#OCCUPYFAIL: How to Make an OWS Protester Melt Without Teargas.

FRANK J. FLEMING STILL KICKING BILL MAHER’S ASS. And reader Michael Hankamer writes: “Give Scott Ott some credit for putting Maher in a sandwich. Also note that Frank J. and Scott are both 5-star rated; Maher is not.” Well, they’re both PJ Media stars. That’s where you go for the quality. (Bumped).

UPDATE: From Wizbang: “Man, do we rock, or what?”

#OCCUPYFAIL: Police arrest 11 as Occupy D.C. supporters take over Franklin School building. Because nothing says stick it to Wall Street like occupying a school that’s a former homeless shelter.

DER SPIEGEL: The Euro Zone’s Deadly Domino Effect. “The euro-zone debt crisis is spreading to more and more countries. And politicians are reacting more helplessly than ever. Europe’s leaders are underestimating the impact that a Greek exit from the common currency will have — and are failing to learn from their own and others’ mistakes. . . . The German statesman Otto von Bismarck once said that only fools learned from their own mistakes — he preferred to learn from the mistakes of others. At the moment, no politician or adviser in Europe has bothered to learn the lessons of the Argentine or Asian debt crises. Indeed, in Europe, they aren’t even learning from their own mistakes.”

JOHN HINDERAKER: Slandering the Red States, Part VI: Laura Sullivan Responds. “Below, I set forth the questions that I asked Ms. Sullivan in my emails, followed by her answers and then the follow-up questions to which I am asking her to respond. For clarity, I have bolded my original questions and put Ms. Sullivan’s answers in italics, and have given my follow-up questions letter designations.”

GREECING THE SKIDS. “Although many hope members of the super committee will reach an 11th hour deal on spending cuts before the November 23 deadline, New York Times columnist David Brooks doubts that any deal will ever be reached, now or in the future. Brooks suspects that the United States is headed toward a fiscal crisis much like that of Greece.”

#OCCUPYFAIL: St. Louis Mayor’s Office Lashes Out at Tea Party After Sexual Assault Is Reported at #Occupy St. Louis Squatters Camp. Sure. Blame the Tea Party. That’ll work. Pathetic.

NEWT GINGRICH: Fire The Janitors, Let The Kids Clean The Schools. When I was in law school, the Yale janitors went on strike and we law students cleaned the dorm bathrooms for a semester. It was the cleanest they ever were.

“THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE HAPSBURG LEGACY:” A look at Europe in 2021. Despite its amusement value, this is, I think, a rather rosy scenario.

#OCCUPYFAIL: Occupy Sexual Assault: Disrespect for Private Property Has Consequences.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Older, Suburban and Struggling, ‘Near Poor’ Startle the Census. “They drive cars, but seldom new ones. They earn paychecks, but not big ones. Many own homes. Most pay taxes. Half are married, and nearly half live in the suburbs. None are poor, but many describe themselves as barely scraping by.”

I guess things aren’t living up to those 2008 hopes.

GPS SAVES THE WORLD, but who will save GPS?

The enemies threatening the future of the GPS are many:

Next-generation mobile broadband services angling for a piece of the electromagnetic spectrum relied on by GPS;
Cheap GPS jammers flooding the highways, thanks to consumers worried about invasive police and employer surveillance;
Cosmic events, like solar storms;
Future location technology that will ultimately push those services to places where GPS simply cannot go

“The results will be immediate and disastrous,” kicks off Stanford engineering professor Brad Parkinson, widely known as the father of GPS, while introducing the fifth annual Stanford University symposium on Position, Navigation and Time on Thursday.

Parkinson isn’t just presenting; he’s holding court. The renowned GPS pioneer and former combat airman is on a first-name basis with generals, and has taught the finer points of satellite location for decades. The audience contains a conspicuous number of his former students who have come from around the world to pay homage — many of them now among the world’s GPS elite. Throughout the day, he’ll interrupt speakers with questions from the floor, and each time be received with warm and universal deference.

Right now, though, he is hammering the FCC, and its tepid response to an influential rising mobile broadband player, Lightsquared, that may be threatening the integrity of GPS signals.

Yeah, but their political donations go to the right people.

JACOB SULLUM: If Jack Abramoff Had Bought a Supermarket Chain, Would Frank Wolf Want to Ban Groceries?

#OCCUPYCONGRESS: The Kerrys’ Curious Stock Trades. “BigGovernment.com has obtained records of Massachusetts Democrat Senator John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz’s stock portfolios that show almost perfectly timed pharmaceutical stock trades during the Obamacare debate, which fattened their already enormous personal fortune.”

Peter Schweizer is right.

A JAMES HANSEN FINANCIAL SCANDAL? Hey, there’s nothing wrong with professors making outside income. But when it’s for global warming activism, it does call your scientific neutrality into question. In Hansen’s defense, no serious person has believed that he possessed scientific neutrality for years.

But anybody who owns an $8000 engraved Montres Rolex watch is clearly part of the 1%, no? And what’s the carbon footprint of an $8000 Rolex?

PENN STATE VS. SYRACUSE: A MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARD?

AT AMAZON, top deals on computers and printers.

WHEN THE NANNY STATE GETS SENILE DEMENTIA: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.

Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large.

“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.

“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”

He has a point.

ELITE FIRMS FISHING in a very small hiring pool.

TEACHER’S MYSLUTTYTEACHER.COM WEBSITE not too popular with school board.

EVOLUTION OF APPLE ADS, 1975-2002.

SPAIN: Spaniards Set To Throw Out Ruling Socialists. They dumped Aznar and brought in socialists because of the war. Now, in retrospect, his term looks pretty good.

#OCCUPYFAIL: Rex Murphy: Capitalism’s Spoiled Children.