Not What Alinsky Was Aiming For...

Mitt Romney, community organizer | Power Line: "Romney didn’t stop there. About a year later, it became apparent that the park would need regular maintenance and repairs. “The next thing I know, my wife calls me up and says, ‘You’re not going to believe this, but Mitt Romney is down with a bunch of Boy Scouts and kids and they’re working on the park,’” said O’Donnell. . . .”He did it for like the next five years, without ever calling to say, ‘We’re doing this,’ without a reporter in tow, not looking for any credit.”

Perhaps these sorts of actions signify what it meant to be a community organizer before the left politicized the concept."

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Parasites

Au Revoir, les Enfants - By Michael Walsh - The Corner - National Review Online: "Yesterday’s forced retirement of Senator Richard Lugar of “Indiana” should prove a bracing lesson in the use of the pike for didactic purposes. It’s also one of the best arguments for the repeal of the 17th amendment in a long time.

As I’ve said before, senators no longer represent their states to Washington, they represent Leviathan to the states, handing out either goodies or punishments as their whim and the political winds dictate. Their primary allegiance is not to the voters back “home” but to their cloakroom colleagues (hence the “bipartisanship” fetish that is particularly virulent in the Senate) on Capitol Hill, and to the Beltway parasites who feed off them.

Indeed, Lugar didn’t even live in Indiana."

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And A Knucklehead

Moonbattery » Conservative Reality and Liberal Fantasy: "Anyone who can’t see the difference must be blind as a moonbat:"

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The Genius

If Romney’s Nostalgic for the Cold War, He’s Not the Only One - By John J. Pitney, Jr. - The Corner - National Review Online: "At a $20,000-a-plate fundraising event on April 29, President Obama said: “But when you’ve got the leading contender, the presumptive nominee, on the other side suddenly saying our number one enemy isn’t al-Qaeda, it’s Russia — (Laughter.) — I don’t make that up. (Laughter.) I’m suddenly thinking what — maybe I didn’t check the calendar this morning. (Laughter.) I didn’t know we were back in 1975. (Laughter.)”

A few days later, the BBC reported:

Russia says it is prepared to use “destructive force pre-emptively” if the US goes ahead with controversial plans for a missile defence system based in Central Europe."

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The Shafted Young

The War Against The Young | Via Meadia: "An analysis of recent jobs figures at Investor.com reveals a disturbing development: the biggest beneficiaries from the economic recovery are Boomers, while everyone else is getting the shaft.

Since the Obama administration took office, there has been an epochal shift. Young workers have continued to lose jobs and incomes, while older workers have actually gained ground."

But will the obedient young lambs lie down on the altar? My guess is yes. Pictorial evidence here.

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Obedience

Inspired by ‘Julia’, proposed new ‘Women for Obama’ campaign poster | Twitchy: "Inspired by the incredibly creepy “Julia” campaign, comes a proposed Obama campaign poster created by @ExJon that is eerily accurate. It’s a brave new world!"

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Just Getting Sad Now

People Not In Labor Force Soar By 522,000, Labor Force Participation Rate Lowest Since 1981 | ZeroHedge: "It is just getting sad now. In April the number of people not in the labor force rose by a whopping 522,000 from 87,897,000 to
88,419,000.  This is the highest on record. The flip side, and the reason why the unemployment dropped to 8.1% is that the labor force participation rate just dipped to a new 30 year low of 64.3%.

Labor force participation Rate:"

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Congratulations Europe

First Official Greek Exit Polls: Pro-Bailout Parties Plunge; Anti-Bailout Radical Left, Neo-Nazis Soar | ZeroHedge: "As we expected, the previous unofficial poll forecasts were total rubbish, and according to exit polls from NET TV, the results are as follows:

New Democracy: 17-20%
Pasok: 14-17%
In a stunner, Syrizia, or the coalition of the radical left - a vehement anti-Bailout party - gets more votes than the ruling PASOK party: 15.5%-18.5%
Independent Greeks: 10-12%
Finally, and not surprisingly in the aftermath of the French results, the ultra right Golden Dawn gets 6-8% of the vote and will make it into Parliament

Tallied across, up to 60% of the new parliament will be anti-bailout (at least according to exit polls), and hence "Domino toppling." Good luck with that pro-bailout coalition government. Needless to say these results are very ugly and make any prospect of a pro-bailout coalition cabinet virtually impossible. Suddenly the fate of the European experiment is in the hands of the ultra right and the far left - yup, Neo-Nazis will determine the future of Europe. How quaint... again - congratulations Europe."

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Extinction hO

Blue Smoke and Mirrors: Tobacco Bond Meltdown Heralds Worse | Via Meadia: "But unfortunately tobacco isn’t the only cow the blue model is trying to kill and milk at the same time. Blue model governance involves relentlessly escalating costs, proliferating environmental and other forms of regulation, and an inexorably increasing tax burden to cover the costs.

That is basically the attitude of many cities and states toward small business in particular: they regulate it to death even as they scramble to figure out how to wring more taxes out of an increasingly sickly beast.

Hunting your prey to extinction is not a wise move; too often, though, that is where the logic of blue model governance leads."

Blue = jack*sses O course should you have not figured that out yet...

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Steyn Strikes Again

Going Native - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online: "This may be the drollest diversity scam since an Englishman called Archibald parlayed himself into global celebrity as the Ojibwe Indian “Grey Owl“. Unlike “self-identifying” as Hispanic, “Native American” identity requires a formal namecheck on tribal rolls. Yet, on the basis of a (possible) great-great-great-gran’ma, Elizabeth Warren presented herself as Harvard’s token redskin with nary a blush – and nobody called her on it.

