Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts

Sunday, August 17, 2014

ROSEMARY LEHMBERG COMIX: Heroic D.A. stars in "The New Math"

Travis County, Texas District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg stars in our summer intern @BiffSpackle's latest work:


Contributor Beth over at Change.org describes just how out of control this drunken maniac really was.

Resident Mark Weston called deputies at about 10:45 p.m. after seeing a 2001 Lexus swerving in and out of a bike lane for about one mile on the southbound side of FM 620 near RM 2222... As Lehmberg’s driving became more erratic, Weston grew concerned and called 911.

He told deputies he observed the Lexus drive into oncoming traffic while approaching Comanche Trail. The Lexus then pulled to the side of the road in front of St. Luke’s Church near the 5600 block of FM 620.

Deputies arrived and discovered the suspect—Lehmberg—in possession of an open container of vodka in the passenger seat...

...Lehmberg was transported to the Traivs County Jail for booking. At the booking station, Lehmberg was highly combative, attempting to kick and spit at officers, screaming curse words as well as yelling “Call Greg!”, likely a reference to Sheriff Greg Hamilton. She was placed in an isolation room but continued to be physically belligerent. She was removed from the isolation room and strapped to a restraint chair. A spit restraint was fastened to Lehmberg’s face. She was then placed back in the isolation room. She was so belligerent that the magistrate judge refused to magistrate her until she calmed down...

...Lehmberg's blood alcohol content was reportedly 0.23 -- nearly three times the legal limit of 0.08, which automatically upgrades the charge from a Class B misdemeanor, to a Class A misdemeanor (since the BAC was over .15)...

Lehmberg, of course, did not step down and instead may have inspired a politically motivated attack against Gov. Rick Perry for demanding that she step down from her post.


10 Things You'd Have to Offer Hillary Clinton In Order to Have Her Speak at Your Event

Using Nevada's state public records law. Laura Myers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reveals the contractual requirements for hosting a Hillary Clinton speech. Here are 10 things you'd have to offer Hillary in order to prepay for White House influence have her speak.

10 A speaking fee of between $225,000 and $300,000, depending upon the situation.

9 Round-trip transportation on a chartered private jet “e.g., a Gulfstream 450 or larger jet,” plus round-trip business class travel for two advance staffers who will arrive up to three days in advance.

8 Hotel accommodations selected by Clinton’s staff and including “a presidential suite for Secretary Clinton and up to three (3) adjoining or contiguous single rooms for her travel aides and up to two (2) additional single rooms for the advance staff.”

7 A TelePrompter.

6 A stenographer.

5 Meals and incidentals for Clinton, her travel aides and advance staff, as well as all phone charges.

4 A $500 travel stipend to cover out-of-pocket costs for Clinton’s lead travel aide.

3 Final approval of all moderators or introducers.

2 Agreement that Hillary will be "the only person on the stage during her remarks"... and "Clinton will remain at the event no longer than 90 minutes; will pose for no more than 50 photos with no more than 100 people; and won’t allow any press coverage or video- or audio-taping of her speech."

1 A bowl of M&M's with all of the red candy removed.

Okay, I made that last one up.

Why would any organization pay a Clinton $250,000 or $300,000 for a speech?

The answer should be obvious.


Saturday, August 16, 2014

Climate Kook Michael Mann vs. Mark Steyn: "If This Trial Ever Goes Ahead, Global Warming Is Toast"

A while back, the flabby propagandist and "climate scientist" Michael Mann sued columnist Mark Steyn for "defamation". Mann was a no-name scientist who shot to stardom in 1998 with his publication of the "global warming hockey stick" that showed dramatic, catastrophic global warming in the out-years of the 20th century.

Because his work validated the claims of the eco-Marxists, Mann gained instant stardom in the halls of government and academia. He received tenure at Penn State -- perhaps along with Jerry Sandusky (heh) -- received millions in federal funding for "research", and was cited as an "expert" by The New York Times and other left-wing propaganda outlets. Al Gore used the hockey stick in his hysterical film on the impending climate catastrophe. The UN's climate scam panel leveraged it no fewer than five (5) times in its reports and elevated Mann to lead author status.

