Charles G. Koch speaks out, to Obama, to LeftLibProggs, to anyone in America who has enough sense to listen.

Heh.

I am confident that businesses like ours will hire more people and invest in more equipment when our country’s financial future looks more promising.

Translated, for the dumbasses:

Get rid of Obama, and we’ll be back. Otherwise, suffer, bitches.

I like the cut of that man's jib.

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"The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb."

Truth, dat.

Life Always is focusing on this statistic from the NYC Health Department: Blacks had the highest number of abortions in 2009, with 40,798. (Hispanics had the second highest at 28,364.) NYC's abortion rate was almost 40% that year, and the three Planned Parenthood facilities nearest the billboard reported nearly 17,000 abortions in 2010. Asked for his reaction to the billboard yesterday, one man on the street told WCBS, "I think they’re trying to send a message to us African-Americans because we do do a lot of abortions and I think we shouldn’t be doing it."

It's genocide, really.
h/t Darleen Click

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Atlas Shrugged screened; early reviews are encouraging

Taylor Schilling as Dagny Taggert

Earlybird reviews of the full Atlas Shrugged movie: “Spectacular,” “Solid,” “Faithful”.

Questions on the distribution and release? Still waiting for that info. We're fighting Ellsworth Toohey tooth and nail; let's see what comes of it.

h/t for the Dagny Taggert photo: Verum Serum.

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Weekend mismatching socks

I've no time to do a lot of posting; but I did gather a few notes as to what is interesting to me. First, Wisconsin is still doing the powderkeg thing; with 10,000 progtards and dirty socialists having a meet-up in Madison today. Heh.

Members of the UW Teaching Assistants Association sent out a tweet shortly after 3 p.m. asking people to help clear out the hearing room they've been operating in for the last 11 days. The group will move operations to Democratic Party of Wisconsin offices off the Capitol for the remainder of the protests.

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Baracky is a liar. Who knew?

Obama’s Promised March With Union Workers Fails to Materialize

When candidate Obama was campaigning in South Carolina in 2007, he said he was proud to wear the “union label” and that if workers were denied rights to organize or collectively bargain when he was elected, “I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I'll will walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States of America.”

But as the protests over collective bargaining rights drag out in Wisconsin, President Obama has yet to join the demonstrators outside the Capitol building in Madison, and it appears his administration is trying not to get involved in the fight.

The president is now facing criticism from some within his own party about his unwillingness to be more engaged in the Wisconsin battle. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., asked Obama to travel to Madison and stand with the unions, but Carney says there are currently no plans for any travel to that state.

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Well, we knew it would happen soon enough.

Texas demographer: 'It's basically over for Anglos'

Looking at population projections for Texas, demographer Steve Murdock concludes: "It's basically over for Anglos."

Two of every three Texas children are now non-Anglo and the trend line will become even more pronounced in the future, said Murdock, former U.S. Census Bureau director and now director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University.

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Newt Gingrich is a Good Man, but I don't think I'll be able to support him for 2012. But he is leagues above Mitch Daniels right now.

“Imagine that Governor Palin had become president. Imagine that she had announced that Roe versus Wade in her view was unconstitutional and therefore the United States government would no longer protect anyone’s right to have an abortion because she personally had decided it should be changed. The news media would have gone crazy. The New York Times would have demanded her impeachment.

“First of all, he campaigned in favor of [the law]. He is breaking his word to the American people,” Gingrich says.

“Second, he swore an oath on the Bible to become president that he would uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws of the United States. He is not a one-person Supreme Court. The idea that we now have the rule of Obama instead of the rule of law should frighten everybody.

“The fact that the left likes the policy is allowing them to ignore the fact that this is a very unconstitutional act,” Gingrich said.

Gingrich said it is absolutely critical for Obama to comply with Congress and the constitutional process.

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The Nashville City Paper, of which I've been a long-time 'member', has an article on Mosques and Muslims and Islam, oh my! on which I left a comment, as follows...
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Religion is an evolutionary construct that's been around since the cavemen got smart enough to realize that they were going to die; and realizing that, some of the more intelligent cavemen needed to find new ways to motivate the tribe to keep in line, to keep hunting and to move the masses forward to the next generation. Organized religion has nothing to do with the belief in a non-transigente creator (God) but more to do with the organization of people to follow rules and be compliant to rulers who need such compliance to do deeds and services (and, unfortunately for us all, some organize religions to control people to malignant ends).

As 'antisocial' has pointed out, earlier versions of the bible illustrate such early attempts to control the Jews. Fortunately, Christians got relief from all of that hardship and undertook a new direction a couple thousand years ago; leaving the books of the Old Testament to pretty much afterthoughts. Also, unfortunately, the birth and death of the Christ opened up new avenues for 'community organization' that, over centuries, caused much conflict with the original Christ's teachings. Fortunately, all of that was swept away in the Reformation, and has continuously been 'moderated' by the advent of science (which is the 'new' religion to many people, but still an organized religion...).

Islam was created by a warrior, Mohammed, to control various factions of people in a harsh desert climate; Islam (or Mohammedism) was successful in it's violent bid (because of it's violent nature) to take over and rule (by strong force) many nations. Unlike Christianity, it's never seen any Reformation; it's not changed overmuch since it's inception.

Islam is very easily used by various Imams and Ayatollahs (and Saudi Princes) to control it's own people. Sharia law is the tool, the sharp scimitar, that gets these things done.

We, now, are on the verge of eliminating all organized religion from our Modern Life, at least in America and on the 'enlightened' European continent. Unfortunately, there's never been a nation in the history of this planet that's done so and survived. Religion is as necessary as the air we breathe. But the Muslim religion MUST be forced to reform, or by it's very nature it will seek to overcome and dominate the entire world, just as that tribe of warriors did in the Medina desert in 610 AD.

Pulling the teeth of Mohammedism by outlawing the implementation of Sharia Law is a good and necessary step in the direction of reforming the "Religion of Peace".
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Oh, my old friend Loner and I again shared differing opinions on teh JOOOOOOOOOOOOS! But that's just us, we go back a long ways.

(I've a nice Charlie Sheen thinger in the works, if I get around to it, and he doesn't spoil it by waking up dead before I get it done...          )

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Now, we're playing 'Hide and Seek' with cowardly Wisconsin Democrat Senators, AKA Fleebaggers

It's degraded to a child's game of hide and seek, with the Democrats hiding outside the very State in which they were voted to serve. How long can they stay gone? When does the session end? Will they be home for Christmas ?

Wis. Assembly passes bill taking away union rights

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening. ...

The Assembly's vote sent the bill on to the Senate, but minority Democrats in that house have fled to Illinois to prevent a vote. No one knows when they will return from hiding. Republicans who control the chamber sent state troopers out looking for them at their homes on Thursday, but they turned up nothing. ...

Tens of thousands of people have jammed the Capitol since last week to protest, pounding on drums and chanting so loudly that police providing security have resorted to ear plugs. Hundreds have taken to sleeping in the building overnight, dragging in air mattresses and blankets.

With the Senate immobilized, Assembly Republicans decided to act and convened the chamber Tuesday morning.

