Greenpeace Terror

From BigGovernment.com

Good line

Via Instapundit from Ace of Spades

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them.”

Why no jobs?

A question from a friend's facebook page in response to the above image;

There is a difference to being entitled and wanting people to pay their fair share. Why should people who earn more money pay less of a percentage of tax on that money? If they are "job creators" where are the jobs? They haven't been taxed yet, they have been living under this Bush tax cut for years, so again- where are the jobs???

My Answer:

Think of it this way, if you owned a flower shop and suddenly you had to spend hours filling out EPA forms and business registration forms and at the same time, your customer base was halved, would you hire an additional florist? If the government has created through burdensome over-regulation a business climate of uncertainty and expense, then businesses do not hire. If demand for goods and services is down, then businesses do not hire. If the tax rates could change at any moment, businesses do not hire. It started with the housing collapse but has continued with bad government policies frightening the horses. Finally, you are right. There is a difference between demanding an entitlement and contributing your fair share. In the 1980s only 19% of Americans did NOT pay taxes, today it is 47% of Americans who do NOT pay taxes. The top 1% of tax-payers pay 40% of taxes, the top 5% pay 60%, the remaining 40% is paid by the remaining 48% of taxpayers. So who exactly isn't paying their fair share?

Opaque Obama

So much for "the most transparent administration ever" - Obama's administration held secret meetings on government transparency. Oh good grief.

Obama Has No Words

via Instapundit Conan O'Brien observes that without his teleprompter, Obama has no words....

Calling All Browncoats, Join The Fight For Free Speech.

What's that famous quote about evil succeeds when good men fail to stand against it? It's a good one but personally, I prefer this line "I aim to misbehave.") Either way, this chick feels like joining the fight against evil and lies. Zilla of the Resistance has called my attention to the plight of Donald Douglas (a personal friend of hers) who is being viciously attacked by the left for his blog American Power. As Zilla points out in her post, standing together against lies and destructive personal attacks is the only way to show folks, what's right and what's wrong because clearly people who would attack someone for there personal views are people without a moral compass. My own husband and his co-workers have been on the receiving end of everything from idiotic lies to actual death threats. Some joker even called us at home after one of his radio interviews. Unacceptable. Anyways, I urge everyone to turn Browncoat and stand up for what's right and support Prof. Douglas's right to free speech.

Party Vs. Occupy

Reading this story, NYC official: Protest cleanup is being postponed, made me think of three things: One, when did NYC become so spineless (oh wait, Bloomberg. Gulianni wouldn't have tolerated this crap), Two, winter isn't going to be kind to these jokers (bwahahaha). And three, did they realling think "Occupy" was an appealing name? The last is the most telling. "Occupy (insert place name here) is so much more negative than "Party". Tea Party protests didn't occupy someplace, they came, they expressed themselves, they went back to their jobs. These Occupy (insert place name here) protests go on and on, are filthy, and incoherent. If you think this is a "movement" you can support, read the quote below and decide if all this occupying is even remotely part of the American ethos as partying is.

The protest has led sympathetic groups in other cities to stage their own local rallies and demonstrations: Occupy Boston, Occupy Cincinnati, Occupy Houston, Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Philadelphia, Occupy Providence, Occupy Salt Lake and Occupy Seattle, among them.

Emailing The Pope

I really dislike the changes the Pope is making to the Catholic Mass. In fact, I feel increasingly alienated from the Church because of them. So I just emailed the Pope and told him so. If you feel the same way, you can too. Pope's Official Email benedictxvi@vatican.va

George Soros Jeopordy

Given his history working for the Nazis, would this new development Hundreds of Nazi probes reopened, put George Soros in jeopordy as a former nazi helper. After all as the article states:

Special Nazi war-crimes investigators reopened the files after the conviction of former U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk, whose case set a new legal precedent in Germany. It was the first time prosecutors had been able to convict someone in a Nazi-era case without direct evidence that the suspect participated in a specific killing. Now authorities are weighing whether the same approach could be used to pursue others, said Kurt Schrimm, the prosecutor who heads the investigation unit.

