Jesse Jackson Jr. Talks Treason

Jesse Jackson Jr, (Il  –  2 ) talks out his ass and as I see it talks treason, text:

Jackson called for full government employment of the 15 million unemployed and said that Obama should “declare a national emergency” and take “extra-constitutional” action “administratively” — without the approval of Congress — to tackle unemployment.

“I hope the president continues to exercise extraordinary constitutional means, based on the history of Congresses that have been in rebellion in the past,” Jackson said. “He’s looking administratively for ways to advance the causes of the American people, because this Congress is completely dysfunctional.”

video:

Hat tip video:  Richard Fernandez, Pajamas Media.

Call Representative Jackson now and tell him you expect him to tender his resignation from Congress

Conklin, NY– I’m just south of Binghamton, NY. From where I’ll run up to Rochester, grab a load and be in Brooklyn by the time you get up.

Lots of polish, paint and simple hard work

Raining a bit today, which is about what I figured. After all, I spent the last several days cleaning and preening the truck. Looks pretty good.  The aluminum alone took hours.

• It’s ours to lose:  Poll: Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney All Beat Obama. But if the GOP nominates anyone but a real conservative…. and Romney doesn’t quality…. winning isn’t worth a damn. And we both know it. Let me be clear; I don’t care in the slightest if the GOP wins back the White House. What I care about is that a real conservative wins the White House. Are you listening, GOP?
• Education? I made a comment at OTB yesterday, incidental to the Wall Street protest mob:
  

  So, you took out a huge loan to pay for an education that turned out to be nigh on worthless in terms of finding a real job… one large enough to pay for the loan. And you’re pissed at…. the BANK?How about being mad at the school that convinced you you could get by on an education with more indoctrination than substance?

  So, you can imagine the smile on my face today as I note Glenn saying:

  Mother Jones doesn’t like Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to cut back on support for liberal arts education in favor of more practical subjects. But I think this trend is inevitable anyway, given economic realities. Just look at all those unemployed and heavily-indebted #Occupy protesters. I didn’t notice any Petroleum Engineering graduates among them. Here’s what Scott said:

  You know, we don’t need a lot more anthropologists in the state. It’s a great degree if people want to get it, but we don’t need them here. I want to spend our dollars giving people science, technology, engineering, math degrees. That’s what our kids need to focus all their time and attention on. Those type of degrees. So when they get out of school, they can get a job.

  Even at Mother Jones we hear: “Scott’s reasoning could attract a lot of Floridians.” Ya think? But there’s this, too: “Is a degree’s intrinsic value really reducible to its marketability?”

  After decades of selling college as an “investment” — and pricing it accordingly — it’s going to be hard for the higher education establishment to pivot to a college-as-personal-fulfillment argument.

  Perhaps, Glenn, but given the number of college grads now flipping burgers, it’ll be easier than trying to sell colleges peddling liberal arts as a path to better jobs. Or, Any jobs, for that matter, given unemployment figures.

  We could lower education costs and make a degree worth something again, rather simply… get government out of the education business. Where else but a government controlled environment would liberal arts be considered of greater import than actual job skills? I fear we’re years from that point, but given the direction of things, it will happen.

• Basics: A business’s primary purpose is not to provide a service, or to create jobs. Those two are secondary to the primary goal of making money for the owners, and investors. The jobs and services tend to come along in direct proportion to the success had in the primary goal of making money. Government regulations and high taxes tend to diminish that ability, and thereby the number and quality of jobs created. You can have a tightly regulated and highly taxed marketplace…(The US has now either the highest or second highest corporate tax rate on the world)… or you can have jobs. That’s the choice. That’s always been the choice. And that’s why Obama’s been unable to deal with the joblessness… all he understands is tax and pass laws and threaten the very people job creation depends on.

The Herminator, b/k/a Herman Cain plays the race card on Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, and he dose it with a smile and in style, and without a teleprompter video:

Hat tip video: Alan Colmes

I note that Cain has a large advantage of over Obama.   Cain knows who he is.    Cain was born into and raised by a loving intact, functional family.   In contrast, Obama never knew his father,  and spent much of his life in a vain attempt to connect with him.    I don’t think Obama’s mother was all that into Obama either.

