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Once again, how’s that recovery thingy working for ya? From the Wall Street Journal:

More people tapped food stamps to pay for groceries in September as the recession and lackluster recovery have prompted more Americans to turn to government safety net programs to make ends meet.

Some 42.9 million people collected food stamps last month, up 1.2% from the prior month and 16.2% higher than the same time a year ago, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Nationwide 14% of the population relied on food stamps as of September but in some states the percentage was much higher…

One federal program I don’t have much complaint about is food stamps – regardless of what else is going on, no one in America should ever go hungry (though, of course, we must continually check to make certain we aren’t just supporting layabouts who can find work if they’d but try). But you can’t build an economy on food stamps – nor on unemployment benefits. We need work – and not just any, old work but work which creates wealth.

We’ve been entirely asinine in our economic policies since the start of the recession. We should be building and expanding farms, factories and mines but all we’ve done is bail out banks and tinker around with nearly useless things like “green jobs” and “shovel ready projects”. If we’re going to spend trillions more (and we will) over the next few years, then we should at least get something out of it – next “quantitative easing” by the Fed should result not in more money for the banksters but, instead, involve flashing some cash at people who hold down real jobs. If Bennie and the boys had wanted to do something at least modestly useful they could have sent every living American $10,000 each over the past three years…certainly would have done more for the economy than helping crooks stay rich (and we’d be no more bankrupt today for doing that than we are, anyway).

Unfortunately, I don’t think too many people in DC even realize what the problem is, let alone have any conception on how to fix it. Look for more people to be thrown on food stamps and unemployment…our economy burns down, our leaders fiddle away…

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From Life News:

A judge has issued a ruling saying a Cincinnati Planned Parenthood abortion business rushed an abortion it did on a 14-year-old girl who was a victim of sexual abuse.

The case was brought by parents whose minor daughter had an abortion at a Planned Parenthood facility without their knowledge after being sexually abused by her adult coach.

The parents allege that Planned Parenthood failed to comply with the statute requiring reports of known or suspected child abuse as well as Ohio’s parental consent statute…

The girl in question was being sexually abused from the age of 13 by her 22 year old soccer coach. The coach signed off on the abortion rather than the girl’s parents and PP went along with it. This is part of a pattern for PP – always being willing to help a child molester dispose of evidence. The creep was eventually caught and sent to jail – but that doesn’t get PP off the hook.

Congresswoman Michelle Bachman (R-MN) has proposed cutting PP’s federal funding and here is just one more reason why we should – any group which connives at the sexual abuse of children has no business obtaining taxpayer funding.

Looks like it, if Reid will give Collins (R-ME) what she wants – from NRO’s The Corner:

With Sen. Scott Brown now favoring the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, plus all 58 Democratic Senators, pro-repeal forces need only one more vote to end debate, and move forward with the broader Pentagon spending bill that would wipe the controversial law out, effecting one of Obama’s campaign promises. And many are speculating that the one vote could come from Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), as early as tonight. But she’s issued Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid an ultimatum. TPM has the scoop:

Here’s what Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that she needs to support a full Senate debate on the defense authorization bill (the vehicle for Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal): 15 guaranteed votes on amendments (10 for Republicans, and 5 for Democrats), and somewhere around four days to debate the bill…

Collins wants the amendments and wants the GOP to pick their own (I guess in normal times Reid would pick which GOP amendments would come up for a debate and vote). This could get interesting – after all, if you open up the Senate to GOP proposals you’re likely to get things which the “2012 Democrats” (ie, those red State Democrats up for election in 2012) dare not vote against…but which may prove hard to swallow for the liberal base Obama needs for 2012. Collins is a mostly pain in the neck RINO, but this is a bit clever on her part – if we’re to be stuck with Reid shoving through something which should wait until the new Congress next month, then we should at least reap some benefit for going along.

Unfortunately, this information hasn’t made it on the media’s radar.

