The New York Post: Runaway mom dreadlocked up:
I haven’t done one of these in awhile…
These are the stories that caught my attention today:
Big Government: 80% of Green Energy Loans Went To Obama Donors:
With Energy Secretary Steven Chu set to testify Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the government’s $573 million loan to failed solar panel maker Solyndra, an explosive new list of energy loan amounts to President Obama’s top fundraisers, bundlers, and supporters has been released by Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer, author of Throw Them All Out.
As the list reveals, 80 percent of all $20.5 billion in Department of Energy loans went to President Obama’s top donors. Furthermore, some of those dwarf in size those given to Obama bundler George Kaiser, owner of the now defunct Solyndra.
The list—which features the likes of Google owners Larry Page and Sergey Brinn, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ted Turner, John Doerr, and Al Gore—raises new questions about the procedures used to administer the now-controversial DOE loans.
Ann Barnhardt in the news, via The Blaze: ‘Going Galt’: Hedge Broker Shuts Down Firm With Chilling Letter About the Market:
Everything changed just a few short weeks ago. A firm, led by a crony of the Obama regime, stole all of the non-margined cash held by customers of his firm. Let’s not sugar-coat this or make this crime seem “complex” and “abstract” by drowning ourselves in six-dollar words and uber-technical jargon. Jon Corzine STOLE the customer cash at MF Global. Knowing Jon Corzine, and knowing the abject lawlessness and contempt for humanity of the Marxist Obama regime and its cronies, this is not really a surprise. What was a surprise was the reaction of the exchanges and regulators. Their reaction has been to take a bad situation and make it orders of magnitude worse. Specifically, they froze customers out of their accounts WHILE THE MARKETS CONTINUED TO TRADE, refusing to even allow them to liquidate. This is unfathomable. The risk exposure precedent that has been set is completely intolerable and has destroyed the entire industry paradigm. No informed person can continue to engage these markets, and no moral person can continue to broker or facilitate customer engagement in what is now a massive game of Russian Roulette.
Another Senate Dem in trouble, via Rasmussen: Election 2012: Florida Senate:
Republican Congressman Connie Mack changed his mind late last month about challenging longtime Democratic Senator Bill Nelson in 2012, and now he finds himself with a modest edge over the incumbent in the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Florida’s U.S. Senate race.
The latest statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state shows Mack with 43% to Nelson’s 39%.
We’re taking the Senate in 2012.
Sarah Palin in The WSJ: How Congress Occupied Wall Street:
The corruption isn’t confined to one political party or just a few bad apples. It’s an endemic problem encompassing leadership on both sides of the aisle. It’s an entire system of public servants feathering their own nests.
None of this surprises me. I’ve been fighting this type of corruption and cronyism my entire political career. For years Alaskans suspected that our lawmakers and state administrators were in the pockets of the big oil companies to the detriment of ordinary Alaskans. We knew we were being taken for a ride, but it took FBI wiretaps to finally capture lawmakers in the act of selling their votes. In the wake of politicos being carted off to prison, my administration enacted reforms based on transparency and accountability to prevent this from happening again.
We were successful because we had the righteous indignation of Alaskan citizens on our side. Our good ol’ boy political class in Juneau was definitely not with us. Business was good for them, so why would they want to end “business as usual”?
She fought corruption all right, as her movie The Undefeated documented so well. We could use a few more Sarah Palins in Congress.
Must see video at The Daily Caller: Chris Matthews spanked by KABC radio’s Larry Elder:
On his Thursday radio show — at Chris Matthews’ request — KABC radio host Larry Elder took on the MSNBC “Hardball” host about his politics and his new book, “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero.” Elder seemed unimpressed with both.
ELDER: Chris, first do you still feel as a journalist, it is your job to help Obama succeed?
MATTHEWS: Well, I certainly feel it is my job to help any new president succeed and I said that. And I think it was true when I wrote it for Bush in 2000 with hopes that he would do well until he made some decisions I couldn’t live with and when that comes with Obama, I will break with him. So far he has done what I think he should, but he hasn’t been the leader I think he should be but he’s made the decisions I think I would make.
ELDER: Do you consider yourself a journalist?
MATTHEWS: Yeah, I’m a journalist. I’m a columnist. I’m a commentator
ELDER: No, no a journalist – you think you’re an objective down-the-middle journalist?
MATTHEWS: No, I’m not down the middle. I’m slightly to the left.
ELDER: Slightly to the left?
MATTHEWS: I’d say 40-yard-line.
In response, Elder played a clip of Matthews’ show from October in which he attacked the GOP, suggesting Republicans wanted to cause people pain. The interview went downhill from there.
