Nearly there

Taking a blogbreak. Back in a couple of weeks or so.

I may tweet here and there.

A classic leftist. Caption Contest!

Ludicrous. If it were up to LaHood we'd all be doing this all winter long.

Hey, the country's goin' to hell in a handbasket, but doofus Barack is your new bicycle

...and the wimmin' are restless

P.S. Give credit to the source:

Winds, waves close lakefront path

Updated 11:38 a.m.

Crashing waves have closed a stretch of the lakesid

e bike and jogging path on the North Side as a cold front moves in.

Why does Florida Hate America?

 America is threatened by many crises, ranging from economic recession to international terrorism, but none of these threats are quite so immediate or so fundamentally hostile to our democratic form of government as the existential menace of Florida.

I am in total agreement with the Other McCain. Isn't it enough we north country folks have to endure a winter without rubbing our noses in it?

The day I drove across Illinois to Iowa for Mitt on New Year's Day 2008 it was cold as you wouldn't want to know and cars were slewed along the I-80 ditch from the icy party night before.

These days I am for Sarah or Perry but must you ruin my Christmas holidays? It's enough to put a person off blogging for good.

That may be their intent, but it will make for a bad-tempered bunch in Tampa 2012. In the August heat.

Dick Durbin creates bank deserts, gOing soft

Duh.

Am I feeling grouchy this morning. Could it be the Carter malaise that afflicts us? Our president Barack Obama says we're going soft. Jonah with an especially prize rant, ending thus:

Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he’s lecturing us about how America’s gone “soft”? Really?

Come home and community organize against your Dem sidekick Durbin. He deserves it.

But we don't deserve this rank leftist rot and stupidity.

P.S. More jobs may leave O's brain-dead Dem run state of Illinois: Indiana reportedly offering CME $150-million tax break to move HQ: Greg Hinz

Can we drill more, you know create jobs in America the real way?!!! New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota

Breaking: Americans' incomes fell 0.1% last month, the first decline in nearly two years  
Prices Rising, But Spending Slows as Income Posts Drop

GREENIES are KILLING JOBS. A crack on the left, unions want jobs: Keystone XL Pipeline Presents Choice of Jobs or Environment

...then there's the corrupt waste of Obama's greenie alchemy Solyndra (but he got those contributions)

Our economy's going soft, Big Gov porks up

P.S. Via Memeorandum, WLS890am Chicago: Durbin on Obama jobs bill: We don’t have the votes. That's because it's wrong--oil companies are getting the same tax treatment as other companies--they would be PENALIZED by this bill at a time when we need more jobs and more oil here. And the bill is USELESS to create jobs--its PORKULUS: Obama's 'save my job' bill versus real jobs bills

More from this morning's WLS Don and Roma show, comment :)

Sky_Bluez Sue K H

Don & Roma's "interview" w/ David Gregory this AM was wonderfully bizarre. DG barely spoke as they went on about stories he wouldn't cover

29 minutes ago

David Gregory, Moderator of Meet the Press joins Don & Roma

Listen

David Gregory, Moderator of Meet the Press joins Don & Roma to discuss the White House's embarrasment over 'Green' loans, Dick Durbin and company not having enough votes to pass the jobs bill, and Ford being pressured to pull their ad. Isn't the WH concerned at all about embarrasment over these green loans? Why are they continuing to make them? Why is Nancy Pelosi's brother-in-law getting over $700 million? Yesterday Dick Durbin told us that Democrats don't have the votes to pass the jobs bill. With the Democrats controlling the Senate, don't you think that's an embarrasment for the WH? Isn't that a bad sign if they can't even corral their own party? What does the WH say to the accusations that they pressured Ford to pull their anti-bailout ad?

Obama going soft, support going south--and the wimmin' are restless. LOL

Women comfortable in their own skin

Althouse is dead on in this blogging heads dialogue with a Dem. Our president Barack Obama has female trouble. Beyond the usual.

Was the recession a mancession? Yes. And because the stimulus was heavily weighted toward unions, which are heavily weighted in government at all levels, which are more weighted to women-- it didn't help. Duh. It was weighted toward the public sector, which is a dead weight--we pay for it.

If we'd really spent tax money on bridges and infrastructure, stuff that would last, that would have been sensible, because if you go into debt for the next generation at least it would be tangibly there. Is infrastructure sexist? How silly to evaluate it that way.

Do we sympathize with his women staffers? Not a lot.

More and more the old leftist template is cracked.

