An examination of “administrative earmarks” around the time of congressional votes on key pieces of President Obama’s agenda suggests the White House used its power to fund local projects as a means to “buy” votes for major legislative efforts.
…. analysis of grants from agencies during the early years of the Obama administration shows that the districts of moderate Democrats, whose support was so crucial for Obama during the 111th Congress, received large sums right around the passage of three key pieces of legislation: Obamacare, Dodd-Frank financial regulations, and the cap-and-trade bill.

Wondering how President Obama convinced politicians to vote for Cap-and-Trade, Obamacare and other unpopular bills that Democrats knew would put their seats at risk?

Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin.

The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get the tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds surrounding the islands. The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake.

While putting the finishing touches on this article, I had a chance to talk to many people about the (alleged) chemtrail phenomenon. And one name came up again and again: perennial presidential candidate Ron Paul.

It makes sense, of course. Whether Congressman Paul believes in chemtrails or not (the matter seems to be disputed), his fringe belief system draws the types of people who obsess over matters that are at best silly, and at worst deadly. But he also ends up dragging a whole bunch of goofy conspiracies into our political process by means of his tech-savvy, oddball supporters. The result is what happened at the Sheldon Adelson evening caucus in Nevada (when Paul supporters seized the podium to push their pet issues) and this tale of misadventure from my home state: Time is wasted. Brainpower is misused and frittered away on marginal and mostly theoretical subject matter. And our communities are distracted from dealing with issues that are actually important.

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Instead of trying to “prove” that our own military routinely drains pestiferous liquids onto our heads, maybe they could get together and discuss ways to deal with our actual enemies who really do want to kill us.

But that would be a waste of time, of course. Everyone knows that the only reason those Muslims are mad is because we’re over in their sacred lands — and we’re probably spraying the hell out of them, too. Right?

DETROIT (WWJ) – State lawmakers are currently reviewing legislation that targets the use of certain toy guns
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State Senate Republican Rick Jones said that this has become a major problem, especially within the gang community. “People are taking imitation firearms that look real, cutting off the orange end and then threatening people,

Only people that have allowed their civil servants to rob them of their means of self-protection can be threatened with toys.
In real America, a punk with a toy gun doesn’t live past the first attempt.

» Gun-rights groups decry proposed surtax on Illinois ammo sales
Gun owners; here’s part of your problem:

“We aren’t causing the problem. They are,” Pearson said. “It’s an attack on firearm owners and their rights. … They think that because we like to target shoot and hunt, we’re bad people, and we should pay for all the ills of the city of Chicago.”

Defending your constitutional rights as hobbies. Stop it.
The Right to Keep and Bear has nothing – emphasize: NOTHING to do with hunting or target shooting or any other recreational use of firearms.

Any way ….

Since gun owners in Illinois have to have a special ID card which requires a background check to obtain, Pearson said those committing crimes of gun violence aren’t likely to be paying much into the proposed tax fund.
“They’re not buying their ammunition (legally). They’re not paying any part of the tax. They’re getting their stuff illegally,” he said.

…. several years ago, black actor Morgan Freeman displayed unusual wisdom for Hollywood when he said that the way to end racism in America is to “stop talking about it.” …. the once-wise actor Freeman ignored his own earlier advice and claimed recently that the Tea Party is “a racist thing” representing “the weak, dark underside of America”
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Jackson revealed who the real racist is:
I voted for Barack because he was black. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them … That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama's] message didn’t mean [expletive] to me.

Pause for a moment to consider the media outrage if Jon Voight or another of the few openly conservative white actors in Hollywood had said, “I voted for John McCain in the last election because he’s white. His policies were completely irrelevant. That’s the American way.”

When positive and negative rights collide, freedom is the first casualty, and the second casualty is the positive right which over time cannot survive the pressures of the self-destruction of the system that imposes it. Negative rights which require state inaction can be sustained so long as the state does not become too powerful. Positive rights can only be sustained so long as the money and power holds up. Their fate is thoroughly tied to the fate of the system. When the state that enforces them weakens, so do they.

Negative rights put their trust in people. Positive rights put their trust in the state. All states fall sooner or later. Only the people survive.

Germany led the way into hysteria; now circumstances have forced Germany to lead the way back to common sense and fiscal sanity. The real question will be whether the rest of the Western world learns the lesson the easy way or the hard way. So far, the Obama administration seems determined for the US to learn it the hard way.

» Who was behind the money to stop Keystone XL?

For those who were dismayed by the President’s decision to nix the Keystone XL pipeline, you may think it was an effort orchestrated primarily from the White House. While that certainly was part of it, you may have noticed a rather prominent and very public campaign taking place to stop the project showing up in advertisements, mailings and less obvious whisper campaigns across the nation. Who pays for all of that?

» It’s a crony capitalism trifecta! GE ‘forcing’ employees into Chevy Volts

…. the media assume that everyone is a degenerate or at least reveres degeneracy. But there’s a vast unexplored realm between Manhattan and Malibu where this doesn’t hold true; it includes all the states Santorum will need to win and more.

A New Hampshire man who fired his handgun into the ground to scare an alleged burglar he caught crawling out of a neighbor’s window is now facing a felony charge — and the same potential prison sentence as the man he stopped.

» HuffPo Slams ‘Act of Valor’: Not Anti-Military, Anti-American Enough

Depending on how well “Act of Valor” does over the next few weeks, we may see left-wing critics use this line of attack to marginalize and belittle the film. You can’t take a movie seriously if it concludes that our armed forces are populated by honorable men; that’s propaganda, not art. We can also expect a sudden outbreak of hand-wringing over the social effects of a film–how many “unsuspecting” young men will be drawn to recruiting offices by a positive portrayal of Navy SEALs, which wasn’t that much of a factor for the critical discussion of Oscarbait about Palestinian suicide bombers.

If it pisses off the commies and radical lefties that much ….
Let’s do it.

Put set aside the partisan bickering and one professor accepting a view he had formerly rejected, while another rejects a view he had formerly accepted is all part of the normal scientific debate. The journey from hypothesis to rock solid consensus is a long one and it doesn’t end just because Al Gore makes a documentary or a few ads show crying polar bears. Positions are argued, minds change and then a century later the graduate students have fun mocking the ignorance of both sides. That’s science.

Unfortunately the Cult of Warm doesn’t accept that there is a debate.

For some reason neither this article nor any of the mainstream media reports on this story actually spell out that federal workers currently pay only 0.8% towards their pensions. — Not even a whole one percent!

Meanwhile, fewer and fewer private sector employees have any kind of pension plan at all.

Do Americans want a nation flooded with food-stamps and welfare payments, a European-style decline, and an out-of-control president who flouts the very Constitution upon which he took an oath to uphold?

