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Cotton candy, Skittles, and horsey rides:

"A witness told Florida cops that he saw Trayvon Martin straddling George Zimmerman and pummeling the neighborhood watch captain 'MMA style' shortly before the unarmed teen was felled by a gunshot to the chest…"

The legend of Fauxcahontas just gets better and better:

The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to the 1984 Pow Wow Chow cookbook edited by her cousin Candy Rowsey.

Here's the best part:

Two of the possibly plagiarized recipes, said in the Pow Wow Chow cookbook to have been passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe, are described in a New York Times News Service story as originating at Le Pavilion, a fabulously expensive French restaurant in Manhattan.

One of Warren's recipes, the article notes, "is a word-for-word copy of Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe."

Ms Warren is obviously from the Manhattan Cherokees...

Does anyone else find it ironic that Boris Buy-a-vowel is a Liberal arguing that improper identification and similar such breaches are the reason he lost when Liberals howled the loudest against tightening voter identification laws?

The Jig is Up

http://www.prudentbear.com/index.php/creditbubblebulletinview?art_id=10666

democrats try to deny the candidate that almost beat 'bama in a primary his delegates...how long until someone DOES beat him and is denied the delegates he or she thought they'd won ?

Dems Disenfranchise Voters After Polls Show Obama in Close Primary Race
"Is this some kind of North Korea thing?"

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/dems-disenfranchise-obamas-primary-opponent-after-polls-show-close-race-ark_645125.html

After a poll released this week showed President Barack Obama only beating his Democratic primary opponent John Wolfe Jr. by seven points, 45 percent to 38 percent, in Arkansas's Fourth Congressional District, state Democrats moved to practically disenfranchise Arkansas voters. "[D]elegates Wolfe might claim won't be recognized at the national convention," national party officials are telling state Democrats. Wolfe is being accused of not following the party rules.

“They want a coronation,” Wolfe tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD. “They’re conflating [Obama] with the party. Are we supposed to call him ‘Dear Leader’? Is this some kind of North Korea thing?

Wolfe insists he’s done the due diligence to qualify for delegates and that the state party is making decisions ad hoc to get the results they desire. “This is ridiculous," he says. "These guys are trying to tamp down voter enthusiasm.”

If he's denied delegates he's rightfully won, Wolfe says, Democrats would be effectively disenfranchising those who chose him over President Obama. And if that happens, he’ll take his own party to court.

“They took my money and put my name on the ballot,” he says. “They’re trying to make people think it’s hopeless to vote against Obama.”

Wolfe is also on the ballot for Texas’s primary on May 29.

and it didn't take 'bama long to co-opt his opponent that can't really stop his doing so...makes you wonder who belongs behind bars.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/keithjuddcom-redirects-obama-donation-page_644287.html

Keith Judd, a federal inmate incarcerated in Texas, garnered 40 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary in West Virginia yesterday. The good showing by the convict is a bit of an embarrassment for Barack Obama, but the president's reelection campaign appears to be taking advantage of the situation. The address keithjudd.com mysteriously redirects to a donation page for Obama-Biden 2012.

"Zionists are responsible for the global financial meltdown, and President Barack Obama is a puppet for powerful white people who are gearing up for full-scale military conflict to colonize Africa. Those kernels of wisdom were imparted by Imam Abdel Malik Ali at the University of California, Irvine last week."

[…]

"'There's no such thing as al-Qaida,' he said. 'That's another okeydokey – that's another deception. There is no such thing as al-Qaida. Like, no such thing as al-Qaida. No, no such thing at all.'"

h/t

they say a conservative is a liebral that's been mugged....looks like a new conservative justice in the making...apppointed by clinton though so he might have trouble seeing the problem.

Crooks target Supreme Court Justice Breyer for second time in three months

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/17/crooks-target-supreme-court-justice-breyer-for-second-time-in-three-months

WASHINGTON – Less than three months after he was robbed at his vacation home in the Caribbean, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has been targeted again -- this time by burglars at his Washington, D.C., house.

there's hope yet....

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/05/18/19775781.html

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court justice at the forefront of a controversial decision on religious freedom is retiring.

Justice Marie Deschamps will step down from the highest court in the land on Aug. 7.

