Coach Roy's Reading List for 12/16/2011

Next Saturday is Christmas Eve! I can't believe its snuck up on us again... I can hear sleigh bells, and ho-ho-ho's all around me. (or is it my Talking Santa Ap on my Droid)

Oh well, as Advent winds down, makes you long for friends and family...

[As usual my comments are in bold type surrounded by square brackets ].

Politics as usual Department:

Eurozone: Failing Statists Prescribe...More Statism

Americans, take note: Europe's "burning building with no exits" is where a second Obama term would lead.

Alan Greenspan: Failed To Predict Bubble Popping... And Failed In Predicting Home Taping Would Kill Music

Even if SOPA passes in its current form, largely intact and full of overreach opportunities, there's no reason to believe this will be the last (or even the most overreaching) legislation crafted at the behest of the content industries.

SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until 2012

Senate leaders reach last-minute accord

Senate leaders agreed on compromise legislation Friday night to extend Social Security payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for two months while requiring President Barack Obama to accept Republican demands for a swift decision on the fate of an oil pipeline that promises thousands of jobs.
[Surprise!]

White House Caves on Payroll Tax Extension

The White House this evening agreed to a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, bowing to Republican demands that it include a provision forcing a faster decision on the whether to allow the Keystone pipeline to extend from Canada deep into the United States.

Clyburn to GOP: Drop '21st century poll taxes'

House Assistant Minority Leader Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., while accusing Republicans of "manufactur[ing] crises" that contributed to congressional gridlock, disparaged voter identification laws advocated by Republicans around the country as "21st century poll taxes," and not unlike the Jim Crow laws used to prevent black Americans from voting.
[Just give us everything we want and all will be sweetness and light... This is a Democratic Republic, not a Democrat Party dictatorship, Mr. Clyburn...]

McClendon gets chunk of coal for Christmas

Oklahoma City based Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon has made a fortune, and most of it has come from finding and producing natural gas.

But McClendon has been funding Big Green anti-coal propaganda this year. Whatever his personal views, it seems clear that this Oklahoma Oilie is trying to use enviros to kill off one of his corporation's main competitors, coal.

Presidential Election Department:

FBI considered a sting aimed at Newt Gingrich in 1997

Washington Post - It is a curious case in the annals of the FBI: The bureau considered a sting operation against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich after sifting through allegations from a notorious arms dealer that a $10 million bribe might get Congress to lift the Iraqi arms embargo.

MILLER: Obama wants to steal Christmas

It was the week before Christmas, and all through the HouseSenate, no approps bills were stirring, not even a cut. That’s because President Obama, the political Grinch who stole Christmas, cares more about winning a political game than doing the people’s business. and

[Lots of BHO Think Pieces today....]

Obama Wildly Cheered by Reform Jews

As a proud Jew, it always disconcerts me to hear the enmity so many other Jews have for Republicans. Jews who will tell you that nothing is more important to them than Israel will then happily list the evils they attribute to the insane leaders of the GOP.
[More loyal to Democrats than the Afro Community]

Holy Mother Of Narcissists

(Chicks on the Right) I have no idea how Obama carries his huge head around on his shoulders all day. It’s mind-boggling, really.

In the following clip from his latest 60 Minutes interview, we get to hear him talk about how he’s one of the best presidents in history. Weirdly enough, this well-known fact (by Obama, that is) wasn’t included in the edited version of the interview. Go figure. But what he said – and what makes a person with Actual Brains in their noggins scratch their heads in absolute amazement – is the following spewage:

'When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend'

We know only that we know very little about Barack Obama, and what we do know is quite different from what is alleged.

Who Cares Who We Like....The Question Is, Who's ELECTABLE?

The World View

U.S. hands over alleged terrorist to Iraq

Global What?

Crisfield to see energy changes

CRISFIELD — Construction of a wind energy system to power Crisfield's sewage treatment plant and an overhaul of the City Dock could begin in early 2012 after city officials got word this week that state funding for one project had gotten final approval and permits for the other were about to come through.
[GE is still going to get their pound of flesh from the taxpayers]

Popular Culture, etc.:

Wash Times EDITORIAL: Pastor Yousef: Convert or die

Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, the Iranian Christian cleric facing death for the crime of apostasy against an Islamic faith he never held, has been given a temporary stay of execution. Iran’s top judge, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, instructed presiding Judge Ghazi Kashani to delay carrying out capital punishment for a year in order to give time for Mr. Nadarkhani to recant Christianity and become a Muslim.
[How nice of him - another example of a loving peaceful tolerant religtion]

A German's View On Islam...

(Chicks on the Right) Daisy -A clever and competent reader sent this to me yesterday, and I thought it was worth a post. In fact, I thought it was a very interesting take on Islam – a German one, actually.

This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read. The author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.

[The "Chicks" are 2 Maryland ladies who write about being conservative in the People's Republic of Maryland]

Military Stuff

Retail Stores Staff Up On Soldiers In Hopes of Forcing 'Best Christmas Ever'

(PJ Media) Evil Capitalism strikes again!

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