Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Photo Quiz: Which Administration Official Did the Beautiful Russian Spy 'Honey-Trap'?

The Daily Mail:

Sexpot spy Anna Chapman came close to snaring a member of President Obama's inner circle in a honey trap, a top U.S. intelligence official has claimed... In a documentary broadcast last night, FBI counter-intelligence chief Frank Figliuzzi claimed the glamorous Russian agent got close enough to 'disturb' U.S. spy catchers.


He said the fear that Miss Chapman was close to seducing a sitting member of the Obama administration spurred agents to swoop on the 10-strong spy ring of which she was a part... Mr Figliuzzi told the Channel 4 documentary the auburn-haired spy got 'closer and closer to higher and higher ranking leadership... she got close enough to disturb us.

Which of the following administration officials did Chapman entrap?


Or was it someone else? Write your entry in the comments. And, please, be kind. These fine, upstanding officials deserve your respect.


Hat tip: Richard B.

Exclusive Photo: Gene Simmons Endorses Mitt Romney

Cub Reporter Biff Spackle snaps this world exclusive.

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday and said he regrets voting for President Obama in 2008.

He cited the former Massachusetts' governor's business experience and plans for the nation's economy in his endorsement.


..."If you take the point of view that American should be a business ... If you can't afford to do something no matter how much bellyaching everybody does," the singer said on "Fox and Friends" Tuesday morning. "I’m so sorry, if you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t do it."

Simmons went on to call Obama "President SCOAMF", though I could have misheard that statement as the dogs were barking.

Larwyn's Linx: An Open Letter to President Barack H. Obama, Constitutional Scholar

Send us news tips. Bloggers: you can install a Larwyn's Linx blog widget. Get real-time news, 24/7, at BadBlue.

Nation

Open Letter to Pres. Barack H. Obama, Constitutional Scholar: AmRt
Obama and the Two Branches of Government: Ricochet
What if America’s Founding Generation had Twitter?: Hayek

Biden's Buddy: Organ Trafficker: Beacon
Unprecedented: Obama's Preemptive Attack on Supremes : Ace
Unelected SCOTUS: Obama Bought ObamaCare Vote: MagNote

Oikos University Shooting: Suspect Detained; At Least 7 Dead: ABC
4 Indiana Dems charged with 2008 election fraud: Fox
Did SCOTUS' initial ObamaCare vote leak to Obama?: Hot Air

Economy

How Not to Make the Case for Terminating Federal Programs: Cato
Welfare Is Cool at ‘Food Stamp Friday’ Party: Foundry
Euro zone unemployment reaches near 15-year high: Reuters

Wow, That’s Some Expensive Health Care: Sundries
Introducing 'The Obama Rule': Cato
Stunner: Leftism Rampant at University of California: JWF

Scandal Central

Dubious Donations (2012 Edition): Power Line
Video: Obama Campaign Disables Credit Card Verification, Accepts Donation from ‘Nidal Hasan’: Tatler
Obama May Have to Return Over $50,000 from Donor Accused of Fraud: AtlWire

Climate & Energy

War on Coal Escalates: Times
Another Obama sanctioned taxpayer funded boondoggle goes bellyup: Watts
The White House's War Against U.S. Fossil Fuels: IBD

Media

Mark Levin methodically rips apart Obama’s SCOTUS intimidation statement: Scoop
Media malpractice alert: ABC and NBC backtrack on Zimmerman stories: Hayward
Debbie Wasserman Schultz gets eviscerated by Doug McIntyre of 790 KABC.: Moe Lane

60 Minutes: Is Sugar Toxic?: Ace
E.J. Dionne, Political Psychic: RSM
The Self-Refuting Expert Witness The Orlando Sentinel Is Touting: JOM

Beck to Publish Blockbuster on Obama’s Communist Mentor: NoisyRm
Media Narrative Fail: ABC Finally Enhances Video Showing Gashes and Welts on Zimmerman's Head: MenRec
JOURNOLIST: Have You Heard About The Conservative COUP D’ETAT?: Glob

President Obama versus the Constitution: Kopel
Obama's Deeply Cynical Manipulation Of Public Opinion On Obamacare: Wolf Howling
Don't blame Verrilli: Hard to defend the indefensible: Exam

World

Pentagon activates missile defenses for North Korean launch: Beacon
'Palestinian' Red Crescent employees, Olympic athlete, arrested for shooting attack on IDF soldiers : Matzav
Images reportedly show North Korea preparations for rocket launch are 'extensive': Fox

