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  • China Crushes Man by Steamroller

    A villager in northern China attempting to resist a forced government relocation by remaining on his land was brutally crushed to death by a road flattening truck on the orders of a Chinese government official.  …

    The victim, He Zhi Hua, refused to accept a paltry payment from the government which has forcefully evicted Changsha Village locals in order to re-appropriate their land for commercial use.When Hua began a protest by lying down on the spot through which construction vehicles had to pass, the local Vice Mayor ordered workers for the state-owned company to murder Hua by driving over his body with a huge road-flattening truck.

    via Infowars (Warning — Graphic Photos!)

    Why is this not front page of the NYT?  I’ll tell you why; because it doesn’t fit with their agenda.  It’s about not doing anything to embarrass not only China but Obama.

    Obama has bent over backwards for China.  Even when they stopped buying bonds and so the Fed had to take over, Obama refused to hold China accountable for any of it’s bad behavior.  (BTW, if you need a list of China’s bad behavior then you’re too dumb to vote.)

    It’s time we held China accountable for it’s actions.  Everything from human rights violations to unfair trading policies.  They wrongfully hold their money constant to the dollar instead of letting it float (like all other industrialized nations) making their goods cheaper the marketplace.  This costs Americans jobs.  It’s not only unfair; it’s bad for America and Americans.

  • How Carter Beat Reagan

    Remember when Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980?  …

    In a series of nine stories in 1980 on “Crucial States” — battleground states as they are known today — the New York Times repeatedly told readers then-President Carter was in a close and decidedly winnable race with the former California governor. And used polling data from the New York Times/CBS polls to back up its stories.Four years later, it was the Washington Post that played the polling game — and when called out by Reagan campaign manager Ed Rollins a famous Post executive called his paper’s polling an “in-kind contribution to the Mondale campaign.” Mondale, of course, being then-President Reagan’s 1984 opponent and Carter’s vice president.

    All of which will doubtless serve as a reminder of just how blatantly polling data is manipulated by liberal media — used essentially as a political weapon to support the liberal of the moment, whether Jimmy Carter in 1980, Walter Mondale in 1984 — or Barack Obama in 2012.

    via The American Spectator.

    Simply Amazing!  Go read the entire story.

    The MSM lacks the ability to be embarrassed at themselves.

  • Huge Increase in Warrantless Electronic Surveillance

    Pen register and trap and trace devices now generally refer to the surveillance of information about—rather than the contents of—communications. Pen registers capture outgoing data, while trap and trace devices capture incoming data. This still includes the phone numbers of incoming and outgoing telephone calls and the time, date, and length of those calls. But the government now also uses this authority to intercept the “to” and “from” addresses of email messages, records about instant message conversations, non-content data associated with social networking identities, and at least some information about the websites that you visit (it isn’t entirely clear where the government draws the line between the content of a communication and information about a communication when it comes to the addresses of websites).

    via ACLU.

    For the record, I agree with the ACLU exactly one time.  This is it.

    Our government has taken to spying on its own citizens, that’s us, on an unprecedented level.  As more and more communications go electronic it’s easier and easier to intercept.  That it is done without a warrant is truly frightening.  If these communications are so important then the FBI should present evidence to a judge and get a warrant.

    Mind you, this is the same FBI that cannot find hundreds of guns from Fast and Furious.  This is the same presidential administration that refuses to turn over records regarding those guns or the Fast and Furious catastrophe.  The same administration that promised to the “the most open and transparent in history” and has proven to be just as closed and private as Dick Cheney and the Bush years.

    When it comes to spying on you but keeping gov. secrets Obama = Bush.

  • Quantive Easing Meets Peter Gun

    A light hearted take on a serious subject.
    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvh60dJ-hTQ?rel=0]

  • Federal Reserve Funding the Entire US Deficit

    [Lawrence] Lindsey said that with the Fed purchasing at least $40 billion a month in mortgage debt through QE3, “they are buying the entire deficit.”  …

    The central bank’s recently announced bid to stimulate the economy has also taken the pressure off politicians to deal with the U.S. fiscal cliff, Lindsay argued, which could result in destabilizing tax hikes and spending cuts automatically taking effect early next year.

    “The Fed, maybe because it can’t do otherwise, has told the Congress: ‘We’re going to buy your bonds no matter what,’” Lindsey said. “I think that’s keeping the pressure off the president, off the Congress.”

    The effective of QE3 on interest rates may also keep Congress from reining in borrowing.

    “If the (Fed) chairman’s estimates of the effectiveness of QE3 on interest rates come true, we’re going to be down to an average cost of borrowing for the government of 0.6 of a percentage point,” Lindsey said. “Why would any Congress not borrow and spend if they could borrow at 60 basis points?”

    via CNBC.

    This is all going to come to a screeching halt… and not in a nice way.  The Federal Reserve simply may not exist in 5 or 10 years.  It will have failed.  Congress with throw the Fed under the bus and create a new central bank.

    Of course years of financial chaos will ensue and the value of the dollar will collapse.  (Note to self: move all the money you can offshore.)

