February 10, 2012

Then you die.

Hat Tip: Thor!

February 06, 2012

Now with 40% less suck!

February 01, 2012

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 Florida primary

Romney had 46% compared to 32% for Newt Gingrich, 13% for former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and 7% for Texas Rep. Ron Paul, according to the Florida Department of State website.

Romney leads Gingrich in delegates 84 to 27.

January 23, 2012

The only candidates running for president that are not an unthinkable dark black evil are Obama and Romney.

That is all.

January 22, 2012

A great article on the fiscal situation in Illinois and how politicians see tax increases as an excuse to spend more, not a tool for fiscal discipline.

Two days ago, I explained that tax increases are bad policy.

More specifically, I warned that giving more money to government exacerbates fiscal problems because politicians respond to the expectation of more revenue by spending more than otherwise would be the case. And since they usually over-estimate how much revenue a tax hike will generate, that creates an even bigger fiscal mess.

Not surprisingly, I cited Europe to bolster my case. The tax burden has increased enormously in Europe over the past several decades, but that obviously hasn’t prevented a fiscal crisis in nations such as Greece and Portugal. And tax hikes haven’t precluded deteriorating conditions in countries such as Belgium and France.

But I also cited Illinois, which just got downgraded by Moody’s – even though state politicians just imposed a record tax hike.

This caused some angst for a lefty blogger in Illinois, who wrote that, “Operational spending is down since the Illinois tax hike.”

I gather he thinks this is some sort of gotcha moment, but two sentences later he admits that, “If Illinois hadn’t increased its taxes, it would’ve had to cut $7 billion more from spending to balance its budget.”

In other words, his post confirms my point about higher taxes translating into higher spending. He openly admits that the tax hike was a substitute for spending restraint.

Illinois recently doubled its income tax, sold our lottery, etc etc and every move that the politicians sell as a move to balance the budget becomes income with which to make payments on even more debt.

Obama is just running the nation the same way he learned to ruin things in his home state.

Recently Illinois has been having to grant companies special tax breaks as business threaten to flee to more friendly states such as Indiana. Which has a better tax rate as well as a balanced budget.

January 19, 2012

CAIR dislikes Newt, one more good reason I like him.

CAIR said the release was prompted by the candidate's remarks Tuesday in Columbia when, asked if he would ever endorse a Muslim running for president.
"It would depend entirely on whether they would commit in public to give up Shariah," Gingrich said.

"A truly modern person who happened to worship Allah would not be a threat, a person who belonged to any kind of belief in Shariah, any effort to impose it on the rest of us, would be a mortal threat," Gingrich told the crowd, adding that he's "totally opposed" to Shariah law being applied in American courts and favors a federal law that "preempts" its use.

You damn strait as a non-Muslim Sharia scares me, but there's nothing irrational about being against a system of law that designates you as subhuman and subjugated.

January 11, 2012

Followed by Ron Paul

Romney 40%
Paul 23%
Huntsman 17%
Gingrich 10%
Santorum 9%
Perry 1%

January 10, 2012

Apparently some Feminista at Slate thought she heard Gov.Christy tell some liberal female hecklers to suck it.

Althouse:What a joke! Christie — responding to hecklers who used the words "going down" in connection with jobs — said: "You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart." Torie Bosch calls this "an offensive oral sex joke" and acts amazed that Christie put video of it on his YouTube site as if he were "proud" of it "rather than recognizing it as flagrantly demeaning, even misogynistic."

Now, obviously, the words "going down" mean happening, especially when the subject of the verb isn't a person and when there's no object preceded by the word "on."

So when a lefty does it it's called spirited political debate. But when a Republican does it ...... sort of .... but not really ... it's misogyny! And that's bad while, femogyny is pure as the driven snow.

January 04, 2012

Romney 25%
Santorum 25%
Paul 21%
Gingrich 13%

It appears that Bachmann and Perry are calling it quits although not quite officially yet.

Update: Bachmann out; Perry apparently hanging in..

January 03, 2012

Oliver Willis heartbroken, wasting away on new cookie ration.

Mediate:

n a wild exchange on Fox News’ Happening Now, longtime contributor Alan Colmes lost it a little bit..

