Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Washington Post Admits to Bogus Quote
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Veteran Washington Post reporter Daryl Fears, part of a two-person writer team, unmistakably wrote that filmmaker John O'Keefe had “said” he “targeted” ACORN, the advocacy group, for his candid-camera expose, because it registered voters to defeat Republicans. O'Keefe said no such thing.
It was a non-quote made out of whole cloth by reporter Fears...
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Reid blocks ACORN probe
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Tracking abuse by political allies could be 'distracting'
ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- is stinking up Washington.
And this is far more significant than if a suspiciously large number of operatives for a purely "private" outfit had been found systematically bending and breaking the law, because ACORN receives and spends taxpayer money -- lots of it -- and had carried the imprimatur of official partnerships with the IRS, the Census Bureau ... the kind of "cred" that in the political world comes only from "who you know."
And it didn't start with those undercover videos made by a couple of independent filmmakers posing as a prostitute and her pimp - that was just a final shoe dropping loudly enough that the problem could no longer be ignored.
Here in Clark County, Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said last year he saw
"rampant fraud in the 2,000 to 3,000 voter registrations ACORN turns in every week, with some 48 percent of those forms being clearly fraudulent."
Fox News' Eric Shawn reported there were at least 11 [14 at last count] investigations across the country involving thousands of potentially fraudulent ACORN forms.
Yet none of this was sufficient to block President Obama and congress from increasing federal subsidies to ACORN and 'activist groups' like it from the mere millions to the billions of dollars in their "economic stimulus" bill last winter.
Despite all this evidence and a request in writing by 28 GOP senators -- and despite the fact the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 on Sept. 14 to block ACORN from bidding for any more federal grant money -- and despite the Census Bureau severing its ties with the organization, and the IRS announcing it will begin its own invenstigation, Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is refusing to hold a Senate hearing on ACORN's activities...
Mr. Reid replied additional investigations might distract lawmakers from addressing more important matters, including health care .
Smoke? Fire? Washington Democratic leaders have opted to just lay low and not smell nothin'.
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Kennedy warns health-care debate could turn violent
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U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy fears that supercharged passions fueling the national health-care debate may lead to violence. Drawing on his family’s violent past, the Democratic congressman told roughly 75 people gathered at a private health-care forum Saturday morning that opponents of Democrat-backed health-care legislation had gone too far
[A million-ish 'opponents' in DC Sept. 12 - not one arrest (and the Mall left as clean as they found it).
Yup, they're the problem all right.]
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Stop Allowing The Left To Set The Rules
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I am so sick of the Left being allowed to make the rules. Imagine the absurdity of a competition in which one side is allowed to set the rules against their opponent. The Left tells us what is racist. The Left tells us what we can and cannot say. The Left published a cartoon depicting former black Secretary of State Condolezza Rice as an Aunt Jemima; another depicted Rice as a huge-lipped parrot for her Massa Bush. Neither were considered racist by their creators or publishers, or even widely condemned on the Left.
In opposition to black Republican Michael Steele's campaign to run for U.S. Senate, a liberal blogger published a doctored photo of Steele in black face and big red lips made to look like a minstrel. The caption read, "Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house". Not one Democrat denounced these racist portrayals of black conservatives.
The rules set by the Left are extremely clear. Racist images of black conservatives and negative images of Bush are fair game. Even a play about murdering President Bush was called "harmless art". Meanwhile, all unflattering images of Obama are racist, and constitute dangerous, potentially violent hate speech... [snip]
Folks, the stakes are far too high to allow the Left to continue setting the rules of engagement. The far Left and Obama administration have a vision for America different than our Constitution. As patriots, it is our duty to just say, No.
My black 82 year old dad told me he has seen the reports on TV how a lot of people at the rallies want Obama dead. I said, "I bet you saw that on CNN". Dad said, "Yes".
It infuriates me that CNN is selling the lie that the Tea Party Movement is all about racism and hatred for a black president. While my dad never said anything out loud, I thought, "What must he think of me? Why is his first born siding with these evil white folks against a fine fellow black man?"
