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With a little negotiation, Russia solves the twin problems of sanctions over Ukraine and competition with China. All they have left is the follow through.
Is the 'Post American' President paying attention? When he promised me 'Smart Diplomacy', this is what I expected.
The kicker of it is, if you make the right amount to qualify for a subsidized health insurance plan, your costs are going to be shared and subsidized by the government. But if you go on Medicaid, you owe the entire amount that Medicaid spends on you from the day you turn 55.
SPIEGEL: How many people have been affected by the food shortages?
Göken: The World Food Program estimates between 5 and 6 million. At least 400,000 tons of grain is lacking.
SUSPICIONS OF FRAUD IN NEVADA: "Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid's name was already checked. Ferrara said she wasn't alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen."
North Carolina: "Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked. He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result, he said."
Related: A pattern of fraud?
And more thoughts from Stephen Green: "It's going to be a long week when the first two stories you see reflect just how big the 'margin of cheating' is going to be this year."
People need to pay attention. Desperation is going to lead to a lot of corners being cut. Make an example of 'em so they won't do it again next time.
Also: New ACORN effort is mobilizing voters, run by woman indicted for violating election laws.
UPDATE: Dallas.
Hey, I've been pushing paper ballots since 2002 for a reason.
The party that smelt it gets delta'd.
Jim Costa looks as though he's about to lose his previously-safe Democratic seat in the House because of the fish that devoured the Central Valley. The feds turned off the irrigation spigot in one of the nation's most productive agricultural areas to protect the Delta smelt, creating a modern Dust Bowl and destroying the livelihood [...]
Why More Web Merchants Now Work Cautiously with Their Competitors.
As marketing chief for a small chain of Southern furniture stores, Robert Hodgson almost laughed when he first heard the pitch. A representative from Furniture.com, a longtime foe of all local furniture retailers, had called with a proposition. What if Hodgson's chain, Brashears, with its three brick-and-mortar showrooms in Missouri and Arkansas, began paying the national website to steer potential customers his way? The proposal struck him as almost comically naïve. "I definitely had to consider all sorts of questions," Hodgson recalls. Most obviously: if the customer leads were really so great, why would a competitor sell them to him?
The two latest examples of Democrat ineptitude, incompetence and total math fail come to us from none other than Nancy Pelosi (the best speaker of the house EVAH) and Joe "doll hair" Biden. First up is Nancy Pelosi with both bad math and shameless lies. As Ben Domenech points out at RedState, Pelosi claimed that Obamacare would create (or save!) 4 million jobs with 400,000 of them being created immediately. While no one else could know what was in the bill, before they passed the bill, she was somehow magically able to pull that figure out of her arse. Why? Because it was a total lie. In fact, the bill actually lost Americans nearly 800,000 jobs. (pdf) Eh. Why let pesky old facts and figures get in the way of lies and damn lies? Plus, math is hard anyway.
Telling the truth is difficult too, evidently. If you are a Democrat, at least. Remember, that whole "jobs bill" was also a total fabrication.
PROMISES, PROMISES: Jobs Bill Won't Add Many Jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a bipartisan jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory and placate Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But it has a problem: It won't create many jobs.
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"We're skeptical that it's going to be a big job creator," said Bill Rys, tax counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business. "There's certainly nothing wrong with giving a tax break to a business that's hired a new worker, especially in these tough times. But in terms of being an incentive to hire a lot of workers, we're skeptical."
Whoops! Jobs Shmobs; it's all about the speeches, baby. If only they would spend more time explaining their outright fallacies to us rubes. That is the problem, you see. It couldn't possibly be that everything they touch turns into massive fail. That's what happens when the people in charge have never actually ran a business or, you know, lived and worked in the real world. No wonder President Obama, and most of the Democrats on the campaign trail, are always talking about how they "hear stories". It is because they have zero real world experience of their own. I wonder if they can see November from their Ivory Towers?
Or, they have delusional experiences. The latest is the paranoid belief in "shadowy groups" giving money to Conservative candidates narrative. You know, super scary nefarious organizations like the Chamber of Commerce. To be fair, it makes sense that the current crop of Democrats would be frightened of a business organization, seeing as how they obviously believe capitalism and free markets are evil and all.
Which leads me to Joe Biden; the man one heart-beat away from the Presidency. I think he was trying to tie in those sneaky, shadowy Chamber people in here, but I'm not sure. I've forgotten to update my Moron to English dictionary. In any event, here he is in full idiocy, with the press, as always, attempting to cover for him. Their attempt, however, is as patchy as Biden's hair plugs:
In an interview with Al Hunt of Bloomberg News scheduled to be shown Friday night, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commented on the need for disclosure when corporate interests contribute to political groups.
