Cloud Rows

Over Fargo.

Over to you, Barack-O.

Rahmbo.

A broke-n nation

Time for a Change

Out and about. Tweets still on.

Fight for America, folks.

Ann Romney Winning Pinterest

On interactions. Big with women. The Hill:

"This represents the first year that Pinterest, now the 3rd largest social media network, has been around during a presidential election cycle," noted Apu Gupta, the CEO and co-founder of Curalate. "Pinterest provides us an opportunity to see how people engage with candidates and their spouses in a more emotional and visual way. This really is about humanizing the candidates and the spouses and finding content that enables people to form a more emotional connection to the candidates and their spouses."

More people view, comment on and like Ann Romney's content than they do Michelle Obama's. That could be because Ann Romney often shares and comments on her own images. Her most popular images, according to Curalate, are recipes.

Her most popular pin so far is banana bread, but many Happy Halloween returns of the day with this candy corn cookie recipe, right up top:)

Am repinning it now:)

P.S. My friend Mary emails:

  The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show had a "Fractured Fairy Tales" segment where a novel spin would be put on an old tale.  Reminds me of Team Obama's take on the world.  You can't believe what you hear and see, only their re-telling of the story.  "The economy is growing."   "Fast & Furious was a gun sales promotion."  "Benghazi was a hostile movie review."  "Taxes do not impact personal income."  "Business regulations have no cost."  "You can keep our own doctor with Obamacare."   All, Fractured Fairy Tales.

Trick or treat. I choose treat.

3 Takes on Preezie Barackstar

Believe in America.

P.S. This is the latest ad on the marriage amendment airing in newly swinging state Minnesota.

Crushing debt is our children's biggest threat

The yet-to-be born are truly our most under- and unrepresented citizens and taxpayers. The real test of compassion isn't just your level of caring for people who are close at hand but your concern for the invisible people whose suffering we can only imagine and who have no choices about the world in which they find will themselves.

We already can glimpse the future. Just the payment of interest on our already crushing debt has robbed the struggling and impoverished of countless billions of needed help. In Illinois, our debt has cut dramatically into medical and other kinds of assistance so important to the desperate.

This isn't just an issue for the presidential election. In Illinois, ungodly unpaid obligations were rung up as if we didn't care about the burdens that would befall our children — just as long as "we" (meaning public employees) were not just comfortable in old age but prosperous beyond the lifestyle of struggling taxpayers.

Suit filed by CTU, others seeks to overturn pension law

56m Anne Leary ‏@backyardconserv

CTU blocks school reform with website: CPS gives principals bonuses, CTU launches school reform website http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8865386 …

"The liberal agenda is not the black agenda. It's not the family agenda. It's not the American agenda" 

Calling Out Collar County Women

"The liberal agenda is not the black agenda. It's not the family agenda. It's not the American agenda"

 “the real cause of violence in the community is caused by narco-terrorism facilitated by Chicago’s liberal-sanctuary-city status, in addition to the historically high unemployment rate among black men between of working age,”

Via RebelPundit, rumblings in Obama's Chicago. Turnout may be little down in the old O hometown this year.

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Indian Americans for Joe Walsh, for Freedom #IL08

Via Bill Baar's West Side: Vote RepJoeWalsh Rep_JoeWalsh

Beached

Can't draw out summer any more. Lake's low, water's cold.

Keep safe out East.

#CTU Bosses Shove Thru O Endorsement. No Vote

They did one of those I can't hear you yea and nay votes like we saw at the Dem convention, you know, where delegates booed God and the Jews and Big Dem Boss LA Mayor Villaraigosa decreed it never happened.

Kyle Olson, Townhall: Chicago Teachers Union Rank-and-File Reps Refuse to Endorse Obama:

So much for finding favor with the hometown crowd.

President Obama managed to gain an endorsement from the Chicago Teachers Union last week, but it took some quick maneuvering by the union’s executive committee to make it happen, EAGnews.org found.

It seems the union’s House of Delegates (about 800 delegates representing rank-and-file members) failed to act on the recommended endorsement, expressing a preference to sit this election out. But the union leadership came through for its old friend Obama, rejecting the advice of the people who pay the dues and the bills.

Of course, they're to the left of O on school reform.