Democrats launched a filibuster, throwing out dozens of amendments and delivering rambling speeches. Each time Republicans tried to speed up the proceedings, Democrats rose from their seats and wailed that the GOP was stifling them.

Debate had gone on for 60 hours and 15 Democrats were still waiting to speak when the vote started around 1 a.m. Friday. Speaker Pro Tem Bill Kramer, R-Waukesha, opened the roll and closed it within seconds.

Democrats looked around, bewildered. Only 13 of the 38 Democratic members managed to vote in time. ...

Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach said he and his colleagues wouldn't return until Walker compromised.

Did someone mention Wisconsin Senator Jon Erpenbach? Why, I just happen to have a picture of him, right here. He's the one on the right (I think).

Clever Jon Erpenbach hiding, hiding.

Frustrated by the delay, Senate Republican Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, Jeff Fitzgerald's brother, ordered state troopers to find the missing Democrats, but they came up empty. Wisconsin law doesn't allow police to arrest the lawmakers, but Fitzgerald said he hoped the show of authority would have pressured them to return.

Erpenbach, who was in the Chicago area, said all 14 senators remained outside of Wisconsin.

"It's not so much the Democrats holding things up," Erpenbach said. "It's really a matter of Gov. Walker holding things up."

No, asshole, it's you and your cowardly colleagues hiding in the bushes in Illinois what are holding up the process, and if you stay gone, teachers will be laid off.

You want to stay hidden, out of town? Then stay gone for a long, long time.

Or, better...

Calling Dog the Bounty Hunter.

That is all.

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The REVerend Jesse Jackson's strange 'tree' felled by Rush Limbaugh. Comedy GOLD!

Rush & his staff deal with the 'ruts' of Reverend Jesse Jackson's problems...

Feed the 'ruts' now, y'hear?

h/t Lil Bro, via phone

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Gas Prices Skyrocketing. Who was that courageous Politician who loudly proclaimed "Drill, baby drill!" ? Because we certainly needed one like that, instead of the failshit buffoon we have in office now.

Union Thugs who've earned my "Cement Shoes" award, 1

...for slapping around a little woman.

This is Tabitha Hale, a young conservative activist/original Tea Party organizer/blogger who works for Washington, D.C.-based FreedomWorks. I know her from her great grass-roots work with Smart Girl Politics when the Tea Party movement was just emerging.

Today, Big Labor groups took their Grievance March to the offices of FreedomWorks.
Among the groups protesting: the Communications Workers of America. They’re one of the heavyweight labor biggies that have received a coveted Obamacare Waiver for Favors. CWA facts here.

Whoever this Union Thug is, may he one day wear 'cement shoes'.

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"Fleebaggers: The New Cut-and-Run Democrats"

Michelle Malkin creates the PERFECT moniker to describe the cowardly Democrat Senators and Representatives who flee their legislatures to avoid votes...

Faced with stifling debt, bloated pensions and intractable government unions, liberal Midwestern legislators have fled those states -- paralyzing Republican fiscal reform efforts. Like Monty Python's Brave Sir Robin and his band of quivering knights, these elected officials have only one plan when confronted with political hardship or economic peril: Run away, run away, run away.

Scores of Fleebagger Democrats are now in hiding in neighboring Illinois, the nation's sanctuary for political crooks and corruptocrats. Soon, area hotels will be announcing a special discount rate for card-carrying FleePAC winter convention registrants. Question: Will the White House count the economic stimulus from the mass Democratic exodus to Illinois as jobs "saved" or "created"? More important question: How much are taxpayers being charged for these obstructionist vacations?

Voters have spoken: In Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and across the heartland, they put Republican adults in charge of cleaning up profligate Democrat-engineered messes. Instead of defending their same old tax-hiking, union-protecting, spending-addicted ways, Democrats are crossing their state borders into big government sanctuary zones -- screaming "la, la, la, we can't hear you" all the way.

I hope the cowards get chewed alive by bedbugs.

FLEABAGGERS!

COMING SOON FROM A REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED LIBERAL STATE NEAR YOU!

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Chicago (Rahm Realm) is still a doomed cesspit filled with Democrat's failures

Electing yet another Democrat is really going to fix things.

As the next mayor of this city, the nation’s third largest, Mr. Emanuel faces significant obstacles. He must cope with staggering unfunded pension liabilities, as well as a budget deficit around $600 million, by some estimates. Easy fixes — like the proceeds of privatization deals of the city’s parking meters — have already been used. Meanwhile, the city’s population of 2.69 million is smaller than it was a decade ago, unhappy news for a new mayor who would wish to see a growing tax base.

Imagine that. What was once touted as a grand example of Democrat's 'progressive' progressions is now on the verge of massive default. See what happens, Democrats, when your proposals are allowed to reach fruition? They rot on the vine.

What was needed was a Scott Walker, to right this ship. Truthfully, I don't think any human alive, regardless of political persuasion, could make Chicago a better place to live. It's too far gone.

It's Just a Matter of Time, Rahm.

TANSTAAFL, bitches.

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Ben Ali got his, Mubarak got his, Gaddafi's getting his; when, oh when, is it our turn? #April15

Atlas Shrugged Movie Scene:

Henry Rearden Comes Home

~*~

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Previous trailer

David Brooks Gets it Right: Public Sector Unions are Structurally Out of Whack

Usually the musings of NYT's token Republican are soft and gooey RINO droppings; today's essay is a bit more pointed (comparatively speaking). Brooks gently prods the Wisconsin protesters ("amusingly Orwellian"), then lectures the New York Times' mostly-far-left readers (elitist lefty snobs) about the differences between public sector and private sector unions...

Even if you acknowledge the importance of unions in representing middle-class interests, there are strong arguments on Walker’s side. In Wisconsin and elsewhere, state-union relations are structurally out of whack.

That’s because public sector unions and private sector unions are very different creatures. Private sector unions push against the interests of shareholders and management; public sector unions push against the interests of taxpayers. Private sector union members know that their employers could go out of business, so they have an incentive to mitigate their demands; public sector union members work for state monopolies and have no such interest.

Private sector unions confront managers who have an incentive to push back against their demands. Public sector unions face managers who have an incentive to give into them for the sake of their own survival. Most important, public sector unions help choose those they negotiate with. Through gigantic campaign contributions and overall clout, they have enormous influence over who gets elected to bargain with them, especially in state and local races.

As a result of these imbalanced incentive structures, states with public sector unions tend to run into fiscal crises. They tend to have workplaces where personnel decisions are made on the basis of seniority, not merit. There is little relationship between excellence and reward, which leads to resentment among taxpayers who don’t have that luxury.

Structurally sound, Brooks, but I notice you didn't dare mention that ALL the unions, public and private sector alike, contribute ALL of their political donations to Democrats...something that doesn't happen with contributors to 'our side'. Corporations and the 'evil rich', groups Democrats so like to tie to Republicans, tend to contribute to Democrats as well as Republicans. You'd be hard-pressed to find ANY union that contributes to a Republican candidate (if you do, that Republican is likely of the Meghan McCain variety, and as vapid and useless as twit Meghan). I posted on this yesterday.

