Clipper Takes A Break

Off on more travels. Hope to report from Italy, Spain, Morocco and points west.
Back mid-December.

Romney tosses out the name of a potential running mate

"So far, all the GOP candidates have played coy about whom they’d consider as a running mate — but frontrunner Mitt Romney finally mentioned a potential by name in an interview on Fox News last night:

“There are probably 15 names of people, including (New Hampshire Sen.) Kelly Ayotte,” Romney said in an interview on Fox News Monday night. “I mean, there are terrific Republicans in the Senate, in the House, in governors’ offices.” … "
[HotAir]

DHS issues Turkey fryer warning !!!!!!!

Watch this video. Are you as insulted by the idiocy of Federal agencies putting out advertisements telling you not to overfill your deep fryer? Or the Dept. of Homeland Security warning you not to tip it over? Where does the Federal Government get it's authority to spend OUR MONEY issuing these "warnings" to protect stupid people?
[clipper]

The Road to Nowhere: The Higher Education Bubble and Liberal Arts Education

"In a sense, the higher education bubble is very much like the dotcom and mortgage bubbles before it. Everyone wants a college degree because it’s widely seen as “necessary step” in “getting ahead” and therefore, tuitions are skyrocketing, taking advantage of the situation.

It is vital to note that these massive tuition hikes are far more than measures to keep up with advances in technology or inflation rates. In fact, when compared with the increase of the overall inflation rate since 1985 (115.06%) college tuition rates have risen 498.31%. The cause? Government subsidies.

In 1965, as part of President Johnson’s Higher Education Act, such programs as the Pell Grant and soon-to-be defunct Federal Stafford Loan were introduced. The flaws in the philosophy behind such plans are obvious. The government makes these programs available, essentially “free money” if need is demonstrated, and so colleges raise tuitions accordingly. Students then need more loans to compensate for the increase, when results in more government aid, and the cycle continues."

[SomewhatReasonable]

Nancy Pelosi Pushing Government to Institute Hitler Youth Read more: Nancy Pelosi Pushing Government to Institute Hitler Youth | Godfather Politics h

"... now House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has announced that she intends to push for national childcare reform, supposedly modeled after Obamacare but is starting to sound more like it is being modeled after Hitler Youth.

In 1920, Adolf Hitler formed the Youth League of the National Socialist Workers’ Party. In 1922, a new youth organization emerged that eventually became known as Hitler Youth. It targeted boys ages 14-18. Eventually a second group was formed for boys ages 10-14 and a girls’ organization that covered ages 10-18. The goal of the Youth organizations was to indoctrinate the next generation of leaders to help insure the success for the Nazi Party.

From 1922 to 1945, the Hitler Youth saw thousands of teenaged kids turning in their parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, grandparents, cousins and friends, the government for speaking out against Hitler and his Nazi rule. Thousands of people were imprisoned, beaten and even executed. They turned in their neighbors and school mates who were Jewish."

[Godfather Politics]

Federal Government SCREWS an Atlantic Fishernan Out Of $$ Over Huge Tuna

"This fish story may lack the epic qualities of Ernest Hemingway's 1952 classic“The Old Man and the Sea,” but for New Bedford's Carlos Rafael, the outcome was about the same. In both cases, despite capturing and bringing home a huge fish, powerful circum­stances conspired to deprive the luckless fishermen of a potentially huge reward.

Boat owner Rafael, a big player in the local fishing industry, was elated when the crew of his 76-foot steel dragger Apollo told him they had unwittingly captured a giant bluefin tuna in their trawl gear while fishing offshore.

It was also a lucrative one. Highly prized in Japan, a 754­pound specimen fetched a record price at a Tokyo auction in January this year, selling for nearly $396,000.

However, when Rafael rolled down the dock in Provincetown there was an unexpected and unwelcome development. The authorities were waiting. Agents from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Law Enforcement informed him they were confis­cating his fish — all 881 pounds of it."

[CapeCodTimes]

I wonder what these Cape Cod liberals think of Guv'mint getting into their pockets ...... although, on second thought, out on Cape Cod I guess folks don't mind others getting into their pockets!

[clipper]

Good Grief… Obama Chews Gum, Plucks It Out During East Asia Summit Meeting

Well..... I suppose this is not as bad as President George H. W. Bush vomiting at the Japanese Prime Minister's home. However, "H.W." probably had no control over the event WHEREAS Obama should damned well have trashed his chew before the event. Was that Nicorette gum he was chewing? We thought he kicked the habit long ago!

[clipper]

Breaking: Super Committee declares defeat

"After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee’s deadline."
[HotAir]

DEMOCRAT POLLSTERS: Supercommittee Fiasco Shows Obama Needs to Go

"Barack Obama has shown such poor leadership as president that he needs to step down before the next election for the good of the country, Democratic pollsters Patrick Caddell and Doug Schoen say.