"I was amazed at the amount of money, this $200 billion of money that is — where there's no accountability," he said. "When I say accountability, we don't know where it's coming from. There's no disclosure, so the folks watching the ad can't make a judgment based upon motive when you say it's paid for by so-and-so."
Mr. Biden clearly meant "million" with an "M," not "billion" with a "B."
But did he?
But his tongue slipped again a moment later. "So it really — I've never seen this before, so the only caveat I'd put in terms of the House is how much impact this $200 billion are going to mean."
Math. Is. Hard. What can we expect from a man who can't even count to four, claiming that J-O-B-S is a "3 letter word"? It's so comforting that Joe Biden is the one that The Smartest Man Alive ™ chose to put in charge of overseeing the "Stimulus" money implementation, isn't it? A billion, a thousand gazillion, whatever!
Ed Morrissey goes on to put that foreign money lie to bed as well. Like math, the truth is hard. And elections do have consequences, dire ones at time. So, I suggest it's about time we gave them all a teachable moment ™: Lying, corruption and abysmal incompetence also have consequences.
Let those consequences be next week's elections.
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Cross-posted from NewsRealBlog
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I've been sifting through hundreds of emails, stories, reactions to Juan Williams' sensational firing by NPR over his remarks on Bill O'Reilly's show, covered on Big Journalism for the past 24 hours. I've also read Slate's ridiculous comparison of Williams to Sherrod. Williams didn't call everyone a racist and help bilk taxpayers of billions for unfounded claims, but hey.
Those defending NPR's reactions say that Williams "smeared" Muslims and portrayed them in a bad light.
Does not a group of men hijacking planes and flying them into the World Trade Center killing over three thousand people in the name of Islam portray Islam in a bad light?
Does not men hijacking a plane to fly into the Pentagon in the name of Islam portray Islam in a bad light?
When individuals strap bombs onto their bodies and detonate in public thoroughfares, killing men, women, and precious innocent children, all in the name of Islam, does not that paint Islam in a bad light?
When men bomb the USS Cole in the name of Islam, does that not portray Islam in a bad light?
When a Chechen group terrorizes school childrenin Beslan in the name of Islam, does that not portray Islam in a bad light?
When men blow up discotheques in Malaysia in the name of Islam, does not that show Islam in a bad light?
When members of the CIA are murdered, in the greatest massacre in the organization's history, by individuals in the name of Islam, does that not show Islam in a bad light?
When a man shoots up Ft. Hood in the name of Islam, does that not paint Islam in a bad light?
When men hijack a plane, the control of which is barely wrested away from them by brave American passengers before the plane crashes into a Pennsylvania field, leaving behind a scorch mark upon the earth for families to mourn – all in the name of Islam – does not that paint Islam in a negative light?
When the United Arab Emirates passes a law stating that it's not domestic abuse to beat your wife just so long as she bears no bruises, that doesn't paint Islam in a bad light?
When men are allowed to kill and abuse their wives, sisters, and young daughters for refusing marriage to much-older men chosen for them, that doesn't paint Islam in a bad light?
And when televisions show people filling streets in cities across Pakistan, the Middle East, cheering the 9/11 attacks while people in our country mourned the smoking ashes of over 3,000 innocent victims, that doesn't paint Islam in a bad light?
When the developers of the proposed Ground Zero Mosque refuse to not accept funds from Iran, a country which, according to our government, sponsors terrorism, that doesn't shed a bad light on Islam?
But Juan Williams calling out the statistical occurrence of the above paints Islam in a bad light?
Those who suggest that the reactions of others to the events listed above somehow negatively impact the faith pass the buck on responsibility. Perhaps if we had more people who spoke out against these atrocities instead of defending by way of failing to criticize and attacking the people who call these acts out, this wouldn't be a problem. Juan Williams wouldn't have any remarks to make on the subject.
Political correctness, Frankenstein's monster.
In his piece today entitled "Sarah Palin is wreaking havoc on the campaign trail, GOP sources say," Politico's Jonathan Martin (who was tasked with the Republican Party beat for the website for the 2008 elections) falsely claims Sarah Palin backed out of a scheduled interview with talk-radio host Mark Levin:
According to a source familiar with the situation, she backed out of planned interviews with conservative talk-show hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin the morning she was scheduled to talk to them.