These public-sector unions need to be demolished nationwide. It's just not right for public employees to have their union dues monies taken from them without consent then spent on political contributions to only one party. Public officials are elected, and government employees are supposed to be indifferent as to the outcome of elections. But these government public-sector employee unions not only give monies to Democrats but also contribute on-the-job time and work for 100% Democrat-only candidates; that money and time adds up to that candidate owing the unions for whatever the unions demand, be it pay and benefits increases that are well above private-sector pay and benefits, and more subtle but just as troubling, they have an unfairly-constructed shield that private sector employees don't have for to shelter them from economic downturns.

As Brooks' NYT essay today 'splains, we should ALL be hurting. Unionists should not seek political shelter from economic downturns, using purchased Democrats, to create for themselves and their members unsustainable contracts at the expense of taxpayers.

So, today, we might find Wisconsin Senators (the Republican sorts who, you know, come to work) vote in the union-busting legislation by means of attaching it to another bill that doesn't require the cowardly Democrats to come forth (19 Republican Senators are on hand in the capital; 14 Democrat Senators are shivering under beds in Rockport, IL, at a Best Western; I hope the bedbugs are feasting well on their mangy asses). The Orwellian union thug - Democrat protesters still circle the capital in Madison (aka "Moscow West" and "Berkeley on the Prarie") trying to get their Egyptian - Tunisian faces on correctly. Inside, Republicans may well, and deservedly so, vote the public sector unions dead. Case closed, the people win, democracy is restored.

Move to the next state. Let's get this train rolling.

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Worst President in My Lifetime: Lyndon Baines Johnson

There's no need to rehash who's the best. Ronald Reagan was the best President working for America, at least during my lifetime; no one else compares. But Worst President? No one has done more damage (yet) to our previously-great society than LBJ, AFAIC.

Dirty Socialists Lyndon Baines Johnson (D) and White Supremacist Richard Russell Jr (D)

The WORST could well be Jimmy Carter. He was so ineffective and weak that his legacy as worst President is secure among the younger generations. But look back to Lyndon Baines Johnson for my nod as Worst President.

Not only did LBJ ramp up the Vietnam conflict, but he created the "Great Society", the most devastating social program ever unleashed on this nation...

The actual consequences of Johnson's Great Society were disastrous for blacks, discouraging initiative, encouraging a sense of entitlement and victimhood, and creating a permanent dependency class. Until 1965, 82% of black households had both a mother and a father in the home -- a statistic on par with or even slightly higher than white families. After 1965 (the year the Democrats and President Johnson decided it was time to stop oppressing blacks and start "helping" them), the presence of black fathers in the home began a precipitous decline; today, the American black out-of-wedlock birthrate is at 69%.

Unlike its socialist cousin (the New Deal), the Great Society emerged in a period of prosperity. Johnson presented his goals for the Great Society in a speech at an elite liberal public university, the University of Michigan, in May 1964. So-called "do-gooder liberals," having little faith in their common man, loved its aims. The elitist "White Guilt" (see Shelby Steele's book of the same name) resulted in terrible long-term impacts. Soon after, the programs were heavily criticized by conservatives as being ineffective and creating an underclass of lazy citizens. They have been proven correct. Current evidence makes Johnson the villain. If he were alive today to see the effects, he'd cringe.

Socialism clearly makes individuals worse. Incalculable damage has been done to the black family by the neo-socialist policies begun under Johnson, which are a perverted form of what Eisenhower wisely began a decade prior.

Once Barack Obama's term is over, I'll be happy to reassess my call. We'll see how much damage BHO can do as compared to LBJ. No fair if BHO oversees the fall of the Republic; that would give him an unfair advantage. At least LBJ got us through his terms intact.

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NYT's Paul Krugman whines about Wisconsin

I read Krugman's "Wisconsin Power Play" essay and found it wanting. Listen up, Krugman, you are a known far-left operative who speaks as an 'economist', but you overlook sound financial reasoning to advance your lefty ideology. What about 'we're broke' do you not understand?

Wisconsin is a flashpoint, you're right about that. But for the wrong reasons.

Unions are outdated and only serve today to nourish a single Party apparatus (the Democrats) at the expense of true democracy. To borrow a phrase from progressives, 'it's not fair'.

We've seen Wisconsin Senate Democrats fleeing the state to avoid doing their jobs; unable to face what the November 2nd voters mandated. We've seen government unionists 'striking' (illegally) to attend weekday protests where 'Doctors' handed out fake sick notes so these unionists can use them to avoid punishment. We've seen the unions quickly backtracking on concessions; they are now willing to take the meager financial hits necessary to balance the state's budget, because they are pants-crappingly scared that they are doomed! (as they should be). We've seen the POTUS, himself the author of trillions of dollars of debt, try to give advice to a state that's far better off. Obama opens his mouth, send forth his DNC and Organizing for America 'community-organized' goons from all over the nation, to attempt to overcome a single state's issue; the 10th Amendment be damned.

These public-sector unions need to be demolished nationwide. It's just not right for public employees to have their union dues monies forced from them without consent to be spent on political contributions to only one party. Public officials are elected, and government employees are supposed to be indifferent as to the outcome of elections. But these government employee unions not only give monies to Democrats but also contribute on-the-job time and work for 100% Democrat-only candidates; that money and time adds up to a candidate owing the unions for whatever the unions demand, be it pay and benefits increases that are well above private-sector pay and benefits, and more subtle but just as bad, they have an unfairly-constructed shield that private sector employees don't have for to shelter them from economic downturns.

As far as the non-public sector unions, their time is up too. Democrats complain about jobs going overseas. Here in Tennessee, we have the Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corp., and Volkswagen, both doing just fine sans unions. The GM Saturn plant sits idle, and has for months. Union demands made GM's products non-competitive. Unions drive jobs overseas, silly Democrats. You can't force corporations to employ people who demand more than the market can afford to pay.

Again, Krugman, what about the U.S. being broke do you not understand?

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"Sign, sign, everywhere a sign...can't you read the sign(s)?" (!)

National Christmas Tree toppled behind the White House

Washington (CNN)-(CNN)

The nation's most energy-efficient National Christmas Tree doesn't appear to be the nation's most energy-resistant one. The 42-foot tall Colorado blue spruce snapped at its base during high winds Saturday morning in Washington. ...

The spruce had been in its current location for more than 32 years.

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Lara Logan's Muslim attackers gang-raped her repeatedly, because they thought she was a Jew.

This account isn't being reported by America's media, but is circulating in Egypt. I suppose this info is being suppressed to protect Muslim interests...

Mahmoud71 said...

مراسل كابوس

......"Unfortunately I heard some eye witness accounts that suggest whoever did that was a random mob of people from the nearby slums who came out to celebrate, it was not an organized thing. Some tried to pick up a fight with her and started yelling that she was Israeli and the situation escalated very quickly. Some of the Tahrir guys tried to intervene and form a circle around her,but there were too many of the aggressors to fend off. I was told that she was verbally threatened, spat at and then had her hair pulled by a couple of the men. After that the situation just degenerated. The herd closed in on her and she was dragged deeper into the crowd. It would have been impossible to see from a distance what was going on (unless with a helicopter I suppose) as she would have been literally surrounded by hundreds of people. Apparently they began touching her body and pulling at her clothes. She tried to resist and that is why they started slapping her around.

حاولت المقاومة وهذا هو السبب في أنها بدأت الصفع لها في جميع أنحاء.

