Hanukkah = Winning?

Love this little post over at Anorak, Britain's best tabloid-esque site.  I never thought of it this way, but then again, every picture tells a story...

For a picture of how life overcomes history, look no further than the image of Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal and Rabbi Segal Shmoel installing a giant Hanukkah Menorah at the Pariser Platz square in front of the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin. Eight candles that to the Nazis spell out “F*** You!”
But religion is not about vengeance.

It’s about perseverance....

The West comes in for a lot of stick about morals and wrong. But show us another part of the world where expression is tolerated and enjoyed... This is what “winning” looks like…


Awesome.  But the victory may proved to be short lived, as an antisemitic American president joins forces with an EU that, while increasingly tightening its grip on the neck of the Continent, still allows their subjects one object on which to focus their scorn and hatred:

...the EU has done nothing to diminish the Judeophobia which led to the Holocaust in Europe. Indeed, the obsessional malice towards Israel has provided cover for a resurgence of the oldest hatred within the graveyard of European Jewry. As Giulio Meotti reports, Jews are being expelled from academia across Europe.

Will the menorah at Brandenburg enlighten the barbarians, or enrage them? We'll know soon enough, I suppose...

Hanukkah Hottie #3: Jenny Lewis

No, not in the sense that our first two candles of Hanukkah 2012 were hot.  Jenny is hot because she became what (2011"Hottie") Winona Ryder always wanted to be - an actress who moved into the rock star life.  But Jenny did one better - she went alt-rock, not vain pop-star, and she is alt-rock hot, with tons of talent to match.  And did I mention that she is Jewish?

Just turned it up a notch higher, didn't I ?

Nice resume:

Lewis made her professional debut in a Jell-O commercial. She was featured in the short-lived 1986 Lucille Ball sitcom Life With Lucy, where she was cast as one of Lucy's grandchildren. She also had small roles on TV shows, such as The New Twilight Zone, Baywatch, Golden Girls, Growing Pains, Just the Ten of Us, Roseanne, Mr. Belvedere, and Brooklyn Bridge.

Lewis appeared in over a dozen teen-themed movies, such as Troop Beverly Hills...She was featured in the 1996 made-for-TV movie Talk to Me with Yasmine Bleeth, as well as the films Foxfire, Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even, and Pleasantville...

 And then she goes and forms Rilo Riley. And did I mention...

Ms. Lewis...is Jewish by birth ("although everyone assumes I'm a little shiksa," she says)

For me, Rabbitfur Coat, a solo effort of sorts with the Watson Twins, is Jenny at her best. And most haunting.



....Where my ma is now, I don't know
She was living in her car, I was living on the road
And I hear she's putting that stuff up her nose
And still wearing that rabbit fur coat

But mostly I'm a hypocrite
I sing songs about the deficit....


 But we're not here to sing songs. We're here to ogle hot Jewish girls. By the light of the third candle:

Is Obama Now Abusing His Dog For Political Gain?

I guess that answers the question "how low will he go to get re-elected?"

"A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog."
~Charles Doran

If you've ever flown with a pet, either on-board or "safely stowed away", you know what a confusing, stressful event it is for them.  The question is, did Barack have first dog Bo flown back from Hawaii, shortly after arriving there, in order to participate in holiday photo-ops?

Sure looks that way:

Bo Obama was supposed to be in Hawaii. Instead, he showed up at President Obama’s side Wednesday shopping for treats at Pet Smart

According to Michelle Obama’s press office, the first dog was planning to go to Hawaii with the first lady and the Obama daughters. The Associated Press reported that he in fact had made it there. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser quoted an eyewitness who said he had seen the Portuguese Water Dog having his walk.

So what is Bo doing back in Washington shopping at PetSmart?

Either all these reports are mistaken, or Bo was told his vacation was over and that he had to return to the White House to keep a lonely president company – and participate in a silly photo op presenting Obama as an average guy who likes to head out to the PetSmart.