January 01, 2012

Let me get this strait. Public speeches by public officials are now copyrighted? And who owns the copyright? The government or the official? Or is this just some spurious error produced by one of W's books or videos?

This must not be allowed to stand lest we find that any time we use a public official's speech in a discussion of politics. Left or right. The Government or Google or whomever can now blunt that speech based on an arbitrary, hostile or spurious copyright claim.

December 22, 2011

As long as we're learning might as well be easy on the eyes.

December 18, 2011

In case you were thinking of shopping at Home Depot had Lowes not bowed the the AFA email campaign, guess what, they hate Hope Depot as well.

And Nascar....

In fact there's probably not much that you could do that AFA can't find a reason to dislike.

I used to get their emails, and eventually when I found out there were against Boobies, that was the last straw. Spam city.

See these folks aren't for smaller government. They are for coding religion into law. I'm not talking about the ten commandments on the court house wall either. These are the types of well meaning folks that voted for prohibition..... the second time.

Funny is it not that Sharia law also comes prohibition included?

In so much as their criticism of All American Muslim, a show which I admit I've never seen, they are saying that because the show does not address the issue of terrorism that its somehow deserving of ire?

There are only two instances where I feel Islam and or Muslims are any danger to America. Those who intend to commit acts of terrorism or are members of specially designated terrorist groups. Or those advocating terrorism or for terrorist groups that are engaged in hostilities to the US in a time of war.

That's it. Otherwise Muslims here are just as free as anyone else.

Of course the AFA or any other group are free to argue for boycotts of Boobies or on the other side some Muslims might argue for Sharia law.

Its why moderate activism is so important. We have to use the freedom we grant to all the other morons to tell them when they are stepping over the line. We have to be there to be sure that Sharia or other religious law encoded in our secular system is not appropriate.

If a company wants to pull its ads because it fears the bottom line after this campaign against selling Muslims 2x4s well I guess that's their right. And because they are chickenshit. I'll buy mine probably wherever the AFA or CAIR says I should not just to be stubborn.

But what's for sure is that for other advertisers there is a great opportunity to get eyeballs on your product during a show that for certain the AFA and CAIR, both sides of the same coin, have now stirred up so much buzz about. Neither are groups I care much for. Its seems both are the only winners in this.

December 16, 2011

Iowa Hawk the greatest satirist who ever lived.....

Yahoo:

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Only a few weeks before the first Republican presidential contest, some Iowans are on the attack like never before.

They're writing angry blog posts, doing research to discredit their opponent and railing against elites, but this vitriol isn't aimed at Republican candidates. It's focused on University of Iowa journalism professor Stephen Bloom, whose article for The Atlantic magazine's website painted Iowans as uneducated Jesus freaks who love hunting and don't deserve the political clout they will exercise Jan. 3.

Every four years, some pundits and voters complain about the small, largely white states of Iowa and New Hampshire getting to play outsized roles nominating presidential candidates with their first-in-the-nation contests. But what makes Bloom's critique stand out is that it came from within and was expressed in brutal terms by a talented writer who has spent years reporting on Iowa.

Add in some factual inaccuracies, sweeping generalizations and stereotypes about Iowans, and you have an outrage that is playing out from Sioux City to Keokuk (which he labeled "a depressed, crime-infested slum town".)

So what is clear about this is that finally after all these years the corn has finally gotten to Iowans. If you can't laugh at yourself well then you're probably going to have a problem with cabin fever this winter and should think of moving to a warmer more progressive and tolerant state like say Alabama.

But as much as I enjoy making fun of Iowa its not half as enjoyable of making fun of those truly backward and uncivilized transvestite/transexual pheasant hunters.. the Nebraskans!

The original satire that people can't seem to understand is satire is here.

Hat Tip: Mark.

December 09, 2011

December 07, 2011

Read this article by Michael Yon on why the US is in violation of the Geneva Conventions and see if he hasn't gone crazy or is just goofing us.

Seriously, who in their right mind could believe such drivel? You know, besides some pencil necked bureaucrat. Or maybe a lawyer. Tell me this is a joke? Please!

