U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped

Must Eat Brains                      THE UN MONSTER THAT ATE THE WORLD U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped “     Democratic and Republican government officials warned this morning that a United Nations summit in December will lead to a virtual takeover of the Internet if proposals from China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are adopted.     [...]     “These are terrible ideas,” Rep. Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican, said during a U.S. House of Representatives hearing. They could allow “governments to monitor and restrict content or impose economic costs upon international data flows,” added Ambassador Philip Verveer, a deputy assistant secretary of state.      [...]     Called the World Conference on International Telecommunications, or WCIT, the summit will review a set of telecommunications regulations established in 1988, when home computers used dial-up modems, the Internet was primarily a university network, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a mere 4 years old.     [...]     Unless the U.S. and its allies can block these proposals, they “just might break the Internet by subjecting it to an international regulatory regime designed for old-fashioned telephone service,” Rep. Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican said. [FULL] Unless we stop this, we just have to bend over and take it from other ”    Via Dvorak

Virgin- Confirmed

Catharsis

Garbo

At The Cinema                            Garbo “ Like many of you, uh - senior agents,  I have immersed myself in WWII history. Like oil from a sunken freighter,  there's a seemingly endless supply of new stuff seeping out.   New to me, anyway.  For some time NetFlix has been pushing the film "Garbo" on me. I really enjoyed "Garbo Talks," and I love biographies, so today I queued it up.  This Garbo, however, turned out to be one Juan Pujol Garcia.. This Spaniard, and a double agent during WWII,  more than anyone else  allowed the Normandy invasion to be carried off properly.  A real pistol. Early on he went to the British embassy in Madrid and offered his services, in any capacity.  He was turned down.  So, he went to the Germans and told them he had ties in Britain, and offered his services to them.  They took him up on it.  Garcia (later named Garbo by the Brits, because he was the best actor they'd ever seen) set about setting up a network of spies all over Europe, and passing info to the Abwher (Nazi intelligence).  Except, all it was made up.  Everything.  He told them he was in London, but he'd never set foot in England, and was instead living in some Spanish fishing village, inventing  the agents, the information- all of it.  The Germans bought into it lock stock and barrel.  He tried three more times to work for the Allies, telling them that he was a trusted German spy, but was turned away.  What finally made them sit up and take notice was a false report he sent the Germans about a massive convoy launched from England to break the siege of Malta. The Germans countered with a huge convoy to intercept this non-existent armada and,  finally, the Brits thought, holy crap!  This guy could be useful.  It made me giggle like a school girl to watch how this played out.  The money the Germans payed him actually funded British intelligence during the war.  I love happy endings. ”

CNN to the rescue ...

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Holder stops Florida voter fraud purge

OBAMUNISM, The Party, Holder to Florida: halt non-citizen voter purge About 58 percent of those flagged as potential noncitizens are Hispanics!!! “ Previously: about 14 months ago an elections supervisor in southwest Florida, a fellow of insight, noted a substantial number of folks summoned for jury duty in his county were excused when they identified themselves as non-citizens. This struck the supervisor as important because potential jurors are dipped not from the pool of licensed drivers or from local utilities customers or even property taxpayers, but from among the ranks of registered voters. And, as Pasco's elections supervisor Brian Corley notes, "It's not a gray area. Either you're a citizen or you're not a citizen." [... halt non-citizen voter purge] DOJ’s written demand came hours after the agency refused to comment on the matter to The Miami Herald. It also followed a federal court ruling Thursday that struck down a Republican voter-registration law that a judge (Clinton appointee Robert Lewis Hinkle) found too onerous. So far, Florida has flagged 2,700 180,000 suspicious hits,and sent 2,700 to county elections supervisors, who have found the data and methodology to be flawed and problematic (and onerous?). The list of potential noncitizen voters –  many  of whom have turned out to be lawful citizens and voters – disproportionately hits minorities, especially Hispanics (OMFG!). About 58 percent of those flagged as potential noncitizens are Hispanics, Florida’s largest ethnic immigrant population, a Miami Herald analysis found. Hispanics make up 13 percent of the overall 11.3 million active registered voters. Independent voters and Democrats are the most likely to face being purged from the rolls. Republicans and non-Hispanic whites are the least likely. About 58 percent of those flagged as potential noncitizens are Hispanics ... is that all?  I'd have bet money on it being 100%.  Lost in all this is an inarguable fact — "One fraudulent voter is too many." ”

End of the manual shift ...

My life has shifted into it's all-over drive.  Sigh. Gearshift Menories

Crushed by his own what?

