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BTW, I created or saved 11 jobs this morning according to the criteria used by the Obama regime to measure the effect of the stimulus. You probably did, too.

If the Elephant looses you can bet the farm that Acorn was involved.

Marxist Truther Van Jones has ties to new astroturf organization performing hatchet jobs on Limbaugh, Beck

Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Texas

An in-depth analysis of California vs. Texas shows that Texans get more for their tax dollar, have more jobs, and have more economic growth than California.

Some of the better excerpts:

California had total revenues of $11,160 per capita, more than every state but Alaska, Wyoming, and New York, while Texas placed a distant 44th on this scale, with revenues of all governmental entities totaling $7,558 per person.

Before 1990, both states grew much faster than the rest of the country. Since then, only Texas has continued to do so. While its share of the nation’s population has steadily increased, from 6.8 percent in 1990 to 7.9 percent in 2007, California’s has barely budged, from 12 percent to 12.1 percent.

Between April 1, 2000, and June 30, 2007, an average of 3,247 more Americans moved out of California than into it every week, according to the Census Bureau. Over the same period, Texas saw a net gain, in an average week, of 1,544 people. Aside from Louisiana and Mississippi, which lost population to other states because of Hurricane Katrina, California is the only Sunbelt state that had negative net internal migration after 2000. All the other states that lost population to internal migration were Rust Belt basket cases, including New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan, and Ohio.

Summarizing the findings of a report they wrote for the American Legislative Exchange Council, Laffer and Moore pointed out that between 1998 and 2007, the states without an individual income tax “created 89 percent more jobs and had 32 percent faster personal income growth” than the states with the highest individual income-tax rates.

Similarly, the CEO of a manufacturing company in suburban Los Angeles told a Times reporter that his business suffered less from California’s high taxes than from its ineffectual services. As a result, the company pays “a fortune” to educate its employees, many of whom graduated from California public schools, “on basic things like writing and math skills.” According to a report issued earlier this year by McKinsey & Company, Texas students “are, on average, one to two years of learning ahead of California students of the same age,” though expenditures per public school student are 12 percent higher in California.

Read the article. It does a great job debunking the moonbats who praise big government as being conducive to a great quality of life.

Hmm... I read blogs on a similar topic, but i never visited your blog. I added it to favorites and i'll be your constant reader.

The Mainstream Media: Pavlov would be Proud

Did I miss the following story from maybe a weekend day on Moonbattery? It's perfect for our site:

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/10/20091021a.html

From Human Events, 10/26/09:

"Secretary of HHS Kathleen Sebelius has joyfully announced plans to use $250,000 per year of your money to create a National Resource Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders. If you're over 60 and living an "alternative lifestyle," you'll be eligible to receive the special services of this new federally funded center."

What is this? What does one find when one opens the doors? According to HHS, sheer moonbattyness:

"The LGBT Resource Center will help community-based organizations understand the unique needs and concerns of older LGBT individuals and assist them in implementing programs for local service providers, including providing help to LGBT caregivers who are providing care for an older partner with health or other challenges."

On our dime. Aging queens having problems "down there." Trannies need their breast implants replaced. Ancient lezbos just need a man around the house for heavy lifting. haha

Countermoonbats go looking for Corzine voters - voters found

"The LGBT Resource Center will help community-based organizations understand the unique needs and concerns of older LGBT individuals and assist them in implementing programs for local service providers, including providing help to LGBT caregivers who are providing care for an older partner with health or other challenges."

Spits. Another victory for the Pervert Liberation Front.

As Gregory noted earlier today, one of the truest lines I've seen on these elections:

...And I predict ACORN will drag Jon Corzine's carcass over the finish line in New Jersey.

Hoping you're wrong, Gregory.

Me too.

The Garden State (my home) is infested with Communists. Corzine hops the bird over to “Mainland China” and visits with their “PEOPLE” often. He is all about reformation into a “For the Greater Good” Chinese based economy. He is ANTI gun and PRO abortion and these 2 facts pit him 100% against both the State and Federal Constitutions. For anyone that can read here is the PREAMBLE to the US Constitution…
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Above the bolded word is Posterity but those who are PRO abortion are ripping the Posterity out of the womb. We no longer have a future once we start murdering children for as the Communists say, “The greater good!”
They wish to strip gun ownership away from the general population and the reason is as obvious as the look of shock on anyone’s face who just realized that OUR Posterity happens to be constitutionally PROTECTED within the Constitution’s PREAMBLE. A disarmed population is one that cannot defend itself from high crimes and misdemeanors. We have no chance in defending our homes from enemies both foreign and domestic but Corzine decided that he would BAN all guns greater than and including 50 cal.
Does anyone really need more than that?

in case you missed it, Moonbattery.com made the Washington Times print edition today.