...parents argued the curriculum teaches religious relativism and undermines their kids' Roman Catholic beliefs, but Deschamps wrote that allowing an exemption would be a "rejection of the multicultural reality of Canadian society."

And before long, Harper will have two more Supreme Court spots to fill.

Justice Morris Fish is due to retire next year, while Justice Louis LeBel will reach the mandatory retirement age in 2014.

By the time of the next election, it's likely Harper will have appointed seven of the nine Supreme Court justices.

"The best picture of a dog dressed as two pirates carrying a treasure chest you’ll see today, or your money back!"

CNBC:

Europe could strengthen its monetary union by giving European politicians the power to declare a sovereign state bankrupt and take over its fiscal policy, the former head of the European Central Bank said on Thursday in unveiling a bold proposal to salvage the euro.

Market-Ticker's Karl Denninger:

That's an open declaration of war and should be responded to in kind.

There is no power superior to that of the budget within a nation. None.

If other nations and firms don't like a government's expression of their sovereign power in the form of their budget they have the right to refuse to lend to it. But there is no claim one can make on a sovereign's budget on a forcible basis -- that is functionally identical to an invasion.

Trichet has just invited a shooting war in Europe, and I predict that if this sort of meme spreads he's going to get exactly that.

http://reason.com/blog#article_158518

The Good: a judge has (temporarily) blocked the worst of the NDAA.

The Bad: legislation to preserve constitutional rights was voted down.

The Ugly: all but 19 GOPers voted against that legislation.

Mark Steyn: Eternally shifting sands of Obama's biography

The recipes from "Elizabeth Warren – Cherokee" include a crab dish with tomato mayonnaise. Mrs. Warren's fictional Cherokee ancestors in Oklahoma were renowned for their ability to spear the fast-moving Oklahoma crab. It's in the state song: "Ooooooklahoma! Where the crabs come sweepin' down the plain." But then the white man came, and now the Oklahoma crab is extinct, and at the Cherokee clambakes they have to make do with Mrs. Warren's traditional Five Tribes recipe for Cherokee Lime Pie.

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/obama-354827-ever-white.html

Two words...Manhattan Cherokees.

..or Hawian Kenyans...

the elusive mayonnaise is a most sought after ingredient since the unfortunate demise of the Oklahoma crab

A "shooting war" in today's Europe would be a pride parade with laser tag. It's not gonna happen.

They'll just go broke and get used to serving beer to tourists.

Late Friday night... great post I came across years ago, and the combo still exists:

Click these into three new tabs, and expand the last:
Rain
Slow Jazz
A little fire

Unlike before, you have to manually repeat the last two it seems... :( Still good.

This chart shows the revenue and expenditures of the US government since 1940....Obama spends like a drunken sailor...
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=200

marco.....

just a quote to reflect on : "the most powerful and deadliest force on Earth — the disenfranchised young man".

Hmmmm No one's talking about Facebook.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/18/facebook-jumps-slumps-first-day-trading/#comment-532567745

Related, if you haven't seen the E-Trade baby meltdown yet, they gave up banning it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHFRyeeQK9E

EBD @10:17 - linky no workee. I need my Liawatha schadenfreude fix. (Sacagawarren is also acceptable.)

Facebook is going to be a faceplant.
Once a company goes public it's reason for being is the only thing that matters to share holders, that being the question, how much money did you make for me today.
What makes a company profitable is the demand for it's products....basic stuff thats not earth shattering.
So how does FB make money?
Their cache is the millions of pairs of eyeballs advertisers want a piece of....how unique, a web based service that can be used as an advertising medium...not.
Those "eyeballs" have a common likeness. The majority of them are not using facebook to go shopping.
This reality was not lost on GM when it bailed.
The fact that the share price had no appreciable gain on the first day tells me a lot of people are going to be taking a bath come monday.

Thank you Canada for Mark Steyn.

Mark Steyn nails it.

This is not about birther theories. This is about young Barry Obama trying to create some street cred than being a kid from Hawaii. The bio was likely submitted by Obama to the publisher. Obama did not think he was running for president then.

This is very similar to what Liz Warren did in pretending to be a Cherokee (even though the only Cherokee connection she has is a relative who helped round up the tribe for the Trail of Tears). Liz also plagiarized some recipes for Pow Wow Chow (who knew that the Cherokees loved cold crab omelets that where the favorite of Cole Porter and the Duke and Dutchess of Windsor!).

