November 2011
Smoking Gun: Document Found That Touched Off the... →
The entire Democrat Party hardest hit:
[In 1994] the federal government declared war on an enemy — the racist lender — who officials claimed was to blame for differences in homeownership rate, and launched what would prove the costliest social crusade in U.S. history. At President Clinton’s direction, no fewer than 10 federal agencies issued a chilling ultimatum to banks and mortgage...
ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Food CPI and Expenditures →
Overview
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all food increased 0.8 percent between 2009 and 2010 and is forecast to increase 3.5 to 4.5 percent in 2011.
Food-at-home prices increased 0.3 percent, the lowest annual increase since 1967, while food-away-from-home prices rose 1.3 percent in...
“Steven Greenhut: Rural rebellion brewing”
– Steven Greenhut: Rural rebellion brewing | county, rural, state - Opinion - The Orange County Register
WatchAnthony Weiner Penis Photo Impresses Barbara Walters (VIDEO)
This is, without a doubt, the best television moment of the day.
On Thursday’s “The View,” the ladies were discussing—what else?—THAT Anthony Weiner photo. Joy Behar pronounced herself skeptical as to whether or not the penis in the photo belonged to Weiner, since his face could not be seen.
...
On FOIA, Obama wants a license to lie | Examiner... →
It’s not often that the liberal American Civil Liberties Union and conservative Judicial Watch agree on anything, but the Obama administration’s lack of transparency has brought the two together. Obama’s Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the government could falsely respond to those who...
Sheriff: Time For Citizens To Arm Themselves -... →
Sheriff Chuck Wright Doesn’t Hold Back
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. — The Spartanburg County Sheriff is known for speaking his mind, and at a news conference on Monday, he didn’t hold back his anger and frustration after a woman was attacked in a park over the weekend.
Investigators said 46-year-old Walter Lance grabbed a woman who was walking her dog in Milliken Park on Sunday...
O'Reilly Sued For Sex Harassment - CBS News - 2009 →
*** A Blast from the past.. And guess who didn’t show up for work tonight? Would have liked to hear his take on this as far as Cain is concerned.
(CBS/AP) Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly has been slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit by a female employee who claims the conservative talk-show host repeatedly subjected her to sexual harassment through dinner and phone ...
The Region: Why Obama can't tame the ... JPost -... →
Western leaders fail to understand the radical nature of Islamism.
Photo by: REUTERS/Jamal Saidi
Many people find it hard to comprehend what the Obama administration thinks it’s doing in the Middle East. One liberal friend of mine has called my analysis “mind reading.” But it’s really very simple if you know the history of the arguments, read the speeches and documents of Obama...
Cain details gesture that led to sex accusation |... →
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain for the first time has offered a detailed recollection of what led an employee of the National Restaurant Association to lodge a sexual harassment charge against him when he was CEO of the organization.
Cain spoke in response to detailed questioning from Fox News’ Greta van Susteren, who led Cain through the facts of the case in an extended ...
October 2011
Roger L. Simon » Politico and Cain: Return of the... →
It took the mainstream media nearly a year to catch up with the John Edwards Affair, but only weeks into Herman Cain’s narrow frontrunner status for the GOP nomination, the goodfellas at Politico are letting the uppity black conservative have it.
They begin their “Exclusive: Two women accused Herman Cain of inappropriate behavior” this way:
During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the...
Obama Can Create Millions of Jobs, but Won’t | The... →
President Obama is traveling the country pretending he’s not campaigning and that he only wants Republicans to cooperate with him in his Quixotic campaign to create jobs for America.
And yet, what is he really doing? Promoting a jobs bill that has no chance of passing Congress but and excellent chance of making some people think Republicans hate teachers, firefighters and similar salts of...
CURL: The very angry first lady Michelle Obama -... →
Michelle’s back, and she’s madder than ever. She was already pretty angry, seemingly unhappy with just about everything. As her husband wrapped up the Democratic nomination in 2008, she let fly her real feelings: “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country.” A few months into her job as first lady, her French counterpart asked how she liked the gig: “Don’t ask!”...
Cain's Former Secretary: This Is Not the Herman... →
Former staffers call sexual harassment allegations unbelievable.
Presidential candidate Herman Cain’s campaign has been rocked by a Politico report that revealed Cain was accused of sexual harassment by two female employees during his stint at the National Restaurant Association. Cain told Fox News this morning that he has “never sexually harassed anyone” but confirmed that he was...
Cain responds to sex harassment allegation |... →
by Byron York Chief Political Correspondent
In this photo provided by CBS News, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain appears on CBS’s “Face the Nation” in Washington Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)
Herman Cain’s campaign headquarters has released a response to a story, broken this evening on Politico, that in the 1990s two female...
“GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares dip, dollar hits record low vs yen”
– GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares dip, dollar hits record low vs yen | Reuters
99% or 1%: Buttons Make a Statement | Busy Beaver... →
Democrat or Republican, Cubs or White Sox, kittens or puppies— we make buttons for them all. We try to keeps things non partisan here at Busy Beaver, so when we decided to create commemorative buttons for the nationwide Occupy Wall Street rallies, we knew we needed to represent both sides. Take a look:
Are you part of the 99%? Then these limited edition, glow in the dark 99% buttons are for...
Super Committee Dems Propose Massive Tax Increases →
Democrats in the Senate Super Committee released its list of proposals to reduce the deficit, and it unsurprisingly includes over one trillion dollars in new taxes. ABC reports, “Democrats have proposed a framework for the Super Committee that multiple aides confirm is around $3 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade through a cocktail of cuts to entitlements, including...
ClimateGate Redux: Co-Author of Seminal Climate... →
The scamtabulous theory of warmal colding hardest hit:
It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’. Professor Richard Muller, of Berkeley University in California, and his colleagues from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures...
Member of Saudi Royal Family Offers $900,000 to... →
Not to be outdone by a Saudi Muslim cleric’s offer of $100,000 last week, a Saudi prince is raising the ante to a cool million for the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.
Saudi Prince Khaled bin Talal (al-Wattan TV via Palestine News Network)
According to Ynet, Saudi Arabia’s Prince Khaled bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud said on Saturday that he would award $900,000 to anyone who abducts an...
Atheists' billboard quote isn't Jefferson's | The... →
A billboard at 1545 Newport Blvd. paid for by Backyard Skeptics features a quote purported to be from Thomas Jefferson against Christianity. Experts at the the Jefferson Library Collection at Monticello say the quotation is spurious.
COSTA MESA – A group of atheists called Backyard Skeptics is planning to unveil a billboard at 1545 Newport Blvd., Wednesday afternoon with a quote from...
James O'Keefe Strips The New York Times Bare... →
Even a casual news consumer knows the long and ugly history of The New York Times. Its wanton dismissal of the Holocaust, for instance, was among the most despicable actions of a free press in American history.
…at the end of [World War II] and for decades afterward, Americans claimed they did not know about the Holocaust as it was happening. How was it possible for so much information...
White House White Wash? The Solyndra “Probe” | The... →
The White House announced Friday that President Obama has appointed someone to look into this whole Solyndra matter. But don’t be too impressed.
Solyndra of course is the solar panel maker that took half a billion in federally guaranteed loans and proceeded to go belly up anyway, prompting a Congressional investigation into the incompetence of the loan steering process and whether Obama...
Obama's team banks on his `regular guy' appeal -... →
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama: Mr. Likable.
At least that’s what the president’s advisers hope Americans who are frustrated by the economy and looking for someone to blame will remember when they vote next November.
His team is emphasizing the president’s “regular guy” appeal, putting him in small-town diners, at roadside pit stops and on Jay Leno’s couch....
Huge python in Fla. had eaten a deer - US news -... →
EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — Officials in the Florida Everglades have captured and killed a 16-foot-long Burmese python that had just eaten an adult deer.
Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, said workers found the snake on Thursday. The reptile was one of the largest ever found in South Florida.
Hardin said the python had recently...
How close is your home to a nuclear plant? →
How close is your home to a nuclear power plant?
If a crisis at a nuclear reactor happened in the U.S., could you be living in a danger zone? In a 10-mile radius, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the air could be unsafe to breathe in the event of a major catastrophe. In 50 miles, food and water supplies may be unsafe.
*** Check yourself out HERE
Americans ‘Hooked on Government’ as Record Number... →
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Political dysfunction is often blamed for Congress’s inability to curb the U.S. budget deficit. An even bigger obstacle may be the American public.
A record 49 percent of Americans live in a household where someone receives at least one type of government benefit, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And 63 percent of all federal spending this year will consist of...
October winter storm 2011: Snow hits New York... →
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 1.5million
Earliest New York City one-inch snowfall since records began
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...
Attack on NATO convoy kills 17 in Afghanistan |... →
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into an armored NATO bus Saturday on a busy thoroughfare in Kabul, killing 17 people, including a dozen Americans, in the deadliest strike against the U.S.-led coalition in the Afghan capital since the war began.
The blast occurred on the same day that a man wearing an Afghan army uniform ...
The Washington Post Just Might Favor Obama For... →
How bad? The Washington Post is so hacktastic here the NYT is relatively fair and balanced by comparison.
Three excerpts on donations from lobbyists, first from the Washington Examiner, then from the NYT, then the Washington Post.
Examiner:
President Obama doesn’t take campaign contributions from lobbyists — unless you count the owners and CEOs of lobbying firms, corporate vice ...
