1099 regulations will allow the Democrats to implement crushing new VAT taxes

◼ The Democrat's secret rationale for their crushing new 1099 reporting regulations: they set the stage for implementation of the VAT tax @ directorblue
not only will income taxes increase across the board on January 1... not only are state taxes rising... not only are energy prices rising due to the Obama drilling moratorium and possible new energy taxes... not only are new environmental regulations certain to increase the cost of food... not only are health insurance premiums rising even now to compensate for ObamaCare's bizarre dictates... but the VAT tax puts the icing on the cake.

Reading it wouldn't have helped, they had to pass it to find out what was in it. Why? You're starting to find out. It was really never about "health care."

The conversation at the coffee shop

this morning was about the nanny-state, and big government. And how Jack Kerouac started complaining about it so many years ago. It's not new. He pointed out how the park rangers were directing people into specific areas and behaviors. It's a long path we've been on. Do you think the course can be reversed?



“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”

The one-eyed Jack has been flipped over.

◼ at Pajamas Media
◼ Victor Davis Hanson…is brilliant, as usual.

Yogi Bear trailer

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"party officials are eager to try to match some of the national energy that has been generated among Republicans by the Tea Party movement"

This falls in the "they just don't get it" category.

◼ An Effort to Recapture Democratic Enthusiasm
This should be interesting, given ◼ Six weeks before the election, President Obama couldn’t fill the ballroom at the Roosevelt Hotel, despite cheap tickets on offer. And then he was met by hecklers.

And now, Feingold is not even going to show up: ◼ Feingold skipping Obama rally -- Again...

Some days, the right thing happens

◼ San Fran Chronicle: ‘Boxer Has Failed to Distinguish Herself’
...The incumbent, Democrat Barbara Boxer, has failed to distinguish herself during her 18 years in office. There is no reason to believe that another six-year term would bring anything but more of the same uninspired representation....
◼ SF Chronicle makes no endorsement
Boxer, first elected in 1992, would not rate on anyone's list of most influential senators. Her most famous moments on Capitol Hill have not been ones of legislative accomplishment, but of delivering partisan shots

Amen, may this year bring the end to this wretch's wretched 18 years in office, coulda sworn it was longer ago that that, when I first saw her in action.

It's too bad the authors are so entrenched still in "Climate Change" and cannot see the forest for the trees - but this is a clear win for Carly Fiorina.

She may be great, she may be terrible. she can't be worse than Boxer, and if she doesn't live up to expectations, boot her out next election cycle. I for one, enthusiastically support Fiorina. I met her when she visited the real north coast, and I liked her. Quite a different experience from Boxer's visit.

Blog/Forum Wars

LGFers can relate... ◼ Bigfoot and the Trolls - How a bookseller in Willow Creek caused the biggest Bigfoot forum on the web to be shut down. Or did he?
...He stared intently into the darkness, watching, observing, reading the signs, hoping that the tidbit he’d left there recently would pay off. He wasn’t expecting an earth-shattering encounter, just a new clue, perhaps, something that might add to his understanding of the shadowy creature he’d pursued, seriously, for the past nine years....

He leaned forward, shifting his right hand…

The attack was sudden. Something flashed — a barber’s blade?! — through the air and hit him with a thwack!

“So Steve-o, when are you gonna have an interview with Bob H. and post that on your Blog?” the one called “masterbarber” on the Bigfoot Forums sneered.

Steven Streufert, owner of Bigfoot Books in Willow Creek, stared at his computer screen. He had posed what he thought was a fun, discussion-provoking question — “What Constitutes a BIGFOOT-SASQUATCH ENCOUNTER?” — on his own blog, “Bigfoot’s bLOG,” and then posted it as a new thread on the Bigfoot Forums website with a link to his blog post, and signed it as always “Bigfoot Bookman.” But now, at 11:56 p.m., he gets this non sequitur, this provocation about his stance — revealed in earlier discussions here on the BFF — on a subject completely unrelated to his new post.... and then it was on!

Funny story. You'll like it.

Basically, I believe that it is a huge mistake to shut the discussion forum down. So the discussion turned rancorous, so what? It is part of the debate, and one well worth having. Good, bad or indifferent, there's something to be learned by having the discussion.

“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening,”

◼ Like HOPE and CHANGE, John?

John Kerry's starting to get it? But the clue bat hit him on the wrong side of the head.

