Oakland Mayor Threatens Anarchists With a Timeout

This woman makes David Dinkins look like a pillar of granite when it comes to placating mindless thuggery. Heck, Mikey Bloomberg could give her tips on how to at least rattle the sabers. But being this nincompoop Jean Quan already surrendered her city to the mob, her next best hope is for the lawless to, ahem, take some responsibility.

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan says the Occupy Oakland protesters camped outside City Hall need to move to a "less disruptive" location if they can't learn to behave themselves.

"They have to take some responsibility, they have to step up," she told KCBS-AM in an interview. "If they can't abide by not camping at night and they can't control the violence, they need to work with the city to move the camp to a place that will be less disruptive."

Quan told KCBS she didn't know where that new location could be, but jokingly suggested San Francisco.

What a card. She's a national laughingstock and she's cracking jokes.

Quan's administration has gone back and forth on what to do with the camp in Frank Ogawa Plaza at 14th Street and Broadway, where there are now about 165 tents. First she supported protesters, then approved a police sweep to clear the encampment Oct. 25, then allowed the tents to return.

At a lengthy meeting Thursday night, several members of the City Council hinted that they would like the camp to go away.

That might be easier said than done, Quan told KCBS.

She knows how to play her cards, doesn't she? Such bold, decisive leadership clearly shows she's on the fast track to a top law enforcement post in a future Democrat administration.

House Dems Introduce Legislation to Abolish Debt Ceiling

Well, it's just three stooges for now, but who knows, maybe more Democrats are willing to reveal themselves as completely insane.

Three congressional Democrats are introducing a bill Wednesday that would abolish the federal debt ceiling. The Democrats say that the recent debt ceiling debate had a "disastrous" effect on our nation's economy, and that the legislation would keep parties from using a debt-ceiling default as a hostage in future budget debates.

"The debt ceiling is truly arbitrary and has nothing to do with the deficit," Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said in a statement last Wednesday. "The debt ceiling does not prevent the United States from incurring new debts. That occurs when Congress decides to authorize more spending than revenues. The debt ceiling prevents the president from borrowing money to pay those debts when they come due.

Virginia Democrat Jim Moran and Georgia Democrat Hank Johnson will join Nadler in introducing the legislation. But the bill is unlikely to gain traction, especially in the Republican-controlled House.

Gee, ya think?

Hank Johnson, the man who thought Guam was going to tip over. Maybe send Nadler there to see if it really would.

Sharpton: Offering Public Sector Employees 401k's Instead of Pensions Violates Their Civil Rights, or Something

Looks like the "Reverend" Al Sharpton gets a little testy when mildly challenged by an actual reporter. Surprise, surprise. Like so many liberals, he is accustomed to having media stenographers follow him around. He's just not used to fielding real questions.

All the reporter did here was ask Sharpton to elaborate on his specious assertion that offering 401k's instead of pensions to public unions amounts to a civil rights violation. Obviously, Sharpton couldn't back that one up.



Via Breitbart.

Sergeant Schultz: Bin Laden's Death Will Be the Republicans' "Waterloo"

I know we've already honored Bill Richardson with the Crazy Person of the Day award, but here we have a solid runner-up who should not go unmentioned.

Please, please - watch the video if you want to fully appreciate teh stoopid, laid bare with Schultz's trademark buffoonish delivery.

"Osama bin Laden is the Republicans' Waterloo on national security. They don't have the upper hand. Their plan didn't work for all those years. They did the illegal activity and it didn't work. And it was President Obama and it was the Democrats who have supported this strategy that was well played out on the campaign trail and now is enacted big time and we're getting ... results!"

It's a shame nobody bothered to inform Mr. Ed that it was the Republican plan that actually worked, not Obama's. Fortunately, the American people are way smarter than Schultz.

Then again, so is my pocket lint.

Cross-posted.

Link h/t's to Mark Levin; photoshop via Newsreal.

