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This Week’s Events

The U.S. State Department confirms this week that they made a phone call to the family of Al Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan to offer the government's condolences on his death during a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.

President Barack Obama joined four unemployed construction workers in Florida for a round of beers on the day his jobs bill went down on Capitol Hill.

I missed this last week. The Nobel Peace Prize committee named Tawakkul Karman of Yemen as one one of this year's three recipients. Tawakkul Karman represents a party directly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. So, again, killing is fine, as long as it is just Jews?

The Wall Street occupiers are still near Wall Street and nearly 1000 cities have similar protests with varying amounts of people. According to what I have read, there are 100,000 marching in Rome, Italy.

Apparently, Al Sharpton has organized a march in Washington D.C. for this past Saturday, in order to support the Obama Jobs Bill. Thousands showed up. The Coffee Party (remember them?) will be holding another march in Washington the 29^th of this month. The promo was quite interesting, because it was very vague, speaking about the tax money in Washington being used to buy power and influence, and the lobbyists influence on spending decisions. However, not a word is said about paying more or less taxes.

Harrisburg, the Capitol of Pennsylvania, is filing for bankruptcy. Since 1980, fewer than 300 of the nation's 19,000 municipal entities have filed for bankruptcy. The bankruptcy filing was a hotly contested issue and strongly opposed by Mayor Linda D. Thompson (D), who recently spent $35,000 in taxpayer funds remodeling her office.

Oklahoma billionaire George Kaiser has been in the headlines in recent months thanks to his role as a major investor in Solyndra LLC, the now-bankrupt California solar panel maker. It appears as though Kaiser, a campaign bundler for Obama and a billionaire on the Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, paid no taxes for several years, and a tiny amount of taxes in other years.

Another solar company, SunPower, is receiving $1.2 billion in taxpayer guaranteed loans. 15 jobs were created.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is trying to revive the national infrastructure bank so that more billions of tax dollars can be loaned to the special interests favored by Democrats.

The Obama administration says it is unable to go forward with a major program in the president's signature health care overhaul law - a new long-term care insurance plan. Officials said Friday the long-term care program has critical design flaws that can't be fixed to make it financially self-sustaining. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Congress in a letter that she does not see a viable path forward at this time.

President Barack Obama won't be sharing his BlackBerry messages with House investigators seeking communications about Solyndra, the White House told Hill Republicans on Friday.

The Obama administration is appealing a judge's ruling that Secret Service records of visitors to the White House complex are subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

The House passed the Protect Life Act, which would ban women from using the health reform law's tax subsidies to purchase health plans that cover abortions and would allow hospital and health care providers to refuse to provide abortions if they have objections on grounds of conscience. The vote was 251 to 172, with 15 Democrats voting for the bill and two Republicans opposing it.

During his bus tour across the key swing state next week, the North Carolina Republican Party plans to attack President Obama for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars campaigning around the country for an American Jobs Act that has now failed in the Senate. To get attention, they are renting a tow truck to follow the president around.

Art Laffer, famed economist of the Reagan era, comes out in favor of Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan.

Al-Awlaki's son was killed in an American drone strike in southern Yemen, which took out 7 al-Qaida-linked militants.

The son of the `Blind Sheikh,' the spiritual leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group who is in a US jail for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, was killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan.

Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami on Thursday warned the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of a possible US military attack, following charges that Iran was behind a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington.

Do you recall the Muslim woman Safoorah Khan, who filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against the Berkeley School District, because they would not give her the time off to go on a religious pilgrimage to Mecca. If memory serves, this was her first or second year as a teacher. The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced it settled, forcing the district to pay $75,000 in lost back pay, compensatory damages and attorneys' fees.

The world population should reach 7 billion this coming week.

Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson (Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about half a billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming. Note that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050 (UN Population Division).

By sailing to the New World, Christopher Columbus and the other explorers who followed may have set off a chain of events that cooled Europe's climate for centuries. This is according to Richard Nevle, a geochemist at Stanford University, who says the European conquest of the Americas decimated the people living there, leaving large areas of cleared land untended. Trees that filled in this territory pulled billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, diminishing the heat-trapping capacity of the atmosphere and cooling climate. Nevle estimates that there would have been a sudden drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is recorded in Antarctic ice during the 16^th and 17^th centuries. This depletion of a key greenhouse gas, in turn, may have kicked off Europe's so-called Little Ice Age, centuries of cooler temperatures that followed the Middle Ages. Damn that Christopher Columbus!

Say What?

Liberals:

Candidate Obama about his political future in 2012: "I don't mind. I'm used to being an underdog.

President Obama: "We're not going to wait for Congress. So my instruction to . . . all the advisers who are sitting around the table is, scour this report, identify all those areas in which we can act administratively without additional congressional authorization, and just get it done."

President Obama at a fundraiser: "I was mentioning to some of the basketball players who were here that this is like the second quarter, maybe the third, and we've still got a lot of work to do. But I want everybody to know I'm a fourth-quarter player."

President Obama, after his jobs bill went down in the Senate: "Tonight's vote is by no means the end of this fight. Independent economists have said that the American Jobs Act would grow the economy and lead to nearly two million jobs, which is why the majority of the American people support these bipartisan, common-sense proposals." 2 Democrats also voted against this bill.

Jim Messina, in an email blast to Obama supporters: "Their [Republican] strategy is to suffocate the economy for the sake of what they think will be a political victory. They think that the more folks see Washington taking no action to create jobs, the better their chances in the next election. So they're doing everything in their power to make sure nothing gets done. There's still time for principled Republican senators to declare their independence from this kamikaze political strategy."

Representative Maxine Waters: "The Tea Party has so rigged the law that regardless of whether the supercommittee fails or succeeds to meet its goal, it is likely that the end result will be draconian spending cuts to critical programs."

Email in "Occupy" archive, "Re: Can OWS be turned into a Democratic Party Movement?"; “We're in this for the long haul. There are no "solutions" that can be presented quickly to make us go away. And so there will be moments where our presence is no longer an uncomfortable and unknown variable, but rather is normalized and integrated. It's in those moments that we have to push the envelop [sic], pry open the space of possibility even farther. We go as far as we can to destabalize [sic], but maintain momentum. And when that's the new "normal" then we go farther. That's how change happens, how we shift the terrain and the terms of the game.”

Sign of occupier in Britain: “RICH BEWARE YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED.”

Occupy L.A. Speaker: "One of the speakers said the solution is nonviolent movement. No, my friend. I'll give you two examples: French Revolution, and Indian so-called Revolution. Gandhi, Gandhi today is, with respect to all of you, Gandhi today is a tumor that the ruling class is using constantly to mislead us. French Revolution made fundamental transformation. But it was bloody...So, ultimately, the bourgeosie won't go without violent means. Revolution! Yes, revolution that is led by the working class. Long live revolution! Long live socialism!"

Wall Street protester chant: “You can become immortal...you can have sex with animals or whatever.”

Occupy Wall Street in Los Angeles protester Patricia McAllister (employee of Los Angeles Unified School District) "I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government. . . . they need to be run out of this country."

Wall Street protester sign: “We demand sweeping, unspecified change.” I don’t know if this was real.

Cindy Sheehan in Cesar Chavez Park in Sacramento to the Occupy Sacramento movement: "I'm happy that this movement is leaderless, but I think it's dangerous for it to be directionless...Obama has proven to be the president of the one percent, if he or Democrats were the answer, then guess what? We wouldn't have to be here today," Sheehan said. She urged the crowd of several hundred to keep their revolution non-partisan, free of influence from the left or the right.

After Sheehan's speech, the protesters marched down J Street, eventually making their way to the north steps of the State Capital. There's millions of us and a handful of them - we can't be afraid. We can't. How can 99 percent live in fear of one percent?"

Members of the radical left-wing Jewish Voice for Peace passed out flyers in Chicago, which read: "Be a Passivist (sic), be a Nonviolent Activist, Refuse to Pay Taxes, Destroy Israel!"

Classify under, get a clue, Donna Brazile explaining the origins of the Wall Street protesters: “I do believe that it's a legitimate movement that grew out of the public outrage over the debt ceiling debate when many Americans saw members of congress basically sitting on their hands doing nothing.”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran on the Wall Street protesters and America: "[The U.S. is built upon a] corrupt foundation has been exposed to the American people...They (U.S. government) may crack down on this movement but cannot uproot it. Ultimately, it will grow so that it will bring down the capitalist system and the West."

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: "This movement of popular outrage is expanding to 10 cities and the repression is horrible, I don't know how many are in prison now...Poverty's growing, the misery is getting worse," he said, referring to the causes of the US protests. "But that empire is still there, still a threat ... [President Barack] Obama is on his way down, for lots of reasons. He was a big fraud."

FoxNews correspondent Malia Lazu on what system of government she wants: “When we figure out that system, we’ll let you know...we’re tired of that foot on our necks.” (Quoted from memory)

Former White House green jobs czar Van Jones: "Early this morning in New York, faced with the threat of eviction, the protesters at Occupy Wall Street were joined by union members, by community organizers, and by thousands of other New Yorkers standing in solidarity with them. And because they refused to back down, the park's owners had to. This victory in New York shows how powerful we can be when we all stand together."

President Obama: "At this moment, when our politics appear so sharply polarized, and faith in our institutions so greatly diminished, we need more than ever to take heed of Dr. King's teachings...If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there. Those with power and privilege will often decry any call for change as divisive. They'll say any challenge to the existing arrangements are unwise and destabilizing. Dr. King understood that peace without justice was no peace at all."

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.): "I don't know whether [House Majority Leader] Mr. Cantor (R-Va.) watched any of the town meetings that we had in August of 2009, [but] they were much more confrontational in many respects than these [Wall Street] demonstrations are."

DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) on the Wall Street protesters: "We understand their frustration, we applaud their activism and hopefully they're going to help get the Republicans in Washington's attention so we shift the Republican's focus from just Barack Obama's job, to everyone's job,"

President Bill Clinton on how the Arab Spring is similar to the Wall Street protesters: "They wanted to build a modern, inclusive state, including for the fundamentalist Islam - Muslims, who wanted to live in their own way. But they had a vision - they had no program and they had no organized political party. That's the problem the Occupy Wall Street people have."

Al Gore: "With democracy in crisis, a true grassroots movement pointing out the flaws in our system is the first step in the right direction. Count me among those supporting and cheering on the Occupy Wall Street movement."

Elliot Spitzer: "What the NYPD did with the arrest of 700 protesters on Brooklyn Bridge was the single best public relations for the protesters because suddenly people stood up and said, `Wait a minute, I agree with these protesters. I'm with them emotionally, viscerally. In my bones, I know they are right.’ ”

From the website of the Communist Party of the USA: “This is an exciting time! Thousands of mainly young people have been occupying Wall Street for three weeks already, and the "Occupy Movement" has spread to more than 200 other cities. On Oct. 6 the actions spread to our nation's capital.”

The Official statement of the American Nazi party: “Many racialists are unsure about, and even against, these Occupy Wall Street protests all around the country. It has been pointed out to me that many protesters are non-white and/or "communists." Well my answer to that is: "WHO CARES?!" They are against the same evil, corrupted, degenerate capitalist elitists that WE are against! Instead of screaming, "6 million more!" The pro-white movementites should be JOINING this Occupy movement and supporting it!”

NY Times editorial writer Paul Krugman: "What the protests are doing is they've changed the conversation already, and they've changed it onto, we're actually talking about the right things. I mean, the story of where we are now as a nation is we had a monstrous failure of the existing system, followed by an monstrous injustice, we had an enormous, you know, a financial industry that ran wild, crippled the economy, which remains rippled to this day, was bailed out, and the players who bear some responsibility faced virtually no consequences, and more important, there's been very little real reform, some from the Obama administration side, but not as much as we'd like, and the other party's busy trying to tear it down. And somehow the conversation that we've been having about all these issues, is basically not about these issues. We've spent almost two years now with the parties arguing who's got the more convincing fiscal austerity and who can do the most to remove restrictions on business. And now, again, big difference between the parties, don't ever claim there is an equivalence. But the Democrats have to a large extent followed the Republicans off into this blind alley....That's right. And so, all of a sudden, we're now talking about, hey, what about Wall Street, what about these people who made such a mess? How are we going to make sure that the general public shares in whatever economic gains we have, that we have rules in effect that prevent the kind of catastrophe that overtook our economy in 2008. That in itself, even if it ends right there, that's a huge success. But I think the explosion of this movement really suggests that there were an awful lot of people who were just waiting for somebody to say it, and here we are, and it's a wonderful thing."

Michael Moore pleads with the NY police: "The police need to join us in the same way the Egyptian army joined the people in Freedom Square there in Cairo. This is my appeal to the New York Police Department.”

Liberal civility:

Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi: “When Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor and healthcare providers do not have to intervene if this bill is passed. It's just appalling.” The bill in question is the Protect Life Act, H.R. 358, which would amend President Obama's Affordable Care Act to reflect the Hyde amendment by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from funding any health plan that includes coverage of elective abortions.

Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) about Republicans: "These are not patriots, people who love this country want to see jobs created....I don't think they love this country. They're not concerned about the economic well being of the country as a whole."

Sean Penn: "You have, what I call, ‘Get the n-word out of the White House party;” the TEA party...If you ask a representative of the Tea Party, `OK Social Security, socialist. Get rid of it?' They're going to get very confused. At the end of the day, there's a big bubble coming out of their heads saying, you know, ‘Can we just lynch him?’ "

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

Anderson Cooper: "But by his own admission not having the facts doesn't always stop Herman Cain from saying what's on his mind...Some [things Cain says] are contradicted by facts, some seem barely tethered to reality. Others though, are matters of opinion, not fact, and have stirred up such controversy they become news."

Diane Sawyer: “We thought we would bring you up to date on those protesters, the occupy Wall Street movement: as of tonight, it has spread to more than 250 American cities, more than 1000 countries, every continent except Antarctica.”

MSNBC news analyst Donny Deutsche: "Obviously everybody is saying, they need to kind of clarify, they need policy issues -- 'this is what we want' as opposed to.... The other thing it needs, and I don't want this to come out the wrong way. If we think -- not needs but will happen -- if you think back to the late '60s, what is the most stirring image of all of the rebellion that happened. What do we remember? Kent State. Now, I'm not saying somebody has to get killed. What will happen, there will be a climax moment of class warfare somehow played out on screen that I think will -- the same way '9-9-9', if you will, kind of simplifies a message -- that articulates this clash. So, both the real clarification in terms of policy and unfortunately some imagery says to America, and I think those are the two things..."

Liberals from the past:

Eric Holder, February 2009: "As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons...I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum."

From a Washington Post editorial, when the details of Operation Fast and Furious began to become known: “Lawmakers should give the ATF the tools it needs to fight illegal gun trafficking. They should enact stronger penalties for straw purchases and craft a federal gun-smuggling statute; close the gun-show loophole, which allows buyers under certain circumstances to purchase weapons without a background check; resuscitate the ban on assault weapons; and give the ATF the authority to collect data on multiple sales of long guns in border states. The Senate should move quickly to confirm a director for the long-leaderless bureau.”

Chart is Canadian Oil production

President Lyndon B. Johnson: "I'll have those n***rs voting Democratic for the next 200 years" Obviously, this is a very damaging quote, not out of line with LBJ’s vocabulary. Google researched this quotation:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/587927.html

Crazy Muslims:

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: "The corruption of the capitalist regime has become evident for these people. This movement will soar to completely mark the downfall of the West and the capitalist regime."