Further, although he doesn't "know" if the Taliban are committing war crimes by firing on our medical evac helicopter, he does seem to know that we are violating the Geneva Conventions because ... Army evac medical helicopters sport the red cross?

Wow, that's just really dumb. It's a logical loop built on a technocratic reading of the Conventions.

As I see it, the Conventions were written in order to a) minimize civilian casualties b) protect POWs c) humanize the treatment of the wounded.

How is anything we are doing with our helicopters sporting the red cross violate any of these principles?

Here are, I think, his two main arguments:

Dustoff helicopters behave as combatants by flying over routes not agreed up between all the parties to the conflict.

The various enemies in Afghanistan are not signatory to the Geneva Conventions. We have no expectation that they know or will follow the Conventions

We cannot be in violation because a) there is no one to negotiate the routes with; and b) the Taliban and others would agree to no route since they care not one iota whether the infidels and Zionist-Crusaders are wounded or not.

The second objection seems to be:

Dustoff will never obey a summons to land to be inspected by the Taliban, and thus are behaving as combatants.

Let us take a hypothetical. A Haqqani network leader radios to a medivac plane requesting him to land for inspection. The helicopter pilot, eager to obey Mr. Yon's version of the Geneva Conventions, lands. They cut off his head and the heads of every wounded soldier on board.

It's like a bad "A guy walked into a bar" joke.

A medivac helicopter lands in Taliban territory. No one flies out.

Yeah, that's some interpretation of the Geneva Conventions for you got there Mr. Yon!

Under this interpretation, the thing which is supposed to protect the wounded and POWs is now being used as a tool to abuse & murder them. The technical requirements of the law are being used to pervert its intent.

Now, Yon doesn't want to see this happen. However, I'm not sure what his point is. He seems to be suggesting that the Army Dustoff helicopters should not sport the red cross.

Okay, they take off the red cross and that ... protects the pilots and passengers more? Makes the Taliban less barbaric somehow? Umm, what exactly?

Normally I like Yon's writing and support his work. Hopefully, his argument is just hyperbole for some other point which he misses the mark on. But if not, he's gone off the deep end believing this illogical and inhumane BS.

UPDATE: A guest in the comments notes that Yon's main point is that the red crosses should be removed so that the helicopters can be armed.

If so, whew. Seriously, I knew I had to be missing something here. It's a problem we, as authors, sometimes make: we post something under the assumption that you've read all our other posts. Without the other posts to give context, the reader is left scratching their heads and wondering WTF?

December 06, 2011

December 05, 2011

Khalid Saheed fled Afghanistan because after leaving Islam he has been threatened with death for apostasy.

Our good friend Phyllis Chesler is writing on his behalf.

Letter To The Government of Sweden and Migration Board:

I am writing to you on behalf of Khalid Saeed’s petition to remain in Sweden, a petition which you have denied. I implore you to revisit his case.

His life—and Sweden’s reputation for fairness and morality are both at stake.

Khalid Saeed and his family have been living in Sweden since 2009. Saeed joined the 5% of the Swedish population who are Muslims. However, unlike Muslims who have rioted and/or who have refused to assimilate in Sweden, Khalid is a pro-Western apostate.

This is precisely why he fled Pakistan. Apostasy is a capital crime in Islam, and so is any preference shown to Western ways of thought.

Khalid Saeed was a car dealer in Islamabad, Pakistan. He is married and has three children. Once he made his views known, he was threatened. He fled. In his own words, he claims:

“I have never worshipped Allah nor do I or my wife, Asia, believe in Islam as the only truth for mankind. I have distanced myself from Islam years ago. That is my curse. My wife, the mother to our children, agrees. She will not see her daughter brought up in a society where women are only half humans and neither will I.

"As parents we also do not want to stand (helpless) on the side line and watch our two lovely and open-minded boys being forced into any kind of holy jihad group or society whose only objective is to oppress, threaten, and intimidate others to blindly follow the pitiless words of the profane muslim prophet Mohammad and his followers’ medieval Islamic sharia laws.”

Anyone who sounds like this in Pakistan, or in any Pakistani Muslim community in the world is a dead man.

