Saturday Morning

So, is it Ebola, Ferguson, Mt. Sinjar, the Ukraine, Rick Perry or some new outrage? Just remember, there is little Obama can do - it's beyond his control.

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[Beasts of England]

Fore! said Barry. Again.

[Centralcal on iPad]

Can't a man just finish his golf game?

[Jeff Dobbs]

Up now on whitehouse.gov:

Your Weekly Address
Everyone Should Be Able to Afford Higher Education

Forget all that other stuff, wars and terrorism and humanitarian disasters and potential deadly pandemics. Obama's keeping his eye on the ball. The little white dimpled ball.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

"The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . ."
George Washington

...I think George and Barack have a fundamental difference of opinion regarding 'virtue'.

[Danube on iPad]

Peter Wehner nails this asshole:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/08/15/the-presidency-is-breaking-obama-even-as-obama-has-broken-the-nation/

[AliceH]

from h&r link at 10:24

In today’s economy, some higher education continues to be the surest ticket to the middle class

I reject this assertion, particularly as to short term returns.

Per a PEW poll in Jan this year, in 2008 53% of people identified themselves as middle class. In 2014, that fell to 44% - down 9 points.

Upper class also declined, going from 21% to 15%.

Those identifying themselves as lower class (i.e. near-poor or worse), rose from 25% to 40%.

All that despite (h/t FB) those terrific program successes of the Obama Administration in increasing $ and decreasing loan pymts spent on getting "more people access to higher education".

link to PEW thing

[Jane]

I listened to that interview Dot, and my favorite part was about how all those WH insiders are just itching to publish their books about what really goes on at the WH.

Scarborough predicts Obama won't recover from it for 30 years. I doubt he will ever recover.

Finally, something to look forward to.

[narciso]

No, he doesn't, the point of fundamental transformation, is that the institutions no
longer serve their original purpose, hence it doesn't matter that health care no longer works, it's just you are dependent on the state for the remnant that remains. America, in Obama's view, is a misbegotten creation, an
evil empire that has exploited it's people, and trashed the planet. He is everything you went across the world, to fight half a century ago,

[peter]

Iowahawk, as usual, on a tear on twitter about this fake Perry scandal.

I won't be posting much the next week. going on vacation with the family to Europe. Sorry but I and my family are much lazier than JIB and Frederick, won't be blogging our trip to Ireland.

[peter]

wait, now that I typed it, is Ireland Europe? they use the euro

[henry]

TM, don't forget the gorditos.

[Beasts of England]

He's not that powerful, narciso. Not even close. Although I'm sure he thinks he is...

[boris]

"Not even close"

He's done more damage to us. On this I'm with narciso.

[DebinNC]

"Michelle and I [53 yo BOzo] know the feeling – we only finished paying off our student loans ten years ago."

In anticipation of the media attention his Dem convention speech would receive? At the time MOzo's hospital "job" alone was bringing in over $300,000?

[Beasts of England]

He's certainly done damage, boris, but the worm has turned against him. All my progressive friends don't even utter his name. Three years ago they wouldn't shut up about him.

[boris]

The name of your friend's regret is Hillary, not Mitt not McCain.

[DebinNC]

Besieged Ferguson store owners: "There are no police." Hmm...

[Bela1]

I don't know about that long term recovery Jane... wasn't Billy Bob able to overcome his blatant contempt of court charges? Was he able to steer clear of discussing that stain on Monica's dress after lying to the American people? Did he successfully excuse his extra-marital escapades by describing the meaning of "is"? It didn't take 30 years for Billy to recover, despite losing his law license, and shaming his wife, daughter, the legal profession, and presidency. I likely won't live another 30 years, but I think Obama will prevail... long before I die...regardless of his terrible misdeeds, miscalculations, and maladministrative pure acts of treason.