I replied, "Dad, try watching Fox".
Lloyd Marcus, Black Un-hyphenated American
[The left sets the rules because the major media are left.]
[Highly Recommended ]
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POLL: 59% Say Americans Angrier Now Than Under Bush
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Fifty-nine percent (59%) of U.S. voters believe that the current level of political anger in the country is higher than it was when George W. Bush was president.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 22% think the level of political anger is lower now, while 16% rate it as about the same.
But just 12% of voters nationwide say that the opposition to President Obama’s health care plan and other initiatives is racist, as Democrats, including former President Jimmy Carter, have charged.
Sixty-six percent (66%) of all voters say they’re angry about the current policies of the federal government, including 36% who are Very Angry.
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ABC: ‘Hunted’ Director Subject to ‘Prosecutorial Obsession?’
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ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday America continued to raise questions about the arrest of Roman Polanski in Europe, spinning the case as a "31 year-old prosecutorial obsession." According to reporter Nick Watt, the film director has "been hunted since 1978."
The network correspondent observed that Polanski "has some powerful friends." He explained, "Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has released this statement. ‘We're calling on every filmmaker we can to help fix this terrible situation.’" Watt also featured a snippet of actress Debra Winger fawning, "We stand by, awaiting his release and his next masterwork."
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Goldberg on Polanski: 'It Wasn't Rape-Rape'
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The View's Whoopi Goldberg yesterday offered the most outrageous and despicable defense of child rapist and Hollywood director Roman Polanski yet: "It wasn't rape-rape." That's right. Goldberg tried to claim that Polanksi 
drugging and having sex with a thirteen year old girl, who repeatedly uttered 'no' to the predator, does not qualify as 'actual' rape (video embedded below the fold).
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Polanski Crime Worse Than People Know
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[Caution: contains explicit reference to sexual acts which may disturb some readers]
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Afghan war not 'US battle'
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US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the war in Afghanistan was not purely an "American battle" but was a broader Nato mission, as he met the western alliance's chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
"This is not a American battle, this is a Nato mission,"
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Despite pressure, McChrystal to hold firm on request for troops
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal said he will not back down from his request for additional troops in Afghanistan, even though Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration have been hesitant to embrace it.
Speaking on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan said pressure to rescind that request will have no affect on his actions going forward.
“Doesn’t affect me at all, and I take this extraordinarily seriously,”
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Gibbs Explains Why the President Has Only Talked to General McChrystal Once in 10 Weeks
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The White House today pressed back against speculations that General Stanley McChrystal is not highly influential in guiding the President’s Afghanistan policy decisions.
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs in a briefing Tuesday dispelled speculations that the President isn’t consulting with the general.
“The president receives a memo every week from General McChrystal,”[Weekly memos - re: an active war in which Americans are dying.
"Commander in Chief"?]
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Obama has talked to David Letterman more than our Afghanistan commander
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Perhaps if McChrystal were to get himself a talk show...
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A farcical attempt to paint Israel black
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The UN Human Rights Council’s report into the Gaza conflict is a shamefully biased document
In the history of international organizations it is hard to conceive of an institution less fit for purpose than the absurdly titled UN Human Rights Council.
Since its inception in 2006, the UNHRC has included such champions of liberal values as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Cuba. There is no doubting the comic value of such membership.
Analogies spring to mind of Jack the Ripper leading a disciplinary inquiry at Scotland Yard...
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Israel's Reagan
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"But to those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?"-- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
He was blunt.
Direct.
Hearing him, the press corps gasped, literally and audibly.
No, the reference isn't to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent wake-up call at the United Nations. The man throwing cold water in the face of a somnolent world was Ronald Reagan.
"So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil."[snip]-- President Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan made history by his unwillingness to gloss over the hard truths of his time. He told us that
"if history teaches anything, it teaches that simpleminded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of freedom."
Today there is one nation, at least, that has a leader who understands this.
That leader would be Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel's Reagan.
