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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: Election 2012 -- Obama gets his “revenge,” but conservatives must stand tall

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QOTD: "Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best." --Benjamin Franklin, September 17, 1787

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: What's at Stake

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Election Central

What's at Stake: Babbin
Why Many Blacks Will Not Support Obama’s Re-election Bid: RedAlert
Why 2012 Will Be a Watershed House Election: NatlJrnl

Dear Children, How quickly the time goes!: Dewey
Internals: lead in OH, IA and NH, tied in--PA and WI: Hot Air
Everything -- Except the Polls -- Points to a Romney Landslide: EIB

Obama vs. Romney – The Monday Night Football Interviews: HayRide
How to report voter fraud - Crash Course: FreeWork
Tuesday Is The Last Chance To Stop ObamaCare: IBD

Nation

Benghazi: Critical Information and Unanswered Questions: Gatestone
A President Without Shame: Feldman
Giuliani: Where the hell are the generators?: Hot Air

Wave goodbye to the Obama media: DC
Video: Sandy Victims Beg for Help as Obama Ignores Them: JWF
Senator Obama Voted against Aid for Hurricane Katrina Victims: AmJrnl

Public Podcast: Claudia Rosset with a Benghazi Update: Bruce
Lame Obama Campaign Ends with a Whimper: Reaganite
Clinton admits lack of enthusiasm for Obama: Hoosier

Economy

ObamaCare begins to have its predicted effect: Q&O
U.S. Debt Per American Under 18 = $218,676: CNS
If Oklahoma Wins Lawsuit, ObamaCare ‘Starts to Fall Apart’: Cato

Black Depression: Mead
'U.S. Per Person Debt Now 35 Percent Higher than that of Greece': WS
Obama's EPA set to crush coal country.: FreeWork

Scandal Central

GOP senators: Thousands of ballots unlikely to reach military voters in time: Hill
Echoes of ACORN from Liberal Campaign Company FieldWorks: RS
How many noncitizens are registered to vote?: LVRJ

Media

The Punditry About Tomorrow’s Vote Is Absolutely Off The Wall Today: HayRide
Proof: Obama Refused to Call Benghazi 'Terror,' CBS Covered Up: Breitbart
Get Obama out of the American saddle! : Fox Valley Initiative

An Election Eve Prayer: LoneCon
My Prediction for Tomorrow: Ace
Obama Appeases Muslims, Offends Catholics: Sooper

World

Medal of Honor Winner Blasts “Ditherer-in-Chief” Obama over Benghazigate: FPM
Obama Budget Would Slash Defense Spending Sharply: IBD
Obama Spikes Bin Laden Football Using Soviet-Style Propaganda: WZ

CBS Sat on Key Obama Benghazi Quote: Commentary
By ‘Research’, Furr Means ‘Whitewash’: RSM
Iranians burn US flags to mark embassy seizure: AFP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts?: Ars Technica
AMD unveils Opteron 6300, hopes to put servers in a Piledriver: Engadget
After Stuxnet: The new rules of cyberwar: ComputerWorld

Cornucopia

Solitude and the City: Alpha Game Plan
Rockin’ La Vota Loca: MOTUS
75 Mysteries of Science Gorgeously Illustrated: Fastcodesign

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QOTD: "If the polls are right, then Obama wins. Romney doesn't somehow squeak a hair's-breadth electoral win if the polls are right.

The only way Romney wins is if the toplines in the polls is wrong for whatever reason -- overweighting young and minority respondents, too few people responding to pollsters at all (now it's around 9-10%), and too many of the people responding to pollsters happy to offer the Socially Preferred answer.

The socially preferred answer is "I'm voting for Obama." After all, voting for Obama in 2008 didn't prove you weren't a racist. In 2008, Obama seemed like a reasonably good candidate (for those without any savvy or history or ideological underpinnings).

No, voting for the catastrophically disastrous Obama 2012 proves, beyond any doubt, that you're not a racist.

