Arizona As Canary

Instapundit - Blog Archive - A FRIEND EMAILS FROM MEXICO: “Shit’s about to collapse in MX and points south. It is frightening. I…: "A FRIEND EMAILS FROM MEXICO: “Shit’s about to collapse in MX and points south. It is frightening. I am seeing first hand, am traveling. Total anarchy and terror unfolding.” Well, that’s encouraging. All those counter-insurgency and nation-building skills we’ve honed in Iraq might come in handy closer to home."

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Frozen By The Truth

Jerome Hudson reports from 828:

A Black Man Goes To Glenn Beck's Rally - HUMAN EVENTS: "'No, I won't be there,' I told them. 'Why?' one of them asked with a grimace on his face. I looked at him and said, 'I want to be where the Lord is and the Lord is in this place.'

One of the older black women in the group asked me if I felt like I was 'selling out' for being one of the 'tokens' in the Beck rally crowd?

I laughed and said 'Ma'am, Al Sharpton is a pretender. He is going to tell you to pretend that the color of your skin matters. He is going to ask you to ignore the now overwhelming proof that 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, blacks are now destroying each other faster than the KKK could have dreamed.'

As I walked away, the group stood frozen, not knowing how to reply."

RTWT.

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Barbarians

Guest Post: The Age of Mammon | zero hedge: "As our economy hurtles towards its meeting with destiny, the political class seeks to assign blame on their enemies for this Greater Depression. The Republicans would like you to believe that Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank and their Community Reinvest Act caused the collapse of our financial system. Democrats want you to believe that George Bush and his band of unregulated free market capitalists created a financial disaster of epic proportions. The truth is that America has been captured by a financial class that makes no distinction between parties. These barbarians have sucked the life out of a once productive nation by raping and pillaging with impunity while enriching only them. They live in 20,000 square foot $10 million mansions in Greenwich, CT and in $3 million dollar penthouses on Central Park West.

These are the robber barons that represent the Age of Mammon."

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Patriots And Moonbat Dissonance

Moonbattery: Massive Turnout for Restoring Honor Rally: "It was a great crowd. The folks in my little expedition party guesstimated it at 400,000 to 700,000. This was the most subdued, polite crowd I've seen. The police were standing around with nothing to do; there wasn't even a candy wrapper laying on the mall at the end of this thing. The crowd seemed more cross-sectional of America than the Tea Party-flavored 9/12 event, as though a lot of middle-of-the-road, less political types had climbed on the bandwagon since 9/12. As Beck requested, nobody brought signs; there was not one to be seen in the probably 1/2 million strong crowd. The only people with signage were the handful of folks protesting Beck. They stood around in small groups here and there, trying to join up confrontation in front of their and the media's video cameras, but the massive conservative crowd just swept around and by them like a powerful river going around an inconsequential pile of rocks. Everyone seemed happy to have protesters exercising their rights as Americans and speaking their minds, which seemed to surprise the hippies, who were apparently waiting for baton-wielding Nazis to descend on them at any moment. The hippie's cognitive dissonance, as it slowly sunk in that nobody minded them being there and people welcomed their participation, was interesting to observe."

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Manifest IdiOcy

A Village in Kenya Is Missing Its Idiot: "Our problem manifest in one moment, one picture from today in Louisiana. Yes, Leader of the Free World and a Dumb Bastard. (HT to the lovely @RoseDanna on Twitter who wryly notes “The leader of the free world can’t figure out how to get the umbrella on the other side”)."

I'm at a loss what to add to this. But we're the idiots, you know.

Actually, there is one thing I can think to add. One of the zinger lines from Orwell's "Pacifism And The War": "The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security." That last part pretty much describes today's progressives.

You might want to scurry off to read the rest so you can understand why I consider Barry O Duce a Fascifist.

Perhaps you might also ;)

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$5 for 5 Challenge! (Bumped)

$5 for 5 Challenge











Game On! Are You Up for the Challenge?

Grassroots efforts over the last year and a half have made huge strides in both reshaping party politics and promoting candidates who favor principle over party.

The results of the primaries on August 10th proved that all the hard work and sacrifice of grassroots membership and their chosen candidates paid off by moving the ball to the 50 yard line.

From this position it's clear that the battle for the goal line will be even tougher. The opposition has the advantage—in many races—of incumbency and a deeper bench strengthened by substantially larger resources.

Game tactics over the next two months are crucial to shaping the outcome of the November elections and beyond.

What will it take to level the playing field?

Do some research, find 5 candidates who's values and principles are consistent with yours.

Donate $5.00 to the 5 candidates over each of the next 5 weeks. Tell your friends and family to do the same. Each $5.00 will move the ball 5 yards closer to the goal. If you are strapped for cash then donate 5 hours to the candidate of your choice over the next two months.

Don't wake up on November 3rd and ask yourself “I should have done more”? If everyone does their part the ball can be brought over the goal line in November. And remember it's not just the top races that need your help consider the local down-ticket candidates as well.

Remember $5 for 5.... We can do this!

