Saturday, December 29, 2012

Great American Reading List

Some of these links have videos with them, but this computer goes bananas if I paste imbed codes in a post. This issue will be addressed as soon as my new Windows 8 laptop has an email program installed, should that ever happen. TD

Filed under schadenfreude :  ASPCA Pays Circus to Settle Suit  "An animal rights group will pay Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus $9.3 million to settle a lawsuit the circus filed after courts found that activists paid a former circus worker for his help in claiming the circus abused elephants."

Worst Reporters Of Year - The Obamagasm Award!  I prefer Obagasm, but...
"Watching Tingles have an Obamagasm makes me want [to] barf. Blaaaa!!!"

C-SPAN Caller - Can Constitution be Fixed so Obama Runs 3 Terms?  "Unfortunately for the caller, Doherty said, "I don't see any grassroots support to let a president serve a third term." He also answered Lawrence's second question in the negative, telling him he believed chances were "slim" for Democrats to "take the House back." "

Hot Air’s Top 40 for 2012: 31-40 " Every year at this time, we like to look back at our most-read posts and take a trip down Memory Lane. Which topics got the most traction? What really burned up the wires? As one might imagine, the top 40 posts in terms of traffic include a number of election topics, but it wasn’t just the election that kept Hot Air readers riveted in 2012. We’ll take a look over the next few days at the top 40 most-viewed posts, starting with slots 40-31 today:"..

This Is What Teachers Learning to Shoot Guns Look Like  "If only this had been the last thing the Newtown shooter saw before he entered that office and first classroom."  Related:
Video at this link.

The Rainmaker: Occupy Wall Street lawyer in dash for Sandy Hook cash   "An attorney seeking to sue Connecticut for $100 million on behalf of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting survivor who heard Adam Lanza’s murderous rampage on a loudspeaker also serves as the official lawyer for Occupy New Haven, WND has found"
Newtown First Grader Seeks $100 Million Compensation 
His lawyer claims he was traumatized by the sounds over the loudspeaker. I hope this lawyer doesn't get one dime. How many lives were saved because that loudspeaker was turned on to warn students? One more argument for tort reform!
But remember, our president is not only petulant and juvenile but is obtuse as well; French court rejects 75% millionaires' tax  "France’s Constitutional Council on Saturday rejected a 75 percent upper income tax rate to be introduced in 2013 in a setback to Socialist President Francois Hollande’s push to make the rich contribute more to cutting the public deficit."

Catastrophic Obamacare Welcomes in the New Year  "The taxes, such as the insane medical device taxes (on every imaginable device, including canes, wheelchairs, everything), will hit before us before many of the services are launched. (Emphasis added) 
"The taxes were timed to launch after Obama’s re-election.
"It takes 10 years of taxes to pay for six years of services (Obama math).
"This year will begin with the unrolling of the 13,000 pages of rules and regulations which our insurance companies are supposed to instantly figure out. The costs of plowing through this morass of a mess and implementing it will bring premiums up for some by 20%, 30%, 50%, and as much as 100%."

Is it time to consider civil disobedience?  "While I’d like to see millions of tea-party activists back out in the street as we saw in 2010, perhaps we need to do more than hold placards and sing songs. Maybe we need to stage sit-ins like Martin Luther King did. Maybe we need to submit ourselves to arrest by the tens of thousands, overwhelming the injustice system."
This deserves a stand-alone post instead of disappearing into a reading list.

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