Other Windy City news, via Hillbuzz, where apparently Obama's '08 finance chairman Penny Pritzker is being shunned by those she strong-armed the last go-round.

No one wants to pony up for the O Aloha getaway.

Is this campaign rotten enough for you yet America. From sex... O asks young women for political virginity, mimics Putin

DOOM ANTIDOTE: Massive Blowback and Backfire to Obama’s Lena Dunham Ad. “Just like the Fonz, Obama went from Mr. Popular to Jumping the Shark”.

...to thugs.

Do we want these we don't need no stinkin' democracy Obama elites shoving us around for 4 more years. Spitting on we the people.

O asks young women for political virginity, mimics Putin

Sick and degrading in itself, This Is Why The Democrats Are Losing. but now we know they got the idea for Your First Time from Russia's dictator. Charming. A man who puts girl bands in jail. A thug who kills opponents, including a journalist with too many questions. Her name was Anna.

So women, do you think the Dem bosses respect us? Do you think they'll really care the morning after the election? Just pass some lipstick on a pig reward for trial lawyers and call it progress?

Where are the jobs, Mr. President, with half of recent college grads unemployed or underemployed, working if they're lucky at the local pool, armed with that college degree and a slug of pricy college loans. Where are the jobs, Mr. President, as millions of Americans feel they have no dream.

So moms, how do you feel, after seeing all the opportunities for women in an expanded workforce these last 30 some years, after raising a daughter to believe she can do anything she puts her mind to?

No, no, no.

Just lie back and think of Barack.

Obamagirl 2008 dancing and full of life. Obamagirl 2012 just do it.

We know Dems have been engaging in a pretty bauble campaign.

...what can we do to distract voters from my dismal record today.

They tried the war on women, they try to cheapen debate and just shut us up.

Some candidates engage in the politics of personal destruction.

8h Anne Leary ‏@backyardconserv

Tammy D deals "Low Blow" per @cbschicago I'd say just another Chicago pol. Not thoughtful not independent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fYKvTPxmj4&sns=two … #IL08

 

8h Anne Leary ‏@backyardconserv

TammyD tells @RepJoeWalsh kids to SHUT UP.Tammy should apologize: Joey Walsh on Tammy Duckworth's Hurtful Attacks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_-dVdA3f2o&sns=tw … #IL08

And some campaigns have hit rock bottom.

More: Free Beacon: How sarcasm and insult took over the Democratic Party 
Pundit & Pundette:  Ad: Vote for Obama and "do it with a great guy"
From Hope & Change to Fearmonger-in-Chief - Toby Harnden, Daily Mail
America Has Finally Seen the Real Obama - Peggy Noonan, Wall St Journal

Heart this! R2 Restoring the Promise of America

We've got the mo! Getting choked up now.

We believe. We can do this, America.

Poverty is winning now. Let's win the future

Was it our darling, eye candy Preezie, busy on the celebrity talk show rounds? No, no, no.

Paul Ryan in Cleveland, the heart of the Rustbelt:

We can do this, America.

College-educated women swing Romney, Benghazi unravels

It's Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan filling stadiums now. Tuned in women say no to ladyparts lollipop logic. Michael Barone:

The only way Pennsylvania and Michigan can be close is if Obama's support in affluent Philadelphia and Detroit suburbs has melted away.
This also helps explain why Romney still narrowly trails in Ohio polls. Affluent suburban counties cast about one-quarter of the votes in Pennsylvania and Michigan but only one-eighth in Ohio. [snip]

In particular, college-educated women seem to have swung toward Romney since Oct. 3. He surely had them in mind in the foreign policy debate when he kept emphasizing his hopes for peace and pledged no more wars like Iraq and Afghanistan.

What's worried me about Obama these days is that his appeasement will take us from the chaos of leading behind in the Arab Spring to a terror-state nuclear Iran.

It's much the same worry I had with Jimmy Carter, that he bowed and bowed before dictators and threats all the while gutting our military, that we might only be left with a nuclear button ourselves.

Dead ambassadors are a warning we can not ignore.

The resurgence of asymmetric threats in Chicago and NYC.

And now the Benghazi lies unravel: WH Told of Militant Claim 2 Hrs After Libya Attack - Hosenball, Reuters

Bob Woodward: Obama 'mistaken' on sequester

State Dept emailed WH Situation Room on 9/11 reporting terrorists' links

Has our President Barack Obama's luck run out?