I have been around this sort of men my entire life. Their primitive mentality is, if a "white" girl is among "men" she must be a slut and she is for the taking. If she doesn't like it then she must be taught a lesson. The fact that the majority of the crowd believed her to be a jew would have aggravated the situation dramatically and I'm sure the ringleaders would have wanted everyone to see how a "scorned Western woman" deserved to be treated. Which means they would have had no "moral restraints" and would have wanted to humiliate her in any way possible.

Since she was a non-muslim, she would have been deemed a Dhimmi slave girl. In Egypt, the following Quranic instructions apply to her, which led her to getting gang-raped: Quran 33:50, 4:24, 4:34, 23-5:6, 2:223. These are only three. But I can cite lot more. There is no surprise that what happened, happened. Such precepts allow rape/adultery with slave girls. Unfortunately Lara fell under the slave category.

سقطت لسوء الحظ لارا تحت فئة العبيد.

After being slapped around, she was dragged to the floor and the mob surrounded her. At this point, her fate was doomed. Apparently she was pinned down (arms,legs held apart) and her clothes were torn away. Once naked, as you can imagine, it was a no-holds-barred "free-for-all" scenario.

I don't want to relay too much of what I've heard about the actual assault as it would be too graphic for this forum, however by focusing on some of the descriptions given by the mainstream networks you should be able to read between the lines and decipher what actually happened:

"She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating " - CBS

"Sources familiar with the situation tell us the details of Logan's assault are horrible." - CBS

"It has been reported that according to network sources she was
at first unable to speak.”" - CBS

She won't be coming back anytime soon after suffering what the network called
"serious" internal injuries in the incident. - MSNBC

"After the attack, Logan spent 7 days in the hospital." - The NYPost

وأفيد أنه وفقا لمصادر الشبكة أنها كانت في البداية غير قادر على الكلام. ""

That's probably enough. So lets try to put this in laymans terms..

"brutal and sustained sexual assault " = she was practically gangraped over and over again

"unable to speak.” = this has to do with the fact that she actually passed out half way through the assault.

""serious" internal injuries" = this is the worse one. Remember, she was attacked by muslim men.
This means that she was SODOMIZED, repeatedly. And I don't just mean by their penises. She was penetrated by "foreign obects" (bottles etc.).

"7 days in the hospital" = you don't spend 7 days in hospital just because someone felt you up in a crowd.

كان صديقي يقول لي أنها كانت مكسورة القلب

Let's call a spade a spade shall we.. This woman wasn't simply "groped" for a couple of seconds. This was a severe and prolonged case ("Sustained" does not mean a couple of minutes..) of sexual abuse in which the victim was beaten, stripped and gang-penetrated (vaginally, orally and anally) repeatedly by multiple assailants.

My friend was telling me they were broken hearted hearing her screams while not being able to do anything to save her. Without a doubt, if the army had not intervened, she never would have made it out alive. I'm really surprised that this story is not receiving much attention from the news televisions. Just snippets here and there. And yet it was such a brutal assault. Goes to show where priorities lie in this day and age.. -

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Wisconsin Union Thugs Offer Concessions; Governor Walker Laughs in their Faces.

Union Thugs: "Please, please, we'll take the cuts, we'll accept the financial concessions, but leave us our rights to hold a gun to your heads and take monies from your budget whenever we feel like it!"

Governor Scott Walker: "Fuck off, assholes."

But Walker repeated that he would not back down.

Photo taken by protein wisdom's bh

Tea Partiers and 'real' people joined the fray today (this photo taken by pw commentator bh, who attended the rally).

The New York Times reported, chillingly, that police snipers were on hand today as well. Where were these snipers for the past few days, when the Union Thugs were threatening Governor Scott Walker and Republicans?

What do you want to bet these police snipers were watching the Tea Partiers more closely than the 'good guys' of the Left?

How many police snipers were on hand in Cairo I wonder? Why do we get the police sniper treatment here in the U.S.?

Barack Obama sides with the Unions. I wonder why?

The 'good guys' of the Left were even passing fake doctor's excuses around. Fire the lot of 'em, break this unholy alliance of Unions and Democrats. This has gone on long enough (h/t Joy McCann).

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Friday Photo: Sunset. Hopefully this is symbolic of a political sunset; of the unnatural relationship between Democrats and Unions.

Enjoy your weekend.

Support Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker and the good people in the Wisconsin legislature who've faced real threats and intimidation from Dirty Socialists and Union Thugs, so much so that they had to adjourn the Assembly until next Tuesday. Maybe by then Wisconsin police can round up the cowardly Democrat Senators who fled the state to a cheesy Best Western 'resort' in Illinois.

Excellent roundup at POWIP; Dan Collins lived in Wisconsin for years, Enoch Roots still resides there.

Break the Democrat - Unionist coalition. Government Unions should never have allowed to form in the first place; FDR warned of that. But Democrats need unions to keep 'em in power. Those ties must be cut.

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Governor Scott Walker (R, WI, a Damned Good Man) scares WI Senate Democrats so thoroughly that they flee the State in disrepair, taking shelter in a Best Western.

This is the best possible showdown that could've happened in America today: a stand off between Democrats backing their government unions, vs. regular American taxpayers. From the WSJ...

Mr. Walker's very modest proposal would take away the ability of most government employees to collectively bargain for benefits. They could still bargain for higher wages, but future wage increases would be capped at the federal Consumer Price Index, unless otherwise specified by a voter referendum. The bill would also require union members to contribute 5.8% of salary toward their pensions and chip in 12.6% of the cost of their health insurance premiums.

If those numbers don't sound outrageous, you probably work in the private economy. The comparable nationwide employee health-care contribution is 20% for private industry, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average employee contribution from take-home pay for retirement was 7.5% in 2009, according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute.

Mr. Walker says he has no choice but to make these changes because unions refuse to negotiate any compensation changes, which is similar to the experience Chris Christie had upon taking office in New Jersey. Wisconsin is running a $137 million deficit this year and anticipates coming up another $3.6 billion short in the next two-year budget. Governor Walker's office estimates the proposals would save the state $300 million over the next two years, and the alternative would be to lay off 5,500 public employees.

In order to thwart the Democratic process, Democrat Senators fled the State capitol at noon, heading to a resort in Rockford, Illinois...

MADISON, Wis. – A group of Democratic Wisconsin lawmakers blocked passage of a sweeping anti-union bill Thursday, refusing to show up for a vote and then abruptly leaving the state in an effort to force Republicans to the negotiating table.

As ever-growing throngs of protesters filled the Capitol for a third day, the 14 Democrats disappeared around noon, just as the Senate was about to begin debating the measure, which would end a half-century of collective bargaining rights for most public employees.


Hours later, one member of the group told The Associated Press that they had left Wisconsin.

"The plan is to try and slow this down because it's an extreme piece of legislation that's tearing this state apart," Sen. Jon Erpenbach said in a telephone interview. He refused to say where he was.

Democrats hoped Republican Gov. Scott Walker and GOP lawmakers would consider revisions to the bill.

Walker, who took office just last month, urged the group to return and called the boycott a "stunt."

