Obama White House told GSA to 'stand-down' on Occupy protesters

Documents obtained by Judicial Watch confirm that somebody in the White House told officials with the General Services Administration (GSA) to "stand down" and not arrest Occupy Portland protestors who may have broken the law last year.

Team Obama and the state controlled media created, promoted and feted the OWS hooliogans last year. They accomplished one objectrive: the creation of the meme that the nation is divided between the 1% and the 99%. That remains after the filth has been washed away.

Obama terminated pensions for Delphi Employees

Emails The Daily Caller obtained and first published on Tuesday show senior White House and Treasury officials were behind the termination of pensions for 20,000 non-union Delphi salaried retirees.

Those emails show that the Treasury Department, led by Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating those pensions, a move made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan. The emails contradict sworn testimony in which several Obama administration figures have consistently claimed that the decision to terminate the pensions came from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). The PBGC is a federal government agency that handles private-sector pension benefits issues. Its charter calls for independent representation of pension beneficiaries’ interests.

Via Daily Caller

Remaking the GOP

What’s the difference between a Conservative Republican and a Moderate Republican?  Via Central Standard Times - Remaking the GOP - here’s as good a definition as I have yet run across.

In recent years the difference between a moderate Republican and a conservative one was defined in Kansas by the social issues, with the former taking a far more permissive stand than the latter on abortion and the currently respectable vices, but this year the most important distinction is about economics. The moderates are fond of an economic development policy heavy on tax abatements, subsidies, public-private partnerships, and similar crony capitalist schemes, while the conservatives want to cut taxes for everybody, eliminate any regulation that isn’t absolutely necessary, slash the state budget down to the barest essentials, and let the marketplace rather than the regulatory agencies pick the winners and losers.

In the past, politicians running for office from city council to President have always promised to spend more money on schools, more money for roads, more money for this and more money for that.  Do you feel just a hint of a breeze that times may be changing, that there’s a shift of emphasis beginning to be felt because the “more money for everything” isn’t showing results after decades of being tried with nothing to show for it?    

The conservatives accuse their rivals of being little better than Democrats, a most damning slur ‘round here, while the moderates have sought to portray their opponents of wanting to do nothing at all, as if that were a bad thing.

We think the conservatives have the stronger argument, and should go a long way to reforming the state’s Republican party in their image. We attribute the moderates’ long domination of the state in large part to the fact that somebody who wants to do things with government is more likely to run for office than someone who wants to stop it from doing things, but this year the need for governmental restraint is so dire that the conservatives have been able to run a fairly strong if somewhat inexperienced and unpolished slate of candidates.

Romney will win the upcoming Presidential election not so much because of what he promises to do, but because of what he promises to undo.  While pundits say that the election is about the economy and jobs, that’s only tangentially correct.  Obama has been a miserable failure on both jobs and the economy, not because he did too little but because he did too much, virtually all of it counterproductive.   The “stimulus” that didn’t stimulate, the “shovel ready jobs” program that created no jobs, the ObamaCare Program that was supposed to be not just health insurance for everyone but the fix for the economy, remember?  The EPA programs that are destroying the nation’s electrical power system, the drilling ban that’s stymied off-shore oil exploration, blocking the Keystone pipeline, wasting billions on Green Crony Capitalism.  And let’s not forget Cash for Clunkers and Obama’s failed housing policies. 

Romney feels he has to tell us that he has a plan.  The truth is that Romney’s plan, if he has one, should be to dismantle the mess that Obama has made and let Americans free to rebuild the rubble that Obama left in his wake.  America’s strength has never been its government but its people, free to use their ingenuity to create and build the greatest nation the world has ever seen. 

I don’t know the shape of the future, but of this I’m certain: it is not and never will be the vision of a government bureaucrat imagining that she has the wisdom to guide the nation.  Those little would-be dictators need to be reminded that they work at our pleasure.  Decimation would be a good start.

Is the Pentagon Preparing for Military Operations Against the Tea Party

Strangely enough, that appears to be the case.

Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future

[excerpt]

...The Great Recession of the early twenty-first century lasts far longer than anyone anticipated. After a change in control of the White House and Congress in 2012, the governing party cuts off all funding that had been dedicated to boosting the economy or toward relief. The United States economy has flatlined, much like Japan’s in the 1990s, for the better part of a decade. By 2016, the economy shows signs of reawakening, but the middle and lower-middle classes have yet to experience much in the way of job growth or pay raises. Unemployment continues to hover perilously close to double digits, small businesses cannot meet bankers’ terms to borrow money, and taxes on the middle class remain relatively high. A high-profile and vocal minority has directed the public’s fear and frustration at nonwhites and immigrants. After almost ten years of race-baiting and immigrant-bashing by right-wing demagogues, nearly one in five Americans reports being vehemently opposed to immigration, legal or illegal, and even U.S.-born nonwhites have become occasional targets for mobs of angry whites.