James Delingpole of London's Spectator introduces the gist of the Mann vs. Steyn lawsuit.

But the hockey stick, on which Mann’s reputation largely rests, was and is a nonsense...


MISSION BAY MAPS: Illustrating How Nancy Pelosi Used $1 Billion to Enrich Herself and Democrat Mega-Donors

Brilliant work by Lachlan Markay at the Washington Free Beacon that highlights the corruption of D.C. and the ruling elites, especially the hypocrites in the Democrat Party. I decided to excerpt some key graphs and illustrate the depths to which the mega-wealthy oligarchs will stoop, gorging on our taxes while the federal government sinks into bankruptcy (my commentary is italicized).

The top Democrat in the House of Representatives steered more than a billion dollars in subsidies to a light rail project that benefitted a company run by a high-dollar Democratic donor and in which her husband is a major investor... When cloud computing giant Salesforce sold a large plot of land to the Golden State Warriors in April, it had House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) to thank for helping to swell real estate prices in the area.

This is the Mission Bay area, some of the highest priced real estate in the world, thanks to Nancy Pelosi's earmarks and payoffs. Note the path of 3rd Street, which cuts north and south in this once-blighted area.

Friday, August 15, 2014

SOMEONE PINCH ME: I can support Democrat Hank Johnson 100 percent on his latest bill

Under President Obama -- who famously claimed (twice) that America needed a "civilian national security force just as powerful as the military" -- law enforcement agencies around the country have become the paramilitary wings of local governments.

Nowhere has this fact become more obvious than in Ferguson, Missouri in the aftermath of the shooting of a young black man.


Now, Democrat Hank Johnson is calling for a demilitarization of law enforcement.

A Democratic congressman plans to introduce a bill to restrict a Defense Department program that provides machine guns and other surplus military equipment for free to local law enforcement agencies across the country.

Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson said Thursday that the death of an unarmed teenager who was shot by a police officer in a St. Louis suburb highlights the need for the legislation, which has been in the works for months. The bill comes as members of Congress have called for the Justice Department to investigate the shooting of a black teen by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Police in riot gear and military garb have clashed nightly with protesters since Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown and at times have trained weapons on them from armored trucks.


A spokesman for the Defense Logistics Agency, the government's combat logistics support agency, said the Ferguson Police Department has been part of the surplus equipment program. It received two tactical vehicles — both Humvees — as well as a generator and a trailer and may have received other equipment, DLA spokesman Joe Yoswa said.

Johnson said city streets should be a place for businesses and families, "not tanks and M16s." He said a Pentagon program that transfers surplus military equipment to state and local law enforcement has led to police agencies resembling paramilitary forces.

Dear President Obama: American citizens are not ISIS. Save the impressive displays of force for the Islamonazis, okay?


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

5 Quotes That Capture the Spirit of the Day

Selected by our summer intern, Biff Spackle (@BiffSpackle):

Timothy H. Lee:

After inheriting a stabilizing Iraq in the aftermath of a Bush Administration troop surge (which Obama claimed in 2007 couldn't succeed), Obama's decisions have resulted in today's ghoulish genocide and deepening chaos. Per habit, therefore, he now reverts to scapegoating others and pleading that he's little more than a helpless bystander to inconvenient world events. This from a man who in 2011 practically claimed to have fired the shot that felled Osama bin Laden.

David A. Lieb:

The unarmed teenager whose fatal shooting by police ignited days of heated protests in suburban St. Louis was suspected of stealing cigars and pushing a clerk at a nearby convenience store earlier that day, police said Friday... [Michael] Brown and his friend, Dorian Johnson, were suspected of taking a box of cigars from a store in Ferguson that morning. Jackson said Wilson, along with other officers, was called to the area after a 911 call reporting a "strong-arm" robbery just before noon.

Lachlan Markay:

The top Democrat in the House of Representatives [Nancy Pelosi] steered more than a billion dollars in subsidies to a light rail project that benefitted a company run by a high-dollar Democratic donor and in which her husband is a major investor... Pelosi’s tireless advocacy for federal support for San Francisco’s light rail system has come under scrutiny for potentially enriching another liberal billionaire, hedge fund manager Tom Steyer.

