Happy Halloween!

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◼ VAN CANTO - Hero Metal A Capella Five singers, one drummer. No guitars, no bass, no keyboards but nevertheless an unbelievable melodic metal experience.

Al Gore has come to #OccupyWallSt

◼ Earliest New York City one-inch snowfall since records began
Two killed as New York gets more than inch of snow in October for the first time EVER as early snow storm cuts power to 2million
Pennsylvania 84-year-old man dies as tree crashes into his home as he has had a nap. Another dead in Connecticut
More than 250,000 customers lost power in Pennsylvania and Maryland
More than 1,000 flights in or out of America cancelled
Experts predict up to 10 inches of snow to fall across North East
Only fourth time since Civil War that snow has fallen in NYC in October

No one is safe

From #OccupyFacebook

◼ "We are the 53%." - CNN

◼ What Percent Are You? - Wall St. Journal
The calculator [at the link] shows where your income stands on the wide range of the 99%. An annual salary above $506,000 puts you in the top 1%, while you need to make less than $2,500 a year to be in the bottom 1%. Where do you stand?

Not even bothering to hide it anymore

◼ Obama uses Occupy Wall Street language in weekly address - Daily Caller

But, the Obama-created Frankenstein may be thinking for itself - and may turn around and bite its master: ◼ Bad news: 73% of Occupy Wall Street protesters disapprove of Obama’s job performance - HotAir

Social justice. Maybe there is HOPE after all.

More Voter Fraud

◼ The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office is investigating a complaint accusing out-of-state election volunteers of voting in Wisconsin, listing a local hotel as their residence. Journal-Sentinel

Earlier Wednesday, Media Trackers, a conservative advocacy group, posted a blog linking images of two voter registration forms and identifying those named on the forms as out-of-state "activists," working for the Service Employees International Union. Each form lists the Residence Inn in Glendale as the voter's address.

An image of another voter registration form on the Media Trackers site lists Austin Thompson as the voter and the same hotel as Thompson's address. Thompson was arrested last week during an Occupy Milwaukee protest at a downtown Milwaukee bank.

◼ UNCOVERED: Three Out-of-State SEIU Activists Registered To Vote From Hotel - Media Trackers
◼ UPDATE: Arrested Occupy MKE Protester Worked For Wisconsin Jobs Now! - Media Trackers
◼ DOCUMENTS: Thompson Voter Registration Reveals Improper Proof of Residence - Media Trackers

So, they breeze into town, claim residence, using a hotel as an address, then skip back home, where presumably they can vote again.

How many more? In how many states? In how many elections?

Oh, and btw, ◼ Don’t let anyone fool you, the Left intended to recall Governor Walker from day one. Just take a look at when some of the websites were created that now serve as hubs for the recall of Scott Walker.

Furthermore, two of Brown’s staff might explain a bit more about how United Wisconsin works.

Angie Aker of Kenosha is listed as the Public Relations Director for United Wisconsin. In her biography, Aker writes “that she recently relinquished my hard-won rung on the corporate ladder in NY to indulge in my compulsion to write about truths as I find them from Kenosha.” What Aker doesn’t tell us is that she currently works as Managing Director for left-wing advocacy group MoveOn.org.

Most important to United Wisconsin’s staff is Meagan Mahaffey, who’s name appeared as United Wisconsin’s contact on an October 11, press release. Mahaffey is an experienced left-wing operative, serving as Political Director for Citizen Action of Wisconsin and most recently as Campaign and Program Director and eventually Executive Director for Advancing Wisconsin. Mahaffey also served as Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin from 2007 to 2008 before taking the job with Advancing Wisconsin. In addition, Mahaffey has worked on the campaigns for Governor Jim Doyle, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, and Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk.

More importantly, Mahaffey and Democratic chairman Mike Tate are closely connected. Mahaffey worked on the Howard Dean for President campaign in 2004 when Tate was the state director. In 2007, when Mahaffey was brought on board at the Democratic Party, Tate was brought in as a consultant after his efforts to oppose the gay marriage amendment as head of Fair Wisconsin. And when Mahaffey went to work for Advancing Wisconsin in 2008 as Campaign and Program Director, Tate was Executive Director of the progressive organization.

Mahaffey is an ideal person for United Wisconsin to connect with Mike Tate, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and the entire left-wing infrastructure in Wisconsin.

Like shady stock-scam boiler-rooms, these phony groups spring up, made up of the same people, but pretending to be a diverse group, a 'growing coalition' of blah blah blah groups... they cross-pollinate, and are designed to make themselves look bigger than they are.

Somebody has to pay for all this.

In California, candidates have been wracked by the Kinda Durkee embezzlement scandal. The sums involved are staggering, and the difference between what Durkee has and what the campaigns apparently raised, Is it outside the realm of possibility that some of this is a cover up for a slush fund - the monies that have to come from somewhere to fund the skullduggery - to GOTV effort? Is it really outside the realm of possibliity?

Peter Schiff at #OccupyWallStreet

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

◼ Wall Street protest cooks tire of feeding homeless... - NY Post via Drudge

The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday -- because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.

For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad....

Some protesters threatened that the high-end meals could be cut off completely if the vagrants and criminals don’t disperse.

Unhappiness with their unwelcome guests was apparent throughout the day.

“We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out” to curb the influx of derelicts, said Rafael Moreno, a kitchen volunteer.

A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.”

Many of those being fed “are professional homeless people. They know what they’re doing,” said the guard at the food-storage area.

You see what's happening, don't you? The COOKS are the 1%.

They do all the work. And the 99% is happy to take from them.

◼ Eat The Rich? Well-Funded, Nicely-Fed OWSers Won't Share Food With The (Other) Homeless - Ace

You just can't make this stuff up ....

