Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller Tells Vice President Joe Biden to Get the Fuck Out!

The letter's from January, but never too late to post.

Via Bloviating Zeppelin, "A Letter From an Oregon Sheriff."



Revolution is fomenting against the criminal regime in Washington, a bit at at time. But it's coming.

More Than 100 Morsi Supporters Dead in Egypt Violence

At London's Daily Mail, "Bloodbath in Cairo: More than 120 dead and 1,000 injured after police 'shoot to kill' in violent clashes which have rocked Egypt."

And at BNI, "EXCELLENT! Reports out of Egypt allege more than 100 pro-Morsi rioters killed by Egyptian Army."

Added: Lots more at Blazing Cat Fur.



More here, "Chaos Grips Egypt — Again."

Sarah Palin: 'I was banned from talking about Rev. Jeremiah Wright...'

Well, Republicans were basically banned from winning the election.

If you don't talk about the treason and anti-Americanism of the Democrat Party and its vile nominee, no one else is going to do if for you, last of all the leftist media complex.

At Twitchy, "Sarah Palin tells Greta Van Susteren: ‘I was banned from talking about Rev. Wright’ [video]."

Homosexual 'Marriage' Designed to Destroy the Institution of Marriage

I just happened to come across this at the Blaze, "LESBIAN ACTIVIST’S SURPRISINGLY CANDID SPEECH: GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT IS A ‘LIE’ TO DESTROY MARRIAGE." (Hat tip: Marooned in Marin.)

There's audio at the link, but Glenn Beck featured this lesbian in a segment a couple of months back.



Again, I'm not sure how I missed this at the time, well, other than being in the middle of the semester, deep in term papers, but here's Robert George on the woman's same comments, "What Few Deny Gay Marriage Will Do":

Just imagine the uproar had, say, Rick Santorum said ,“Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what [they] are going to do with marriage when [they] get there—because [they] lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie.” But, of course, you don’t have to take it from Rick Santorum or other defenders of marriage as a conjugal union. Masha Gessen will tell you the same thing.

Although Gessen’s willingness to put the matter in terms of “lying” is startlingly frank, it is no longer uncommon for advocates of redefining marriage to acknowledge that the effect—for them an entirely desirable effect—of redefinition will be the radical transformation of the institution. The objective is not merely to expand the pool of people eligible to participate in it, as was long claimed. In conceding (and celebrating the fact) that redefining marriage will fundamentally alter the institution, transform its social role and meaning, and undermine its structuring norms of monogamy, exclusivity, etc., Gessen is far from out of step with other leading figures in the movement. She joins influential NYU sociologist Judith Stacey, Arizona State University professor Elizabeth Brake, “It Gets Better” founder Dan Savage, writer Victoria Brownworth, journalist E. J. Graff, activist Michelangelo Signorile, and countless other important scholars and activists.

Moreover, there seem to be very few prominent scholars and activists in the movement to redefine marriage who are criticizing Masha Gessen, Judith Stacey, Elizabeth Brake, and the others, and speaking out for the norms of monogamy and fidelity and other traditional marital and familial ideals. Many are quiet, but few actually deny that the abandonment of the conjugal understanding of marriage will have the transformative institutional and social effects that Gessen, Stacey, Brake and the others (approvingly) say it will have.

And be sure to read the comment thread.

Half of #ObamaCare Call Center Jobs Will Be Part-Time

From up in Contra Costa County, where officials were touting the call center jobs as the "cream of the crop.

Well, not.

At the Contra Costa Times, "Concord: Half of Affordable Care Act call center jobs will be part-time":

CONCORD -- Earlier this year, Contra Costa County won the right to run a health care call center, where workers will answer questions to help implement the president's Affordable Care Act. Area politicians called the 200-plus jobs it would bring to the region an economic coup.

Now, with two months to go before the Concord operation opens to serve the public, information has surfaced that about half the jobs are part-time, with no health benefits -- a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time.

The Contra Costa County supervisor whose district includes the call center called the whole hiring process -- which attracted about 7,000 applicants -- a "comedy of errors."

"The battle for the call center was over jobs with good working wages and benefits; I never dreamed they would be part-time," said Karen Mitchoff, who has heard from complaining constituents and expressed her "extreme displeasure with how it was handled" to call center supervisors.

One recent hire, who last week learned the job would be part-time, said the new "intermittent" employees feel like they've been used as a political tool, and many now regret applying for the positions.

