Twitterish Coffee Blogging the Feb 2 Today Show

IOW 'Info for the all of us!'

Lead story in the 8 am segment:

X-Gamer dies a week after a stunt fail he walked away from.
Today Show: "Are X-Games too dangerous?" 

Yeah, I think they are because I'm CONCERNED.., you know. I'm all for the Congress passing laws on how far a trick can go.
I'm sure all the rest of us who are 'CONCERNED' agree.

Then:

Kate Upton on her sexy ad for Mercedes: "What's the big deal, I'm not even washing the car."

 Lol!

- Yeah, we guys know what she means... still...
 

 And:

Beckham signs with Paris team, donates whole salary to charity. 

Good for him.. though at 75% tax rate, not too hard.  Big news missed: Beckhams move back to London. Not hard to figure that either. Maybe better schools, definitely better neighborhoods, without Hollywood celebs around.

 Like: Laurie David blasts Taylor Swift Diet Coke Deal. 

 Yeah Laurie.. you arent quite so obviously stupid and shallow as Larry is, but still.. you really think any intelligent person is going to take your word for it? Oh, wait...never mind. That's right. You'd rather a LAW was made.

Breaking: The National Anthem is hard to sing and Alicia Keyes might mangle it.
 

Answer: Quit trying to stretch it. Unless you're Whitney Houston.. and you're not. And, by the way,Beyonce was was correct in lipsyncing it in that weather. Anyone with half a smart should know that.
 

Now I have ANOTHER reason to never watch any NBC news channel.. not that Fox & Friends is better. Dont watch that either.

Thus ends my commentary/rant on state of morning news shows. 

 Sorry.. I dont have and refuse to use - Twitter.

Fox News: Beavis hires Butthead

Employing the 'Hannity- Colmes'* effect in reverse, Fox hires Former Boy Mayor as Prime Time gadfly/punching bag/foil. Face it... it's not hard to look smarter than Dennis.

If what I say here offends anyone, I'm sorry. Read the whole article to understand what I'm talking about. Politics and Economics is more complicated than you'll see on any network. We're being dumbed down and I resent it.

Powerline: Is Fox Actually a Hedgehog?

"Kucinich is a clown, and he makes the O’Reilly Factor more of a clown show than it already is.
But maybe that’s the point; it is not for nothing that Rush Limbaugh, a serious man who nonetheless understands showmanship at the same time, refers to Bill O’Reilly as >Ted Baxter.<”

- Lol! Exactly! If you read O'Reilly's books, which are pretty damn good, you wonder if one or the other .. tv commentator, or author.. isnt just someone with the same name.
 

* Sean Hannity isnt really a shallow idiot, he just plays one on the air. Hannity hasn't been a serious show since Colmes left. And both their IQ's seemed to have plummeted on their own..

The War on Men And Boys Continues Apace..

 Cant believe it took this long for one of my blogs to see this.. I got the joke but what I took from it is based on what I suspect from experience:
- This is the kind of guy who buys a VW, now that SAAB is out of business. 

 

  But no adult, let alone a guy, throws THAT badly.

Here's the blog which finally noticed:

 Dr Helen: Can Dads do Anything Right?

Check the comments though. They are all over the place. Dumb Dads having been pervasive in TV for decades.

 But it aint just 'white males'.. the current Dumbest Dad on TV is Tyler Perry's 'Curtis Payne'.  IMO Too dumb to be a fireman let alone be Captain. 

Last time I brought that up some liberal white geezer called me a racist.
I told him to tell Perry if he could recognize him without a dress on.
Ooops.. now I'm un-PC on 2 counts.  

Lol.

Lena Dunham is like 'a Liberal Sarah Palin'

No, Lena Dunham did not call Republicans Nazis, or “This Is Why We Lose.”

Just as Palin's views on just about everything met a landslide of stupid kneejerk reactions from the left, so is just about everything Dunham says, in the press.
The reason stems, of course, from the dumb pro-Obama video she made on 'Women's Issues.'

So instead of putting her in a box of people who dont think deeply enough along with Larry David, whose own pop culture / TV efforts actually make fun of his (and his friends')  intellect, we go all gonzo on someone new to the scene who is self-referential and realizes it.

Dunham, who is famously the daughter of a successful painter of “oversexualized pop art” and a well-known photographer who created “disquieting domestic tableaux” with dolls, repeatedly reiterated that her work is informed by a horrific childhood spent at expensive New York private schools and summer camps, where she struggled to maintain the integrity of her psyche amid the horrors of life as the kid of upper-middle-class urban artists. The whole thing is bizarre and self-fellating. But it’s also self-referential. The joke here isn’t that Donald Glover (who is adorable) is evil. But that Hannah, Dunham’s character, thinks he’s evil and has to handle the internal conflict.

 - read the whole thing!