Even some media is finally picking up on this, so we suddenly see stories like--Chicks with Guns
Ah yes, so artistic:)

“Their numbers are really high but their profile is actually really low,” said McCrum, who spent three and a half years capturing artistic and arresting portraits of women with their weapons of choice.
“I was so surprised by the variety and breadth and diversity of these women,” McCrum said. “There are so many stereotypes about guns, mostly derived from popular culture, but the reality is so much more complex and varied than you can imagine.”

“Chicks with Guns” reveals just how true that is. The book features nearly 80 portraits and captions in which women describe the role of guns in their lives in their own words. It quickly becomes apparent that rich women, poor women, young women, old women, athletic women, sedentary women and a fair number of confident girls possess guns for reasons that are peculiarly their own.

Women as individuals, what a concept. And one of the most popular new HGTV shows is The Pioneer Woman.

I think something's going on. Maybe real life. We've always been there.

Now worrying about the future of our children--our daughters and our sons.

    --thanks for the recommended read, Pundit & Pundette

Related posts: Girls Just Wanna Have Guns, They're not swooning for O any more, Women take the long view, drop O in droves, Obama base threatened: affluent suburban voters may vote R on economy, More confirmation Obama losing women 

Michelle O Goes Shopping!!!

AP photo-op accessory to the campaign. She's actually standing in line! Michelle may be eating humble pie after her flashy fundraiser, but no one else is:

Perhaps First Lady Obama needs to drop by President Obama's re-election campaign headquarters in Chicago and give some tips on healthy eating: The overworked staffers are absolutely gorging on lousy food, according to Rufus Gifford, the National Finance Director for Obama for America.  They've eaten a year's worth of junk in "the past few weeks," Gifford said, and they're hyper-caffeinated, too.

"We've all had more pizza and bad takeout in the past few weeks than anyone should have in a year," Gifford wrote in today's e-mail request for a $3 donation.

Will it be a scientific breakthrough, at a discount?!!!

Previous post, apparently first in a series: Michelle O for girls pursuing science!!!

Is this getting too Dear Leader or what. Though that poster looks a bit more like Valerie.

Related post: And we wonder why there are no jobs

Megyn Kelly Takedown of Joy Behar

It's a beautiful thing, seeing some pushback on Behar's smug bullying: I believe these isolated outbursts take issue with the premise of the question, whether it be from a MSM panelist like Wolf Blitzer, who asked a simple-minded question on health care, or Brian Williams on the death penalty. (See Toby Harnden for a masterful discussion of that issue.)

P.S. We need some good questions on the outrage of taxpayer-funded guns Gunwalker/Fast and Furious at the next debate--and ask everyone the same question, get them on the record.

Obama Feds Bought Weapons to Sell to Narcoterrorists

Got that? It wasn't just pushing U.S. gun dealers to allow narcoterrorists to buy weapons here--the Obama administration used taxpayer dollars. Obama Justice lied, people died.

Why? Gee, what could be the reason.

If circumstantial evidence, political speeches, and talking points from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and President Bush all suggested that the solitary goal of a gunwalking conspiracy was to put American weapons in the hands of criminals in hopes they would commit violent crimes in order to undermine the Constitution and Bill of Rights … the Washington Post columnists would call for impeachment and criminal prosecution each day.

This scandal is cracking wide open, even harming the president's position with Latino voters. Maybe that will get some action from a few Dem Congressmen and the media, but not likely.

We have indications of Gunwalker in the Heartland, just the other day someone tried to hold up a store in Chicago with a grenade.

Obama's Chicago is the epicenter of gun control, its last stand in America, Illinois the only state that doesn't allow concealed carry despite crime stats arguing otherwise.

What's going on here? A failure of the Dems and Obama at their core to confront the truth about the Thug Comfort Zone, that people are responsible for wounding or killing other people--NOT GUNS:

Flash Mobs are what Chicago paper hat journalists are calling squads of black kids doing a beat down on victims -usually 'goofy-looking' white folks, in the words of the early flash mob who nearly beat Ryan Rusch* to death at Beverly Park in 2007.

The Chicago Media helped create the climate, which I have called the Thug Comfort Zone in this blog, in which beneficiaries of 'identity/grievance/entitlement politics' feel very comfortable doing anything. Ironically, more black people have suffered to a greater degree than any other demographic. Black kids get shot, raped, beaten, set-afire, robbed, and force-fed insect repellent - anybody remember Ryan Harris and Little Girl X**? Thought not.