And yes, Soros is an admitted Nazi collaborator.

Soros was thirteen years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary.[20] Soros took a job with the Jewish Council,[11] which had been established during the Nazi occupation of Hungary to carry out Nazi and Hungarian government anti-Jewish measures.[21][22] Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis:

The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper...It said report to the rabbi seminary at 9 am...And I was given this list of names. I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers. He said, "You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported."[23]

Later that year, at age 14, Soros lived with and posed as the godson of an employee of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture. On one occasion, the official was ordered to inventory the remaining contents of the estate of a wealthy Jewish family that had fled the country.[24] Rather than leave the young Soros alone in the city, the official brought him along.

Source: Soros, Early Life, Wikipedia, referencing Soros biography.

Black Panther President?

Presumably this is why the DoJ dropped the Black Panther Voter Intimidation case. Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007

Getting Robbed In America

I have no idea why my husband's book - Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You - isn't on the Amazon Best Sellers In Politics (here) when so many of today's scandals involve the very behavior he exposes! Check it out! Many government retirees also get public paychecks. Thousands of government retirees across country return to work to collect public paychecks Revolving Door Thank Wal-Mart for your new bank card fee Top Democrat wants to gut Government Watchdog that has uncovered vast waste of taxpayer dollars OBAMA'S ILLEGAL SUPPORT GROUP MOBILIZING FOR 2012 ELECTIONS Activists Protest ‘Cozy’ Relationship Between Lobbyist, Obama Admin in Pipeline Emails Texas whistle-blowers allege corruption Candidate-Specific Super PACs Offer End Run For Maxed-Out Donors Also buried 7 paragraphs down is this: "The analysis also found that nine individuals donated to President Obama's reelection campaign as well as to Priorities USA Action, the super PAC founded by former Obama staffers, in that same time period." Cronyism, Corruption, and the “War on Terror” Fincher one of 14 'most corrupt' in Congress Solar Energy School Propaganda 101 Bank of America, CARD Act, Dodd-Frank, and soaking the poor. Governor's Town Hall Meeting Focuses on Corruption In New Jersey Judicial Watch Releases Special Report: "The Rebranding of ACORN" Corruption Squared Former Prince George’s Co. Councilwoman Leslie Johnson seeks delay of sentencing And while you are at it, check out his first book too. The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them

Robo-Signing & Corruption Since 2003

Gov't report: Fannie knew of 'robo-signing' in '03. Investigator says Fannie knew of alleged improper foreclosure practices in '03 but didn't act Let's just remember a couple of things about Fannie Mae... Timeline shows Bush, McCain warning Dems of financial and housing crisis; meltdown Bush Proposed Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac Supervision In 2003 AND who not only blocked the attempts at reforming Fannie Mae but also encouraged even more dubious lending - that scandal-cloaked douche-bag, Barney Frank. Barney Frank Caught Lying About Fannie Mae In fact, Barney Frank and his co-horts have made Judicial Watch's Top Ten Most Corrupt Politicians Annual List for YEARS now, most recently, here.

Department of In-Justice - Fast & Furious

As you scan through these headlines of this round-up below, ask yourself how many Mexicans and Americans were murdered for this program? One? Ten? Nope. So far the known body count is a couple of American ATF agents and hundreds of Mexicans. When do you think the liberals will care? ATF Death Watch 93: Holder Lied, People Died AND Purjury Charges Coming for Eric Holder? Gunrunner Impact Team Chart - horrifying! Furiously unraveling. Gun scandal still growing ATF Fast and Furious: New documents show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed in July 2010 Gunwalker: Holder Appears To Be Fast, Furious, and Finished. News documents indicate that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder more than likely perjured himself in congressional testimony about Operation Fast and Furious earlier this year. Testimony on Assault Weapons Guts Obama’s 90 Percent Lie. Only eight percent of guns recovered from cartels in Mexico originated from legal gun dealers in the U.S.: not 90 percent as Obama has claimed. DOJ Protecting Political Appointees New Fast and Furious docs released by White House Gunwalker: Under White House Control? New documents reveal extensive White House communication with the ATF head behind the scandal. Secret recordings raise new questions in ATF 'Gunwalker' operation The Ultimate Goal of Gunwalker? It's hard to think of a more logical reason for Gunwalker to exist. Fast and Furious: Using Humans as Collateral Damage ATF Fast and Furious: New documents show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed in July 2010 DOJ Considering Elimination of ATF Gunwalker Explodes into the Heartland It's time for the administration to come clean, under oath, and face the consequences for its actions. Blood On Their Hands: Giving Guns to Criminals Was the Plan All Along ATF Fast and Furious secret audio recordings US Government Accused of Seeking to Conceal Deal Cut With Sinaloa “Cartel” Unbelievable: Operation Fast and Furious Agents...Promoted

