If All You See…

By William Teach August 4, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful train that everyone (else) should be forced to ride instead of fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, which wonders what happens when you scratch a liberal.

Read: If All You See… »

Posted in If All You See | 2 Comments | Trackback URL

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 4, 2013 – 9:38 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the once and future nation of the USA. This pinup is by Fiona Stephenson with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. White House Dossier wonders if President Obama could take a few minutes out from his multi-day birthday celebration
  2. Wake Up America features a horrid racial beating
  3. Traction Control features another phony scandal
  4. Doug Powers points out who the femenists left out
  5. The People’s Cube covers Seattle becoming non-offensive
  6. The Other McCain wonders what Lindsay Graham will do
  7. The Lonely Conservative has Ted Cruz explaining how to defund Obamacare
  8. The Jawa Report has fun facts about Islamic Jihadis
  9. The Daley Gator features a typical leftist race-carding buffoon
  10. Why not listen to Sister Toldjah on the radio discussing NC politics getting hammered?
  11. Raised On Hoecakes covers heavily weaponized cops taking on a dangerous criminal
  12. protein wisdom has the gun control playbook
  13. Patterico features a damning puff piece on Huma
  14. Maggie’s Notebook has info on the Nidal Hassan trial
  15. And last, but not least, House of Eratosthenes wonders if Warmists are idiots or criminals

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check outwhat I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

The posts do take a long time, so, if you want to send me your links for Rule 5 babeage or links, use ye olde email in the header bar (remove the NOSPAM part). Preferably, create the html link so I can copy and paste how you want it to read.

Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »

Posted in Patriotic Pinup | 5 Comments | Trackback URL

Surprise! $500 Million In “Green” Training Money Wasted

By William Teach August 4, 2013 – 8:44 am

I know, you’re pretty darned surprised. Who would have thought that so much money would be wasted on “green” projects by the Obama/Democrat Stimulus plan?

(Fox News) A federal audit shows that nearly a half-billion dollars in government funds was spent on training workers for so-called “green jobs.” The only problem is that not enough positions in the growing industry exist.

The findings — released in a June report by the Government Accountability Office — showed that only 55 percent of those trained were able to place in a new job, many of which were not technically green jobs. The $501 million in funding came from the 2009 stimulus law. The report also uncovered that the Department of Labor created a framework that led grantees to broadly interpret the program’s definition to include any job “that could be linked, directly or indirectly, to a beneficial outcome” which led to the gap between training programs and available green industry jobs.

Essentially, they were throwing money out into the wilds of private enterprise without any real knowledge of the marketplace, products, consumer interest, you know, basic economic and corporate decisions that all these folks in Government, who’ve mostly or solely spent their working lives in other than the private sector, have no idea about, except as academic notions.

“Basically, this is what can happen when you fund large programs amid much uncertainty and when there’s too little data available,” Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director for the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, told FoxNews.com.

And a president who’s virtually never worked a day in the private sector in his life, who hires people who’ve mostly spent their lives in academia and government.

“The GAO report is just more evidence that the administration has no clue what drives a successful economy and job growth,” said Paul Chesser, an associate fellow at the National Legal and Policy Center. “President Obama tried to build this economic sector, but the buyers didn’t come. And now after the initial flurry, the ‘green jobs’ are evaporating.”

By “evaporating”, I assume he means “really never appeared, but Obama campaign contributors got some nice money out of it”.

Speaking of job, James Pethokoukis wonders where the 5% unemployment rate that the Stimulus promised by July 2013 is

Of course, we now know conclusively that this prediction — based as it was on the pixiedust magic of Keynesian fiscal multipliers — was a total failure, one even beyond what the July job numbers suggest.

Much like Obama’s reliance on “green” jobs training for jobs that didn’t exist, but were supposed to magically appear just because some people were trained.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

Read: Surprise! $500 Million In “Green” Training Money Wasted »

Posted in Barry Obama, Economy, Enviroweenies | 7 Comments | Trackback URL

Shooting The Largest Caliber Rifle In The World

By William Teach August 3, 2013 – 2:11 pm

This is the .950 JDJ. Each bullet costs $40. Only three were ever made.

Read: Shooting The Largest Caliber Rifle In The World »

Posted in 2nd Amendment, Like, Gnarly, Dude | 3 Comments | Trackback URL

If All You See…

By William Teach August 3, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…are horrid beer cans causing the world to boil, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Yid With Lid, with a post on America’s most corrupt Congress Critter.

Read: If All You See… »

Posted in If All You See | 1 Comment | Trackback URL

And Now For The Delusional World Of Nancy Pelosi

By William Teach August 3, 2013 – 7:18 am

She says Obama is the practically the most non-partisan person ever

(Daily Caller) Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that President Obama is “one of the most practically non-partisan presidents” that she has ever seen in her career and that he “really is working” to forge a budget agreement.

“Here’s the thing — the president is one of the most practically non-partisan presidents I have seen in the White House. I’ve been there since Ronald Reagan, and he really is working to try to get some bipartisan agreement. They’ve been working very hard to try to get the Senate consensus or some agreement on how we can avoid a shutdown of government but also how you can even remove all doubt that we’re not going to honor the full faith in credit of the United States of America by lifting the debt ceiling,” Pelosi said Friday in an interview with the USA Today editorial board.

Apparently Nancy has missed most of Obama’s speeches and Weekly Addresses, where he constantly Blames Congressional Republicans, excoriates them, denigrates them, etc and so on, to the point that he’s no longer going after just the elected Republicans, but everyone who votes for them. Perhaps she missed when he referred to TEA Party members as “teabaggers”. Perhaps she’s missed his whole agenda.