Overheard in the Office: RX: (Down the hall, reading aloud.) "'On the spot where Hollywood would someday grow, two vaqueros were crushing a priest to death with his own ώijήеряεςς.' How's that for the opening sentence of a novel?" Me: "His own what?!?" I'm pretty sure this was Tam's vision ... . A Freudian thing, perhaps? ”

Madison Moonbats and Red Commies

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Bloomberg "iron pipeline' argument debunked

Tails of the Gun ATF trace reports refute Bloomberg's ‘iron pipeline,’ raise 'Gunwalker' question “ The ATF have released  a report on tracing of recovered firearms encompassing “all individual states and territories for calendar year 2011.”   Lots of caveats, but the data strongly suggest that states like New York, where Mayor Bloomberg use the "iron pipeline' argument (guns from other states circumvent New York's draconian gun laws) are crap.  “ .The 2011 state and territory reports are posted on the ATF website, and contain representative data from which some general conclusions can nonetheless be derived. A case in point is illustrated in the report for New York, a state with strict gun laws ranked #4 in the nation by the Brady campaign. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is constantly decrying gun laws in other states in an attempt to bring all in line with New York City’s restrictive edicts, and using “flow of guns/iron pipeline” rhetoric to do it. Yet the “time-to-crime” documented in the ATF report shows a New York average of 13.70 years, as opposed to a national average of 11.20 years, suggesting “iron trickle” would be a more appropriate. ” The  Brady’s #1-rated California,  #2-ranked New Jersey, #3 Massachusetts, and #5 Hawaii had similar stats (albeit ironically, Hawaii's major supplier of out-of-state traced crime scene guns is none other than top-ranked California!).    Oh- one more thing about the ATF report. Information about the Mexico trace report,  important, particularly in determining if Fast and Furious “gunwalking” operations resulted in an artificially accelerated rate, was missing! ”

Occuoation

Angela Merkel arrives at Passport Control at Paris airport. "Nationality?" asks the immigration officer. "German," she replies. "Occupation?" "No, just here for a few days." Tim W

Is Boner this stooopid?

"We have met the enemy and it is the GOP" Republican leaders have already decided to close down the Fast and Furious investigation ... “ ... according to the man who broke the “Gunwalker” story a year and a half ago,  Sources in Washington, DC have told him (blogger and citizen reporter Mike Vanderboegh) that Republican leaders have already decided to close down the Fast and Furious investigation and halt contempt proceedings against Eric Holder, because “they (the GOP leadership) don’t think that they will suffer for [that] failure to follow through. They’re scared of Holder’s race card. . . they’re scared of Trayvon. They think if they let Issa fail, that it will only be a story in the blogosphere for a day . . . that they can weather it. . . .” Unfortunately, Vanderboegh makes it clear that he trusts the word of these sources “implicitly.” [Western Center for Journalism] I am not going to believe it.  Not until I hear it from a reliable source.  Not even John Boner, and he is a poseur on a level with Obama,  not even he could be that brazen, and that stupid.  If it is true,  the fallout could ignite a TeaParty jungle clearing mob response (good), or douse all fervor for the upcoming election.  UPDATE - Now there's this: Walmart Caves to Van Jones, Drops ALEC Support ”

Two Pictures

La la la la la ..... These two pictures landed on my desk and I couldn't help but be struck by the stark differences in priorities.

Scott Walker v. Obama

The Scott Walker Identity “ RUSH:  ... The unions -- I was gonna get to Scott Walker at some point in the stack, but I might as well touch on it briefly.  There's a couple of stories here in the stack about the unions losing strength in Wisconsin. "Republican Governor Scott Walker widened his lead over Democrat Tom Barrett to 7percentage points in a new poll."  It's less than a week.  Walker at 52.  Barrett is at 45.  Wall Street Journal:  "Wisconsin Unions See Ranks Drop Ahead of Recall Vote -- Public-employee unions in Wisconsin have experienced a dramatic drop in membership -- by more than half for the second-biggest union -- since a law championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker sharply curtailed their ability to bargain over wages and working conditions." This Wisconsin recall election, the Democrats, this is their election.  They demanded this.  It's a recall.  They started it. They wanted it. It was gonna be a proving ground. It was where they were gonna demonstrate the power of unions, public-sector employees.  They were gonna get rid of a Republican governor and his ideas, and the exact worst-case scenario is happening.  The Democrat National Committee has pulled all money out.  They are conceding already.  The big risk in Wisconsin, I'll tell you what it is.  The big risk in Wisconsin is that Walker voters get a sense of complacency, think this is over, and don't show up.  That's the biggest risk right now, and that's what the largest concern is.  But this election that the Democrats demanded, this has considerable ramifications for organized labor. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH:  The lesson in Wisconsin is that conservatism works.  Scott Walker has done everything that Obama says is impossible to do.  He cut spending and expanded the economy while lowering taxes and laying off no one.  It's amazing. [Full Rush Transcript] ”

