"Black on Black Crime...at City Hall"

"There's no white folks runnin' Detroit."


Yup.  Except you can't say that in America today if you are white, although I still have...


and Cleveland, and Philly, and Newark...

ObamaCare: All Insured Up and No Doctors to See

Drudge links to this report about over 200,000 doctors opting out of accepting insurance sold on the ObamaCare exchanges.  I can't vouch for the report, but it stands to reason.  I predicted doctors would reject the system a long time ago.


See here and here and here.


And speaking of 'I told ya' sos'...I recall harping numerous times on the B and C Team makeup of the Obama administration.  Well, now the NY Times is getting hip to the pervasive mediocrity.

Don't Agree With Lefty Orthodoxy = Chickenshit

You knew this was coming...and it had to.  Pass it on.


Also, note that the Obama administration official regards Bibi as "chickenshit" because - and I am paraphrasing here - he won't take risks for peace.  This is lefty-speak for appeasement of the corrupt and bloody-minded Palestinian movement that will never give Israel peace.  So, basically, Bibi doesn't agree with the American lefty, faculty-lounge view of Israeli-Palestinian relations...thus, "chickenshit".


Have we ever had a more vile and destructive crew of dickheads running this country?  How are we going to make it another two years with these asshats in charge?

They All Just Happen To Be Honor Students...

On this point I agree with Bill Maher...

Of course, Tom Wolfe captured this phenomenon brilliantly in Bonfire of the Vanities - it's amazing how any ghetto kid is instantly transformed into an honor student or a choirboy when the political narrative required it.

NY Times: Geez, NY Has Alot of Gun-Loving Rubes

The NY Times has a typically arrogant treatment of 2nd Amendment defenders in the Empire state, but at least they are getting around to talking about a key element of the gubernatorial race just a few days from Election Day.

Of course, I've noticed this and commented on it, well before the race even got started.  Those maps that didn't show up are here - BTW, what shows up green on the map is what the Crimes labels "large stretches of upstate New York." 

Those "upstaters" (read: normal Americans, the likes of which the NY Times loathes) are outnumbered 12 million to 8 million by some of the most leftish citizens and/or the most powerful union/municipal machines in the country, which is why their local economies are hollowed out zombies of a bygone era and they've had their rights taken away from them.

The Femi-Nazis of Tomorrow, Today

I will add no comment to this other than to point out that very likely some libtard parents somewhere in San Fran or Brooklyn or Madison, WI are bragging to their friends that little Ellie has starred in this cutting edge advocacy campaign.

"Tourist Sight Disturbance" in Canada??

Oh shit, the Tea Party has come to Canada...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) -- Police and witnesses say a gunman has shot a Canadian soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.

Witnesses also said the gunman entered Parliament and shots rang out. Royal Canadian Mounted Police warned people in downtown Ottawa to stay away from windows and rooftops.

Call me a racist, hate-filled wing-nut but guessing the "gunman" might turn out to be Muslim...

The shooting, which happened shortly before 10 a.m., comes just two days after two Canadian soldiers were run over - and one of them killed - in Quebec by a man with jihadist sympathies.

How do you say "work-place violence" and "man-made disaster" in Canadian?

UPDATE:  I should have never underestimated those awesome Canucks, their media came right out and said it - the shooter was a Muslim and what he did was terrorism - no pussy-footing.  I should have never underestimated our good friends up north, although, with the Mark Steyn Inquisition stuff and all the other cow-towing to Islam, I just couldn't be certain.  I guess when it really matters, the Harper government wouldn't stand for willful blindness.  Sadly and predictably, the same cannot be said for our disastrous leadership.

I Was Right Again

I have long pointed out that the principal piece of evidence for Obama's intellectual mediocrity (actually, "wisdom deficit" is really a better way to term it) is his complete ignorance and disregard for the notion that if all you ever do is talk, at some point people see your words as meaningless.

I think we have officially reached that point.  They're walking out on him in Upper Marlboro, MD??  Wow and ouch.  (NB:  if you've ever been to Upper Marlboro, you know, it's Obama Country, big time.)

