Robert Stacy McCain Has Written a Book on Feminism!

Sex Trouble: Essays on Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature

Based on his columns and research into radical feminism and feminist scandals from the college rape scare through predators in academia to deranged feminist blogs, I can guarantee that this work, graded on a scale from "that's nice, dear" to "AIIIIEEEEEE! GOJIRA!  TASUKETE!"... will definitely register.

That said, I sprang for the paper copy and recommend the same to you, though no one will complain if you elect to spring for the Kindle.

Talking back.  It's still legal.  Make a Social Justice Warrior cry today.

Occupy Wall Street! Get Paid For Doin' Shit!

Working Family Party (socialist front group) hiring "oppressed masses" for #occupywallstreet campaign.  Yes, now you too can rake in the big bux telling the world how oppressed you be because the Man wants you to pay back your student loans...!

HT: Proof Positive, Mind-Numbed Robot

Nasa's James Hansen: Green Fraud and Government Cheat

NASA 'climate expert' cashed in on green movement he championed to tune of $1.2 million.

"Rules for thee but not for me..."

According to lawsuit papers filed, Hansen, a virulent global-warming activist who once accused the Bush Administration of trying to silence him (in print) at a time when he had given over 1500 interviews, features and speeches, and was caught deleting old NASA climate data to skew the results of his fraudulent experiments, has failed to properly document over one million dollars in fees and awards he received from the green movement, or to receive approval to accept such monies.

Hank Williams, Jr. — Or An Incredible Simulation — The Great Reneger!

States petition Eric Holder and DOJ to interfere with troops' votes!

Twelve states have applied for waivers from protecting military voters in the 2010 election: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Maryland, Delaware, Wisconsin, Colorado, Washington, Hawaii, Alaska, and the District of Columbia.

The current legislation requires the states to ship ballots to the troops at least 45 days prior to the election to ensure they are received and counted.  In the last Presidential election at least 17,000 GI votes were never tallied because they were not received timely.  The Pentagon is authorized to grant such waivers but is obviously reluctant to, so these states (Alaska, what the HELL are you doing running with these dirtbags?) are petitioning DOJ to somehow intervene.

This is horsecrap from a particularly sick and runny horse.  I volunteer with Operation Gratitude, and they can get a package from the US to any soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan within a week, and these state governments can't mail a ballot?  They can't be returned timely?

Here's a wild idea: count the fricking ballots at the fricking embassies.  Even the State Department can work a damned e-mail.   Then send the hardcopies along for validation at your leisure.  This is nothing but a blatant attempt by "blue" states to eliminate what they fear will be "red" ballots from their elections.

Veterans Defend Outed Vietnam Fraud Candidate! -- UPDATED!

Veterans today rushed to defend embattled CT Senatorial candidate Richard Blumenthal, exposed by the NYT as having lied about serving in Vietnam instead of receiving five deferments and a safe spot in the Stateside reserves...

"I think maybe the proudest days of my Vietnam service were the time I fought alonside Rick Blumenthal to hold Charlie out of Stuttgart during the Tet Offensive..."  -- Ward Reilly, Vietnam Vets Against the War

"I support Rick Blumenthal even though he never bravely killed a two-year-old like I did..." -- Senator John Kerry, D-MA

"I would endorse Rick Blumenthal but I can't spell it..." -- Jessie Macbeth, Iraq Veterans Against the War


"Rick Blumenthal saved an Iraqi dog my Bradley driver wanted to run over!" -- The New Republic's correspondent Scotty Beauchamp

UPDATE:  Fake veteran 
"endorsing" Blumenthal 
AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE

His name is William Joseph Trumpower and he's listed on the POW Network's "Phony" database, for claiming medals he never earned, rank he never held and experiences he never had.

UPDATE AGAIN!  BLUMENTHAL'S 

FAKE VET BUDDY 

HAS EXTENSIVE CRIMINAL 

RECORD! 

(Ht: This Ain't Hell)

BTW, if you're seriously interested in the "Stolen Valor" outrage, This Ain't Hell does an outstanding job of covering it.

