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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Caught on Tape: Obama Admits to Stealing Ideas from Jonathan Gruber
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/17/2014 17:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama said, “”You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally, people ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice.”

MSM outrage in 5.. 4... where did they all go? Hello?
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/17/2014 17:23 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Warren-Franken 2016! Sez Dem Strategist
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/17/2014 15:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hoping the 'American People are Stupid' agenda still works.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/17/2014 15:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Im hoping that is the ticket for the Dems. Even a feeb Publicity-Whore like McCain or a wimp RINO like Romney could win against that ticket.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/17/2014 15:41 Comments || Top||

#3  To paraphrase NR's 2004 cover featuring Howard Dean, 'Please Nominate This Woman!'
Posted by: Raj || 11/17/2014 15:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Nothing these people do would surprise me.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/17/2014 15:55 Comments || Top||


Online retailers selling Obama's APEC look
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Online retailers in China are using U.S. President Barack Obama
If you like your coverage you can keep it...
's photo snapped in last weeks APEC summit to sell traditional Chinese outfits.

As per APEC custom, world leaders assembled in front of the international press posing in the host country's traditional garb.

As the summit was held in Beijing, leaders such as Obama, Russia's President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
and New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key donned traditional Chinese outfits.

The ensembles garnered a lot of attention, especially in China where online retailers were offering similar outfits ranging from $27 to $797, according to Vocative news website.

One shop vendor said he received more than 20 orders when photos of the leaders emerged, adding that more orders were made by 'curious' customers.
Posted by: Fred || 11/17/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chicom outfits seem apropos on "O."
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/17/2014 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2  It's no surprise that Obama donned this costume. But they must have Putin by the short hairs to have gotten him into it.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/17/2014 11:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Man dresses.
Posted by: Gramp Bluetooth9588 || 11/17/2014 12:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, looks like Dad was right when he thru out my Nehru jacket. He said they'd be back and I'd do something stupid.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/17/2014 12:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I hate solids.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/17/2014 13:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Darth Zero....
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/17/2014 17:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Heh, BP! Make a great Halloween costume if you wanted to go as a slightly gay Star Trek character.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/17/2014 17:46 Comments || Top||

#8  traditional Chinese Mao outfits.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/17/2014 18:12 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
White House taunts GOP on climate change: 'I don't believe they can stop us'
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/17/2014 17:49 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He even called out incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell by name, saying the Kentucky Republican will not succeed in trying to slow executive action on global warming.

He is really trying to pull the country down with him, isn't he?
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/17/2014 17:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep Darth, that he is. He's trying to force an impeachment show to declare himself a martyr and instigate riots on a massive scale.

I think he should be, sort of, accommodated. Impeach and or remove all of the lackeys in the cabinet that have aided his tyranny and keep the whole regime in congressional court for the next two years.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/17/2014 19:50 Comments || Top||

#3  saying the Kentucky Republican will not succeed in trying to slow executive action on global warming

Which executive? This one or the next?
Posted by: gorb || 11/17/2014 20:13 Comments || Top||

#4  The thing that amazes me is that Boehner & McConnell don't seem to get genuinely pissed off about these statements, as this is the second or third of its kind in the past week. I'd want to rip off some heads & shit down some throats if that cocksucker talked smack like that to me.
Posted by: Raj || 11/17/2014 20:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Republican Wave Missed California
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/17/2014 09:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Republican Wave crashed against a growing Immigrant Cliff.

It feels like all 11 million illegal aliens undocumented democrats live in Kalifornia.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/17/2014 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Too many Mexicans and New Yorkers live here now. It's a far cry from the state that gave us Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. This is why I am so adamantly opposed to amnesty and illegal immigration. I've seen close up what can happen.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/17/2014 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Silver lining: the Dem super majority in the CA Legislature was dismantled in this last election, so the Dems all out attempt to jack property taxes has now been very much complicated
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/17/2014 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Missed the Soviet of Hawai'i, too. Donk sweep, though some races closer than usual.
Posted by: Glaigum Crumble9361 || 11/17/2014 12:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Kalifornia is beyond salvation.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/17/2014 13:06 Comments || Top||

#6  See ethnic/class cleansing does work.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/17/2014 15:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Kalifornia is beyond salvation.