◼ Liberals scamming liberals .... - OregonLive.com

Anarchists, turning themselves into capitalists. It’s just too funny. The really hilarious part is that now they're screaming about the homeless, who didn’t “work” for the protest, and are swooping in to take the “workers” food. In other words, they are complaining about income redistribution.

I’m serious, you just cant make this stuff up.

Using the same filthy tactics, under a different name ...

◼ ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in 'Occupy' Movement - FOX News

FOX News has an exclusive story tonight, detailing how ACORN, operating under the name NYCC, has been soliciting donations for various worthy causes and funneling the money directly to the OWS protests. According to witnesses, protesters are indeed being directly paid to attend these protests....

"Sources said NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day - to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour, the sources said.

Sources said cash donations collected by NYCC on behalf of some unions and various causes are being pooled and spent on Occupy Wall Street. The money is used to buy supplies, pay staff and cover travel expenses for the ex-ACORN members brought to New York for the protests.

In one such case, sources said, NYCC staff members collected cash donations for what they were told was a United Federation of Teachers fundraising drive, but the money was diverted to the protests.

Sources who participated in the teachers union campaign said NYCC supervisors gave them the addresses of union members and told them to go knock on their doors and ask for contributions—and did not mention that the money would go toward Occupy Wall Street expenses. One source said the campaign raked in about $5,000.

Current staff members at NYCC told FoxNews.com the union fundraising drive was called off abruptly last week, and they were told NYCC should not have been raising money for the union at all.

Sources said staff members also collected door-to-door for NYCC’s PCB campaign — which aims to test schools for deadly toxins —but then pooled that money together with cash raised for the teachers union and other campaigns to fund Occupy Wall Street.

“We go to Freeport, Central Islip, Park Slope, everywhere, and we say we’re collecting money for PCBs testing in schools. But the money isn’t going to the campaign," one source said.

"It’s going to Occupy Wall Street, and we’re not using that money to get schools tested for deadly chemicals or to make their kids safer. It’s just going to the protests, and that’s just so terrible.” "

Just like the Tea Party, right? This confirms, as we have known all along, that these protests are no "grass roots" movement. They are astroturf, through and through. Cutting off federal funding to ACORN was clearly not enough. Soliciting donations for one cause, and using the money for unrelated functions is flat-out fraud. The people responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and the organization should be disbanded, but with Eric Holder running the DOJ, don't expect to see that happen any time soon.

The American public needs to know that these people do NOT represent 99% of us. In fact, they don't represent ANY true American, because nothing they do is reflective of the values we hold dear as Americans. They need to be exposed for the criminals and subversives that they are, and driven back under whatever slimy rock they crawled out from under, in disgrace.

This explains it all

◼ Thread: Cannabis Disrupts Brain Waves Like Schizophrenia, Study Finds - thctalk.com
◼ Cannabis Disrupts Brain Waves Like Schizophrenia, Study Finds - FOX

They found that the drug completely disrupted coordinated brain waves, which are essential for memory and decision-making, in the area across the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.

The resulting brain activity was uncoordinated and inaccurate, leading to neurophysiological and behavioral impairments similar to those seen in schizophrenia.

The rats exposed to the cannabis-like drug were left unable to make accurate decisions when navigating a maze, according to findings published Tuesday in the Journal of Neuroscience.

◼ Journal of Neuroscience (image source)

Move along ... nothing to see here ...

◼ Voter Fraud Allegations Hit San Francisco Mayor’s Race - FOX News

In this entire story, the word DEMOCRAT never appears. Not only is this an outrage, but we have to face the fact that not even FOX News is willing to expose the reality of what has happened here. We have a serious problem in this country. God help us ...

Make of it what you will..

◼ JustiaGate - examiner.com

Someone was incredibly busy in June 2008 working on an illegal front invisible to the public; searching and altering Supreme Court Cases published at Justia.com... at the “Supreme Court Center” of the influential legal research website Justia.com, efforts were underway corrupting at least 25 Supreme Court cases by erasing references to the words "Minor V. Happersett" along with references to other relevant cases on the issue along with the insertion of misleading numerical ciations. And In two documented cases actual text was removed....

From the guys who have had the lead in uncovering Fast & Furious, so, see what you think... if true... what does it mean? One to watch. May be nothing.

Now, wait a minute! I thought this is what the little Target soiree was all about...

“She’s no different than the rest of us,” Paula (Deen) said about Michelle in a new interview.

◼ “Michelle’s spitting mad,” a source told The ENQUIRER. - National Enquirer

Paula added: “She probably ate more than any other guest I ever had on the show! She kept eating even dur­ing commercials. Know what (the Obamas’) favorite foods are? Hot wings. Y’know – those kinds of foods that aren’t necessarily top-of-the-list healthy foods.”

Like we didn't already know about Obama eating French Fries and the whole 'for thee but not for me" thing.

Like $42,000 bracelets and $500 tennies can be made to go down the memory hole with a 'spontaneous' tripphoto op to Target.

Kinda funny, really.

New Heights: Failed Democrat Pol Sues Critics Over Election Loss - for loss of livelihood

◼ Charging that its activities contributed to his defeat and thus to his "loss of livelihood," Driehaus is suing the Susan B. Anthony List, a group that supports pro-life candidates for Congress and which has been one of the leading and most effective organizations involved in the fight to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood. US News

Oh, this slippery slope could be delicious. Soros might want to pack up his tent and go find a spider hole.

Money'n Drums

Perhaps the ◼ Lord Of The Flies #Occupy ordeal has taught a few of the People's Temple grade dupes a few things about WHY society has evolved so that things actually run in an orderly manner. Or is that too much to hope for?