White House: Obama to Keep $1,000,000 Goldman Sachs "Donation."

The White House has stated that President Obama will not be returning the over $994,000 he received from investment megabanker Goldman Sachs, even as his Administration brings action against the Wall Street firm for fraud.

WH spokesman Robert Gibbs was quoted as saying: "For YAY-us, the FILthy lucre has been SANCTIFIED by the touch of HIS hand!  Can I get an AMEN, brothers and sisters?"

Rand Paul Lies About Pro-Life Beliefs!

Another Paul Lie.  It's in the genes people.

That Trey Grayson link is up there for a reason.  Use it.

Paulies.  The Scientologists of the conservative movement.

I Need Some Advice Desperately...

...how the hell do I parody THIS": (HT: Interesting News)

NOT A DREAM!  NOT AN IMAGINARY STORY!

IPCC Defends Use of Divination

NEW YORK CITY, NY - A spokesman for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has defended the panel's use of divination to forecast melting glaciers in the Andes. Said Sanjuk Patel, "We employed an Augur who watched the flight of various birds. By studying the birds' formation, he was able to predict that global warming was melting glaciers in the Andes. This man is credentialed at an important Augury school. What more do you need?" Answering his own question, Patel said the Augur's work was subjected to robust peer-review. "A Chinese sorcerer dropped a handful of magic sticks. When he picked them up, they all pointed in the direction of Chile." In addition, a man who dowses for water was asked by Patel whether the Andes' glaciers were melting. He felt it was probably so. "It's not like we pull this information out from between our hams," said Patel. "Global warming is too vital an issue to be left to chance."

Is Snopes.com Astroturf?

An e-mail I received.  Worth checking out:

"For the past few years www.snopes.com has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com ..

Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago, 20- and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity with many believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation?

The reason for the questions - or skepticism's - is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not reallyinvestigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues. A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelson's claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg's contact phone numbers – and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec's at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg no one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes..com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' onthe issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!

Then it has been learned the Mikkelson's are very avid Democrats (party) and extremely liberal, as we all now know from this presidential election.

So, I say this now to everyone who goes to snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line facts ....'proceed with caution.' Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Remember, you can always Google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelson's do. After all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their 'not' fully looking into things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com
I have found this to be true also! Many videos of Obama I tried to verify on Snopes and they said they were False.......Then they gave their Liberal slant....!!! I have suspected some problems with snopes for some time now, but I have only caught them in half-truths. If there is any subjectivity they do an immediate full left rudder.


www.truthorfiction.com is a far a better source for verification, in my opinion. The Mikkelsons are in the tank for Obama. There are many things they have listed on their site as a hoax and yet you can go to Youtube yourself and find on other videos of Obama actually saying these things. So you see, you cannot and should not... Trust Snopes.com ever for anything that is remotely political! I don't even trust them to tell me if email chains are hoaxes anymore. So goes modern journalism. There are cropping up numerous sites and blogs that openly challenging Snopes's findings, opinions, and outright claims.

A few conservative speakers on Myspace told me about Snopes a few months ago and I took it upon myself to do a little research to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it is true, so you might consider thinking twice before relying on Snopes.com for fact checking and do your friends the courtesy of tipping them off to Snopes political slant.
Many people still think Snopes.com is neutral and they can be trusted as factual.

We need to make sure everyone is aware that... that is a hoax in itself."

Who Killed David Kellerman?

Did Administration Pressure Drive Freddie Mac Boss to Suicide?


http://www.villainouscompany.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2852

Fuck You Very Much, Mistah Commander in Chief. Sir. (6)

Obama's decisive lack of military leadership

If this can be confirmed, this will be upgraded to another "Fuck You Very Much, Mistah Commander In Chief. Sir." installment.

UPDATE: Evidence points to this story cropping up very quickly but from only one or at most two originators, with conflicting points of origin. More tellingly, the MilBlogs aren't buying it as authentic and I'm not not going to question their experienced judgment.


UPDATE II: The story seems right, so I'm retitling this thread.
HT: Theospark, in Links, below.