So while Obama has spent is life searching  for both his roots and his identity, Cain never had the need.   It shows.

Well, the Occupy Wall Street movement, AKA Poopstock,  sure is making a splash. Perhaps “splash” isn’t the best term, from the looks of things, they could all use a splash in a bathtub with a bar of soap. Reports on the ground indicate things are getting pretty ripe. But the commies don’t seem to mind. Amidst the filth, they’re laying out their plans for a better tomorrow

From Karen, Lonely Conservative.

Herman Cain is on the A team.   The lame streamers needs to stop sending second rate hacks to interview Cain.  Speaking of second rate hacks, CNN’s Candy Crowly to the Herminator, b/k/a Herman Cain, via Joel B. Pollak, Big Journalism::

And I would say to you an unemployment rate for blacks that is far higher-almost six percent higher, seven percent higher than for whites; a percentage of black incarceration in the nation’s prison systems that is far greater; a lack of-and for all of your skills, is there not some luck in that, I want to ask you that-but, you know, there-I would tell you that minorities, especially African-Americans, can name a lot of things that speak to a certain amount of racism that they can still complain about. And so I wonder if you are taking your good fortune and superimposing it over everyone else, when it doesn’t really apply?

Racist liberals, err I repeat myself, believe that all blacks are too dumb  and too lazy to succeed without the help of compassionate liberals like well Crowley.   Hence Crowley contributes Herman Cain considerable success to luck.

Well Herman Cain was lucky.   He was lucky to be admitted to Occidental College, sans merit; Columbia, sans merit; and Harvard Law, sans merit.   Oh that was Dumbo,  b/k/a Barack Obama.   In fact, Dumbo has achieved nothing based on merit.

Whereas, Herman Cain was born to poor but loving parents of an intact black family.   Attended an all black college and rose to become the CEO of Godfathers Pizza.

Batavia, NY– Today is Columbus day. I submit to you that everything that is wrong with our government can be seen each and every Columbus Day. I’m out here busting my ass while our “servants’ get the day off…. a day off you and I pay for…. supposedly celebrating a man who most of those government workers resent, if we’re to take the left-leaners at their word on the matter.

• Profit? : One of the things that the OWS nutters are suppsoedly protesting is obscene profit margins. One of the points that came up incidental to the death of Steve Jobs is that Apple runs a profits of around 48%. Oil companies, meanwhile,  run profits of between 8% to 10%. So why is Apple so well thought of in liberal circles and Oil companies so vilified by those same circles??  And here’s another point; Of the two who does the more important work? Consider that question this way; Which can you better afford to do without? Oil and the energy it provides, or your I-phone?
• The Harry and Barry Show: It appears that the infighting between Reid and the White House is getting raised to a level where we will have to start selling tickets. … I’ve said for years now it’s all about the personal power of the players involved.  This is proof of that.
• Party Crashers: It seems the OccupyWall Street crowd is being infiltrated by party goers looking for sex, drugs. Gee, what makes anyone think they’d be able to get those among the OWS crowd? There must be a certain quality to these OWS folks that makes people operate this way, huh?
• The independent vote: Gallup is reporting that Obama’s approval rating among pure independents is only at 30%.  Not too hard to figure this one out… 30% of independents are as far to the left as Obama is and yet are farther left than even the mainstream Democrats. This constitutes Obama’s core voter. This to me demonstrates Obama is to the left of most of America.
• Daily Krugman Blasting:
  

  A certain quality of the left and their protesting.

  Attack the security guards at the Air and Space Museum, and you can  count on Paul Krugman’s support. Perhaps the OWS morons don’t know Krugman was an Enron advisor, huh?  Krugman says

  It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction.

