» Anti-Gun Group to Launch Nationwide Boycott of Starbucks

The National Gun Victim’s Action Council (NGAC) will lead a national boycott of Starbucks Coffee products on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, to try to change the company’s “open carry” gun policy at its locations. Starbucks currently allows guns to be openly carried by patrons in its stores in the states where it is legal to do so.

The Supreme Court ruling upholding the 2nd amendment right to keep and bear as an individual right applicable in all states, cities and territories – was the end of the debate – right?
Wrong. You shoulda known better. The anti-gun bigots don’t care what the constitution says, or what the Supreme Court says the constitution says. The debate continues – unabated – until one side wins a definitive and undeniable victory. The anti-gunners, as always, have armed themselves with facts and truths of their own fabrication:

“Starbucks allowing guns to be carried in thousands of their stores significantly increases everyone’s risk of being a victim of gun violence,” said Elliot Fineman, CEO of the NGAC in a statement. “Open and conceal-and-carry are among the reasons there are 12,000 gun homicides each year in the U.S.”

That statement is a bald-face, in your face, lie. No documentation or reference or statistics are offered (or even hinted) as proof.

So, got gun? Wanna keep gun? Gotta fight. If yer not already in the fight, Starbucks is a good place to get started. You don’t have to carry a gun to make your point. Just order up a cup and make sure they know why you’re there.

The anti-gun bigots will not quit.
» Illinois tries again to ban so-called ‘assault weapons,’ .50 caliber rifles

…. in Illinois, it’s that time of year again–time for the push for extremist ‘gun control’ laws. Right on schedule, three were introduced yesterday

If HB 1294 passes, Acevedo and friends will have another problem. We “assault weapon” owners won’t feel compelled to present our “proof of ownership”–proving that our hands aren’t cold and dead will be enough–and Acevedo is not likely to enjoy that proof.

An Indiana-based energy-storage company, whose subsidiary received a $118.5 million stimulus grant from the Energy Department, filed for bankruptcy Thursday.

Ener1 is asking a federal bankruptcy court in New York to approve a plan to restructure the company’s debt and infuse $81 million in equity funding.

At the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Monday, the Rev. Luke Robinson said that pro-abortion activists want black leaders to be silent about what legalized abortion is doing to America because President Barack Obama is black.

“These so-called freedom fighters, just the instruments of the culture of death, they want us to be silent because the president is a black man,” said Rev. Robinson, who is pastor of the Quinn Chapel AME Church in Frederick, Md. “But he and his administration is leading this nation, and especially the African-Americans, to absolute destruction.”

Well, technically, I reckon you only need to be silent half the time – because (THHO)Obama’s honky half grants you some wiggle room.

Western females [have been] sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism for years and years…

And it is not just adults the Islamic animals prey on.

How many more western females will be made into sacrificial lambs, before we say –ENOUGH of this MADNESS???

How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their “fair share” of taxes.

Because how unfair — indeed, un-American — it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet’s secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.

Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.

I seriously doubt there is any embarrassment.

Some argue that a “crisis” in Health Care was created to pass unprecedented Health Care legislation; that a “crisis” was attempted with the Fast and Furious gun-walker fiasco, in order to pass anti-gun legislation; that the 2008 financial crisis was used to “nationalize” banks and businesses and thus advance the administration’s socialist agenda.

To this end, many may observe and advance the argument that a crisis has been effected in the Middle East in order to advance the Obama administration’s energy policy, which includes, making petroleum or coal industry based energy prohibitively expensive so that the Obamistas can advance their “alternative energy” policies and expand government control over energy related areas of government, from setting a precedent for government to control what kinds of energy can be created, as in shutting down coal-fired plants based on environmental issues, to determining what kind of light bulbs citizens can use in their homes.

When EPA fails to act after multiple concerns are raised by the GAO, the NAS, and even the agency’s own inspector general, the only conclusion is that EPA is fraught with a dangerous willingness to disregard scientific evidence when it contradicts the agency’s political goals.

EPA’s science–the foundation of the Obama Administration’s damaging regulatory agenda–is not sound. And because the administration refuses to be transparent, we don’t have any clue whether anyone at the White House or EPA is even trying to fix the problem.

Retiring Rep. Barney Frank, a gay pioneer in Congress, said Thursday that he will marry his longtime partner, Jim Ready.
Frank spokesman Harry Gural said the liberal Massachusetts Democrat’s wedding will be in his home state, but that no date had been set.

No word yet on whether Mr. and Mr. Frank will continue their entrepreneurial enterprises of homer-sectshul prostitute brokering. Probably not gonna be as lucrative now that they won’t have taxpayer-funded facilities to house it.

The American soldier is a role model to us. I take away his weapons, fire him, put him on trial and force him to marry his bunkmate to show his tolerance, and he never complains because he’s not allowed to. The rest of you need to take a lesson from him. Stop complaining or I’ll send you to a military tribunal.