Sexy Russian Spy Anna Chapman Arrested For Getting Too Close To Someone In "Obama's Inner Circle"?: Ace
Nice Europeans Don’t Stand A Chance Against This…: HayRide
Remembering Nancy Pelosi’s Syria Junket: Commentary

Iran Justifies Israel’s Annihilation in Islamic Law: Commentary
Pics From the Front: WZ
Muslim Brotherhood candidate for Egypt's Presidency says he's committed to keep treaty with Israel: Matzav

Sci-Tech

Obama Campaign Deploys New Cellular Weapon: Slashdot
Microsoft's IE reclaims lost ground in browser battle: CNet
The Flying Cars Are Coming … To the New York Auto Show: Wired

Cornucopia

President Obama's 12 Toughest Decisions: IMAO
Sick as a dog: CapPrev
Safe containing $10 million stolen from LA home: AP

Image: Not What I Wanted To Hear
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum For President

QOTD: "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny...

...I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man... It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own." --Thomas Jefferson

Monday, April 02, 2012

Obama Fires Salvo at "Unelected" Supreme Court

Dan from NY:

This has echoes of Obama’s infamous lecture to The Justices during his State of The Union address in 2010. Clearly, he has a runaway ego. If Americans hand this arrogant man the reins for four more years it will be an historic and regrettable mistake. Obama’s megalomaniacal temperament almost guarantees that if reelected he will leverage his lame duck status and try to elbow aside the separation of powers and other safeguards in our Constitution that limit the ability of one branch of government to usurp the power of another. In fact, by interjecting himself into a matter already before the Court, he has just given us a sneak preview of the ugly things to come.

Yahoo News, 4/2/2012

Obama issues stern language on Supreme Court health care decision


President Obama on Monday issued stern language to the Supreme Court of the United States regarding his health care law, expressing confidence "Obamacare" will not be overturned by the nation's highest court.

"I'm confident this will be upheld because it should be upheld," the president said Monday afternoon at a White House press conference that included ‪Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who are attending the North American Leaders' Summit. The president said overturning the law would be "an unprecedented and extraordinary step" and compared the court's rejection of the law to "judicial activism."

...The president stressed that the judges are "unelected" and noted that the law was passed by a democratically elected Congress.

Monday's comments were the first public warning the president has issued since the justices heard oral arguments last week on the constitutionality of the law, which includes an individual health care mandate.

It remains to be seen how the justices will rule on the matter. On Friday, the court began deliberations, which could last through June. The ruling could significantly impact the president's re-election strategy.

Did you catch that?

Obama "issued stern language"?

He voiced a "public warning" to the Supreme Court?

I don't care what political party you belong to.

This kind of behavior isn't American.

It's something worthy of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela or Fidel Castro in Cuba. This man must be removed from office in November. Otherwise, this country is done.


Related: Self-professed Constitutional scholar doesn't know Supreme Court has struck down laws like Obamacare only 1,315 times before


Seriously: Chevy Volts Recalled Again, This Time Because XM Radios Won't Pick Up... Fox News [Update: Nope, Leftover April Fool's Day Joke]

Update: Well, I got pwnt. This was a leftover April Fool's Day, according to Seton.


I s*** you not. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. This makes, what, recall #3 (after the exploding batteries and melting power cords)?

The North American based automaker Chevrolet has recently announced a recall for the popular Volt model, because of a problem with its XM satellite radio.

After the Chevrolet Volt has been under an NHTSA investigation, not too long ago, because of a potential fire risk on its battery pack, influencing its sales targets, the “green” model is once again placed into the spotlights, in another negative light, because of a problem with its XM satellite radio. Even if this might seem like a minor issue on the Volt, the fact that it was investigated by the NHTSA because of a fire risk, adding the problem with the satellite radio can only decrease the model’s sales.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, owners of the Chevrolet Volt with XM satellite radio installed can’t pick up the Fox station and after some complaints were received by GM from loyal Fox News audience, the recall became a possibility. We won’t say anything about “life threating situations, injuries or crashes” related to this incident because this is not the case. Owners of the Chevy Volt, with the XM satellite radio installed, will be notified soon by the car manufacturer, and they will have to take a trip back to the dealers where the problem will be solved free of charge.

Oh, and more good news from Government Motors: the Volt manufacturing shutdown just got extended another week.


Shock: Obama 2012 Campaign Once Again Disables All Credit Card Security...

...making it easy to bypass bans against foreign contributions and circumvent individual limits on total donations.

Pass a law out of the House, now.


Yes, this [SOB] will veto it. At least make him explain why he's determined to rake in illegal foreign money.

So they're down on fundraising and they've decided to open the election open to the World's Voters, eh?