In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party” movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest. Activists remove the chief of police and either disarm local police and county sheriff departments or discourage them from interfering. In truth, this is hardly necessary. Many law enforcement officials already are sympathetic to the tea party’s agenda, know many of the people involved, and have made clear they will not challenge the takeover. The militia members are organized and have a relatively well thought-out plan of action.

Read the whole thing (long)

Silver Daddy in Decline: More in Sorrow Than in Anger Wikipedia Confirms That Harry Reid is Indeed a Pedophile

Democrats - the party of tolerance.

From American Digest

Okay... You're Russian and you got this Canadian Marijuana Plantation... and you got 13 bears... and they are, check it out, guarding it and then this Vietnamese pig....

From American Digest.

DRUDGE: 'Mad dog of the 2012 campaign'...

Have you heard about those troubling Harry Reid pederasty rumors? And what his daughter does to make a living in Nevada?

Is Social Security Still A Good Deal For Workers?

Glenn Reynolds

NO. NEXT QUESTION? This is what happens when a pyramid scheme breaks down. At the top of the pyramid, it’s a good deal. At the bottom, not so much.

Like a lot of government programs, when the inevitable failure occurs the results are catastrophic.

Even the government controlled press is beginning to notice:

If you retired in 1960, you could expect to get back seven times more in benefits than you paid in Social Security taxes, and more if you were a low-income worker, as long you made it to age 78 for men and 81 for women.

As recently as 1985, workers at every income level could retire and expect to get more in benefits than they paid in Social Security taxes, though they didn't do quite as well as their parents and grandparents.

Not anymore.

A married couple retiring last year after both spouses earned average lifetime wages paid about $598,000 in Social Security taxes during their careers. They can expect to collect about $556,000 in benefits, if the man lives to 82 and the woman lives to 85, according to a 2011 study by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank.

Of course, the AARP is still shilling for the government.   Every time that gang of looters sends me an application I use their prepaid envelope to send back a "hell no."  I just joined Generation America just to support them as an alternative to the AARP.

Land of The Freebies, Home of the Enslaved

The Five Plastic Army Men Least Useful in combat

Read the rest, and the comments.  Hilarious (at least I thought so.)

American Jews Feeling Buyers Remorse

Senator Graham Says Reid Is ‘Lying’ About Romney Taxes

Dingy Harry Reid got rich in land speculation using his powers to increase the value of land he bought to flip.

Now he's in bed with Chinese Communist solar power speculators and Glenn Reynolds asks:

But do the Chinese know about those troubling Harry Reid pederasty rumors?

Reince Priebus meets Democrat spokesman George Stephanopoulis

Repeal the Hollywood tax cuts!

Glenn Reynolds makes an amazingly good suggestion.

There's an old joke about a boy who complains to his mother that his little sister keeps pulling his hair.


"Oh," responds the mother, "she doesn't know that it hurts."


A few minutes later, the mother hears the girl scream and runs into the other room. "She knows now," the boy explains.


There's a lesson for Republicans in that old joke, if they're smart enough to absorb it.

Here are a few for starters:

• Restore the 20 percent excise tax on motion picture theater gross revenues (and end the accounting practices that allow movies that make their producers and actors wealthy while showing a "loss" for tax purposes). 
• Require foundations to spend at least 10 percent of their endowment each year, ending the ability of Leftist administrators to influence the culture tax free forever.
• Limits on the charitable deductions. to a $50 million lifetime limit and a $5 million annual limit. Why should fat cats like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates be able to get millions in tax deductions that average Americans can't?
• Capping the mortgage interest deduction to houses worth over $250,000.  Hit residents of big cities like San Francisco and New York harder?  That's not a bug, it's a feature.

Those are only a few of the suggestion made by mild mannered law professor Glenn Reynolds. 

A group of fabulous gay hipsters of pallor surrounding and harassing an old black man reading a Bible

These are the people the mainstream media are rooting for.

The man reading the Bible, I am sure, relates to Dan Cathy.   Via Ann Sorock at  Legal Insurrection  A good question for these times, are these homosexuals racist?  Speaking truth to power?  Note the "accusation" written in chalk on the sidewalk telling us he's really gay; are they saying that there's something wrong with that?   If I were into conspiracy theories I would suspect that Chick-fil-A hired a bunch of actors to stage this little play as a way of discrediting the same sex marriage movement.