Well there you go again, GoY, trying to attract attention to yourself. This time, the WaTimes, what next, NYT? ;-)

(mega, thanks for the tip)

BEWARE OF THE EVIL ACORN ITS HAS TO BE STOPPED SOMEONE PLEASE CALL SECRET SQUERRIL

All by her Lonesome Self: Barbara "Ma'am" Boxer holds cap and charade hearing with all but one Republican absent; holds hearing completely alone for 15 minutes

Hollywood moonbats, who usually decry American "cultural imperalism", attack Japanese culture for eating dolphin

Considering that gas costs 50 cents/gallon more here in CA than in the Midwest (because of the required additives), the high taxes, the gun laws, the crushing regulations...

...it's really no wonder that the productive are fleeing our state in droves, to be replaced by unskilled foreign immigrants. And people wonder why our state can't pay its bills or where the jobs have gone.

Very cool about the WaTimes! I get the weekly national edition; I love it.

News from the North Country:
* Way up in St. Lawrence County, some pro-Hoffman people were campaigning too enthusiastically, right on the legal line of where you're not supposed to go. So, the Owens people called the police on them. No arrests were made.

* I hear a rumour that depending on the results tonight, ACORN may contest the vote.

*Unscientific poll: I've been keeping an eye on Newsjunky, which is the regional online paper. They have a vote poll, and Hoffman has kept a steady 9 point spread all day. 4,465 votes so far, can't vote twice.

You Mean Berlin Had A Wall?

Rich Lowry has a good piece on Obama's decision to skip ceremonies and celebrations commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall:

Obama famously made a speech in Berlin during last year's campaign, but at an event devoted to celebrating himself as the apotheosis of world hopefulness. He said of 1989, "a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one."

The line was typical Obama verbal soufflé, soaring but vulnerable to collapse upon the slightest jostling from logic or historical fact. The wall came down only after the free world resolutely stood against the Communist bloc. Rather than a warm-and-fuzzy exercise in global understanding, the Cold War was another iteration of the 20th century's long war between totalitarianism and Western liberalism. The West prevailed on the back of American strength.

Lowry makes several great points, but the centerpiece for me is a point Lowry only touches upon: "But Obama doesn't think in such antiquated, triumphalist terms."

Related:

Is Barack Obama Anti-American?

America is no longer the symbol of liberty around the world. She's just another nation -- and worse, one whose leader, by temperament and political belief, has more reverence for dictatorships than democracies. In other words, when Obama deals with the world outside America, he again denies America's essence, which has so long marked her as the symbol of and standard-bearer for freedom.

Just as an orange deprived of its color becomes the anti-orange, it's reasonable to state that because the overwhelming number of Barack Obama's desires and actions are antithetical to America's essence, he is in fact anti-American. He's not merely making little changes around the edges, smoothing away rough spots, augmenting existing traits, or getting rid of a few ugly cankers. Instead, both at home and abroad, Barack Obama is trying to destroy America's essence, that commitment to liberty that makes her unique in this world, and that makes her uniquely American.

ELECTION 09

ACORN Aims to Tip New Jersey Election in Corzine's Favor

QUOTE: (Newsmax.com)
"Fanning Republican fears is the fact that, despite New Jersey's recent run-ins with vote-fraud allegations, Corzine signed a new "Vote by Mail" law in June that some believe may make it harder to detect fraudulent ballots. That law allows voters to opt to receive mail-in ballots automatically for all state elections, which eliminates the need ever to show up at a polling place and submit identification. "There are also new opportunities for voting shenanigans in New Jersey," Vadum says. "Voting by mail is even easier now, thanks to the law Corzine signed."
ENDQUOTE

This is a major factor behind Communist power in Britain. If the Democrat party implement this form of junk mail balloting, the outcome is assured. They simply stuff the boxes.

Here's a video of BO bowing out to Putin:http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

Complete with shuck and jive grin....

News Flash - Small Unpopular Fringe Party Wins In Virginia

News Flash -- Republican Bob McDonnell has been projected the winner of the Virginia Governor's race. Proving that even a small, unpopular, fringe party which does not appeal to moderates or independents, can win over a large, popular, mainstream party.

I blame Diebold.

LOL! Just finished watching the premiere of "V" and it looks like the Visitors are an allegory for the Obama administration. The leader of the Visitors reminds me a lot of Obama, especially the way she talks in platitudes and the way she handles the press, especially when she tells her interviewer he can't ask any questions that will portray the Visitors (the Obama administration) in an unflattering light.

This ought to be funny as hell.

LOL @ Jay!

zOMGDIEBOLDZIONISTSBUSHCHENEYSTOLE20002004!!11!

:)

Oh, I almost forgot. The Visitors come promising "universal health care." (snigger)

In the original all they promised was a vaccine to cure/prevent all cancers. To begin with. All humans had to do was give them all out water and all our population as food.

Hmm.

Oh, check out the line from the guy who is a Visitor Youth or something. "We're just spreading hope!"

LMAO!

It should play the trailer as soon as the page loads.

http://abc.go.com/shows/v

I just looked up "R. Creigh Deeds" on Wikipedia. His first given name is ...Robert. Now what the hell is so bad about "Robert" that you'd go find "Creigh" preferable?

That kid is a "peace ambassador" (i.e., a human who is a useful idiot for the Visitors). The only thing that would have made his comment funnier is if he had said something about "change", too. This could become a fun conservative game--how many similarities can you find between the Visitors and the Obama Administration in one episode of V.

