June 25, 2012
— Gabriel Malor Happy Monday.
Today is the final day scheduled for Supreme Court opinions, but the high court could add (and some folks are saying will add) a decision day on Wednesday or Thursday or both.
As far as news goes, lets start with two items that you may have missed late last week.
First, Obama's Secret Service confiscated all the forks at the Latino luncheon he spoke at on Friday. It was an unusual enough move to bear comment.
Second, Joy Behar, apparently, one of Current-TV's talk-scrunts (who knew?) says that gay conservatives only like Gov' Romney because they lust after his sons. NoH8, Joy.
In new news, some postal workers are holding a hunger strike to protest people not using the post office anymore, or something.
Spain formally asks the eurozone for a 100 billion euro bank bailout.
There's a good article from Tim Carney at the Washington Examiner on how Sen. Hatch forced Microsoft to play politics.
Finally, one of these things is not like the others...
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Posted by: soothsayer at June 25, 2012 02:54 AM (HtU5U)
Posted by: teej at June 25, 2012 02:54 AM (F1lOF)
Posted by: soothsayer at June 25, 2012 02:55 AM (SaGLz)
Posted by: teej at June 25, 2012 02:57 AM (F1lOF)
why do Dems like her? of Debbie Wasserman Shultz? (sp). they are mean looking & acting.
Posted by: kelley in virginia at June 25, 2012 02:59 AM (p3a8+)
Posted by: In late Vic at June 25, 2012 03:00 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Shakedown Street at June 25, 2012 03:02 AM (7+pP9)
I guess we will see today at 10 am.
Posted by: In late Vic at June 25, 2012 03:03 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 25, 2012 03:05 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2012 03:08 AM (UH0ly)
Hatch's crusade against Microsoft was a formative moment in the cozy relationship between K Street and Capitol Hill.
That by itself in a sane world would be grounds for prosecution of any politician who gets "campaign contributions". .
Posted by: In late Vic at June 25, 2012 03:13 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Gringo at June 25, 2012 03:14 AM (SbfVm)
Posted by: Scobface at June 25, 2012 03:15 AM (IoNBC)
Posted by: toby928© at June 25, 2012 03:18 AM (QupBk)
They ain't lookin' for mobs of protestors surging the Court while they're stuck there in session.
Posted by: nickless at June 25, 2012 03:19 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: toby928© at June 25, 2012 03:21 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: SCOTUS Muse at June 25, 2012 03:21 AM (7+pP9)
well, in :idiots in the news" drudge links to this from the Denver Post:
California Congressman Maxine Waters told Denver Democrats tonight that Republicans are waging a war on women on issues ranging from health care to wage disparity.
During her speech at the 5th annual House District 7 Unity Dinner, she accused Republicans of attacking President Obama any chance they get.
“We cannot allow the opportunities that America stands for to be eroded by those who simply want to bring this president down,” she said.
She was cheered when she said, “After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, ‘Come on, Tea Party, let’s get it on.’”
Posted by: mallfly at June 25, 2012 03:21 AM (NI3M5)
Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at June 25, 2012 03:23 AM (IoNBC)
Posted by: Ian S. at June 25, 2012 03:23 AM (GZEi7)
So, the questions become: is the enthusiasm for Romney exceed what it was for McCain? And, how many voters does Obama lose from his '08 coalition.
Root then goes through each voting bloc and outlines why Romney, in his opinion, wins in a landslide.
I don't agree with all of his points, but from his keyboard to God's ear, please.
There will be blood.
Posted by: The Hammer at June 25, 2012 03:23 AM (wo1YR)
Posted by: kelley in virginia at June 25, 2012 03:24 AM (p3a8+)
But how is this legal. I though there was a $2,000 limit.
Posted by: Vic at June 25, 2012 03:24 AM (YdQQY)
that's why we need help in Virginia. volunteer to campaign for Romney here, especially in Northern Virginia
Posted by: kelley in virginia at June 25, 2012 03:26 AM (p3a8+)
Leftist philosophy is therefore the tool of what they claim to hate. But what else is new?
