Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Politicians - "Democrat of the Year" Estelle Carson
That recognition came AFTER she confessed...
On the Denver CBS website, Brian Maass has this ugly story:
"On Thursday, a jury convicted 66-year-old Estelle Carson of felony identify theft and felony theft from an at risk adult for stealing checks from the woman and using them to pay her own cable, cell phone and internet bills.
The victim is partially blind, developmentally disabled, has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair. She is on a fixed income of $596 per month according to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office."
"U.S. Total Gasoline Retail Sales by Refiners"
Most likely it's a combination of all three...
The EIA.gov website has the interesting numbers:
"Monthly U.S. Total Gasoline Retail Sales"
Government at Work - Creating Rules; Lots of Rules
Here's what must be a very busy website...
The website is Ten Thousand Commandments. It's claim to fame is:
"Called 'the best measure of the overall regulatory burden' by the Wall Street Journal, Ten Thousand Commandments is dedicated to informing citizens about the hidden tax of government regulation of the economy. Since 1993."
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
"Govt spent $1.028 trillion on welfare in FY 2011"
This is money for which there were NO contributions, coming only from taxpayers.
Unfortunately, it's hard to imagine those elected actually doing something about it...
At DailyCaller.com, Caroline May recently called attention to these BIG numbers:
"The total sum taxpayers spent on federal welfare programs was derived from a new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on federal welfare spending — which topped out at $745.84 billion for fiscal year 2011 — combined with an analysis from the Republican Senate Budget Committee staff of state spending on federal welfare programs (based on 'The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government Finance'), which reached $282.7 billion in fiscal year 2011.
The data excludes spending on Social Security, Medicare, means-tested health care for veterans without service-connected disabilities, and the means-tested veterans pension program."
California 2012 Propositions - Tom McClintock for Congress
With enough signatures, almost anything can be placed on the ballot.
I'm sure the elected officials are not always in favor of the idea(s)...
Tom McClintock shares his opinion on those slated for November's election:
"Tom on the California 2012 Propositions"
Government at Work - on Nanny State stuff
CostOfGovernment.org calls attention to things that might seem funny, but, in the real world, are not. Here's their goal:
"The Cost of Government Center works to educate taxpayers and policymakers on the full costs imposed by spending and government regulation by encouraging restraint in federal finance, a limited regulatory regime and elimination of discriminatory excise taxes."
Monday, October 29, 2012
"Supreme Court to determine legality of reselling iphones, cars, textbooks"
Call me what you will; but, I think one has the right to resell, donate, or give away something they purchased to whomever, and it whatever manner they choose.
See what you think...
See what you think...
On the Washington Times website, Tim Devaney reports this:
"In a case that tests the boundaries of copyright law, merchants and consumers say they have the right to resell what they own, but content creators argue they should be protected from shady deals that undercut retail prices. The case, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, calls into question the first-sale doctrine, a rule in copyright law that allows the owner of any particular product to resell it. The principle behind it is that the manufacturer controls only the original sale of each copy. But the Supreme Court is considering an exception for products made overseas. That means you could be stuck with everything from your outdated smartphone to the beat-up clunker you drive to the raggedy clothes you’ve out grown, if it’s made in China, or India, or anywhere else."
The Media - "CBS Busts Obama--and Itself:..."
After reading this, would YOU label CBS as a coverup accomplice?...
At Breitbart.com, Joel B. Pollak gives his opinion:
"The fact that CBS refrained from publishing the critical clip from the interview widens the political scandal surrounding Benghazi into a media scandal.
National Public Radio’s Mara Liasson criticized CBS on Fox News Special Report yesterday, saying that CBS ought to have made the entire interview with Obama available immediately, in the public interest.
Together with the president, CBS has much to explain."
"Who Exactly ARE the Middle Class?"
The political class clearly thinks differently from many of us...
On her Intolerant Fox blog, Megan Fox poses this and offers a zillion reasons why:
"Perhaps we should start a third party called The Middle Class party."
This links to the American Spectator article by Jeffrey Lord:
Sunday, October 28, 2012
2012-10-28 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Weekend Reading - "Wastebook 2012"
Unfortunately, those that speak out against it are often labeled "radical".
Now, what's wrong with that picture?...
U.S. Senator Tom Coburn publishes his "Wastebook 2012", lowlighting some of the most egregious examples of government wasting taxpayer's money:
"Dear Taxpayer,
Times remain tough in America. The number of people working has dropped to the lowest
level in decades. More than 23 million of our fellow citizens do not have good jobs, and wages for many others are stagnant and even declining. Families are struggling to do more with less.
But not everyone in America is living on a smaller budget. Washington politicians don’t even bother to give themselves a budget anymore. For the third consecutive year,
Congress failed to pass a budget. And, for the fourth straight year, these compulsive spenders charged more than $1 trillion to our national credit card, pushing us to a $16 trillion debt."
Friday, October 26, 2012
Government at Work - Providing a car for commuting
Perhaps, they'll deal with it at the next election...