Yeah... of course what was done was to put other libs' words in her mouth.  But that's about as fair as claiming Palin was the new David Duke.
Now.. I get the idea it's time we started punching back.  
And I'm gonna do it, too.  But think before you let loose that hay-maker roundhouse, or you bloody your own nose.
This reminds me of why I never watch or listen to Hannity. His simpleminded diatribes convince no one who wouldn't be better served by actually READING conservative and libertarian blogs.  Hannity's stuff is 'Conservativism for Kindergartners' and he hasnt made a cogent argument for our side since I can remember.  Probably before Alan Colmes left the show.

UPDATE -from 'the future' Cancel everything I just wrote, because while I thought Dunham must be using some independent reasoning faculties, it's become apparent she has taken the easy road. Becoming the thoughtless shallow minded  Lib everyone thought she was.

Hit the Kochs where it hurts..Stop Biofuel Subsidies!

Western 'Green' energy policies still supported by many 'watermelons' as well as big brand oil, are contributing to starvation and environmental desecration in the Third World while fat cat friends of politicians get rich.

And the Koch Brothers have bought into it.

The Koch Brothers Are Right: Ethanol Subsidies Should Go

Only 10% of ethanol supply is sorta chump change, though.  I'd rather they bought up about 80% of distribution.  Then Progressives would have no choice but vote to de-subsidize.  Because Media Matters and Thinkprogress would be suitably outraged and force them to do it.

 Then we could start on  corrupt European Biofuel policies that  are as bad or even worse.  Especially the German BioDiesel program which is the most egregious perpetrator.

NYT: As Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do Guatemala’s Hunger Pangs

 I find it encouraging that lefty media is starting to see the writing on the wall.. and sky.. and floor.  

Also interesting that the US is the only major economy to actually reduce its carbon footprint.  Because:Fracking

If we stopped ethanol in fuel, it would drop even more.  There's FACTS to prove it. At the least we know the CO2 output per car would not increase.

And then we could start on 'Wind'. Where it's proven that the carbon footprint is even larger than primary Natural Gas Power generation. Because it is necessary to have steady power supply and 'fill-in' turbine generators are much less efficient than closed cycle generation where emissions are much more tightly controlled, by about a factor of 10. 

Related: Current Events: Irony of Reality

Current Events: Irony of Reality

Isn't it juicy when irony hits home!

Current situation: Staffers talk about first meeting with Al Jazeera

This is a pretty big deal but it was soft-peddled on the MSM.  So Rupert's rag had to report on it.  But then, who else* will?

Ominously missing was the creator of Current, the self proclaimed inventor of the Internet and savior of clean energy, Al Gore, although his partner, Joel Hyatt, stood proudly with the Al Jazeera honchos.

....

“Of course Al didn’t show up,” said one high placed Current staffer. “He has no credibility.
“He’s supposed to be the face of clean energy and just sold [the channel] to very big oil, the emir of Qatar! Current never even took big oil advertising—and Al Gore, that bulls***ter sells to the emir?”

I'm pretty sure that guy already knew that 'no credibility' part.

It will be great to see the over/under on the editorial stance on US domestic energy.  Lefties and climate research trough feeders still claim that either or both Big Oil Companies or the Koch Bros are funding climate skeptics though they have to make up shit (as in the AEI debacle) to do it.  Amazingly they haven't found a tie between skeptics and Middle East oil.

Wonder why?  snicker.

I'm thinking enviro's opposing US pipelines, oil sands and fracking now have a, sorry... ANOTHER.. domestic voice.. which everyone will continue to ignore.

One person at the meeting, who has already announced that she’s leaving, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, tried to ask about severance packages for those who wouldn’t be staying.“This isn’t the place to discuss this!” Hyatt barked at her.
“After that, everyone kept their questions pretty much to themselves,” according to the staff member.

Well, Guvner, .... and other staff about to be declared flotsam ...  you wont be happy with that bye-bye check, if you even get one. 

"I'm pettyfog and you have my word on it."

*Of course, the Business Media had to report on the sale, itself.. with similar chuckles:

Bloomberg: Al Gore’s Payday From Oil-Rich Qatar ‘Reeking With Irony’

 Note:  Since Gore dismissed Glenn Beck's bid with no serious consideration, it seems Carbon hypocrisy trumps Political hypocrisy.   Obviously Beck would never have given him $500 M

Related:  Hit the Kochs where it Hurts..

Going Gonzo over Guns

Hard to have Christian thoughts... when you read news items like this, like I found teased on yahoo 

Trigger-happy Atlanta mom shoots intruder in the face 5 times

** Of course sanity prevailed but the original is cached and shows exactly what scumsucking liberals think about gun rights, and self protection.***

Trigger-happy Atlanta mom shoots intruder in the face 5 times
15 mins ago {when google cached from msnbc}

An Atlanta mom took matters into her own trigger-happy hands on Friday when confronting an intruder. The unidentified woman hid with her 9-year-old twins in a crawlspace as a man broke into her house and began rummaging through it. The alleged burglar, Paul Ali Slater, eventually found the family’s hiding space, but not before finding himself staring down the barrel of a .38 revolver. The woman fired six shots, five of which hit Slater in the face and neck, but he managed to flee after the family ran to a neighbor’s house. Slater is expected to survive. This story, shared thousands of times from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website, has incited some pro-gun tweeps to voice their delight; @Jennecar writes of the story, “why we need guns in our homes!” And @kjclt1 writes, “bet this Atlanta area mother of 2 is glad she had her gun.”