As luck would have it, Obama became the recipient of the good will incurred in the wish to atone for sufferings that befell other people. And as luck would have it, he was able to defeat Hillary Clinton because, as a black academic, he was able to assemble a unique coalition.

 Given his busted promises on jobs and the economy, given his bleak lack of vision:

The party of progress in a liberal democracy is the party of growth. Economic growth would reduce joblessness, increase take-home pay, generate additional revenue for the Treasury, improve the condition of the poor, and diminish the widespread sense of national anxiety and decline. Growth would act as a salve on our acrimonious, polarized, and bitter politics.

Which party stands today for growth?

And given his handling of Benghazi,  these sentiments have to be the norm now:

I don't want to call the President a liar. I have used the term "Calculated Deception" many times before to describe it. But now it has come to the point where history will remember him as "the Liar President." That is not my fault. I am only discussing reality.

The Death Stare didn't go over big with women. Can we get a president who deals with the world as it is? Who is responsible for his actions and his country? Who puts our security first, not his political survival? Who can stare down our enemies, enlist and back our allies to employ sanctions with real bite on rogue states and, if it makes sense, negotiate from a position of strength.

Peace through strength is an enduring message.

And the hope again for jobs and prosperity at home a beacon.

More.
Victoria Toensing: Obama Overloads a Tale of Equal Pay

US Stocks Could Fall 20% From Recent Highs: Marc Faber

 --pix via twitter

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Character assassination in Winnetka

Wake up in the dark, grab a cup, what's this.

Item, northshore Chicago suburbs: Newcomer replaced on Winnetka Caucus slate

I recall the name, I remember that school board meeting--I watched it online. There were a number of passionate parents who spoke that night. What was the issue?

Nudity, Child Rape, Suicide Shown to 9yr olds at Suburban Chicago Winnetka Grade School. 'Appropriately', no one Fired

This father and gentleman stepped up on behalf of his innocent child and her classmates

What is Ms. Connaughton's purpose.

Getter Closer to Morning in America

I haven't been so energized and relieved by a debate since Reagan. Mitt Romney, in this series, showed a depth and grasp of the issues we've been worried sick about in this country for the last 4 Obamanable years--and decisively showed us the way forward.

While Obama as president may have maintained relationships and paid lip service to policies of previous administrations, it's been clear from the get-go that he had could barely spare the time of day for the UK, Poland, and Israel, to cite just a few. He embarked on his apology tours around the world, bowing indiscriminately. He has neglected, delayed, undermined, and ultimately left our troops overseas twisting in the wind by telegraphing a date of withdrawal. Why would anyone trust us with their future if they know we're abandoning them.

Then there is the matter of our dead ambassador, and 3 other brave Americans, left to die in Libya, I imagine because the president just did not want to deal with the realities on the ground. He is the commander in chief and he failed and betrayed them.

Preezie O was true to form in the debate--petty, sarcastic, ignorant and feckless. There will be more questions on Libya, the lies are unraveling.

Governor Romney assumed the mantle of president last night. He spoke with knowledge and assurance--giving confidence to our allies, and the American people. "America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators"

There will be no apologies from President Romney.

And we won't lead from behind, we will lead.

Romney said we can't kill our way out of this mess. And we can't spend our way out of the mess at home. Mitt again spoke of the 23 million Americans who look in the mirror every day and feel despair that they have no job.

We're closer to the November vote, and to the January day when Americans will join together again to build a better future. We can do this.

P.S. A Question Not Asked Is the administration again preparing to transfer Guantanamo prisoners to an Illinois facility?

More. Romney closer note to supporters:

A brighter future

Last night was the last debate before the election, and the President failed once again to outline his plan for a second term.

With 23 million people struggling for work, and nearly one in six Americans living in poverty, we can't afford to give President Obama another chance to get it right.

I am running for president to help create a better future. Our plan to undo the damage of the last four years includes strengthening the middle class with 12 million jobs, and ensuring more take-home pay and better opportunities for all Americans.

Our supporters have joined our cause and transformed this campaign into a nationwide movement. Over 119,000 volunteers have made nearly 45 million volunteer voter contacts since Victory launched this year, including over 9 million door-to-door voter contacts.