◼ #OWS hears the drums, drums, drums in the deep. - MoeLane

Via @MelissaTweets / @chuckdizzle comes this heartwarming story about how an internal dispute at Occupy Wall Street is threatening to bring the whole, somewhat fetid, thing down. Reportedly, the actual community – you know, the ones who pay taxes and actually live/work there – is SICK AND TIRED OF THE DAMNED DRUMMING GOING ON ALL THE TIME WHEN DECENT PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET THEIR KIDS TO SLEEP, and they’re on the verge of sending in the cops with the mops. Meanwhile, the Occupiers are a little slow on this entire ‘recapitulating civilization’ thing, so they’ve not yet culturally evolved to the point where they can force the DAMNED DRUMMERS TO STOP THE DRUMMING AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT. Because drummers WON’T STOP DRUMMING. EVER*. All of which means (supposedly) that unless the Occupiers can get their shit together – or more accurately, gone – shit will go down tomorrow at the real community board meeting.

◼ Down twinkles: OWS at risk of fracturing over … drumming? - HotAir
◼ #Occupiers: They want $lice of the occu-pie

Even in Zuccotti Park, greed is good.

Occupy Wall Street’s Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank, and donations continue to pour in -- but its reluctance to share the wealth with other protesters is fraying tempers.

Some drummers -- incensed they got no money to replace or safeguard their drums after a midnight vandal destroyed their instruments Wednesday -- are threatening to splinter off.

“F--k Finance. I hope Mayor Bloomberg gets an injunction and demands to see the movement’s books. We need to know how much money we really have and where it’s going,” said a frustrated Bryan Smith, 45, who joined OWS in Lower Manhattan nearly three weeks ago from Los Angeles, where he works in TV production.

◼ REPORT: 14-year-old girl sexually assaulted at 'Occupy Dallas'...
◼ 'Occupy Maine' camp attacked with chemical bomb...
◼ Shootings up 154% in NYC during protest...

It's cool, though, it set the stage for Obama. The Emperor enters, and announces his new student loan deal - ahhh, the savior, so wise and all-knowing, can solve even these random and 'spontaneous' eruptions from the populace. The peons. The pawns.

"We came. We saw. (We sodomized him with a stick.) He died."

"Hahaha!"



◼ DISTURBING VIDEO — Gaddafi Sodomized Before His Death

◼ KILL BOUNCE: OBAMA MOVES UP TO 44% AT GALLUP... ^

Now we know why the left hated Bush. He wasn't bloodthirsty enough.

Now that we know "The Obama Doctrine" ◼ Who should Barack kill next?

We need those jobs - r-r-r-r-rightaway!

◼ U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walks past a (Government) Motors "Spark" while touring the GM Powertrain plant in Tashkent, Uzbekistan October 23, 2011. - REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

R-r-r-r-r-rightaway #WeCan'tWait!

#OWS part of the plan, now the next act

◼ Obama to announce actions on housing, student loans - Reuters

So artfully played, no?

Nothing at all wrong with lying and using your stormtroopers, or bypassing the legislature (where even your own party won't play your silly game). All there in such plain sight, but those who proclaim the Emperor's gowns to be the finest silk ever made see nothing, and report nothing out of the ordinary.

Olive oil injections aid in treating pneumonia

◼ Success in treatment of pneumonia with olive oil has just been announced by Drs. A. C. Frazer and V. G. Walsh of St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London. - sciencenews.org

The oil is emulsified and then injected into the veins. The high temperature of pneumonia patients dropped to normal within twenty-four hours after the oil injection and three weeks later the patients were well.

Patients suffering from septicaemia, commonly known as blood poisoning, and from erysipelas and acute rheumatism also improved after the olive oil treatment. h/t: cb

Oh, yes, they call him the streak....

◼ UA Student Could Get 1 1/2 Years In Jail (charged with a class six felony) For Streaking During Football Game

Nobody has a sense of humor anymore.

LOL! Day By Day takes on The Borg

◼ Sunday's expanded version

Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State...

◼ Voters around the country are concluding it’s better to be red than dead—applying a whole meaning to an old phrase. - Merrill Matthews/Forbes (image source: via Wikipedia)

If you do not currently live in a red state, there’s a good chance you will be in the near future. Either you will flee to a red state or a red state will come to you—because voters fed up with blue-state fiscal irresponsibility will elect candidates who promise to pass red-state policies.

...though we are a year away from the 2012 election, generic Republican vs. Democratic polls have given Republicans the edge for more than a year. If that pattern holds—and if blue-state leaders refuse to learn from their policy mistakes, just like their true-blue leader in the White House—it likely means there will be even more red states in 2013.

One reason for that shift is that red states are taking fiscal responsibility while many blue states aren’t—and it shows. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a bipartisan association of conservative state legislators, recently released its fourth edition of “Rich States, Poor States,” by the well-known Reagan economist Arthur B. Laffer, the Wall Street Journal’s Steve Moore, and Jonathan Williams of ALEC.

...Most of the “poor states” states, as ALEC calls them, have the highest personal income tax rates and the largest unfunded state pension liabilities. But instead of taking the red-state approach by lowering taxes and/or cutting spending, the blue states tend to want to raise taxes even higher, just like their White House mentor.

The result of their overpromising and overspending, and their knee-jerk response to solving their fiscal problems by raising taxes, is that people are increasingly fleeing the blue states. As commentator Michael Medved points out: “Between 2009 and 2010 the five biggest losers in terms of ‘residents lost to other states’ were all prominent redoubts of progressivism: California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey. Meanwhile, the five biggest winners in the relocation sweepstakes are all commonly identified as red states in which Republicans generally dominate local politics: Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia.”