 

Hard to believe any actual journalist could write that.. or that it could be published, even on the web
Viscerally, I could not help but want this  idiot to encounter exactly the same situation and die while on hold after dialing 911. 

But that's not Christian.. just think it, then write it off as a human reaction and hope they just learn to think instead.

Thus I initially refer to the writer as a ***scumsucking liberal***.  Another visceral reaction, but small potatoes to the option of wishing him or her to die.  And obviously, not 'ALL' Liberals are 'Scumsuckers', just as there's a 'few Republicans who actually arent racist shills for the rich and privileged'.

When blood pressure returns to normal, I considered the article might actually have been written by a rogue journalist -- a closet 'Right Wing gun nut'-- to 'rile up the yokels'.  

Which would have been just as bad.  But hardly likely.. consider:

- the 'Trigger-happy' mom 'confronted' the burglar: 'woman hid with her 9-year-old twins in a crawlspace'   ...  burglar, Paul Ali Slater, eventually found the family’s hiding space, but not before finding himself staring down the barrel of a .38 revolver. The woman fired six shots, five of which hit Slater in the face and neck, 

She must have leapt out of the hidey-hole Gun-a-Blazin'!!!   ummm no.   AFTER he found them, he found himself staring down the barrel of the gun. 

- Why was he tracking the occupants of the house down?  Sounds to me like he confronted the mom and kids.  Could be he was just curious about the hole and what might be in it.  Bad Idea if you're some place you shouldn't be.

- the presumably scared mom put five shots in his face.  I'm not a shooter, but I've shot handguns.  For a scared woman using a protection piece to hit the target five of six times  tells me the guy was within six feet of her.   Possibly she was just within the crawl space and he just looked into the opening when she fired.

But then... one of the 5 shots should have been fatal, or the guy is extremely lucky.  It was a .38.  I'm wondering what kind of powder loads were in the bullets. Guessing target rounds.

Whatever the case, the original wording of the article, as well as the reaction to it shows how divisive this issue is.  

For me, not a gun owner, let alone a shooter.. it's an easy choice.  The more the liberal media writes on curbing gun possession, the more I'm for legal gun possession.  Not for me, necessarily; but for anyone responsible enough to go through the red tape bother for permits and training to use them.

 

 

 

 

About the "Bush started it' meme on Budget Deficits'

Saying the current debt and budget deficits were started by Bush is misleading at the least - and a gross lie at the worst case, which is the belief of most progressives.
Note the early Bush years were affected by the bursting of the Tech Bubble, losing a lot of revenue from capital gains, when investors wrote off losses.  And shortly thereafter by 9/11 which punched the economy in the gut for well over one month and some sectors took years to recover.

via Instapundit

Read the whole post, it's important!
  
Yeah.. there's a problem.  The financial collapse into recession isn't mentioned at all. And that was going to happen no matter who was in power.
The MAIN problem was TARP / Junk mortgage crash. Which is directly traceable to Clinton's CRA 99 and Barney Frank and Friends. And because many or most Republicans were complicit, you have to write off the initial crunch.
After TARP is when the party differentiation occurred,  once we panicked and threw a bunch of money at it, then instead of fixing the obvious problem by letting banks and finance crash, just threw more money at them. And hired whoever got fired, or lost a sweet gig at a defunct bank, into guv'mint slots.
And look at the mortgage market today!  Only difference is that it's harder than hell to get  that essentially 'free of interest' loan.

But the MAIN fix up to 2007 was jobs.. go back and look at 2001-2010 Unemployment Rates and overlay those revenue figures, above. Until TARP wrecked everything we were doing pretty well at recovering from the tech bubble and 9/11 .. 

Figure courtesy Washington Post: 

The key to revenue is and always has been a healthy private sector economy leading to growth and prosperity.
We are nowhere near solving the problem by adding taxes back on.. but the real start would be for the private sector to just have a good idea what their tax liabilities WILL be in a few years.
That's not likely.  And there's no indication, other than a few obligatory words, that the present administration cares about creating private sector jobs.

Tax Changes 'unexpectedly' hit home for Obama voter

via Instapundit..
From DemocraticUnderground:

What happened that my SS withholdings in my paycheck just went up.

My paycheck just went down by an amount that I don't feel comfortable with. I guarantee this decrease will hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over $400,000.

 LOL!!!! DU stands for DUmbass? 

