Random Round-Up 08/10/2010

Where the Obama Administration Sees War, and Where It Doesn’t Yes, vote fraud’s real

Conspicuous silence on Obama, SuperPAC collusion: Using the Reid standard, Team Obama needs to disprove

The Postmodern President The challenge is finding anything his campaign says that is true.

Good Riddance - NYT Hosts Media Fire Sale

CNN Is Just Making Up Poll Numbers Now

Nice going Regulators - Boy Whose Hot Dog Stand Was Shut Down Now Homeless

Big Sis Fail - Janet Napolitano-run Homeland Security treated male staffers like lapdogs, federal discrimination lawsuit charges James Hayes Jr., who now is New York’s top Homeland Security cop, claims Napolitano filled top spots in Washington, D.C., with two of her gal pals who were bent on tormenting male employees

But she doesn't stop there - Janet Napolitano’s DHS Commences Witch Hunt Against Whistleblowers on Amnesty

Why Too Many U.S. Federal Employees Are Tax Cheats and Rule Breakers

Former L.A. Times Reporter Chuck Philips Threatens a Baseless Copyright Lawsuit Against Patterico In Attempt to Get Embarrassing Letters Removed from the Internet

Obama Tries to Walk Back 'You Didn't Build That'--and Fails

A Nation That Believes Nothing Romney doesn't need to talk about America becoming like Europe—he needs to warn us about America becoming like California.

The stench of desparation rises from this steamng pile of lies - Obama Administration twice met with Bain “death squad” investor

Green Fail: UN Carbon Trading Scheme Increases Pollution

Taxation Hero: ExxonMobil Pays $3 In Taxes For Every $1 In Profit

Bipartisan group of legislators demands stronger probe into Delphi pension scandal

Obama: Let's repeat auto industry success

Romney has a point on welfare:

Please Vote For Me - I'm a Photo Finalist!

Please vote for the above picture so I can be a finalist in the Banana Boat Photo Contest. Here is the facebook link - https://www.facebook.com/BananaBoatBrand/app_400516839970889#!/BananaBoatBrand/app_400516839970889 Scroll down and my picture is #3 "Big Splash" Thank you, Thank you, Thank You!

Obama Supported OWS - shocking

This comes as NO surprise to anyone who has paid attention. Documents: Law Enforcement Instructed to 'Stand Down,' Not Arrest Occupy Lawbreakers

Anti-Marriage Hollywood

Here's a question I would like answered. Why is it that Hollywood is so pro-gay marriage and yet so many heterosexual Hollywood couples either don't get married (while having children) or regularly divorce?

Neither The Lying Or The Implosion Is Surprising

General Motors is Imploding — and Team Obama is Lying About It

One Hungry Little Mouse!

The extraordinary  scene was captured by  photography student   Casey  Gutteridge at the Santago Rare  Leopard Project in   Hertfordshire. The   19-year-old, from Potters Bar,  Hertfordshire,  who was photographing the  leopard for a course project, was astounded by the mouse's behaviour.

He said: 'I  have no idea  where the mouse came from -  he just appeared in  the enclosure after  the keeper had dropped in the meat for the  leopard. He didn't take any notice of the  leopard, just went straight over to the meat and  started feeding himself.'

'But the leopard was pretty surprised - she bent down and sniffed the mouse and flinched a bit like she was scared. In the meantime the mouse just carried on eating like nothing had happened.

But even a gentle  shove does not deter the little creature from  getting his fill... 'It was  amazing, even  the keeper who had thrown the meat into the  enclosure was shocked - he said  he'd never  seen anything like it before.'  

Project owner Jackie James added:  'It  was so funny to see - Sheena batted  the mouse a couple of times to try to get it  away from her food.'  But the determined  little thing took no notice and just carried  on.' 

Sheena  was  brought in to the Santago Rare Leopard Project  from a UK zoo when she  was just four  months old.  She is one of 14 big cats in  the private collection started by Jackie 's  late husband Peter  in 1989.  The African Leopard can be found  in the continent's forests, grasslands,  savannas, and rainforests.

....so the mouse  continued to eat the leopard's lunch  and show the  leopard who was the  boss.  Just proves  no one can push you around  without your permission.

Because Communism Has SUCH A Great Track Record?

Why Elizabeth Warren Wants America to Be More Like Communist China

Vote For ME

Please follow this link here and vote for the picture of the little boy in blue jumping into a pool. It is titled "Making A Splash" and if I get enough votes, I will be this week's Finalist! Thank You.

