LADIES.

HELLO LADIES.I AM NOT GOING TO WASTE YOUR TIME WITH BS. I AM A PHOTOGRAPHER. I USE TO BE IN THE BUSINESS HERE AND HAD A 10.000 SQ FOOT STUDIO AND SHOT ALOT OF PIC'S FOR VARIOUS COMPANIES AND PUBLICATIONS. LIKE PLAYBOY NEWS STAND MAGS, AND A COVER FOR PENTHOUSE MAG. I GOT OUT OF IT SOME TIME AGO AND NOW I AM GETTING BACK INTO IT. LIKE I SAID I AM NOT ABOUT THE BS AND I AM GOING TO BE STRAIGHT UP WITH MY POST I AM BUILDING MY BOOKS BACK UP TO SUBMIT BACK TO THE PUBLICATIONS THAT I WORKED WITH WHEN I WAS IN THE BUSINESS AND I NEED AS MANY LADIES AS I CAN GET. I WILL BE SHOOTING NUDES, SEMI NUDES, CLOTHED AND A NEW STYLE OF EXHIBITIONIST PIC'S.

FOR YOUR TIME I WILL PAY YOU $100.00 FOR AN HOUR AND GIVE TO A COPY OF EVERYTHING THAT WE SHOOT. I WILL PUT THEM ON A FLASH DRIVE THAT YOU PROVIDE AND YOU CAN DO WITH THEM AS YOU PLEASE. NOW IF THE PUBLICATION LIKES YOU FROM MY BOOKS YOU WILL HAVE A CONTACT NAME OF YOUR CHOOSING WITH YOUR PIC. IF YOU WISH I WILL PUT IT INTO THE BOOK. IF THEY LIKE YOU THEY WILL HIRE YOU AND YOU WILL GET PAID MONEY FOR IT. THEY WILL CONTACT YOU DIRECTLY AND YOU CAN SET UP YOUR OWN DEAL WITH THEM. THIS IS NOT A SCAM AND I AM A REAL PERSON JUST TRYING TO DO SOME SRIOUS WORK. I KNOW IT IS ALLOT TO ASK BUT YOU DO HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY AND I HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY WE ARE JUST HELPING EACH OTHER OUT AND IF THIS IS NOT YOUR GIG THEN YOU WILL GET SOME DAMN GOOD PIC'S FOR FREE YES FREE AS IN NO COST TO YOU. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED THEN PLEASE HIT ME BACK UP AND WE WILL GO FROM THERE. AT LEAST TALK TO ME AND YOU WILL SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT I AM ALL ABOUT. THANKS JEFF

My version:

LADIES PLEASE TRUST ME WITH YOUR SUCCULENT JUICY HUMAN MEAT I MEAN PHOTOGRAPHS. I HAVE A WELL-EQUIPPED AND MOIST STUDIO. I HAVE ALL PROFESSIONAL AMENITIES INCLUDING LYE PIT.

WE CAN GO AT YOUR SPEED. TORSO-PLAY IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. IF YOU ARE NOT INTO LIMB-SWAPPING I AM TOTALLY COOL WITH THAT.

I WILL LET YOU KEEP YOUR TEETH.

I TAKE ALL TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHS, BURIED, SEMI-BURIED, AND ABANDONED IN A SHOPPING CART AT A CONDEMNED FACTORY... THE WORKS.

FEEL FREE TO POSE WITH MY COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE BEDPANS AND DOLL'S EYES... IF INTERESTED PLEASE SPECIFY YOUR WRIST SIZE. THANKS, UNSUB

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Oh?

He did nine fundraisers in the four days prior to the election, in total Obama hit 13 fundraisers in the 14 days leading up to BarrettÂ’s drubbing by Scott Walker.

I think it's a little worse than that. Obama actually flew over Wisconsin to go from an a Minnesota fundraiser to attend a Chicago fundraiser.

According to ABC NewsÂ’ Political Punch, the presidentÂ’s other Minnesota fundraisers did not allow press; one had 20 people paying $40,000 each for a roundtable discussion with the president, and the other had 10 people paying $50,000 each for a similar discussion.

The president then flew over Wisconsin on Air Force One for three fundraisers in Chicago. Estimates are that the president raised $1.8 million in Minnesota and $5 million in Chicago.

He actually flew over Wisconsin twice, avoiding it both times, in the crucial last days of the recall. At one point, when on the ground, he was 15 miles away from the border of Wisconsin -- no quickie rally?