If Bo returned from Hawaii, who paid for his flight?

It’s possible he hitched a ride on a return flight of the Air Force plane that brought Michelle from Hawaii...


Or not. But it's not about the money, it's about a man who would put an poor dog through so much stress in order to get a good holiday optic for himself.

Where's PETA? I suppose with their nose so far up Obama's ass, they really can't see what he's up to anyway...

But it gets worse for poor Bo - he'll be back on a plane to Hawaii within the next 24 hours or so...

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
~ Author Unknown

Wouldn't be surprised if Bo gave Barack a big 'ol chomp one of these days. Of course, Obama would blame the dog for being not worthy of him...

Jimmy Carter Joins Weeping Nork Throngs Mourning Kim Jong-il

Jimmy Carter will soon enough pass on to the next life, and Barack Obama will soon enough pass out of office, and onto his next life - as a private citizen.  One feels for certain that once he is no longer restrained by the needs of politics and high office, he will follow in the peanut farmer's footsteps.

And follow in the new tradition of former Democratic American presidents embracing the enemies of freedom in order to keep a high profile and fulfill their need for ego gratifaction, no matter how low they must sink:

Former President Jimmy Carter has sent North Korea a message of condolence over the death of Kim Jong-il and wished "every success" to the man expected to take over as dictator, according to the communist country's state-run news agency.

A dispatch from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Mr. Carter sent the message to Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il's son and heir apparent.

"In the message Jimmy Carter extended condolences to Kim Jong Un and the Korean people over the demise of leader Kim Jong Il. He wished Kim Jong Un every success as he assumes his new responsibility of leadership, looking forward to another visit to [North Korea] in the future," the KCNA dispatch read...

Jen Rubin  asks: Success measured how — people starved, missiles shot at South Korea?

I am sure I will be referring back to this post in about - oh, two years...

Hanukkah Hotties: Better Bring An Entourage For Night #2

Yeah, I know you know who Emmanuelle Chriqui is. You've seen her on  HBO's Entourage, and if you are one of the few who saw Adam Sandler's underrated You Don't Mess with the Zohan, you'd be able to identify her as Dalia, the Palestinian love interest of the the title's Israeli counter-terror commando.

But did you know she was Jewish? A-ha! Chriqui was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Jewish Moroccan immigrants. Her mother was born in Casablanca and her father in Morocco, with Chriqui having a number of relatives currently residing in Israel. Her family practiced Orthodox Judaism, in the Sephardic tradition, and apparently agonized over her choices in boyfriends. But there's still hope for all you nebbishes out there - Emmanuelle is still single! Well, not much hope...

Miss Chriqui marks what is become a trend in Jewish actresses - away from the neurotics, away from the Fran Dreschlers, and more towards their sultry Semitic side, which has bewitched men since biblical times.

I like that trend. And I love Emmanuelle.  She can light my second Hanukkah candle any time:

War On Christmas Becomes War On Christians

Or, what happens when a government feels it can empower itself limitlessly, with impunity and without consequences.  Or, why over-bureaucratic, nation-state-conglomerates like Europe have succeeded in eliminating religion virtually altogether ( in the very birthplace of Christianity, no less).  Seems as if the former democracies of the West have finally learned what Karl Marx and the Communists  knew long ago:  There is no room for both worship of God, and strict obedience to government.  One of the two must go.  And since the punishment that can be meted out by government is more immediate than what might eventually be handed down by the Lord, the government has been encroaching further and further upon The Creator's turf.

Sometimes, however, they overreach.  The story below is one case.  While it is not as media-friendly as the reports about the banning of the "C" word, it is much more insidious, as it is an attack on the Christian values that made this nation great:

Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin Markeson, 49, and Jonathan "Keith" McHenry, 54, were arrested at 6:10 p.m. on a charge of violating the ordinance restricting group feedings in public parks. McHenry is a co-founder of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which began in the early 1980s.

