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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Random Round-Up 12-08

President Obama Job Approval

ARGH - House Democrats tack controversial food-safety bill to spending measure

This kinda sums up my evolution as well - Sooner or later you have to join the side you’re on

The top U.S. banks are bigger than ever. Do they pose a threat to the economy?

BRITAIN IS FREEZING TO DEATH

Birther of The Nation You'll never believe how upset the hard left is at President Obama.. Oh honey, we're all angry at Obama.

Sharpton wants FCC to take Limbaugh off the air

Save the North Koreans!

While his base rages, Obama faces tax-cut reality

The Economic Incompetence Of The Political Class

Small-Biz Killers

I don't really want to think about the democrats position on this at all. Stop And Think About The Ridiculousness Of The Democrats' Position On Taxes

AIG, U.S. Treasury Plan Stock Sale

10-Year Work Permits for Millions - millions of illegal immigrants that is. Given the current unemployment rate for native Americans, this should be another nail in the DREAM Act's coffin.

Freeze Taxes, Freeze Spending, and Go Home

Porker poker? Harry Reid tries to add online poker to tax bill Nope, just Reid's payback to the SEIU casino workers who coughed up big money to get him re-elected.

Walter Williams' Memoir

Anything that hurts unions is a good thing. A union in and of itself isn't necessarily bad, just that they no longer work to protect the workers. O'Sullivan's Law is in effect. Wis. Governor-Elect raises prospect of union decertification to balance budget

Why Pigford Matters

Black Farmers Advocacy Helped Get Obama Elected for Pushing Pigford II; Says BFAA ‘Rural ACORN’ Video

Pigileaks: The Pigford Applications

Why Do the Poor Stay Poor?

Of course he does - Obama Opens The Door To Raid Social Security

Warren Buffett, Robber Baron?

Quite frankly, this messing with the internet is merely a reflection of the Left's hatred of innovation and lack-of-control. The single most innovative and helpful invention of the last 40 years and they want to put their grubby fingers all over it and ruin everything for the rest of us. FCC's pay-as-you-go Internet plan raises video, access questions

Of course he is - Suspect in Baltimore Bombing Plot Is an American Convert to Islam

President Obama's Scorecard on Promises Kept, Broken

Liberal Math

Elites Should Blame Selves, Not Obama, for Believing His Messianic Pretensions

Why Obama can't shake Bush

But I love Walmart (not as much as Nordstrom Rack but I do care) Homeland Security & Walmart Team Up To Fight Terrorism In The Checkout Line

Pelosi escalates criticism of tax-cut deal. She really is a turd, isn't she?

Crisis in the States

The 10 Biggest Conservative Stand-Outs of 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

War on Consumers Continues

Sniffing out injustice

What ever you do, don't get sick.

Government can’t print money properly

Explain to me why we should trust the government to do something new like control our healthcare, when they can't even do something they've done for centuries correctly?

Monday, December 6, 2010

Random Round-Up 12-06

President Obama Job Approval

Bush job approval rating higher than Obama's

Holder Must Go - Panel finds Justice reluctant to take cases of white victims

How to Balance the Budget Without Raising Taxes

The GOP’s California Blues

We Want You Morons Back

Report: WikiLeaks' Assange to Talk to UK Police, Attorney Says

GOP's Global Warming Skeptics to Take House Chairs on Energy, Science

Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies

Ending child marriage helps communities across the developing world

The Pigford Shakedown: How the Black Farmers’ Cause Was Hijacked by Politicians, Trial Lawyers & Community Organizers — Leaving Us With a Billion Dollar Tab

Defying the will of the people, Obama governs by regulation

BWAHAHAHA - Al Gore's climate group shrinking

A Joyless Jobless Report. Those dreadful new unemployment numbers are even worse than they look.

What's Up With 'Sputnik?' Obama Makes '50s Space Race a Rallying Cry

The Next Step in the Walmart Employment-Discrimination Case

Do we need a “repeal amendment”?