Optics...?

We don't need no stinking optics.

So the brains behind Joe Biden is the new Ebola Czar????

UPDATE:  It gets better.

Janet Yellen Greatly Concerned About Something That Isn't Her Job To Be Concerned About

Janet Yellen has hopped on the income inequality bandwagon.  Three thoughts.

1)  What data are you using for this concern Janet, the Gini Coefficient?  Yes, looks scary.

2)  Janet, are you speaking as a private citizen in re income inequality?  I sure hope so, because it is not your job as Federal Reserve Chairwoman to concern yourself over it.

3)  Yeah, we know it's bad out there, those Democrats sure know how to screw the little guy over in favor of the rich...

Now It All Makes Sense...

Here is a connection I bet you didn't know about...the head of the hapless CDC...he's the infamous (at least here in NYC) bureaucratic point-man behind Nanny Bloomberg's soda ban.  Yes, Thomas Frieden was former NYC Commissioner of Health...

One name that hasn’t surfaced yet in respect of the floundering by the federal government in the face of Ebola is Michael Bloomberg . Yet it was the former mayor of New York City who gave the nation Thomas Frieden , who is one dangerous doctor and is the middle of the catastrophe. Mr. Bloomberg made him New York City’s [commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene], which is a post that tries to re-educate New Yorkers so that they will accept passively living like socialists.

Now Dr. Frieden directs the Centers for Disease Control, where he wants to do the same thing. . . .

[T]he CDC budget has soared more than 200% since 2000 to $7 billion. The Centers, moreover, are squandering this lucre (which was seized from the American public using the taxes) on regulating motorcycle helmets, video games, and playground equipment, as if any of that has anything to do with diseases. No wonder that when Ebola hits, the CDC seems to be staggering.

Thanks to the NY Sun for unearthing this connection and the WSJ for highlighting it.  Also, kudos to the WSJ for their editorial yesterday that was both on point and hilarious...

On Wednesday the World Health Organization warned of the threat of a global plague, which can cause “vomiting, marked hypocalcemia, metabolic acidosis, convulsions and, in rare cases, even death.” Ebola? No, the WHO culprit is the overconsumption of energy drinks. 

I Feel Somewhat Vindicated With All the "End of Obama" Stuff

Remember the many times I said that when all is said and done, Obama will have severely tarnished, if not outright ruined, the Democrats brand (although they helped enormously by latching on to the Obama phenomenon).

Well, for the first time ever, a major news poll has Dems below the 40% approval threshold.  Make no mistake about it, this is Obama's doing.  Sure he had Pelosi and Reid's help but they were doing his bidding, they saw the party as his and they ran their respective fiefdoms under that presumption.

So, "I told ya' so" number 1.

Next, the headlines declaring the final bursting of the Obama bubble are poring in fast and furious (pun intended), so let me restate yet again what I have said over and over...Obama did not disappoint, he delivered exactly what he was capable of delivering.  He was always ever destined to be terrible, a mediocrity at best, but more likely a true failure.  History will not ponder why he was so small, it will ponder why we made him so big. 

Why we expected a man with no discernable track record or proven record of leadership to lead and to achieve in the name of this massive and complex society is a story of historical proportions. Did we think that plucking just any man off the street - essentially what we did - to wield enormous power was wise?

Finally, I also want to highlight, yet again, that I called it - "pig in a poke" - on November 19, 2008.  That is about as early a call as is out there.

Oh, and there is this...

Us conservatives have said, time and again, that this is precisely what you get when you elect a man such as Obama.

- When you elect a man that has never had a real job, you will not get economic vitality

- When you elect a radical Alinskyite Chicagoan, you will get unsavory, bare-knuckled politics, not unifying optimism

- When you elect somebody nobody knows anything about, you will get unpleasant surprises

- When you get someone who disparages America, you will get policies that hurt America

- When you elect a man who has achieved nothing save getting elected, you will get nothing but campaigning

They've called us crazy for years.  How dare you call Obama incompetent.  How dare you call him empty. How dare you call him feckless in foreign policy.  How dare you call him economically ignorant.  How dare you call him thuggish.  How dare you call him radical.  How dare you call him narcissistic  How dare you.