Now the pair say Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has to be prodded into taking Obama’s place as the Democrats’ candidate in November next year.

Their comments came amid mounting criticism of Obama’s detachment from the workings of the supercommittee. As it neared its deadline, the president was off the mainland U.S. for nine days, hosting an Asian-Pacific summit in Hawaii before jetting off to Australia and Indonesia."
[NewsMax]

SOCIALISM IN ACTION: Feds Want To Tell Sellers What To Charge for Goods or Dervices

"A Mennonite insurer that wants to charge more for premiums has raised the ire of the Obama administration, which has called the rate hike unreasonable and said it should be repealed.

Nearly three months after the federal government started scrutinizing companies that want to significantly raise premiums, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is urging Pennsylvania-based Everence Insurance to abandon its plan to raise rates by an average of 11.6 percent in the small-group market."

[Washington Times]

The Tipping Point and the Crossroads

"The United States finds itself at a crossroads, facing a stark reality it can no longer ignore or leave to future generations. We are presently on an irreversible path toward inevitable failure and second-class status. It all started forty-eight years ago, we now can see. The distance America has traveled down this road over the past forty-eight years -- a comparatively short period within the historical life of a nation -- is astounding.

All the upheaval and radicalism spawned in the decade of the 1960s has culminated in the election of Barack Obama. He was born in 1961, the son of avowed Marxist parents. Not only in his childhood, but during all of his formative years, he was immersed in the extremism of the left. He knows no other course of action. He is incapable of and has no interest in understanding the dilemma the country faces except that it accelerates the transformation of an allegedly "unfair and racist" society. The combination of the fiscal path chosen by Lyndon Johnson and the statist policies pursued by Obama and today's Democratic Party has greatly accelerated the potential collapse of the United States.

Thus, America is at a crossroads. If Barack Obama, the most extreme president in American history, is re-elected and the current governing class remains in place, there will be no turning back. The worst fears that came over me on that Monday in November of 1963 will come to pass, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy will have been the tipping point that precipitated the fall of a great nation."

[Steve McCann]

Thrill Is Gone? Matthews Turns On Obama; ‘I Hear Stories That You Would Not Believe’

In an explosive interview on MSNBC, Chris Matthews has harsh criticism for President Obama and his team of advisers.

[Breitbart]

Sorry Libs… The UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident Was “Standard Police Procedure”

How to shut down a row of screeching libs in 4 easy swoops…

Sorry libs… You can quit your squawking and take your leftie-indoctrinated butts back to class. The UC Davis pepper spray incident was standard police procedure."
[GatewayPundit]

Four Cabbies in Paris

"Talking to cab drivers is always instructive. In Paris, it is a chance for me to use my Peace Corps French as we idle in traffic, and get a gauge on European preoccupations.

I took four cabs during my visit and had four very different drivers, all long-time French citizens or residents: an Algerian, a Haitian, a Cambodian, and a native Frenchman."

[Karin McQuillan]

Dutch fall out of love with windmills

"When the Netherlands built its first sea-based wind turbines in 2006, they were seen as symbols of a greener future.

Towering over the waves of the North Sea like an army of giants, blades whipping through the wind, the turbines were the country's best hope to curb carbon emissions and meet growing demand for electricity

But five years later the green future looks a long way off. Faced with the need to cut its budget deficit, the Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour -- some 4.5 billion euros last year"
[Reuters]

‘The Chicago Guys Would Not Let Me Do It’

"A very high-level and important person that you may know personally or have heard of said that this is the answer President Obama gave when he was asked why he did not introduce the Bowles-Simpson (let’s call it ‘BS’ for brevity’s sake) recommendations as a bill in the US Congress.

'The Chicago Guys would not let me do it'. "

[LeftCoastRebel]

CAUGHT ON TAPE– #Occupy Milwaukee Commits ‘Recall Walker’ Fraud – Gives Kids Cigs for their Sig

#OWS Elite Stay At Posh Hotel - $700/nite

"Hell no, we won’t go — unless we get goose down pillows.

A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel that promises guests can “unleash [their] inner Gordon Gekko,” The Post has learned.

The $700-per-night W Hotel Downtown last week hosted both Peter Dutro, one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee, and Brad Spitzer, a California-based analyst who not only secretly took part in protests during a week-long business trip but offered shelter to protesters in his swanky platinum-card room."

[Washington Post]

EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration

Here's what happens when unelected bureaucrats run amok. [clipper]

"Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.