If I am elected President of the United States, I will work with all my heart to restore strength to America. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, and the peace and freedom of the world require it.

And with your help, we will deliver that brighter future.

Econ Guru Faber: Cut Gov 50%. Matter of Survival

Must watch: More: Making a moral case for capitalism:

Earlier this month in the first presidential debate, Mitt Romney made an unusual argument by modern political standards: that long-term deficit spending is not just an economic issue, but a moral one. "I think it's . . . not moral for my generation to keep spending massively more than we take in, knowing those burdens are going to be passed on to the next generation."

This is a notable occurrence, not just because Romney is frequently chided for being cool and detached, but because it represents a return to something our founders knew but succeeding generations have forgotten: Limited government and individual liberty aren't merely policy alternatives. They're moral imperatives.

Duckworth Casts Curse on Legitimate Debate

IL 08 Dem candidate Tammy Duckworth erupted the other day at an oh so civilized WTTW forum. Sitting next to Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) at the table, she accused him of wanting to let women die.

She accused him of wanting to let women die.

Walsh later remarks here. Video.

So let me ask you Tammy, do you weep for Tonya Reaves.

Discreet Death. Planned Parenthood, Chicago

Tonya Reaves bled to death over the course of hours

Do you weep for her? She was only 24.

Life is a gift.

...Didn't I hear you say something like that somewhere in the debate, Ms. Duckworth.

In the 70's Roe v Wade froze debate in the states over abortion, where issues of medical ethics, life and medicine evolved as the Hippocratic Oath and democratic process dealt with it. If it's ever repealed, it will only go back to the states to decide--as it should.

Now we have outbursts like this from those who want to represent us in Congress. Where civilized debate should be the order of the day.

And let me ask you this too, Tammy, since you believe it's OK for women to be able to have abortions up to the moment of birth--and that we should pay for it--when cameras now can look at babies in the womb and they can be saved as preemies months before they would naturally be born, how can you deny that abortion is barbaric used as birth control.

Most doctors do not consider ectopic pregnancies abortions, and yes, late term abortions are never medically necessary.

And where is the media on this? Do we see coverage of Duckworth's, to many of us, extreme position?

How can you deny that taking of an innocent life.

And do you weep for Tonya Reaves

 P.S. More from a friend:

What is "extreme" on the abortion issue?

Advocating the legality of all abortions, at any time, for any reason, right up to and including the moment of birth (a.k.a. partial-birth abortions).
Advocating the legality of "after-the-fact" abortions.. that is, the killing of a child after being born alive due to a botched abortion.
Mandating that taxpayers fund abortions and abortion-causing drugs (such as RU-486).
Mandating that all participants in insurance pools, including even employees of schools and charities that oppose abortion, must provide insurance programs that cover abortion.

All these are tenets of the Democratic Party in the era of Barack Obama and Tammy Duckworth.

They're the extremists.

Another: Even Eleanor Clift gets upset with Dems.

[thanks for Blog of the Day, Professor Jacobson]
Related posts:

Dems pat women on the head, give 'em a lollipop

, Obama would deny Mother Teresa, if newborns may be killed, why not two-year-olds,  When a government official can publicly state that not having children is a cost control measure it is a very short step to mandating how many children are appropriate for a woman to have. This is how China got to forced abortions. THAT is a real women's rights issue. , Cardinal Dolan: Don't Impose the Unconscionable

Red maple red bush...

Autumn blaze floats over red barberry.

...red, white and blue:)

God bless America forever

Dems pat women on the head, give 'em a lollipop

Are we tired of this brainless ladyparts talk from Dems and Preezie O yet. Talk about objectifying and manipulating: ‘Binder Derangement Syndrome’: How the Democratic Party Exploits Women. Commentary: 

Equal pay was already the law of the land before Obama signed it. Rather than an advance for women, the Act was a lollipop for the president’s trial lawyer bundlers.

Equal pay is a canard anyway, and has been for over 20 years.
The next generation, Millennial women, are concerned about jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Because too many of them are unemployed: New survey shows young female voters support GOP economic priorities And their moms and grandmas may have jobs but they're worried about the future for their families. For their husbands, their daughters and their sons.

They may not be able to retire themselves, they may be the breadwinners holding one or two generations together.