At NJ.com, Justin Zaremba reported this:
"However, Picciallo told NJ.com today that the 150- to 160-mile round trip commute five days a week would result in significant wear and tear to the vehicle, and create increased costs for taxpayers. According to Picciallo, the town will be responsible for maintaining the vehicle and Rosell will be able to use the municipal fuel pump to fill up the vehicle. He estimated the fuel cost would range between $800 and $900 per month. At a rate of $3.60 per gallon, a vehicle with a 17-gallon gas tank costs $61.20 to fill up. According to fueleconomy.gov, a 2008 Chevy Impala with a 17-gallon tank has a standard gas mileage of 337 miles per tank on regular gas."
"How Whining Grows Government"
Isn't there a saying; "be careful what you wish for"?...
Frank J. Fleming supports this point at Townhall.com:
"When politicians hear us complain about our problems, they try to solve them. Just look at our massive, bloated government and our ginormous national debt — that was all built by complaining. People whined about stuff, and some politicians overheard and were like, “I bet I can solve this problem and be super popular! And I know the perfect solution: a new massive bureaucracy that costs billions of dollars!” And, of course, the only thing a massive government bureaucracy has ever solved is the problem of Americans having too much time and money.
Having politicians fix problems is like having a three-year-old fix your computer with a hammer. It’s best to not get them involved at all."
Thursday, October 25, 2012
A Star Falls Over Chicago
On his blog, Daniel Greenfield includes this in his posted opinion:
"Obama was always a petty man and his campaign has descended into pointless pettiness, into Team Big Bird, binders full of women and bayonets and horses. Like so much hipster culture, it exists so that the participants can entertain each other with something that no one else thinks is funny or clever. And that elitism is precisely the point. It's the last resort of losers who hide from their lack of taste behind walls of exclusivity. Abandoning mass appeal, Obama is getting back to his roots of entertaining upper middle class college kids with his 'hipness'; both actual college kids and the overgrown middle aged variety that make up the professional class of the mediacracy who treat the rest of the country the way that they treated the natives on their Peace Corps assignments."
"Sources, documents suggest government-subsidized Abound Solar was selling faulty product"
After all, we all know that government has repeatedly been show to manage money poorly, let alone be able to judge how to invest it...
Michael Bastasch recently posted this story about "Abound Solar" at DailyCaller.com:
"Internal documentation and testimony from sources within Abound show that the company was selling a faulty, underperforming product, and may have mislead lenders at one point in order to keep itself afloat. “Our solar modules worked as long as you didn’t put them in the sun,” an internal source told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The company knew its panels were faulty prior to obtaining taxpayer dollars, according to sources, but kept pushing product out the door in order to meet Department of Energy goals required for their $400 million loan guarantee."
Politicians - Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
It's another example of our tax money not getting to it's intended target...
M. Catharine Evans has the story at AmericanThinker.com:
"Jackson Lee's interest in Riverside goes back to the '80s when her husband Elwyn C. Lee, now University of Houston vice-chancellor (see video), served on Riverside's board from 1981-1988. In his last year at Riverside, Mr. Lee was made chairman of that board, and over the years, husband and wife have been influential in keeping the financially strapped hospital open. Jackson Lee was voted into Congress in 1994, representing the 18th district, where Riverside is located. The president of Riverside, his son, and five others were arrested on October 4 as part of a nationwide Medicare fraud sweep. Earnest Gibson III, chief executive officer of Riverside General Hospital for 30 years, has been charged with bilking $158 million out of Medicare over the last seven years."
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
"Trinity Church members reveal Obama shocker!"
Unfortunately, no one seems very interested in digging deeply for the facts.
Perhaps, a part of this article, explains the reason why...
Jerome R. Corsi has spent a lot of time trying to get the details of Barack Obama's past. Here's his latest on the WND.com website:
"Ten years ago, the New York Times reported on a growing underground subculture in the black community known as Down Low, comprised largely of men who secretly engage in homosexual activity while living 'straight' lives in public. It’s within that subtext that opposition researchers for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign began investigating rumors that Rev. Jeremiah Wright was running a 'matchmaking service' for members of his Trinity United Church of Christ known as the Down Low Club, which included Barack Obama. Over the past several months, WND investigators have interviewed a number of members of the church who claim the president benefited from Wright’s efforts to help black men who engage in homosexual activity appear respectable in black society by finding them a wife."
"Obama Trolling for the Knucklehead Vote"
I don't think there's a box on the census form...
Ed Lasky writes about this issue at AmericanThinker.com:
"Pundits have ridiculed the string of fluff television, radio, and magazine appearances that Barack Obama has been making the last few months. They are wrong. He has a strategy and is executing it well. He is seeking and winning the votes of those Michelle Obama calls knuckleheads. "
"New Video: The Frank Marshall Davis Story You Haven’t Heard"
Perhaps the gallon-a-day kool-aid drinkers don't see this as significant.
At the same time, those with patriotic American blood, are disgusted that the liberal media has NO questions at all...
At the same time, those with patriotic American blood, are disgusted that the liberal media has NO questions at all...
On the RightSideNews.com website, James Simpson recently posted:
"AB Independent Productions, in collaboration with Veteran investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival, has released a new video that reveals in detail for the first time, the story of how communist and probable Soviet agent Frank Marshall Davis – arguably the most influential person in Obama’s life – was discovered, and how the national media attempted to cover this story up."
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
"Debt Jumped $1.2759T in FY 2012; Up $10,855 Per Household..."
In this case, whether openly or insidiously, it's coming from our pockets...
