10/31/11

Ding....dong... It's ME!

"Boo!"

Obama creates new national monument

 President Barack Obama is creating a new national monument. Think Progress reports that it's a Civil War fort.  Instead, how about a giant hole dedicated to the memory of all those innocent billions of dollars sunk in Obama's failed stimulus?

Who's trying to stain Herman Cain?

Herman Cain has  now specifically denied inappropriate behavior while he was with a  restaurant trade group. 
  Meanwhile, we must draw our own conclusions about  the source of the smear. Logic suggests the Dems would have kept their powder dry in case he was  confirmed as the GOP candidate.   Who could  possibly gain by  it now?  Just askin'...

Cartoonist of the Day: Michael Ramirez

[via Townhall]

10/30/11

FITZ N' STARTZ

  Stop  OWS? Let  'em  occupy 
a cell,  then lock the door'
[Drawing:  Alastair Graham]

The smears begin against Cain

We were warned  that the  2012 presidential race would be be the mother of all dirty campaigns. It has started already with a claim  that complaints of "inappropriate" behavior were made against Herman Cain in the 1990s.  On the bright side, it's better for the Hermanator  to deal with this now rather than later.  More here.
UPDATE 1:  Cain campaign disputes Politico  report
Update 2: The Other McCain on the accusations

Bothering God

A "ring of prayer" is planned to protect  occupiers in the grounds of the St. Paul's Cathedral from being evicted, reports London's left-wing Observer.  Ironic, since Occupy London protesters  have forced closure of the cathedral to worshippers for the first time since  WW2.  

The Unmanning of America

No Country for Burly Men:  How feminists steered  Obama's  job creation efforts away from the men who were most desperately in need of it.

A powerful guide to Energygate

Are you confused by the  complex web of  revelations about  the Department of Energy's often disastrous investments of your tax money,  like  the half-billion dollar farce  of Solyndra?  Doug Ross-- who has an exceptional  talent for untangling tangled  issues -- has a cheat-sheet  here. He'll be updating it as more horrors emerge, as they inevitably will.

10/29/11

White House Fright Night


Barack, I'm running
against ya'
mbwaaah-ha-ha!

Cartoonist of the Day: Chip Bok

[via Townhall]

Four Quick Tips for OWSers

Tired of being hassled by The Man?
  • Move out
  • Get a job 
  • Pay your bills
  • And do it now, while you still know everything.

Obama skirts his own ban on money from lobbyists

Skirting a his own pledge not to take money from lobbyists, President Obama has  used prominent supporters active in the lobbying industry to raise millions of dollars for his re-election bid, says  this report in The New York Times.  Our  eagle-eyed  New York correspondent   alerted us last night  to  these breaking revelations which  enabled us to be beat the  Times and  most of the blogosphere with our  3.47 a.m. post here

Lobbyists 'still bankrolling Obama'

"We don't accept any money from special-interest groups or Washington lobbyists," the Obama campaign bragged in a recent email touting the $70 million raised last quarter by the campaign and the Democratic National Committee. But if you comb through the actual filings with the Federal Elections Commission, you see how misleading this claim is, says The Washington Examiner.  More here.

Some Americans put their money where Warren's mouth is

 When Warren Buffett complained that he should be taxed more, the reaction of many was:  So? Send the Treasury a check.  Well, some Americans have done just that, putting their money where Warren's mouth is, sending  sizable voluntary donations to the Treasury. There's more here

10/28/11

The secret world of Rahm Emanuel

"Shssssh"
Here's  a fascinating peek inside the millionaire-studded  and closely-guarded private  schedule of  Chicago's mayor  Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief of staff.

Cartoonist of the Day: Gary Varvel

[via Townhall]

We are the 99%

 "We are the ninety-nine percent  and we're protesting  something  and we're under here, somewhere."

I've never tasted anything so-o-o delicious...

...as the irony of well-fed OWSers refusing to share their organic chicken, sheep's-milk-cheese salad and roasted beets with  truly homeless people 

10/27/11

The Dung Beetle Award goes to...