The release by Julian Assange’s web site Wikileaks of classified documents reveals that U.S. military intelligence discovered chemical weapons labs, encountered insurgents who were specialists in the creation of toxins, and uncovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. However, Washington, DC officials and the news media have ignored this information.

One of the WikiLeaks document dumps reveals that as late as 2008, American troops continued to find WMD in the region.

There are numerous mentions of chemical and biological weapons in the WikiLeaks documents, however the U.S. media appear only interested in those portions of the leaked material that highlight actions that are viewed as embarrassing for the U.S. military such as the accusation that U.S. commanders were aware of abuse and “torture” of prisoners by Iraqi soldiers and police officers.

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According to the latest WikiLeaks document “dump,” Saddam’s toxic arsenal, significantly reduced after the Gulf War, remained intact. Jihadists, insurgents and foreign (possibly Iranian) agitators turned to these stockpiles during the Iraq conflict and may have brewed up their own deadly agents, according to the WikiLeaks web site.

During that time, former Iraqi General Georges Sada, Saddam’s top commander, detailed the transfers of Iraq’s WMD. “There [were] weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands,” Mr. Sada said. “I am confident they were taken over.”

So, it appears that our intelligence agencies were correct. So were the intelligence agencies of England, Germany, France, etc. who all concluded that Saddam had WMD. Of course, the reason why the media isn’t reporting this information is that this means that Bush was right, too.

Sorry, folks, just wasn’t feeling well and so couldn’t put together something good for the AM. Here are some stories I would have like to have written about:

Hispanics share the GOP’s conservative morality. We can work on this to eventually get a majority of Hispanic votes.

A lot more Catholics come to Congress – and now they are more likely to be genuine rather than “cafeteria” Catholics. United with our Evangelical brothers and sisters, this promises to make pro-family and pro-morality policy more possible in Congress.

Obama has granted 222 waivers to his own, signature health care law. If this doesn’t tell you that its all about political power instead of health care, then nothing else will.

Chinese kids crush Americans in education. This is because our education system is entirely wrecked – and wrecked by the Ruling Class’ unions which views education as a means of power rather than as a means of educating kids. Until we break the power of the unions – and thus take politics out of the education equation – we’ll never be able to fix this.

Arsenic-based life forms announced by NASA turn out to be bogus? This just further confirms me in my view that we are alone in the universe – no little, green men from Mars, anywhere. Unless, that is, God decided to make a host of different life forms all over the place…’cause without God doing it, the mathematical possibilities of life arising twice are nil (and even arising once are fabulously small).

The American Catholic gets a fund-raising appeal from Planned Parenthood. An excellent read.

An alternative way to deal with Assange.

As good a place as any to cut out completely worthless government spending:

…Bachmann says she will press for the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives to pass a bill sponsored by fellow conservative luminary Mike Pence, an Indiana congressman, to de-fund Planned Parenthood when it convenes in January.

“Well, I think one thing that we can do, quite simply, is to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood,” Bachmann said when asked by CNS News about what Congress can do to protect unborn children…

The dirty, little secret of the left is that it is largely taxpayer funded. Not too many people are really willing to pass their own cash to groups like Planned Parenthood. They rely on government subsidies to carry on – the whole super structure of the left depends on government funding of one sort or another (not too many leftists actually work in the private sector, ya dig?). By cutting out government funding, we’ll cripple the left’s ability to advance their causes.

So, let’s cut away – not only will it be a good thing to do, it’ll be fun. The shrieks from the left about it will be endlessly entertaining.

From the New York Post:

For all of President Obama’s rhetoric about “fat cat” investment bankers who gambled the country into economic decay, he sure seems to have a larger soft spot for big Wall Street than for average Americans.