Barack Obama postponed shale gas drilling in Ohio for another half year to please environmental groups. His latest move effectively kills 200,000 high-paying jobs in the swing state.
The Examiner reported:President Obama’s United States Department of Agriculture has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a mineral lease auction for Wayne National Forest (WNF). The move was taken in deference to environmentalists, on the pretext of studying the effects of hydraulic fracturing.
You wait – the half year will be extended until after the election, which Obama expects to win – in which case shale gas drilling will be 86ed forever.
More of this from Ace:
Apart from the obvious — another 200,000 jobs delayed, and probably delayed for longer than six months; plus the general signal to business that Obama will attempt to make every endeavor your attempt extremely costly, so don’t even bother — this reinforces my belief that liberals celebrate the abstract over the concrete.
When you think about jobs liberals like, versus jobs conservatives like, you will generally find the that the more abstract a job is — and here I mean “abstract” to mean “removed from the physical, the concrete, and the dirty by one or more steps” — you’ll find that they tend to be soft jobs. Media advisor, writer, designer. One of the more concrete jobs they favor is the law, but that itself is far removed from actual production of goods — law does intersect with business, but far away from the actual production of goods. Where law intersects with business it does so in a paper way — businesses are referred to in court filings, but of course the businesses are abstracted, as the law just deals with them as legal actors. Not as real companies, with real workers and real management, producing real goods.
This is why liberals with something of a pragmatic streak go into politics. On one hand, politics does intersect with people’s lives in tangible ways. On the other hand, what makes politics attractive to this psychological type is that it’s a no-dirty-hands occupation. Everything is position papers and talking and media-type stuff.
As I’ve noted before, this all goes back to the Victorian fiction that a carpenter, who actually did a great deal of mental work, including creativity, in his job, was just a “hand worker” and therefore lower class while a drudge at the Bank of England, who merely did third-grade-level summing of accounts all day, was a “mind worker” and therefore middle class.
The liberal mindset is bewitched by this fiction — this daft, stupid fiction — and declares that everyone working in liberal-type fields must be of a different intellectual class than those lowly businessmen who merely manufacture goods that people wish to voluntarily buy.
Keep reading.
Must watch Big Government video: Questions You Don’t Have To Ask A Tea Partier.
Questions taken from Twitter, dramatically posed by College Politico of MRC TV and others.
On Nov. 8, 2011 St Louis Police arrested Brian E. King (38) for sexual assault at the Occupy St Louis camp.Police say King entered one of the illegally constructed tents and sexually assaulted a 20 year old woman.
It’s been 9 days since the attack occurred and not one media outlet has reported this. Patch Adams found the crime reported on the city’s crime map days ago.
It sure does.
It seems to happen all the time at Occupy Wall Street Campouts throughout the country.
But instead of immediately condemning all of these rapes, this Occupy DC participant starts making excuses for the behavior.
As they were talking about not a lot of ‘incidents’ (everything included) going on at Occupy protests, we informed them there were 258 to date. That number includes incidents of rape, public masterbation, public defecation, and arson- just to name a few.
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In 2008 Gingrich warned about the “dangerous” housing market while running American Solutions. Newt claimed in a recent debate that while he was an advisor in the financial sector he warned about the instability of the housing market. This video appears to back-up that claim. |
I think this clip, in which a clearly hostile and dismissive David Letterman hectors him, show why people like Herman Cain. Rather than get upset at Letterman’s snark, Cain persists and actually wins Letterman’s audience over to the point that even Dave is forced to relent: (watch at link).
Sure, the pipeline would have produced thousands of truly shovel-ready jobs. Sure, delay could forfeit to China a supremely important strategic asset — a nearby, highly reliable source of energy. But approval was calculated to be a political loss for the president. Easy choice.
It’s hard to think of a more clear-cut case of putting politics over nation. This from a president whose central campaign theme is that Republicans put party over nation, sacrificing country to crass political ends.
Nor is this the first time Obama’s election calendar trumped the national interest:
Obama’s decision to wind down the Afghan surge in September 2012 is militarily inexplicable. It comes during the fighting season. It was recommended by none of his own military commanders. It is explicable only as a talking point for the final days of his reelection campaign.
A contemporaneous e-mail from a Solyndra investor noted: “Oddly they didn’t give a reason for that date.” The writer was clearly born yesterday. The American voter was not — and (s)he soon gets to decide who really puts party over nation and reelection above all.
We can’t wait.
Doug Ross: The Definition Of Hubris:
(Can’t excerpt – it’s a graphic – just go look).
Nice Deb 