Or do they want a return to founding principles, fiscal discipline and respect for the rule of law?

Monthly injections to retard puberty so that parents won’t have to admit that their boys are boys and their girls are girls cost $1,000.

Side effects of sex hormone therapy include blood clots and cancer. Chemical treatment is sometimes followed by nightmarish surgical mutilation. So much for “first, do no harm.”

Arms Trade Treaty proponents are attempting to change the rules mid-stream, prior to the upcoming Treaty negotiations in early July….
“Until now, ‘consensus’ has been understood by the US and others to mean 100-percent agreement with all the provisions of the ATT.”

… through redefinition and procedural manipulation, those bent on global gun control can transmute 100% to two-thirds to game the results

After so many decades trying to disarm the American people (and being only partially successful) the american Leftists are tired of waiting on the Constitution to die. They are now working to sell it to the global leftists.
If they can’t take the guns, maybe they can stand aside and let foreign entities do it for them.

How unsurprising that the Clintonian “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” deception has now been reanimated to apply to the word “consensus.” And how revealing of the character of those behind the move.

What would Henry Bowman do?

» Brady Campaign awards ‘extra credit’ to prove registration leads to confiscation

When Occupy took over a foreclosed East New York home in December they promised to fix it up. Instead…. they destroyed it.

The headline leads you to believe the author is going to explain how Occupy went wrong. But all she does is provide yet another exhibit of Occupy behavior … random destruction for the sake of destruction. She can’t explain what went wrong because Occupy didn’t go wrong, they were wrong before it started.

~~ via HotAir : Occupy your homes produces predictable result

The proposal originally attracted the support of Wise Ahadzi, owner of a property in East New York who had been unable to make his mortgage payments and moved his family to a lower rent apartment while he sought to sort things out with the bank. Occupiers proposed that they would fix up the place for Mr. Ahadzi in exchange for taking part, and he agreed.
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Wize Ahadzi is no longer such a fan of the Occupy movement. His former home stands as a testament to the destruction which was left behind after the police finally cleared the park. Perhaps if more of the Big Apple’s residents get to see this story it will serve as a reminder for this spring.

I’ll not be holding my breath waiting for New Yorkers to realize that rats don’t always have four legs.

» Berkeley Man Beaten To Death While Police Too Busy Monitoring Occupy Oakland Protest To Respond…

» I Support Income Inequality and So Should You

If Liberals want income equality, let them go to Cuba. Yes, we do have income inequality in the United States, and it’s a good thing. If we had income equality, we would all be equally poor.

Why is it that the more socialistic a society lets itself become, the lower its standard of living?

19 American hostages are being held by the new Islamist government in Egypt and to read the funny papers, you’d never know it.

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There are no recent stories from The New York Times. Nothing from The Washington Post. Nothing from ABC News. Or NBC. Or MSNBC. Or CBS.

And what does David Gregory on Meet the Press want to discuss with House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan?

The architects of the Libyan disaster in France, the UK, the United States and Qatar have decided that Syria is the next step in replacing dictators with Muslim Brotherhood allied “democratic” parties. But no matter how eager they are to roll the Arab Spring forward with a month of bombing raids, this won’t be a relative cakewalk like Syria.

Gaddafi isolated Libya through his own craziness and then his alliance with the West, which left him with no friends when Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama turned on him in the name of Arab Democracy. Assad is often described as isolated because the Arab League has taken a firm stand against him, but he has a firm ally in Iran, which has few options and is likely to do whatever it takes to keep him in power.

All considered, would things be any worse right now, if the USA had taken my advice back in 2002 to nuke the entire mid-east? That is, with the assumption that we had developed the technology to refine radioactive oil.

The bill seeks to expand offshore drilling for oil and gas and create a shale oil leasing program, and passed mostly along party lines 237-187.
“Instead of more gimmicky stimulus spending or pork-laden bills of the past, this bill would permanently remove government barriers to job creation and support improving America’s roads and bridges

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“Sadly, the president’s actions in office have been anything but pro energy,” Hastings said. “In fact, his rhetoric is 180 degrees from his action — since taking office, this administration has repeatedly blocked energy production.”

By opening three percent of lands in ANWR to drilling, Hastings said it would produce more than a trillion barrels of oil — enough to provide the U.S. with energy for 200 years.

…. said Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.). “Opening up ANWR will do nothing to lower gas prices.”

He blames media coddling of President Barack Obama. “The mass media don’t want there to be any scandals in the Obama administration,” Labrador said. “If this were a Republican administration, this would be on the top of the news every single night until there were answers or until … heads rolled.”

Just to emphasize, this isn’t the doom-laden dystopian fancy of a right-wing apocalyptic loon like me; it’s the official Oval Office version of where America’s headed.

America’s Treasury Secretary, Timmy Geithner the TurboTax Kid, thought the chart would have been even more hilarious if they’d run the numbers into the next millennium: “You could have taken it out to 3,000 or to 4,000″ he chortled, to supportive titters from his aides.

Has total societal collapse ever been such a nonstop laugh riot?

…. wealth is as collectively scorned as it is privately lusted after
…. While it is considered illiberal to fault employees as incompetent, it is considered very liberal to cite the shocking absence of yet another law
…. Borrowing and spending win friends and foster admiration; cutting and repaying alienate and earn antipathy
…. being considered right about human nature is a worse charge than being naïve; the one is proof of unthinking traditionalism, the other sophisticated idealism
…. dive into the steps of a swimming pool, and we will curse the negligent or conniving builder who out of greed or ignorance put steps there in the first place

…. the Cult of Warm doesn’t accept that there is a debate. As far as they are concerned, the debate never happened because it never needed to happen because they were always right. They can’t intelligently address dissent, because their science is not based on discovering the evidence needed to lead to a consensus, but on insisting that there is a consensus and that accordingly there is no need to debate the evidence.

The unthinkable finally happened last night in San Francisco: the Tea Party shared a protest with the Occupiers, both groups angry with the same person.

…. and for the first time, Tea Partiers went home with fleas.

the Valley’s crisis is called “the manmade drought or the Congress-created drought.”

“Because it was laws passed over time that were followed by lawsuits that took the water away,” Nunes said.

The result of this regulation and decreased water supplies has been crippling in a region where agriculture accounts for $26 billion in total sales and 38 percent of the area’s jobs. More than half of the nation’s fruits, vegetables and nuts hail from California.

Issues of religious freedom and conscience are irrelevant if you believe, as Sen. Barbara Boxer, D.-Calif., does, that health insurance as defined by the government is a right, even if our reading of the Constitution finds no such right mandated by our Founding Fathers.

