Conservative Review Issue #203 Kukis Digests and Opines on this Week’s News and Views November 12, 2011 In this Issue: Links This Week’s Events Additional Sources Say What? Joe Biden Prophecy Watch The Rush Section Watch This! Media Harps on Perry's Brain Freeze, Ignores Numerous Examples of Democrat Stupidity A Little Comedy Relief When Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd Sexually Short Takes Harassed Carrie Fisher By the Numbers The Truth About the Keystone Pipeline Polling by the Numbers Comparing the Experience of Obama and Cain A Little Bias Saturday Night Live Misses Additional Rush Links Yay Democrats! Questions for Obama Perma-Links Political Chess News Before it Happens Too much happened this week! Enjoy... Missing Headlines Karen Kraushaar Accuses Cain David Axelrod's Pattern of Sexual Misbehavior The cartoons come from: www.townhall.com/funnies. by Ann Coulter Herman Cain: The Liberal Media's Latest Target If you receive this and you hate it and you don’t for Personal Destruction by Cal Thomas want to ever read it no matter what...that is fine; Fire Eric Holder by Sarah Palin email me back and you will be deleted from my If You Love Freedom, Thank a Vet! list (which is almost at the maximum anyway). By Sarah Palin (facebook post) The Obamaville Riots Previous issues are listed and can be accessed Should the liberal media be held responsible for here: left-wing violence? By James Taranto http://kukis.org/page20.html (their contents are The Real Scandal By Thomas Sowell described and each issue is linked to) or here: Why is California's Economy Such a Mess? http://kukis.org/blog/ (this is the online directory by Becket Adams they are in) Media Bias? Grammy Nominee's Violent 'Occupy' Anthem I attempt to post a new issue each Sunday by 5 or By Dan Gainor 6 pm central standard time (I sometimes fail at this attempt). I try to include factual material only, along with whose controlling shareholder is billionaire my opinions (it should be clear which is which). Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest I make an attempt to include as much of this men and a longtime Democratic Party donor. week’s news as I possibly can. The first set of When Siga was in danger of losing its grip on the columns are intentionally designed for a quick contract a year ago, the officials blocked other read. firms from competing. Siga was awarded the final contract in May through a "sole-source" I do not accept any advertising nor do I charge for procurement in which it was the only company this publication. I write this principally to blow asked to submit a proposal. off steam in a nation where its people seemed have collectively lost their minds. Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder is And if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, always continuing to stonewall congressional remember: We do not struggle against flesh and investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. blood, but against the rulers, against the This time, Holder is refusing to provide 11 of the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this 12 witnesses Grassley and House Oversight present darkness, against the spiritual forces of Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa have evil in the heavenly places (Eph. 6:12). requested be made available for interviews. This Week’s Events U.S. President Barack Obama will ask government agencies on Wednesday to find cost savings by cutting back in areas ranging from travel and vehicles to purchases of promotional coffee mugs and gadgets. Although it is claimed as much as $4 billion can be saved from this in a single year, this will not be used to reduce the deficit, but it will be used to be spent on other things. According to Jack Abramoff, as many as a dozen members of Congress and their aides took part in insider trading based on foreknowledge of market moving information on Capitol Hill. It should not be a shock that Congressional members tend to see their wealth grow dramatically more than the mainstream. Democrats walk away from the super-committee (this is the committee which is supposed to find Over the last year, the Obama administration has $1 trillion in savings over a 10 year period of aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an time, which is very little, when the country goes experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty $1.5 trillion more into debt each year. However, over whether it is needed or will work. This is the they are back at it again. New York-based firm Siga Technologies Inc., Page -2- Democrats have since offered a deal that would The American Mustache Institute has decided to cut $1 trillion in projected spending over the next withdraw its endorsement of the former 10 years and raise taxes by $1 trillion over 10 Godfather's Pizza CEO. years. The Democrats' plan calls for cutting $400 billion from Medicare and Medicaid and another The extinction of some Ice Age animals, such as $400 billion from a combination of defense and woolly mammoths and Eurasian musk oxen, non-defense programs in equal amounts. It also resulted mainly from climate change over the calls for an additional $200 billion in cuts from past 50,000 years, suggests a new study unspecified which are under discussion right now published today in the journal Nature. by the Super Committee. Last week, one or more Occupy Oakland The US Senate just passed legislation that most protesters smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo everyone agreed on: a jobs bill to help branch. This week, the group's general assembly unemployed veterans get back to work. agreed - in a near-unanimous vote Monday - to temporarily place $20,000 of the group's money During the latest debate, Herman Cain referred to in an account at the country's fourth-largest bank Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy.” A petition is holding company, Wells Fargo Bank. being circulated to protest this mean language. Bill O'Reilly's `Lincoln' book banned from Ford's Theatre because of mistakes. However, the article I read did not ennumerate these mistakes beyond saying that, O’Reilly and co- author Dugard did not use footnotes, but put all of their sourcing at the end of the book and did not differentiate between the credibility of their sources. In the article, we have: Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia who has written about the Civil War, Lincoln and the South for 40 years,...said he had not read the book in question. But he noted in an e-mail, "I would not be surprised if there were historical errors as [O'Reilly] is better known as a TV polemicist than as a scholar.” Someone in academia has a negative opinion about Bill O’Reilly and has an opinion on his book without reading it? I am Man is shot and killed at Occupy Oakland, shocked! although he does not appear to be a part of the movement. A newsman who tried to file a live Karen Kraushaar, 55, who has accused Herman report was attacked by Occupy Oakland Cain of sexual harassment, filed another enthusiasts. Police say that the suspect has been complaint while working as a spokeswoman at living at the Occupy Oakland camp. the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Justice Department in late 2002 or early 2003, Man found dead in Occupy Salt Lake City. Finally, with the assistance of her lawyer, Joel Bennett, officials decide here that the demonstrators don’t who also handled her earlier sexual harassment get to camp out any more. complaint against Cain in 1999. Page -3- Tuberculosis breaks out in Occupy Atlanta. The AFL-CIO and the SEIU will begin demonstrating with the Occupy Wall Street Occupy Washington confronted a conservative Protesters next week, demanding the passage of group, surrounded the building where they met, a job’s bill. and some even used their own children in the buffer zone. Schizophrenic Ohio voters vote, by a sizable margin, to opt out of the Obamacare mandate; Richmond, CA Mayor Gayle McLaughlin will skip and yet, by a similar margin, vote to keep a Veterans Day memorial to attend an Occupy collective bargaining for state employees. rally. I guess this is because we don’t know the However, unions from all over the United States next time that they will have an occupy rally near spent $30 million to get this initiative defeated, her. and Governor Kasic made the tactical error of not exempting police and firemen from the ending of collective bargaining for state, county and city Jay-Z sees a goldmine in this movement, and employees (it is the right thing to do to stop begins producing tee shirts with occupy slogans. collective bargaining for all government As of now, he has no intention of sharing the employees, but it was a step too far in this case). profits. He has since removed the shirts from his website. A federal court has ruled that a California public school had the authority to prevent students Police in Occupy Portland look as though they from wearing clothing emblazoned with may move to quell overnight parking. They are pro-American messages on the Mexican holiday putting up signs and these signs are being quickly Cinco de Mayo. removed. Occupy Portland protestors are observed making weapons, which suggests that Text books in Pakistani schools foster prejudice they expect a confrontation with the police. and intolerance of Hindus and other religious minorities, while most teachers view Page -4- non-Muslims as "enemies of Islam," according to sense of us running a bunch of ads that are false, a study by a U.S.