Cowardly Democrats refused a floor debate, instead heading out of town to the "Clock Tower Resort" (a Best Western ! ) in Rockford.

These Democrat Senators should be arrested, cuffed and taken back to Madison, then chained to their seats until they do their jobs: debate and vote. What kind of men and women are these cowardly Democrats?

A lefty editorial in a Wisconsin bird cage liner finds comments, written mostly by the protesters and their supporters, but I found a gem of a comment amongst the coal ash. One poster, obviously a unionist who would 'suffer' a $5,000 yearly setback due to the 'unfairness' of Gov. Walker's modest proposals, whined and whined and carried on about how she would have to give up things, goods and services, that would cost the economy of Wisconsin. This reply to that is a cogent response to the whiner...

econamike said on: February 16, 2011, 4:04 pm
@hrt

Not to be cold, but welcome to the “real world”.

We’ve never had cable and only recently got our first TracPhone.

We’ve already been shopping at Walmart (and Aldi’s) for years. We only eat out (including fast food) a few times a year and go to movies far less than that.

We make less than $30,000, have no health insurance, no pension and don’t get Martin Luther King day off. If I were to take the health insurance offered by my company, I’d have to pay 40% of the premiums. On top of that, I took a 20% pay cut for over a year when we were knocked down to 4 days a week.

Yet 10% of my income is taken from me in the form of property taxes so that “you” can have all these things leaving me unable to afford them. And another 7% is taken from me so that I can pay for the people on Social Security & Medicare (that money is not set aside for my retirement), another 5% for sales tax…

What percentage of people do you think are in my situation?
And can you see why people like me see “you” as a bunch of ungrateful whiners?

You ask “Where will your private sector profits come from when you cut back on your spending?”


Here’s your answer: The $5,000 you won’t have doesn’t just disappear… it stays in the pocket of the original person that earned it. Wow, I bet you never though of it like that.

Believe it or not, other people will get to keep more of their paychecks and they will spend that $5,000 instead of you.

There are “tax payers” and “tax takers”. The “tax takers” need to understand that every dollar they receive is taken directly from someone else.

Is life easy? NO
Is life fair? NO

But if people like me can’t afford people like “you” all I have to say is sorry, the gravy train is slowing down – deal with it like the rest of us have had to for the last 2 years.

Times are tough. Get a helmet.

Oh, this spotted at SondraK's...

Nice civility you've got there, leftards. Didn't learn much from Baracky's speech in Tucson, did you?

Video footage of one of the protesters in action (h/t Burge on the Twitter)...



Whining bastiches. Get back to work, all of you, especially you elected 'officials'. Face the music. You've been dodging this for years.

Your chickens are flocking home to roost.

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Chris Christie bashes Republicans and Democrats alike, for their lack of Budget Cutting Resolve

Funny that he's bashing the House Republicans for not cutting enough, because if you read the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teefs coming from the New York Times editorialist, the House Republicans are out of control and trying to slash every 'essential' government program in reach.

But FOX News has Governor Christie's remarks...

“I look at what’s happening in Washington D.C. right now and I’m worried. I’m worried," Christie said to a crowded room at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.

“The president’s not talking about it because he’s waiting for the Republicans to talk about it,” Christie said. “And our new bold Republicans we just sent to the House of Representatives, they’re not talking about it because they’re waiting for him to talk about it. Let me suggest to you that my children’s future and your children’s future is more important than some political strategy. Let me suggest to you that what game is being played down here is irresponsible and it is dangerous. We need to say these things and we need to say them out loud. ”

“When we say we’re cutting spending, when we say everything’s on the table, when we say we mean entitlement programs, we should be specific.”

“Here’s the truth that nobody’s talking about. You're gonna have to raise the retirement age for social security,” he said. “Whoa, I just said it, and I'm still standing here. I did not vaporize.”

I like this guy. In New Jersey, he's taken on the pensions, the education system, and health benefits and costs. And the Union Thugs associated with (and driving) all of the above. A 'blunt and direct' approach to Dirty Socialisms. What's not to like about that?

And, you notice he's attacking both Republicans and Democrats. Who else did that whilst Governor ? Can you imagine the Team R duo Christie - Palin 2012?

Don't discount the possibility that Christie might be the Republican 2012 Presidential candidate. Just because he said he's not running, doesn't mean a thing at this juncture. If he's plays his cards right, he'll not get in the race until the last minute, so as to not attract the attention of the hateful Obama press and the low-level KOSupporters. Let the front-runners catch the majority of hate from the ankle-biters. Let the New York Times AGAIN try to 'anoint' our candidate as they did with John McCain (before turning on him), pushing a weak, soft, 'pragmatic' sort of bozo like Mitt Romney or Huckholio. Let the ObamaPressCorps attack those front-running candidates like they have attacked Sarah Palin, with the ferocity that wolves show for lambs.

Then, perhaps at the convention, Unleash the Christie.

No matter what becomes of this current Congressional - Presidential budget fight, it's merely a runner-up warmup to the fireworks coming soon enough. The political season that started with the CPAC Convention running all the way to the November 2012 election is going to be brutal, and we who are political aficionados will not suffer lightly further Republican missteps such as we did in earlier races; accepting Bob Dole or John McCain.

Things have changed forever; thank the rise of the Tea Party for that. Our 'Tea Bags' will crush your soft lefty faces, if you insist on using that analogy.

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And I like that, really.

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Wisconsin: Angry Dirty Socialists and Union Thugs Protest Budget Cuts

~!!*!!~

Events in Wisconsin this week, though, are a sign of something new: No more apologies, no half-measures, no more limping by until revenues return next year. Given the dire straits of states around the country, Mr. Walker is likely to joined by other state leaders who are forced to take similarly dramatic steps, particularly on matters of state workers, pension and unions.

“I’m sure we’re gong to hear more from other states where Republican governors are trying to heap the entire burden of the financial crisis on public employees and public employees unions,” said William B. Gould IV, a labor law professor at Stanford University and former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. “I think it’s quite possible that if they’re successful in doing this a lot of other Republican governors will emulate this.”

Maybe states will now follow Wisconsin's lead, instead of California's.

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Barack Obama realizes he blew the 2012 budget: even Dems are pointing and laughing.

BHO used "future" 11 times in his presser 2/15/11.
Worried, much?

This 2012 Presidential Budges is the worst case of an elected official sticking one's fingers in one's (elephantine) ears and "LALALALA!!"ing that I've ever seen. BHO's 2012 budget, known 'Dead on Arrival' as soon as it was printed, is too much for even him to keep a straight face.

So, BHO trotted himself out yesterday for a presser (transcript here). The spinning machine at the NYT softened what was Barcky's drawing back a bloody stump to this...

Obama, Conceding Budget’s Limitations, Seeks Consensus

Hmmmph. 'Limitations' is not the word to use anywhere nears this fiscal monstrosity.

WASHINGTON — President Obama conceded on Tuesday that his new budget does not do enough to resolve the nation’s long-term fiscal problems, but he counseled patience, suggesting that he would eventually come together with Republicans on a broad deal.

When pigs fly. So much has BHO and his lefty minions trashed Republicans that any 'concessions' we make should be done only after extracting public apologies. Instead, BHO is sending out feelers...