[Highly Recommended > ]
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POLL: Most Say Obama Not Tough Enough on Iran
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Fifty-one percent (51%) of U.S. voters say President Obama has not been aggressive enough in responding to Iran's nuclear program.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only four percent (4%) think the president has been too aggressive in dealing with Iran, while 38% believe his response has been about right.
Seventy-three percent (73%) of Republicans and 55% of voters not affiliated with either party say the president has not been aggressive enough in reacting to Iran's nuclear program, but 61% of Democrats say his response has been about right.
Eighty-eight percent (88%) of voters are now at least somewhat concerned about Iran's nuclear program, with 59% who are very concerned. Only 11% are not very or not at all concerned.
Voters 40 and older are more concerned than those who are younger.
[If only our schools taught history...]
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Portugal election: Socialists lose majority
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Portugal's Socialist centre-Left party lost its absolute majority in parliament. Nonetheless, socialist President Socrates has pledged to continue plans to spend his way out of the recession, promising big budget public works projects to stimulate growth as Portugal struggles with the highest unemployment rate in decades.
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Ignoring History
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently said he wanted the nations of the world to stop using gross domestic product (GDP) as the main measure of their economic performance. He wants them instead to work up another metric that takes into account not only economic production but such things as environmental quality and even time not spent in traffic -- a sort of gross national satisfaction index.
France has excellent reason to suppress GDP statistics, say Brian Domitrovic, a professor at Sam Houston State University and author of "Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity," just out from ISI Books:
- Since 1982, among developed nations, France has been a clear laggard in GDP growth.
- In the quarter century following 1982, France's GDP growth rate was a mere 2.1 percent per year in comparison to the U.S.'s 3.3 percent.
- Thus the U.S. grew at more than a 50 percent premium to France per year during that span; when the quarter century elapsed, Americans were one-third richer than the French.
- France lagged Britain, which over the 25-year period grew at 2.8 percent per year.
- Germany matched the French rate of 2.1 percent, but it had a good reason -- a few years in, it had to absorb the post-communist economic basket case that was East Germany.
- About the only thing France can say about its GDP performance since 1982 is that it beat Italy's, which came in at a measly 1.8 percent per year.
France's poor GDP showing over this period was in stark contrast to the 1950s and 1960s, when it had long stretches of GDP growth at 6 percent per year. By the early 1980s, its GDP per capita was nearly that of the United States.
In other words, France achieved prosperity equal to what was enjoyed in America - and then lost it.
There is a clear reason the inflection point was 1982. At that time, France chose not to participate in an international wave and transform its economy with a free-market revolution.
In the early 1980s, Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States shed governmental regulations on the economy, cut taxes, committed to not manipulating their currencies, and encouraged global trade.
Their economies boomed...
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Germany veers right - socialists 'slaughtered'
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This may be a harbinger of things to come or, just as likely, a purely German reaction to the failed programs of the social democrats. Not only did Chancellor Angela Merkel return to power, the pro-business Free Democratic Party increased their share [as is tippling] of deputies in the Bundestag and Merkel will be forced to make concessions to the FDP if she wants them in her governing coalition.
As America veers hard left, Germany and the rest of Europe appears ready to lurch rightward; and how ironic is that?
[Yeah, hilarious.]
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World Bank says don’t take US dollar’s place for granted
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WASHINGTON — World Bank president Robert Zoellick said the United States should not take the dollar's status as the world's key reserve currency for granted because other options are emerging.
Zoellick said global economic forces were shifting and it was time now to prepare for the fact that growth will come from multiple sources...
[We can't ruin our currency through deficit spending (printing!) and expect the rest of the world not to notice....]
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Treemometers: A new scientific scandal
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Since 2000, a large number of peer-reviewed climate papers have incorporated data from trees at the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia. This dataset gained favour, curiously superseding a newer and larger data set from nearby. The older Yamal trees indicated pronounced and dramatic uptick in temperatures... [snip]
How could this be? Scientists have ensured much of the measurement data used in the reconstructions remains a secret - failing to fulfill procedures to archive the raw data. Without the raw data, other scientists could not reproduce the results. The most prestigious peer reviewed journals, including Nature and Science, were reluctant to demand the data from contributors [?!?!]. Until now, that is.