Select-a-sex

Democrat or Bubonic Today's Plague Culture House rejects bill penalizing doctors for sex-selective abortions “ The House on Thursday rejected a Republican bill that would impose fines and prison terms on doctors who perform abortions for the sole purpose of controlling the gender of the child, a practice known as sex-selective abortion.  Red China, until quite recently, restricted families to just one child, and everyone wanted a boy.  So, if a girl was born she quite often had her head summarily smashed against a brick wall. The difference between that practice and sex-selective abortion is one only of degree. It seems to me then that this is a black and white issue, with  no shades of gray.  Obviously though, these Republicans, certainly they who voted and not absented themselves, disagreed.  McCarthy, Kevin (CA) No Vote Lewis, Jerry (CA) No Vote Mary Bono Mack (CA) NAY Young, Bill (FL) No Vote Dold, Bob (IL) NAY Burton, Dan (IN) No Vote Amash, Justin (MI) NAY Fortenberry, Jeffrey (NE) No Vote Guinta, Frank (NH) No Vote Bass, Charles “Charlie” (NH) NAY Paul, Ronald “Ron” (TX) NAY Hayworth, Nan (NY) NAY                                (source). I'll guess that Ron Paul, and maybe others objected, on stark Libertarian grounds, that the Feds have no bidness dictating to states.  However, the practice is nominally performed under the Roe v. Wade umbrella, so that's a specious, not to mention heinous, argument.  THE HILL article reports seven Republicans joined with Democrats in voting no, so I may have missed one. ”

Axelrod not only asshat getting stuffed

Smoking Cigar Here Boss        Obama is toast at this point   I  was drawn to the New York Times by Drudge's link to Axelrod’s Anti-Romney Message Gets Drowned Out, which turned out to be quite delicious. While it's way too early for me to go looking for this crap, there was an electoral map on the page, so I clicked it.  It took a millisecond for the mind to balance that sea of red against an Obama lead (217-206), but it did after noticing that the "Leaning Republican" states were very, very doable for Romney, and the sea of undecided votes held more than enough catchable fish.  I am officially declaring the race over.  Then, clicking on "The Race For the Senate"  link brought more  deliciousness.— even without Massachusetts, which is called a "toss-up" state. “ MASSACHUSSETTS Senator Scott P. Brown, a Republican, stunned the political class two years ago when he won a special election to fill the seat of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. His re-election bid is a critical piece of the Republican plan to win control of the Senate. He faces a strong challenge from Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard professor, who became a champion to Democrats when she set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the Obama administration. Say goodnight Harry.

Paterson- "He got away with it"

“A lot of people get away with a lot of things.” “ On his show yesterday, former governor of New York David Paterson suggested Barack Obama could be ineligible for the Oval Office but “got away” with it. “Even if he wasn’t born in the United States at this point,” Paterson said. “It’s kind of like he got away with it.” He continued, “A lot of people get away with a lot of things.” Paterson compared Obama’s actions to those of President Richard Nixon. How very quaint [from two years ago!]. ”

New York to Ban Sale of of Sugary Drinks

Nanny State - one regulation away from total bliss                        New York - is anyone proud to call these people countrymen?

Sierra Club's Eco Terrorism

GREEN CRIME The  Sierra Club, ECO Terrorists “ The media are finally catching up to America's shale natural gas boom, with even Fortune magazine waddling in with a cover story. But the bigger recent news is that one of the most powerful environmental lobbies, the Sierra Club, is mounting a major campaign to kill the industry. The battle plan is called "Beyond Natural Gas," and Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune announced the goal in an interview with the National Journal this month: "We're going to be preventing new gas plants from being built wherever we can." The big green lobbying machine has rolled out a new website ... [WSJ- Sierra Clubs Natural Gas] The Sierra Club are the People For the American Way (PFAW) of environmentalists.  Funded by ignorant squirrel loving Americans, and radical green-activists  who regularly respond to eco-threat fundraising letters with checks. They "Pride themselves On Liberal Constituency And Leadership." Their effect on the nation's economy has been devastating. ”

The Debt Generation

Nanny State - one regulation away from total bliss                        In 2008, the youth vote was overwhelmingly for Obama and helped elect him ... Whoa cuzzin ricky

Iran- Israels bitch

Iran Computers hit virus; "more harmful than the 2010 Stuxnet virus" “ Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab ZAO said the "Flame" virus was unprecedented both in terms of its size and complexity, possessing the ability to turn infected computers into all-purpose spying machines that can even suck information out of nearby cell phones. "This is on a completely different level," Kaspersky researcher Roel Schouwenberg said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "It can be used to spy on everything that a user is doing."  [9 News.com] The perpetrator, or perpetrators are unknown. *cough* ” cuzzin ricky