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The biggest right-wing propaganda coup of the last twenty years has been convincing people like you that anyone to the left of the Republican Party wants a communist overthrow of the United States. It's just... not true. At all. In any way.

"Occupy Chicago" Protesters CHEER the Communists (Video)

Nazis and Communists Throw Their Support Behind Occupy Wall Street Movements (Updated)

Occupy L.A. Speaker: Violence will be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals

'Here in my country the "Occupy .+ street" event was lead by the local communist party`, GreatBunzinni

Would you please stop typing that kind of bullshit here on slashdot .

Just because the truth stinks doesn't mean it's bullshit.

"Occupy Chicago" Protesters CHEER the Communists (Video)

Nazis and Communists Throw Their Support Behind Occupy Wall Street Movements (Updated)

Occupy L.A. Speaker: Violence will be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals

"Occupy Wall Street" is a fringe movement spouting tired, old, leftist dogma and hate. The only thing it has in common with the "Arab Spring" is that there are threads of anti-Semitism running through both.

Occupy Wall Street Goes Global

Sunday Reflection: Protestors should try occupying reality for real change

Right now, idealistic young Americans are gathered together to fight injustice and build a better world.
Sure, they're a little dirty, and maybe some of their language is a bit rough, but they've left behind family and friends, as well as the creature comforts the rest of us take for granted, to make a stand for what they believe in.

It's just too bad that today the mainstream media is focusing on the spoiled, incoherent clowns of Occupy Wall Street and ignoring our young fighting men and women.

The mainstream media's cameras can't get enough of these pierced protesters, with their crudely written signs proclaiming their unfocused discontent and general anger at society's selfishness in failing to satisfy their every want and desire.

Of course, those cameras discreetly turn away when the placards demanding socialist revolution and blaming the Jews come out. The protesters' function is to demonstrate inchoate outrage simply by being there. When they start talking, they start alienating the normals.

These are Potemkin protesters, community organized by government worker unions to allow liberal Democrats a way to triangulate to the center next year. Only the rebel media outfits will actually stick a mic in the protesters' dirty faces and let them talk.

What comes out is a confused hash of gripes about their banks, complaints about their student loans, and whining about the quality of their jobs.

Tragically, graduates of Ivy League universities brandishing master's degrees in minority women's studies are not getting jobs that pay enough to service their $150,000 student loans. Who could have seen that coming?

PICKET: Occupy Wall Street protesters post manifesto of 'demands'

Nazis and Communists Throw Their Support Behind Occupy Wall Street Movements (Updated)

Occupy L.A. Speaker: Violence will be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals

Video: Occupy Portland Protesters Sing “F*ck the USA”

THOUSANDS Of Obama-Endorsed “Occupy Chicago” Protesters CHEER the Communists (Video)

Wall Street: Occupied by Anti-Semites?

Political party paying Occupy Wall Street protesters?

More Anti-Semitism at Occupy Los Angeles

Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents

‘Occupy’ protesters branch out

"Occupy Wall Street" is a fringe movement spouting tired, old, leftist dogma and hate. The only thing it has in common with the "Arab Spring" is that there are threads of anti-Semitism running through both.

Occupy Wall Street Goes Global

Sunday Reflection: Protestors should try occupying reality for real change

Right now, idealistic young Americans are gathered together to fight injustice and build a better world.
Sure, they're a little dirty, and maybe some of their language is a bit rough, but they've left behind family and friends, as well as the creature comforts the rest of us take for granted, to make a stand for what they believe in.

It's just too bad that today the mainstream media is focusing on the spoiled, incoherent clowns of Occupy Wall Street and ignoring our young fighting men and women.

The mainstream media's cameras can't get enough of these pierced protesters, with their crudely written signs proclaiming their unfocused discontent and general anger at society's selfishness in failing to satisfy their every want and desire.

Of course, those cameras discreetly turn away when the placards demanding socialist revolution and blaming the Jews come out. The protesters' function is to demonstrate inchoate outrage simply by being there. When they start talking, they start alienating the normals.

These are Potemkin protesters, community organized by government worker unions to allow liberal Democrats a way to triangulate to the center next year. Only the rebel media outfits will actually stick a mic in the protesters' dirty faces and let them talk.

What comes out is a confused hash of gripes about their banks, complaints about their student loans, and whining about the quality of their jobs.

Tragically, graduates of Ivy League universities brandishing master's degrees in minority women's studies are not getting jobs that pay enough to service their $150,000 student loans. Who could have seen that coming?

PICKET: Occupy Wall Street protesters post manifesto of 'demands'

Nazis and Communists Throw Their Support Behind Occupy Wall Street Movements (Updated)

Occupy L.A. Speaker: Violence will be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals

Video: Occupy Portland Protesters Sing “F*ck the USA”

THOUSANDS Of Obama-Endorsed “Occupy Chicago” Protesters CHEER the Communists (Video)

Wall Street: Occupied by Anti-Semites?

Political party paying Occupy Wall Street protesters?

More Anti-Semitism at Occupy Los Angeles

Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents

‘Occupy’ protesters branch out

Thinking about it a bit more, don't you find it problematic that you aren't so much agreeing to terms as you are signing a blank piece of paper? That is what it amounts to from the person agreeing to terms. No real appeal process either. Reminds me a bit about the libertarian law blogger who had her account suspended by Google a while back: http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/120678/

Someone can probably google up a better link on that. It's interesting reading, not least of all because she is a libertarian.