…. keep making excuses for at least two dead American law enforcement officers, hundreds of dead Mexicans and untold deaths on our side of the border, along with more deaths yet to come—it’s what disgusting political scoundrels do when they have no morals and no sense of decency.

Warren Buffet’s secretary, Debbie Bosanek, served as a stage prop for President Obama’s State of the Union speech. She was the President’s chief display of the alleged unfairness of our tax system – a little person paying a higher tax rate than her billionaire boss.
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How much does her boss pay this downtrodden woman? So far, no one has volunteered this information.

We can get an approximate answer by consulting IRS data on tax rates by adjusted gross income, which would approximate her salary

The No-Hit-Pinata, virtually singlehandedly securing the future Nissan Leaf customer base. What’s next? The No Slap Turkish Taffy? The No Crack Hard Boiled Egg? The No Contact Hammer? The Stickless Drumset? I think I smell a contest coming on…

In what universe is a company seeking to provide its clients – all clients, regardless of race – with better service acting in a racist, or more accurately, a racially discriminatory manner? Only in a leftist, victim mentality universe fueled by the Democratic Party.

As we approach the battle for the White House those of us who disagree with the policies of President Obama should be prepared to be labeled racists for virtually every utterance. Of course it is possible that the false charge of racism has jumped the shark and will finally be disregarded by citizens as just another Democratic tool of intimidation and slander. Possible, but unfortunately… unlikely.

Without the pipeline, oil producers will rely on an older method to ship the crude — low-speed rail transportation. That’s right — I’m talking about good old-fashioned trains. Not only is it more expensive to ship crude by rail, but it’s also — get this — more dangerous.
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In the environmentalists’ quest to preserve the environment from Keystone XL, they’ve effectively ensured the environment will be exposed to the risks associated with transporting crude by rail. (They also effectively imposed higher shipping prices and, presumably, higher gas prices for us all, but we’re not supposed to talk about that.)

But that’s not all: Guess who owns the rail line that handles 75 percent of North Dakotan oil shipping? Ah, yes! The Oracle of Omaha! Warren Buffett himself!

Several agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have said they were ordered by superiors to let suspected straw buyers walk away from Phoenix-area gun shops with AK-47s and other weapons believed headed for Mexican drug cartels, rather than arrest the buyers and seize the guns there.
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Chambers and Montelongo acknowledged buying the guns under the false claim that the weapons were for themselves, when they were actually being bought for organizers of the ring, and to knowing that the guns were being smuggled into Mexico.

Chambers bought 79 guns from three licensed dealers in Arizona from September 2009 to December 2009 and got paid $50 for each AK-47 and $100 for a .50-caliber rifle.

Montelongo purchased 109 guns from eight dealers in Arizona from January 2010 to July 2010. He was paid $50 for pistols, $100 for rifles and $150 each for six .50-caliber rifles.

Remember that these were gun sales that would not have happened without pressure from ATF on the licensed dealers. Not only did the ATF allow criminals to walk away with the guns, they extorted the dealers to make the sales to begin with.

And remember the motive – to use illegal gun purchases and resulting deaths to reinforce the leftist’s agenda of banning all gun sales nationwide and ultimately disarming all Americans.

And remember to ask yourself Why. Why do they want the American people unarmed?

Email this article to your local TV weathercaster/meteorologist. Let them know they are going to be the target of a paid political activist campaign out of Berkeley that has nothing to do with the American Meteorological Society.

» NASA Satellite Shows That Global Temperatures Continue Their Plunge Into Record Cold

Strange that NASA’s Hansen isn’t talking about this remarkable event. It would be easy to get the impression that he has an agenda which has nothing to do with science.

~~ found it at iOwnTheWorld

» U.S. ‘Reset’ Backfires As Brazil Turns To China
Lemme Summit Furya
Under the lie of environmentalism (THHO)Obama continues to wage the leftist’s war on America’s domestic energy production and energy independence.

That is it. That’s the summary. Now you gotta ask yourself why.

Hailing Brazil as “a global leader” in a visit so important to him he refused to postpone it even though it happened on the same March day he was sending U.S. troops into harm’s way in Libya, Obama put Brazil on a pedestal ….

“The United States doesn’t simply recognize Brazil’s rise; we support it enthusiastically.”

Around the same time, his U.S. Export-Import Bank announced $2 billion in U.S. trade credits to develop Brazil’s oil, and an additional $1 billion for its infrastructure, declaring Brazil “a top priority.” And an Ex-Im Bank source volunteered to IBD that that amount could go way higher — in the neighborhood of $20 billion.

Who produces oil in the USA? Private industries.
Who pays for the exploration, drilling and processing of oil production in the USA? Private industries.
Who buys the end products of oil in the USA? You.
Who profits? Americans.
Who gets screwed? Nobody.

