Political Digest for December 2, 2011

I post articles because I think they are of interest. Doing so doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree (or disagree) with every—or any—opinion in the posted article. Help your friends and relatives stay informed by passing the digest on. In some cases I post things sent to me by readers I might not have posted on my own, to get ideas circulating.

Free PDF Copy of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2011/10/free-copy-of-coming-collapse-of.html

You might be an

Occupy Wall Street

protester if…

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2011/12/you-might-be-occupy-wall-street.html

Tracy Lawrence, Notary Public Who Blew The Whistle On Massive Foreclosure Fraud, Found Dead

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1444/675/NL/Foreclosure_Whistleblower_Found_Dead.html

Excerpt: Earlier this month, Lawrence came forward and admitted to the Nevada Attorney General's Office that she notarized 25,000 fraudulent documents for Lender Processing Services, a Florida company used by most major banks to process home repossessions. The documents were filed with the Clark County Recorder's Office between 2005 and 2008, The Los Angeles Times reported. (Goes with my recommendation yesterday of Reckless Endangerment. ~Bob. The subprime mortgage crisis that ultimately led to the current near-collapse of the euro zone and the EU (which may be a good thing in the end) was due to a complex of issues, but in large part to shady and illegal dealings on the part of mortgage companies and banks as aided and abetted by government, which refused to do its supervisory job. The above report is the tip of the iceberg. Both the US government and banks -- not to mention unwary buyers who were convinced by both entities that they could afford things they couldn't -- were part of the perverse web that brought down the world economy. Ordinary Americans may have contributed peripherally (with their naïveté), but they did not cause this crisis. The banks in league with corrupt government (see Barney Frank) wrought this mischief on the world. It is therefore cosmic justice that the Fed feels indebted to Europe. But if the Fed wants to help, they should shell out of their own pockets and stop tampering via public funds (bailouts), quantitative easing (and its equivalents such as the proposed aid package to European central banks), borrowing debt to pay debt, and other sleight of hand schemes. --Don Hank)

GOP: Pay for payroll tax cut with federal workforce, safety net cuts
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/196353-gop-would-pay-for-payroll-tax-cut-with-federal-workforce-entitlement-cuts

Excerpt: Senate Republicans have proposed wringing cost savings out of the federal work force and safety net programs to pay for an extension of the current payroll tax cut. In a further sign that the debate had shifted to how to, instead of whether, to extend payroll tax relief, Senate Republicans would take a page from President Obama’s own fiscal commission and freeze salaries for federal civilian employees for three years. That would amount to a five-year pay freeze in total, given that a two-year policy is already in effect. … Republicans also incorporated means testing for a host of federal programs in their proposal, including for food stamps, unemployment benefits and Medicare.

Angry White Man: The bigoted past of Ron Paul.

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/angry-white-man

2008 piece. Leftist publication. But brutal. ~Bob.

UK foreign secretary calls for 'all Afghan groups' to attend peace talks

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/196353-gop-would-pay-for-payroll-tax-cut-with-federal-workforce-entitlement-cuts

Excerpt: Next week's International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, Germany, should include representatives of all the political groups in that war-torn nation, William Hague, the U.K.'s foreign secretary, argues in an opinion article published by The Hill. (Margaret of Valois: "In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.”)

Gingrich's hand ‘always six inches from the self-destruct button’

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/196441-newts-hand-always-six-inches-from-the-self-destruct-button

Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are nervous about Newt Gingrich’s rise in the polls, with one member saying, “Newt’s hand is always six inches from the self-destruct button.” The legislator, who served with Gingrich in the House, is one of many who are concerned the Georgia Republican will capture the 2012 presidential nomination. The member requested anonymity to avoid finding himself crosswise with a candidate now considered to have a real shot at facing President Obama in the general election. (Notice how the media, which deplores the “politics of personal destruction,” is always happy to help with the anonymous political knife in the back from folks too cowardly to put their names to their thoughts? And you have to read the comment from “Frank,” who said Newt tries to appear smart by using big words like “history.” ~Bob.)

Mitt Romney struggles to find a strategy to combat Newt Gingrich’s surge

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-struggles-to-find-a-strategy-to-combat-newt-gingrichs-surge/2011/11/30/gIQAP8WaEO_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics

Excerpt: All along, everything has gone according to Mitt Romney’s plan. … But they didn’t count on a late and strong rise by Newt Gingrich.

Infrastructure Funding: Taking the Wrong Path

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21359&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: A recent American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) report estimated the United States will need to spend $2.2 trillion over the next few years to bring the country's infrastructure to acceptable levels. A $2 trillion projected estimate for infrastructure sounds daunting, but it is important to examine what planners consider "infrastructure," says Peter Swanson, a Hatton W. Sumners Scholar at the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Joblessness and Regulation: The "Mass Layoff" Fallacy

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21362&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: In a recent Gallup poll, the "myth" cited by Harry Reid seems very real:

Twenty-two percent of respondents stated that government regulation was their primary concern. Fifteen percent of respondents cited consumer confidence. A mere 12 percent pointed to "lack of consumer demand."

Carrier IQ: Researcher Trevor Eckhart Outs Creepy, Hidden App Installed On Smartphones (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/carrier-iq-trevor-eckhart_n_1120727.html?ref=technology&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C116806

Excerpt: In a 17-minute video posted Monday on YouTube, Trevor Eckhart shows how the software – known as Carrier IQ – logs every text message, Google search and phone number typed on a wide variety of smart phones - including HTC, Blackberry, Nokia* and others - and reports them to the mobile phone carrier. The application, which is labeled on Eckhart’s HTC smartphone as "HTC IQ Agent," also logs the URL of websites searched on the phone, even if the user intends to encrypt that data using a URL that begins with "HTTPS," Eckhart said. The software always runs when Android operating system is running and users are unable to stop it, Eckhart said in the video. "Why is this not opt-in and why is it so hard to fully remove?" Eckhart wrote at the end of the video. (Love your “smart phone?” That may change if you’ve been visiting sites or sending/receiving texts that could be embarrassing or illegal. It looks like it touches every smart phone platform. Ron P.)

Will the President Protect Religious Rights?

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/01/morning-bell-will-the-president-protect-religious-rights/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Excerpt: Sometimes the White House gets the easy questions wrong. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked about a controversial mandate stemming from Obamacare that would require religious employers to provide insurance coverage for birth control despite religious objections.

The Last Train Out for Michele Bachmann by Robert Ringer

http://robertringer.com/roberts-insights/the-last-train-out-for-michele-bachmann/

Excerpt: I love Michele Bachmann! Which is why it has pained me to see how badly her handlers have misguided her campaign. Now, with Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich leading the pack, I believe Congresswoman Bachmann has one last chance to reignite her candidacy.

Central Bank Chief Hints at Stepping Up Euro Support

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/business/global/draghi-hints-again-at-rate-cut-in-europe.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Excerpt: Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, hinted Thursday that the bank might be willing to step up its support for the European economy if political leaders take decisive steps to prevent future debt crises. Mr. Draghi stopped well short of offering a European version of the massive securities purchases that the Federal Reserve has used to try to stimulate the U.S. economy.