The group lost a court battle in April, clearing the way for the city to enforce the ordinance. It requires groups to obtain a permit and limits each group to two permits per year for each park within a 2-mile radius of City Hall.

Arrest papers state that Cross, Markeson and McHenry helped feed 40 people Wednesday night. The ordinance applies to feedings of more than 25 people.

"They intentionally violated the statute," said Lt. Barbara Jones, an Orlando police spokeswoman.

Police waited until everyone was served to make the arrests, said Douglas Coleman, speaking for Orlando Food Not Bombs.

"They basically carted them off to jail for feeding hungry people," said Coleman, who was not present. "For them to regulate a time and place for free speech and to share food, that is unacceptable."

The penalty for violating Orlando's ordinance is 60 days in jail, a $500 fine or both.

What can one say about a government that refuses to arrest "occupiers" - who demand that private property be seized on their behalf -  and yet slaps cuffs on those who actually do redistribute their own private property to those who need it most?

Guess it depends on who is doing the distributing.  And who is getting - or not getting - a cut of the racket.

And on Christmas, no less.  Claire Berlinski at Ricochet:

But seriously: an ordinance against feeding the hungry? Are they deranged? Isaiah 58:10, Proverbs 28:27, Matthew 25:41-46, James 2:14-17, Luke 19:8-9, Jeremiah 22:16, Luke 3:10-11, Ezekiel 16:49, Proverbs 21:13--the Bible is really unambiguous about feeding the hungry. This isn't one of those, "Maybe that's what it means, maybe it's allegorical" things. There's just no doubt that Christians are supposed to feed the hungry. Ergo, an ordinance preventing people from feeding the hungry is effectively a ban on Christian practice.

Don't think God hasn't noticed. He has. And He has warned us. We have chosen to avert our eyes. And we will pay the price.

Hanukkah Hottie Number One: Is The First Night The Hottest?

OK, enough slinky babes in Santa suits.  It's the first night of Hanukkah, and time to get down to our annual tradition of showcasing eight hot Jewish girls, one for each candle on the menorah (sans the "shamash", or helper candle).  We're going to open with a bold, brazen babe - no "saving the best for last" here -  and go all-in on the first night with Alison Brie, who will make any man's candle drip, regardless of their religious orientation...

Allie Brie began her career acting onstage at the Jewish Community Center in Southern California (sigh...). Before hitting it big, Brie had worked as a clown at birthday parties, following the traditions of such Jewish luminaries as Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustovsk, aka "Krusty".

You know her now from NBC's Community, and cable's Mad Men. But we'll always know her as that sweet Jewish girl from SoCal.

Happy Hanukkah, Alison...

A Holiday Tradition Resumes...

It'll make a nice offset to my last gloomy, negative post, I suppose...

Coming up at sundown: The return of our "Hanukkah Hotties" - an eight night celebration of beautiful Jewish women the world over! So stay tuned...she's waiting for you.  With a plate full of latkes...

Liberal American Jews: The Worst Anti-Semites Of Them All

...it's because they are liberals first and Jews second.  And they see how Bibi has - virtually effortlessly - exposed Obama as a naive waif, an intellectual lightweight, an uniformed ignoramus, and essentially as a sideshow clown with delusions of  grandeur, believing he can, with his sophomoric tricks, earn the adoration of the center ring.

So they lash out at Israel.  They lash out at Benjamin Netanyahu.  They lash out at their fellow Jews.  Anything they can do in an attempt to discredit those who make their true god-king - Barack Obama - seem anything less than divine.

They are suicide bombers, in a way, willing to poison the citizenry with antisemitic lies - given heft by their own status as Jews - in order to advance their liberal agenda.  Again:  They are willing to kill their fellow Jews - literally, if you believe words have meaning - in order to protect Barack Obama, and serve the "progressive" cause of the Democratic party.  They would rather see Israel be destroyed by liberal policies than saved by conservative ones.  American liberal Jews would die for their party, but not for their religion, or the one nation that would shelter them, should the great storm arise once more. They would rather kick up the storm in the vain hope they would be spared, then to confess they have chosen the wrong path.  Such is the hatred held in the hearts of the liberal American Jew.