“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true. "
[U.K. Telegraph]

Socialism's Fundamental Flaws

"The official, ultimate demise of the greatest socialist experiment in history, that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, occurred, ironically, on Christmas Day 1991, but only after it had dispossessed, imprisoned, tortured and murdered untold millions of its own citizen in the quest for the workers' chimerical paradise of equality and fairness, where each was projected to produce according to his ability and receive according to his needs. After 69 years of unremitting misery for the overwhelming majority of its people -- the socialist Nirvana never coming even remotely within sight -- the inevitable economic collapse took place, leaving hapless millions in grinding poverty. However, Westernized socialism, as practiced in European social democracies and to a lesser extent in the U.S., is still alive, no matter how unwell. What salient faults brought down Soviet socialism and what lessons can be drawn? Are fault lines emerging in socialism's Western iterations which, if addressed, may prevent disaster?"
[Andy Logar]

Why E.U. collapse is more likely than the fall of the euro

"European politics has become a giant Jenga game. Since June 2010 governments have fallen in the Netherlands, Slovakia, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Slovenia, Greece and Italy.

The question is not: Who will be next? That’s easy. (Spain’s Socialist government will be pulverized in this weekend’s elections.) The real question is: When will the Jenga tower topple?"

[Washington Post]

Barack Obama Kills Another 200,000 US Jobs

"In August Barack Obama told Americans, “You should know that keeping the economy growing and making sure jobs are available is the first thing I think about when I wake up every morning. It’s the last thing I think about when I go to bed each night.”

Yeah, right.

Barack Obama just postponed shale gas drilling in Ohio for another half year to please environmental groups. His latest move effectively kills 200,000 high-paying jobs in the swing state."

[Gateway Pundit]

You can regularly count on Obama either NOT doing or doing THE OPPOSITE of that which he "promises".

[clipper]

Who’s afraid of Tea Party’s federal debt solutions? Dirty Harry and his henchmen

"Senate Rules Committee staff on Thursday removed microphones and locked the doors of a hearing room in the Russell Senate Office Building where an informal hearing was scheduled to review the findings of the Tea Party Debt Commission, a months-long crowd-sourced effort to develop a budget proposal that balances the budget, reduces the debt and gets America’s fiscal house back in order"
[Michelle Malkin]

Dangerous Bill Would Threaten Legitimate Websites

"Congress is considering sweeping Internet legislation that purports to target "rogue websites" with the intent of cracking down on the theft of everything from movies to songs to designer handbags. While the goal is laudable, too many innocent websites would wind up in the crosshairs. 

 

These bills (the PROTECT IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, in the House) would do more harm than good to cybersecurity, the Internet economy, and online free expression. "

[The Atlantic]

Proposed list of OWS Demands

"Here you are. A joke to those of you with any sense of rational thinking. This is straight from the OWS website.  Tell me these are not Socialist/Communist/Anarchist !" [clipper]

"Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately.

Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality.

Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.

Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately.

Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.

Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US.

Create a single-payer, universal health care system.

Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers.

Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.

Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws.

Allow workers to elect their supervisors.

Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits.

Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich.

Ban the private ownership of land.

Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.

Reduce the age of majority to 16.

Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons.

Release all political prisoners immediately.

Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Abolish the debt limit.

Ban private gun ownership.

Strengthen the separation of church and state.

Immediate debt forgiveness for all.

End the 'War on Drugs'."

[Occupy Wall Street]

Penn State's Scandal and the Truth about Power in Academia

"The sexual abuse scandal at Penn State gives us a glimpse into power -- the power with which universities arrogantly operate and how they consider themselves islands quarantined from the legal and moral concerns of the larger society.  "

[Abraham H. Miller]

President Obama’s uncle to challenge legality of drunken driving stop

............ And he's still in this country ILLEGALLY

VP's closed-door transparency chat

“At 1:00 PM, the Vice President will attend a meeting of the Government Accountability and Transparency Board in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. At 2:30 PM, the Vice President will meet with representatives of the National Sheriffs' Association in the Roosevelt Room. These meetings are closed press.”

[White House]

Wow! New Hampshire wakes up to Obama's alleged Social Security fraud ...

"A hearing, with the apparent support of two state lawmakers, is scheduled before the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission to hear a complaint filed by Orly Taitz that alleges Barack Obama has used fraudulent documents and a fraudulent Social Security number."

[WND]

U.S. boosts estimate of auto bailout losses to $23.6B

"The Treasury Department dramatically boosted its estimate of losses from its $85 billion auto industry bailout by more than $9 billion in the face of General Motors Co.'s steep stock decline.

In its monthly report to Congress, the Treasury Department now says it expects to lose $23.6 billion, up from its previous estimate of $14.33 billion. 

The Treasury now pegs the cost of the bailout of GM, Chrysler Group LLC and the auto finance companies at $79.6 billion. It no longer includes $5 billion it set aside to guarantee payments to auto suppliers in 2009."

[Detroit News]

Cain paused but Obama CRASHED ON HIS FACE

A question was asked about Iraq....... Obama mumbled, stumbled and fumbled for 38 seconds.... far different from Cain taking 11 seconds to collect his thoughts!

"June 5th, 2008, Bristol, Virginia, campaign event, Senator Barack Obama talking about Iraq. 