Instead, the Chicago media has done a rhetorical flash mob on law enforcement, the justice system, the courts and especially police officers as human beings. [snip]

In 19th Century Chicago "footpads" were the flash mobs. They were gangs of jackrollers who beat and robbed victims. Back then the victims were drunks and fools wandering about the Levee. Today, a victim is usually . . .anybody.

It's a destructive culture that's terrorizing our cities from the inside--and the poison is spreading.

And this most left administration in American history is so hellbent on nailing the NRA and law-abiding Americans to the wall that it would aid and abet narcoterrorists in an attempt to frame us for the crime.

But it was so incompetent it couldn't even do that.

P.S. Will Holder turn on Obama?

More. NY Post suggests another explanation as well. We need a special prosecutor but who believes Obama/Holder will appoint one....TWS: Obama Justice Dept. being obstructive--this needs to be a campaign issue and come up at the next debate. Yes.

More. Forbes:  "Fast And Furious" Just Might Be President Obama's Watergate

999 or nein, nein, nein

Herman Cain's tax plan has gotten a fresh look after his fine performance in the Florida debate and straw poll. The WSJ's Stephen Moore defended the plan on Kudlow yesterday (at about 9:00), Ryan Streeter argues give it a chance.

NRO's Kevin Williamson says Nein, Nein, Nein.

Newt is unveiling his new Contract with America in Iowa today, featuring a Steve Forbes' favorite, the flat tax. [update here it is]

So taxes are on the table. That's a good thing, the core of an effective GOP growth message.

Spending's the other big lug on the dance floor, let's get more libertarian on that. Sarah Palin on Facebook, Now He's Blaming Europe, especially Germany, the bulwark of the EU:

On Monday, during a fundraiser in California, President Obama declared that Europe’s debt problems and their inability to solve them was “scaring the world.” He went on to explain that Europeans “have not fully healed from the crisis back in 2007 and never fully dealt with the challenges that their banking system faced” and that “they’re trying to take responsible actions, but those actions haven’t been quite as quick as they need to be.”

This of course is coming from a President who has done nothing to deal with our own country’s enormous debt crisis and who is in fact eager to incur even more debt with another useless stimulus bill (now called a “jobs bill” though the last stimulus failed to produce the jobs it promised, which is perhaps why Harry Reid doesn’t seem too eager to bring this new bill to a vote despite the President’s demands to “pass this bill”). Yes, Europe has serious debt problems, but for President Obama to be lecturing our allies about not being “quite as quick” in dealing with a debt crisis is downright hypocritical.

2012's a long way away, unfortunately, but, yes, we're off to a good start.

P.S.  Enron vet turns up in $737m solar loan guarantee 
The Pelosi connection. Instapundit.

More. Daniel Henninger, WSJ:  Taking Cain Seriously Why isn't a successful business résumé presidential material?:

Though he's got the governorship credential, Mr. Romney's emphasis in this campaign is on his private-sector experience. It's good, despite the knock on Bain Capital's business model. But measured by résumés, Herman Cain's looks deeper in terms of working on the private sector's front lines.

The details of his career path are worth knowing.

And Gov. Perry: Ben Bernanke, 'Money-Printing' Would Be Out at Fed

---your laugh of the morning: Janeane Garofalo: Racist Republicans Support Herman Cain 

Your O NO! & Faux History of the Day

Courtesy of NRO photoshopper

Doubling up as a symbol of Obama foreign policy--cuz who can fly safely any more. And put Hillary! (you don't rate even that anymore Joe) on that slow train to China too
 ***
In case you missed it, more faux history from the Left. Can we drive a transcontinental stake through the heart of this spurious raaaacist charge against Republicans? Morning Jay:

I think this comment speaks to a broader issue: the tendency of liberal Democrats to misrepresent the origins and nature of Southern Republicanism.
I offer three points to counter the crude charge that “GOP racism equals Southern votes:"
1. Southern Republicanism had little to do with Southern segregation.
The systematic repression of the constitutional rights of black citizens in the South was not due to mere racial enmity. Instead, it had as its origins the need of the elite doctor-lawyer-planter-merchant class that resided in the majority black counties of the deep South to retain its privileged position. If African Americans enjoyed the right to vote, this class would lose its power.
These elites had nothing to do with the Republican party. Indeed, they actively resisted the entreaties of Republican Rutherford Hayes, who thought that, as former Whigs, they might unite with the GOP on economic issues. But that never happened. In fact, these hard-core segregationists were so staunchly committed to the Democratic party that they backed Al Smith (an anti-prohibition Catholic) over Herbert Hoover in 1928.
Until roughly the 1980s, Southern Republicans were generally of two types. The first was the mountain Republicans of Eastern Tennessee, and Western Virginia and North Carolina, who were the descendants of former Whigs and Constitutional Unionists, and who had opposed secession. These mountain Republicans were not the friends of the elites, as they opposed the Crump machine in Tennessee and aligned with the populists in North Carolina and Virginia.
The second type of Southern Republican was not really found until after World War II, with the rise of the “New South” economy based on energy, shipping, defense, tourism, high-tech, and agribusiness. These sorts of people settled in cities like Charlotte, Dallas, Houston, Miami, and Tampa, and were often Northern transplants. They were conservative on economic and cultural issues, and they were actually an implicit threat to the segregationist regime; after all, bank managers in Tampa or insurance executives in Houston had no economic reason to keep blacks and poor whites in the deep South suppressed. We can see the power of these voters as early as 1952, when Eisenhower won all five of those cities (and this despite the fact that the Democrats nominated for vice president Senator John Sparkman of Alabama, a staunch segregationist). 

READ ON

A 7-year-old girl responds to DC Comics' sexed-up reboot of Starfire

"Do you think the Starfire in the Teen Titans comic book is a good role model?"

"Yes, too. She's still a good guy. Pretty, but she's helping others all the time and saving people."

"What about this new Starfire?"

"No, I don't think so."

"Why not?"

"Because she's not doing anything."

... Demure fashion trend pleases parents, young girls this fall

Will sexualizing our children and dumbing down our culture pay off?

We'll miss you, Ozzie

he's a baseball manager who swears and scratches and spits, and all he did was win a World Series in your lifetime

We'll miss you a lot

 

 

Chicago Classic: Commuters & Coyotes

Chicago is bankrupt, cash flow is drying up, public union pensions still flow green as the Chicago River on St. Paddy's Day. Rahmbo wants a casino but it may be a no go. The state's on the ropes too and dud grenades on the streets, a plea for grenade control if I ever heard one. What to do--Rahm's brain trust comes up with some ideas, leaving the unsustainable union pensions looming. From the email bag, one of my dryly humorous girlfriends:

I love how Rahm is floating the concept of a city income tax.   Chicago's income tax base is too small for long term financial relief, but it certainly would help in the short run, before businesses could move their operations.   With the city's large dependent population not paying the tax, and public pension benefits likely excluded, Rahm would nail suburban commuters, not "his" voters.  Perhaps not a bad idea after all......

Of course most Chicago aldermen are eating this up:

  “We pay tolls to get into other suburbs,” said Ald. Leslie Hairston, 5^th. “I guess membership has its privileges. A lot of people come into the city of Chicago.”

Also willing to consider the commuter tax was Ald. Pat Dowell, 3^rd.

“I think a commuter tax is sensible,” Dowell said. “I think that’s something that could be looked at. People that live outside the city and work in the city utilize our streets, our transportation systems. They’re in Chicago. They’re out of Chicago. Perhaps there’s a price to be put on that.”

Asked if she was more open to taxing suburbanites because they don’t elect her, Dowell smiled and gave a quick nod.

Some commuter reaction:

CaptAhab2 at 9:43 AM September 28, 2011 “We pay tolls to get into other suburbs,” said Ald. Leslie Hairston, 5th. “I guess membership has its privileges. A lot of people come into the city of Chicago.”

???????? WHAT TOLLS????? Is She refering to the tollway system???

If so,  the case could be made that she is paying to LEAVE Chicago/

WHAT MEMBERSHIP??????????

PUT DOWN THE PIPE AND sober up.

Richard S. at 9:12 AM September 28, 2011 What are these aldermen smoking:
“We pay tolls to get into other suburbs,” said Ald. Leslie Hairston, 5th. “I guess membership has its privileges. A lot of people come into the city of Chicago."
Well suburbanites pay tolls to come into Chicago. Did you forget about that Leslie Hairston?
"People that live outside the city and work in the city utilize our streets, our transportation systems. They’re in Chicago. They’re out of Chicago. Perhaps there’s a price to be put on that.”
And while in Chicago these people shop and pay your outrageous tax of 10.5% on food and merchandise. Now you want to tax them for coming into the city? Maybe you want to pay a tax when you go out to the suburbs?

And let it be noted many near suburbanites already subsidize Chicago's corrupt and dysfunctional Cook County bigtime.