◼ Republican states balancing their budgets - Washington Times

◼ In San Jose, the cost of retirement benefits and contracts with police and fire agencies has been cannibalizing government services for years, and the process is about to sharply accelerate. - San Diego Union-Tribune

◼ ...All eyes are on California as the nightmare scenario - Vanity Fair

◼ A Second Term for Obama Would Make the United States Go as California Has Gone - Tom McClintock/Real Clear Politics

Found one for ya, Guy!

#OccupyDiapers - In pursuit of Pampers

◼ Free Diapers 'for the poor' - Human Events

An economic recovery bill authored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D.-Conn.) seeks to empower struggling families by directing the federal government to distribute free diapers through day care centers.

Well, that'll drive up the price of diapers.

Without diapers, children are not allowed to attend day care, said DeLauro, who described those in need as a “lost generation of Americans.”

Where did you find these people - to elect, I mean.

“In fact, over one in five mothers have had to skip an obligation and stay home with their child because of lack of diapers”

An OBLIGATION to stay home with their child.

Imagine that.

The CNN Western Republican Debate On Now!

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Live blogging at:
◼ HotAir
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Move along ... nothing to see here.....

◼ Chairman of Local Indiana Democratic Party Resigns Amid Fake Signature Scandal - FOX News

How many times have we accused the Democrats of voter fraud, and how many times have we been told that there has been NO fraud, and that we're just a bunch of Obama-hating racists? ACORN has been caught red-handed falsifying voter registrations in several states, dead people and comic book characters have turned up to vote, the Soros-funded SOS project has successfully influenced the outcome of dozens of elections, recounts in several states have resulted in overturned elections when "missing" ballots have shown up in the trunks of cars, and now we have this ...

"The chairman of the St. Joseph County Democratic Party has resigned amid a scandal that reveals hundreds of signatures on petitions for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to appear on the state's 2008 primary ballot were faked."

"Both of Indiana's Republican and Democratic Party chairmen have called for a federal investigation into the forged names that appeared on petitions from the 2nd Congressional District, which contains St. Joseph County. Among the dozens of names so far discovered to be fake are former Indiana Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan.

Kernan told the South Bend Tribune last week that neither the print version of his name nor the signature that appear on the suspect document are anything like his own.

Yet, his and other names were approved by the county voter registration office with the use of a rubber stamp in place of a signature by the Republican member of the office.

The Tribune reported that the St. Joseph County voter registration office has a Democratic and Republican member who sign off on petition pages submitted for review. However, Republican Linda Silcott was out of the office on bereavement leave on the days the suspected fakes passed through her office. "

So, how are they going to explain THIS away? It's becoming obvious that we have a group of criminals operating in the Democratic Party who will stop at NOTHING to seize and retain political power. It's time we toughen our election laws, and start charging these people with the REAL crime they're guilty of ... TREASON.

Obama Science Czar Led UN Effort to Hide Proceedings, Subvert FOIA, Records Indicate

◼ Using cloud based resources to hide correspondence that should come under the presidential records act. How many other czars and departments are doing the same thing?

Specifically, CEI's FOIA request seeks details of the Obama Administration's involvement in a UN IPCC plan to hide official online correspondence in non-governmental accounts. The express purpose of creating a non-government web-site "cloud" communications system was to avoid national transparency laws, such as the U. S. FOIA. However, with OSTP having taken over the lead U.S. role in the IPCC in 2009, this also implicates the Presidential Records Act of 1978 (PRA).

The new IPCC system sought to shield U. S. government employees working on the Fifth Assessment Report from FOIA requests by hiding their correspondence, even though they are being tasked and paid by the federal government to work on the report. The scandal-plagued IPCC is funded with millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars. CEI demonstrates in its FOIA request that the IPCC's motivation to avoid future FOIA requests was past embarrassment over releases of earlier communications between IPCC officials and participating bureaucrats, appointees and scientists working on the assessment reports....

"The effort to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act has apparently been conducted with direct assistance by the Obama White House," said Christopher Horner, CEI Senior Fellow. "Shortly after taking office, the Obama administration moved the lead role on IPCC work from the Department of Commerce to OSTP, run by Dr. John Holdren. The plan to create a FOIA-free zone was then implemented.

◼ Read the CEI FOIA Request to White House Office of Science and Technology, John Holdren, Director - The Competitive Enterprise Institute

A picture is worth a thousand words ....

Could this be someone we know? Nah ... I don't think our ETR is an Oakland fan, but maybe I'm wrong. Regardless, if this is the face of the "movement", I want no part of it.

Thanks a lot ....

I want to extend a special Thank-You to the bastards who broke into my house Friday night and stole all my plumbing. God knows I was desperately in need of another project to keep me busy .... not!

I hope you you enjoy the fifty bucks or so that you got for the roughly two hundred bucks worth of perfectly good copper pipe you stole, and I'll be thinking of you while I'm busy busting my ass repairing all the senseless damage you did in the process. There's a special place in hell waiting for people like you ...

I don't care how bad the economy is. There's no just excuse for doing something like this to someone. And, to all you scrap dealers out there buying what you know is stolen material and making this possible ... you should be ashamed of yourselves. You're no better than the people stealing it.

The perfect 'Date'

#Occupy vs. The Tea Party

Pit bulls are Passé

◼ Trib Local: Police seize pot plants and guard-gator

Police said they found the 5-feet-long gator — along with 16 marijuana plants — at a house in the 7200 block of Owl Way on Wednesday.

While executing a search warrant, authorities said they also found 100 grams of processed marijuana, ballasts, grow lights, growing chemicals and drug paraphernalia. Police estimated the value of the drugs seized during the investigation at more than $2,100. (h/t: Ord)

D'ya think?

