WaPo columnist writing Women in Politics and Culture titled She The people, finds fault in Sarah Palin’s style of dress when she attended a Campaign / Kansas City BBQ Picnic event for Sarah Steelman in rural Missouri.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/sarah-palin-mama-grizzlies-united/2012/08/06/23393f12-dfc6-11e1-8d48-2b1243f34c85_blog.html

Whether she’s dressed up or dressed down they can’t seem to not find fault with Sarah .. even thought the article seemed to have a positive tone.

With diplomacy dead, US banks on Syrian rebel win
Associated Press
By BRADLEY KLAPPER | Associated Press – 4 hrs ago
http://news.yahoo.com/diplomacy-dead-us-banks-syrian-rebel-win-205747540.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Syrian diplomacy all but dead, the Obama administration is shifting its focus on the civil war away from political transition and toward helping the rebels defeat the Syrian regime on the battlefield.

Twitchy: Left, duped by Onion parody, condemns Michele Bachmann for reaction to shooting

http://twitchy.com/2012/08/06/left-duped-by-onion-parody-condemn-michele-bachmann-for-shooting-reaction/

Saw a great bumper sticker today – wish I could have caught it, but I was tooling down the interstate at 65 mph (better luck next time, right?):

“I was anti Obama before it was cool”

The license plates made a statement as well, referring to a certain caliber of rimfire ammo

Trayvon’s parents claiming state money, too:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NEIGHBORHOOD_WATCH_CLAIM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-06-11-11-41

Well, lookie here……Travelers Insurance is NOT caving in to the Trayvon Martin family’s shakedown:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/102137336/Petition-for-Declaratory-Relief?tw_p=twt

http://www.scribd.com/doc/102137339/Plaintiff-Exhibit-A?tw_p=twt

Professor, headsup: votevets.org (a Democrat party front) and loisfrankel.com appear somehow to have got hold of Allen West’s donor or subscriber email lists and are spamming them for contributions to Democratic candidates, with military slant.

I just read the article via Fox regarding the evaluation of how good the Chick-Fil-A sandwich is. I can tell you how good it is.
Before I became unemployed, I worked 4 years at the mortgage service branch of a shall-remain-nameless huge bank. I guess at that time, we had upwards of 500 employees. Every Thursday was Chick-Fil-A day in the full service cafeteria. They bought a couple hundred sandwiches and reheated them for sale. Of course, they lost their crispy-ness and we only had regular condiments to put on them. I don’t remember any pickles, either.
Every week, those soggy sandwiches sold out.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/08/06/how-does-chick-fil-chicken-sandwich-stack-up/

Fresh from his vacation at Camp David to rest up from his exhausting campaigning, Obama does another celebrity event in Connecticut, involving closing taxpayer-maintained beaches. I hope he keeps pissing people off like this.

Excellent overview of the techniques employed by academic fraudsters:

“Epic fraud: How to succeed in science (without doing any):
Envy those who succeed by making up their data? Here’s how you can, too!”

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/07/epic-fraud-how-to-succeed-in-science-without-doing-any/

“Tip #1: Fake data nobody ever expects to see. If you’re going to make things up, you won’t have any original data to produce when someone asks to see it. The simplest way to avoid this awkward situation is to make sure that nobody ever asks.

You can do this in several ways, but the easiest is to work only with humans. Most institutions require a long and painful approval process before anyone gets to work directly with human subjects. To protect patient privacy, any records are usually completely anonymized, so no one can ever trace them back to individual patients. Adding to the potential for confusion, many medical studies are done double-blind and use patient populations spread across multiple research centers.

All of these factors make it quite difficult for anyone to keep track of the original data, and they mean that most people will be satisfied with using a heavily processed version of your results. That makes faking the data much easier. The classic example here is Jon Sudbø, who apparently made up even the patients used in a number of studies. He was only caught because someone working for the Norwegian public health institute couldn’t figure out where he had possibly obtained some of his results; the fake data itself never aroused suspicions prior to that point.

If you still want to provide real—well, “real”—underlying data, one option is to use one-of-a-kind equipment, since nobody else will be likely to make sense out of the raw data, anyway. But really, the hassle and expected anonymity involved in working with human subjects is the most convenient data screen of all.”

Gibson guitar caves to Feds…

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/08/06/gibson-guitar-corp-strikes-deal-with-justice-dept-to-avoid-prosecution/

“Under the agreement with the Justice and Interior departments, Gibson will also withdraw its civil claim to retrieve $261,844 worth of Madagascar ebony seized in a raid.”

Which will remain dead.

How will the Feds dispose of the wood?

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A461BBDD-1E58-4225-8DBC-D9389F6F84D5

Deemocrat strategerists wonder if having Princess Running Bare speak at the convention is wise.

Heh!