» COLORADO student choir members could be killed for singing the Islamic song

Turkish Muslim reveals that by singing the song ‘Zikr,’ you are reciting the words of the Shahada which means you are accepting Islam. If you deny that you are a Muslim after saying those words, you could be executed in strict Muslim communities.

It’s ridiculous that this dhimmi, moonbat ‘teacher’ thought it was appropriate to force the children of his employers to sing any song of the barbarian cult of islam. He deserves a butt-whoop for that alone.

It’s revealing that the dhimm-bat chose this particular song. He did, or did not, have a clue about what the song was. If he did not, he’s guilty of class 1 stupidity and has no business instructing children, whoop his butt. If he did he’s guilty of premeditated subversion, whoop his butt.

It’s pathetic that only one student had the benefit of decent parenting, affording him enough knowledge and awareness to recognize the wrongness of the situation.

It’s appalling that the one student that exhibited the characteristics of being American, is enduring death threats for having refused to prostrate and submit.

It’s infuriating that the community is now trembling in fear and dread of what some muzzies might do to them and their children for having inadvertently blasphemed the child-molester, serial-murdering prophet of the cult of perpetually insulted. They are actually worried – no not just worried – they’re befuddled with indecision. Their children have inadvertently converted to islam. Should they tell their children to ignore the possibility of getting blown up or beheaded as apostates? Should they buy their little girls burkas? Should they convert too, so they can all bang their heads on the floor five times a day – as a family?
Or should they drag that stupid teacher to the civic center and sell tickets to his public butt whooping? And then, issue a formal announcement that there’s tons and tons of butt whoops waiting ….

You Get What You Tolerate

» Islamist Lobbies’ Washington War on Arab and Muslim Liberals
» The Muslim Brotherhood in Its Own Words

A new translation of a former Muslim Brotherhood leader’s book shows a strong commitment to jihad not only in defense, but in “realizing the great task of establishing an Islamic state and strengthening the religion and spreading it around the world.”

A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday near Ehrhardt, S.C. …. “Seconds after it hit the air, numerous shots rang out,” Hindi said in the release. “As an act of revenge for us shutting down the pigeon slaughter, they had shot down our copter.”
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“This was SHARK’s first encounter with the Broxton Bridge Plantation, but it will certainly not be the last,” Hindi said in the release. “We are already making plans for a considerably upscaled action in 2013.”

By ‘upscaled’, I assume he means that next year the beastie boys will be back – with more than one copter-drone. That should be good news to the Plantation folks – multiple moving targets, with potential for going boom when they hit the ground. They might just forget about the pigeons altogether.

One commenter to the article, BRAVO_SIERRA, provides a list of federal and state laws and statutes that were violated by the ‘animal rights’ pukes by attempting to pilot a remote control, flying camera platform over private property to spy on people participating in legal activity.

It not only falsely portrays President Bush has having diabolically exploited the Sept. 11 attacks to justify the Iraq War, it tries to discredit the value in having liberated Iraq in the first place. It also diminishes the national security need to have eliminated Saddam Hussein and the Ba’athist regime.
Although many conservatives and patriotic Americans have refused to watch the documentary, it is important to know the assertions and deceptions the movie makes because its sales prove that it has had a powerful impact on Western culture in terms of how the Iraq War and the history of the Bush administration is viewed.

Moore deserves – nay, begs for – a thorough butt whoopin’.
But I admit it’s probably beyond my ability to do. There’s probably no one person that could do it.
It would take an entire platoon to whoop a butt that big.

Some good comments are available at this article as well:

The best countermeasure to such propaganda is to get ahead of it. Try to anticipate the next lie and get the truth out first. Failing that, the next option is to immediately begin debunking the deceptions loudly and repeatedly, showing proof that counters every single lie. Call the person who made the movie a liar and make it stick.
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The sad thing is the majority of Americans are either too stupid or lazy to look into the truth. They take what this Moore-on “99%”er says as gospel. Wake up America…the enemy within is trying to destroy you and your way of life!

The modern incarnation of the hammer and sickle, the liberals who took it slow, working from within the system instead of seizing the reins and executing anyone who got in the way, isn’t big on guns. The Clinton and Obama administrations both inflicted massive cuts on the military because it was extraneous to their domestic goals. They didn’t want guns, but they didn’t want butter either. They wanted a third thing.

Throughout his years working for “change”, Obama paid scant heed to the primary cause of violence and dependency in the area: the eradication of the black two-parent family by decades of Democrat policies.
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For decades, Obama and the Democrats have embraced an utterly defective and destructive strategy: Crushing school choice. Incentivizing single-parent families. Encouraging a lifelong culture of dependency.

The children of Obama’s South Side deserve better. They deserve more than a dream of a father.

Judge Sotomayor judges as she sees fit, based on her own prejudices and passions. Arbitrary judgments based on prejudice not on an objective understanding of what is good and what is bad.
That a hard-core liberal like Sotomayor cares nil for questions of justice and morality is not a surprise. Moral relativism is the central doctrine of all socialism and liberalism.

For decades, liberal women have (falsely) asserted that conservative women can’t help the way they think because they’re allegedly “mindlessly subservient to the patriarchy.” The REAL facts here tell a much different, sadder story: It’s liberal women who are subservient – to each other – because they clearly cannot function without the assistance of opportunistic Democrat women in positions of high power who are spoonfeeding them stereotypical lies about their political opposition — all at the expense of both the unborn and the US Constitution.

Just which group is it who “can’t think for themselves”

the latest example of the civility Democrats enjoy preaching ….

Instead of practicing.

Santorum did win the caucus votes in all those states. But because none of those states have bound delegates, that means the state’s delegates to the national convention could theoretically vote for someone besides Santorum for the nomination, someone like say, Ron Paul, whose campaign is aggressively working to control as many state delegates as possible. In Minnesota, where Paul nabbed 27 percent of the caucus vote, the Paul campaign estimates that 75 percent of the current delegates are Paul supporters. In Colorado, where Paul got 12 percent of the vote, 50 percent of the delegates are Paul supporters. Now delegates face elimination rounds, so it’s unclear if the Paul campaign will be successful or not in maintaining these percentages. But the campaign is hoping to pull it off.
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The campaign is also flirting with the possibility that “bound” delegates won’t ultimately be bound.

Nobody loves RonPaulies more than Obama.

Be thankful, Adam

Adam Kokesh, an IVAW member and Ron Paul supporter complains that the military is enforcing their policy of prohibiting members of the military publicly supporting a presidential candidate during the Ron Paul Rally he’s scheduled for Monday morning – the rally that specifically announces themselves as members of the military who support a presidential candidate

» Mark Levin taken off Toledo radio station for disagreeing with Ron Paul

Supporters of Ron Paul like to say they support freedom and the Constitution. That is, unless someone disagrees with Ron Paul – then all bets are off.