Fuck You Very Much, Mistah Commander in Chief. Sir. (5)

Obama beloved of the troops? Maybe not so much.

There's just something fishy about this guy, no matter what he does...

Obama's Speechificatin' Skills Explained...

Rare video of Obama's real father found!

Erudite Boston Thug Explains the rest of Obama's Bank Scam...

...with the help of the world's greatest CPA...

"It's Byzantine," Marty said.
"You find it Byzantine?" I said.
"Me, the world's greatest CPA. I'm in awe."
"Is it legal?" I said.
"Oh, God no."
"Can you explain it to me?"
"I can oversimplify it drastically," he said.
"Oh, good."
"As far as I can tell, your culprits are Barack Obama* and Tim Geithner.* Do you know what a special purpose entity is?"
"No."
"A special purpose entity is a device often used for securitization of debt."
"I urge you to oversimplify," I said.
"It was always my intention," Marty said. "Say you have a shop, Spenser's Sandwich Shop. You have a bunch of customers who buy their sandwiches on credit, for which convenience you charge them one percent a month. So at the end of the day you have earned a hundred bucks plus one percent a monthl. But there's nothing in the cash register. What you do is, you create a special purpose entity, and call it, say, Susan's Equity Trust. You can invest your own money in this trust, but at least three percent of it has to be independent capital. Then you sell your hundred dollar's worth of accounts receivable and its interest payments to Susan's Equity Trust. Now at the end of the day you have a hundred in cash. Susan's Equity Trust, in turn,sells shares in itself to investors eager to make one percent a month on the sale of sub sandwiches. So Susan gets a markup. The investors get their money back in installments plus the one percent interest. Got it?"
"Yeah, sure, banks do that with mortgages, don't they? Car dealers?"
"Lots of people do it and it's perfectly legitimate."
"Even when banks and car dealers do it?"
"Amazing but true," Marty said.
"But in the case of the Administration?"**
"Obama and Geithner*** were creating SPE's to hide debt. Remember what I told you. They had a ton of earnings but not much cash."
"The old mark to market accounting trick."
"Very good."
"So the absence of cash would begin to create debt."
"Right again," Marty said, "or one or another project was a losing proposition."
"And payment on the debt would use up cash."
"It would."
"So they needed to keep these matters off the books, or their profit picture would suck and people would stop buying their stock."
"Gracelessly put, perhaps," Marty said, "but not innaccurate."
"And the SPE's were their solution."
"Better," Marty said. "They could sell one operation or another, that had a lot of debt, to the SPE and show it on their books as income."
"And that's legal?"
"Remember what I said about conditions?"
"Essentially that the SPE needed to be independent of the creating company."
"Right. These aren't. They're owned mostly by the Federal Government, through the bailout funding.**** And the money they raised to create the SPE's was guaranteed by the Federal Government."*****
"So they weren't independent of the Federal Government."
"Nope, and as they developed, some of these outfits began to have interests antithetical to the country's but very beneficial to Obama and Geithner.****** You want to hear how?"
"Jesus Christ no," I said. "I never want to have this conversation again."
"Which is why you are not a world-class CPA."
"Thankfully," I said. "Isn't there somebody supposed to approve stuff like this?"
"Board of directors."
"They approved?"
"The banks'******* boards of directors, as far as I can see, would have approved compulsory pederasty if urged by Obama and Geithner."
"Isn't there any outside accounting?"
"There is, some of the best accounting firms in the Northeast, and Obama and Geithner's Treasury department."********
"So much for them... Is there trouble ahead?"
"For the banks? You better believe it."
"Any indication Obama knows this? Or Geithner?"
Marty smiled at me.
"How nice for them."

(Abridged from Bad Business, a Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker. Names marked by *'s have been changed by this blogger. No endorsement or sympathy on the part of Robert B. Parker is intended, implied or even anticipated. Seriously. None whatsoever. Period. Have you seen the size of that bastard?)

Erudite Boston Thug Explains New Banking Rules...

... with the help of the world's greatest CPA. 

"So whaddaya know?"