I guess Wisconsin's airports and helipads and highways were also too busy.

I never know how much to make of a lie like this, because it's an obligatory lie. Most people would mumble something like this rather than tell the strict truth.

And yet, it's still a lie. Or maybe just call it "bullshit." Maybe that's the right term.

He does bullshit an awful lot.

Didn't we used to call him "Captain Bullshit"?

Ah yes, we did.

I forget who did that, but it was probably @slublog.

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Good piece on her latest claims.

The central deceit here -- engaged in not just by Sandra Fluke, but the entire liberal movement -- is to constantly speak of "access."

Access to birth control, access to health care.

"Access" is usually taken to mean you're permitted it. But they are using the word in a novel way -- in order to have "access," they maintain, someone else must be picking up the check for it.

If you're required to pay for a thing out of your own funds, you do not have "access."

They constantly attempt to mislead people with rhetoric designed to imply that the question here is about outlawing contraception.

Of course it's not. You could find only one voter in ten willing to even consider such a proposition.

The question is whether third-parties will be dragooned by yet another government law to cover yet another personal expense.

This is what they call "access" -- their ability to compel you to pay for their wants.

They should be hounded on this deceptive word choice, every time they employ it (which is always). Anytime they're on a talking head Sunday show, the conservative must ask them to define "access," and ask them why they've chosen to use that irregular usage of the term, if not to mislead.

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Wow.

Actually: Actually, I'm going to cut PolitiFact some slack here -- but only some, because I think they are being unclear about their rating.

Their headline says they're rating the "claim" (fact) that unemployment fell to 4.7% under Mitt Romney's governorship.

But then their article purports to rate an ad claiming this fall can be attributed to Mitt Romney.

I think it's much, much more defensible to say Mitt Romney's claim of ownership of this is "half true." Then you can add in questions about whether a governor really controls the state economy, and so on.

However, their headline says that the naked fact of 4.7% unemployment is Half-True.

They can either change the headline (the statement being reviewed) or the rating.

The claim "Mitt Romney suggests his stewardship propelled Massachusetts to 4.7% unemployment" could, I suppose, be fairly rated as "Half True."

But that's not what the headline says -- the headline says (for immediate use in Obama political ads) that the naked fact of 4.7% unemployment is half true.

This is like a movie reviewer deliberately inserting "THRILL RIDE OF THE SUMMER" just so the movie ad campaign will quote him.

Obama needs headlines like this to suggest that Mitt Romney is lying about the 4.7%. PolitiFact rides to his rescue, proving just such an ad-friendly headline.

But then the article changes the entire topic under discussion.

Clean up your act, PolitiFarce.

Posted by: Ace at 12:47 PM | Comments (300)
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It really, really was an enormous mistake-- not just in terms of politics, but in terms of human misery -- for Obama to treat the depression as a Check That Box affair.

Do something superficial and thoughtless so you can say you did something about it (the $870 billion stimulus that did not stimulate, and went chiefly to Democratic wish list items) so that when the recovery inevitably comes, you can claim credit.

This was a horrific thing, this depression. The fact of it cannot be laid at Obama's feet (although, along with virtually every government official in office from 2002-2008, he did nothing at all to stop it).

But the fact that he so badly misdiagnosed the disease can be.

Doctors receive urgently unwell patients in the emergency room. There are no healthy patients in the emergency room, after all.

Is it a doctor's fault that a patient comes to him in a critical state? No, of course not.

Is it the doctor's fault if he misdiagnoses the ailment and treats the entirely wrong illness, in entirely the wrong way? Yes, that is then the doctor's fault.

This depression was not a blow-off malady, to be bandaged up and and a course of pain-killers. There was -- is -- something fundamentally wrong with the economy.

Even at this late date, with the patient bleeding out, Doctor Obama recommends the same treatment: more money for state and local government, and of course federal government too.

Liberals often say that Republicans are being "treasonous" as regards the economy, as they know or should know that Keynesian stimulus is a conventional-wisdom consensus approach to a recession, or depression.

Even if that were the case (and note it can be argued that further government borrowing becomes far too costly when the level of government debt is undermining confidence), they always forget something: Keynes did not suggest government spending as a cure all. He suggested that the government run up a debt, pumping money counter-cyclically into the economy.

He suggested doing so through spending or general tax cuts.