I give you the story of Thomas Friedman and Joe Klein, two of America's worst antisemitic Jews.  Elliot Abrams exposes them, warns us, and asks where the condemnation is.

It's not forthcoming.  Happy Hanukkah, anyway:

First came the Thomas Friedman column in the New York Times: “I sure hope that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

And now we have Joe Klein, in Time magazine, in a section accurately entitled “Swampland”: “Iowa Republicans are not neoconservatives. Ron Paul has gained ground after a debate in which his refusal to join the Iran warhawks was front and center. Indeed, in my travels around the country, I don’t meet many neoconservatives outside of Washington and New York. It’s one thing to just adore Israel, as the evangelical Christians do; it’s another thing entirely to send American kids off to war, yet again, to fight for Israel’s national security.

These two recent statements are as vicious as it gets in the mainstream media, and here we have two Jews—Friedman and Klein—spreading the two major themes of contemporary American anti-Semitism. Why? Why now?

Why does it matter? Perhaps it is their hatred of Israel’s right of center government, or of modern Israel, or of the rise of Orthodoxy in Israel and in the American Jewish community. Let us not descend into such analyses when what matters is not abnormal psychology but the bounds of public discourse. Once upon a time, William F. Buckley banned Pat Buchanan from the pages of National Review and in essence drummed him out of the conservative movement for such accusations. Today, where are the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Committee, and all the Jewish “defense” organizations? Where are all the Jewish groups which have given Klein and Friedman awards, demanding them back? Where are Jewish Democrats in Congress, who have no doubt wined and dined both Klein and Friedman in a thousand dinner parties, and Congressional leaders from Nancy Pelosi to Harry Reid? And what about our other supposed moral leaders, religious, intellectual, or political?

It isn’t a small matter, because as we have learned the hard way with Walt and Mearsheimer, once the infection of anti-Semitism enters the mass media and the academy, it grows and grows. What begins as a “controversial statement” ends up on every reading list. Klein and Friedman, whatever their personal motivations for these statements, are helping popularize and make acceptable anti-Semitism in America. Their own publications will no doubt reward them for their advanced thinking. Will the rest of our society?

Obama/Holder: Backlash From The Race Card?

The race card used to be the most powerful one in the deck. Shoot, it pretty much propelled Barack Obama to the Democratic nomination, if not the presidency.   Most recently, however, it has been supplanted by another card that can be played against it, and nullify it of its power: the backlash card.  As in, when the player of the race card is using it as a feint, a bluff, a distraction from a weak hand, the player leaves himself open to backlash, and defeat.

Eric Holder hasn't been keeping up with the times, and palyed his cards poorly.  Not only has his accusations of racism weakened his position, it has weakened his benefactor as well.  Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh (R) fires back after Holder whined about his critics being nothing but haters:

“This is sort of the last refuge that people on the left will go to when they’re in trouble,” Walsh said in a phone interview. “They’ll accuse their opponents of racism. My God, we’ve got tons of problems in this country and … this president, is through Eric Holder, saying, ‘Nope, you can’t criticize me. If you criticize me, we’re going to accuse you of racism.’ Shame on them, that’s terrible.”

Walsh said Obama’s continued silence in the face of Holder’s inflammatory rhetoric demonstrates that the president shares in the blame for the attorney general’s choice of words.

“His [Obama’s] silence, to me, tells me the president is complicit in this,” Walsh said

Interesting. If Obama does become accused in complicity in the "Fast and Furious" fiasco, will he too accuse his critics of racism? Walsh things so:

“This is so despicable, because what they’re doing is they’re trying real early now to lay down the ground rules for his re-election,” Walsh said. “This time around, the American people are not going to put up with it. We can criticize this president based on the job he’s done — I don’t care what his skin color is.”