After all, his latest push to “remedy” 9.8 percent unemployment for the masses is an extension of unemployment benefits. Meanwhile, his policies aren’t just making Wall Streeters rich, as bonuses are expected to hit record highs this year. They’re also likely (according to some insiders) to spark a hiring spree among bankers in the new year…

I don’t know if all that new hiring will come about in 2011 – things teeter on the edge of a financial abyss and if we tip in to it, that’s all she wrote. But there is no doubt that the banksters have done well in 2010 – what with Treasury and Fed shoveling money through the financial system and taking bad assets of the banks’ hands, they’ve had a banner year. And indicators are that not only are they are cashing out their stocks in record amounts but, presumptively, putting all that money we gave them in to bonds (so, Americans, the money we gave them is being lent by them back to us…so we can pay interest on the money we handed out. Cool, huh?).

I don’t blame Obama for this except in the sense that he put himself forward as a Presidential candidate in 2008 even though he lacked any sort of political or real world experience which would allow him to judge properly when people were trying to rip America off. Re-appointing Bernanke after he had already looted us for trillions just shows that Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing.

We can hope he’ll wise up, but I doubt it – the Ruling Class, of which Obama is head, has closed ranks….they are determined to help themselves, people get stuffed. We’ll see how long it takes before the piper demands payment.

From Hugh Hewitt:

Senator JimDeMint just announced on my program that he will oppose the deal as well as a vote for cloture on the deal. He is reluctant to criticize GOP Senate leadership, but believes the deal at a minimum has to be paid for, and that we need “a permanent economy” not a temporary one as well as permanent tax cuts, not temporary tax cuts…

DeMint doesn’t like the fact that the deal increases the debt – he, I guess, has thought the matter all the way through. I doubt he’ll be able to stop it – but, then again, no one can say for sure. Lot of strange cross-currents in this Congress, at this moment.

From WRAL:

Elizabeth Edwards, the political wife whose public battle with breast cancer, coping with marital infidelity and continued advocacy for the downtrodden raised her profile above that of her husband, died Tuesday, WRAL News has learned…

Our prayers for her and her family.

Charles Hurt thinks the tax deal has finished Obama’s chances of being re-elected:

…At first glance, last night’s compromise decision puts Obama on firmer ground for his re-election bid two years from now because it moves him toward the middle.

But in truth, he may have sealed his fate as a one-term president.

In recent days as the White House and Democrats signaled that the compromise to extend the Bush tax cuts was in the offing, the liberal coalition that carried Obama into the White House began falling apart.

The left is apoplectic that their savior would turn around on them and adopt Bush’s most “draconian” tax policies that “only favor the rich.”

If they were frustrated before, now they are palpably angry and publicly voicing their disillusionment with Obama…

We might get a couple liberals going on the ranch over this but I don’t think this, long term, jeopardizes Obama’s support in the liberal base. One must keep in mind how utterly servile most liberals are.

Remember how forceful the gay rights activists were? Nothing could stop them – they were queer and here and weren’t going away. But when Bill Clinton betrayed them on gays in the military, what did they do? They backed his re-election effort and have remained loyal lap dogs of the Democrat party.

Remember how strong the feminists were? They weren’t going to take any sexist guff from anyone. When even the mildest accusation of sexual impropriety was leveled against a powerful man, they were all over him and hounded him until he was out of office. But when people like Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton used and abused women on a regular basis, what did they do? Back them to the hilt – and they, too, remain loyal lap dogs for the Democrat party.

There is no independent thought on the left – there are talking points, endlessly parroted. There is no grass roots on the left – just paid and organized pressure groups. There is no fearless going where ever conviction leads – just a supine desire to be “in” with the leadership, where ever it goes.

No, Obama isn’t losing his base. Come 2012, they’ll all come home – because that is what they’ll be told to do. One or two might break off, but the overwhelming bulk will be “baa” upon command. This doesn’t mean Obama will win – just having the liberal base won’t be enough – but it does mean that we can’t take it for granted that Obama will have any problem locking down his core supporters. He won’t – a united left will confront us in 2012 and that is what we should plan for.