Posted by: nickless at June 25, 2012 03:27 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Wesley Mouche at June 25, 2012 03:29 AM (IoNBC)
Posted by: bijou at June 25, 2012 03:29 AM (w9/7b)
interview in Salon (again via drudge) with a whiz named Emily Mortimer who's on the 'new' Sorkin show:
"Our world is so affected by whoÂ’s in charge here that it feels like itÂ’s massively important. The first 10 years of my being here there was a guy in charge who was just so terrifying and it made me feel so unsettled the whole time that this guy was making those decisions. And itÂ’s such a nice feeling having this guy in charge now."
she also opines about what's wrong with tv news in America:
"It’s just over-sensationalized and, as our show keeps pointing out, one of the big problems is that they act like there’s just two definite sides to every discussion — and that’s just not necessarily the case, but it feeds into the way this country has just become completely polarized. This Tea Party is presented on the television as the viable alternative instead of like a lunatic fringe."
Posted by: mallfly at June 25, 2012 03:30 AM (NI3M5)
Posted by: Orrin Hatch at June 25, 2012 03:32 AM (UH0ly)
Posted by: Scobface at June 25, 2012 03:33 AM (IoNBC)
Posted by: TheNewGuy at June 25, 2012 03:34 AM (wSd4d)
one more via drudge:
"The Transportation Security Administration already shares intelligence it collects with airports. Now a House bill would expand TSA's intel sharing to local mass transit systems as well.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), the bill's sponsor, said the legislation is a "common sense approach" to fighting terrorism. The House passed the bill May 30 and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is now considering the bill. "
I can hardly wait till the pat-downs start in the NYC subway system. Maybe the next thing is to protect the tunnels. We can make people drive through a metal detector...
Posted by: mallfly at June 25, 2012 03:34 AM (NI3M5)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 25, 2012 03:34 AM (B+qrE)
Veronica Palmer put it best re: Veridian Dynamics and taxes "We only pay taxes to governments that are more powerful than us and there's only four of those left."
If Hatch wants to know why he's got a primary challenge, that article sums it up nicely. Guess what? Leave me the hell alone is a perfectly cromulent political position.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 25, 2012 03:36 AM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: mallfly at June 25, 2012 03:36 AM (NI3M5)
Posted by: Gran at June 25, 2012 03:36 AM (p8FXV)
So, the questions become: is the enthusiasm for Romney exceed what it was for McCain? And, how many voters does Obama lose from his '08 coalition.
I refer you to Wisconsin.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 25, 2012 03:37 AM (B+qrE)
The MFM just can't stop themselves from giving their celebutant-messiah free advice they so desperately want him to take.
Posted by: The Hammer at June 25, 2012 03:37 AM (wo1YR)
Posted by: Scobface at June 25, 2012 03:38 AM (IoNBC)
Posted by: Vic at June 25, 2012 03:38 AM (YdQQY)
From your betters in the media:
“Lawyers for Jerry Sandusky sought a mistrial before his conviction for child sex abuse on the grounds that prosecutors showed jurors an inaccurate version of a bombshell NBC News interview with the former football coach, and the mistake may now form part of the basis for an appeal.”
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/145493/
Posted by: Marshall McLuhan at June 25, 2012 03:39 AM (7+pP9)
Posted by: mallfly at June 25, 2012 03:40 AM (NI3M5)
Posted by: kelley in virginia at June 25, 2012 03:45 AM (p3a8+)
Posted by: Vic at June 25, 2012 03:45 AM (YdQQY)
From your betters in the media:
Exactly who does NBC have editing things for them? Lobotomized yaks?
At least they didn't rig one of Sandusky's victims with igniters.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 25, 2012 03:45 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Gran at June 25, 2012 03:46 AM (p8FXV)
i'm on Weight Watchers. But if Obamacare is struck down, I am making myself a chocolate cake. with lots of icing. serving it with ice cream homemade hot fudge sauce.
Burn the heretic.
Kelley, you are given one chance to repent. And take up your pudding cup.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 25, 2012 03:46 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: TooCon at June 25, 2012 03:48 AM (YcTIW)
Posted by: moki at June 25, 2012 03:49 AM (dZmFh)
Posted by: kelley in virginia at June 25, 2012 03:50 AM (p3a8+)
Not that I care but I'm trying hard to suck up to this whole smart-guy stat thing.
Note the basis of Rasmussen (Likely Voters) vice all the others (Adults).
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 25, 2012 03:50 AM (B+qrE)
All the meteorologists here are sporting dark circles under their eyes, and are frustrated with the storm path, since it's been a challenge to track/predict.