Who produces oil in Brazil? The Brazilian government
Who pays for it? You.
Who buys the end products of oil in the USA? China.
Who profits? Brazil and China
Who gets screwed? You.

(THHO)Obama told America Sorry, we can’t develop oil reserves here, it’s bad for the environment, global warmzies and all that ….

“We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers,” Obama told Brazil.

…. unlike Canada, is not an ally, and as a matter of fact owes us nothing. One showy visit by a U.S. president does not an alliance make.

Obama has naively considered Brazil a natural ally out of solidarity for its democratic-left government.

So now, Brazil enrichens it’s socialist leaning government selling oil to China that we helped pay to drill. China gets to use the oil we paid to drill to increase their ability to loan more money to (THHO)Obama for us to pay back.

What do you get when you cross a Moe with a Larry and a Curly? (THHO)Obama

Outraged students at the Ohio State University have mobilized after The Lantern, the campus’s official student-run newspaper, published what they say is a discriminatory advertisement linking the Muslim Student Association to international terrorism.

» Who’s Vetting Muslim Chaplains On College Campuses?

To please Muslim-rights groups, more and more colleges are hiring Muslim chaplains, only to watch them radicalize students.

words… where’s the words I need to describe this yucky feeling in my stomach? Stupidity? Hypocrisy?
Hypocritic stupidity?

Lying racist bastards. Yup. There’s them words.

“Project Gunwalker” was not a “botched” operation–it was a massive crime, perpetrated by our own government, to justify attacking our Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human rights. And now is the time to hold those responsible to account.

» ATF used “Fast and Furious” to make the case for gun regulations

» It’s about time: Arizona to launch investigation of Operation Fast and Furious

It’s bad enough when states have to act to enforce federal law that Washington itself refuses to enforce, as did Arizona and other states when they passed tough anti-illegal immigration laws. But what is a state or local government supposed to do when the federal government is not just refusing to enforce the law, but may itself be one of the lawbreakers?

How many of us were disgusted with McCain for not forcefully going after Obama? Remember the pleasure he seemed to have taken from his part in electing the first African-American President? I can absolutely imagine Mitt thinking if he’s going to lose, he’ll lose like a gentlemen. The odds of Newt doing that are somewhere between. “zero and are you insane?”

The media gatekeepers are few and far between today. The last gate – the biggest gate – is the internet. If it can’t be controlled, the people can’t be controlled. That’s why governments around the world are working to implement ways to control it. A nation like China just does it, but here in the United States the pretense of a legitimate legal remedy must be found.

America was founded on the principle of individual liberty and unalienable rights of to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our very wise founders believed that there was not much else a government could guarantee to one person without trampling on the rights of another.

That promise of individual liberty gave us the greatest burst of freedom and opportunity, innovation, wealth creation, creativity and success that the world has ever known, and the envy of the world. If the first promoters suggested that the streets of America were paved with gold and the woods teemed with game, it turned out that the streets were instead paved with opportunity, a more valuable commodity.

Should such a disaster come to pass, much of the blame will rightly fall on Barack Obama, who sold out a long-time U.S. ally in pursuit of heaven knows what.

Some of that blame will, after bouncing off his rubber skull, fall on the 52% of Americans stupid enough to vote for him.

Despite media reports that ‘hundreds’ attended the rally, organizers put attendance at more than 3,000.

It’s pretty bad when your group can’t even meet crackhead standards of decency.

There is one person — one American among the 300 million of us — who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit.

This guy is Barack Obama.

Off Topic: One thing said in this article that I have to disagree with

Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it’s $3.39 — that’s a 102 percent increase in just three years.

$1.68 in ’09? No. I don’t know where the author lives but I distinctly remember the price of gas having hit almost $5 in the summer of ’08. It dropped like a rock in September of that year but I don’t think it got down to 1.68 – it probably touched $2 very briefly.

Which brings up a question or two – do you remember exactly when the price of gas dropped that year? It was the day after Bush announced that he was thinking about killing the moratoriums on oil drilling. That’s a very important trivia tidbit, me thinks.

Next question, why did Bush not kill the moratoriums long before that? Any president worth a popcorn fart would/will place a moratorium on oil-drilling moratoriums. Will Newt? or Mitt?

I remember the Girl Scouts being flaky way back in the early 1970s. When I was a Brownie, I was told to recite some chant and step over a mirror. If I had known the word, I would have called it “pagan.” Even an unchurched girl of 7 could smell a rat.

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The Girl Scouts have a cross-dresser in the front office.

Ten years ago, Girl Scouts media relations officer Joshua Ackley was frontman for the “homopunk” band the Dead Betties. In publicity shots, he’s dressed in women’s clothing, and in music videos, he appears to be naked and feigning masturbation. The video for “Hellevator” portrays a woman being strangled in an elevator shaft while Mr. Ackley flashes a menacing grin.

