Atlasshrugs.com

Long but very interesting. I read a few and skimmed through the rest. Pam is a Bachman supporter. I say, good job, Pam!




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Choking to Death

Just how powerful is the media's influence? Incalculable. When George Bush was president and the economy was chug chug, chugin' along the unemployment rate was 4.6% and the media was in full destruct mode. The horror of the unemployment rate. The outrage at the war in Iraq ....well you know the rest.



Here we are painfully laboring under Obama's 'leadership' (but not yet suffering the full effect of Obama's war on America, the worst is yet to come) and the Eva Braunish media continues to activate, propagandize and cover for the dastardly actions of the mst dangerous man to ever occupy the White House.



Needless to say if a Republican had Obama's record he would have been exiled to Elba. We have our work cut out for us.



Friday came the news that unemployment climbed again (despite omitting those that have stopped looking for work etc.)



WASHINGTON -- The US economy added jobs at a slower pace in June than in May, the Labor Department reported Friday, suggesting that the sudden slowdown in the economy might be longer-lasting and more severe than feared.



Nonfarm payrolls rose by only 18,000 in June, well below the 125,000 gain expected by economists surveyed by MarketWatch.



Job gains in May were revised down to 25,000 from the initial estimate of 54,000.



Employment growth almost ground to a halt in the last two months after several months of strong gains. Employment rose by an average of 215,000 per month from February through April -- but only averaged 22,000 over the past two months.



The unemployment rate ticked higher to 9.2 percent in June from 9.1 percent in the previous month, reaching the highest level since December 2010. Economists expected the unemployment rate to remain steady. (NY Post)



The same day that the unemployment figures are released I received notice from my health insurer that they have submitted a request for a rate increase to the New York State Department Insurance Department (there's a government department for everything.)



They seek a 22% increase. Mind you, my premiums went up 36% after Obamacare was passed. And I don't even use my healthcare. I have a deductible that would choke a horse just to keep my monthly premiums manageable. And if there had to be universal healthcare (which I do no believe in) it should have covered only catastrophic health costs.







How can people afford these insane increases saddled with growing inflation? Go to the grocery store - what does your dollar buy you? Where is the national outcry? What's it going to take America?



Are there more moochers and looters than there are producers? Is that why Obana still enjoys a double digit approval rating? He should be low single digits.



His foreign policy is delivering the free world into the hands of global jihadists, our soldiers are getting slaughtered under an incoherent foreign policy, we are engaged in four wars without strategy or national self interest. He traded science for stone age when he cancelled the shuttle program and instead instructed NASA to redirect their efforts to outreach with the Muslim world.



America, what's it going to take?



Federal workers earning double their private counterparts



By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.

Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.



Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.



The federal compensation advantage has grown from $30,415 in 2000 to $61,998 last year.



Public employee unions say the compensation gap reflects the increasingly high level of skill and education required for most federal jobs and the government contracting out lower-paid jobs to the private sector in recent years.



"The data are not useful for a direct public-private pay comparison," says Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union.



Chris Edwards, a budget analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, thinks otherwise. "Can't we now all agree that federal workers are overpaid and do something about it?" he asks.



Last week, President Obama ordered a freeze on bonuses for 2,900 political appointees. For the rest of the 2-million-person federal workforce, Obama asked for a 1.4% across-the-board pay hike in 2011, the smallest in more than a decade. Federal workers also would qualify for seniority pay hikes.



Congressional Republicans want to cancel the across-the-board increase in 2011, which would save $2.2 billion.



"Americans are fed up with public employee pay scales far exceeding that in the private sector," says Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., the second-ranking Republican in the House.



Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., says a pay freeze would unfairly scapegoat federal workers without addressing real budget problems.



What the data show:



•Benefits. Federal workers received average benefits worth $41,791 in 2009. Most of this was the government's contribution to pensions. Employees contributed an additional $10,569.



•Pay. The average federal salary has grown 33% faster than inflation since 2000. USA TODAY reported in March that the federal government pays an average of 20% more than private firms for comparable occupations. The analysis did not consider differences in experience and education.



•Total compensation. Federal compensation has grown 36.9% since 2000 after adjusting for inflation, compared with 8.8% for private workers.