◼ Kerry: the electorate’s too stupid and uninformed to understand… - neoneocon

The rich get richer - and lecture you to boot

◼ Buffett to taxpayers: Get over your anger
“I hope we get over it pretty soon, because it’s not productive,’’ Buffett said. “We will come back regardless of how people feel about Washington, but it is not helpful to have people as unhappy as they are about what’s going on in Washington.”

It's not "helpful."

Interactive 2010 US Election Map - Bookmark it!

◼ link
Breakdowns by State, by Senate, House, and Governor, rated by CQ Politics, Rothenberg Political Report, RealClearPolitics and Cook Political Report - Safe Dem to TossUp to GOP favored and more. A fun little tool.

Taking government for what it is - a joke.

Forget experts, forget people actually affected by an issue, why do you need it when you can vote on bills you haven't written or read, and if you can't get enough votes you can "deem" it passed. you don't have to think about your vote, it is predetermined by the partisan overlords, so why not make it into a comedic entertaining (to you) sideshow.

DEM CRACKUP: COMEDIAN ASKED TO LEAVE HILL HEARING...
...tries to enter images from his colonoscopy into congressional record - Sarcastically Argues For Farm Workers...
Makes 'Gay Iowans' Joke...
VIDEO...
Gets 7 Armed-Guard Escort...
Shock: Even DC reporters declare Colbert to be out of line..
'Mocking'...
via Drudge

"Maybe we should be spending less time watching Comedy Central and more time considering all the real jobs that are out there," said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

Half a year removed from the unprecedented legislative chicanery and backroom dealing

◼ Examiner Editorial: Obamacare is even worse than critics thought

Six months ago, President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rammed Obamacare down the throats of an unwilling American public. Half a year removed from the unprecedented legislative chicanery and backroom dealing that characterized the bill's passage, we know much more about the bill than we did then. A few of the revelations:
» Obamacare won't decrease health care costs for the government. According to Medicare's actuary, it will increase costs. The same is likely to happen for privately funded health care....

And that's just for starters.

It is a day that will live in infamy - "You have to pass it to find out what's in it." is the antithesis of everything we expect from people we elect. We expect them to be educated enough to not only read a bill but understand its complexities. We expect them to be diligent and watchful, and mindful that it is not their money they are spending, but money that they have taken from others. We expect them to be frugal and respectful and wise.

The despicable drunken spending orgy that characterizes Nancy Pelosi's and Harry Reid's and Obama's actions here will have to be fixed by future generations who will curse their names.

((((((((THIS IS CHENZHEN)))))))(((((((REPORTING FROM THE MEMORY HOLE))))))))))(((((((PSSHHTT)))))((((((((((I’M NOT GONNA LIE)))))))((((((PSSHHTT))))))(((((((IT’S UGLY DOWN HERE)))))))

◼ Rescued from Memory Hole: Four More Flight 93 Memorial Threads - LOL, some serious digging going on. Chen is an archaeologist!

The real question is becoming: What planet is the guy from?

◼ Prez sings an absurd new tune: 'I'm a Li'l Tea-pot'

He thinks the cloaking device has been repaired. He went to church, as he does for political expediency, and now, he'll pretend to be a Tea Party Conservative. It might work, he figures. No matter what he has to hide what he really is.

Beam us up, Scotty.

Once again, giving the lie to Obama's stormtroopers

◼ IT’S TRUE– Proof That the DNC and Team Obama Are Targeting Tea Parties and Top Conservatives

Are those working school buses? How in the hell are these people allowed to use SCHOOLBUSES to go - as Obama's "Organizing for America" stormtroopers - hit on other Americans - how is it that they can do this? the Boy Scouts can't even hold a meeting at the public school gymnasium anymore, but these goons get given the use of public school buses?

Gotta love Breitbart.

Organizing for America, against other Americans - The truth be told - Pelosi's astroturfers revealed

Essentially, Democratic Party operatives posing as grassroots, sliming opponents as Hitler, caught in the act, Breitbart challenges Pelosi to condemn this. (Wait for it click here)
Detailed - and I mean detailed - here...

◼ (Debbie) Halvorson Office Organizes Protest: Palin, Kinzinger as Hitler
1...The leader of the protest on September 15th is an employee of Organizing for America in Illinois.... After participating in a protest that included signs showing Sara Palin and Glenn Beck as Adolph Hitler, several participants return to Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson's campaign headquarters.... Anna Markowski, the Nazi-sign protester, now works for Rep. Halvorson (D-IL) She was the Missouri Deputy Regional Field Director for Barack Obama in 2008.