Coming to a state near you.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/17/2014 16:07 Comments || Top||

#8  The states near me are Texas, Mississippi & Arkansas...
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/17/2014 16:53 Comments || Top||


GOP tide swamped statehouses
[PHILLY] The wave was even bigger than it looked on the networks' election-night maps.

Republicans picked up so many seats in state legislatures that the party will control 68 of the nation's 98 partisan chambers come January - the most since 1920, a time of flappers, bathtub gin, and the Model T.

They'll have legislative control in 30 states, to 11 for the Democrats. Counting Republican governors, the GOP will dominate the governments of 24 states (to six for Democrats).

By one calculation, that means about 48 percent of the U.S. population will live in states where Republicans can drive their agenda without significant Democratic opposition.

After the 2010 midterms, a not-quite-as-big year of wins for Republicans, the GOP used sizable majorities in state legislatures to own the redistricting process, as well as to push voter ID laws, restrictions on abortion rights, and antiunion measures. In Michigan - birthplace of the auto industry, scene of early battles of the labor movement - Republicans were able to enact a right-to-work law.

In Pennsylvania, of course, there was a quirk in the Nov. 4 wave. Republicans increased their majorities in the state House and Senate, with more conservative members - even as the party's governor, Tom Corbett, was losing by 9.7 percentage points.

Democrats had touted their chance of taking the Senate in Harrisburg - but ended up losing three seats, and will face a 30-20 GOP majority in January. In the House, Republicans gained eight seats, and their majority - 119 of 203 members - will be the largest either party has enjoyed there since 1958.
Posted by: Fred || 11/17/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But will they actually use it?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2014 2:51 Comments || Top||

#2  No. That interferes with reaching across the aisle and compromising.
Posted by: Woodrow Stalin1308 || 11/17/2014 5:43 Comments || Top||

#3  I really think this is the GOP's last chance to avoid the fate of the nineteenth century Whigs.

If they screw this up, they'll be a rump party in no more than ten years, probably less.
Posted by: charger || 11/17/2014 17:17 Comments || Top||


How surprising: Obama just now learned about the Jonathan Gruber story
Posted by: Chaiting Wholump3554 || 11/17/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama’s also assuming everybody is stupid — but it’s nice to know where Gruber gets that attitude from.

Everyone except ValJar, Rice, Holder, and other members of his shadow gov't.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/17/2014 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama doesn't attend meetings. And Michael Jordan says he is still a bad golfer.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 11/17/2014 1:17 Comments || Top||


#4  My advice is distance yourself from Jon Gruber, he's big trouble for you and the regime. If someone discovers he was connected to Axelrod, involved in either election or he has e-mails from Lois Lerner, you're in monkeydoo.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/17/2014 6:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Is lying one of the essential functions of a job in this administration?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/17/2014 7:27 Comments || Top||

#6  We hear about all the briefings Obama doesn't go to. This is so, if someone says something he doesn't want to know about, he can't hear it.
The CIA doesn't do plausible denyability at this level of quality.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/17/2014 8:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Seems the President has either memory issues or truth issues.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/17/2014 8:48 Comments || Top||

#8  I think his memory's just fine. He's just a bald-faced liar
Posted by: Frank G || 11/17/2014 10:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows Champ lies about everything. Sadly, many dont care as long as the checks show up, or it furthers their idea of paradise for the workers through the ownership of fhe means of production by the proletariat. Oh wait, are the mainstream democrat elites that obvious now? I think so.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/17/2014 11:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Maybe he just wasn't paying attention.
Posted by: Fred || 11/17/2014 11:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Back in the 80s there was a SNL skit in which Reagan was a super-genious micromanaging everything and playing a dufus whenever anyone walked in.

