Shout First, Ask Questions Later: 2010-06-20

Friday, June 25, 2010

Second Random Round-Up 06-25

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Fight! Fight! Fight! Santelli and Dobbs Talk Tea Party Power

PJTV Video (Kruiser Control) - Idiots Without Borders: AZ Official Fails Geography While Chris Matthews Spews Toxic Nonsense on BP

Super Cool - Building the World's Largest Telescope, a Mile Under Antarctic Ice

Hey, pass me that bag of chips. I want to engage in a little civil disobedience. - What should Americans eat? Experts announce 8 new food “rules”

PJTV (VodkaPundi (He's so dream)) - Vodkapundit's Coast to Coast Tea Party

Financial overhaul deal gives Obama a new triumph. Interesting that they are calling it a "triumph" when they haven't even had the final vote on it yet.

Re: Kyl: Obama Did Not Consult on Border Funds

My friend Steve Schippert points out that the $600 million President Obama has finally provided for the defense of Americans at the southern border is considerably less than the $900 million Obama redistribu — er, I mean, provided to Gaza in one of the early acts of his presidency. Gaza is (and was then) controlled by Hamas, which has been formally designated a terrorist organization under U.S. law for about 15 years. That is, if you tried to give money to Hamas, or tried to give money to someone else under circumstances where you knew it would end up benefitting Hamas, you would be committing a crime (material support to terrorism) for which you could be sent to prison for 15 years. Yet, the Obama administration gives 50 percent more money to Hamas than it forks up for border security . . . even as it prepares to sue Arizona for enforcing immigration laws the feds won't enforce. Change you can believe in.

Lucky Los Angeles - Free Tickets Ain't Got A Thing On Mayor Villaraigosa's $120,000 European Vacation

PJTV Video (Sonja Schmidt) - Will Flaming Liberals Cause a Repeat of 1965 & 1992 LA Riots

Rummy on Freedom

Vegetarians From The Other Point Of View

AWESOME

Rampant Corruption Round-Up 06-25

Witness: Blago given list of Obama favorites Staff chief Emanuel relayed who president-elect wanted for Senate, Harris says

Obama knew of Blagojevich plot

Ex-Ald. Carothers gets 28 months in zoning-bribery case This guy is linked to Rezko who was Obama's BFF for a long time. But the company we keep is never a reflection of who we are.

Blago Irked by 'Thankful' Message From Obama Aide

VIDEO! Dem Congressman: We Must Have Campaign Finance Disclosure To Stop Republicans From Getting Elected "Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) says "we will see more Republicans getting elected" if the Congress does not pass campaign finance disclosure reform." I love the previous sentence to the above statement that republicans get money from "big corporations" when the dems (especially Obama) got millions more from Wall Street and BP than the republicans. What an idiot.

Harris: Obama knew of Blagojevich plot

The Chicago Politician, the Discredited Non-Profit and a Mystery Earmark

Carol Shea-Porter May Be Busy For the Next One to Seven Years

Villaraigosa's Five-Year Free Ticket Spree. The Los Angeles mayor's usurping of anticorruption rules could spread to pols across California. Could? I thought it already had.

Obamacare 06-25

ObamaCare: Get Ready for the Mother of All Epic Fails. More money for less value. That's the story of big government.

ObamaCare's Catch 22

Thanks, Nancy: What the ‘Doc Fix’ Failure Means in the Real World

Competition between Hospitals and Clinics. Competition is always a good thing which is why anything run by the government (except defense and law) are bad things.

Extenders defeat leaves state Medicaid help in limbo

Neither is Obamacare - Obama: Temporary doc fix 'just isn't an adequate solution'

Leftie's Airbrush Own History by Taking Down General Betrayus Ad.

Villaraigosa's Five-Year Free Ticket Spree. The Los Angeles mayor's usurping of anticorruption rules could spread to pols across California. Could? I thought it already had.