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

ESPN’s Mike Lupica: “Say this about the state of the country nearly three years into the Obama administration: If this President didn't create this economic mess, he hasn't done very much to get us out of it. At a time when there is this amazing shout from the streets - and even as those on the right sneer about "these people" down in Zuccotti Park as if their dissent is a form of dirty terrorism - Obama and his people will raise a billion dollars if they have to so they can keep him in office. At a time when the protesters, and God bless them, put big money and big corporations on notice, how long before they go after the corporation that is the Obama campaign, just so they don't look like part of it?”

Crosstalk:

Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL): "So in your experience of 28 years, plus being the chief financial officer, can - have you ever heard of taxpayer money being subordinate to outside commercial firms?"

Treasury Department Federal Financing Bank CFO Gary Burner: "No sir, I have not."

Rep. Stearns: "Never, in your entire - that's 28 plus 5 so that would be 33 years.."

Burner: "I'm involved in a limited supply but yes, sir."

Rep. Stearns: "So 33 years experience - in your-"

Burner: "It's 28 total, not 33."

Rep. Stearns: "28, total. In 28 years total, you have never seen taxpayer money subordinated?"

Burner: "No, sir."

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Reporter to Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky marching with the Wall Street occupiers: “Is this a patriotic rally tonight?”

Schakowsky: “I believe that it is.”

Reporter: “Where are all the American flags, if it is a patriotic rally?”

Schakowsky: [no answer]

Reporter: “Any reason why there isn’t any American flags here at a patriotic rally?”

Schakowsky: “I didn’t ask anybody; I’m dressed in red, white and blue.”

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George Stephanopoulos: We actually got a great question on Twitter about 2008. It's from Gale Glover, and he asks, "If hope and change define the 2008 campaign, what two words are going to make-- are going to define 2012?"

President Obama: I-- you know, I haven't quite boiled it down to a bumper sticker yet. But I think what'll-- define 2012 is-- you know, our vision for the future. That's three words. Four.

George Stephanopoulos: It's five, actually.

President Obama: ...Vision for the future. Four. There is-- going to be a contest of values and-- and vision in 2012.

Conservatives:

Senator Mitch McConnell, in a statement about Obama’s jobs bill: "Everyone who votes for this second stimulus will have to answer a simple but important question: why on earth would you support an approach that we already know won't work?"

Herman Cain: "[Obama's] never been a part of the black experience in America."

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NeoAnderthal post on the Wall Street occupiers:

“Gimme, gimme, gimme. The cry of the dirtbag hippy left.”

Darrell Issa in a letter to Eric Holder: “Instead of pledging all necessary resources to assist the congressional investigation in discovering the truth behind the fundamentally flawed Operation Fast and Furious, your letter instead did little but obfuscate, shift blame, berate, and attempt to change the topic away from the Department's responsibility in the creation, implementation, and authorization of this reckless program.”

Jeff Foxworthy on the Wall Street occupiers: “They’re on their iPads and on their iPhones protesting capitalism. Capitalism gave your dad the money to buy that for you.” (Quoted from memory).

Steve Forbes about the Wall Street occupiers: “This proves a college education doesn’t make you smarter.” (Quoted from memory and I think it was Forbes who said this)

Caller to the Joe Pags show on the Wall Street occupiers: “The people who want a totalitarian government are mad because the police are pushing them around.” (Quoted from memory)

Rush Limbaugh: "These protestors are the product of liberalism. They're not the product of compassion and good-heartedness and tolerance and all that other bogus stuff that supposedly attaches to liberals. This is nothing more than the success of ideological brainwashing -- mind bending, programming, propaganda."

Rush Limbaugh: "These protestors are walking zombies. These are Obama Zombies. These are the kinds of people that totalitarians dream of."

Rush Limbaugh: "This Occupy Wall Street is not an intellectual movement; it's a temper tantrum by a bunch of spoiled rotten kids who don't know anything."

Rush Limbaugh: "Have you ever wondered why Wall Street's being targeted now? Because blaming Bush has had its day. No longer works."

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Classify under, brevity is the soul of wit; Matthew Dowd: “Mitt Romney's problem isn't about a cult, it's about a core.”

Rush Limbaugh: "It's always amazed me that universities can raise prices with impunity. Nobody ever does anything about it, Big Education. And the reason why is that's where the brainwashing takes place."

Rush: "So half a billion dollars in stimulus money, Porkulus money is supposed to go to jobs training for so-called green jobs. Three years later, only a third of that money has been spent, only 40% of the people who were to be trained have been trained, and only 15% of those trainees have gotten jobs, and only 12% of those people have kept the job for six months."

Rush: "You can't even get your whole brain around the massive misuse of federal money that we have going to the guys in green energy. It's one of the biggest slush funds that has ever been created by a politician for himself."

Rush: "Conservatives run around the country, campaign, and get elected on conservatism; then go to Washington, get corrupted and co-opted by the culture there."

Rush: "If 80% of the American people think that the country's on the wrong track -- why is Obama

at 40% in the polls or 42% in the polls? Some of this stuff just doesn't make any sense to me."

Rush: "The Washington elite, the New York Times, and the media love a Republican elite that understands its place is number two in the pecking order. So the New York Times is now worried the 'wrong' people might get control of the GOP -- and you know how concerned the New York Times is about the well-being of the Republican Party."

Rush: "When it comes to out of the mouth of a Democrat, my first reaction is to think that it's absolute poop."

Conservatives not making any sense:

Ann Coulter: “We have to run a governor.”

Joe Biden Prophecy Watch

Iran is willing to make attacks against the United States inside our borders.

Watch This!

When I first saw this, I thought it was a joke. Turns out, it is not completely a joke. What will it take to get the economy back on track? Erica Hill speaks with two men who might know -- Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent -- who just won the Nobel Prize for economics. The first 45 second clip is from the Jay Leno show.

http://www.myspace.com/video/the-tonight-show/we-are-so-screwed/108261670

Here is the full interview:

http://cnettv.cnet.com/nobel-prize-winners-how-fix-economy/9742-1_53-50112988.html

Good interview of Eric Cantor by Chris Wallace:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emOMGF2NihE

Wallace also did a good interview with Dianne Feinstein, and I was shocked to find myself agreeing with her about 75% of the time. However, the entire interview is not posted yet.

James O’Keefe, independent journalist, dons a suit and tie, and joins the protesters on Wall Street as a banker from the establishment.

http://www.theprojectveritas.org/wallstreet

James O’Keefe sees about getting Lucky Charms banned from Miami University.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSMOmW_Rc4s

Travis Irvine, also an independent journalist on Wall Street:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74tsTDefpw8

The anti-Semitic aspect of the occupiers:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/leading-pro-israel-group-calls-on-democrats-to-speak-out-against-anti-semitism-at-their-ows-protests-video/

Keith Olbermann complains that the Wall Street protesters are not getting enough press (really):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSn-IgwQAGY

This would have been better to post when Obama was talking about how we need some civility. Here is the civility of the left when Bush was president.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp6BVI52mME

Zonation on Herman Cain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XhUWDovA_mM

Inside the liberal mind, by Fresh Conservative:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp

Not all Wall Street protesters are complete nuts (his platform may be nutty, but he sounds normal):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlfJntGK3k

You may have heard of the policeman on his motorcycle running over the foot of a protester; here’s the video of it.

http://vimeo.com/30550909

Occupy Portland: Protesters sing f*ck the USA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeuGx8PplAo

Wall Street protester breakdown:

http://www.breitbart.tv/occupywallst-protesters-epic-meltdown/

A Little Comedy Relief

Romney: “Your mother’s pudgy; face it...I’m a gremlin, and I’m going to leave the party; I want everyone to stuff the ice chest.”

Bad lip reading for Mitt Romney:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9L9A1IMTQo

Jimmy Kimmel interviews kids on politics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AquJ0ICKimU

Short Takes

1) One of the reasons for lobbyists in Washington is the tax code. Companies and corporations need to have representation in Washington to limit changes made to the tax code which can affect them adversely (and promote tax changes which help them out). It is not unusual for a tax law to be written to cover just one corporation.

2) If you love the idea that the government “invests” in this or that company, then why not establish a voluntary government fund, where people give the government money, much like a mutual fund, and the government decides how best to invest this money. Of course, this would never work out because, many who invest funds would lose them, as those in government are not professional investors. Hence, even if people put money into this fund to begin with, the funds would shrink to nothing in a very short time.

3) When a government speaks of an “investment,” they are tinkering with the language. Guaranteeing loans is not an investment. It means that, if the company goes belly up and cannot pay the loan, the taxpayers take the hit. It does not mean that, when some other company does well, where the government guaranteed a loan, that taxpayers make money on that investment. It simply means that taxpayers do not lose money.

4) No matter what you think of the bank bailout, many banks were forced to take money and most of this money has been paid back. So, bad or good, there was little negative financial impact on us.

5) Did you notice that the Wall Street protesters want exactly what Wall Street has: guarantees from the government.

6) The purpose for Wall Street was a clearing house where people could go to invest in this or that company; in this or that investment. The banks provided money for loans. To some degree, Wall Street has lost this purpose, where they offer “financial investments” which do not actually go into the pocket of any company or corporation; and which are essentially games of chance. The present monetary policy seems to be keeping banks from lending; whereas, a few years back, they lent out too much money to people who could not pay it back; and now lending has been curtailed dramatically (although, apparently, there is still money out there for bad home loans). The Dodd Frank Law did not seem to address these issues.

7) Both President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are on record as being very concerned about guns traveling from the United States into Mexico, and how important it is for us to control what goes on in gun stores and gun shows in order to keep this from happening. But, neither person has any awareness of Operation Fast and Furious, except for finding out about it on the news in the past few months?

8) Here is a connection that President Obama is unable to make. He understands the importance and power of drone attacks and, therefore, would not give this technology to anyone else. However, he still, at least on occasion, speaks to the reduction of nuclear weapons. Just as drone strikes are going to destroy the hierarchy of Al Qaeda and act as a determent for people to join into that hierarchy (who used to act with impunity), our nuclear weapons also have a deterrent affect on our enemies.

By the Numbers

The Department of Labor has spent $162 million on its own green jobs program, and managed to find work for 1,336 people as of June.

U.S. taxpayers will spend $431 billion just complying with the tax code this year, according a new study by Arthur Laffer, Wayne Winegarden, and John Childs. That's not money collected by the Internal Revenue Service; that figure represents just the value of the time taxpayers will spend keeping records and filling out tax forms, and the cost of paying professional tax preparers to do it for them, plus the cost of the bureaucracy needed to administer the tax code. That $431 billion amounts to 30% of the total of income taxes collected.

As of 2010, the tax code contains 3.8 million words and is 72,536 pages long. In 2001, the tax code contained 1.4 million words, because there have been approximately 4,428 changes made to the tax laws since 2001. There were 579 changes in 2010 alone.

The Georgia works program is now costing $2 million a month and the idea is, they retrain people for needed professions. Only 18% of their “graduates” are finding jobs. According to the article I read, Obama and Republicans are looking to use this model for a national program.

There are more czars in the Obama regime than in all the history of Russia.

Polling by the Numbers

Magellan Strategies on behalf of NH Journal.

This is for New Hampshire only

Mitt Romney                    41%.

Herman Cain                    20%.

Ron Paul                           10%.

NBC/WSJ poll:

Herman Cain                    27%

Mitt Romney                    23%

Rick Perry                         16%

Ron Paul                           11%

Newt Gingrich                 8%

Michele Bachmann         5%

Jon Huntsman                 3%

Quinnipiac poll of voters

68% of Republicans are comfortable with a Mormon President,

64% of independents are also comfortable with a Mormon president.

Only 49% of Democrats are comfortable with a Mormon President.

Allow me this comment: you must understand that many of these people in this poll were thinking of Romney when they answered, so we would expect fewer Democrats to be comfortable with Romney as president (even though that was not the question). Furthermore, it should be pointed out that, the political views of Mormons is going to be at great variance with Democrats in general; therefore, that could also account for the low numbers. However, in any case, that does not mean that Democrats are not prejudice and more so than Republicans (particularly when it comes to any religion; one of the chief arguments I hear from the left is, “Do you really believe in God and that He made man 6000 years ago?” Many Democrats think that they trust in science while strong religious types do not.

New York magazine survey.

They asked a series of questions--some of them obviously cheeky--to 100 activists at Liberty Plaza.

Rank yourself on the following Scale of Liberalism:

□            Not liberal at all: 6

□            Liberal but fairly mainstream (i.e., Barack Obama): 3

□            Strongly liberal (i.e., Paul Krugman): 12

□            Fed up with Democrats, believe country needs overhaul (i.e., Ralph Nader): 41

□            Convinced the U.S. government is no better than, say, Al-Qaeda (i.e., Noam Chomsky): 34

A Little Bias

George Stephanopoulos interview Herman Cain. At the bottom of the screen was Pizza Man’s Surge in the Race. Not Godfather’s CEO, but Pizza man.

Wall Street occupiers were covered in 33 news stories by NBC, CBS and ABC in the first 11 days with 93% of the sound bytes being positive.

In 2009, the TEA party demonstrations received 13 stories in all.

Questions for Obama

Why did two Democrats in the Senate vote against your jobs bill? Are they also against jobs for Americans just like the Republicans?

Political Chess

It could be the Chris Christie supported Romney (1) because they are both conservative-lite and (2) Christie needs help when it comes to redistricting New Jersey for the upcoming election.

More Proof Obama is an Amateur

There have been free trade agreements with South Korea, Columbia and Panama, which were negotiated under Bush, that Obama has had sitting on his desk for the past few years. He has even complained that Congress has not passed these agreements, even though he has not submitted them to Congress. The end result of passing these agreements will probably be about 200,000 new jobs. Finally, Obama has submitted these trade agreements to Congress, they were quickly passed by Congress. What appears to be the case is, these jobs will not become manifest for about a year or two, by which time, if there is a Republican president, they will take credit for the job creation. Insofar as I know, the only thing that held Obama up was, the unions did not approve of these agreements.

News Before it Happens

Rush Limbaugh predicts the Wall Street occupiers will be gone by the time the weather turns cold.

Prophecies Fulfilled

For years, Glenn Beck has been predicting a world-wide, revolutionary movement. This is clearly a global movement with people pulling the strings from above, so to speak:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049486/Global-protests-Occupy-London-Stock-Exchange-takes-City.html

My Most Paranoid Thoughts

Government officials are pulling money out of the system as quickly as possible and hiding it to protect themselves in case of a world-wide crisis.

Missing Headlines

Solyndra funder and Obama bundler Kaiser paid zero taxes for years

Eric Holder in the Crosshairs of Congress

Laffer Supports 9-9-9

Global Warming Warning: Almost Everyone Will Die before End of Century

Occupy Wall Street is the Democratic TEA Party

Occupy Wall Street Racks Up More Supporters: Obama, Biden, USA Communist Party; American Nazi Party

Come, let us reason together....

Citizen Cain's 9-9-9 plan

The idea behind Herman “Citizen” Cain’s 9-9-9 plan (in case you don’t know it) is, there will be a 9% personal income tax, a 9% business tax and a 9% national sales tax. This will replace all other federal taxes (the capital gains tax, social security taxes, the death tax, etc.).

There are several criticisms, the chief two being, (1) 9-9-9 today will become 20-20-20 tomorrow; and (2) everything is going to cost 9% more. These criticisms are less problematic than you might think.