Flextime is especially important to women, but Obama and his union cronies oppose it, so it gets shoved aside--Dems take women for granted:

Exhibit A is a progressive tax code and the penalty it imposes on earning marginal, or additional, income. Most married women are second earners. That means their income is added to that of their husband's and thus often taxed at a high marginal rate. This "marriage penalty" has never fully been adjusted for in the tax code. A married woman working on an assembly line keeps less of her paycheck than the unwed man who does the same job. That's real inequality in pay for women.
You won't hear Democrats admitting this punitive tax burden—particularly when combined with child-care costs—is a reason many women can't afford to work, even if they wish to. And the expiration of the Bush tax cuts would compound this problem. To the extent Mr. Romney is offering a flatter tax code, with lower marginal rates, he is offering millions of women greater choice and a shot at more economic freedom.

Mr. Romney might note the damage done to women by antiquated but still operative labor law, such as a provision in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act that requires hourly workers who put in more than 40 hours a week to get overtime. While some women like overtime, a 1990s poll found that 81% said they'd rather pack more hours into fewer days and receive compensatory time off. The phrase for this is "flex time," an invaluable option for many mothers attempting to juggle work and family. Not in this Democratic war.
Mr. Obama's union allies resolutely oppose any reform of the 40-hour law, because the status quo gives union leaders more control over crafting work arrangements.

Yeah, ya better take that lollipop and like it ladies.
Or vote these patronizing, elitist bullies out.

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Does O always have a little rain cloud over his head?

Oh yeah, it's the weather. O's Grant Park outdoor extravaganza of '08 won't see a repeat, no, no, no, he and party hard Me-chelle will retreat to fortress McCormick Place for the Obamapaloozer event.

Will we see a stream of local notables (no wonder Barack and FLOTUS are voting absentee)

Will other celebs be there, unlike last time when Barack didn't want to share the limelight? Or will all his "friends" slink away.

Will the newsworthy Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas make an appearance. BGA: Cook County Treasurer Received Improper Property Tax Exemptions

Oh, and yeah, will they require photo-ID to get in, hmm. Will Obama for America suppress his supporters. Or has he done that all by himself.

Rahmbo pulling out the stops to campaign for O in Florida, tough duty, and Oiho.

On Wednesday, Emanuel was asked how he can simultaneously campaign for the president in swing states and raise money for Priorities USA without violating the firewall that’s supposed to separate the two.

“We’ve cleared it all because a lot of the organizations are asking me. That’s all been cleared from a legal perspective,” the mayor said.

Of course. Blowback: 

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady could not resist taking a shot at Chicago’s traveling mayor.

“Instead of misleading seniors and Jewish voters in Ohio and Florida, Chicago’s mayor should be in Chicago worrying about how to keep families safe from unprecedented crime and fiscal crisis,” Brady said. “Voters in both states already know the president cut Medicare and repeatedly castigated Israel. They don’t need to hear more excuses and explanations.”

Other news from back in the neighborhood:

Anne Leary ‏@backyardconserv

Hyde Park, Chicago.14-yr-old girl pistol-whipped 28-yr-old female student:4 girls charged with robbing 2 UofC students http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8851609 …

 Welfare Spending Shattering All-Time Highs

More taxes. Including a tax on bullets. Next up, a tax on the 1st amendment? I'd say that was ObamaCare, one big tax, even as it deprives us of our religious liberty. But who gives a Dem damn, eh, Dick Durbin.

Let a smile be your umbrella, Barack. You know, just like '08. Trot that out again. Maybe it'll work. But maybe people will see you as you are: 
P.S. Chicago Tribune:

The CTA has potentially inflated by up to $150 million the federal taxpayer money it received since as far back as 1982 by "fraudulently over-reporting" the number of miles CTA buses travel while in service, according to a new report by a little-known watchdog group. [snip]

But Cause of Action, which said it based its findings on "insider audit information" from six years ago, said the CTA likely continues to get away with its inaccurate mileage reporting, with the knowledge of the U.S. government, because of the transit agency's political connections stretching from Chicago to Washington.

It cited the clout of Valerie Jarrett, who is senior adviser to President Barack Obama and also a former chairwoman of the CTA (1995 to 2003), and Robert Rivkin, general counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation. From 2001 to 2004, Rivkin was general counsel at the CTA.

As you and your elitist cronies really are.