Even racists will hire a highly competent black man. But only the most anti-racist people in the world will re-hire the incompetent one, the one who seems to spend the bulk of his time golfing and chatting up Sir Paul McCartney." --Ace

Monday, November 5, 2012

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG: Valerie Jarrett reportedly in secret negotiations with Iran's Mullahs

The woman who told Obama he would bring the Olympics to Chicago and who blocked the Bin Laden raid on three separate occasions is said to be negotiating with the Mullahs (you know them, they're the suicidal mystics with nukes):

One of US president's senior advisors is secretly making efforts to establish line of communication with Iran

A Chicago lawyer is the key player behind the secret talks between the US and Iran. Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday. A close friend of Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett is assisting the US government communicate behind the scenes with the representatives of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei... Jarret, who was born in the Iranian city of Shiraz, is a senior advisor to US President Barack Obama.

Last month, The New York Times reported that the US government is engaged in secret talks with Iran aimed at establishing a direct line of communication once the US presidential elections are over... The US has tried to keep the secret contacts under wraps since some of the countries involved in the public negotiations, such as Russia, were excluded from them.

...Israel was originally surprised to learn of the talks, but state officials now reveal that they were going on for several months. The talks, they claim, were initiated and led by Jarret, and took place in Bahrain.

The US State Department estimated the economic pressure on Iran will peek in February or March, immidiately after the president-elect takes office, rendering the talks over Iran's nuclear program – in case they materialize – with potentially positive results.

Of course, Jarrett's timing is -- as you would expect -- impeccable:

Iranians burn US flags to mark embassy seizure

Thousands of Iranians chanting "Death to America" burnt US flags on Friday to mark the 33rd anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, just days before the American presidential election.

The demonstrators also chanted anti-British and anti-Israeli slogans, and burnt Israeli flags, in front of the site of the former embassy, dubbed the "den of spies" by the authorities who sponsor the annual commemoration, an AFP photographer reported.

This year's rally came just days before Tuesday's US presidential election in which Republican challenger Mitt Romney has made Iran's controversial nuclear programme a top foreign policy issue...

...After long denying the impact of the [sanctions], Iranian leaders are now beginning to acknowledge the extent of the damage and denouncing what they say is an "economic war" against the Islamic republic.

"Those who say that by compromising with the US, the economic situation will improve... (should know that) this is a big lie and deceit," Naqdi said... "We have declared a 10 kilo (22 pounds) in gold reward for researchers and historians, who have 10 years to prove that there is a more criminal country than America in the world... the US is the most hated among all nations."

And, heaven knows, Jarrett is eminently qualified to act as a global negotiator, what with her vast foreign policy experience. I'll ask again: what could possibly go wrong?

Third Anniversary of Ft. Hood "Workplace Violence"

Dan from New York:

Via Michelle Malkin:

Thirteen men and women, plus the unborn child of Pvt. Francheska Velez, died in the bloody terrorist rampage at Fort Hood three years ago today.

Never forget.

1. Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, Havre de Grace, Md.
2. Maj. Libardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, Va.
3. Cpt. John P. Gaffaney, 54, San Diego, Calif.
4. Cpt. Russell Seager, 41, Racine, Wis.
5. Staff Sgt. Justin Decrow, 32, Plymouth, Ind.
6. Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, Kiel, Wis.
7. Spc. Jason Hunt, 22, Tillman, Okla.
8. Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, Mountain City, Tenn.
9. PFC Aaron Nemelka, 19, West Jordan, Utah
10. PFC Michael Pearson, 22, Bolingbrook, Ill.
11. PFC Kham Xiong, 23, St. Paul, Minn.
12. Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, Chicago, Ill. and her unborn baby
13. Michael G. Cahill, Cameron, Texas [civilian]

The current appeaser-in-chief refuses to abandon the dhimmi definition of the attack as “workplace violence.” Need more reason to get out tomorrow and vote him out?

Listen to the families of those who were murdered.

America's national security hangs in the balance with this election. The debacle in Benghazi and President Obama's whispered promises of "flexibility" to Russia's President are only the most obvious signs of an impending disaster.

NEVADA VOTE-FRAUD SCANDAL: Union registering non-citizens to vote, dragging them to polls, and forcing them to vote Democrat

I thought vintage media and the Democrat Party (but I repeat myself) said that there was no proof of systemic vote fraud?