Today he issues press releases, posts news and views on the Girl Scouts’ blog, and tries to mollify moms who are concerned about Girl Scout ties with Planned Parenthood. In fact, it was Mr. Ackley who facilitated the Girl Scouts’ “no adults allowed” workshop at the United Nations – the workshop in which the Planned Parenthood sex brochure “Healthy, Happy, and Hot” was offered, although part of Mr. Ackley’s job is to deny it.

After filing for bankruptcy last year, Fremont solar company Solyndra still owes American taxpayers half a billion dollars. But CBS 5 caught them destroying millions of dollars worth of parts.

The revelations in this document alone should be enough to bring down the Obama administration. The level of dishonesty laced throughout the Obama White House is both shocking and repellent.

Few paid much attention when candidate Barack Obama told a rally shortly before the 2008 election that he was five days away from fundamentally transforming America. That was Alinsky’s goal, too, and Obama would become the disciple and instrument of Alinsky-inspired policies that would put a foreclosure sign in front of Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.

“We congratulate Alan Mulally not only for keeping his word to review Ford’s membership in USCAP, but for making the right decision by withdrawing ….

In his very first TV ad of the 2012 campaign, the president is feeding the public false information about America’s dependence on foreign fuels. His twisted statistics actually celebrate the Obama recession.

The Obama re-election campaign is already shaping up as the most deceitful in American electoral history. “For the first time in 13 years our dependence on foreign oil is below 50%,” the commercial declares, accompanied by goose-bumpy music.

Occupy San Francisco organizers mustered several hundred participants for their all-day protest against economic inequality, and as they marched throughout downtown staging rallies and skits and civil disobedience, they did manage to slow traffic and force a couple of businesses to shut down

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A man on his way to work dismissively shouted “Get a job!” at the blob. One demonstrator retorted, “Our job is the occupation!”

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Some activists threw bricks and bottles, injuring two officers, one in the chest and one in the arm. At least two protesters were then arrested.

» Occupy AIPAC Next Step for Leftist Group

Many Jewish liberals have been in denial about the anti-Israel and often anti-Semitic tone of much of the Occupy Wall Street movement since its inception. As our colleague Jonathan Neumann wrote in the January issue of COMMENTARY, the leftist hatred for Israel is thoroughly integrated into the Occupy worldview even though some mainstream sympathizers with the movement would prefer to ignore it. But their tolerance for the way this virus has attached itself to a movement that is supposedly about “social justice” will soon be put to the test again.

This is the party that rejected Hillary Clinton because she was not left enough. Instead it literally took a Marxist street agitator from the Chicago political machine and put him in the White House. Barack Obama was actually teaching the social manipulation methods of openly communist revolutionary Saul Alinsky to other Marxist revolutionaries for the radical communist front group ACORN. His weird name reflects his personal rejection of American culture. This is the person today’s Democrat party wanted for President.

But it is not just him.

…. middle-school and high-school students are Questioning Authority and asking teachers touchy questions about man-caused global warming, the controversial theory that man’s sin of materialism will result in turning the world into Hell on Earth. Frank Niepold, climate education coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, complained that the kids are asking too many questions.

The decision is in. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Frank D. Wuterich is back on trial this morning to face charges of voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and dereliction of duty for his role in the deaths of 14 Iraqi civilians who died at Haditha, Iraq in late 2005. If convicted he could face the rest of his life in prison.

The 31-year-old father of three young girls was on the verge of submitting a request for administrative separation from the Marine Corps when he suddenly changed his mind. Compelled by the certainty of his own innocence and a deeply ingrained sense of duty he asked his defense team to end negotiations that have been going on for most of two days.

The government’s case now rests on evidence the prosecution has gleaned from outtakes it obtained from the CBS news program “60 Minutes” in 2007 and the testimony of Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents. The NCIS has said the Haditha investigation was the biggest inquiry in the history so perhaps there is more.

Start with a 1940 photo …. Jump to a 2004 photo …. Don’t show the 1950 photo, which shows that most of the melt occurred during the 1940s …. Don’t show the map which tells us that two thirds of the glacier‘s retreat occurred before 1880

The United States of America has turned into bizarro land. Think of this: Our very own Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), under the direct guidance of the attorney general of the United States – America’s top cop, mind you – not only allowed, but encouraged American gun dealers to sell about 2,000 guns to known punks involved in the drug trade in order to trace the guns to Mexican drug cartels. If you think that’s unbelievably nuts, get a load of this: The suspected goons who bought the guns were not even placed under law enforcement surveillance.

“We’re repulsed by some of our supposed brothers and sisters lining up with job killers like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council to destroy the lives of working men and women,”

I must admit that I, too, watched the video of the Marines and thought of the horrific video the terrorists had shot of Danny’s murder. At that moment I thought to myself: You want to see horrible? Watch the video of Danny’s death. I know that, in principle, there is no comparative analysis to be done on abuse, horror, or crime. But the truth is that we are engaged in a very ugly war, and the ruthlessness with which Danny was murdered is an expression of the extent to which our enemies will express their brutality.