The White House has already opened back-channel conversations to test Republicans’ willingness to negotiate about the soaring costs of Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security’s long-range solvency and an income-tax code riddled with more than $1 trillion a year worth of loopholes and tax breaks.

What BHO has in mind is to play both ends against the middle. What BHO wants to do (the crux of the biscuit) is to both cut some of the Democrat's favored entitlements just enough to elicit a howl of protest from his mooching constituent base (you're hurting WOMEN, CHILDREN and MINORITIES FIRST!) and then place the blame for these 'excessive cuts' squarely on EVIL! Republicans, THEN promise to 'restore' the hurtful cuts just in time for his election, promising the Liberal Children that he is still 'fair'; and as soon as he's re-powered for another term, he will FIX THE PROBLEM! (tax the rich). If you think that BHO is NOT weighing every move he makes against the backdrop of his own re-election, you are a blindered partisan who would rather ignore the nearing-insurmountable problems of this nation for reasons of clearly-failing ideology (remember the 'debt crises last year in Greece and other European countries? That's a wake up call to Social Democrats, here and there.

Why else would BHO unstop his ears long enough to want to hear from Republicans?

Barack Hussein Obama is playing a deep game here, with the only objective he's playing for to get re-elected and stay in power. Oh, and to CHANGE this nation like it's never been CHANGEd before.

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Lara Logan suffers a CBS cognitive dissonance moment; OJ Simpson suffers an ass-whupping. One is more important than the other.

This, I care about.

CBS News, video, February 13, 2011:

Mona Eltahawy comments on how Egypt’s peaceful 18-day revolution didn’t just bring down a dictator, it also toppled stereotypes about Arabs, who are often seen as violent and as a people who crave an iron-fisted strongman.

CBS News, today, 2/15/11:

On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a "60 Minutes" story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.

In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.

There will be no further comment from CBS News and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.

Oh, that other thing, that I don't care so much about. I heard on the radio, 104.5 The Zone, around noontime; OJ Simpson got the shit beat out of him in a Las Vegas prison. Beat so bad that he had to stay in the infirmary for 3 weeks; now he's afraid to leave his cell.

Neither Nicole Brown Simpson nor Ronald Goldman could be reached for comment.

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So...lets do a pool. When will the USA default on its debt obligations ?

Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement responding to the Obama Administration's ten-year budget:

"By 2021, under the Obama budget, the national debt will balloon to $26.3 trillion from its current level of $14.1 trillion, an 86.5 percent increase. In fact, this year, in 2011, the national debt will grow to $15.4 trillion, larger than the entire economy. Thereafter, the debt-to-GDP levels will stay above 100 percent, growing every single year.

"In fact, under the Obama budget, the national debt will never be repaid. It will continue to grow into perpetuity. Even under the rosiest of scenarios projected by the Obama Administration, the debt will be growing faster than the economy and be larger than the economy — forever.

"If spending is not cut drastically and the debt paid down at fixed intervals like a mortgage payment, one day the debt will become too large to service, let alone be paid down. Net interest alone will be $844 billion annually by 2021, a number that will easily double by 2030 if not triple.

"Congress must consider real proposals that will prevent these numbers from becoming reality. Because once they do, and once the debt becomes so large that it cannot be serviced, the U.S. will default on its obligations.

"While nobody can say for certain where that breaking point is, what is certain is that no system can be sustained that always spends more than it takes in and never repays any debt. It has never happened in history, and it never will happen."

I've got 2012. Because, you know, let's get it over with. And 2012 just seems so...cruxy.

The sooner it breaks down, the sooner we can begin a recovery.

Bittersweet Valentines sent to Capitol Hill…

Now, have a nice chocolate!

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Home Prices and Bullets

Housing prices still haven't reached bottom...

“We went into 2010 feeling gangbusters, thanks to Uncle Sam,” Mr. Humphries said. “We ended it feeling penniless, with home values tanking.”

Keep thinking that! Government will SAVE YOU! NANNY STATE! NANNYSTATE! NANNNNNYSTAAAATE!!1!!!

“I don’t expect the market to get better,” said Ms. Dortch, 31, a customer service consultant.

Oh come on. Just vote for Democrats, they will save you. Right?

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This photo (Reuters, caption: Pins and jewelry, including some that reference former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, are on display at an exhibition hall booth at the Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC) in Washington, February 12, 2011) contains items that Someone said looked like bullets. Ha Ha Ha! funny, you know, Sarah Palin, bullets, yuck yuck YUCK!.

Freakin' Democrat(s), anyone with a bit of common sense would say they look like "Lipsticks meant for a pig".

THESE are bullets.

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Dirty Socialists beware: Atlas Shrugged out April 15

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Who is John Galt, bitches?

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Related (h/t pw)...

Never Enough, or, Eric Cantor, Call Your Office

Yesterday I taped an episode of Uncommon Knowledge with the Claremont Institute's William Voegeli, the author of Never Enough:  America's Limitless Welfare State.  Meticulously researched and carefully argued, Never Enough proves compelling--and horrifying.

With us for more than seven decades now, Bill argues, the welfare state just keeps on growing.  In the early nineteen-seventies, welfare spending first overtook defense spending as the biggest component in the federal budget.  Today welfare spending is three times more than defense spending.

Have Republicans managed to shrink the welfare state?  Ever?  No.  Never.  Not for so much as a single year.  Reagan slowed the growth of welfare spending dramatically.  But still it grew.  While Gingrich was Speaker, Republicans once again slowed the growth rate, but this time only modestly. As Bill writes:

Adjusted for inflation, per capita federal welfare state spending was 77 percent higher in 2007 than it was when President Reagan took office....Liberal victories advance liberalism; conservative ‘victories’ postpone liberalism."

How can this be?  Because, Bill explained, Republicans persistently underestimate the political costs of taking on the welfare state.

It's time to confront this monster, before, as is widely predicted, our entire economic engine collapses. It is inevitable; we're just not capable of stopping it.

While the timing may be uncertain, the trigger is certain. Societies collapse because they fail to plan ahead, cannot act fast enough when a catastrophic crisis hits. Think "Black Swan" and read evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed."

A crisis hits. We act surprised. Shouldn't. But it's too late: "Civilizations share a sharp curve of decline. Indeed, a society's demise may begin only a decade or two after it reaches its peak population, wealth and power."

Warnings are everywhere. Why not prepare? Why sabotage our power, our future? Why set up an entire nation to fail? Diamond says: Unfortunately "one of the choices has depended on the courage to practice long-term thinking, and to make bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time when problems have become perceptible but before they reach crisis proportions."

Sound familiar? "This type of decision-making is the opposite of the short-term reactive decision-making that too often characterizes our elected politicians," thus setting up the "inevitable" collapse. Remember, Greenspan, Bernanke, Bush, Paulson all missed the 2007-8 meltdown: It will happen again, in a bigger crisis.

We'll see if Atlas Shrugged takes a serious-enough approach to our predicament.

You know the left will hate this movie with a passion. I can hear them now, complaining of the 'unfairness', speaking to Ayn Rand's strange proclivities, as if that's going to change what's coming. This will be on I'll have to see on opening day.

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Mubaracky, Lady Gulagaga, Opray Winfrow, Ron Paultard ... did I miss anything ?