I awoke to Hillary's chit chat in DC this morning...I think it was held at Georgetown U...she was looking pretty grandmotherly and was discussing how she signed every single book she wrote with "Hillary" rather than "Hillary Rodham Clinton". She said she sat one night in a comfortable chair and turned on some classic movies. It was pretty relaxing said the witch who excused her nasty allegations about a far-right wing conspiracy against her husband on just politics during an election season a few years later. I hate that witch. I highly recommend everyone read Barbara Olson's two books with the one Peggy Noonan write in-between. It's great summer reading, if you're at the beach, people come up to you and ask what she is all about. Even then, women still hope to vote for her as the first female president. In other news....Kim Kardashian wants to lose 20 lbs. Teargas & looters return to Ferguson, MO following the "murder" of a young man and Obama has the most gorgeous smile in the midst of global turmoil.

Anyhow...I hope everyone is enjoying this fine weekend. Waterfront Festival up here in Gloucester. F.U.N., but I'm off in search of a new humble abode.
Wish me luck!
TTYL

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Besieged Ferguson store owners: "There are no police." Hmm...

Lawless, just like our border.
Who do we call when the people hired to do a job refuse to do it?

[rse]

Reposting my reply to henry from the other thread.

Yes henry.

Students are no longer supposed to benefit from having financially successful, well-educated parents. That's only possible if those parents refuse to recognize what is going on. Otherwise you simply fix outside of school.

Missouri has been on this aggressive ed 'reform' kick for a long time. The shift to Colorado though meant that the aggressive model transferred to a high growth state with a large suburban population. Always Ground Zero for where the shift away from the Axemaker Mind had to occur.

On the higher education for all thing, guess who has done all the cited research on this point? A Georgetown 'economist' by the name of Anthony Carnevale.

Would anyone like to venture a guess as to the name of the author of those new workplace manuals published in 1990 that I wrote about today?

I have long noticed that the support for Carnevale's 'research' that the Gates F supports so richly is little more than "because I previously said so and it was published or I was interviewed."

One of the manuals contains the kind of bio on him I had looked for but never been able to find. He was an 'economist' for AFSCME before doing the 'study' that led to the manuals. He has a BA in intellectual and cultural history from Colby, a Masters in "social science and public admin" from Syracuse, and a PhD from the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse.

Apparently the whole basis for referring to himself as an economist is his long time desire for the public sector to control the economy.

jimmy-should that be the basis for deferring to someone's economic opinions?

No wonder his cv was so hidden. He also wanted all readers of those manuals to know he was the "co-author of the principal affidavit in the Rodriguez case." That was the one arguing that education was a basic right under the Constitution.

SCOTUS disagreed in 1973 and the state litigation began arguing that it was a denial of rights to rely on local property tax funding. The loss of the Rodriguez case is still something the Left desperately wants overturned.

[Rick B]

"Who do we call when the people hired to do a job refuse to do it?"

Smith & Wesson. Colt. Remington. Winchester. Savage. Beretta. Glock.

They're much more trustworthy for those who realize they only own what they are willing to protect.

[Centralcal on iPad]

Have a wonderful vacation, peter!

[rse]

Obviously everything starting with higher ed was not replying to henry.

I just want to add the three women and Breyer are ready to overturn Rodriguez. They also understand that locks in the means of creating the needed History- makers through massive cultural change mandated constitutionally at the federal level. Bo wants that 5th vote desperately.

[henry]

So Carnevale is to economics as Obama is to constitutional law and Warren is to Native American. I'd notice a pattern, but that may be too axe makery.

[rse]

Remember when I posted the brief filed with the UN conference on whether the lack of equity in the US can be deemed a race-based violation of a 93 treaty?

The meeting was this week. https://www.flickr.com/photos/us-mission/sets/72157646385177981/ shows the US delegation.

For some reason the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, William Bell is there and repeatedly identified as is the Attorney General of Arkansas.

Heads up there Beasts.

[Danube on iPad]

"all those WH insiders are just itching to publish their books about what really goes on at the WH."

You have made my day, Jane. Between that and the public disgrace of David Gregory it's going to be a glorious weekend.

[MarkO]

Obama’s just not that smart© Almost anything beyond reading a teleprompter is too difficult for him.

Perry's indictment seems to be based on the theory that political speech, governed by the First Amendment, may be criminalized if it causes a Texas officeholder discomfort. When that happens, it's criminal coercion.