This is ghastly - It Begins… Plans to Evacuate Tampa Bay Are Put Into Place …Update: Pensacola Beach Closed

Attacks on the Electoral College Gain Momentum

No Thank You. "Now There Will Be One Agency Whose Sole Job Will Be To Look Out For You" VIDEO. I can "look out" for myself and my family far better than any faceless bureaucrat ever could. This is the audacity of idiocy.

Defending Freedom of Speech - Introducing Congress Shall Make No Law

Emminent Domain is evil. KELO: Five Years Later

The Democrats That Wouldn't Govern

House ’shreds our constitution for raw, ugly, partisan gain’ by vote of 219-206

The U.S. Department of Illegal-Alien Labor

Mad Duck Quacks Again

Night of the Yeoman

Homeland Security Denies Interest in Blanket Amnesty for Illegals

Beneath NPR's Poll, The 'Tyranny Of Constituency' Or Why Gerrymandering is bad.

The Law? How Quaint! “Change you can believe in” is working out in practice to mean: If you don’t like the Constitution’s separation of powers — ignore it.

In Gulf oil spill 'war,' cleanup foot soldiers threaten mutiny. Claims problems and mixed messages from the Gulf oil spill unified command structure has local leaders from Pensacola to Plaquemines Parish fuming as the Gulf comes under what some call a 'tarball attack.

BP Relied on Faulty U.S. Data. "Forced to rely" might be a more accurate phrasing.

President Anti-Lincoln: With Malice Towards All and Charity Towards None, President Obama Emotes His Way Through A War

Do Obama’s czars rule America? ‘Oil czar’ Ray Mabus brings total to 38 according to Daily Caller count

Administration weighs bypassing Congress to let illegal immigrants stay

White House Picks Critic of Local Immigration Enforcement for Key Role at ICE

Junk Science and Oil Spill Woes 06-25

This is ghastly - It Begins… Plans to Evacuate Tampa Bay Are Put Into Place …Update: Pensacola Beach Closed

‘Green’ Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts. The author of a damning study about the failure of Spain's "green jobs" program — a story broken here at PJM — received the threatening package on Tuesday from solar energy company Thermotechnic.

BP Relied on Faulty U.S. Data. "Forced to rely" might be a more accurate phrasing.

On Being a 21st-Century Peasant. An environmentalist warns: We’re getting a whole new planet.

The truth about wind energy generation

Big Oil Maneuvering and Vestiture, or The Unified Theory of Obama Fail

Why It's Safer to Drill in the 'Backyard' Texas has had 102 oil and gas well blowouts since the start of 2006, without catastrophic consequences

Peak oil postponed again

Judge Faces Death Threats After BP Gulf Oil Drilling Moratorium Ruling. My husband and his co-workers get death threats (always from Lefties) regularly because they dare to question their ideology. They are disgusting human beings when they threaten people like this simply because they don't agree with them. Disgusting and sad.

Generation Gap The Kerry-Lieberman energy bill would enervate America.

Going After the Judge

Big Government is dying in the Gulf oil spill

How an Alabama fire chief risked jail to save town from Gulf oil spill. Jamie Hinton, the volunteer fire chief of tiny Magnolia Springs, Ala., has a plan to use a blockade of barges to stop the Gulf oil spill from entering the Magnolia River. For a time, he went ahead with the plan, even though it might have landed him in jail.

OSHA: BP Less Safe Than Other Oil Companies

Random Round-Up 06-25

My Son’s Textbook Denies Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II Their Rightful Place in History

To avoid getting onto the White House Visitor's Log - Across street from the White House, coffee and a chat with lobbyists

Arizona Park a ‘No-Go’ Zone for American Citizens The Sonoran Desert National Monument is so overrun with drug gangs that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has closed the road into the park.

Ariz. Gov: Most Illegal Immigrants Smuggling Drugs

It. Is. Not. Over.