Mubarak is gone. But WE'VE still got Barack. We always get the short end of the stick, eh?.

Oh, and Barack's surrogate Mom, Opray Winfro, wants us to RESPECT! little BAraCkY. Mmmmmmmmkaay.

CPAC has turned into a howling Ron Paul fest. Have I mentioned lately that Ron Paul and his assorted PaulBots are goat fuckers? Well, it's truth. Just ask me anytime you need that reaffirmed.

Lady Gaga released a new single, obviously borrowing heavily from Madonna. Here's the mashup video comparison between the two.



Here's the real thing, Madonna's "Express Yourself".



Give me the Material Girl's "Express Yourself" over Lagy Da Da's "The New Gay Anthem" any old day.

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OH! Almost forgot:

Happy Birthday, Sarah Palin~!

 Media: ask "Will Obama Admin exert as much 'constructive' pressure on Iranian govt to change & allow freedom ~ as they just did for Egypt?"

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Christopher Lee (R, Dumbass) wins at least one consolation prize

That bag fellow has this photo up; the 'full length' version; most sites crop the 'smoking spigot'.

Bwahahahaha!

It’s not likely that many would note the ’significance’ of that upright faucet. I guarantee that Chris Lee (R, Dumbass) was unaware of the nuance.

Also unaware will be most Democrats in recalling the OTHER New York congressman, Eric Massa (D), who resigned last year after he was accused of groping a male aide. It took Massa over a month to leave office; Lee was gone in a few hours.

Hands-on groping wins out over spigot-up gawking, sorry, Dems. But we know you will make the most of this.

Personally, I hope Lee's wife divorces him and takes everything he's got, and Lee is forced to sell his ass in airport stalls to stay off the streets. What a dumbass.

Hmmmph. Just another New Yorker.

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Barack Obama's weather vane Egyptian policy is highly influenced by the Saudi King

Saudi Kings expect NOTHING LESS
than abject compliance.
Why should they ?

Barack Hussein Obama is taking warnings from the Saudis seriously. I suppose these Kingly admonitions explain some of the BHO administration's wild fluctuations and confusions.

From the Times of London (h/t Drudge, who has that photo up)...

Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt. In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to humiliate Mr Mubarak and warned that he would step in to bankroll Egypt if the US withdrew its aid programme, worth $1.5 billion annually. America’s closest ally in the Gulf made clear that the Egyptian President must be allowed to stay on to oversee the transition towards peaceful democracy and then leave with dignity. “Mubarak and King Abdullah are not just allies, they are close friends, and the King is not about to see his friend cast aside and humiliated,” a senior source in the Saudi capital told The Times.

Bend it over, Baracky.

Who knew?

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Another Ronald Reagan postage stamp released

This one released in 2005.

Beginning today, one can purchase a (currently .44 cent) Forever Stamp.

I think I'll buy a few sheets. Can't think of any other stamp I'd rather use.

Christmas Cards for the next several years won't be featuring Santa stamps, that's for sure.

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CPAC: Of any use or value?

The big party party starts today in DC, for to, as the NYT says, crown the next GOP presidential nominee.

I've some advice to CPAC:

1) If a RINO sticks it's snoot anywhere under the tent, spray it with a mixture of novocaine and cyanide. Then, beat it with any available baseball bat.

2) If it persists, see #1 above.

And whatever you do, let's keep the New York Times from picking this year's nominee, shall we? Because JOHN McCAIN was an idiot.

That is all.

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On the Huffington Post - AOL deal

The NYT reports…

Arianna Huffington, the cable talk show pundit, author and doyenne horse’s ass of the political left, will take control of all of AOL’s editorial content as president and editor in chief of a newly created Huffington Post Media Group. The arrangement will give her oversight not only of AOL’s national, local and financial news operations, but also of the company’s other media enterprises like MapQuest and Moviefone.

Glad I could fix that for them.

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Super Bowl XLV: How to Watch.

...with apologies to Wiley.

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Ronald Reagan on Socialized Medicine

From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video because this was an LP sent out by the American Medical Association

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Well, we've turned that corner, like the UK did in 1967. Did you know the UK had the world's preferred reserve currency for over 200 years, and that they lost that privilege to the US dollar in the late '60's, because their Labour Party (our Democrat 'Dirty Socialists' or 'progressives') devalued the pound sterling because their social programs caused runaway inflation? We are tracking to lose the dollar as the world's preferred currency for much the same reasons.

Here's a link to a video sent to me via email; worth watching, it is. The source is impeccable.

If / when our battered dollar is replaced as the world's reserve currency, we will no longer be able to print dollars to cover our debts. We now have the luxury of buying oil with dollars (no other country has that luxury); if we have to convert dollars to the 'new' world reserve currency first, then Katy bar the door.

Americans will likely behave very badly.

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Tennessee Goober #1

Spotted in the Holston river, baling out his jeep. Yep, a Tennessee Goober.

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Ronaldus Magnus

First, there was Morning in America...

Eight years later, President Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address
January 11th, 1989

Broadcast to the American people from the Oval Office. Reagan mentions two triumphs from his presidency: the economic recovery and the recovery of American morale. He discusses America's changing relations with the Soviet Union and shares his regret for the deficit that deepened during his time in office. He concludes by addressing America's sense of patriotism and refers to the nation as "a shining city on a hill."

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A truly Good Man. Hasn't been one like him in the Oval Office since; likely there won't be another like him in America's lifetime.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President.

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Egypt's Twitterverse vs. Egypt's Military: take the over, and bet your house payment.

Today's NYT features an essay by Timothy Egan, "Bonfire of American Vanities", wherein he spends much time, as usual, promulgating a leftard's hatreds of BOOOOOOOOSH! and American interests. I answer his thusly...

Let's hope your ideologically-charged views of things is germane. With the internet, Twitter, Facebook, smartphones and similar tools that the Iranians didn't have, the Egyptians are capable of choosing a more secular government. If you believe that's likely to happen, as Charles Krauthammer puts it, in his excellent essay "Egypt's dangerous road ahead: The Muslim Brotherhood's a force, ElBaradei's a useful idiot" you've the mind of a blinkered optimist or a child. What will determine Egypt's fate is Egypt's military, not Egypt's Twitterverse.

You've spent many lines of text belaboring the long path to democracy we began in Iraq, rehashing the left's hated intervention by George Bush (he's still the left's favorite punching bag to this day!); but there was no way 'then' to Twitter Saddam and his shredding sons out of power. Iraq would've laughed off those protesters; Iran doesn't allow that to happen even today, as was evidenced in 2009, when Mr. Obama failed to speak strongly enough in support of the easily-crushed Iranian rebels. Mubarak's being a pushover, Mr. Obama's bumbling efforts notwithstanding.

From 'Hillbuzz'

Instead of comparing Egypt's path to regime change to Iraq's, let's use the Iranian model as a much-closer-to-home analogy. Both nations experienced an internal push for democracy; in Iran demonstrations started in January of 1978, hard-line Muslims chomping at the camel's bit quickly filled the vacuum after the Shah left in January of 1979, while Jimmy Carter helplessly watched. But he had a nice sweater. Will we see a similar outcome in Egypt? Does Mr. Obama own sweaters?
Should we expect hostages?