Meanwhile, bankrupt Chicago continues on its merry way, running low on dead voters--or buying swamp with taxpayer dollars, take your pick (I wonder who the seller is connected to) and public union garbage collectors inexplicably get sick on Mondays and Fridays, forcing a cutback on rodent patrol.

I suggest more coyotes. That great street.

Leftists running out of other peoples' money, running 'em out of town.

  --thanks for the recommended read, Pundit & Pundette

And we wonder why there are no jobs

Is this your state?

When joblessness soared during the recession and anemic recovery, many states drained their unemployment funds and borrowed from Washington to cover their share of benefits. Now 27 states collectively owe almost $38 billion. More than $1 billion in interest on those loans is due Friday, when the federal government's fiscal year ends, and some states are relying on additional taxes to make the payments.

Many employers will face a second hit—higher federal taxes—if their states don't pay their loan balances by November. The increased unemployment-insurance levies, an added $21 per employee a year in roughly 22 states, go into effect in January. That increase will be even bigger for states that miss their interest payments.

Look at the top deadbeat states. California, the leftist paradise with Gov. Moonbeam at the helm. Michigan, (new GOP governor notwithstanding) basket case for eons as Detroit's been battered by greenie mandates and piggy unions. Pennsylvania, dominated by Philadelphia lawyers, New York is New York. So far we're hitting straight blue. North Carolina, whose Dem Gov. wants to suspend democracy and is under criminal investigation for campaign expense violations.

Then there's Illinois. What's going on around here.

Every job needs an entrepreneur.

Onerous taxes, heartless jobless policies and class warfare won't cut it.

P.S. Via Morning Bell: Employers' health-care premiums increased 9 percent this year, according to a new survey. The cost of family coverage topped $15,000 for the first time. 
WSJ Editors: Paul Ryan’s new health-care roadmap.

Those raaaacist cupcakes

Out on the Left Coast an endangered species of young Republicans at Berkeley hold a bakesale with a point. Zombie is there: Are the leftie protesters chanting hey, hey, ho, ho, these racist cakes have got to go? I couldn't quite make it out. You have to love the community organizer with the megaphone--looks like a privileged professor, doesn't he.

I was happy to see a bake sale, I thought the food police had eradicated them, but it appears people still appreciate simple pleasures.

Heard this song before but not like this

A real oldie, watch: ...and the leftie commenters are having fits.

Saudi woman to be lashed for driving car

So the King got some good PR for supposedly allowing women to vote--even though it's off in the future, now the lash comes down:

Najla Hariri, one of the women facing charges, told Reuters: "They called me in for questioning on a charge of challenging the monarch on Sunday... I signed a pledge not to drive again, although my driving was a result of necessity not an act of defiance."
Under Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic laws, women require a male guardian's permission to work, travel abroad or undergo certain types of surgery.
There is no law banning women from driving, but there is a law requiring citizens to use locally issued licences while in the country. Such licences are not issued to women, making it effectively illegal for them to drive.

How convenient. And then there's the matter of "challenging the monarch". 10 lashes.

Well, I suggest the women wear chainmail, though even that is too modern for this place.

No Irish Need Comply

Where Burchard depicted Irish Catholics as drunks, Warren portrays working Americans in the private sector as greedy. Where Burchard slurred Catholicism itself as "Romanism" -- a common anti-Catholic slur of the day -- Warren slurs the American free enterprise system and entrepreneurship itself with the caustic line: "You built a factory out there? Good for you…God bless….."[snip]

Today, in the world of Elizabeth Warren, those Irish Catholic voters have become Tea Party supporters or just plain and simple hard-working Americans of the middle class. In particular, millions are small business men and women struggling in a hostile business climate to create jobs -- a hostile climate engineered precisely by Warren and her Obama Administration colleagues And it is surely one of history's more delicious ironies that in fact it is exactly the Tea Party members who have been assailed with all manner of slurs (racists, Nazis, greedy, etc., etc.) in precisely the fashion of Irish Catholics in 1884.

Related posts: O goes all out. Demonizer in Chief, Have we met

Our 6 cups of coffee age

The simple elixir that works for women: Coffee may prevent depression:

During the decade that the women were followed, 2,607 cases of clinical depression were diagnosed. Over all, women who regularly drank coffee had a lower risk of depression — about 20 percent — than the women who abstained, and the risk was dose-dependent. In other words, the likelihood of depression fell with each additional cup of coffee, in this case up to as many as six cups a day.

 I wonder, is it licensed for that?

So far it's not against the law. But as we can see in yet another area, our government is very selective on enforcement:

Mr. Martin now asks customers to prove their heritage and residency. "You get real smart after they come to your house and arrest you and make you feel like Charles Manson," he says.