 Best Answer in the Comments: 'Should never have been done in 1st place.' 

Yep, SUCKER! Keynes brings pains!   

And of course the DU..$$ doesnt consider that a Small Business Owner may have to declare $450K but may have an actual living income the same as his.. because ..like, you know.. he actually still has to write checks to operate his business from that declared income.

Here's more on the pain with no gain:

Workers making $30,000 will take a bigger hit on their pay than those earning $500,000 under new fiscal deal

 Note: 'proportionally'..  so what!  But in the end, it shows that the higher earners DO pay their share.
Everyone gets hit. 

 The more you fiddle with taxes, the richer someone gets. And that someone is usually not the guy out there actually EARNING an income of $500,000.
However, the comments make me weep. Stupid people swallowing the class warfare narrative they desperately believe in.

 As 'Shannon' replied on my FB page:

Until there is a cure for "head in the sand" Ostrich Syndrome, what can we expect?

Bork's Law: Remembering a legal lightning rod

I don't remember Bork's hearings like I do those for Clarence Thomas, which turned out a travesty though Thomas did win the confirmation.

Kaus: They Borked a Guilty Man

However I do remember the vile charges leveled against him on the Senate floor, especially those by the hypocritical sleazeball Ted Kennedy, who took what I thought were reasonable and  conscientious doubts on Bork's positions and blew them into hyperbolic fear mongering.  Setting a pattern that the Democratic party follows to this day and establishing the partisan poison we now see from both sides.

 And now.. without Bork... we have police breaking down citizen's doors in the dead of night and proposed censure of ideas by which politicians?

So Kennedy was successful in keeping someone who should not have been on the Court from being confirmed.  But I think, and many agree, we lost something in the process.

Note that Kaus above also blows up a hypocritical and hysterical damnation of Bork by another leftist.
 Should he have been confirmed, no.. not because of those former views by themselves but that he was evidently pliant in applying them. We need to know who we are getting.
Note this tribute:

OLSON: Remembering a great American

Judge Bork’s arguments as solicitor general before the Supreme Court were models of brilliant, erudite, persuasive advocacy. His judicial opinions were insightful and perceptive. His commentaries on culture, society and morals were provocative and learned. His writing was elegant and eloquent, witty and memorable.
Judge Bork was politically attacked not because his qualifications fell short but because his viewpoints and scholarship were abhorrent to the left and precisely because he was such a brilliant, persuasive and effective advocate and such a towering intellect. His enemies could not stand to see him on the Supreme Court.

In there are exactly both sides of the story.  Bork was able to chain constitutional precepts in creative ways.  It's why he was viciously and unnecessarily made out to be the devil, and why he should not have been on the court.

Alinsky's 5th

Educated to a higher form of stupid...

"In the wake of the election, I’ve heard five Obama supporters — all of whom also voted for all the California Democrats and for all the California taxes — complain that their taxes are going up next year. The cognitive dissonance is almost painful. All of them consistently embrace big spending — and, therefore Obama and his fellow Democrats — because they’ve been trained to believe that the spending on welfare, entitlements, and “select” businesses is a “good thing.”

Too much education makes people economically dumb

Read it all

"Screw you Losers! I'm going with the In Crowd"

Wanna switch teams and join the winners; want something more than Alinsky and Marcuse quotes? 
Here's a full reading list of everything you need to fit right in at your Occupy Wall Street rally.  Or state union convention Meet 'n' Greet cocktail party, for that matter. 

In no time at all you'll be spieling off the Narrative like a Masters Degree in Poli-Sci.

AoSHQ - Progressive Revolutionary Progress

 After Tuesday's shocking and disappointing results, I decided I'd had enough. Enough of the crappy leadership, enough of the faux conservative, sub-optimal (heh) candidates, and above all, enough of the continual losing, where every defeat is costly and every victory inconsequential.  Away with all that!

I now say, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. So I did. I'm now a out-and-proud (heh) member of the progressive left, and I fart in your general direction, you slack-jawed yokels.
So, what do I read now?......

Go ahead.. you aren't all that far behind those who've been indoctrinated for years because you already know the Rethuglican weak points, so it's like a running start.

Also handy for those who have the stomach to infiltrate and subvert from within.  After all.. they got Trump to do it and he's a political idiot.

Now though I thought about it, and lord knows at my age it's in my own self interest, but I'm old, got digestive problems and who knows how much my blood pressure could take.
 So go on, leave me behind for the coyote and vultures. Never could handle listening to idiots' wisdom.

Why I despise Lib Media... essay on NYT, Useful Idiots and Olympia Snowe

In homage to Maine Senator Olympia Snowe retiring, NYT comes out with one of the most biased anti-common sense overviews of political 'civility' they've attempted yet.
- The blatherings of Paul Krugman and Frank Rich, possibly excepted.