More standing ovations from the crowd as Newt absolutely eviscerated the smarmy douchebag, especially when he tried to weasel out from under by making their usual pious claim that “I would never want to act as a bought-and-paid-for liberal attack poodle by throwing this question at you myself, but this story is out there, so let me throw this question at you myself.” Newt flat wasn’t having it, and the audience loved it.
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We’re in a war here, folks, and that’s the long and the short of it: there is NO REASON to crawl around on our bellies hoping for “civility” and decent treatment from people who aren’t civil, have no decency, and will do absolutely anything at all to see to it that their hostile takeover of this nation is not reversed. “Civil” ain’t gonna cut it.

» Rejecting the Keystone pipeline is an act of insanity
Pretty strong language coming from a non-conservative writing for a liberal rag.

» Why Obama Turned Down the Keystone XL Pipeline
» Obama says no to Keystone pipeline, no to energy independence and no to American jobs

Apparently, it’s fine for “Protest Easy Guns” to make the observation that candles don’t stop violence, but not for gun rights advocates to do so. Regardless, as should be obvious, the only thing we are “mocking” is the soulless, cynical exploitation of the deaths of innocent people to advance an agenda whose success would leave more people disarmed and defenseless in the face of implacable evil.

But remember, folks: the border “is as safe as it’s ever been” (in the words of DHS Chief Janet Napolitano). Except for those pesky beheadings here in the U.S.

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You know what I would do if I were Attorney General Eric Holder?

That’s right — I’d sue states for enforcing federal immigration law. No matter how many murders, kidnappings, rapes, drug- and human smuggling operations, and related violence that American citizens must suffer.

Because Democrats need the votes, man. They need the votes!

thirty years ago, in 1982, the Motion Picture Association of America lobbied legislators in Washington DC to ban the unrestricted sale of VCRs under the pretext that the machine will destroy creativity in America and will lose hundreds of millions of dollars to the economy.

This is going to come as quite a blow to the Paultardians who have run around the internet squealing that Chuck Norris endorsed Ron Paul. Apparently he didn’t. Watch, suddenly a Chuck Norris endorsement is going to mean nothing.

The anti-Caucasian La Raza (The Race) is the most openly racist organization imaginable. It has been gorging itself on taxpayer money since Obama made its former VP Cecilia Muñoz his Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Obama’s Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis — a traitor and a communist — is also clearly on board with the movement.

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The Obamunist bureaucrats financing this with our money are literally guilty of treason and should be treated accordingly.

» Get The Ball! Where’s The Ball?

In 2000, Greeks apparently assumed that they had struck it rich with their newfound money-laden European Union lenders — even though they certainly had not earned their new riches through increased productivity, the discovery of more natural resources, or greater collective investment and savings.

The brief Euro mirage has vanished. Life in Athens is zooming backward to the pre-EU days of the 1970s. Then, most imported goods were too expensive to buy, medical care was often premodern, and the city resembled more a Turkish Istanbul than a European Munich.

The United States should pay heed to the modern Greek Cassandra, since our own rendezvous with reality is rapidly approaching. The costs of servicing a growing national debt of more than $15 trillion are starting to squeeze out other budget expenditures. Americans are no longer affluent enough to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to import oil, while we snub our noses at vast new oil and gas finds beneath our own soil and seas.
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A keen visitor to Athens — or Los Angeles — during the last decade not only could have seen that things were not quite right, but also could have concluded that they could not go on as they were. And so they are not.

Environmental activists may hate it, but there’s no question that hydraulic fracturing …. has brought [natural] gas prices down dramatically ……. why are the so-called “greens” so intent on trying to stifle it?

The author raises the question without answering it, perhaps because he assumes we know the answer.

And I do.

The so-called greens are intent on stopping, not stifling, ‘fraking’, drilling, digging, importing or thinking about oil, gas or any type of energy that could contribute to the economic well-being of America.
It’s not because they want to replace all of it with wind or solar energy either. Because if wind and solar were actually viable sources of nation-wide, economically-sustaining energy – they would be banning those as well.

It’s not about the environment. So now I’m asking a question without answering it: If the left is pushing hundreds of “environmental” issues that have no basis in reality and serve only to kill American exceptionalism; what then is their real agenda?

» Lunatic Democrats Propose “Reasonable Profits Board” to Regulate Oil Company Profits

How about a Reasonable Term Limits Board to regulate Congressional Marxists?

The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set up a board that would apply a “windfall profit tax” as high as 100 percent on the sale of oil and gas, according to their legislation. The bill provides no specific guidance for how the board would determine what constitutes a reasonable profit.

~~ via Sista : Can we call them “Socialists” yet?