Obama’s Silver Demographic Linings

http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/on-the-trail/obama-s-silver-demographic-linings-20111130

Excerpt: Obama won 365 electoral votes in 2008, taking prizes in both traditional swing states like Ohio and Florida and newer battlegrounds such as North Carolina and Virginia. Recent history suggests Obama starts his reelection bid with at least 196 electoral votes in 15 blue states and the District of Columbia, while the eventual GOP nominee likely can count on 180 votes from 22 red states. Of the remaining 13, 11 are true swing states and account for 162 electoral votes. Obama needs 74 of those to secure a second term. Doing so means cobbling together a few western states trending Democratic, like Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico, with traditional Rust Belt battlegrounds. (Isn’t it amazing how the picture changes depending on where you look at it from? Ron P.)

Nearly half German city to evacuate Sunday for defusing of WWII era bomb

http://www.stripes.com/news/nearly-half-german-city-to-evacuate-sunday-for-defusing-of-wwii-era-bomb-1.162031

Excerpt: About 45,000 residents of the German city of Koblenz, nearly half of the city’s population, are under evacuation orders Sunday following the discovery of what local officials said was one of the largest unexploded bombs ever found, believed to have been dropped by the British Royal Air Force during World War II. The nearly 4,000-pound bomb, packed with more than 3,000 pounds of explosives, as well as other unexploded ordnance, were discovered in the Rhine River, where the water levels have dropped significantly due to a lack of rain over the past few weeks, according to local authorities. (War—another of those gifts that keep on giving. Ron P. No, trying to solve your problems by letting an all-powerful government that totally controls the economy take charge. That’s the gift that keeps on giving. ~Bob.)

‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Climate Apocalypse’

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/11/29/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-climate-apocalypse/?singlepage=true

Excerpt: That’s where the Climategate emails come in. First released on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit two years ago and recently updated by a fresh batch, the “hide the decline” emails were an endless source of fun and lurid fascination for those of us who had never been convinced by the global-warming thesis in the first place. But the real reason they mattered is that they introduced a note of caution into an enterprise whose motivating appeal resided in its increasingly frantic forecasts of catastrophe. Papers were withdrawn; source material re-examined.

Newt Gingrich: Serial Hypocrisy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWKTOCP45zY&feature=player_embedded

Ron Paul hit piece on Newt. ~Bob.

What Have The Central Banks Of The World Done Now?

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/what-have-the-central-banks-of-the-world-done-now

Excerpt: The central banks of the world are acting as if it is 2008 all over again. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the central bankers are pulling out all the stops. The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank have announced a coordinated plan to provide liquidity support to the global financial system.

Calif. ranks 46 in business friendliness

http://jan.ocregister.com/2011/12/01/calif-ranks-46-in-business-friendliness/76323/

Why would you need jobs when you can borrow unlimited cash? Illinois is 40^th, Wisconsin is 24^th, but hoping to get into the bottom ten by recalling Scott Walker. ~Bob. Excerpt: California ranks 46th in business friendliness as measured by 44 different tax and public policy issues, according to a new study from the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, a Virginia-based advocacy group.

Holder’s Criminality, Obama’s Hypocrisy

http://www.redstate.com/scipio62/2011/11/30/holders-criminality-obamas-hypocrisy/

Excerpt: The disgraceful AG Eric Holder is getting really testy lately, lashing out at The Daily Caller for instigating members of Congress, Presidential candidates, and a couple of governors (all Republicans) into calling for his resignation over the deadly Operation Fast & Furious fiasco. Of course, the reporting on it from Sharyl Attkisson of CBS had pretty much EVERYTHING to do with these Republicans’ demands for either Holder falling on his proverbial sword and resigning or Obama throwing Holder under the bus and firing him.

Brown signs dozens of bills previously vetoed by Schwarzenegger

http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/brown-signs-dozens-bills-previously-vetoed-schwarzenegger-13754

Excerpt: Dozens of bills vetoed during the final legislative session of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration have found new life with Jerry Brown in the governor’s office, a California Watch analysis has found. The bills range from high-profile initiatives like the California Dream Act, which grants financial aid to illegal immigrants attending public universities, to legislation that regulates tattoo parlors, increases penalties for animal abuse and prohibits the purchase of alcohol at self-service checkouts.

State pension systems see potential obstacles in Brown's reform plan

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2011/11/state-pension-systems-see-potential-obstacles-in-brown-reform-plan.html

Excerpt: Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to overhaul public pensions in California may face legal hurdles and create some new costs, according to officials with the state’s two largest public retirement systems. More detail about the governor’s 12-point plan is needed to answer a large number of questions, according to analyses by officials with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, known as CalPERS, and California State Teachers' Retirement System, known as CalSTRS.

U.S. Accuses Woman of Flight-School Visa Fraud

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204397704577070742206104350.html?mod=djemITP_h

Excerpt: Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a Southern California woman they said helped foreign nationals fraudulently apply for student visas to attend flight schools, a security concern since the 9/11 attacks. Karena Chuang, 28 years old, of Lake Elsinore, Calif., was arrested for allegedly overseeing a scheme that helped citizens of Egypt, Sri Lanka and Taiwan enter the U.S. for flight training at programs authorized to accept foreign students.

In the Race for the Senate, Democrats Show Signs of Life

http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/decembersenateupdate/

Excerpt: As the Crystal Ball takes a fresh look at the race for control of the Senate, Republicans, unlike some of their predecessors during that sudden Senate vote in LBJ’s Senate, need to stay on the job, lest their seemingly inexorable march to a Senate majority be derailed. For months, Republicans have been the ones to expand the playing field of competitive Senate seats this year, most notably thanks to the retirements of Democratic Sens. Jeff Bingaman (NM) and Herb Kohl (WI), which turned safe Democratic seats into toss ups. But, thanks to smart candidate recruitment, Democrats might have a few chances of their own to take Republican-held seats. (The most important vote a legislator casts is the vote to organize. The most liberal, RINO Republican will vote Republican to organize, putting conservatives in charge of most committees and the flow of business. The most conservative Blue Dog Democrat will vote Democrat to organize, putting liberals in charge. Which is why the Tea Party was arguable Harry Reid’s best friend in the 2010 election. Too many conservatives are obsessed with ideological purity rather than winning on the issues. This is why I will continue to support Scott Brown. ~Bob.)

A Tale of Two Surges

http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2011/12/01/a_tale_of_two_surges/page/full/

Excerpt: Flat, arid and clear-skied Iraq is accessible by sea and ideal for air operations. Landlocked Afghanistan is mountainous and hard to supply, with a harsh climate and often stormy weather. A nuclear and duplicitous Pakistan plays far more havoc than did even Iraq's meddling neighbors. Iraq has a stronger secular tradition, and its population is mostly literate. Afghanistan is far more fundamentalist and tribal, with well over half the population illiterate.