  • Obama, Iraq & Afghanistan, Peace & War

    There an amazing story about mine clearing activities in the Persian Gulf.  Before we get to it though we really need to consider some history.

    Do we remember:

    There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won’t be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.

    Barack Obama, Podcast, Jan. 3, 2007;

    and,

    Iraq is sort of a situation where you’ve got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch, and that’s not easy to do, although you probably should fire the driver.

    Barack Obama, The Daily Show, Nov. 7, 2005?

    Do we remember when we were told that Iraq was “Bush’s” war and that it was going to impossible for Iraq to know peace?

    Does anyone remember how were told that Afghanistan was the place where we had to really focus our energy?

    The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest possible pace – so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers.

    Taken together, these additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces, and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011. Just as we have done in Iraq, we will execute this transition responsibly, taking into account conditions on the ground.

    Barack Obama, December 01, 2009

    Well let’s review how things are going…

    An Afghan police officer shot and killed three U.S. Marines after sharing a meal with them before dawn Friday and then fled into the desolate darkness of southern Afghanistan, the third attack on coalition forces by their Afghan counterparts in a week.

    via CBS News.

    Wow!!  Afghanistan is a mess.  How are things going in Iraq?

    Iraq Joins Mine clearing Exercises:

    …  Saturday aboard the Ponce one of the countries ship’s came close enough for me to snap this picture with a telephoto lens. It’s the Iraqi patrol boat P-307 sailing alongside the U.S. guided missile destroyer USS Gridley.

    The P-307 was delivered to Iraq in March 2012, carries a 30mm cannon and is manned by crew of 25 sailors. I talked to a Navy officer who told me if I was able to see it, I could go ahead and report it.

    Amazing.
    In Obama’s war the people we trained and armed are killing American Marines.
    In Bush’s war the people we trained are helping us clear mines in the Persian Gulf.
    That’s the fact Jack!!

  • Allen West Samples a U.N. Speech

    Florida Congressman Allen West had harsh criticism for Barack Obama after the President’s speech at the United Nations today.

    In a Facebook post Tuesday, the Tea Party favorite accused Obama of continuing to “offer up apologies instead of defending our hard earned First Amendment right to freedom of speech,” and slammed the President for not referring to the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi as a terrorist attack.

    Then West offers what his own statement to the United Nations “would have been:”

    “The future does not belong to those who attack our Embassies and Consulates and kill our Ambassadors. The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you and wreak havoc and destruction upon your existence.”

    via Business Insider.

    Yep, that sounds about right.

  • No Street Money in Chicago; Could Obama Lose Illinois? Cook County?

    A lot of anger in the rank and file because Barack Obama is not handing out the typical “street money” to hire thugs to work the precincts and intimidate black voters into showing up at the polls. Obama’s balking at the $2 million that would cost because the campaign can’t afford to spend it.

    This could cost him enough votes in Cook County for Romney to win it…and thus the state.

    Sound incredible? It is. That’s true. But a lack of street money makes this possible if not probable.

    via Kevin DuJan @ Hillbuzz.

    This is not exactly a shakedown but it is another common occurrence on the Chicago’s West Side (and I understand the South too.)  I’ve seen it first hand in a local race… it’s bizarre.

    Kevin DuJan has excellent sources.  If he says this appears to be a problem then it’s going to be a problem.

  • 100 Days Until Taxmageddon

    Sunday will mark the start of the 100-day countdown to “Taxmageddon” – the date the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2013:

    via Americans for Tax Reform.

    Here’s a list of some of the new and raised taxes coming:

    First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief

    • Personal income tax rates will rise on January 1, 2013.
    • Higher taxes on marriage and family coming on January 1, 2013.
    • Middle Class Death Tax returns on January 1, 2013.
    • Higher tax rates on savers and investors on January 1, 2013.

    Second Wave: Obamacare Tax Hikes

    • Some Obamacare have already gone into effect: tanning tax, medicine cabinet tax, HSA withdrawal tax, W-2 health insurance reporting, and the “economic substance doctrine”
    • The Obamacare Medical Device Tax
    • The Obamacare Medicare Payroll Tax Hike
    • The Obamacare “Special Needs Kids Tax”
    • The Obamacare “Haircut” for Medical Itemized Deductions

    Third Wave: The Alternative Minimum Tax and Employer Tax Hikes

    • The AMT will ensnare over 31 million families, up from 4 million last year
    • Full business expensing will disappear
    • Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses
    • Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced
    • Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed

    … So at least we have that to look forward to.  Right?

     

  • Blantly Racist Headline at L.A. Times & Tribune

    White working class: Clinging to guns, religion and Romney

    via Chicago Tribune.

    Here is Barack Obama’s full quote:

    You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.  And they fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate and they have not.  And it’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
    — Barack Obama, April 6, 2008.

     

    There is nothing inherently racist in Obama’s quote.  While it’s true that: (a) small towns in Pennsylvania incredibly white and it appears Obama means, “small town white folk,” and (b) he characterizes these people as “anti-immigrant”, Obama was at least careful not to directly inject race into the statement.

    We really need to find a way to come together on this race issue.