Links and Minifeatures 2008 10 27 Monday

Carnival of Real Estate

Carnival of Personal Finance

Charles Krauthammer: McCain for President

Newsflash: John McCain's campaign is accepting money without adequate screening for violations of election laws! Clearly he needs to be disqualified from the presidency. Dirty fighter, dirty politics!

Oh, wait. The campaign guilty of that is Barack Obama's. So I guess it's all no big deal? Well, at least according to the mass media and other Obama supporters.

Intimidation of opponents and their supporters, suppressing freedom of speech when it opposes him, and now the dirtiest campaign financing operation in the history of the US. And this guy is supposed to be a "lightworker"?

Investigations afterwards could get to the truth of the matter. But since history is written by the winners, only if John McCain wins the election.

Video: Oil billionaire claims we're entitled to oil

First off, I disagree with him. If we're not intending to conquer Iraq and treat them as a satrapy, they need to be able to control their own oil. If we behave ourselves, they may choose to sell it to us (and I think they largely do), but there should be no compulsion. That's not what the US is about. That would make it a war for oil.

Furthermore, he forever drives a stake through the ideas that Iraq was a war for oil, or that big oil somehow controls the Bush Administration. If either was the case, we would have done precisely what he is suggesting in the first place, if not something even worse (e.g. giving the oil to Exxon-Mobil) .

Boy is this getting the approved left-wing spin:

Assassination plot targeting Obama disrupted

Read carefully:

In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee

and

Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF's Nashville field office, said the two men planned to kill 88 people, including 14 African-Americans by beheading. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.

The men also sought to go on a national killing spree after the Tennessee murders, with Obama as its final target

First off, I want these idiots out of the gene pool, sterilized or placed somewhere that they never have a chance to reproduce. The only reason I'm being that merciful is that law enforcement - and it was BATF that took the lead and held the press conference, not the Secret Service as would be the case for a planned presidential assassination - is that they never committed any actual killings. If they had, I'd be willing to flip the switch on them myself.

But if you read the article, Obama was an afterthought in the nature of "If they haven't caught us by then," not the primary target. If that were the case, he would have been first, and it would have been the Secret Service taking the lead, not BATF

"They said that would be their last, final act - that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama," Cavanaugh said. "They didn't believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying."

Sen. Ted Stevens found guilty in corruption case

I think I may fall asleep, that's such a surprise.

Q: What's the difference between Chris Dodd and Ted Stevens?

A1: The prosecutor in his state is from the same party as Chris Dodd
A2: His party has disavowed the doings of Ted Stevens
A3: His party isn't trying to make excuses for Ted Stevens
A4: (make up your own)

Oddly enough: The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure

If this does not kill Barack Obama as a presidential candidate, I weep for our country. This is himself, talking on the radio.

Here he is, speaking in his own voice, talking about the Constitution as an impediment to what he wants. Right out of his own mouth, he convicts himself of worse that our current President has even been accused of.

Bill Whittle, which is where I found it, has much more.

I can't be the only one thinking John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!, can I?

Things aren't looking so good for ACORN: Indiana SecState: "Multiple criminal violations" involving ACORN