[Listen to the audio LIVE , HERE]

OBAMA:  What they'll say is, well, it costs too much money, but, you know what?  It would cost about -- it -- it -- it would cost about the same as what we would spend -- over the course of ten years, it would cost what it cost us -- it -- huh -- all right, okay.  We're going to.  The -- it would cost us about the same as it would cost for about -- hold on one second.  I can't hear myself.  But I'm glad you're fired up, though.  I'm glad.

RUSH:  Thirty-eight seconds.  Thirty-eight seconds of sheer, total idiocy, confusion, ignorance, whatever you want to say.  Thirty-eight seconds of it.  I'll stack that up against anything Rick Perry stumbled on or Herman Cain.  That's June 5th of 2008."

[Rush Limbaugh]

Obama's Half-Billion-Dollar Crony Drug Deal

"What do you get when you mix Democratic fat-cat donations, Big Labor favors, pharmaceutical lobbying and Beltway business as usual? Answer: another toxic half-billion-dollar Barack Obama-approved crony deal. Move over, Solyndra. Here comes Siga-Gate."

[Michelle Malkin]

We Sent ‘Tea Party’ Republicans to Washington for This?

"Lawmakers emerged from the closed-door meeting saying Hensarling had made the case that offering some new revenue — $300 billion in at least one publicized offer — would be a good trade to secure a permanent extension of the George W. Bush-era tax rates."

[RedState]

The State Owns Your Body Parts?

"Officials running a federal program that is considering redefining death are going to be seeking further public comment after members of the Christian Medical Association raised alarms about several problems, including what they believe would be an open door to pressure families to donate organs before their loved one has died."

[WND]

"the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone's permission."..... Cass Sunstein, Obama Administration Regulatory "Czar".  

The Secrets of Soros, Obama, Occupiers and the MSM (Part 1)

"Snopes.com just verified last Thursday that Vice President Joe Biden's attorney son, Robert Hunter Biden, was retained for years to "undertake some lobbying efforts on behalf of Brookfield Office Properties," which just happens to own Zuccotti Park in New York, where the Occupiers rally their national movement.

Snopes.com also verified that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's live-in girlfriend, Diana L. Taylor, is on the board of directors of Brookfield Office Properties.

And just two months ago in September, the federal government's Department of Energy guaranteed a stimulus "loan" of $168.9 million to Brookfield Asset Management, which is a parent company of Brookfield Office Properties.

But I'm sure those local and Washington governmental associations with Occupy Wall Street are all just coincidental and inconsequential, right?"

[NewsBusters]

BUT YOU READ NONE OF THIS IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ----- DID YOU?

A Day in the Life of an Occupy Wall St. Protester

The End of the Light Bulb as We Know It

"I was at Home Depot making a beeline for the light bulb aisle.  Why? Because the end of days is drawing nigh.  Not in the Biblical sense, but in the Environmental Protection Agency sense: there were only a scant eight weeks (now only seven) before the end of the light bulb as we know it.  As of January 1, 2012, Americans will have their freedom of light bulb choice snuffed out by an omnibus 2007 law requiring that general-purpose bulbs be 25% more energy-efficient than the current, justly-beloved, incandescent bulb.

There are a few exceptions, but the next 49 days are the last for the sale of 100-watt incandescent bulbs.

The 2010 elections demonstrated that Americans are fed up with government intrusion. The federal government has crept so deep into our lives that federal agencies now determine what kind of light bulbs the American people are allowed to purchase. "

[PJ media]

Why Dems can’t quit Occupy Wall Street

"The Occupy protests are about jobs.  The Occupiers are unemployed and they tend to have a certain class of college degree and cannot find a certain class of job.  Anderson strikes close to the heart of the problem with Blue Inequality:

The helping professions, the professions of therapeutic authoritarianism (the social workers as well as the public safety workers), the virtuecrats, the regulatory class, etc., have a problem — they mostly service and manage individuals, the client-consumers of the welfare state.  Their rents are not leveraged very much, certainly not globally, and are limited to what amounts to an hourly wage.  The method of ramping up wages, however, is through public employee unions and their own special ability to access the public-private divide.   But, as everyone understands, that model no longer works, because it has overreached and overleveraged, to the point that even the system’s most sympathetic politicians understand that it cannot pay up."

[Patterico]

Obama Supporter’s Company Wins $433 Million No-Bid Contract for Experimental Smallpox Drug

"I will finally end the abuse of no-bid contracts once and for all. The days of sweetheart deals for Halliburton and the like will be over when I’m in the White House.” – Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama, October 2, 2008
*****
 Read about his lapse of memory ..........

Democracy Versus Mob Rule

"In various cities across the country, mobs of mostly young, mostly incoherent, often noisy and sometimes violent demonstrators are making themselves a major nuisance.

Meanwhile, many in the media are practically gushing over these "protesters," and giving them the free publicity they crave for themselves and their cause -- whatever that is, beyond venting their emotions on television."