Panthergate - Truth will out

The video made the voter intimidation obvious FOUR years ago, now the courts agree. Federal Court Finds Obama Appointees Interfered With New Black Panther Prosecution

A federal court in Washington, DC, held today that political appointees appointed by President Obama did interfere with the Department of Justice’s prosecution of the New Black Panther Party. The ruling came as part of a motion by the conservative legal watch dog group Judicial Watch, who had sued the DOJ in federal court to enforce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents pertaining to the the New Black Panthers case. Judicial Watch had secured many previously unavailable documents through their suit against DOJ and were now suing for attorneys’ fees.

Apparently Bills Are For The Little People

Secret Service won't pay Newport Beach for police at Obama event Newport Beach billed President Obama's campaign for police security at a fundraiser. The Secret Service says that security is its job, not the campaign's, but that it can't reimburse the city.

Newport Beach City Manager Dave Kiff billed the campaigns of President Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney for police security at their separate fundraisers this year in the city. Now that the Romney campaign paid its bill, the city is left in the awkward position of trying to collect from Obama.

Latest Fundraising Email from Joe

I'm Obama and Biden's "second family"?! My sweet fat ass, I am.

(My Name) -- This isn't hyperbole or exaggeration: If we don't win this election, it will be because we didn't close the spending gap when we could. Because right now we're seeing that voters have a choice between two very different men. And the only way someone like Mitt Romney -- who's asking Americans to put him in charge of their taxes while refusing to come clean about his own, who wants to repeal Obamacare, end Medicare as we know it and give more tax breaks to billionaires who don't need them -- defeats someone like Barack Obama, is if the other side spends us into oblivion. Tomorrow is the most urgent fundraising deadline of this campaign so far. Will you make a donation of $3 or more today to make sure we can keep this close over the last 100 days? It's already starting on TVs and radios in swing states, and it's not going to stop. In the last two weeks of this month, Romney and his allies had an almost 2:1 spending advantage in Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Virginia -- and that could be the election right there. We've got more than 2.4 million grassroots donors building this the right way. But we're running out of time to close the money gap when it really matters. Please donate $3 today, and help make sure our message can get through to as many voters as Mitt Romney's does: https://donate.barackobama.com/July-Deadline Barack and I honestly wish we could thank everyone who contributes to this campaign personally. You're our second family, you know. Thanks, Joe

It's OK to Vote Against Obama

WaPo columnist fears voters will think it’s okay to vote against Obama “and not be thought of as a racist” From the article:

What keeps some voters in line for Obama – fear of falsely being accused of racism — may not work this time, and the removal of that fear is the most dangerous threat to Obama’s reelection.

I'm Back

Great Vacation and even better health news regarding my stepfather so hoorays all about. Today was about regrouping so regularly scheduled postings will begin sometime over the weekend or so. Thanks for your patience!

Vacation - So Minimal Posting

I will be seeing many of the people pictured below, except my dad. May he rest in peace with God.

I will try to post a few things but the site will basically be going quiet for a time. But do feel free to poke around and give me your opinion on the previous posts. I'd love to hear from you.

Another Lie Exposed - ObamaCareTax

Side Effects: Obama Administration Admits You Can’t Keep Your Health Plan

Arguments over the constitutionality of this infringement on religious freedom aside, the Administration admits in its legal response to the Newland complaint, “Even under grandfathering, more and more group health plans will be subject to the regulations as time goes on. Defendants estimate that, as a practical matter, a majority of group health plans will lose their grandfather status by 2013.” It concludes that “more women would enjoy coverage of recommended preventive services as fewer plans are eligible for grandfather status.” The defendants cite the Federal Register final rules on grandfathered plans, which states that the “mid-range estimate is that 66 percent of small employer plans and 45 percent of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfather status by the end of 2013.” They also include high-end estimates that 80 percent of small employer plans and 64 percent for large employer plans will lose grandfathered status. The reason: Obamacare puts employers with grandfathered plans in a box. If they make changes to their plans to control increasing costs, they will lose their grandfathered status. Alternatively, if they keep grandfathered status by not making changes, their plans will eventually become unaffordable, forcing them to give them up. Either way, their employees will eventually lose their current coverage. As more Americans lose their existing insurance, their new plan will be subjected to Obamacare’s overreaching regulations, mandates, and violations of religious liberty. This is just one of Obamacare’s many broken promises.

Just Doesn't Care

Broken Record, Broken Promises This is a simple post that I have linked to above. All it does is state:

Today, the Obama Administration told Americans “not to read too much into” monthly jobs reports. As it turns out, they’ve been encouraging Americans to do that for years. But after 41 straight months of unemployment over 8%, you don’t have to read between the lines to see the truth. President Obama’s policies have failed to get America working again.

And then it lists 30 of the administration's press releases all saying exactly the same thing - “not to read too much into”. This careless and cavalier approach to America's awful employment situation shows a callow and reckless abandonment of American workers.

Oh SNAP

USDA uses Spanish soap operas to push food stamps among non-citizens, citizens Because the faster we can put non-English speaking people on the government dole the better?....