◼ Terrorists Seeking Missing Libyan Missiles, U.S. Official Says - FOX News - BRUSSELS

"Terrorist groups have expressed interest in obtaining some of the thousands of shoulder-launched missiles that have gone missing in Libya and the issue has become a priority for the Obama administration, a senior U.S. official said Friday.

Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, said Friday the missiles "could pose a threat to civil aviation".

He said vast majority of the missing missiles were Soviet-made SA-7 Strela (Arrow) with infrared homing.

Reports that thousands of the portable, short-range missiles were missing first surfaced at the end of September, when NATO's top military officer, Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola, was cited as telling German lawmakers that the alliance had lost track of at least 10,000 surface-to-air missiles from Libyan military depots.

The State Department had sent 15 specialists to Libya to track down the weapons and plans to increase the number to 50 soon, Shapiro said, adding the U.S. has allocated $30 million to the effort.

"We know that terrorist groups have expressed interest in obtaining these weapons," he said, adding that the issue issue of securing the weapons was a priority for President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Libya was believed to have about 20,000 such missiles in its arsenals before civil war began in March, Shapiro said. Although many were destroyed by NATO air strikes, thousands are missing. The United States and other Western nations have been trying for decades to reduce the global stock of portable missiles, fearing they could fall into the hands of terrorists. The small, easily concealable SAM-7s are considered obsolete by modern military standards but could pose a threat to civilian airliners or helicopters.

Weighing just 14 kilograms (31 pounds) and only 1.40-meters (4-feet) long, the 1960s-era missile can reach an altitude of over 3,000 meters (10,000 feet)."

So, let me see if I understand this correctly ...

We have a new, disorganized, but supposedly friendly group of cash strapped Muslim rebels in power in Libya, but the country is in a state of general chaos. Nobody knows who is in possession of the thousands of small, portable, heat-seeking missiles we know they had. Numerous radical Muslim terrorist groups are spreading the word that they are willing to pay good money for them...

What could possibly go wrong?

Gee, you'd think that President Obama would have thought about how weapons like this were going to be secured BEFORE he went storming into Libya, destabilizing their government and handing their military hardware over to an unknown and disorganized group of rebels....

I wonder ... will the MSM cover this story, or hold Obama accountable if these missiles turn up in the hands of terrorists? Will ANYONE ever set foot on a commercial airliner again if just ONE airplane is shot down with one of these missiles, while thousands more remain unaccounted for? I think maybe I'll be taking my vacations by car for a while ...

Yeah, that'll solve everything ....

◼ Rep. Jesse Jackson Calls on Government to Hire All Unemployed Americans for $40,000 Each!! - FOX News

"Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises."

"In an interview with the Daily Caller on Wednesday, the Illinois Democrat applauded President Obama for directing his staff to greenlight job-creating initiatives without congressional approval after his $447 billion jobs bill was defeated in the Senate this week.

“Now we’re making some progress,” Jackson said, comparing the legislative gridlock in Congress to the states that seceded from the union during the Civil War."

Well, I'm speechless. Not only is Jackson calling for the most blatant and unconstitutional seizure and redistribution of taxpayer dollars ever proposed, he's supporting Obama's plans to sidestep Congress and implement his "jobs" bill, in direct defiance of our elected representatives. Our laws and our Constitutional rights are apparently of no concern to these traitors. If we don't take immediate action to remove these people from Washington, there won't be a country left to save ....

Fake signatures may mean Obama didn't actually qualify in Indiana

◼ As reported Sunday, The Tribune, in conjunction with Howey Politics Indiana, has uncovered scores of fake signatures on both the Obama and Clinton petitions in the 2nd Congressional District and specifically St. Joseph County. - South Bend Tribune

Minus suspected fakes, then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama likely fell short of the number of signatures needed to appear on the 2008 Indiana primary ballot, and it's possible his opponent, Hillary Clinton, did as well, according to information obtained by The Tribune as part of an investigation into suspected ballot petition fraud....

Dozens of people whose signatures appear on the Clinton petition have told The Tribune they did not sign the document, and Erich Speckin, a forensic document analyst hired by the paper and Howey Politics identified at least 19 suspected fake Obama petition pages.

Those Obama pages account for more than 100 signatures, meaning, minus the fakes, the former senator likely would not have qualified for ballot placement in the state....

There is no evidence Clinton or Obama knew about the fake signatures. Voter registration offices across the state certified both candidates' petitions, as did the Election Division.

No one challenged the petitions at the time.

More Lord Of The Flies Moments.

◼ Fun With Hand Signals! - JWF

The writing is on the wall. Just a matter of time, and the ghouls are slavering for it.

At MSNBC, 'repulsed by the Tea Party,' Donny Deutsch tells Morning Joe this morning that the Occupy Movement needs to “grow up” by getting someone shot by The Man, or something, just like at Kent State - HotAir

Yeah, then this'll REALLY be exciting, won't it, Donny? THEN you'll REALLY get some FACETIME.

Gonna blame this one on Sarah Palin, too? You FREAKS. Get some kids killed for your empty suit's re-election. Good plan.

'Not including the Ocean, more than half of all the water in California is polluted, according to the EPA'

◼ Then it should be easy to point to statistical evidence including increased numbers of birth defects, instances of poisoning, premature deaths and other symptoms in areas suffering from "pollution". Right? - Doug Ross

◼ EPA Names Toxic CA Water - ksee24

We're all gonna DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy.

LG Optimus Hyper Facade in Berlin - watch in full screen ◼ http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=XVTga6GmbGw&vq=medium#t=74

The real face of Obama

TONIGHT'S DEBATE

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OMG

The Borg. Surreal.

‘Occupy’ Protester Want Ad: Earn $350-$650 per Week

◼ By the "Working Families Party" - captured by Trevor Loudon

Obama's stormtroopers. The ones he had busing people in to intimidate his targets.