Round-Up of the Green Cronyism Scandal

Faster and Furiouser

U.S. Government Used Taxpayer Funds to Buy, Sell Weapons During 'Fast and Furious,' Documents Show

Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel -- the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons, sold them to criminals and then watched as the guns disappeared.

Read the whole article and when your done reading and weeping, call your Congressional representatives! Also, these guys the Sipsey Street Irregulars are doing hero's work covering the Fast & Furious scandal as well as the many others of the Obama administration!

Ignoring Obama's Gaffes

The LA Times (!) askes "How many Obama gaffes can the media ignore?" and then bless their hearts writes about them. Obama confuses Jews with janitors (this one has video!). Oops, Obama touts his jobs plan today at an Ohio bridge that won't qualify Obama's urgent jobs plan: Right now, 'right now' means sometime next month maybe Obama hails America's historic building of 'the Intercontinental Railroad'

Justice Disgraced

I know this is a long article but it is well-sourced, extensively linked and the latest in a long series of worthy exposes of the deep, wide and vast corruption in the US Department of Justice. Eric Holder and his cohorts ought to be ashamed. And jailed. ‘Every Single One’ Fallout: Justice Dept. in Turmoil From PJMedia Series. What’s happened up until now, and what internal leaks say about what’s coming. Hint: jobs may now be at stake. (This is the twelfth of a series of articles about the Justice Department's hiring practices since President Obama took office. Read parts one, two, three, four, five, http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/every-single-one-the-politicized-hiring-of-eric-holder%E2%80%99s-employment-section/, seven, eight, nine, ten, and http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/every-single-one-the-politicized-hiring-of-eric-holders-appellate-section/.) Each article covers a different section of Eric Holder's Department of Justice. See for yourselves. All sixteen new hires to the Voting Section have far-left resumes — which were only released following a PJM lawsuit. (This is the first in a series of articles about the Civil Rights Division’s hiring practices since President Obama took office.) America should be appalled at the overwhelmingly politicized backgrounds of Eric Holder's hires in the Department of Justice Voting Section. All five new hires to the Justice Department's immigration office have far-left resumes All 23 new hires to the Justice Department's Special Litigation office have far-left resumes All 11 new hires to the Justice Department's Education Section have far-left resumes All 15 new hires to the Justice Department's Education Section have far-left resumes All 5 new hires to the Justice Department's Coordination and Compliance Section have far-left resumes All 11 new hires to the Justice Department's Housing Section have far-left resumes All nine new hires to the Justice Department's Disability Rights Section have far-left resumes All ten new hires to the Justice Department's Criminal Section have far-left resumes All seven new hires to the Justice Department's Appellate Section have far-left resumes All of which were "only released following a PJMedia lawsuit" which the first article makes clear was a year-long fight culminating in a lawsuit whereas liberal establishments got the same information in days. Pathetic. Why should Americans care about the DoJ's hiring practices? The opening paragraphs to this remarkable series are worthy enough to quote at length as an answer (although that doesn't excuse you from your civic duty to read the whole thing. Afterall, in front of every informed voter is a frightened politician).