Obama: Sacrificing My Unfunded Utopian Domestic Agenda Would Be Like Mortgaging Our Future, Or Something

Ah, the subtle nuances of Obamanomics. See if you can follow the logic.

If you can't, you're probably a racist.

(CNSNews.com) -- Deficits are not the only thing that could mortgage America’s future, President Barack Obama told Democratic donors in New York on Thursday. He stressed it would be mortgaging the country’s future if government did not spend money on certain areas.

“There’s more than one way to mortgage America’s future,” Obama said at The Town Hall in New York. “We mortgage that future if we don’t get a handle on our deficit and debt, but we also mortgage it if we’re not investing in those things that will assure the promise of the American Dream for the next generation.”

Obama, in the speech, broadly defined the government expenditures needed to ensure prosperity for the next generation that should not be sacrificed for deficit and debt reduction.

“I’m not going to sacrifice investments in education. I’m not going to make scholarships harder to get and more expensive for young people,” Obama said to a cheering crowd. “I’m not going to sacrifice the safety of our highways or our airports. I’m not going to sacrifice clean air and clean water. I’m not going to sacrifice clean energy at a time when we need to free ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, and folks are getting killed at the pump.”

Well, that just about covers everything on Obama's domestic agenda. How convenient.

But don't worry, the historic deficit problem that Obama inherited single-handedly made three times as historic will be addressed by slashing frivolous budget expenditures like the military, and gutting NASA. Those sort of outlays don't have much to with "winning the future" anyway.

Wait, what?

Cross-posted.

Warm-onger John Kerry Calls Junk Science Nonbelievers 'Neanderthals'

So a constituent of John Kerry demands an apology from the tax-dodging oaf and what does he do? Doubles down on stupid and call everyone who doesn't buy his junk science theories neanderthals.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry encountered a loud and often angry crowd during a town hall meeting at the Northampton Center for the Arts on Saturday, as area residents grilled him about his support for the war in Afghanistan, federal spending and the federal government’s response to the recession.

Anti-war protesters interrupted the Democrat on numerous occasions, yelling and calling on him to explain his support for funding the war in Afghanistan.

And in what might have might been the most bizarre exchange of the two-hour gathering, Kerry apologized to one woman who claimed he had called her a Neanderthal for not believing in global warming.

Kerry said he was referring generally to those who do not believe in the science of global warming and not the one woman in particular.

Thanks for clearing that up. So nice that we have such esteemed people in our senate.

"The biggest fight we have on the environment right now in Washington is not going forward, it is preventing these Neanderthals, troglodytes, whatever you call them, from going backward - preventing them from attacking the EPA, preventing the EPA from doing anything about clean air for the next few years," Kerry said.

"I think we have to build up the same kind of grassroots energy and movement that we had in 1970 when we passed the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, the Safe Water Drinking Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act," he continued. "... There is a price to pay for not moving forward to protect the planet."

We? Uh, Lurch, you were busy trashing your own government back in 1970, so how is it we?

More on John Thurston Kerry III from Doug Powers.

MSNBC Dimwit Maddow Gets Punked

So smug, so sanctimonious. Yet, so stupid.

The Internet's finest satirists snookered a big fish in the media world last night. In an embarrassing segment on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow slammed conservatives for attacking President Obama's Egypt policies. Her targets included Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, former ambassador to the UN John Bolton and Stephenson Billings at ChristWire.org. Only problem is Stephenson Billings is not a real person. He's a fictional byproduct of website that also warns readers that the Xbox Kinect is a terrorist training tool and the Japanese have created scary robot babies which "threaten humanity."

The article that caught Maddow's eye called for an "American-led invasion" into Egypt and begged former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to lead the war cry.

"The escalating crisis in Egypt could become a defining moment for Sarah Palin," Billings wrote. "Governor Palin needs to speak out publicly and forcibly for an American-led invasion to protect our interests in North Africa."