  My guess would be no, if this is what we’re supposed to change to. Is this Kurgman’s vision? And check this; Krugman thinks the OWS people are better behaved than tea party types. Can you beat it? Last I heard some 750 arrests so far at the OWS nonsense. How many at Tea Party Rallies? None as I’m aware. Can someone confirm or deny this with linkage, please?    Kurt Schlichter  says it well:

  The #OccupyWallSt movement marks the first time free people have rebelled to secure the right to be enslaved.

  Well, not really. There’s always the Russian Revolution, much of Latin America, Nazi Germany and Cuba to consider. Still, point made.

Corning,NY– I’m dropping a load off and taking a break. From here I’ll run back to Harrisburg and then back into NY again. Kind of a weird week for routing, really. Beautiful day for a drive, though. Crisp fall day, 60 degrees not a cloud in sight.

• More on “Occupy Wall Street”– I spoke yesterday of the Occupy Wall Street thing. Today I learn that money from George Soros is behind it all. Leaving aside the contradictions inherent in this, much is explained. Nobody should be shocked at all by Soros’s involvement here.  But of course, the press won’t touch this point. You KNOW why.  I  Told you this thing was not grass roots.I’ll tell you this… and mark this well…; I predict violence, next. Take this stuff seriously.  Mostly because that’s how Ernst Rohm’s folks would be doing it about now. And I wonder if any of the nutjobs working as the tools of Soros and the remaining leftists understand the lessons inherent in that comparison. Clue: They’ll come for these morons, next, once their task is complete.
• Steve Jobs: I note the passing of Steve Jobs at the age of 56.  Odd how his actual life ran directly afoul of his liberal politics. Jobs was, in my view, an example of American exceptionalism. Rand Simburg seems to be of the same mind. So is Billy Beck:
  

  Jobs’ life is eloquent refutation of recent greasy insinuations that all achievements are equal and belong to the hive..

  Exactly. And think; If the “occupy Wall Street” morons had their way, people like Jobs, and the gains we made by way of people like him, wouldn’t exist.

• Feminism and the miniskirt: Scott Brown Glad Elizabeth Warren Didn’t Pose Nude . And…Woman Sues Over ‘Miniskirt Mondays’ More proof that feminism was created to give unattractive women better access to the mainstream of society. As if there was ever any doubt.
• ‘Furious’ mess has Justice in full panic  — and so they should be. This thing will not be over until Holder is frog-marched out of the White House.

Batavia, NY– I’m picking up a load for Carlisle, PA. I’ll be back in NY state by morning.

• Whatever it is, it’s not grass roots: Perhaps it’s time we examine the push behind “Occupy Wall Street”. There’s more clues here than the supposed mainstream press has dug up. For example, the “occupy Wall Street” domain name was registered by “Adbusters” which is a Vancouver based group, who apparently is interested in defeating western Culture.  Who else would call themselves “CultureJammer”?   Wikipedia:
  

  Adbusters was founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz, a duo of award-winning documentary filmmakers living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Since the early 1980s, Lasn had been making films that explored the spiritual and cultural lessons the West could learn from the Japanese experience with capitalism.

  One pictures a 300lb each couple wearing ball caps.

  The foundation describes itself as “a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age.”^[2]The Adbusters Media Foundation publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine with an international circulation of 120,000^[3] devoted to challenging consumerism. Notable past and present contributors to the magazine include Christopher Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Bill McKibben, Jim Munroe, Douglas Rushkoff, Jonathan Barnbrook, David Graeber and others.

  Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including Buy Nothing Day, TV Turnoff Week and Occupy Wall Street, and is known for their “subvertisements” that spoof popular advertisements.