» Geithner: “We have no solution”

The genius occupants of the quacker wing of the white house have produced another one of those reach-out-and-embarrass-themselves websites. (THHO)Obama wants you to send them a photo and a description of what $40 means.

The first answer offered by the voices in my head: “About $39.99 more than you’re worth, you intolerable prick.”
The second answer: “The amount of tax money spent on the speck of gourmet stuck between your front teeth, you seething parasite.”

My actual submission to the website form was a bit more tame:

…. and the description:

~~ found it at David Codrea, Gun Rights Examiner

Congressional Republicans on Wednesday vowed to block the Obama administration from sharply cutting the U.S. nuclear force, calling potential reductions of as much as 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons “reckless lunacy.”

(THHO)Obama, bless his heart, he’s trying … to do what, I don’t know. But he means well, poor feller, can’t help he’s stupid.

In a statement, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., accused Obama of “catering to his liberal base that believes that if we unilaterally disarm, the rest of the world will follow suit and threats to our national security will just go away.”

Because unilateral disarmament has worked so great, so many times throughout human history …. no, wait …. we might be the first in history to consider such stupidity.

Navy to lose aircraft carrier under Obama budget

Take their conclusion that because skeptics are older, they are less educated, more selfish, and more easily fooled. Doesn’t the alternative sound more likely? Could it be that believers are younger and so more naive, less worldly wise, and throughout history, more likely to be the gullible rollovers — the mere tools of the powers at large? It’s not just that it’s happened before, its a standard repeat theme throughout history.
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Not that you can explain that to the starry-eyed fan of Gaia who keeps believing the witchdoctors even though their predictions of droughts, warm winters, hot summers, dead reefs, and wild cyclones were all wrong. And they don’t seem to care that their witchdoctors are helping themselves to buckets of taxpayer’s cash…

» The Big-Freeze: Thousands trapped in Europe as death toll rises to 600

How much fun can you have with 2 meters of snow on your house, and none of that evil coal powered electricity?

» The Global Warming Hoax is Now Killing People

By Friday, February 10th, an estimated 500 Europeans had died from the freezing weather gripping the continent. This is the price they and British citizens are paying for embracing the global warming hoax, spending billions for wind power when they should have been building coal-fired and other sources of energy to heat their homes and businesses.

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America and the rest of the world have been horribly deceived by the United Nations Intergovernmental Climate Change Panel that continues to drive the global warming hoax. The lying scientists who got on the global warming gravy train, the politicians that embraced it, and the media that misled millions are all culpable, all responsible.

They should be driven from office, defunded, and chased through the streets like villagers in pursuit of Frankenstein.

» Tragedy unfolding in Europe – Is U.S. media trying to ignore it?

Serbia cuts power in desperate bid to prevent collapse of national grid
The country’s entire electric distribution system could collapse…

Hundreds of barns collapse in Italy
At least one million farm animals in danger of running out of food.

Villages buried under 4-5 meters of snow – Video
“23.000 people are isolated, how many people and animals have died we don’t know since nobody can reach there.”

Italian villages trapped in more than 9 feet of snow
With the death toll already at 43, another blast of freezing weather…

Danube freezes over – One of the greatest rivers in Europe
Danube wholly or partially blocked in six countries.

Most winter grain destroyed in southern and eastern Ukraine
With temperatures 12 to 17C below average, the situation in Ukraine has became serious.

European death toll rises to 480 – and counting
150 cattle killed when roofs collapse. “It seems more like a war in Europe.”

Code red for agriculture in Tuscany
“Blizzard comes and farmers tremble” – Loss rates up to 50%.

Turkey quake survivors fighting the snow
Walking 300 feet through the snow to reach the nearest toilets.

The Point
This is certainly not the first time, nor the last, that portions of our civilized word has been paralyzed by severe winter weather.
No. That’s not the point.
The point is that this IS the first time that mankind have purposefully laid aside the technologies, tools, methods and skills of survival and exposed themselves to serious risk of death – in the name of global-warmzies.

If it was the only the enviro-nazis freezing to death, it would be hugely entertaining.

After Greece’s Parliament approved the measures, the violence got even worse. In Athens, a crowd estimated at over 100,000 vented their frustration. Rioters destroyed or seriously damaged 93 buildings and least 45 others were burned, including nine listed as national heritage sites. More than 150 stores were looted or smashed. On Monday morning, clouds of tear gas used to disperse the rioters still hung in the air, traffic lights at many major intersections were out after being smashed, and cleanup crews gathered up as much as 40 tons of broken marble and rocks from the streets of the center, while railings, drainage covers and paving stones from sidewalks also suffered extensive damage

Greece has run out of other people’s money, and as is expected from socialist parasites they haven’t the desire nor the ability to make their own. What can they do?
Starve?
Become subjects of a foreign power?
Buckle down, live small and learn to be self sufficient?
Riot, burn and destroy everything they still have. Yea, that’s it. That’s the way of the entitled: “Gimme my freebies or I’ll tear this place down”

Not all Greeks are parasites. I’d guess that the percentage of Greeks that actually contribute and produce is about the same as it was before their nation decided to try the old communist way. Those Greeks that know how to work, how to make wealth are still there, still trying to carry on. But when the gimme-gimme get done pitching their hissy fits will the working Greeks have anything left to work with?

…. the almost schizophrenic mindset that has arisen among the Greeks themselves: Greece’s largest police union, representing more than two-thirds of Greek policemen, threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from Greece’s EU and IMF lenders because of their demands for the next round of austerity measures.

Everybody is saying that Greece is what America is becoming, what America has to look forward to. The similarities are there. We already suffer the mindless and wide-spread expectation of getting the ‘fair share’ of someone else’s wealth while doing absolutely nothing to earn anything. We have the debt, it continues to grow exponentially. We already have the gimme-gimme hissy fits – Occuholes stomping around rioting and burning, while waving their Communist flags and chanting their communist slogans.
We have a large portion of our police forces under the influence of the same union commie-thugs that are driving the Occuholes.
And we have the majority block of Americans that just simply want to remain Americans, work for a living, live within means, earn what we have, keep what we earn.

There is one big difference (for now) between the Greek base and us: We have yet to give our guns to the government.
And when our police decide their loyalty to the unions takes priority and the gimme-gimme thinks it has the upper hand ……….

The Pew Center on the States estimates nearly 2,000,000 dead voters are on the rolls, and 2,800,000 people are registered in more than one state. This is precisely the mess that the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) was designed to prevent.