NO. NO. NO!! Card-check lives: ‘A lot of things can happen in a lame-duck session’

Welfare ATM cards being used in casinos doesn't sit well with readers

Andy Stern’s credibility deficit

Authorities Raid Arizona Business, Arrest 7 Employees Over Identification Concerns

The injustice of "social justice"

Government Study Confirms What We Already Knew: DC Vouchers Improve Graduation Rates

Because I chose to stay at home, I know I don't. Full Frontal Stalinism: Deciding Who Counts as a Feminist

When the feds boycott you

WaPo’s Stevens-Arroyo Calls for Catholics to ‘Embrace a Redistribution of Wealth’. Lefty blogger says Catholic ideas of ‘common good’ demand that drilling moratorium remain in place.

As K-Lo put it over at NRO - "This parody ad is clever. Also deeply cynical." For me, it's funny because its true.

Quick Notes Summer Style 06-25

New poll shows Obama approval at all-time low And this isn't even a Rasmussen Poll!

More evidence of Gulf oil spill washes ashore

Why boycotts about Arizona immigration law are stalling

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Due to SUMMER, daily round-ups will be not so daily. I'll do my best but promise nothing. I'm a stay-at-home mom with two kids under 10 so they must have my attention now. Still, I'll try to ditch 'em every now and again.

Today is Pool Day.

Inbred Redneck Vampires

It's a movie that had to be made. So lovin' the title of this direct-to-dvd movie.

Not sure I'll rent it though.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Daily Round-Up 06-22

The Left’s New Enemy: ‘Empire’ The Left now threatens humanity with a new version of its anti-Western, anti-rational, anti-liberty, anti-individualist ideology

Awesome! Lasers uncover first icons of Sts. Peter and Paul

GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR

Flying in the face of zero tolerance "Zero Tolerance" in about 99.9% of situations is just liberal bigotry.

Thomas Sowell - The Degeneration of Democracy The damage being done to the fundamental structure of this nation goes far beyond particular counterproductive policies.

General McChrystal and Rolling Stone: Suicide by Interview? AND Did Obama reap what he sowed with McChrystal?

Mexican Drug Cartel Warns Police Officers in Arizona Border Town to 'Look the Other Way'

The BP Racket The bigger and more complex government is, the more incentive corporations have to politicize themselves

Another Marylander Arrested for Recording the Police. According to state officials, only on-duty cops have a privacy right in public spaces.

On eve of key vote, Wal-Mart donates $20 million to Durbin’s home state

Is hypo-masculinity the new normal? AND Fatherhood.gov Started Under Bush!

OBAMACARE

Individual Health Insurance Premiums Jump

As Law Takes Effect, Obama Gives Insurers a Warning

The Doc Fix and the Blame Game

Obama to announce new health benefits

JUNK SCIENCE

Climate trial balloon proves explosive

Stealth Climate Bill

Holier-Than-Thou Pelosi: Cap & Trade is a 'Moral Issue'

Environmental Rift Widens Liberals Clash With Obama and Each Other on Stance on Spill and Climate Change

FIGHTING CORRUPTION

Garden State Millionaire Tax Defeated

Supremely good sense: Smart ruling from top court on terrorist charity fronts

Nice try BO - Supreme Court On ‘Moderate’ Terrorists: Fuggedaboutit

Mystery author speaks: An interview with the anonymous Tea Party consultant in Playboy

Bad Politician Bad 06-22

President Obama Job Approval

Kagan sought secrecy in 4 of 5 open gov't cases

Senators Challenge Pres. Obama on Rumors of Executive Order Amnesty

Justice Department to File Lawsuit Against Arizona Immigration Law, Likely Next Week

Amid crises, Obama declares war -- on Arizona

Blago Bombshell: 'What Can I Get For Senate Seat?' Former Blagojevich Aide Said Governor First Started Talking About Trading For Obama's Senate Seat In October 2008

Rod Blagojevich on Obama: "Do they think I would just appoint Valerie Jarrett for nothing?"

Blago: Obama Afraid of Nominating Black Person for Senator

Rahm Emmanual's Auto Breakdown

Rahm on the Run Democratic insiders say Rahm Emanuel will leave shortly after the mid-term elections.