Another one of the protesters has been identified as Julie Merz – Rep. Halvorsen’s campaign manager who is seen at the end of the video and was just recently the Deputy Director of Member Services on Ms. NANCY Pelosi’s staff....

◼ http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2010/09/17/hypocrisy-progressive-illinois-democrat-debbie-halvorsons-office-organizes-protest-with-sarah-palin-and-glenn-beck-nazi-signs/ - fireandreamitchell
◼ Barack Obama’s Organizing for America Goes With the Nazi Mustache Too - redstate
◼ Red-handed: Pelosi, Obama staffers caught at 'Nazi protest' against Kinzinger (Updated) - texas4palin
◼ Democrat Congresswoman’s Staff Uses Nazi Campaign Smear in Illinois - TheOtherMcCain
◼ Dem Congresswoman’s Supporters Participate in ‘Palin-As-Hitler’ Rally - Big Government
◼ Video: Prominent Democrats Hold Nazi Signs at Protest - bluegrasspundit
◼ Video: Debbie Halvorson's Brown Shirt Brigade - Riehl World View
◼ Update: House Staffer, Pelosi Spec. Assist. Julie Merz Linked To Halvorson's Nazi Protest - Riehl World View
Via Big Government, it would seem Speaker Pelosi's special assistant thought a Nazi-themed rally was just what Debbie Halvorson needed. Also see Gateway Pundit for more.

We’re sure Speaker Nancy Pelosi will want to investigate who was behind the funding for this event and the printing of those signs. We’re sure Ms. Pelosi won’t have any trouble getting that information, after all, Julie Merz – Rep. Halvorsen’s campaign manager who is depicted at the end of the video – was just recently the Deputy Director of Member Services on Ms. Pelosi’s staff.
◼ WOW! Protesters With "Nazi" Signs Linked To Obama Campaign, Pelosi & Democrat Rep. From Illinois - Marooned in Marin



◼ Organizing For America PROTESTERS AT ‘ANTI-HATE’ RALLY CALL BREITBART HOMOSEXUAL, SPIT ON HIM - BreitbartTV

Look how they are draped in flags!

Thou shalt not

- refer to any group except conservatives with a "far _____" label - as in, you do not refer to environmental groups as "far left environmental groups.
- mention the hypocrisy of any of these groups.
- describe their dwindling attendance numbers.
- mention huge and unprecedented campaign contributions to Barack Obama.
Amid the ongoing BP oil spill in July, McKelway covered a Capitol Hill demonstration by environmental groups protesting the influence of oil-industry contributions to members of Congress.

In his piece, McKelway said the sparsely attended event attracted protesters "largely representing far-left environmental groups." He went on to say the protest "may be a risky strategy because the one man who has more campaign contributions from BP than anybody else in history is now sitting in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama, who accepted $77,051 in campaign contributions from BP."

After a brief taped segment updating efforts to cap the BP well, McKelway added that the Senate was unlikely to pass "cap-and-trade" legislation this year, because "the Democrats are looking at the potential for huge losses in Congress come the midterm elections. And the last thing they want to do is propose a huge escalation in your electric bill, your utility bill, before then."

◼ And for that - he was fired: WJLA-TV fires veteran anchor Doug McKelway, cites insubordination, misconduct

bwahahahahahaha

◼ h/t: anna via Ace

$2 Million Per Stimulus Job

◼ (Los Angeles) The city received $111 million in stimulus under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) approved by the Congress more than year ago.

"I'm disappointed that we've only created or retained 55 jobs after receiving $111 million," says Wendy Greuel, the city's controller, while releasing an audit report

A hundred eleven MILLION. 55 jobs. (via drudge)

Forget Global Warming and Climate Change

◼ it's now 'Global Climate Disruption' Wow, That'll solve the problem, just keep it amorphous enough that you can continue to blame every hiccup on the guilty populace, exact penance and rob them blind.

Is there anyone who isn't laughing at this?

A new photonic chip that works on light rather than electricity

◼ Computers set for quantum leap
An early application will be to investigate and design complex molecules, such as new drugs and other materials, that cannot be simulated with ordinary computers. More general consumer applications should follow.