“The president didn’t postpone the mandate. He postponed the penalties for not engaging in the mandate,” Pelosi said.

She, um, ah, well, I don’t even know how to respond to this level of delusion. Do you?

We had to pass the Affordable Care Act, even if everybody loved their health care and they loved their insurance company, which they didn’t, but even if they did, the costs were unsustainable to individuals, to families, to businesses, to our country’s competitiveness in the world. (from the USA Today link)

Anyone getting the feeling that if you like you health insurance plan you won’t be able to keep it, and that was intentional, despite all the protestations from Obama and the Dems?

Read: And Now For The Delusional World Of Nancy Pelosi »

Posted in Beyond Moonbat, Democrats, Queen Nancy | 4 Comments | Trackback URL

Obama Surveillance State: FBI Putting Pressure On Internet Providers To Install Metadata Software

By William Teach August 3, 2013 – 7:00 am

Eh, this is probably just one of those “phony scandals” we keep hearing about

(CNET) The U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies’ internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts.

FBI officials have been sparring with carriers, a process that has on occasion included threats of contempt of court, in a bid to deploy government-provided software capable of intercepting and analyzing entire communications streams. The FBI’s legal position during these discussions is that the software’s real-time interception of metadata is authorized under the Patriot Act.

Attempts by the FBI to install what it internally refers to as “port reader” software, which have not been previously disclosed, were described to CNET in interviews over the last few weeks. One former government official said the software used to be known internally as the “harvesting program.”

And there’s virtually nothing a judge can do to stop this, although the FBI software will capture way more than is allowed by law, and providers are concerned with exactly what the software can further capture without being told. Make sure to read the whole thing.

And, speaking of “phone scandals”, Chump mentions this again in his weekly address to other Democrats, because, as we all know, the deaths of 4 Americans, murdered by Islamic extremists in Benghazi, and the deaths of over 200 Mexicans, including children, along with at least two US federal agents, are “phony”.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

Read: Obama Surveillance State: FBI Putting Pressure On Internet Providers To Install Metadata Software »

Posted in Barry Obama, Current Affairs | 4 Comments | Trackback URL

House Votes To Stop Any White House Emplaced Carbon Tax

By William Teach August 2, 2013 – 4:54 pm

Of course, the Democrat run US Senate will never even allow a vote on this

(The Hill) The House approved an amendment to legislation Friday that would prevent the White House from imposing a carbon tax without congressional approval.

The lower chamber agreed to Rep. Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) amendment by a 237-176 vote, with 12 Democrats crossing the aisle to support it.

The amendment was added to an underlying bill that would require Congress to OK regulations that carry a $100 million economic impact or greater. That bill is dead in its tracks in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and the White House has threatened to veto it.

As The Hill notes, the vote does serve the purpose of putting Democrats on record for supporting a “carbon” tax.

Read: House Votes To Stop Any White House Emplaced Carbon Tax »

Posted in Carbon Credits, Democrats, Global Warming | 1 Comment | Trackback URL

If All You See…

By William Teach August 2, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrid plastic cup destroying biodiversity which means we need a carbon tax, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post noting that Obama’s DREAM policy is illegal.

Read: If All You See… »

Posted in If All You See | 1 Comment | Trackback URL

“With The Recovery Entering Its Fifth Year…”

By William Teach August 2, 2013 – 10:04 am

We certainly should recall that “it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it is informative to consider each report in the context of other data that are becoming available.”

(Bloomberg) Employers added fewer workers than anticipated in July even as the U.S. jobless rate dropped to 7.4 percent, indicating uneven progress in the labor market.

The 162,000 increase in payrolls last month was the smallest in four months and followed a revised 188,000 rise in June that was less than initially estimated, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The median forecast of 93 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 185,000 gain. Workers spent fewer hours on the job and hourly earnings fell for the first time since October. …

So, why did the jobless rate drop? Good question

The labor participation rate dropped to 63.4 percent from 63.5 percent.

So, even more people dropping out of the jobs market in despair.

(White House) With the recovery entering its fifth year, we need to build on the progress we have made so far and now is not the time for Washington to impose self-inflicted wounds.

The only progress has been the ever diminishing labor participation rate and the increasing number of people in low wage part time positions.

The across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester continue to be a drag on the economy now and in the future. The Administration continues to urge Congress to replace the sequester with balanced deficit reduction, and promote the investments our economy needs to put more Americans back to work, such as by rebuilding our roads and bridges.

And excuse in a storm, eh? It’s always something with this crowd, except for the notion that Mr. Obama’s policies have been a disaster. And, as Erika Johnson points out, hourly earnings and the length of the time worked decreased. The first step in fixing a problem is admitting you have a problem. The second step is diagnosing what the root problem(s) is. So, 5 years into the recovery the economy stagnates along. Let’s not forget that the 2nd quarter GDP was an anemic 1.7%, following a 1st quarter GDP of 1%.

This all seems to be a repeat of the Big Government policies of FDR

The slow economic recovery made possible by New Deal programs suffers a setback as unemployment rises. FDR’s detractors call it the start of the “Roosevelt recession.”

That was March, 1937, 5 years after Roosevelt was first elected. Then Congress gave him more money to spend, and unemployment stayed high. It wasn’t until WWII rolled around that things started to change. Let’s home we don’t need the same thing.

Read: “With The Recovery Entering Its Fifth Year…” »

Posted in Barry Obama, Economy | 1 Comment | Trackback URL
Pirate's Cove