UPDATE: Look at this. USA at the bottom of the bottom of the barrel.



Posted by Pamela Geller on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 09:45 AM in Capitalism RIP
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

More Enforcement of Islamic Blasphemy Laws in the West: Former Czech PM sued over statements on Islam

This is the sharia. This is the war on free speech.



Former Czech PM sued over statements on Islam
Prague Monitor Religion of Peace



Prague, July 7 (CTK) – Retired politician Milos Zeman, Czech prime minister in 1998-2002, faces a criminal complaint over the statements on Islam he made in June at an international conference on Europe.







“The enemy is the anti-civilisation spreading from North Africa to Indonesia. Two billion people live in it and it is financed partly from oil sales and partly from drug sales,” Czech news servers quoted Zeman as saying about Islam at the recent conference.







Zeman said Thursday Muslims believe in the Koran like Nazis believed in racial supremacy and anti-semitism and communists in class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat.







He said Islam is far more aggressive and intolerant than present Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and other world religions.



He added that the Koran includes passages calling for the subjugation, enslavement and even elimination of non-believers.







Zeman has been known for his strong statements.



Posted by Pamela Geller on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 11:35 AM in FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD
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The Jihad Against Southern Sudan

Did we really believe the Muslims would let the Chrstians live in peace after independence was declared in South Sudan. They slaughtered over two million southern Sudanese and still their bloodlust is not slaked.



Prya for Southern Sudan.



South Sudan independent, jihad continues



The Republic of South Sudan is independent today. But the jihad against it is sure not to let up. This new nation deserves the support of all free nations. "Jihad In Sudan Redux," from Christian News Today, July 9:



On July 9, the mostly Christian South Sudan will legally and officially separate from the Muslim north and become a new, independent and free country. Fearing loss of its iron clad grip of other non-Arab regions in the north, whose people likely envy the freedoms won by the South, Arab/Islamist leaders in Khartoum have launched a military assault on the Nuba Mountains, a mixed Christian, animist and Muslim region. Reports from the area are gruesomely reminiscent of the decades-long assault Khartoum waged on the South. These include forced conversions to Islam, mass displacement, bombing of civilians and mass slaughter.

Anticipating the effects of Christians winning freedom from his rule already in December of 2010 Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity, laid out a vision for the future of his nation:



"If south Sudan secedes, we will change the constitution and at that time there will be no time to speak of diversity of culture and ethnicity... Sharia (Islamic law) and Islam will be the main source for the constitution, Islam the official religion and Arabic the official language", he told a group of supporters.



Al-Bashir made his statement as the people of Southern Sudan were preparing to vote in the referendum that secured their imminent independence. With less than a week left before South secedes, al-Bashir is determined to fulfill his promise not by changing the constitution, but through murder and ethnic cleansing.



After concluding a military occupation of the disputed border region of Abyei, which resulted in the expulsion of more than 100,000 (non-Arabs, mostly from the Dinka tribe), Sudanese army and government-sponsored Arab militias attacked the African tribes of Nuba Mountains, a region situated in the Northern state of Southern Kordofan. Reports indicate indiscriminate bombings of civilians and a systematic killing of the black-skinned Nuba, which forced estimated 100,000 to abandon their homes. One report described "door to door executions of completely innocent and defenseless civilians, often by throat cutting." Another suggested the government might be using chemical weapons. The Bishop of Nuba Mountains described the events as genocide: "Once again we are facing the nightmare of genocide of our people in a final attempt to erase our culture and society from the face of the earth." A well-respected Sudan analyst concurred.



Nuba embody the diversity of culture and religion that al-Bashir wants to destroy. Numbering some 1.5 million, Nuba people are Christians, Muslims and the followers of traditional faiths. It is not uncommon to find the adherents of all faiths within a single family. Comprising from more than fifty tribes and speaking an equal number of languages, the Nuba have an incredibly diverse culture.



Posted by Pamela Geller on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 08:34 AM in Sudan, Niger, Darfur, Mauratania-Genocide Child rape, Slavery


Saturday, July 09, 2011

Saturday Night Cinema: A Yank in Libya (1942)