Terence P. Jeffrey reported on it at CNSnews.com:
"Debt Jumped $1.2759T in FY 2012; Up $10,855 Per Household in Just 12 Months; Beats 2011"
Meanwhile - in California - Conveniently NOT Reporting
This agency even denied what almost everyone knew at the time...
At DailyCaller.com, Gregg Re has looked into it and reports this and more:
"Marty Morgenstern, the secretary of the California agency that substantially under-reported unemployment claims last week, contributed to President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election campaign, The Daily Caller has learned."
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: President of France Wants to Ban Homework Because It's "Not Fair" to Disadvantaged
If homework is deemed to be good and productive, but unfair, then the right solution is NOT to do away with it.
The right solution is to work to make it fair.
Instead of trying to move up to a higher common denominator, this Socialist French president seems likely to create a lower one...
Mike Shedlock reports on it on the Global Economic Analysis blog:
"I wish I was making this up, and it certainly sounds like it's something straight out of The Onion, yet here it is, on a Washington Post headline: French president pushing homework ban as part of ed reforms. Reason for the homework ban? Francois Hollande doesn’t think it is fair that some kids get homework help from their parents while children who come from disadvantaged families don’t."
Monday, October 22, 2012
"The Three Benghazi Timelines We Need Answers About"
Trying to cover up mistakes is a common trait; however, in bureaucracies, it is part of the culture.
Make it a government bureaucracy and add in the politics of an election, and covering up takes over everything...
In the Wall Street Journal, James Rosen explains the situation:
"If the Obama White House has engaged in a coverup in the Benghazi case, the ostensible motivation would bear some similarity to that of all the president's men in Watergate. Mr. Obama faces a rendezvous with the voters on Nov. 6, and in a race much tighter than the Nixon-McGovern contest of 1972. In such a circumstance, certain kinds of disclosure are always unwelcome. As with the Watergate conspirators, who were eager to conceal earlier actions that related to the Vietnam War, the Obama team is determined to portray its pre-9/11 conduct, and particularly its dovish Mideast policies, in the most favorable light."
The Media - Us Magazine
At Breitbart.com, Warner Todd Huston reports this, showing just how far the liberal media will go to disparage those associated with that certain party:
"Us Magazine had a little tidbit of gossip when it discovered who made Ann Romney's and Michelle Obama's hot pink dresses worn to the recent presidential debate. In its headline Us blares that Ann Romney's dress cost "$1,690." But Michelle Obama's ensemble was priced at $3,290 despite the silence of the headline."
Sports - Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder
On the Yahoo Sports website, Dan Wetzel writes about the Kansas State football team coach and his team. He begins:
"MORGANTOWN, W.V. – Here in an era of new-wave offenses and gimmick defenses, of tricked-up uniforms and fortysomething coaching geniuses of the month, seven rows of Kansas State football players dressed in traditional purple and white stood postgame on the 30-yard line, linked arms and began walking off the field in unison. They did it, because … well, because the great-grandfather in charge says it's important."
Sunday, October 21, 2012
2012-10-21 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Weekend Reading - "What the Media Will Never Tell You About Obama"
It's about stuff everyone should know before they make a voting decision.
Some of it has been around, but most of it has never gotten past the liberal media's filter...
AJ at NoisyRoom.net starts Part 1 with this:
"So let’s look at some of the real facts about Obama that the media will never tell you. (Part 2 will address his background, pals and those who surround him)."
And here is the link to Part 2:
"In Part 1, we discussed Obama’s transformation of America through his actions as President. Now let’s explore some of the real facts about Obama’s upbringing that the media will never tell you."
Friday, October 19, 2012
"Obama gets list of top Muslim Americans"
There are binders, and then there are binders.
Live by the sword, die by the sword...
h/t Boker tov, Boulder!
Live by the sword, die by the sword...
h/t Boker tov, Boulder!
Back in March of 2009, the Denver Post had this story:
"CHICAGO — In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation's most qualified — Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted — has been submitted to the White House."
"HHS: Yeah, Planned Parenthood Doesn't Have Mammogram Machines"
Katie Pavlich wants to make sure you know:
"The Department of Health and Human Services has also confirmed Planned Parenthood does not own any mammogram machines and therefore does not perform mammograms."
Thursday, October 18, 2012
"Beyond the Bradley Effect: What’s Really Happening in Election 2012"
This one is interesting...
Roger L. Simon presents this at PJmedia.com:
"A lot of talk has been bandied about over the so-called Bradley Effect, the theory that a number of California voters said they were going to vote for Tom Bradley — the longtime Los Angeles mayor — for governor of that state in a 1982 election because he was African-American, but really voted for his opponent who won.
This theory has been debunked and, frankly, I have no idea of its veracity. More importantly, however, I believe it is passé. Fewer than ever are interested in the color of Obama’s skin (well, maybe Al Sharpton and his claque) or — for that matter — in Mitt Romney’s religion. We have far, far more pressing issues in front of us at this moment.
For that reason, I think the number who vote for Romney/Ryan and then tell no one (at least in the short run) will be significant, so significant that this election may explode and be closer to a blowout than anyone, save a few, had expected."
"Northwood schoolgirl 'beats' Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein"
Caitlin Black recently reported in the U.K. Harrow Observer:
"Northwood College School pupil, Fabiola Mann, of Harrow on the Hill, scored a remarkable IQ of 162 in this summer’s University of London’s (UCL) Mensa medical test. It is the highest possible score anyone can achieve in the UK and European test. The 15-year-old beat physicists Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein, who both scored 160 when they took it."
