George Soros and his funding projects

http://twitter.com/#!/sureshgeorge/status/186691071273730049

There were several interesting tweets about Soros and his money moves. Here’s some background:

First this story:

Last summer, the Soros Fund announced it was returning some $1 billion to investors and would cease to operate as a hedge fund and would convert to a family office. The switch enabled the Soros Fund to avoid the March 30 deadline for registering as an investment manager with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The poor performance came in a year when the average hedge fund declined about 5 percent in 2011.

The Quantum Fund also took a big writedown on a $200 million investment it has with Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Management hedge fund, something Reuters previously has reported. Harbinger fell about 47 percent as Falcone’s big bet on building a wireless network called LightSquared appears to be faltering.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/04/02/george-soros-and-his-funding-projects/

Obama says we must be accountable for debts, ignores his own dine-and-dash philosophy

http://twitter.com/#!/AliVelshi/status/290866484094304258

https://twitter.com/OHCONSERVATISM/status/290866140782161920

During today’s absurd press conference on the debt ceiling, President Obama evidently decided that we just aren’t smart enough to understand just how debt works.

https://twitter.com/bostonrandy/status/290865127618641920

You don’t go out to dinner, he said, eat all you want, and leave without paying the check:

https://twitter.com/LizMair/statuses/290866195769458688

That’s how the GOP wants to do it:

https://twitter.com/JimPethokoukis/statuses/290866110805471233

In order to simplify things for us rubes and bring things down to a level even we can understand, he compared our precarious situation to a choice between restaurants.

https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/290866218565521409

https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/290866219786072065

We’ve got to be smart about this:

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/290866192346935298

Too bad Obama has such expensive tastes.

https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/290866060217958401

https://twitter.com/soylentbeige/status/290866873581580290

https://twitter.com/Tishadore/status/290889381437374464

https://twitter.com/joebrooks/status/290866196700606466

https://twitter.com/CeliaBigelow/status/290866338430345218

https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/290866269501149186

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/290866179516538880

For more of our money. He needs to fund his party habit, after all.

https://twitter.com/dminor85/status/290873003330396160

https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/290873549286162434

No kidding.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/01/14/obama-says-we-must-be-accountable-for-debts-ignores-his-own-dine-and-dash-philosophy/

Obama: I totally would’ve closed Gitmo, but meanies in Congress wouldn’t let me

http://twitter.com/#!/redsteeze/status/337641316336939009

This afternoon, we learned the real reason that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is still open, more than five years after then-candidate Obama pledged his commitment to closing it: it’s Congress’ fault.

http://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/337641602216513537

It’s all politics! Obama’s ineptitude and habit of making promises he knows he can’t or won’t keep have nothing to do with it!

http://twitter.com/#!/redsteeze/status/337656245211250688 http://twitter.com/#!/CuffyMeh/status/337641326248071169 http://twitter.com/#!/Doc_0/status/337641607790747648

Right?

http://twitter.com/#!/ChrisBarnhart/status/337641694092750848

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/05/23/obama-i-totally-wouldve-closed-gitmo-but-meanies-in-congress-wouldnt-let-me/

‘God keep our heroes safe’: Actress Janine Turner, others offer prayers for US pilots

http://twitter.com/#!/leafsmakemecry/status/514258137587908608

Within minutes of news breaking Monday night of the United States and a handful of partners beginning a series of air strikes on Syria, “Northern Exposure” actress Janine Turner was offering her prayers for the pilots involved in the operation.

God bless our pilots who are flying over Syria right now. God keep our heroes safe. God bless America #Syria

— Janine Turner (@JanineTurner) September 23, 2014

@JanineTurner @Chris_1791 Thank you. I feel the same way. They need our prayers.#Syria

— Carl Deal (@CarlDeal1) September 23, 2014

@JanineTurner @Chris_1791 My prayers are with our pilots. May they come home safely.

— michelle allen (@outlandeshshell) September 23, 2014

@JanineTurner Yes let's all pray for them and keep them safety

— John and Connie (@f77a9c24c7f9451) September 23, 2014

That sentiment continued through the night and into Tuesday.

Praying for all our troops, our pilots and those leading them. God bless us everyone! #smashingISIS

— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) September 23, 2014

I pray for our pilots and aircrews over Syria. The AAA is sophosticated

— Matthew Travers (@Blach_Matt) September 23, 2014

Pray for those pilots. We don't need another Hanoi Hilton.

— Peter Mueller (@PeterMueller101) September 23, 2014

Lets pray for the pilots right now as they serve and protect beginning this new task..

— Jessica Diaz (@changedheart421) September 23, 2014

pray for our pilots tonight as they fly through Syria

— Joshua Stalnaker (@JoshuaStalnaker) September 23, 2014

Please pray for our military pilots as they perform air strikes over Syria. The fight has shifted & intensified. #pray

— Crystal Hawthorne (@CWHawthorne70) September 23, 2014

Pray for our military pilots.

— GENXR (@speakez6) September 23, 2014

The EAGLE IS FLYING!! Pray for pilots and Navy & Air force personnel for safety and expertise. Saudis tag. Along!

— bretonrae (@bretonrae) September 23, 2014

Pray for all the pilots and TACP members of our armed forces tonight. I hope everyone makes it home safe. 🙏🇺🇸

— Jonathan Cox (@Jonathan__Cox) September 23, 2014

Pray those fighter pilots return home safe 🇺🇸🙏💣

— Christian Leto (@LumberjackLeto) September 23, 2014

#Raqqa getting rocked by the #AirForce & #Navy. Lets pray for our pilots to return home safe.