Editorial

Desperate for Civility

You dont have to get past the very first of it to find fault:

Senator Olympia Snowe, for one, is ending her 34 years on Capitol Hill by becoming a board member of the National Institute for Civil Discourse, a nonpartisan advocacy group founded after the Arizona shooting last year that killed six people and gravely wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords.

 In case you don't already form an inference, the context of the entire article will be wrapped around the 'lack of cooperation' from Republicans and Conservatives.
And yet, almost ALL the slander and name-calling around the Giffords shooting came from the left and the leftist press.  Especially blaming Sarah Palin and the shadowy 'Tea Party'.
It turned out, of course, that the shooter had no political ties or agenda other than having formed a hatred of authority. He probably didn't even know anything about Palin or the Tea Party. In short, he was a nutjob.

Her {Snowe's} career goes back long before House Republicans disdained all attempts at bipartisanship as weakness, and before the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, made the filibuster his cudgel and announced that his top priority was to make Barack Obama a one-term president.

And of course it goes back before the Democrats took over Congress  in 2006 and Pelosi bragged about 'hitting the ground running' yet did absolutely NOTHING in their first 120 days. To the NYT, that is not obstructionist, of course.

 Nor do they mention that the Tea Party wasn't even around back then, or that the new minority of old GOP hacks was far more tractable than before the Tea Party sent the message. Evidence?  Try 'Gang of 14'; which included Snowe and Collins and esp McCain, Lindsay Graham.. and Mike Dewine.  Without benefit of Tea Party scheming or anti-Dewine campaign, we Ohio Republicans not-voted Dewine out. Sherrod Brown is the result, my miscalculation.. but I wanted to send a little message.  The Nuclear Option, when examined was an attempt to re-formulate a political principle on filibustered confirmation votes.. not bring the country down.
- If the idea sticks in your liberal craw, does the likelihood of GOP filibustering an Obama appointment bother you? What's the difference, other than who is in power?

Indeed you won't find ANY criticism of Harry Reid, who has made Obstruction an art form.
Speaking of Reid.. let's address the mention of Michell McConnell, above:
What does the writer call this?

Salt Lake City Tribune: Harry Reid says working with a President Romney is 'laughable' 

Maybe the good lady Snowe should speak to him. 

I didn't just start paying attention yesterday.. Maine has produced a remarkable Lady-Senator-Statesman but it certainly was not Olympia Snowe.

She {Margaret Chase Smith} said McCarthyism had "debased" the Senate to "the level of a forum of hate and character assassination."^[3] She defended every American's "right to criticize...right to hold unpopular beliefs...right to protest; the right of independent thought."^[21] While acknowledging her desire for Republicans' political success, she said, "I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horseman of calumny -- fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear."

I agree one hundred percent with Sen Smith's statements.  I reserve the right to voice my own beliefs. And I agree that the worst outcome of Senate hearings ever was the attempt to quiet and blacklist Communists in the US. 
The result being what we see today... an agenda of authoritarian central planning and economic control concealed in the cloak of Progressivism and the Democratic Party.
Snowe's attempts at 'Civility' will be a one-way effort in outcome.  'Moderation' to Leftists means 'do it our way'. 
Need proof?  Their spoken views on Romney before he ran for president vs after he was endorsed by Tea Party.

In Summary:
The tone of political discourse today is not all that much different than it has been in the past.   That doesn't mean we should put up with it.  But on the other hand, don't throw stones or let others do it and applaud, while your own followers and propagandists commit worse.

Unexpectedly.....

The term 'Oh, Snap!' has been replaced in the current media by the word 'Unexpectedly'. You'll see it whenever the event does not fit the forecast narrative.  This post will be updated for several days, and from the top.

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"Unexpectedly..." 
Eurocrats strike over David Cameron's call to cut EU salaries

As Glenn Reynolds says:  "How will anyone tell?" 

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"Unexpectedly..."

{ Especially considering CNBC touted 'economic improvement' as helping re-elect Obama..}
CNBC:Why US Economy May Be Headed for Another Recession

Umm.. because we never really got out of the first one?

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"Unexpectedly..."
Stock Market continues fall for second day..

The markets took heavy losses for a second day in a row Thursday in a broad-based retreat late in the session. Every major sector closed to the downside.

Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2012/11/08/wall-street-in-multi-day-retreat/#ixzz2Bft62ON5

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"Unexpectedly..."
John Kerry invites derision..
Twitter has become the great democratizer of the internet.  Kerry, among others, has found this out:

John KerryVerified ‏@JohnKerry

was surprised to run into Mitt this afternoon in Sylvania, OH

 Which lead to...

Said the life of no party, ever.

**

Is that Ted Kennedy's shot-glass in your avi? 

**

This coming from Herman Monster. 

And many more..
And, of course, there's the rapidly viral Twitchy.com.. soon to be recognized as the  Comedy Channel for The Right, except funnier.
Here's a great collection of hijack tweets from Barack Obama's Tleg for props..