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The Media - the Los Angeles Times
In America, the media continues to lose respect among those who really pay attention.
For others, I guess they're still seen as good sources...
At LegalInsurrection.com, Joel Engel takes a shot at the Los Angeles Times:
"Unlike the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times doesn’t have a motto. But if it did, this would work: All the news that’s fit to print for people who don’t know any better, reported by those who don’t want you to."
About that Monthly Unemployment Percentage
Unfortunately, it fails miserably to tell the real story.
Read the linked story (with chart) and you'll see what I mean...
Daniel Harper has the story at WeeklyStandard.com:
"Since January 2009, the labor force has grown by 0.54 percent, or 827,000 people (from 154,236,000 to 155,063,000). Those not in the labor force grew by 10.2 percent during the same period (8,208,000 people), from 80,502,000 to 88,710,000. In other words, for every one person added to the labor force of the United States since January 2009, the size of the U.S. population not in the labor force grew by 10 people."
"Interminable Sentence Nails Obamacare"
For this one, as broken down here, I'm making an exception...
At AmericanThinker.com, Deane Waldman and Elise Cooper recently wrote about this one:
"In August 2012, a candidate for Illinois State Senate, District 18, Dr. Barbara Bellar, thought she would start a fundraising event with a lighthearted tone. She claimed that she could describe ObamaCare (the ACA) in one sentence -- one very long sentence. Because Dr. Bellar so accurately portrayed the current national sentiment about the ACA, a video of her speaking her very long sentence went viral. As of 10/7/12, it had received 2,434,958 hits on YouTube."
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
"America's hidden unemployed: too discouraged to count"
The employment picture in America is quite depressing.
Even with a different president, the road to getting back lost jobs is likely to be difficult and take a long time...
Even with a different president, the road to getting back lost jobs is likely to be difficult and take a long time...
Lucia Mutikani writes about it at Reuters.com:
"Economists, analyzing government data, estimate about 4 million fewer people are in the labor force than in December 2007, primarily due to a lack of jobs rather than the normal aging of America's population. The size of the shift underscores the severity of the jobs crisis. If all those so-called discouraged jobseekers had remained in the labor force, August's jobless rate of 8.1 percent would have been 10.5 percent."
The Media - New Hampshire Public Radio
It always seems to be one-sided, in favor of the Democrat party.
In this case, taxpayers are paying for it...
At AmericanThinker.com, Mike Johnson calls attention to this occurrence:
"New Hampshire Public Radio Edits Debate Tape to Favor the Democrat"
"Over 2000 new low temperature records set in October"
Anthony Watts reports this on his blog:
"In the continental USA, there were 137 high temperature type records versus 857 low temperature type records this past week , a 6-1 difference. Last week there were 1154 low temperature type records putting the two week total for October at 2011. There were also 24 new snowfall records set this week in the upper plains. Once again, if this had been summer, and the numbers reversed, you’d see Seth Borenstein writing articles for AP telling us this is ‘what global warming looks like’. So far not a peep out of Seth on this cold wave and what it is supposed to mean."
Monday, October 15, 2012
Antarctic Sea Ice Sets Another Record - Forbes
That's a bit strange. Don't you think?
And that includes what I think is slanted reporting by National Public Radio...
On the Forbes.com website, James Taylor recently wrote about it:
"National Public Radio (NPR) published an article on its website last month claiming, 'Ten years ago, a piece of ice the size of Rhode Island disintegrated and melted in the waters off Antarctica. Two other massive ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula had suffered similar fates a few years before. The events became poster children for the effects of global warming. … There’s no question that unusually warm air triggered the final demise of these huge chunks of ice.' NPR failed to mention anywhere in its article that Antarctic sea ice has been growing since satellites first began measuring the ice 33 years ago and the sea ice has been above the 33-year average throughout 2012."
"Bigger Than Watergate"
It allows one to see (by date) how the events and subsequent attempts to explain (spin) have played out...
On Glenn Beck's website, Tiffany Gabbay posts a synopsis/timeline of recent events in the Libya fiasco:
"On Wednesday evening, Glenn Beck delved into a laundry list of evidence revealing that the White House and President Obama have been far from honest when it comes to the recent embassy attacks in Libya and in Cairo."
"Libya security cut while Vienna embassy gained Chevy Volts"
One of them appears to be making the Chevy Volt a success no matter what...
In the Washington Times, U.S. Representative Mike Kelly informs us about this:
"In a May 3, 2012, email, the State Department denied a request by a group of Special Forces assigned to protect the U.S. embassy in Libya to continue their use of a DC- 3 airplane for security operations throughout the country. The subject line of the email, on which slain Ambassador Chris Stevens was copied, read: 'Termination of Tripoli DC-3 Support.' Four days later, on May 7, the State Department authorized the U.S. embassy in Vienna to purchase a $108,000 electric vehicle charging station for the embassy motor pool’s new Chevrolet Volts."
Sunday, October 14, 2012
2012-10-14 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Weekend Reading- "The Left’s Seven Tragic Terror Lies"
If only, the truth would be repeated, even more often...