What more proof do you need?

The obligatory face of #OccupyWallStreet

◼ Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters accused of living in filth as shocking pictures show one demonstrator defecating on a POLICE CAR - Daily Mail
◼ Occupy Wall Street Protester Defecates On Police Car - FOX
◼ Worst. #OccupyWallStreet. Advice. Ever. - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Hitler #OccupyWallStreet

When balloons are banned, only outlaws will have balloons

◼ Children to be banned from blowing up balloons, under EU safety rules - The Telegraph

Children are to be banned from taking part in traditional Christmas games, from blowing up balloons to blowing on party whistles, because of new EU safety rules that have just entered into force.

Apparently harmless toys that children have enjoyed for decades are now regarded by EU regulators as posing an unacceptable safety risk.

Whistle blowers, that scroll out into a a long coloured paper tongue when sounded – a party favourite at family Christmas meals – are now classed as unsafe for all children under 14.

...Paul Nuttall, a member of the European Parliament's consumer safety committee, said the "kill joy" world of EU officialdom was being ill-equipped to understand the concept of children having fun.

"I would say that this is crackers but I sure children are banned from using them too. EU party poopers should not be telling families how to blow up balloons," said the Ukip MEP.

Here’s a tip, O: Pay up!

◼ Dear President Obama: Fork out! - New York Post

That’s the message an irate hotel honcho sent the president last week -- along with a bill for $5,000 -- after Obama’s midtown visit on Wednesday closed West 40th Street for more than four hours and left his servers without tips for the night.

Neiman Marxist

◼ Neiman Marxist

"A college-educated vaguely bohemian liberal (usually female and white) who, while shopping for $400 jeans and planning visits to exclusive Vegas nightclubs, espouses Marxist revolution, loves Che and/or anti-WTO protests, and claims empathy for the poor and oppressed as long as they don't move in next door. He or she will have traveled to a relatively safe city in the developing world with Starbucks, like Dubai, Buenos Aires, or Cape Town. Will have a piece of "ethnic" art in his or her condominium and/or suburban house in a gated community."

As in - "(#OccupyWallStreet) was attended by a group of Neiman Marxists who held signs and stayed back on the pavement." h/t: Kirly

◼ Photo of the Day from Occupy Charlotte: “I’m $100k in debt. I’m 22. Yay College” - Sister Toldjah

No. You're at least $135,000 in debt. Even the newborn baby is now at least 35 grand in debt, remember? Obama's been running up the tab. Part of that "had to pass it to find out what was in it" things.

If you made it to college, presumably you're smart enough to grok the true source of the problem.

Or you wasted that $100,000.

Meanwhile, businesses, in desperation, are locking up their bathrooms. Sooner or later something has to give.

And that's just what OFA is hoping for.

"If they’re upset with Durbin Amendment, Dodd-Frank, Barack Obama, and the Democrats for passing it, why the hell are they planning to boycott the banks? Why not boycott donating to Durbin, Dodd, Frank, Obama, and Democrats?"

◼ Occupy Wall Street Morons Pushing For Boycott Against Banks - Pirates Cove
◼ Why not go protest at the White House, Congressional building, and the buildings that house the congressional offices? Why not say they will not vote for Democrats? - Stop The ACLU

Reader Question: why were the Union paid-for buses for OccupyNashville only going to Middle Tenn State & Belmont?

The (black) colleges of Fisk & Meharry weren't good enough for 'em?

Video Exposing How ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Was Organized From Day One by SEIU/ACORN Front – The Working Family Party, and How They All Tie to the Obama Administration, DNC, Democratic Socialists of America, Tides and George Soros

◼ Toldja - Trevor Loudon

Then and Now

◼ THEN: ON HEALTH CARE PROTESTORS, Pelosi Chokes Up Warning Against Political "Violence" - Real Clear Politics, SEPT 17, 2009

When the Tea Party movement emerged in 2009, then-Speaker of the House Pelosi called them "astroturf" and "un-American" people who were "carrying swastikas."

◼ AND NOW: Pelosi on Occupy Wall Street Protesters: "God bless them" - Weekly Standard, OCT 6, 2011

Hypocrisy: Pelosi finds dissent un-American… then, and now.

It's Mishka Friday

#OccupyWhiteHouse2012 – The hashtag for the rest of us

◼ Passed on from Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

The silent majority.

The ones who pay the bills, and the taxes, and the tuitions, and the pensions, and the benefits, for the people who falsely claim to be the 99%.

The ones who did not graduate from the school of perpetual expectations and handouts.

The ones who falsely have been called terrorists and extremists and racists because they dared to object to trying the same socialist policies here that have failed everywhere they have been tried before.

The ones who showed up at the polls in 2010.

The ones who will show up at the polls in 2012:

#OccupyWhiteHouse2012

Via The Right Scoop

#occupywallstreet: “Stop Listing Demands” We Look Like Complete Imbeciles

◼ Gateway Pundit is being monitored by whoever is in charge of the "protests" and they're "concerned" about their image: The opponents of this movement are using the demands posted in this forum as the official lists. And some of these lists regardless of how right or wrong are extreme points of view and will only hurt our cause by making us look like extremist nut jobs. You don’t speak for everyone in this. Stop creating public demand lists, delete demands threads. Let the organizers and the law team working for them do this.

so thanks a lot, now this is how the opponents are viewing us http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/good-lord-the-occupy-wall-street-imbeciles-release-their-idiotic-demands-20-minimum-wage-and-across-the-board-debt-forgiveness-for-all/

'Cause that just won't do! Obama needs this pitchfork and torches act to try to get back in the voter's good graces. Because THIS is the Obama Tea Party Express, dontcha know.