  So, OK, the picture is less than flattering, and what we see here is certainly not one thatmost Americans will support… or even Canadians. But more, there’s some anti-semitism in the mix, as well:

  In March 2004, Adbusters was accused of antisemitism after running an article^[31] that alleged many supporters of the Iraq War within the Bush Administration were Jewish. The article questioned why the political implications of this Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East were not a subject of debate.^[32]

  In October 2010, Shopper’s Drug Mart pulled Adbusters off of its shelves after a photo montage^[33] comparing the Gaza Strip to the Warsaw ghetto was featured in an article critiquing Israel’s embargo of Gaza.^[34] Two frequently pro-Israel Canadian organizations, the Canadian Jewish Congress and Honest Reporting Canada, rallied to have the magazine blacklisted from bookstores, accusing Adbusters of trivializing the Holocaust and of antisemitism.^[35][36][37] “The argument is obscene, and continues the disgusting tradition of some supporters of the Palestinian cause to turn Jews into Nazis and Palestinians into Jews. In so doing, these propagandists not only demonize Israelis (i.e., Jews), but minimize the murderous extent and intent of [Nazism’s] genocidal project.”^[38] Adbusters responded to the charges in an op-ed printed in the National Post, arguing that the charge of antisemitism was being used to silence legitimate criticism of Israeli policies, namely “Israel’s occupation of Palestine.”^[39] Adbusters also pointed out that the Canadian Jewish Congress has itself been the target of complaints by Jewish Canadians, including Naomi Klein, who signed an open letter declaring, “We are appalled by recent attempts of prominent Jewish organizations and leading Canadian politicians to silence protest against the State of Israel. We are alarmed by the escalation of fear tactics.”^[40] Others^[who?] have pointed out that Adbusters was not the first to make the comparison. Some academics, including Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish anti-Zionist political scientist, have also compared Gaza to the Warsaw ghetto.

  The pictures of the Warsaw ghetto were obtained from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum a year and a half before their use and were provided for a one-time use only.^[36] When advised of the use, the museum sent Adbusters a cease and desist letter demanding that the photos be immediately removed from Adbusters’ website.^[41] It was later discovered that the images used by Adbusters were in the public domain and/or not owned by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The confusion resulted from the fact that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has pictures on file that they do not own the copyright to, but merely provide access.

  …

  Now, there are many other examples of their anti-jewish bent. Here’s one. And, again.
  So, the question becomes, then, why are the press ignoring the obvious holes in the story line? Well, that, I suppose, is the heart of this sub-post. Limbaugh:

  And of course they’re getting serious treatment from some news organizations. One thing. Note that it is reported they are everywhere, except Washington. They’re in New York, they’re all over the place, but they are staying away from Washington. Why, when they have all these problems with capitalism and so forth, why are they not in Washington where all these decisions are actually made? And the reason is, of course, that they got no problem with what’s going on in Washington with Obama and the Democrats, so they’re going to stay out of there and just spend time in other cities.

  And that’s the first clue. But it gets better. we already discussed over the last few days, the idea that these morons are vocal supporters of Obama. Well, no shock for that. But here’s the thing; the timing involved.

  The left, the supporters of Obama, have been trying… unsuccessfully… to smear the Tea Party for some time now. Apparenly the idea is to try and cast this Adbusters driven thing as a grass roots effort on the part of Obama supporters. Certainly the press has been accommodating that meme because they too dislike the Tea Party because it is in fact a grass roots effort, it’s conservative and apparentlybeyond the ability of the left to control.

  This is an attempt to cast leftists has having grass roots support…. which they simply do not have. (Sigh) As I go to publish, Limbaugh comes up with the same idea:

  RUSH: I don’t think there’s any question, now that I think about it, that the White House is behind Occupy Wall Street. You have unions involved, you have MoveOn.org involved. You have the Communist Party USA pushing this thing. There’s no question. I think the idea that this is strategically centered and created to look as though there is an effervescent, spontaneous bubble-up response to the Tea Party is exactly what this is, and that’s why… (interruption) No, it’s not organic at all. It’s manufactured, and that’s why some in the State-Controlled Media are giving it legitimacy. ‘Cause they hate the Tea Party. They hate the Tea Party for a number of reasons. One reason is that it is organic. They hate the Tea Party because there isn’t a leader.
  They hate the Tea Party because they can’t tie it to the Republicans. They hate the Tea Party because they can’t control it. They hate the Tea Party because the Tea Party is large and they had nothing to do with it, they hate it because it’s independent, and they hate it because it’s conservative. They’ve done everything they can to discredit it by insulting the people who are members of the Tea Party — they’re racists and sexist and all this kind of thing — and it’s not working. So this is the latest effort to make it look like the Tea Party’s so hated and so despised that there is this organic, spontaneous combustion of a movement made up of people who just happen to love Barack Obama and want him to be reelected.