And yet, you have refused him asylum in Sweden. I strongly disagree with your ruling on his application for asylum.

I assume you are familiar with the fate of apostates: Muslims who convert to Christianity or who describe themselves as “humanists” or “secularists,” or who believe in freedom of religion.

Sweden’s own 2010 Report on Human Rights in Pakistan confirms that religious minorities are severely persecuted in Pakistan as are any people who are in favor of free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought. For example, the governor of the Punjab (in Pakistan) was assassinated when he wanted to pursue reforms against blasphemy laws.

The International Humanist and Ethical Union, which was founded in Amsterdam, spent years campaigning for the life of physician and human rights activist Dr. Younus Sheikh who languished on Death Row in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

We know that many Muslims are not friendly toward any infidel religion, including Christians, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, etc. Christians have been—and still are—being savagely persecuted in Muslim lands. I and many others have written about this often. Author and apostate Nonie Darwish and ex-Muslim secularist Ibn Warraq have both spoken out about this burning issue.

Christians are being savagely persecuted in Egypt and all across the Middle East and Islamic world.

In Pakistan, Christians have literally been crucified, teenaged Christian girls have been kidnapped, raped, then forced to marry their rapists and convert to Islam.

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, do not allow Christians, Jews, or other “infidels” to pray openly or to build any or new houses of worship.

The Arab Muslim Middle East is almost completely “Judenrein,” (free of Jews) since more than 800,000 Arab Jews were exiled or forced to flee their countries between 1948-1968.

In 2010, in Pakistan, a Muslim mob attacked a Christian man and slaughtered him with pick-axes for refusing to convert to Islam.

According to Mina Nevisa, an Iranian Muslim convert to Christianity who wrote a book about her experiences, both she and her female cousin were attending an underground church in Teheran. Nevis fled Iran together with her husband. Her cousin was not so lucky. “She was arrested on charges of Apostasy and taken to Evin prison, where she was raped, tortured, and then killed by a firing squad. The pastor was also killed.”

The situation for Muslim apostates in Europe is also perilous. High profile apostates, such as Egyptian-Italian Magdi Christiano Allam, who was converted to Catholicism by the Pope, lives with six round-the-clock bodyguards. Aayan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-Dutch-American apostate-secularist, also requires a full time security detail. People who do not have public profiles, who are not academics, intellectuals, politicians, or public speakers, also face similar problems.

In 2001, “Sabatina James” (a pseudonym) fled from Austria to Germany and went into hiding to escape being honor-murdered by her family after she converted from Islam to Christianity. Her family had immigrated from Pakistan.

“Sabatina’s” troubles began when she was 15 years old. Because she dared to wear lipstick and blue jeans, she was mercilessly beaten. When she rejected marriage to a cousin, “Sabatina” was sent to a Qur’anic school in Lahore, where she was repeatedly flogged. She finally agreed to the marriage—but only in order to be able to return to Austria. Then, when she was 19 years old, she fled.

In 2009, Iraqi-born Vian Bakir Fatah was stabbed to death by her Iraqi ex-husband in Norway. She had converted to Christianity and had a new boyfriend. Her ex-husband murdered her in the presence of their four children.

In the past, Sweden has presumably been at the forefront of human rights activism and legislation. Now, in this case, it seems that Sweden has failed its own stated ideals.

Given the information that I and others are providing, I strongly urge you to reconsider Khalid Saeed’s case. If not, his blood, and the blood of his wife and children will be on Swedish hands.

Signed: Professor Phyllis Chesler

If the country of Sweden doesn't do the right thing then the least we can do is offer Khalid Saheed a place here where he can be free. Damn crying shame we let Afghanistan keep this sixth century Sharia BS in its constitution to start with.

Also please support Phyllis' writing here.

November 23, 2011

Notice the al Qaeda flags flying at a rally led by Tawfiq Al-Afni at Tahrir Square in Cairo? The screencap above is from 55 seconds in. But then it goes downhill from there.

Downhill from supporting Osama bin Laden you say? Why yes. Something about praying for Allah to turn their skulls into a ladder for his glory linked with a message to the infidel Americans and Jews about the army of Muhammad is slightly more disconcerting.