At the insistence of editors of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions B the data has leaked into the open - and Yamal's mystery is no more.
From this we know that the Yamal data set uses just 12 trees from a larger set to produce its dramatic recent trend. Yet many more were cored, and a larger data set (of 34) from the vicinity shows no dramatic recent warming, and warmer temperatures in the middle ages.
In all there are 252 cores in the CRU Yamal data set, of which ten were alive 1990. All 12 cores selected show strong growth since the mid-19th century. The implication is clear: the dozen were cherry-picked...
[Again and again, every AWG claim debunked with time - hence the alarmists' demand we act now-right-now; time's not on their side...]
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At the president's pleasure
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A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man."
At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse.
That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's new "safe school czar."
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Couric Bubbly Over Soda Tax, Fails to Consider Idea Obnoxious to Average Americans
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"It's the most explosive moment for the soda industry since the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment," CBS's Katie Couric quipped of a proposed federal soda tax in her September 18 Notebook video on CBSNews.com.
While careful not to explicitly endorse a proposed one-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks, Couric hinted that taxing sodas could help curb obesity, because, after all,
"some lawmakers say taxes on cigarettes have reduced smoking and raised revenues."
[Do you think this country will ever again ask if extortion is right vs. merely if it works?]
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Undemocratic To Read Before You Vote?
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House Resolution 554 would require that all major legislation be posted on the web for public review for a minimum of 72 hours before it could be brought to a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives.
No more dropping thousand-page bills and hundreds of pages of amendments at the last minute barring not only the public but members of Congress from reading the bills -- forcing votes on legislation members haven’t been allowed or given the time to read.
On Friday at the behest of Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Walz sent a “Dear Leader Colleague” letter applauding Pelosi and Hoyer for their “transparency and openness” in the legislative process, as if they’d actually been letting members and the public read the bills before votes.
He said the Walden/Baird resolution isn’t necessary, and asked for fellow Democrats to step into the Orwellian Zone with him and sign the letter in support of Pelosi and Hoyer’s current open and transparent legislative process.
You can’t make this stuff up.
["The most ethical congrress in history."
Hom many insults before people finally fire these folks?
A: When you're dependent on them for benefits, you can't.
Health Care anyone?]
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Silence that idiot box
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YOU’RE A prudent parent, and you protect your children from behavior that is needlessly risky or harmful. You don’t let them ride a bicycle without putting on a helmet. You wait with them for the school bus, or drive them to school yourself. You wouldn’t dream of letting them drink alcohol, and if you caught them with cigarettes, you’d go through the roof.
So why do you let them watch so much TV?
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Go East, Young Man (Oh, You Already Are)
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The westward expansion of the United States is over.
After two centuries of westward expansion, with California being a choice settling spot (there was no more continental west, after all), general U.S. migration patterns now are changing.
It seems parts of the West have become what the settlers were leaving: too crowded, too expensive and lacking in opportunity.
The general pattern reversed over the last decade, with the main out-migration occurring in California, according to a study released Wednesday by the University of Kansas School of Business...
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G, B, F...
Sarah Palin Is Winning
I have said this before: There are only two political stars in the country. One is president, the other is Sarah Palin. While the usual political news sources have seen everything going wrong for Palin—scandal, personal oddness, intra-party hostilities, myriad family problems—everything, in fact, has been going right for her.
The Palin plan is working...
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Males become minority on college campuses
The declining number of men compared to women attending the nation’s colleges is a phenomenon that carries profound social and economic implications as comparatively more female graduates enter the workplace.
Experts aren’t really sure why it’s happening....
[Three generations of women raised to believe they're 'incomplete' if they're only mothers and home makers, but our 'experts' are baffled.]
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Out-Foxing The Times
Media: The New York Times, still smarting after losing scoops to Fox News, has thrown in the towel, vowing to avoid future embarrassment by monitoring the cable channel.
We have a better idea — it's called reporting...
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