I predict early dismissal or a Federal Court ruling on the Constitutional issues.

[narciso]

It took 15 years, to reverse the victory over Hillarycare, now mind you that is the patttern,
Truman couldn't get his version of national healthcare passed, but LBJ could, in the mean time, they had built the building blocks, to Medicare, likewise the HMO bill and other elements 'created' the crisis, they would ride
to the rescue to solve,

[rich@gmu]

lol ... the public integrity DA for Travis County TX.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7y7oJ266qI

so the yoots burned down more of Ferguson last night. lovely.

[MarkO]

Why did it take 6 days to release the robbery video? Surprise! DOJ.

http://therightscoop.com/breaking-department-of-justice-told-ferguson-police-to-not-release-video-calling-it-inflammatory/

[rich@gmu]

Resident: 'Why were officers standing back? Why don't they shoot?'...

...lol.

[DebinNC]

Canfield Dr. in Ferguson. Easy to see how two guys walking in the middle of the road (at noon) could be problematic for drivers. This road is a shortcut between two busy business-district highways.

[Beasts of England]

Thanks, rse. Rebrund Jasson was in Birmingham this week prattling on about economic justice and other leftist fairy tales. People with an IQ of 68 shouldn't discuss economics or justice. I will dance in the streets when that jackass dies. The sooner the better.

[rich@gmu]

the doj didn't want the take to come out ... nice.

this is going to call for some mood music ...

...

[DebinNC]

The video explains why MB was likely rattled at Ofc. Wilson's arrival soon after the robbery, anticipating arrest before Wilson said a word. What's incendiary is letting "the gentle giant" lie continue to inflame the public.

[Miss Marple]

OT Hoarder across the court from me has finally been foreclosed upon. They have multiple dumpsters and a forklift to remove stuff from the garage, and the 20 cats have already been taken to a shelter.

I have been trying to get the guy to get rid of stuff for years but he is just mentally unable to do so.

Very sad case.

[rich@gmu]

damn it ... tape to come out ...

anyway.

[Rick B]

There's a Walmart Supercenter 1.9 miles north on the same road as the Quick Trip which was exhausted by economic justice seekers the other evening. If the quest for wide screens and Nikes economic justice continues this evening, are the economic justice seekers smart enough to head north or will the thought of having to carry a wide screen 1.9 miles deter them in their quest for economic equality?

[Porchlight]

The Lehmberg arrest got lots of attention here in Austin and even most Dems thought she should resign, even if only to minimize their embarrassment. This indictment is truly from hunger.

Perry is very good at turning these things to his advantage. One reason TX Dems hate him so much is that they think he’s stupid yet they can’t seem to outsmart him. He’s their Bre’r Rabbit.

[Danube on iPad]

"I predict early dismissal"

As I recall, the Austin judiciary is highly politicized. It could be a long hard slog.

[Porchlight]

Yes, DoT, very politicized. But the final outcome of the DeLay case plus the fact that even Axelrod seems to find the indictment sketchy might spook them a bit.

[James D.]

Again I ask, why are there no big R names who can easily communicate the truth behind the leftist nonsense on higher ed costs?

"Look. If you owned a business, like a car dealership, and the government was giving guaranteed $10,000 loans to anybody with a driver's license, regardless of their credit rating or anything else, what would you do? You'd raise your prices, because you know that every single customer who comes in the door has a guaranteed extra $10,000 to spend on your product. That's what the government has done with college loans, and the colleges did the same thing you'd do. They raised their prices. They're not idiots. The government offered them free money, and they took it. Except it's not really free money - it's YOUR tax dollars, and it's debts that YOUR children will have to pay back to China. It doesn't take a degree from Harvard to understand any of it."

There. Even the average LIV ought to be able to understand that.

[Porchlight]

MM, my husband's elderly aunt, a dear woman, has had that issue over the years and I know how painful it can be. I am very sentimental and a bit of a packrat myself.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Deb:
This road is a shortcut between two busy business-district highways.