First off, any tax is subject to being raised; so one cannot argue 9-9-9 is a bad plan because it might become 30-30-30; of course that could happen-this can happen to any tax structure. However, because of its transparency and its wide-ranging affect, people would be a lot more concerned if politicians decided to raise their taxes (right now, 50% of taxpayers could care less if taxes go up). Any Congress and President which passed 30-30-30 would find themselves ALL voted out of office next time around, no matter what their party.

Secondly, there will be no change in the cost of this or that thing that you buy. Sure, there is a 9% charge added on top of the cost. However, corporations and businesses will see a much lower tax rate (from 35% to 9%), so they will be able (and willing) to keep their prices low. There would be several months of price adjustment, but in an ailing economy, stores want cash flow, which means, offer as low of a price as possible.

I watched an anti-Cain commentator on television the other day who argued from both sides of his mouth. First of all, he said the 35% corporate tax which is removed would not have an affect on any price of any item; but that the 9% business/corporate tax would. You cannot have it both ways! Reducing a tax from 35% to 9% may not have a net affect of a 26% reduction of the price of goods, but it suggests that, there will be some reduction of prices—easily more than 9%. The likely outcome would be, things would cost less, not more, once this tax kicks in.

Bear in mind, this is going to pull in taxes from people who have had great tax breaks in the past (billionaires who literally pay not taxes); as well as taxes from the 50% of Americans who do not presently pay taxes.

This is what a true fair share is all about; this is what shared sacrifice is all about. Furthermore, thee will not be a portion of the population who simply votes to get more benefits, not matter what the cost (as it will now cost them).

Now, this is in no way a panacea. For instance, Democrats will still come up with wonderful social plans which won’t cost a thing; and then, we are all shocked and surprised that they cost an extra $100 billion a year. But that is politics, and conservatives will have to be able to make smart arguments to counter these “free” social programs.

Can Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan be tinkered with and will it be tinkered with? Of course. I suspect, in the end, food will be exempt from the national sales tax. We all eat food; so we will all probably agree to that.

The two popular deductions for the interest on a home mortgage, state property taxes and charity may or may not find themselves thrown into the mix. Even though I would personally benefit from all of those deductions, I also have to recognize that the tax code could not be built around my own particular desires.

In any case, imagine what it would be like if we were starting from scratch and about to vote for or against the tax system that we now have. Which way would you come down on that vote?

Finally, with the elimination of the capital gains tax, you are going to see all kinds of movement in the market of houses, stocks, gold etc.; they will be quickly bought and sold, because there is no longer this 15% capital gains tax. That is going to increase the velocity of money considerably, which will jump start our economy.

The Scapegoat Strategy

By Charles Krauthammer

What do you do if you can't run on your record - on 9 percent unemployment, stagnant growth and ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see? How to run when you are asked whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago and you are compelled to answer no?

Play the outsider. Declare yourself the underdog. Denounce Washington as if the electorate hasn't noticed that you've been in charge of it for nearly three years.

But above all: Find villains.

President Obama first tried finding excuses, blaming America's dismal condition on Japanese supply-chain interruptions, the Arab Spring, European debt and various acts of God.

Didn't work. Sounds plaintive, defensive. Lacks fight, which is what Obama's base lusts for above all.

Hence Obama's new strategy: Don't whine, blame. Attack. Indict. Accuse. Who? The rich - and their Republican protectors - for wrecking America.

In Obama's telling, it's the refusal of the rich to "pay their fair share" that jeopardizes Medicare. If millionaires don't pony up, schools will crumble. Oil-drilling tax breaks are costing teachers their jobs. Corporate loopholes will gut medical research.

It's crude. It's Manichaean. And the left loves it. As a matter of math and logic, however, it's ridiculous. Obama's most coveted tax hike - an extra 3 to 4.6 percent for millionaires and billionaires (weirdly defined as individuals making more than $200,000) - would have reduced last year's deficit (at the very most) from $1.29 trillion to $1.21 trillion. Nearly a rounding error. The oil-drilling breaks cover less than half a day's federal spending. You could collect Obama's favorite tax loophole - depreciation for corporate jets - for 100 years and it wouldn't cover one month of Medicare, whose insolvency is a function of increased longevity, expensive new technology and wasteful defensive medicine caused by an insane malpractice system.

After three years, Obama's self-proclaimed transformative social policies have yielded a desperately weak economy. What to do? Take the low road: Plutocrats are bleeding the country, and I shall rescue you from them.

Problem is, this kind of populist demagoguery is more than intellectually dishonest. It's dangerous. Obama is opening a Pandora's box. Popular resentment, easily stoked, is less easily controlled, especially when the basest of instincts are granted legitimacy by the nation's leader.

Exhibit A. On Tuesday, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed punitive legislation over China's currency. If not stopped by House Speaker John Boehner, it might have led to a trade war - a 21st-century Smoot-Hawley. Obama knows this. He has shown no appetite for a reckless tariff war. But he set the tone. Once you start hunting for villains, they can be found anywhere, particularly if they are conveniently foreign.

Exhibit B. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin rails against Bank of America for announcing a $5-a-month debit card fee. Obama echoes the opprobrium with fine denunciations of banks and their hidden fees - except that this $5 fee is not hidden. It's perfectly transparent.

Yet here is a leading Democratic senator advocating a run on a major (and troubled) bank - after two presidents and two Congresses sunk billions of taxpayer dollars to save failing banks. Not because they were deserving or virtuous but because they are necessary. Without banks, there is no lending. Without lending, there is no business. Without business, there are no jobs.

Exhibit C. To the villainy-of-the-rich theme emanating from Washington, a child is born: Occupy Wall Street. Starbucks-sipping,?Levi's-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters denounce corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over.

These indignant indolents saddled with their $50,000 student loans and English degrees have decided that their lack of gainful employment is rooted in the malice of the millionaires on whose homes they are now marching - to the applause of Democrats suffering acute Tea Party envy and now salivating at the energy these big-government anarchists will presumably give their cause.

Except that the real Tea Party actually had a program - less government, less regulation, less taxation, less debt. What's the Occupy Wall Street program? Eat the rich.

And then what? Haven't gotten that far.

No postprandial plans. But no matter. After all, this is not about programs or policies. This is about scapegoating, a failed administration trying to save itself by blaming our troubles - and its failures - on class enemies, turning general discontent into rage against a malign few.

From the Senate to the streets, it's working. Obama is too intelligent not to know what he started. But so long as it gives him a shot at reelection, he shows no sign of caring.

From:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-scapegoat-strategy/2011/10/13/gIQArNWViL_story.html

What Wall Street Occupiers Want

By The Pardu

Here is what our survey of the Occupy Wall Street protesters found:

•80% of those polled said that the rich should pay higher taxes and that it's fair that approximately the top 10% of tax payers pay more than 70% of the taxes in the US and about 40% of employed people pay no income tax.

•93% say that student loan debt should be forgiven

•98% believe that health care should be free

•98% believe that Insurance companies make too much money and some of their profits should be taken to pay for more healthcare for others

•95% believe that drug prices should be controlled

•32.5% think the government will do a bad job managing healthcare

•44% believe that instead of spending money on ObamaCare, we should spend it on jobs today, while 30% believe that we should do both, and 27% say ObamaCare was fine use of money

•88% agree with the statement that "The government should put some controls on CEO pay - like limited to 20x or 30x the lowest paid employee."

•93% believe that communications like cell phone and internet access be a right and not just reserved for the rich and we should have free internet and cell phone service as a national goal.

•                                                                                                                 54% do not believe that the Obama stimulus program was a good idea.

•                                                                                                                 84% said they think that if a bank decides to implement a $5 debit card fee, the government should not allow it, while 16% said let them do what they want - customers can move.

We asked respondents "1 to 10, with 0=Horrible and 10=GREAT, what are your impressions of the following organizations?:

Banks (such as Goldman Sachs)                                                                                                                      1.2

Conglomerates                                                                                                                                                  1.0

Oil Companies (such as ExxonMobil)                                                                                                             1.0

Tech companies (such as Apple, Google) 5.2

Auto companies (such as GM)                                                                                                                        2.9

Drug companies (such as Pfizer)                                                                                                                     1.5

Congress                                                                                                                                                             1.7

Labor Unions                                                                                                                                                      6.5

President Obama                                                                                                                                              5.1

Hedge Funds                                                                                                                                                      1.9

WikiLeaks                                                                                                                                                           7.1

Billionaires                                                                                                                                                          2.3

From:

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/11/occupy-wall-streeters-take-a-survey-with-very-interesting-results/

Forgive Student Loans?

(93% of Wall Street Protesters Surveyed Want Student Load Forgiveness)

by Richard Vedder

As the Wall Street protests grow and expand beyond New York, growing scrutiny of the nascent movement is warranted. What do these folks want? Alongside their ranting about the inequality of incomes, the alleged inordinate power of Wall Street and large corporations, the high level of unemployment, and the like, one policy goal ranks high with most protesters: the forgiveness of student-loan debt. In an informal survey of over 50 protesters in New York last Tuesday, blogger and equity research analyst David Maris found 93 percent of them advocated student-loan forgiveness. An online petition drive advocating student-loan forgiveness has gathered an impressive number of signatures (over 442,000). This is an issue that resonates with many Americans.

Economist Justin Wolfers recently opined that "this is the worst idea ever." I think it is actually the second-worst idea ever - the worst was the creation of federally subsidized student loans in the first place. Under current law, when the feds (who have basically taken over the student-loan industry) make a loan, the size of the U.S. budget deficit rises and the government borrows additional funds, very often from foreign investors. We are borrowing from the Chinese to finance school attendance by a predominantly middle-class group of Americans.

But that is the tip of the iceberg: Though the ostensible objective of the loan program is to increase the proportion of adult Americans with college degrees, over 40 percent of those pursuing a bachelor's degree fail to receive one within six years. And default is a growing problem with student loans.

Further, it's not clear that college imparts much of value to the average student. The typical college student spends less than 30 hours a week, 32 weeks a year, on all academic matters - class attendance, writing papers, studying for exams, etc. They spend about half as much time on school as their parents spend working. If Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa (authors of Academically Adrift) are even roughly correct, today's students typically learn little in the way of critical learning or writing skills while in school.

Moreover, the student-loan program has proven an ineffective way to achieve one of its initial aims, a goal also of the Wall Street protesters: increasing economic opportunity for the poor. In 1970, when federal student-loan and -grant programs were in their infancy, about 12 percent of college graduates came from the bottom one-fourth of the income distribution. While people from all social classes are more likely to go to college today, the poor haven't gained nearly as much ground as the rich have: With the nation awash in nearly a trillion dollars in student-loan debt (more even than credit-card obligations), the proportion of bachelor's-degree holders coming from the bottom one-fourth of the income distribution has fallen to around 7 percent.

The sins of the loan program are many. Let's briefly mention just five.

First, artificially low interest rates are set by the federal government - they are fixed by law rather than market forces. Low-interest-rate mortgage loans resulting from loose Fed policies and the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spurred the housing bubble that caused the 2008 financial crisis. Arguably, federal student financial assistance is creating a second bubble in higher education.

Second, loan terms are invariant, with students with poor prospects of graduating and getting good jobs often borrowing at the same interest rates as those with excellent prospects (e.g., electrical-engineering majors at MIT).

Third, the availability of cheap loans has almost certainly contributed to the tuition explosion - college prices are going up even more than health-care prices.

Fourth, at present the loans are made by a monopoly provider, the same one that gave us such similar inefficient and costly monopolistic behemoths as the U.S. Postal Service.

Fifth, the student-loan and associated Pell Grant programs spawned the notorious FAFSA form that requires families to reveal all sorts of financial information - information that colleges use to engage in ruthless price discrimination via tuition discounting, charging wildly different amounts to students depending on how much their parents can afford to pay. It's a soak-the-rich scheme on steroids.

Still, for good or ill, we have this unfortunate program. Wouldn't loan forgiveness provide some stimulus to a moribund economy? The Wall Street protesters argue that if debt-burdened young persons were free of this albatross, they would start spending more on goods and services, stimulating employment. Yet we demonstrated with stimulus packages in 2008 and 2009 (not to mention the 1930s, Japan in the 1990s, etc.) that giving people more money to spend will not bring recovery. But even if it did, why should we give a break to this particular group of individuals, who disproportionately come from prosperous families to begin with? Why give them assistance while those who have dutifully repaid their loans get none? An arguably more equitable and efficient method of stimulus would be to drop dollars out of airplanes over low-income areas.

Moreover, this idea has ominous implications for the macro economy. Who would take the loss from the unanticipated non-repayment of a trillion dollars? If private financial institutions are liable for some of it, it could kill them, triggering another financial crisis. If the federal government shoulders the entire burden, we are adding a trillion or so more dollars in liabilities to a government already grievously overextended (upwards of $100 trillion in liabilities counting Medicare, Social Security, and the national debt), almost certainly leading to more debt downgrades, which could trigger investor panic. This idea is breathtaking in terms of its naïveté and stupidity.

The demonstrators say that selfish plutocrats are ruining our economy and creating an unjust society. Rather, a group of predominantly rather spoiled and coddled young persons, long favored and subsidized by the American taxpayer, are complaining that society has not given them enough - they want the taxpayer to foot the bill for their years of limited learning and heavy partying while in college. Hopefully, this burst of dimwittery should not pass muster even in our often dysfunctional Congress.

From:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2791121/posts

Craig’s List Ad to Pay Wall Street Protesters

Herman Cain's Plan to Balance the Budget in One Year

Does it add up?

By John Mccormack

During the 2011 fiscal year, the U.S. federal government spent $1.3 trillion more than it collected in revenues. Eliminating the deficit is not an easy thing to do. President Obama has never proposed a path to a balanced budget. Republican House budget committee chairman Paul Ryan's bold yet gradual plan takes over 20 years to reach balance, according to the Congressional Budget Office. And the conservative House Republican Study Committee claims it would take 9 years to reach balance under its preferred budget.

So when Herman Cain said at last Tuesday's Republican presidential debate at Dartmouth College that he would balance the budget in one year, he was making a rather amazing claim. "The first year that I'm president and I oversee a fiscal year budget, [I will] make sure that revenues equals spending," Cain said. How exactly would he do it? During a phone interview this afternoon, Cain told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that revenues generated by his 9-9-9 tax plan and a 20 percent cut to the federal budget--without touching Social Security or Medicare--would do the trick.

Cain said that his 9-9-9 deficit plan was designed to be revenue neutral, but when factoring in economic growth, revenues will skyrocket along with the economy. "We calculated based upon initially no growth, just replicate the amount of revenue we're already bringing in," Cain said in a recent interview with Don Imus.

"It was designed to be revenue neutral," Cain told me. "But we know it's going to generate much more revenue."

"Revenues will be coming in because people will be going back to work," Cain continued. "Businesses will be expanding. So we will have a revenue projection for fiscal year 2014 that's going to be much higher than what I inherited."

As for cutting spending, Cain said: "I would mandate a 10 percent cut to every federal agency off the top."

"I'm going to give the people in each agency a chance to tell me how we get that first 10 percent," he added. "If they don't get it, I know how to get it." Cain said, following another analysis, the government would begin eliminating unnecessary programs. "I believe we will be able to get about a 20 percent reduction without cutting red meat, without cutting bone."