Not that I'm expect much in the way of impartiality here, but...

"During the Bush Administration"? There's a subtle bit of tweaking going on there... it was passed by a Democratically-controlled Congress (albeit with a Republican pushing it, who has now mea culpa'd and is leading the drive to repeal it) and stuck in a 300 page energy bill.

Background:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-10/need-a-light-bulb-uncle-sam-gets-to-choose-virginia-postrel.html

And for more of the right-ward/libertarian spin on why this is a dumb idea, just keep scrolling:
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/?s=bulb

Now, PR people do understand this, and they do sometimes drop hit pieces. But the natural defense mechanism is that there are people who actively follow this stuff and look for those kinds of shenanigans. For example, here's a story that accuses the Obama administration of feeding a story to the WaPo. When PR people try to stir up a story, it's very easy to be caught out, so that naturally limits them to dropping a few hints.

The article is over five years old, but I think it still is quite applicable today: The Submarine. The trick seems to be having awareness of this manipulation, looking for it, and being able to communicate those findings. Politics breeds that kind of watchdog (especially in the current environment). But I don't think you'll find it in every arena on every issue.

That's not to say your view lacks insight. I suspect there is a lot of news that is news because it was in the news - especially within tech. But I also suspect that simply leaves tech news wide open to manipulation either by priming the pump or providing information to feed the cycle beneficial to your message. And unlike the political arena, tech watchdogs rarely become the news which greatly reduces the effectiveness of uncovering manipulation.

Is it me, or is the FUD campaigns on Android on a dramatic increase? It seems coordinated.

I can't prove a negative, but there are natural mechanisms that explain this, just as natural mechanisms explain how birds flock without some bird-master pulling their strings.

Having followed politics for 15 years, there's very little active coordination in the media. It is, however, a relatively insular culture of people who have a much narrower set of opinions than the larger culture and often aren't cognizant of this. And there are media leaders, such as the NY Times, that other smaller operations look to when judging the newsworthiness of a subject. This causes the most problematic kind of bias, that of important stories that don't get reported.

The tech news is mostly the same, though they are far more susceptible to sponsors in industry withdrawing ad dollars. And, again, the problematic bias is usually of important stories that don't get reported out of fear of offending sponsors.

If there are a few reports published that are critical of Android, it becomes newsworthy simply by being in the news. That's the simple explanation of why you see a few reports and then a flood, and this increase is how the progression of any big story happens.

Now, PR people do understand this, and they do sometimes drop hit pieces. But the natural defense mechanism is that there are people who actively follow this stuff and look for those kinds of shenanigans. For example, here's a story that accuses the Obama administration of feeding a story to the WaPo. When PR people try to stir up a story, it's very easy to be caught out, so that naturally limits them to dropping a few hints.

So, yes, there could be a PR firm quietly spreading FUD stories. This doesn't match that profile; usually they use anonymous sources, since you can't affect the news cycle very quickly with a year-long study. But they can't force papers to run with their press releases and anonymous leaks: they can influence, but not coordinate.

Their words, not mine

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/the_war_on_phot.html
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/115726/
http://www.google.com/search?q=war+against+photography

Actually, we already know that at least some Libyan rebels are from al-Qaeda. So you can sleep soundly - your government is helping "al-Qaeda style organization" get into power (I doubt they ask if the recipients are al-Qaeda members when they ship weapons to rebels).

We also know that many rebels are racist towards Black Africans (note that this doesn't have anything to do with "black mercenaries" - we're talking about people from southern Libya who have been citizens for several generations). Interestingly enough, these same folk seem to have some particular reasons for disliking Qaddafi.

Terrorists and foreign intelligence services will also be doing this to use against the United States and its allies, not just journalists. Wikileaks has provided the raw material for data mining to find things the US doesn't even realize about itself, or its allies. There is no surprise that Bradley Manning has been charged with aiding the enemy.

The fallout continues, hopefully it won't be literally.

Al-Qaeda Already Using Wikileaks Material Against Us
Taliban Study WikiLeaks to Hunt Informants
Wikileaks: US will have to reshuffle diplomats following revelations
'They're informants... if they get killed, they deserve it': New book reveals shocking disregard of Julian Assange towards Afghans named in WikiLeaks cables

Since I can anticipate the follow ups:
No, Wikileaks didn't do an adequate job of scrubbing the documents of names at various points which is why they are useful to the Taliban and other groups building death lists.
Yes, I have seen reports of people being killed due to Wikileaks publishing their name, you just have to dig a lot to find them. For some reason it doesn't seem to be a popular news item. Go figure.
Oversight of US diplomacy, military, and intelligence activity is the role of the Congress elected by voters.

Even if nobody was killed, Wikileaks has resulted in a significant disruption to US diplomacy and antiterrorism efforts. (You pull out informants due to their cover being blown and you lose valuable intelligence.)

Poll finds that more Americans oppose WikiLeaks

WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly think that WikiLeaks is doing more harm than good by releasing classified U.S. diplomatic cables, and they want to see the people behind it prosecuted, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll.

"Clearly people are very unhappy with it," said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., which conducted the national poll.

The survey found that 70 percent of Americans think the leaks are doing more harm than good and want those who publish the secrets to be prosecuted.

What would happen if there were, just for arguments sake, dissident Americans........ Pause..

For the sake of argument? You don't think there are people engaged in dissent? Really? Well, there are dissenters of many flavors, from the fringe to more main stream.