Perhaps they should inform Glenn Cook of the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Voter registration fraud is not a groundless conspiracy. It is not a hypothetical threat to election integrity.

In Nevada, a battleground state that could decide the presidency and control of the U.S. Senate, it is real.

Last week, I met with two immigrant noncitizens who are not eligible to vote, but who nonetheless are active registered voters for Tuesday's election. They said they were signed up by Culinary Local 226... [As] the election drew closer. Then the Culinary canvassers started seeking them out and ordering them to go vote.

One of the immigrants was visited at home by a Culinary representative and said the operative made threats of deportation if no ballot was cast.

...After a few days of early voting, the union knew the immigrants still hadn't voted. So union canvassers kept visiting.

One day, when a Culinary representative was told the immigrant wasn't a citizen and wouldn't vote, things got testy. The immigrant was "in so much trouble," the Culinary operative said, according to Brenda Moraine, a local immigrant advocate who was there... They're afraid of reprisals from the union, they're afraid of losing their jobs, and they're concerned that their signatures are on a government document [could lead to perjury charges]...

I verified their identities, their lack of citizenship and their status as active registered voters in Clark County... One of the immigrants validated my worst fears about Nevada's weak voter registration standards and voting safeguards...

"There are others," the immigrant said.

Other noncitizen Culinary workers are registered to vote?

"Yes."

...how many of these ineligible voters have done the Culinary's bidding and submitted ballots, whether out of ignorance or fear, and how many have the knowledge and courage to follow the law and stay away from the polls[?]...

In Nevada you never have to prove you're a citizen to register to vote or cast a ballot. Forget about showing government-issued photo identification at the polls, as several states now require. You don't have to show a photo ID at any point in the process. The immigrants I met could vote Tuesday just by showing a Culinary health insurance card and a power bill.

...I spoke with Yvanna Cancela, political director for the Culinary Local 226, on Friday about what these immigrants have experienced... Cancela asked me to identify the workers so the union might be able to learn which Culinary canvassers had made contact with them and who had registered them to vote. When I said I couldn't under the terms of my interview with the immigrants, she added that if they came forward, the union would take corrective action against those canvassers to make sure they understood the law...

Cancela did not know how many noncitizens are represented by the Culinary Local 226...

Earlier columns by Glenn Cook outlined how Nevada mails voter registration invitations to noncitizens, felons and the dead and how it facilitates vote fraud through ultra-lax identification requirements.

As Cook observes, Nevada's system makes it "exceedingly easy to cheat and gives political parties and politically active groups a powerful incentive to break the law without much risk of being caught."

Which perhaps explains Harry Reid's last-minute surge to beat Sharon Angle in 2010.

But don't worry: I'm sure Eric Holder will launch an investigation any minute now.

Images: Las Vegas Sun.

TWEET O' THE DAY: Expect a Romney bump at 5:30pm

Not the real Tim Tebow, but still:

I'm predicting Obama will take an early lead tomorrow... Until all the Republicans get off work. #RomneyRyan2012
— Tim Tebow (@TheTimmyTebow) November 5, 2012

Hat tip: Jennifer.

Larwyn's Linx: 50,000 Feet Looking Down

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Election Central

50,000 Feet Looking Down: Erickson
2012 Senate Balance of Power: Rasmussen
Ohio's Cuyahoga County under a microscope and by the numbers: Picket

Massive Decrease in Early and Absentee Voting—in Chicago: WS
Tweet/YouTube o' the Day, Wallace Makes Axelrod Squirm edition: Lane
Mitt Romney's Best Ad: Ace

Demoralized as Hell, the Final Gasp Pew Poll: DTG
Ohio or Boston?: RSM
Polls: Virtual ties in Michigan, Pennsylvania: Hot Air

Nation

Benghazi's Smoking Gun?: Bracken
Benghazi: CIA Operators Waited For Air Cover That Never Came: WZ
Benghazi: Who was Watching, Which Assets Were Available: Scoop