Unenforced laws have the approximate value and impact of a popcorn fart.

the Obama administration adopted a policy of refusing to enforce federal laws which require states to purge dead and ineligible voters from the rolls.
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The Justice Department refuses to enforce Section 8 of the NVRA because, as political appointee Julie Fernandes revealed in a Voting Section meeting in 2009 that I attended, removing dead people from the rolls “doesn’t increase turnout. It stops people from voting.” Seriously.

(THHO)Obama is famous for ignoring laws that don’t properly align with his agenda – and justifying said ignorance with childish rhetoric.

Instead of enforcing Section 8 and cleaning up the voter rolls, the Justice Department is shaking down states to wring out every possible welfare agency voter registrant before November.

In doing so, it has resorted to unprecedented investigative tactics that no media outlet has yet reported before today.

Look, the dhimmicrats know that the real voters, the breathing ones, the ones on the giving end of the wealth-sucking devices of the socialist administration – are going to toss their crusty butts to the gutter this November. They’ve known this forever. That’s why the polls will smell of rotting flesh this year – the dead are coming to vote dhimmicrat.

Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are entering negotiations over — or seeking ratification of — five treaties that could radically limit our national sovereignty and the reach of our democratic institutions. Particularly scary is that the treaties, once signed and ratified, have the same status as constitutional law and cannot be altered or eclipsed by Congress or state legislatures. And their provisions must be enforced by U.S. courts.

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The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) has been signed …. requires that the United States pay an international body half of its royalties from offshore drilling …. oblige us to hand over our offshore drilling technology to any nation that wants it … for free

Small-arms control …. require each nation to adopt measures to stop exportation of small arms … a backdoor way to require national registration of all guns and to assert federal regulation over firearms … registration of all ammunition to track its source once a gun is fired

Outer Space Code of Conduct …. prohibit the United States from deploying anti-missile missiles on platforms in space, denying us the key weapon we need to counter Iranian, Chinese and North Korean missile threats

Rights of the Child …. obliges rich nations to provide funds for shelter, food, clothing and education for children in poor nations

When they say “rich nations”, they mean the USA, period. China? Please. Perhaps Clinton is stupid enough to think she can squeeze China. Perhaps she has no plans to even try.

If you read the comments, there’s a lot of argument on whether or not treaties can actually over-ride the constitution. I’m not even going to get into what the constitution says, right now, because like I said way above, Unenforced Law has the approximate value and impact of a popcorn fart, and the constitutional enforcers of the constitution are the very ones that are diligently working to get rid of it.

The real purpose of the 2nd amendment is about to kick in.

The Obama Doctrine can be summed up as the assertion that for the United States to have influence and standing on the global stage, it must first abandon its interests and its allies.

Of course, they’re all talking about Congress. But after a while, isn’t there a point at which we accept the fact that our representatives are either cowards or accessories, that they’re not going to do their job and remove the communist-in-chief – and dig a hole big enough for all of them?

I think those commenters deserve more audience, so here:

Can someone please tell me why our representatives in the House and Senate are not standing up and saying “No” to this man? Why are they not saying, “sorry, you can’t do that. It’s not Constitutional” and making him stop? Why are they not saying, “Your appointments are illegitimate and therefore they will not be receiving a salary from the US Government.”? It’s not enough to just say it’s UnConstitutional if noone is doing anything about it!!

So if Senator Lee knows President Obama is acting outside the Constitution why isn’t he or someone in the senate doing something about it?!!!!! Where is the outrage?

I see and hear a lot of hot air being expressed about the unconstitutional stuff that the O is doing, but I don’t hear or see any of our representatives doing anything but complain. Who will protect “The People”? Isn’t that why they were elected? This is a representative republic, and I don’t see any “representing”!!!

This is more than a power grab. This is the beginning of tyranny. The parallels to Nazi Germany, while not a politically correct thing to insinuate, are frightening. We need to begin to use the word tyranny and to make the comparison before it is too late and all is lost.

The Senators can talk until they are blue in the face. It’s time to quit talking and DO SOMETHING ABOUT HIM.

The only way that this can be brought to an end is to have every Senator & Congressman who opposes Mr. Obama’s disregard for the Constitution, to get up and confront Mr. Obama IMMEDIATELY! If our representatives do not do this what are we supposed to do? Bring civil suits against Mr. Obama?

Call me naive’ but since it is quite obvious that Obama has violated his oath of office, why hasn’t someone in Congress stepped up to the plate and filed an article of impeachment against him and his actions? I very seriously would like an answer to this. I am no lawyer, but this seems to me as a textbook case from the Constitution’s perspective.

With the president abusing and ignoring the constitution which every president has had to work with, why isn’t he being arrested? Why isn’t congress calling for his impeachment? Why isn’t someone stopping him? The president and congress is there to protect our nation and when they don’t there must be legal consequences to that failure. We can’t always wait for a vote at the next election!

Why is no one in Congress or the Senate beginning impeachment proceedings against Obama? And people wonder why congress has such low approval ratings.

Since Obama has forsaken preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution, isn’t this the perfect opportunity to impeach him for high crimes and misdermeanors? He blantanly goes against all he swore he would uphold. Not to mention the many other atrocities he has committed, Solyndra and the other ‘green loans’, the Stesak incident, the War Powers act, Fast and Furious just to name a few. If Congress lets him get away with this, they are complacent in his actions and they should also be held accountable.

We know that Barack Obama came to office with the full intent of “fundamentally changing” this great nation to one of HIS image. So his violations of constitutional mandate are of no surprise. The question is, however, when is Congress going to step in with legal vengeance to PUT A STOP to his insanity? There certainly MUST be a way to halt the destruction, BEFORE it is too late for this Republic. Where is their courage?

What I want to know is why nobody, including The Heritage Foundation, is taking Obama to court over these unconstitutional usurpations of power.

The Congress is equally to blame in all this – and I cannot stomach hussein – but you hit on a great example in the article. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is absurd – nestled into the Fed – which is a PRIVATE bank – which is in itself wrong for the country. So this bureau is going to make rules and regulations – laws – for all of us to follow? Talk about unelected bureaucrats – and they don’t even report to Congress? This is what our Congress enacted – and one need not wonder why hussein wants to do as he pleases – and believes he can. No one will touch him, because they are too afraid of being called a racist. Our first affirmative action president, and he is running rampant over the Constitution as well as with the taxpayer’s checkbook – and WHERE IS THE CONGRESS? The man has done nothing but give them plenty of reasons for impeachment – yet hardly a peep.

Obama will continue to trample the constitution, until someone has backbone enough to proceed with impeachment. Our representatives in government must stop this self appointed dictator or the peoples liberties will be lost in the coming months.

