Posts Tagged ‘Communism’
Friday, October 10th, 2014
Another Friday, another LinkSwarm. I think i may have to stop watch Houston Texans games for the sake of my health…
The American MSM may be reluctant to tell the truth about Obama’s many manifest failures, but UK’s Telegraph isn’t.
Most Americans see Obama as a failure.
I’m shocked, shocked to discover that the IRS is auditing the producer of an anti-ObamaCare movie.
One in five Americans will have medical bills in collections this year. Thanks, ObamaCare!
How do you know your foreign policy sucks? When even Jimmy Carter is dissing it. And he’s right!
Even Piers Morgan calls Obama’s governance as marked by “lethargy and complacency.”
Why Harry Reid is attacking Koch: Big money Democratic donors will spend more in North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa than all RNC spending across the country combined.
Democrats 2014 = Republicans 2006.
Democrats pull out all the stops to save Kay Hagen’s North Carolina senate seat. If she wins, I’m sure her family will appreciate the opportunity for more graft in the coming years…
Michael Barone says that trends, with so many Democratic incumbents still polling below 45%, indicate the Harry Reid-controlled Senate is still toast. “Rewind back five years: The Obama Democrats expected their major policies to be popular. They expected that most voters would be grateful for the stimulus package, for Obamacare, for raising the tax rate on high earners. They aren’t.”
Obama slams billionaires while attending while attending fundraiser at the home of billionaire Rich Richman. Yes, that’s his real name. If I put that in a novel, editors would reject the symbolism as too heavy-handed…
Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Grimes won’t even admit to voting for Obama.
While the New York Times has gotten around to talking abut American children dying from Enterovirus D68, they’re still refusing to talk about how Obama’s illegal alien influx might have helped bring it here. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Michael Totten reports from SE Asia: “Sweden is more socialist than Vietnam.” Except for the stupid propaganda loudspeakers…
Philadelphia’s deeply indebted public school system actually cancels it’s contract with the teacher’s union. “The move, in which the Philadelphia School Reform Commission invokes emergency powers, comes after the teachers’ union spent more than a year resisting concessions that the commission was seeking even though rising personnel costs have crippled the budget.” How crippling? “The schools’ budget projects spending $44,100 a year in benefits for every $68,700 in wages earned by the average teacher.”
NYC School therapist helps handicapped student launch successful Kickstarter. Reward? 30 day suspension.
John Kerry spent Wednesday consulting with allies on ISIS and Ebola. Ha, just kidding! He toured a wind turbine.
Islamic State supporters threaten to behead U.S. soldiers in Iraq. And by “soldiers” I mean “elementary school children” and by “Iraq” I mean “Rhode Island.”
Remember when Bill Clinton ginned up an “epidemic” over a dozen random church burnings? Boko Haram has torched 185.
Brett Easton Ellis on Generation Wuss.
Iranian professor jailed for associating with “known Zionists.” Like Noam Chomsky. To Islamists, not even an actual hatred of Israel is enough to remove the taint of your Jewishness…
“That’s 21st-century U.S. politics in miniature: a half-assed listicle penned by a half-bright celebrity and published by a gang of abortion profiteers.”
Top aide to Al Sharpton and boyfriend of top De Blasio adviser in trouble with the law? Inconceivable!
An inside view of feminist groupthink and #GamerGate from a former social justice warrior.
Random meme pic I made:
Random Twitter exchange with Michael Quinn Sullivan:
BattleSwarm extends best wishes for a speedy recovery to Borepatch, who wiped out on his motorcycle to the tune of “7 broken ribs, a broken collar bone, and a bruised lung.” Ouch…
Tags:#GamerGate, Al Sharpton, Alison Grimes, Bill De Blasio, Brett Easton Ellis, Communism, Enterovirus, feminism, Illegal Aliens, Iran, Israel, Jews, Jihad, Jimmy Carter, John Kerry, Kay Hagan, Kentucky, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, Michael Barone, Michael Quinn Sullivan, Michael Totten, North Carolina, Obama, Philadelphia, Piers Morgan, Rhode Island, Rich Richman, unions, Vietnam
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Friday, July 25th, 2014
Time for another random roundup of news and links:
“Jimmy Carter looks like frickin’ Bismark next to the feckless dorm-room intellectual currently haunting the golf courses of the greater DC area.”
Even Thomas “What’s The Matter With Kansas” Frank calls Obama “ineffective and gutless.” (Warning: Salon Liberal Whining Ahead.)
Liberal law professor Lawrence Tribe thinks that ObamaCare is probably doomed due to the Halbig decision. “I cannot see how this Court could do anything other than decide the same way as the DC Circuit did. The statue is clear on its face.”
Even “ObamaCare Architect” MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber said the same thing back in 2012: “What’s important to remember politically about this is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits.”
