Saturday, October 20, 2012

We have always wondered: "What Happens When a Ponytailed Defense Attorney Gets Mugged?"

American Thinker  via Lucianne
"What happens when ponytailed defense attorney Ron Kuby gets mugged?  He screams bloody murder, demands a police crackdown on the alleged assailant, and collaborates with reporters at the New York Daily News to raise the specter of hate crime charges.

...."Ron Kuby is an acolyte of the late, unlamented William Kunstler, who also gloried in springing terrorists and murderers from prison. Kuby and Kunstler infamously raised the defense of "black rage" in the case of Long Island Railroad assassin Colin Ferguson, who murdered six people and injured 19 in 1993.

...."The point of hate crime laws has never been to "oppose hate." These laws are designed to rig the justice system in favor of politically connected minorities. It is therefore unsurprising to find a Ron Kuby wallowing in them, every chance he gets." 

 Check out a bit of Kuby's professional history:
Kuby, with Kunstler, represented Gregory Lee Johnson, a protester who burned a U.S. Flag at the 1984 Republican National Convention; Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric who headed the Egyptian-based militant group Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, accused of planning and encouraging terrorist attacks against Americans; Colin Ferguson, the man responsible for the 1993 LIRR shootings (who chose to represent himself at trial); Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, accused of plotting to murder Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam; Glenn Harris, a New York public school teacher who absconded with a fifteen year-old girl for two months; Darrell Cabey, a youth who was acquitted of assault on Bernard Goetz and successfully sued him for shooting Cabey; Yu Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red Army; and associates of the Gambino Crime Family. During the Gulf War, they represented American soldiers claiming conscientious objector status. They also represented El Sayyid Nosair, assassin of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, whom Kuby's father had admired.

Mark Steyn; Democrats find their issue, in a binder. (Silliness made manifest)

OC Register;  "Republicans still insist on bringing up trivial, peripheral distractions like Benghazi, Obamacare, multitrillion dollar debt, unsustainable entitlements, permanent long-term unemployment, and the looming Jan. 1 “fiscal cliff.” "
Political Cartoons by Chip Bok

"Yes!!!!!!! With one bound, Obama was unbound! Romney had just made the worst presidential-debate gaffe since Gerald Ford declared there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. In the previous weeks, Obama had attempted to have a serious conversation with the citizenry, as befits the electoral process of a mature republic. He had raised the critical questions of our time – free contraceptives for middle-aged coeds, the outrageous right-wing Muppophobic assault on Big Bird – but the public had failed to bite. Now, in one fatal error, Romney had handed him the winning issue: binders!"

Do we really want a party with supporters this silly to govern this country the way they do California?
"The man holding the latter sign explained: “I feel it’s an appropriate term to use towards him…He’s against gay rights. He’s the American Taliban.”
"When Joseph pressed him, saying, “but you’re not going to kill him,” the protester replied: “I’m not going to kill him. I wouldn’t cry if he died…” "

Circular Firing Squad of ‘Christians’ Take Aim at D’Sousa

Jeremy Griffith   ...."Regardless, one has to wonder at the circular firing squad that attacked him so viciously over what many of us as Christians think of as pretty much a non-issue.
"The scandal erupted after former colleagues of his discovered that he ‘might’ be sharing a room at a hotel with a woman who was not his wife. Forget the fact that he has been separated from his wife for two years and is getting a divorce. Forget the fact that the woman he was supposed to have shared the room with is his fiancĂ©. That doesn’t matter in the eyes of the supposed ultra conservative colleagues of his who are no doubt closet libs who are upset at the success of Dinesh’s latest movie criticizing the President of the United States, Barack Obama."



Do You Want More of the Same?

Teresa Wendt
"Who would have believed that Barrack Obama would be using the same speeches, the same words in 2012 that he used in 2008? Were his plans so wondrous that we should continue them on another four years? Or were they so ineffective that instead of accomplishing them in one term he is now begging for more time? (Remember how those ‘shovel ready’ projects were not so shovel ready?)

"Here’s a strong ad comparing Obama’s words as senator to those this year as president. Watching the president singing the same song begs the question, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” One might guess even the president doesn’t think so.
"There’s an election in three weeks. Do you want more of the same?

"Share this with your friends. Remind them that the Obama of 2012 has no new ideas and still believes that his thus far failed programs will work."

Benghazi “Intell” Excuse Unravels; CIA Reported Immediately to White House “Militants Responsible for Attack”

Conservative Daily News  "Did you hear that sound? Yea, it was the other shoe dropping on the White Houses’ “excuse” for Benghazi. In a stunning development, the AP reports today."
"Best timelines of the Benghazi-gate “excuses” have September 14th, as the day the White House goes “all in” with the “video” fairy tale. It is clear to this writer, that the White House, (A)-worried about the Election, (B)- worried about the failed Foreign policy of this Administration, (C)-wanting to tie into the UN Resolution of December 2011 that Rice signed, and lastly (D)-defending the whole overthrow of Libya, concocted this lie about this YouTube video. Carney states, on September 14th, per the McClatchy Report from October 18th 2012,"   Review of the Benghazi timeline in this post.
Hmmm. Looks interesting.

