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Occupy LA Protester Masturbates In Front of Children While Occupy Chicago Dirtbag Busted for Kiddie Porn

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A member of the Occupy Chicago movement has been arrested for child porn.

Robert Reitz, 21, of the 2000 block of South Canalport Avenue, was arrested Monday in the 100 block of West Quincy Street for an active warrant for aggravated child pornography, police said. He is being held without bond, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s office.

At the time of his arrest Reitz said he was involved with security for Occupy Chicago–a claim that was denied by protest organizers.

Reitz was arrested after officers smelled burnt cannabis and approached to investigate. Officers did a name check and learned he was wanted for a probation violation by the sheriff’s police.

It fits that he would be a part of the security team.  A predator would want to present a front that says “safe” while he moves in for his prey.

Occupy Chicago says they can’t be held accountable because they are an open organization and they don’t vet the people in the camp.  Wonder if they would grant the Tea Party the same lee way regarding a racist in the middle of their rally?

You know they wouldn’t.

Meanwhile, on the left coast, a protester with Occupy L.A. decided that sitting on the front steps of city hall in full view of children was a good place to rub one out:

Angele Chaidez, 21, faces one count of lewd conduct and one count of indecent exposure for allegedly exposing himself and masturbating in front of several people, including children, Friday on the south steps of City Hall, said prosecutors with the L.A. city attorney’s office.

Just like the Tea Party, right Barry?

Maybe Angele Chaidez thought he was up north in San Francisco, where it’s ok to masturbate in public and children are welcome.

Occupy Everywhere.

Obama supported, Pelosi approved.

Hat Tip:  Gateway Pundit

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Obama Says Skyrocketing Energy Prices Now Are Good For Our Economy “Over the Long Term”

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President Obama was talking climate change regulations today in Australia. While promoting the idea of implementing policies that limit carbon emissions, he said that over the long term, it would be good for our economy:

“As we move forward over the next several years, my hope is, is that the United States, as one of several countries with a big carbon footprint, can find further ways to reduce our carbon emissions,” Obama said in Canberra, Australia.

“I think that’s good for the world. I actually think, over the long term, it’s good for our economies as well, because it’s my strong belief that industries, utilities, individual consumers — we’re all going to have to adapt how we use energy and how we think about carbon,” Obama added, according to a White House transcript.

Let’s remember what Obama said his carbon emission reduction policies would do to America’s energy prices:

When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal…under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations.

That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers.

But over the long term, it will be good for the economy if our energy prices skyrocket now. I guess I’m just not a long term kind of guy when it comes to feeding my children.

“Children, I know you are hungry now, but with the electrical bill so high, I can’t afford anything but Gritty Kitty Kitty Litter. But just think long term. Someday, we’ll live in a world where carbon emissions are a bad memory and unicorns run free, passing out rainbows to children and old people alike. And you can eat the rainbows. They taste like awesome.”

Obama is honestly out there saying that, while it will cause energy prices to “skyrocket,” ultimately it will be good for everyone because global warming will stop, or something.

I guess we’re supposed to think of it as sort of an economic chemotherapy, with carbon being the cancer. Sure, it hurts now, but eventually the prices will go down and the Earth will get better.

Why isn’t anyone in the media pointing this out? Is there no one in the White House Press corps with the guts to ask, “Sir, you said in Australia that capping carbon emissions would be good in the long term, but you are also on record as saying your policy of capping carbon emissions would quote, cause energy prices to necessarily skyrocket, unquote. Is it your position that causing Americans to pay exceedingly more for energy now is good for the economy later?”

Yeah, I’m looking at you, Jake Tapper.

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Rep. Allen West Takes Media Behind Woodshed, Beats Them With a Brickbat

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Via CNS News by way of The Right Scoop, this video of Rep. Allen West once again leads the way from other Republicans. Stop allowing the media to carry the president’s water. Call them out on not calling Obama out.

“It’s about time that I asked this from the media: Stop being afraid of this president,” said Rep. West. “Stand up to him and call him out on the shirking of his duties and responsibilities. The House Republicans are passing pieces of legislation, after pieces of legislation about jobs.”

“And here we got a president that’s gone off to Australia, playing golf in Hawaii, and you guys allow him to make this decision to shut down this Keystone XL project,” said West. “The media needs to call out this president and stop coming over here to the House Republicans and telling us what we’re not doing. We’re the ones taking action. The guy sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is destroying this country.”