The Justice Department is forbidden by federal law from hiring employees based on political affiliation. Yet the resumes revealed the following ideological breakdown among the new hires: Leftist lawyers: 113 Moderate, non-ideological, or conservative lawyers: 0. That represents the basest headline for the series, the matter-of-fact evidence that should lead any reasonable observer to believe the DOJ has employed an illegal political litmus test during the interview process. But the “Every Single One” series has provided additional benefits: the results present the inherent flaw in leftism’s perversion of the term “civil rights,” while providing a real world example of the flawed belief actualized. Additionally, the “Every Single One” series presents ramifications that reach far beyond the individuals most directly affected by DOJ activity. We hope not to understate it: this perversion of “civil rights“ is the beating heart of leftism itself. Only one definition of “civil rights” could ever logically exist: that of equal protection under the law, the law defined as the codified protection of an individual’s life, liberty, and property. Yet Eric Holder, Loretta King, Thomas Perez, the 113 hires — they claim that civil rights, and the Division established to enforce them, reside in racial, gender, disability, and even sexuality preferences presiding above the law, in the hands of an elite few trusted by an elite public class to establish some breed of “fair lawlessness.” The flaw is obvious: when the law is not equally applied, a citizen’s actions are no longer their own. Their fates are no longer tied to their personal adherence to life, liberty, and property, but to an unelected bureaucrat’s whim, an individual who believes both that he is qualified to make such judgments of other men and that our country’s laws allow him to do so. They claim that civil rights are not the individual’s, but somehow theirs, a definition incompatible with itself! This is, as we know, the post-Marxist brand of tyranny — a “well-meaning” lawlessness. But prior to this series, we did not know that since 2008 the Civil Rights Division has been populated entirely according to this ideology, behavior which represents the perfect antithesis of civil rights.

What I've Been Up To Lately

Obama's Scandal Sheet 09/23/11

Yes, I can lay these at Obama's feet because he's supposed to be the leader. Even if he was completely unaware of these activities and never sanctioned them, once exposed it is his duty and obligation to denounce them and punish those who committed the acts. His abject failure to do this ultimately lays them and their results at his feet. Holder’s hell week. More Fast & Furious fallout Issa is doing hero's work here. US Justice Department obstructing 'Fast and Furious' gun probe, ATF director says Dead federal retirees are paid $120 million annually, report says Study: Obamacare will jack premiums up 55%-85% Judge questions honesty of Interior Department scientists Obama’s NASA: Leading From Behind In Rush to Assist a Solar Company, U.S. Missed Signs The AFL-CIO Defends Union Violence As A ‘Legitimate’ Union Activity… No Political Opportunity Left Behind Who flashes that kind of bling when their husband is responsible for putting so many Americans out of work. Michelle does. Michelle Obama dazzles New York in $42,150 diamond bracelets (and puts young jeweller on the map)

Another Obama Gaffe

New gaffe: Obama hails America's historic building of 'the Intercontinental Railroad'

“A railroad between continents? A railroad from, say, New York City all the way across the Atlantic to France? Now, THAT would be a bridge! It’s yet another humorous gaffe by the Harvard graduate, overlooked by most media for whatever reason. Like Obama saying Abraham-Come-Lately Lincoln was the founder of the Republican Party. Or Navy corpseman. Or the Austrian language. Fifty-seven states. The president of Canada. Etc.”

Mr. Reynolds (aka Instapundit (hat-tip)) - "WHOEVER’S PROGRAMMING HIS TELEPROMPTER MUST BE A GOP MOLE" I think Glenn Reynolds' caption of this headline pretty much sums up the proper reaction to this latest gaffe. That is if you are willing to put aside the complete MSM ignoring of this and all his other gaffes - which is insulting, alarming, and irresponsible on the MSM's part. And speaking of the MSM (because I love beating dead horses), this little tidbit has come out of Gallup. Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias. More perceive liberal bias than conservative bias

Updates on Obama's Latest Scandals (Besides DoJ)

Solyndra employees speak out about mismanagement and sloppy spending Solyndra’s ‘Green Jobs’ Included Employment for D.C. Lobbyists — Including Former Democrat Aides. If you want to read more about this kind of revolving door croynism buy this book - "Stealing You Blind. How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off Of You." And of course it gets worse when this old bastard gets involved. Soros turns up in Obama's LightSquared imbroglio And the Obama administration and most of Justice should fall for this epic fail - New Fast & Furious audio: Border Patrol agent killed by F&F weapons was “collateral damage” More on other aspects of this Fast & Furious hell - here On a lighter note, fining companies for hiring people - CEO Tells Congress He Was Fined For Hiring Too Many People Of course, this happened in 2008 but the regulations that resulted in the fine are still on the books and probably still actively enforced.