Cain said he wouldn't touch Social Security or Medicare in the first year: "I would change them further out." By exempting those programs, that would leave two-thirds of federal spending left to cut. Cutting 20 percent of the rest of the government, no easy task (to put it lightly), would save about $450 billion. (I neglected to ask Cain whether Defense cuts are on the table, and his staff did not respond to an email requesting comment.) My back-of-the envelope math indicates that in order to eliminate the deficit, economic growth would need to account for about another $850 billion in greater revenues--in other words, an implausible 38 percent increase from 2011 revenues.

From:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/cain-claims-he-will-balance-budget-one-year_595954.html

What Michelle Obama eats

by Keith Koffler

Here are a few samples of her desserts, taken directly from the article.

•            Napoleon crème brûlée

•            A 15-layer carrot cake

•            Bittersweet molten chocolate cake with cappuccino ice cream

•            Blueberry kulfi and apple jalabi

•            Strawberry shortcake

•            A log-shaped, flourless chocolate cake with a rosemary panache

•            Warm ricotta beignets

•            Blueberry sorbet - Note from the author: "She passed up the tiramisu." Such willpower.

•            A perfectly balanced warm chocolate bread pudding

•            Banana cream pie

•            Key lime pie, bread pudding and banana pineapple cake (shared)

•            Birthday cake

Let's look at some of the appetizers - she doesn't seem to miss many of those - and main courses. Here are a few of her meals

•            Soft-shell crab cooked tempura style with a ratatouille sauce; an "ethereal lobster burger" with scallop mousse and housemade chips

•            Rack of lamb

•            Fried green tomatoes, avocado and corn salsa and tomato relish (shared); fried oysters; a hanger steak with fried onion rings and succotash

•            Butter poached lobster on butternut squash with a brown butter emulsion; venison au poivre and corn cake

•            Watermelon salad with feta; fried oyster po' boy; followed by samples of other items on the table: seafood crepe, shrimp and grits and buttermilk biscuits

The entire story:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65558.html

The upcoming Coffee Party march in Washington:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xaEjGLrDY

Violence Policy Center 2009 report on assault weapons being taken from the U.S. into Mexico and a call for more controls by the ATF.

http://www.vpc.org/studies/indicted.pdf

New York Magazine on the Wall Street occupiers

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/topic/occupy-wall-street-2011-10/

The Occupied Wall Street Journal issues 1 & 2

http://www.breakingcopy.com/occupied-wall-street-journal-pdf

The cost of the occupiers:

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/10/13/costs-of-the-occupiers-plus-friday-showdown-in-nyc-boston-backlash-austin-arrests/

A lot of photos of protesters from all over the world; the “99" signs are a part of all of these movements:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049486/Global-protests-Occupy-London-Stock-Exchange-takes-City.html

There is a long bill in the House which appears to criminalize the satire of the TSA.

http://www.infowars.com/house-bill-would-criminalize-satire-of-tsa/

Additional Sources

Occupy LA protester:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qlPY9AfQFqI

Rep. Jan Schakowsky interview; story and text:

http://rebelpundit.com/2011/10/11/at-occupy-chicago-illinois-congresswoman-jan-schakowsky-says-the-protest-with-no-american-flags-is-patriotic/

Chanting, “You can have sex with animals.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My_cNzQGS8E

Run the Jews out of this country:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IMjm4LxFa1c

Bachmann should be fed lysteria-laced cantaloupe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fzUJwsNKtfk

GOP Elite Declares War on Tea Party

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, there's a big piece in the New York Times Magazine coming this weekend. It is entitled: "Does Anyone Have a Grip on the GOP?" The subhead: "The Republican Elite Tries to Take Its Party Back." This article prints like 24 pages. It is a major, major New York Times Magazine piece. It confirms everything that I have thought, everything I have speculated, everything I have said about the battle between the Republican elite and the Tea Party.

I can't read the whole thing on the program; I don't intend to. I've got some highlights or quotes that are illustrative here, but this is an open declaration of war from the GOP elites to the Tea Party, and it's right there in the New York Times. And these Republican establishment types are more than willing to be quoted by name, and what I think it all means is they think that they've beaten the Tea Party hordes back. Do you realize that Chuck Schumer and a bunch of Democrats are running around campaigning now against the Tea Party. The Tea Party poses the greatest threat to this country. The Tea Party is a bunch of racist, sexist bigots. This is the message and the Republican elite, while not joining word for word that message, are still joining with the Democrats in the notion that the Tea Party is a problem and needs to be beaten back.

Now, this piece in the New York Times illustrates the obstacles Tea Party lawmakers are up against. All these Republican freshmen in the House, for example, this article makes it plain how difficult their job is. There's even a section in this story on compromise, the bad kind of compromise, the kind of compromise that Republicans have been known for, get along with the Democrats, please the media, show that we're not the unreasonable Tea Party types. That's what's shaking down here. The Tea Party is under assault from the Democrats and the Republican elite, and now the battle has been brought full fore in the pages of the New York Times Magazine.

There's some quotes from various people in this story. Bill Kristol on the Tea Party: "It's an infantile form of conservatism." Scott Reed, veteran strategist and lobbyist: "I think it's waning now," talking to the reporter of the story about the Tea Party's influence. "Party leaders have managed to bleed some of the anti-establishment intensity out of the movement, Reed said, by slyly embracing Tea Party sympathizers in Congress, rather than treating them as 'those people.' Did he mean to say that the party was slowly co-opting the Tea Partiers? 'Trying to,' Reed said. 'And that's the secret to politics: trying to control a segment of people without those people recognizing that you're trying to control them.'" This is a Republican consultant talking about how to neutralize the Tea Party.

John Feehery, a lobbyist who was once a senior House aide I think to Denny Hastert, is also quoted. "The thing I get a kick out of is these Tea Party people calling me a RINO. No, guys, I've been a Republican all along. You go off on your own little world and then come back and say it's your party. Well, this ain't your party." Vin Weber, regarding the Tea Party lawmakers. Vin Weber is a former member of Congress from Minnesota, now a big time lobbyist and Republican consultant. Vin Weber: "One thing I do notice about 'em is when I ask them, 'So how are you enjoying it?'" talking about the Tea Party members of Congress, "almost none of them say, 'Oh, jeez, I'm really loving this.' They all say some version of, 'This is not what I'd want to be doing, but I've got to do it for the country.'" So, "Weber seemed genuinely surprised that this aversion to Washington didn't melt away once they arrived in town."

Gosh, what have we always speculated here? Or what have we always known? One of the biggest problems is conservatives run around the country, campaign, and get elected on conservatism; then go to Washington, get corrupted and co-opted by the culture there. Here's Vin Weber admitting it! Vin Weber is admitting it and shocked and stunned that the Tea Party guys haven't fallen for it yet. He says he's surprised. Yeah, they're not really loving this. They're here not doing what they want to do; they're trying to save the country. "Weber seemed genuinely surprised that this aversion to Washington didn't melt away once they got to town." He says, 'I can just tell you when I came to Congress we were rabble-rousers, but, boy, if you'd asked any of us six months into it how we were enjoying it, we woulda said, "This is the greatest opportunity of a lifetime."

"'It just struck me, and it's part and parcel of this anti-government mind-set,'" meaning: "We in the Republican Party. 'We're not anti-government,' these Tea Party anti-government people, why, they're so damn serious, they can't enjoy this! They don't understand the kind of power they've got. They don't realize the fun they could be having. When we got here, we had a ball! We just fell right into it and we wanted to become big parts of the machine!" I'm adding my own words here but that's how I'm interpreting what Weber means. "'Yeah, it just struck me,' Weber said. 'It's part and parcel of this anti-government mind-set.'" This is a reporter writing: "I wondered if maybe the Tea Partiers' contempt for Washington was just a kind of outsiders' schtick.

"Weber replied glumly, 'I'd feel better about it if I thought it was,' but Weber said, 'I think these people are genuinely anti-Washington,'" and that makes him nervous. Can't have that! If they're anti-Washington, we don't want 'em here. "Charlie Black, longtime Republican strategerist and lobbyist confidently predicted when he talked to [the New York Times reporter] about the more radical members of the freshman class, they'll become the establishment. You wait." I thought George Will said there was no Republican establishment anymore! I thought the Republican establishment itself was trying to say there's no establishment in recent weeks. I thought they were all saying it has just a fiction of everybody's imagination. Here's Charlie Black: Yeah, they'll become the establishment.

He's talking about the Tea Party freshmen: They'll become the establishment in time; not worried about it. Bill Kristol again: "I've been slightly, not worried, but I've just regarded it as one of the things I can do as a genuine Tea Party sympathizer to counsel Tea Party types to be sensible, not go overboard and not go in the wrong direction. From my point of view, I wouldn't want 'em to win all of their fights." He wants 'em to lose some. Bill Kristol wants the Tea Party to lose some. The New York Times is worried that the wrong people might get control of the Republican Party. That's what this story is about. The reason why this story is running is because of abject fear of the Tea Party. The Washington elite love a Republican elite that agrees to be second fiddle.

The media and the Washington elite love a Republican elite who agree to be the minority. The Washington elite, the New York Times, and the media love a Republican elite that understands its place is number two in the pecking order. So the New York Times is now worried the "wrong" people might get control of the GOP -- and you know how concerned the New York Times is about the well-being of the Republican Party. They need the party to maintain its mind-set of second fiddle, second place, always on defense, always not really in the clique and striving to get in it. That's what they want the Republican Party to be, and the Tea Party threatens that.

Scott Reed: "Yep, trying to, that's the secret of politics: Trying to control a segment of people without those people recognizing you're trying to control 'em." Luckily none of these hicks in the Tea Party would ever read the New York Times so they won't figure out what's being done on 'em. Stop and think of this. Here are these Republican elites announcing all of this, being quoted by name in the New York Times Sunday Magazine as though the Tea Party members of Congress are never gonna find out about this! It's a -- I don't know -- open declaring of war? What we've always known is going on, what they've always denied is going on, now it's happening and the New York Times proudly writes a cover story in this weekend's magazine of 7,028 words, 73 paragraphs. From the New York Times article: "George Will recently said there is no such thing as the Republican establishment, which is a little like Michael Douglas say there's no such thing as Hollywood." That's from the article. That's not me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/magazine/does-anyone-have-a-grip-on-the-gop.html

Chuck-U Schumer Strategy: Tie GOP to "Radical" Tea Party and Embrace the Real Radicals Protesting Wall Street

RUSH: Have you heard about the memo from Chuck-U Schumer that's been floating around? Apparently it reveals how the current Democrat campaign strategy is to tie the Republican Party to the "radical" Tea Party. This is designed to scare the American public about "all those crazy mom and pop radicals in the Tea Party movement!"

Meanwhile, Obama and the rest of the top Democrat leadership are doing everything they can to show their solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protestors. The Democrats claim that the Wall Street protestors represent hardworking, middle class Americans being screwed (somehow) by the Tea Party and the Republicans. That's how out of touch the Democrats are with the population of this country. There's a Rasmussen poll out today: 80%, nearly eight in ten Americans now see the country on the wrong track. "Sixteen percent of likely American voters still believe the country's doing well." I mean, this is... Eight in ten Americans now see the country on the wrong track. See, I have a problem with all this polling data.

If that's true -- if 80% of the American people think that the country's on the wrong track -- why is Obama at 40% in the polls or 42% in the polls? Some of this stuff just doesn't make any sense to me. But if that's true, 80% say the country's on the wrong track? Obama shouldn't even be a viable candidate, and yet Democrats are happy. The Democrats are at the top of the mountain. The Democrats think they have repelled the Tea Party. They are convinced the Tea Party's lost energy, lost members, lost membership. The Tea Party is shrinking in size. It's shrinking in energy. There is no leader. They think they have successfully characterized the Tea Party as a bunch of racist bigots, and they openly throw in with a created, phony group of people whose agenda is nothing more than Obama's and the Democrat Party.

Here's a list of proposed demands for Congress from the OccupyWallStreet.org forum (and, remember, this is the group formed by Adbusters, an anti-Semitic bunch of "anti-consumerists.") On their website, this is the Obama agenda: "Congress must pass HR-1489, return to prudent banking act, reinstating many provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act." Now, you think these clowns running around in lower Manhattan have the slightest idea that that's what they're marching for? "Number two: Use congressional authority and oversight to ensure appropriate federal agencies fully investigate and prosecute Wall Street criminals."

RUSH: Okay, so a question, ladies and gentlemen. The New York Times Magazine article this weekend featuring Republican establishment types quoted by name as attacking the Tea Party, suggesting the Tea Party is fading away, Tea Party members of Congress really not getting in on things, they're not getting down with the program, really a weird bunch of people. The Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, saying the Tea Party's a thing of the past, a bunch of racist thugs, they've lost their energy, they've lost their mojo, they have lost members. You don't even see 'em anymore. Where is the Tea Party, they say. We're just kicking ass. We've got the Wall Street crowd on our side. The Wall Street crowd, that's who's captured everybody's attention. The magic is no longer with the Tea Party; it's with the Wall Street crowd.

By the way, let me continue with a list of proposed demands for Congress from OccupyWallStreet.org. Number three: "Congress enact legislation to protect our democracy by reversing the effects of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision." Man, that really has gotten under their skin, Citizens United. Anyway, you can take a stroll down lower Manhattan in the Wall Street area and pick a random protestor and run any of these things by them, and other than putting a Wall Street guy in jail, they wouldn't know what you're talking about. Number four: "Congress pass the Buffett Rule on fair taxation so the rich and corporations pay their fair share and close corporate tax loopholes and enact a prohibition on hiding funds offshore."

Now, where is that story? What did I do with that story? Did I put that at the bottom of the stack by accident? Here it is. "Solyndra Funder Kaiser Paid Zero Taxes for Years."

This is Mark Tapscott, the Washington Examiner: "Oklahoma billionaire George Kaiser has been in the headlines in recent months thanks to his role as a major investor in Solyndra LLC, the now-bankrupt California solar panel maker hailed by President Obama as a model for America's 'clean energy future.' ... Kaiser was a campaign 'bundler' - an individual who collects contributions to a candidate from others that are then simultaneously given to the candidate - who raised about $250,000 for Obama during the 2008 campaign, congressional Republicans and media analysts have speculated that the Solyndra loan guarantee was nothing more than using tax dollars to reward a political supporter."

No kidding. It's money laundering. And how much of the $250,000 gets back in Obama's back pocket? "But the Solyndra scandal is far from Kaiser's first brush with political controversy. As the Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison reports today, Kaiser has become extraordinarily wealthy by taking advantage of the federal tax code in ways that some tax experts - including the IRS - believe to be illegal." So here you have a major Obama bundler, fundraiser, donor, recipient of crony capitalism largesse, big time investor in Solyndra, paying no taxes and no doubt supporting the Wall Street protestors.

"As Allison describes it in his Sunlight post today, 'in one six year period, during which he increased his net worth enough to land him on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, Kaiser reported taxable income to the Internal Revenue Service just once, totaling $11,699--equivalent to a full-time hourly wage of $5.62.'" And you won't see a word about this anywhere. You won't see anybody upset about it, won't be in the media anywhere. Big-time Obama bundler, multibillionaire paying no taxes. Zilch, zero, nada. And yet the Occupy Wall Street people demand that the Buffett Rule on fair taxation be passed so the rich and corporations pay their fair share. Close corporate tax loopholes, enact a prohibition on hiding funds offshore.

