Articles: Political Legitimacy and the Special Interest State: "It took the New Deal and the Great Society to convert the concept of interest group capture of government into an affirmative philosophy of government, and to turn our elections into contests between competing groups of looters. The political legitimacy of the American republic was based on the consent of the people, which was in turn conditioned on the understanding that government must be limited to performing genuinely public functions and cannot be allowed to become a tool for whatever interests capture the levers of power. The Special Interest State transgresses these principles, and recent polls indicate that fewer than 25% of the people say that government has the consent of the governed. People did not consent to be looted by venture socialist friends of whatever administration is in power, or by cozy dealings between public unions and their pet elected officials. The inhabitants of California's Central Valley did not agree to a system in which coastal environmentalists destroy their livelihoods for the sake of the Delta Smelt. No one wants a medical system governed by trial lawyers combined with those who most effectively lobby HHS."What part of "Banana Republic" don't you understand? Read More......
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Looters Redux
Sssshhhhh!!!!
According to NOAA data, all time Antarctic sea ice extent record was set on Sept 22nd, 2012 | Watts Up With That?: "But I just found another data set, NOAA’s Sea Ice Extent here. (thanks to commenter HaroldW at the Blackboard) And it turns out day 265 set an all time record, and then day 266 (Sept 22nd) broke that record. Days 265 through 270 are now the 6 highest Antarctic Sea Ice Extent’s of all time (in the satellite record)! 11 of the top 15 extents are now in 2012."And for heaven's sake don't let anyone know about this:
The New Normal
Valium and the New Normal - NYTimes.com: "Nearly 50 years after Valium was introduced and aggressively marketed, we’ve learned its lessons well. My generation of aging baby boomers does its brain styling, by and large, with antidepressants: Prozac, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Paxil, Zoloft. And for my daughters’ generation, the millennials, the pills of choice tend to be Ritalin and Adderall, for mental focus. But when Americans are feeling out of sorts, we are still more likely to turn to anti-anxiety drugs than to any other kind. The leading successor to Valium, Xanax, outsells every other psychiatric drug on the market (48.7 million prescriptions last year). And even Valium is still out there, the classic little-black-dress of tranquilizers. In 2011, 14.7 million prescriptions were written for the drug that first made its cultural mark as a Rolling Stones song (“Mother’s Little Helper”) back in 1966."We're screwed of course. And have been for a long time. Read More......
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Red Lines
Our Feckless President’s Priorities | Power Line: "Much has been made of Barack Obama’s unwillingness to engage with foreign leaders during the recent events at the United Nations, and the priority that he consistently gives to campaigning and fundraising over discharging his ostensible duties as president. Michael Ramirez sums up the critique by contrasting Benjamin Netanyahu’s concept of a red line with that of our president:"
Room 101 Today
Anti-Islam filmmaker held at Los Angeles federal jail - Yahoo! News: "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The California man behind an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests across the Muslim world was being held at a federal high-rise jail in downtown Los Angeles on Friday over possible probation violations, a prison official said. Federal officials, citing safety concerns, were tight-lipped about the conditions of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula's confinement, including whether he was being held with the general population or was isolated from other inmates."And what was the premise of 1984's Room 101? Why to confront you with the thing that you most feared of course. And what are they doing to Nakoula? Why placing him in a jail heavily populated with Muslim's of course. And the sheep have no clue while O Duce just laughs. Read More......
Obama's Czar Rattner: We Need Death Panels
Bailing Out Obamacare: Sarah Palin Was Right | Power Line: "I missed this piece from Steven Rattner (who was a key figure in the Obama auto bailout) when it appeared in the NY Times a couple weeks ago. Tacitly acknowledging that costs are going to soar out of sight, Rattner opens with this frank admission: “We need death panels.” Jonah Goldberg wonders: When can Sarah Palin expect her letter of apology?”"It'll be a cold day in hell before that ever comes... Read More......