They always forget about that "or general tax cuts" part of Keynes recommendation. They simply pretend that's not an option, or wasn't suggested by Keynes at all.

Given that Obama has so sharply increased spending, perhaps his mind should start wondering about that other possibility.

I don't know if Republicans would go along with a major temporary general tax cut to spur the economy -- I imagine they would, but Debt Hawks would surely see this as potentially dangerous.

But Obama hasn't suggested such a thing, the one sort of Keynesian stimulus Republicans could conceivably support. He just keeps insisting on more of the same, more of the cure that makes the patient worse. More money for Democratic Clients.

Obama likes to imagine himself as FDR, but FDR's slogan was "bold, relentless experimentation."

I don't see such "bold, relentless experimentation" from Obama. I see a man who keeps to his wooby, keeps to his comfort zone, keeps to his Political Safe Place, offering up the same stuff we've been doing since 2009.

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In what sense? In this exchange, a reporter asks Carney about this, and seems to concede it was "out of context" (though maybe I'm wrong in that interpretation).

In context, Obama said the private economy was adding jobs, cited some figure for that, asserted the "private sector is doing fine," then said the problem is in state and local government's layoffs of public sector workers.

Indeed, Carney repeats all that here, minus the "private sector is doing fine" quote.

Obama's words aren't being taken out of context-- the "context" is that he was making just this very argument, that the public sector is the troubled one, and the private sector is healthy.

At any rate, the reporter wants to know if Obama himself will refuse to take an "unflattering" sentence of Romney's and then pounce on it. Carney refuses to answer the "hypothetical."

Carney also says reporters should "do their jobs" and report context.

The context of Obama's statement, that the private sector is doing fine, was an argument advancing the proposition that the private sector is doing fine.

There's the context.

By the way, I'm on Comeback Alert. Obama, and the press, will attempt to paint a new narrative of Obama coming back strong after a bad few weeks.

This always happens, and to some extent, it will be true: Obama must have some weeks that are better than the last two. The last two have been like a horror movie for him. Everything bad they hoped would not happen, did happen.

But I'll be on the lookout for goofy overstatements about this, of wishcasting, of attempting to portray a meh week as a Comeback.

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So he's released one that's even harsher.

I know some people still have justifiable reservations about Romney. That said: I (and the others who said so, like JackStraw and JeffB and I think soothsayer) will now accept "Okay, you guys were right about Romney being eager to attack Obama" statements in the comments.

You gotta give me this, at least.

Correction: Now accept, I meant. Not "not." more...

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Brit Hume and @comradearthur point to this long think-piece on the long view of American politics. The "revolution" it speaks of is really more of a realignment, not a violent overthrow of government.

The general thrust is that American politics tend to be frozen in suspended animation until a crisis finally spurs some long-delayed decisions, then very big things are decided in a relatively brief span of time. And then the system remains in that form, with only small tweaks to it through the decades, until the next crisis.

Can the American system of government, accustomed to punting every single problem until it threatens to unravel the union, deal with the crisis before it takes place? Doubtful, the writer thinks.

But isnÂ’t it possible for Congress and the President to step in now to formulate a strategy to deal with these problems before they reach a crisis point? Various proposals have been set forth: the Bowles-Simpson plan, for example, and other plans to reduce the budget deficit over a ten-year period. To their credit, Republicans in Congress have stepped forward with a plan to reform Medicare and Medicaid and to re-write the tax code so that it encourages economic growth. Thus far, the Democrats have been silent. In any case, such proposals are unlikely to be adopted. For one thing, the problems are too large to be dealt with in any preemptive fashion. The prospect of cutting the federal budget by more than a third is hard to contemplate for politicians who have grown up in an environment of affluence and abundant resources. In addition, it is unrealistic to look to our political process to solve a problem that it has been instrumental in creating.

Rent-seeking -- chiefly practiced by Democratic Client Groups, always seeking some form of rent for any endeavor; for example, if you want to build a coal plant, that produces energy, you're forced to pony up money to subsidize solar panel operations, which don't -- slowly but inevitably destroy a nation's productive capacity:

The late economist Mancur Olson has argued that economies tend to grow more slowly as rent-seeking coalitions become pervasive and ubiquitous, since they divert resources from wealth-creating to wealth-consuming uses. This is one reason, he argues, why the United States grew so rapidly in the nineteenth century, and why West Germany and Japan grew so rapidly in the two or three decades after World War II. At such times, these economies were open to investment and entrepreneurship, and, as a consequence, they enjoyed historically high rates of growth. With the passage of time, all of these systems were gradually encumbered by coalitions seeking benefits through the state. Political paralysis and slow growth, Olson argues, are by-products of political systems captured by rent-seeking coalitions. These groups, operating collectively, can block any overall effort to cut spending or to address the problems of deficits and debt.