Hooray democracy!

The video is below the fold. Trust me, you'll want to watch it.

November 22, 2011

Allowing countries where we've spilled so much blood to have Sharia enshrined in their constitution is the most retarded thing the United States has ever done.

CNN:

The ordeal of Gulnaz did not simply begin and end with the physical attack of her rape. The rape began a years-long nightmare of further pain, culminating in an awful choice she must now make.

...After the attack, she hid what happened as long as she could. But soon she began vomiting in the mornings and showing signs of pregnancy. It was her attacker's child.

In Afghanistan, this brought her not sympathy, but prosecution. Aged just 19, she was found guilty by the courts of sex outside of marriage -- adultery -- and sentenced to twelve years in jail.

The only way around the dishonor of rape, or adultery in the eyes of Afghans, is to marry her attacker. This will, in the eyes of some, give her child a family and restore her honor.

November 16, 2011

TPM:

The Secret Service searched Occupy D.C. on Monday for a man suspected of firing bullets at the White House on Friday, one of which was stopped by the building’s ballistic glass.

Protestor Ralph Wittenberg told TPM on Tuesday evening that authorities came through “searching for a so-called terrorist who shot at the White House, with no warrant, they went into everybody’s tents.”

CNN:

A few days ago, Facebook allegedly kicked famous author Salman Rushdie off of its social network, and then asked him to change his posted name to Ahmed if he wanted to return.

Rushdie -- known for his outspokenness -- went on a rant about the incident on Twitter, where he has more than 100,000 followers. Facebook eventually "buckled," he wrote Monday.

Tools that are very much a part of modern free speech can be denied on a whim of political judgement or a flagging campaign by like minded Islamists and other groups. Those who's opinions or speech might result in violent acts and death threats pen names are banned outright.

Given that Facebook and Google+ are privately owned that is their right. But that doesn't mean the manner in which they operate doesn't stink to high heaven.

We've abandoned our attempts to use either because of this. We've moved to Twitter for the most part. But I will tell you that its had real consequences Jawa Reports website in terms of traffic and being able to promote our stories to the widest audience possible.

Of course that was our choice, we could have edited our website, removing some more of the more uncomfortable truths, we could have fixed it so or death threats arrive in our mailbox at home rather than our inbox here. Neither of those options appealed very much to us.

November 15, 2011

The Jester discovers truthiness at Occupy Wall Street.

Update: There's a blogger, Tim Parkinson, who discovered this back on September 30th.

Yahoo:

At about 1 a.m. Tuesday, New York City police handed out notices from Brookfield Office Properties, owner of Zuccotti Park, and the city saying that the park had to be cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous. Protesters were told they could return in several hours, but without sleeping bags, tarps or tents.

Paul Brown, a spokesman for the New York Police Department, said the park had been cleared by 4:30 a.m. and that about 70 people who'd been inside it had been arrested, including a group who chained themselves together. One person was taken to a local hospital for evaluation because of breathing problems.

November 14, 2011

Big Government:

Former Speaker of the House–and current Minority Leader–Nancy Pelosi apparently bought $1 million to $5 million of Visa stock in one of the most sought-after and profitable initial public offerings (IPO) in American history, thwarted serious credit card reform for two years, and then watched her investment skyrocket 203%.

The revelation appears in Throw Them All Out, the new book by investigative journalist and Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer, which was the focus of 60 Minutes on CBS this evening, and which is featured in this week’s issue of Newsweek.

Sure she was for credit card and banking reform, AFTER she made hers.

November 08, 2011

Instapundit:

What company thinking of moving to Texas or even Connecticut, for example, will be persuaded to stay in Manhattan after witnessing the mayor’s impotence here? How many trade groups or associations are going to move their big meetings from the nation’s capital after they’ve seen the lack of police protection at the convention center? Who’s going to sink money into Oakland—which clocked in below Flint, Mich., on a recent Forbes ranking of cities by job growth—when they see a mayor unwilling to call in the cops even after businesses have been openly attacked?

How long do you reckon I'll have to wait on that?

