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Remember last election, when everybody was in action, tryin’ to find themselves a president? Well, Blind Blake’s brother was a voter, and also a great promoter, going around giving advice; he’d go round to the polling booths, but instead of voting once, he voted twice.
He’s In The Jailhouse Now.
h/t Commander In Chief Hans Rupprecht.
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  2. “What did you learn in school today, Mordecai?”
    “Well, dad, I learned that I want to be home schooled“:

    With the first full school year of data available, the NYCLU (whose lawsuit is still pending) analyzed the data released through the law to find that the NYPD’s “School Safety Division” arrested an average of four students a day and handed out about seven citations a day. According to the NYCLU, upward of 95 percent of the arrests were of black or Hispanic students, 74 percent were boys, and a full 20 percent were between the ages of 11 and 14, meaning at least 165 students arrested last year were 14 or younger.

  4. Alexandria, Va. paediatrician Samantha Adhoot:
    “Increasing global temperatures put children at greater risk of heat stroke, exhaustion and skin cancers….Young victims of carbon pollution are coming into my clinic…”
    h/t Tom Nelson
    Related: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Climate Justice Initiative director Jacqueline Peterson:
    “Climate change is about the fact that in our communities it is far easier to find a bag of Cheetos than a carton of strawberries.”
    Parse that one at length if you will.

  16. Cold Fury translates an article in The Hill about White House press secretary Jay Carney’s press conference assurance that Obama intends to keep Joe Biden as his running mate:

    President Obama has no intention of getting rid of shambling, pig-ignorant boob Joe Biden as his running mate, the White House said Thursday.
    Republicans are being “ridiculous” and are trying to “distract attention” with their focus on Vice President Biden and his controversial comments earlier this week, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.
    “They know that what they’re saying about this is ridiculous,” Carney said at a briefing with reporters, adding that it’s an “obvious” attempt to take attention away from policy issues, “like Seamus the Roof Ridin’ Dog and Mitt ‘The Impaler’ Romney’s well-known habit of personally killing and eating the children of the poor back when he was running death camps for Bain Capital.”
    Scurrilous cretin Biden has been unfairly attacked this week for his declaration to a largely black audience that “Dem ‘Pubblikins is g’wine take all y’all po’ darkies back to Massah’s and lay on de whip if dey wins dese h’yar ‘leckschuns, sho’ ’nuff!” which some partisan bounders have misinterpreted as having some sort of mysterious racial element…

  17. http://tinyurl.com/96ushkr
    But the “new and improved” Obama Board of Directors, working mostly at the persistent lobbying and urging of the UAW’s appointee, Steve Girsky (in photo), were naively convinced that Opel was simply a rough jewel in need of some new leadership (Opel fired its third leader in as many years a few weeks ago) and TLC from the brain-trust in Detroit. With his persuasive lobbying, the union’s man Girsky convinced all but two of the Board members to vote to ditch the planned sale and hold onto this “gem” that has now contributed to the loss of about $24 billion of the American taxpayers’ forced investment. Beyond the sheer magnitude of the value losses, fixing Europe has become an all-consuming distraction that is draining GM of vital and scarce resources.
    Since GM’s IPO almost two years ago, the broader S&P 500 has gone up about 30%. During that period, Ford shares have gone down about 15%, Toyota up about 15%, Honda up about 5%, Nissan up about 35%, Hyundai up about 60% and Volkswagen up about 85%. Make no mistake; GM is vastly underperforming the industry, despite an influx of approximately $50 billion of taxpayer funds. In addition to US taxpayers anteing up, Canada put in over $10 billion and GM was relieved of about $28 billion of bondholder obligations as UAW claims were protected. That’s an improvement of almost $90 billion to the balance sheet and the company still lags the competition!
    Found this over at dr udge

  19. Fun with numbers:
    Have a look at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html and http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
    Focussing in on the two tracking polls, Gallup (August 16, 2012) has Romney 13 points ahead of where McCain was versus Obama in its final tracking poll in 2008. Similarly, Rasmussen (August 16, 2012) has Romney 7 points ahead of where McCain was in its final tracking poll versus Obama in 2008 (for a net average GOP improvement versus Obama of 10%).
    Given that Obama ultimately won by 7.3% (these two final tracking polls gave Obama an average 8.5% final advantage in 2008), this suggests that Romney could be ahead now by about 2.7% (the actual results from yesterday for these two tracking polls give him an advantage of 1.5%).
    All of this assumes, of course, that no new bias has been introduced into the mix in the meantime. The other polls quoted yesterday all pre-date the Ryan announcement and are smaller (some or all with noted questionable representativeness in terms of party affiliation). A caveat would be that McCain enjoyed a brief bounce following the Palin announcement and GOP convention, if memory serves.
    Regardless, these results are a hopeful sign. IMO, the Romney-Ryan position has more staying power than the McCain-Palin position for two reasons: both candidates are new to the GOP leadership position, and Ryan will not be as easily dissed as Sarah unfortunately was last time.