Interesting piece. Bookmark it for later.

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Kerry Pickett interviews deputy sheriff turned Congresswoman Sandy Adams.

"I hope that the Attorney General takes a very hard and close look at this, because itÂ’s putting our citizens at risk and in danger--because theyÂ’re having people arrive at their house with heightened awareness--because they had a 911 call with a report of shots fired or holding people hostage or whatever the quote-unquote 911 call was for," Rep. Adams explained.

A new voice is also crying out for investigations into the SWATtings: Brett Kimberlin, who says he now the fourth victim of the SWATtings. On his blog, the Velvet Revolution (which I would not go to; just trust me) he says he, too, is a victim.

But Patterico has a screenshot.

Patterico also notes that the ABCNews report on this affair was published on June 6th, and the reporter was still working on it June 5th. She contacted Kimberlin for comment -- but no mention of the SWATting appeared in her article.

I have written to her to discover if Brett Kimberlin mentioned this May 31st SWATting.

It's possible he did, but claimed this off-the-record. Why he would insist on it being off-the-record, I don't know. He's never been shy about proclaiming the various ways he's been victimized before.

Perhaps he had good reason, though. Because whoever SWATted Brett Kimberlin has upped the stakes, because the phantom SWATter is now engaged in what I call Secret SWATtings.

Subsequent to inquiries I made this morning, I received the following email from the Montgomery county Maryland public information office:

Good Morning,

I searched our 911 call database for the above listed address [Kimberlin's]. There was no call listed for 5/31, nor anything similar to what you described. I then searched each of our 6 districts for the entire day of 5/31 for a murder in progress, murder just occurred or murder occurred earlier call with negative results. I then spoke with our director to determine if this type of incident was brought to his attention recently and it was not. If your research proliferates any further detail that would help us to narrow down the search, please let me know. I can always check another address if you find one, but for the time being, I donÂ’t see anything similar to what you described.

Lee Stranahan sought comment from Kimberlin's lawyer Kevin Zeese. Although Mr. Kimberlin is willing to post about his ordeal on his blog, and offer a reward for information leading to the identification of the SWATter, he sniffs "We do not intend to try this matter in the press. We have no further comment at this time."

There will be justice in this matter. Count on it.

Please do not do anything which would actually give Kimberlin some ammunition in his thirty year campaign of claiming he's a "victim" of a grand conspiracy.

There's an old lower-case-p proverb:

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.

Just so Brett Kimberlin understands this proverb and does not think it's a "death threat," the proverb means that God (or, as I intend it, cosmic justice) is slow, but ultimately metes out a very fine justice indeed.

Patience.

If you read Citizen K, you'll become very accustomed to a pattern: First, Kimberlin makes a claim. Then the author asks law enforcement and witnesses about the claim, and, oddly enough, their version of "reality," as Mark Singer terms it, disagrees sharply with that of Kimberlin.

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Interesting itinerary.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday announced a five-day bus tour through six battleground states, beginning with New Hampshire on Friday. The likely Republican nominee will meet with families and business owners in small towns in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan, where he will focus on what he calls President ObamaÂ’s failed economic policies.

Let's see....what do all those states have in common? Why, I believe they are all states one Barack Obama won in 2008.

Now it's obvious that Mitt needs to flip some states that Obama won last time for him to win but Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan are certainly states that Obama didn't think he'd have to be playing defense in.

Many successful Presidents actually win over new states during their reelection bids. Obama on the other hand has already likely lost North Carolina and Indiana from his 08 column.

Not all of these states will be in play come fall. It's June so it's cheap for Mitt to test the waters, make Obama worry and make him spend some time and money in his backyard. Still, enough "doing fine" cracks from Obama (along with not fine at all growth and unemployment numbers) with a little early attention from Romney could nudge some of these states into the competitive zone for Team Romney come fall.

Either way, Mitt is expanding the playing field beyond traditional swing states that happened to have gone blue in 08 while Obama isn't even thinking of winning any new states, he's just trying to hang on to enough of his other states to stay in office.

Not a bad position to be in for the challenger.

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