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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Random Round-Up 10-26

Treasury Draws Negative Yield for First Time During TIPS Sale

Want to Stop Voter Fraud? There’s an App for That!

Boxer says abortion views won't hurt her with socially conservative Latinos

Well, maybe this will. Ethics Foundation Requests A.G. Holder to Investigate Barbara Boxer.

“In a breaking development that may affect the close California Senate race, Pajamas Media has learned The Foundation for Ethics in Public Service sent a letter to Eric Holder last Thursday requesting the attorney general ‘begin an investigation to determine whether United States Senator Barbara Boxer violated any criminal laws or should be liable for any civil penalty for failure to disclose real property on her Personal Financial Disclosure Reports between 2002 and 2010.’”

Dem County Clerk Lets Voter Cast Ballot After-Hours, Democrat Legislator Electioneers in Polling Place

Military Vote in Question After DOJ Gives Illinois 'Pass' on MOVE Act, Advocacy Group Warns

New Study Says Cost of Health Reform Subsidies Could Far Exceed Previous Estimates

Aide to Harry Reid Lied to Feds, Submitted False Documents About Sham Marriage AND SCANDAL? Harry Reid Aide Lied To FBI About Fake Marriage to Alien With Possible Terrorist Ties

I’m Happy to Stand with Juan Williams, A Friend of School Choice

'Fighting' Obama tells House Dem candidate to 'run scared'

Voter Fraud Watch: Allegations of Poll Worker Misconduct in Harris County, Texas. We sounded the warning about Harris County, Texas, back in September. Now serious allegations of misconduct by poll workers and illegal electioneering by members of the union most closely connected to the Obama administration are coming to light.

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Saves Democrat Party Boss From Embarrassing ‘Buying Votes’ Gaffe

Voter reports problem with ballot machine

We’d Better Win Big

Nevada Voters Complain Of Problems At Polls

SEIU Offshoot Mi Familia Vota Caught With 6,000 Bogus Colorado Voter Registrations.

Web video takes shots at teachers union

O’Keefe video appears to show New Jersey union official describing voter fraud

Obama to Latinos: ‘Punish Our Enemies’ AND Obama to Kids: Stop the Bullying; Obama to Latinos: Punish Your Enemies AND New Obama GOTV Rallying Cry: Let‘s ’Punish Our Enemies’

On being out, proud and conservative. My left-liberal experience was of intolerance if you dared challenge political correctness. The right is more accepting

Obama's post-election escape to Mumbai: "Obama’s contingent is huge. There are two jumbo jets coming along with Air Force One, which will be flanked by security jets." "There will be 30 to 40 secret service agents, who will arrive before him. The President’s convoy has 45 cars, including the Lincoln Continental in which the President travels."

Patty Murray’s Attack Ad Redux: Recycled Video May Raise Campaign Finance Questions.

Jack Conway may have tipped brother off about drug investigation

Nice Round-Up WHILE AMERICA WAS SLEEPING

The Super La Nina and the Coming Winter. Things might get real cold.

Rep. DeFazio Investigating Impeachment of Chief Justice Roberts

Shocking Video: 60 Minutes Admits Unemployment is Actually 17%, 22% in California

Barney Frank’s Incompetence, Politics Made Financial Crisis Worse

More Barney Frank Lies Exposed

Paper Ballots

Voters fed up with Obama's big, bossy government

MoveOn Protester Stomped on at Kentucky Senate Debate

Look Who's Winning Under Obamanomics AND Firms who received bailout cash giving generously to Pols

Porker of The Month for October 2010: Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

Obamaphobia: What's Really Behind It?

Unsustainable At Every Level: Congress Fiddles and We Get Burned

Accelerating Towards the Abyss: The Real Story of Fiscal Year 2010. The Obama administration and the Pelosi-Reid Congress have spent wildly and run up deficits recklessly on a scale virtually unprecedented in human history.