» Jobs Vs. Greens? On Keystone Obama Chooses His Base

President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil pipeline sums up his presidency. When it comes down to well-paying new jobs and cheaper energy vs. his political base, guess which wins.
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For Obama, what matters is that the green left is making Keystone a litmus test. Obama fundraiser Wendy Abrams, for example, a well-heeled Chicago enviro-activist and Rahm Emanuel buddy whose family owns the country’s largest privately held medical equipment maker, recently warned that the Keystone decision would show whether Obama “really wants to begin the transformation to building a renewable energy future.”

…. when we won’t take a treasure trove of oil from next door — forcing Canada to sell it to China instead — it proves the president is “all in” his green-left political base’s pocket.

» Slipping the Economy a Mickey

After killing off tens of thousands of potential jobs by vetoing the Keystone oil pipeline (which his own State Department had twice pronounced to be no threat to the environment), Barack Obama traveled to Florida on Thursday to announce plans for a new pipeline which will create one million jobs!

Specifically, the president stood in front of the “Magic Castle” to announce that he wants to create a pipeline of foreign tourists coming to our country by making our borders even easier to cross (through an expedited visa process) so that they can visit Disneyworld and other parks.

Wow! Take that all of you Obama critics who say that he doesn’t know how to create jobs!

And from the comments of that article:

M-I-C, K-E-Y …. O-U-S-O-B!

Paul’s claim that the Taliban is just opposed to foreign interference in Afghanistan is patently absurd. To begin with, the Taliban’s creation was a direct result not of foreign invasion but of Afghanistan’s internecine tribal warfare after the Soviets left and the Americans lost interest. Its unabashed goal was to crush Afghan factions that impeded its establishment of a retrograde sharia state.

P.J. O’Rourke’s 1992 book, “Parliament of Whores,” is rightly hailed as a brilliant and hilarious expose of the essence of modern Washington. Filled with lines like “Giving power and money to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys,” the book entertains as it instructs.

But its title is not quite accurate. Real whores, after all, personally supply the services their customers seek. Prostitutes do not steal; their customers pay them voluntarily. And their customers pay only with money belonging to these customers.

In contrast, members of Congress routinely truck and barter with other people’s property.

A better title for O’Rourke’s book would have been “Parliament of Pimps.”

‘They took my place!’ Single dad trying to take back home occupied by OWS

The XL pipeline had already been vetted by every applicable federal agency, and the State Department was all set to sign off on it, until Obama was, I assume, threatened by Big Green. The environmental organizations play hardball.
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Obama used to be very enthusiastic about “shovel-ready” jobs, until he found they weren’t shovel-ready, long after he’d distributed the funding. Keystone XL is shovel-ready.
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Obama’s decision is clearly not based on “the health and safety of the American people.” The EPA tries to get away with that one too, and it doesn’t work. The decision is pure politics. Obama is more scared of losing Big Green than he is of losing Big Labor. He thinks his extension of the Payroll tax cut will create enough jobs to get him off the hook with the unemployed, and he needs that Big Green funding because the donations aren’t coming in as well as forecast.

» Obama Kills 20,000 Keystone XL Jobs, Laborers’ Union Vows Not To Forget

» I love the smell of red-on-red warfare in the morning: unions vow war with Obama over Keystone XL

In the battle between the flat-earth, no-growth, environmental Marxists and the labor unions for control of President Subprime McDowngrade, it would appear that the ecotards just won a major victory (oh, and “ecotards” is the term they prefer, I hear).

» Under Obama, Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands Is Down 40%

Despite the Obama administration’s restrictive policies for oil and gas production on federal lands, overall production still increased thanks to the pro-energy policies in states like North Dakota.

And …..

The result: North Dakota’s unemployment rate is 3.4 percent, the lowest in the country. According to a recent report from IHS Global Insight, North Dakota already returned to pre-recession employment along with energy-rich Alaska. Texas is expected to do so in the first quarter of 2012, followed by Nebraska and South Dakota next year.
Those states all have something in common: energy production.

As of midnight, Wikipedia is shut down for 24 hours, and hundreds of other popular websites have gone dark right along with it. They are standing together in protest of two controversial pieces of legislation that threaten Internet security and undermine the freedom of speech all in an effort to crack down on online “piracy” — the illegal distribution of copyrighted material.
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Under the laws, websites like Facebook, with its hundreds of millions of users, or YouTube, where 48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, would now be accountable for all content posted on their sites. As a result, websites would be discouraged from engaging in speech or from providing a forum where others can do the same. That, in turn, will stifle innovation–the lifeblood of the economy. One study showed that among 200 venture capitalists and angel investors, almost all would stop funding digital media intermediaries if these laws are enacted.
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The Internet is the greatest engine for free speech and innovation ever known to humankind. Certainly its power can be used for good as well as bad, but censoring content, jeopardizing the security of the Internet, and stifling innovation is not the answer for protecting intellectual property rights.