Your pooh-poohing Israel's fate is noted, and expected. We of the USA are much more closely tied to the nation of Israel than to Egypt or Tunisia. Israel is the true near-Jeffersonian democracy in that region, and is the most threatened by non-secular hatreds. We must keep Israel's best interests in mind; let's not be so dismissive of her plight.

At least in 2011 we can all sit around and read the Twitter feeds. So much better than in 1979, when we relied on the quaint and (thankfully!) now-near-obsolete Main Stream Media.

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*animated GIF spotted at Hillbuzz.

Tahrir Square Photo Mashup

Tahrir Square Mashup

Various photos of the fast-changing Egyptian Revolution.

Let's see: the large background shot, Tahrir Square, before the Mubarak regime turned loose it's Egyptian thugs (government employees, mostly...I'm thinking SEIU) - some riding in on CAMELS, fer chrissake. The Egyptian military didn't do much to help or hinder.

The violence wasn't helped when our Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning Prezzidint spoke out of turn, in a feat of self-stroking genius. He deserves that 'sanctimonious halo', really.

Note this photo taken by David Degner, Egyptian photojournalist, right after news of Mubarak's speech (I think I'll stick around a little longer) made it's way to Tahrir Square. The shoes, the shoes. We should send someone to speak to them of proper discourse.

Oh, thanks! to Theo Spark for his cartoon roundup. The BHO - Nobel Prize Man as groundhog made my day.

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Nuclear secrets in the hands of Al-Qaeda.

Well, of course they are. We just have to stop 'em from deploying and using the cursed things.

Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons after sourcing nuclear material and recruiting rogue scientists to build "dirty" bombs, according to leaked diplomatic documents.

A leading atomic regulator has privately warned that the world stands on the brink of a "nuclear 9/11".

Security briefings suggest that jihadi groups are also close to producing "workable and efficient" biological and chemical weapons that could kill thousands if unleashed in attacks on the West.

Thousands of classified American cables obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to The Daily Telegraph detail the international struggle to stop the spread of weapons-grade nuclear, chemical and biological material around the globe.

What I think we have to do is pressure the billions of Islamic believers (those who are only concerned with practicing their 'Religion of Peace' peacefully) to step in and take care of their own extremist elements: al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the 'Muslim Brotherhood', all the freak Ayatollahs and Imams who channel Islam to destructive ends. A forced 'reform', if you will

How do we get them to do so, you ask? Why, target that black rock in Mecca, of course. Hold Kaba Hostage. Kaba, the largest IDOL currently worshiped by the most people in the world.

If any nuclear weapon goes off in, say, Jerusalem, New York City, Paris, London, any western target, then we carpet-bomb Mecca into the stone age.

Got you attention yet, Islamicists? What goes around, and all of that?

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UPDATE
Thomas Freidman, in today's New York Times, starts in again about how it's up to Israel to work in a Palestinian State, so as to appease the Islamicists (who now have another large player, Egypt, possibly now on the side of HATE ISRAEL!).

No. The only thing that will satisfy the Palestinian 'problem', as it is defined right now by these hateful Islamicists, is for Israel to not-exist. The notion of a non-existent Israel is preached by almost every Imam and Ayatollah who has voice of, who wields the power of Islam in his words. No, what must happen is for the Islamic faithful, all the billions of people worldwide who are members of that Religion of Peace, to force out those who bend their religion to terror and foment ongoing hatred against Israel.

The religion of Islam must be reformed, force-reformed if necessary (see above) so the Israelis can exist in peace in the Middle East.

Islam, and Muslims, must finally embrace their inner, and largely hidden, 'Religion of Peace'.

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Egypt's streets vs. New Orleans' post-Katrina streets: which Nation seized the people's guns ?

The American Thinker has posted an email from a lucid Egyptian that is better than any other analysis you've read anywhere; because, it's his life. Go forth and read the whole thing.

My interest is with this excerpt, describing Cairo after the collapse of the security forces and before the deployment of Mubarak's military...

On the streets of Cairo it was the scene of a jungle. With no law enforcement in town and the army at a loss at how to deal with it, it was the golden opportunity for everyone. In a city that is surrounded with slums, thousands of thieves fell on their neighboring richer districts. People were robbed in broad daylight, houses were invaded, and stores looted and burned. Egypt had suddenly fallen back to the State of Nature. Panicking, people started grabbing whatever weapon they could find and forming groups to protect their houses. As the day progressed the street defense committees became more organized. Every building had its men standing in front of it with everything they could find from personal guns, knives to sticks. Women started preparing Molotov bombs using alcohol bottles. Street committees started coordinating themselves. Every major crossroad had now groups of citizens stopping all passing cars checking their ID cards and searching the cars for weapons. Machine guns were in high demand and were sold in the streets.

I do not aim to turn this into a personal story, but those people are my friends and family. It is a personal story to me. My neighbors were all stationed in my father-in-law's house with men on the roof to lookout for possible attackers. A friend of mine was shot at by a gang of thieves and another actually killed one of them to defend his house and wife. Another friend's brother arrested 37 thieves that day. The army's only role in all of this was to pass by each area to pick up the arrested thieves. Army officers informed the street committees that anyone with an illegal weapon should not worry and should use it. Any death of one of the thieves would not be punished.

Recall the actions of our government in New Orleans after Katrina, with the looters going forth unchallenged by the non-existent police and National Guard; the only protection citizens had was to gather together to defend their homes. But a huge difference: the US Authorities (Local, State, and even Federal) wanted to seize all the guns from everyone, leaving the citizens with no means to protect themselves...

Controversy arose over a September 8 city-wide order by New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass to local police, National Guard troops, and US Marshals to confiscate all civilian-held firearms. "No one will be able to be armed," Compass said. "Guns will be taken. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns." Seizures were carried out without warrant, and in some cases with excessive force; one instance captured on film involved 58 year old New Orleans resident Patricia Konie. Konie stayed behind, in her well provisioned home, and had an old revolver for protection. A group of police entered the house, and when she refused to surrender her revolver, she was tackled and it was removed by force. Konie's shoulder was fractured, and she was taken into police custody for failing to surrender her firearm. Even National Guard troops, armed with assault rifles, were used for house to house searches, seizing firearms and attempting to get those remaining in the city to leave.

Angered citizens, backed by the National Rifle Association and other organizations, filed protests over the constitutionality of such an order and the difficulty in tracking seizures, as paperwork was rarely filed during the searches. Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, defended the right of affected citizens to retain firearms, saying that, "What we’ve seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves." The searches received little news coverage, though reaction from groups such as the NRA, the Second Amendment Foundation, and Gun Owners of America was immediate and heated, and a lawsuit was filed September 22 by the NRA and SAF on behalf of two firearm owners whose firearms were seized. On September 23, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued a restraining order to bar further firearms confiscations.

It's obvious that the Egyptian military, with their decision to allow citizens to remain armed and self-protected, was 'smarter' and closer to the needs of their citizens than the authorities in the United States. And we're the ones with the Constitution.

Most of those involved in orchestrating and ordering the gun seizures post-Katrina were, by the way, leftist Democrats.

Who knew?

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UPDATE

Thanks! to SayUncle for the linky yesterday.

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