Our Great Misfortune

Spengler » Dog-Eating and Obama’s Identity: "It really isn’t unfair at all to bring Obama’s canine consumption to public attention. The president isn’t really one of us. He’s a dog-eater. He tells the story in his memoir to emphasize that viscerally, Obama identifies with the Third World of his upbringing more than with the America of his adulthood. It is our great misfortune to have a president who dislikes our country at this juncture in our history."

Spengler smashes this one out of the park as you can see. But not just at the end. RTWT.

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Ain't Misbehavin'?

» Mandatory ‘Big Brother’ Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!: "The ultimate Big Brother scenario would be a system whereby every driver had to get de facto permission from the state to drive each time they get behind the wheel, once it had been determined from an iris scan that they were good citizens who have paid all their taxes and not misbehaved.

The push to pressure car manufacturers to install black box tracking devices in all new cars has been ongoing for over a decade. In 2006, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration encouraged but did not require automobile manufacturers to install the systems."

Baaaah. Sheep.

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Put This On Top Of Your Car And Smoke It

'Jim' 'Treacher' (jtlol) on Twitter: "'Jim' 'Treacher' ‏ @jtLOL Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Q: Why did @MittRomney put his dog on top of the car? A: So @BarackObama wouldn't eat it. #WeWillNotBeSilenced #GenK9"

Heh.

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Dog Meat

Instapundit » Blog Archive » NOBODY TELL SEAMUS: Obama Used To Eat Dog Meat. “Say what you want about Romney, but at least he o…: "NOBODY TELL SEAMUS: Obama Used To Eat Dog Meat. “Say what you want about Romney, but at least he only put a dog on the roof of his car, not the roof of his mouth.”

UPDATE: “Libs think Romney acted jerky with a dog. Whereas Obama was fond of dog jerky.”

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:55 pm"

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Making It Hard For The Vichy Catholics

Whoa!… IL Bishop: Obama Following the Path of Hitler and Stalin (Video) | The Gateway Pundit: "In a homily delivered Saturday, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois challenged President Obama’s HHS mandate, suggesting that the president was following the same path as Hitler and Stalin.

“Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care,” Jenky said. “In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, Barack Obama – with his radical, pro abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path.” Jenky added."

Peoria isn't that far from the Chicago river. I'm guessing some custom Chicago cement bishop boots are being cast even as we speak...

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With A "T"

Defensive Gun Uses Save the U.S. One Trillion Dollars Per Year | The Truth About Guns: "So figuring that the average DGU saves one half of a person’s life—as“gun violence” predominantly affects younger demographics—that gives us $3.465 million per half life.
Putting this all together, we find that the monetary benefit of guns (by way of DGUs) is roughly 1.02 trillion dollars per year. Trillion. With a ‘T’."

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Rotten From The Head Down

Instapundit » Blog Archive » THE NATION SAYS THAT THE REAL HILARY ROSEN SCANDAL is that she’s just another of the many corporate …: "This kind of climate comes down from the top. Related: Why Hilary Rosen visited at the White House. Including 5 meetings with President Goldman Sachs.

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 6:39 pm"

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The Horse Chestnut

Belmont Club » Burdened by Success: "Odds are that $35,800 doesn’t buy a lot of air time in the White House these days, at least not in comparison to the big boys who can command billions and hundreds of billions of dollars in influence.  But given the amount of money it has received from supporters since 2008, when it opened for 24 hour business, there must be a lot of chits outstanding.

But the trouble with operating like an Internet Cafe is that you have to give your customers what they came for. Sooner or later, they get tired of staring at the logo on the screen. To understand his problem, imagine President Obama as a beleaguered short order cook who has 200 pending orders for burgers pinned to the order board and can’t bear to tell them he doesn’t know how to cook; that it was all a misunderstanding. He sold all the orders on the strength of a beautifully printed menu and a good line of patter at the door.

But in the end he doesn’t know a horse from a horse chestnut and neither does his waiter, David Axelrod."

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Romney's New Ad: A Preview

Axelrod TKO-ed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday - Right Turn - The Washington Post: "Like his boss, Axelrod seems almost at a loss to respond once the talking points are challenged. But I imagined his invitation to choose “between economy that produces a growing middle class and gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead and an economy that continues down the road we are on, and everybody else is running faster and faster just to keep pace,” might just become a Mitt Romney campaign ad. Obviously, the only thing left to do is to scare people that unless we re-elect President Obama we’ll be going back to the bad old days of President George W. Bush."

Heh. Speaking O moronic doofuses...

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The Du'O Quo

Former Dem. Congressman Kennedy Alleges 'Quid Pro Quo' for Access to White House | The Weekly Standard: "Access to the Obama White House is in direct correlation to the amount of money donated to the president's reelection effort and the Democratic party, the New York Times reports today.