Givers: Snarky conservatives delight in saying ‘nice things’ about Obama

Of course, this can't last.  Twitter may go to a two tier system. One for the elite, anther for the plebes.

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"Unexpectedly..."

Many reports coming in about touch screen voting machines checking for Obama when Romney zone is tapped.

Voting machines in Ohio, NC, Nev. switching Romney votes to votes for Obama

I suspect something MIGHT be fishy because last election cycle the lefties accused the GOP of rigging the machines. Unknown if the opposite happens, if it doesnt happen when Obama is touched... probably just dumb luck, right?

Of course, it is.. or part of a Nefarious Right Wing Plan

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"Unexpectedly..."

FEMA has no water to give out. Or much else, either. 

In contrast to its stated policy, FEMA failed to have any meaningful supplies of bottled water -- or any other supplies, for that matter -- stored in nearby facilities as it had proclaimed it would on its website. This was the case despite several days advance warning of the impending storm.

Reorganized, since they failed so badly in Katrina, with a War Room and Quick Reaction Force.. they are doing all that's humanly possible, I'm sure.

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"Unexpectedly..."
Geezers refuse to leave work force or die, take all the jobs created since 09.. {statistically, of course}

America's Geriatric Work F(a)rce

"...of the 3.3 million jobs "created" (updated for October's data), a gasp-inducing 3.8 million has gone to workers aged 55 and over, or the one cohort that according to conventional wisdom is retiring, and actively leaving the workforce. How can America's elderly workers account for more than the total? Simple: workers in the young (16-19) and prime (25-54) cohorts have cumulatively lost a whopping 1.3 million, with just the 25-54 age group losing 842,000 jobs (don't believe us: spot check it right here courtesy of the Fed). "

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"Unexpectedly..."

WaPo thinks there may be something fishy in the goings-on  about Benghazi..

"NEWS REPORTING about the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, has moved from the political and mostly pointless issue of when the Obama administration had publicly acknowledged that a terrorist attack had taken place to more essential questions: "

Of course, lying to the American people to cover someone's ass is mostly pointless.  That's why Nixon wasn't impeached or forced out over that 18 minutes of silence on the Oval Office tapes. Hmmm.. what was the body count from Watergate, again?

Expectedly, the poor schmuck who made a video no one watched and didnt have a thing to do with Benghazi is still in jail.

Another reason I'm a sceptic..it's only decimal points right?

Because I'm an engineer AND I use common sense...

Get this:  Taking full advantage of Sandy, some guy with a Decimal Disorder, who has signed on to the Manmade global warming religion has laid out for you why we are all in deep danger:

How a Warm Earth fueled Hurricane Sandy

 

Well, since hurricanes start from ocean surface v atmosphere heat, that's about all the 'real facts' this guy has.  Let's start here:

The Atlantic ocean is five degrees warmer than is was when most of you were born.  Let that sink in for a minute.  The entire Atlantic ocean averages five degrees warmer.

NO.. it does NOT!  I wonder how he determines average reader age, but the point is that the Sea Surface Temperature  is Point Five degrees C, that's 0.5, warmer.

And THEN he claims:

The math behind climate change is simple. Roughly 1/4 of one percent of the atmosphere is composed of gases that  trap energy from the sun.  Carbon released for power and transport has altered that and we are now racing toward 1/2 of one percent doing the same job. The earth is warming.

Which he handily illustrates by putting up a chart showing the atmosphere is 99.95 % NON-Greenhouse.  I guess that excludes water vapor, which is far more effective as a 'heat trapper' than CO2 could ever be.  Whatever. that looks to me like .05% might be greenhouse.  One half of one percent would be .5%  We learned that in grade school, right?  Of course he missed that day  but evidently got the 'Social Science' 

But this takes the Grand Prize Dunce Cap:

This ever-so-slight thickening of the atmosphere alters the balance of energy absorbed and released by the planet.  The process is analogous to the gears in a car.  Rev your engine to 5000 RPM in "Park" and you'll run out of gas as quickly as someone racing around a track with their tachometer in the same spot.  We haven't changed how much energy is being introduced to the system, we've changed how the system is dealing with that energy.

Un-be-freakin-leivable!  Thickening?  Uses same amount of gas just revving as when it's doing work?  ANY car guy or person who has studied high school physics knows better!

This is why I am so damned patronizing to idiots who fall all over themselves trumpeting doom and gloom.
The whole damned article is a lie..  doubtless unintentional, by an idiot who knows nothing but what he wants to believe.. but a lie, nonetheless.

And btw.. when he is shamed and humiliated into dumping this crap into the memory hole, there's gonna be a record of it lots of places including my PC.

SillySeason: Hey Pols! You don't want to Stiff Hookers!

Especially Latin/ Hispanic ones.  Ah.. finally something to grin about.

