Tracking the Southern Poverty Law Center;
“Isn’t that exactly what happened in Cleveland?” I asked. “These five men, all linked with Occupy Wall Street, attempted to blow up a bridge as an overture to the wholesale destruction of Cleveland, Ohio, and in the name of anarchism. They also looked to blow up the Republican convention.”
“They were anarchists,” he repeated.
“Yes?”
He paused. “We’re not really set up to cover the extreme Left.”
h/t Dan
Michael Mukasey: Obama and the bin Laden Bragging Rights
Rick Santelli: “4/5ths of the reduction in unemployment is due to the drop in the labour force participation rate. And that is a biggie.”
In 1985 LA-based songwriter/composer Randy Newman discovered that he was seemingly the only singer/celebrity on earth who hadn’t been invited to the We Are The World recording session. Miffed by the snub, (or so his wry anecdote goes), he endeavoured to write a truly universal song, one that people of every creed and colour in every nation on earth could relate to. Darned if he didn’t do it, too: from a live performance in Germany, here’s I Want You To Hurt Like I Do.
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In the NY Times, no less (business section of course):
General Motors posted its ninth consecutive profitable quarter on Thursday. But almost three years after its taxpayer bailout and bankruptcy, the nation’s biggest automaker still can’t shed the stigma of being “Government Motors.”
Because the Treasury Department still owns a 26 percent stake in the company, G.M. remains saddled with pay restrictions that limit its ability to recruit new talent, a ban on corporate jets, and lingering image problems in the eyes of some consumers.
Company executives usually deflect questions about the effect of government ownership on their business, or their frustration with it. But in a rare interview on the topic, G.M.’s chief executive, Daniel F. Akerson, said he longs for the day that G.M. can finally say goodbye to its biggest shareholder…
Sigh.
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore
Watch and wonder…
All part of the population reduction strategy; (pdf)
Cumulatively, WHO (2009) attributed 11.2 million deaths and 379 million lost DALYs to these nine poverty-related risk factors. By contrast, 0.14 million deaths and 5.4 million lost DALYs were attributed worldwide to global warming (see Figure 1). Obviously, at present, the health consequences of global warming are trivial relative to the cumulative non-global warming impact of hunger and poverty. Under either criterion, poverty-related health
risks easily outrank global warming as global priorities.
The 70- to 80-fold mismatch in scale between the diseases of poverty and global warming indicates that even a small increase in poverty due to, for example, either lower economic growth induced by efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or an increase in biofuel production, could outweigh the public health benefits from the associated greenhouse gas reductions (Tol and Dowlatabadi 2001; Tol and Yohe 2006).
h/t John
Original caption: “The modern northwestern anarchist has an embarrassment of riches to choose from. You can see every combination from the easily oh-so-wearable Nike/Gap/North Face ensemble to a full-body monochromatic jumpsuit over the course of a rebellious year. Fine tailoring has been outsourced all over the world – from China, Indonesia and even Argentina – to keep prices in line and will never go out of fashion. Be it May Day or a WTO conference, scrupulous conglomerates have survived the revolution in outdoor anarchist clothing to kit you out for a proper 21st-century uprising!”
More here
Somebody’s planning on being President for a long, long time….
Let the parodies begin.
More – “Who is Julia and why am I paying for all her sh*t?”
Tonight, via the technological miracle of Scopitone, we enjoy the mellow, family-friendly French sounds of Le Groupe J.M.S., as they reprise for the cameras their 1960 release Papa Aime Maman.
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That is what “Forward” really means. The “Forwardism” of that future which never seems to work, but is on the edge of working, with enough money, enough laws and enough marching orders, mankind will finally set foot into that mechanical state where leaders look upon us from their balloons and tell us how to live and how to die.
h/t Me No Dhimmi
In 2012, they stuck em to a guy named George Zimmerman.
A third NBC employee has been fired from the network after yet another misleadingly edited George Zimmerman 911 tape surfaced from the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Lilia Luciano, a Miami-based correspondent, “is no longer working for the network,” TVNewser reports. Her firing follows the axing of an NBC producer who edited the original 911 call that caused so much controversy as well as a local NBC reporter, Jeff Burnside, who was found to have used a similarly-edited recording
A Corner Brook, Nfld., mother who wanted to lay a wreath at a workers memorial was prevented by a local labour group because she’s a city councillor, and the city recently laid off four firefighters.
(h/t DrD)
Just because the Cleveland 5 are all Occupiers, spout Occupy rhetoric, and used an Occupy camp to plan their attempted bombing, that doesn’t mean Occupy has anything to do with it. How were the peace-loving, violence-abhoring Occupiers supposed to know that these solid citizens were plotting a bombing right in their midst? The Occupiers are completely blameless. Just like the Tea Parties would be blameless if they spawned something like this, right?
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Read the whole Plain Dealer piece for more about these winners’ rap sheets. Suicide threats, felonious assault, inciting violence, vandalism, theft, trespassing, drug charges, fraud, receiving stolen property, harassment, breaking and entering… No wonder they fit right in with the rest of the Occupiers.
Laws are for the little people;
Congressional Republicans Thursday took the first formal steps toward holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, issuing a draft of their complaint against him for his handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal.
The 44-page complaint, issued by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asks the full House to hold Holder in contempt for “failure to comply with a congressional subpoena.”
Today the Obama administration brags about its “all of the above” energy policy, but two years ago it temporarily banned oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill, a move that cut oil output and cost thousands of jobs.
At the time, the Interior Department report called its recommendations “peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.” But that was not true. None of the seven advised a drilling ban then.
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Interior’s estimate was that well closures temporarily cost 8,000-12,000 jobs and $1.2 billion in economic activity. Mason put job losses at 13,000-19,000, lost wages at $800 million and lost tax revenue at $200 million.
When Interior said the engineers backed the ban, the engineers were shocked. The idea of a moratorium never came up in their sessions and was not recommended, five of the seven told IBD. There was no need to stop other wells, they said.
The number of in-orbit and planned Earth observation missions by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is projected to drop “precipitously” from 23 this year to only six by 2020
That means the number of instruments monitoring Earth’s activity is expected to decline from a peak of about 110 last year to fewer than 30 by the end of the decade.
First they came for the thermometers….
h/t Bemused