The Times reports: "those who donated the most to Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party since he started running for president were far more likely to visit the White House than others. Among donors who gave $30,000 or less, about 20 percent visited the White House, according to a New York Times analysis that matched names in the visitor logs with donor records. But among those who donated $100,000 or more, the figure rises to about 75 percent. Approximately two-thirds of the president’s top fund-raisers in the 2008 campaign visited the White House at least once, some of them numerous times."

But the most explosive allegation in the news story comes from former Democratic congressman Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Ted Kenney, who calls what the Obama White House is doing "quid pro quo." "

Isn't that a shock? My goodness me the things that moronic doofuses that believe they're kings O the universe say...

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Where To Find The Real Social Darwinism

Fantasies of Social Darwinism: "One reason the term “Social Darwinism” caught on with progressives was that it served to divert attention from the sins of “reform Darwinism”—i.e., the progressive passion for eugenics. The progressives advocated aggressive statist intervention to improve the genetic stock of the country, while the alleged Social Darwinists championed laissez-faire and private charity and—gasp—reproductive freedom. Moreover, the term Social Darwinism, which in Europe was used to justify nationalist and racist theories of the Hitlerian variety, was the perfect label for playing guilt-by-association in America. Ever since Hofstadter’s book, liberals have used the term to accuse conservatives of desperately wanting to return to a past that never was.

On April 4, Mitt Romney had his turn in front of the newspapermen. “The president came here yesterday and railed against arguments no one is making—and criticized policies no one is proposing. It’s one of his favorite strategies—setting up straw men to distract from his record.

One suspects that even Romney had no idea how right he was.”

This is a RTWT.

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He Thinks Knows You're Stupid

What’s <i>Your</i> Plan? - National Review Online: "And that’s the problem. For what Obama’s spending, there aren’t enough of them, or us, or “the rich” — and there never will be. There is only one Warren Buffett. He is the third-wealthiest person on the planet. The first is a Mexican, and beyond the reach of the U.S. Treasury. Mr. Buffett is worth $44 billion. If he donated the entire lot to the government of the United States, they would blow through it within four and a half days. Okay, so who’s the fourth-richest guy? He’s French. And the fifth guy’s a Spaniard. Number six is Larry Ellison. He’s American, but that loser is only worth $36 billion. So he and Buffett between them could keep the United States government going for a week. The next-richest American is Christy Walton of Walmart, and she’s barely a semi-Buffett. So her $25 billion will see you through a couple of days of the second week. There aren’t a lot of other semi-Buffetts, but, if you scrounge around, you can rustle up some hemi-demi-semi-Buffetts: If you confiscate the total wealth of the Forbes 400 richest Americans it comes to $1.5 trillion, which is just a little less than the Obama budget deficit for a year.

But there are a lot of “millionaires,” depending on how you define it. Jerry Brown, California’s reborn Governor Moonbeam, defines his “millionaire’s tax” as applying to anybody who earns more than $250,000 a year. “Anybody who makes $250,000 becomes a millionaire very quickly,” he explained. “You just need four years.” This may be the simplest wealth-creation advice since Bob Hope was asked to respond back in 1967 to reports that he was worth half a billion dollars. “Anyone can do it,” said Hope. “All you have to do is save a million dollars a year for 500 years.”

It’s that easy, folks! Like President Obama says, all you have to do to pay off his 2011 deficit is save $3.2 billion a year for 500 years.

He thinks you’re stupid."

Well, if not stupid at least innumerate.

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Money For Nuthin

Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone! - The Washington Post: "Are you concerned about growing income inequality in America? Are you resentful of all that wealth concentrated in the 1 percent? I’ve got the perfect solution, a modest proposal that involves just a small adjustment in the Federal Reserve’s easy monetary policy. Best of all, it will mean that none of us have to work for a living anymore.

For several years now, the Fed has been making money available to the financial sector at near-zero interest rates. Big banks and hedge funds, among others, have taken this cheap money and invested it in securities with high yields. This type of profit-making, called the “carry trade,” has been enormously profitable for them.

So why not let everyone participate?

Under my plan, each American household could borrow $10 million from the Fed at zero interest. The more conservative among us can take that money and buy 10-year Treasury bonds. At the current 2 percent annual interest rate, we can pocket a nice $200,000 a year to live on. The more adventuresome can buy 10-year Greek debt at 21 percent, for an annual income of $2.1 million. Or if Greece is a little too risky for you, go with Portugal, at about 12 percent, or $1.2 million dollars a year. (No sense in getting greedy.)"