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Reverence

Moonbattery: Apocalypse Mao - Mao Zedong inflicted more evil than any other individual in human history. Consequently, our rulers revere him.

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The Gap

The US Government Matches Every Dollar In Tax Revenue With A Dollar In New Debt | zero hedge: "In our attempts to simplify the comprehension of the ongoing serfdomization of the US population, we would like to present one of the more persuasive charts which the administration would likely be loath to demonstrate. Having collated monthly data from the FMS' Daily Treasury Statement on incremental tax revenues (individual, gross), and new debt issuance, we observe the following rather surprising pattern: since September 2008, or the month when capitalism collapsed, and the Fed, and ever other global Central Bank had to step in as a backstop of last recourse to the western way of life, the US government has undertaken the most peculiar matching program: simply said, for every dollar of individual tax revenue, the government has issued just over one dollar of incremental debt. In other words, in the past two years, tax revenues alone would have proven insufficient by over half to fill the budget gap."

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Shellacking

Commentary - Blog Archive - The Lightbulb Goes on: "As this report explains, the Fed will not come to the Democrats’ rescue, at least not in time to stave off a shellacking in November:

Fed chief Ben Bernanke said Friday the nation’s central bank would take action to prop up the economy if absolutely necessary. … He did not pledge any immediate, dramatic steps to goose growth and suggested the bank’s remaining tools might not work very well anyway. The mild statement from Bernanke, while soothing to investors, creates a potentially serious political problem for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats, some of whom are feeling their House majority slip away with every passing piece of bad economic news."

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Downward Revision

Hot Air - Beeler on the SS Denial: "Or, alternately, perhaps this could be called the SS Hey It Could Be Worse! Either way, our hearts will go on after ramming the economy into the iceberg of Obamanomics. So far, the motto of this administration seems to be “Never let go!” as the ship slips below the surface …"

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Basic Needs (Bumped)

Guest Post: Hyperinflation, Part II: What It Will Look Like | zero hedge: "One of the effects of Chile’s hyperinflation was the collapse in asset prices.

This would seem counterintuitive. After all, if the prices of consumer goods and basic staples are rising in a hyperinflationary environment, then asset prices should rise as well—right? Equities should rise in price—since more money is chasing after the same number of stock. Real estate prices should rise also—and for the same reason. Right?

Actually, wrong—and for a simple reason: Once basic necessities are unmet, and remain unmet for a sustained period of time, any asset will be willingly and instantly sacrificed, in order to meet that basic need."

If you never read much about hyperinflation, this is what to read. Oh, and part the first also please. And even if you think you know that it's coming you need to read it too. Capiche?

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Thirty-One Months (Bumped)

The American Spectator : Peak Obama: "Thirty-one months after the start of the recession, last week's jobs report for July was a fiasco. The Labor Department reported yet another 131,000 jobs lost in July. The Department also revised the June report downward to show 221,000 jobs lost that month from 125,000. The unemployment rate remained at 9.5% only because 181,000 additional discouraged workers left the work force, and so were not counted as unemployed. That makes one million who have fled the work force since April.
As this column has repeatedly noted, the historic data recorded by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that the average recession since World War II has lasted 10 months, with the longest previously being 16 months. What is President Obama's excuse for still losing hundreds of thousands of jobs 31 months after the recession began?"

Thirty-one months?! I have already posted the chart of what that looks like but here it is again so you can't miss it:

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Ignored

Belmont Club - The Age of Apostasy: "So it was with some interest that I heard a human rights activist say that Maher El-Gohary’s daughter sought President Obama’s help to get the her conversion recognized before she became an adult in order to avoid liability for a more severe punishment for apostasy if she officially changed religion later. After all, if President Obama is so hot on the right to build a mosque near Ground Zero he might be expected to sympathize with a 16-year-old who just wanted to become a Christian because his “commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable.” Of course her request was ignored."

This one is definitely a RTWT. By now it shouldn't be news to you that the Overlords have created an opaque and intimidating tangle of laws and regulations for the sole purpose of providing themselves a framework to do what they like and still call it civilization. Period.

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O Undisguised Contempt For Racist, Nativist, Homophobic Ismophobes

Charles Krauthammer - The last refuge of a liberal: "Now we know why the country has become 'ungovernable,' last year's excuse for the Democrats' failure of governance: Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes?

Note what connects these issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public opinion. Majorities -- often lopsided majorities -- oppose President Obama's social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, Obamacare), support the Arizona law, oppose gay marriage and reject a mosque near Ground Zero.

What's a liberal to do? Pull out the bigotry charge, the trump that preempts debate and gives no credit to the seriousness and substance of the contrary argument. The most venerable of these trumps is, of course, the race card. When the Tea Party arose, a spontaneous, leaderless and perfectly natural (and traditionally American) reaction to the vast expansion of government intrinsic to the president's proudly proclaimed transformational agenda, the liberal commentariat cast it as a mob of angry white yahoos disguising their antipathy to a black president by cleverly speaking in economic terms."