  So in short, the whole thing is a political stunt and cannot be taken seriously… anymore than Obama himself can be.

• SUPPORT GIBSON: I see there’s a rally to support Gibson Guitars, to be held in Nashville. I will guarantee you that this one has far more of grass roots about it than the farce being inflicted upon NYC.
  
• There are no green jobs, Barry. The New York Times, even, admits it:
  

  A $500 million green jobs program at the Department of Labor has so far provided only 15 percent of current participants with jobs, leading the agency’s inspector general to recommend that the bulk of the money be returned to the Treasury.The program, which was funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aims to find employment for almost 80,000 people by providing grants for labor exchange and job training projects. With those grants expiring over the next 15 months, IG officials concluded that the program would fail to come close to that target.

  It’s actually worse than that if you get into the numbers. Most of the jobs were temp jobs, long since having vanished. Only about 1500 people got jobs that lasted longer than 6 months. Typical Obamanomics. Looks impressive until you get into the details. But by then he’s made his political points and has moved on.

Dayton, NJ– I’m taking a rest break. From here I’ll head to Queens, NY, Scranton, PA and Albany,NY. Cooler the last few days, and nice driving weather. Missing my wife and kids, though.

• Banned for having a firm grip on reality: Hank Williams Jr. has been banned from ESPN’s Monday Night Football opener because he compared a golf match between the President and the Speaker of the House as the same as Hitler playing golf with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Always did Like ol Bosephus. But apparently, while comparing Hitler to a Republican is acceptable, (say, Bush, for example) comparing him to a Democrat is not.
• Another Tax: If you use a debit card, you’ll be paying more. Obama yet again.
• As If We Didn’t Know This Was coming: Wall Street Protestors urge re-election of Obama. But, let’s put some perspective on this…. have you been watching Twitter? Check out some of the posts by these morons. Idiocy on parade. Why would we NOT expect them to be behind Obama?
• There’s that word, again: US Factory Orders Fell “Unexpectedly” in August. Look, gang, given the confidence numbers we’re seeing, that’s not unexpectedly at all. Indeed, things getting better would be unexpected. What it is is the White House analysts getting caught trying to put a positive spin on the train wreck that is Obamanomics.  Apparently their efforts to create their own reality are still failing.

Glen Cove, NY– I’m out on Long Island. Same ol’ Same Ol’. Buit of rain out here today, but not much. Supposed to be nicer midweek.

My truck is back and repaired. All new drive tires..(8 of ’em) new shocks, brakes, etc. I love it; It handles like a new truck.

• Missing the obvious: I notice the mega-moron, Rosanne Barr is at it again.  She says we should behead the rich if they don’t give up their wealth.  I mean, name your socialist… Stalin, Mao, Hitler, we’ve heard it all before. What apparently she doesn’t remember, or at least would prefer YOU don’t remember… is that she is far from poor. Should we remove her head? I’ve got news for ya, Rosie… you’re the first one they’ll be coming for after you get them into power.
• Wall Street:  The Comments of course were intended to show socialist solidarity with the Wall Street protestors. But I wonder if she knows who she’s dealing with? Look at the picture on this article over at OTB. Note the spelling on the signs.  Notice that none of the commentors have mentioned it. Perhaps not having noticed the problem, themselves. Perhaps birds of a feather after all, eh? Look, gang, at the bottom line… Greed doesn’t violate my rights. Theft, which is what these people are demanding, does. (nod to Billy)
• Rick Perry and the Hunter’s Stone: Hey, so-called main-stream media: Don’t confuse us with exploding debt, joblessness, inflation and the stories about corruption within the Obama administration.  We should be hearing about the painting on the stone. That’s by far more important, right?