Andy Warhol got it wrong: In the future everyone will be a disadvantaged minority for one thirty-second.

For the record, I am the only Fijian tribal elder at National Review."

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Good Lord, People!

Ace of Spades HQ: "Lest you think this is only his new routine because he has launched his reelection campaign today (snortle!), there is a chronological archive.

If you search back in this archive, you come to one inescapable conclusion: it is virtually impossible for this man to get any actual work done, with all these trifling and petty interruptions to his duty as head of state! Good Lord, people!

Why, there are large, lofty, looming decisions to be made, and yet - somehow - always there is another fundraiser that takes precedence. Always more jetting around, always more brief remarks to be delivered to some crowd of high schoolers or trade unionists. This must be intensely frustrating to driven, workaholic Obama."

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Paul vs Paul

Paul vs Paul: Round 2 | ZeroHedge: "Readers are free to make up their own minds who won that one."

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The Race To Blindness -- Deafness And Dumbness Go Without Saying O Course

Ace of Spades HQ: "Via Instapundit, American Thinker, and, I guess, I Own The World, originally."

UPDATE:

Mark Steyn: Fauxcahontas and the melting pot | great, warren, elizabeth - Opinion - The Orange County Register: "Just in case you're having difficulty keeping up with all these Composite-Americans, George Zimmerman, the son of a Peruvian mestiza, is the embodiment of endemic white racism and the reincarnation of Bull Connor, but Elizabeth Warren, the great-great-great-granddaughter of someone who might possibly have been listed as Cherokee on an application for a marriage license, is a heartwarming testimony to how minorities are shattering the glass ceiling in Harvard Yard. George Zimmerman, redneck; Elizabeth Warren, redskin. Under the Third Reich's Nuremberg Laws, Ms. Warren would have been classified as Aryan and Mr. Zimmerman as non-Aryan. Now it's the other way round. Progress!"

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Debacle

The Chen Debacle - By Michael Auslin - The Corner - National Review Online: "The Chen Guangcheng saga gets stranger and stranger, but also is becoming a major diplomatic embarrassment for the Obama administration. What was already a confusing tale of “he said, she said” moved into the realm of near-parody this afternoon, when Chen himself called his U.S. supporter and activist Bob Fu during a congressional hearing, was put on speaker phone, and directly asked to be let out of China. What has particularly spun the case out of control is the growing assertion by many that U.S. officials relayed threats by Beijing toward Chen’s wife to the blind activist, thereby forcing him to accept a deal to leave the U.S. Embassy and remain in China. Within 48 hours of a supposed deal to ensure Chen’s safety in the country, the lawyer’s friends began spreading the word that he had feared for his wife’s life and agreed to leave the embassy, but now wanted to flee the country. "

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The Death O Julia

‘Julia’ - By Kevin D. Williamson - The Corner - National Review Online: "23 years: Being a bartender, Julia works late at night. Under Obama, the federal government supports laws that make it difficult or impossible for a private citizen to own a gun in many places. Leaving her bar one night, the defenseless Julia is killed in the street. Ironically, the gun used to kill her was sold to a Mexican drug cartel under a program run by President Obama’s Department of Justice."

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Good God (Edition O, Part 49,491)

Instapundit » Blog Archive » THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN THINGS LIKE THIS WOULD HAPPEN — AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Man abando…: "THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN THINGS LIKE THIS WOULD HAPPEN — AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Man abandoned in DEA cell steps forward. “An engineering student stepped forward with his lawyer Tuesday to say he was left alone in a federal holding cell for five days with no food or water, apparently forgotten by the federal drug agents who detained him.”

Tar and feathers isn’t enough punishment for something like that.

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 6:47 pm"

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Barry’s Imaginary Girlfriend ... And Most Excellent Dichotomies O Bullsh*t

Barry’s Imaginary Girlfriend | Power Line: "Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.) And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised at Eliot’s irreconcilable ambivalence; don’t you share this ambivalence yourself, Alex?

That, folks, is not a parody. It may provide a hint as to why Obama’s college and law school grades remain a well-kept secret."

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Good Grief

Secret Service problems much bigger than prostitutes - The Washington Post: "The Secret Service suspends screening at one in five major presidential and vice presidential events, according to another current agent. Think about that: A terrorist could bring in a grenade and take out President Obama or Biden.

Other examples of corner-cutting include management not insisting that agents pass firearms requalification and physical fitness tests. The agency covers that up by routinely asking agents to fill out their own test scores.

One agent on the president’s detail regularly fails handgun tests but has not been removed, agents with firsthand knowledge have told me. Another agent on the detail is so out of shape that she cannot open the heavy doors to exit the president’s limousine, I’m told.

Instead of removing her from the president’s detail and requiring her to pass the fitness tests that all agents are supposed to take every three months, Secret Service management has told drivers to try to park so it would be easier for her to swing open the vehicle door."

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Nothing To See Here (Part 39,493)

The Bridge Bombers - By Jonah Goldberg - The Corner - National Review Online: "First of all, you’ve got to check out their mugshots in this Bloomberg story over at the Washington Post. But while you can find them, you know what you won’t find? Any mention of Occupy Wall Street.

I’m sure if five libertarians plotting to blow up a bridge were arrested during a countrywide Tea Party protest, the press wouldn’t note the connection either."

Why of course they had nothing to do with the Occupy *sshats...

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Your Family Budget

Riell Truth Radio Show | Facebook: "Why the U.S. was downgraded:
• U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
• Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
• New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
• National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
• Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000

Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's your household budget:
• Annual family income: $21,700
• Money the family spent: $38,200
• New debt on the credit card: $16,500
• Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
• Total budget cuts: $385"

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