Take Your $16 Muffin And....

Why the $16 muffin is no joke

Managers whose budgets do not depend on customer satisfaction and who do not face competitive pressure in the marketplace, will not, on balance, spend their money wisely. Vendors selling to those managers know that price matters much less than it does to, say, Wal-Mart. And anywhere there is political urgency and official involvement high up the command chain, conditions will begin resembling a gold rush.

As major Solyndra investor and Barack Obama donor George Kaiser told a crowd of his fellow Oklahomans not long after Obama's stimulus was announced in 2009, "There's never been more money shoved out of the government's door in world history and probably never will be again than in the last few months and the next 18 months. And our selfish, parochial goal is to get as much of it for Tulsa and Oklahoma as we possibly can."

There is no such thing as war without the brutal, violent death of innocents, including children. Similarly, there is no such thing as government spending without gobs of disgusting waste, graft and corruption. It's all cooked right into the system.

The article is worth a full reading. And the hits keep coming. This nugget is from the big book of Duh - Americans Say Federal Gov't Wastes Over Half of Every Dollar. I'd say it wastes 75% of every dollar.

Obama's Scandal Sheet

The Obama Administration’s Pre-Solyndra Scandals List

Lots of links and other goodies. Nice job!

The Gore Carbon Cult Exposed

Just stumbled on another great article in the American Spectator. It is a spectacular fisking of a recent Thomas Friedman article. Welcome to the Carbon Cult Hot-headed they may be, but the Thomas Friedmans of our world aren't exactly "on fire." It's a brilliant piece and you should read all of it but I really liked this portion. Liked it enough to quote it because when you really understand the numbers these "scientists" are talking about, then you understand why so many right-thinking people have realized what a hoax the climate-change lefties are trying to put over on us.

Friedman asks if we should "pay a little more per gallon of gas and make the country stronger, safer and healthier." To put this call for human sacrifice in context, allow me to pose a multiple choice question.

Roughly what percentage of the earth's atmosphere is composed of carbon dioxide?

A) 52%
B) 31%
C) 17%
D) 9%
E) 4%

If you answered D, 9%, you're…wrong. In fact if you answered any of the above, you're not just wrong, but wrong by two or three orders of magnitude. The answer is that the earth's atmosphere is less than 390 parts per million, or less than 0.04%, CO2. Yes, this is up from about 320 parts per million, or .032% CO2 fifty years ago, but it is an astonishingly low number to most whose only contact with "climate science" is through what they read in the papers.

Have you ever heard that fact discussed in the "mainstream" media, or even on the nominally conservative Fox News? You hear that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased, but you never hear that it's gone from a minuscule number to a very slightly larger minuscule number.

In fact, our atmosphere is approximately 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. For those of you keeping score at home, that's 99% of the atmosphere. Of the 1% that remains, more than 90% is Argon. Less than 4% of that 1% is carbon dioxide. (Those measures are of the "dry atmosphere," excluding water vapor, because the water vapor percentage is highly variable. At the surface, water vapor is usually somewhere between 1% and 4% of the atmosphere, reducing the other numbers proportionately.)

If this doesn't already have you asking, "What's all the carbon dioxide fuss about?" here's a little more:

• The "greenhouse effect" of increasing carbon dioxide is logarithmic, meaning that each additional increase has less impact on temperatures than the prior (same sized) increase.

• It is estimated (such as here and here) that 96%-97% of carbon dioxide comes from natural sources, such as animals, plant decay, and volcanoes. Climate alarmists claim that the single-digit percentage human contribution to atmospheric CO2, a small percentage of a tiny percentage, is nevertheless destroying the world.

• Although estimates vary widely, water vapor, which is essentially 100% naturally occurring, is responsible for the majority, somewhere between 50% and 90%, of the "greenhouse effect." So, man-made carbon dioxide is responsible for a small percentage of a tiny percentage of less than half of the greenhouse effect… but is destroying the world.

The point of this is not to offer you a science lesson, but to put in context the fear mongering as anti-capitalists posing as environmentalists become ever more desperate. As Solyndra pounds one of the last nails into the "green jobs" and solar-as-savior coffin, alarmists are making one last stand urging you to reduce your standard of living on the altar of the cult of man-made global warming. It is an altar bloodied with human sacrifice, made to a false god.

The US's Greek Tragedy

Below is an article from The American Spectator online authored by my husband. It is awesome, if I do say so myself. So terrific I am reproducing it in full below:

Obama the Greek. His jobs plan is the Greek option -- and there's no Germany to bail us out.

Greece is in economic meltdown. Its economy has become so biased towards the public sector that it is now literally unsustainable. It cannot afford to pay its bills and will surely default soon, unless Germany can be persuaded to bail it out. Unfortunately for America, the principles that got Greece into this mess are the same ones that President Obama wants to use to supposedly get America back to work. If he has his way, we'll head down the Greek road, with the added problem that there is no Germany waiting to bail us out.

Let's see where Greece is today. It has a GDP of $310 billion, enough to place among the world's top 25 economies. That's where the good news ends. Greece has public debt of $470 billion, and spends about 50 percent of GDP on government, while raising only 39 percent in revenues. Over the past year, it lost 7 percent of GDP as a result.

The International Monetary Fund has told Greece it needs to significantly reduce its bloated public spending, but that it should not try to make up the gap with new taxes. Yet that's exactly what the Greek government is trying to do. Rather than close or privatize loss-making public enterprises like the nationalized railroads, it has attempted to raise money by selling gaming licenses and increasing property taxes -- measures the newspaper Ekathimerini described as "appalling."

As the government attempts to shore up its collapsing public sector, the private sector has been paying the price. Every day in August, 1,000 Greeks lost private sector jobs. Meanwhile, the government has hired between 15,000 and 20,000 new public employees since 2010. Attempts to raise income taxes resulted in massive tax evasion, so the government has decided to levy a property tax paid via electricity bills. The electricity employees union has already said it won't help collect this.

This is a Greek tragedy, but in a comic move worthy of Aristophanes, President Obama is following this particular Greek play. His American Jobs Act aims to shore up the public sector, paying for it by tax rises.

The President wants to keep public employees in jobs, particularly teachers, whose generous pay and benefits are causing problems for states and localities across the nation. He also wants to expand the number of public works projects via a national infrastructure bank, bringing the failed financial principles behind Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to spending on high speed rail and green energy investments. Solyndra is just the beginning.

Obama says he wants to increase taxes on unpopular targets, like "millionaires and billionaires" and oil companies. If you don't believe these people won't employ enough accountants to find new loopholes, I'd like to sell you the Corinth Canal. As for electricity bills, the President has already said that he wants electricity bills to skyrocket, in order to close down coal-fired power plants.

None of this worked in Greece, and it won't work here.

The right solution for America is the same as for Greece -- end public sector obesity by putting the state on a revenue-controlled diet. In addition, reduce the burden of bureaucracy, ending uncertainty, and empowering the private sector to make the investment it needs to get the economy working again.

Greece's prime asset is its history, which could be the basis of a thriving tourism industry. Instead, Greece invested in an unsustainable public sector and became famously rude to visitors. There's a lesson for America in that.

Our prime asset is our innovative genius. Yet we have also invested in an unsustainable public sector and made the country less nurturing to innovative industry. We need to turn back before we go as far down as Greece already has.

As Virgil put it, beware of Greeks bearing gifts. He might have added, especially when the gift is an economic plan.