D.C. funds for needy used more for perks-- Council member calls for closing accounts

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/30/city-funds-for-needy-used-more-for-perks/?page=all#pagebreak

Excerpt: D.C. Council member Tommy Wells on Wednesday called for the elimination of special funds the city’s lawmakers are supposed to use to help the needy — money critics consider “slush funds” rarely tapped to help residents. A Washington Times review of 10,000 payments totaling $3.3 million since 2004 shows that just 3 percent or $84,000 has gone to power and water bills, presumably for needy constituents, and $37,000 for phone bills. More — $133,000 — has been spent at pro sporting events. (Political scandals this small don’t make the papers in Chicago. ~Bob.)

Opposing the tyrant while drinking his Kool-Aid by Don Hank

http://laiglesforum.com/opposing-the-elites-by-drinking-their-kool-aid/2829.htm

Excerpt: Pat Condell has a unique way with language, as a recent video shows. Look at this delightful phrase: “[the EU]…will collapse under the weight of its own illegitimacy.”

I Got 15 Kids and 3 Baby Daddys - Someone's Gotta Pay For Me and My Kids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpHBhFYipLI

No excerpt. Just total amazement. Entitlement taken to a whole new level. Where will it end? --MG

Mad Mitt

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/12/01/mad-mitt

Excerpt: Where did his unflappability go? (VIDEO BELOW) Mitt Romney appeared strangely agitated in his interview with Fox News host Bret Baier on Tuesday.

Worth Reading: The dirty secret media ignores

http://mychal-massie.com/premium/the-dirty-secret-media-ignores/?mid=541871

False sex charges. ~Bob. Excerpt: Do you recognize the name Crystal Gail Mangum? Do you recognize the name Donna Burleigh? Do you recognize the name Mariah Yeater? What about Nafissatou Diallo, does her name sound familiar? I betting that out of the thousands who read my blog daily, the number of people who could accurately identify these people would be almost infinitesimal.

Prescott High grad on mend at Wounded Warriors outing

http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=100557

Excerpt: After seeing a four-point buck on the hillside at Fort Peck Lake in Montana, Lance Cpl. Michael Martinez flipped his right leg prosthesis upside down to provide a rest for his rifle and fired.

Fire Sale on Electric Cars!: The Chevy Volt and other failures won’t kill Obama’s enthusiasm.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/284527/fire-sale-electric-cars-robert-bryce

Excerpt: Electric-car sales are on fire. Okay, well, only a few electric cars have actually gone up in smoke. But with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opening a formal safety investigation into fears about fires started by the much-hyped Chevrolet Volt, it’s become clear yet again that electric vehicles are The Next Big Thing — and they always will be.

Fed Buys a Ticket on the Titanic

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/12/fed_buys_a_ticket_on_the_titanic.html

Excerpt: The Federal Reserve just gave the United States a ticket to board the sinking Titanic that is socialist Europe. Now cheap dollars borrowed by weak nations will shore up failing models of socialist governments, which will be enabled to continue their spendthrift ways while postponing meaningful reform. 　If European banks want to borrow dollars, they may do so, as the rate there is cheaper than here in the good old USA.

Ten words you need to stop misspelling

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

Useful and funny. ~Bob.

Kristallnacht Spreads ....... to New Jersey

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/12/kristallnacht-spreads-to-new-jersey.html

Excerpt: There is a sharp spike in vicious anti-Jewish attacks. A couple of weeks ago, on the 73rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, cars were set on fire as more swastikas turned up in NYC: "looks Like a war zone". That was followed the next week with "Avenue Jew," and then more swastikas.

Worth Reading: CEO's Open Letter to President Obama

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/willis-report/blog/2011/11/30/ceos-open-letter-president-obama

Excerpt: When you were a community organizer in Chicago, you learned the art of waging a guerilla campaign against a far superior force. But you've graduated from that milieu and now help to set the agenda for that superior force. You might do well at this point to eschew the polarizing vernacular of political militancy and become the transcendent leader you were elected to be.

Former Friend of Ginger White: White and I Had Lesbian Relationship While Cain "Affair" Supposedly Happened

http://www.punditpress.com/2011/11/former-friend-of-ginger-white-white-and.html

Excerpt: Honestly, you can't make this stuff up. Not only did Ginger White lose a libel case this year, according to a former friend and business partner, Ms. White is a lesbian. And, on top of all of that, Kimberly Vay, who had a relationship with Ms. White, stated that Herman Cain was "never mentioned" during the years they spent as partners. (Throw enough mud and some sticks, they say. Now it’s fling everywhere. What happened to “It’s just about sex” when Bill Clinton lied under oath to duck a sexual harassment charge? ~Bob.)

Conspiracies, Terrorist Defense Videoed at Anti NYPD Rally

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3304/conspiracies-terrorist-defense-at-anti-nypd-rally

Excerpt: Muslim Americans teamed up with

Occupy Wall Street

protesters to march toward the New York Police headquarters Nov. 18 in a demonstration against NYPD and CIA tactics and repression of Muslim American communities. They defended convicted terrorists as victims of entrapment and abusive treatment, including one convicted of trying to kill American troops and FBI agents in Afghanistan.

Media Have Made Traditional Values the Counterculture

http://cnsnews.com/blog/dan-gainor/media-have-made-traditional-values-counterculture

Excerpt: As a society, we no longer celebrate the good things in America. The heroes of yesteryear are as hard to find as the use of the word "yesteryear." Valiant soldiers, astronauts, police officers and more have been torn down, criticized and destroyed by the keepers of our pop culture. Replacing them are street thug rappers, clueless athletes and brainless Hollywood stars.

Once You Go Conservative Black, You Better Watch Your Back

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-11-30.html

Excerpt: With the mainstream media giddily reporting on an alleged affair involving Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, how long can it be before they break the news that their 2004 vice presidential candidate conceived a "love child" with his mistress, Rielle Hunter?

Islamic Law Comes to Michigan

http://visiontoamerica.org/151/islamic-law-comes-to-michigan/

Excerpt: The city of Dearborn, Michigan denied a permit Wednesday for Qur’an-burning Pastor Terry Jones’ planned protest outside the Islamic Center of America on Good Friday. Islamic supremacists were handed a victory for their violent intimidation and threats. City spokeswoman Mary Laundroche said that Jones’ permit had been denied for “public safety reasons.” In other words, they’re afraid Muslims will riot.

You might be an Occupy Wall Street protester if...

Robert A. Hall

http://www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com/

You’re naïve enough to believe that 99% of the people agree with you.

You are so concerned about global warming that you signed a petition to ban carbon-based life forms.

You think crapping on police cars and the American flag will win over the public to your cause.

You think the government is putting di-hydrogen oxide in the drinking water to poison poor people.

You hate capitalism, but can’t imagine life without iPods, laptops, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry’s, smart-phones and the millions of other good things capitalism provides, that no other system does.

You think pepper spray kills lice.