Jeffrey Lord:

What are Americans seeing here? What do the rise of ISIS in Iraq, the return of the squeegee men in New York, the murder numbers out of Chicago, the endless stories on health care losses, IRS bureaucrat Lois Lerner — what do all of these events have in common?

This is the fulfillment of the liberal worldview crashing in on itself. A view of utopia — all of it. Every last bit of it. It was never real — it could never be real.

Jim Treacher:

You think you’ve got problems? Put yourself in President Barack Obama’s shoes for a minute: Everybody’s mean to you, bad stuff keeps happening even though none of it is your fault, and you never get to do anything you want to do. It seriously sucks, dude! ... Has any other president in American history ever endured such suffering? That’s a rhetorical question. Of course not.

Hat tip: BadBlue News

Thursday, August 14, 2014

F.O.P. SLAMS OBAMA FOR FERGUSON REMARKS: "Discussing Police Tactics From Martha's Vineyard Is Not Helpful"

President Obama took 90 seconds away from golfing, vacationing and dancing* to issue a warning to Ferguson, Missouri police:

The executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police criticized President Obama Thursday for his remarks about law enforcement in Ferguson, Mo.

"I would contend that discussing police tactics from Martha's Vineyard is not helpful to ultimately calming the situation," director Jim Pasco said in an interview with The Hill.


"I think what he has to do as president and as a constitutional lawyer is remember that there is a process in the United States and the process is being followed, for good or for ill, by the police and by the county and by the city and by the prosecutors’ office," Pasco added.

Pasco harkened back to 2009, when Obama criticized a Massachusetts police officer for arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, when he was attempting to break into his own home. Obama said the officer had “acted stupidly.”

"That is one where the president spoke precipitously without all the facts," Pasco said, adding that the current situation "is a much larger and more tragic incident."
Pasco said both police and members of the public are entitled to due process but said he is not convinced police have used excessive force in Ferguson.

"I'm not there, and neither is the president," Pasco said. "That is why we have due process in the United States. And this will all be sorted out over time. But right now, I haven't seen anything from afar — and maybe the president has — that would lead me to believe the police are doing anything except to restore order."

Someone acted stupidly, alright, but it ain't clear it's the po-po.


* Asterisk:

SCANDAL: Clinton Appointee Judge Catherine Blake Rules AR-15s Aren't Protected by Second Amendment

By Investor's Business Daily

Gun Control: A federal judge rules that the AR-15 and similar weapons commonly used in self-defense "fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual arms," and we have no right to keep or bear them.

Nobody looted the gun shop and tattoo parlor that share a storefront in a strip mall less than 10 minutes from Ferguson, Mo., where riots followed the police shooting of Michael Brown.

According to the local Riverfront Times, the owners of County Guns and Tattoo Studio arrived with friends to protect their businesses. One owner carried a rifle and pistol and wore a vest, while the other had his own rifle.

Their defensive use of firearms as rioters burned and looted other stores in the strip mall couldn't have occurred in Maryland. There, AR-15-style weapons are banned, more because of the rifles' "scary" appearance than their lethality. Maryland's Firearm Safety Act of 2013 makes their possession and open carry illegal.

As the Ferguson riots raged, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake, appointed by President Clinton, issued a ruling that upheld the Maryland law, saying, "the court seriously doubts that the banned assault long guns are commonly possessed for lawful purposes . .. and is inclined to find the weapons fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual."

Now the Second Amendment, written in the era of muskets, does not mention what arms we have the right to keep and bear. But we have an idea, based on how they were used: to protect their owners' homes, businesses, farms and families, and to fight the tyranny of the British crown. It's been said that the Second Amendment was put in the Bill of Rights to protect the other nine.

Gun control advocates say, with some snarkiness, that the Second Amendment doesn't allow one to own nuclear weapons or tanks, so it's merely a question of where we draw the line. They would draw the line at the AR-15 and its counterparts — which, despite the judge's claim, are commonly used for legal, defensive purposes.