Number five: "Congress completely revamp the Securities and Exchange Commission and staff it at all levels with proven professionals who get the job done protecting the integrity of the marketplace so citizens and investors are both protected." You know, these protestors I'm sure don't realize how much time it takes to surf for pornography. You'll recall many Securities and Exchange Commission workers were busted for spending much of their day watching porn on their computers back in April of 2010. Remember that? None of them were fired though. They're unionized. I'm sure if the Wall Street protestors found out about this, they'd want in on the action. Okay, free porn, we want that, too.

Number six: "Congress pass specific and effective laws limiting the influence of lobbyists and eliminating the practice of lobbyists writing legislation that ends up on the floor of Congress." This is the official list of demands at OccupyWallStreet.org. It's the Obama agenda. Number seven: "Congress must pass the revolving door legislation, legislation eliminating the ability of former government regulators going to work for corporations they once regulated." There are laws on the books already addressing this, except for the news media. The news media can go through the revolving door any time they want. And number eight: "Eliminate personhood legal status for corporations." Whatever that is. (interruption) No, Citizens United is mentioned earlier as its own separate demand. Congress must enact legislation to protect our democracy by reversing the effects of Citizens United, it's number five. (interruption) How do they get what? Oh, well, that's two different things.

You're confusing, Snerdley. He's asking me, "How do you go from forgive all debt to this?" The forgive all debt came from a genuine Looney Toon individual walking the street. This is the official organization website. That Looney Toon doesn't have any idea what he's actually marching for. None of these Looney Toons have any clue what this is. The only thing on here that they would even recognize is putting a Wall Street guy in jail. That's it, pure and simple.

RUSH: So Republican establishment types who feed off of government are telling the New York Times (which is a liberal partisan outlet) that the Tea Party is crazy and impotent, which is then echoed by Chuck-U Schumer, who is a partisan liberal Democrat who knows that the Senate is about to be lost to his party. Do I get this right? And, by the way, Chuck-U Schumer is out there saying (impression): "Oh no, no, no! We're gonna win the Senate and we're gonna win it easily." I have it somewhere in one of my numerous stacks. In the old days I used to have stacks positive and negative -- and it was always one negative stack; the other were positive. Now I can barely struggle to find three positive things. "Chuck Schumer: Impossible for Democrats to Lose Senate in 2012." Right there it is in the LA Times. Impossible.

"'When you look at it from 30,000 feet, it looks bad,' Schumer said during a breakfast meeting at Third Way, the moderate Democratic think tank." There's no such thing as a moderate Democrat, by the way. "You look at it race by race, it looks good." Totally delusional, but they're being positive. You put the news out that the Tea Party's fading away and never really was anything. "Lose the Senate? Give me a break. We're gonna win the Senate." So the Republican establishment types (feeding off government) join with the Democrats in proclaiming the Tea Party dead and impotent.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/schumer-brands-gop-agenda-tea-party-economics.php

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-schumer-senate-2012-20111012,0,6479906.story?track=rss

The Media Suddenly Vets Pastors

RUSH: ABC Radio News at the top of the hour, if your EIB affiliate carries ABC Radio News, you just heard that they are very concerned about this pastor who introduced Rick Perry, who said something along the lines that Romney's religion is a "cult." They're very concerned out there, folks. The media is very, very, very concerned over this pastor. Yes, they are. They're trying to make a big kerfuffle out of this. They didn't give a whit about Jeremiah Wright. They couldn't-a cared less about "G-D America!" Jeremiah Wright said 9/11 was deserved because we nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (impression) "It's in our own front yaaaaards. America's chickenssss have come home to roost!" He was all excited about 9/11. Nobody cared about that.

You gotta wonder something. Obama's out there, we all know (this an old story) and wanted to apologize to Japanese for Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and the Japanese said (paraphrased), "No way, pal. You're not doing that. We got a nuclear industry here that's thriving and we don't want a bunch of malcontents showing up. It's old news. No, no, no." So he had to be talked out of it by the Japanese. Now everybody's wondering... That sermon that we've played for you and you've heard it everywhere of Jeremiah Wright, the "America's chickens coming home to roost," was his 9/11 sermon! That was the sermon the Sunday after 9/11, and we were wondering: "Did Obama go to church on the Sunday after 9/11? Do you think he would have?" I mean, for a lot of people it was like Easter: You show up. We don't know.

But if Obama did -- and I don't think Obama needed to hear Jeremiah Wright condemn Nagasaki and Hiroshima. I don't know. Well, I know Obama worships himself and going to church could be in his case going to the bathroom, the throne. But nevertheless: Wright's up there in that sermon and he's talking about all about how we deserved it. Now, all of a sudden -- all of a sudden now -- it's very important to vet pastors. It's very important to vet candidates' pastors. They didn't care a whit about Jeremiah Wright, but now we gotta go after this Jeffress guy because of what he said about Mormon -- and, in fact, the media agrees! You just wait. If Romney gets the nomination, wait 'til you see what the media does with Mormonism. For crying out loud, didn't they already? They already made a big deal of it the last time Romney ran back in 2008. They'll do it again.

All the President's Liars: The New Black Panthers Case Exposed by J. Christian Adams, and the Fast & Furious Scandal

RUSH: Random acts of journalism. They are rare. That's why we point them out when they happen. It is very rare indeed in this day and age for a journalist to actually commit journalism. Most of them just do propaganda, stenography, or what have you. Here is John King and a random act of journalism. He was on CNN, and what he did -- we got the sound bites here -- he plays Eric Holder's testimony to Congress May 3rd, 2011, where Holder said that he had only just recently heard about the Fast and Furious gunrunning program. "I'm not sure the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."

Then, in a random act of journalism, CNN compares Holder's testimony to what Obama said in March. For those of you in Rio Linda, March comes before May. Holder testified in May, and Obama said in March to CNN Espanol, "I heard on the news about this story, the Fast and Furious alleged guns were being run to Mexico, the ATF knew about it but didn't apprehend those who had sent it." So that's Obama to CNN Espanol in March. Holder says, "I'm not sure," in May, "I don't know." Which caused John King to commit the random act of journalism that followed. So here are the three sound bites, and the key one is number three, set up by the first two.

HOLDER: I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.

RUSH: That was Holder being asked by Darrell Issa May 3rd, 2011, "When did you first know about the program, officially I believe, called Fast and Furious?" "I'm not sure but I think the last few weeks." Then March 22, two months earlier, CNN Espanol correspondent Juan Carlos Lopez interviewed Obama. Lopez said, "There was an agent who was murdered in Mexico. Some of the weapons came through the programs, so where is that aid to Mexico?"

OBAMA: There have been problems, you know. I heard on the news about this story that Fast and Furious, where allegedly guns were being run into Mexico and ATF knew about it but didn't apprehend those who had sent it. Eric Holder as the attorney general has been very clear that he knew nothing about this. We've assigned a IG, inspector general, to investigate it.

RUSH: Okay. So in March Eric Holder has said I didn't know anything about it. In May, Holder said, "I probably heard about this for the first time over the last few weeks." Here's the random act of journalism. Last night on CNN's John King USA during an interview on Fast and Furious, King plays these bites that you just heard and then said...

KING: It begs the question, how did the president know about this in March and how did the president know the attorney general knew nothing about this in March when the attorney general says in May he just learned about it a couple weeks ago?

RUSH: Be still my beating heart! Now, this was Wednesday night, John King was indeed working yesterday. So he has survived this random act of journalism. Folks, this is rare. Normally what you get from State-Controlled Media is an attempt to explain the contradiction here, not call attention to it. And that's the random act of journalism. John King is calling attention to a huge contradiction. How did the president know about this in March, and how did the president know the attorney general knew nothing about this in March when the attorney general says in May he just learned about it a couple of weeks ago? We need a new movie, not "All the President's Men", "All the President's Liars". 'Cause this, Solyndra, all these other things, these are huge potential, scandalous, corrupt incidents. The president said, "I don't know anything about it, I saw it on the news." (laughing)

You know, I talked to Christian Adams yesterday, an interview for the Limbaugh Letter. He is the Department of Justice attorney who quit. He was handling the New Black Panther Party case, voter intimidation in Philadelphia when the Attorney General Eric Holder dropped the case, dropped all the charges, (paraphrasing) "We're not going to prosecute black defendants." He said that. Mr. Adams has since written numerous articles and a book with stories and evidence of the radical overhaul of the Department of Justice. He calls it racialist. There is a racialist attitude that has pervaded in the appointees, in the agenda, in the policies. I said, "What do you mean by racialist?" He said, "I want to be clear. I'm not calling them racist. The prism that they look through as they judge every case is via race."

And using my own words, paraphrasing what Christian Adams told me, he said it's not just the Department of Justice, civil rights division, the voting rights division, it's not just that you have a bunch of liberals in there now, that there is this sense of payback, that Holder carries around with him a statement -- in fact, I'm gonna have to print this out. I want to read this to you word for word, and I don't have it right in front of me, but something said by an African-American preacher in 1971 about black judges and justice and so forth, and it makes clear that if Holder is indeed guided by this, that the Department of Justice is now one instrument of government being used to redress grievances from the days of slavery, payback. "Okay, we're in power, and now it's time that we exact our revenge." And part of that is not prosecuting black defendants. Dropping charges, not even pursuing them in some cases.

And I asked him, "Okay, you've worked at the Department of Justice. Presidents need plausible deniability. How often does Obama talk with Holder? And where does Holder's agenda come from?" He said, "Not as often as you might think." There is a series of people, liaisons in the White House who would do the communicating to the Department of Justice and they maybe talk actually once a week, but the White House would make their wishes and thoughts known via a liaison from the White House to the Department of Justice. And I was trying to ask him if it could be established that there is a personal link to the policy. And of course whether you can establish it or not, the intelligent conclusion would be that there has to be.

So in this case you have Fast and Furious, which was a regime program to discredit the Second Amendment. What they hoped would happen was that these guns purchased in American gun stores would be purposely walked across the border and put into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The plan was to do that, get American purchased guns in the hands of drug cartels so they would commit crimes in Mexico with them, word would leak out that this has happened, and this would provide the regime with purpose and evidence to attack the Second Amendment to tighten gun laws. And it all backfired on them because it became known, and people started dying, including an American agent. It's all come unraveled so the questions now are the typical ones, who knew what when? Whose policy was this?

And everybody's trying to say, "Well, some bunch of minions low on the totem pole came up with this." Obama said, "I didn't know it 'til I saw it on the news. I didn't even know it existed." Holder has now been subpoenaed by Darrell Issa, and I asked Christian Adams, "What will likely become of this?" He said, "Look, don't expect much. These people think nothing of shading the truth in testimony before these committees." It's a well practiced art. But we now know that the regime bought the guns and gave them to the Mexican cartels, which is even worse than just letting it happen. We know that they bought the guns and gave them to the cartels.

It had a specific purpose to it and that is to undermine the Second Amendment, to undermine the Constitution of the United States. Here's John King now with this random act of journalism pointing out these contradictions. This is the kind of thing Sharyl Attkisson was doing on this story that got her yelled at and screamed at and off the grid for a day and a half. I'll find that quote for you that Holder carries around in his back pocket every day.

RUSH: J. Christian Adams' new book is entitled "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department." I had a fascinating 35 minute chat with him yesterday. It's the interview for the next upcoming issue of the most widely read political newsletter in the country, the Limbaugh Letter. It was a fascinating interview. I never had any interviewee tell me, "That is a great question," more than he did. Right, Dawn? Must have said that to 75% of my questions. Fascinating. Here's from his book. And the book, folks, well worth your investment. It's one part shocking, but in another sense it won't surprise you at all since we know who these people are, we know what makes them mad, we know the rage they carry around, we know that the chip on their shoulder is large, and we know that they intend to use their power here to get even.

So from Christian Adams' book: "For much of his life, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. carried around something peculiar.an old clipping of a quote from Harlem preacher Reverend Samuel D. Proctor. Holder put the clipping in his wallet in 1971, when he was studying history at Columbia University, and kept it in wallet after wallet over the ensuing decades. What were Proctor's words that Holder found so compelling? 'Blackness is another issue entirely apart from class in America. No matter how affluent, educated and mobile [a black person] becomes, his race defines him more particularly than anything else.' .When asked to explain the passage, Holder replied, 'It really says that. I am not the tall US attorney, I am not the thin United States Attorney. I am the black United States attorney. And he was saying that no matter how successful you are, there's a common cause that bonds the black United States attorney with the black criminal or the black doctor with the black homeless person.'.It may seem shocking to hear these racialist views ascribed to America's top law enforcement officer. But to people who have worked inside the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, these attitudes are perfectly familiar."

So he has an affinity with the black criminal. And he is a black attorney general, not "the" attorney general. Now, the Department of Justice, most citizens, in their idealistic view, would look at the Department of Justice and if anyplace was supposed to be colorblind and unbiased, it would be the Department of Justice. Now, the reality is that there is no such thing anywhere in the world, there's no such thing where bias doesn't exist. But where it's known it's compensated for. In this case, the bias is considered justifiable, and it is therefore justified to act on it and to implement it. And ergo that's how you arrive at, "I'm not prosecuting the New Black Panthers. We're not gonna prosecute black defendants here." I mean Holder is one of these guys that really is like these idiots on Wall Street. The stats of the numbers of blacks in jail. It's not because they've committed crimes, it's because of racism in the country. It's the white power structure wants to get blacks off the street or whatever they ascribe to it.

And they use, "Look at the percentage of blacks in the population compared to the percentage in prison. So out of whack." And they think, look, if you've got 12% of the population in the country is black, then that's what the prison population ought to be, regardless. Anything different, if the prison population is, just to pick a number here, is 25% black and the population's only 11, then there's racism going on in the white power structure. It's kind of like Marion Barry. I'll never forget. He was speaking at the Democrat National Convention in San Francisco, 1984, and I was laughing myself silly listening to it because after he finished David Brinkley looked -- and he was the master of deadpan humor -- David Brinkley looked in the camera and just said, "That was my mayor." It conveyed, "I can't believe how embarrassed -- that was my mayor."

And Marion Barry's theme was, "Tonight, tonight we on the inside." It was somewhat similar to General David Dinkins in New York, mayor for life. When he was finally inaugurated as mayor, there were people running around, "Okay, all right, finally our turn to control all this. Our turn to pass out all the money." Same kinda attitude at the Department of Justice now. "Our turn to hand out the justice. Our turn to determine who gets prosecuted and who doesn't," based on race 'cause it's completely justified. And it's one of the reasons that Christian Adams left 'cause the New Black Panther Party case was his. He had all the evidence. He had evidence, videotapes, slam-dunk case, and Holder just, "Nah, we're not gonna prosecute, drop the charges," and that was it, simply because of race.

Clueless Pig Wall Street Protesters (in a Democrat's Park) are Dupes of Obama

RUSH: According to the New York Post, Mayor "Doomberg" did not cave. He did not cave to the Occupy Wall Street kids who told him to stay away, that they didn't want the park cleaned. Details are coming up. It's Friday, my friends.

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday!

RUSH: Oh, yeah. It's boom or bust on Open Line Friday. We've only had a couple of bombs on Open Line Friday, but it's always possible. Open Line Friday, callers can talk about whatever they want, whether I care about it or not, unlike Monday through Thursday. So have at it. Questions, comments, whatever, telephone number, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.