You couldn’t explain “supply and demand” if they gave you three tries, and the prize was a $50 baggie.

You hate Wall Street but support Obama, who got more Wall Street political contributions than any other politician.

You own a $5,000 laptop, a $300 smart phone, and every item of clothing on you cost over $100, and you think you are deprived.

You hate the bums who come in and free load off the free food supporters donated to you.

You heard that David Duke endorsed OWS, and are delighted to have English royalty on your side.

You hate what Wall Street has done to the economy, but love Fanny Mae and the leftist politicians who gave them the tools and the green flag.

You got crabs from your tent-mates, and didn’t even have sex. As far as you remember.

You celebrate diversity, except for those dirty Zionist Jews who run Wall Street and the banks.

You think all debts should be cancelled, but first you want your parents to get their life savings out of the bank before they collapse due to the cancellation of all debts, so they can still support you.

When you chant, “The people, united, will never be defeated,” you’re thinking that uniting with that Wellesley coed wearing only shorts and body paint would be a good first step.

You get a funny WTF look on your face if you go someplace that doesn’t smell of urine.

You’re outraged that majoring in “Peace Studies” with a minor in dance hasn’t gotten you a six-figure job right out of college. With a company car and six weeks vacation. All your professors assured you that it was a great career track.

The last thing you “occupied” was the pull-out couch in your parent’s basement.

You think everyone is entitled to a minimum wage of $18 per hour even if they don’t have a job, and if that means everyone collects $18 an hour 24/7 for not working, won’t this be a great world?

You think crapping in a Starbuck’s Grande size latte cup and tossing it outside the park shows how considerate you are.

You think food is made at the supermarket, and should be given away, not sold for a profit.

You think grabbing the pizza and running from the delivery guy is “sticking it to the man.”

You talk a lot about your “constitutional rights,” but have never read the constitution.

You think healthcare, jobs, good housing, free food, clothing and maybe a nice ride are human rights guaranteed by the constitution, just like free drugs and sleeping until noon.

You’re not really sure exactly what “constitution” means, because you weren’t a Law major, for God’s sake.

You can’t believe how the cost of weed is skyrocketing here among your socialist brethren, and assume it must be grown by evil capitalists.

You think it’s pure evil for the banks to expect loans to be repaid, but wish you could find that guy who borrowed your cell phone so you could call your parents for some cash.

Your sister gave you A200 for Christmas.

You hate capitalism, but can’t think of any non-capitalist countries you’d be willing to live in.

You’re for spreading the wealth around, but if you catch that SOB who stole your laptop, you’ll beat the hell out of him.

You think people having sex in public is cool, but wish you were included.

Your parents have decided that, since you’re 32, this is not a stage you will grow out of, and have sold the house and moved. You think to a condo in a 55-and-over only community, but can’t be sure, as they left no forwarding address or phone.

You found out that your mother is telling people you are in prison to avoid the embarrassment.

You thought “income equality” was our worst problem, until you looked around and discovered the “intercourse inequality” between you and the attractive kids.

You think spending a night in a damp sleeping bag when it dropped below 40 degrees and everyone ran out of weed is the same kind of hardship they give soldiers medals for.

You know it’s time for a sponge bath at McDonalds when even your fellow protesters flinch at your pong.

You consider reneging on your student loans as “working your way through college.”

You keep the words on your protest signs short and easy to spell, because you weren’t an English major, for God’s sake.

You think Bush was as evil as Hitler, but don’t really know who Hitler was. Didn’t he evict protesters, or something?

You hate the rich 1%, but love George Soros, Barack Obama, John Kerry, the Kennedys, Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, all the Hollywood leftist stars and other downtrodden multi-millionaires.

You think we should abolish the police, and that if you could just find the misguided fellow who raped the girl in the next tent, a “shame circle” would straighten him out.

You believe in “free love,” except for the guy who gave your occupy-hookup-girlfriend the STD she passed to you.

You have discovered that constant drumming and drugs give you migraines.

You are pleased you put those rich capitalist small businesses and hot dog venders near the park out of business by driving their customers away.

You can’t understand why anyone would vote for a Republican. You certainly wouldn’t if you ever bothered to vote. But man, there are lines….

You think we need a far-sighted leader who will have the government run the economy like Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Mugabe did.

You don’t know much about history except that America is evil, always invades other countries like France that you can’t find on a map, and was the only society to ever have slavery. Or require loans to be paid back.

You think it shows the diversity of the OWS movement that both the American Nazi Party and the American Communist Party have endorsed it.

You thought Wall Street would give in and make this country a Socialist Workers Paradise before it got so damn cold….

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Robert A. Hall is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic: And what you can do to prevent it. (http://tiny.cc/g02s4) (All royalties go to a charity to help wounded veterans) For a free PDF of the book, write him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com

Political Digest for Thanksgiving, 2011

A Happy Holiday to you and yours. Despite all our problems, we who were born in America have much to be thankful for. I will likely be off line through the weekend, with few, if any posts.

My Thanksgiving Prayer, if you missed it

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-prayer.html

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Charities I support

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2011/09/charities-i-support.html

The Top Five Reasons To Be a Commie Pinko

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2011/11/22/the-top-five-reasons-to-be-a-commie-pinko/

Too funny. ~Bob. Excerpt: Communism gets a bad rap, what with the 80 million or so murders, give or take 10 million, perpetrated by Communists worldwide. But hey, it’s for the greater good, don’t-ya-know. In spite of its gruesome history, Communist ideology is still going strong in American culture. That’s because there are compelling reasons to be a Communist that overshadow most people’s fear of being dragged out of their home in the middle of the night for no reason, put in a work camp that will likely kill them, or having to boil their children in pots and eat them just to survive. Pshaw! That will never happen here! Here are the top 5 reasons it’s good to be a Commie.

Worth reading: Failure or Success? By Thomas Sowell

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/23/failure_or_success

Excerpt: Many people are lamenting the failure of the Congressional "Super Committee" to come up with an agreement on ways to reduce the runaway federal deficits. But you cannot judge success or failure without knowing what the goal was. If you think the goal was to solve the country's fiscal crisis, then obviously the Super Committee was a complete failure. But, if you think the goal was to improve the chances of the Obama administration being re-elected in 2012, it was a complete success.