Shocker: Rangel May Face More Ethics Charges

The Real Dream of Illegal-Immigration Advocates

A Dispatch from the Kinston Voting-Rights Trial

WikiLeaks cables: Barack Obama is a bigger danger. WikiLeaks harms the US. But the president's refusal to acknowledge the threats we face is a bigger danger

Unusual methods helped ICE break deportation record, e-mails and interviews show

Russian satellites fall into Pacific

Sunshine in Kansas: State Transparency Spotlight

MSM Inertia: What We Can Learn from 120 Years of Climate Catastrophe Reporting. The media falls in love with catastrophic predictions, and is consistently 10-15 years behind(!) in reporting on what the global temperature is actually doing.

BIG SIS INVADES WAL-MART: 'IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING'

Obama presidency turns government up to 11

So Explain to Me Again Why We Need Illegal Aliens?

Democrats on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Americans Don’t Hate the Rich

Ohio Blowout Raises Red Flag for Democrats

Must Liberals Ruin Our Sports, Too?

Caribou!

An Index That Charts Risk

Julian Assange, Information Anarchist WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hopes to hobble the U.S. government.

WikiLeaks: Fishing With Dynamite

Dems aim for 100+ bills in 1 swoop

Where Have All The Capitalists Gone?

They should lay off Obama on this stuff, it's hard to remember these details when you weren't even born here - Obama muffed U.S. motto.

PIG Out on Kevin Williamson’s New Book

You’ve Met Government Motors. Now Meet Government Computers

Me & Mrs. Sherrod — And The $1.25 Billion Pigford II Black Farmers’ Settlement

No Country for Burly Men. How feminist groups skewed the Obama stimulus plan towards women's jobs

Obama V. Events

New regs = more pink slips

The sayings of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

The Green Economy Is Here, and It Ain't Pretty

Pension Woes Prompt GOP Move

Worse Is to Come for Euro as Trichet Fails to Calm Crisis, Forecasters Say

The ‘Unholy Alliance’ Between Islamic Jihad and Utopian Socialism

Our Elites at Work

The DREAM Act Is an Amnesty Bill That America Cannot Afford

Soon my daughter won't be allowed to sell Girl Scout cookies - Finally, Air Force Can't Afford Bombers, Schools Can't Hold Bake Sales

Politics: WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets

What should each party have learned from the 2010 midterms, and what incorrect conclusion are they most likely to extract

Obama Made ‘Big Mistake’ on Climate Bill, Turner Says - Ted Turner seems increasingly irrelevant to me these days.

The Walking Death Tax Without Congressional action, it returns with a 55% rate vengeance in 26 days..

WikiLeaks and U.S. Computer Security: The ‘Second Spy’ Theory. Either U.S. intelligence is massively incompetent, or PFC Manning had help — an insider with high-level access.

Obama Sacrifices Jobs to Save His Own

Bernanke's Arrogance Problem

Assange making arrangements to meet police, lawyer says

Why the left is angry at Obama

WikiLeaks cables: Barack Obama is a bigger danger. WikiLeaks harms the US. But the president's refusal to acknowledge the threats we face is a bigger danger

Public pensions and your right to know

Author claims we're in the grip of a mini ice age

Fear Of Malicious Envy Elicits Altruistic Behavior

Investors Appear To Be Avoiding Past Mistakes

No end in sight to U.S. economic crisis as 'scariest jobs chart ever' shows post-recession unemployment is at its worst since World War Two

Barrett Brown’s Lawyer Sends Me an Email Threatening ‘Legal Proceedings’

Alaska's legal climate far from harsh

What I’ve Learned. We can’t keep politics out of school reform. Why I’m launching a national movement to transform education.

It's all speculation which is pretty much all Wall Street - WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell

Alternative Energy and the Academy at Lagado

My husband's terrific article in the American Spectator:Alternative Energy and the Academy at Lagado

Alot of otherwise sensible people have been calling recently for massive government investment in alternative energy research, arguing that it is the only solution to the risk of global warming that doesn't involve economic ruin. I can see their point and have often considered it myself. Then I remember Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift's classic work is not a simple fairy tale, as so many children's adaptations have made it seem, but a biting satire that tells us that certain popular conceits are not new, and we should be wary of falling for them again.