So all morning long the story has been that Mayor Doomberg caved to the protestors down at Zuccotti Park because they said there would be trouble. You know what really ought to happen? The Tea Party ought to go down there with mops and brooms. I mean the Tea Party members are used to cleaning up after their worthless, lazy kids. They ought to just head on down there. Well, that's my definition of kids. Anyway, the Tea Party should go in there and clean up. Three hundred people getting worldwide coverage; hundreds of thousands of Tea Party people ignored.

John King at CNN commits a random act of journalism, and we have the audio sound bite to prove it. There are more and more random acts

of journalism happening out there, folks. Even noted liberal commentators are starting to attack Obama, "Hey, where's the administrating?" All he's out there doing is raising money. Obama's bragging about how much campaign cash he's raising. While everybody is taking a nosedive economically, he's out raising money, slush funds and so forth. He hopes to have something like a billion dollars soon for his presidential campaign in this economy. And much of that money is coming from people that these kids on Wall Street are protesting and want in jail, and they're too stupid to know it. We got more audio sound bites of these clowns being interviewed, and it's not surprising, and it's hilarious at the same time.

The AP had a story starting early this morning: "The official cleanup of a New York plaza where protesters have camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending up cheers from demonstrators who feared the effort was merely a pretext to evict them."

They would rather live in stench, these people would rather live in squalor like pigs in a sty than have the adults come in and clean the place up out of fear they're gonna be moved out. The New York City deputy mayor Cass Holloway said the owners of the private park Brookfield Office Properties, and, by the way, the owners of this office park are dyed-in-the-wool Democrats. This is private property these people are on, and I'm pretty sure these are dyed-in-the-wool Democrats that own this place. So Brookfield Office Properties put off the cleaning.

"Supporters of the protesters had started streaming into the park in the morning darkness before the planned cleaning, creating a crowd of several hundred chanting people. 'I'll believe it when we're able to stay here,' said Peter Hogness --" what a perfectly apt name for somebody in this situation. Peter Hogness is 56, a union employee from Brooklyn. Of course. "One thing we have learned from this is that we need to rely on ourselves and not on promises from elected officials." (laughing) No, he did say it. These people clamoring for everybody to pay everything for them, to take care of them are now saying only rugged individualism is gonna protect us from elected officials. I'm telling you, you listen to a lot of what these people are saying, they're clueless. They actually ought to be on our side. Not that we'd want 'em.

"But protester Nick Gulotta, 23, was jubilant. He originally held up a sign referring to Mayor Michael Bloomberg that said: 'Bloomberg Don't Evict Occupy Wall Street.' People cheered and clapped him on the back when he scratched out the 'don't' and replaced it with 'didn't.' 'It shows when people work together, you really can make a difference and make justice happen,' Mr. Gulotta said." Yeah, you can continue to live as pigs in a sty when you hang together. That's justice. You can live in a veritable garbage pit made by you, by the way, your own self-created squalor. That's justice. "A confrontation between police and protesters, who had vowed to stay put through civil disobedience, had been feared. Boisterous cheers floated up from the crowds as the announcement of the postponement circulated," and everybody thought that Bloomberg had caved.

Now, the New York Post says that it was Brookfield, the owners of Zuccotti Park, who caved. And it's interesting why they caved. I want to make this clear. The founder and owner of Brookfield Office Properties is John Zuccotti whom the park is named after. He was a Democrat official under Democrat Mayor Beame. He's a major Democrat donor. "Brookfield reversed its decision to clear the park because it was intimidated by elected officials who are siding with the protestors, an angry Mayor Bloomberg said today. 'My understanding is Brookfield got lots of calls from many elected officials, threatening them and saying if you don't stop this we'll make your life more difficult,' the mayor said on his weekly radio show. 'If those elected officials had spent half as much time trying to promote the city to get jobs to come here we would a lot more ways towards answering the concerns of the protestors. I'm told they were inundated by lots of elected officials...'

"The mayor said he didn't know which elected officials applied the pressure. On Thursday, numerous officials -- including Rep. Jerry Nadler and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer -- stepped forward to demand that Brookfield and the city try to work out a voluntary resolution of the month-long sleep-in." Now, when Jerry Nadler leans on you, you stay leaned on. Have you ever seen this guy? (interruption) Yeah, he did. He had the Rex Ryan belt loop surgery or whatever, the lap band. Yeah, did something like that. Still, when he leans you on, you're still leaned on. But regardless, Doomberg says he doesn't know who the elected officials are. Stop and think of this. Here's this Zuccotti guy, a big Democrat himself, owns the park, he wants these people out of there so his property can get cleaned up. He doesn't like having a pigsty outside his window and all of a sudden a bunch of elected officials call and start threatening him, and that's the story.

Now, most of the time when elected officials start threatening people, it's under the radar. You don't really know, I mean you suspect it's happening. Here now it's wide open and admitted, elected officials threatening a private citizen in their own party. Now, nobody knows if Nadler was one of them, but what do we think, Snerdley? Was it members of the city council? Yeah, it's what we've heard. Members of the New York City council that were calling Zuccotti and saying, "Hey, back off." And the protestors are all worried they're gonna be thrown out of the place. That's the pretext for the clean up. (interruption) How does a guy own a park in New York? He owns the property, makes a park out of his office complex there. It's not a big deal. How does a guy own a park in New York? Oh, he's clearly in the top 1%. Yeah, this is the kind of guy the protestors think ought to be in jail. Yeah, yeah.

In fact, let's go to the Occupy Wall Street protestors. This is in Washington at the Occupy DC protest. MRC TV correspondent Dan Joseph interviewed various unidentified protestors about their beliefs. He's running around asking various questions of these people. "Do you support a single payer health care system?"

Unidentified Man 1: Absolutely.

Unidentified Woman 1: Yes.

Unidentified Man 2: Yes.

Unidentified Woman 2: Absolutely.

Unidentified Man 3: Yes, I do.

Unidentified Woman 3: No. It has to be single payer universal.

Unidentified Woman 4: I think maybe a better answer would be a sliding fee scale.

Dan Joseph: Clarify on that. What do you mean?

Unidentified Woman 3: So it's not just single payer, but it's for everybody.

Dan Joseph: Okay.

Unidentified Man 4: People in Cuba are much better off today than they were then.

Dan Joseph: Okay.

Unidentified Man 4: Cuba has the best medicine in the western hemisphere...

Dan Joseph: Better than us?

Unidentified Man 4: Yes, better than America.

RUSH: Where do you think this lunatic gets the idea that Cuba has the best medicine in the western hemisphere? Well, it's not just elected Democrat officials. Michael Moore made a movie, Sicko, and that was its premise. He took people from New York or somewhere in the United States that couldn't get health care and put them on a boat and took them down to Havana. It's a pure, unadulterated lie. You've also had Hollywood actors who have made the same claim. People like Sean Penn and others claiming that Cuba has the best medical care. That's why when Fidel Castro -- you know what really happened to Castro?

You know what really happened to him? One of the intestines had a problem and the fix for it was a bag, a colostomy bag. And he didn't want that so he made a surgeon, a Cuban surgeon go in there and repair, and it got profoundly infected, surgery was bad, and they had to call in a doctor from Spain. Cuba's medical care is so good they had to call in a doctor from Spain to come over and save Castro's life. He didn't want to walk around with a bag. And of course Hugo Chavez apparently went to Cuba for his chemo. Okay, so Cuba has the best medicine in the western hemisphere. I tell you that the kook fringe of the Democrat Party is a bunch of lunatics. This is who they are. That is something they really believe. Let's listen to the rest of the bite.

Dan Joseph: Do you support a government mandated living wage?

Unidentified Man 5: Yes.

Unidentified Woman 4: Absolutely.

Unidentified Man 6: Yes.

Unidentified Man 7: I do.

Unidentified Man 8: I think that's really complex.

Unidentified Woman 5: Yes.

Dan Joseph: What should that be?

Unidentified Woman 5: Livable wage.

Dan Joseph: Livable wage.

Unidentified Man 9: Yes.

Unidentified Man 10: I don't support a government mandated anything, pretty much.

Dan Joseph: Okay. How high should it be?

Unidentified Woman 6: Whatever the cost of living is. So it should be engineered so it's consistent with people not having to struggle.

Unidentified Woman 7: No.

Unidentified Man 11: Everybody needs to make a contribution to society, and if they can't of course we're obligated to take care of them.

RUSH: All right. Everybody needs to make a contribution to society, and if they can't afford to, we're obligated to take care of them. And Cuba is the best medical care in the western hemisphere. Next question: "What do you think of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms that were passed in 2009?"

Unidentified Woman 1: I'm just learning a lot about the economy.

Dan Joseph: That's okay.

Unidentified Woman 2: Never heard of it.

Dan Joseph: Never heard of them? Okay. What do you think of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill?

Unidentified Man 1: I'm not familiar with that.

Dan Joseph: Okay.

Unidentified Man 2: I'm not familiar with it.

Dan Joseph: Okay.

Unidentified Woman 3: Um... I really don't think that any financial reform is going to work, no matter who did it.

Unidentified Man 3: I really have not studied it so I'll withhold.

Unidentified Man 4: I have to do more research on that before I can give a definitive answer.

Unidentified Man 5: It's toothless; it's worthless. They're doing the same things that they have done before. You know, the country is owned by the corporate tyrannists. They -- they -- they do basically what they are asked to do in the Congress.

Unidentified Man 6: Unfortunately, I'm largely unfamiliar with the tax reforms. I do wish I knew more, but I haven't had the time to study that yet.

Dan Joseph: Okay, but what about specifically about Dodd-Frank?

Unidentified Woman 4: No.

RUSH: Clueless. They don't know what Dodd-Frank is. And notice, "Well, I have to study that further. I haven't had time to study that." And they are split on illegal immigration. Dan Joseph, the correspondent here, "Do you believe in open borders immigration policy?"

Unidentified Woman 1: No.

Unidentified Man 1: What do you mean by that?

Unidentified Man 2: Yes.

Unidentified Man 3: Many of the problems caused by illegal immigration is the fact that it is in fact illegal.

Unidentified Man 4: No.

Unidentified Woman 2: I would say yeah, but possibly because I want to emigrate to Canada. (laughing)

Dan Joseph: What about you?

Unidentified Man 5: I have reservations on that one.

Unidentified Man 1: A lot of the jobs they do, Americans won't do, and right now as we're kicking these people out, we're losing other jobs because the people that used to do those jobs are gone, and they can't get even unemployed Americans to do those jobs.

Unidentified Woman 3: Yep.

Unidentified Man 7: Not without any kinds of qualifications, no.

RUSH: So that is the cross section of opinion on illegal immigration, and again, all kinds of cliches that you hear there. I got one more, the question, "Do you believe there should be a 50% cut in military spending?" It's probably predictable what they're all gonna say. We'll play it for you when we get back.

RUSH: Back to MRC TV correspondent Dan Joseph walking amongst the protestors at Occupy Wall Street Now. Question: "Do you believe there should be a 50% cut in military spending?"

Unidentified Man 1: That's being very conservative.

Unidentified Man 2: I would say the majority of it is focused on defense rather than offense.

RUSH: What?

Unidentified Woman 1: I'd feel better if it was 75.

Unidentified Man 3: More.

Unidentified Woman 2: More.

Unidentified Man 4: Oh, absolutely. I'd support a 75% cut. It's insane.

Unidentified Man 5: At least.

Dan Joseph: At least?

Unidentified Woman 3: At least.

Dan Joseph: Okay.

Unidentified Woman 3: Actually, I would say more like 80.

Dan Joseph: Eighty percent cut in military spending?

Unidentified Woman 4: Well...

Unidentified Man 6: We'd still be spending more than everybody else.

Unidentified Woman 4: Yeah, that's true.

Unidentified Man 7: At least.

Unidentified Man 8: At least.

Unidentified Woman 5: Half of that cut I would like see spent on the Department of Peace.

Dan Joseph: We don't have a Department of Peace.

Unidentified Woman 5: Exactly.

Unidentified Man 6: At least.

Unidentified Woman 6: If the military would have to go in and help after a flood or something like that, then I would say maybe an 80% cut. But if we're only gonna use our military for military reasons, you know, for attacking and -- and invading other countries, I would ask for a hundred percent cut.

Dan Joseph: Hundred percent, so no military at all?

Unidentified Woman 6: No.

RUSH: Every one of these people vote Democrat. Every one of these people is the product of the American public education system. Well, doesn't even have to be public depending on how many of them went to college. Every one of these people is either a student, a former student, has had close contact with the American public school system, they probably come from families with family members that have the same point of

view, and they all vote Democrat, and they're all just ignorant. What's the other word? I'm being charitable, by the way, when I say ignorant. Stupid, ill-informed, uninformed? This is exactly the kind of voter the Democrat Party seeks. Dumbed down, in a haze, knowing nothing, believing nothing other than the cliches and the BS that represents traditional Democrat Party policy. They're just stupid, and you notice how smug they are about it. They are arrogantly stupid. This is what we're up against. These are model citizens as far as the Democrat Party is concerned.

RUSH: I found a couple other sound bites here in the roster. More questions put to the protestors in Washington. MRC TV correspondent Dan Joseph. Question: "What do you think of people who don't believe in manmade global warming?"

Unidentified Man 1: While every opinion is valid, not all of them are based in fact.

Unidentified Man 2: I think that for the most part they're on the payroll of the energy companies.

Unidentified Man 3: I know a lot of them think that the earth goes in cycles, but we've been keeping records for a long time, and you can't argue with actual records.

Unidentified Man 4: This is not necessarily an absolute, but either they're mistaken or they're intentionally dishonest.

Unidentified Man 1: And I believe that some people, unfortunately, equate opinion with a factual basis and they say, 'Well, my opinion deserves to be entertained' even though there's no evidence supporting it.

Unidentified Man 2: I think that they're very similar to religious people, where they've made up their mind, and they're going to rationalize any new information to fit with their original worldview instead of trying to process and digest new information

RUSH: Once again, smug stupidity, arrogant, smug stupidity from these people. Of course this last idiot, "I think they're very similar to religious people." The global warming people are the people who are religious. Global warming is their religion. And finally, "Do you believe in God-d?"

Unidentified Woman 1: I don't know.

Dan Joseph: You don't know?

Unidentified Woman 1: I don't know.

Unidentified Man 1: As a personal thing? No, I don't believe in any kind of personal deity.

Unidentified Man 2: No, I am not atheist, but I am not particularly nonspiritual, either.

Unidentified Woman 2: Yes.

Unidentified Man 3: I don't not believe in God.

Unidentified Man 4: Yes.

RUSH: "I don't not believe in God." That's kind of like, what did Sharpton say, it's so cockeyed, "Resist We Much." "I don't not believe in God." Smug arrogance.

RUSH: Christina, Fort Worth, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Great to talk to you.

RUSH: Thank you very much.

CALLER: My comment is about these protesters. They're down on Wall Street, and people that work down on Wall Street are probably some of the hardest working people you're ever gonna come across. My husband was on Wall Street for quite some time until we moved to Fort Worth, and he put in 15, 18 hour days and he was doing it and his bonuses were the majority of his pay but we're middle-class people, we're not making millions of dollars, they're down there, and they have the gall to be protesting, and they obviously don't even have jobs. They're down there for weeks smelling and stinking up the place --

RUSH: Right.

CALLER: -- while hardworking people --

RUSH: Okay. Now, these people, as you've clearly heard, are entirely vacant when it comes to intelligence. They know nothing.

CALLER: It's horrendous to listen to. It's horrible.

RUSH: Right, it is. But I have a question. They think what they think for some reason.