Ralph Peters offers his opinions in explaining those seven at FamilySecurityMatters.org:
"The Left has mastered another technique dictators forged long ago: Repeat a lie often enough and it will be taken as truth. And, of course, our media play along. So let's give the slogan-hucksters a brief time-out and dissect just seven of their favorite lines:"
Friday, October 12, 2012
The Imaginary Teacher Shortage - WSJ.com
Sure, there are exceptions; however, the overall results are not very good.
The standard answer of injecting more money is NOT the right answer...
In his Wall Street Journal article, Jay Greene provides these statistics as proof:
"For decades we have tried to boost academic outcomes by hiring more teachers, and we have essentially nothing to show for it. In 1970, public schools employed 2.06 million teachers, or one for every 22.3 students, according to the U.S. Department of Education's Digest of Education Statistics. In 2012, we have 3.27 million teachers, one for every 15.2 students. Yet math and reading scores for 17-year-olds have remained virtually unchanged since 1970, according to the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress. The federal estimate of high-school graduation rates also shows no progress (with about 75% of students completing high school then and now). Unless the next teacher-hiring binge produces something that the last several couldn't, there is no reason to expect it to contribute to student outcomes."
"The White House and Press Create a Fairy Tale Version of History"
And, I'm sure there are those who still believe politicians are truthful.
And, I'm sure there are those who inherently trust the American media in general.
Well, if you're one of those, you are surely naive, not to mention misinformed...
At AmericanThinker.com, Clarice Feldman explains:
"Watching the Middle East doings this week with any degree of care, news consumers can see quite clearly how mendacious officials, media and our enemies have created a false storyline about the uprisings in Cairo and Libya which, among other things have resulted in the murder of an Ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his aides, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods and the loss of very important security information in Libya . (See this link is to the UK's Daily Mail because the US press coverage has come nowhere near as detailed or accurate as this. The attacks didn't even make it to the front page of the New York Times.)"
"Anti-Islam Filmmaker Donated Million Dollars To Obama Campaign"
They also do a much better job of pointing out hypocrisy...
At Breitbart.com, John Nolte calls attention to a Bill Maher movie:
"Bill Maher made a comedy/documentary called "Religulous" that's most famous for mercilessly mocking Christianity. But what people forget is that the last twenty-minutes or so of the film make a damning case against Islam. Bill Maher made a film that mocked Islam. Oh, yes, he did. Bill Maher also contributed $1 million to a pro-Obama super PAC. And I'm sure that upon being reminded of this, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will tremble with self-righteous indignation and demand Maher take his money back. After all, if movies create the terrorists who in turn create the terrorism, what about Bill Maher?"
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Obama's Biggest Opponent Is the Truth - WSJ.com
Yes, I know Karl Rove is a partisan Republican.
That being said, the fact that we are not being told the truth AND the media is NOT effectively disputing the lies, is difficult to deny..
That being said, the fact that we are not being told the truth AND the media is NOT effectively disputing the lies, is difficult to deny..
In the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove questions the truthfulness of the President and his campaign ads:
"Candidates always have disagreements, arguing over the meaning of events or evidence. But Mr. Obama has taken ordinary political differences beyond anything we've seen. Every day, it seems, he attempts to disqualify his opponent through deliberate and undeniable falsehoods."
"The Democrat/Media Hispanic Hoax"
Of course, there are many who don't want us to know that...
Joel B. Pollak writes about it at Breitbart.com:
"What the mainstream media should be asking is whether Latino voters--and African-American voters for that matter--are well-served by a Democratic Party that showcases its “diversity” once every four years but blocks policies that would actually help people from these communities move forward. Instead it plays up the language of division, and prods our national political process into becoming little more than a racial census. As even Chuck Todd of NBC admitted last week, the Republican Party has a roster of Hispanic leaders of which Democrats are secretly envious."
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
"Is Barack Obama Gay?..."
They report; you decide.
I don't know that this much matters, except that it may be just another example of a hidden past, AND the media's reluctance to investigate it...
I don't know that this much matters, except that it may be just another example of a hidden past, AND the media's reluctance to investigate it...
The Chicago based HillBuzz blog more than speculates that is the case, and provides a compilation of articles and videos to support that point of view:
"If you have followed Barack Hussein Obama’s meteoric rise to power, you’ve noticed that anyone asking questions about his background typically finds him or herself on the receiving end of the Alinsky Attack Machine. Any criticism of Obama is called RAAACIST! Anyone who inquires about the many mysteries surrounding his “missing years” or his activities while in college and in his early days in Chicago is called every name in the book in the efforts to discredit that questioner.
Why is that?
What’s Barack Obama hiding…and what is the Left going to such lengths to keep hidden?
Could it all boil down to something as simple as Barack Obama being gay?"
Muslims, Mormons and Liberals - WSJ.com
In the Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens has concluded this and more:
"So let's get this straight: In the consensus view of modern American liberalism, it is hilarious to mock Mormons and Mormonism but outrageous to mock Muslims and Islam. Why? Maybe it's because nobody has ever been harmed, much less killed, making fun of Mormons. Here's what else we learned this week about the emerging liberal consensus: That it's okay to denounce a movie you haven't seen, which is like trashing a book you haven't read. That it's okay to give perp-walk treatment to the alleged—and no doubt terrified—maker of the film on legally flimsy and politically motivated grounds of parole violation. That it's okay for the federal government publicly to call on Google to pull the video clip from YouTube in an attempt to mollify rampaging Islamists. That it's okay to concede the fundamentalist premise that religious belief ought to be entitled to the highest possible degree of social deference—except when Mormons and sundry Christian rubes are concerned."