A brilliant humane society parody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTrhQd9GHlE

wow...and when I saw the headline, I instantly assumed they'd be named Smith, Jones and Wytham-Standish from Canterbury-on-rye in jolly old England...then I remembered it wasn't the cbc where the story goes unmentioned..even in the 'Nova Scotia' section...

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2012/05/20120519-085106.html

Three Halifax men were charged by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) Friday for their roles in an immigration fraud scheme, the agency said in a statement.

After a lengthy investigation into the activities of Canada 2000 Immigration and Business Services Inc., a licensed immigration consulting business operating in Halifax, Ziad El Shurafa and Mohammed Elhajabed were charged with eight counts of counselling misrepresentation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

Awni Sakalla has been charged with two counts of counselling misrepresentation.

The CBSA says "each charge represents a situation where the individuals assisted a family in committing residency fraud - creating the fictitious appearance of a Canadian residence for immigrants with Canadian permanent resident status for the purpose of maintaining that status and obtaining Canadian citizenship.

It says the charges relate to activities going as far back as January 2006.

"Immigration fraud is a criminal offence in Canada and damages the integrity of our immigration system," Andrew LeFrank, a CBSA spokesman said in the statement. "The CBSA takes this issue very seriously and works closely with its partners to identify, investigate and prosecute those engaging in immigration fraud to the full extent of the law."

Comment from the Styne article:

As at the 2002 Olympics when NBC's announcer called Vonetta Flowers "the first African-American woman from any country" to earn a winter gold medal.

I just had to laugh at that one!!!

Truth iz Racist:

A Baltimore County delegate said Wednesday that the governor should send in the Maryland State Police to control "roving mobs of black youths" at Baltimore's Inner Harbor...

Del. Patrick L. McDonough, a Republican whose district includes part of Harford County, distributed a news release with the headline: "Black Youth Mobs Terrorize Baltimore on Holidays." In it, McDonough said he had sent a letter to Gov. Martin O'Malley urging him to use the state police to help prevent attacks and to declare the Inner Harbor area a "no-travel zone" until safety can be guaranteed.

Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr., a Baltimore Democrat who said the remarks were "obviously race baiting", made a thinly-veiled physical threat against McDonough, saying he'd like to "take McDonough on a guided tour of the Inner Harbor on a weekend night."

Oops, sorry, it was an "offer", not a threat. My bad.

h/t

"Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of THREE submarines submerging in LARGELY OPEN WATER AT THE NORTH POLE. Another deception being pushed down peoples throats."

1958
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/uss-skate-open-water.jpg

1962
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/seadragon-and-skate-north-pole-1962.jpg

TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO YESTERDAY!"

1987

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/3-subs-north-pole-1987.jpg

"Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of THREE submarines submerging in LARGELY OPEN WATER AT THE NORTH POLE. Another deception being pushed down peoples throats."

TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO YESTERDAY!"

1987

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/3-subs-north-pole-1987.jpg

" Justice Thomas Lederer set aside 79 ballots in his decision Friday in Toronto. '

Wait a minute. These ballots were cast for ,I assume,different parties.

If the percentages of votes on these ballots were along the same lines as the other votes,the election should stand.

There may be some serious wrong being done here by Elections Canada.

We should be told the number of ballots that were set aside for each party. If 30 of the votes set aside were for the Liberal candidate,the election should stand. Do the math.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/05/18/pol-court-throws-out-etobicoke-centre-election-wrzesnewskyj.html

Please disregard my above post,I was not of sound mind.

However,this one should be looked at,it sounds like our CBC follows the BBC unwritten guidelines about coverage of islam .

The BBC Broadcasts Its Own Dhimmitude

"Islam must not be offended at any price, although Christians are fair game because they do nothing about it if they are offended."

http://www.meforum.org/3229/bbc-dhimmitude

WallyjL I agree that the decision here might be worth appealing or should be solvable outside of an election, however, your comment re: "We should be told the number of ballots that were set aside for each party." is not central to the issue. We do not know how any of these people voted. What is in dispute is whether they should have been voting at all. The registrations are being looked at. Not the ballots.

Question: I don't think Elections Canada can determine how a registered voter voted -- can they? In the case of the Etobicoke disputed election, it would be useful. My suspicion is that the majority of the votes were Liberal.