The only way it could have been could have been more awesome is if he grabbed one of the mics, threw it on the ground and as it hit, Stone Cold Steve Austin’s music started.

But that might be too much awesome for the Internet.

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My Latest Article at PJ Media

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I have a new article up at PJ Media. It’s about the beating death of a seven year old girl and how Anderson Cooper and CNN are blaming her death on a Christian couple who wrote a book on training children to behave.

Here’s a taste:

CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 also focused on the Pearls’ book. In the segment, they interview District Attorney Mike Ramsey, who doesn’t hesitate to point fingers at the Pearls for the death of Lydia.

Dr. Stanton E. Samenow, a clinical psychologist and author of Inside the Criminal Mind, disagrees, citing the fact that thousands of people own this book and have not killed their children. He says responsibility for the act lies with the criminal, not with anyone else.

“What is critical here is not what is in the book, but what is in the mind of the alleged perpetrator. There we come to the focal point: what is the personality of the defendant? The book could say anything, but the issue is, how is it perceived and how does it fit in with the personality of the alleged perpetrator.”

While the book clearly influences the reader, it is not to be blamed for the actions the reader takes after reading it. It is the personality of the reader that will decide how to incorporate what they read into their already developed, and possibly malformed, belief system.

In other words, it is the decision the criminal makes, not the contents of a book or movie, that is responsible for any crime, no matter how heinous.

Read the whole thing here.

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Having Solved All Other Legal Matters, DOJ Focuses on Your Match.com Profile

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Fast and Furious?

Please.  There’s not time for trivial matters like that.

Someone on the Internet is lying:

The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile at a site like Match.com.

In a statement obtained by CNET that’s scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, the Justice Department argues that it must be able to prosecute violations of Web sites’ often-ignored, always-unintelligible “terms of service” policies.

The law must allow “prosecutions based upon a violation of terms of service or similar contractual agreement with an employer or provider,” Richard Downing, the Justice Department’s deputy computer crime chief, will tell the U.S. Congress tomorrow.

Scaling back that law “would make it difficult or impossible to deter and address serious insider threats through prosecution,” and jeopardize prosecutions involving identity theft, misuse of government databases, and privacy invasions, according to Downing.

Just so we are clear.

Standing outside a polling place with a billy club intimidating people isn’t important, but claiming online that you weigh 50 less than you do is.

Google says you can’t use its services if “you are not of legal age to form a binding contract,” which implies that millions of teenagers would be unindicted criminals. Match.com, meanwhile, says you can’t lie about your age, criminalizing the profile of anyone not a model of probity.

“I do not see any serious argument why such conduct should be criminal,” Kerr says.

The Justice Department disagrees.

Priorities.

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Judge: #OWS Can Come Back to Zuccotti Park, Without Your Tents

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Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman says the protesters who were living in Zuccotti Park can come back, but they can’t stay.  They have not shown they are capable of meeting the rules for safe living.  You know, things like not letting human waste pile up.

Yeah, he’s nit-picking right:

The Court is mindful of movants’ First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and peaceable assembly. However, “[e]ven protected speech is not equally permissible in all places and at all times.” (Snyder v Phelps, 131 S Ct 1207, 1218 [2011], quoting Cornelius v NAACP Legal Defense & Ed. Fund, Inc., 473 US 788, 799 [1985].) Here, movants have not demonstrated that the rules adopted by the owners of the property, concededly after the demonstrations began, are not reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions permitted under the First Amendment.

To the extent that City law prohibits the erection of structures, the use of gas or other combustible materials, and the accumulation of garbage and human waste in public places, enforcement of the law and the owner’s rules appears reasonable to permit the owner to maintain its space in a hygienic, safe, and lawful condition, and to prevent it from being liable by the City or others for violations of law, or in tort. It also permits public access by those who live and work in the area who are the intended beneficiaries of this zoning bonus.

The movants have not demonstrated that they have a First Amendment right to remain in Zuccotti Park, along with their tents, structures, generators, and other installations to the exclusion of the owner’s reasonable rights and duties to maintain Zuccotti Park, or to the rights to public access of others who might wish to use the space safely.

Neither have the applicants shown a rightto a temporary restraining order that would restrict the City’s enforcement of law so as to promote public health and safety.