"What's really ironic is working for a call center and trying to help people get health care, but we can't afford it ourselves," said the worker, who asked for anonymity out of fear of losing the job. The county says it had been telling the public and supervisors all along that some positions would be full-time and some part-time. However, portions of staff reports list all 204 jobs as full-time, and a job posting said the same.

It's the latest controversy involving the call center, one of three created statewide to help citizens enroll in various new health care options under President Obama's Affordable Care Act when it goes live at the start of next year.

Contra Costa was selected early on by the state to run the call center, but the deal mandated the county run the operation itself, with state funding, or lose it to another county. Once Contra Costa secured the call center, Concord and Richmond battled for the right to host it. Unions nearly derailed the project before some last-minute wrangling to ensure workers weren't transferred needlessly and would receive appropriate benefits.

The state budget allows for 180 customer service agents, half of them part-time, when the call center opens Oct. 1, said Contra Costa Deputy County Administrator Theresa Speiker. The full-time employees, she said, will handle the core 40-hour work week, while the part-timers will handle the extended hours. For the first three months, the call center at 2500 Bates Ave., off Highway 4 and Port Chicago Highway, will be open 72 hours a week. After that, it drops to 59 hours a week.

"In open session and in (staff reports) we've been pretty clear that not all will be full-time jobs," Speiker said.

Speiker said the 7,000 applications were "totally outside what we anticipated with the demand for these jobs. We were blown away."

The new hires, many of whom left other full-time jobs for the call center positions, were told they were the "cream of the crop," the recent hire said.

Everyday brings another story illustrating the epic disasters of ObamaCare.

The GOP has a choice campaign platform for 2014, if the idiots don't blow it.

A Failed Celebr-Ambassador Returns to Washington

From Michelle Malkin:

Welcome to another installment of No Obama Bundler Left Behind. This chapter stars an elite Hollywood fundraiser who scored a plum diplomatic appointment, slacked off on the job and left her public office in disgrace, and then rebounded from failure as a new Obamacare promoter. Nice crony “work” if you can get it.

This failed celebr-ambassador is Nicole Avant. Her father, Clarence Avant, is a prominent Democratic activist and music executive. Her husband, Ted Sarandos, is the chief content officer at Netflix. Her godfather is music legend Quincy Jones. On Monday, Avant turned up at an Obama administration confab with pop stars (Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo), comedy stars (Amy Poehler, Kal Penn, Aisha Tyler) and other assorted Beautiful People (public relations teams for Oprah Winfrey and Alicia Keys). The liberal glam squad members all have agreed to spread Obamacare propaganda to the masses.

Avant, billed as an “Obama administration veteran” by The Hollywood Reporter, represented “industry” at the Ministry of Health Care Misinformation meeting this week. The Wrap, another Hollywood gossip outlet, describes Avant as having been “tasked with helping boost Obama’s relationship with Hollywood.”

But what exactly has this “veteran” accomplished? What are her qualifications? How has she used taxpayer dollars, and what exactly is her “industry”?

By all appearances, the industry of Nicole Avant is Nicole Avant...

Culture of corruption.

More at that top link.

Kopp-Etchells Effect

The corona effect from helicopter rotor blades in Afghanistan, and named the "Kopp-Etchells Effect" by war correspondent Michael Yon, after Cpl. Benjamin Kopp and Cpl. Joseph Etchells, who were killed in action.

Not sure why now, since Yon was writing about this back in 2009, but London's Daily Mail reports, "Mesmerizing halo effect caused by blades of landing combat helicopters named in honor of two fallen soldiers."

Chaos Grips Egypt — Again

At Reuters, "Violence deepens Egypt turmoil, deposed leader probed for murder."

And the New York Times, "Violence Erupts After Mass Rallies Over Fate of Egypt."

And here's the kicker, "Aid to Egypt Can Keep Flowing, Despite Overthrow, White House Decides":

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has concluded it is not legally required to determine whether the Egyptian military engineered a coup d’état in ousting President Mohamed Morsi, a senior administration official said Thursday, a finding that will allow it to continue to funnel $1.5 billion in American aid to Egypt each year.

The legal opinion, submitted to the White House by lawyers from the State Department and other agencies, amounts to an escape hatch for President Obama and his advisers, who had concluded that cutting off financial assistance could destabilize Egypt at an already fragile moment and would pose a threat to neighbors like Israel.

The senior official did not describe the legal reasoning behind the finding, saying only, “The law does not require us to make a formal determination as to whether a coup took place, and it is not in our national interest to make such a determination.”