Congratulations, Mayor Quan
Today's  Dung Beetle Award  is being  rolled towards Mayor Jean Quan  of Oakland  who -- after  tough police action to clear the city's  aggressive OWSer  camp --  is now declaring: "most of us are among the 99%" and sympathize with the OWSers. More here

Britain 'must now exit the EU'

The hard-won agreement to avoid a European implosion has dramatic  implications for America's closest ally. Julian Lindley-French, a distinguished strategic analyst, says the agreement is a bridge too far for Britain: "For someone who has spent much of his adult life believing in the essential unifying mission of Europe it is with the most profound sadness that I now call on Britain to leave the European Union. To save Greece, Britain has been sacrificed and given the stakes there was little alternative. However, for Britain to stay now would simply heap humiliation upon cost without influence and my proud, old, badly-led country deserves better than that." Read it all.

The blinding brilliance of OWSers

Who knew? These dazzling intellectual arguments advanced in Zucotti Park will surely make all of us rethink the role of government.

Cartoonist of the Day: Bob Gorrell

[via Townhall]

Student aid is another Obama fail

Unworkable, unjust, unaffordable, and it still doesn't get to the root of the problem.
[hat tip: Instapundit]

10/26/11

Rock star President gets rock bottom results

 Here's an excellent  counterbalance  to the fawning reception given to Obama by Jay Leno and a Democrat-packed audience on The Tonight Show. The always-interesting Crystal Wright who blogs at Black Conservative Chick has a devastating round-up of Obama's failures in office.  Read it all.

Newt bounces back

With this week's New York Times/CBS poll showing Cain ahead of Romney, many have overlooked Newt Gingrich's 3rd place appearance. His campaign had looked all but dead, but he is  now gaining  surprising momentum. Yahoo's political blog The Ticket has more.

Cartoonist of the Day: Lisa Benson

[via Townhall]

Obama and the scrofulous hordes

AP has a report on growing disgust  and impatience with OWS protesters around country. There is an interesting exception. AP reports: "In Washington, protesters ... appear to be getting along with the police and the neighbors. One activist, Wes Kirkpatrick, said he believes the demonstration in McPherson Square is benefiting from its location just blocks from the White House, and he does not expect the federal government to crack down. "It would be hypocritical for Obama to do anything because he legitimized our grievances publicly," he said.  As we know, Obama is never hypocritical.

10/25/11

Cartoonist of the Day: Michael Ramirez

[via Townhall]

We Can't Wait ...

President Obama's new slogan for by-passing Congress is "We can't wait."

 Nor can we wait...
  • For Obama to stop encouraging   OWSers  and instead tell them to  reoccupy their parents' basements.
  • For Michelle to re-grass the White House lawn and go back to Wholefoods for her vegetables
  • For Obama to run out  of  stupid slogans 
  • For November, 2012

10/24/11

OWSers check out here

[Via Doug Ross]
Or maybe it's just for people with three hands

Today's Dung Beetle Award goes to...

"Congratulations, Mayor"
Today's  Academy of Dung Beetles' Award goes to  New York Mayor  Michael Bloomberg  whose failure to take decisive action against the Owsers is damaging the  city's commerce,  severely  disrupting  residents' lives and  leading to  increased  shooting deaths in areas where  police have  been pulled away from crime prevention and used, instead, to control protesters.

Cartoonist of the Day: Glenn Foden

[via Townhall]

Turn-around Hillary for VP?

Is  Hillary calculating on replacing Joe  Biden next year?
[h/t Instapundit]

More die as protest draws cops away from crime patrols

Killings rise as OWS draws cops away from crime prevention.   More people are dying, yet Nanny Bloomberg  is still  too spineless to  act  decisively against Owsers and enforce the law in  Manhattan. 

Sharia law to replace Qaddafi: Another Obama fail

Libya's transitional government leader, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil  says that Islamic Sharia law will be the "basic source" of legislation in the country and that existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified.   Exactly who voted  for this  change in the new 'democratic' Libya heralded by President  Obama? 

Report slams US Iraq training

A State Department program to train Iraqi police lacks focus, could become "a bottomless pit" of American money and may not even be wanted by the Iraqi department it's supposed to help,  say reports released by a U.S. government watchdog. Read the full story

10/23/11

Obama to use executive power to break job stalemate?

"We can't wait"
President Obama appears to be planning to use executive action to circumvent the Congressional  stalemate frustrating his jobs plans. The mantra "We can't wait" will replace the old "Pass this Bill." The New York Times has more.   Clearly, this is going to be a time for  supporters  of the full democratic  process to exert extreme vigilance.