Therefore, petitioner’s application for a temporary restraining order is denied.

As I mentioned above, they are allowed back in the park, but they can’t stay:

Police let them past barricades single-file, but only after reading the new rules over bullhorns: no tents, no tarps, no sleeping bags, no camping equipment, no large bags of any kind.

Though the new rules will make the occupation close to impossible once the temperatures drop, the crowd was jubilant.

They jumped onto benches and waved American flags.

“We got the park back. That’s all that matters,” said Vinesh Rancit, 31.

Yeah, until the first snow falls, or it rains.  Long term thinkers these guys are not.  I mean, honestly, why would you start something like this in September?  If you wanted to start a movement that involves long periods of time outdoors, start it in the spring.

 

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Obama DOE Urged Solyndra to Postpone Layoffs Until After 2010 Midterm Elections

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Despite what liberals want you to believe, this scandal with Solyndra is one of epic proportions, especially considering the revelations made in the Washington Post today:

The Obama administration urged officers of the struggling solar company Solyndra to postpone announcing planned layoffs until after the November 2010 midterm elections, newly released e-mails show.

Solyndra, the now-shuttered California company, had been a poster child of President Obama’s initiative to invest in clean energies and received the administration’s first energy loan of $535 million. But a year ago, in October 2010, the solar panel manufacturer was quickly running out of money and had warned the Energy Department it would need emergency cash to avoid having to shut down.

The new e-mails about the layoff announcement were released Tuesday morning as part of a House Energy and Commerce committee memo, provided in advance of Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s scheduled testimony before the investigative committee Thursday.

Solyndra’s chief executive warned the Energy Department on Oct. 25, 2010, that he intended to announce worker layoffs Oct. 28. He said he was spurred by numerous calls from reporters and potential investors about rumors the firm was in financial trouble and was planning to lay off workers and close one of its two plants.

But in an Oct. 30, 2010, e-mail, advisers to Solyndra’s primary investor, Argonaut Equity, explain that the Energy Department had strongly urged the company to put off the layoff announcement until Nov. 3. The midterm elections were held Nov. 2, and led to Republicans taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“DOE continues to be cooperative and have indicated that they will fund the November draw on our loan (app. $40 million) but have not committed to December yet,” a Solyndra investor adviser wrote Oct. 30. “They did push very hard for us to hold our announcement of the consolidation to employees and vendors to Nov. 3rd – oddly they didn’t give a reason for that date.”

So now we have loans going out to Obama campaign bundlers and major donors, but when the deal goes south, they cover it all up until after the election.

Classy.  This is what change looks like, or something.

Ed Morrissey asks the $64,000 question:

So who ordered Solyndra to keep quiet?  Was it the “climate-change czar”? Was it the Vice President?  Or did it go higher than that?  It’s time to start getting all of these people under oath in Congress and start preparing a criminal investigation.

The buck stops where?  And when is someone going to hold Obama accountable for all the scandals that have occurred on his watch?

November 2012, that’s when.

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NASA Is Hiring Astronauts, Flight Experience Preferred, Not Required

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Afraid that their current batch of astronauts are getting up in age, NASA has posted a help wanted sign on their window.

That’s right, they are hiring. Flight experience optional?

Only one trouble: With the space shuttle fleet retired, NASA doesn’t have its own spaceship to fly astronauts and is sending fewer of them into orbit.

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Astronauts will fly on a Russian Soyuz spaceship to the International Space Station, eventually on American-built commercial rockets and even later in a NASA crew capsule.

I guess the preferred candidate would have some time behind the stick, but really, they are just passengers for now. They could get some OJT in order to fly whatever NASA comes up with next, if anything.

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Is Pizza a Vegetable? That’s Really Not the Question We Should Be Asking

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While I was driving today, I heard Rush Limbaugh talking about pizza being a vegetable. I got into the show late, so I didn’t really know the context, but after getting back behind the keyboard, I can see the topic is a hot one.

It seems Congress has been fighting to keep pizza and french fries on the trays of government school students across the country:

The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, which included limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line and delaying limits on sodium and delaying a requirement to boost whole grains.

The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. USDA had wanted to prevent that.

Food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potato growers requested the changes, and some conservatives in Congress say the federal government shouldn’t be telling children what to eat.

