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Deadliest clashes in Egypt
Apparently al-Washington and al-Franklin and the other Muslim Jeffersonian democrats celebrated by the media as part of the wonderful Arab Spring didn’t get the message that religious tolerance was included in the package. ~Bob. Excerpt: At least 23 people were killed and nearly 200 were wounded in downtown Cairo on Sunday night as a march by Coptic Christians turned into the deadliest outbreak of violence in Egypt Nile River
Tahrir Square
, where security forces used tear gas to disperse demonstrators.
Americans Sargent, Sims share Nobel economics prize for cause-and-effect theories
Huh. Apparently they were not at the Occupy Wall Street protest when they got the news. Note to Obama—one on the Noble-Winning economists plans to keep his prize in cash for awhile, not invest it! ~Bob. Excerpt: Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that sheds light on the cause-and-effect relationship between the economy and policy instruments such as interest rates and government spending. Sargent and Sims — both 68 — carried out their research independently in the 1970s and ‘80s, but it is highly relevant today as world governments and central banks seek ways to steer their economies away from another recession. … Asked how he would invest his half of the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award given the turbulence of today’s financial markets, Sims said: “First thing I’m gonna do is keep it in cash for a while and think.”
‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street?
Most of the OWS crowd couldn’t organize a two-car funeral. ~Bob. Excerpt: The situation down at
Occupy Wall Street
continues to deteriorate, as sanitary conditions teamed with the personal actions of the protesters appear to be eclipsing the political gathering’s original push for a more “equitable” society. According to the Daily Mail, the environment down at New York City
Proposed millionaires income tax would hit Democratic states hardest
Excerpt: The millionaire tax being pushed by Senate Democrats this week would hit taxpayers in Democrat-dominated states almost twice as hard as those in Republican-dominated states, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller. States that have elected two Republican senators tend to have much lower levels of economic inequality than states which have elected two Democratic senators. Democrat-dominated states tend to have higher percentages of very rich people, higher percentages of very poor people, and a lower percentage of middle-income people. (There’s an old saying that politicians get money from the rich and votes from the poor by promising to protect them from each other. ~Bob.)
Iranian Actress Reportedly Sentenced to One Year in Jail, 90 Lashes
Well, the NYT endorses Shari’a Law, so this can’t be a bad thing, right? ~Bob. Excerpt: Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic, an opposition website reported Sunday. "A verdict has been issued for Marzieh Vafamehr, sentencing her to a year in jail and 90 lashes," Kalameh.com reported.
Turkish Muslim man Beheads Catholic Bishop - Luigi Padovese
Video from the Religion of Peace.
Excerpt: On the very day that Steve Jobs died a new report suggests that the U.S.
Worth reading: The Miracle of iCapitalism
Excerpt: One of my favorite economics essays from which I've drawn bottomless inspiration is Leonard Read's "I, Pencil." He turned a mundane writing instrument into an elementary study of free-market capitalism. What goes for the pencil goes for any of the products Jobs introduced. "I have a profound lesson to teach," Read wrote in the voice of a metaphorical lead pencil. "I can teach this lesson better than can an automobile or an airplane or a mechanical dishwasher because -- well, because I am seemingly so simple. Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me." Read traces the family tree of the pencil from the Oregon loggers who harvest its cedar wood, to the California millworkers who cut the wood into thin slats, to Mississippi refinery workers, to the Dutch East Indies farmers who produce an oil used to make erasers. All of these people, and many more at the periphery of the process, have special knowledge about their life's work in their separate corners of the earth. But none by himself has the singular knowledge or ability to give birth to a pencil. Few will ever come in contact with the others who make the production of that pencil possible.