Who knew that the rainbow flag was the flag of hate?

 

What’s developing is a replay of Occupy Wall Street, this time with more homosexuals.  The press loved OWS because it was their version of the Tea Party.  They promoted it, interviewed it, and told us how great this movement was.  And then people saw the pictures and read about the crimes, the rapes and the degradation; not in the MSM (the press shields the depravity of its pets from public view) but via the Internet. 

Like the OWS campers, these gays are deluded by the press in believing that they have the country behind them.  It’s the MSM delusion that I have written about before. The OWS, and now the homosexual community are invited to over-reach because they read the newspaper reports and are  fooled into thinking that they are part of a mass movement.  It’s easy when you read the Virginian Pilot and are told by the reporters and editors that there was a “public backlash” against Dan Cathy’s remarks about traditional marriage.  If there’s a public backlash against the affirmation of traditional marriage that must mean the public is on the side of same-sex marriage.  And if you and a bunch of your fellow homosexual men encounter an elderly black man reading a Bible, what is more natural than to taunt him – on camera – knowing that the public was behind you?  Just like Adam Smith just knew that verbally assaulting a young woman serving food in a Chick-fil-A would get him rounds of praise.  He believe it so much that he made a video of himself doing it.  And where did he get the idea that people would support his action?  Why in the same medium that told him about the “public backlash” against traditional marriage.

James Lileks eviscerates David Frum who’s telling us that government officials telling a private citizens that he can’t open a business because of his personal beliefs which happen to be shared by most people in the world, is not like Fascism at all.

No, of course not. It’s them Jeebus people getting all thin-skinned again. He notes some commentators who ascribed the attack on CFA a slam against Christianity - don't know how they get that idea (warning on that link; naughty lingo) then screws in his monocle to regard it all with a sigh of disdain:

The controversy over same-sex marriage has been left behind, as we plunge into America’s newest favourite competition: America’s Next Top Victim.
If you needed one more example of why the American political system so tragically fails to solve real-world problems, here it is, wrapped up with pickles and served with waffle fries.

If you needed one more example of why the American media so tragically fails to understand real-world people, there it is. Pickled.

Obama 2009: "I Am Pledging To Cut The Deficit We Inherited By Half By The End Of My First Term In Office"

Promises make, promises kept.  Otherwise a good speech, though.  Note the ping-ping speaking style.

Interesting statistic: how many Jews live in Egypt?

In a report on Anti-Semitism and the Arab Spring, Arab Spring? Egyptian Media Deny and Glorify Holocaustone startling number appeared: 

“… there are only about 100 elderly Jews remaining in a country that has a population of more than 83 million people.”

Did you hear about that satanic ritual human sacrifice?

The word is out that Harry Reid performed a human sacrifice in a satanic ritual at a San Francisco bathhouse last Halloween.  Along with the rumor that has been going around that Harry’s a pederast, I’m curious that the Democrats continue to keep him in his role as Senate Majority Leader.  He has done such a lousy job as a legislator and as a Democrat Party spokesman that this buzz about his private life should give the Democrats a reason to remove him.

It seems that Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit has also heard about these rumors.  Of course a rumor is not responsible for those who spread it. 

The start of the next housing crisis brought to you by Team Obama.

Remember how the last housing crisis started. The one from which we still have not recovered?  The one that almost destroyed America’s economy?  Failing to wipe us out the first time, the Left is going to do it again.  Same play, different players.

Standing in for the Community Reinvestment Act (which forced banks to lend to people who could not afford a mortgage), the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is going to force banks to lend to people who cannot afford a mortgage AS LONG AS THEY ARE BLACK OR BROWN.   According to Thomas Perez, the Justice Department honcho in charge of this campaign, banks refusal to lend money to people of color who can’t pay it back is like burning a cross on their lawn.

To make sure that the banks don’t try the disreputable trick of claiming that the people of color who can’t afford a mortgage have demonstrated that they don’t pay their bills,  the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is going to be regulating the credit rating agencies.  They have determined that it’s going to be government policy to have one rating system for whites and another for blacks and browns.  You can bet the ranch that rating agencies will suddenly find that being behind on your car payment, your credit card payment, your electric bill, and your rent payment makes you a good credit risk if your skin is the right color.

That’s a quick summary of And You Thought the Housing CrisisWas Over! By William Tucker.  His concern is that an economy already weakened by the first housing crisis and a government that is hostile to private industry will not survive another attack by the Left.  “I think what we are witnessing is the looting of America on behalf of minorities in a way that better end soon or we are going to bring the whole system down upon our heads.”  I think his fear is well-placed.

Thanks to Kate at small dead animals