And guess what? They have the same option as everybody else - they go into the voting booth and vote for the party of their choice, just like the rest of America. If they don't like the local laws, they can try to change them or move. (Massachusetts has state run health care, California is engaging in an interesting physics experiment - can financial implosions lead to the formation of a black hole, Texas is generating a disproportionate share of jobs, for a few possible destinations. Every state has its unique charms.)

In the meantime, they publish magazine articles, books and web sites, radio, as well as make use of other media.

If they engage in terrorism that kills people, they get hunted down like dogs, until they get friends.

Really, is this news to you? You probably should have paused earlier.

What would happen if there were, just for arguments sake, dissident Americans........ Pause..

For the sake of argument? You don't think there are people engaged in dissent? Really? Well, there are dissenters of many flavors, from the fringe to more main stream.

And guess what? They have the same option as everybody else - they go into the voting booth and vote for the party of their choice, just like the rest of America. If they don't like the local laws, they can try to change them or move. (Massachusetts has state run health care, California is engaging in an interesting physics experiment - can financial implosions lead to the formation of a black hole, Texas is generating a disproportionate share of jobs, for a few possible destinations. Every state has its unique charms.)

In the meantime, they publish magazine articles, books and web sites, radio, as well as make use of other media.

If they engage in terrorism that kills people, they get hunted down like dogs, until they get friends.

Really, is this news to you? You probably should have paused earlier.

What would happen if there were, just for arguments sake, dissident Americans........ Pause..

For the sake of argument? You don't think there are people engaged in dissent? Really? Well, there are dissenters of many flavors, from the fringe to more main stream.

And guess what? They have the same option as everybody else - they go into the voting booth and vote for the party of their choice, just like the rest of America. If they don't like the local laws, they can try to change them or move. (Massachusetts has state run health care, California is engaging in an interesting physics experiment - can financial implosions lead to the formation of a black hole, Texas is generating a disproportionate share of jobs, for a few possible destinations. Every state has its unique charms.)

In the meantime, they publish magazine articles, books and web sites, radio, as well as make use of other media.

If they engage in terrorism that kills people, they get hunted down like dogs, until they get friends.

Really, is this news to you? You probably should have paused earlier.

What would happen if there were, just for arguments sake, dissident Americans........ Pause..

For the sake of argument? You don't think there are people engaged in dissent? Really? Well, there are dissenters of many flavors, from the fringe to more main stream.

And guess what? They have the same option as everybody else - they go into the voting booth and vote for the party of their choice, just like the rest of America. If they don't like the local laws, they can try to change them or move. (Massachusetts has state run health care, California is engaging in an interesting physics experiment - can financial implosions lead to the formation of a black hole, Texas is generating a disproportionate share of jobs, for a few possible destinations. Every state has its unique charms.)

In the meantime, they publish magazine articles, books and web sites, radio, as well as make use of other media.

If they engage in terrorism that kills people, they get hunted down like dogs, until they get friends.

Really, is this news to you? You probably should have paused earlier.

0) I never heard about any campaign stop in Seattle, and I live in the Seattle area. Could you please post a link reference so I can read about this?

1) Why don't we let Slashdot readers click on the link below, look at the photo, and decide how pasty-white those legs are for themselves. They don't look suspiciously white to me, and cell phone cameras aren't the best for accurate color, so you definitely haven't persuaded me on this point.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/29/weinergate-married-congressmans-twitter-account-shares-lewd-photo/

3) I only said the EXIF data shows it was a Blackberry; I said nothing about model.

What camera puts the string "Rim Exif Version 1.00a" other than a Research In Motion Blackberry?

Source: http://wireupdate.com/joereport/news/breaking-congressman-anthony-weiner-x-rated-photos-internet-cache-files-recovered/

5) I find it entertaining that the one point I actually provided a link reference for is the one where you claimed I have no reference. Please click on my provided link.

I haven't researched this myself. If you have a link that shows why he was following random young women, please share it. Maybe he rolls a pair of percentile dice, and follows anyone for whom he rolls "00"?

And, you were remarkably quick to claim that I make up information. To me, that means you just called me a liar. That's rather rude and insulting, and it is not winning me over to your point of view.

Tell me, do you have any idea who I am? Have you read a whole bunch of my postings on Slashdot and formed this as a considered opinion, or do you just feel that it's no big deal to call other people liars?

7) In the Fox video embedded here, he does say "I was tweeting about hockey at the time, when this all happened." About 3:21 in the video. No, the timestamps show that the photo was posted and several minutes later he tweeted about hockey.

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/06/01/videos-anthony-weiners-disastrous-media-tour/

But you know what, that is sufficiently vague that I don't really care about it. I'm much more convinced by the weird evasions about whether it is he in the photo.

They will be caught, and they will face prison time.

To which I can only say: hey, let's call in the FBI. They can get a search warrant, look at the server logs, and find the IP address from which the photo was sent.

According to the simple theory, the IP address will point right at Anthony Weiner's phone. Some other IP address, perhaps from a public place, would cast reasonable doubt over this theory.

Anthony Weiner, as a sitting member of Congress, ought to be taking this seriously if the story is as he claims.

Either you have a touching faith in Anthony Weiner, or else you are just cynically trolling me. Either way, you won't be swayed by any opinions or facts I might offer. And either way, you called me a liar. So, we're done.

Have a nice life.

steveha

Granted it's hard to define a movement with no membership requirements, but there's plenty of nutters in there to make the rest seem a bit dodgy. .