October 31, 2011

Okay, it isn't that scary. But when I first saw it, I was 7 or 8. And no, that wasn't when it first came out in the 50's. I saw it on TV in the 70's. It scared the bejeezus out of me. Every time I looked out a window, I just knew it was out there, just below the window frame out of sight, and in any second it would start oozing in around the edges...

October 28, 2011

The assmaggot interviewed is J.T. Ready, a confirmed neo-Nazi. Even the far left Southern Poverty Law center reported such. He was also dishonorably discharged from the Marines for bad conduct.

Granted, I agree with what he said about disastrous Fast & Furious "gunwalker program" but, what the hell? I suppose "Sgt" Shamar Thomas, the darling of the #OWS movement, got the protection ball rolling with his "outrage over police brutality".

If you Google JT Ready you will come up with "so? He was at rallies and was "endorsed by the Tea Party" coming from the likes of Media Matters/Democrat Underground etc. Ready wore patriotic garb and infiltrated Tea Party rallies. If you remember, a "lot" of phonies deliberately attempted to blend in with true Tea Party patriots in order to discredit the movement.

I suppose Neo-Nazis don't need to hide at #Occupy events. Only teabaggers are raaaacist!!

At the #OccupyAtlanta protest, this man was packing a AK-47, AP buried this down at the bottom of a report about the #OccupyOakland protests:

Mayor Kasim Reed had been supportive of the protests, twice issuing an executive order allowing them to remain.

Reed said on Wednesday that he had no choice to arrest them because he believed things were headed in a direction that was no longer peaceful. He cited a man seen walking the park with an AK-47 assault rifle.

Related:
#OWS: Police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters worse than in Iraq says US marine[with a small m]

October 27, 2011

Via BigGovenment:

When the activists of Occupy Oakland attacked police en masse on October 25th, throwing paint bombs and provoking volleys of tear gas, the images galvanized the Occupy movement as never before.

“Come see the violence inherent in the system!” they have all but shouted, using wild allegations of police brutality, and fallacious arguments about First Amendment violations, to build solidarity among scattered activists.

The outrage is sincere–but so is the jubilation.

Clashes with the police affirm the activistsʼ fantasy–that they are the leading a revolution, that the truths they speak are so potent that the “1 percent” must use force to suppress them.

The clashes also assuage the jealousy–what Harvard literature professor Philip Fisher once called “nightmare envy”– western radicals feel when watching the Arab Spring, where the struggles are deadly real.

h/t @MaryBamber tweet

October 24, 2011

Project Veritas' latest investigation is aptly titled, "To Catch a Journalist."

Over the past several weeks, our citizen journalists have interviewed the so-called "media elite" and the people they walk with.

To Catch a Journalist I is sure to make waves as we call into question the reporters behind the headlines.

First up is the Huffington Post and their White House Correspondent, Sam Stein.

October 18, 2011

Big Government:

Leftists love to get arrested at protests. It must make them feel like adults and compensates for their otherwise very childish behavior.

But new video released exclusively by EAGtv shows the protestors pre-arrange who is to be arrested. That’s right – the arrests are as scripted as a professional wrestling match, at least on the occupiers’ end.

What I find really disturbing about the video above is not so much a bunch of crazy loons getting arrested, but that the police who are also public sector employees appear to be co-operating. Arresting the arrestables not for breaking any laws or failing to follow orders for public safety but because its in the script.

In this case abusing their oath in order to give the protesters the money shot.

October 15, 2011

This years' nomination for best supporting injured protester goes to this guy.

I know, I know.. I'm hearing reports of busted skulls and severed limbs but this is the best I can do.

Update: I know I haven't passed out any Fatwas lately. I feel guilty about it I swear. But I've been drinking to help with that ;-)

But the I'll issue a cut ur neck Fatwa against Infidel for....

Update 10/15..It turns out this person is a so called legal observer aka ambulance chaser..

The legal observer in this video has been identified as Ari Douglas, and while the extent of his injuries remains unclear, some doubt has been cast on earlier reports that he was seriously injured. A photographer for the Daily News who witnessed the confrontation, Joe Marino, says "the bike definitely hit him" but the officer didn't run him over. "I saw him sticking his legs under the bike to make it appear he was run over," Marino claims.

