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Worlds Youngest Blogger Reacts To Whatever The President Just Said

Posted on | July 11, 2012 | 8 Comments

Category: humor, World's Youngest Blogger

Confirmed: ‘Occupy’ Movement Is a Wretched Hive of Villainous Scum

Posted on | July 11, 2012 | 69 Comments

“Jew-haters, commies, psychotics, rapists — the Occupy movement is like a roach-motel for scum.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Nov. 25, 2011

One of the things you learn if you study crime long enough is that criminality tends to be a general trait. Criminals do not limit themselves to specialties. The car thief is often also a small-time dope dealer, and the dope-dealing car thief doesn’t have much compunction about committing the occasional rape or aggravated assault.

This is part of the reason the “broken windows” approach to law enforcement works: When police start paying attention to seemingly minor infractions of the law, the people they bring under scrutiny necessarily include a certain number of career criminals. Pull over a car for failing to signal a left turn, run the driver’s ID through the computer system and — surprise! — he’s got a warrant for a probation violation. Search his car, find a dime bag of dope or a pistol, and it’s back to prison for the habitual offender.

Crime tends to cluster. It’s a pattern, rooted in an attitude, a worldview, a belief system involving a selfish disrespect for the social order.

What happens, then, when a political movement arises which celebrates the anti-social attitudes commonly held by criminals? Naturally, such a movement becomes a magnet for punks, hoodlums and thugs, and the crime wave associated with the “Occupy” protests wasn’t surprising. All of which is preamble to today’s not-so-shocking news:

Officials have linked forensic evidence from the 2004 murder scene of a 21-year-old Juilliard student to the scene of a recent Occupy Wall Street subway protest, NBC 4 New York has learned.
DNA evidence from the scene of Sarah Fox’s murder in Inwood Hill Park eight years ago has been connected to DNA from a chain left in a subway station by Occupy protesters in March, NBC 4 New York first reported Tuesday.
Fox was found nude and strangled in the park in May 2004, days after she disappeared during a daytime jog. Investigators recovered her pink CD player in the woods just yards from her body.
Sources said Tuesday the DNA found on the CD player matches DNA found on a chain left by Occupy Wall Street protesters at the Beverly Road subway station in East Flatbush on March 28, 2012.

Via Memeorandum, which also has the New York Times version of the story. It should be emphasized that this DNA match doesn’t necessarily solve the crime. Police say it is possible that the DNA on Sarah Fox’s CD player was from one of her friends, and not from her killer.

However, if this DNA found at the scene of an Occupy protest does belong to Fox’s killer, it is hardly “a bizarre turn” in the case.

The Occupy movement is organized on the principle of lawless hostility to private property. And you know what they call lawless people who are hostile to private property? Criminals.

UPDATE: Thanks to the commenter who points out that the post title is a near-miss of a line in Star Wars by Obi-Wan Kenobi, who describes the space-port town of Mos Eisley as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.” The implied comparison to the patrons of the Mos Eisley Cantina is probably too flattering to the Occupy scum who attempted to storm the AFP Summit in D.C. last fall.

Category: #Occupy, Crime

Federal Bureaucracy: Doomsday Machine

Posted on | July 11, 2012 | 25 Comments

by Smitty

Echoing VodkaPundit’s rejection of Star Wars (I have never esteemed it above mildly entertaining space opera, myself) we’re going reaching back to Denny Crane’s old show for a metaphor to mock Politico’s risible title: “Southern governors secede from Medicaid”


Darn right, Lachlan. Progressives behave as if the collapse of these United States into a single uber-State (destined for UN assimilation) is some foregone conclusion. As though every single velvet handcuff entitlement program is irrevocable. As though liberty has to be devoured by a doomsday machine.
Politico:

Govs. Rick Perry in Texas and Rick Scott in Florida have both said they won’t expand Medicaid to more of the working poor in their states — rejecting a central part of the law designed to cover 15 million more Americans.
. . .
The reluctance of other GOP governors suggests they’re not at all sure that rejecting a big infusion of Medicaid cash makes for good policy or good politics. In fact, they’re trying to recast the problem as one that Obama must solve.

If you were so crazy as to take a common sense look at economics, you might naively think that economic effort of citizens bubbles up through states funds the federal government.

Progressives basically admit that the system is broken, and all runs backwards. We don’t budget at all, and haven’t had a balanced budget in recent memory.

Thus, ‘Zimbabwe’ Ben Bernanke is pulling money out the nether end of the Doomsday Machine, creating suction to draw in the states. It is a shameful, dishonest, un-American process. That tarted-up Star Trek image pretty well sums not only this idiotic health care debate, but the November election in general.

Stop the Bureaucratic Doomsday Machine!

Demand liberty!

Update: linked by Daily Pundit. Thanks!