"You know what mark to market accounting is?"

"No."

Marty looked pleased.

"You wouldn't understand detail anyway," Marty said. "Say you kept a ledger, which in your case is unlikely, but say you did, and you're making knuckle knives.  You sell one to Hawk for a buck,and you debit your asset column one dollar, and credit your liabilities column one dollar.  The two columns are always supposed to be equal."

"I don't have a ledger," I said. 

"I know," Marty said, "and if you did, the columns would never be equal. But this is hypothetical."

"And Hawk's already got a knuckle knife."

"Shut up and listen," Marty said. "So you keep your ledger and somebody says how much money you got and you say a buck, and they say show me and you take the buck out of your pocket and wave it under their nose.

"But," he said, and paused expectantly.  "Suppose you and Hawk have a deal.  He'll buy a knife every year for five years.  So you debit a buck from the asset side, and you credit five bucks on the liability.  Because that's what the deal's worth over time."

I nodded.

"Get it?" Marty said.  "See the problem?"

"What if Hawk dies or backs out of the deal?"

He was thrilled.

"Or somebody comes by in the first year and says show me the cash?" he said.

"I take out my one dollar."

"And suppose the guy that's asking has just fixed your sink, and seeing that you have five dollars in revenue, does it for credit, and now wants his five smackers?"

"I don't think I've heard anyone say smackers since I donated my Perry Como albums."

"Never mind that.  What I described in grossly oversimplified terms is another kind of accounting called mark to market."

"Thank God for the gross oversimplification," I said.

"And here's a little embroidery," Marty said. "Say you think the cost of knuckle knives will go up over time, so you, or probably I at your behest, because you pay me a monstruous retainer every year and I am in your pocket, make a projection of how much the price will rise, and decide that they'll be worth two bucks, five years hence."

"Hence."

"Yeah, hence. I went to the fucking Wharton School, remember.  So now you've got a deal worth ten simoleons and you credit that.  But how much actual cash you got?"

"A simoleon."

"See?"

"And the advantage of that is it inflates your revenue."

"Yes."

"Which makes your stock worth more."

"Yeah, and if you need to show an even bigger profit you can just move the curve."

"Predict that knives will sell for two-fifty," I said. "And then I can show a credit of twelve-fifty."

"Exactly."

"And it's legal."

"Sure, mark to market is perfectly legal, often useful, sometimes necessary, in companies where a reasonable curve can be predicted.  But it's less, ah, appropriate for a company whose product may fluctuate wildly because of war, or climactic events, or political decisions, or economic circumstance, or the death of some Arabian sheik."

"And you might find yourself with a cash-flow problem."

"Yeah.  You have to pay your employees, for example, in cash.  If you have debt to service, and you're cash-poor, you have to service that in cash.  And you have to do it now, not five years from now."

"So," I said. "Worst case?"

"You can't pay your bills.  You go bankrupt."

(Abridged from Bad Business, a Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker)

Now don't you feel reassured about our financial institutions?

Obama Grabs the Checkbook...

Politico reports that President Obama, who has quietly waivered several major lobbyists into influential posts in his, for want of an even less appropriate word,"Administration," has signed an order that will ostensibly ban "lobbyists" from being involved in any discussions of the dispensation of stimulus monies.

Which leaves who, exactly, to discuss it? The Obama White House,with its built-in lobbyists? Our pay-for-play Democratic Congress? After all, they have such a documented track record of nonpartisan public service. We're already seeing calls from within the government for white contractors to be excluded from stimulus construction work, the so-called "shovel-ready" projects. Now, good luck seeing a stimulus buck in, for example, Republican Orange County, California; there's zip chance Feinstein, Pelosi, Boxer and Waxman will send a dollar south of LA. I would imagine anyplace in Texas outside of Austin is in the same fix, not to mention states with GOP governors.

This is, discreetly, the financial disenfranchisement of 48% of the American population. It doesn't even work on its own terms, since all a lobbyist has to do to get around it IS let his enrollment as a 'registered' lobbyist lapse. After all, not being registered never seemed to do George Soros any harm.