Manchin distances himself from health care law he once supported

Feds consider limiting potatoes offered to kids

Federal Auditor Says Obama's Anti-Foreclosure Effort Risks 'Generating Public Anger And Mistrust' First

Five Signs the Dems are Doomed

New ACORN effort is mobilizing voters, run by woman indicted for violating election laws

More About That Voting Machine "Glitch"

Free enterprise just hasn't been good for journalism

When you can’t persuade voters Cheat

The Tea Started Brewing Under Bush

Identified: Right Nation Protester Who Called Andrew Breitbart ‘Gay’ Is A Democrat Party Official

Ed Koch: The Coming Political Tsunami

Fed Won't Join Supreme Court Appeal on Loan Disclosures

Difficulties in Defining Errors in Case Against Harvard Researcher

All except Gore - Nobel Peace Prize Winners on Behalf of Liu Xiaobo (updated)

Vanguard Endorses Obama, Democrats

Inspector General blasts Treasury for bungling everything TARP

More Democracy, More Incarceration. The devastating mix of politics and crime policy

Saved by the Closet We've got so much stuff that it's easing the slump

The Right To Vote is The Obligation To Vote

I received this in an email this morning.

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-Grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago.

Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.

And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'

(Lucy Burns)
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.

(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because - why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

(Mrs. Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a sixty-day sentence.)

Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.

(Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown , New York )
All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient.

(Berthe Arnold, CSU graduate)
My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. 'One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said. 'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use, my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'

HBO released the movie on video and DVD . I wish all history, social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order.

(Conferring over ratification [of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution] at [National Woman's Party] headquarters, Jackson Pl [ace] [ Washington , D.C. ]. L-R Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Anita Pollitzer, Alice Paul, Florence Boeckel, Mabel Vernon (standing, right))

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.

The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'

Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.

(Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk , Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, 'Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.')
History is being made

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Lazy Sunday Round-Up

President Obama Job Approval
Election Fraud Uncovered by Patriotic Citizens … Who Promptly Get Sued. Election watchers True the Vote have found disturbing amounts of fraud in Harris County, Texas. Rather than support their important work, the Texas Democratic Party (among others) is suing them.

Houston’s True The Vote Initiative

Time for Heads to Roll Over New Black Panther Dismissal Here is the original WaPo article.

WikiLeaks Show WMD Hunt Continued in Iraq – With Surprising Results (Yes there were Weapons of Mass Destruction afterall)

Stunner. SEIU Offshoot ‘Mi Familia Vota’ Caught With 6,000 Bogus Colorado Voter Registrations

They Hate Our Guts. And they’re drunk on power. From PJ O'Rourke (he once spoke at CEI and got magnificently slooshed. Buy his book, Don't Vote, It Just Encourages The Bastards.)

Obama launches rescue mission for top Democrat

What Would be the Biggest Tax Mistake This Year?

For U.S. Senate, The Miami Herald recommends Marco Rubio

The State Pension Implosion: A Chronology

Obama Campaigned Before Socialist Group in ‘96

George Clooney Exposes Bill Maher’s Ignorant Hatred For Conservatives

Think this economy is bad? Wait for 2012.

Which Outside Group Is Spending the Most on the Election?

NPR’s provincialism should make progressives worry

The Tea Party vs. the Ruling Class

Media Matters Is The Symptom, Not The Disease

No conservatives are trying to prevent people from appearing on NPR, but liberal interest groups and their media outlets are trying to prevent people from appearing on Fox News.

Now, You Can Investigate Maxine Waters

Democrats Call Lisa Murkowski A Liar

Justice demands execution for murderous jihadist soldier

Just the way I like it - Handicapping the House – Quick & Dirty Edition

WikiLeaks nails the wild Lancet scare AND The wages of Wikileaks: Understanding the Iraq war casualties

Don't get cocky - John Loughlin Will Win the Kennedy People’s Seat in RI-1

CBO Confirms: ObamaCare Discourages Work

Union Fires Stage Hand for Wearing Bush Hat and Shirt

Legal threats to Obamacare advance

Senators Complain IRS is Stonewalling Inspector General

Obama’s Destructive Foreign Policy

Our view on redistricting: As politicians pick voters, extremes grow entrenched

Big Labor's Big Mistake in the 2010 Elections

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Meat = Mouthwatering

The Competitive Enterprise Institute did an AWESOME counter-protest in DC. PETA protested outside the Capital Grille, so CEI counter-protested with pro-meat signs and handing out beef jerky. I love you guys! (Disclosure - husband works for CEI.)