GOOD NEWS: Chicago Communist Organization Shipping Members to Ferguson to Foment "Revolution"

The News Commenter has the scoop.

There's a lot of buzz on the ground about a communist group that's bussing members into Ferguson from Chicago. The Revolution Club Chicago members provoked the police with Molotov cocktails the night of August 13th while the local protesters peacefully protested. That's when police then responded with gas and flash grenades. Their reported goal is to make the protests go super-violent, spread across the region, and spark a revolution. They are said to visibly stand out from the local protesters in how they respond to police and intimidate reporters when photos and video are taken of them...


Courthouse News Service offers additional detail about the community agitators who seek anarchy and violence.

The protestors have received reinforcements from around the country. On Tuesday, Black Panther members were spotted in the crowd. On Wednesday, members of the Revolution Club of Chicago took turns inciting the protestors with messages through a megaphone.

"This system is totally illegitimate and we are here to stand with the people who are rising up in the face of massive police terror," Revolution Club member Gregory Koger told Courthouse News. "This community is being terrorized by the police. These young men can't even walk down the street without being terrorized by the police."

Revolution Club Chicago, according to its Facebook Page, is a small collective of pro-genocide and pro-Islamonazi rabble-rousers. I'm guessing they're also big fans of Alinsky. Kinda like you-know-who.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

3 Blood-Boiling Examples of Income Inequality

1 This week, President Obama played his 184th round of golf and held his 401st fundraiser, all conducted on the taxpayer's dime.

2 This week, Vice President Joe Biden left for his third vacation this month; it was also recently revealed that the VP -- good old "Lunch bucket Joe" -- flies every week or so to Delaware to get his hair plugs cut. On the taxpayer's dime.

3 Also this week, it was revealed that Attorney General Eric Holder -- who claims that the United States is a "nation of cowards" for its abysmal treatment of non-whites -- flew himself, his daughters, their boyfriends, and his personal security detail to the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, in a U.S. government Gulfstream V. The multi-, multi-millionaire Holder generously reimbursed the U.S. taxpayer a grand total of $955 for the five seats (for you math-challenged progressive nutjobs out there, that's less than $200 a ticket for a flight that cost the taxpayer tens of thousands of dollars).

Liberalism is the philosophy of the Stupid

That's what Mark Levin says... and Mark Levin is right.

The reason I say that liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid is because we can look at what's going around in the country today. If, in your own lives, you were pursuing policies that were destroying your own home ownership, that were destroying your own job, that were creating a massive, impossible debt for your family and your children in particular, you'd stop it. You wouldn't keep doing it!

And yet for the liberal, if it's imposed on you -- and they feel that they can be immune from it -- they're for it.

They wouldn't do to themselves and their own family what they're doing to you, and your family, and the whole nation.

It's just like Peter Schweizer's great book documents: the country club Marxists running the federal government specialize in "Do As I Say (Not As I Do)."



Image: Baltimore Sun.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

ICE BLUE STATES: New EPA Regulations Threaten Devastating Power Outages This Winter

Barack Obama’s unlawful new EPA regulations -- created in secret and orchestrated by what a Senate report calls "The Green Billionaires Club" -- threaten the integrity of the entire electric grid this winter.

An unstable electric grid combined with a winter that promises to be "colder and snowier" than prior years appear to be a true recipe for disaster, especially in the bluest of states like Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts.

Joe Bastardi: … It’s flowing along right now into the type of El Nino situation that is notorious for giving the United States cold, snowy winters, especially in the eastern part of the United States, relative to the averages. That would be significant because we were within one power plant last year of having the grid overload …

Question: This is sounding horrific. I know that in the first quarter, the weather was said to be to blame for the slow economic growth. Are we going to stop working, basically is what you’re saying?

Joe Bastardi: This year, if you get the kind of winter that we had in 2009-2010 or 2002-2003 with the nation’s grid on the ropes the way it is and some of these regulations that I hear about coming down that are supposed to close plants on January 1st – and what I know, because we’re involved in getting people ready to fight snow in cities around the country – this could be a very, very big economic impact on the winter. And we’re very concerned about that.