Three factors:

1. The upcoming Dem Party convention in Charlotte NC,
2. That NC is a valued swing state,
3. And that NC state politics is rife with Dem Party
corruption and scandals…

… makes gathering NC-related political news probably valuable to a blogger. Good NC news aggregator is Carolina Plott Hound*:

http://www.carolinaplotthound.com/

*(The Plott Hound is NC official state dog. It is used by hunters and is very good at treeing game and is also a very good water dog. It’s ability to tree varmints is the reason this political news blog uses the name).

http://thirdbasepolitics.blogspot.com/2012/08/liberals-used-ohio-school-shooting-to.html

He may have a weird name, but the RNC chairman kicks ASS!
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/08/05/rnc-chief-reince-priebus-harry-reid-is-a-dirty-liar/

Hard news from a great warrior in the good fight.

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/08/04/why-ive-always-written-so-much-with-such-intensity-and-why-i-wont-stop-now/

Multiple shooting at 10:45 CST at Sikh Temple in Oak Creek WI (Milwaukee). Still in progress – police have not secured the scene – so information has been sporadic. Local commenters at Milwaukee Journal already speculating that it is conservative Christian type to blame, because description was broadcast on scanner as white male, sleeveless shirt. Sure it won’t be long before Tea Party connection implied.

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/07/02/you-cant-take-it-with-you/

Richard Fernandez, writing on the notion of “Design Margin”, and suggesting we have allowed irrational ideas to trim the safety margin for all that supports our society to a dangerously thin veneer.

The left and Olympic athletes.
Funny how things get..all these anti business anti wealth liberals are salivating over the money this young lady will earn with her “middle american” appeal

http://abcnews.go.com/US/olympics/olympic-champion-gabby-douglas-bring-millions-dollars-endorsements/story?id=16929084

How nice of them to plan out her money carreer for her.

And the very idea that she has religious faith seems to bother these fine examples of tolerance.
Maybe she needs to thank “government” for her wins….and get into that “Julia” mindset

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/did_god_help_gabrielle_douglas_win/

Americans keep behaving in ways that baffle the liberal mainstream media. Two examples figured prominently–or should have–in last week’s news.
–Barron

http://washingtonexaminer.com/barone-supporters-of-ted-cruz-and-chick-fil-a-break-news/article/2503879

One of the benefits of the Collectivist cocoon/echo-chamber…when reality asserts itself, it is always “unexpected”.

I spent the better part of my life as a CT resident so I go back and look sometimes to see how things worked out. And admittedly this article is slightly dated but it remains as a fair example of “Government”. You know..that Government Obama and Warren feel we should feel indebted to forever.
They need to be reminded of this sort of overreach.
Yup. Kelo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/nyregion/13pfizer.html

Costs, conflicts arise in Reid push for green power
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/costs-conflicts-arise-in-reid-push-for-green-power-164858086.html

Now Reid is pushing for a Chinese company he played a key role in recruiting to Nevada, ENN Mojave Energy LLC. The company plans a billion-dollar solar energy manufacturing and generating plant near Laughlin, but an ambitious development schedule is being threatened by a lack of green power customers.

County to sign off on land sale for solar power complex in Laughlin
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/dec/20/county-sign-land-sale-solar-power-complex-laughlin/
The county’s asking price for the land — $4.5 million — is far below two appraisals that put its value at between $29.6 million and $38.6 million. But Commissioner Steve Sisolak, whose district includes Laughlin, said the price is justifiable given the economic impact the project will have on Southern Nevada.

“Public bodies do this all the time in the name of jobs,” he said. “Some even give away land to encourage development. We think this will be huge for Nevada.”

Giving away land to the Chinese and government mandates requiring use of the Chinese produced energy.
Forget Outsourcing these bastids are here and taking over our land, our companies and begging at the trough of US tax dollars

More campaign contributions for democrats and less security for the traveling public:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/2/airport-screeners-get-union-rights-for-first-time/

Despite the left’s propaganda to the contrary, it turns out the gay community is not monolithic after all.

$465 for Amnesty- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/04/465-for-Amnesty-Obama-makes-illegals-legal

“Obama Plans Massive 2nd Term Amnesty for Illegals”.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/48474

Scary.

When Pollutico writes something like this about Governor Sarah Palin something is afoot.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79373.html

Huh. I said something about “pander-lash” the other day…

Now it seems the WaPo people can’t figure which card to flop, so they make the Black clergy that jumped Obama over gay marriage the color of…

astroturf. The post-modern coloring set, in full play.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/08/04/washposts-miller-media-should-ignore-astroturf-black-pastors-opposing-ob

“Man Who Seconded Barack Obama’s 2008 Nomination Stumps in NC for Mitt Romney.”