It's enough to depress a person. Time for another cup.

Michelle O for girls pursuing science!!!

Yes we could use fewer lawyers. Chicago Tribune:

First lady Michelle Obama on Monday touted the importance of girls pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math, though admitted she became a lawyer because she was “bad at these subjects.”

At least she wasn't bleating about their pursuing careers in leftist non-profits. But have no fear, ObamaCare will kill that enthusiasm for pursuing highly-educated, hard-working, high reward careers--turning doctors into government drones.

Because not everyone can get lucrative politically connected gigs to ward off community organizers agitating the neighborhood to get something for nothing.

  --thanks for the recommended read, Pundit & Pundette, another skeptic on government "investment" in schools

Boomers going to bat for Millennials

Bannon on Palin. He gets it. She gets it.

PalinUndefeated The Undefeated Movie

Interview: @StephenBannon: “20 Something Generation is Going to be Wiped out Before it Even Starts” fb.me/1c2iSK6YX #VictorySessions

11 minutes ago

Because we've seen the consequences upon us and the careless cruelty, the narcissism of our generation:


We want to save the world from ourselves, before it's too late for our loved ones, our children...we are the new counterculture.

More. Andrew Klavan. I knew what he was talking about just from the title.

180 Movie Changes Opinions From Pro-Abortion to Pro-Life

In a matter of minutes. A serious approach to a serious subject.

While skeptics of 180 say they can’t believe anyone would change his or her mind so quickly, Comfort accepts and even understands their disbelief, stating that he could hardly believe it himself when he first viewed the footage in the editing room. Initially, 180 was not the film he meant to produce. At the time, Comfort was taping interviews for a DVD to go along with a book on Hitler and the holocaust. In the course of the interviews, one question led to another, and the discussion led to abortion.

Online now.

nO more: switch to sheet cake in Hoosier state

Neighbor to his home state, Obama's charisma did the trick for him in usually red Indiana in 2008, but no more:

Even small signs of recovery are tentative. Baker Adam Harrison, 37, said his business "sky-dived without a parachute" in 2009. Demand for wedding cakes has rebounded, he said, but brides are forgoing ornate multi-tiered concoctions in favor of simpler two-layer offerings or cheap sheet cake.
Mary McHugh, a physical therapist in her mid-50s, said she supported McCain in 2008, but many of her clients and colleagues supported Obama.
"A lot of middle-aged women and hard-working, middle-class people, they were struggling, and he just came in and dazzled them. Everyone thought he was going to wave a magic wand," said McHugh, sitting in VanHusan's salon. "I don't think they'll support Obama again. They're looking for an option. They're looking for someone for president who has some experience in business."

How about experience, period. There's not a high hurdle after this president. When he starts demonizing Americans facing tragedy he really gets in the gutter--and at yet another high-end fundraiser.

Real jobs are the answer but this let them eat crumbs president and his sidekick don't have a clue.

P.S. Have a cupcake in the meantime.

P.P.S.Cracks appear in Obama's Chicago base

Eat Cheese and Die

Clearly these people are beyond parody. Billboard in heart of Wisconsin warns about dangers of cheese 

Did they check with Michelle?

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It's DEMON CHEESE!!! But consider their model in chief. ...Treat inanimates/the elements as players, treat other people as evil or stupid.

O goes all out. Demonizer in Chief

So Texas wildfires are caused by global warming.

In a reference to the GOP front-runner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Obama said: "You've got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It's true."

Some say one was caused by an ATF agent. (Gee, I thought our President Barack Obama was in charge of bringing global warming to heel)

"You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have healthcare and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. "That's not reflective of who we are," Obama said.

The comments came at one of four events for his reelection campaign Sunday...

But, apparently catcalls are America. But what if the catcaller is the president of the United States. In a speech. Oops.

No, this one, in front of well-heeled supporters and White House pool reporters.

We're not just bitter clingers, no, no, no, we're pure evil. And our houses deserve to burn.

More. Playing to the base.

So the Obama people feel that amping up the base is their best play. And yet, many will counter, won’t this strategy perforce alienate still more independents? [snip]

But there’s something else important to them. “They also want someone who can run things, a person who can make things work,” Molyneux says.