Mr President, want to create jobs? Start here

The Future of Capitalism has reached No. 28 in its cost-free job-creation ideas.  Anybody listening?
[h/t Instapundit]

Why Democrats are winning the money war

With  Democrats at such a low ebb, why are they winning the money war? Politico has some  interesting answers.

Obamajoke of the Day

" Nice one!"
President Obama was interviewing  for a  new White House financial czar. He asked the first applicant, "What does one plus one equal?" The applicant  was shown the door after replying: "Two." Obama  asked the next expert, "What does one plus one equal?" The  expert answered, "Whatever you want it to equal." Obama said: "You got the job."

Cartoonist of the Day: Glenn McCoy

[via  McClatchy]

'US kicked out of Iraq,' says Bachmann

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann  said that the United States had been "kicked out" of Iraq "by the very people we liberated," and President Obama's decision to withdraw was "more politically-based than military-based."  CBS Interview here.
Laughing Conservative followers, always ahead of the game, had already  heard the same opinion  from Fitz n' Startz.

Obama's failed stimulus cost more than the 9-year Iraq war

Astonishing statistics from The Gateway Pundit,  who's got figures to support them

10/22/11

How an international web caught Qaddafi

Ben Farmer, a British  journalist   in Serte, explains how an  intricate international web of US, French and British military assets trapped Qaddafi. Farmer has some  fascinating new details  on how it all went down.

We're all losers in Obama's war with himself

Obama is at war with himself over Wall Street and the result is uncertainty for the  economy, businesses,  banks, investors, job-seekers -- everybody.  Indecision has been a hallmark of this presidency and nowhere can it be seen more dramatically. Politico explains it all.

Hillary greets Qaddafi's death with laughter

Keith Koffler at White House Dossier thinks this video of Hillary Clinton laughing at Qaddafi's death shows  disturbingly  unprofessional behavior.  Loathsome as Qaddafi was, no civilized person should  publicly -- even if metaphorically -- dance on someone's grave. Least of all  should our Secretary of State do so. 

FITZ N' STARTZ

"Obama quitting Iraq?  Meh.
Iraq is quitting Obama"

MISSION BOTCHED: The growing evidence of a major Obama fail

The three ' Mission Botched' posts below  indicate growing evidence of  a  disastrous Iraq failure by the Obama adminstration. Read  and weep.

Mission Botched: Administration 'bungled' Iraq negotiations

The magazine Foreign Policy says the Obama  Administration  bungled negotiations over an  Iraq withdrawal  and will leave behind a dangerous power vacuum for Iran to exploit. Read  it all.

Mission Botched: Obama's announcement 'dismays' top military

President Obama’s announcement that all American troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year dismayed some top American military officials who see it as Obama putting the best face on a breakdown in negotiations with the Iraqis, according to the New York Times.

Mission Botched: Was the US booted out of Iraq?

American Thinker has an interesting -- and disturbing --  take on the complete US withdrawal from Iraq.  Read it all.

Walesa makes U-turn on OWS protest

 Lech Walesa  has decided he won't attend the OWS protest  after he learned of Hard Left involvement.  More here.

Biden's crime 'figures' are plain wrong

"See, I nearly fooled 'em"
In the battle over the jobs bill, Vice President Biden this week has been making the startling case that more people will be murdered or raped if the legislation is not passed. His argument is that in cities such as Flint, Mich., the murder and rape rates have soared as the police force has been cut back for budgetary reasons. Wrong! Read what a Washington Post  fact-check reveals.

Time to get really Furious

We always try to  give credit where it's due, even to the Puffington Host:  so congratulations to their crime writer Diane Diamond  who this week  has produced a gutsy  indictment of the Fast and Furious debacle and its cover-up. When will the MSM similarly  man-up and cover  this breathtaking  outrage as it should be covered? 

Zap a buck to Zilla

She's a stalwart of the Conservative blogosphere, always there when others need  support.    It is she who needs it now.  Please help.

10/21/11

Iraq war won before Obama even took office

Reminder: we won the Iraq war before Obama even took office.

Cain/Gingrich in 2012?

Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection finds himself being pulled towards Newt Gingrich's gravitational field. A Cain/Gingrich ticket has undeniable appeal and  inside/outside the Beltway balance. And did you know Gingrich can be funny? Video below:

Source of some Obama campaign contributions questioned

Doug Ross has a fascinating  and disturbing post on the source of some of Obama's 2008  online campaign contributions. Ross warns  on the need to be alert for tactics like these in the 2012 campaign.

