The “tolerant”, “peaceful” and “non-violent” Left strikes again…

From SF Gate: (Hat Tip - MichelleMalkin.com)

8 arrested in vandalism of UC chancellor’s home

BERKELEY — Eight people were in custody Saturday after a crowd of angry protesters broke windows and threw burning torches at UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s campus residence in protest of fee hikes and budget cuts, authorities said.
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As many as 75 people – some of them carrying torches – surrounded the mansion, known as University House, on the north side of campus off Hearst Avenue at about 11:15 p.m. Friday, police said.

The crowd, including a man taken into custody in a university protest a day earlier, chanted, “No justice, no peace,” and began smashing planters, windows and lights. Several hurled their torches at the building, said campus spokesman Dan Mogulof.

Birgeneau was sleeping at the time and was awakened by his wife, Mary Catherine, Mogulof said. They were frightened, but unharmed, he said.

“These are criminals, not activists,” Birgeneau said in a statement issued Saturday morning. “The attack at our home was extraordinarily frightening and violent. My wife and I genuinely feared for our lives.”

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger condemned the attack Saturday as a form of terrorism.

“California will not tolerate any type of terrorism against any leaders, including educators,” Schwarzenegger said. “The attack on Chancellor Birgeneau’s home is a criminal act and those who participated will be prosecuted under the fullest extent of the law.”

And again:

From Breitbart:

ROME (AP) – Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was punched in the face at the end of a rally in Milan on Sunday, new reports said. The attack occurred as the 73-year-old Berlusconi was signing autographs near his car, state TV said. TV showed the stunned leader with blood under his nose and on his mouth as he was lifted to his feet by aides.

Berlusconi was hustled into the back of a car by the aides, but he immediately got out, apparently in an effort to show he was not badly injured. After looking out into the crowd, the aides pulled the leader back into the vehicle.

Sky TG24 TV said Berlusconi was taken to a Milan hospital to be treated.

News reports said a man, in his 30s or early 40s, was immediately detained as the suspected assailant and taken to police headquarters.

Witnesses told reporters the assailant appeared to have punched Berlusconi while holding a metal object in his fist.

And yet again:

From AP:

200 detained in crackdown on climate protest

Danish riot police scuffle with demonstrators in Copenhagen, Sunday Dec. 13, AP – Danish riot police scuffle with demonstrators in Copenhagen, Sunday Dec. 13, 2009. The largest and most …

COPENHAGEN – Danish police outnumbered protesters on Sunday, detaining more than 200 people on a second day of demonstrations as environment ministers met for informal talks to advance negotiations on a new pact.

Meanwhile, church bells in Denmark and other countries rang 350 times, a number that refers to what many scientists consider a safe level of carbon dioxide in the air.

Police stopped an unauthorized demonstration headed toward the city’s harbor and carried out a security check of some of the participants, Copenhagen police spokesman Flemming Steen Munch told The Associated Press.

The hundreds of demonstrators were outnumbered by police officers in riot gear who surrounded them. Steen Munch said police found bolt-cutters and gas masks when they searched a truck that led the demonstration. At least 200 activists were detained, he said.

A day earlier, police had detained nearly 1,000 activists at the tail end of a 40,000-strong march toward the suburban conference center where the 192-nation U.N. climate conference is being held.

The detainees were from a range of European countries as well as the U.S, Kenya, Belarus, Japan, Mongolia, China and Turkey, police said.

Malkin has a good collection of videos detailing the Terrorist Left’s Greatest Hits over the past year.

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Somewhere, Herbert Hoover is smiling in a most ironic way.

From WorldNetDaily: (Hat Tip – FC)

Residents of Colorado Springs, Colo., have a mystery on their hands: Who came up with the idea to erect a sign reading “Welcome to Obamaville” on the site of a homeless tent camp in the city?

The sign, which was visible from the Cimarron Street ramp to Interstate 25, clearly conveyed a political jab at rising unemployment under President Barack Obama, for it read in full, “Welcome to Obamaville – Colorado’s fastest growing community.”

On the other hand, thew White House cannot be smiling over this:

Any bets that he is at -25 by Valentine’s Day?

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Well, as I have said before, Crap and Steal was nothing more than a head fake, a bill to give legitimacy and authority for an ideology that hides behind many junk science skirts in order to impose a Stalinist-like state.

After maybe the worst SCOTUS decision this side of Roe, the 2004 decision that declared carbon dioxide a “pollutant”, the EnviroMarxist® Movement had the weapon that they had been so desperately seeking since the birth of their cause in the early 1960′s. (led by Mass Genocidist Rachel Carson). With that decision, the EPA now had virtual carte blanche when it comes to policy-making, regulation enforcement and lack of accountability to either.