If you zoom out of street view to the map - Canfield turns into Windward, which dead ends into Glen Owen.

If you turn off of Flourissant onto Canfield, you end up in a neighborhood with little means to access another major road.

[Cecil Turner]

ISTM that one might profitably assume everything a race hustler (or Hamas spokesperson) says is a lie. It saves time.

[MarkO]

Gentle Giant?

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/08/15/exceptional-catch-the-jj-witness-video-eye-witness-audio-of-mike-brown-shooting-sharing-brown-doubled-back-toward-police/

[Old Lurker]

Are we coming full circle back to the time owners hired Pinkerton to protect their interests?Lot's of former military guys who could be pretty interested.

[DebinNC]

Thanks for the correction, hit. My bad.

Lawyer for owners of Ferguson Market say it was a customer who called 911, not anyone employed there. The two women seen in the video, one who entered the store with a child, must appreciate the owners' craven clarification so much.

[Threadkiller]

I think Wehner doesn't want to accept that a person is in the Whitehouse accomplishing his goal of knocking the USA down to an equitable size.

Wehner says that this is the worst time for Obama to be disengaged because it only worsens the situation.

Has anyone found any thing of substance that would suggest Obama wants things to be better?

He better get with the program and see evil for what it really is.

[narciso]

clearly they wanted a sacrifice, either Wilson or the Police Chief, this is the expectation they have developed

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/15/ferguson-residents-on-cnn-thats-not-michael-brown-in-the-surveillance-video/

[Rick B]

OL,

I don't believe that would pencil out. It would probably raise liability rates higher than the additional liability premium currently charged for locating economic justice distribution centers near concentrations of economic justice seekers. Plugging economic justice seekers in the act might provide some personal satisfaction but settlement of the damage claims arising from sending Angel Mikes to their just reward would probably be more expensive than just passing on the increased premiums to the community housing economic justice seekers in the form of higher prices.

[Threadkiller]

Interesting article:

http://www.tdcaa.com/journal/lone-star-grand-jury-selection-and-independence

[boatbuilder]

Hit--I am driving down to Durham again with my daughter on Wednesday the 20th, flying back Thursday morning. I may have more "flexibility" this time.

Are you around for Wednesday evening? Send me an e-mail.

[Carol Herman]

Hands up. Don't shoot. BUT LOOT!

I guess the local cops showed the media what the "First Amendment" looks like when they don't show up.

Weeks from now (if it's like the aftermath of the Rodney King riots), little old ladies will complain there are no stores where they can buy milk and food.

So they go by bus, about 3 miles, to reach a supermarket. Then, they wait for a bus to take them home. When they get off the bus "teenagers" approach and steal their groceries.

Race relations didn't get impproved by the rioting. If anything, far fewer store keepers will want to open stores in those neighborhoods.

[Danube on iPad]

"Has anyone found any thing of substance that would suggest Obama wants things to be better?"

What Obama wants is to be adored. He has no other objective.

[boatbuilder]

JamesD at 12:26. That is an excellent analogy and clearly illustrates the problem. However, if any Republican candidate said that (especially Romney) it would be spun as "Romney says capitalists will exploit any benefit the federal government offers to raise prices; says he would do it too."

[DebinNC]

Don't forget "obeyed".

[Danube on iPad]

I was delighted to see Niger Innes on Greta last night. He absolutely shredded Sharpton and Jackson by name ("racial arsonists").

Miss M, a while back I saw a series of programs on the subject of hoarders; each episode covered a different person. An extremely sad disorder, and one that is very difficult to treat.

[Danube on iPad]

The Tuchman book was A Distant Mirror.

[Threadkiller]

No other objectives?

Whose adoration did he receive for the necessary skyrocketing of energy costs?

[Carol Herman]

Drudge gave Perry the win. I saw it last night. He put Perry right on top. And, when I watched the video of Lehmberg, where she had to be restrained, was jaw dropping to watch.

Drudge let MILLIONS see that Perry is presidential material. When you get to see great visuals like that it clarifies stuff for millions of people.