Mark Steyn on the Halbig ruling:
As to Mr Earnest’s point on “what Congress intended”, who can say? No Congressman who voted for the bill read it. Presumably, some legislator’s staffer wrote that actual line about “established by the State”. If we could locate him among the vast entourages of the Emirs of Incumbistan, we could ask him what his “intention” was. Until then, calibrating the competing degrees of deference to a corrupt bureaucracy, a contemptuous executive, a politicized judiciary and a feckless hack legislature brings to mind Samuel Johnson’s line about arguing the precedence of a louse and a flea, with a tick and a cockroach thrown in.
Missing from my Gaza roundup: “Shalom, motherf****r.” “I will not apologize for surviving.” (Hat tip: Josh Perry.)
Bill Whittle makes the case for Israel:
Obama won’t help arm Ukraine because he had a key role in disarming them.
Democrats plans for November: All race card, all the time.
50 years of Democratic rule and now Detroit is cutting off people’s water. “Just goes to show that nothing is so expensive as when it is ‘free.'”
“That’s not funny.”
Republicans should stand firm and let the Export/Import Bank corporate welfare boondoggle expire. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Che Guevara, racist:
Maureen Dowd is never so readable as when she’s slamming the Clintons.
“Canadian Candidate Drops Out After Masturbation Video Surfaces.”
Sarah Palin endorses Joe Carr against Lamar Alexander in Tennessee senate primary. I don’t think anyone who watched Alexander’s “Lamar!” flannel flameout in the 1996 Presidential race has ever really trusted him since…
A New York City cupcake truck seems a little unclear on who their clientele might be. (They’ve since deleted both this tweet and the one where they implored people not to “snitch” to cops when they see crimes committed…)
Evidently nobody is actually reading Thomas Piketty’s book.
In praise of Power Girl’s boob window.
Tags:2014 Election, Bill Whittle, Canada, Communism, Democrats, Detroit, Elections, Export-Import Bank, Foreign Policy, Gaza, Israel, Jihad, Joe Carr, Jonathan Gruber, Lamar Alexander, Lawrence Tribe, liberal racism, Mark Steyn, Maureen Dowd, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, Power Girl, Sarah Palin, Tennessee, Thomas Frank, Thomas Piketty, Ukraine, victimhood, video
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Friday, April 25th, 2014
Pressed for time, so here’s a quick LinkSwarm:
Forgot to include this in the Wednesday roundup: Massachusetts Democrat says that ObamaCare will “bury us”.
The “Obama Recovery” in action: Retail store closings worst since 2009.
12% of Americans are in the top 1%. Wait, what?
Republicans expand Senate map yet again.
Man threatened with federal $525 fine for an 89¢ soda refill.
Things America has that Communist Cuba doesn’t: freedom, human dignity, and soap.
China’s Ghost Cities redux.
Dr. Huey Shen Wu skips to China after thumbing his nose at U.S. courts.
Another day, another 71 killed by Jihadests with a car bomb in Nigeria.
#hashtag. #facepalm
AT&T is trying to shed it’s legacy landline business.
Things I did not know: Whittaker Chambers translated the first English language edition of Bambi.
Tags:2014 Election, China, Communism, Cuba, Dr. Huey Shen Wu, Elections, Ghost Cities, hashtag, Jihad, LinkSwarm, Michael Totten, Nigeria, ObamaCare, technology, Twitter, Whittaker Chambers
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Another roundup of tab-clearing news, much of which got pushed aside by Ukraine updates:
Obama Administration admits that ObamaCare will screw small businesses. (Hat tip: Instapundit.) Why are any Republicans futzing around with any fix but full repeal?
Bobby Jindal: “Obamacare is giving low-income Americans fewer reasons to work.”
How ObamaCare is turning into the Democrats’ own forever war.
Two more congressional Democrats retire.
And that doesn’t count liberal Democratic fossil John Dingell, who’s also retiring after a mere 58 years in office.
And speaking of Michigan Democratic congressman, here’s how Rep. Gary Peters is trying to kill a woman with cancer:
Democrats in denial over ObamaCare unpopularity. Well, those who haven’t retired yet…
How unions and Democratic cronies looted Detroit’s pension plans.
Former Democratic congressman and convicted statutory rapist Mel Reynolds arrested on child pornography charges in Zimbabwe. (You might remember that Bill Clinton pardoned him on the way out the door…)
Deeply incompetent New Orleans Democratic Mayor Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin convicted on 20 federal corruption counts.
NJ’s Democratic Rep. Rob Andrews: The Washington Generals of Legislators.
The top special interest donors contribute to Democrats.
This week in the Democratic Liberal Media Complex Revolving Door.
There are few people liberals hate more than conservative black men.
Ted Cruz is winning.
Food prices continue to soar, yet another sign that inflation figures are significantly understated.
Record numbers of college graduates are living with their parents. Thanks, Obama!
“*Somebody* at Cover Oregon will end up going to jail.”
“The combination of UAW micromanagement and adversarial culture, not wages per se, is what helped to do in GM.”
“The UAW couldn’t even win an election it had been handed on a silver platter by management.”
Venezuela continues to stumble along at a repressive simmer.
Too bad they’re out of toilet paper.
Catholic priest in Venezuela beaten unconscious by socialist state thugs.