Why don’t the seantors/congressmen that find these acts so disturbing and AGAINST the Constitution file charges or SOMETHING against Obama? I can’t believe these guys sit around and talk about how Unconstitutional the things Obama does are, but nobody does anything about it! Someone up there needs to get a backbone and call him on this crap before we totally loose our rights and our Country.

I am Amazed at how many people are ok with the actions of this President. Don’t they realize that allowing any President Democrat or Republican to over step the Constitution is dangerous for our liberty. It disturbs me greatly at how many Americans don’t seem to care or just plain don’t understand whats going on.

Who, or what entity is charged with enforcement of the Constitution? It would seem that those who swear or who swore an Oath to Defend and Protect the Constitution, when found in violation of that Oath should be removed from office and punished.

~~ via Klavan On The Culture: Celebrate Black History Month: Slap a Leftist!

Now that the chickens have come home to roost, the Roman Catholic hierarchy are in shock that they’re going to have to pay for mandated medical procedures. They knew mandates were part of the legislation when they pushed their fellow Catholics to support it. In fact, they knew about them when it was HillaryCare.
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The Catholic Bishops, it serves them right. They’re the ones who were really hot for Obamacare, with a few exceptions. But they were all in favor of this. And this is what it looks like when the government decides it’s going to make your healthcare choices for you.

gun control extremist Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, his wife, and guests were robbed at machete point inside their own home.
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St. Kitts/Nevis, a nation whose gun control laws are the stuff of Justice Breyer’s dreams come true, is a very dangerous place, and its crime statistics prove that its gun control laws are a crashing failure

Most politicians these days talk to their audiences or, worse, at them. Even the Real Good Talker, who made his name on a 2004 convention speech and has been giving too many ever since. Governing is hard work. Campaigning is tiring, but much easier. So, he has been and will be campaigning, blaming others as usual.
Instead, instinctively Palin doesn’t speak at or to audiences. She speaks for them.

Operation Fast and Furious was not, contrary to what the administration and its apologists would like us to believe, a “rogue operation,” conducted by an out-of-control Phoenix Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) field office, along with the U.S. Attorneys Office in Phoenix, without knowledge of those higher in the Department of Justice. It was instead a large, multi-agency operation–and indeed involved multiple cabinet-level departments.

Say, did that sound coarse and inconsiderate? If not, I can try harder.

As many as 24 million registrations are invalid or contain significant errors, including almost 3 million who are registered in two or more states and 1.8 million dead people still listed as active voters
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Democrats are pummeling states trying to impose picture ID laws to protect against this kind of fraud. They vetoed such laws in Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire and North Carolina.
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it’s hard to escape the conclusion that Democrats count on exploiting an inept and tattered registration system to help them win close elections. If that isn’t the case, they should prove it by backing a reform that would do much to protect the sanctity of the ballot box.

» “Occupy Tha Hood”: Occupy Miami Takes Over Overtown Apt. Building

Rent-paying tenants, however, claim the protesters have only brought noise, drugs, and filth. “They poop on the walls!” says Sharene Odho. “It’s like we live in a huge crack house now.”
…. there were, indeed, some rather large human paddies out front, including suspicious brown smudges on a wall.
…. the removal of doors — part of Occupy Miami’s communal mindset — had led to flooding

» 2 Occupy protesters arrested after Oakland march

Praises Che Guevara and his Black Panther mentors. Teaches that “socialism is a good thing”. Admits to crimes committed.

» Squatters with plan arrested in Portland homes

…. investigators said they found documents indicating the squatters would “victimize an elderly property owner.” The home also had anarchist and Occupy literature ….
Police said a handwritten letter in the home included the following statement:
“For the better part of 2011 the squatter community in Portland has been focused upon houses owned by an elderly bankrupt lady …. The idea was that we might have a better chance at survival if the landowner was, as our research could tell, a batty old lady and her bed ridden husband.”

“The police by the way said ‘Kudos, sir,’ ” Jordan wrote. “I actually had a “thank you” from an entire detectives squad. And another police officer is using it in a positive manner in his presentation for the school system. How’s about those apples? Didn’t expect THAT when you called the cops did you?”

When your power is a product of social problems then the failure to locate social problems that are an open sore on society, a cry of conscience and a grievous crime that must be faced, leaves you powerless and irrelevant. Once you start running out of legitimate social problems to tackle, then you have no choice but to start creating them or exaggerating them. Whether the problems you are dealing with are real or unreal, your challenge is to find ways to make them worse in order to retain your power and the social relevance of your movement.

While criticism surrounding Operation Fast and Furious has so far focused on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, three other federal agencies knew about the operation and some of their agents tried to stop it
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many federal field agents knew the ATF was walking guns to Mexico, but supervisors told them to back off when they objected.

A pseudo-Marxist Government is neither more nor less than crony capitalism taken to the utmost degree.

…. what does OWS want? Mass murder, or monopoly as an extension of crony capitalism? The answer is “both”, depending on which OWSer you ask.

The mass of the movement is composed of people who haven’t thought the matter through. Such people see what they consider to be injustice (correctly, in many cases), and want to eliminate the structures that support it — but they don’t know or don’t care what the unintended consequences will be. They’ll be wailing in despair that that’s not what they meant, right up to the moment the firing squad puts bullets in their temples.

» Ron Paul: All Aboard! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Haaaa! Mental Wounds Still Screaming! Driving Me Insane I’m Going Off The Rails On My Crazy Train! (And I Want To Take You Along For The Ride)

A look at the constitutions recommended by Ginsburg reveals that some of the “rights” they secure aren’t in fact natural rights at all but licenses to plunder. The “right” to food or health care can be provided only when someone else’s right to the fruits of his labor or the use of his property has to be violated.

We’re not ashamed to declare the U.S. Constitution a magnificent document that, along with the Declaration of Independence, forms the greatest national charter in human history.

No other document has ever guarded freedom the way it has, and no other contract has provided such a foundation for prosperity. It’s not perfect, but it’s as close to perfect as man has come.

The great Austrian economist F.A. Hayek called it the “fatal conceit”: The idea that man, through the power of government, can “shape the world around him according to his wishes.” This arrogance has been the foundation of the Progressive movement for more than a century.

But by its very nature and its complete disconnect from economic reality, this world view — President Obama’s world view — can, like a parasite, only thrive by pitting a claimed benefit for one American against the life and liberty of another. The beneficiary in the relationship no doubt feels that he’s gotten a free lunch, but the victim knows otherwise as the life is slowly drained from him.

As the panelists were speaking, two Occupy protesters walked up to the stage and unrolled a big banner …. There was only one problem for the protesters — they were in the wrong room …. When Keene told the protesters that, everyone in the room started laughing at them and they sheepishly folded up their banner and left. They apparently never made it to the actual room where Kobach was speaking.