October 11, 2011

Last night police in Boston made some protesters move back to their original protest area after they took over a new area for their camp.

So this morning I'm reading up on that, written accounts are of brutality against "war veterans".

Reuters: ensions boiled over in the early hours of Tuesday in downtown Boston, where police arrested about 100 protesters after the Occupy Boston group expanded its footprint and was told by authorities to backtrack.

Protesters said late on Monday that police had given participants an ultimatum to return to their small original encampment by nightfall or be moved along.

But it was not until after 1 a.m. ET Tuesday when hundreds of Boston and Transit police officers, some in riot gear, moved in on the group, handcuffing protesters and tearing down tents.

"At 1:30 this morning hundreds of police in full riot gear brutally attacked Occupy Boston," the group said in a news release, adding that authorities "made no distinction between protesters, medics, or legal observers."

So I went over to Youtube to check it out.

OMG!!!! Isn't that terrible? I hope those dudes are alright. I mean that was like totally savage and stuff.....

What? Well maybe they are just out of practice, you know the 60's was a long time ago. Maybe they just need inspiration.

That ought to do it, I promise busted skulls and blood on tomorrow's post, hopefully.

September 26, 2011

The Democrats are harping on taking subsidy money from an electric vehicle development subsidy and moving those dollars over to FEMA to cover some additional disaster costs.

Of course Harry Reid calls it a jobs killer. They also say that is revenge for the Solynda debacle.

But its pretty much a total load of crap and if the Democrats had any brains at all they'd what? PASS THIS BILL! (grins).

Lets face it, you can take Solyndra off the table and still electric vehicles have not exactly been a boom. No one is saying stop investing in it, just that we'll invest a little less in a technology that's not only expensive its just not proving to be a market winner as quickly as one might have expected.

The Democrats say well we never had to find money for this BEFORE.

EXACTLY! When my fridge dies it would be nice if a new one just magically appeared. But no, I have to adjust my budget. So should they.

But that's not even the point. As far as what's good for the economy the spending will be much more stimulative if it is moved to FEMA even despite how long it takes FEMA to actually cut a check. (I've got friends who are just now getting their flood insurance and FEMA grants from the spring flood) but I digress.)

Investing in electric vehicles is a long term growth subsidy that will maybe possibly generate jobs in the future or keep GM from cutting the Volt for a bit longer. It might save a few Democrat constituent jobs for a short period.

But putting those same dollars into FEMA would have a quicker and better stimulus effect.

The recent hurricane and tornadoes etc etc etc means there is a lot of pent up demand for workers and durable goods that will be met with these dollars.

Steel for bridges, construction materials, appliances, contractor jobs will be created and that will help very much in the short term. Everyone from roofers to highway construction workers will be needed. And at a time where unemployment is high every job counts.

Not only will this money have a stimulating effect as early as next spring, its needed to restore so much of the value that was lost. It also restores and hopefully improves badly damaged infrastructure in blue states. States that Obama will need if he's to have any chance.

Its hardly surprising though, the Democrats are knows for cutting off their nose to spite their face. Its why they can't smell a decent bill if someone slapped them up side the head with it.

September 19, 2011

Today's liberal BS story of the day winner is Think Progress. Who demonizes Rep John Fleming for clearing 6% on a 6.3 million dollar budget for his personal business.

Fleming said raising taxes on wealthy “job creators” is a terrible idea that kills jobs because many of these people are small business owners who pay taxes through personal income rates.

Fleming is himself a businesses owner, so Jansing asked, “If you have to pay more in taxes, you would get rid of some of those employees?” Fleming responded by saying that while his businesses made $6.3 million last year, after you “pay 500 employees, you pay rent, you pay equipment, and food,” his profits “a mere fraction of that” — “by the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.” Watch it:

Which the comments there seem to equate with Robber Baron.

It makes me wonder how many of them would be satisfied with a 6 percent ROI on 6 million +. Would Warren Buffett be happy with a %6 return? I think not.

I'm getting tired of the dead motorcycle meme and a few other BS lefty stories that frame issues in the most ridiculous manner.