Mainstream media ignores.

http://campaigntracker.blogspot.com/2012/08/man-who-seconded-barack-obamas-2008.html#storylink=cpy

Professor Jacobson, I would really like to see you do a piece on the Huma Abedin/Muslim Brotherhood connection and why you think the likes of Boehner, McCain, and Rubio are opposing further investigation. Huma Abedin herself, not just her family, apparently has connections to this group. It concerns me that so many support Rubio for VP when this and other actions show that he is not a conservative.

http://pjmedia.com/blog/abedin-family-journal-promoted-muslim-brotherhood-views/

THIS Is How An Avg Citizen Can Take Down Government! GREAT Story of a Retired School Teacher Taking On Bureaucrats | http://bit.ly/OyN4tn

(Original story here: http://www.texastrashtalk.com/2012/08/does-hcde-really-respect-rule-of-law.html)

“We found an identical pattern in our debt, total credit market, and money supply that guarantees they’re going to fail. This pattern is nearly the same as in any pyramid scheme, one that escalates exponentially fast before it collapses. Governments around the globe are chiefly responsible.”

http://moneymorning.com/ob/economist-richard-duncan-civilization-may-not-survive-death-spiral/

Or, “Get you bug out kit ready…just in case…”

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Bug-Out-Bag/lm/R1XLTRE6G7I2EG/

Personally, I think we’ll manage to avoid that collapse stuff.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/03/13103499-vermont-man-uses-tractor-to-flatten-8-police-cars?lite&__utma=238145375.2005075053.1335308022.1343949542.1344015417.25&__utmb=238145375.2.10.1344015417&__utmc=238145375&__utmx=-&__utmz=238145375.1344015417.25.25.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=weird%20news&__utmv=238145375.|8=Earned%20By=msnbc|us%20news|weird%20news=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.msnbc.msn.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=31097852

Big ass farm tractor-1

Fleet of police cars-0

Limbaugh: Caller Intimidated by Door-to-Door Militant Gay Rights Activist (transcript)

Clint Eastwood comes out for Romney. Tell me ya cant imagine a great ad about this.

“President Obama has failed for 4 years strait and wants another chance. Are ya feeling lucky?”

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/08/03/clint-endorses-romney/

This site is worth the bookmark if you follow economic news and the like. So far its the easiest to use that I have found..easy to look at past Presidents etc

http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate.jsp

H/T our friends at Powerline.
Looks like NBC stepped on the raaacist card

http://www.buzzfeed.com/samir/did-nbc-just-air-an-extremely-racist-commercial

New study on same-sex parenting, and related literature out this month, summarized (with links to the research, available on-line), discussed in FRC issue brief on LGB parenting. Critiques prior research, and explains why the rosy picture being painted by agenda’d organizations is not necessarily so.

Adam Smith apologizes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmP9Shki6_I&feature=plcp

ya’ll won’t believe this one

White Students Forced To Stay In Failing Schools …. Black Students Allowed To Leave

http://rightwingfringe.blogspot.com/

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/08/03/gabby-douglas-proud-father-watches-her-win-gold-from-afghanistan/

Wow.

The Blaze interviewed Adam Smith after he was fired.

My take: his behavior at Chik-fil-A was just cause for firing, but not for ruining his life. Hopefully the latter will not happen.

Much better than dinner with Obama. http://www.allenwestforcongress.com/store/

Must-Read Essay of the Day: My Black Dad and Chick-fil-A.

Lloyd Marcus, a big-wig in the Tea Party Movement, talks about how he is convincing his father, a long-time minister at an African-American church in Maryland, away fron his misplaced loyalty to the Democrats. What has become the vehicle to this man’s conversion?

You guessed it. Eat Mor Chickin’!

Rush just made an EXCELLENT Breitbartian suggestion…

buy Chick-fil-A gift cards to hand out to people who accost you about your conservative stand!

Heh!

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/08/after-warnings-of-olympic-crush.html

“Ready”, were you, Boris…??? Might shoulda learned from Romney, rather than slime him.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_senate_elections/indiana/election_2012_indiana_senate

Good news from Indiana.

My mom heard this morning on WLS that Jesse is thinking of bowing out! Anyone else hear that? What is the deadline for someone else vis a vis petitions? Brad Woodworth is the Republican opponent. I haven’t heard much about him beyond that–this is my district. I would be grateful for any news.
Thank you! : )

Jobs Report. No good way to spin this. Were moving in wrong direction at 8.3%

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm/

Here are some points that Warren/Obama fail to recognize when attempting to seel the notion that its “all about government”
Those roads and highways. Built with what exactly? Machines and equipment developed by some imaginary “government factory” somewhere?
How would we have faired during WW 2 if all the weapons..tanks and aircraft werent built by US Corporations?
Are we to believe the tanks and equipment just suddenly appeared on the WH lawn?
Without those key corporations having the facilities and machinery assempled and built by them it wouldnt have been much of war despite Warren’s silly notion that government is some “answer”