It's pretty easy to identify the majority of the "dodgy" part of the Tea Party movement.

Dems who created fake Tea Party candidates arraigned in Michigan
Who’s Behind the ‘Crash the Tea Party’ Website?
Democrats Embarrassed by Campaign Tricks
Liberal Orgs, Unions Funneling Money to Anti-Tea Party Group

Does anybody actually take the tea party seriously?

It looks like it, yes.

The National Review Institute has obliged Representative Waters, commissioning McLaughlin & Associates to take a detailed look at tea partiers: both the 6 percent of the 1,000 likely voters polled in mid-January who told McLaughlin that they had participated in tea-party rallies and the additional 47 percent who said they “have not participated in a tea party protest but . . . generally agree with the reasons for those protests.” The results dispel a number of myths.

The first is that the tea partiers are driven by racial animus against the president. Actually, a third of the people who participated in tea-party rallies say that they approve of Obama’s performance in office and a fifth say that they voted for him in 2008. Five percent of them are black, 11 percent Hispanic. Of those who agree with the protests, 29 percent approve of Obama’s performance. Waters and Krugman can rest easy.

The second myth is that the tea partiers are unpopular. Krugman wrote last April that the tea parties “have been the subject of considerable mockery, and rightly so,” and Brooks speculated that “the tea-party tendency” might “be the ruin of the Republican party, pulling it in an angry direction that suburban voters will not tolerate.” Some Republican officials worry that media criticism and Democrats’ attacks on the activists have made it politically risky to associate themselves with the tea-party movement.

The polls do not bear out this fear. Most voters don’t consider themselves well-informed about the tea parties, but have a favorable view. As noted already, 53 percent of the electorate look sympathetically on the tea parties. McLaughlin also asked likely voters which characterization of the tea parties they leaned toward: an “anti-government, fringe organization that is driven by anger” or a group of “citizens concerned about the country’s economic future.” A majority of 57 percent chose the benign characterization while only 19 percent disagreed. Even a plurality of self-identified liberals went with “concern” rather than “anger.” -- The Coming Tea-Party Election

Party Smartly

Japan Tsunami = massive natural disaster - GUN TOTING POPULATION -> no looting & roving gangs -> no murder, assault -> no need for way to "protect" self and family

Thai Tsunami = massive natural disaster - GUN TOTING POPULATION -> no looting & roving gangs -> no murder, assault -> no need for way to "protect" self and family

See a pattern here?

Yes, I do see a pattern - you either don't know what you are talking about or are making things up.

There was looting in Thailand after the 2004 Tsunami (and after their recent unrest), and in Japan now.

Thailand 2004: Thai looters cash in on tsunami destruction
Thailand 2010: Thai forces to fire on looters and arsonists
Japan 2011: Japan earthquake: Looting reported by desperate survivors

Now, is it firearms that causes people to form mobs with ill intent? Apparently not as they will form with makeshift weapons:

Recently in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, dozens of men, armed with machetes and make-shift weapons, broke into and looted stores along the capital's main commercial street. Natural Disasters in Chile and Haiti the Psychology of Looting

And what of Sweden, who lost a number of citizens in the 2004 disaster in Thailand?

Even famously law-abiding Sweden and Norway have been hit by scammers who have robbed and looted the homes of tourists who vanished in the chaos.

"It is, unfortunately, a reality that people who are known to be missing . . . have had their homes gone through and partly emptied," Swedish State Secretary Lars Danielsson said.......

Fearing an outbreak of looting akin to what occurred after the 1994 sinking of the ferryboat Estonia that killed 551 Swedes, police refused to release the names of the dead and missing. Somehow, though, the names got out, and now police are standing watch over hundreds of homes scattered across the country. Gangs pillage tsunami villages, stealing corpses & selling orphans

And more of the same: Robbery, rape and kidnap

Sri Lanka Churches Worried about Looting in Tsunami-hit Areas

Referring to the looters, the Sri Lanka church council said: "We appeal to them to kindly desist from such dastardly conduct and join with the several who are helping those in need," as it urged more church volunteers and others to join in the relief work.

The criticism came after reports that thugs were looting homes of some tsunami victims and rapists were preying on homeless survivors.

"We have received reports of incidents of rape, gang rape, molestation and physical abuse of women and girls in the course of unsupervised rescue operations," the Women and Media Collective group in Sri Lanka was quoted saying by the Reuters news agency.

But don't only bad people have guns? No. For example, Dr. Martin Luther King owned guns for protection.

I also suggest that you become clear on this point: Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone . This has been the law for quite some time.

You can't necessarily count on the police:

Most of your post is actually pretty reasonable, but I'm going to pick a bone or two anyway.

While he was paying in, he enjoyed a lower crime rate and other benefits that comes from not throwing people to the street to do whatever they imagine in order to survive.

Crime rate and unemployment aren't linked .

A good, decent person doesn't become a desperate criminal when they lose their job, and a degenerate crook probably isn't all that employable anyway. Now you could argue that the presence of the benefits you (rightly) advocate is the reason they're not related, but I'd expect to see some sort of link, even if minor due to benefits.

I used to think as you did. Then I was in his position and found it wasn't as easy as pulling yourself up by your boot straps and doing something. Trust me, walk into a buger hut with a masters in anything and try to get a job flipping burgers. Not only is the pay much lower then you would get staying home, they are going to look at you like you are crazy and laugh you out the door.

This seems to reflect a bit of a peasant's mentality, if you'll allow me a bit of rhetorical flourish. Asking someone else for a job isn't the only way to make money.