However, as with most things Left, policy did not just rush forth all at once. The usual stealth was used on the policy level. Annoying but not earth-shattering dictates that would cause a massive collapse of an economy of even a major sector of same. No, it was more like dictating such things as what fuel a car’s AC unit could use, or putting out phony data on such pet projects like asbestos, radon and mold and using their regulatory muscle to see that their authority was followed.

Well, with a Photoshopped President with a Marxist bent to boot now squatting in the White House, those days of turtle-like tenacity have come to and, replaced with a batch of rabbits on cocaine.

From FOX News:

Administration Warns of ‘Command-and-Control’ Regulation Over Emissions

The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn’t move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a “command-and-control” role over the process in a way that could hurt business.

The warning, from a top White House economic official who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity, came on the eve of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s address to the international conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jackson, however, tried to strike a tone of cooperation in her address Wednesday, explaining that the EPA’s new powers to regulate greenhouse gases will be used to complement legislation pending in Congress, not replace it.

“This is not an ‘either-or’ moment. It’s a ‘both-and’ moment,” she said.

But while administration officials have long said they prefer Congress take action on climate change, the economic official who spoke with reporters Tuesday night made clear that the EPA will not wait and is prepared to act on its own.

And it won’t be pretty.

“If you don’t pass this legislation, then … the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area,” the official said. “And it is not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it’s going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty.”

No, it will not be pretty at all. Not for the millions of Americans that work in the energy industry who stand to lose their jobs, those who rely on it most (think truck drivers) and of course, the consumer, who will see energy rates skyrocket (to use Obama’s own word) while suffering brownouts and eventually blackouts, ala Bucharest under Ceaucescu or Iraq under Saddam. The entire energy industry, from coal to nuclear to oil as well as other hardcore industries like steel are facing the prospect a literal shutdown or at the very least, a massive downsizing the likes of which this country has never seen before.

An early casualty.

From the Eastman Chemical Company – (Hat Tip: FC)

Eastman Announces Discontinuation of Beaumont, Texas, Industrial Gasification Project

KINGSPORT, Tenn., Dec. 9, 2009 – Eastman Chemical Company announced today that it has decided to discontinue its Beaumont, Texas, industrial gasification project. This decision was made due to a number of factors, including high capital costs, the current and foreseen reduced spread between natural gas and oil and petroleum coke prices, and continued uncertainty regarding U.S. energy and environmental public policy. As a result of this decision, the company will recognize a pre-tax non-cash asset impairment charge estimated to be between $150 million-$180 million in the fourth quarter 2009.

“Even though it is no longer advantageous for Eastman to pursue this project, we will continue to explore global industrial gasification opportunities as a long-term growth option for the company,” said Jim Rogers, president and CEO.

Rogers added, “Eastman is committed to being an outperforming chemical company. I am confident we will deliver profitable growth through the combination of our solid core businesses and strong financial profile.”

Global industrial gasification. In other words, they, as Taz over at FC mentions:

I spoke with several plant managers here locally and they told me if Cap and Trade passes they will close their doors and move offshore. And these are major Refineries not little unknown plants. This administration is deliberately destroying America, and the idiot democrats in Congress are complicit in this lunacy.

And with Obama, EPA Director Jackson and their Criminal Carbon-trading Crooks over in Copenhagen, The EnviroMarxist’s Wet Dream is about to be realized.

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This sort of figures. I assume next time, some leftist idiot will try to throw a bowl of moose soup at Sarah.

From My FOX DC: (Hat Tip: Hot Air)

A man was arrested for throwing tomatoes at Sarah Palin during her book signing on Monday at the Mall of America.

Jeremy Olson, 33, allegedly threw two tomatoes from the second balcony, however did not come close to hitting Palin.

And this guy has the same pansy arm that Obama showed when throwing out the opening pitch at a White Sox game earlier this year.

Bloomington Police report that Bloomington Commander Mark Stehlik was struck in the face with one of the tomatoes and may face charges for assaulting a police officer. Olson was booked at the Bloomington jail. He was arrested for suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct.

A (padon the pun) “major league” d’oh!

These lefty “men” need to do a pushup once in awhile before they actually think they can hit anything from more than 2 inches away. On the other hand, he probably would qualify for a spot on the Code Pink volleyball team.

Best comment from Hot Air:

Were they organic?

the_nile on December 8, 2009 at 10:58 AM

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