But we know what the average global temp will be in 2062 to within a tenth of a degree. So we have that going for us.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 25, 2012 03:52 AM (B+qrE)
"Shields for Privacy in a Smartphone World"
By NICK BILTON, NYTimes, June 24
“Short of wearing a stocking over your head, or a fake mustache, there isn’t a way for someone in a crowd to inconspicuously avoid having pictures taken of them,” Todd Morris, founder and chief executive of BrickHouse Security, a surveillance and counterspy company, said. Some limited technologies (infrared sensors) exist today to help protect people from being recorded. Tony Fadell, founder and chief executive of Nest Labs, which makes smart thermostats, said cloaking devices would become available to protect people’s privacy. What he called audio cloaks could be a hat that rains down white noise from above, garbling any possibility of recording someone’s chatter.
Posted by: maverick muse at June 25, 2012 03:52 AM (BAnPT)
Does this mean things are getting real?:
ACA Medicaid expansion would cost $2B through 2019
Should the U.S. Supreme Court approve the constitutionality of the Medicaid requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pennsylvania faces around $2 billion in extra costs in the first five years of its implementation.
...
Currently states have different income eligibility requirements for Medicaid, which is paid for with a combination of state and federal funding. In Pennsylvania, the requirement is based on various factors, including family size, additional benefits, disability status and income.
But if the Medicaid requirement is upheld, it would set the new income eligibility requirements starting in 2014 at $15,415 for an individual and $26,344 for a family of three.
In Pennsylvania, that would mean adding 750,000 more residents to the program, according to the stateÂ’s Department of Public Welfare. The cost of the expansion would be around $2 billion, according to a joint Congressional report examining the expansion.
Coming soon to a state you're in!
http://tinyurl.com/6ne57kj
Posted by: Soak the Rich! at June 25, 2012 03:53 AM (7+pP9)
Posted by: nickless at June 25, 2012 03:53 AM (MMC8r)
Should the U.S. Supreme Court approve the constitutionality of the Medicaid requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pennsylvania faces around $2 billion in extra costs in the first five years of its implementation.
Except for Nebraska...which ALSO makes it unconstitutional.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 25, 2012 03:55 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: California Democrats at June 25, 2012 03:55 AM (PE7OR)
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at June 25, 2012 03:55 AM (mFxQX)
Posted by: TooCon at June 25, 2012 03:56 AM (YcTIW)
Basically it will just nationalize cost shifting even more than it already is. We will all still be paying for it, but through taxes instead of insurance premiums, which will not come down BTW.
Posted by: nickless at June 25, 2012 03:57 AM (MMC8r)
Nobody expects
Retiree health care costs are a hidden $17 billion pension bomb
Pennsylvania is just starting to come to terms with a $40 billion unfunded pension liability, but lurking in the background is a $17 billion liability for retiree health care.
Even worse, the state has only put away 1 percent of the money needed to cover the health costs.
...
Pennsylvania’s $17 billion liability — which was reported in a new analysis from the Pew Center on the States, a national public policy think tank — fails to include the costs of retiree health care at the municipal level.
McAneny estimates that another $5 billion in liabilities exist there, mostly in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which have the stateÂ’s largest contingent of municipal public-sector workers.
Pennsylvania isnÂ’t alone when it comes to this second pension bomb. Nationally, the picture is much the same.
Coming soon to a state you're in!
http://paindependent.com/2012/06/3756/
Posted by: SEIU Says Gimmee More! at June 25, 2012 03:59 AM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2012 04:00 AM (UH0ly)
Consider the source. NBC/MSM interviews. Prosecutors introduce the interview "only as reliable as the credibility of the news source"? CYA from appeals.
ounce of prevention v. pound of cure
So "free speech" prevails best when spreading deceit? "Something oughta be done" mentality will pass a law preventing any interview from being used as "evidence" in a courtroom.
Posted by: maverick muse at June 25, 2012 04:00 AM (BAnPT)
Posted by: moki at June 25, 2012 04:01 AM (dZmFh)
If you haven't read that Economist article from the sidebar about Hollande, you should.
The French: Totally incoherent since 1789.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 25, 2012 04:01 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Vic at June 25, 2012 07:38 AM (YdQQY)
****
The Ramblers had at least half a dozen players in that game. All on the losing side.
Posted by: Nash Rambler at June 25, 2012 04:08 AM (vXucy)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 25, 2012 04:10 AM (8y9MW)
--
Bastiat, 1801-1850
Tocqueville, 1805-1859
Posted by: maverick muse at June 25, 2012 08:05 AM (BAnPT)
True, but they seem to be the exception, not the rule.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2012 04:12 AM (UH0ly)
Is this something?:
DNC Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz Getting Booted
Back in April, the Shark Tank floated the likelihood that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman (DNC) Debbie Wasserman Schultz was perhaps on her way out as DNC Chairwoman. We now have learned that Wasserman Schultz will not be back as DNC Chairwoman after the November elections.