Vinnie's Facebook Update - ‎"208 pieces of beef jerky - 65$;
5 meat is tasty signs $5.00;
counter protesting PETA while giving away free beef - priceless"

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Friday, October 22, 2010

Daily Round-Up 10-22

Cyber Attack Strikes FreedomWorks. Nice try, jackasses

AND THE GOOD NEWS IS...

Gays In The Military Is A Good Thing

New Poll: Texans Will Re-Elect Gov. Rick Perry. A new poll captures Texans' attitudes on the governor's race and several other salient issues, pointing to one solid fact: Texas is red and will get redder. Don't get cocky.

Confessions of a Pollster

GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR

Military Voters, We Want to Hear From You. States are failing deployed military members and families, and the DOJ's Keystone Kops are doing little to nothing to help.

Fox Guarding the Hen House: Trial Lawyer Who Repeatedly Sued Food Companies Now Regulating Them

Illegal Aliens Canvass for Votes in Wash. State

"Did I mention I'm fighting against your Constitutional rights in court?"

Props for trying but in Obama's case what he says and what he does rarely match up. I prefer Tim Gunn's "It Gets Better" to this.

If you don't like it, vote!

Part one - Lawyers Gone Wild AND Part two - Places where judges don't allow justice to prevail AND Part three - Judicial Hellholes

Rasmussen: Only 25% Prefer a Government With More Services, Higher Taxes Here.

A Closer Look at CAIR

Leftist Group Finds 3,000 Suspect Hispanic Voters to Register & Vote on Last Day of Early Voting in Ruth McClung’s District …Update: 65% Are Invalid

After news of Google tax dodges, Obama raises money with Google execs

A Modest Proposal to the French

London borough becomes 'Islamic republic'

OBAMACARE

ObamaCare's Incentive to Drop Insurance My state of Tennessee could reduce costs by over $146 million using the legislated mechanics of health reform to transfer coverage to the federal government.

Obamacare's Unkeepable Promises. Utopian vision was a fraud from the beginning

A Glimpse of the Future Under Obamacare

Obama’s 'Big Lies' Get Bigger

Thanks To Obama And Health Care Reform, I'm No Longer Paying For My Employees' Insurance

JUNK SCIENCE

An Alternative to Ethanol

A Wake Up Call to Anti-Mining Environmentalists: We Need Copper

Obama Underappreciation Syndrome

Fox Guarding the Hen House: Trial Lawyer Who Repeatedly Sued Food Companies Now Regulating Them

Media Bias 10-22

Is Fox News more tolerant than NPR? Do TEA Partiers want smaller government?

Rachel Maddow ‘apologizes’ for ‘editing error,’ mocks those who kept her honest

And the Award for Most Sanctimonious Non-Apology of the Week Goes To...

Politico’s Jonathan Martin Humiliated by Multiple Named Sources

CNN Shaping The Election: What About Abortion On The Ballot?

NPR’s intolerant firing of Juan Williams

NPR = Negative Public Relations

PJTV Video - Juan Word You Cannot Say: "Muslim"

Free the Taxpayers: Defund State-Sponsored Media

Juan Williams, the truthful dissident

After news of Google tax dodges, Obama raises money with Google execs

Just who are you calling an ‘un-American bastard,’ Keith Olbermann? We watch, because we’re paid to

Fighting Corruption and TEA Party News 10-22

Cantor Will Add NPR Funding to Chopping Block

WOW - Brutal new ad: “The Chinese professor”

The Sidewalks of San Francisco. Can the City by the Bay reclaim public space from aggressive vagrants?

Tea Party to the Rescue How the GOP was saved from Bush and the establishment.