“He is going to say, because he did this during the last election, and the media is going to enable him to get away with it, that any time we criticize him, it’s because of his race,” Walsh added. “For Eric Holder to take that same line right now is absolutely ridiculous and to me, it’s just more fodder proving that he needs to resign.”

Walsh is right. Nobody will be cowed by accusations of racism anymore - the card has lost its power against the American people.

But few of us want to be forced to fight off the accusation, either. It's why Obama's "personal likability" numbers have remained over 50% while his job approval ratings threaten to fall below 40%. Gives the American people a way to fight off the racism claim - "Hey, I like the guy, just not his policies!"

Want to know what percentage of the vote Obama will get in 2012? Look at his approval ratings. And subtract a bit from that number as well.

Call it "backlash".

Economic Numbers That Are "Too Crazy To Believe"?

I like Zero Hedge.  I like Tyler Durden, both the fictional character and the blogger. Both tend towards hyperbole and over the top rhetoric.  But today Tyler posts straight-up facts, 50 of them, that portend economic doom for us all.  He hopes you are listening, but he doubts it.

For once, I'm buying what he is selling.  If we don't wake up sooner rather than later, we're screwed.  I'm going to pick my "top ten signs the economic apocolypse is neigh"; you can hit the link for the remaining 40.

In no particular order:

- If the number of Americans that "wanted jobs" was the same today as it was back in 2007, the "official" unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to 11 percent.

- One recent survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers.

-There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.

-Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation.

-The Federal Reserve recently announced that the total net worth of U.S. households declined by 4.1 percent in the 3rd quarter of 2011 alone.

- According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18 percent of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant. That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago.

- Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.

- In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7% of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for more than 18 percent of all income.

- A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.

- During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.


Need to change your underpants?  Me too...

North Koreans Weep Hysterically At The Death Of Dear Leader

Bizarre, like most of the images that seep out from this prison camp masquerading as a nation.  Are these overwrought North Koreans mugging for the camera?  Are they trying to prove their bona fides as loyal subjects of the regime with their abject mourning?  Or do they really, honestly believe that the sun will not rise in the morn without their Dear Leader, Kim Jung-il, present to sing it a wake-up song?

You tell me:




Guess I'll go with this, from the comments on YouTube:

"Mourning Competition:
Winner takes home 1 state-authorised candy bar"


Via Ricochet

Kim Jong-il Is Dead. So Meet The New Boss...

...and there's no doubt he'll be the same as the old boss.  Or worse.  But first, the announcement we've all been waiting for:

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69, state-run television has announced.

His death was announced in an emotional statement read out on national television.

The announcer, wearing black, said he had died on Saturday of physical and mental over-work.

Kim Jong-il has been the leader of the impoverished communist country since the death of his father Kim Il-sung in 1994.
He suffered a stroke in 2008 and was absent from public view for several months.

His designated successor is believed to be his third son, Kim Jong-woon, who is thought to be in his late 20s.

So meet Kim Jong-un (the proper spelling is as ambiguous as his age). Does the phrase "baby-faced killer" mean anything to you?

I don't know, but why do I feel that no matter how unimaginable, things are about to take a turn for the worse in North Korea...?

Sexy Santa Babes: Is That A Yule Log In Your Pants...?

It's not quite Christmas, but the season is upon us. We've got eight nights of Hanukkah Honeys coming to light your candles in just a few days, but if you need something to keep you warm until then, well...try these smoking-hot sexy Santas.  An early RS McCain-style Rule 5 present, courtesy of the Jerseynut...

Some are naughty and some are nice, and I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out which is which.  What is behind these holiday smiles?  Only Santa knows...and he ain't telling:

Nazanin's Tale: Three Years In An Iranian Prison

...for protesting an Iman's edict that all women should wear the long scarf.

I didn't want to...so I protested.

Three days later...the patrol came...

