Proverbs 30:32 is also apt: "There is one who has appeared foolish, after he was lifted up on high; for if he had understood, he would have placed his hand over his mouth."

And other passages seem to speak directly to those liberals who reveled in Biden's giggling, gesticulating and lying:

Proverbs 1:22: Little ones, how long will you choose to be childish, and how long will the foolish desire what is harmful to themselves, and how long will the imprudent hate knowledge?

Proverbs 3:35: The wise will possess glory. The exaltation of the foolish is disgraceful.

Proverbs 10:14: The wise store away knowledge. But the mouth of the foolish is a neighbor to confusion.


Hat tip: Black & Right.

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Nation

Who’s ‘Politicizing’ Benghazi? : Steyn
Top 10 Worst Lies by Joe Biden in the VP Debate: Breitbart
My Body, My Choice? Not for the Federal Government: AllAm

Columbus paper rips White House "incompetence, dishonesty": Hot Air
Ryan’s Reason Contrasts Biden’s Buffoonery: RWN
Timeline of Libya attack reveals administration contradictions: Hill

Obama: If people read transcript, they’ll think I won last debate: Exam
Mona Eltahawy Has No Clue How First Amendment Works: Greenfield
Look who parks their cash at Bain: Murdock

Economy

Apples and Oranges: Elephant
A Modest Proposal To Ensure California's Rich Don't Leave: Williams
Contra His Whining, Obama Inherited a Recovery: Bystanders

Obama Owns Shares of Sensata, Outsourcers to China: Sooper
12 Obama Debate Lies And Counting…: GOP
Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals: CBS Tampa

Scandal Central

DNC worker fired after telling people how to vote twice: Click2Houston
Ohio Coal miners Slam Obama’s Lies - Ask Him to Immediately Stop His False Ads: Nice Deb
Connecticut Dem Jokes About Corruption: WS

Obama Administration Didn’t Reach Benghazi For 17 Days Because They Were WAITING ON Visas: GWP
Col. David Hunt on the Administration's Lies, Lies and More Lies on Libya: WRKO
Disorder and Corruption in a New World Order: CFP

Climate & Energy

Obama's War on Nuclear Power: AT
EPA may slash use of ethanol in gasoline as corn crop wilts: NBC
Exclusive: India's HMEL bought 2 million barrels of Iranian oil: sources: Reuters

Media

A Letter to Joe Biden: Ricochet
No More Bonhomie for Bubba and Barry?: NRO
Evidence that Democrats are in “Last Days of Pompeii” mode: HillBuzz

PERFECT: Politico Hires Race-Baiting Leftist Kook Fired From Yahoo: Breitbart
What's behind Obama's 'disdain' for Romney?: Fox
Kid Rock Wins Debate With Sean Penn: MagNote

World

Former USS Cole Commander on Benghazi: Obama only cares about power and getting reelected: Scoop
Reminder: Biden Supported Iraq War in 2002: WS
Okay, the Rules of the Debates Have Been Set: Winter Soldier

OOPS: Biden Acknowledges Obama 'Leading from Behind': WS
Hezbollah’s CFO flees to Israel carrying stolen money, classified documentsf: Al Arabiya
Hamas warns it is ‘ready to battle the occupation’: JPost

The UN Tries to Become a Global Government: Morris
Sharia Law Hits the UK: Democracy Forum
Zawahiri Calls For Holy War Over Mohammed Video: RWN

Sci-Tech

Stem cell Nobel Prize: JPA
T-Mobile's holiday roadmap leaked: LG Optimus L9, HTC Windows Phone 8X spotted: Engadget
Political spats on Facebook spill into real life: USA Today

Cornucopia

David Axelrod provides his keen insights on the election, MLB edition: RS
The I-Can’t-Post-Mortem For The VP Debate: R&R
Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web: Gawker

Image: Yankees' Derek Jeter out for the remainder of the postseason with a fractured left ankle
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QOTD: "... it seems, that Team Obama has decided to try and save U.N. ambassador Susan Rice — whose reputation in the IC could hardly be lower — and perhaps press secretary Jay Carney as well by tossing the nation’s spooks under the bus, in which direction they’re also nudging Hillary Clinton.

But you can’t burn all your friends, and the Obama forces already have a lot fewer allies than they think they do. The disrespectful way they treated former White House chief of staff William Daley is likely to come back to haunt them in the graveyards of Chicago, and the bad blood between them and the Clintons hasn’t gone away, despite Bill’s bonhomie at the convention." --Michael Walsh