This comment at Ace sums it up

"It seems to be the consensus that Palin's negatives were too high. And why might that be? Because of the motherfucking, twisted, unprofessional, propaganda laden, conspiratorial, treasonous mass of primordial slime we call the media. And the empty headed, mindless drones that make up this country's citizenry, thoughtlessly lapping up and regurgitating the bile that the media fills their heads with, day in and day out. A citizenry that on pain of death couldn't tell you one fucking thing that Palin's done that's horrible or wrong without repeating word for word the malicious poison the media spews. And guess what? Now that Palin's gone, they'll do the same to whoever else becomes the Republican front runner. Because that's all they do as the media. They are the Propaganda Arm of the Democratic Party. And they should all be investigated and fined and discredited for committing a fraud on the American people. Mainstream media my fucking ass. And so when they attack Palin, and people like her, I defend them all the more."

R.I.P.

Sometimes it is not what you see but what you don't see that tells a lot

At #occupywallstreet - the ultra anarchists seem to be absent.

None of the violent protestors like the Black Block and so forth. Code Pink not to be seen, none of the names that might scare the 'moderates.'

Somebody had to arrange for them to stay away, at least for now.

Who?
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Update/Related:
◼ Occupy Wall Street ‘Stands In Solidarity’ With Obama Front Group Infowars.com

Why is the website that has positioned itself as the central hub for Occupy Wall Street activists announcing its support for groups which are little more than Barack Obama lobbying fronts? Wall Street spent millions financing Obama’s path to the White House and are supporting him to an even greater extent in 2012.

Why is a website that claims to represent anti-Wall Street demonstrators siding with groups that have aggressively supported the Wall Street-backed Obama administration?

◼ Big Soros Money Linked to “Occupy Wall Street” - New American

(D)espite efforts to portray the movement as “leaderless” or “grassroots,” it is becoming obvious that there is much more going on behind the scenes than meets the eye.

While the occupation movement purports to be “leaderless,” in reality, critics say its leaders and financiers are barely concealed.

The “official” goals remain murky so far, almost certainly not by chance. But it is becoming increasingly apparent that liberty and honest money are not among the demands. Rather, bigger government, higher taxes, and an end to what remains of the free market system seem to be at the top of the list.

Among the groups working with Rebuild the Dream are also publicly hyping the demonstrations. And more than a few of them are on the Soros payroll as well. Some examples include People For The American Way, Planned Parenthood, Campaign For America's Future, Democracy For America, Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, Common Cause, Public Campaign, and many more. h/t R2

Those disruptive Tea Party-ists

No. It's the FACE of #occupywallstreet

$70 grand down the sewer

PHONY BALONEY (w/update)

◼ NY Times’ poster child for #OccupyWallStreet not what he seems - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

...a simple Google search reveals that Cole is a professional progressive operative, having worked — according to his LinkedIn profile – for the past three years for the Progressive Patriots Fund, which he still lists at his employer...

The NY Times Dealbook section takes a very sympathetic look at the Occupy Wall Street protests, On Wall Street, a Protest Matures.

The article leads with a feature on Andrew Cole, who arrived from Madison, Wisconsin (shock!) where he recently lost a job:

“I think a good deal of the bankers should be in jail.”

...The New York Times does not tell us where Cole was working prior to being laid off....read the rest

◼ Vice President Biden: 'Who's Van Jones?' - "I really don't know about the Van Jones group, except what I read in the press."

Uh huh.

◼ Another one: 'Occupy Wall Street' Organizer Is Marketing Analyst Whose LinkedIn Lists Work For Investment Bankers - Newsbusters

Trust him--he might be young, but he's a "professional sociologist." So did Harrison Schultz, an organizer of the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, describe himself to Al Sharpton on MSNBC this evening. And he wants Al and us to know that "a lot of the people that are here are in fact anarchists, are in fact revolutionaries. . . . We don't really want to fix [the problems]. It's revolution, not reform."

There are also some amusing factoids about Harrison. When he's not out fomenting revolution, Schultz is an . . . analyst for a marketing firm. Oh yeah, and in his oh-so-bourgeois LinkedIn profile, Harrison wants people to know he worked at Bank of America providing "assistance for several investment bankers."

You go, Harrison and Michael! The Republican party largely embraced the Tea Party. It led to historic victories in 2010, and has positioned the GOP to take back the White House in 2012. Were the Democrats to similarly embrace Occupy Wall Street, with its self-described band of "anarachists and revolutionaries" who "don't really want to fix the problems," the Dems could be looking at an historic defeat next year.

Coffee News: Starbucks to Begin Collecting Donations to Stimulate U.S. Job Growth

◼ Starting Nov. 1, Starbucks will begin collecting donations of $5 or more from customers to stimulate U.S. job growth through its “Jobs for USA” program. The Seattle-based coffee chain is collaborating with the Opportunity Finance Network, a nonprofit that works with nearly 200 community development financial institutions to provide loans to small businesses and community groups. Starbucks says 100 percent of the donations will go toward loans for firms and organizations that can add jobs or stem job losses.

Jobs For USA.

It's called Nov, 2012, Starbucks. Pay Attention.

OTOH, maybe Warren Buffett's secretary will fork over another $5, to even the scale.

"Jacob" is fiercely, intensely original and deserves to be recognized everywhere as a new horror classic.

Jacob Teaser from Stacy Davidson on Vimeo.

◼ Intensely original and entertaining horror tale IMDB h/t:Ender

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A remote controlled bionic spine (No, this isn't political)

◼ ...11-year-old Natasha Rahman, one of the first British children to have a bionic bone implant fitted to her spine. The electronic ‘growing’ rod is the latest development in the treatment of scoliosis, a disfiguring spine problem...