The most relevant passage is in Part III, when Gulliver visits the Academy of Lagado. The Academy is DARPA in all but name, a brain trust where those with great ideas can work on those ideas at will, free from the corrupting demands of the marketplace. The first academic Gulliver meets is working on a new source of energy:

The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect…He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me "to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers."

Yes, Gulliver met a solar power researcher. How does this speak to us today? Consider that in Germany, the world leader in solar power, photovoltaic solar panels supply 0.6 percent of the country's energy, but the total cost to the country's economy for those modules, which have been installed in the past decade, is likely to reach almost $75 billion. It is always a very dear season for solar power.

Others at the Academy are pursuing equally noble research projects. One, for instance, is trying to figure out how to turn excrement back into food. Another is teaching boys how to write treatises on politics using words generated randomly from a machine.

Yet it is the Academy's mission and the attitude of Lagado's citizens to it that speaks most closely to proposals for massive government investment in alternative energy:

In these colleges the professors contrive new rules and methods of agriculture and building, and new instruments, and tools for all trades and manufactures; whereby, as they undertake, one man shall do the work of ten; a palace may be built in a week, of materials so durable as to last for ever without repairing. All the fruits of the earth shall come to maturity at whatever season we think fit to choose, and increase a hundred fold more than they do at present; with innumerable other happy proposals. The only inconvenience is, that none of these projects are yet brought to perfection; and in the mean time, the whole country lies miserably waste, the houses in ruins, and the people without food or clothes. By all which, instead of being discouraged, they are fifty times more violently bent upon prosecuting their schemes, driven equally on by hope and despair.

As Swift so ably reminds us, innovation for its own sake comes at a cost, particularly when it is preceded by rejection of the old. Would that the Obama administration had kept that in mind before imposing stricter automobile fuel economy standards without any real idea of how to reach them!

The irony is that Lagado was once a happy and prosperous place, but fifty years before Gulliver's arrival, some citizens went abroad and, on gaining a smattering of learning elsewhere, "began to dislike the management of every thing below, and fell into schemes of putting all arts, sciences, languages, and mechanics, upon a new foot." Gulliver's host had not fallen for the new fashion. Instead, he continued to live in an estate run along the old lines. The price he paid was also dear:

[S]ome few other persons of quality and gentry had done the same, but were looked on with an eye of contempt and ill-will, as enemies to art, ignorant, and ill common-wealth's men, preferring their own ease and sloth before the general improvement of their country.

Apparently, Swift even anticipated the price of being a global warming skeptic.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Wiki-Leaks - Yawn 12-05

WikiLeaks Ready to Release Giant 'Insurance' File if Shut Down If this WikiLeaks guy wants to impress, then rather than exposing what we already know about scummy politicians and diplimats, how about coughing up Obama's birth certificate and college records.

The Big American Leak

Is President Obama getting a free pass over WikiLeaks? The Left would have bayed for Bush's blood if he was in the White House

Daily Round-Up 12-05

AND THE GOOD NEWS IS....

GOP ready to battle EPA

Bourgeois Dignity & the Miracle of the Modern World

A payroll-tax holiday could be just what the sputtering U.S. economy needs

GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR

Today’s dose of casual sexism

Political Correctness Kills: Study Shows How Terrorists Infiltrate U.S. Government

Where's the American empire when we need it?

Straight Talk on Immigration

Responses

The White House/Wall Street Revolving Door Can't Stop Spinning

The case for engaged justices

Latinos Going Rogue!

US drilling decisions ripple on 2 coasts

OBAMACARE

MEDIA BIAS

Newspaper industry's 3Q ad revenue slipped 5 pct

The Press Continues to Lie About Palin’s “Death Panels” Comment

FCC crosses the Rubicon into online regulation

CNN kicked out of Palin event

FIGHTING CORRUPTION

Christie to Paterson: Stop screwing with us!