Federal stimulus money for Oregon jobs went to foreign workers

Federal stimulus money for Oregon jobs hired foreign workers. At least $7 million in federal stimulus money intended to provide jobs to unemployed Oregonians instead paid wages to 254 foreign workers. Your tax dollars at work  under Obama.

ATF 'Ignored Death Threats, Tried to Frame Whistleblower'

"ATF Ignored Death Threats, Tried to Frame Whistleblower Agent to Cover Corruption", says the headline on a stunning report by Katie Pavlich at Town Hall. This is potentially  so damaging to the Administration, Eric Holder,  and the upper levels of the ATF that it is tempting to wonder if the  timing of  the announcement on Iraq withdrawal was not a deliberate distraction. Read Pavlich's remarkable report in full.

US begins total troop pull-out from Iraq

Mission not accomplished: President Obama has announced that all US troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the Holidays.  Political expediency going into an election year appears to be the main motivation for a total pull-out: US military officials  reportedly wanted to leave a force of 5,000 as trainers and to help deter Iran from interfering in the country. The stumbling block is said to have been refusal by Iraq to give US soldiers immunity from prosecution under Iraqi laws.
Given the extreme likelihood  of covert or overt incursions from Iran, and Iraq's need for continued US funding and  military hardware, it's hard to believe more pressure couldn't  have overcome this. But our leader is not exactly famed for tough negotiating.  ABC News has details

Cartoonist of the Day: Eric Allie

[via Townhall]

What Steve Jobs told Obama


"You're headed for a one-term presidency," Steve Jobs told Obama at the start of a meeting of the two men, adding that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared with the United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it difficult. These details are revealed in an official biography, by Walter Isaacson.
Jobs also criticized America's education system, saying it was "crippled by union work rules," noted Isaacson. "Until the teachers' unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform." Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year. The Huffington Post has more

Billions paid in erroneous tax credits

$3.2 billion goes down the hole in erroneous education credits: Your tax dollars at work under Obama. Read the whole story.

Fisker fiasco accelerates

ABC  has a comprehensive story on the Fisker farce where half a billion dollars of US taxpayer money went to jobs outsourced to Finland ( see our earlier post here)

10/20/11

Cartoonist of the Day: Michael Ramirez

[via Townhall]

Obama says Qaddafi death 'momentous'

Unchallenged narcissism
The President describes the death of  Muammar Qaddafi as marking  "a momentous day"-- as well he might-- since  Barack Obama  is now  unchallenged as the World's Most Narcissistic Leader.

Half billion loan for 'Solyndra on wheels?'

Another outrageous Energy Dept. farce: a half billion  dollar US loan for super-luxury  "green" cars  that do 20 m.p.g., and are made in Finland.
[Hat tip: Instapundit]

O to appear on LenO

Barack Obama is to appear on The Tonight Show on Tuesday. Leno's gag writers will have a  ball.
 "Knock. Knock" 
"Who's there?"
 "O"
"O" who?"
"Obama."
"O" who?"



Too much aid to Israel?

In the Washington PostPulitzer Prize-winning reporter and columnist Walter Pincus says "it is time to examine the funding the United States provides to Israel."

10/19/11

Why is it OK to be anti-Mormon?

Historian Jonathan Zimmerman examines a fascinating prejudice:  You can’t be openly racist, sexist, or anti-Semitic in America. But anti-Mormon? Go for it. 
Maybe a White House run by Mitt Romney or Jon Huntsman will shine enough light on actual Mormons to make us put aside the fears and fantasies about them. Read it all.

The A-to-Z of Obama nicknames

[via Brain Shavings]
Our New York Correspondent  has sent us a link to an hilarious and comprehensive updated  list of nicknames for  President  Barack Obeyme. Plus some classic caricatures  [like Mad Magazine's prophetic cover, left]. See it all at Brain Shavings.

What's Right about Left?

"All the choices we've made have been the right ones,"  Obama tells  Jake Tapper in an  ABC interview. 
Whoa! 
For the record, all the choices 'we" have made have been not right but  Left ones, from the massive Keynesian stimulus, through socialized medicine to squeezing "the rich". They have all worked so well...