DoJ Bungles Voter IDs Again

I mean seriously, you need ID to get into the Department of Justice. Heck you needed ID to get in to see a speech by Idiot Holder about why Voter IDs are bad. But now there's this. DOJ Witness Can Fly to Washington, But Can’t Get Voter ID (Updated)

This is too much. The Justice Department actually called a witness in the Texas Voter ID trial today in Washington, D.C. The witness complained she couldn’t find the time to get her parents to drive her to get the free photo ID, but she obviously had time to fly to Washington, D.C., from Texas to testify at trial!

Nice try Sparkles.

Six Scary Charts from AEI

6 charts that show the Welfare State run amok

Minister Point Out Romney Not Evil

Black leader defends Mitt Romney

Another Reason Why I Hate Boomers

The Real Class Warfare is Baby Boomers Vs. Younger Americans Hey kids, Mom and Dad are screwing you.

Moody Clarifies The Problem With Public Employee Unions

Moody’s Triples Pension Debt Estimates Before you think what's the big deal, please remember that Public Employee unions are paid for by YOU the taxpayer. This debt is going to be shifted to tax payers unless quickly dealt with.

As we follow the evolving story of collapsing public pensions, one of the trickiest issues is the lack of reliable estimates of future returns on investment. Many of the biggest offenders among pensions assume returns of 8 percent or higher. These numbers may seem reasonable by historical standards, but they’re hopelessly optimistic today. Even plans that have revised their estimates downward still project returns far above what most analysts expect. If these estimates don’t come through, taxpayers will be left holding the bag, and either pension payouts will have to shrink or other services, including education and law enforcement, will have to. Unions have long claimed that these worries are mere alarmism, but now Wall Street is stepping in to say it, too: pension investment projections are far too high. A new estimate from Moody’s anticipates average pension returns of 5.5 percent rather than the traditional 7 or 8 percent investment projection. The result of this estimate is a tripling of national pension debt, from $766 billion to $2.2 trillion. This is a major increase, but many analysts believe that it is accurate, or at least more accurate than previous estimates

Kimberlin Wants To Be Left Alone

Then he shouldn't have attacked bloggers by the VERY dangerous SWAT-ting. Brett Kimberlin: ‘I Want to Be Left Alone’ Why Brad Friedman Matters In The Kimberlin Story The Kimberlin Story: The Short Version

Sex, Baby

Preglimony and Pro-Choice Rhetoric If we ask fathers to support a pregnancy, aren’t we admitting that the fetus is a child?

I don’t actually think it is in the interests of feminism or the pro-choice movement to cling so rigidly to outdated notions of “life.” It no longer helps our cause to try to argue that the fetus is not “life.” The reason for this, as people have noted, is that technological advances, like sonograms, where you can see feet on a fetus in the first trimester, have made those claims clearly and patently hollow to even ardently pro-choice people who have seen the black and white staticky fuzziness take shape into human form. How can we possibly claim that the moving creature, with feet and toes that we can see, is not “life”?

The author is trying to protect a pro-choice position while acknowledging that a pregnant woman has a life within her. But there is a deeper position here. Sex is seen as a purely pleasureable activity and any creation of life merely a biproduct. This demeans one of the most important activities in a human life to mere biology. Before the sacredness of sex was stripped away by the "Sexual Revolution", it was entered into either through marriage or in less reputable and secretive ways. Gratification required responsibility (or payment). You could get married by a JP but most of the time, you were married by a religious authority who wanted your marriage to be successful both with children and contentment. Then it was all the meaning was gone. Certainly a lot of freedoms were unleashed by the "sexual revolution" but so were a myriad of problems. Unwed mothers, easy divorce, sexual diseases, and on and on. We can not turn back the clock but perhaps simply encouraging modesty could be a start. Describing sex not simply as a biological function but as a joyful expression of God's love that is best shared with a soulmate/spouse/partner who accepts the responsibility and duty of caring for both you and your shared offspring. I'm the first one to admit sex is awesome. But with sex, comes babies. That should mean families, love, support, and grace. Not abortion.

US Feds Knew About LIBOR in 2007

Pay attention to this because it explains why regulators are no guarantee of good behavior. In 2007, New York Fed was told about problems with Libor

Barclays’ regulator in the United States is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which was run at the time by current Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. Diamond said that his bank had alerted the New York Fed to issues with Libor at least 12 times. After receiving initial reports in 2007, the New York Fed said, it made additional inquiries of Barclays about its Libor operations, and subsequently made suggestions for changes to British authorities. Geithner personally participated in several conversations with Barclays executives, according to his New York Fed calendar, later posted on the Web site of the New York Times. It wasn’t clear if these meetings focused on the Libor issues now coming to light.