This Is What a Mob Looks Like
Excerpt: Sally Kohn, a self-identified "community organizer," praised the Wall Street loiterers on CNN's website, comparing the protest to the Boston Tea Party, which she claimed, "helped spark the American Revolution," adding, "and yes, that protest ultimately turned very violent." First of all, the Boston Tea Party was nothing like tattooed, body–pierced, sunken-chested 19-year-olds getting in fights with the police for fun. Paul Revere's nighttime raid was intended exclusively to protest a new British tea tax. (The Wall Street protesters would be more likely to fight for a new tax than against one.) Revere
Free Trade Agreements Are A Win for Prosperity
Excerpt: Free trade agreements (FTAs) have economically benefited nations the world over since their inception. Poverty rates in countries with low trade barriers are significantly lower, and data in The Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom demonstrate that free trade also leads to higher incomes, more jobs, and greater equality. That's why it's vitally important to quickly enact the three pending U.S. trade agreements with Colombia , Panama , and South Korea
Excerpt: A few weeks ago, a senior Russian official assured me that his government wouldn’t block “a strong resolution” in support of the uprising in Syria Russia Moscow Russia
Cain’s gift to the GOP Forcing his rivals to get better
Excerpt: Is it time to start taking Herman Cain seriously? Once buried among the fringe candidates for the GOP presidential nomination, the canny Atlanta businessman has taken full advantage of Rick Perry’s collapse, surging past the Texas Morehouse College in Atlanta
US MUSLIM ‘Leaders’ who fail the Awlaki test
Excerpt: The just assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki was a defining moment for American Muslims. We should have been leading the cheers -- but instead many of our self-appointed “spokesmen” squandered their bandwidth. This one is personal. As one of us, Awlaki’s extreme form of Islamism swayed many Muslims to hate America Virginia , Awlaki’s last stomping ground before leaving the US US
Wall Street’s Disgruntled Utopians
Excerpt: The protesters themselves comprise the usual suspects: badly educated young people (“Students loans=indentured servitude,” read one sign), aging hippies, leftover leftists (“Marx Was Right,” read another), and the purveyors of various wacky conspiracy theories, like the guy whose sign links the Federal Reserve to the pyramid on the dollar bill. This mélange explains the profound ignorance of economic reality that lies behind the protesters’ complaints about the “greed and corruption of the 1%.” In this melodrama, “Wall Street” and “corporations” have rigged the system so that they enrich themselves at the expense of everybody else. “Growing income inequality” is the proof of this nefarious behavior, as the left-wing magazine Mother Jones reports: “A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244.” Q.E.D.
Liberals support this because “all cultures are equally valid.” Besides, it’s Shari’a Law and theses guys belong to a religion of peace, so all is well. ~Bob. Excerpt: In a first for the garrison city, sixty masked men carrying iron rods barged into a girls’ school in Rawalpindi Satellite Town
Excerpt: More news of the spread of democracy and pluralism in the glorious Arab Spring Tunisia
200 suicide bombers 'planning attacks in UK
Guess they didn’t get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: A senior intelligence source has revealed that the figure is a "conservative" estimate of the threat facing the country from UK-based Islamist suicide bombers. The would-be killers are among 2,000 extremists who the security services have said are based in Britain UK
Misplaced Rage of Occupy Wall Street
Excerpt: Bankers have become one of Obama’s favorite whipping boys in public. Behind the scenes he enjoys cashing their checks. Occupy Wall Street is the right outrage, but it’s in the wrong place. It’s not capitalism that is killing us. It’s the people that try to control capitalism for their own means that are killing us.
Aimless Obama walks alone
Excerpt: The reports are not good, disturbing even. I have heard basically the same story four times in the last 10 days, and the people doing the talking are in New York and Washington
2012 Presidential Matchups: Election 2012: Obama 42%, Cain 39%
Huh. Racist bastards would vote for the half white guy over the all black guy. ~Bob.
Excerpt: One suspects that the Occupy Raleigh crowd didn’t consider the irony of an attendee at the anti-corporate greed gathering wearing a T-shirt that touts Fidelity Investments. Not only did he attend; he also discussed the group’s goals — or lack thereof — with WTVD.
Occupy Wall Street, Drugs, Working, and Being a 100 Percenter
Excerpt: This scathing and HILARIOUS blog post about the Occupy Wallstreeter’s “We Are the 99 Percent” posts, is not only funny (hysterically so) for those of us on the right, but it really does illustrate the different mind set of each side. Although the authors of the piece, Lori and Jenn, mock the notes written, the bigger point is serious. These kids think they are entitled to things. They think that life is unfair, and the government or somebody should do something to make it fair. They don’t seem to be the least bit familiar with the term “self responsibility.” Many of them have made bad choices in life, and now are experiencing the consequences. They took out more loans than they could pay back. Whose fault is that? They didn’t read the loan papers on the adjustable rate on their home loan. Whose fault is that? They majored in things that were not substantial enough to get a good job. Whose fault is that? The banks don’t force you to take loans. Colleges don’t make you major in Art. What Lori and Jenn are trying to say is that the mindset is wrong. They are trying to say to these young people that they need to take responsibility for their own mistakes. They need to move forward. At least I have some respect for the guy who cleans bathrooms at a Steak house. At least he is willing to take a crappy job to make ends meet. I think all people you talk to that have had some level of success in life, has worked at some crappy job. It’s not fun. It’s not always fair. But it’s better than whining. A lot better. One develops what is called “a work ethic.” Lori and Jenn really do excoriate the girl who has the coke nail. For those who do not know what a coke nail is, it’s when a druggie grows out his or her pinky nail in order to have an easily accessible way of scooping up cocaine power and snorting it in one’s nose. No tools required!