How You Do It
Attention Camp Romney … [Darleen Click] | protein wisdom: "This is how you do political ads …"
Friday, September 28, 2012
COTD From The Wayback
Obama's Directive 10-289: "To: mnehring IMHO Michael Barone missed what ended the “Great Depression” and what is needed to end our current one. What ended the depression of 1932 wasn't FDR and that has been known for years. What ended that depression was a massive influx of “free money” from Europe that started around 1938. Europe was facing another massive war and its leaders knew they couldn't out produce Germany which was on a war footing. So, they came to America with their national gold reserves and invested in America's future production. The declassified secret histories of World War II show multiple transfers of gold reserves to the US to serve as both collateral and investment capital. In a micro sense - how would your personal finances change if you could suddenly double or triple your pre tax income without working more than the standard 40-hour week? Take that level of change and apply it to the nation for a four year period, 1938 - 1941. After 1942 we were on a war footing ourselves which lasted another 4 years. After that we were the only intact industrial base in the world. My ideas as to where we could find another surge of “free money” to pull us out of this depression is the subject for another posting. "Interesting. Read More......
A Tale O British Spying
Articles: Who is Barack Obama?: "In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama went on a mission to Russia with Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN). The newly-minted U.S. senator was invited to be part of a Russian fact-finding tour that inspected a nuclear weapons site in Perm, Siberia. The base Lugar and Obama visited was where mobile launch missiles were being destroyed under the Cooperative Threat Reduction program (CTR), which also went by the name of the Nunn-Lugar program.The truth is out there, isn't it? Read More......
What happened next -- after the inspections were over -- was at the time reported by several foreign news sources but was never reported in the USA by the CMM. The Russians detained Obama and Lugar for three hours at the airport, demanding to examine both Obama's and Lugar's passports and search their plane. Some sources reported that the Russians accused Barack Obama of being a spy.
But wait -- there's more!
According to an Italian source, the Russians did not accuse Obama of being an American spy; they accused him of being a spy for the British! The report went on to say that the incident ended up involving the White House, the U.S. State Department, and military officials, along with their counterparts in Moscow."
Frick
Special Report details an up-to-date extensive time line of events from the Benghazi attack to now » The Right Scoop -: "This is an excellent time line of events since the attack on Benghazi from Special Report that includes everything we now know about what actually happened vs the administration’s response along the way. It is quite revealing to watch it this way"Go WTWT pronto.
We live in Oceania. Or is it Eurasia? Who can tell anymore? Read More......
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Directive 10-289 Watch
And the film version is about to release:“GDP collapse puts U.S. economy into recession red zone” | protein wisdom: "Bottom line: Growth the past two quarters has averaged about 1.6%. Not only does this mean the economy is growing more slowly than last year’s 1.8%, it is also slow enough to signal about a 50% chance of a recession within a year. And the third quarter also looks weak.Prediction: if Obama is reelected, the post Jan 1 2013 tax shock will within a year effectively collapse the private sector economy, usher in buyouts of smaller competitors by connected corporate giants, create a perfect environment for coordinated crony capitalism, and lay the permanent foundations for the liberal fascist stopping point that always seems to block that one final turn down beautiful, bucolic Utopia lane."
The anemic, three-year-old U.S. recovery is already running out of steam. And if it does, it may be several more years before we see unemployment below 8%.
Du'O (Part 7,783,853)
Some Administration Officials Were Concerned About Initial White House Push Blaming Benghazi Attack on Mob, Video* - ABC News: "Even before Defense Secretary Leon Panetta contradicted the initial story about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, today, Obama administration officials told ABC News they were concerned after the White House began pushing the line that the attack was spontaneous and not the work of terrorists.Unexpectedly.
Events were too uncertain, and suspicions had been aroused, officials said.
Panetta today said that the attack that killed four Americans on the anniversary of 9/11 was not only carried out by terrorists — it was pre-meditated."
Not On Your Side
“Quantum of Easing” | Power Line: "Many observers have criticized the Romney campaign’s television ads for not being snappy or hard-hitting enough. I think they have generally been pretty good, but admittedly not as creative as this James-Bond-themed ad from American Crossroads, titled “Quantum of Easing.” It hints at the possibility that President Obama might not be entirely on your side:"
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Video Of The Week Draws The Comment Of The Day
Roger’s Rules » A Short, Bracing Video Obama Should See: "2. shaun evertson
Swap “islam” for “anti-western progressive utopianism” and the message is just as valid. In the only sense that matters, radical islam = progressivism. Same sense of entitlement, same insulted outrage, same “my way only” attitude, same willingness to treat all others as objects to be subjugated and discarded. The west has no room for either version. Perhaps Turkey could become the new homeland for both — suitably isolated from the rest of the planet, of course.