•Having a president who perpetuates a falsehood to the American people about the cause of a terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of four Americans.
•Having a president who uses $70,000 of taxpayers’ money to promote that falsehood on Pakistani television.
•Having a president who broadcasts that falsehood to the world using the megaphone of a speech before the U.N. General Assembly.
•Having a president who repeats the falsehood in front of the caskets of the four Americans killed in Benghazi.
•Having a president who will casually wreak havoc on the life of an obscure video producer to protect that falsehood.
•Having a president who, before a television audience of 65 million Americans, evades answering the question of “who denied enhanced security” to the consulate in Benghazi.
•Having a president who feigns offense at the suggestion his machinations regarding the Benghazi debacle may have a political component.
•Having a president who believes killing bin Laden constitutes a foreign policy.
•Having a president who projects confusion, weakness, and diffidence to our enemies.
•Having a media blind to the fact that this is a titanic scandal.
 By the way, what about this Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, aka "Sam Bacile", who has the Muslim world supposedly outraged and the Obama world grovelling* before them? Here are some links on him.
* Grovel: where Obama bows before the world so low that his knees touch the ground.
"In uploading a trailer for his inflammatory film on YouTube, federal prosecutors say that Nakoula flagrantly violated the terms of his probation. In total, Nakoula committed eight probation violations, including lying to his probation officers and using aliases."

Friday, October 19, 2012

Romney Roasts President Obama, Himself At The Al Smith Dinner

Hot Air sent us this post from Mediaite:
"Romney said he spends the debates finding straw men to mercilessly attack. “Big Bird didn’t even see it coming,” Romney said. “In the spirit of sesame Street, the president’s remarks tonight are brought to you by the letter O and the number $16 trillion.”

"Romney turned to mocking the media for their occasionally favorable coverage of the president.
" “I never suggest the press is biased. They have a job to do and I have a job to do,” said Romney. “My job is to lay out a positive vision for the country, and their job is to make sure nobody finds out about it.” "

Hot Air quotes this tweet from Jake Tapper of ABC: 
 Al Smith IV: President Obama, it's never good when your opponent has produced more sons than you have jobs.

We unleashed Al-Qaeda in Libya when we intervened

Hot Air: McClatchy: Obama admin changed story on Benghazi to blame video 3 days after attack  "Barack Obama insisted in the presidential debate on Tuesday night that he had called the Benghazi attack an “act of terror” in his Rose Garden address the next day. Fact-checkers called shenanigans on that claim, but McClatchy notes that Obama did call it an “act of terror” the next day at campaign stops in Colorado and Nevada on September 13th. On the same day, the State Department refused to link the Benghazi attack to the YouTube video that media outlets like the New York Times and AFP had. Hillary Clinton called it a terrorist attack that evening.
"However, the next day, things began to change, as McClatchy’s Hannah Allam and Jonathan S. Landay report in their in-depth look at how the narrative shifted toward the YouTube video instead of an al-Qaeda attack:"

The McClatchy Article; An excerpt here:
....Yet the statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence failed to clear up how the administration came up with its assertion that the attack was launched during a protest against the video. Issued by a spokesman and not Director of National Intelligence James Clapper himself, the statement made no reference to a protest or the video.
Political Cartoons by Bob Gorrell

"Getting rid of Khadafy basically turned the Benghazi area into an Al-Qaeda stronghold." Rush Limbaugh.

Back to Hot Air, which goes on to say: "The cover story was designed to mislead the American public so that they would not connect those dots. That intervention in Libya, coming with no effort at all to control the outcome on the ground, has made us much less safe, especially in that part of the world.

"By the way, as a measure of how little control Tripoli now has over AQ’s new stomping grounds in the east, the New York Times reports that the prime “suspect” in the Benghazi terrorist attack doesn’t even plan to go into hiding. In fact, he’s doing media sessions:"...

Report: EPA Delaying Job-Killing Regulations to Aid Obama Re-Election

The Foundry 
Barack Obama and Lisa Jackson,
head of the Environmental
 Protection Agency


 "Environmental regulators in the Obama administration “don’t want this economic pain to hit American families just before the election because it would cost President Obama votes,” states the report, released by Environment and Public Works ranking member Jim Inhofe (R-OK) on Thursday, “so they have simply decided to punt, intending to move full speed ahead if they gain a second term.”


The report lists a number of major environmental regulations that are either in their nascent stages or have yet to be implemented. Collectively, those regulations “will destroy millions of American jobs and cause energy prices to skyrocket even more,” Inhofe said in a news release accompanying the report.