Company that Owns Zuccotti Park
Excerpt: It’s been a bit of a puzzle as to why the owners of Zuccotti Park
Occupy Wall Street
gang has taken over have allowed them to stay. They’re angering residents and pretty much stinking up the place. The owners have mentioned that the park is normally cleaned every night, but they have not been able to clean it in three weeks. Sanitation was “becoming an issue” a few days ago. Lord knows what it’s like now, I hear it’s pretty bad. Could the fact that the parent company of Brookfield Properties received a “green energy” loan guarantee from the Obama administration for a New Hampshire
Sorry OWS, BO beat you there by a mile. ~Bob. Excerpt: Despite his rhetorical attacks on Wall Street, a study by the Sunlight Foundation’s Influence Project shows that President Barack Obama has received more money from Wall Street than any other politician over the past 20 years, including former President George W. Bush. In 2008, Wall Street’s largesse accounted for 20 percent of Obama’s total take, according to Reuters. When asked by The Daily Caller to comment about President Obama’s credibility when it comes to criticizing Wall Street, the White House declined to reply.
Excerpt: “Up until the 1950s, American children yearned for adulthood. When their time came to be adults, they stepped into the role proudly, leaving childhood behind and taking up the mantles of responsibility, honor and dignity. They embraced and championed the ideals of those who came before them while valiantly tackling new ideas and problems that their families, communities and nation faced. Those days were long gone. “Americans now shunned adulthood, preferring to remain in a state of perpetual adolescence. By failing to move forward with grace and dignity, they left a gaping hole in American society. They treated relationships like disposable lighters, tossing marriages away when they ran out of gas. Children were left without families, and even worse, they were left without adults who could be role models of responsible behavior.” I first read that fascinating appraisal of the baby boom generation in 2009, in Brad Thor’s book, “The Last Patriot,” and it was something that has stayed on my mind — at least on the fringes — ever since. There are so many things that are important in my life and the lives of people my age that would come under the heading of recreation or fun that my father or my grandfather would have called silly or childish. The older I get, the more I find myself agreeing with them.
Good News: 'Occupy Boston
Excerpt: The 'occupy' mob's organizational incoherence and moral bankruptcy continues apace: The downtown protest group Occupy Boston threw its proverbial doors open yesterday, and played host to supporters of accused terrorist Terak Mehanna, who are looking to raise awareness of the Sudbury man’s upcoming trial. The Tarek Mehanna Support Committee came to Occupy Boston’s ever-evolving tent city on the Rose Kennedy Greenway to say Mehanna, a Muslim American pharmacist, is a victim of anti-Muslim sentiment. Occupy Boston
Bam’s vanishing green
Excerpt: The shoes just keep dropping in the ever-mushrooming Solyndra scandal -- even as President Obama continues to defend the now-bankrupt solar company and his administration’s decision to grant it $528 million in loan guarantees, courtesy of the taxpayers. Maybe it’s time for the White House to finally admit the folly of its “green jobs” program and attempts by government officials to dictate industrial policy. Not to mention throwing billions in taxpayer money out the window on “green” companies it vowed would jump-start the economy and create 5 million jobs.
Rape victim married off to Muslim rapist
Well, better that 21,000 rape victims die than one liberal be called Islamophobic. ~Bob. Excerpt: The rape victim's family actually forced the rapist to marry the poor girl. If he hadn't, who knows what horrors the victim would have gone through: the Malaysian Islamic reformist group Sisters in Islam has pointed out: In Pakistan India , but the laws of Islam are the same there as they are in Pakistan
Helmet camera view of dismounted IED strike
Excerpt: First-person helmet camera footage of a Marine being hit with an IED inside a qalat while on a foot patrol in Afghanistan
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