So, are we now here?
Reflecting that idea, Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years."
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
"Group says it found 30,000 dead North Carolinians registered to vote"
Kelly Poe recently reported on this one at CharlotteObserver.com:
"A Raleigh-based group devoted to reducing the potential for voter fraud presented the N.C. Board of Elections on Friday with a list of nearly 30,000 names of dead people statewide who are still registered to vote. The Voter Integrity Project compiled the list after obtaining death records from the state Department of Public Health from 2002 to March 31 and comparing them to the voter rolls. 'Mainly, what we’re concerned about is the potential [for fraud],' said project director Jay DeLancy. 'Since there is no voter ID law in North Carolina, anybody can walk in and claim to be anyone else.'"
"1.3 Million Got Disability for ‘Mood Disorders’—Including 33% of Beneficiaries in Puerto Rico"
At CNSnews.com, Terence P. Jeffrey has some statistics that are hard to believe:
"The Social Security Administration released its annual statistical report on federal disability insurance last month, revealing that at the end of 2011 there was a then-record of 8,575,544 workers collecting federal disability benefits and among them were 1,304,851 doing so because they suffered from 'mood disorders.' The incidence of 'mood disorders' among disability beneficiaries was not proportionately distributed among the states and territories, according to the official SSA statistics. Some locations had much higher percentages of disability beneficiaries diagnosed with mood disorders than other locations."
"New ad campaign exposes how Planned Parenthood destroyed the black family"
At LifeSiteNews.com, Ryan Bomberger includes these grim statistics in his posted story:
"In the early 1960s politicians raised the alarm about a 25 percent fatherlessness rate in the black community. Today, 41 percent of all U.S. children are born to unmarried women: 35.7 percent of white children and an astounding 72.3 percent of black children. Children who grow up in single female-led homes are five times more likely to live in poverty. Out of the 1.21 million annual U.S. abortions, 84 percent are among unmarried women. This is a nationwide crisis."
Monday, October 08, 2012
The Media - "How the Liberal Media Ruined Obama"
If we have a different president come next January, the "mainstream" media's culpability couldn't be more ironic.
Adversity builds strength and character, and some people "get it".
The college of "hard knocks" beats the "nanny" state every time...
Adversity builds strength and character, and some people "get it".
The college of "hard knocks" beats the "nanny" state every time...
Lisa Fritsch lays out her case at AmericanThinker.com:
"My own mother observed that 'it's the media's fault that Obama lost the debate. Watching the debate reminded me of a child set out on his own after being raised by parents who failed to teach him responsibility and accountability and let the child think that he was above being corrected or disciplined.
This was the time that Chris Matthews could not jump in and tell the people what Obama meant to say.' Indeed, Obama has been brought up by an adoring and overindulgent liberal media who have coddled him for the last eight years on everything from his appearance to Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, and his caught-on-a-live-microphone secret handshake with Russian President Medvedev, where he promised that he will have 'more flexibility after the election' to work with the Russians on missile defense. Additionally, we have the age-old public displays of media affection, including Dave Brooks' awe over the crease in Obama's pants and the 'thrill up' Chris Matthews' leg. With a sycophantic media like this, who needs accountability?"
"Reminder: Bill Clinton allowed Iran and North Korea to build nuclear reactors in the first place"
At ConservativeSpotlight.com, Fred Dardick reminds us:
"Not willing to bear the burden of denying a dictator quality entertainment, Clinton signed the Agreed Framework of 1994 that allowed North Korea to build a light water reactor for 'civilian' purposes. Iran followed suit in 1995 when they restarted construction on the Bushehr power plant with the help of Russian and German engineers and the blessing of the Clinton administration. To the great surprise of liberals everywhere, in 2006 North Korea exploded their first atomic bomb with Iran now well on the way to doing the same."
Government at Work - the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Now, with that being said, see what you think about the policies of the U.S.D.A....
At DailyCaller.com, Caroline May writes about the promotion of food stamps:
"The mission USDA articulates on its website is to 'increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program' — food stamps. The agency has been engaged in aggressive advertising campaigns and issuing guidance to state and local offices about how to enroll more beneficiaries.
'I share the goal stated in your letter,' Vilsack concluded in his letter to the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, 'which is to help people move toward gainful employment and financial independence. At the same time, the Nation’s nutrition assistance programs have never been needed more to help struggling families until they get back on their feet. I hope that this information clarifies our efforts and my views on these vital program.'
But statistics in Vilsack’s letter indicate that the number of legal non-citizens participating in SNAP increased approximately 190 percent from 2001 to 2010, from 425,000 to 1.23 million legal non-citizen participants. That number rose 77 percent since the program’s inception in 2004, when it served 693,000 non-citizen participants.
USDA did not offer data for 2011 and 2012, but a Republican Budget Committee staffer told TheDC that based on the growth rate, the number of legal non-citizens participating in the food stamp program today is about 1.63 million. That’s more than double the number of legal non-citizens who participated in 2008."