» A Better Way to Fight the Online Theft of American Ideas and Jobs
» Five key senators abandon online piracy bills amid Web protests

There are two types of conservative politicians. Gatekeepers and revolutionaries. The gatekeepers are consensus builders, they talk a great deal about traditional values, and are elected to keep change out. This defensive strategy is a dead end because the real changes are happening outside the direct purview of the gatekeepers, who usually lack the imagination and courage to do anything about them. When the left pushes hard enough, the gatekeepers fold and add the new order of things into their panoply of American values.

The Republican Party is full of gatekeepers.

The time is ripe for a true cultural and political revolution of the right, but that revolution has been hijacked over and over again by the gatekeepers who warn us that it’s time to play nice, that we must think of the long game, that some issues have already been lost and we need to fight only for the core issues that matter to them lest we alienate people. The long march never ends in a last stand, only another tactical withdrawal on issue after issue.

» Revolution or Reformation?

Revolution, by definition, is an attempt to overthrow established government or social structure. Generally, revolution is achieved through massive bloodshed. While loudly proclaiming equality for the people, revolution saturates the ground with the blood of its sons and daughters. Answering the call of “a common purse”, revolutionaries seek to lift society up by tearing it down.

Reformation, on the other hand, is the purging of corruption, whether in government, society or one’s self. Reformers seek, not to destroy society, but to improve upon it based on the wisdom of their fathers. They seek to return to the knowledge and understanding of the great men who built this country with a foundation of truth. Rather than destroying all that has made our country thrive, they seek to return to the principles upon which it was founded.

Reformation begins in the hearts of men. It does not begin in the city square, with a wild-eyed radical calling for violence against “evil corporation” or in the classroom with a teacher leading children in a song about the “99%”. Reformation begins when one man sees the wisdom in his fathers words and acts according to the truth. Reformation begins when one family chooses NOT to accept government help. Reformation begins when one person takes responsibility for their actions – even if it costs them everything

In case you’re wondering what it takes to qualify for free food at someone else’s expense these days, Sydney Phillips went undercover and discovered the answer: a pulse.

Republicans in Congress cut deals with Democrats. The Republicans’ favorite reporters and pundits tell us just how awesome those deals are. Then those deals blow up in our faces.

More tragically, then the same Republican leaders who negotiated those deals go back and negotiate the next deals and the same reporters and pundits at the same publications who told the last ones were so awesome tell us these are so awesome and then these deals too blow up in our faces. Conservatives always raise the alarm. The Republicans always run to the usual suspects to spin their way out of the mess.

It was recently observed that Ron Paul was to the left of Obama on national security and the best evidence for that statement can be found when one year ago Ron Paul joined forces with Barney Frank on a proposal to gut national defense via a panel of experts, quite a few of whom were tied to George Soros.
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Of the Paul-Frank Task Force, 9 out of 14 members were linked to Soros’s organs. Two were affiliated with the Cato Institute. One is indeterminate.
Ron Paul proposed to put a bunch of Soros-funded think tank experts in charge of dismantling the US military. Think about that for a moment. Ron Paul supporters can see conspiracies in a glass of water; can they see anything wrong with this picture? Can they see anything wrong with having a man from a group that was investigated for its Communist ties in the driver’s seat on national defense?
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Not only did Paul join forces with Barney Frank to slash military preparedness, but he ended up putting the experts of a foreign billionaire with global ambitions in charge of the project. And that was what he did as a congressman. Can anyone imagine what he would do as president?

MORE ‘EMBARRASSING’ RON PAUL NEWSLETTERS EMERGE ON RACE, ISRAEL, & MORE

The Democrat Party is following the Utopian template of Plato, Thomas More, Hobbes and Karl Marx; each believed that a few altruistic masterminds in government could orchestrate society into an ideal community.

And each of their models, of course, descended into despotism, tyranny and mass murder as a few not-so-altruistic masterminds used the levers of governmental power to pursue their own corrupt ends.

So too will the Democrats’ plans fail — as they have throughout all of human history.

And only the Constitution and an engaged citizenry, you and I, stand between the Democrat masterminds who seek to destroy this society and replace it with a Utopian nirvana that they can’t even define.

“Barack Obama took satisfaction in a simple, glorious new truth: he was the president of the United States. One day he walked out of a meeting in his chief of staff’s office and began to flip through a stack of magazines on the desk of a young assistant to [Rahm] Emanuel. ‘Whose are these?’ he asked the assistant. Well, they just got sent here, addressed to the chief of staff, she replied. Then she paused and rethought her answer. ‘But everything in the White House is yours … so technically they’re yours,’ she said. The president shot her a satisfied look. The following day, he passed her desk and he magazines again. ‘Whose magazines are these?’ he asked. She had the answer ready this time. ‘They’re your magazines, Mr. President,” she said. Obama grinned and continued on his way.”