What a shock. Obama pulled the same, Chicago-style mob tactics last election.


If we still had a rule of law around these parts, the Federal Election Commission would already be investigating.

I said if.


Related: Barack Obama's 2008 Campaign Website Supported Money-Laundering.


JP Morgan: Obamanomics Has Vaporized 15 Million Jobs

Is this chart racist?

A much-needed reminder that despite the recent upturn in the jobs market, there is still an awfully big employment hole to fill, as JPMorgan economist James Glassman points out:


A useful way to assess the challenge for the US economy is to ask, How many jobs would need to be created to recover the ground lost in this last recession. Focusing only on official unemployment, currently 12,806,000 million are classified as officially unemployed. In a normal, fully-employed economy, the unemployment rate would be expected to be 4.5 to 5.0 percent. In that case, the natural number of unemployed people would be 7 to 8 million, respectively. So, for the unemployment rate to fall from 8.3 percent to 4.5 to 5.0 percent, the economy would need employ 6 million to 5 million people, respectively, of those who currently are unemployed.

What about the larger picture that includes the hidden unemployed? How many jobs are needed to restore the ratio of employed people to the total population back to where it was in 2007, prior to the economic downturn. Under normal circumstances, there would be 153,000,000 jobs, including parttime jobs that people hold voluntarily. Currently, however, the number of full-time jobs and those who are holding part-time jobs voluntarily stand at 138,189,000.


In other words, to restore the job market to the state it was in back in 2007, before the recession, would require the creation of 14.8 million jobs in today’s terms, a daunting task to say the least.

I'm trying to determine whether the apropos "Food Stamp President" or the simple yet elegant "SCOAMF" is the better tagline.

I'm leaning towards the latter.



Coupon for One Gallon of Gas

Wanda writes:

Coupon for One Gallon of Gas

I didn't realize it, but these coupons are good for one gallon of gas at all gas stations. You probably have one or two just lying around somewhere, now is the time to use them before they lose their value, and it's too late!


Which is why even the liberal Washington Post published an article declaring Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline "an act of insanity."

Sad, ain't it?



Self-professed Constitutional scholar doesn't know Supreme Court has struck down laws like Obamacare only 1,315 times before

If find it curious that a self-professed Constitutional scholar doesn't know that the Supreme Court has struck down more than 1,300 laws since the founding of the Republic

President Obama, employing his strongest language to date on the Supreme Court review of the federal health care overhaul, cautioned the court Monday against overturning the law -- while repeatedly saying he's "confident" it will be upheld.


The president spoke at length about the case at a joint press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. The president, adopting what he described as the language of conservatives who fret about judicial activism, questioned how an "unelected group of people" could overturn a law approved by Congress.

"I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress," Obama said.

That's quite a sequence of lies by the President, all packed into a single, steaming sentence of manure:

A "strong majority" of Congress? The bill was passed using a budget reconciliation maneuver that allowed it to bypass a Senate filibuster with just 51 votes.

A "democratically elected" Congress? Actually, the 111th Congress had roughly a half-dozen appointed Senators and one turncoat (Arlen Specter), elected as a Republican but who switched to the Democrat Party.

Unprecedented step of overturning a law? Oh, gee, Mr. Constitutional Scholar, as of 2002, the Supreme Court had only struck 1,315 laws down as unconstitutional, the first in 1803.

Does the arrogance of this President know no bounds?

For you drones and irregular Americans following along, that's a rhetorical question.



Larwyn's Linx: Cardinal Dolan: Obama's Actions Are Radical, Unprecedented

Send us news tips. Bloggers: you can install a Larwyn's Linx blog widget. Get real-time news, 24/7, at BadBlue.

Nation

Cardinal Dolan: Obama's Actions Are Radical, Unprecedented: GWP
Major Obama Campaign Donor Accused of Fraud: JWF
President Liar, Year One 2008-2009: CFP

American Bolsheviks: The Second Act: NoisyRm
Obama's Golf Season Has Begun: Dossier
Figures: Big Sis Warned Us About Men in Hoodies: GWP

Americans are worried about the Constitution again: Barone
Neighbor: Zimmerman banged up bad and wearing bandages: Scoop
FBI removes 876 pages of CT training deemed 'offensive': WZ

Economy

WI Teachers Unions Trained by Radical Alinsky Group: Breitbart
All Detroit School Kids to Get Free Meals: S&L
Fast Forward Through Fiat's Fantastic Fabrications: ZH

A Followup On Those Tax Cheat Bills: Instapundit
Tom Harkin's Idiocy Could Cost Americans 500,000 Jobs: Beacon
Marxist Jan Schakowsky Joins the 'Lynch Mob': Breitbart