VIDEO (PolitiZoid) - The Audacity to Golf

Dear Mr. President ... from Jon Voight

President Obama's enigmatic intellectualism

A warning - Garden State Millionaire Tax Defeated

Does Barack Obama want to be president? Well, it wasn't like he was prepared for the work or anything.

What people pay Tony Podesta $1,000 an hour to do

Obama Advocated "Trading" Border Security for Amnesty in 2004

Grassroots Lobbying Laws Shut Out Ordinary Citizens from Politics

Soon the White House Will Be A Little Less Orszagulous

The danger of armchair lawyering

BP is, in all likelihood, chiefly responsible for this disaster. At the same time, the Obama administration’s habit of dragging CEOs before Congress can certainly be seen as pattern of highly calculated government shakedowns.

Just ask Mr. Toyoda. Or the CEO of Humana, who was investigated by the administration, because his company warned customers about the pitfalls of ObamaCare. Or the former CEO of GM who has forced to resign by the administration. A pattern is clearly emerging

Read it all.

Rep. Steve King Backs Up Obama Race Comments, Defends Rep. Barton

Malice and Incompetence

GOP dares Obama to test his appeal

Pelosi’s lame blame game: No ‘burrowed-in’ Bush appointees oversaw Deepwater Horizon. Well, she is very old, very tired, and very stupid.

Busted. Slimy Alan Grayson Caught Running Fake Tea Party Candidate

Five Reasons Moderates Are Wrong About Bipartisanship

Avoiding Bad Reactions by Foreign Nations as a Justification for Speech Restrictions?

He really should pick on something his own size - White House vs. Boy Scouts

The Obama Speech We're Waiting For Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to get the BP treatment.

RNC blasts Obama’s transparency with reality tv parody

South Carolina Candidates Poised for Historic Victories on Day of High-Stakes Runoffs

Gulf Disaster 06-22

Not Unexpectedly - Deepwater Drilling Ban Lifted by New Orleans Federal Judge

Where's FEMA? Good question.

Blow Up the Well to Save the Gulf

Weighing the Downsides of the Drilling Moratorium

The President's Lackluster Oil Team

Load of photos - Oil spill hits 60th day

Obama Says Oil Spill Is Like 9-11… But Sends Only 20 of 2,000 US Oil Skimmer Boats to Florida Coast

House to give Obama oil spill panel subpoena power

The Antidrilling Commission The White House choices seem to have made up their minds.

They Told Me If I Voted For McCain, Volunteerism Would Count For Little… And They Were Right!

In Economic Woes 06-22

Cancelled: There Will Be No Congressional Budget This Year

Democrats of 2004 Brand Obama Worst President

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. shed 2.3 million jobs since February 2009, Obama’s first full month in office. Going back to World War II, that is by far the worst record for any president in his first 17 months, outpacing the job destruction experienced in the early Bush years by more than 800,000 jobs.

For Obama, there is an even worse way to play the data, which might just become fodder for a political ad: From November 2008, the month he was elected, until now, the economy has shed an astonishing 4.4 million jobs. That’s worse than Hoover.

Sure, you can blame the first few months of that period on lame-duck President Bush. But perhaps companies accelerated their shedding of jobs because they were bracing for higher tax rates, increased union power and costly environmental taxes under Obama.

Other measurements are only slightly kinder to Obama. The two-percentage-point increase in unemployment rate during his presidency, to 9.7 percent from 7.7 percent, is the third-worst since World War II. Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford saw bigger increases.

GDP growth under Obama, an abysmal 3 percentage points so far, is the fourth-worst in the postwar period. Eisenhower, Ford and Ronald Reagan all began their terms with worse GDP growth.

Existing Home Sales Tumble Unexpectedly in May

Hoyer: Permanent middle class tax cuts too costly

Fed Up Americans want to take scissors to the federal budget

Fixing Fannie and Freddie

This applies to everything from the environmental movement to economics - Bootleggers and Baptists

The Obama Speech We're Waiting For Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to get the BP treatment.