The BIG ISSUE here is not hookers or a cheapskate politician, or this Senate Race. It's in the specific political connections that set it up.

Drudge hinted and then other sites released a story on NJ Sen Menendez having contracted with a couple hookers in the Dominican Republic for their services at $500, then only paying them $100 each.
Daily Caller

In interviews, the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000 acre resort in the Dominican Republic. They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100.
The women spoke through a translator in the company of their attorney, Melanio Figueroa. Both asked that their identities remain obscured for fear of reprisals in the Dominican Republic.
When shown a photograph of Sen. Menendez, the women said they recognized him as the man with whom they’d had sexual relations at Casa de Campo this spring. Both said they were brought to the resort with the understanding they would be paid for sex.
Neither knew the identity of the man at the time. Both claimed to recognize him later as Sen. Menendez.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/01/women-sen-bob-menendez-paid-us-for-sex-in-the-dominican-republic/#ixzz2AyifuqBX

But in the Telegraph (UK), the writer thinks it's a cheesy and desperate  political ploy.

The timely release of this scandal has a whiff of desperation about it. Perhaps reconciling themselves to defeat by Obama, the conservative alternative press is seeking new targets in the Senate. The Daily Caller has dug up flight records that suggest Menendez did visit the Dominican Republic when the ladies say he did. It's a scoop, but no better that going through trash cans to find dirt on an unsuspecting d-list celebrity. Menendez is divorced, so there's no Peyton Place hypocrisy to expose here. Dare I say it, but if he's guilty then he's only hurt himself and the woman he allegedly underpaid.

This really makes no sense at any level.  Let's assume it's true or parts of it are true; not a great stretch of credulity..

Campaign issue:  This is New Jersey, we're talking about.  Not Alabama Mississippi or Utah. 
NJ voters are seasoned at hearing scandals of all sorts. No one in their right minds would expect this  to make more than a one point difference in the voting.. at least not from the illicit sex angle.   The only way that would happen would be for all the facts to come out and then, approach it from a wholly different paradigm.
So why bother?
And why, when all the surrounding facts suggest Menendez is accustomed to VIP treatment, did this come out in the first place?
- This is a posh resort. Who was it did the procuring and why did the hookers show up without defacto guarantees of payment?   Are they street hookers, not from an agency or service normally ised to supply talent?  If so, why?
- The hookers had the nerve to engage an attorney, but the attorney didn't deal with the first contact or resort people, first? 

So why did these women come forward? I see no way they will be able to get the big payoff by going public.  They are trying to maintain their anonymity, so that rules out big appearance money.
Their identities ARE going to come out.  Which will result in their being blacklisted from any 'job assignments' requiring silence. Which I expect all of them will.  No, professional aliases wont work.

In the final analysis this is just for satisfaction of grievance.

It points out Menendez is a cheap SOB.  And doesnt mind cheating the 'little people' in small business.  Not unexpected, given so many past cases of Dems stiffing campaign event caterers and venues.
It's too late for all that to come out.


Nope.. the real issue is that everything about it smacks of unprofessional attitude all around... 
 BUT
Why was all this facilitated by a DR resident and big Menendez Campaign contributor who has clinics / offices in Florida?
What's that guy getting from being a 'Friend of Jersey Bob'
There's the big stink coming.. if it comes. 

It's not you, it's your media at fault..

Back in the late sixties, when I first heard the now ubiquitous reason: "I want to make a difference!", for college journalism majors selecting that trade, I got a little chill.

Dont ask me how I knew what was coming, I just did.  And now we are reaping the sour fruit of that.
There is issue after issue where the media's selection of favorite politics is either ignored or submerged.  In order of importance at the moment:

Benghazi - Lie upon lie atop lack of protection by design.  Coarseness and insensitivity piled atop the outrage just for seasoning.

Said to the father of a hero who defended the compound with no hope of survival"

"We will arrest and prosecute the person who made that video."

- Our Secretary of State. Of course the video had absolutely nothing to do with the attack other than being a stated excuse. There wasn't even a demonstration.

"'Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?'

- That was by none other than Joe Biden at the reception of one of the men killed at Benghazi.  And you notice that will only be pointed out by foreign press and blogs here.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223554/Did-son-balls-size-cue-balls-Bidens-bizarre-question-father-Navy-SEAL-died-Benghazi-attack.html#ixzz2Ah1jQNk2

Add in the 'Fast and Furious' sting which was totally botched and continues to pile up a body count of over 300 Mexicans plus at least one border agent and which contiues to be lied about as a continuation of Bush Admin operation.. it wasn't, that was ended and this was totally freestanding.
None of you are interested in that because none of your favored news media is interested.. YET.
The desperate clingers to a political paradigm which breeds crony capitalism and the ensuing corruption proceeds apace.