Sunday, October 07, 2012
2012-10-07 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Weekend Reading- "Upward Mobility Barriers"
At Creators.com, Walter E. Williams takes on the realities vs. the political correctness, and asks that we admit to, and deal with, the real problems:
"If I were a Klansman, wanting to sabotage black education, I couldn't find better allies than education establishment liberals and officials in the Obama administration, especially Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who in March 2010 announced that his department was 'going to reinvigorate civil rights enforcement.' For Duncan, the civil rights issue was that black elementary and high school students are disciplined at a higher rate than whites. His evidence for discrimination is that blacks are three and a half times more likely to be suspended or expelled than their white peers. Duncan and his Obama administration supporters conveniently ignored school 'racial discrimination' against whites, who are more than two times as likely to be suspended as Asians and Pacific Islanders."
Friday, October 05, 2012
"State Department officer says 'holding down the fort' is racist "
Racism is now seen lurking everywhere and in almost everything.
This cannot serve us well...
Will Rahn writes about the subject at DailyCaller.com:
" For example, did you know 'going Dutch' is a reference to Netherlanders’ apparently well-known parsimoniousness, and that your widowed neighbor, sweet old Mrs. Rasmussen, cries every time she hears you use it? And did you know using the phrase 'holding down the fort' is the linguistic equivalent of scalping a Cherokee? According to Robinson, the phrase dates back to American soldiers on the western frontier who wanted to 'hold down' all that land they stole. 'Handicap' and 'rule of thumb' are two more figures of speech that Robinson, in his wisdom, has decreed offensive."
Meanwhile - in the U.K. - Benefit cheats' bonanza
Nikki Murfitt recently reported on it in the U.K. Daily Mail:
"A Channel 4 documentary shows Jobcentre advisers failing to notice deliberately farcical entries on claim forms for Jobseeker's Allowance. One jobseeker featured on the programme says 'no-one bothers' to check his forms"
Thursday, October 04, 2012
A long line to see Romney in Ohio
I don't know if this really means something, or not...
"D'Souza Can't Quite Accept the Real Obama"
Perhaps the conservative media are reluctant to assume what could be financial risk or worry about losing federal broadcast licensing.
I don't really know, but I do agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Cashill that they have come up short on this subject...
I don't really know, but I do agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Cashill that they have come up short on this subject...
At AmericanThinker.com, Jack Cashill closes his article about "2016: Obama's America" with this:
"More troubling is the willingness of D'Souza and his colleagues in the established conservative media to join in the suppression. For the most part, they will not touch issues like Obama's Social Security number, the birth certificate, his passport and travel inconsistencies, his dubious parentage, his radical affiliations, his school records, or the authorship question. More often than not, they ridicule those who raise these issues, often without knowing what the issues are.
Respectable conservatives in media, D'Souza included, have largely wasted the last six years. I cannot recall a single fact about Obama that they discovered. Had they been bolder, had they used their access and their clout to encourage research and follow the truth wherever it led, the election would not now be in doubt."
"WE ARE THE 91%: Only 9% of Americans Cooperate with Pollsters"
Polls, polls, polls.
Why in the world should we believe them?...
Why in the world should we believe them?...
On the PJmedia website, a poster named "Zombie" posts this "I bet you didn't know" type factoid, along with quite a few supporting statistics:
"One of the most amazing — and significant — statistics of this election season has gone almost completely unnoticed: Only 9% of sampled households gave an answer to pollsters in 2012: It has become increasingly difficult to contact potential respondents and to persuade them to participate. The percentage of households in a sample that are successfully interviewed – the response rate – has fallen dramatically. At Pew Research, the response rate of a typical telephone survey was 36% in 1997 and is just 9% today.
The general decline in response rates is evident across nearly all types of surveys, in the United States and abroad. At the same time, greater effort and expense are required to achieve even the diminished response rates of today. These challenges have led many to question whether surveys are still providing accurate and unbiased information."
"France set to ban the words 'mother' and 'father' from official documents"
This idea is also present in other European countries, but that doesn't make it right.
It doesn't seem that any current group of elected officials should be able to overturn what has been deemed normal for thousands of years...
It doesn't seem that any current group of elected officials should be able to overturn what has been deemed normal for thousands of years...
The U.K. Daily Telegraph recently reported:
"France is set to ban the words 'mother' and 'father' from all official documents under controversial plans to legalise gay marriage."
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
"What Mitt Romney Left Behind: The People Who Bought His House Tell Their Story"
At Patheos.com, Nancy French has what I think is a revealing story:
"So, when Hal and Corinne Prewitt decided to buy Mitt and Ann Romney’s Park City, Utah home in spring of 2009, they figured they were in for another paperwork hassle. What they got, however, was a great house, interesting interactions with the man who’d just lost a bid to be the previous election’s GOP nominee, and some insight into the character of the possible next President. In fact, their interaction with Romney was so different than what the Prewitts expected, Hal decided to write down his experience in a Google document which has since been downloaded over 100,000 times.T"
"Black Community in Chicago Sees Obama Losing..."
In today's world, only a few secrets remain that way.
When information is revealed, we have to decide whether it's believable, and do we WANT to believe it.
Now, you can decide on this one...
When information is revealed, we have to decide whether it's believable, and do we WANT to believe it.
Now, you can decide on this one...