I patiently await the apologies from lefty twits who let fanboy euphoria dictate the direction of this great and historically consequential country.  Dickheads.

Venezuela Imports First Ever Oil

Alas, the wonders of Socialism.  First coffee, now oil...

Venezuela, the country with the largest reserves of oil in the world, has just imported its first cargo of crude oil.  Ever.

Cue the Aneurin Bevan quote:

Famous British Labor politician Aneurin Bevan once dismissed the possibility of radical unionism hurting Britain's coal industry by saying " “This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.”

Of course, Labor policies went on to produce exactly that before Margaret Thatcher had to right the ship.

Of course, you could say that only an organizing genius (or socialism) could produce a shortage of oil in Venezuela that sits atop vast oceans of oil...

Peter Thiel Says We're In a Government Bubble

I've said essentially the same thing many many times, but this guy is some guruish genius...?

Anyway, at least I can say that my theories are hardly quackery...

European Green Retreat Continues...

Remember I said that Europe would begin the long slog to regain its competitiveness by embracing energy that works (and that is cheap) in lieu of continuing with the expensive chimera of energy alternatives?

Well, here it just one tidbit...that plentiful Canadian oil isn't so dirty after all.

Deep Blue Philly Cancels Teachers' Contract, Says "Pay Up" for Benefits

One more milestone has been passed in the slow-rolling, but inevitable, crash of what Walter Russell Mead calls the "blue state model".  The school district of Philadelphia has unilaterally cancelled its contract with the teachers' union and forced them to pay more for their benefits.

Of course, all hell is breaking loose and the rhetoric is as one would expect from the far reaches of leftism (i.e. paying $50/per month makes you an indentured servant, much the same way that the lack of free birth control is a war on women or not allowing unlimited immigration is racism, etc.), and yet these poor bastards don't even know that this is a first step, a mere beginning the cratering and retrenchment that must befall the numerous bankrupted hives of progressivism from Detroit on down the line. 

I've said that Philly and Chicago and LA are next.  A robust economy could have postponed these time bombs for longer but, well, Obamanomics was never going to achieve that despite their fervent desires.  More to come.

Defensive Crouch Due to Obama Leads to Corporate Health

Here, Bloomberg News tries to give credit for corporate America's unprecedented health to Obama.

They are among a chorus of corporate executives and lobbying groups that regularly assail Obama for policies that they say are stifling investment and hurting companies.

Corporate and economic statistics almost six years into his administration paint a different picture. Companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 (SPX) Index are the healthiest in decades, with the lowest net debt to earnings ratio in at least 24 years, $3.59 trillion in cash and marketable securities, and record earnings per share.

True, corporations are in excellent financial health.  The reason is that Obamanomics and Obama's gangster style of government (of which Henninger opines today) has so thoroughly degraded the investment climate that companies haven't been investing, but hoarding cash and paying down debt.  Thus they are healthy.  I predicted this years ago.

On another note, here is another story from Bloomberg News that highlights a small example of what we can expect to happen writ large across America, broke-ass governments - from cities to counties to states, and eventually the federal government - are going to be devolving the "services" they offer.

New York municipalities are getting out of the nursing-home business, ridding themselves of a financial burden just as baby boomers head into old age.

Four publicly owned homes for the elderly are on the block, after at least 11 of the 40 counties outside New York City that owned the safety nets for the poor sold or closed them since 1997, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and the Center for Governmental Research in Rochester.

The governments are responding as Wall Street takes note of the fiscal strain: Orange County, a New York City exurb, lost its top grade from Moody’s Investors Service in March and had its rating cut again in August. The company cited almost $37 million in subsidies to Valley View Center for Nursing Care & Rehabilitation since 2012. In contrast, Moody’s raised neighboring Rockland in July after the county found a buyer for its Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care Center.