New Trove of Stolen E-Mails From Climate Scientists Is Released

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/science/earth/new-trove-of-stolen-e-mails-from-climate-scientists-is-released.html?_r=1&hp

Excerpt: The new e-mails appeared remarkably similar to the ones released two years ago just ahead of a similar conference in Copenhagen. They involved the same scientists and many of the same issues, and some of them carried a similar tone: catty remarks by the scientists, often about papers written by others in the field. (…) The University of East Anglia, the British institution at the middle of the previous hacking episode, confirmed that at least some of the newly released e-mails were authentic. The cache released in 2009 appeared to have come from a file someone obtained by hacking into the university’s computers, a crime for which no charges have been filed or suspects named. (…) A string of investigations following the 2009 release all came to the conclusion that scientists had not manipulated data to support their findings, though some of the reports did criticize them on minor points, such as failing to share their data or to respond properly to freedom of information requests. (Two years ago when the first Climategate release broke, NYT had been given advance (at least 3 weeks) notice and copies of some emails. They chose to sit on the story. Only after the story was already roaring in the media for weeks did they sniff haughtily and condescend to mention it in their pages.  This time they are quicker to get into print (perhaps their egos have been stung by not getting advance word this time?), but they still sing the same melody. When someone releases documents they like, the releaser is a “whistleblower,” but if they dislike what the release contains, the releaser becomes a “hacker.” Notice no “hacking” charges have been filed against anyone anywhere in the world. The “string of investigations” the NYT refers to in the excerpt was roundly criticized by many as a series of insider-driven whitewashes. Failure to provide enough data to replicate an experiment’s result used to be considered sufficient reason to reject scientific papers from publication. Finally, “failing to respond properly to FOIA requests” isn’t minor, it is a CRIME in both the USA and UK. Indeed, the Virginia AG is currently suing both UVa and Dr. Mann for emails that show how the state’s funds had been used. The most important thing these new emails show is that the first Climategate group of emails wasn’t just a bunch of cherry-picked stuff taken out of context and distorted by evil deniers, but the way these people really thought, talked, and acted routinely. Ron P. The Times is not a news outlet; it is a propaganda arm of the progressive/statist movement. ~Bob.)

Terror Suspect Was White House Guest and Recipient of $500k in Taxpayer Funds

http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/groups/terrorism-watchmen/forum/topic/terror-suspect-was-white-house-guest-and-recipient-of-500k-in-taxpayer-funds/

Last Friday FBI agents raided the homes of far left activists in Chicago and Minneapolis who are linked to the Marxist FARC terrorists and Islamic radicals as part of a terrorism investigation. The home of radical Hatem Abudayyeh in Chicago was raided in the terror sweep. … In 2003 Barack Obama was an honored guest at a dinner sponsored by the AAAN for former PLO-operative Rashid Khalidi. During the dinner a video was taken that shows Barack Obama celebrating with members of this Palestinian group who are openly hostile towards Israel. Barack Obama even gave a toast to a Rashid Khalidi at this going away party. The LA Times will not release the video from this Jew-bashing dinner. (If the government was withholding a video the LA Times wanted, they’d be screaming about transparency and “The Public’s right to Know.” ~Bob.)

Newt calls for ‘humane’ immigration policy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/newt-calls-for-humane-immigration-policy/2011/11/22/gIQA4zTxmN_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_politics

Excerpt: As he starts to lead in primary polls, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) appears to be looking ahead to the general election. In CNN’s national security debate, he called for a “humane” immigration policy.

CNN Republican debate: Winners and losers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/cnn-republican-debate-winners-and-losers/2011/11/22/gIQAwcdqmN_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_politics

Excerpt: Another day, another Republican presidential debate. We live-blogged the whole thing but also took note of a few of the night’s winners and, yes, losers.

Dem strategist accuses Romney of invoking Rev. Wright in new ad
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/195281-dem-strategist-romney-invoking-rev-wright-in-new-ad

Excerpt: Democratic strategist Tad Devine, an adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry's presidential campaigns, accused Mitt Romney's campaign of invoking controversial pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a recent ad. Devine said Wednesday that he was "shocked" to see what he believed to be imagery of an African American church in an ad released Tuesday by Romney's presidential team and airing in New Hampshire. The ad, Romney's first of the campaign, is "clearly an attempt to bring back Rev. Wright and race," Devine tweeted. (Terribly racist to mention that Obama went to a church that preached racism and anti-Americanism for 20 years, but never heard a word of “God damn America.” ~Bob.)

Comment on: Obama heckled by protesters at New Hampshire speech

Do you really think the Secret Service would've allowed the "protestors/hecklers" in if they weren't expected? And welcome? I might believe they could break in on any of the Republicans as none are in office as President, but not on Obama, the sitting President. For an announced Presidential visit, I expect the public had to have tickets or passes to get into the building, let alone the auditorium where O was speaking. Those tickets had to be approved by someone from the protocol office. Applying ticketholders would need positive ID plus whatever the SecServ wants for additional info. And, those IDs would've been checked on admittance. So, no way was this "spontaneous." Does the MSM pick up on and mention this? Of course not. O is THEIR guy. Ron P.

Bill Seeks Terror Designation for Flotilla Groups

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3301/bill-seeks-terror-designation-for-flotilla-groups

Excerpt: A bill introduced in Congress would ask Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to submit a report determining whether organizations that participated in a failed flotilla to Gaza in July should be designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The bill, offered last month by Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., and co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of 12 others, notes that a United Nations investigation into a previous flotilla effort says that Israel's maritime blockade of Gaza is legal. "Israel's blockade [on Gaza] is acknowledged by the United States as necessary and legal given Hamas' control of Gaza, intention to secure greater weaponry for aggressive purposes and open desire to destroy Israel," the bill says. Greece prohibited the departure of Freedom Flotilla II to the Gaza Strip this summer. The bill also asks that the State Department report "express support and gratitude" to Greece for thwarting the flotilla.

U. S. Government May Be Primary Suppliers of Mexican Drug Cartel Guns

http://biggovernment.com/tstilson/2011/11/21/u-s-government-may-be-primary-suppliers-of-mexican-drug-cartel-guns/

Excerpt: With Operation Fast and Furious headlining the news, there is no doubt civilian arms have been trafficked into Mexico. However, many of the arms used by Mexican cartels are NOT supplied by civilian gun outlets in the United States. Based upon the statistics I have compiled, our State and Defense Departments may be the premier suppliers of weaponry to Mexican drug cartels — not the US civilian.

Egyptian Military Using Lethal Nerve Gas on Protesters

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/egyptian-military-nerve-gas/2011/11/23/id/418927?s=al&promo_code=D935-1

Excerpt: "The Egyptian military has been using a banned chemical agent to deal with hundreds of thousands of protesters, according to several news sources. At least 23 Egyptians have died and more than 1,700 have succumbed to a lethal nerve gas military forces have been using during the past three days in clashes in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square. The lethal gas had been used at the height of South Africa's apartheid in the 1980s and has been banned by international convention. An Australian paper reports the gas canisters are marked 'Made in USA.' " (I recall distinctly how Obama and his European cohorts said to Mubarak: "Go Now." Why are they silent about the people who replaced him? They are much more cruel and barbaric. I am also reminded that my thus-far favorite in the campaigns once chided Obama for not being tougher on Ghadaffi. Yet that country is now a shambles and Al Qaeda is more powerful than ever. I think we need to hear our candidates ALL denounce US involvement in the Arab Sping, even those who initially supported it. This is not the time to play politics. The US public wants honesty more than anything else. –Don Hank. Not sure “CR” qualifies as a nerve agent, but surely nasty stuff. ~Bob.)

