Todd's Mischief Blog

There are two is one side s to every story News must have been pretty slow last Friday because the biggest story was about Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wagging her finger at President Obama on the tarmac when he paid a visit to her state. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the media managed to draw this story entirely from a single photo. Almost every version of the story makes a point of the fact that no one actually heard the two executives' exchange. Nevertheless, so eager was the legacy media to further the guise of Obama as the benevolent savior to the ungrateful hordes that they whipped up a story of Brewer's belligerence out of practically nothing. Cue the stream of commentaries and editorials decrying Brewer for her "hostility." As such, it should probably come as no surprise that the single photo driving the story is also edited.  No, there is no Photoshop chicanery, but the image that is most returned on Google Images has been strategically cropped. Th...

Obama's disastrous new campaign slogan Hat tip to NotAWonk for alerting me to this piece of "comedy gold." We who have been paying attention already know that good sense is in short supply among Obama and his crew. To put a big underline beneath that, the Obama-Biden campaign has chosen "Change Is" for its 2012 slogan. (I'd say they put an exclamation point on it, but it's an open-ended sentence. This is a slogan that is just begging to back-fire. It invites everyone to finish the thought however they choose. Allow me to demonstrate: Change Is...bowing to foreign princes and apologizing for America's greatness. Change Is...worthless solar panels instead of reliable fuel. Change Is...food stamps for all! I didn't even believe it at first, but ABC News is reporting that the "meme will likely be here to stay" as it already appears on campaign merchandise. Wow! And if you don't think slogans are important, don't forget the massive...

State of Illinois inspects it's abortion clinics for the first time in 15 years In the wake of the Pennsylvania "House of Horrors" abortion clinic revelation, along with its very own Jigsaw, Dr. Kermit Gosnell (never trust a man named for a Muppet), the state of Illinois decided it was long overdue to inspect the clinics of abortion providers in their state. Fifteen years overdue to be exact. What they found, while not nearly on the scale of Dr. Muppet's dungeon, were a host of health violations ranging from TV dinners stored in a biohazard refrigerator to failure to perform CPR on a patient who ultimately expired. In other words, these allegedly "safe" environments for receiving an abortion bear little difference from their "back alley" counterparts. While no clinics were summarily shut down, some did due to an inability to bear the associated fines and improvement expenditures. Unsurprisingly, one owner/operator told the press that sh...

Snippets from other conversations: There is a reason why the analogy is "slippery slope" and not "sheer cliff," because reaching the bottom is not inevitable on the slope. But if you only focus on the bottom, you are liable to not catch sight of the footholds you pass on the way down. If there is one thing I wish I could make more people realize, it is that Republican ≠ Conservative. I also wish I could get more people to realize that Conservative ≠ Right-Wing. Conservatism is the real centrism. "Moderate" just means taking liberal Republican ideas and throwing them in a blender with liberal Democrat ideas. Comparisons between Paul and Obama cannot be made too strongly. Both have run on a blank-slate platform claiming their pasts don't matter. The Ron Paul R ЭΛΘΓ UTION posters put me off before I knew anything about the man simply because they reminded me of Obama's HOPE and CHANGE posters. Those gut instincts seem to have borne out. Isn'...

by AndrewPrice There is an important article posted today on Commentarama that everyone on the internet should read. From the article: The issue in question is called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Its Senate fellow-traveler is called the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Ostensibly these bills are aimed at stopping “online piracy” by “rogue foreign websites.” But in reality, they’re aimed at controlling the web. And it’s no surprise they’re backed by a bevy of Big Business monopolies: Hollywood, record companies, media companies, drug companies, unions and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Opposed to this bill are all your favorite websites, including Google (owner of Blogger), Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, AOL, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mozilla, PayPal, Wikipedia, Flik , and many, many more. That should be all you need to know. So read the article , call your members of Congress, and for heaven's sakes, vote against anyone supporting this bill. Full article at Commenta...

I’m not normally one to go all conspiracy theory about stuff, but when I heard this story today, this connection immediately came together in my mind. The story is that in December, an unelected technocrat government was appointed in Italy to impose austerity measures on the failing Euro nation. This government has no accountability and no fixed time mandate. The new government has passed a number of astonishing edicts including: A ban on cash transactions of over €1000 (~$1270 USD) with indications that this level will be gradually reduced to as low as €300 (~$380 USD); A requirement that credit card companies report all transactions carried out by Italians, in Italy and abroad to the fiscal authorities; Delays and refusals by banks in allowing customers to withdraw  cash balances of as little as Euro 10,000; Also, the Finance Police has placed cameras at the physical borders with Switzerland to register all license plates. In addition, currency-sniffing dogs have been deployed a...