Under the bogus rubric of "protecting the environment", the Green Energy Billionaire's Club operates in secret while simultaneously enriching itself and undermining capitalism.

An explosive, 92-page Senate study entitled "How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA”" has been largely ignored by vintage media. It reveals the truth behind the Marxist environmental movement and its goal of advancing fascism in the name of the environment.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Gang Violence May Destroy Mexico's Shale Oil Bonanza

By Nick Cunningham

Violence in Mexico could thwart hopes of a budding shale boom, as oil and gas companies operating in Texas may think twice about moving south of the border.

Mexico holds an estimated 545 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable shale gas and 13 billion barrels of shale oil, but progress in developing those resources has been slow.

The obstacles to kick-starting Mexico’s shale industry have dampened the once lively enthusiasm surrounding Mexico’s historic energy reform. Mexico passed legislation last year that opened up the country’s oil and gas sector to private investment, ending a 75-year monopoly by state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex).

But the secondary laws that the government must pass to actually implement the legal framework for oil and gas development are proving much more contentious.

Political disputes over what could be 21 separate laws have thus far delayed passage, threatening to push back Mexican President Enirque Pena Nieto’s goal of producing 3 million barrels of oil per day by 2018. That would be roughly a 25 percent increase from the current output level of 2.4 million barrels per day, but it is looking increasingly difficult to achieve.

“We can increase, of course, but not enough to arrive at 3 million [b/d],” Fluvio Ruiz Alarcon, an independent board member at Pemex, told Platts on June 24 at a Wilson Center event in Washington, D.C. “I'm sure we're going to produce over 3 million [b/d] but not by 2018. Maybe 2020, but not before,” he added.

Even if the country’s congress can reach an agreement and move forward with the energy reform, there are other obstacles.

In order to access the potentially abundant oil and gas from Mexican shale, the government will need to rely upon the private sector. Under the energy reform, Pemex is given first refusal over any projects – meaning that it can keep the assets it really wants, but allows the rest to go to bidding for private companies. Pemex will likely stick with its wells that are already producing, and leave drilling new shale wells to incoming private companies.

However, many areas in the Burgos Basin – which lies just south of the rich Eagle Ford formation in Texas – are suffering from intense gang violence. Bloomberg News reported on the conditions in Tamaulipas, a state in eastern Mexico, which at times resembles a “war zone.” A power vacuum left over by the arrest of the leaders of the Zetas and Gulf Cartels last year has the eastern coast dealing with heightened violence – shootings along highways and burned down buildings are commonplace as rival drug gangs jockey for territory.

Further north, shootings and kidnappings plague Highway 2, which runs parallel to the border with the United States.

The violence poses an immediate threat to the oil companies working there. The Mexican Army is now escorting workers of Weatherford International, an oilfield services firm, to and from their drill sites after a drug gang shot up a hotel where the workers were staying.

Aside from violence, theft of oil and gas by drug cartels poses another threat to companies. In 2013, Mexican gangs stole around $790 million worth of fuel, which is siphoned off from pipelines and smuggled.

OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS: Endangering the Lives of Millions to Achieve a Permanent Majority

By James Simpson

With reports that illegal immigrants bring the risk of Ebola and other viral illnesses, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons representative, Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, has noted that, “Border Patrol sources repeatedly warn that we do not know who is coming across our southern borders, all the countries of origin, what diseases they may carry, or where they go after being released with a summons to appear months later in court.”

An investigation by the Accuracy in Media Center for Investigative Journalism shows that American religious groups, using federal money, are facilitating this growing crisis and trying to keep the media in the dark about the nature of the threat.