[Thomas Sowell]

Brave New Transnational Progressive World

"If you think Washington DC is too far away to hear us, wait until the "transnational progressives" get their way with us. Obama and his crew would be delighted to surrender American sovereignty, a the expense of the individual."

[Resistance and Life]

Michael Moore’s Massive Michigan Vacation Mansion Beyond 99 Percent’s Wildest Dreams

Michael Moore's "fishin' shack" in Michigan

A Gold Rush of Subsidies in the Search for Clean Energy

"The government support — which includes loan guarantees, cash grants and contracts that require electric customers to pay higher rates — largely eliminated the risk to the private investors and almost guaranteed them large profits for years to come. The beneficiaries include financial firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, conglomerates like General Electric, utilities like Exelon and NRG — even Google."

[NY Times]

The ‘Coming Layoffs Due to the Expense of Obamacare’ Story Du Jour

Is it too late for this company to request a waiver?
[Michelle Malkin]

Since Obamacare’s Passage, Millions Have Lost Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance 

"Throughout the Obamacare debate, President Obama repeatedly promised, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” Now, Gallup reports that from the first quarter of 2010 (when Obama signed Obamacare into law) to the third quarter of this year, 2 percent of American adults lost their employer sponsored health insurance. In other words, about 4.5 million Americans lost their employer-sponsored insurance over a span of just 18 months. "

[Weekly Standard] 

Yesterday's National Emergency Alert Test Was a Total Failure: America Failed It

"Yesterday’s unprecedented federal test of the National Emergency Alert system was a total failure according to a report by ABC News.

As a libertarian without the faintest bit of confidence in the ability of the bloated regime in Washington to do anything right, I am thoroughly unsurprised by this news and I absolutely relish listening to the mainstream media establishment admitting to the incompetence of a government that they want to manage every aspect of our lives from cradle to grave, feed us, clothe us, and then make the rest of the world as “lucky” as we are to have Washington looking out for us. "

[Left Coast Rebel]

FROM 2 YEARS AGO: Republicans who voted to confirm Holder now complain about Holder

"GOP Sen. Kit Bond voted to confirm crime-coddling Attorney General Eric Holder on February 2, 2009.

Sen. Bond cluelessly explained that Holder was “a good listener.” As I reported at the time, 19 Bend Over Republicans joined the majority to install Holder as head of the Obama Justice Department. Let me refresh your memories:"

[Michelle Malkin]

David Axelrod's Pattern of Sexual Misbehavior

"Herman Cain​ has spent his life living and working all over the country -- Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never in Chicago.

So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod​.

Suspicions had already fallen on Sheila O'Grady, who is close with David Axelrod and went straight from being former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA), as being the person who dug up Herman Cain's personnel records from the National Restaurant Association (NRA).

The Daley-controlled IRA works hand-in-glove with the NRA. And strangely enough, Cain's short, three-year tenure at the NRA is evidently the only period in his decades-long career during which he's alleged to have been a sexual predator."

[Ann Coulter]


SEE ALSO:   President Obama's Godfather
 

Who Are These Fat-Cat Few at the Top?

"First lady Michelle Obama the other day railed at “the few at the top,” who do all sorts of bad things. A few months ago, we began hearing of the “1 percent” who are responsible for the current economic mess. “They” apparently make all their money at the expense of the other 99 percent. Are they the same as last year’s villains, who had not paid “their fair share” while making over $200,000 in annual income?"

[Victor Davis Hanson]

A CURE FOR THE #OWS'ers

The Occupy Wall Street protesters are complaining about everything from corporations to having to repay student loans. Is America the victim of its own success? Have we created a generation of self-entitled cry babies? Is it time to make these people spend three and half days in the woods so that they can appreciate what capitalism has given them? Find out.

BREAKING NEWS: DEMS WALK AWAY FROM SUPER COMMITTEE

Latest update on the lack of progress for Dems and Republicans to reach a tax deal. Yesterday Democrats of the Super Committee rejected Republicans' offer to "raise federal tax collections by nearly $300 billion over the next decade."

"And the truth is quite the opposite the republicans have offered tax reform that lowers tax rates and closes loopholes.The president talks about millionaires not paying their taxes, we are trying to close some loopholes, but we want to be part of tax reform. We have offered a serious credible offer, but basically they have walked away from the table. " ... Rand Paul

Accuser filed complaint in next job

"A woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in 1999 complained three years later at her next job about unfair treatment, saying she should be allowed to work from home after a serious car accident and accusing a manager of circulating a sexually charged email, The Associated Press has learned.

To settle the complaint at the immigration service, Kraushaar initially demanded thousands of dollars in payment, a reinstatement of leave she used after the accident earlier in 2002, promotion on the federal pay scale and a one-year fellowship to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, according to a former supervisor familiar with the complaint. The promotion itself would have increased her annual salary between $12,000 and $16,000, according to salary tables in 2002 from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Kraushaar told the AP she considered her employment complaint "relatively minor" and she later dropped it"

[AP]

Obama Couldn’t Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax

This is no joke ........