Krauthammer bats this one out "O" the park. Heh. You must read it all. But just in case your mouse just locked up, here's his heartwarming ending:

It is a measure of the corruption of liberal thought and the collapse of its self-confidence that, finding itself so widely repudiated, it resorts reflexively to the cheapest race-baiting (in a colorful variety of forms). Indeed, how can one reason with a nation of pitchfork-wielding mobs brimming with "antipathy toward people who aren't like them" -- blacks, Hispanics, gays and Muslims -- a nation that is, as Michelle Obama once put it succinctly, "just downright mean"?

The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama over-read his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them.[My emphasis]

You're never going to enjoy standing in line so much as you will on 11/2, are you?

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828

Power Line - Back at the Lincoln Memorial, 47 years on: "47 years to the day after participating in the great civil rights march on Washington, I returned to the same space for Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' rally. In 1963, a crowd of roughly 200,000 filled the 'reflecting pool' area below the Lincoln Memorial. Today's crowd packed that area as well as adjacent areas on all three sides. In fact, the throng extended most of the way to the Washington Monument, where the 1963 march began. To me, it looked like there were at least three times as many people at this rally.

The crowd was extraordinarily courteous and polite. I saw virtually no signs except on the way the gathering. Once at the grounds of the rally, I saw only American flags, a few 'Don't Tread on Me' flags, and one Israeli flag."

I caught most of the last two thirds or so on CSPAN. This was impressively done right down to the music.

Too bad only a couple of dozen showed up. And how violent and ugly and hateful it got -- just like Pravda the mass media said it would.

And please donate to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. I did.

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The Tunnel (Bumped)

New video: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake? | Bankrupting America: "Put yourself to the test.� Click below to watch our man-on-the-street video.� See if you can outwit the Rebel Economist before she stumps you. So what is it: REAL or FAKE?"

What could go wrong? They clearly know more than you do! Either that or our dear leaders are completely batsh*t insane.

I can tell you which one I'm betting on...

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Hammering Your Eyes Open

Moonbattery: Holding a Hammer: "The song was cowritten (on his own time) by 26-year-old teacher Bryan Glover — excuse me, I meant ex-teacher. After the video was circulated, he was fired amid shrieks of 'racism.'

If you can find any racism in the video above, you just might be a liberal. If you can find any fascism in America under Obama, you just might have your eyes open."

Go support him at holdingahammer.com as it's by definition his new job.

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You Still Haven't Watched "The Soviet Story" Yet Have You?

Tea Party Group Hit With Death Threats - Washington Whispers (usnews.com): "One of Washington's principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections. The number and intensity have reached such heights that the organization is leaving its downtown location near the FBI and moving to a high-security building near the U.S. Capitol.

'FreedomWorks and Dick Armey receive dozens of threatening and harassing calls and E-mails each day. Many imply violence and use of weapons,' spokesman Adam Brandon tells Whispers. 'As we get closer to the election we expect the harassment to increase.'"

It can be found here. Run, don't walk to get a copy. It's coming to a town near you. Literally.

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Lurched

Power Line - Thoughts on Afghanistan: "This put me in mind of probably the most searing post we've ever done here, by Scott, which tells the sad story of Sirik Matak, former Prime Minister of Cambodia, who made the mistake of trusting the United States government:

Dear Excellency and Friend:

I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion. As for you, and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection, and we can do nothing about it.

You leave, and my wish is that you and your country will find happiness under this sky. But, mark it well, that if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is no matter, because we are all born and must die. I have only committed this mistake of believing in you [the Americans].

Prime Minister Matak was shot and left to die by Communists. A worse fate awaits a great many Afghan women, and no small number of Afghan men, if we decide that we are tired of dealing with such a backward culture."

I'm going to check out my 8th grader's new history textbook for this story. Somehow I suspect I won't find it...

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Dark Commentary

Intel CEO: U.S. faces looming tech decline | Politics and Law - CNET News: "Intel chief executive Paul Otellini offered a depressing set of observations about the economy and the Obama administration Monday evening, coupled with a dark commentary on the future of the technology industry if nothing changes.
Otellini's remarks during dinner at the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum here amounted to a warning to the administration officials and assorted Capitol Hill aides in the audience: Unless government policies are altered, he predicted, 'the next big thing will not be invented here. Jobs will not be created here.'
The U.S. legal environment has become so hostile to business, Otellini said, that there is likely to be 'an inevitable erosion and shift of wealth, much like we're seeing today in Europe--this is the bitter truth.'
Not long ago, Otellini said, 'our research centers were without peer. No country was more attractive for start-up capital... We seemed a generation ahead of the rest of the world in information technology. That simply is no longer the case.'"

If you read the article, there's some fluff in the middle by the reporter trying to make it seem like things were just as bad under the evil W before grudgingly reporting reporting the quotes that U.S. corporate tax rates s*ck wind. And it is true that W was far from a genius in doing what it would really take to make the U.S. competitive.

But at least he didn't seem to awaken each morning with a fire in his belly to send us back to the dark ages.

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