Still on the Left Coast:

  "President Barack Obama will spend part of Monday hobnobbing with celebrities and other power-brokers in Los Angeles ... Then, Obama will head to the Fig and Olive, a restaurant on Los Angeles' trendy Melrose Place, for a private fundraiser co-hosted by investment manager John Emerson, consultant Andy Spahn, Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg and Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon, a Democrat with knowledge of the event told CNN. The campaign official said the cost to attend is $17,900 per person."

Obama Gaffe: 'Asking a Billionaire to Pay the Same Tax Rate as a Jew - as a Janitor'

All out.

P.S. About that global warming, in case anybody missed it: 

While everyone was no doubt glued to their TV for the last 24 hours watching Al Gore’s “24 Hours of Reality” telethon–wait, you mean you weren’t?–there was another breaking story that has not got the attention it deserves.  Nobel Prize-winning scientist Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society two days ago in protest of the APS’s climate change position.  This is notable in part because Giaever was among 70 Nobel laureates who endorsed Obama for president in 2008, so he’s no member of the vast right-wing conspiracy.  Here’s the complete text of his letter of resignation:

Dear Ms. Kirby
Thank you for your letter inquiring about my membership. I did not renew it because I can not live with the statement below:

Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth’s climate...

All out.

The Hill on the Left Coast remarks: "This is a choice about the fundamental direction of our country," the president said. You got that...right.

More. Via the Instapundit, Dem distractions and smears.

An old glacial lake

Assorted governments splurge trillions each year scouring an interventionist glacier across the capitalist landscape...

All we ask is to leave us well alone. But failing that--we are the new counterculture

Axelrod & Rahm's Amnesia, Obama's Slumber, I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm a warrior for the middle class, Have we met, Onion moves editorial staff to Chicago, Will we stand with the American people, or their oppressors: 23 get $56MM

Romney's Bridge on the River Kwai

The Worst Answer of the Night

An agile mind, a facile soul.
But this is not one bridge, it's our country. 

Axelrod & Rahm's Amnesia, Obama's Slumber

Amusing if it weren't so serious. WLS with the tape. JWF: Axelrod Denies Knowing Obama: 'I Don’t Know Anybody Associated With Solyndra' 

Megan McArdle “I’m still trying to wrap my mind around just how much money Solyndra managed to spend in just two short years.”

A lot of money to forget, given the big bucks donors involved.

Remember Axelrod forgetting about the president talking to Blago about the Senate seat? After he spoke about it a few days earlier?

As for Rahm, he's got skills. He's forgotten more about the Obama administration than Obama ever knew.

But Obama does want to stick it to us. He wakes up for that.

P.S. Obama turns into a LaRouchie on trains: WHOEVER’S PROGRAMMING HIS TELEPROMPTER MUST BE A GOP MOLE: L.A. Times: New gaffe: Obama hails America’s historic building of ‘the Intercontinental Railroad’.

More. Watching Solyndra execs take the Fifth in Congressional hearings. They're showing it live on CNBC...I'm switching to c-span. The House stripped DoE funding for greenie projects in their CR....NY Times is a particular laugh this morning:

The government’s backing of Solyndra, which could cost taxpayers more than a half-billion dollars, came as the politically well-connected business began an extensive lobbying campaign that appears to have blinded government officials to the company’s financial condition and the risks of the investment, according to a review of government documents and interviews with administration officials and industry analysts.
While no evidence has emerged that political favoritism played a role in what administration officials assert were merit-based decisions, Solyndra drew plenty of high-level attention. Its lobbyists corresponded frequently and met at least three times with an aide to a top White House official, Valerie B. Jarrett, to push for loans, tax breaks and other government assistance.

Valerie is Obama's leftist brain. They are best buddies. Dead cert he knew what she was up to. So is our President Barack Obama stupid or evil?

--thanks for the headliner, Chicago Daily Observer:) And, folks, you might want to read this on our oh so baby-faced President Barack Obama.

Geomagnetic Storms and Aurora

Watched the debate, Romney statist on Social Security, Perry leftie talking on immigration, Bachmann bored in on Perry gave the Romneybot a pass again how tea party unfaithful is that, Newt nasty to Megyn Kelly, Santorum tackled Huntsman instead of Paul this time, Cain and the Chilean model great stuff. Johnson at least listens to El Rushbo good joke on Obama.

APOD break.

P.S.

Jenfidel JLT

RT @CoolChange80: @DavidLimbaugh There is clearly an opening for Sarah Palin to enter the race.

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Just an observation - People r looking for a reform election, top 2 aren't talking reform beyond ObamaCare.

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Thxs to the 3K people who bought Gangster Government in the last 3 weeks. More relevant than ever, and still available! http://ow.ly/6CvHw

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Good night. Looking out for Aurora.

