This picture is of Edith O'Brien. She was a MF Global assistant treasurer who was at the epicenter of last year's collapse and the loss of over $1.6 billion in customer money.
She plead the 5th yesterday. She is protecting herself as the facts come out that she received orders from Democrat Jon Corzine to take protected money from customer accounts and invest it in European bonds.
And she acted on those orders.
She is not only stupid for working for the only investor willing to buy European bonds, but she makes poor choices too.
She went along with Corzine's theft. She was in a position to say "no" to the criminal act but chose to go ahead with it anyway. She might be able to buy mercy by ratting-out Corzine, but it won't put her in any higher standing than the gutter rat that she is now.
Edith O'Brien, along with Democrat Corzine, exposed the banking system as corrupt, and the oversight (government) crowd as impotent.
Saving our financial system will take people of honor and integrity, not new laws. The opposite, unfortunately, will occur.
2012: If it bleeds, and helps Obama's re-election, it leads.
In related news, if you were in the market for a Ruger firearm, you'll have to wait until after May. Ruger has suspended all new orders until they fill the 1 million orders they already have. Reuters, and The Firearm Blog.
UPDATED 5pm:
BFH offers some interesting info on this story at IOTW. Hmmm...
And the Communist Party USA's media arm, Worker's Paradise People's World: We Are All Trayvon Martin.
We are all Trayvon Martin, even those of us who have never been trapped alone on a dark street on the thin line between life and death.
Throw in the effects of hundreds of years of racism in the United States and you have the situation last month in which a 250 pound self-appointed white vigilante hunts down an unarmed Black child who is screaming "help." After the vigilante's bullet rips open the child's chest, he lies on the ground, gasping for air until he dies.
We are still convinced that the efforts to claim racism will die off much like Sandra Fluke's credibility did, and that the primary political effort will revolve around gun control.
And Pat Dollard discusses Trayvon's tattoos and school suspensions, and his likely drug and gang activities. Includes pictures! U/T: FB Friend Jack.
Zimmerman, the h-i-s-p-a-n-i-c who removed Trayvon from the gene pool during Trayvon's 5 10-day suspension from high school and after Trayvon broke Zimmerman's nose, has a "Cracker" t-shirt named after him:
(Gold teeth, earrings, necklace, bracelet and watch sold separately. EBT card issued at local welfare office.)
We think it is unseemly to try to profit from Trayvon's death by selling merchandise. You don't see us trying to push our furry Commie Obama hat during these sad moments, do you? Why would we use this event to tell you about all the fun you and your friends would have wearing our Commie Obama hats to tea parties and occupy rape-fests? It just isn't right.
This cracker is still waiting for the Hitler video....
As shown in the nearby chart, our budget tackles this crisis head-on by cutting debt as a share of the economy by roughly 15% over the next decade, putting the nation's finances on a path to balance, and paying off the debt. By contrast, the president's budget pushes debt as a share of the economy even higher. In his budget's own words, it allows the government's fiscal position to "gradually deteriorate" after 2022.
Zero Hedge has a post on the response of Obama Advisor, Gene Sperling, on CNBC. ZH mentions that Gene made $888k in 2008 at Goldman Sachs in addition to speaking fees of $158k - just in 2008. Like ZH mentions, the fun starts at 3:40:
He uses all the key words when referencing our Dear Leader's 'plan': balance, education, comprehensive, bipartisan, share in the sacrifice, seniors, disabled, balanced approach.
Then to Ryan's plan: unbalanced, tax relief to the most well off, no new revenue, not well thought out, shift costs to seniors, defense savings, tax cuts for the well off, deep burdens, not consistent with our values.
UPDATED 3.21:
ZeroHedge added two more posts that fit our post here:
We've been long overdue to offer a Tribute post to Professor Mike Adams. We used to watch for his articles at Townhall every day until the popup messages offering Michelle Malkin books and Michelle Malkin t-shirts and Michelle Malkin t-shirts with pictures of her books got to be too much.
We were just browsing his recent articles and wanted to share a few quotes: From Aborting Hitler:
Someone once asked me whether I would abort Adolf Hitler if I knew in advance he would try to launch a Holocaust against millions of Jews. I said I would not. That is because aborting Hitler would not have prevented the Holocaust. It would have justified it. The killing of millions of innocents does not begin with the killing of one innocent. It begins with the idea that in the larger scheme of things it is permissible to kill one innocent person.
From Jews For Genocide, where he responds to the ADL's complaint of his Aborting Hitler article:
Nor did you seem to understand the basic premise of “Aborting Hitler,” which was to assert thatthe denial of personhood is the motivating force behind Holocausts in general. Because you didn’t get it, now you’re doing it. Do you get it now?
Read both articles to get a great refresher on just how important the value of life is to our culture. Click Here for all his articles.
Back in February we reported a fellow right-winger blogger, CrazyUnk, was diagnosed with colon cancer. He has since tackled surgery, as well as many unexpected side-effects and personal challenges. Still is.