Michael Totten points out that Che Guevara is a murderous communist scumbag. Bonus: “Cuba’s maximum wage is less than one percent of America’s minimum wage”
Battle is joined between EUroskeptic UKIP and the EUrophilic Liberal-Democrats.
John Kerry: There’s no room in the religion of global warming for cost-benefit analysis.
UK Leftists want punitive taxes even if they bring in no additional revenue.
Detroit home-owner with an AR pattern rifle 3, stupid thugs trying to break into her home 0.
Portugal decriminalized all drugs 11 years ago. Result? Addiction cut in half, and “Portugal’s drug usage rates are now among the lowest of EU member states.”
“Diversity demands that diversity of opinion not be tolerated anymore.”
“Anti-male misandry, like anti-female #misogyny, is unjust and dangerous.”
Paying attention to the victimhood identity politics crowd, or how to murder your writing career.
Sarah Hoyt further dissects Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America idiocy. She touches on many of the reasons I didn’t renew my membership, the main ones being that SFWA is no longer important enough to be worth fighting for, and was certainly not worth $90 a year in dues.
“Human Resources has been very reluctant to respond to my complaints about being invisibly strangled by a cyborg space wizard.”
One more Tweet:
Tags:Anthropogenic Global Warming, Bill Clinton, Bobby Jindal, Communism, Crime, Democrats, Detroit, Gary Peters, Guns, inflation, John Dingell, John Kerry, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, Mel Reynolds, Michigan, New Orleans, ObamaCare, SFWA, Ted Cruz, UAW, unions, video, Welfare State
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Saturday, February 22nd, 2014
First word came that Yanukovich had left Ukraine for various rumored destinations from Russia to Dubai. Then came word that Yanukovich was denied exit from the country.
But the delight of the day was ordinary Ukrainians touring the abandoned Presidential vacation palace, which such amenities as:
A classic car collection
A private zoo
A gold toilet
An actual galleon (helpfully named GALLEON; this pretty much confirms what we suspected of the vast range of Mr. Yanukovich’s imagination…) floating on an artificial lake.
Some Tweets on the theme:
Also, Russia has a sad.
Tags:Communism, Crime, EuroMaidan, Foreign Policy, fraud, Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko
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Friday, February 21st, 2014
A small update on easing Ukrainian tensions. Lots of details remain to be worked out, and a lot of Euromaidan members aren’t happy with Yanukovych staying through December. But it’s sounding like they were made an offer they couldn’t refuse…
Polish minister to Euromaidan: “Take the deal or you’ll all be dead.”
Ukraine Parliament moves to release opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
Inside Kiev’s makeshift hospital/morgue.
Problems with Ukraine’s economy, and the Russian loan that helped kick off the crisis.
This warms my heart:
There are calls for Ukraine’s Parliament to impeach Yanukovych. I can hardly imagine Yanukovych or Putin taking that lying down…
Tags:Communism, EuroMaidan, Foreign Policy, Kiev, Russia, Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko
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Friday, February 21st, 2014
Early reports indicates that Yanukovych may finally have gotten a clue:
Viktor Yanukovych conceded to the major demands made by protesters, he announced Friday on his website. He had been holding out against their raging street demonstrations for months.
Yanukovych said he has initiated new presidential elections and a return to the old constitution that would cut presidential power, and also form a national unity Cabinet.
Now word is comning down that Euromaidan leadership has signed off on the agreement.
Great news, if it holds.
There are also unconfirmed reports of police either leaving or coming over to Euromaidan. Presumably these are the regular police and not the Berkut riot police.
Now the question becomes: What will Yanukovych’s puppet-master Vladamir Putin do? He met with his security council, and the discussion sounds more than a little ominous:
“Putin emphasized that it is imperative to immediately stop the bloodshed and take urgent measures to stabilize the situation and suppress any extremist and terrorist sorties.”
Is Putin willing to go to war to keep Ukraine is Moscow’s orbit?
Stay tuned…
Tweets
Tags:Communism, EuroMaidan, Foreign Policy, Russia, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin
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Thursday, February 20th, 2014
That happens sometimes, when you try to escape your country’s harsh political bondage, despite the clamps and chains Putin’s police state has forced on dissidents, reformers and lesbians…
(Hat tip: Moe Lane, who doesn’t seem to have realized the glorious keyword trolling possibilities…)
Tags:Communism, Pussy Riot, Russia, Sochi Olympics, video, Vladimir Putin
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Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
A truce has been declared between Euromaiden and Yanukovych’s forces. This is good news, as it means there’s fierce probably internal resistance in the armed forces to carry out the traditional “slaughter everyone with reach of a machine gun” method of putting down dissent. It may also mean that Putin isn’t quite willing to cross the Rubicon by intervening militarily to prop up his puppet.
Also, Obama finally condemns the violence in Ukraine and threatens vague “consequences” if it gets worse. It’s a start.
I’ve done so much Ukraine reporting today that I think I’ll just put up this short blurb for tonight, unless all hell breaks lose again…
Tags:Communism, EuroMaidan, Foreign Policy, Obama, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin
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