Child Rapist Captured by Good Samaritans

Manchin votes against Obama

Big Union/Leftie Groups 12-05

Hold the brownies! Bill could limit bake sales

Was Prohibition repealed?

Polar bear expert barred by global warmists. Mitchell Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful’

The Nuclear Power Solution. It appears President Obama and the nuclear power deniers plan to leave our grandchildren both broke and powerless.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Random Round-Up 12-04

President Obama Job Approval

Senate to Vote on Tax Hikes Today - How do you think that will go for us?

Senate Rejects Obama’s Plan on Extending Tax Cuts

Senate blocks Obama's tax plan

How to Beat Customer Service Phone Support

I might just come around to Wiki-Leaks after all - More on the Wikileaks Climate Cables

Obama pardons 9 convicted of drug, other offenses

Usually retailers hire for the Christmas season - Unemployment rate reaches 9.8 pct. as hiring slows

CNN Reporter Put On Watch List After Criticizing TSA

Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time

Republicans Now Outnumber Democrats

Obama's stimulus pours millions into faith-based groups

What Happened to U.S. Health Care Costs?

Another reason why trusting the government with our health care is a bad ideal - IRS Paid $130m in Fraudulent Tax
Refunds to 50,000 Prisoners

Helen Thomas Rescinds Her Apology

America Bails Out a Thankless World

Government reports violations of limits on spying aimed at U.S. citizens

Navigating a Global Marketplace -- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Potential Reforms

Fiddling while jobs burn

Cancun talks start with a call to the gods

Ethanol’s Policy Privileges: Heading for History’s Dustbin? Congress has a golden opportunity to put the general welfare of consumers and taxpayers ahead of the corporate welfare of the ethanol lobby.

We're waiting, Mr President

Keynesian Econ Sucks

Tax-Payer Funded Propaganda

The rest of the story on those Andy Griffith Obamacare ads

And here’s another interesting twist in this emerging scandal. The new documents also show that the public relations firm Porter Novelli produced the advertising campaign.

One of these documents lists the Porter Novelli staff involved in producing the advertisements and details that former Obama campaign spokesperson Catherine “Kiki” McLean contributed 21 hours of her time to the project.

Porter Novelli’s website notes McLean served as a “senior adviser to the Hillary Clinton for President campaign and appeared as an on-air surrogate for the Obama for America campaign.”

The campaigns of John Kerry and Al Gore are also listed on her resume. She is currently the senior partner, global head of public affairs, and managing director for Porter Novelli.

In other words, McLean is a long-time Democratic PR spin master and an Obama insider. And it looks like she was intimately involved in the contract for these misleading ads.

At a time when the government desperately needs to tighten its belt, taxpayers and principled members of Congress should be outraged that the Obama administration has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on this propaganda campaign.

Even Barney Fife would see that these Obamacare ads are bogus.

Chuchill Waned Us

Churchill Saw It Coming

When Churchill saw America’s principles of liberty, constitutionalism, and limited government, threatened with the rise of the welfare state, he admonished America to resist this soft despotism. In “Roosevelt from Afar,” Churchill admits that the American economy was suffering when FDR took office, but FDR used this crisis as an opportunity to centralize his political authority rather than to bolster the free market through decentralized alternatives. Churchill commends Roosevelt’s desire to improve the economic well-being for poorer Americans, but he critiques Roosevelt’s policies toward trade unionism and attacks on wealthy Americans as harmful to the free enterprise system. Drawing on Britain’s experience with trade unions, Churchill understood that unions can cripple an economy: “when one sees an attempt made within the space of a few months to lift American trade unionism by great heaves and bounds [to equal that of Great Britain],” one worries that result could be “a general crippling of that enterprise and flexibility upon which not only the wealth, but the happiness of modern communities depends.” Similarly, redistribution of wealth through penalties on the rich harms the economy: “far from depriving ordinary people of their earnings, [the millionaire] launches enterprise and carries it through, raises values, and he expands that credit without which on a vast scale no fuller economic life can be opened to the millions. To hunt wealth is not to capture commonwealth.” Ultimately, attacks on the wealthy only serve as a distraction from other economic issues

. Read it all.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Why Are Atheist's Such Tools?