According to our source within the Democratic Party, who is also a close associate of Wasserman Schultz, the arrangements have already been made for her to leave DNC regardless if President Obama wins re-election or not.
http://tinyurl.com/8383syb
Posted by: Roseanne Roseannadanna at June 25, 2012 04:20 AM (7+pP9)
-- totally. Given what Americans have permitted our own Constitutional Government to become, the same criticism applies. Our "Republican" Leadership McCain/Graham et al. literally conspire against the US Citizen/Constitution. McCain personifies the typical Republican politician today, the rule. The exception? Tar and feather the exception standing for Liberty, promoting Bastiat today. Who else noted this month the DHS government's MSM propaganda machine denigration of "Bastiat" as a TERRORIST threat? People swallow the worst swill, preferring the irrational to logic.
So long as we're being critical, then physicial, heal thyself.
Posted by: maverick muse at June 25, 2012 04:26 AM (BAnPT)
Bastiat, 1801-1850
Tocqueville, 1805-1859
The first had zero effect apparently.
The second achieved his greatest fame...writing about another country.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 25, 2012 04:28 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: epobirs at June 25, 2012 04:28 AM (kcfmt)
Given what Americans have permitted our own Constitutional Government to become, the same criticism applies.
F***ing introspection, how does it work?
Posted by: Insomniac at June 25, 2012 04:29 AM (UH0ly)
They are converting the U.S. to full communism one industry at time The strategy:
1. Regulate (fascism) it to death to increase costs.
2. Declare it too costly for the "poor".
3. Give government "subsidies".
4. Once dependent on government money declare them a ward of the government.
5. Make the industry a federal government only function (student aid) and soon all college education.
Posted by: Vic at June 25, 2012 04:32 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: nickless at June 25, 2012 04:34 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 25, 2012 04:40 AM (i3+c5)
Thus far there is no Android tablet market. There isn't really even a tablet market. What there is currently is an iPad market. Most of the Android tablet model have sold to date fewer units than Apple sells in a day or two.
This is why Microsoft to going all out on their tablet push by rolling their own branded hardware.
Posted by: epobirs at June 25, 2012 04:42 AM (kcfmt)
As for achieving greatest fame writing about another country, good for him. Can you say the same for yourself or any POTUS or US Secretary of State? He paid dearly for expressing his findings, you know.
There are brilliant men who happened to have been born French. That the masses in France or anywhere in the world turn against their finest minds and impartial logic is a shame.
Idea determines form. So it goes, for better or worse. I'm not going to smear "for better" just because "for worse" is the most popular bandwagon.
Coolidge: All Liberty is Individual. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. The chief business of the American people is business.
Posted by: maverick muse at June 25, 2012 04:43 AM (BAnPT)
The stated goals are certain to alarm Israel and its ally the United States as they adapt to the new direction Egypt will chart with Morsi at the helm.
Smart diplomacy! Hit the reset button
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 25, 2012 04:50 AM (1Jaio)
Wanna bet that if Romney wins all of a sudden the president is going to be responsible for everything wrong with the economy again
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 25, 2012 04:55 AM (1Jaio)
alarm Israel and its ally the United States as they adapt to the new
direction Egypt will chart with Morsi at the helm.
Smart diplomacy! Hit the reset button
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 25, 2012 08:50 AM (1Jaio)
Think this is more like reality!
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 25, 2012 04:55 AM (i3+c5)
The stated goals are certain to
alarm Israel as it adapts to the new
direction Egypt will chart with Morsi at the helm.
Smart diplomacy! Hit the reset button
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 25, 2012 08:50 AM (1Jaio)
Think this is more like reality!
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 25, 2012 04:56 AM (i3+c5)
This was known as the shitty window theory. After all, houses built with windows that are opaque means more window makers will have work.
Posted by: Vic at June 25, 2012 04:57 AM (YdQQY)
\The original United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790 (1 Stat. 103) provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship. This law limited naturalization to immigrants who were "free white persons" of "good moral character". It thus left out American Indians, indentured servants, slaves, free blacks, and later Asians.
\\
While women were included in the act, the right of citizenship did "not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States...."