In the following clip (which MSNBC scrubbed from its website) Maddow falls for the article hook, line and sinker:

(H/T)

Someone obviously took the idiot aside and let her know how idiotic she looks.

The bad news about a free and open internet? Sometimes you get had by brilliant satirists. Christwire: 1 TRMS: 0

Simple fact-checking would have helped avoid such humiliation. But remember, Sarah Palin's the stupid one.

Update: A roundup of Maddow idiocy from NewsBusters.

Is the Governor of Hawaii a Total Moron?

So this idiot was declaring war on birthers, huh? Funny though, he can't find that birth certificate. And even if he could, it would be illegal to release it.

Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie is ending his quest to reveal more information about President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth because it's against state law to release private documents.

Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said Friday that state Attorney General David Louie told the governor he can't disclose birth documentation without consent.

Dela Cruz said there's nothing more Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document of Obama's birth.

Abercrombie launched an effort last month to find a way to end doubt about Obama's Aug. 4, 1961, birth.

Thanks for clearing that up, Guv.

House Dems Vow to Improve Messaging, Will Only Call Republicans Nazis Every Other Day

You can't help but chuckle. These buffoons actually believe it was a matter of "messaging" why they lost the House in a historic landslide. Gee, had they only been able to bamboozle the rubes with a clever "message" they'd still be in charge!

House Democrats kicked off their annual retreat here with a vow to improve the flawed messaging that contributed to the loss of their majority last fall.

The down-sized Democratic Caucus is meeting for three days at the glitzy Hyatt Regency resort on the shores of the Chesapeake, with the goal of figuring out what went wrong in 2010 and how the party can position itself on policy and politics for the next two years.

Maybe it's me, but what message does it send when you're hanging out at a glitzy resort?

President Obama and Vice President Biden will be in Cambridge on Friday to address Democratic lawmakers, who will also hear from economists, message gurus and current and former colleagues. More than a half dozen panels will be devoted or related to messaging, underscoring the importance of boosting the party’s communications with the public.

Message gurus?

Maybe one of those former colleagues will be this maniac. That sure would send the right message.

Typical message we're sure to hear about is how the public was too stupid too appreciate how benevolent the Democrats are.

“I said Madam Speaker, the problem with Democrats is we never give the public the chance to savor our victories,” Becerra said, as Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the assistant leader, nodded in agreement. “What we didn’t do was take the time to do tap-dances about what we had just done, but we did the work of the people.”

“Too bad we didn’t message it better,” he added.

Oh yes, a little more tap-dancing surely would have saved some House seats. Gloating about abominable legislation nobody wanted surely would have done the trick.

Outgoing Democrat Congressman: We're Descending into Fascism or Something

I'm assuming he prefers our quick slide into socialism instead.

In a wide-ranging interview before he prepares to leave the House of Representatives, Hudson Valley Congressman John Hall warned that the nation could quickly descend into Fascism if more is not done to curb the influence of corporate money in politics.

Speaking about the Citizen's United decision, which allowed unregulated flow of cash into campaign coffers, Hall said, "I learned when I was in social studies class in school that corporate ownership or corporate control of government is called Fascism. So that's really the question— is that the destination if this court decision goes unchecked?"

Hall said that the flow of corporate dollars is why he and the Democrats lost control of Congress.

Uh, not really, dickhead. If you had the slightest clue you'd understand it was runaway spending and unemployment. But nobody ever accused Hall of being too bright.

"The country was bought," he said. "The extremist, most recent two appointees to the Supreme Court, who claimed in their confirmation hearings before the Senate that they would not be activist judges, made a very activist decision in that it overturned more than a century of precedent. And as a result there were millions of extra dollars thrown into this race."

The most recent Supreme Court appointees were Kagan and Sotomayor, just for the record. Like I said, he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Party of No ... Labels, That Is

Possibly the most painful video in recorded history. Feel the wave as the No Labels movement launches with a crashing thud. And they might want to prep for a lawsuit.