She tells her tale of rape and torture coldly, calmly.  But if you can hold still your rage at the 1:45 mark, when Nazanin rolls up her left leg to show you what's left of it, well...you're a better person than I am.

Or you are perhaps a fan of Barack Obama and his appeasement policies towards a government that would treat its womenfolk this way:





Posted on Maryam Namazie's blog...

Incidentally, when see a regime that can act so cruelly towards their own people, how can any thinking person doubt they will fulfill their vow wipe Israel off the map and incinerate its Jewish population, as soon as they are able?

Again, ask Barack Obama.  He claims to be a thinking person, yet does nothing about the atrocities above, and the atrocities that are yet to come.  Maybe he has an answer...

Go to Ms. Namazie's place, and read through her blog. She's an ardent foe of Islamic fundamentalism, and provides plenty of first-person testimony.  Not for the faint of heart.  But if you like painful love poetry from deep in the heart of Islamic terror...

In this Dead-End
~ by Ahmad Shamlou:

They smell your breath, lest you had uttered ‘I love you’.
They smell your heart!
Strange times are these my dear.

They flog love at a roadblock corner.
Love is better off hidden in a closet at home.

In this crooked dead-end of twisting chill
they kindle their fire with our song and poetry.

Do not risk thinking.
Strange times are these my dear.

He who bangs on the door late at night
has come to kill the light.
Light is better off hidden in a closet at home.

Now here are the butchers
stationed at the cross-roads
with clubs and cleavers stained in blood.

Strange times are these my dear.

And they excise smiles from our lips and songs from our mouths.
Joy is better off hidden in a closet at home.

Barbequed canaries on a fire of lilies and jasmine
strange times are these my dear.

Satan, intoxicated and victorious
sits at our funeral feast.
god is better off hidden in a closet at home.

Freedom Loses A Friend: RIP Vaclav Havel

He was the rarest of the rare  -a literati who actually stood up to the forces of evil, and never wavered in the face of danger.  From playwright to leader of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution (ascending to the new Czech nation's presidency) to his outspoken support for the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, his indomitable spirit and absolute moral authority defied both tyrants and their liberal apologists alike.  The supporters of freedom and democracy - fewer and fewer today in a world that chooses appeasement rather than confrontation - have lost a powerful voice today, as Vaclav Havel passes on to a just reward...

The world is losing great thinkers - be they Havel or even iconoclasts like Christopher Hitchens - and leaving their shoes to be filled by the likes of...Barack Obama. 

Some thoughts from Vaclav Havel - chosen to reflect their relevance to us, here, today:

~As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it

~Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

~Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

~There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

~Lying can never save us from another lie...

Christmas Wishes from Bibi...

...delivered with  more solemness, dignity, and honesty than just about any politician currently on the American scene can muster:





He's almost like the anti-Obama, you know?  That's why the media and the Left hate his guts, and why Americans continue to grow more fond of him and of the nation he embodies...

And it is also why the Right idolizes him.  Obama attacks Bibi and Israel, Netanyahu side-steps and employs a few Krav Maga moves, and the president winds up face-planted into the dirt, sputtering with impotent rage, while looking feeble, weak, and laughably pathetic.

 Oh man, conservatives think, if only our candidates could move like that...



Via The Other McCain

Obama claims his presidency 4th best in American history. Really.

...yeah, that planet he lives on must be super.  Too bad the rest of us have to inhabit reality here on Earth. From the 60 Minutes interview the other night:

The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln — just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history...
 He's setting us up - the American people - as ignorant ingrates should he lose the 2012 elections. What a guy.

Well, it is his right, I suppose.  After all, he's a better president than George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.  He's said so.  Bunch of dead white men...

But wait - you don't recall seeing this particular bit on CBS's flagship new program?  Yeah, they cut this part out.  They know political poison when they see if, even if their president is blind.  The outtake is here, but grab a puke bucket first...

Same old 60 Minutes.  Same old Barack Obama....