Kinda reminds me of Blade Runner

◼ Severe Storm Rips Through New York City

Islam - Hypocrisy is allowed.

h/t: kirls

this is why they call it "Stimulus"

◼ Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program

$823,200.00 actually. Wonder how many jobs this "saved or created."

9-12

◼ WOW! SEA OF PEOPLE AT 9-12 Rally In Washington DC

I see lots of "American color"

◼ In Search Of: People Of Color

If Gitmo and Abu Ghraib commanders had only known

that they could string people up by tuna hooks stuck in the skin on their backs, twirl them around while blood dripped from the piercings as people stood around cheering and getting their rocks off - that this would be considered COOL - if they had only known, waterboarding would have been totally unnecessary. Torture is merely erotic self expression. Dontcha know?

◼ Hooked - Blood, masochism and the shocking thrill of human suspension

We remember

◼ “It Is Such A Pretty Morning, Isn’t It?” - pat dollard - Must watch.

◼ Nine Years Later - riverdaughter
◼ We will never forget - backyardconservative
◼ September Eleventh, Two Thousand One - HolgerAwakens
◼ Remembering 9-11 - stratasphere
◼ 9/11 The Moment of Truth - Sake White
◼ 911: Five Seconds Before Impact - DBKP
◼ A reflected memory. - althouse
◼ Nine Eleven - black & right
◼ 9/11: Never Forget - TheOtherMcCain
◼ Nine Years Hence - valley of the shadow
◼ Remembering 9-11 victim Peter Edward Mardikian - sistertoldjah
◼ where were you? - noquarter

Now THIS is NEWS

◼ Texas Fried Frito Pie wins state fair food award
...the battered and fried blend of chili, cheese and Fritos won the Best Taste award Monday at the sixth annual Big Tex Choice Awards. Prize winners usually attract long lines from fairgoers.

Concoction creator Michael Thomas says he and his partners spent six months experimenting with different batters, chilis and chips.

Fried Beer won the Most Creative award. It will be served this year along with the Deep Fried Frozen Margarita.... h/t: rc

Sorry, Al - Old Farmer's Almanac: Global cooling to continue

Guess they didn't get the memo!

◼ link - AP
Most of the country will see a colder-than-usual winter while summer and spring will be relatively cool and dry, according to the time-honored, complex calculations of the "Old Farmer's Almanac."

The 2011 issue of the almanac, which claims to be the nation's oldest continuously published periodical, was released Tuesday. It predicts that in the coming months, the Earth will continue to see a "gradual cooling of the atmosphere ... offset by any warming caused by increased greenhouse gases."

The "Old Farmer's Almanac" also is forecasting a weak La Nina — a climate phenomenon marked by an unusual cooling of the sea surface in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Janice Stillman, editor of the almanac, said that means much of the eastern half of the United States will experience lower-than-normal temperatures with less snow while Mid-Atlantic states will see more snowfall than usual. The West will see a mild winter with average precipitation, she said.

Meanwhile, the South will experience a cold and wet summer and the Rockies should see a mild and dry winter, according to the New Hampshire-based "Old Farmer's Almanac."

"It'll be cold. There will be no mistaking winter," Stillman said. "But it may be a little shorter or we may see some small warm spells in places like the East Coast."...

Absolutely UNREAL - Harry Reid says "I had nothing to do with" bad economy

◼ It was Booosh's fault - "I don't have any hand in what took place during the Bush administration. I tried to rein that in," Reid said.

Says the man who pushed fellow legislators into signing a quatrabilliongazillion dollar bill they had never read.

But nothing strikes Perriello as having gone over the line. And if that’s the case, then there is no line.

◼ The Myth of the “Moderate” Democrat

It's long, but it is worth the time it takes to read it...
'...The public is learning that the “moderate Democrat” is a myth. It’s a myth because the actual choice is between two radical alternatives: limited government, or unlimited government. If you side with unlimited government, as Perriello does, then the flood gates burst open, and it doesn’t matter whether you support every little bit of the left’s agenda: you have let that agenda loose in the world by denying the constitutional limits that were intended to restrain the government from taking our precious liberty...."

It's about a guy getting elected, a surprise win, a party line voter with a line of bullshit that covers up his true nature, or more specifically, his Soros backing. That, and a whole lot more.

Do you stand with Soros? Or with America? With Free Speech? And look what that creature is up to in Canada...