"President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees."
[The Foundry]


UPDATE: 

Obama Administration to Delay New 15-Cent Christmas Tree Tax

The Top 1% Wealth Share in the United States, 1916-2000

Hmmmmm... there are even more "rich" nowadays ?????

The Only Good Occupation...

"The Only Good Occupation... 

• Is getting a job. So you won't have to leech off Mom and Dad anymore.
• Is taking responsibility for your own neurotic hangups, and not blaming your gnawing feelings of inferiority on the most miraculous, creative, and popular economic system in the world -- including the parts of China, India, and Russia that actually work. 
• .
• .
• .
• .
• Is to realize when you've been cultified and suckered, but good, by Crony Capitalists who have convinced you and a million other dead-heads to believe that you are going to bring peace, love, and proper obedience to the whole wide world. They are making out like bandits for themselves, and you're just the junior storm troopers."

 [James Lewis]
 

Numbers Games

"One of the things that has struck me, when I have gone on luxury cruise ships, is that most of the passengers look like they are older than the captain -- and luxury cruise ships don't have juveniles as captains."
[Thomas Sowell]

OBAMA BEER

Latest Cain accuser seems more than a little suspect

Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals #5:
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."

Witness: Sharon Bialek hugged Herman Cain during Tea Party meeting a month ago

Who says Cain's accuser is not a GOLD-DIGGER?

[clipper]

The Case Against Barack Obama, Sr.

"It is widely held that Barack Obama, Sr., goat herder from Kenya, is the father of President Obama.  We now know that this contention is probably false.

[This article goes on to explain and presents detailed evidence why it is probably false.  

It ends by saying ......] 

The evidence is clear: there is no license; there was no marriage.  Ann took Obama's name, but there was no love, no estrangement, no coercion, no selfless gallantry in the "marriage."  Obama was a financially desperate student who got a big break when the Dunhams found him and paid him to be a father in name only.  Ann and son Barry went on with their lives, and Obama [Sr.] continued on with his studies."

[Don Wilkie]

Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan

Here's a more in-depth description of Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan than you see most everywhere else.  It sets straights several misconceptions about his plan.

[clipper]

American media doing a 'hatchet job' on me

"I am a serious person, seeking the opportunity to do a serious and very important job. Our nation has very serious problems, particularly of an economic nature, and Barack Obama does not have the skill, knowledge or will to solve them. 

I do. 

Unfortunately, the media-driven process by which one must seek this opportunity is fundamentally UN-serious. I have touched on this before – the emphasis on "gaffes," gotcha questions and time devoted to trivial nonsense – and everyone knows the process only became further detached from relevance this week as the media published anonymous, ancient, vague personal allegations against me. "

[Herman Cain]

Read this entire piece and you will get Herman Cain's views on the entire matter.  It is VERY refreshing to hear from a major political candidate.  Just the sort of approach we need to get our federal government back on OUR track !

[clipper]

Copenhagen Philharmonic Flash Mob plays "Bolero"

Video: Gingrich/Cain Debate

Here is the entire Cain-Gingrich "debate" which took place last night.  Courtesy of Michelle Malkin.

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)

"Freshmen in college wade through a blizzard of calculus, physics and chemistry in lecture halls with hundreds of other students. And then many wash out.

Studies have found that roughly 40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree. That increases to as much as 60 percent when pre-medical students, who typically have the strongest SAT scores and high school science preparation, are included, according to new data from the University of California at Los Angeles. That is twice the combined attrition rate of all other majors. "

[NY Times]

Nothing new here ! This was true 50 years ago when clipper spent six years getting an Engineering degree in what was then a five year course.  Engineering students back then saw classmates drop out of Engineering to go into History, Education, and other "Liberal Arts", simply because Engineering was "too hard".  As high achiever high school grads (yes - we had grade inflation even in high school back then), they did not like becoming a C-average student in Engineering!  Why not go major in Art History and graduate Summa cum-Laude?

[clipper] 

Occupy crime wave update

"Events took a tragic turn up north at Occupy Vancouver. Jim Hoft catches the story of a woman at Occupy Vancouver who found dead on Saturday in her tent. The protester apparently died of a drug overdose.