Kevin DuJan is a "gay conservative political analyst, essayist, author and radio and TV commentator on politics, pop culture, LGBTQ issues, and current events". He knows "inside" Chicago:
"Prominent Members of Chicago Black Community Confirm: those closest to Obama know there is no second term coming"
"Sarah Palin: Did Joe McGinniss Condemn an Innocent Man?"
Some considered his behavior "over the top", and his motives were likely to make money.
Now, the microscope has been turned toward him...
At Breitbart.com, Sarah Palin lays some groundwork and then "strikes back" at Mr. McGinnis:
"So, how was the public convinced that MacDonald was guilty despite all of these 'reasonable doubts'? Enter my old neighbor Joe McGinniss."
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
"GM offers big discounts to boost Volt sales"
Michigan's Morning Sun tells all about it:
" GM executives have conceded from the start that they were losing money on the Volt, and that was before the big discounts. Now the losses could be even higher. It costs $60,000 to $75,000 to build a Volt, including development, manufacturing and raw materials, estimates Sandy Munro, president of Munro & Associates, a Troy, Mich., a company that analyzes vehicle production expenses for automakers. Much of the cost comes from an expensive combination of two power systems — electric and gasoline. With a sticker price of $40,000, minus the $10,000 the company pays in incentives, GM gets roughly $30,000 for every Volt. So it could be losing at least $30,000 per car."
"... No Layoff Notices Until After Election, Please"
This is NOT pretty at all.
Contractors are basically being told NOT to follow the law in order that the administration not be burdened with the bad news that they themselves have set the stage for...
At Townhall.com, Kate Hicks tells us how that works:
"In an effort to make the economy look a little rosier than it is, the Obama administration is basically coercing defense contractors so as to prevent news of layoffs hitting voters before the election. With sequestration about to result in some major cuts to the defense budget, contractors will lose government business -- and that means, employees will lose jobs. But to prevent poor numbers ahead of the November election, the Obama administration has made it very, well, fiscally unwise for companies to issue layoff notices too early."
The Media - and the Pollsters
It would seem that most of them have been compromised, bought off, coerced, or intimidated into reporting with a certain bias.
As I've likely posted before, it does NOT serve Americans well...
At Townhall.com, Hugh Hewitt presents his view on the presidential election polling we are being deluged with. His opinion is backed with interviews that might just give you pause to realize what's really going on:
"The conversations with the experts are the most revealing, however, and the Manhattan-Beltway media elite has really failed to do even minimal homework here, choosing instead to go with the conclusions of the people they have paid to give them data, thus outsourcing their work. In this respect big media resembles nothing so much as investors in Bernie Madoff's funds. Madoff never got asked tough questions by his investors or the SEC, and thus he rampaged through his clients' cash. Big news organizations that turn off their skepticism and write checks to polling firms are doing the same thing and for the same reason: They lack the skills to do their own analyses, and they don't want to be thought stupid for asking obvious questions. I don't mind admitting I don't know why a sample should include 10% more Democrats than Republicans, so I ask --and ask and ask. This is what journalists do. Unless, apparently, they have paid for the product or want badly to believe it is true. But don't believe me. Read the interviews. "
Monday, October 01, 2012
"Benghazi-Gate Timeline: What the White House Knew & The Lies Told When They Knew It"
Various agencies have bungled our overseas security and some Americans have paid the ultimate price.
Now, everyone involved is covering up, and it's a comedy of errors as one agency's coverup exposes the fallacies with another agencies story.
It's really sad...
At Breitbart.com, John Nolte posted a comprehensive overview about the whole mess:
"And this, my friends, is how a cover up works.
And so, the only response to this cynical muddying of the waters is a 30,000 foot approach that might help connect some dots.
Standing on the shoulders of those who have done the admirable work of digging into and investigating this story (most notably, Brett Baier of Fox News, Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard, Jake Tapper of ABC News, and the Daily Beast's Eli Lake), what I want to do is lay out a timeline of known facts that answer a very simple question:
What did our government know and what were we told when they knew it?
What you'll see below was inspired by the vitally important video-report Brett Baier closed "Special Report" with last night, but this will hopefully go into even greater detail. We'll also look into three specific areas: 1) Security failures. 2) The lies. 3) The attempted cover up of numbers one and two. "
"George Soros Panics About Romney Win, Mother Jones Scrubs Story"
I'm thinking of an analogy between telephone calls and registered letters.
Internet media matches up somewhat with telephone calls as they are somewhat easy to "scrub", or dispute their happening.
Printed media, somewhat like registered letters, are more difficult to make "go away".
The overall point is that what we see is always subject, and possibly manipulated, to someone's point of view.
Let the reader beware...
AT Breitbart.com, Andy Kroll calls attention to this "scrub job":
"On Thursday, Mother Jones reported that billionaire financier George Soros was "panicked" that Mitt Romney would win the election--and then scrubbed the story without explanation. "
Government at Work - Covering/deleting their mistakes
Fortunately, in today's world, everything gets "screenshotted" by someone, changes are noted, and coverups are exposed.
Unfortunately, today's biased media is most likely to NOT even notice "certain things"...
At GatewayPundit.com, Jim Hoft has the evidence on this occurrence:
"Bombshell: Obama Administration Deleted State Dept. Memo From Internet After Discovering Al-Qaeda Was Behind Benghazi Attack"