Importing Dangerous Diseases

As Dr. Vliet indicated, many illegals are bringing in diseases and parasites. They have been shipped around the country under a veil of secrecy. But word is getting out:

  • A Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) facility in Artesia, New Mexico used to house illegals has been locked down following an outbreak of chicken pox.
  • A week earlier the same facility found that 89 of its 603 detainees tested positive for tuberculosis, though none had contracted the disease.
  • Reported infections among illegals include chicken pox, TB, swine flu, pneumonia, other respiratory illnesses and epidemics of scabies and lice.
  • The deadly Chagas disease, formerly limited to Central and South America, is now spreading to the U.S. with an estimated 300,000 cases nationwide. Northern Virginia has been described as “ground zero” for the disease. Its vector, the kissing bug, has been found in Texas, Arizona and California.
  • A DHS Office of Inspector General report states that border agents and their families are contracting the diseases and parasites brought in by illegals. A border agent and others in Texas have contracted TB.

On July 31, President Obama revised a Bush-era executive order allowing for apprehension, detention or conditional release of people with severe respiratory diseases. Was this a coincidence?

A leaked copy of an official Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confidential report was published on August 4th by Brandon Darby of Breitbart Texas. It reveals that, in addition to the flood of illegals from Central America, the border is being penetrated by tens of thousands of illegals from almost every country on the planet. The table below provides a sampling of apprehended Third Country Nationals (TCN) that should be of concern to security officials as well as all Americans.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

HUGE DEMOCRAT DONOR AND AMBULANCE-CHASER PERMANENTLY DISBARRED: Ordered to Pay $42 Million in Restitution

The Democrats' massive, economy-destroying trial lawyer constituency is down one.

Onetime superlawyer and heavy Democratic Party contributor Stanley Chesley has been ordered to pay $42 million for his role in a scandal over fen-phen litigation that already cost him his law licenses in Ohio and Kentucky.

The husband of a federal judge and a $50,000 contributor to President Obama’s 2009 Inaugural ball, Chesley was last year found guilty of violating multiple ethics rules in Kentucky as part of a scheme in which lawyers took half the money they won for clients in lawsuits over the diet drug despite contracts that specified much lower fees.

The summary judgment order by Boone County Judge James R. Schrand represents an ironic turn for a plaintiff lawyer like Chesley, who earned the nickname “master of disaster” for his role in lawsuits over airplane crashes and other tragedies. Schrand applied the doctrine of joint and several liability, typically used by plaintiff lawyers to tap the deepest pockets in a case, to hold Chesley liable for the entire $42 million awarded to 382 former clients in a 2007 judgement. Two other lawyers went to jail over the scandal and the judge who awarded the excessive fees to Chesley and his co-counsel — and was rewarded with a post-retirement job at a foundation they set up with some of the proceeds — was disbarred.

Forbes reports that Chesley basically invented the mass tort approach to class-actions using the concept of "enterprise liability" (e.g., blaming the entire aluminum electrical wire industry for a devastating nightclub fire).

...The Kentucky Supreme Court today permanently disbarred lawyer Stanley Chesley, the prominent tort lawyer and Democratic Party kingmaker who got entangled in a scandal over fen-phen litigation that sent two other lawyers to jail and ended the legal career of the judge who approved the settlement.

The disbarment is a professional fiasco for Chesley, who rose to prominence as a mass-tort litigator and is married to U.S. District Judge Susan Diott. Under a reciprocal agreement with Kentucky, he might also lose his license to practice law in Ohio.

Chesley was found guilty of accepting $20 million in fees, compared with $46 million that was paid to the actual plaintiffs in the cases, and helping other lawyers cover up their excessive fees in the case. Chesley argued he didn’t really represent the 431 clients in the case because he was brought in merely to negotiate a settlement with fen-phen producer American Home Products.

Chesley was a huge Clinton fundraiser and would have been one of Hillary's favorite bundlers, we would assume. "Would have" being the operative phrase.


Hat tip: BdaBlue Money News.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

REVEALED: The Democrat Party's Secret Playbook for Stealing Elections

By James Simpson

Elections matter. President Obama proves it every day as he willfully seeks to wreck our nation. But this is very evident elsewhere, too. The 2010 elections reversed decades of Democrat majority control in state houses. Since then, GOP governors and legislatures all over the country have been restoring sanity to state government. Most Americans don’t know this of course, because the media won’t tell you.