These are the folks who keep telling us that they know how to run things better in our nation. “What a bunch of maroons,” to quote the immortal Bugs Bunny.

» The ghost towns of China

» Democrats Failure To Pass Budget Is Illegal

Two top Democrats in Congress say the legislature doesn’t really need to pass a budget. Excuse us, but passing a budget isn’t optional; it’s required by law. Is this the future of rule under the Democrats?

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer is tired of passing budgets as the law demands. He thinks Congress can just keep spending money without any sort of budget.

“The fact is, you don’t need a budget,” he said last Tuesday. “We can adopt appropriations bills. We can adopt authorization policies without a budget. We already have an agreed-upon cap on spending.”

Actually, “the fact is,” Congress is required under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to pass a spending plan and then have it scored by the Congressional Budget Office and signed by the president. That none of this happens suggests a level of disrespect for the law and the people found only among criminals.

It should be noted that the Fordow facility can only house 3,000 centrifuges, and is therefore useless for providing fuel for a nuclear power plant. The only purpose is for clandestine use or for making a nuclear bomb. It is also important to note that enriching uranium to the 20% level is 9/10 of the way to weaponization.

Quiz time, boys and girls:
Q Your neighbor who has threatened to kill you and your family for years, calls on the phone to tell you he’s loading his rifle. What do you do?
A. Mow the grass.
B. Send him flowers and candy
C. Call the police and hide in the closet till something happens
D. Be standing behind him when he hangs up the phone – with a pistol at the back of his head

If you answered A or B, then you are in sync with the current administration.
If you answered C, then you’re a liberal pussy and there IS NO police in our real life situation.
If you answered D, then you’re a war-mongering, right-wing, imperialist whose family will be alive and happy tomorrow

Resistance to a new bill aimed at limiting foreign law in Pennsylvania courts serves as a case study of how Islamists and their allies operate: peddling falsehoods about Shari’a, painting Muslims as victims, and denying that anyone seeks to institutionalize aspects of Islamic law — even as they vigorously promote that very agenda. With similar legislation being debated across the U.S., understanding their tactics is critical.

» Muslim Children in America are Being Taught to Hate

…. manuals informing the readers how to destroy America and how to kill anyone who oppresses Islam. They are told how to obtain weapons to include weapons of mass destruction. Although all of the above is very disturbing and should (and actually is) against the law, the Muslim leaders of Falls Church, Val are allowed by our government to indoctrinate the Muslim children into future violence against our country.
…. What most Americans do not realize is that child marriages are occurring throughout our country and specifically in Nashville, TN.

Evidence is abundant that America is under heavy assault by Islamic fundamentalists. Their goal is – as it always has been – the global caliphate. Their repugnant ‘holy book’ requires they do everything they can to convert or subvert America to Islam – or extermination.

Here’s an excerpt from an email that I received BCC, in which a friend of mine and private citizen was trying to alert our congress-person to the dangers of creeping sharia.
I’ll leave it to you to figure out who our congress-person is.

…. Sharia law would be unconstitutional in the United States in any case. As you are aware Shiria law is based on Islamic fundamental religious belief and the First Amendment to our U.S. Constitution mandates that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. Over the years, case law has settled that Congress may not subject Americans to any law that imposes a religious belief or practice on them, and that includes Sharia law.

So please don’t worry any longer about Sharia law being imposed on us. I do thank you for sharing your concerns with me and for paying attention to the dangers that face us. If I may be of assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me. For additional information, please visit my website http://ellmers.house.gov.

So basically, our representative believes that the 1st amendment’s restrictions on congress will prevent a threat from becoming a threat. That as long as congress doesn’t pass laws favoring muslims, that muslims won’t be able to enforce their own laws over the rest of us.
Does this representative also believe that if congress does nothing concerning gun ownership that state or local laws can’t be made and enforced? That the state of North Carolina could not pass laws infringing on the Right to carry firearms? Is that why I have to get permission from the government to put a pistol under my car seat?

Israel has always been the hedgehog in the soup of Arab democracy, agitating them, empowering their rulers and causing them to distrust Western benevolence. Now Israeli jets threaten to spill the soup of the Arab Spring by bombing Iran, which may reinforce support for Syria, which will hold up the Arab Spring and halt the progressive escalator of history.

Washington needs the Syrian war to happen, and it needs to keep a conflict with Iran from happening. The great diplomatic problem of Israel has always been that its leader insist on viewing conflicts in practical terms. Israel does not fight wars to make the world safe for democracy, it fights wars because there’s someone shooting missiles as it.

If Obama’s reversal on birth control is a single step, his mistake on gun control would be a quantum leap.
As liberal as he is, in the final hour, if he fought with the teacher’s union they’d throw chalk, if he fought with the auto unions they’d throw lugnuts, if he…..you get the point.

» Nuts

the shell game of the non-compromise compromise that the Obama administration is unilaterally imposing for the HHS mandate. Anybody who falls for it is indeed either a fool or a tool ….

…. the kind of men the country used to be made of: citizens, not subjects. It’s high time they and their representatives in Congress stepped up and said: Nuts, without waiting for the Supreme Court to do it for them.

» If Obama gets reelected, “the Second Amendment is finished”

…. with the possibility of two or more Supreme Court justice positions opening during the next four years, the NRA official warned that gun ownership would be in jeopardy if Mr. Obama stays in office… “If we get one more like those three, the Second Amendment is finished…”

…. gun control has failed: “During the years in which the D.C. handgun ban and trigger lock law was in effect, the Washington, D.C. murder rate averaged 73% higher than it was at the outset of the law, while the U.S. murder rate averaged 11% lower.”

It’s not about gun control, it’s about government control over you, the individual.

The McDonald and Heller decisions of the Supreme Court upheld the 2nd amendment saying that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is an individual right and applying to all citizens of all states. Nevertheless, in Illinois, D.C., New York, California and various other liberal-controlled hellholes, citizens are still being arrested and charged with felonies for possession of legal firearms.
Those two monumental (and ignored decisions) of the Court were passed by only one vote. One.
Only one vote stood between you and the communist thugs that are waiting to barge onto your private property and seize your firearms.
One vote away.

Please don’t be stupid. If you think those decisions won’t be reversed (and worse) under a second Obama term ….

Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius’ edicts on contraception, sterilization and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most Reverend Al Sharpton explained: “If we are going to have a separation of church and state, we’re going to have a separation of church and state.”

Thanks for clarifying that. The church model the young American state wished to separate from was that of the British monarch, who remains to this day Supreme Governor of the Church of England. This convenient arrangement dates from the 1534 Act of Supremacy.