CALLER: Because you're absolutely right. It's because of American education. In colleges and universities you have liberal professors teaching these kids. I don't even want to send my kids to college. I wish I could homeschool college because it's scary to think what these children are being taught at school that you pay for.

RUSH: That's exactly right. You heard on these sound bites, this is what you get if some kid shows up at any institution of higher learning or even high school and doesn't have any kind of a foundation to oppose this kind of authority. They're gonna soak it up and they're gonna become mind-numbed robots marching for the Democrat Party. These people, when they talk about Wall Street, they're not thinking of people like your husband. They're thinking purely of the executives, the CEO. That's all they think about, because that's who Obama has targeted. That's who the Democrat Party has targeted.

CALLER: I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Idiocracy. It's a stupid movie --

RUSH: Yep.

CALLER: -- but that's where we're headed. Our kids are being taught social, liberal ideas, and they think that they're entitled to things without working hard. Whatever happened to working hard? It's going out the window.

RUSH: I don't think they're being taught. I know I'm nitpicking here. I think they're being programmed. I think they're being propagandized. What they're running around with is not the product of education. But you are exactly right. There are -- even at Notre Dame, I've got a story in the stack here. There's a philosophy professor at the great and revered Notre Dame who is polluting students' minds about corporations, a philosophy professor who's poisoning their minds about corporations, how corporations are the antithesis of what's most important in a democracy, and that's the truth. And it's an attack on advertising. It's right out of John Kenneth Galbraith from the fifties. It's just anti-American screed after anti-American screed. And parents are spending 20, $30,000, maybe more in some cases per-semester to send their kids to these schools.

CALLER: It's scary because I have two little children, and I'm just scared to see what the future holds for them.

RUSH: Well, I think your kids are probably gonna be fine. Now, they're gonna go through the normal rebellion against you. How old are your kids now?

CALLER: Three and five.

RUSH: Okay. In about ten years you're gonna be the stupidest woman on earth.

CALLER: Yeah, you're right.

RUSH: As far as they're concerned. But regardless, they're going to take with them whatever you have taught them, and they're gonna have at least something to oppose what they're hearing by these professors if the situation is still the same. Your kids, it's not gonna be as easy to brainwash. It can happen, you're right to be worried about it.

Brainwashing is very easy when every aspect of the media and the school, the publishing industry and Hollywood.

CALLER: Oh, yeah.

RUSH: Like Michael Moore's movies or --

CALLER: Oh, yeah, that guy talking about Cuba -- I'm a nurse, by the way -- the guy talking about Cuba and better health care.

RUSH: Right.

CALLER: They're obviously smoking a crack pipe and listening to Michael Moore on top of it, but it's scary what people actually believe.

RUSH: They might not be smoking a crack pipe. They don't have to be smoking a crack pipe to believe that, is the point. It's in movies, it's in television shows, in books. They've grown up watching cartoons. Ted Turner had a Saturday morning cartoon show called Captain Planet, and the hero attacked corporations for polluting the earth. I mean kids have been overwhelmed with this stuff, and the only counterweight to it has been parents.

CALLER: Well, I hope and pray that my children will have a better future, and --

RUSH: That's gonna depend on getting rid of the Democrat Party.

CALLER: Yeah, I was just gonna say, I'm voting for whoever's gonna take out Obama, whatever GOP candidate is gonna take out Obama.

RUSH: At the ballot box. Let's specify. At the ballot box, in the purely electoral sense, exactly right. Look, I'm glad you called, Christina. Hang in there.

CALLER: Thanks, Rush.

RUSH: I'll tell you when it's time to give up and move. It's not time yet. It's not time.

RUSH: One of the scariest things about these so-called Wall Street protests is that these kids -- and there are a lot of adults in there, too -- are parroting and probably believing every last thing Obama and the Democrats want them to say and believe. Now, you go back to the sixties. Whatever happened to questioning authority? These really are walking zombies. These are Obama Zombies. These are the kinds of people that totalitarians dream of. This is a model citizen for Mao Tse-tung, until he's killed (the citizen, I mean). These people are model citizens for people like Fidel Castro, who believe that the government is the end-all to everything, the beginning and end. Government is the focus of everybody's life. Government is where you get everything that you get.

These people are model citizens, and they are the product of institutions that were established and have been run for decades by Democrats and liberals. We don't know what percentage of the population they are, but they're significant. They're not a majority, but they're significant, and I think their numbers are increasing because these people procreate -- whether they end up knowing it or not -- and create even more. They probably abort more than they end up creating, but regardless there are a lot of them. This is why so many of us for so many years have tried to say that the path to victory for this country has to be rooted in ideology. These people are the product of liberalism.

They're not the product of compassion and good-heartedness and tolerance and all that other bogus stuff that supposedly attaches to liberals. This is nothing more than the success of ideological brainwashing -- mind bending, programming, propaganda, whatever you want to call it -- and it has to be countered with ideology as well. It's always going to be a battle because these are the kinds of people who think the purpose of government is to create citizens like this. The purpose of government is to implement their lifelong dreams. We want to deemphasize government in our lives and everybody else's lives.

We don't want to have never ending careers in government. We want fewer and fewer people in government. Now, I have to add a slight addenda. Some of the modern day conservative movement does want a large government, with them in charge. They're the kind of people that talk about, "We want a powerful and active executive," meaning president. They want access to the federal Treasury. They want to spend it in ways they think. We have some so-called conservatives who do believe in the whole notion of big government because they'll tell you that they think that's what the people want, "And so if we're going to survive politically as conservatives we're gonna have to make some concessions and give the people what they want."

If they want big government we're gonna have to concede that. It's part of the split that has occurred within the so-called conservative movement. I guess I'm referring to the neocons if you want to know specifically who. The neocons as they are known by others, but just to identify them. The neocons believe in an active, large, powerful executive with conservative values. (interruption) Oh, it's domestic, too. It's not just foreign policy. Neocons are identified with foreign policy, yeah, but it's the same bunch of people who have that desire for domestic policy as well.

RUSH: These kids, these protestors, are exactly why I stressed "principle and ideology over policy" as a strategy for conservatives and Republicans to win elections during my CPAC speech of a year and a half ago.

iPhone 4S Crowds Bigger Than Occupy

RUSH: Tom, calling from Long Island. Great to have you on the program today, sir. Hello.

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it's an honor and privilege.

RUSH: Thank you, sir.

CALLER: I just said to Mr. Snerdley, I think it's hysterical that there's almost twice as many people waiting in line for the iPhone than there are at the park.

RUSH: Oh, I think it's larger than that, isn't it? It's more than twice.

CALLER: I thought they said something like 500 people waiting in line for the new iPhone.

RUSH: Yeah, but at which store? You have the Fifth Avenue store... Are you talking about New York? You've got the Fifth Avenue store. You've got a Greenwich Village store. They're all over the place. The numbers of people all over the country lined up to get iPhones today would dwarf this collection of smug stupidity that is running around thinking that they run the world.

CALLER: I'll bet hundreds of them left the park to go get on line for the iPhone. (laughing)

RUSH: (laughing) Well, there are only 300 people in the park, but I don't know how many of these people will get in line for an iPhone because you have to pay for that.

CALLER: True. True.

RUSH: And these people don't sound like they want to pay for anything. These people create the impression that they think things should be given to them. (interruption) I haven't activated it yet. I got my iPhone today. (interruption) No, my master computer is the one at home. I can't activate it on this one. I could give it a shot with the wireless but I had to do show prep today. I didn't have time to take off... (interruption) I had one problem with iCloud but it was a computer problem. It wasn't an iCloud problem. I had to reboot my computer in order to get all of the mail to sync, but I had no problem. Everything -- on, what was it, Wednesday? -- went smooth as silk. But I must be honest; I had a couple things in advance of Wednesday. Basically all I had to do Wednesday was iCloud, and it's a (snapping fingers) snap, and it works exactly as advertised. Simply amazing. The piece de resistance, of course, will be this afternoon when I activate the new iPhone 4S. I have it sitting right there. Hee-hee-hee. It's in the sack. I opened the box; I looked at it and compared it to the 4. It's identical. The only thing different is that the three buttons (the mute button and the volume buttons) are a little lower, but it's not enough of a difference to make my case (you know, my Mophie) obsolete. So I don't have to buy any new accessories for it.

RUSH: Oh, by the way, I am getting some e-mails from people. "Rush, Rush, Rush. I'm surprised you're so stupid about Apple. You say you can't activate your phone 'til you go home?" Ladies and gentlemen, you get a new iPhone 4S and you can turn it on and activate it right out of the box. You do not need your computer to do it. This is very, very true. However, if you want to put everything on it... If you have an iPhone 4 or a 3G, whatever, if you have an iPhone and you want to migrate current data over to the new one, you are going to have to be in contact with your computer where you have your iPhone backed up, 'cause nobody yet has their iPhone backed up to iCloud or very few people do. So, yeah, you can activate the thing right out of the box, but it won't have any of your data on it until you mate the two; and all I'm saying is, "I can't do that here at the studio." I have to wait 'til I get home to do it. I can do it wirelessly, so there's no point in me turning the phone on if it doesn't have anything on it other than tablet to make a call.

Attention, Pelosi: 11 Democrats Voted with GOP to Let Women Die on the Floor!

RUSH: There were 11 Democrats yesterday who voted with the Republicans in wanting to let women die on the floor, according to Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi said that the Republicans who opposed federal funding for abortion want women to die on the floor. Of course, babies dying on the floor is fine. But women dying on the floor, that's what the Republicans want, she said -- and there are 11 Democrats that voted with the Republicans. So here are the Democrats. Nancy Pelosi said under this bill, "When the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor..."

So here are the 11 Democrats who also join the Republicans in voting to say that women can die on the floor: Jason Altmire (D-PA), Dan Boren (D-OK), Jerry Costello (D-IL), Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Lipinski Junior (D-IL), Jim Matheson (D-UT), Mike McIntyre (D-NC), Collin Peterson (D-MN), Nick Rahall (D-WV), Mike Ross (D-AR), Heath Shuler (D-NC). All eleven voted with the Republicans to say that "women can die on the floor." Now, Pelosi didn't include the Democrats that would be voting with the Republicans. That's why I wanted to point it out.

Occupy Wall Street; Detailed list of demands and tactics:

http://occupywallst.org/forum/detailed-list-of-demands-overview-of-tactics-for-d/

Since there are some links you may want to go back to from time-to-time, I am going to begin a list of them here. This will be a list to which I will add links each week.

James O’Keefe’s website (independent journalist):

http://www.theprojectveritas.org/

Rebel Pundit; citizen journalism from the belly of the beast:

http://rebelpundit.com/

Free Republic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm

Anti-Wall Street groups include:

Stop the Machine under October 2011, which apparently had permits for months for October. This is very organized; these are not people who just showed up suddenly. Their issues: protect the planet, healthcare for all, end wars, tax the rich and end corporate welfare.

http://october2011.org/

Freedom’s Lighthouse:

http://freedomslighthouse.net/

The Swine Line (Citizens Against Government Waste):

http://swineline.org/

Right Change:

http://www.rightchange.com/

Misfit Politics on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/misfitpolitics

Translating Jihad:

http://www.translatingjihad.com/

The Five Myths archive of the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/five-myths/2010/07/06/ABCCtvO_linkset.html

The Obama Diary (this is a very pro-Obama diary with lots of videos):

http://theobamadiary.com/

I Hate the Media:

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/

In case someone tells a fib about Obama, we need to turn that person in. Luckily, the President has provided for us such a website:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/signup/o2012-attackwatch-report-an-attack or after they have your email address, then use:

http://AttackWatch.com

The Obama Diary. This appears to be a pretty serious site, dedicated to telling you what the president is doing right:

http://theobamadiary.com/

Tomorrow’s Economy Today (lots of graphs).

http://www.economy-tomorrow.com/

We the people; online petitions from the people to the White House:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WeThePeople

Conservative blogging and news:

http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/

Political news site; looks comprehensive and possibly non-partisan:

http://electzu.com/

Workforce Fairness Institute (it sounds like a liberal group, but it looks like a conservative group):

http://www.workforcefairness.com/

Wrote Left Turn and measures media bias as well as individuals. There is a 40 question test to measure your political quotient and the quotient of various media outlets are given.

http://www.timgroseclose.com/

Conservative Refocus (conservative opinion and a little news):

http://www.conservativerefocus.com/index.php

News and right-leaning commentary

http://www.frumforum.com/

Big Hairy News (right-leaning tongue-in-cheek and some actual news, sort of):

http://peacemoonbeam.typepad.com/bighairynews/

National Taxpayers Union:

http://www.ntu.org/

Millionaires who think they should pay more taxes:

http://patrioticmillionaires.org/

Sunshine State News (almost the only news service which ran a story on Mack’s Penny Plan). They are not a conservative news source, by the way.

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/

Bankrupting America:

http://www.bankruptingamerica.org/

Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis (a number of fairly easy to understand article on economic matters):

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/

Start Thinking Right, a mostly conservative blog, but he does not support every single conservative in each and every case:

https://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/

The cut, cap and balance amendment:

http://www.cutcapandbalanceact.com/

Club for Growth:

http://clubforgrowth.org/

Social Network of the Revolution (they seem to be a conservative organization):

http://rtr.org/

Watts Up With That (a lot of recent scientific news is posted here—there were 9 stories for July 5^th alone):

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Corruption Chronicles (wtching things judicial):

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog

If you are a small business and you want to air out your problems with how government has hampered your business, here’s the place to go (enjoy the video):

http://jobs.majorityleader.gov/

Excellent economic news:

http://www.zerohedge.com/

Uncover age, sometimes a sensational right wing blog site:

http://www.uncoverage.net/

The Bare Knuckled Pundit, a right-wing blog site with in-depth articles.

http://www.bareknuckledpundit.com/

Front Page Mag; in-depth right-leaning stories:

http://frontpagemag.com/

Framing the Dialogue (mostly individually produced blog postings and interesting articles):

http://www.framingthedialogue.com/

Obamacare 411 (stories about what to expect from Obamacare):

http://obamacare411.wordpress.com/

The U.S. misery index, determined month-by-month:

http://www.miseryindex.us/customindexbymonth.asp

TEA Party . Org (conservative news and views):

http://www.teaparty.org/

Seems to be a middle-of-the-road news organization; iwatch news:

http://www.iwatchnews.org/

Front Page magazine, which is conservative with Jewish emphasis:

http://frontpagemag.com/

The fake Obama Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002453027874&sk=info (the name "Harrison J. Bounel" - a suspected Obama alias, based on official records)

Our Dirty Spending Secrets:

http://www.dirtyspendingsecrets.com/

The Right Perspective (blog):

http://rightperspective.wordpress.com/

Conservative byte (conservative blog; news):

http://conservativebyte.com/

The Government is not God, a political action committee:

http://www.gingpac.org/

Obama’s autopen twitter account:

http://twitter.com/#!/ObamasAutopen

The Minority Report (conservative blogging and news):

http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/

Shadow Government Statistic; excellent economics site (some information is free, but this is a subscription site):

http://www.shadowstats.com/

A George Soros funded site to go after specific Fox anchors through their advertisers (is there any parallel to this on the right?):

http://dropfox.com/

Cato Institute’s Downsizing Government

http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/

Cool blog with a lot of excellent articles:

http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/

Slimeball comics:

http://slimeball-comics.blogspot.com/

Anti-Fox, anti-conservative “news and opinion” site:

http://www.newscorpse.com/

Lots of current vids:

http://www.therightscoop.com/

Men with Foil Hats (occasionally borders on conspiratorial without being completely nuts; mostly a repository of news stories from elsewhere):

http://www.menwithfoilhats.com/

iwatch news is a repository of interesting news items; there might be a slight left slant? It is hard to tell.

http://www.iwatchnews.org/

Calculated Risk Blog:

http://cr4re.com/charts/charts.html

Calculated Risk Charts and Graphs:

http://cr4re.com/charts/charts.html

This website, asks the eternal question...

http://www.isglennbeckright.com/

Renew America:

http://www.renewamerica.com/

The Party of 1776:

http://www.partyof1776.net/

Climate Realists:

http://climaterealists.com/index.php

In case I did not list it before, Iowa Hawk (insightful economic blogging):

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/

American Legislative Exchange Council (Limited government, free markets and federalism):

http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Right Wing News Watch

http://www.rightwingnewswatch.com/

It is mostly libs who post here, but this way, you get their weird perspective on things political:

http://www.politico.com/arena/

The Right Scoop:

http://www.therightscoop.com/

Pro-Life Unity:

http://www.prolifeunity.com/

Christian Healthcare Ministries (an alternative to health insurance)

http://chministries.org/

Daniel Mitchell’s blog:

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/

Capitalism Magazine

http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/

The truth wins (mostly commentary on economics).

http://thetruthwins.com/

Conservative 21 (blog)

http://www.conservative21.com/index.cfm

Translating Jihad. What is broadcast in the Arabic is one thing; and how it is said in English is something entirely different:

http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/

The Center for Responsive Politics:

http://www.opensecrets.org/

What if George Bush did that?

http://whatifgeorgebushdidthat.wordpress.com/

The Lonely Conservative (news and conservative opinion):

http://lonelyconservative.com/

The right weather underground (blog, with some emphasis upon the phony green agenda).