— Ridicule (@Politicule) September 23, 2014

We have started bombing Syria. Pray all our pilots are safe.

— Thomasena Baird (@TomiBaird) September 23, 2014

@karlula @mamba1911 pray for success and the safety of our pilots

— KellyWins (@KellyWinsell) September 23, 2014

Pray for our pilots over Syria tonight. #arcot #tcot #GodBlessUSA

— OurVoicesAR (@OurVoicesAR) September 23, 2014

I pray that our US pilots all return safely after this wave of bombings tonight…bless our brave military families once again #Syria

— Katelyn B. Woodside (@BarbieWoodside) September 23, 2014

Dear God.. I pray that you watch over our pilots and bring them home safely and that you watch over the Kurdish fighters/ Kurdish people

— Smitty (@SmittySmittyT) September 23, 2014

Tonight, pray for our military, our Allied Forces, for the protection of the pilots, the Naval Carriers on the Ocean. May #ISIS be destroyed

— Terri Green (@TerriGreenUSA) September 23, 2014

Pray for our pilots #USA #troopthanks pic.twitter.com/zYfoIEghkx

— David B. Peel (@PeelLawFirm) September 23, 2014

As we carry out combat operations from the air tonight pray for the pilots and their families for a safe and successful mission. #GiveEmHell

— Connor Griffin (@griffbrd56) September 23, 2014

 

 

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/09/23/god-keep-our-heroes-safe-actress-janine-turner-others-offer-prayers-for-us-pilots/

Bam: Bobby Jindal lays into tax-happy DC elites, lapdog media

http://twitter.com/#!/TheTortorian/status/277175771955621888

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is fed up with Washington’s commitment to Big Government and the lapdog media’s role in misleading the public about the consequences. As the fiscal cliff looms ever closer on the horizon, the government and media are doing their utmost to ensure that class warfare and blame-gaming reign supreme.

Jindal penned an op-ed piece on the fiscal cliff for Politico, warning that “next year it will be the fiscal mountain, after that the fiscal black hole, and after that fiscal Armageddon” and charging that Washington is “psychologically incapable of getting our fiscal house in order without laws that give them no other alternative.”

Jindal’s op-ed, published yesterday, drew an immediate backlash from the media, drawing fire from the usual suspects. That’s good, right?

Paul Krugman in new blog post suggests Bobby Jindal is a “fiscal ignoramus” (and has a lot of company).bit.ly/TVw8PQ

— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) December 6, 2012

Bobby Jindal tells GOP to demand spending cap, BBA, supermajority for tax hikes as part of cliff deal. slate.me/TEHHes #derp

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) December 6, 2012

Bobby Jindal very upset about fiscal cliff, also very unclear on what this fiscal cliff thing is nymag.com/daily/intel/20…

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 6, 2012

If Weigel, Krugman, and Chait are slamming Jindal, Bobby must be over the target. nola.com/politics/index…

— RB (@RBPundit) December 7, 2012

This afternoon, Jindal fired back on Twitter, giving his critics the smacking they so richly deserve.

I really enjoy being called “dumb” and “ignorant” by the liberal elite and their media water carriers. nola.com/politics/index…

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) December 7, 2012

Their opposition to a balanced budget amendment, term limits, and spending caps reveals their disdain for the American people.

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) December 7, 2012

The American people, those slow-witted rubes, who just don’t understand the liberal utopia of ever growing government.

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) December 7, 2012

Another really ignorant guy-Charles Krauthammer-observed recently, public debt has increased by 83% under Pres. Obama washingtonpost.com/opinions/charl…

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) December 7, 2012

More Krauthammer: as a % of GDP, “the real marker of national solvency,” public debt doubled from 45% to 70% washingtonpost.com/opinions/charl…

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) December 7, 2012

Washington has a spending problem & is incapable of fiscal restraint.That’s why we need structural reforms.

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) December 7, 2012

No surprise these ideas offend the tax & spend crowd in D.C.They’re common sense.

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) December 7, 2012

And common sense is anathema to our government and the media. New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait took notice of Jindal’s tweets and fired back.

Great thing about @bobbyjindal tweets is that 140 character limit has no negative impact on the depth of his arguments.

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 7, 2012

Chait’s solution to hitting the debt ceiling? Just mint and deposit those trillion-dollar platinum coins, duh.

I’m with @mattyglesias on #teamplatinumcoin slate.com/blogs/moneybox…

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 7, 2012

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/12/07/boom-gov-bobby-jindal-lays-into-tax-happy-dc-elites-lapdog-media/

Vox ‘splains ‘a universal basic income,’ readers respond accordingly

http://twitter.com/#!/EF517_V2/status/509012032226873344

Brilliant!

http://twitter.com/#!/voxdotcom/status/509008341566488577

Oh, wait. It’s not this easy to end poverty?

http://twitter.com/#!/tommy_grant/status/509018794145366018 http://twitter.com/#!/gordonshuckrow/status/509013056077447168 http://twitter.com/#!/Kanamit2/status/509013458537283585

And this is actually an idea conservatives should embrace?

http://twitter.com/#!/TheWeek/status/499307086656712704

No thank you.

Related:

Jeb Bush smeared with nonexistent quote about minorities and welfare

Anil Dash: To enable successful start-up companies, offer welfare to immigrants

‘Octomom’ Nadya Suleman charged with welfare fraud; Mock shock ensues

 

 

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/09/08/vox-splains-a-universal-basic-income-readers-respond-accordingly/