[MarkO]

Obama made his purposes clear in 2008 when he repeatedly asked, "How does this help my children."

[clarice]

alice h, remember as education gets dumbed down , phony majors created, people like Jeantel get college degrees, the notion that a college degree is a ticket to ride is preposterous.

[Porchlight]

Once people see the Lehmberg arrest video they tend to back off. What a disgrace.

[Danube on iPad]

Wonderful:

"The saga of University of California, Santa Barbara feminist studies professor Mireille Miller-Young has taken yet another bizarro twist after her defenders urged a judge to excuse the criminal allegations against her because of the “cultural legacy of slavery.” Miller-Young pleaded no contest last month to misdemeanor counts of battery, theft and vandalism after she rallied up a small gaggle of female vigilantes and attacked abortion protesters Thrin Short, 16, and Joan Short, 21. The radical feminist armada forcibly stole a graphic anti-abortion sign from the two protesters."

[Danube on iPad]

"Whose adoration did he receive for the necessary skyrocketing of energy costs?"

The Green zealots'.

[Rick B]

I find Lehmberg emblematic of all progressive feminists and sincerely hope the video establishing her Democrat bon fides receives the widest distribution possible. There shouldn't be any copyright issues involved in using a videotape taken by a public entity so I don't see why it shouldn't be used as a highlight reel in every Demfem contest.

There has to be additional footage of her endorsing Red Witch or Red Squaw as well. She's not the type to find silence golden.

[clarice]

A fb friend suggests the way to clip these Travis county outrages (remember Delay? And the Special Prosecutor is himself facing charges of unethical behavior) is to move the university to Amarillo.

[DebinNC]

After four years, the first Atlanta Schools Cheating Scandal trial is currently underway, but the same injustice to students is occurring all across America.

[clarice]

Holder really is terrible and deserves impeachment. Had it not been for the FOIA requests, this important "anti-inflammatory" would have been kept from us for a long time.

[clarice]

narciso, the amusing thing is that the claims that it wasn't Brown in the video hit the wires just as Brown's accomplice admitted it was them.

[Sue]

Why would people want to inflict Austin on Amarillo? Haven't those people suffered enough?

[Miss Marple]

Danube, Thank you! A Distant Mirror is correct. I was having a block and couldn't remember the name.

[Porchlight]

If I didn't have to leave family and friends I would be happy to move to Amarillo with my employer (UT). But Sue is right - Amarillo doesn't deserve such a fate.

[Jeff Dobbs]

On Powerline, Mirengoff asks, Is Nancy Pelosi a crook?

In the mix is Salesforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff.

Saleforce’s CEO Benioff bundled $500,000 for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and donated $300,000 to Democratic candidates, party organs, and interest groups, according to data compiled by CQ Moneyline.

The mostly annual "hit hits San Franciso" event* is to the salesforce.com conference. The conference is a big deal - drawing somewhere close to 50,000 attendees each year. The conference always has big name keynote speakers and musical acts. Past years have seen Metallica, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Black Eyed Peas, for example.

FTSAH, this year's keynote lineup includes Arianna Huffington, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.

(spoiler alert: i won't be attending the keynote sessions)

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*I've had the pleasure of meeting up with DrJ and Elliott each time I've attended. Two years ago we had a big JOM meetup in Berkeley (and Elliott took me to an event where I got to meet my crush Jenn). And FYI to DrJ: I just made my travel arrangements for this year's event. I'll be in touch.

[MarkO]

Typepad continues to lock up my computer.

I consider it a sign.

DOOM™®

[James D.]

One thing that occured to me watching the video of the DA in Texas is when she goes on about how they've just ruined her political career, how the newspaper tomorrow will report that she's been arrested for DWI, etc.

Does anyone here think that the woman ever, once, gave the slightest thought that the people she made a career of prosecuting were in precisely the same position she was in, felt just as helpless and humiliated and persecuted as she did?

Does anyone think that the experience gave her the slightest measure of humility, or empathy, or anything else resembling a positive human emotion?

I don't.