President Barack Obama, a/k/a Dumbo,  continues to so what he does best, flat out lie,from Jennifer Epstein, Politico:

“We believe in a big America, a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America,” Obama told the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner in Washington, where he advocated a society where people are respected, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

“We don’t believe in a small America. We don’t believe in the kind of smallness that believes that a stage full of political leaders — one of whom could end up being president of the United States — being silent when an American is booed,” Obama said, referring to the jeers that came from the crowd at a Republican presidential debate last month after a gay soldier asked a question from Iraq.

We can not be for human rights unless we respect the right of those of us yet to be  born.  Dumbo does not.    Background, Jill, Pundit & Pundette.     Mr. President,. you can not have your Big America, until you mind the room in your heart to protect the rights and the lives of the smallest Americans.

The Unhinged Mind, Glenn Greenwald pondered, from Salon:

It’s unsurprising that establishment media outlets have been condescending, dismissive and scornful of the ongoing protests on Wall Street. Any entity that declares itself an adversary of prevailing institutional power is going to be viewed with hostility by establishment-serving institutions and their loyalists. That’s just the nature of protests that take place outside approved channels, an inevitable by-product of disruptive dissent: those who are most vested in safeguarding and legitimizing establishment prerogatives (which, by definition, includes establishment media outlets) are going to be hostile to those challenges. As the virtually universal disdain in these same circles for WikiLeaks (and, before that, for the Iraq War protests) demonstrated: the more effectively adversarial it is, the more establishment hostility it’s going to provoke

Barbara O’Brien, Mahablog:

Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand, reeks of the usual crowd of juvenile attention-seekers who protest for the sake of protesting. Their “demands” (which, they are careful to say, are not really demands, just ideas) are a grocery list of feel-good sentiments, not a call to action.

[…]

Occupy Wall Street doesn’t actually have an official agenda, other than how they want to formulate an agenda. I’m serious. They plan to hold “people’s assemblies” someday to decide what they want to demand.

I cannot tell you how weary I am of this kind of pretentious shit. I’ve seen it at too many liberal/progressive gatherings over the years. Somebody comes up with some too-precious gimmick that’s going to change the world, and they whip up a little enthusiasm for it for about ten minutes, and then everyone loses focus and goes home.

Hat tip:   Donald Douglas, American Power.

Even Barbara O’Brien can not find a cause in the Occupy Wall Street stunt.   Time for the protesters to go home and get a real job.

more, video:

Hat tip video and more: Jammie Wearing Fool, Human Events:

In the event you’ve been busy leading a productive life and haven’t noticed a motley bunch of human debris protesting in Lower Manhattan? the past couple of weeks, this loosely-knit band of miscreants have been railing about capitalism and the evils of Wall Street or something. They apparently want to see the end of our current financial system in order for it to be replaced with some Utopian Shangri-La where everyone chips in and we all live in harmony.

Not that would expect these human walking piles of dung to actually be able to figure this out, but prosperity is the ability to consume commodities.

A viable economic system is one where people both willing produce and consume commodities. This human excrement in intent on only consuming commodities and not producing them.

Immigration enforcement works

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) – Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state’s tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.

Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home this week, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities.

There are no precise statewide numbers. But several districts with large immigrant enrollments — from small towns to large urban districts — reported a sudden exodus of children from Hispanic families, some of whom told officials they would leave the state to avoid trouble with the law, which requires schools to check students’ immigration status.

If you do not reward illegal immigrants, they will not stay.  Did Alabama’s former problems just become your state’s problem?   If so, contact your elected representative, and demand action.

Banking reform, Dodd-Frank does not, from William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Dodd-Frank should have made everything free, including lunch

The government should have just taken over the banking sector, so we could avoid things like this, The End Of Free Checking?