Category: Economics, Election 2012, Health Care, Weimar America

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.11.12

Posted on | July 11, 2012 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Romney’s Wide Lead Among Independents “Red Flag” For Obama

Mitt Romney campaigning in Colorado

WaPo/ABC poll shows candidates tied at 47% among registered voters, Romney leading 53-39 among independents

PRC Wants South China Sea Spat Off Clinton’s Agenda
Rebuffs SecState’s call for discussion of tensions at ASEAN meeting

Egyptian Constitutional Court Suspends Presidential Decree Reconvening Parliament
President asserts decree doesn’t conflict with Court’s ruling, only with SCAF order to dismiss



POLITICS
House GOP Readies For Vote On Obamacare Repeal

World's largest, most expensive hamster wheel

Repeal measure certain to die in Senate, some House Democrats will support it anyway

Americans Paid Lowest Taxes Ever In 2009 Thanks To Tax Cuts And Unemployment (Mostly Unemployment)

Obama Orders Offer Of Federal Health Insurance For Seasonal Firefighters

Holder Vows Aggressive Challenge To Voter ID Laws, Requires ID For Admission To Speech

Jackson Owes Voters Details On Health Problems, Gutierrez Says

Obama Tries To Quell Voter Cynicism In Iowa



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Rises Above $98, Shrinking US Stockpiles Eyed: NYMEX $84.24, Brent $98.27
AT&T Drops Fight Over Million-Dollar Phone Bill
Small Business Optimism Takes Largest Drop In Two Years
MF Global Part 2? Another Brokerage Missing Over $200 Million In Client Funds
ROK Jobless Rate Flat In June
Midwest Corn Crop Ravaged By Drought
Apple Explains Why It Yanked Devices From Enviro Registry
A Step Back In Time With Windows 8’s File History
Ouya: The New Player In The Console Game Wars
Megaupload Founder Offers Deal To US
Google’s Schmidt Predicts Failure of PRC’s Great Firewall
“Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2” Gets New Trailer, Trent Reznor Soundtrack



SPORTS
National League All-Stars Rout American Leaguers 8-0 For Third Consecutive Win

The Giants' Pablo Sandoval hits a triple as part of the NL's 5-run first inning

Verlander lit up for five runs, Harrison coughs up another three while NL pitchers combine for shutout

Cano Has No Hard Feelings, But MLB Execs Butthurt Over Fans’ Booing

Armstrong’s Team Staff Gets Life Ban


Lou Williams, Hawks Agree On Multi-year Contract

Bettman, NHLPA Continue Negotiations On New Labor Agreement

Warriors Trade Wright To Sixers

NASCAR Penalizes Stewart Six Points For Cooling Hose Violation



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Demi Lovato Boots Bath Salt Rappers From “X Factor”

Demi Lovato is NOT amused

Rappers ejected from auditions after Demi ripped act, crowd booed them off stage
Related: Britney Walks Off Set After Contestant’s Tribute

Sofia Vergara Engaged To Nick Loeb




Madonna’s Lifetime “AbFab” Ban

Katie Holmes Pleased With Divorce Settlement

Lionsgate To Split “Hunger Games” Finale “Mockingjay” Into Two Films For 2014, 2015

Sony Hires New Writer For “Ghostbusters 3”

“Fifty Shades Of Grey” Movie To Be Produced By “Social Network” Team



FOREIGNERS
Egyptian Lawmakers Defy Ban As Heat Rises
Syrian Rebels Dubious About UN Peace Plan
Clinton Makes Historic Visit To Laos
Liberals Holding On To Early Lead In Libyan Elections
US Crafts Pakistani Apology To Suit Foreign Allies, Domestic Opponents
House Of Lords Reform Halted After Massive Tory Rebellion In Commons
Chinese Catholic Bishop Detained After Publicly Breaking With PRC’s “Patriotic Church”
ROK President Lee’s Brother Jailed On Bribery Charges



BLOGS & STUFF
Riehl World View: Change – Romney Courts Black Vote While Obama Passes
American Glob: Journalists Required To Show IDs At Eric Holder’s Speech On The Evil Of IDs
Paul Bedard: Liberal Group Calls Romney Too White For Blacks To Like
Clayton Cramer: So Why Does TV News Still Set The Agenda?
Lonely Conservative: Hypocrite Debbie Wassermann-Schultz Has Invested In Foreign Companies, Swiss & Indian Banks
Cafe Hayek: Open Letter To Senator Durbin
Gateway Pundit: Obama To Close Nine Border Patrol Stations In Four Southwestern States
Mary Katherine Ham: Finally, Blogger Works For Site Everyone Thought She Worked For Already
Jawa Report: Prominent Muslim Clerics Call On Egypt To Destroy Great Pyramids
PJ Tatler: James Earl Jones Says The Tea Party Is Racist
Washington Free Beacon: Rich Lose Most In Recession, Taxes, Says CBO
Protein Wisdom: Chief Justice Neville Chamberlain
Power Line: Being Green is So…2011
Doug Ross: David Plouffe Busted Instantly In Outright Lies About Campaign Fundraising
Vodkapundit: Don’t Go All Wobbly
Matt Lewis: Today In Terrible Ideas, Let’s Draft Our Kids

Category: Live at Five

Separated At Birth: Beckel Boy / Tommy Boy Edition

Posted on | July 10, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Oh, the vagaries of fate! How the one can grow up with at least a modicum of Falstaffian humor, whereas the other couldn’t crack a joke if it was written on an eggshell and he sat on it.