[Stephanie]

Posted by: DebinNC | August 16, 2014 at 01:48 PM

Yeah, but Beverly Hall isn't on trial. Her trial has been delayed as she is battling stage 4 breast cancer. Supposedly. At this point, I don't believe a damn thing told by anyone associated with democrats.

[Centralcal on iPad]

OMG Sue. Too funny! (And the good folks of Amarillo surely thank you.)

[rse]

DEb-now finally the suburbs are being brought to heel.

Bev and Jean Anyon are good friends. She came to Atlanta to push the Deweyan radical change agenda. The Chamber wanted to ignore the cheating because what got nationalized under WIOA has been the Ga desire for a long time.

[Sue]

Thank ya, thank ya very much. (Elvis voice, in honor of his death in this date, 1977).

[DebinNC]

Speaking of funny, from Politico:

"The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery reported on Twitter that one looter “just threatened to pull knife” on him and other reporter outside a liquor store that was being cleaned of inventory."

[Jeff Dobbs]

Oh no. It just occurred to me that in five years or so, Obama will probably speak at the conference.

There have never been teleprompters at the conference before.

[Rick B]

Clarice,

AG My People is correct about the video. Who can watch Angel Mike strong arm and throttle a shopkeeper and not associate him and his behavior with Obama/Holder's treatment of the American people and our Constitution?

Did Angel Mike display a greater contempt for the law than the Attorney General or Chief Magistrate? Is the level of sycophancy displayed by the MFM wrt Angel Mike different in substance to that which they display towards the President?

It's very inflammatory.

Everyone should watch it right after they watch the Lehmberg/Clinton/Warren video.

[DebinNC]

Politico on the continued mayhem in Ferguson, as police "remain on the sidelines" observing.

[Threadkiller]

The Green zealots'.

You are describing a relationship between a hit-man and the people who pay his contract.

If he is not worried about getting that adoration of non-Green zealots, which I assume are in greater numbers, it seems only logical that his objective isn't to be adored by the whole.

[AliceH]

I like this Popehat post. It has lots of mental morsels to chew on:
The allure of unquestioned premises

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Every Republican on every gab show tomorrow should speak out strongly about what is being done to Perry. Particularly Rove and any other GOPe stalwart who hope to take 2016 advantage of it. DeLay, Gingrich and Palin were all eliminated by garbage like that and the clean toga crowd didn't make a damn peep about it. Enough.

[Beasts of England]

Now that I have digital cable at the lake, I need to upgrade my televisions. Do the looters take requests? I really want one of those new curved HDTVs.

[GMax]

Amarillo again? Yikes! I am sure CH will weigh in too...

[Threadkiller]

Do the looters take requests? 

I'm sure there is a section on craigslist.

[Threadkiller]

crookslist?

[GMax]

Given Rasmussen post sale has been finding consistently more Democrat support than virtually any other pollster including PPP(D), I would say this is a pretty good result:

GOVERNOR – WISCONSIN (Rasmussen)
Scott Walker (R-inc) 48%
Mary Burke (D) 47%

[Beasts of England]

I'll check, TK! ;)

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I've been to both Austin and Amarillo and I'd be lying if I didn't say Austin has a lot more to do which is of interest to me.

[narciso]

well if they have so much surplus US equipment, they are advertising mechanics:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iraq-turmoil/why-belgian-chef-joining-isis-fighting-against-americans-n180676

[Porchlight]

Oh, Austin is a lot of fun. But you have to put up with a lot of progtard BS. Sometimes it seems like a wash at best.

[Danube on iPad]

It's not a question of logic at all, TK. He simply craves adulation, and at one point he had it without doing anything at all. He doesn't sit around calculating what he has to do to get it back. Doing something wasn't part of the deal he thought he had. Now he's simply tired of the entire enterprise, and has become lethargic and detached.

[clarice]

Exactly, DoT. Psychiatrists say when narcissists aren't getting their strokes they flee the scene.

[Comanche Voter]

Well doncha know that when you put a little weasel in the Oval Office, he's likely to wind up with not much more power to control events than the average little weasel? Even if he thinks he's a Big Bad Bear?