Jim Geraghty:

If I didn’t know better, I would think the whole “No Labels” movement was a giant, self-parodying prank.

I tuned in to the webcast of the group’s kickoff to hear a woman saying, “You just have to look to Arizona to see extremists who are trying to divide us.” I guess I know how the group feels about the Arizona immigration enforcement law. Of course, I thought the point of the group was to stop labeling people; but I guess it’s okay to label the overwhelming majority of Arizonans “extremists.”

One label you sure won't find with this crew is conservative.

Mindblowing Hypocrisy: MSNBC Clown Calls for 'Decency' Law

Sure, let's leave it up to Ed Schultz, racist Al Sharpton and the clueless Sheila Jackson Lee to decide what can or can't be said on the airwaves. If they actually spent the time listening to Rush Limbaugh instead of being fed spliced clips and edited transcripts from Media Matters they wouldn't look like such buffoons.

Savor the irony of a far-left bombthrower from MessNBC calling for decency. You can't make this stuff up.

Gee, Maybe They Should Have Read the Bill

Couldn't listen to those frothing teabaggers at townhall meetings, right? Why, they didn't know any better.

A leading Senate Democrat vowed Friday to introduce legislation killing a part of the new healthcare reform law that imposes new tax-filing requirements on small businesses.

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Finance Committee and a leading architect of the reform law, said a provision requiring businesses to report more purchases to the IRS will impose undue paperwork burdens on companies amid an economic downturn when they can least afford it.

Baucus, who had pushed legislation scaling back the requirement earlier in the year, now wants it repealed in full.

“I have heard small businesses loud and clear and I am responding to their concerns," Baucus said in a statement. "Small businesses are the backbone of our economy in my home state of Montana and across the country, and they need to focus their efforts on creating good-paying jobs — not filing paperwork."

Since the midterm election, Democrats have signaled a willingness to change the provision.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that the 1099 requirement is one of the rare provisions of the healthcare law where the two parties agree that a change is needed.

"That's probably the first place we could go together," she told NPR's "Morning Edition."

Last week, President Obama also conceded that the filing provision threatens to put too much strain on businesses.

"The 1099 provision in the healthcare bill appears to be too burdensome for small businesses," Obama said at a White House news conference the day after Democrats were trounced in midterm elections. "It just involves too much paperwork, too much filing. It's probably counterproductive."

Gee, ya think?

Wasn't it Nancy Pelosi who said they had to pass ObaamCare before we could find out what was in it?

Oh yes, it was.

We're Now Official Right-Wing Media

Just a Grunt emailed me earlier about this and I noticed it through a few scant hits on the Sitemeter, but the obsessive juiceboxers at Media Matters are monitoring our behavior again. The humorless Soros drones apparently took offense at my noticing an eerie resemblance between Obama clone Elena Kagan and former CNN reporter John Holliman. Of course others found her looking more like Chaz Bono, but I digress.

Others in this right-wing media cabal apparently include Jason Mattera, Michael Savage and Neal Boortz, so we consider it an honor to now officially be part of the dreaded right-wing media. At last we've found our lot in life, thanks in no small part to some sad clowns at Media Matters. If only their pathetic website actually had some traffic we'd have gotten more than the dozen or so visits we've received today from them.

You have to imagine some day the blithering idiots financing these clowns might realize they're not quite getting any return on their investment considering my own little website that costs nothing gets more traffic than their operation that costs millions.

Schwarzenegger Yuks It Up Over SB 1070

Funny guy. I bet Californians would like to see him deported anywhere.

"I was also to go and give a commencement speech in Arizona, but with my accent I was worried they were going to deport me back to Austria," said Schwarzenegger.

The governor has said he's strongly opposed to the Arizona law. He says the attempt to control illegal immigration will create a "mess."

Yeah, unlike the mess California is in becasue of millions of illegals.