 Every day, I brace myself for what I fear this regime is going to do to us next.


Why We Aren’t Producing Enough Domestic Energy; several links on the subject

Heritage  "President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney had a heated exchange about energy in the most recent debate. The President repeated his refrain that oil and gas production is the highest it has been in eight years, but Romney was right to point out that this was driven by production on private and state lands.
"The vast majority of America’s new oil and gas production is happening on private lands in states like North Dakota, Alaska and Texas. The environmental review and permitting process on federal lands, however, is burdensome and keeps resources untapped."
...."How did North Dakota pass Alaska and California to become the second-largest producer of domestic crude oil? Answer: sensible state regulations, advancements in technology, and the ability to drill on private lands.
"In addition to the much-heralded energy security that domestic energy could bring, these efforts produce jobs. North Dakota’s boom has put people to work. The state has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation, at just 3 percent."

"While the president's assertion that "there are no quick fixes to this problem" is correct, three years have passed without a policy response. To date, American producers are limited by several restrictions: the moratorium on several areas of offshore drilling (Alaska, east and west coasts), uncertainty in taxation policies, and energy infrastructure shortfalls."

Federal laws governing energy production  "Most BLM regulations that govern the BLM's oil and gas leasing program may be found in Title 43 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 3100. Under these laws, the BLM has the authority to approve or deny oil and gas leases or to impose environmental restrictions on leases when appropriate. Forest Service oil and gas regulations are found in Title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 228, Section E."

Forbes on the last debate: Did Obama Really Take Away Those Oil Leases?
"Obama let loose with this statement that had me scratching my head."...
....“It’s like you rent an apartment for $20 million and the landlord refuses to give you the keys to it,” said Erik Milito, director of exploration and production at the American Petroleum Institute. “Then he turns around and complains about it.”

Thursday, October 18, 2012

BinderGate? Is this all the Obama people have?

Political Cartoons by Nate Beeler
PJ Media; ‘Binder Derangement Syndrome’: How the Democratic Party Exploits Women 
..."Hence constant appeals are made to the lowest common female denominator in an attempt to terrify single women and soccer moms, etc., that their “reproductive rights” are being violated or someone is about to deprive them of birth control pills or force-feed ultrasounds in their private parts.  
"It’s absurd, if you think about it — but the Democrats don’t want you to. They just want women to feel deprived or manipulated."
Right: Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau at left fondling cardboard Hillary Clinton cutout
CNN's Yellin: Romney's 'Binder' Comments Sounded 'Almost Like' Women Are 'Mail-Order Product' Out of 'Binders'   "Not 24 hours after Tuesday's presidential debate, CNN's Jessica Yellin was working the Obama spin on Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" comment."

Rush Limbaugh holds school on how the liberal media promulgate the Democrat line;
about.com

"Today's tip sheet, talking points that have gone out, focused totally on this binder with the suggestion that women be told they'll be taken back to the Stone Age if Romney and Ryan are elected. 
"If what I saw is correct and applicable, it's already happening, actually.  We see the bloggers start talking about this obscene, ridiculous binder business and what it means, Romney and Ryan, women, barefoot, pregnant, in the kitchen, Stone Age, then the media picks it up and they start doing man-on-the-street interviews about it, they start talking about it.  That's how the process starts.  The whole thing is a giant insult to every woman, except maybe for Gloria Allred.  It's a giant insult." 

Charles Krauthammer; Obama’s bluster and non-response on the Libya question will come back to haunt him.

National Review Online   "The rub for Obama comes, ironically enough, out of Romney’s biggest flub in the debate, the Libya question. That flub kept Romney from winning the evening outright. But Obama’s answer has left him a hostage to fortune. Missed by Romney, missed by the audience, missed by most of the commentariat, it was the biggest gaffe of the entire debate cycle: Substituting unctuousness for argument, Obama declared himself offended by the suggestion that anyone in his administration, including the U.N. ambassador, would “mislead” the country on Libya.

"This bluster — unchallenged by Romney — helped Obama slither out of the Libya question unscathed. Unfortunately for Obama, there is one more debate — next week — entirely on foreign policy. The burning issue will be Libya and the scandalous parade of fictions told by this administration to explain away the debacle."
(Emphasis added)
Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

'If four Americans get killed, it's not OPTIMAL': Obama's extraordinary response to Comedy Central question about fiasco after Benghazi attack

UK Mail   "President Barack Obama, during an interview to be shown on Comedy Central, has responded to a question about his administration's confused communication after the Benghazi attack, by saying: 'If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal.'

"Obama was speaking to Jon Stewart of The Daily Show for a programme to be broadcast tonight. 
"Stewart, a liberal whose young audience is full of potential voters prized by the Obama campaign, asked the president about his handling of the aftermath of the Benghazi attack."
Political Cartoons by Steve Kelley