Cartoonist of the Day: Michael Ramirez

[via Townhall]

10/18/11

FITZ N' STARTZ


"I was eloquent until ...like... you know,
someone ...stole my, um... teleprompter"
[Drawing: Alastair Graham]

'Greedy' corporations create first effective malaria vaccine

World's first malaria vaccine effective in major trial: Those greedy capitalists are at it again: saving hundreds of thousands of lives.

Are you smarter than a Wall Street occupier?

Try this pop quiz from New York Magazine to see how you rate against the zombies of Zuccotti Park.

Moonbat energy fail

Windmills stopped at night after bat death. A Pennsylvania wind farm is being shut down at night to prevent harm to an endangered bat species. They hibernate from November to spring, but then what?  No power at night? Another moonbat renewable energy fail.

Cartoonist of the Day: Glenn McCoy

[via Townhall]

Obama's teleprompter truck stolen

A truck containing  all President Obama's road-show equipment for his bus tour,  including teleprompters, is missing. He must be speechless.

Crumbling Europe: A Basic Guide

Doug Ross has a clear, basic guide to the financial catastrophe threatened by Obama-style socialism in Europe.  Even some Democrats  should be able to understand it. It's all here.

10/17/11

Wall Street turnout a major fail

William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection: "The Occupy Wall Street movement momentum is a media creation.  As Walter Shapiro wrote a few days ago, the reality of relatively small crowds does not justify the “whole world is watching” coverage.
Yes, even small crowds can generate the impression of momentum, particularly when the President of the United States finds it convenient to use them for his own political purposes." Read it all.

Why Obama scares me: Quote of the Day


Keith Koffler at White House Dossier: "President Obama is intensifying his identification with the Occupy Wall Street movement.
This is truly frightening.
It would be one thing for Obama to practice benign neglect, to communicate that everyone has a right to protest without really commenting on the movement itself.
But it must be unprecedented for a president of the United States to suggest an affinity for radical leftists who despise capitalism and seek to upend the economic and political system."
Read it all

OK, brave lefties, occupy these:


When do the following ‘Occupy(s)’ start?
Occupy Tehran
Occupy Pyongyang
Occupy Havana
Occupy Caracas
Occupy Harare
Occupy Damascus (may have already started)
Occupy Beijing (actually that did happen in 1989 - sadly it didn’t end well)
--Reader comment on Tim Blair

Cain 43! Obama 41!

Cain gains
Cain 43%, Obama 41% : The startling results of the latest Rasmussen  public opinion poll. Details here.

Obama's brilliance just too dazzling for Republicans to comprehend

 "Brilliant? Moi? "
Doug Powers writing at Michelle Malkin: "Another bus tour is under way to promote the $447 billion “save the jobs of the same people whose jobs were supposed to have been saved by the first stimulus bill." As expected, President Obama is suggesting breaking the bill into smaller pieces. The problem is apparently that the American Jobs Act is simply too much blinding brilliance for simple-minded Republicans (and a couple of Democrats) to comprehend in a single bill. The problem for Obama is, of course, that the opponents of the bill understand it too much — not too little." 

Cartoonist of the Day: Gary Varvel

[via Townhall]

President embraces divisive 99% slogan

They've drawn support from communists, nazis and some have openly shown  antisemitism.   Yet  Barack Obama is now embracing the OWS "99%" slogan to differentiate the majority of Americans from the wealthy. The  'leader' who promised to unify  the nation is now  stoking class war. Read The Gateway Pundit: "In a call previewing Obama’s upcoming bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama “will continue to acknowledge the frustration that he himself shares,” about Washington’s laggard response to the financial crisis.

Earnest added that while on the trip, Obama will make it clear that he is fighting to make certain that the “interests of 99 percent of Americans are well represented” — the first time the White House has used the term to differentiate the vast majority of Americans from the wealthy." Read it all

10/16/11

Fitz n' Startz

"Protesters applaud communists?
Export them to China. Win...win."

'Occupy Chicago' mobs cheer and applaud Communists

(And remember Obama has given OWS rhetorical support!)

Earth calling Barbara Lee...

California Democrat Rep.  Barbara Lee claims she refuses to use self-check-out lanes in supermarkets because she wants to save jobs. An eminent economist penned this riposte to the California dreamer.

Where we lead, Leno follows

We invented the Iran monkey joke before Jay Leno's gag-writers.   See this Newsy video report.  Newsy is a video/ news aggregation site that's a promising resource.