Someday: Doubleplusundead (Language Warning)
Marathon Mike: Driscoll
FEMA Taps Private Vendors to Meet Sandy Victim's Needs: Breitbart

Scandal Central

NBC Viewers Get First-Ever Reference to Fast and Furious: Breitbart
Armed Services Chairman Denounces Benghazi Cover-Up and Muzzling of Military Leaders: Foundry
Lights in lower Manhattan, misery in outer regions: MyWay

Climate & Energy

November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation: Exam
Interview: Author Elizabeth Nickson Discusses her new book, Eco-Fascists: Driscoll
A Dozen Obama-Subsidized Fisker Electric Cars Exploded in a Port Lot After Being Flooded by Sandy: Ace

Obama’s Katrina? America’s Northeast Suffers As President Puts Re-Election Ahead Of Relief: RS
Shades of Nixon: Cato
Looking back at ‘Earth In The Balance: The First Draft’: Driscoll

Media

Obama the Post-Partisan Uniter on Fox News: Fox News (2008)
Nate Silver is the Rodney Dangerfield of Polling: Daley Gator
Wisconsin State Journal flips for Romney: WaPo

Shock: Journalists Found Donating Heavily to Obama Campaign: Breitbart
Warning to mainstream media: CDN
Landslide Watch: GWP

Paul Krugman and Nate Silver agree: New York Times reporting is ‘lazy’ and ‘stupid’: DC
Obama campaign getting crowds totally excited about voting for Bill Clinton on Tuesday: Malkin
Tarnished Silver: assessing the new king of stats: MacLeans

URGENT!: Geraldo Rivera Needs Your Help: Ace
Barone: Romney Wins 315 EVs; Takes PA, WI, and OH: Ace
Final 2012 Election Predictions: Romney wins; 100% chance that Nate Silver’s career collapses into ruin.: HillBuzz

World

Mitt's unwitting campaigner in Florida: Hugo Chávez: AT
Surprise: Ahmadinejad backs Obama: Matzav
Code Red in Sderot: JDL-UK

DCCC Chair & Long Island Cong. Steve Israel Raised Campaign Cash From The MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: Lid
Axelrod: Evidence Obama Is Committed To The Military Is That He Meets The Coffins: Jawa
What kind of regime imprisons people for what they tweet? Oh, hang on…: Spectator

Clinton Calls Military ‘Racist, Sexist, and Homophobic’ — Will the President Disavow It?: NRO
GEN Tommy Franks, GEN Henry Shelton, 500 American Warriors Buy Full-Page Ad Endorsing Romney: Tatler
Why Americans of Mideast Descent Have Shifted to Romney: Phares

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Anonymous hacking spree hits PayPal, Symantec: CNet
Invert Your Phone’s Colors For Easier Night Reading: LifeHacker
Apple drops to 50.4% tablet market share in Q3, as Samsung grabs 18.4%, Amazon takes 9.0%: NextWeb

Cornucopia

Hilarious: Steven Crowder again uses own words of Biden, Reid to troll the Left: Twitchy
The Facebook entry that defines this election.: Moe Lane
Polling Conservative Bloggers on the 2012 Election: RWN

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QOTD: "Because I believe the talking heads will melt on the screen come Election Night because none of the results coming in will match the polls the Left relied on for their mental health in the last days of this campaign, I intend to watch MSNBC all day next Tuesday because I want to document in real time the implosion of the Ministry of Truth. This is the only time in my life that I will ever say this, so mark it in the history books, but I encourage all of you to watch MSNBC if you can on November 6th because decades from now you will want to describe to your progeny how unhinged the Left became on live tee-vee as the Obama Regime came to an abrupt end. This would be like you being able to tell someone in the future that you were there when Mount Vesuvius erupted and leveled Pompeii…and you had time-traveled back to sit in a lounge chair and sip chianti while you watched it all happen LIVE." --Kevin DuJan

Bonus QOTD: "President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.

More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.

The rush is a major sign of panic by environmentalists inside the Obama administration. If Obama wins, the EPA would have another four full years to implement their anti-fossil fuel agenda. But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo." --Conn Carroll