Flavor of the month and Ron Paul with nuts

You know, I think I have a touch of cognitive dissonance. I worry that if Ron Paul is elected, he won't fight the enemy because he won't recognize him.

With Michele Bachman (my favorite for now but not perfect), I worry that she would embroil us in more of the endless wars. (During the Arab Spring, she blamed Obama for not being tougher on Ghadaffi. The way things are shaping up there, it looks like we should have stayed out). We need God's guidance nowadays. I do not profess to have the answers. Linked below is a very well written piece of satire on the current scene that is kind of, well, refreshing. It was written by Doug Parris, the operator of the site "The Reagan Wing." Maybe it will help cooler minds to prevail.

http://thereaganwing.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/flavor-of-the-month/

--Don Hank

Janet Tavakoli on MF Global

http://www.fedupusa.org/2011/11/janet-tavakoli-on-mf-global/

Excerpt: For those unfamiliar, you can read here about Janet.  To say she is the world’s foremost expert on structured finance would be an understatement. … In short the risk doesn’t go away but it’s not on your balance sheet so it is effectively hidden.

CA Dem Assemblywoman doesn’t smile in mug shot

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2011/11/22/assemblywoman-doesnt-smile-in-mug-shot/?tsp=1

Excerpt: State Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi isn’t smiling in her mug shot, taken after police say she walked out of San Francisco’s Nieman Marcus without paying for $2,450 in merchandise, including leather pants, a black skirt and a white blouse. Hayashi, a Democrat who has served in the Assembly since 2006, was stopped by store security and taken to the Tenderloin police station for questioning. She was arrested on suspicion of felony grand theft and freed on $15,000 bail.

Law Professor Quits Job After Colleague Calls Care Packages for U.S. Troops 'Shameful'

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/22/law-professor-quits-job-after-colleague-calls-care-packages-for-us-troops/#ixzz1eT5MpWr4

Excerpt: "It’s basically like a 5-year-old throwing a temper tantrum," he told the station. "That is not how we teach our students to rationally look at the issues…We want rational adult discourse and that is not something I would tolerate in my class and it is not something the school should tolerate from one of its professors." (Finally, a post about a college professor that we can be proud of. --MasterGuns)

Armed illegals stalked Border

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/22/armed-illegals-stalked-border-patrol/print/

Excerpt: Five illegal immigrants armed with at least two AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifles were hunting for U.S. Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole known as Mesquite Seep just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and one U.S. agent was killed, records show. A now-sealed federal grand jury indictment in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry says the Mexican nationals were "patrolling" the rugged desert area of Peck Canyon at about 11:15 p.m. on Dec. 14 with the intent to "intentionally and forcibly assault" Border Patrol agents. (Mexican Drug Cartels: Now Armed by Obama. ~Bob.)

Why Israel’s letting Gaza’s rockets fly

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_israel_letting_gaza_rockets_TzRSbKDddY81TUi1pp1WiL#ixzz1eX3LIu9z

Excerpt: Will they or won’t they? As questions about an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities capture world headlines, the Israeli Defense Force faces a more prosaic dilemma: What to do about Gaza? Since August, Israel has experienced a “slow uptick” in rocket fire from Gaza, IDF spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich told me last week.

The Terrorist Threat Beneath the Waves

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203687504577005811739173268.html

Excerpt: Two developments in particular suggest a growing need for the United States and other peaceful nations to begin thinking anew about how to defend their maritime commerce, albeit under very different circumstances. The first development is the emergence of an undersea economy. (First attack on us is always free. Later we may do something. ~Bob.)

Attorney General Holder challenges Utah's new immigration law

http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/breaking-attorney-general-holder-challenges-utah-s-new-immigration-law

Has any administration attacked so many states before? Okay, Southern argument for Lincoln, but seriously…~Bob. Excerpt: Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice today challenged Utah’s new immigration law, making it the fourth such lawsuit following legal actions against Arizona, Alabama and South Carolina.

In a civil complaint filed in the District of Utah, Holder's department stated that several provisions of Utah’s H.B. 497 are preempted by federal law. The Utah immigration enforcement law was enacted on March, 15, 2011.

The Islamist-Environmentalist Alliance: Crimes against humanity brought to you by the Sierra Club.

 http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/23/the-islamist-environmentalist-alliance/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ca2d935d3d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN

Excerpt: Saudi Arabia has no better friend than the Sierra Club, and the Emirates have no better salesmen than the environmentalists who keep the country hooked on conflict oil. The administration’s sabotage of the Keystone XL project through delays aimed at killing the pipeline is a cynical act of cowardice, and it’s a shot in the arm to the very regimes that it claims to oppose.

Did Castro Get Kennedy?

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/23/did-castro-get-kennedy/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ca2d935d3d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN

Excerpt: Two days later Bringuier was astounded to spot Oswald a few blocks away from his store distributing Fair Play for Cuba pamphlets. Carlos approached, accepted a pamphlet, ripped it to pieces and a scuffle ensued. The cops arrived, the scuffle made the news, and a few days later Bringuier and Oswald debated on New Orleans radio and TV. (An article in American Heritage last year made a good historical case that Oswald was working with Cuban intelligence, in response to the Kennedy effort to oust Castro. Maybe Michael Moore, who loves Communist Cuba, will make a documentary about this? No? ~Bob.)

Social Security, Ponzi Schemes and the Need for Reform

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21338&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Clearly Social Security has many structural characteristics that resemble those of the classic Ponzi or pyramid scheme, says Michael Tanner, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute. For example, like a Ponzi scheme, Social Security does not actually save or invest any of a participant's payments. When a worker pays taxes into the system, that money is used to pay current beneficiaries. Therefore, participants receive payments, not from returns on their own investments, but directly from inflows from subsequent participants.

Secretary Chu’s Quirky Ideas

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/23/secretary-chu%e2%80%99s-quirky-ideas/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ca2d935d3d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN

Excerpt: Chu came up with the idea of a global “glucose economy” to supplant mankind’s dependence on oil while he was teaching physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. For his global glucose economy, vast supplies of fast-growing crops would be planted in the sunny tropics. The plants would be converted into glucose. The glucose would be shipped around the world much as oil is today, for eventual conversion into biofuels to run our cars. (Chu convinced Obama that energy was no problem, because in a few years we would have batteries that would give cars the equivalent of 100mpg. Of course, if we don’t, we’re screwed. ~Bob.)

What's Behind the Dramatic Decline in Youth Employment?

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21339&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Since the beginning of the recent recession, the employment-population ratio for high-school age youth (16-17 years old) has fallen by nearly a third, to its lowest level ever. However, this recession has exacerbated a longer-run downward trend that actually began in the 1990s and accelerated in the early 2000s. Given the longevity of this trend, it is a mistake to assert that current levels of teenage unemployment are due largely to the recent recession, as this appears not to be the case, says researcher Christopher L. Smith. … Increases in immigration in some states has tracked over time with increases in teenage unemployment as low-skilled immigrants take jobs previously held by teenagers. (and thus the teens don’t learn the basic job-holding skills: show up on time, don’t scare the customers with tattoos, weird clothing or piercings, customer service, do what you are told, get along with co-workers. Need examples? See Occupy Wall Street. ~Bob.)