Wow -- pitch perfect. RTWT. I'm going to have to research Sheila Bair a bit more... Hold on... OK, I obviously haven't been paying enough attention -- it looks like she was the second coming of Brooksley Born.

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Darleen Has COTD On Her Own Post

Vagina Warriors double down: Hillary Rosen was right about that *itch Ann but she was taken out of context and stay-at-home-moms are really lazy, luxury items or something [Darleen Click] | protein wisdom: "Darleen says April 13, 2012 at 4:52 pm

Ann Romney doesn’t have a real job.

Yeah, you know, like having a part-time, make up your own work schedule, $300K/yr job at a hospital that was so valuable it’s eliminated once you quit."

Heh.

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The Master Stroker

Belmont Club » The Oopsa Cycle: "Of course it makes perfect sense to trust someone in order to prove that you will be betrayed. People do this all the time. Surely this unassailable logic will only strengthen the President’s reputation among international diplomats, who we last imagined chorusing at a cocktail party. How will they receive this latest demarche from the White House? Will they now conclude that the President has now backed little Kim into a corner? That he is poised to deliver yet another master-stroke of diplomacy?"

Good God -- what a mental midget. Well, to be fair there's more than one...

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OMG

Backfire | Power Line: "Michael Ramirez, the world’s greatest editorial cartoonist, weighs in on the Democrats’ ill-fated attack on Ann Romney:"

I laughed till I cried...

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Not What Great Leaders Do

Instapundit » Blog Archive » ENEMIES LISTS: GE Ex-CEO Jack Welch Blasts Obama Leadership. President Obama’s “divide-and-c…: "ENEMIES LISTS: GE Ex-CEO Jack Welch Blasts Obama Leadership.

President Obama’s “divide-and-conquer” approach isn’t what great leaders do, Jack Welch said Thursday. . . .

“It was the insurance executives in health care. It was the bankers in the collapse. It was the oil companies as oil prices go up. It was Congress if things didn’t go the way he wanted. And recently it’s been the Supreme Court,” he said.

“He’s got an enemies list that would make Richard Nixon proud.”"

But if you hadn't figured out by now that he's not a leader of any sort you're pretty much insensate...

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The Swindle

Instapundit » Blog Archive » RICHARD FERNANDEZ ON CHINA, NORTH KOREA, AND THE AMERICAN ACADEMY: The thing about Communism, at …: "RICHARD FERNANDEZ ON CHINA, NORTH KOREA, AND THE AMERICAN ACADEMY:

The thing about Communism, at least to the uninitiated, is that it appears to be identical in all respects to a hereditary aristocracy. If one didn’t know better it would seem that the more Communist a country, such as North Korea, the more it resembles a monarchy. In China the children of the Polituburo members are actually called princesses and princes and they gad about in a style that make the current European royalty look like a bunch of low-rent grifters.

How admirable then, that intellectuals like Cornell West, Van Jones and Bill Ayers can go around and seriously sell socialism and Marxism in the name of “equality” and “egalitarianism”. You know, because they are one with the Common Man."

And now you know why you need to add Wretchard to your daily reads... And you might want to add some of Eric's classics as well. Umm, and you know this guy's name was actually Eric too, don't you?

UPDATE: OK, how can I resist? Glory to Stalin!

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Cored

Why is Apple Getting Cored in Washington? - Forbes: "But it doesn’t cost hundreds. Even after “collusion,” sometimes it costs more than an inferior regular hardback book, sometimes less. The lack of wonder and gratitude reminds me of Louis C. K.’s “Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy.”

There is no problem here, but one is being created by antitrust’s disruptiveness. Law professor Geoff Manne noted one of many potential consequences: “To assess the competitive effects of this pricing scheme in the e-book (content) market without considering the competitive effects in the e-reader (platform) market is a mistake. It would be an even graver mistake to focus on market power at any given moment rather than on the overall dynamism of the industry.”

Indeed. Even if most price collusion were deliberate anti-consumer mischief, markets would still curb it better than regulators could. Not that curbing mischief is what antitrusters are doing anyway; economic regulation like antitrust exists to enable “vulture” capitalists who want to avoid competition yet simultaneously gain access to the customers of others."

RTWT. And here's the video for those who haven't seen it. Seriously, this should have 100x the views it has.As someone said, you live in a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security.

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Worth 1000 Words

Fed Intervention and the Market: "If a picture is worth a thousand words, this chart needs little additional explanation — except perhaps for those who are puzzled by the Jackson Hole callout. The reference is to Chairman Bernanke's speech at the Fed's 2010 annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Bernanke strongly hinted about the forthcoming Federal Reserve intervention that was subsequently initiated in November of 2010, namely, the second round of quantitative easing, aka QE2."

And there's another 1000 words to see also...

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