Makes me laugh to think of Biden pulling that same stunt with Obama as the figurehead who learns about his own policies on the news.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/17/2014 14:18 Comments || Top||

#12  This SNL skit, rjschwarz?
Posted by: gorb || 11/17/2014 14:54 Comments || Top||

#13  Good to know Justice Roberts is there defending the Constitution.
Posted by: gorb || 11/17/2014 14:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Jonathan Gruber and Obamacare undone by the ‘stupid’ people
[Wash Times] It’s the smug, arrogant, elitist attitude heard around the world. In MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber’s case, you can hear his attitude even before he enters a room. For the man who describes the American people as stupid, either directly or in some variation, with his comments captured now on multiple videotapes, Mr. Gruber seems to be proving that he has an issue with projection. Yet if you relied on the mainstream media, you would have a hard time learning about the inside story from one of the law’s architects.
Another great piece by Bruce.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/17/2014 06:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dr Gruber has made, by my estimate, about $6 mil off of this, is a tenured professor at MIT, and gets to live comfortably among people who think he did the right thing. I'm thinking he doesn't care. (There's all those reports he cranked out for various states for $400k a pop...)
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/17/2014 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Dr. Grubber's attitude is one that is widely held by the leftwing Donks from all that I can tell.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/17/2014 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Gruber's attitude is typical of Progressives.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/17/2014 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Dr. Grubber's

I see what you did, JohnQC. ;-)
Posted by: gorb || 11/17/2014 10:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Back in '92 I was working for an engineering company in Cambridge, Mass. My co-workers and I frequented the on campus pub at MIT. I got thrown out. A young female at the table next to me commented on my Southern accent so I told her I was from Alabama. She asked what I was doing in Camridge and when I told her she asked me what school I had attended. I said Auburn University and she said it must not be much of a school as she had never heard of it. I said we didn't think too much of MIT at Auburn because, "Ya'll don't even have a football team". I got tossed out.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/17/2014 10:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Thrown out of a pub in Cambridge Mass? Should definitely be a first page resume entry.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/17/2014 10:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Shades of "Good Will Hunting"...
Posted by: Raj || 11/17/2014 10:54 Comments || Top||

#8  A young female at the table next to me commented on my Southern accent

Deacon: Some people think such accents are charming.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/17/2014 12:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Here 'ya go Deacon.


Full size available at flick suitable for framing or lining birds cage.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/17/2014 12:43 Comments || Top||

#10  Love it Ship.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/17/2014 12:52 Comments || Top||

#11  More. Also check out Dear Professor: Obamacare never fooled me by S. Canto at the bottom of the article at American Thinker.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/17/2014 13:20 Comments || Top||

#12  Jonathan Gruber is just another goober from Cambridge
-- Howie Carr
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/17/2014 18:07 Comments || Top||

#13  In Cambridge a young female commenting on any aspect of a young man's behavior or appearance is more likely setting him up for a kill. Think Shark Tank.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/17/2014 18:09 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2014-11-17
  New U.S.-led strikes on Syria's Kobane
Sun 2014-11-16
  Islamic State claims it has beheaded US hostage Kassig
Sat 2014-11-15
  Over 35 wounded in Druze vs. Muslim Arabs clashes in northern Israel
Fri 2014-11-14
  IS, Al Qaeda affiliate reportedly unite to fight US-backed rebels in Syria
Thu 2014-11-13
  At Least 33 Dead In Yemeni Clashes, US Drone Kills 7
Wed 2014-11-12
  Syria Kurds 'Recapture' Areas of Kobane from IS
Tue 2014-11-11
  US Drone in Northwest Pakistan Kills 6 Militants
Mon 2014-11-10
  Key ISIS recruiter killed by Iraqi forces near Baiji, Iraq
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  Fate of 'critically wounded' ISIS chief unclear
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  22 ISIL terrorists killed in Beji
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  'Drone' Strikes kill 20 Qaida Suspects in Yemen
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  Air strikes on LI bases leave 13 dead


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