You can’t make this stuff up. Jim observes that “in a strange twist of events, the band D.O.A. began performing a live outdoor concert about 20 meters away while police set up crime scene tape around the now-collapsed tent.”  "

 [Power Line]

Police Give #OccupyLA Carte Blanche: Protesters Shut-Down Downtown During Rush Hour Without Permit For March

Media to be controlled with ever more sophisticated technical means

"Various Russian agencies are being equipped technically to control the media, including those in the world web. They explain that there are both legal requirements and professional necessity for this. However, the fear in society about tighter censorship, especially on the Internet, is only getting worse."
[ITAR-TASS]

Sounds like the Russians are tightening the noose on the free flow of information.
[clipper]

Nazi-saluting nationalists march through Moscow in 'Take back Russia' protest over Muslim migrants

"Thousands of far-right Nazi-saluting nationalists marched in Moscow today in a 'Take Back Russia' protest at Muslim migrants.  Resentment is growing over the migrants from Russia's Caucasus and the money the Kremlin sends to those troubled regions.  Chanting 'Russia for Russians' and 'Migrants today, occupiers tomorrow,' about 5,000 demonstrators, mostly young men, marched through a working-class neighbourhood on the outskirts of the capital."

[U.K. Mail]

*UPDATED* #OccupyWallStreet: The Rap Sheet, So Far

"One of the secret weapons the corrupt mainstream media uses in their never-ending quest to Palace Guard for the left is context. For example, when it came to the Tea Party, the MSM was notorious for amplifying  a single incident (that was usually a lie) and using it to attempt to smear and define an entire movement. This is what you do when you want to quickly take out a political enemy.

The MSM’s contextual game changes, however, when their desire is to strengthen a movement and give it credibility and room to grow.  By dutifully reporting individual incidents but not reporting on the growing scope and size of Occupy Wall Street lawlessness, the MSM is willfully covering up the violence, vandalism, and anti-Semitism that truly does define this movement.

What I’ve collected below  is far from comprehensive but still shows over 75 [now 150] incidents of sexual assault,  violence, vandalism,  anti-Semitism, extortion, perversion,  and lawlessness."

[John Nolte]

Obama insults Sarkozy at G-20 Summit

"Barack Obama who campaigns against his opponents by constantly denigrating and belittling them, thought he'd try a joke out at the G-20 Summit on Friday.

Read about it HERE 

But one thing about narcissism that is obvious to others is a lack of empathy - the inability to recognize how one's words are affecting another. Obama is so wrapped up in himself and his own brilliance that he was oblivious to the insult he delivered to the French president.

What a sad commentary on a man who can't engage his opponents without delivering personal insults."

 [Rick Moran]

UPDATE:  Sarkozy insult to 'island' Britain: Snarling French president dismisses the English saying 'you don't understand Europe'

"French president Nicolas Sarkozy launched an astonishing attack on Britain’s attitude to Europe last night.   The furious French leader was branded the ‘new de Gaulle’ after claiming the British can’t comprehend Europe because we are ‘an island’."

 [U.K. Mail]

Seems like a whole lotta insultin' goin' on !!!!

 

Occupying the Minds of Our Youth

Here is the sort of leftist CRAP the union dominated teachers are foisting on our children !!!!!

STAY ALERT AMERICA..... THE RADICALS ARE ON THE MARCH

[clipper]

Breaking: Joel Bennett – Lawyer for Cain Accuser – Releases Statement

Until these women, who have publicly (through their attorneys) "described" their victimization, subject themselves to the face-to-face scrutiny of the press to the extent Cain has, their whimpering should be relegated to the dustbin of history.  Most Americans find it grossly unfair, unseemly, and just plain chicken s--t for accusers to project, then run and hide from investigation.

[clipper]

Unions & #OccupyWallStreet Reveal Their Hidden Agenda: A Worldwide Financial Tax

"On Thursday, the #OccupyWallStreet and union movement will be taking is carnival show on the road to the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, D.C. What is their agenda? To protest for a worldwide tax on all financial transactions involving the purchase or sale of stocks, bonds, commodities, unit trusts, mutual funds, and derivatives such as futures and options. They call it the “Robin Hood Tax.”"

[RedState]

2012 DNC Discriminates Against Charlotte Businesses, Demands Unionization

North Carolina is a Right To Work state .... you cannot be forced to join a union.   Here's a printing contractor who cannot even get to bid on jobs unless he turns his company into a union shop !  This is the STRANGLEHOLD THE LABOR UNIONS have on the DEMOCRATS.

[clipper]

Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes – Ever!

"A CNN article reports that many corporations don’t pay income taxes, and many more don’t pay the 35 percent corporate tax rate. The average tax is around 18 percent. You and I should be thankful that some corporations don’t pay any taxes and be upset that the average tax rate is 18 percent.

When a corporation pays taxes, it counts those taxes as an expense. All business expenses are passed on to consumers. That means that they are passed on to you and me. When Congress calls for more taxes on Big Oil, they are actually calling for a tax on us. This is in addition to the taxes we already pay to the state where we buy the gas and the federal government."

[Godfather Politics]

More than half health care deadlines missed by Obama administration

He cannot even administer those laws HE WANTED!!

"The Obama administration has failed to meet more than half of the new health care law's deadlines, from submitting plans for new, value-based Medicare purchasing programs to publishing criteria for determining the medically under-served.