Energy Dept. adviser raised $500,000 for Obama

Steve Spinner, an Energy Department adviser who pushed for California solar company  Solyndra to receive a half-billion federal loan guarantee, has raised more than $500,000 for President Obama's re-election campaign, AP reports.

Now Nazis, Communists back OWS

The American Nazi Party and the Communist Party of the USA are both lending their support to Occupy Wall Street.  Gateway Pundit has the story.  The  naive and scrofulous hordes probably think this is good news.

A song too far

Protest perils for the Corporatist-in-Chief

Interesting insight from Dick Morris: "The fact is that Obama is less a socialist than a corporatist. His objective is not government ownership, but government management. To control the economy — and all of our lives — he needs to get rid of small banks and small business and consolidate it all in a few big banks and big corporations; hence his friendliness to Goldman-Sachs and General Motors. When wealthy tycoons go to dinners and give Obama $35,000 donations, they know what they are doing. It is not liberal Democratic masochism at work, it is a conscious investment in central planning where big labor, big government, big business and big banks meet and divvy up the pie..." Read it all

10/15/11

The Dung Beetle Award goes to...

'I'd like to thank the Academy..."
 Today's Academy of Dung Beetles Award  goes to that smirking man-child who called for Bush and others to be hanged and shot. Chew on this, moron.

How do cops detect OWS protesters?

Question: How do cops detect   Occupy Wall Street protesters?  
Answer: they turn off their sirens and  wait to hear if the whining continues.

Hang 'em and shoot 'em, says smirking protester

Hang  'em and shoot 'em, says  this  'peaceful' protester.

Sssshhh! Part of Obama health program is quietly amputated

The Obama administration says it's not going  forward  with CLASS, a long-term care program in the president's signature health care overhaul law,  because it is financially unworkable. The news came at 4.30 pm Friday, the traditional timing for a news release to draw as little attention  as possible. Ssshh!..  just another Hope that needed Change.

10/14/11

The 53% who work without whining

We are the 53%!  See some of them.
[Hat tip: Instapundit]

Obama Unleashes the Dogs of Envy

 Charles Krauthammer on  President Barack Obama The Demagogue: "Popular resentment, easily stoked, is less easily controlled, especially when the basest of instincts are granted legitimacy by the nation’s leader."
Read it all.

Hitler rages at OWS protesters


[via: I Own the World & The Other McCain]

Petunia for Energy Secretary!

  Basset does a better job than Energy Dept.

Cartoonist of the Day: Chip Bok

[via Townhall]

Obama sends troops to Uganda

President Obama has sent a force of 100 armed US troops to help combat the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda,  as well as  several countries in central Africa. A Defence Department official says they will be there for several months "in an advisory role." 
Will we never  learn to stop  meddling in other people's  wars? The WaPo has  more.

WH e-mails show secret negotiations with music lobbyists

"On State Street, that great street, I just wanna say,
They do things they don’t do on Broadway.."
Top-ranking Obama administration officials, including the U.S. copyright czar, were actively involved in secret negotiations between Hollywood, the recording industry and ISPs to disrupt internet access for users suspected of violating copyright law, internal White House e-mails reveal. The e-mails show the administration’s "cozy relationship" with Hollywood and music industry lobbying arms and its early support for the copyright-violation crackdown system publicly announced in July, says Wired  magazine. Read the whole story.




Law and Disorder

 A woman Coast Guard member has been spat upon twice while walking to work near Occupy Boston protesters.  The Coast Guard reaction has been to tell members not  to Meanwhile in  New York,  nanny Bloomberg  has backed away from any confrontation with the scrofulous  hordes who, for a month,  have denied local residents  and their children the use of precious park space. Law enforcement means what it says. So enforce the damn law! 

Iran launches monkey into space

Iran has announced that a mission to send a monkey into space has failed. The announcement did not say if  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  had made it back to earth alive.

10/13/11

'Red Julia' plans a carbon tax

 Australian socialist Prime Minister 
" Red Julia"  Gillard wants a carbon dioxide tax.

Kiss of death for OWS as Al Gore backs protest

It's not the threat of being clean that is sucking all the oxygen out of the Zuccotti Park protest. It's news that  Al Gore is endorsing the OWS movement. Details  here.

Fitz and Startz

 " Solve the Iran problem?  Easy: give it to Eric Holder and the nukes will walk out on their own"
[Drawing: Alastair Graham]