2012 Elections

Afterburner: Despair: Whittle
Another top Obama campaign donor accused of fraud: SFgate
Got Fooled?: RightMove

Climate & Energy

Kari Mari Norgaard is the Face: Danegerus
Look Who’s Jet-Setting on the Taxpayer Dime This Week: CDN
EPA Backpedals on Fracking Contamination - Third Recent Setback on Drilling for Agency: WSJ

Media

Five Stages of Obamacare: Surber
Mark Levin talks With a Soviet Union Refugee: Nice Deb
Send Better Witnesses: JOM

Is the media ever going to ask ‘Lefty Dream Boat’ Van Jones about Freedom Fighter Music?: Patterico
It Is Not Often One Locates An Oversight In Professor Jacobson’s Reasoning: RSM
NPR's Diane Rehm Denounces House GOP Wasting 'Precious Time' on the Paul Ryan Budget: NB

New York Times' Richard Thaler Savagely Attacks Obama: Moe Lane
NYT’s Friedman Says GOP No Longer A Conservative Party, It Has “Become A Radical Party”: WZ
CBS supplies more fuel to the Trayvon Inferno: Ace

World

Christian Blood on Obama's Hands: Sultan Knish
Canadian Islamic Bookstores Urge Muslim to Overthrow the West: Atlas
Russian Plane Crash Kills 31 in Siberia: BBC

Medvedev: Working with comrade Obama has been the ‘best three years’ for U.S.-Russian relations: Hot Air
Grand Mufti Wants to Destroy All Churches in Arabia & President Obama Is Silent: Sentinel
NRA Warning About UN Push for Elimination of Our Second Amendment: Sentinel

HUGE: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Reverses Course, Announces Candidate They Will Run For President: WZ
In Sinai, militant Islam flourishes - quietly: Reuters
Details emerge about bin Laden's other residences: AP

Obama’s Flexibility Doctrine: Krauthammer
The unknown man, and the blind Pope: Fausta
Wegman's Joins the Sharia Movement: Atlas

Sci-Tech

Developer Defends 'Girls Around Me' App: CNet
Navy: We’re 4 Years Away From Laser Guns on Ships: Wired
Up to 1.5M Credit Card Numbers Stolen From Global Payments: CNet

Cornucopia

Warning: Not an April Fool's Joke: MOTUS
Man lives with his planes and guns in Utah desert 'man cave': Blaze
Report: Saints bounty players could face criminal charges: USA Today

Image: Not What I Wanted to Hear
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space. . . . This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.” — Barack Obama to Dmitry Medvedev, March 26

"You don’t often hear an American president secretly (he thinks) assuring foreign leaders that concessions are coming their way, but that they must wait because he’s seeking reelection and he dare not tell his own people." --Charles Krauthammer

Sunday, April 01, 2012

At last: Obama's college transcripts located

It would appear that Ace of Spades just landed the scoop of the century.


I'm pretty sure Snopes verified this as 100% genuine.



Change

Esquire calls the policies of deficit spending and wealth redistribution a "War Against Youth."

Youth should be the only issue of the 2012 election, because all the subsidiary issues — inequality, the rising class system in America, the specter of decline, mass unemployment, the growing debt — are all fundamentally about the war against young Americans. But the choice young Americans face is between a party that claims to represent their interests but fails to and a party that explicitly opposes their interests and actively works to disenfranchise them...


...By bus and train and car pool, they will follow the gerontocracy to Tampa and Charlotte, the cities with the utter misfortune of hosting the presidential nominating conventions. Then we'll see if the people inside the convention centers can find the youth anything better to do.

We'll see then how the flowers of rage, planted and nurtured so carelessly for three decades, have sprung up and who will harvest them.

Which is why it is our job to teach America's young that the only antidote to the suicidal policies of Statism is Constitutional Conservatism.

It is our responsibility to return America to a lawful, civil society that recognizes the sovereignty of the individual and forces government to live within its means, like each of us must do in our own lives.


Hat tip: American Digest.

Good News: EPA's New 'Human-Friendly' Pesticides Responsible for the Great Bee Die-Off

Gee, and I had such high hopes that the environmental kooks would work out swimmingly as central planners.

...beekeepers from Minnesota and across the country this month asked the federal government for a temporary ban on one the most widely used pesticides until its effect on bees is clear. They fear it is contributing to a worldwide die-off and the inexplicable phenomenon known as "colony collapse disorder" that is devastating honeybee hives.

"We are asking the EPA to do its job," said Jeff Anderson, a commercial beekeeper from Eagle Bend, Minn. "Give us products that are safe."