There's video at the link. I'd add it here but there are problems with their embed code.

Nothing to laugh about, asshole.

Census Worker Killed Himself and the Credibility of Leftwing Bloggers

You'll recall the mass hysteria a couple of months ago when virtually the entire leftwing blogosphere rushed to conclusions and blamed "teabaggers" and basically anyone who opposed the Obama administration for what they immediately declared a murder.

Ooops. Would you folks like to walk that one back now?

A Kentucky Census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" written on his chest killed himself and staged his death to look like a murder, authorities said Tuesday.

Kentucky State Police said Bill Sparkman died at the same location where his body was found Sept. 12 near a cemetery in a heavily wooded area of southeastern Kentucky.

A man who found the body in the Daniel Boone National Forest said the 51-year-old was bound with duct tape, gagged and had an identification badge taped to his neck.

Investigators say Sparkman acted alone in manipulating the scene to conceal the suicide.

No, it wasn't tea party activists, it wasn't some Glenn Beck viewer, it was Sparkman himself.

Don't expect to hear any apologies from the angry left, their credibility now shattered.

Actually, it wasn't just the deranged left bloggers, but the lamestream media also got in on the act.

It was a bizarre and gruesome discovery in a remote section of eastern Kentucky: Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old teacher and part-time worker for the United States Census, was found two weeks ago hanging from a tree with the word "Fed" scrawled on his chest in felt tip pen.

A man who said he was among those who found the body told tells the Associated Press that Sparkman was naked, bound at the hands and feet with duct tape and gagged - details that have not yet been confirmed by authorities.

Jerry Weaver of Ohio told the Associated Press he was visiting a cemetery in rural Kentucky with family members on Sept. 12 when he, his wife and daughter saw the body.

"The only thing he had on was a pair of socks," Weaver said. "And they had duct-taped his hands, his wrists. He had duct tape over his eyes, and they gagged him with a red rag or something.

"He was murdered," Weaver said. "There's no doubt."

One porcine pundit called it another Glenn Beck killing. He might want to consider a retraction before calling his lawyer.

The Daily Kos blamed Michelle Bachmann (R-MN). Another kook blamed all of the above.

Michelle Malkin wonders when the smears will be retracted. Well, it won't. The left will just MoveOn to another hoax.

Our prayers are with Sparkman's family. I'd say a prayer for the left but they're beyond redemption.

We'll just perform last rites on their credibility.

Update: The commenters at the HuffPost just can't handle the truth.

William Jacobson has a roundup of who you can look to for apologies. Not that they'll ever be coming.

Improving Cross-border Relations

Security Paranoia Defies Logic
This is borderline insanity. The most worrisome U. S. official confronting Canada today is a former Arizona governor who thinks the U. S. northern border, which she's only flown over and never actually crossed on the ground, is a security threat on par with the drug-running, immigrant-smuggling, terrorist-sneaking border wall with Mexico.

And there's simply no comparison between the illegal entry trickle from Canada and the alien immigrant wave and drug smuggling surge pouring into the United States from the south. Of the estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants who enter the United States each year, 57% come from Mexico. Just 6% of those living illegally in the United States are Canadian. Somebody should also warn the Secretary that recent statistics show 500,000 Canadians spent tourist dollars in her Mexican border state in 2006 and that Arizona rates Canada its second-largest trading partner with almost $3-billion in trade.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is moving unapologetically forward on beefed-up border staffing and enhanced documentation requirements that will make Canadians and travelling Americans yearn for the security paranoia of the George W. Bush administration.

Ouch. Methinks someone's a bit pissed that Hopenchange isn't all that it was cracked up to be. On the other hand, maybe it is, you know, cracked up and stuff. So to speak.

Ms. Napolitano's brief interview with the CBC this week was jaw-dropping confirmation we're dealing with an irrational senior U.S. official who can't differentiate between a secure border linking the world's largest trading partners and one that's a giant sucking sound for jobs going south and what's been described as an 'invasion' of desperate Mexicans illegally sneaking north.