The last ten words are really key, aren’t they? The question shouldn’t be, “Is pizza sauce a vegetable?” It needs to be, “Where does the federal government get the authority to dictate what schools choose to feed their students? How is that not a local or even state issue?”

Oh, but children don’t eat healthy foods, which is why we have an obesity problem in the country. That’s why the federal government needs to be involved.

Honestly, have you seen the size of Washington, DC? It’s obese!

To paraphrase the good book, take the plank out of your own eye before you tell me to take the Pepperoni and Sausage pizza out of my face.

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Just In Time For Me, Adult Stem Cells Treatment for Heart Attack Patients Better Than Expected

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My dad had a heart attack.

My mom had a heart attack.

Two uncles have died from heart attacks.

You see where I’m going with this?

That’s why this is good news for me:

In the trial, cardiac stem cells were used to repair the severely damaged hearts of 16 patients. It was the first time this had ever been done in humans.

After one year, the ejection fraction or ”pumping efficiency” of the hearts of eight patients had improved by more than 12%.

All patients whose progress was followed underwent some level of recovery.

The results tripled the 4% improvement researchers had expected to see.

Although this was an early stage trial and larger studies are needed, scientists believe the promise it shows has huge implications.

“The results are striking,” said Professor Roberto Bolli, one of the research leaders from the University of Louisville in the US. “While we do not yet know why the improvement occurs, we have no doubt now that ejection fraction increased and scarring decreased.

“If these results hold up in future studies, I believe this could be the biggest revolution in cardiovascular medicine in my lifetime.”

Excellent!

Now, hearing this, I think I’ll go celebrate with a bacon smoothie.

Bonus: It was a breakthrough made with adult stem cells, the preferred stem cell for stem cell research success.

Second bonus: This breakthrough means we could have Dick Cheney around longer irritating liberals.

Now that’s a win for everyone.

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Ron Paul Joins Top Tier in Iowa, Making It a Four Way Race

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According to a new Bloomberg poll, Ron Paul is now a top tier candidate in Iowa, joining Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, and Newt Gingrinch.

A Bloomberg News survey indicates 20% of Iowans likely to take part in the Republican caucuses say they support businessman Herman Cain for the nomination, with 19% backing Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who’s making his third run for the White House. Eighteen percent say they support former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who’s making his second run for the GOP nomination and 17% backing former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

It’s basically a four-way tie for the top spot when taking into account the survey’s sampling error. The poll’s Tuesday release comes seven weeks before Iowa’s January 3 caucuses, which kick off the presidential primary and caucus calendar.

Good news for Ron Paul supporters, bad news for Perry, Bachmann and Santorum supporters. Especially Santorum, who has worked his hind end off getting to all 99 counties in Iowa.

Ed Morrissey writes:

Bloomberg makes sure to point out in its report that it used the same polling firm as the Des Moines Register, whose caucus polling is considered the gold standard for Iowa predictive surveys. The sample size is more than adequate at 503 likely caucusgoers. At an MOE of +/-4.4%, this basically shows Iowa at a dead heat among the four contenders.

I think Cain is going to drop a bit before January 3rd, leaving the door open for Paul or Gingrich to be the Not Romney candidate. Considering Paul’s organization in Iowa, it’s conceivable he could win Iowa.

But then what? In New Hampshire, Paul is in third place behind Cain, who trails Romney by 22 points. Yeah, 22 points.

In South Carolina, Paul is in fifth place behind Rick Perry.

Before you Ron Paul supporters get giddy with excitement, you need to remember that winning Iowa doesn’t equal winning the nomination. Just ask Mike Huckabee.

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NYPD Clears Zuccoti Park

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About 1 am, 1,000 police officers descended on the protesters in Zuccoti Park and told them the party was over, they didn’t have to go home, but they couldn’t stay there:

More than 1,000 cops marched on the lower Manhattan encampment shortly before 1 a.m. and handed out fliers ordering demonstrators to get out and remove their personal property.

The cops were followed by Sanitation workers, one of whom was overheard saying, “We’re gonna disinfect the hell out of this place.”

The fliers read, “The city has determined that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park poses an increasing health and fire safety hazard to those camped in the park, the city’s first responders, and to the surrounding community.

“You are required to immediately remove all property, including tents, sleeping bags and tarps.”

The whole eviction mess is going to court. The National Lawyers Guild has received a restraining order, saying the squatters have to be allowed back into the park for further “protesting.”

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