September 23, 2012 - 6:56 am Link to this Comment | Reply"
4 pinOcchios From The Radical Right Wing (/sarc) WaPo
And this beat down is after WaPo math that's incredibly generous to him:
Obama claim that Bush is 90% responsible for current deficit gets 100% of Pinocchios at WaPo « Hot Air: "Obama certainly inherited an economic mess, and that accounts for a large part of the deficit. But Obama pushed for spending increases and tax cuts that also have contributed in important ways to the nation’s fiscal deterioration. He certainly could argue that these were necessary and important steps to take, but he can’t blithely suggest that 90 percent of the current deficit “is as a consequence” of his predecessor’s policies — and not his own.RTWT. Read More......
As for the citing of the discredited MarketWatch column, we have repeatedly urged the administration to rely on estimates from official government agencies, such as the White House budget office. It is astonishing to see the president repeat this faulty claim once again, as if it were an established fact. Four Pinocchios[.]"
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Looks Like McCain's Gonna Take It...
Howard Stern Interviews Obama Supporters 2012 | RealClearPolitics: "Howard Stern contributors Sal and Richard travel to Harlem to interview Obama supporters and ask them why they are voting for Obama. Stern and his crew ask denizens of Harlem various outrageous questions, including if they believe Obama will find and kill Osama bin Laden; if Romney is a Muslim and if Obama is a Mormon; if Obama made the right choice by picking Paul Ryan as his running mate and if he did it because he is black. One interviewee was under the impression that 2008 Republican nominee John McCain is also running this time. "Just trust me, not one person knew that Osama bin Laden was dead," Stern said during the segment. "Well, we're obviously dealing with a whole population that doesn't listen to the newscasts or read a newspaper," co-host Robin Quivers said."
Meltdown
And yet another shocka from Powerline:
State Department Meltdown | Power Line: "There is an obvious irony in the Secretary of State’s spokesman–the diplomat’s diplomat–being reduced to this sort of profane, out of control spluttering, which one would normally expect from a left-wing blogger. One can only imagine–it is a cliche, but nonetheless true–what a sensational news story it would have been had such emails issued from Condoleezza Rice’s spokesman, or Dick Cheney’s. But the reality goes far beyond the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State’s meltdown. It appears that the Department itself is in disarray."Read More......
The 10% President
Drop everything and RTWT:
Review & Outlook: The 10% President - WSJ.com: "A question raised by President Obama's immortal line on CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday—"I think that, you know, as President, I bear responsibility for everything, to some degree"—is what that degree really is. Maybe 70% or 80% of the buck stops with him? Or is it halfsies? Nope. Now we know: It turns out the figure is 10%. The other 90% is somebody else's fault."WSJ's takedown is one of the best relatively short decoder rings for Obama's horsesh*t that I've seen lately. Read More......
Whoops: Saudi billionaire did help Obama into Harvard
Cashill strikes again:
Saudi billionaire did help Obama into Harvard: "The story, however, has come back to life. The elusive al-Mansour was a guest Sept. 19 on the BlogTalkRadio show “The National and International Roundtable.” In his introduction, the host openly acknowledged that al-Mansour “made news in 2008 when it was revealed that he had been a patron of President Barack Obama and had recommended him for admission to Harvard Law School.” The host went on to describe al-Mansour as “co-founder of the International law firm of al-Waleed, al-Talal and al-Mansour and special adviser to Saudi Arabian prince, his royal highness Prince Al Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulazziz.” This meshed completely with what Sutton had said in 2008. According to Sutton, al-Mansour had asked him to “please write a letter in support of [Obama] … a young man that has applied to Harvard.” Sutton had friends at Harvard and gladly did so. Although Sutton did not specify a date, this would likely have been in 1988 when the 26-year-old Obama was applying to Harvard Law School."This is way beyond a RTWT. And check out the column from Vernon Jordan (and the date)!
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