◼ Globalist Soros Launches Frontal Assault Against Tea Party
...Soros and the foundation left have launched a website designed to go after the growing Tea Party movement. Teapartytracker.org will post video interviews and blog entries gathered by folks on the false left who never grow weary of demonstrating their outrage over the very idea of a grassroots political effort overthrowing establishment Democrats and Republicans in the district of corporate criminals.

(POS) George Soros is desperate to trash the Tea Party.

Teapartytracker.org will be sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for America. Think Progress is a George Soros operation connected to John Podesta’s Center for American Progress. Podesta is Clinton’s former chief of staff. Media Matters for America is the brainchild of a MoveOn consultant and Podesta’s Center for American Progress. Soros is a major supporter of MoveOn....

Don't you know? Protesting belongs only to the "code pinks" and to moveon itself. They use the grassroots cloak to hide their mercenary power grabs. They do not know what to do with REAL grassroots. And they are on record saying so. And they have long plotted on discrediting real people who stand in their way.

He's trying to shut down a "conservative" station up in Canada, and he is getting a little blowback:
◼ h/t: wild George Schwartz, the Jewish Nazi - Inspiration for Schindler's List he was not...

George Schwartz was born in Hungary in 1930 — not the luckiest time and place to be born a Jew.

George’s father Theodore tried to change the family’s fortunes by changing their name to something less Jewish-sounding. It didn’t help. And soon war came.

When the Nazis took total control of Hungary in 1944, the Holocaust followed. In two months, 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to death camps.

To survive, George, then a teenager, collaborated with the Nazis.

First he worked for the Judenrat. That was the Jewish council set up by the Nazis to do their dirty work for them. Instead of the Nazis rounding up Jews every day for the trains, they delegated that murderous task to Jews who were willing to do it to survive another day at the expense of their neighbours.

Theodore hatched a better plan for his son. He bribed a non-Jewish official at the agriculture ministry to let George live with him. George helped the official confiscate property from Jews.

By collaborating with the Nazis, George survived the Holocaust. He turned on other Jews to spare himself.

George moved to London after the war and then to New York, where he became a stockbroker. He’s rich now. Forbes magazine says he’s the 35th richest man in the world. Maybe you’ve heard of him. He goes by the name his father invented: George Soros.

How does Soros feel about what he did as a teenager? Has it kept him up at night?

Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes asked him that. Was it difficult? “Not at all,” Soros answered.

“No feeling of guilt?” asked Kroft. “No,” said Soros. “There was no sense that I shouldn’t be there. If I wasn’t doing it, somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. Whether I was there or not. So I had no sense of guilt.”

A Nazi would steal the Jews’ property anyways. So why not him?

That moral hollowness has shaped Soros’ life.... Read the rest...

◼ The Myth of the “Moderate” Democrat
...“Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good”. It’s simply another Soros-funded anti-abortion group. Soros hates fetuses more than he hates Jews.

This group was created to push the abortion agenda in that misbegotten ObamaCare bill....

7.1 magnitude earthquake Christchurch NZ

◼ Mayor: Quake hit city 'like an iceberg'
Panicked residents have been queuing to buy water as uncertainty surrounds the stricken city's water supply.

But many businesses are unable to open their doors as the massive cleanup gets underway.

"The entire American spirit is being broken."

◼ How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular - TIME

◼ After The Fall - Dr. Zero, thought provoking as always
◼ TINE's top ten Obama backlash moments - The Nobel Prize awarded a man who has done nothing except win elections, the Greek columns, speaking "stupidly" and more - fairly accurate.

9-02-10

Happy Beverly Hills Day.
h/t: MSM who won't be able to tell that joke for another hundred years.

Those dangerous conservatives, whipped up by the likes of - oh, wait, ummm, err, well, uhhh - never mind.

◼ POLICE KILL ECO-TERRORIST WHO STORMED DISCOVERY CHANNEL BUILDING; HOSTAGES SAFE...

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Montgomery County Police have shot and killed a gunman who held several people hostage in the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring for nearly four hours Wednesday.

◼ 'Awakened' by Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'... - msnbc
The planet does not need humans.” (except for crazed sex poodles with oodles of money and private jets and lots of stock in carbon exchanges, those are cool)
◼ Demanded halt to birth of 'parasitic human infants'... - Washington Post
◼ TEXT OF MANIFESTO...

2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs' places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.

Whaddya wanna bet if you don't have cable (or Drudge), you ain't gonna see THIS on the news.