The usual suspects, mega-rich foundations and elitists, behind the young radicals have also started to emerge – George Soros, The Ruckus Society, the Tides Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

◼ Occupy Wall Street Protesters Call For Totalitarian Government, Re-Election Of Obama

There is something radically wrong with a President who seeks to gin up rage. Pit his countrymen against each other. Foment riots. For his own aggrandizement. Send in the goons, the OFAs and the WFPs with their torches and pitchforks and then stand back and professorially intone about the need for setting aside differences.

And there is something terribly wrong with people who are stupid enough to buy it. To buy Michelle's fake populist jaunt into Target, the think-tank images and speeches, and yet see this phony protest that has been dreamed up in some Tides Foundation think-tank, to create the mob for Obama.

This is a sick, sick man.

And where, again, are Nancy Pelosi's tears? Napolitano's dossiers? The media decrying the violence? They sure tried to create some when it was the Tea Party marching, but not a word about #occupywallstreet.

Coming soon to a city near you ....

◼ Denmark Imposes Fat Tax - FOX News

"The new tax, designed by Denmark’s outgoing government in an effort to limit the population’s intake of fatty foods, will add 16 kroner ($2.87, or 2.15 euros) per kilo (2.2 pounds) of saturated fats in a product."

""The way that this has been put together is an administrative nightmare, and I doubt whether it will give better health. It’s more just a tax," DI foodstuffs spokeswoman Gitte Hestehave told AFP, adding that the costs of levying the tax would be passed on to consumers."

So, bureaucrats strike again, attempting to impose their totalitarian standards upon the rest of the population. And, if the people refuse to cooperate and buy fewer fatty foods, what happens to all the money the government collects? Who will take responsibility for the damage it does to their economy?

I cringe every time people tout the way they do things in European countries as an example of how things should be in America. We came here to escape the totalitarian rule of an oppressive government, and to be free to live our lives the way we, as INDIVIDUALS, see fit. Government has NO BUSINESS telling us what we should eat, or how fat we should be, or whether we should wear a seat belt. They have no business regulating ANYTHING that pertains to our personal health or safety. As long as the risks and dangers are fully disclosed, if we choose to take those risks and suffer the consequences, we should be free to do so. Allowing bureaucrats to decide what is safe or healthy for us, and then tax or regulate it out of existence is a major violation of our Constitutional rights ...

This is one of the PRIMARY reasons we MUST repeal Obamacare. Obamacare is going to be the Trojan horse that gives government the justification to control every aspect of our lives. It will give government the power to regulate, tax, and restrict ANY behavior or activity that doesn't suit them, under the guise of "reducing costs". One by one, any freedoms we enjoy that don't fit in with their totalitarian view of how life in America should be will be targeted, labelled as too costly to society, and regulated out of existence.

I have no interest in living in a country where I can't eat a pizza, fly an airplane, ride a motorcycle, or go skiing without some bureaucrat telling me where, when, or how I can do it, or how expensive it's going to be. It's time to fight back against these tyrants. If we don't, America as we know and love it will cease to exist.

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◼ wannasmile

This is NEVER gonna fly

◼ Bombshell: DOJ Considering Elimination of ATF - TownHall

Multiple sources, including sources from ATF, DOJ and Congressional offices have said there is a white paper circulating within the Department of Justice, outlining the essential elimination of ATF. According to sources, the paper outlines the firing of at least 450 ATF agents in an effort to conduct damage control as Operation Fast and Furious gets uglier and as election day 2012 gets closer. ATF agents wouldn’t be reassigned to other positions, just simply let go. Current duties of ATF, including the enforcement of explosives and gun laws, would be transferred to other agencies, possibly the FBI and the DEA.

It will stink to high heaven if they try this... in light of the Friday document dump.

Where's Wikileaks when you need 'em? Paging Julian Assange...

◼ Obama’s Friday Night Fast and Furious Document Dump - Ulsterman

The just-disclosed Fast and Furious documents also showed an Obama White House still unwilling to fully fooperate with the investigation. A memo from chief counsel to President Barack Obama, Kathryn Ruemmler, indicated the administration had no intention of releasing multitiple communications between White National Security staff apparently involved in monitoring the progress of the Fast and Furious operation from the White House.

The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World simply erased hundreds of huge glaciers from their maps, substituting the white of the ice with the green of a mythical unfrozen shoreline.

◼ More Global Warming Baloney: Atlas Erased Greenland’s Glaciers - Commentary Magazine

In an era when even the most outrageous claims about global warming are treated by the mainstream media as “established science,” it was refreshing to read in the New York Times over the weekend that at least some climate scientists aren’t ready to let false claims go unchallenged. Apparently, a number of researchers are complaining the most recent edition of Britain’s Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World contains misleading information about alleged melting of Greenland’s ice-capped shores. h/t: PD

Bond Girl Bootcamp

◼ The James Bond movie series wouldn't be complete without a sexy Bond girl, but jumping out of planes, flying helicopters and shooting 9 mm guns aren't reserved for just Hollywood movies anymore. - Townhall Magazine EXCLUSIVE

Bond Girl Bootcamp's Web site describes the program as "a 360[-]degree hardcore experience where you'll gain talents and confidence that will blow your boyfriend's mind and skills that could blow his head off." It continues: "Adrenaline pumping adventure, tactical training and raw emotion are just a taste of what you'll get before lunch. Should you choose to accept your mission, you'll train under the direction of special ops instructors, world class linguists, high[-]speed stunt drivers, shoot-to-kill marksmen and avant[-]garde burlesque performers. We're not here to baby anyone, and we don't charge extra for the bruises." ...Ross founded Bond Girl to help women learn they don't have to be victims....