  20. I would merely note, EBD, that the Chimp in Chief is well aware of the history of Friends of Bill (FOB), and understands the likelihood of his survival if Hillary is on the ticket and they win…

  21. Robert of Ottawa:
    Merkel was on a cash run – looking for money to help bailout the EU. She probably came to make the case that a failure of the EURO and the EU would cause a lot of harm tocanadas ecOnomy and several of its businesses (some of the banks and insurance companies perhaps?). Thus a canadian bailout effort would be less exPensive than a EURO failure.
    I Think that PMSH already thinks the EURO is in a death spiral, and with it the European welfare state, soft socialism as a political option and the CAP all good news in the long run and that what’ever damage that a collapse might cause to the cdn economy it is: unavoidable – collapse is going to happen regardless – so why throw more good money after bad.

  22. I see the three troublemaking Russian princesses styling themselves a “punk band” with an obscene name, who blasphemed Christ in a Russian Orthodox cathedral thinking themselves above the law, have been found guilty by a Russian court of a “grave violation of public order.” They could spend a good three years in prison.
    This is kind. The Bible is very clear about what is to be done to blasphemers, to let it be seen that God will not be mocked. (It has been pointed out that had the little cowards pulled their little prank at a mosque, they would probably not have left alive.) If I expected leftists to have any sense of gratitude, I’d expect some now from the supporters of the princesses.
    As it is, the “tolerant left” are predictably throwing a tantrum. By way of illustrating what class of person is the most upset about the sentence:
    A topless women’s rights activist hacked down a Christian cross in the Ukrainian capital Kiev with a chain saw on Friday in protest at the prosecution of the Russian feminist punk band…
    To show solidarity with the … defendants, Inna Shevchenko, a member of the Ukrainian group Femen which often stages bare-breasted shock performances, destroyed the four-meter high wooden cross bearing the figure of Christ.
    The cross, erected in 2005 on a hilltop looking down on the city centre, also served as a memorial to the victims of Stalinist repression and the famine of the 1930s. Two other activists used ropes to direct the fall of the cross.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/17/us-russia-pussyriot-femen-idUSBRE87G08M20120817
    Let right-thinking people save their tears for Stalin’s victims. I’ll give the last word to a Russian quoted by the BBC: “Let [the blasphemers] and all their supporters burn in hell.”

  23. “For civil society to exist, our terms of engagement should be limited to the which side of the street we drive and what laws we obey in the public space.”
    “30. wretchard”
    ” And now I wonder whether the guy who shot up the Family Research Council believed he was fighting to save lives; that it was better to permanently silence (or deter) a few “genocidal” supporters of traditional marriage than to permit speech that could pressure young, confused and suffering homosexuals into suicide
    This is why privacy exists. There are some things we are meant to keep secret. To conceal from the public view. Because the might arouse enmity or disgust in others. Privacy has gotten a bad rap as “hypocrisy”.
    Nowadays the Navy has same-sex couples pose for kisses. Nowadays we are supposed to march down main street in pride parades in our underwear or kiss people at chicken sandwich restaurants. But this create fatal problems.
    Suppose you don’t like my underwear. Suppose I don’t look good in underwear, like Chris Christie might not
    For civil society to exist, our terms of engagement should be limited to the which side of the street we drive and what laws we obey in the public space. We are all in each others faces obliging others to accept us. That is different from wanting to be left alone.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/08/16/whos-the-fairest-of-them-all/

  27. Not Rae Days. McGuinty Days.
    Ontario’s socialist McGuinty doesn’t shoot unionists; but, he “has taken a hard line”.
    …-
    “Ontario unveils plan to force through teacher pay freeze
    Globe and Mail – ‎13 hours ago‎
    The Ontario Liberal government has taken a hard line against teachers, threatening to bring in legislation that will block them from getting a hefty pay raise or going on strike.”

  28. I juxtapose:
    Haaretz headline:
    In suspected Jerusalem lynch, dozens of Jewish youths attack 3 Palestinians
    Jerusalem Pest headline:
    Arab critically hurt in Arab-Jewish brawl in J’lem
    So now when dozens of jewish terrorists lynch some innocent Palestinians in Jerusalem this is a brawl. Scandalous.
    source:
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/in-suspected-jerusalem-lynch-dozens-of-jewish-youths-attack-3-palestinians.premium-1.459002
    http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=281632

  29. Priorities in the lunatic asylum:
    The Bank of Canada purged the image of an Asian-looking woman from its new $100 banknotes after focus groups raised questions about her ethnicity… “Some believe that it presents a stereotype of Asians excelling in technology and/or the sciences. Others feel that an Asian should not be the only ethnicity represented on the banknotes. Other ethnicities should also be shown.”
    A few even said the yellow-brown colour of the $100 banknote reinforced the perception the woman was Asian, and “racialized” the note.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/image-of-asian-looking-woman-scrapped-from-new-100-bills-after-complaints/article4485307/

  31. Now now, QNDPS, it’s not so bad. It’s not like the whites were in charge. That would have been a scandal. This is… who is your pure laine @ss to judge the way they do things?
    Racist.