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/sebastianjer/

An article on the federal reserve:

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/fed_reserve.htm

The Economic Collapse Blog:

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

Albert Mohler’s blog, which is Christian and conservative:

http://www.albertmohler.com/

Readers begin a discussion, and other join in:

http://ricochet.com/

The Other Half of History (the history which is ignored in the modern classroom):

http://historyhalf.com/columns/

American History:

http://wallbuilders.com/

Citizen Tom (news and conservative commentary):

http://citizentom.com/

Pronk Palisades (recent news and editorial videos and links):

http://raymondpronk.wordpress.com/

The Right brothers (sort of newsy and commentary):

http://therightbrothers.posterous.com/

Freedom Fighter’s Journal (news and opinion articles):

http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/

Liberty’s Army (mostly economic and middle eastern revolutionary news right now):

http://www.libertysarmy.com/

News and opinion articles:

http://iusbvision.wordpress.com/

STORM’s official Revolutionary document:

http://www.leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf

Climate Depot’s 321-page 'Consensus Buster' Report:

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/9035/SPECIAL-REPORT-More-Than-1000-International-Scientists-Dissent-Over-ManMade-Global-Warming-Claims--Challenge-UN-IPCC--Gore

The Iowahawk, which is a blog, at times, heavy with stats, and at other times, it is hard to tell:

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/

Liberal collector of links and liberal news:

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/

Good conservative news blog:

http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/

The radio patriot; a news repository and right-wing blog:

http://radiopatriot.wordpress.com/

Glenn Beck’s news page; almost everything is a video:

http://www.theblaze.com/

Conservative Girls are Hot:

http://girlontheright.com/

The Food Liberation Army (I am still unsure whether this is a put-on or not):

http://www.freeronald.org/en/fla/

Good news site—Buck’s Right:

http://www.bucksright.com/

In case you want to refer others to this; statistical comparison between gays and straights:

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02

Palestinian Media Watch:

http://palwatch.org/

Right Bias:

http://rightbias.com/

Red, White and Blue news:

http://redwhitebluenews.com/

The Right Scoop (lots of videos):

http://www.therightscoop.com/

Excellent news source:

http://home.myway.com/

Union refund? Really?

http://www.unionrefund.org/

The Right Reasons (news and opinion):

http://www.therightreasons.net/index.php

Meadia Research Center where the bias of mainstream news is exposed again and again.

http://www.mrc.org

Pundit and Pundette:

http://www.punditandpundette.com/

News directly from people in Egypt (called Broadcasting from Tahrir Square):

http://eltahrir.org/

Stand with Us:

http://www.standwithus.com/

A George Soros funded site:

http://thinkprogress.org/

Progressive media matters action network:

http://politicalcorrection.org/

The Jawa Report (there is some moderate emphasis upon Islam):

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/

Kids Aren’t Cars:

http://www.kidsarentcars.com/blog/

Stuff you probably did not know about greenhouse gases (this is a good link for friends):

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming (I am fairly certain that this is serious; but it is really hard to tell). It is saying goodbye to French Wines, glaciers, guacamole, mixed nuts, French fries, baseball and Christmas trees and saying hello to cannibalistic polar bears, jellyfish attacks, giant squid attacks, more stray kittens, suffocating lemmings, burning cow poop and acidic oceans.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/09/climate_100.html

Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare (this includes individual health insurance costing as much as $695/month by 2016—which is not the only cost):

http://www.atr.org/comprehensive-list-tax-hikes-obamacare-a5758#

Tammy Bruce

http://tammybruce.com/

[California’s] Public Speakers blog:

http://pubsecrets.wordpress.com/

Flashpoint—California’s most significant political news:

http://www.flashreport.org/

The Publius Forum (more of a newscast than a blog; located in Chicago, I believe):

http://www.publiusforum.com/

Political Chips:

http://www.politicalchips.org/

Brits at their best:

http://www.britsattheirbest.com/

Political Affairs, which used to be called the Communist (in case you are interested in what the Democratic Par, I mean, the communist party is up to.

http://politicalaffairs.net/

Headlines, short news stories:

http://www.thehotjoints.com/

Christmas is evil (Muslim website):

http://xmasisevil.com/index2.php

Conservative blogger:

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

Verum Serum

http://www.verumserum.com/

The Tax Professor Blog

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/

Moonbattery:

http://www.moonbattery.com/

Arbitrary Vote:

http://arbitraryvote.com/home

The Party of Know:

http://thepartyofknow.com/

Slap Blog

http://slapblog.com/

The latest news from Prison Planet:

http://prisonplanet.tv/

http://prisonplanet.tv/latest-news.html

Right Wing News:

http://rightwingnews.com/

The Frugal Café:

http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/

The Left Coast Rebel:

http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/

The Freedomist:

http://freedomist.com/

Greg Gutfeld’s website:

http://freedomist.com/

This is one of my favorite lists; this is a list of things which global warming causes (right now, it causes over 800 things—most of these are linked):

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm

The U.K.’s number watch:

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/number%20watch.htm

100 things we can say goodbye to (or, hello to) because of Global Warming (all of these are linked). They are very serious about these things, by the way:

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/09/climate_100.html

If you are busy, and just want to read about the Top Ten things:

http://planetsave.com/2009/06/07/global-warming-effects-and-causes-a-top-10-list/

Observations of a blue state conservative:

http://lonelyconservative.com/

Thomas “Soul man” Sewell’s column archive:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp

Walter E. Williams column archive:

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/

Israpundit:

http://www.israpundit.com/

The Prairie Pundit:

http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/

Conservative Art:

http://secularstupidest.com/

Conservative Club of Houston:

http://www.cclub.org/welcome

Conservative blog, but with an eye to the culture and pop culture (there is a lot of stuff here):

http://hallofrecord.blogspot.com/

Conservative and pop culture blog (last I looked, there were some Beatles’ performances here):

http://thinkinboutstuff.com/thinkinboutstuff/nfblog/

Raging Elephants:

http://www.ragingelephants.org/

Gulag bound:

http://gulagbound.com/

Hyscience:

http://www.hyscience.com/

Politi Fi

http://politifi.com/

TEA Party Patriots:

http://teapartypatriots.org/

South Montgomery County Liberty Group:

http://sites.google.com/site/smclibertygroup/

Hole in the Hull:

http://www.holeinthehull.com/

National Council for Policy Analysis (ideas changing the world):

http://www.ncpa.org/

Ordering their pamphlets:

http://www.policypatriots.org/

Cartoon (Senator Meddler):

http://www.senatormedler.com/

Bear Witness:

http://bearwitness.info/default.aspx

http://bearwitness.info/BEARWITNESSMAIN.aspx (there are a million vids on this second page)

Right Change (facts presented in an entertaining manner):

http://www.rightchange.com/

Bias alert from the Media Research Center:

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/archive.aspx

Excellent conservative blogger:

http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/

Send this link to the young people you know (try the debt quiz; I only got 6 out of 10 right):

http://ourtab.org/

Center for Responsive Politics:

http://www.opensecrets.org/

The Chamber Post (pro-business blog):

http://www.chamberpost.com/

Labor Pains (a pro-business, anti-union blog):

http://laborpains.org/

These people are after our children and after church goers as well:

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Their opposition:

http://resistingthegreendragon.com/

The Doug Ross Journal (lots of pictures and cartoons):

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/

The WSJ Guide to Financial Reform

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703315404575250382363319878.html

The WSJ Guide to Obamacare:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574441193211542788.html

The WSJ Guide to Climate Change

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704007804574574101605007432.html

Video-heavy news source:

http://www.mediaite.com/

Political News:

http://www.politicsdaily.com/

Planet Gore; blogs about the environment:

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore

The Patriot Post:

http://patriotpost.us/

PA Pundits, whose motto is, “the relentless pursuit of common sense” (I used many of the quotations which they gathered)

http://papundits.wordpress.com/

Index of (business) freedom, world rankings:

http://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2010/Index2010_ExecutiveHighlights.pdf

U.S. State economic freedom:

http://www.pacificresearch.org/docLib/20080909_Economic_Freedom_Index_2008.pdf

The All-American Blogger:

http://www.allamericanblogger.com/

The Right Scoop (with lots of vids):

http://www.therightscoop.com/

In case you have not seen it yet, Obsession:

http://www.therightscoop.com/saturday-cinema-obsession-radical-islams-war-against-the-west

Inside Islam; what a billion Muslims think:

http://vimeo.com/14121737

World Net Daily (News):

http://www.wnd.com/

Excellent blog with lots of cool vids:

http://benhoweblog.wordpress.com/

Black and Right:

http://www.black-and-right.com/

The Right Network:

http://rightnetwork.com/

Video on the Right Network:

http://rightnetwork.com/videos/860061517

The newly designed Democrat website:

http://www.democrats.org/

Composition of Congress 1855–2010:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774721.htm

Anti-American and pro-socialist, pro-Arabic:

http://www.zeropartypolitics.com/

The anti-Jihad resistence (which appears to be a set of links to similar websites):

http://www.antijihadresistance.com/

Seems to be fair and balanced with an international news approach:

http://ibnlive.in.com/

http://www.rawstory.com/

Black and Right dot com:

http://www.black-and-right.com/ (the future liberal of the day is quite humorous)

Mostly a liberal blogger, who says vicious things about most conservatives; and yet, says something sensible, e.g. posting many of the things which the healthcare bill does to us.

http://www.osborneink.com/

Conservative news site (many of the stories include videos):

http://www.theblaze.com/

http://nakedemperornews.com/

http://pajamasmedia.com/

Muslim hope:

http://www.muslimhope.com/index.html

Anti-Obama sites:

http://howobamagotelected.com/

http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/

http://www.exposeobama.com/

International news, mostly about Israel and the Middle East:

http://www.haaretz.com/

http://www.jpost.com/

News headlines sites (with links):

http://drudgereport.com/

http://www.thedeadpelican.com/

Business blog and news:

http://www.bizzyblog.com/

And I have begun to sort out these links:

News and Opinions

Conservative News/Opinion Sites

The Daily Caller

http://dailycaller.com/

Sweetness and Light

http://sweetness-light.com/

Flopping Aces:

http://www.floppingaces.net/

News busters:

http://newsbusters.org/

Right wing news:

http://rightwingnews.com/

CNS News:

http://www.cnsnews.com/

Pajamas Media:

http://pajamasmedia.com/

Right Wing News:

http://rightwingnews.com/

Scared Monkeys (somewhat of a conservative newsy site):

http://scaredmonkeys.com/

Conservative News Source:

http://www.newsrealblog.com/

David’ Horowitz’s NewsReal:

http://www.newsrealblog.com/

Pamela Geller’s conservative website:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

The news sites and the alternative news media:

http://drudgereport.com/

http://www.hallindsey.com/

http://reason.com/

Andrew Breithbart’s websites:

http://biggovernment.breitbart.com/

Conservative Websites:

http://www.theodoresworld.net/

http://conservalinked.com/

http://www.moonbattery.com/

http://www.rockiesghostriders.com/

www.coalitionoftheswilling.net

http://shortforordinary.com/

A conservative worldview:

http://www.divineviewpoint.com/sane/

http://www.theamericanright.com/forums/index.php

http://politipage.com/

Liberal News Sites

Democrat/Liberal news site:

http://intoxination.net/

News

CNS News:

http://www.cnsnews.com/home

News Organization (I mention them because I have seen 2 honest stories on their website, which shocked and surprised me):

http://www.ocregister.com/

Business News/Economy News

Investors Business Daily:

http://www.investors.com/

IBD editorials:

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/IBDEditorials.aspx

Great business and political news:

www.wsj.com

www.businessinsider.com

Quick News

Even though this group leans left, if you need to know what happened each day, and you are a busy person, here is where you can find the day’s news given in 100 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tpmtv

Republican

Back to the basics for the Republican party:

http://www.republicanbasics.com/

Republican Stop Obamacare site:

http://www.nrcc.org/codered/main.php

North Suburban Republican Forum:

http://www.northsuburbanrepublicanforum.org/

Politics

You Decide Politics (it appears conservative to me):

http://www.youdecidepolitics.com/

The Left

From the left:

http://www.loonwatch.com/

Far left websites:

www.dailykos.com

Weatherman Underground 1969 “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

http://www.archive.org/details/YouDontNeedAWeathermanToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows_925 (PDF, Kindle and other formats)

http://www.antiauthoritarian.net/sds_wuo/weather/weatherman_document.txt (Simple online text)

Insane, leftist blogs:

http://teabaggersrcoming.blogspot.com/

http://poorsquinky.com/politics/all.html

Media

Media Research Center

http://www.mrc.org/public/default.aspx

Conservative Blogs

Mike’s America

http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/

Dick Morris:

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/

David Limbaugh (great columns this week)

http://davidlimbaugh.com/

Texas Fred (blog and news):

http://texasfred.net/

Conservative Blogs:

http://atimetochoose.wordpress.com/

http://americanelephant.com/

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index

The top 100 conservative sites:

http://deathby1000papercuts.com/dbkpreport/2010/02/the-conservative-100-most-popular-conservative-sites-feb-14-2010/

Sensible blogger Burt Folsom:

http://www.burtfolsom.com/

Janine Turner’s website (I’m serious; and the website is serious too). This is if you have an interest in real American history:

http://constitutingamerica.org/

Conservative news/opinion site:

http://www.humanevents.com/

The Left Coast Rebel:

http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/

Good conservative blogs:

http://tammybruce.com/

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/

http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/

http://makenolaw.org/ (the Free Speech blog)

http://www.baltimorereporter.com/

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/

www.rightofanation.com