The trouble started when Brower and some of his Facebook friends decided to have a laugh over Ron Paul’s ties to racist and anti-semitic groups.

Just this once, just so I can say I was sorta fair and balanced, I’ll state recognition that the zippy-head Paultard subjects of this article do not represent the majority of zippy-head Paultards …. that zippy-head Paultards who make threats of violence are simply the radical fringe of the zippy-head Paultards. Not all zippy-head Paultards are foamy-mouthed RonJiHadiis ready to leap into the violent retribution of the Ronfidels that dare to insult the good doctor … uh, (pacificism be upon him).

Now – grab yer vinegar bottles, hitherto and forthwith, to the backyard to spray the sky. There be chemtrails to banish.

The reason that it’s so important to anti-gun groups to paint a picture of steadily declining gun ownership in the U.S. is that they believe that if they can convince politicians that our numbers–and thus the number of votes we command–are small enough, they have no reason to fear the consequences of implementing more oppressive gun laws. To the “gun control” groups, it’s all about our numbers. Josef Stalin once famously said, “Quantity has a quality all its own.” As good collectivists, the gun prohibitionists naturally took that notion to heart.

Due to Perdue’s default, North Carolina is now classified as a “Credit Reduction State” under Federal guidelines. This means every business must now pay an additional Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) penalty.
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You have to give our government credit for finding additional methods for redistributing our wealth. The governor is taking a page directly from the Obama “Socialism for Dummies” playbook: issue an executive order to postpone a crisis. She is hoping that the people who receive the redistribution will outvote the people supporting the country. Unfortunately, she may be correct in her assessment.

South Carolina is one of 22 right-to-work states, meaning that workers there have the freedom to decide whether to join a union or not. Right-to-work laws block companies from firing workers for not paying union dues, thereby protecting employees’ right to work regardless of their support for unions.
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Big labor, of course, abhors right-to-work laws because they threaten unions’ ironclad grip on employees — along with the dues they are forced to pay and the resulting political buying power the unions amass.

Given unions’ decreasing power — and the political debt that is owed to them — it’s not surprising that the NLRB took aim at right-to-work South Carolina or that the President flouted the law in order to make pro-labor appointments. Instead of promoting job growth, the left is promoting its political allies. Meanwhile, America’s unemployed workers are suffering the consequences of a ruling class that is putting unions’ special interests ahead of laborers.

Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash
for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans,
blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want
steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women
Norplant birth control implants or tubal legations. Then, we’ll test
recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or use
drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?

You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair.
Your home” will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be
inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your
own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week
or you will report to a “government” job. It may be cleaning the roadways
of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We
will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo
and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”

Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of
the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules. Before you
say that this would be “demeaning” and ruin their “self esteem,” consider
that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for doing
absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at
least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system
rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes,
that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will
voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t
welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

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Loesch was disinvited due to a small controversy over what she said Friday on her Saint Louis-based radio show on KFTK 97.1 FM. Loesch took umbrage over those criticizing U.S. Marines that were filmed urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

Loesch was incensed at those complaining about the conduct of our soldiers and went into one of her patented rants about how she didn’t care if our solders urinated on the corpses of our enemies. “I’d drop trou and do it too,” she said of the incident.
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progressive sites (like Politico) went after Loesch for her comments.
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this faux controversy gave the Illinois Policy Institute cold feet …. told her she was no longer welcome at the event

If given the choice between beating the crap out of a leftwing pussy or a rightwing pussy, I’d stomp the one on the right.
Treachery, treason, lies, dirty tricks and being a pussy is exactly what I expect from the left. It’s infuriating from the right.

 
» Leftists Go Wild Over Dana Loesch

Loesch, on the other hand, lands blows in her defense of liberty. Both on her syndicated radio show, and at Big Journalism, her appeal is her courage and her uncompromising message. She is precisely what the Soros-funded drones are tasked with snuffing out.

While the media continues claiming that the AKP is moderate, its own history and alliances show otherwise. Moderate governments do not stack jails full of political prisoners, they do not conduct an occupation of an EU member state, they do not make common cause with terrorists or endorse Islam over the rights of all citizens.

Telling the truth about Erdogan and the AKP is about more than condemning a gang of Islamst thugs who have used Saudi money to seize control of what was once the most modern Muslim country. It is also about affirming the rights of its victims, the native people of Cyprus, and the Armenians and the Kurds. It is about standing up for the values of freedom and democracy over the terror and tyranny of a man who wants to turn Turkey into another Iran.

CNN along with the New York Times and much of the rest of the media has chosen to repeat the same tiresome lies. Maybe for once their fact checks should actually involve using the facts.

An apparent smoke bomb was thrown over the fence of the White House as hundreds of Occupy protesters massed outside the gates.

Sept 12, 2009: Out of 1.7 million TeaPartiers, not one threw anything over the fence.