I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm a warrior for the middle class.

He (RCP video) and Rahmbo. Light Squared and Solyndra. And his other Chicago Way buddies.

Dripping with diamonds and contempt for the American people.

Get real. There he is, standing in front of a bridge in Boehner's district, purely for political purposes. There's nothing wrong with the bridge, it's just not enough to handle all the traffic--but if he really cared, as El Rushbo pointed out today, why didn't he spend the half a billion in Solyndra money to fix it. Better yet, why not fix the Spaghetti Bowl in Chicago--how come you didn't stand there Barack.

Our president's standing around in Ohio while the market's crashing down, while Main St. is choked off from lending, while people are croaking for jobs, oh yeah it's brave Sir Barack Botany.

Sir Brian had a battleaxe with great big knobs on.
He went among the villagers and blipped them on the head.
On Wednesday and on Saturday,
Especially on the latter day,
He called on all the cottages and this is what he said:

"I am Sir Brian!" (Ting-ling!)
"I am Sir Brian!" (Rat-tat!)
"I am Sir Brian,
"As bold as a lion!
"Take that, and that, and that!"

Sir Brian had a pair of boots with great big spurs on;.
A fighting pair of which he was particularly fond.
On Tuesday and on Friday,
Just to make the street look tidy,
He'd collect the passing villagers and kick them in the pond.

"I am Sir Brian!" (Sper-lash!)
"I am Sir Brian!" (Sper-losh!)
"I am Sir Brian,
"As bold as a Lion!
"Is anyone else for a wash?"

Sir Brian woke one morning and he couldn't find his battleaxe.
He walked into the village in his second pair of boots.
He had gone a hundred paces
When the street was full of faces
And the villagers were round him with ironical salutes.

"You are Sir Brian? My, my.
"You are Sir Brian? Dear, dear.
"You are Sir Brian
"As bold as a lion?
"Delighted to meet you here!"

Sir Brian went a journey and he found a lot of duckweed.
They pulled him out and dried him and they blipped him on the head.
They took him by the breeches
And they hurled him into ditches
And they pushed him under waterfalls and this is what they said:

"You are Sir Brian -- don't laugh!
"You are Sir Brian -- don't cry!
"You are Sir Brian
"As bold as a lion --
"Sir Brian the Lion, goodbye!"

Sir Brian struggled home again and chopped up his battleaxe.
Sir Brian took his fighting boots and threw them in the fire.
He is quite a different person
Now he hasn't got his spurs on,
And he goes about the village as B. Botany, Esquire.

"I am Sir Brian? Oh, no!
"I am Sir Brian? Who's he?
"I haven't any title, I'm Botany;
"Plain Mr. Botany (B.)"

Kick butt.

Have we met

I started this blog in part because I was tired of biting my tongue in polite company. Leftists have no such compunction. The Dem Senate candidate from Massachusetts who has all the answers: Aside from the questionable numbers (gee, are we to blame Bush for today?) what about the tone, in a gathering in someone's home. Clearly the individual who built the factory is public enemy number one in the neighborhood. It's as Peter Schiff noted in his testimony to Congress the other day--if you create jobs you're treated like a criminal.

One of her former Harvard Law school students comments:

There are so many things wrong with Warren’s statement that I really don’t know where to begin. Tonestaple sent me an email that certainly gets the tone right (which led to my post’s title):

They [meaning the middle class Leftists who applaud the above statement] seem to think it is the ne plus ultra of common sense. I think it sounds like a gangster saying, “Nice factory you’ve got here – be a shame if anything happened to it.”

As my interlineation about Gibson Guitar shows, Tonestaple perfectly nailed the reality behind Warren’s cutesy, nursery school-esque, “God blessy” statement that everybody should share with everybody else.” The reality is that, in Obama world, if you don’t make nice with the government, the government is not going to make nice with you. (The cutesy tone, incidentally, is classic Warren. She was one of my law school profs, and I found her invariably sweet in word, unintelligible in substance, and vaguely vicious in action.)

Have we met, Elizabeth?

People came to this country for freedom. If they didn't have roads they used God-given rivers, and built them as they could. It was We the People then, and it's we the people now.

I don't believe I know you but I've met you every day. Nor do you know me.

Americans built this country with human capital. That's why we have some left over, for the government, if it's a good one.

And if you don't value human capital and the power of ideas to create wealth and jobs, then I suggest your education was wasted.

Sadly, we'll be paying off you and your friends' leftist legacy for years to come.

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