Take a look, courtesy of AmericanInfidel on Twitter, at Beckel Boy trying to say something, anything(!) in response to Allen West:
Watch through until the end, when they juxtapose Beckel Boy a la Randee of the Redwoods with LtCol West in military attire.

I’ll tell you what: there’s more intelligence in that headband that I’ve got on than the guy on the right.

See, Beckel Boy, when you want to play to the audience’s sympathy for the fat man character in the face of being overmatched by someone clearly your superior in every way, you need to cleave more closely to your brother Tommy Boy:

In any case, Beckel Boy, you aren’t fit to gainsay Allen West in the slightest, so lay by your dish in silence.

Update: linked at The Daley Gator.

Category: Allen West, humor

The Coming Implosion of Salon.com

Posted on | July 10, 2012 | 19 Comments

Iowahawk today pointed out the omens that Alex Pareene’s current employer is unlikely to survive another year:

In a sign that Salon is very close to being shuttered, the company “lost” its CEO and CFO recently. . . . At the end of the final quarter of 2011, Salon had $149,000 in the bank against short-term liabilities that included $12.7 million in loans. During the same quarter, Salon lost $997,000 on revenue of $1.03 million.

This is just further confirmation of what I wrote in April:

Salon is basically the cockroach of Web ‘zines. Begun in the age of dial-up modems, it has survived the dot-com bubble, the rise of blogs and social networking, etc. While it has survived, however, no one can say that Salon has thrived. It spent a dozen years as a Slate wannabe before trying to re-invent itself as a weak imitation of HuffPo or something.
No one knows how much money Salon has lost since 1995, although it was estimated last year that its annual operating loss was $1.5 million. So, cumulative losses by now are probably somewhere between $20 million and a metric buttload.

Of course, it’s entirely possible that “investors” in such an enterprise don’t care how much money they lose, but are simply taking a tax write-off to support left-wing journalism. At some point, then, the calculation is more about political utility than about revenue potential.

OK, so in a oprogressive online media environment now crowded with HuffPo, Daily Kos, TPM, Think Progress, etc., where is the political utility of a maintaining a persistent loser like Salon? Where is the suggestion that Salon is having any meaningful impact? Or is it possible that Salon’s funders consider it their patriotic duty to provide an outlet for Glenn Greenwald’s unique brand of anti-patriotism?

A fool and his money are soon parted, and fools have wasted more money on less viable media entities. But why bring Current TV into this?

UPDATE (Smitty): Welcome, Instapundit readers. Please enjoy a chuckle at the expense of that Bolshevik blowhard Bob Beckel.

UPDATE II (RSM): Thanks to the commenter who points out that last month Salon indicated it was trying to sell The Well (Well.com):

“As other online communities and social networks emerged over the years, The Well’s subscriber base dwindled to 2,693, which did not bear financial promise.”

They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

 


Category: Journalism

Permit Me to Remind You: Obama Still Has More Campaign Cash Than Mitt

Posted on | July 10, 2012 | 20 Comments

A fact I pointed out yesterday:

[T]he Obama campaign entered June with a cash-on-hand advantage of more than $90 million ($109 million to Romney’s $17 million). And during May, Team Obama out-spent Team Mitt by nearly $30 million ($44.6 million to Romney’s $15.6 million).

Keep that in mind when you read this:

Senior White House adviser David Plouffe on Tuesday accused wealthy Mitt Romney supporters of trying to “purchase the White House,” one day after the presumptive GOP nominee announced a $106 million June fundraising haul that stunned the Obama campaign.
“You’ve got a few very wealthy people lining up trying to purchase the White House for Mr. Romney,” said Plouffe on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “We’re going to have to have everybody out there who wants the president to continue to a second term to step up and help the campaign.”

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Romney and the RNC had a good month in June, but I guarantee you this: When the June FEC reports are released later this month, Obama will still have more cash on hand than Romney, and the FEC reports will show Obama’s campaign out-spent Romney’s campaign in June, just as they’ve outspent Romney every month since February.

Seriously: Even while Romney was fighting tooth-and-nail in a three-way GOP primary battle against Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, his campaign still spent less than $12.4 million in February, compared to nearly $12.6 million Obama’s campaign spent in February.

Yet David Plouffe, sitting atop a vast mountain of campaign cash, expects us to believe that there are no “wealthy people lining up” for Obama!

 


Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Mitt Romney

Essay Contest Winner: ‘Why I’m Not a Democrat, in Three Words’

Posted on | July 10, 2012 | 16 Comments

And those three words are, “Debbie Wasserman Schultz“:

Disclosure forms reveal that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, previously held funds with investments in Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India. This revelation comes mere days after the Democratic chair attacked presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for holding money in Swiss bank accounts in the past.

At least there’s no need to out-source hypocrisy, eh?

Category: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
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