The beekeepers and several environmental groups argue in an emergency petition filed with the EPA that the agency failed to require some legally mandated field testing before the pesticide was approved in 2003. New research, including two studies published last week in the journal Science, raises serious questions about its effect on pollinators of all kinds, they maintain.


The beekeepers and others say they filed the emergency petition because they fear that the EPA's review process will deliver a verdict too late for the nation's honeybees and the farmers who rely on them.

"Seventy percent of crops -- apples, oranges, zucchini, melons, strawberries -- they all need pollinators," said Vera Krischik, an associate professor of entomology at the University of Minnesota who studies the pesticides and bees. "It's a huge issue." ... Then there are the unknown numbers of bumblebees, wasps, butterflies and other wild pollinating insects that fill the same role across the natural world.

"We are headed in a very dangerous direction," Ellis said... ...The pesticides beekeepers are fighting now are different than those of the past, Anderson said. Those were applied at predictable times, making it easy to keep bees out of harm's way.

The pesticides most widely used now are among a class of nicotine-based chemicals called neonicotinoids that are designed to become an intrinsic part of the plant. They were developed in large part because they are much less toxic to humans and other mammals than previous pesticides. But in high doses, they are a neurotoxin to insects.

Curious how legacy media never reports stories like this one, which illustrate the endemic failures of a massive, centralized, authoritarian government and its unconstitutional central planning activities.

The EPA is responsible for the needless deaths of tens of millions of human beings in the Third World through its unconscionable ban of DDT.

Now, the unintended consequences of its idiocy is helping wipe out insect populations and endangering the entire food supply.

Remember these deadly failures when malevolent Statists like Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer claim that Republicans want dirty water and dirty air. True Republicans want Constitutional government, nothing more and nothing less.



BlackBerry Maker RIM Announces New Device That People Will Actually Buy

Eh, it is April Fool's Day, after all.

...RIM said sales of BlackBerrys fell sharply in the latest quarter, leading to the company's first revenue decline in seven years. Its subscriber growth rate from the previous quarter also hit an all-time low of 3%. And two of RIM's top officers stepped down, leaving RIM's executive bench as shallow as it has ever been.

Meanwhile, morale has flagged amid the unrest, according to executives inside and outside the company.

At a dinner meeting in February between RIM's chief technology officer, David Yach, one of the executives who left Thursday, and chief information officers from companies and government agencies, including the Department of Defense, the mood from the RIM side was somber, according to a person who attended the dinner.

...The company's market capitalization hovers over $7 billion, a big bite for any buyer to swallow. Some bankers said there would be few buyers at that price tag for the whole company.

The exception would be giants like Microsoft Corp. andNokia Corp. The two explored a joint bid for RIM last year, according to people familiar with the situation, but those talks were preliminary and didn't lead to a bid.

Nokia has adopted Microsoft's operating system for its latest smart phones. Given that close partnership, the two could make a coordinated approach, if they decided to bid, according to people familiar with the situation.

If they jointly bid, the two companies would likely scrap RIM's mobile operating system and instead equip BlackBerrys with Microsoft's Windows software, with Microsoft taking over RIM's enterprise network, these people said.

RIM was on top of the world just three short years ago. Now they're gasping for air.

Most tragically, they failed to leverage their primary assets -- a secure, global network and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software that manages corporate connectivity -- and instead tried to concentrate on the fast-moving device market. This task was made decidedly more difficult by the entrance of Google's Android operating system, which is distributed free to device makers and supports incredible diversity for handsets.

If RIM had concentrated on building highly secure client software packages for iPhones and Androids using its BES management console to control all of these devices, it would have a huge revenue stream that could have funded its device and OS operations. Instead, it failed to leverage BES on other devices, and thereby created a market for secure clients from companies like Good Technologies and MobileIron.

As it stands today, I don't see how RIM survives as a device maker.


Most Hilariousest Obama Campaign Request EVAH

Has any campaign ever beclowned itself like Obama 2012?

Obama camp demands Romney's tax returns from '80s


President Obama’s re-election campaign is calling on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns dating back to the 1980s, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Following a front-page Wall Street Journal article Thursday reporting that employees at Bain Capital, Romney’s former private-equity firm, were allowed to invest their retirement money in companies the firm acquired through a special share class, the Obama camp is seeking Romney’s old tax returns to see if they contain information about the investment arrangement... “Today’s report raises additional questions about Gov. Romney’s manipulation of the tax laws,” Ben LaBolt, an Obama spokesman, told The Journal, adding that Romney “may have engaged in questionable maneuvers to drive up the value of his IRA.”