We are dealing with our own challenges, but let's be honest. Karl's challenges equate to a liberal knat's hangnail when compared to what CrazyUnk is facing 24/7. Karl, and his soul, needed perspective and so we offered our help to CrazyUnk.
We visited CrazyUnk and his crazy better half this week, and can't wait to visit with them more.
To make this post fit into the Ushanka blog theme, let me relate a conversation (as I recollect):
Karl: Do you realize how lucky you are to have had cancer before Obamacare kicks in?
CrazyUnk: I know.
Karl: Here you are a month after your diagnosis, and some bureaucrat would still be determining the cost-benefit of treating you vs. giving you a pain pill.
CrazyUnk: I know.
Karl: And then you'd go on a list. And "oh sorry, the doctor called in sick. Now that you're off the list we'll go ahead and put you back on."
CrazyUnk: I know.
Karl: Those motherless #&($&@ and Godless ^#@*(&#$.
Vote your skin, it’s what Lovie do. --- Some people just can’t get past judgment based on the color of one’s skin. --- Lovie Smith is just one more example of what is wrong in this nation; the true racists screaming “RACIST”. ---
“Join African-Americans for President Obama today”
Unless you’re white, of course. This is a black-only organization.
Trevor is the primary source for understanding the communist infiltration in the United States. We recommend his blog and his video, Agenda
- a must see.
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Mark Levin's MSM rant copied from The Right Scoop (click to hear full segment):
I want the leftists at MSNBC, CNN, and the other so-called news outlets who are dressed up as journalists but are nothing of the sort, I want you to understand something. You don’t get to decide who the rest of us listen to. You don’t get to decide who the rest of us admire. You’re not going to succeed in driving Rush Limbaugh from the airwaves. I don’t care how many cowardly Republicans you speak to. I don’t care how many inside-the-beltway pseudo-conservatives you speak to and so forth.
Our nation is teetering. Everything we believe in is being undermined. The future for our children and grandchildren is perilous. And you in the media do the bidding of the very politicians who have brought us to this dire state. You don’t get to dictate to us. You don’t even get to influence us, try as you might.
Rush isn’t going anywhere because there’s tens of millions of us standing by his side. And we’re not going anywhere either.
You say nothing about the unconstitutional acts of this president. You say nothing of the policies that are bankrupting our nation. You do nothing to expose the lies and deceit of this administration. In fact, if you’re not covering it up, you’re cheering it on. This is why we have no respect for you, why your audience and readership are plummeting and will continue to.
No we will not let you take down Rush or anyone else. In fact, I think I speak for tens of millions of Americans when I say you can go to hell.
Mark speaks for all of us.
UPDATE Noon:
We've been sucked into this story for the past hour. It all started with Ms. Sandra Fluke, a 23 30 year old whore Georgetown Law School student and liberal activist who testified to the following:
- She has lots of sex,
- She can't afford the birth control needed for all of the sex she is having, and
- She wants taxpayers to pay for all the birth control necessary to prevent a pregnancy from the massive amount of sex she is choosing to have.
So we posted a question at the CSPAN video on YouTube of Ms. Sandra Fluke's congressional testimony:
And this is what we got back:
Normally we're quite respectful of women and women's rights. This is due to our full support of an American of any gender or race or whatever to do as they please so long as it doesn't impact our life.
This is, however, where Ms. Sandra Fluke has ventured, and she now deserves this post.
Asking us to pay for her life style is wrong. And now that she has asked, we are free to delve into the decisions she is asking us to pay for. If an apology is demanded of us because we want to know just how much sex Ms. Sandra Fluke is having on our dime, or how many different men she can fit between classes, here it is - from our friends at IOTW:
Sandra doesn’t even speak for all skanks! She only speaks for the skanks who don’t want to take responsibility for their choices. --- Let’s talk priorities here. It costs over $23,000 for a year at Georgetown Law. Sandra, are you telling us that you can afford that but cannot afford your own contraception? Really? --- Sandra, I hope you take to heart our school’s motto of “Cura Personalis” – care of the whole person. You are so much more than your reproductive organs. Please, have some self-respect and take responsibility for your choices instead of having to beg the government for help.
UPDATED 4:30PM:
A Ushanka Tip to FB Friend Tina for posting this image:
RedState calls on Pelosi to apologize to Ms. Sandra Fluke for the controversy, and mentions her tuition is paid for with taxpayer money. Is there anything in her life that she takes responsibility for?
Lloyd Marcus at Thy Black Man connects the dots to our "cultural rot":
We are, for the most part, passively ignoring America’s cultural rot. But our passiveness is not enough for the democrats. They demand that we “fund” behaviors which are in conflict with the principles,values and faith of many Americans.
UPDATED & BUMPED 3.4:
There is one person who hasn't been with Ms. Sandra Fluke:
U/T: FB Friend Greg A.
UPDATED 3.6:
Finance blogger, Karl Denninger, uses the "P" word in his post, Limbaugh is Right Folks, where his research shows over a dozen brands of birth control cost $250 a year or less:
...better than 99% effective female birth control costs less than half a can of coke a day, or about 21 cents.