When you work for someone else, you're relying on them to create or discover a market for their product or services, arrange the skills & implements required to fill that need, and then sell that need to the customers. When you're an employee, you only perform the function after all those 'employer' tasks are done, and now the product needs to be delivered.

Now there's nothing wrong with that, unless you think you are only capable of performing the end-stage labor to deliver the product. That's what I'm calling the 'peasant mentality'- the underlying belief that you are only good enough to be a cog in someone else's machine.

When I was in college I hooked up with one of those student painting companies during the summers. I hired people, I sold house painting contracts, I trained my employees, and I oversaw painting jobs, and collected the final payments. The franchise company taught me how to paint, how to sell, and provided me with some service links for supplies, payroll processing and the like.

At the end of the day, it was still up to me to deliver the results, get the customer, make sure the house got painted, and keep my guys working so I could keep paying them.

Honestly I was terrible at it until my third year (given that it was a summer thing, it was 8 months of 'practice' before I proficient.)

Now I'm a well-paid cog in someone else's machine, but the experience was invaluable- because it taught me that I have options, and that I can find ways to sell my services without having to work for someone else.

This provides me with a great deal of confidence, that when combined with financial modesty, helps me know that I don't need my current job. Since I don't need the job, I don't feel like a wage slave, so I work to be good at it and deliver results. Since I don't need the job, I can be honest (though diplomatic) at all times, and not worry about covering my ass or kissing the right ass.

Those factors make me a valuable employee, and higher-paying positions have opened easily for me.

And pardon me, the left doesn't specialize in slander, hate speech and distorted ideologies.

I didn't realize that you were such a comedian. Have you ever considered taking that act to Vegas?

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco

Sirhan Sirhan dedication backfires on Bill Ayers 36 years later

Acid Rhetoric Flashbacks

SEIU protesters descend on bank exec’s home, terrifying his son

Leftist groups plan a riot as Oakland boards up downtown

The Manchurian Candidate

Are Communists (or neo-Communists) Dangerous?

The Surreal World of the Progressive Left

Encounters with the Left

5 Reasons the Environmentalists’ 1010 Fantasy Film of Blowing Up Non-Conformists Is Bigger Than You Think

Extreme BDS watch: Vermont group wants to overthrow the Bush administration

Dude, you really need to find a legitimate news site. The paranoid rantings of those couple of sites are WAY off the deep end.

Thanks for the Michelle Malkin link, tho. Amazing amount of delusion coming from one source. Great stuff.

And pardon me, the left doesn't specialize in slander, hate speech and distorted ideologies.

I didn't realize that you were such a comedian. Have you ever considered taking that act to Vegas?

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco

Sirhan Sirhan dedication backfires on Bill Ayers 36 years later

Acid Rhetoric Flashbacks

SEIU protesters descend on bank exec’s home, terrifying his son

Leftist groups plan a riot as Oakland boards up downtown

The Manchurian Candidate

Are Communists (or neo-Communists) Dangerous?

The Surreal World of the Progressive Left

Encounters with the Left

5 Reasons the Environmentalists’ 1010 Fantasy Film of Blowing Up Non-Conformists Is Bigger Than You Think

Extreme BDS watch: Vermont group wants to overthrow the Bush administration

Dude, you really need to find a legitimate news site. The paranoid rantings of those couple of sites are WAY off the deep end.

Thanks for the Michelle Malkin link, tho. Amazing amount of delusion coming from one source. Great stuff.

And pardon me, the left doesn't specialize in slander, hate speech and distorted ideologies.

I didn't realize that you were such a comedian. Have you ever considered taking that act to Vegas?

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco

Sirhan Sirhan dedication backfires on Bill Ayers 36 years later

Acid Rhetoric Flashbacks

SEIU protesters descend on bank exec’s home, terrifying his son

Leftist groups plan a riot as Oakland boards up downtown

The Manchurian Candidate

Are Communists (or neo-Communists) Dangerous?

The Surreal World of the Progressive Left

Encounters with the Left

5 Reasons the Environmentalists’ 1010 Fantasy Film of Blowing Up Non-Conformists Is Bigger Than You Think

Extreme BDS watch: Vermont group wants to overthrow the Bush administration

Dude, you really need to find a legitimate news site. The paranoid rantings of those couple of sites are WAY off the deep end.

Thanks for the Michelle Malkin link, tho. Amazing amount of delusion coming from one source. Great stuff.

And pardon me, the left doesn't specialize in slander, hate speech and distorted ideologies.

I didn't realize that you were such a comedian. Have you ever considered taking that act to Vegas?

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco

Sirhan Sirhan dedication backfires on Bill Ayers 36 years later

Acid Rhetoric Flashbacks

SEIU protesters descend on bank exec’s home, terrifying his son

Leftist groups plan a riot as Oakland boards up downtown

The Manchurian Candidate

Are Communists (or neo-Communists) Dangerous?

The Surreal World of the Progressive Left

Encounters with the Left

5 Reasons the Environmentalists’ 1010 Fantasy Film of Blowing Up Non-Conformists Is Bigger Than You Think

Extreme BDS watch: Vermont group wants to overthrow the Bush administration

Dude, you really need to find a legitimate news site. The paranoid rantings of those couple of sites are WAY off the deep end.

Thanks for the Michelle Malkin link, tho. Amazing amount of delusion coming from one source. Great stuff.

And pardon me, the left doesn't specialize in slander, hate speech and distorted ideologies.

I didn't realize that you were such a comedian. Have you ever considered taking that act to Vegas?

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco

Sirhan Sirhan dedication backfires on Bill Ayers 36 years later

Acid Rhetoric Flashbacks

SEIU protesters descend on bank exec’s home, terrifying his son

Leftist groups plan a riot as Oakland boards up downtown

The Manchurian Candidate

Are Communists (or neo-Communists) Dangerous?

The Surreal World of the Progressive Left

Encounters with the Left

5 Reasons the Environmentalists’ 1010 Fantasy Film of Blowing Up Non-Conformists Is Bigger Than You Think

Extreme BDS watch: Vermont group wants to overthrow the Bush administration

And pardon me, the left doesn't specialize in slander, hate speech and distorted ideologies.

I didn't realize that you were such a comedian. Have you ever considered taking that act to Vegas?

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco

Sirhan Sirhan dedication backfires on Bill Ayers 36 years later

Acid Rhetoric Flashbacks

SEIU protesters descend on bank exec’s home, terrifying his son

Leftist groups plan a riot as Oakland boards up downtown

The Manchurian Candidate

Are Communists (or neo-Communists) Dangerous?

The Surreal World of the Progressive Left

Encounters with the Left

5 Reasons the Environmentalists’ 1010 Fantasy Film of Blowing Up Non-Conformists Is Bigger Than You Think

Extreme BDS watch: Vermont group wants to overthrow the Bush administration

And pardon me, the left doesn't specialize in slander, hate speech and distorted ideologies.

I didn't realize that you were such a comedian. Have you ever considered taking that act to Vegas?

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco

Sirhan Sirhan dedication backfires on Bill Ayers 36 years later

Acid Rhetoric Flashbacks

SEIU protesters descend on bank exec’s home, terrifying his son

Leftist groups plan a riot as Oakland boards up downtown

The Manchurian Candidate

Are Communists (or neo-Communists) Dangerous?

The Surreal World of the Progressive Left

Encounters with the Left

5 Reasons the Environmentalists’ 1010 Fantasy Film of Blowing Up Non-Conformists Is Bigger Than You Think

Extreme BDS watch: Vermont group wants to overthrow the Bush administration

And pardon me, the left doesn't specialize in slander, hate speech and distorted ideologies.

I didn't realize that you were such a comedian. Have you ever considered taking that act to Vegas?

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco

Sirhan Sirhan dedication backfires on Bill Ayers 36 years later

Acid Rhetoric Flashbacks

SEIU protesters descend on bank exec’s home, terrifying his son

Leftist groups plan a riot as Oakland boards up downtown

The Manchurian Candidate

Are Communists (or neo-Communists) Dangerous?

The Surreal World of the Progressive Left

Encounters with the Left

5 Reasons the Environmentalists’ 1010 Fantasy Film of Blowing Up Non-Conformists Is Bigger Than You Think

Extreme BDS watch: Vermont group wants to overthrow the Bush administration

No, actually, it isn't.

People waiving the flag of false equivalence are intellectually corrupt. Violent rhetoric is not coming from both sides of the political spectrum, it's coming from the Fox News right.

I think a lot of people buy that crap because they're too gutless to take a stand for what's right.

You have missed a great deal if you think the Left isn't full of violent rhetoric. Forget all the stuff leveled at Bush? Heck, a CBS show literally displayed a picture of Bush with "Snipers Wanted" imposed over it. Look at Bill Ayers, who has at least some relationship with the President of the United States, and is unrepentant of the violent actions of the Weather Underground group he helped found. He has event been quoted as wishing he did more. Look at the violence at G20 conventions or the death threats against people like Ann Coulter. I could go on and on. Check out this page for a large number of links to "Left-wing Eliminationist Rhetoric" http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/?s=ELIMINATIONIST

Take some advice from Media Matters after the Discovery Channel incident. Should be applied to all similar incidents.. "Discovery Channel hostage-taker is the perpetrator of a crime-not liberal, conservative or a chance to score points " http://twitter.com/mmfa/status/22739013962

The guy in the top picture was part of crashtheteaparty. Despite the people at the event disavowing any connection to him, he was included in a thinkprogress video which tried to tar them as racist. It does go both ways.

Incidentally, I don't think using government infiltrators is a fair response to the original comment. Do you have any examples of right wing activists?

They told me if I voted for President McCain that we'd see these kind of abuses from Homeland Security. And they were right!

More:
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/111785/
http://www.google.com/search?q=instapundit+they+told+me

The Righthaven/Stephens Media copyright trolling was covered by a lot of the conservative blogosphere a few weeks ago. Righthaven (the trolls) has a deal for all of Stephen Media's 70-odd newpaper properties (including the Las Vegas Review-Journal). Wired had a story about their business plan.

A trademark lawyer blogged about why their business plan isn't a good one (hint: most bloggers don't have deep pockets).

Finally, Clayton Cramer posted a blacklist plus some links to BlockSite and SiteBlock to block all Stephens Media properties from Firefox/Chrome.

It was a bit of a cause célèbre for about a week, but I'm sure this will kick it up again...

The reason it was so clean afterward is there were only 50,000 people there.

There were a lot more than that.

Let's compare crowd estimates from the Colbert rally using similar pictures, shall we?

And instead of simply posting a derogatory reply for appearing to support the rally, you could instead argue against the calculation to come by the range of estimates (low end was 90k).