  32. Virginia vintners taste the police state
    At the center of all this is the county zoning administrator, a bureaucratic czar named Kimberley Johnson, whose bullying and heavy-handed enforcement tactics have resulted in calls for her dismissal by county farmers and residents. Johnson was recently the subject of a citizen-farmer “pitchfork protest” in a matter in which she fined one farmer for conducting a pumpkin carving and a birthday party for eight little girls without the proper permit.
    http://washingtonexaminer.com/virginia-vintners-taste-the-police-state/article/2504381#.UC1aB2zCz8A

  33. Juxtsapose a climateer from TO: TO Bypassed.
    O hit by “a bubble of air”. Feels grrreattt…
    …-
    “Is Toronto ready for climate change?
    Toronto Star
    …-
    “Record-Challenging Chill to Hit Omaha, Madison”
    “A bubble of air, originating from the Arctic Circle in northwest Canada, will bring a refreshing, but record-breaking cold night across the northern Plains tonight.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/recordchallenging-chill-to-hit/70122

  34. Le Canada! Ca marche! Canada glows!
    H/T Conservatives from coast to coast to coast.
    …-
    “Moody’s deems Canada ‘better than most other top-rated sovereigns’”
    “In a glowing report released Thursday, Moody’s Investors Service says Canada’s triple-A rating is supported by the country’s economic performance and government financial position that have held up to the effects of the global recession “better than most other top-rated sovereigns.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/16/moodys-deems-canada-better-than-most-other-top-rated-sovereigns/

  35. Posted by: DickSlater at August17, 2012 9:58
    Good to know God need to use a corrupt government to defend himself. What a little b1tch.

  36. Yesterday WH press secretary Carney said that Biden was always going to be the VEEP nom for Obama in 2012. This news:
    http://washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-rejected-vp-slot-to-ready-her-own-2016-run/article/2505206#.UC5v8aPleSq
    very much puts that statement into question. If true Obama and company were looking to dump biden but were shutdown by HRC.
    Let’s see if Carney does a Ron Zeigler (nixon’s press sec) and says “This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.” today.
    Admitting or being shown to have been lookig to replace Biden is evidence that even Obama thinks that Biden as VEEP was a BIG mistake. And now if the story above is further verified, Biden becomes even more of an albatross on the Obama campaign. I suspect that the Clintons were more than happy to see this leaked…

  37. Has plagiarism also become a “Liberal value”?
    “I remember when liberals sported on their automobiles bumper stickers reading, “Hatred is not a Family Value.” Then, back in 2003, in The New Republic, Jonathan Chait wrote an essay explaining why it was legitimate to hate George W. Bush, and the dam burst.”
    …-
    “Time, CNN reinstate Zakaria after plagiarism review”
    “Time magazine and CNN said on Thursday they were reinstating journalist Fareed Zakaria after suspending him last week for plagiarism.”
    (google news)
    …-
    “How Hatred Became a Liberal Value”
    “Politics is generational. Consider the thuggery practiced by the Democrats recently in Wisconsin. Force, intimidation, and openly partisan, unprofessional conduct on the part of judges, civil servants, physicians, and policemen became on the part of left-liberals the order of the day, and no one on the left stood up to denounce this conduct. Now, thanks to our President’s admiration for the tactics of Saul Alinsky, others in other states are imitating the deportment of the Wisconsin left-liberals – not only heckling Republican candidates but attempting to storm the platforms on which they speak.
    I remember when left-liberals insisted on civility. I remember when they condemned the tactics of intimidation championed by the New Left. I remember when progressives insisted on impartiality on the part of judges, civil servants, policemen, and those who purported to be reporting the news (as opposed to espousing opinion). There were always exceptions to the rule. Dan Rather was playing tricks as early as 1963. But, when caught and exposed, these exceptions took it on the chin. Today they rarely even apologize.
    I remember when liberals sported on their automobiles bumper stickers reading, “Hatred is not a Family Value.” Then, back in 2003, in The New Republic, Jonathan Chait wrote an essay explaining why it was legitimate to hate George W. Bush, and the dam burst. Civility is no longer a liberal ideal.”
    http://ricochet.com/main-feed/How-Hatred-Became-a-Liberal-Value

  42. Google: Praise Da Pedophile Mohammed.
    All together now … turn to page 666…
    …-
    “United Church adopts boycott of Israeli settlement goods
    Toronto Star – ‎1 hour ago‎
    Canada’s largest Protestant denomination has enshrined in its official church policy a boycott of goods made in Israeli settlements.”
    …-
    “Iran’s President Calls Israel ‘an Insult to Humankind’
    New York Times – ‎48 minutes ago‎
    Iran’s president fanned the flames of confrontation with Israel on Friday, calling the Israeli government “an insult to humankind” in a speech on the annual Iranian holiday that calls for the Palestinian reclamation of Jerusalem from Israel’s control.”

  43. Confirmed: Orympics is a left-liberal fraud.
    Quitter Ken Bryden tells us so with his Big Lies.
    …-
    “Canadian Olympian faces life after disqualification”
    “Ken Dryden: how the London Olympics captivated the world”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

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