How much did Sandra pay for her Latte at Starbucks on the way to "testify" and what is the penalty for perjury before Congress, if I may inquire?
...it would certainly surprise America’s founders that their republic of limited government is now the first nation in the developed world to compel private employers to fully fund the sex lives of their employees.
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All of us are born with the unalienable right to life, liberty, and a lifetime supply of premium ribbed silky-smooth ultrasensitive spermicidal lubricant condoms. No taxation without rubberization, as the Minutemen said.
And what happens if someone calls for a sex strike and nobody.... comes?
That is exactly what has happened at SexStrike.org: Women Unite for Contraception Rights.
Finally women like Sandra Fluke will stop having sex take a well-deserved break and try some other activity between April 28 and May 5.
Three screenshots from Yahoo and Google News yesterday give us a clear picture of how the MSM is gearing up for a tough fight this election season. And two more screenshots tell us the cost of backing loser after loser.
Having zero record to run on, many leadership failures to cover-up, and the direct assault on the private sector to rationalize and dilute, the MSM is nonetheless moving forward as our Dear Leader's campaigners.
The hate and envy is strong within.
First - Militias.
Just when you thought contraception was the key challenge facing America this election season, now come those right-wing extremist militias! And not just militias, but "Secret militias"!
It is so hard to stay informed!
Watch for the militia issue to gain speed through this Summer and Fall.
And also watch for it to disappear in the second week of November.
Second, we are back from the brink! Again!
Needing over 600k new jobs a month for several years to regain our economic standing that we enjoyed under the reign of that criminal, George W. Bush, yesterday's announcement of 227k jobs is bad news. Unless you are part of the Obama re-election committee at the MSM.
20%, or 1 of 5, working-age adults are not working in Obama's America. Over 6 million jobs are gone since our Dear Leader took charge. That is the reality.
Third: In Yahoo's business section, a call to overturn the Supreme Court? How do you do that?
Wouldn't that require us to acknowledge that there is a God? Because we don't know how to overturn a Supreme Court decision like Citizens United with a Republican majority in the House.
One could say Citizens United is our Row vs. Wade. It is here to stay.
It is called Freedom of Speech. Google it.
Whoops - forgot our Dear Leader has embraced the Super PACs. Oh the hypocrisy!
All the screenshots above were taken within a few minutes. The MSM is gearing up and we are going to call them on this just as we have in past elections.
Yahoo has been plagued with poor management and an aimless strategy for years. Their efforts to support Obama are minor in comparison to their other self-destructive acts in past years, but it adds to their sliding valuation. Serves them right. 5-Year Chart:
Same goes for the New York Times. 5-Year Chart:
Can you pin-point the moment on the NYT graph when Obama took office?
UPDATED 10 minutes later...
Glenn links to this Washington Free Beacon article, The Shameless Obama Campaign by Matthew Continetti. A good review of Obama's challenges this Fall and his combative and divisive strategy.
He is going to need a LOT OF HELP from the MSM!
Matthew concludes:
A sickly economy and unpopular policies, however, seem to have nudged the president into embracing a new strategy of slicing up the electorate, lavishing spoils on favored groups, and hoping to squeak by in November. This is the politics of division, not unity. His new attitude is revealing. It’s desperate. And it’s shameless.
Our Rocky Patel Sun Grown tastes extra good today as we celebrate capitalism's latest achievement, Apple's new iPad: Designed by liberals. Made by Communist Chinese. Delivered to people willing to pay a premium.
We left the wrapper on the cigar for the photo - in honor of Ms. Sandra Fluke.
"Ms. McMillan is an amiable writer," it says here, "yet her book is lighted from within by anger at the poor food options many in this country face. Noting that Detroit is a city of 700,000 without a single store from a national grocery chain, she writes: 'Food is one of the only base human needs where the American government lets the private market dictate its delivery to our communities,'" and of course it's bad out there, so if we gotta have the government step in. The government's gotta get involved in making sure that food gets to the right places. We should hate Walmart because they offer low-cost produce.
Google "food justice." You think it's a new term? Google it! You get 1,810,000 hits. This is happening right in front of us for years, this kind of thing. Food is the next front in the left-wing war on the private sector. "Food justice," mark my words, will soon be joining the term "social justice." It will be appearing in news stories. The Drive-By Media reporters will accept this from the left uncritically and won't even bother to define it. I'm sorry, they will define it. They will define it. "Food justice: The private sector hates the poor. The private sector doesn't care if its customers live, even. The private sector doesn't care if its customers get sick. The private sector will make sure that cheap, low-cost, rotten, limp, needing-lipstick produce is the only thing you have available to you."
And responding to a caller:
Anywhere in America you can find quality produce! That's not the refutation of this piece. This piece really isn't about quality produce. This piece is about the fact that the federal government doesn't have any say-so in food distribution. And it represents yet another area for the left to have the government move into to have more and more power and strip away more and more freedom.
It's about freedom. It's not about produce.
- a must see. 