I mean who really believes that a hospital, who is required by law to treat acute injuries, would throw a seriously injured person out of the ER?

No one.

But then again liberals like the Solyndra model much better. High paying jobs making solar panels for $6 and selling them for $3. Works out great.....Great for the conservatives who will get a great deal at the auction.

Some of this stuff is just beyond belief.

John Fleming can have my vote and John, hire me... I mean I'm not unemployed but one can never stop looking for the right opportunity, or maybe my boy, he needs to learn that dollars are hard to come by.

September 15, 2011

The Libyans want democracy, of course by democracy they mean that Euroweenie type where the majority can always plow under the the minority and leaders are not elected by a direct vote of the people but by the majority vote of politicians. Whoever has the biggest can of grease wins.

NYTs: RIPOLI, Libya — In the emerging post-Qaddafi Libya, the most influential politician may well be Ali Sallabi, who has no formal title but commands broad respect as an Islamic scholar and populist orator who was instrumental in leading the mass uprising.

...The most powerful military leader is now Abdel Hakim Belhaj, the former leader of a hard-line group once believed to be aligned with Al Qaeda.

The growing influence of Islamists in Libya raises hard questions about the ultimate character of the government and society that will rise in place of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s autocracy. The United States and Libya’s new leaders say the Islamists, a well-organized group in a mostly moderate country, are sending signals that they are dedicated to democratic pluralism. They say there is no reason to doubt the Islamists’ sincerity.

But as in Egypt and Tunisia, the latest upheaval of the Arab Spring deposed a dictator who had suppressed hard-core Islamists, and there are some worrisome signs about what kind of government will follow. It is far from clear where Libya will end up on a spectrum of possibilities that range from the Turkish model of democratic pluralism to the muddle of Egypt to, in the worst case, the theocracy of Shiite Iran or Sunni models like the Taliban or even Al Qaeda.

Hat Tip: Israpundit.

* clustef*ck of miserable failure shamelessly ripped from Ace.

September 14, 2011

Ranting about your local drug lord on Facebook will seem like bad idea.

Social media users who denounce drug cartel activities along the Mexican border received a brutal warning this week: two mangled bodies hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge.

A woman was hogtied and disemboweled, her intestines protruding from three deep cuts on her abdomen. Attackers left her topless, dangling by her feet and hands from a bridge in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. A bloodied man next to her was hanging by his hands, his right shoulder severed so deeply the bone was visible.

Signs left near the bodies declared the pair, both apparently in their early 20s, were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.

But this brings up an important aspect of speech. If Facebook and G+ want to become the worldwide owner of your identity and anonymous speech is not allowed. Then issues that are important are denied a platform on the world stage. If anonymous speech is banned then that speech is denied a platform to stand on its own merit or lack thereof.

Also unpopular speech, such as say speech against the crown or the local cartel is suppressed. Because of, you know, the head chopping thing.

But I would recommend that people at the minimum had three online identities.

Me, professional me and anonymous or semi-anonymous me.

Its not so much the provider, who should be an ethical broker on privacy, knowing who or where I am. Its the public or you know the people who email wanting to separate your filthy kufr head from your filthy kufr body that bother me.

Not even those so much as the ones that obviously I've not heard from...yet.

Our new identity overlords attempt to deal with this issue by just banning. It seems to me at times, and I might be a bit biased maybe, that their rules are how shall we say.....a bit left of center.

Update: Wow, now the Senate is considering making your Sock Puppet a felony.

If that sounds far-fetched, consider a few recent cases. In 2009, the Justice Department prosecuted a woman for violating the "terms of service" of the social networking site MySpace.com. The woman had been part of a group that set up a MySpace profile using a fake picture. The feds charged her with conspiracy to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Prosecutors say the woman exceeded authorized access because MySpace required all profile information to be truthful. But people routinely misstate the truth in online profiles, about everything from their age to their name. What happens when each instance is a felony?

Watch your cornhole Darth Odieus. Watch your cornhole.

Its always nice when you find your paranoia is totally justified. Sort of, I mean it means you're not crazy just that they ARE out to get you.

September 13, 2011

It was the Gardasill that made her mentally retarded.

Yeah that's it.