Media Still Lyin' 'bout Light Bulbs

Oh, that block on the ban of 100 watt incandescent light bulbs will not stop the media, laws no!  The despicable Yahoo! news service had an article up last night - after a deal was reached to effectively defund the attempt to ban the bulb - purporting to explain how government control was good for us.

The Truth About the New Light Bulb Law

In short: the notion that incandescent bulbs will no longer be available is a myth. Nor will you be forced to buy Compact Fluroescent Lightbulbs (CFLs). "You will still be able to buy incandescents," Noah Horowitz, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), told Yahoo! Shine. "The only difference being that the new and improved ones are more efficient."

Well, the "truth" is already a lie. You will in fact still be able to buy incandescents, but not the same ones you've used your entire life. The "new and improved ones" (another lie we'll address shortly) will now be the only ones you are allowed to buy, thanks to government fiat.

And that's not the only "difference":

The new light bulbs do cost more, but will save you money over their lifetime. On average, a new incandescent bulb will cost $1 to $2 compared to 25 cents. That may seem like a big jump, but the NRDC estimates that you will actually save $3 to $3.50 over the life of each bulb--which means they pay for themselves.

It is a big jump, and the problem is that they do not last as long as advertised nor save as much energy as claimed. Lab tests under control conditions may be one thing, but real-life usage has shown that the new "government bulbs" have no longer a lifespan than traditional incandescents.  So the "only difference" is that you are replacing light bulbs at $2- a pop instead of a quarter, thus negating any of the minimal energy savings they would have netted.

The one on the left is so much better than the media and the government are forced to lie about it - for your own good, of course..

 Yahoo's "truth" is a lie, but it's an entertaining lie, and feeds the moral superiority of the environmental Left, so it stays up.  Is their any wonder that discourse is so disjointed in America these days?

And here in New Jersey, we're being called a familiar name:

Whether they’re fueled by misinformation or simply don’t want to see traditional incandescents disappear, some consumers have clung to the bulbs they’re used to....

"...Apparently they seem to be addicted to the incandescent glow, which makes sense," he said. "We grew up with that color — that yellowish glow ...

Sigh.

We're ignorant.  We're clingers.  We are addicted to a pretty color.  They'll say anything, no matter how false, no matter how derogatory, in an attempt to force us to accept government regulation on every aspect of our lives.

The people have said "enough!", but the media tantrum is just beginning...

Jon Corzine Fumes: "I Thought I Paid That Bitch Off!"

Ah, now we know.  At the intersection of politics and Big Money we find... vengeance.  And a woman scorned.

Neither of which is good news for Jon Corzine:

The Democratic senator who savaged Jon Corzine at a high-profile Capitol Hill hearing this week had another reason to go hard on her former colleague — she recently pressed him for campaign contributions but didn’t get any.

“She would literally call once every two or three weeks,” one Corzine intimate said of Sen. Debbie Stabenow (DMich.).
“She called all the time.”

Stabenow, chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, had blasted the former senator and New Jersey governor Tuesday for his failure to explain what happened to $1.2 billion in missing customer money from his bankrupt firm, MF Global.

“This isn’t the Dark Ages,” she lectured. “MF Global didn’t keep their books with feather quills and dusty ledgers.”

Sources in Corzine’s inner circle said they were “stunned” and “amazed” by Stabenow’s attack.
The two had served together in the Senate, but Corzine hasn’t delivered with contributions in some time.

Dirty Debbie didn't get her dues on time from Crooked Jon, so she's sending a message to the rest of her fat-cat plutocrat bank-rollers: This could be you, if you don't keep bringing the Benjamins...

What's worse: Stabenow's refusal to stay bought, or Corzine's assumption that she was paid in full, and was thus safe from an attack from his "left" flank?

I mean, really. Just...yuk. It's like watching a brother and sister f*ck, then claw each other's eyes out afterwards, while still drenched in each other's sweat.

Sick porn? Something out of the animal kingdom?

No. Just business as usual at the United States Senate...