Citizenship was inherited exclusively through the father. This was the only statute that ever recognized the status of natural born citizen, requiring that state and federal officers not consider American children born abroad to be foreigners. .[1][2]
Posted by: Vic at June 25, 2012 05:04 AM (YdQQY)
It's rare that I see a word I don't know or can't figure out from it's root.
You have given me a pleasant surprise today, thanks.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at June 25, 2012 05:04 AM (CP+yl)
Posted by: Russian diplomat at June 25, 2012 05:05 AM (UH0ly)
Wanna bet that if Romney wins all of a sudden the president is going to be responsible for everything wrong with the economy again
January 23rd(ish), 2013--WHERE IS THE RECOVERY?
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 25, 2012 05:08 AM (B+qrE)
FYI
when pasting something from elsewhere it's wise to click on <> link in menu to view the source.
You'll find that pasting (or the quote itself) has a lot of tags that the blog will reinterpret in unexpected ways.
either paste first elsewhere then copy that here or modify the source by removing the breaking tags and such and then formatting it with cr's and spaces out front.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at June 25, 2012 05:14 AM (CP+yl)
Posted by: epobirs at June 25, 2012 08:28 AM (kcfmt)
****
The government's prosecution of MSFT brings to mind Holder's prosecution of the New Black Panther Party.
Posted by: Nash Rambler at June 25, 2012 05:17 AM (vXucy)
99 WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to the economy, half of Americans in a new poll say it won't matter much whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins
***
Of course it matters. With Obama, we're headed towards DOOM! at 100mph; with Mitt, it's only 50mph.
Posted by: Nash Rambler at June 25, 2012 05:22 AM (vXucy)
So since the adoption of universal code there is no bad work in housing? Ok...
Meanwhile the constant encroachment of regulations limits your freedoms and makes what you are allowed to do more expensive.
Posted by: typo dynamofo at June 25, 2012 05:24 AM (FU9ql)
And have you seen how we behave on a life raft?
Posted by: Passengers of the Medusa at June 25, 2012 05:26 AM (Ky1+e)
Posted by: Russian diplomat at June 25, 2012 09:05 AM (UH0ly)
But we had TOP MEN working on this, the best translators of DoS could not be wrong!
108-thanks--it usually works but the paste reformat paste is foolproof (maybe even for me)!
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 25, 2012 05:26 AM (i3+c5)
Posted by: Shameless MSM Pro-Obama Rim Job Of The Day! at June 25, 2012 05:28 AM (AzwZn)
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 25, 2012 05:32 AM (i3+c5)
Posted by: Greg at June 25, 2012 05:35 AM (j+Xk7)
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 25, 2012 09:32 AM (i3+c5)
ASME boiler and pressure vessel codes came from shitty locomotive boilers and an accident from a shitty molasses tank collapse in NYC. But still, those are private codes that the government decided to force people to adopt.
Posted by: Vic at June 25, 2012 05:38 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: food tester at June 25, 2012 05:39 AM (oZfic)
[span style="text-decoration: blink; font-weight: bold;"]TEST TEST TEST.[/span]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 25, 2012 06:24 AM (nEUpB)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 25, 2012 06:26 AM (nEUpB)
MicrosoftInternetExplorer4
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 25, 2012 10:24 AM (nEUpB)
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I think that might be beyond Pixy's range.
Posted by: Nash Rambler at June 25, 2012 06:31 AM (vXucy)
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 25, 2012 06:59 AM (Q+WQU)
Posted by: food tester at June 25, 2012 07:01 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2012 07:06 AM (Xb3hu)
"A famous section of Economic Sophisms (Bastiat) concerns the way that tariffs are inherently counterproductive."
The Coolidge administration shared some values with Bastiat's ideas.
Mellon wrote in his book, TAXATION: The People's Business, that people respond to tax rates, and that lower rates will promote growth and pull in higher revenues for government. He proved that true.
Coolidge/Melon Tax Policy: "the wise and correct course to follow in taxation and all other economic legislation is not to destroy those who have already secured success but to create conditions under which every one will have a better chance to be successful." Together, they balanced the budget, cut back staffing at the BIR (IRS), cut the national debt nearly in half, increased public revenue to government, after cutting and eliminating much taxation on the rich and DOMESTIC corporations. Growth and the average real wage were up after the tax cut for the rich. After-inflation employee earnings grew 16% from 1923-29.
Posted by: Sotomayor at June 25, 2012 01:50 PM (BAnPT)
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