Ya think???

She actually invoked the bogeyman of 9/11 terrorists sneaking into the United States from Canada to bolster the case for a crackdown, even though the most elementary research would've told her there's no evidence to support that bogus claim.

When challenged on her concerns, she insisted still-secret data, undoubtedly buried with the aliens at Roswell, justifies her concern. She surely must know that only 12 of the 48 al-Qaeda operatives caught between 1993 and 2001 were illegal immigrants and none of those came from Canada.


The infamous quote from early in her Homeland Security posting was to fret at Mexico's hurt feelings. "If things are being done on the Mexican border, they should also be done on the Canadian border."

What's that precisely? Build another Texas wall? Does she have any concept that this 5,013-kilometre land border bisects towns and villages (heck, it even divides the stage from the seats in one Vermont-Quebec movie theatre)?

"The pattern at the Canadian border has been informality," she went on to say. "The borders are going to be enabled with greater technology, but it's not going to be going back and forth as if there's no border anymore."

Having crossed the border last week, let me assure you there's nothing informal or lacking about it. When friends on an annual golf getaway crossed at the 1,000 Islands, we joined a bunch of others in getting a major passport shakedown by armed American guards casting a very suspicious eyes at our duty-free haul of booze sandwiched between the bags carrying our instruments of fairway destruction.

They called me forward and demanded to know if I'd ever been arrested. Yes, yes, I confessed, there was a minor drug possession charge when I was just 18 (and I still insist it was Bob Green's pot), but it was wiped clean by a judge. It took a long discussion with border guards about the dangers of allowing in somebody never convicted of anything criminal before my born-in-the-U.S.A. birth certificate got me waved across.

I digress, but my point is that technology which can alert guards to a 34-year-old minor arrest that never resulted in a conviction shouldn't have much trouble fingering a known terrorist.

The new Homeland Security boss has a well-known Monty Python fetish. Perhaps she's decided to pattern herself after the black knight of Holy Grail movie fame, who declares "none shall pass," only to have his arms and legs hacked off in a sword fight even while insisting the amputations are ''but a scratch.''

If Janet Napolitano adopts a similarly defiant posture to squeeze her northern border into a business barrier, the United States will be cutting off the arms and legs of its integrated manufacturing base to block an enemy that doesn't exist.

Canuckians, unclench thy fists!

Via The National Post

Buffoon Moore Heading to Iran

Please, just keep him.

Michael Moore Comes to Iran

TEHRAN, July 02 (ISNA)-Writer, producer and director, Michael Moore is to come to Iran for the screening of his new production SICKO in the first international documentary film festival held here.

This festival will be held from the 15th to the 19th of October in Tehran.

According to reports in SICKO, Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by the U.S. health care insurance companies, whose policies are designed to maximize profits at the expense of providing essential care. The consequences of these individuals' plights range from bankruptcy to the unnecessary deaths of loved ones.

Check out his bio.

Michael Moore was born in Flint, Michigan April 23 1954. He studied journalism at the University of Michigan-Flint, but also pursued other hobbies such as Gun shooting, for which he even won a competition. Michael started working as an editor for the journal of the University he attended at the beginning to his journalism career. He then turned to filmmaking, and to earn the money for the budget of his first film Roger & Me (1989) he ran neighborhood bingo games. He eventually got himself into leading a string of documentaries and TV series all predominantly around the same subject; attacks on politicians and business corporations, getting his opinion around and about. He landed his first big hit with Bowling for Columbine (2002) about the bad points of the freedom of weapon holding in America, which earned him an Oscar and a big reputation. He then shook the world with his even bigger hit Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) - making fun of President George W. Bush. Michael is known for having the guts to give his opinion in public, which not many people are courageous enough to do, and for that is respected by many.