Conservative Black Chick » Blog Archive » Failures... →
When he announced he was running for president, Obama instantly became the news media and Hollywood’s darling, the John F. Kennedy of his generation. But reality is much different than fiction and President Obama may go down in history as having one of the most failed administrations. Despite his poor track record of government spending to heal a sickly America, Obama announced yet another...
BREAKING: Pitched Battle Raging Between Hamas and... →
Dan from New York
We interrupt this Arab Spring to bring you an important message: Rocket fire rocks south; injuries reported
Ynet , 10.29.11, South under fire again in wake of IAF attack in Gaza: Alarm sounds in various southern communities. Man hit by shrapnel in Gan Yavne; rocket hits school courtyard in Ashdod. Second barrage targets residential building, one injured. Islamic Jihad...
“Historic October Snowstorm Hammering Northeast”
– Historic October Snowstorm Hammering Northeast - weather.com
NRA-ILA :: Thank you, Justice Stevens and Mrs.... →
Friday, October 28, 2011
In case any reader of our weekly Grassroots Alert has not decided how to vote in the 2012 presidential election, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and First Lady Michelle Obama have volunteered to help him make up his mind.
Recently, Time magazine asked Stevens what he would fix about the American judicial system. Stevens’ response: ...
Great pumpkin craving art →
More found HERE
Maps of War (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) →
Interesting look at the World we live in
“Major October Snowstorm Targets Northeast”
– Major October Snowstorm Targets Northeast - weather.com
Prince Harry dating California cocktail waitress... →
*** We’re still checking to see which one he’s dating..
SAN DIEGO — Prince Harry has started dating a Californian cocktail waitress, while he is in the US undertaking military helicopter training, according to a source.
The 27-year-old British royal met Jessica Donaldson, a waitress at Andaz Hotel, San Diego, two weeks ago during a night out with his army friends, The Sun...
“Michelle Obama’s warning to gun owners”
– Michelle Obama | Second Amendment | Michelle Obama’s warning to gun owners | The Daily Caller
Al-Qaida plants its flag — literally — in Libya |... →
If there were questions about al-Qaida’s role in post-Gadhafi Libya, VICE reporter Sherif Elhelwa provides some answers in a new story with eyewitness descriptions.
Al-Qaida flags, Elhelwa reports, are popping up around Benghazi. At the city courthouse, which played a prominent role in the Libyan revolution, residents are flying the late terrorist’s Osama bin Laden’s colors.
Similarly,...
Data suggests inflation on the way | The Daily... →
The good news is that the economy grew at a modest 2.5 percent in the last quarter. The bad news is that rapid economic growth in 2012 or 2013 could also prompt bank executives to inadvertently jump-start inflation.
The executives are holding back roughly $1 trillion in funds provided in 2009 by government officials to buy over-valued mortgages from banks and Wall Street firms.
The bank...
“Oil prices lower a day after big gains”
– ***So why is the MSM so quiet on the $4.00 gas? They were all over Pres. Bush when it was 1/2 the price it is now.
Oil prices lower a day after big gains - Yahoo! Finance
Clinging to Their Guns: Firearm Ownership Soars to... →
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.
Isoroku Yamamoto Commander-in-Chief, Imperial Japanese Navy Killed In Action, April 1943
We suspect that Admiral Yamamoto was more right than he could ever know.
As the economy continues its unimpeded fall into depression and uncertainty grips the country, Americans are responding by arming ...
“Pelosi Defends Obamacare Waivers To 1,800 Firms: “They’re Small...”
– ***We are all small in the scheme of things..
VIDEO: Pelosi Defends Obamacare Waivers To 1,800 Firms: “They’re Small Companies” | RealClearPolitics
Samsung Overtakes Apple as World’s Biggest... →
Samsung Electronics Co. overtook Apple Inc. (AAPL) in the last quarter to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor amid a widening technology and legal battle between the two companies.
Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones in the last quarter, taking 23.8 percent of the market, Milton Keynes, U.K.- based Strategy Analytics said in an e-mailed statement today. Apple’s 17.1 million...
Michelle: GOP Would Curb Freedom of Speech,... →
In a chilling appraisal of President Obama’s Republican opposition, First Lady Michelle Obama Thursday suggested a Republican victory in the 2012 presidential election would result in curbs on freedom of speech and religion.
Speaking at a fundraiser at a private residence in Tampa, Mrs. Obama noted the power of the president to appoint members of the Supreme Court. She clearly indicated that...
Gallup: Self-reported gun ownership rises,... →
Skeezeballs and perverts beware: Ladies have access to guns these days, and they aren’t afraid to talk about it.
Self-reported gun ownership is at an all-time high among women, according to Gallup’s annual poll on gun ownership in the United States.
According to Gallup, 43 percent of women report household gun ownership, up from 33 percent in 2009. The poll found that 23 percent of women...