So you just go ahead and pretend there is no proof your pet politicians are crooks and liars, then when the truth comes out.. you can say. "Well... I didnt know, no one told me." Well they DID try to tell you, you just refused to listen becuase it shook your world view that the Democratic party had reformed from the days of Tammany Hall, The Boston Machines and the Daley Regimes.
It's no secret the GOP establishment has had its share of these blind mice. But Watergate had NO body count.

Maybe you should pay attention to one of the reporters who exposed that Watergate Scandal anyway.  Just look up Bob Woodward and see what he has written about what's going on.
Or read this by Pat Caddell.. former Democrat pollster:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/28/The-October-Surprise-and-the-November-Election

Versailles on the Potomac

Instapundit: The Sun King

This is something that Romney and Ryan have paid very little attention to..  the lavish amounts spent on dates, parties and vacations, in the last four years, by our first couple.
- We cannot compare State Dinner expenses to Dubya's because he locked that information. And for a good reason.. so that efforts expended on one dignitary couldn't be compared to another. It's called smart diplomacy. But we know how much Obama spent on each.
- Also; Dubya didn't do that.. the Plebian! He went to Kennebunkport and Crawford or Camp David.

More, in depth:
Spending At State Dinners Soars Under Obama.

It's as if all the little people are expected to live vicariously through our Rock Star Pres and First Lady. You know.. like they do when they read about JLo and whoever else is in E! and People Mag.

via Glenn Reynolds, who always points out interesting stuff like this.

Short on Money? Just print some... Easy-Peasy!

This sums it all up in a nutshell. 

 OBAMA VOTERS, EXPLAINED:  A postage stamp is sufficient to write what these people know about the economy.  

 

For all you who think you can create jobs with a health care system, or easing interest rates, this is what's going on right now.. we are just printing the economy. No one's buying the bonds that back up that printed money, they're just sitting there at the Treasury. Who isn't even trying to sell them.

To follow up on the inevitable results, research 'Weimar Republic'. In case you dont get it, the value of the dollar is not based on the barrel of oil, it's the other way around. Just over ten years ago the floor price of oil was $20.. 5 years ago it was $40, now it's over $80.

George McGovern - tribute from a conservative

I was alive, thinking and aware during the Nixon era and I'm very much affected by the passing of one of the last true Liberal Democrats, especially those Tricky Dick campaigned against.  There will be many eulogies made to Senator McGovern and much of what you read will be slanted toward freezing his political views in time.  But unlike {apparently} Jimmy Carter, he did adapt them based on further information.

He said himself that he was an idealist with little stomach for implementing details.  I don't think many would argue with that.  Many of his ideas are ones that I can easily support, the most  striking being that we should never have been in Viet Nam in the first place.
- We got snookered into it be our so-called 'Ally', the French, who in typical fashion made a mess of their former colony, withdrew and asked us to stanch the bleeding. Which LBJ did, with the aid of the execrable Robert McNamara,  in a manner setting us up to win battles and lose the war.
It will be lost to the simple minded that he and Barry Goldwater were in partial agreement on that.  If you are in a war go for the win, otherwise get the hell out. See Powell Doctrine.
At that time, Nixon was more akin to the Democrat grass roots of the day than he was.  And it was critical that once in, we had to find a way to get out with some honor, the 'Progressive' thinkers {many of whom sympathized with the rioters at the 68 Dem convention} .. like Cronkite and Kerry to the contrary.
There's an old saying that people get the government they deserve, and in a lesser way the US gets the government it needs.
So we necessarily got a pushy, manipulative self-serving politician, Richard Nixon.  Who reversed a course that would otherwise have led to disastrous confrontations with China. And who was instrumental in cementing the last of LBJ's Great -as in 'Great White Father'- Society into place. shh.. dont tell that to your 'liberal' friends.  It's important that Nixon be identified only with the GOP so progressives dont have to strain their synopses.

Once those were accomplished, God.. or the fates, you decide.. discarded Nixon. Leaving Hubert Humphrey and McGovern untarnished and able to comment on our society without prejudice of having been in the decision loop.
Here's the article by a fellow conservative/libertarian that triggered my recollections:
 http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/19/george-mcgovern-an-appreciation

it's worth noting that later in life, after he acquired the leasehold on a Connecticut inn, McGovern came to understand the underside of the regulatory state. "In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business," he wrote in 1992. "I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day." In more recent years, citing the same experience, he campaigned against new labor regulations.

Here's another -more 'dogma'- that also makes some good points:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/mcgovern-unwavering-often-unrequited-liberal

For a time, he also advocated a $1,000 tax grant to every American to replace complex welfare and income support programs, saying the needy could spend it and the wealthy would pay it back in taxes. It came with no numbers, no estimate of the cost, although McGovern claimed, against arithmetic and logic, that it would balance out at zero. He dropped that idea, but the Republicans never did.

Of course!  It assumes that everyone should have to think of their own welfare instead of having their support doled out -by government ribbon clerks- to them as if they were retarded children. 

So.. I'll take McGovern's compassion over our President's any day.