Maybe Robert didn't want people calling him "Rob Deeds". Sounds kind of criminal, you know?

I could see a Michael Creigh Hunt calling himself "Creigh Hunt," but what's wrong with "Bob Deeds?" Even "Rob Deeds" isn't bad, really.

NETWORKS ARE CALLING RACE FOR CHRISTIE!

Comrade Corzine Defeated in NJ

It should be interesting to see how the Obama Spin Machine (i.e. the media) play this tomorrow. I'm looking for one of these:

1. These elections meant nothing. Basically irrelevant off-year elections, so who cares. We'll all see what happens in 2010, once the economy's come roaring back and affordable health care has been brought to all Americans regardless of pre-existing conditions.

2. Corzine and Deeds were weak candidates, who Obama graciously tried to help, but they were so bad that even the mightly Obama couldn't bail them out, though he tried and deserves credit for doing so, since it means he put helping the country ahead of politics and was willing to take one for the team. So actually, these elections show how gracious and incredible Obama is.

3. These elections proved that the Republicans are a party in disarray - their RINO-ish candidate won, their social conservative lost, and their Virginia Republican guy won against an imploding bad candidate. We are very concerned about the weakness in the Republican party, because it's much healthier to have two strong parties, and the increasing extremism of right-wing nuts shows that our country is in serious trouble unless Republicans can come together and not be in a civil war or someting

4. What? There were elections? Who cares. Michelle Obama is hosting a luncheon for handicapped girls at the White House. And here's a new picture of Barack in his work-out clothes; look how buff he is. Their family history is just so special; it's important that we take time to reflect on what a special time we live in when a boy from a Kenyan father can become President.

Krauthammer On Election Results: Obama Over-Read The Mandate in '08

Krauthammer on with O'Reilly...

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Spins The Results of Tonight's Election

Mark Knoller tries to get answers from Gibbs.

What do you think, mega?

quite interesting, SK. Here's Gibbs:

"I don't think looking at the 2 gubernatorial races you can draw any great insight what's gonna happen a year from now...We don't look at either of these gubernatorial races or the congressional race as something that portends alot for our legislative efforts going forward or our political prospects in 2010"

Of course, in a very literal, obtuse sense, he's right - these 2 contests don't offer any great insight about 2010.

On the other hand, 2010 Congressional electiosn aren't and never were the issue. The issue is passing ObamaCare. Obama has invested 90 % of his total supply of political capital in that one piece of legislation. The Dems have been bluffing for two months now, successfully, to create an aura of inevitability. It's kinda worked. But passage of ObamaCare in both houses is hanging on a handful of threads, like Lincoln etc. Anything that shakes a few of those people loose could deal a devastating blow to ObamaCare and basically end the Obama reign of revolution. There is no doubt that after all the direct Obama participation, VA and NJ, like Copenhagen on a much more minor level, demonstrate that Obama is not invincible and can't "make it happen" for his political allies who go out on a limb. If this costs him even one solitary senate vote on Obamacare, it's all over.

So, no, Gibbs, actually this was pretty significant, although your statement is not factually in error.

Unelected European bureacrats tell Italy: No more crufixies.

And NY 23?

We can see by the cartoon how the right has decided to play this loss...in advance.

I can't wait to hear what instructions Rush will give to his troops.

THIS is what he was saying yesterday:

"I want you to print these out, I want you to distribute them, I want you to carry them with you, and we'll just see how close I am to being right. (When Hoffman wins) the State-Run Media will say, "New York-23, the race is more about the demise of the Republican Party and anger on the right than Obama or his policies."

The Magic Negro got his ass kicked yesterday.

End of story.

NY 23 kicked conservative ass.

Keep telling yourself. Most people don't even know where that is, apart from being somewhere in NY.

Think "Barry" was high-fiving "Rahm" and "David" last night? He probably smoked a couple rocks last night. Old habits die hard.

Jay, the right wing media, talk radio and blogs were all over that NY race. It was THE race as far as they were concerned...until today.

The RINO could have won, and the conservatives blew it.

Then you've got nothing to worry about. The Americans will never take their country back. You're home and dry.

And yet...here you are.

Actually Jay, the Americans already have their country, they never lost it. Lots and lots of them, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives and liberals voted last night to prove it.

Great. So we can dispense with the UN flags, and the disparagement of America, and all agree that, while she has her faults, we all love America - wholeheartedly, and unreservedly - and will defend her against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

If we all agree on that, then we're all on the same page.

And while we're at it, do we all agree that we have no time for those advocating assassinating Presidents (of whatever stripe), cheering at the deaths of Americans (service members and civilians alike), and burning American flags, or asserting that they like NY better without the WTC - all documented on zombietime.com - are anti-American?

Not sure what you mean by "dispense with the UN flags" but I can agree with the rest of that statement.

Re the second statement, I've never said I supported any of those things so I guess that means I'm not "anti-American".

However, it needs to be said that burning an American flag is currently legal as an act of protected speech as determined by the Supreme Court. Even so, I have not, nor would I ever, burn the flag in protest.