Democrats Latest Bailout Iteration

Burr: Reinstitute Glass-Steagall

US economy still in 'difficult period': Geithner

Emergency does not mean Important.

GOP sponsor may withdraw support for campaign finance bill

But here's some good news - Garden State Millionaire Tax Defeated

Is Illinois the New California?

Ideas into Actions

IMF Debunks Stimulus Jobs Projection

House Majority Leader: No Budget This Year

Tax Increases Won’t Create Jobs

Sen. Dick Durbin’s price control crusade is doomed to fail

Osborne Increases U.K. Value-Added Tax Rate to 20%

Goodbye Keynes, Hello Hoover

Borrowers trying to avoid foreclosure find help outside Obama program

An Envelope Full of Debt

Our view on real estate: Misguided housing subsidies promote unfairness, bailouts

If You Can't Budget, You Can't Govern

Show them the money: Democratic Congress can’t get its own spending approved

Big Union/ACORN/Leftie Groups 06-22

NJ's poison pensions NY may copy dumbest moves

‘ACORN Youth Union’ Chapters Were Funded by Justice Department, Says GAO

Think Progress Won't Let Facts Get in the Way of a Good Attack Blogger argues validity of Emanuel attack on GOP since controversial comments by Joe Barton are 'evidenced' in a Republican Study Committee statement.

Jonesing for a Little Competence

What people pay Tony Podesta $1,000 an hour to do

Andy Stern Joins SIGA's Board of Directors

Union e-vote exploration sets off card-check, business

Lighten Up - National Pork Board thinks Canned Unicorn Meat is real

Suck it Jersey Dems Garden State Millionaire Tax Defeated

Media Bias 06-22

A Tale of Two Disasters Bush was blamed for local failures after Katrina. Obama got a free ride for weeks as federal failures mounted during the Gulf spill.

Whopping 31% of Americans still Not Angry yet at the nation's news media. Instapundit is right, you gotta love the "yet" in that headline. The body of the article is fairly snarky and I'm finding it hard to get a bead on.

Keith Olbermann's Wisdom Obama, BP and the crisis of American liberalism

Media Ignore Arizona Critic’s Previous Violent Video

Flashback: Media Promoted Military Criticism of President Bush

NY Times Reporter Honored For Activism Disguised as Journalism

MSNBC Host Admits Working with White House on Talking Points

Reuters Reveals Sleaze Is Essential to Its Bottom Line

Monday, June 21, 2010

Big Union/ACORN/Leftie Groups 06-21

Fix Education Spending For Kids Now Before Congress Bails Out Teachers’ Union

Planned Parenthood's missing millions. New GAO report reveals disturbing financial discrepancies

Junk Reporting – the Hidden Truth Behind Claims Of Racial Bias In the SATs

DISCLOSE Act shields Democrat-leaning groups from disclosure requirements

The Lottery’ Offers a Harsh Look At How Corrupt Unions Betray Poor Schoolchildren

Why Won't Obama Waive the Jones Act?

Five years ago, in the midst of another crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, the Bush administration waived the Jones Act, easing the way for foreign vessels to move in U.S. waters and between ports. The decision came with the administration under duress for its handling of Hurricane Katrina.

Today the Obama administration faces a different set of challenges with the Gulf oil spill cleanup.

But unlike his predecessor, President Obama has declined to suspend the law, even temporarily.

Obama's decision has turned into a public relations headache for an administration already reeling from its oversight of the oil spill. European allies, longtime opponents of the Jones Act, have asserted they were turned away when making offers of assistance. The State Department acknowledges it has had 21 aid offers from 17 countries.

Great jobs apartheid: Public sector staff spend nine fewer years at work over lifetime than private employees AND earn 30% more

Puppies, Kittens and NYT Pushback: The Truth About the Humane Society Of the United States

The paranoid delusions of the expert class

Unions Shouting Fire(man) In A Crowded Theater

ACORN’s American Institute for Social Justice Remains Well Positioned to Fund Partisan Efforts