One good example is North Carolina. Republicans took over the North Carolina legislature in 2010, and Charlotte’s popular Republican mayor, Pat McCrory, won the governor’s mansion in 2012. This gave the GOP full control of the state government for the first time since 1898. In 2013 Governor McCrory signed a new voter ID law, and a fairly strong Republican majority, willing to take political risks, took over leadership of the State Board of Elections (SBOE). The Democrats are having fits.

An interesting email received this week offers a window into how Democrats used to rig the voter game.

A History of Voter Fraud

Vote fraud has been a long-standing tradition in Democrat-controlled North Carolina. For example, in 2012 the Democrat-controlled NC State Board of Elections (SBOE) openly, blatantly violated state election law by partnering with the Obama administration in offering illegal online voter registration. The corrupt administration of Democratic Governor Beverly Purdue—who declined to seek a second term rather than face a certain punishing defeat by McCrory in 2012—did nothing.

Participating in Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s “Crosscheck” [PDF] program, North Carolina’s new GOP-led SBOE matched 765 voters registered in both NC and another state with the exact name, DOB and last four digits of SSN of those who voted in both states in the 2012 election. They found a total of 35,750 matching with the exact name and DOB who voted in two states in 2012 (many states don’t provide SSN information). They also found 13,416 deceased voters on the voter rolls, some of whom have come back from the dead to vote.

Saturday, August 09, 2014

CHRIS CHRISTIE: Enemy of the Second Amendment

The Michelin Man is attempting to resurrect his presidential ambitions after "Bridgegate."

The portly purveyor of populist pablum ("We just have to win") has a troubling record when it comes to fighting Islamofascism, Common Core, the Global Warming Climate Change Scam, Amnesty for illegal aliens, and Obamacare.

But it is Christie's hatred for the Second Amendment that is most disturbing. Consider this story: "Single Mom with Concealed Carry Permit Faces up to 11.5 Years for 'Honest Mistake' of Bringing Gun into NJ":

Philadelphia single mom Shaneen Allen got a concealed carry permit (CCW) and handgun after being the victim of two separate robberies in the past year. After an "honest mistake" in which she drove into New Jersey with the gun in her car, she also received a court date and faces up to 11.5 years in prison for violating NJ gun and ammunition laws.

Fox News reports that Allen was pulled over on October 1 for an "unsafe lane change" after entering NJ and told the officer she had a CCW and a .380 handgun in the vehicle. The handgun was "loaded with hollow-point bullets."

Allen was charged with "unlawful possession of the weapon and possession of hollow-point bullets." She had only owned the gun for one week prior to her arrest and has no criminal record.

Mediaite.com reports that when Allen appeared in court on August 5 she learned that "she faces a maximum of 11.5 years in prison—ten for the [weapon] possession, 18 months for the bullets." Moreover, the judge in the case "refused Allen the ability to enter into a 'pretrial intervention' program to avoid jail time."

The prosecution offered Allen a "five year... plea bargain with no option for parole for 3.5 years."

Allen is the single mother of two young sons.

Chris Christie isn't a conservative. He isn't electable. He's a jerk.


PARDON MY CHORTLING: California's Cap-and-Trade Scam to Spike Gas Prices as Much as $.70 a Gallon

Thanks to their religion of global warming, Democrat politicians will cause gas prices in California to rise as much as $0.70 a gallon next year.

...Beginning in January, fuel suppliers in California will have to comply with the Cap and Trade program. The 2006 initiative seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state. And it seems generally expected that the coming change will lead to higher gasoline prices.

Projected increases range from 10 cents to 69 cents a gallon. In San Diego County, where the average price on Friday of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline was $3.894, that would be a significant jump into the $4 or more territory...

...Some politicians are worried about possible spikes in gas prices. Sixteen Assembly Democrats have sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration asking for a delay in the program, and a bill has been introduced that would postpone the change.

Political consultant Mike Madrid said politicians have good reason to be concerned. Voters would likely blame incumbents if gas prices go up, Madrid said.

“If gas prices were to go up 15 cents, you would start to see some political shake out. If it goes up 25, 30, 40 cents? You would see an earthquake," he said.

Are Democrats concerned about their insane policies, their impact on energy prices, the increased flight risk of businesses and productive individuals, and the ever-diminishing prospects of a once-great state?