Ex-Solyndra Staff Eligible for Federal Aid

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21340&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: The Labor Department announced on November 21 that it had approved Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for the former employees of the bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra, says Investors.com. That means all of the firm's 1,100 ex-employees are eligible for federal aid packages, including job retraining and income assistance. The department has valued packages at about $13,000 a head. Taxpayers will have to cough up yet another $14.3 million as a result of Solyndra's bankruptcy. They are already on the hook for $528 million in federal loan guarantees to the company that are unlikely to ever be paid back. (You paid to hire them, now you pay to fire them. I worry that readers of my blog will become dehydrated from throwing up. ~Bob.)

Obama's Indefensible Pipeline Punt

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21341&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: President Obama has decided not to consider the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline until after the 2012 election. Should the president choose to cancel the construction of the massive line, he will not only sacrifice thousands of American jobs in constructing and maintaining the pipeline, but will also jeopardize America's energy security, says Vaclav Smil of the American Enterprise Institute. Canada is the single-largest provider of America's imported crude oil and refined oil products, supplying 21.4 percent of all U.S. crude oil purchases abroad in 2010 (the entire Persian Gulf region supplied only 18.4 percent). (Jobs? We don’t need no stinking jobs! ~Bob.)

60% Favor Building Keystone XL Pipeline

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2011/60_favor_building_keystone_xl_pipeline

Excerpt: Most voters support the building of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas and believe it can be built without harming the environment. Sixty percent (60%) of Likely U.S. Voters at least somewhat favor building the pipeline which President Obama has delayed until at least 2013 because of environmental concerns. Just 24% are opposed. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure.

Zeta soldiers launched Mexico-sty​le attack in Harris County

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Zeta-soldiers-launched-Mexico-style-attack-in-2283370.php

Just seeking a better life, doing jobs Americans won’t do. ~Bob. Excerpt: Four suspects are in custody charged with capital murder in connection with a shooting Monday on Hollister near Bourgeois in northwest Harris County. That shooting left one person dead and an undercover HCSO deputy wounded. Officers with several local and federal agencies were conducting surveillance on an 18-wheeler carrying an undetermined quantity of marijuana when several suspects in vehicles pulled up to the truck and opened fire.

"Make Mine Freedom"

http://godfatherpolitics.com/1006/63-year-old-cartoon-depicts-america-today/#ixzz1eXpbb3MV

Excerpt: “However, one of the most accurate depictions of America today was a cartoon made in 1948 by the Extension Department of Harding College. The cartoon, entitled Make Mine Freedom, shows what happens when an unsuspecting society sells their freedoms for ‘ism’.

Afghan woman's choice: 12 years in jail or marry her rapist and risk death

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/asia/afghanistan-rape/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

Excerpt: She faces the hideous choice of 12 years in jail or marriage to her rapist and risk death. It's a marriage she says she'll accept, so her child can continue to have a mother. (Shari’a—it’s not just a good idea. It’s the New York Times endorsed law! ~Bob.)

Bomb attack on Pakistan school kills policeman

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hXO0KbWNCQQ2Bbrn5f53QQkMUJ9Q?docId=CNG.0b7f6b73f3aba65558b7be785e5d81df.3a1

Didn’t get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: A bomb attack on a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killed a policeman, wounded eight others and destroyed a wall, police said. The remote-controlled bomb was planted at the outer wall of the government-run middle school in the outskirts of Mardan town in troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan.

Denmark: Muslim cousin marriages fills schools for retarded

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/11/denmark-muslim-cousin-marriages-fills-schools-for-retarded.html

Excerpt: Cousin marriages has negative impact on intelligence, sanity, health and society. In Pakistan, 70 percent of all marriages are between first cousins (so-called "consanguinity") and in Turkey the amount is between 25-30 percent. Across the Arab world today an average of 45 percent (in some parts up to 70 percent) of married couples are related. This phenomenon is allowed for by Islam's marriage law, which is delineated in Qur'an 4:23-34, making this something for which Sharia opens the door.

Pelosi Ridicules Catholic "Conscience Thing" by Bob Beauprez

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/bobbeauprez/2011/11/23/pelosi_ridicules_catholic_conscience_thing

Excerpt: I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it…but they (Catholics) have this conscience thing” that she insists put women at physical risk, although Catholic health care providers strongly disagree. (Well, to be fair, most Liberals couldn’t be liberal if they had, “a conscience thing.” ~Bob.)

Corzine's Fraud by Jeff Carter

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/jeffcarter/2011/11/23/corzines_fraud

Excerpt: Corzine committed fraud in my opinion. It was a cardinal sin. The one thing you don’t do is touch your customers' money. What he did is no different than bank robbery. (Corzine served in the Marine Reserves, but like Senator Blumenthal of CT, at a time when joining the reserves got you out of going to Vietnam. Hard for me to think of them as Brother Marines, dedicated to the Corps core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. ~Bob.)

Europe Set to Declare Bankruptcy in Early 2012? By Mike Shedlock

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2011/11/23/europe_set_to_declare_bankruptcy_in_early_2012

Excerpt: Panic is spreading says Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank. Steen eyes the perfect storm including a potential "Chapter 11" call for European banks.

Euro Zone Nightmare: The Turn of Germany? - Rick Moran

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/euro_zone_nightmare_the_turn_of_germany.html#ixzz1eYBCdVQf

Excerpt: Two different signs today that the euro zone's bulwark against catastrophe - Germany - may be in trouble itself. First, Reuters on the "disastrous" German bond sale: A "disastrous" German bond sale on Wednesday sparked fears that Europe's debt crisis was even beginning to threaten Berlin, with the leaders of the euro zone's two strongest economies still firmly at odds over a longer-term structural solution.

Voters Wrestle With Illegal Immigrant Realities - C. Edmund Wright

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/voters_wrestle_with_illegal_immigrant_realities.html#ixzz1eYAJAdpJ

Excerpt: In other words, border security is job one from purely a practical standpoint, whether or not sealing the border gives a given person the "closure" they want from the other frustrations caused by illegals. In emergency triage, you have to stop the bleeding before you can begin the repair. You just do. And all the good guys agree that stopping the bleeding is job one. And no, I do not buy for a second that because a given candidate may not share your view on the existing illegals that they cannot really mean it on the issue of the border. That is an angry emotional response devoid of any intellectual basis.

Liberals and 'Austerity' - Christopher Chantrill

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/liberals_and_austerity.html#ixzz1eY8xk8G1

Excerpt: You'd think a party that cared about the little guy would be saying: Wow, things are going to be really tough for the next few years. We've got to do what we can to make sure that the little guy is protected. We should ease up on the nice-to-haves like really fast trains and green energy. Why, we could even let the odd oil pipeline get built and turn a blind eye to the occasional horizontal fracking between consenting adults. Instead, the Dems have hit the nitro on the Class Warfare Special. My guess is that we are just weeks from the moment when every tyro realizes what the best strategic minds already know: that Obama's class warfare strategy is going to make things worse -- for Democrats.