“We will not say it was a coup, we will not say it was not a coup, we will just not say,” the official said.

The most corrupt administration in history, completely lawless.

Previous Egypt blogging is here, with plenty of chaos.

Michelle Fields and Katie Pavlich Debate the Left's Sexual Pervert Epidemic

Great stuff, from yesterday's Neil Cavuto featuring Eric Bolling:

'Public Cervix Announcement'

Not sure about this, but I'll link Althouse, "'When I showed my cervix to 40,000 people on stage with Public cervix announcement...'"

"... it was a loving gesture; it wasn’t about shocking people or turning people on."

Following the link takes us to an interview with Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., an "ecosexual" post-porn modernist, prostitute, and performance artist.

Obviously, a perfect representative of today's "if it feels good do it" left.

BONUS: At the Other McCain, "Armageddon, U.S.A.: Because Nobody Cares About ‘Social Issues’ Anymore."

Kate Upton GIF

Via Goodstuff's World.

Buycott Stolichnaya Vodka

I prefer Bourbon myself, but if you're buying vodka, perhaps pick up a little Stoli.

It turns out the disgusting hate-monger Dan Savage has launched a homosexual boycott against the Russian distiller.

Putin backed a traditional values bill that was passed unanimously in the Duma, "Russian Lawmakers Pass Anti-Gay Bill Banning 'Propaganda of Nontraditional Sexual Relations' in 436-0 Vote."

Funny thing is (or the stupid thing), is that Stoli Vodka is pro-LGBT rights. See BuzzFeed, "Stoli Responds to the Attempted Boycott of Russian Vodka."

And by the way, this isn't to say I'm thrilled with the legislation. It's that homo-ayatollahs like Dan Savage are just as abusive as are Russian autocrats. Screw 'em.

More at Towleroad, "STOLI RESPONDS TO BOYCOTT, DAN SAVAGE RESPONDS TO STOLI."

Silda Spitzer Plans to Seek Divorce After the Election

Well, I mentioned she was keeping a low profile. Really low, it turns out.

At the New York Post, "EXCLUSIVE: Fed-up Silda Spitzer plans to divorce Eliot after election":

Silda Spitzer is privately telling friends she plans to divorce her hooker-loving husband, Eliot Spitzer, Page Six can exclusively reveal.

Multiple sources tell us long-suffering Silda — who, he last night admitted, will not be joining him on the campaign trail — “has had enough” and plans to start divorce proceedings after his run for New York City comptroller is over.

One source tells us, “Silda is telling her female friends that she is done with him. She will file for divorce after the [Nov. 5] election.”

A second source told The Post’s Sally Goldenberg, “Silda is saying she is going to wait until this is all over. She has been telling friends, ‘This is too hard. This is too rough.’ ”

Page Six exclusively revealed in May that the Spitzers were living apart, with Eliot staying at 800 Fifth Ave. — less than 20 blocks from the home he shared with Silda at 985 Fifth.

Still more at that top link.

Janet Yellen and the Left's Federal Reserve Gender Debate

Seems to me the relevant question should be "Is this woman the most qualified economist for the job?"

But it's never about that nowadays, in our quota drenched, PC gender-obsessed leftist culture.

Idiot leftist Greg Sargent has a piece up now at Memeorandum, "Senate Dems push White House to appoint Janet Yellen (and not Larry Summers) to the Fed."

And that reminded me of this morning's New York Times, "In Tug of War Over New Fed Leader, Some Gender Undertones":

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s choice of a replacement for the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, is coming down to a battle between the California girls and the Rubin boys.

Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s vice chairwoman, is one of three female friends, all former or current professors at the University of California, Berkeley, who have broken into the male-dominated business of advising presidents on economic policy. Her career has been intertwined with those of Christina D. Romer, who led Mr. Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers at the beginning of his first term, and Laura D’Andrea Tyson, who held the same job under President Clinton and later served as the director of the White House economic policy committee. But no woman has climbed to the very top of the hierarchy to serve as Fed chairwoman or Treasury secretary.

Ms. Yellen’s chief rival for Mr. Bernanke’s job, Lawrence H. Summers, is a member of a close-knit group of men, protégés of the former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, who have dominated economic policy-making in both the Clinton and the Obama administrations. Those men, including the former Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Gene B. Sperling, the president’s chief economic policy adviser, are said to be quietly pressing Mr. Obama to nominate Mr. Summers.