No, of course not. They're worried about themselves -- their reelection chances.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech.

Friday, August 08, 2014

COLOR ME SHOCKED: Chevy Volt Resale Values Plummet as Lease Returns Hit Market

By Mark Modica

It has been two years since General Motors admitted that there was little demand for the Chevy Volt (as reported here) due to there being "no plug-in market." Their answer was to "create market" to drive sales for the politically popular but economically-nonviable Volt. GM manipulated sales for the Volt through the use of subsidized leases at a time when President Obama's favorite, green wonder-car was being criticized for low sales as it failed to live up to the early hype.

GM was able to use taxpayer money in the form of electric vehicle tax credits to help drive down costs to lessees. Taxpayers chipped in $7,500 for each Chevy Volt placed on the road for terms as low as two years. The taxpayer subsidies, along with inflated residual values and other GM incentives, provided for low monthly lease payments and led to a full two-thirds of all Volt "sales" being attributed to leases. That's about three times the lease rate for the overall industry.

So, what happens to resale values of vehicles with little mass appeal that are forced upon the public with subsidies and manipulated leases? The result was predictable; those leased vehicles are now being returned and resale values are plunging. Having won many awards in the past, the Chevy Volt is now the front-runner to be the recipient of the highest depreciating vehicle award.

A search on the Manheim auction site, a primary indicator of vehicle wholesale value, shows that 81 Chevy Volts, model year 2012, were sold at auction for the week ending August 2nd. The average price was $14,871 for vehicles that are only two or three years old, primarily coming off of the manipulated leases. That equates to an absurd loss of values for Chevy Volts of about 65% in only two or three years.

THE UGLY TRUTH: The United Nations Promotes War Crimes

by Anne Bayefsky

As the terrorist organization Hamas breaks yet another ceasefire, it operates with the firm belief that it will be protected on the international stage. That’s because the modern United Nations has become an instrument of war, just seven decades after it was founded “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”

It is time to face an ugly truth: The U.N. encourages terrorism. U.N. enablers on the ground in Gaza and U.N. broadcasters in the diplomatic comfort zones of Geneva and New York are partners in incitement to genocide against Israel, the Jewish state.

Think back to Rwanda, where a radio station broadcast that Tutsis were “cockroaches.” The message received was that killing was justified, that Tutsis deserved what they got. Such broadcasts were criminal.

It is time to face an ugly truth: The U.N. encourages terrorism. U.N. enablers on the ground in Gaza and U.N. broadcasters in the diplomatic comfort zones of Geneva and New York are partners in incitement to genocide against Israel, the Jewish state.

The demonization of Israelis by the United Nations is similarly venomous, regardless of the diplomatic facade.

On July 30, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accused Israel of “attacking sleeping children.” On July 23, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told the U.N. Human Rights Council that Israel exhibited “disregard for…the right to life.” She alleged that it "was shockingly evident for all to see in the apparent targeting of…children playing.” On July 14, U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl told the press that Israeli crimes included “attacks against...civilians.”

Alleging that Israelis are baby-killers is not some throwaway line. It’s incitement.

Thursday, August 07, 2014

ACTION NEEDED: Tell the @RNC That We #RememberMississippi

From Tea Party Patriots:

Today we need to make sure the RNC hears from the grassroots all across this country.

Call to Action:

  1. Call the RNC at 855-987-7019 and demand that they take up and pass the resolutions offered by Ed Martin, Chairman of the MO GOP to a) censure Henry Barbour (nephew of former RNC Chair Haley Barbour) and b) censure any other Republicans involved in the race-baiting in Mississippi.
  2. Sign our petition to censure Henry Barbour.
  3. Read our case study on what happened in Mississippi.
  4. Read why Ed Martin, Chairman of MO GOP is moving to censure Henry Barbour.


The actions in Mississippi cannot be ignored by the RNC. Doing so would make them complicit in the despicable acts that occurred.

Please make your voices heard today and forward to your friends who value freedom, election integrity, and simple human decency.

Remember Mississippi,

Hat tips: Jen Kuznicki and BadBlue News.