Friday Free-for-All: Pledge Edition AND Patriotism shocks debate moderator

Repeal the 17th Amendment?

GOP lawmaker looks to increase scrutiny of Obama

George W. Bush Takes to YouTube

Chicken Hawk Environmentalists

Great article by my husband's friend Ken Green over at AEI's The American blog titled,
Don’t Call Them Environmentalists Here's the article but follow the above link to the original article which is full of juicy connections to damning articles. YUM.

Over at uber-environmentalist, green, treehugging something-or-other website Grist, Dave Roberts is NOT, repeat NOT, engaging in an effort to rebrand environmentalism. Nor is he running away from it. He is just… going in a different direction. Dave’s desire to extract the climate change agenda from the general environmental movement has nothing to do with its steadily declining popularity, and its complete ineffectiveness in moving the regulatory agenda in the last Congress. Or, at least, that’s his story. “The point is not, emphatically not, to ‘rebrand environmentalism.’ Please kill me if I ever have to listen to another discussion about rebranding environmentalism.”

Dave’s not alone: other, environmentalist, green, treehugging, um, whatever groups, are also chucking Al Gore under the bus, and distancing themselves from the excesses of environmentalism. A few are even honest about it. As the New York Times recently reported about one such group, people in the heartland really don’t want to hear about all that conventional green stuff, so…
“Don’t mention global warming,” warned Nancy Jackson, chairwoman of the Climate and Energy Project, a small nonprofit group that aims to get people to rein in the fossil fuel emissions that contribute to climate change. “And don’t mention Al Gore. People out here just hate him.”
After a discussion with 226 of his green friends people formerly known as environmentalists, Dave has come up with a new name for his team: They’re not greens anymore, though green is good. They’re not environmentalist anymore, because while that’s mostly good, those darned local environmentalists keep opposing climate change boondoggles like wind turbine farms, solar farms, corn ethanol, and so on. And besides, the brand is tainted, and when Lisa Jackson gets done wreaking havoc on the economy under the banner of the Environmental Protection Agency, it’ll be more tainted yet. So the new term of art, Dave argues, is climate hawk.

Dave likes the way it sounds all conservative-like, and macho:
“Yes, I’m well aware that “hawk” has militaristic overtones. Trust me, when it comes to matters military I’m a DFH of the old school. But lefties shouldn’t be precious. The health of Mother Earth just doesn’t move that many people. For better or worse, more Americans respond to evocations of toughness in the face of a threat.

In foreign policy a hawk is someone who, as Donald Rumsfeld used to put it, “leans forward,” someone who’s not afraid to flex America’s considerable muscle, someone who takes a proactive attitude toward gathering dangers. Whatever you think about foreign policy, is that not the appropriate attitude to take toward the climate threat? Does it not evoke a visceral sense of both peril and resolve, the crucial missing elements in America’s climate response?”
Now, I’m sure that since Dave knows that the opposite of a “hawk” in such a context is a “dove,” he’ll take to calling those who oppose his policy desires “climate doves,” right? I like the sound of that, since that’s what I am, a climate dove. I don’t deny the reality of climate change, I just don’t believe assumption-laden computer models that are designed to project Climageddon, and I don’t believe we need to reinvent humanity to prevent the Climapocalypse.

So will I get the sobriquet of “climate dove?” Er, no. In the same article, explaining why he rejected the team name of climate “realist,” Dave trots out the old “climate denialist” language for those who might stand in his way: “climate denialists have tried to claim ‘climate realists,’ but to my ears they just sound defensive and pathetic.”

I’d have to say that given the fact that so many climate change policy-mongers (especially the wealthy ones, like James Cameron and Al Gore) fundamentally live lives of hypocrisy in which they refuse to give up the very things they’re telling others to give up, and refuse to show others the respect that they demand for themselves, a more appropriate term for Dave’s new team might be “chicken hawks,” which the unassailable Wikipedia defines as: “a politician, bureaucrat, or commentator who strongly supports a war or other military action, yet who actively avoided military service when of age.”