A report requested by Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, indicates that the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies missed 18 of 30 deadlines since the Affordable Care Act was passed in March 2010."

[Washington Times]

Tea Party vs. #Occupy in One Word:

"Civilization"

 [Left Coast Rebel]

Warning: Obama Ed aims at U.S. takeover

All schools – even parents at home – may be forced to teach gov't agenda

"An organization that monitors the U.S. government's influence on education, and specifically on parents who choose to school their own children, is warning of a pending move in Washington that would result in "de facto national education standards." 

The measure could not only require parents who home school their children to teach certain government agenda issues but also effectively remove much of the decision-making authority of local school boards and districts, warns the Home School Legal Defense Association."

[WND]

Sherriff Joe Demands to See Obama Birth Certificate Documentation

"Sheriff Arpaio is a no nonsense law enforcement leader that has been extremely tough on criminals and those in the jails.

Sheriff Joe is also friends with retired Graham County (AZ) Sheriff Richard Mack who won a case in the US Supreme Court.  The Court ruled that the county sheriff is the top legal authority in their county and even have jurisdiction over federal officers.

In order for anyone to be placed on an election ballot in Maricopa County, they must provide the proper documentation to prove that they meet the eligibility requirements, and that includes anyone running for the office of President of the United States.  In other words, Sheriff Joe, the ultimate authority in the county has to be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt as to the authenticity of Obama’s birth status before his name will be placed on the 2012 ballot in this heavily populated county.

Not satisfied with the several different versions of Obama birth certificates released by the White House, Sheriff Joe launched an official investigation, run by his Cold Case Posse.  Their task is to determine the eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to run for the office of president. "

[Godfather Politics] 

Not difficult to see where THIS is headed !!!

Higher Education; Just Another Government Created Bubble

" a lot of noise is being made about the debt burden of younger Americans who have mortgaged their future to achieve what is more or less a worthless piece of paper. Not surprisingly, most of that noise is being made by the same geniuses who though that shelling out $100K to major in Feminist Studies was a great idea and going to get them laid."

[Left Coast Rebel]

AG Holder's Walls Come Tumblin' Down

"The pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over the Fast and Furious scandal keeps mounting. The Daily Caller reported 17 members of Congress are now demanding Holder step down pronto. Only 17?  Why aren't the rest of the Republican representatives calling for the top lawmaker's resignation?"

[M Catharine Evans]

Steve Bridges as "President Barack Obama"

The Herman Cain Allegations

"Back when I was a lawyer I handled several sexual harassment suits. None of mine settled for less than the high end of six figures.

Reading about these two complaints, my gut reaction to them is that settling for five figures, which could be as little as $10,000.00 and as high as $99,999, was “go away” money. 

If the Chief Executive Officer of the National Restaurant Association, at the time one of the top 25 trade associations in Washington, D.C., were sexually harassing someone, that someone could get a lot of money. It just strikes me that a settlement for less than six figures is money paid to deal with the nuisances of an employee fired or otherwise let go who decided to raise the specter of harassment to get more money to leave without causing a scene.

Dealing with harassment claims, no matter how substantive or frivolous, is one of the costs of doing business in America that causes more and more businesses to not do business in America."

[Red State]

Sheriff Joe's posse delivers promised Obama surprise

"Arizona's maverick Sheriff Joe Arpaio promised surprises in his jurisdiction's investigation of Barack Obama's eligibility for the presidential ballot and his Cold Case Posse is delivering – raising questions that touch on the authenticity of the long-form birth certificate issued last April and the possibility Obama is using a fraudulent Social Security Number. 

Sources close to the investigation say the posse has decided it needs to see original birth records before it can conclude whether Obama should be eligible for the presidential ballot in 2012, not an electronic file or scanned copies. 

The sources say the panel needs to examine the microfilm documenting Obama's birth, as well as the ink-and-paper original 1961 birth records the Hawaii Department of Health is holding in its vault."

[WND]

Cain campaign has biggest online fundraising day

"Two sources within the Cain campaign are telling me that although Mr. Cain was hit with sexual harassment accusations in the 90's from two females who worked for him, when he was president of the National Restaurant Association, Monday's online campaign fundraising for the campaign was the best ever up to this point.

Human Events is reporting that Cain Campaign Manager Mark Block says the campaign raised $250,000 in online donatinos in one day. However, one Cain campaign source confirmed to me that the fundraising for Monday is well over $300,000."

[Washington Times]

{clipper is proudly among those who supported Herman Cain yesterday}

Obama: The Affirmative Action President

"Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.  He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as legislator. 

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon -- affirmative action.  Not in the legal sense, of course.  But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.  

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back.  Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow.  Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action.  Yes, racist.  Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin -- that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is.  And that is what America did to Obama.

True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be?  As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate.  All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.  What could this breed if not the sort of empty  narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?"

 [American Thinker]