Pajamas Media? As in, "major contributors from Little Green Footballs butter our bread" Pajamas Media?

The reason it was so clean afterward is there were only 50,000 people there.

There were a lot more than that.

Let's compare crowd estimates from the Colbert rally using similar pictures, shall we?

And instead of simply posting a derogatory reply for appearing to support the rally, you could instead argue against the calculation to come by the range of estimates (low end was 90k).

First, the we get the Slashdot story about conservatives burying stories on Digg, that ignored similar actions by leftists a few years earlier, in 2007.

Now we get this story, and again it sounds oddly familiar... because in 2005, it was the left doing it.

Hey CmdrTaco, how about getting out of your leftist shell and paying full attention?

Your rebuttal is an ad hominem attack? Normally I'd ignore you, but instead, I'll let you try looking at the first bullet point under the "Global Significance" section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor to see if you might change your mind. As for Libertarianism, do you have a better suggestion? At this point, almost anything has to be better than the two parties currently spending our children into oblivion: http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/files/2008/11/fed-rev-spend-2008-boc-s1-federal-spending-has-increased.gif

This is fantastic news! It is WELL past time to start holding scientists to account for their actions, and I hope this kind of thing becomes far more prevalent in the USA too. James Infohoe's attempt to hold scientists criminally responsible for the global warming hoax is a good beginning, but we need criminal charges for scientists involved in other areas to be held lible for their junk science. Things like evolution, smoking-causes-cancer, etc. Scientists need to be taught a hard lesson that when they make outrageous claims, they will be held to account for the results of those claims. Too many people have been bilked out of their life's savings or their very lives, due to the gross negligence and regular hoaxes perpetrated by the elitest liberal scientific establishment. Congratulations Italy on once again showing the rest of us the right way forward on how to treat modern "science".

Here are some links (provided to you via Arts and Letters Daily):

The Associated Press
Sci Am
Discover
James Randy
Roger Kimball

The Man's last essay. It's titeled Oprah Winfrey: Bright (but Gullible) Billionaire.

Why do you think the GOP is tearing itself apart? Free enterprise is an entirely different religion than Jesusitude. Seriously, read Ayn Rand.

Someone hasn't been paying attention. Have you not heard of Prosperity Theology? (aka God Wants You To Be Rich.) I know you've heard of its proponents, Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, Joel Olsteen, and pretty much every televangelist out there. This is a group of people that believe that when God wants you to be rich while simultaneously saying "[I]t is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." (Now they say that "eye of a needle" wasn't actually referring to a needle's eye, but rather some gate, through which camels could pass relatively easily. Why? Jesus was a free market capitalist and anti-communist.

To paraphrase Matt Groening in a Life in Hell strip many years go: Jesus loved the poor so much, that he eliminated the free school lunch program. On the bright side, the poor kids can now lead a prayer in school for anything they want, EVEN FOOD.

man, glad you can finally read about it.

Big Tobacco health data. Big Pharma test data. Big Oil environmental data. Enron accounting or trading data. Retails sales zappers.

Don't forget about CRU's Harry.

Al Gore's 100 ft. houseboat:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gore-hits-the-waves-with-a-massive-new-houseboat/
my boat:
cheap 8 ft. kayak
Yet, he gets to lecture me about carbon usage. Gore is a lightening rod of bad PR for everything he touches. That alone should make the Apple stockholders wary for electing him to the board. Making energy so expensive that the poor cannot afford it, while allowing the wealthy to use as much as they want through "carbon offsets" is one of the most despicable scams ever floated. Mr. Gore, if the planet is in such danger, then lead by example. Put on Gandi's loincloth first before telling the rest of us that we are wearing too much clothing. If we must use less energy, so be it. Then ration it. Then, if I have enough to last all month, Mr. Gore will be in the dark in his freezing cold home for three and a half weeks. By the way, Mr. Gore, the science is not settled simply because you say that it is. The bottom line: 1. don't lecture me 2. Stop trying to take money out of my pocket and putting it in yours.

I don't understand the mocking and hostility of the opponents of climate-change theory toward the supporters.

Pretty simple, the naturally human instinct is payback for years of mockery. And indeed why should only one side be allowed vitrol and mockery and demand it not be turned against them when the tide of fate ebbs for them?

I don't think it's productive but it's understandable, and honestly well deserved.

Even if the theories are wrong, reducing green-house emissions (etc) won't hurt anything but the pocket book. I know this is no small thing, especially in the context of a global economy and global competition, but the consequences of ignoring things if man-made climate change is a reality are bad.

Do you believe in God? Because you have just stated you must. After all, the consequence for being wrong is fairly horrific since a lifetime here is nothing compared to an infinity of afterlife, right?

Such is the power of the Precautionary Principal which is what your argument relies upon.

Here is what I know from years of traveling the world. If you want to see true devastation, you have only to travel to where people are generally poor. It's hard to save a forest when millions are looking for firewood (see: Haiti).

So you claim we should look upon hurting people in an economic downturn as a small consequence to avert potential disaster, but all I can envision is a global environmental cataclysm as economies fall and people do what they do best - survive at any cost.

Far better to invest heavily in alternative energy now, like nuclear and solar, so that we can all get off the oil train. The chances of GW actually causing enough problems to really bother us all before we can make that happen are to my mind exceedingly low vs. the certainty of what happens when we make a whole lot of people poor.