Spare from the good intentions of libtarded politicians

Dumb chick confuses photo-op for shopping trip from Julie Mason, Politico:

Life can be tough in the White House bubble, especially for the Obamas, who have at times reported feeling isolated in what former President Bill Clinton called “the crown jewel of the American penal system.”

If you’re first lady Michelle Obama, sometimes you just need a Target run.

“One thing she loves to do is shop at Target,” President Barack Obama said of his wife Friday in an interview with Philadelphia radio personality Michael Smerconish.

Our double secret agent, has the rest of the story, from Cripes Suzette:

This story is showing in my  feed burner as published in more than 1400 locations. I don’t think  this was staged at all. I always push an empty cart around while carrying my purchases in plastic bags and my purse strap is slipping off of my shoulder. Don’t you?

Suzette has the photographs that Politico buried.

Where no (sane) blogger has dared to go before, from Ann Althouse:

The Brooklyn police officer “pointed at my outfit and said, ‘Don’t you think your shorts are a little short?'”

“He also stopped two other women wearing dresses… pointed at their dresses and said they were showing a lot of skin.”

He said that such clothing could make the suspect think he had “easy access”…. She said the officer explained that “you’re exactly the kind of girl this guy is targeting

The problem with gender feminists is that they insist on living in a world that simply does not exist. In the universe of Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, women could wear belts, which were called skirts, and no man would be criminally aroused.  Alas Star Trek was fiction and characters were expendable.

Anwar al-Awlaki dead of unnatural causes, to wit one Predator missile.  from the Unhinged Mind, Glen Greenwald, Salon:

It was first reported in January of last year that the Obama administration had compiled a hit list of American citizens whom the President had ordered assassinated without any due process, and one of those Americans was Anwar al-Awlaki. No effort was made to indict him for any crimes (despite a report last October that the Obama administration was “considering” indicting him). Despite substantial doubt among Yemen experts about whether he even has any operational role in Al Qaeda, no evidence (as opposed to unverified government accusations) was presented of his guilt. When Awlaki’s father sought a court order barring Obama from killing his son, the DOJ argued, among other things, that such decisions were “state secrets” and thus beyond the scrutiny of the courts. He was simply ordered killed by the President: his judge, jury and executioner. When Awlaki’s inclusion on President Obama’s hit list was confirmed, The New York Times noted that “it is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for an American to be approved for targeted killing.”

Kenneth Anderson, Volokhf Conspiracy:

US citizenship?  What difference, if any, does being a US citizen make? The fact of US citizenship is the factor in this situation that has most excited the blogosphere.  Insofar as Al-Aulaqi was targeted for taking operational part in groups engaged in armed conflict with the United States, historically the fact of citizenship has been neither here nor there.  That’s the easy answer — essentially just asserting the existence of the armed conflict like any other — and as a legal basis for targeting, I think the US government is on solid ground if that’s its claim.  And to reiterate what is said above, the US government has been very careful to rely not upon “internet preacher shooting his mouth off,” but instead on distinct operational roles.  (To be perfectly clear: I myself believe there will eventually be cases of incitement to killing and participation over the internet by radical jihadist preachers that will raise the question of targeting on the basis of incitement alone, and my own view is that there are circumstances where that will be justified, including some who will be US citizens — and in the US government’s view, this is not, repeat not, that case.)

Enemy combatants are legitimate targets of war.    Ask any member of the Army of Northern Virginia.   May Al-Aulaqi enjoy his seventy-two virgins.

Have no regrets death of enemy combatants in the global battlefield.  I do regret that the Obama administration seems to prefer killing enemy combatants than reading them their rightss, or gleeming any intelligence from them.

Janeane Garofalo is a stupid twit, via Real Clear Politics:

“Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican party. Conservative movement and tea party movement, one in the same.

“People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man.'”

Video at the link.

Hat tip: Karen Lonely Conservative.

Anybody who can get inside B.J. Clinton’s OODA loop deserves some support, video:

Hat tip: Nice Deb

And unlike Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, B.J. can actually think on his feet. Lord knows what Dumbo studied in college.  Cain studied, and learned math.  It shows.