Atheist ad campaigns stir the pot during holiday season

You know, I'd love to see these tools criticize Islam and not just Christians. They really are such cowardly tools.

The Over 40 Crowd

For those who grew up with minimal technology - this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways. yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores! And car seats - oh, please! Mo m threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!

See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!

Junk Science 12-02

A new history of the FDA shows how regulators entrenched and extended their own power.

EPA Fraud: Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf Actually Get Only 23, 25 MPG. The MPG figure must be calculated where the energy is produced. Doesn't matter if that happens in the car's engine ... or in the coal plant, as with the Leaf and Volt.

While our leaders discuss the fight against climate change in Cancún, hundreds of UK schools are shut down by global warming

Four Ways the EPA Has Gone Astray In Its 40 Years

False prophecies beget faulty policies

Americans for Tax Reform's Statement on Reauthorization of the Volumetric Ethanol Tax Credit

The EPA's And Enron's End-Runs Of Congress

In memoriam: House climate panel

Dead Green Treaty Stinks Up The Room

Can Congress Stand Up to Ethanol?

Fun new climate change solution: Let’s impose rationing on the developed world Whenever any of these jokers suggest we cut back on our energy use, I use my husband's reply - "You First."

Electric Car = Electric Worry?

Senators warn Clinton against helping poor countries fight climate change

Obamacare 12-02

You Don’t Actually Have to Be Engaged In Commerce For Your Choices to Be Regulated Under the Commerce Clause

Health Care: Socialism

Health Care Union Drops Coverage For Children

Health premiums surge 41%; Md., D.C. among costliest areas to insure

The Littlest Victims of Obamacare

How ObamaCare and an Old Red Union Betrayed Its Poorest Workers

Navigating Next Steps on Health Care Reform

Lame Duck Obama Clinging to ObamaCare

FYI - GOP Wasn’t Elected to Give Us ObamaCare-lite

Cure or Care?

Obamacare’s Effect on Innovation

Rep. Ryan says deficit reduction plan would ‘entrench ObamaCare’

New Alien Life?

New Life Form Discovered

This is truly amazing!

Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.

Random Round-Up 12-02

President Obama Job Approval

BWAHAHA - With Kirk's swearing-in, GOP formally claims Obama's old seat

Holder must go - Dems Should Seek Eric Holder’s Resignation

Reality Isn't Negotiable: The Government Can't Raise More than 19% in Taxes for Long

11 Statistics That Reveal Just How Far The U.S. Economy Has Fallen Over The Past Four Years

Pigford and New Black Panthers: Friends at DOJ

Food Safety Measure Would Give Small Farmers Indigestion. The "Food Safety Modernization Act" would not appreciably improve the safety of the food supply in the U.S., but it would create an army of regulators with TSA-like authority over agriculture.

Tea-Party Message in the House

My father was close friends with gay couple who've been together for over 30 years, one of whom was an FBI border patrol agent. DADT is nonsense, shows little understanding about the decency of our military, and this report agrees. “He’s big, he’s mean, and he kills lots of bad guys”: The DADT Report

Why I May Filibuster New START

Can Republicans Talk?: Part II

Obama backtracks on plan to open more Gulf waters to offshore drilling

Tell me something I don't know - Jeb Bush Says Sarah Palin Is 'Fantastic'

Media Matters Lies About Media Coverage of Sarah Palin North Korea Slip

If there’s a lesson to be learned from Media Matters ginning up a political hit only to follow it up later with commentary that Sarah Palin is delusional, it’s this: reporters relying on Media Matters for accuracy are setting themselves up to be played for fools

Is California's Decline Just More Right-Wing Propaganda?

"Leak Czar"? - W.H. creates post to analyze leaks

There's One Housing Market Is Holding Onto Its Bubble Gains Better Than Any Other