Romney released his 2010 and preliminary 2011 tax returns earlier this year.

The Romney campaign pushed back Friday with their own request in an e-mail to National Journal: that Obama release the transcripts of all his meetings with world leaders... “The Obama campaign is playing politics, just as he’s doing in his conduct of foreign policy," Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul wrote. "Obama should release the notes and transcripts of all his meetings with world leaders so the American people can be satisfied that he’s not promising to sell out the country’s interests after the election is over.”

Hey, Romney advisers (note that I refrained from saying, "Hey, schmucks") -- the way you respond is like this:

...seven years after Barack Obama burst onto the national political scene, we still await the disclosure of his background records.

1. Occidental College records and transcripts -- Not released
2. Columbia University records and transcripts -- Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper -- 'not available'
4. Harvard University records and transcripts -- Not released
5. Medical records -- Not released
6. Illinois State Senate schedule -- 'not available'
7. Illinois State Senate records -- 'not available'
8. Law practice client list -- Not released
9. Certified Copy of Original Birth certificate -- Not released
10. Harvard Law Review articles published -- None
11. University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None
12. Record of Baptism -- Not released or 'not available'

Of course, there are different standards for legacy media's preferred candidates. Remember how the media unearthed Rick Perry's college transcripts within 48 hours of the announcement of his candidacy?

The stupid, it burns.


Related: The secret scrapbook of Barry Soetoro Barack Obama

Photo: This is the whack-job who thinks you need to be medically "treated" for questioning the U.N. climate scam

I realize you can't judge a book by its cover, but -- oh, my.

A whole slew of new “research” on conservatives’ and global warming skeptics’ “brains” has hit the academic circuit.

First off, environment and sociology Prof. Kari Norgaard’s [Ed: pictured at right] new study claims skeptics of man-made global warming fears should be “treated” for their skepticism. The study compares skepticism to man-made climate fears to the struggle against racism and slavery.

Prof. Norgaard’s concept of “treating” those who do not follow the current day’s political or social orthodoxy is, frighteningly, not new. A quick look at the 20th century totalitarian super states reveals many similar impulses.

It’s even more chilling that there is a whole new movement afoot by the promoters of man-made global warming theory to intimidate climate skeptics by using new brain “research.”

Other researchers have attempted to tie conservatism (which is identified with the highest number of climate skeptics) to “low brainpower.” ... Finally, still other climate activists have actually implied that we need to consider “human engineering” to combat global warming... NYU Prof. S. Matthew Liao of Center for Bioethics says his human engineering solution “involves the biomedical modification of humans to make them better at mitigating climate change'"

Sounds like the climate movement is pushing back against the numerous disclosures that have exposed "global warming" as nothing more than a money-making scam for NGOs and academics.

And it also would appear that they would like to use the same tactics the Nazis used to suppress opposition, all in pursuit of their totalitarian, anti-science vision.

Yet another reason to praise our country's founders for their wisdom vis a vis the Second Amendment.


Hat tip: Doug Powers.

Larwyn's Linx: Who dies next because of Al Sharpton?

Send us news tips. Bloggers: you can install a Larwyn's Linx blog widget. Get real-time news, 24/7, at BadBlue.

Nation

Who dies next because of Al Sharpton?: Flopping Aces
Nikki Haley Cleared By IRS, No Longer Under Investigation: OTB
Not-So-Smooth Operator: Noonan

Have you done your part to fight the Left’s war on Wisconsin?: Malkin
Elizabeth Warren 'linked' to death of low cost health insurance: LI
Justice Sonia Sotomayor's Shocking Ignorance: AT

Guess Barack Obama missed the Reagan Recovery: GayPatriot
New Hi-Def Video of Zimmerman Crushes ABC's 'Reporting': Breitbart
Slow Night in Chicago: Only Three Shot in Obamaville: JWF

Economy

How Bush/GOP policies got us into "the ditch": PracticalMan
Massachusetts: No Deadbeat Left Behind: Ace
Obama Recovery: Earning Less, Spending More, $6.7T Poorer: Reason

Important Report On The Sinkhole That Is Higher Education: Kesler
Dems Against the Machine: Mead
Dept. of Ed. Removes Debt Collection Manual from Website: ConCom

California: Where You Need A Lobbyist To Build A House: Mead
Observations on ObamaCare: Taxation, Regulation, Krugman, and Fried: Ricochet
Obamaconomy: Households Earning Less Than $13K Spend 9% Of Income On Lottery Tickets: Insider

2012 Elections

Barack Obama to supporters: Give me the money, dammit!: Bookworm
Romney Predicts Win in Wisconsin: Fox
IMAO Endorsement: Mitt Romney: IMAO

Scandal Central

Issa: ‘We want to play fair'…but: Workman
Obama energy officials funded solar firms despite ‘junk bond’ ratings from S&P, Fitch: DC
House Oversight Committee Reports $14.5B DOE Green Loan Program Train Wreck: Forbes

Climate & Energy

Screw Earth Hour: 'Why are we celebrating the Dark Ages and what N. Korea has already achieved?!' : Morano
Without electricity André Kuipers couldn't sit up in space chastising us during Earth Hour: WyBlog
We need a president focused on energy: Larry Shull

Media

The difference between Left-Twitter and Right-Twitter.: Moe Lane
ABC Not Sure Whether Death Threats In Trayvon Martin Aftermath 'Going Too Far': NB
Olbermann’s Career: The First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce: RSM

Adam Carolla on The Biased Media & The Death of Tyler Clementi: Ace
Olbermann Mockery Reaches New Heights On Twitter: Greenroom
Keith Olbermann Complained To Current That Car Service Drivers ‘Smelled, Talked To Him’: Mediaite

Exclusive - Palin to Couric: 'Game On': Breitbart
The problem with your (conservative) daughter is not her bed. It’s her brain.: ProWis
Sharpton Explains How He Manipulates Media On Race Cases: Breitbart

World

Spanish Unions Revolt Against Labor and Fiscal Reform: LATL
82nd Airborne soldiers killed in Afghanistan: ArmyTimes
Full text: Israel's deputy ambassador scolds J Street to stunned silence: Matzav

Sci-Tech

Google's hilarious April Fools' Maps launch: CNet
15 Gorgeous Trick Photos That Make The World Look Like A Kid's Toy: Insider
Foxconn fiasco not Apple's finest hour: CNet

Cornucopia

Please Support Conservative Blogger Moms – Don’t Let the Commie Mommies Win!: Zilla
“Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship…”: MOTUS
Ultra-marathon runner Micah True found dead in New Mexico: Reuters

Image: Analysis: Thomas Robinson, defense lead Kansas to title game
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "...it sure would be intellectually honest if more people started framing their arguments in the terms, “I don’t like freedom on this issue and here is why…” You pretty much never see that. I mean, gun control is an anti-freedom stance, but they never argue it that way. I think maybe that’s why they don’t understand how unpopular their stance is.

The same thing with the health care debate. The mandate is an anti-freedom stance, but they try to say they’re for more freedom by ending worries about health care, which is BS. One thing is freedom and one thing isn’t; it’s not debatable. Putting a gun to someone’s head and saying, “You must buy health insurance!” isn’t freedom and no one should pretend it is. It’s okay to take an anti-freedom stance, you just should frame it terms of why you think your ideas are better than liberty. And that will probably also help you understand why so many people don’t like your views, as the left always seems to get caught off guard by that." --Frank J.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Spicy: the Flash-Bang Holster

I'm trying to wrack my brain and recall when I've last seen a holster like this one.


Wrack. Get it?

I'll be here all week. Remember to try the roast beef special.

Wingers need not worry about Obama's "civilian national security force": DHS only wants about 625 million rounds of ammo

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." --Barack Obama, 2 July 2008

The Department of Homeland Security is looking to purchase a total of 625 million rounds of ammunition.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office is getting an "indefinite delivery" of an "indefinite quantity" of .40 caliber ammunition from defense contractor ATK.

U.S. agents will receive a maximum of 450 million rounds over five years, according to a press release on the deal... The high performance HST bullets are designed for law enforcement and ATK says they offer "optimum penetration for terminal performance."

This refers to the the bullet's hollow-point tip that passes through barriers and expands for a bigger impact without the rest of the bullet getting warped out of shape: "this bullet holds its jacket in the toughest conditions."

We've also learned that the Department has an open bid for a stockpile of rifle ammo. Listed on the federal business opportunities network, they're looking for up to 175 million rounds of .223 caliber ammo to be exact. The .223 is almost exactly the same round used by NATO forces, the 5.56 x 45mm.

That's only two rounds for every man, woman and child in America, which hardly seems enough.



RED ALERT: Former Marine Strike Planner on Obama's Azerbaijan Leak: "Start viewing this administration as an existential threat to Israel"

Four senior American diplomats -- most likely in the State Department -- as well as senior intelligence officers appear to have leaked a key military relationship between Azerbaijan and Israel.

A highly knowledgeable Democratic friend emails Ron Ben-Yishai’s YnetNews report “US thwarting Israeli strike on Iran.” The report asserts that the Obama administration is leaking information to the media in order to avert an Israeli strike in Iran. Ben-Yishai observes that in recent weeks the administration has “shifted from persuasion efforts vis-à-vis decision-makers and Israel’s public opinion to a practical, targeted assassination of potential Israeli operations in Iran.” My friend comments succinctly on the report: “Wow. Ron Ben-Yishai is considered to be one of the most serious Israeli defense correspondents.”

Ben-Yishai gives few examples of the Obama administration’s efforts to thwart an Israeli strike on Iran, but the news this week provides what seems to be a case study supporting his thesis. Foreign Policy reports that, according to “four senior diplomats and military intelligence officers,” Azerbaijan has granted the Israelis access to airbases in that country. Such access would dramatically mitigate the difficulty of an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

This leak destroyed any capability of a surprise attack by Israel using these bases. And it came from Obama administration officials.

"Bill", a former Marine Corps strike planner, weighed in on the implications of this leak Friday on The Mark Levin Show. Read every word.

I just want to comment on this revelation by the State Department regarding this Israel-Azerbaijan connection. A few years ago, I was writing an article and studying how Israel might go about attacking Iran with the assets we knew they had...

I've got experience as a Marine F-4 Phantom Radar Interceptor Officer. I've planned strike missions. I've got a thousand hours in the Phantom. So I'm familiar with the problems strike planners have in attacking a target or multiple targets like Iran. And as I looked at the map, I thought: 'Boy, oh, boy, if the Israelis had an alliance with Azerbaijan, that would be the perfect place to launch a strike.

They've got this beautiful, 10,000-foot concrete runway in Baku. You take off, you come right out over the Caspian Sea. The pilots flip on their radar altimeters, drop down 25-feet off the deck, and they just race in a straight line.

They pop up over some hills, and they're in Tehran before the Iranians even know what hit them. They could then go hit the other targets. It reduces the distance for this strike by, oh, six, seven hundred miles. It might alleviate the need for tankers. Or, if they do need tanker support, you could put them over the Caspian Sea...

...The beauty of Baku is that the Caspian Sea is right at the end of the runway. It's a straight shot, maybe 300 miles, from that base to Tehran. A good radar altimeter will get an F-4, F-16, F-15 strike fighter maybe 25 feet off the water. Going in at that altitude, you're not going to be picked up by radar.

But there's something even more important here. The Iranians are not expecting an attack from the north. Now, with the revelation of this relationship, they are. And that has a lot of implications beyond the tactical.

Think of it this way. Prior to this revelation, the Iranians -- although they noticed some connections between Israel and Azerbaijan -- didn't know how deep that connection was.

Now the Iranians can start bullying the Azerbaijanis. They can send a diplomat up to Baku and say, basically, 'if any Israeli plane hits us from the north, when we get our nuke, we are going to test it on Baku. Of course that will all happen behind the scenes, but the threat will be made.

Now, I want you to consider this: there are many ways to attack Iran. You can go for the nuke sites. Or you can go for a decapitation strike. A decapitation strike is a much easier operation if you're coming from Azerbaijan.

Think of it this way: every once in a while, the Iranians have a little get-together. They bring all of the Mullahs together in one place... Why not? They'd be doing us and the world a tremendous favor if they did that.

And it's not going to happen now.

I can guarantee that all of those new Soviet anti-aircraft missiles that the Iranians bought are all going up north now, pointed and waiting for something there. In fact, they'll probably put radars on the Caspian from the mountaintops there, just to see if there's anything come up off the water.

Strategic, tactical surprise: gone.


You have to ask for the motivation behind the leak. I mean, if the Israelis can do this operation, it's to our benefit! From a diplomatic standpoint, if you wanted to tell the Iranians that the Israelis did this, it's without our permission. And then try to butter up the Iranians after the strike, so they don't close the Strait of Hormuz, that's one thing.

But giving away all of the secrets of an ally? When you're doing that, you have to ask whether we still have Israel as an ally. We are not acting like an ally. In fact, if you ask me, based on the amount of time I expect the Israelis put in this relationship with Azerbaijan, I would start viewing this administration as an existential threat to Israel.

This administration is not going to do anything to stop the Iranian terror state from acquiring nuclear weapons. They are actively working against America's closest allies to prevent a strike against Iran. They are, under Obama's orders, leaking highly classified information to America's enemies through the media.

Who leaked this information? And when are we going to prosecute them?

Where is the House Foreign Affairs Committee? Do we still have one?

I urge you to contact Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen at (202) 225-5021 and ask the committee what it is doing to find the sources of these leaks.