When you're perfectly free to photograph things, and security shuts you down
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/65326/

I am curious how and by whom you think actually discovered the flaw in the IPCC's claims. Science requires that scientific work, claims, publications etc. undergo some degree of peer review which is exactly what happened. The IPCC made a claim which was analyzed and corrected by a scientist. Error correction is one of the most remarkable traits of science that is completely absent in its alternatives (pseudoscience, political infighting etc.)

Sorry, but that's naive BS. Removed this week after British media reports? People were talking about this two months ago...

Here's a blog post from 12/1/09:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-imminent-demise-of-glaciers-due-to-a-typo/

See the primary sources here:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001065/106523e.pdf (p 66)
http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/AR4/website/10.pdf (p 493)

And I'm sure *someone* knew about this before then, but simply didn't go public about it.

Someone want to remind me why I should trust the IPCC (or climate "science") again?

It says NASA is a bunch of idiots

No, it doesn't. It characterizes a professional mouth piece, "public relations director" Mark Hess as a "NASA flunky."

So which is it? Is NASA completely full of "flunkies?" Or

A false choice that exists exclusively in your head. NASA is not characterized by one Goddard spokesman.

There was no claim NASA is full of stupid people. These scientists/lobbyists aren't stupid people. Some of them may be frauds but they're not stupid.

they don't have the manpower to sort through

The FOIA request was filed well over two years ago. Reference. They have had sufficient time. Now they'll acquire the necessary motivation from a judge.

You do realize that discovery requests for normal litigation

Irrelevant. This has not been related to discovery in any litigation. Stop your silly exaggeration.

Do you expect NASA

The expectation is that NASA produce the requested data. NASA has a FOIA officer and an FOIA budget like all other large federal agencies.

give them $500,000 to hire

Pulled that one right out of your ass didn't you?

You only have to make a reasonable effort.

Which clearly hasn't been done here.

CRU has caused a bright light to be focused on recalcitrant researchers and institutions. This "science" is the basis for an attack on the standard of living of the same Republic that funded the research. We're done tolerating excuses.

You can indulge in just as much anger about it as you like; the data, methods and correspondence will be pried loose and scrutinized by people that don't live on multi-billion dollar publicly funded AWG research budgets.

Enjoy.

Something must be done! Cap & Trade is something, Therefore it must be done!

You can reduce pollution without upending the entire western economy. Indeed, one of the false choices presented is that if you are not for Cap & Trade, you must be *for* pollution!

Besides, if pollution were really a problem the people meeting would act like it instead of renting thousands of limos and taking private jets to converge to talk about it while using a ton of energy to heat large conference centers...

Unions are nothing more than big babysitters now.

They are a lot worse than that. Enterprises, whose explicit goals are maintaining and raising the prices of their members' services, what are they, but the cartels? Why is it, that most of the society wants pizzerias and plumbers to compete, but sympathize with workers, who want to stop competing? Why aren't they subject to the anti-trust laws?.. Why is it, that when their violent members break the law, they aren't treated under Federal anti-racketeering legislation?

They are objectively bad for economy and the country too... But most of all, they are illegal under the already-existing legislation — at least, under the spirit of it:

Competition law, known in the United States as antitrust law, has three main elements:

• prohibiting agreements or practices that restrict free trading and competition between business entities. This includes in particular the repression of cartels.
• banning abusive behavior by a firm dominating a market, or anti-competitive practices that tend to lead to such a dominant position. Practices controlled in this way may include predatory pricing, tying, price gouging, refusal to deal, and many others.
• supervising the mergers and acquisitions of large corporations, including some joint ventures. Transactions that are considered to threaten the competitive process can be prohibited altogether, or approved subject to "remedies" such as an obligation to divest part of the merged business or to offer licenses or access to facilities to enable other businesses to continue competing.

They changed a black guy into a white guy, but they used cropping.
A black man took a gun to an anti-Obamacare rally. MSNBC showed his picture, or at least a picture of his shirt and gun (no hands or head), claimed it was a white guy and that he was motivated by racism.

Link here: Instapundit and Afterburner video

No, it won't be a problem.

There will be very, very few new startups in the US. And many of the existing startups will shut down. There's just not much point in starting a business in the US any more.

- IPOs used to be plentiful, but that was before Sarbanes-Oxley made going public astronomically expensive.
- The government is sucking up most of the country's available capital [to buy votes] for stimulus and other government spending, leaving less available for business growth.
- The new stock option rules more-or-less preclude giving lower-level employees company stock so they share in the success of the company.
- Even for those that do see success, the tax rate will be 60-70% in a few years, so they won't be able to keep much of what they make. They won't be able invest the money in new startups because the taxes will take too much and there will be none left over.
- And don't forget that everyone knows businesses are villains and rich businessmen are hated. Why subject yourself to all that for such low after-tax gains?

See this article by Victor Davis Hanson.
See this article by T. J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor.
See this article by Michael S. Malone.

It's not really the land of opportunity any more -- not unless you know just the right people in government or the environmental industrial complex to steer you an earmark. And even those will run out in a few years after all the money is spent and all the output from the country's slowly-declining future production is borrowed and spent.

There will be plenty of vacant data center space.

Gee, I wonder if your arguement could be applied to the Republicans circa 2002.

Yes, which is why the Democrats were given power the next election cycle.

Only as bad as Republicans were, Democrats are 10x worse.

That's why you can't let either of them have control of everything. The hell of it is that at this rate the Democrats are going to hand the whole bag of marbles over to the Republicans and while as stated it's not as bad, it's still much worse than when there is a mix.