*Updated* Occupy Wall Street: the rap sheet so far - Posted by John Nolte on Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism

http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/

Excerpt: Fortunately for America, this plan has not only failed miserably it has backfired completely. Thanks to the rise of New Media and our unwillingness to let the MSM’s lies, bias, and cover ups stand for even one more day, Occupy is in its death throes and might take the President and Democratic party down with it. First and foremost, we uncovered the lie that Occupy was grassroots and then we exposed every Occupy rape, poop, death, overdose, old woman thrown down the stairs, attack on a police officer, and public act of masturbation. In the process, public opinion turned against the Occupiers and as a result these Leftists have started doing what the Left always does when they lose … have a tantrum:

The Decline of Nations - Daniel Greenfield (Sultan Knish)

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/11/decline-of-nations.html

Excerpt: If you define the future negatively, in terms of remedying ills, rather than positively in settling an entire continent, then the future can never arrive. And even if it did, you wouldn't want it to, because those ills, racism, sexism, poverty and pollution are the closest thing you have to an identity. A nation does not have to be multicultural to suffer an identity crisis, not when it's piggybacking on someone else's identity crisis. Japan tried very hard to catch up to Western modernism, now it's racing Europe into economic and demographic decline, without ever opening up its borders or indulging in much political correctness, besides the ritual apologies to the Ainu. Israel is still on the rise economically and demographically, but culturally it has drunk deep of the poisoned wells of European academia.

Sebelius on the Attack! Against the Good Guys of course - The Heartlander

http://theheartlander.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/sebelius-on-the-attack-against-the-good-guys-of-course/

Excerpt: The horror of ObamaCare has now gotten all too personal. Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's secretary of Health and Human Services, has chosen, as her first victim in the coming war on insurance companies, my own insurer, the company that has covered -- and graciously served -- my family for the past 19 years. The Washington Times, via WeaselZippers, has the story: The Obama administration on Monday called on a Mennonite-owned health insurance company to cancel its proposed 11.6 percent rate hike, marking the first time the government has tried to pressure a private company under the new health care law.

Land of Opportunity

http://www.timnerenz.com/2011/11/land-of-opportunity.html

Excerpt: This is a story about two nations with two very different ideas about equality. One nation is named Opportunity, and the other is called Outcome. When they run a 100-yard dash in Opportunity, everyone starts at the same time and place and runs the same distance – they call that equality in the land of Opportunity. No two people finish exactly the same because some people run faster than others; that’s how God made them. 

Worth Seeing: Zuccotti Utopia: Portraits of The New Revolutionaries

http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2011/11/zuccotti-utopia-portraits-of-revolutionaries/

Interesting pictures. ~Bob. Excerpt: I recently traveled from Colorado to New York the weekend before the demise of the revolutionary social experiment in lower Manhattan known as Occupy Wall Street’s “Camp Anonymous.” I went intending to capture for posterity photographic images of the people and infrastructure that comprised that hopeful utopian “model community for a new world.”

Worth Reading: Egypt and Turkey: Middle East Basket Cases

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2011/11/22/egypt-and-turkey-middle-east-basket-cases/?singlepage=true

The lovely results of the “Arab Spring” that OWS and their union/Democrat allies are determined to bring to you. ~Bob. Excerpt: No wonder the country is blowing up. An out-of-control kleptocracy is frantically trying to close on townhouses in Chelsea and apartments in the 16th arrondissement before the central bank’s foreign exchange reserves run out. What will ensue, will be horrifying.

10 Steps to a Legal Nation

http://www.newt.org/solutions/immigration

Newt’s immigration policy. ~Bob.

Donald Berwick on Redistributing Wealth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Kevz_9lsw&feature=youtu.be

Obama’s nominee for CMS at Medicare.

Occupy Madison.mpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1pSFEP4zcc

A terrifying U.S. debt chart you’ve never seen before

http://blog.american.com/2011/11/a-terrifying-u-s-debt-chart-youve-never-seen-before/

Very scary, but they left out the unfunded liabilities of all levels of government, which the NCPA estimates at $211 Trillion. So it’s really about 14 times worse than this. ~Bob.

Medicare chief Don Berwick steps down in standoff with GOP senators over his confirmation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/health-care/medicare-chief-don-berwick-steps-down-in-standoff-with-gop-senators-over-his-confirmation/2011/11/23/gIQAoOThoN_story.html

Excerpt: The point man for carrying out President Barack Obama’s health care law will be stepping down after Republicans succeeded in blocking his confirmation by the Senate, the White House announced Wednesday. Medicare chief Don Berwick, a Harvard professor widely respected for his ideas on how to improve the health care system, became the most prominent casualty of the political wars over a health care overhaul whose constitutionality will be now decided by the Supreme Court.

Good Column: Obama’s Economic Quackery: Obama has learned how to turn a natural recovery into a serial slowdown. By Victor Davis Hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/283666/obama-s-economic-quackery-victor-davis-hanson?pg=1

Excerpt: As 2011 ends, we have discovered how to turn a natural recovery from a near-record recession into a serial slowdown. Almost every haphazard, ad hoc attempt by Barack Obama to jumpstart the economy has only further stalled it. The president has never articulated a diagnosis of why the economy was stalled, never outlined a coherent treatment plan, and so cannot offer a prognosis.

Immigration flood to spell end of Europe?

http://rt.com/news/immigration-europe-islam-turkey-001/

Excerpt: As the far-right Freedom Party takes the lead in Austria’s general election, its leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, has told RT what he thinks of EU immigration policy and expansion plans, and explained why he wants a national debate on Islamization.

Can liberalism tolerate Islam? by Abdal Hakim Murad

http://sparrowsandsandcastles.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/can-liberalism-tolerate-islam/

Excerpt: Must one be liberal to belong to the West? For all the polite multiculturalist denials, this question is being put to us more and more insistently. The European Union, as it struggles to articulate a common cultural as well as economic vision, regularly toys with grand statements about Europe as a vision of human community, whose success underpins the universal model now being urged upon the rest of humanity.

Passenger forced to stand for seven hours on U.S. Airways flight because of 400-POUND man sitting next to him
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065094/US-Airways-passenger-forced-stand-7-hour-flight-400lb-man.html#ixzz1eYbkxZuP

The Tipping Point and the Crossroads by Steve McCann

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/the_tipping_point_and_the_crossroad.html#ixzz1eTPV1Yjk

Excerpt: The United States finds itself at a crossroads, facing a stark reality it can no longer ignore or leave to future generations. We are presently on an irreversible path toward inevitable failure and second-class status. It all started forty-eight years ago, we now can see. The distance America has traveled down this road over the past forty-eight years -- a comparatively short period within the historical life of a nation -- is astounding.