The title of the law gives you the general upshot, but, just in case you’re a bit slow on the uptake, the text proclaims “the King’s Majesty justly and rightfully is and ought to be the supreme head of the Church of England.”

That’s to say, the sovereign is “the only supreme head on earth of the Church,” and he shall enjoy “all honors, dignities, pre-eminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities to the said dignity”, not to mention His Majesty “shall have full power and authority from time to time to visit, repress, redress, record, order, correct, restrain, and amend all such errors, heresies, abuses, offenses, contempts and enormities, whatsoever they be”.

Welcome to ObamaCare.

The goofy bastards over at Ron Paul HeadcaseQuarters ….

I included this one, just so I could excerpt that one partial sentence.

Chocolate cake breakfast could help you Bubba lose weight

Wondering whether elementary school students are truly indoctrinated in the left wing agenda? Well, wonder no more. They are; and it’s worse — far worse — than you can possibly imagine.
Consider, if you will, McGraw-Hill’s Our Democratic Heritage, a textbook designed for third-graders and published in 2010. If you’d assume that it was intended to teach kids about America’s founding and its institutions of government, you’d assume wrong.

After occupying the headlines for far too long, Occupy Wall Street was dispersed by a combination of inclement weather, mayoral irritation and having served their purpose. Occupy Oakland will go on doing what it can to depress the economy of an already economically depressed city by attacking its ports. The other Occupations are being moved along back to the Starbucks that spawned them.

As committed Warmists, the Occupiers might have expected that temperatures in the northeast and the midwest in November and December would feel just like a day at the beach in Santa Monica. But while the manipulated hockey stick graphs might have been on their side, the weather wasn’t. Neither were the already overstretched urban budgets turned inside out by having to pay for police overtime, electrical generators and cleanup duty. But most of all they had served their purpose as a launching pad for the Obama 2012 campaign.

Los Angeles is going to invest “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to renovate a million dollar “VIP” yacht used for, among other things, taking high school students on free tours of the harbor.
Big deal. Let L.A. squander its money!

It’s not their money.

“The port is using $489,000 in federal taxpayer stimulus money ….

“Violence has broken out again, with hooded youths throwing stones and police firing grenades….
The protests, of course, have been organized by unions unhappy with the announcement that public sector jobs will get the ax.
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Greek police unions have called for the arrest of EU and International Monetary Fund officials. The crime? Daring to impose austerity measures and threatening union jobs.
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Greece has promised to approve the new austerity measures by late Sunday, despite deep public resentment.

Violent clashes broke out in front of parliament earlier in the day, amid mass protests organized by unions, which launched a 48-hour general strike.

Lemme Summit Furya
Greece, a bass-ackwards third-world nation of non-producers is the innovator in the game of redistribution of wealth – Europen wealth. The Greeks got to join the European Union country club because, well just because. In the span of a couple of decades or so, most Greeks have become very accustomed to the good life, bought with the large wads of borrowed money. They still can’t produce or create anything that serve to pay back all the borrowed cash. Their European ‘brothers’ have tolerated their excess because that is the socialist way. And socialism is cool, dont ya know.
Except when all the wealth has been redistributed out of existence, and everybody is in debt to everybody, then everybody wants their money back. And Greece can’t pay it back because they’ve blown it – piddled it away living the good life.
This part should sound very familiar to any American that’s been paying 2 cents worth of attention: When you don’t have the money to pay your bills, and you’ve tapped out all your relatives/friends bank accounts but are still unwilling to give up your borrowed extravagant lifestyle, whaddaya do? You riot. You protest. You pitch a hissy fit.
You Occupy.

Then you die.

“I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” …. “That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me.”

Jackson is now the poster boy for that part of the American people that scream at conservatives and call us racists. In their minds, there’s only one reason for our opposition to a president that is contrary to everything we believe in – and it happens to be the one same reason that they can quote in support of their undying loyalty to the first American communist president:

For those of you that no hablo the language of the perpetually, incurably stupid racist – lemme translate:
““I voted for Barack because he was black …. [his] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me”
In English: “I dont care about America or any of the issues, I only care about installing a black man.” With a big, black period.

And then, please make note that Jackson

“expressed his disappointment in the president, complaining that “in the end, he’s a politician.”

But Sammy, he’s still black, right? Your only qualification criteria, in your own stupid words, is his blackness. If Obama is still black he still passes your test for the greatest president ever.

Some would say that, at least, Jackson is honest in admitting his racism. But I say honesty has no role in his statements nor in his character. Because I don’t think he actually understands the ironic magnitude of what he has admitted.

The science is now all-but-settled on global warming, convincing new evidence demonstrates, but Al Gore, the IPCC and other global warming doomsayers won’t be celebrating. The new findings point to cosmic rays and the sun — not human activities — as the dominant controller of climate on Earth.
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The hypothesis that cosmic rays and the sun hold the key to the global warming debate has been Enemy No. 1 to the global warming establishment ever since it was first proposed by two scientists from the Danish Space Research Institute, at a 1996 scientific conference in the U.K. Within one day, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Bert Bolin, denounced the theory, saying, “I find the move from this pair scientifically extremely naive and irresponsible.” He then set about discrediting the theory, any journalist that gave the theory cre dence, and most of all the Danes presenting the theory — they soon found themselves vilified, marginalized and starved of funding, despite their impeccable scientific credentials.
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CERN, and the Danes, have in all likelihood found the path to the Holy Grail of climate science. But the religion of climate science won’t yet permit a celebration of the find.

» The Galileo of Global Warming

…. the rules of the game, as played by the political-scientific establishment. If you have a study that you think backs up the global warming dogma, preface it with a press release drawing wildly speculative conclusions from the data. If you have a study that contradicts the global warming dogma, preface it with a press release declaring that no conclusions can be drawn.

» Bloomberg evicts churches from using public schools, but allows labor unions

» Obama invites backlash on conscience rule betrayal

And why not? Now that Osama bin WormChow is outta the game, the field is purdy dang level.

Someday I hope that Friedman, Sean Penn, Samuel L. Jackson — and the rest of the clueless, incredibly wealthy freaks who take America for granted — will get to experience life as a migrant in China.

Just for a couple of years. Or ten.

What will it matter? None of them will have the slightest clue why they’re about to die of starvation or exposure … or execution. They’ll blame it on Bush.

Naturally he’s coy about what he’s got, but it sounds like it has to do with O as a student radical. I wonder if big media, having heard this, will scramble to try to uncover the footage and put it out ASAP so that it’s old news by the time of the general election. Can’t wait to hear their explanations for why they couldn’t be bothered to do that last cycle.