The choice of a Fed chair is perhaps the single most important economic policy decision that Mr. Obama will make in his second term. Mr. Bernanke’s successor must lead the Fed’s fractious policy-making committee in deciding how much longer and how much harder it should push to stimulate growth and seek to drive down the unemployment rate.

Ms. Yellen’s selection would be a vote for continuity: she is an architect of the Fed’s stimulus campaign and shares with Mr. Bernanke a low-key, collaborative style. Mr. Summers, by contrast, has said that he doubts the effectiveness of some of the Fed’s efforts, and his self-assured leadership style has more in common with past chairmen like Alan Greenspan and Paul A. Volcker.

But the choice also is roiling Washington because it is reviving longstanding and sensitive questions about the insularity of the Obama White House and the dearth of women in its top economic policy positions. Even as three different women have served as secretary of state under various presidents and growing numbers have taken other high-ranking government jobs, there has been little diversity among Mr. Obama’s top economic advisers.

“Are we moving forward? It’s hard to see it,” said Ms. Romer, herself a late addition to Mr. Obama’s original economic team, chosen partly because the president wanted a woman.

Continue reading.

President Obama runs an extremely sexist "good old boys" White House. He's leaning toward appointing Lawrence Summers, an interesting choice, considering he left Harvard's presidency after inflaming the radical left's gender grievance academic correct-think reeducation commissars.

But like I said, the job should go to the best candidate, and that's Yellen, according to none other than renowned monetary policy economist Amanda Marcotte, "The Best Candidate for Fed Chair Is a Woman, so Why Consider Larry Summers?":

On Tuesday [Ezra] Klein wrote a new column, this time saying that, to his utter disbelief, Larry Summers is the frontrunner for the Fed chair. And I've been told that the Summers camp is using the whisper campaign against Yellen to bolster their man's chances with Obama. Yes, the same Larry Summers who condescendingly told a roomful of people who had lived their adult lives as female scientists that women lack the innate abilities to do science. Yes, the same Larry Summers who, unlike Yellen, played an instrumental role in the economic collapse in the first place by consistently backing deregulation schemes that led to the housing bubble and its collapse. If this is the male candidate Obama needs to exhaust before he deigns to consider a female one, well, he should consider Summers exhausted.

The best minds have spoken!

Renowned monetary policy economist Amanda Marcotte cites renowned Washington juice box policy analyst Ezra Klein, with the added bonus of smacking down those sexist anti-Yellen whisper campaigns.

I'm torn, I'm torn!

Yellen? Summers?

Yellen? Summers?

Oh forget it!

I'm refuse to weigh in until I hear what Sandra Fluke has to say!

Democrat Bob #Filner to Enter 'Behavioral Counseling Clinic'

Keep in mind Filner's so-called "behavior" is not a bug but a feature of the leftist ideological program. Leftists always talk rights and inclusion but then those same standards of propriety don't apply to them. And throughout, the mainstream press gives these assholes a pass.

At the Hill, "San Diego mayor to seek therapy for ‘inexcusable’ behavior." (Via Memeorandum.) And at KPBS San Diego, "Filner Announces He Will Enter Counseling Clinic But Says Nothing of Resigning."

Of course he won't resign. Because it's not about doing the right thing it's about holding onto power at all costs, even when virtually the entire political establishment throws you under the bus. Yeah, it took awhile, but even top Democrats finally cut ties to Filner, the idiot left-wing loser and poster boy for depraved progressives.

Mick Jagger's 70th Birthday

CNN is playing this segment over and over.



I sure would've loved hangin' at that Echo Park gig in L.A., man.

Danica and Ricky: NASCAR's First Couple Open Up

This is cool. Remember, she just divorced last year.

A great, wholesome woman.

At USA Today, "Danica and Ricky are living love in the fast lane."

#Weiner Had at Least 13 Sexting Partners — 3 After He Left Congress

Hard numbers.

At the New York Post, "Weiner’s dirty baker’s dozen: He had at least 13 cybersex gals — 3 were after he quit Congress."

Anthony #Weiner 'New Yorker' Cover

USA Today wonders if the cover "goes too far?"

Hardly. Nothing's too far for this pervert.

See, "Cover Story: John Cuneo's 'Carlos Danger'." (At Memeorandum.)

Here's That Robin Roberts 'GMA' Interview With 'Maddy', #Zimmerman Juror B-29

As mentioned yesterday, here's the clip: