Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: Uh oh: CNN sources say Obama lied about BenghaziGate

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Nation

CNN sources say Obama lied about Benghazi: Scoop
WH tells contractors to break law-not warn workers of layoffs: Ace
Debate Moderators Don't Dare Ask Obama These Questions: IBD

What’s behind Obama’s timing of Gitmo jihadist Khadr’s release?: Malkin
PublicPolicyPolling says Ohio is still in play; liberals freak out: Twitchy
The Incumbent as Underdog: Villainous

Joe Biden Escapes from the Attic... Again: AmSpec
Survey: Doctors choose Romney over Obama: DC
DCCC Goes Dark on Brendan Mullen: Hoosier

Economy

News From Ohio: Obamanomics Sucks: RSM
Obama Makes 10th Vegas Trip—Since Warning Not to Visit: CNS
What If I Am Wrong About Europe?: Mish

Debt Jumped $1.3T in FY 2012; Beats 2011: CNS
WH bribing defense contractors not to issue layoff notices to workers: RS
Surprise! Obama ignores a law to aid his reelection: Malor

Scandal Central

A look at the horrific, graphic Univision excerpt: Flopping Aces
Eric Holder’s Violent Radical Black Militance: How Was this Covered-Up?: Loudon
VA: Military absentee ballots going AWOL in 2012: Watchdog

Climate & Energy

Good News! Only Two Years Left Till The World Ends From Climate Change: Cove
Hundreds line up for $1.84 gas -- the price when Obama took office: MLive

Media

Another Newspaper Attempts Suicide: Cato
Fascinating Chart of the Day: Villainous
What will be 2012's October surprise?: Hill

Greatest Orator Since Lincoln If Not Cicero, Says He's Merely "Okay" At Debating: Ace
Jennifer Rubin Forces Washington Post to Explain Its Own Bogus Poll: NB
‘Get On Board And Haul Romney Across The Finish Line’: Camp o' the Saints

Columbus Dispatch Shreds Its Credibility With Latest Dishonest Polling: Virtuous
Be afraid, be very afraid: Supreme Court possibilities if Obama reelected: Riehl
The Washington Post Reveals Its True Colors in Ryan Hit Piece: ATR

Univision Exposes Fast and Furious' Rising Body Count: IBD
Obama’s Anti-Mormon Campaign Targeting Christian Voters: Nice Deb
CNN Says Economists 'Reluctantly' Favor Romney Over Obama 3-to-1: NB

World

Is the State Department Squelching Documents on Libya Attack?: Foundry
A New Course for the Middle East: Romney
Ethnic Cleansing of Christians in the Sinai: Gatestone

Obama Demands Emergency Gift of $450 Million to Muslim Brotherhood: MB
The Administration’s Messy Story on Libya Attack: Foundry
Army Can't Say What It Pays Disgraced General To Do: Wired

Thank God W Isn’t President Anymore: Mead
Indonesia: 5,000 Muslims chanting "Allahu akbar" march on U.S. Embassy: JihadWatch
Tricare Prime fees jump 17% today for some: ArmyTimes

Sci-Tech

Blurring the Boundaries: Diana
More Mobile News Consumers Choosing Web Over Apps: Forbes
Replacement Ear Grown On an Arm: BoingBoing

IPhone 5 WiFi bug leads to giant cellular data overages: CNNMoney
Scary New Malware Uses Your Smartphone To Map Your House for Robbers: Gizmodo
How millions of DSL modems were hacked in Brazil, to pay for Rio prostitutes: Sophos

Cornucopia

Obama Front Group Sends Election Intimidation Letter to 60,000 Pastors: LifeNews
Krauthammer Gives Debate Advice: Obama's "Weak Point Is That He Is Thin-Skinned": RCP
Democrat Sluts Can’t Do Math: RSM

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QOTD: "“Americans have been getting a lot of information about the possible cover-up in the Justice Department, the tragedy of Brian Terry getting killed, but what about the Mexicans?” says Miami-based Gerardo Reyes, Univision’s director of investigative reporting, in an interview Saturday with the Monitor.

“The sinister part of this, and I know it sounds very hard, is that the success of this operation depended in part on the fact that the guns were used in Mexico to kill,” says Mr. Reyes. “In order to reach the target of the operation, which was identifying the drug traffickers who were using the guns, [ATF agents] were waiting for the guns to be used. And how are guns used in Mexico? Killing people. I talked to an ATF agent who said there was no other way to explain it.”" --Jim Geraghty

Monday, October 01, 2012

The Most Brutal Jobs Graph of the Year

The Economic Populist blog does an outstanding job breaking down the most recent Labor Department numbers.

The press quotes all sorts of figures for the number of monthly job gains needed to keep up with population growth. We see numbers like 80,000, 100,000, 125,000 and 175,000 thrown around like statistical snow as the number of jobs needed each month just to keep up. What's the right one? How many jobs are needed each month just to keep up with population growth?

The actual monthly amount can be calculated and the Atlanta Fed even did us a huge favor by publishing an interactive monthly jobs calculator so you can go check for yourself. This month shows we need 104,116 payroll jobs to maintain the same unemployment rate of 8.1% with all of the other same terrible conditions the state of employment is in.

That's the key, the current terrible conditions the state of employment is in today. One of the reasons the number of jobs to keep up with population growth is so low is due to so many having dropped out of the labor force. If we had more people being counted as needing a job, the number of jobs to keep up with population growth would be much higher...


...our favorite and never reported BLS statistic amplifies the terrible situation for labor in this country. The BLS surveys people considered not part of the labor force and asks if they want a job right now. [Above] is a graph of the people who said yes and watch how this figure swells.

For August 2012, those not counted in the labor force but report they actually want and need a job increased by 403,000 in a month. That, folks, should have you horrified. Literally we have desperate and destitute people falling through the statistical crevasse, into the abyss where they can only shout out from the numerical darkness, yes I want a job!

The ongoing jobs catastrophe represents reason #3,054 that this ad...


...is the most terrifying political advertisement ever created.


Hat tip: BadBlue Money Channel.

SURPRISE! Obama's green energy policies hit the poor hardest

Try and contain your shock.

Last week, Examiner columnist and Manhattan Institute fellow Diana Furchtgott-Roth, author of the new book “Regulating to Disaster: How Green Jobs Policies Are Damaging America’s Economy,” explained that:

Most people think green is good but pay little attention to associated increases in costs. In 2015, it will cost between $49 and $79 to generate one megawatt hour of electricity from natural gas. A megawatt hour from onshore wind will cost between $75 and $138, and from solar photovoltaic will cost between $242 and $455.

As her book demonstrates in this chart, rising costs of energy hit lower income Americans the hardest, because they spend a higher proportion of their incomes on energy.

Not to mention that President Obama sent 80 percent of his $16 billion green energy windfall to his campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute.


KNOW ANYONE WHO WORKS FOR A DEFENSE CONTRACTOR? You may want to tell them about the surprise layoffs they'll be getting

You may have heard that the Obama administration has done its level best to hide the damage its defense cuts will do to government contractors. Its latest effort relates to the WARN Act, which requires an employer to give 60-days notice when laying off employees.

Because the administration's desperate to avoid these notices going out to employees before the election, it is "now openly bribing defense contractors not to issue layoff notices to workers."


That's right: the Obama administration is attempting to get these companies to break the law to ensure as few employees as possible find out about the cuts that will cost them their jobs.

The Labor Department issued guidance in July saying it would be “inappropriate” for contractors to issue notices of potential layoffs tied to sequestration cuts. But a few contractors, most notably Lockheed Martin, said they still were considering whether to issue the notices — which would be sent out just days before the November election.

But the Friday guidance from the Office of Management and Budget raised the stakes in the dispute, telling contractors that they would be compensated for legal costs if layoffs occur due to contract cancellations under sequestration — but only if the contractors follow the Labor guidance.


...Here is the problem for defense contractors: If they don’t file those layoff notices as required by the WARN Act, they are going to get sued by a lot of workers when the workers get fired immediately once the defense cuts go into effect. The lawsuits alone could bankrupt defense contractors whether the defense contractors win their cases or not. So the OMB is trying to sweeten the pot by telling them “Hey, we’ll (actually the taxpayers) pay your legal costs when you get sued. Don’t worry, we got your back (wink-wink) so long as we don’t send out those layoff notices.”

This is a brazen attempt to trap defense contractors into committing suicide for the purpose of getting Obama re-electe... never mind a quarter million workers losing their job suddenly in a day without any notice. The easiest way for defense contractors to avoid any liability is to comply with the WARN Act, simply following the law.

Oh, you're going to get laid off. If it wins reelection, the Obama administration will have nothing to stop it from completely shredding the U.S. military. We can see its priorities in action through its recent decision to fund the Muslim Brotherhood over, say, the U.S. Marines.

Make sure you forward this article to anyone you know who works for a defense contractor. This administration needs to go.



MEXICAN STREETS RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF CHILDREN: Holder Lies to Congress; Obama Covers Up; U.S. Media Ignores the Slaughter

Thanks to the Spanish language network Univision, we now have a more complete picture of Operation Fast and Furious, the ill-fated gun-running operation orchestrated by Attorney General Eric Holder. The A.G., of course, was found in Contempt of Congress for stonewalling a House of Representatives investigation. And President Obama claimed "executive privilege" as an obvious attempt to cover up Holder's culpability.

In the mean time, Mexico's government has put Holder's death toll at over 200 dead, not to mention U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed by Mexican drug smugglers armed by Holder's Justice Department.


But the media -- with the exception of a few dogged reporters -- has largely ignored a story a dozen times bigger than Watergate. In fact, the Univision network has conducted the first substantial investigation of Fast and Furious and the slaughter of hundreds that resulted:

On January 30, 2010, a commando [team] of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers...


...Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.


...the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the cartel murderers. Three of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to a Mexican army document obtained exclusively by Univision News.


...Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre...


As part of Operation Fast and Furious, ATF allowed 1,961 guns to "walk" out of the U.S. in an effort to identify the high profile cartel leaders who received them. The agency eventually lost track of the weapons, and they often ended up in the hands of Mexican hit men , including those who ordered and carried out the attack on Salvarcar and El Aliviane, a rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez where 18 young men were killed on September 2, 2009.


...Following the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry at the hands of Mexican bandits on December 14, 2010, media and Congressional investigations prompted hearings. On September 20, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General report, which opened the door for sanctions of 14 ATF and DOJ officials...


...In Washington, the Fast and Furious scandal became politicized, diverting the attention from the human cost in Mexico to political battles on Capitol Hill. In June, a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt ignored the real tragedy in Mexico.


"Americans are not often moved by the pain of those outside [their country]…" Javier Sicilia, a Mexican poet whose son was killed in the midst of the violence, told Univision News. "But they are moved by the pain of their own. Well, turn around and watch the massacres..."


...Other firearms under ATF surveillance were permitted to leave the country from Texas, according to court documents and the exclusive testimony of Magdalena Avila Villalobos, the sister of an ICE agent who survived a confrontation with cartel hit men on a rural highway in Mexico on February 15, 2011. His fellow agent, Jaime Zapata, was killed during the attacks...


... "It's not from Arizona and Fast and Furious," Avila Villalobos told Univision News, speaking in her brother's stead for the first time, "but it's a very similar operation..." She later added, "Those weapons that have been recovered, it's been confirmed that they were weapons used in the shootout that killed Jaime Zapata and wounded Victor Avila." ...


The Texas-based operation and the firearms linked to the attack were bought by two trafficking rings in the state, according to Raymond Thomas, the Zapata family's lawyer...


Earlier this year, Texas Senator John Cornyn had echoed Thomas' assertions . Moreover, on September 25, Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley, the politicians behind the Fast and Furious congressional report released in July, sent a letter to the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General, requesting an investigation into Avila's and Zapata's case...

And Eric Holder dares to claim ignorance of the entire operation. Plainly, that's impossible for a program of this magnitude.


Furthermore, Fast and Furious was designated as an OCDETF operation (Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force), which required the highest level of cooperation between 94 U.S. Attorney's Offices, the DOJ, the ATF, the FBI, the DEA, the IRS, the U.S. Coast Guard, ICE, and the U.S. Marshal's Service.


As OCDETF, it is impossible to believe that Eric Holder did not have knowledge of the operation.


Mitt Romney should mention Holder's malfeasance every chance he gets. Holder is a disgrace and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But, given his corrupt Justice Department, it will require a new president.


Mexico's streets are running red with blood of children; Eric Holder's response is to stonewall Congress and cover up. And Barack Obama is doing his level best to shield Holder from prosecution by claiming "executive privilege", which plainly does not cover obvious wrongdoing as is the case here.

And our disgusting, corrupt, state-run media has nothing to say about this slaughter. Kudos to Univision for doing the work American media used to do, in a time long ago and a place far away.



Larwyn's Linx: MUST SEE - The Obama Administration’s Benghazi Cover-Up #BenghaziGate

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Nation

MUST SEE - The Obama Administration’s Benghazi Cover-Up: Tatler
When it comes to polls, readers beware: Barone
Muslim Violence is Our New Law: Sultan Knish

WE ARE THE 91%: only 9% cooperate with pollsters: Zombie
Obama campaign reduced to spammer tactics to raise money: Greenroom
Allen West event turns into food-fight when SEIU thugs arrive: RedAlert

Infiltration, Treason, Jihad – Welcome to The Project: NoisyRm
Dear Mitt: Please Don’t Morph into a Wuss During the Debates.: Giles
White House Misled Americans About Benghazi Attack for 12 Days: Ace

Economy

Obama's Fourth Recovery Summer Ends: RS
Hundreds of Thousands Flee Democrat-Run California: Breitbart
Obama Is Not Improving Ohio's Economy - Fracking Is: FreedomWorks

Scandal Central

57 New Fast and Furious Guns Used in Mexican Crimes: Univision
Paul Ryan: Eric Holder must go over Fast and Furious: DC
Did Stabenow botch Corzine investigation--or protect a friend?: Detroit News

Obama's Chicago Arab-American network comes into focus: AT
Nadhmi Auchi’s London law firm targets American Thinker website: Illinois Pay to Play
As college student, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of former Columbia U. ROTC office: DC

Media

Univision Uncovers Mexican Massacre Tied to Eric Holder’s Fast and Furious: Sooper
NYT: Occupy Film Is 'Calm and Smart,' But Movie Criticizing Teachers Unions Has 'Political Agenda': NB
Politico: Romney’s the One With an Adviser-Related Libya Problem: BizzyBlog

The Media Is Already Treating Romney as the Incumbent: Pollak
Lapdog Sunday headlines: Media ignore #Benghazigate, focus on Romney: Twitchy
How the ObamaMedia Faked Obama’s Growth in the Polls: Greenfield

World

Whose Side Is Barack Obama On?: Western
Geller Agonistes — Truth in Advertising About the Jihad Against Israel: Bostom
Dershowitz: Amended MTA rules "Unconstitutional" and "it's going to encourage violence": Atlas

Obama’s Budget Priorities: $1 Billion for Muslim Terrorists; Laying Off 2,000 U.S. Marines Instead: Greenfield
Hillary's "Reformer" Bashar al-Assad Continues His Genocide, Preps Chemical Weapons: Charen
Great news! Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has lost track of Syria’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: FAM

Chinese hackers breach White House military network in charge of president’s nuclear football: Beacon
Washington Post points out Obama’s dangerously failed foreign policy: Riehl
Paul Ryan: “We’re Seeing the Ugly Fruits of Obama’s Foreign Policy Unravel on Our TV Screens”: GWP

Sci-Tech

These $10 Robots Will Change Robotics Education: Wired
How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system: Ars Technica
Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?: yCombinator

Cornucopia

Comic Book: Commander Romney & The Liberty Squadron: Morlock Revolt
Molsterman #4: The “nose” knows: MOTUS
Seriously: Why Doesn't Obama Take More Of An Interest In Golf?: Ace

Image: Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of Columbia U. ROTC office
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QOTD: "Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident.

One official said the cyber breach was one of Beijing’s most brazen cyber attacks against the United States and highlights a failure of the Obama administration to press China on its persistent cyber attacks.

Disclosure of the cyber attack also comes amid heightened tensions in Asia, as the Pentagon moved two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups and Marine amphibious units near waters by Japan’s Senkaku islands.

China and Japan—the United States’ closest ally in Asia and a defense treaty partner—are locked in a heated maritime dispute over the Senkakus, which China claims as its territory." --Bill Gertz

Sunday, September 30, 2012

FINISHING WHAT HE STARTED: Scariest Ad Ever

Tell me whether you agree that this may be the most terrifying ad ever created:

1. THE SCARIEST AD EVER

2. FINISHING WHAT HE STARTED, FOOD STAMP EDITION

3. FINISHING WHAT HE STARTED, LAWLESSNESS EDITION

For those willing to examine the research, the "War on Poverty" has turned out to have been a $15 trillion failure. It has actually caused more misery, more poverty, and more violent crime than if we had never spent that money in the first place. And those trapped in the inner cities have been the hardest hit of all.


Questions For Obama That Romney Should Ask

Dan from New York:

1. Mr. President, why have you had any mention of “Islamic terrorism” or “Jihad” officially stricken from your administration’s documents?

2. Mr. President, do you still believe Major Nidal Hasan’s Ft. Hood murder spree was the act of a sick mind and just another instance of “workplace violence?”

3. Mr. President, can you explain why your Middle East policies seem to empower the Muslim Brotherhood at the expense of American, Western and Israeli interests?

4. Mr. President, right from the start you apologized to the Muslim world about alleged American shortcomings there, and only last week you gave an encore at the U.N. While you’re still president, will that demeaning self-flagellation ever stop?

5. Mr. President, after our Libyan Consulate was sacked and our ambassador murdered, what did you know and when did you know that it was an act of pre-meditated terrorism set for the anniversary of 9/11, and not a protest about a YouTube video hardly anyone to that point had ever seen?

6. Mr. President, you claim to “have Israel’s back.” But more to the point, do you have ours?

PREVIEW OF COMING DEFICIT ATTRACTIONS: Greek Neo-Nazis Granted 'Police Powers' Over Immigrants

Because -- historically speaking -- giving Nazis authority over others has worked out so well:

Greece: Neo-Nazis Golden Dawn Given 'Police Powers' over Immigrants

Support for the Neo-Nazi party is soaring amid claims that anti-immigrant violence is deliberately ignored by police

Greek police have been accused of directing the victims of crimes allegedly committed by immigrants to seek retribution from the violent neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.

Golden Dawn is increasingly taking the law into its own hands with the complicity of security forces, the Guardian reported.

Numerous Athenians told the British newspaper that police are openly advising people to seek Golden Dawn protection instead of dealing with their complaints.

"They immediately said if it's an issue with immigrants go to Golden Dawn," explained a US-trained civil servant who called police following an incident involving Albanian immigrants.

Support for the Neo-Nazi party is soaring in the near-bankrupt state, as are racially motivated attacks on immigrants... Immigrant communities accuse police of turning a blind eye to this sort of crime.

"In the past six months, knife-wielding fascists have attacked some 500 persons with impunity," Javied Aslam, the head of the Migrant Workers' Association in Greece and leader of the Greek Pakistani community told the BBC.

Although it sounds unrelated to the American economy, in truth this should serve as a dire warning to anyone concerned with the future. Unchecked deficit spending will lead to bankruptcy as certainly as night follows day. And civil unrest, despotism and tyranny follow close on bankruptcy's heels.

Unlike Greece, however, no country is large enough to bail out the United States.


Hat tip: @CapFlowWatch.

FORWARD: New York Times reports a 'pitched battle' just occurred between U.S. and Afghan troops

What in hell are we doing in Afghanistan under this administration? That's a rhetorical question, because no one knows, least of all the man in the White House who has fundamentally transformed the Middle East:

Shahidullah Shahid, the spokesman for the governor in Wardak Province where the fighting occurred, said the deaths came “after a clash ensued between two sides following a misunderstanding.” An Afghan official, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to release details, said that a mortar shell had landed amid the American unit, killing a soldier and a civilian contractor and wounding several others. The Americans thought it came from a nearby Afghan National Army checkpoint on a hill overhead and attacked it with small arms and rockets, killing three and wounding three of the seven soldiers there, the official said.

The Middle East is a disaster zone -- and with Iran moving unchecked to complete its nuclear weapons -- the reelection of Barack Obama would be a catastrophic mistake.


Update: Obama Administration Blames “Friendly Fire” Attacks in Afghanistan on US Troops.

Full disclosure: I added the picture of Hillary Clinton to the screen-cap.

KEYSTONE KOMRADES: Obama aides contradict each other on Sunday talk shows as the Benghazi-gate cover-up unravels

Writing at American Power, Donald Douglas observes that White House adviser David Plouffe blatantly lied while discussing Benghazi-gate on Meet the Press:

Plouffe argued that Ambassador Susan Rice was relying on extant intelligence reports in her Sunday comments on September 16th, discussed here.

He's lying.

[At The Daily Beast,] Eli Lake reported that intelligence agencies knew it was a terrorist attack within hours, "U.S. Officials Knew Libya Attacks Were Work of Al Qaeda Affiliates." And see Twitchy, "David Plouffe: ‘Libya wasn’t intel failure,’ canoodling after terrorist attack is hunky-dory; Media enables lies"... The video is here.

So Plouffe was flat-out lying (quite the shocker, I know). But in what is becoming a pattern for this administration, the various handlers can't keep their cover-up stories straight.

On CNN, Obama adviser David Axelrod plainly contradicted Plouffe and left Ambassador Susan Rice out to dry.

...when the host asked a similar question, Axelrod said, “Well, first of all, Candy, as you know, the President called it an act of terror the day after it happened, But when you're the responsible party, when you're the administration and you have a responsibility to act on what you know and what the intelligence community believes. This is being thoroughly investigated because we need to bring to justice.”

To put it bluntly, President Obama's key advisers are contradicting each other as the Benghazi-gate cover-up continues to unravel and even antique media is forced to cover it. This story, according to veteran observers familiar with both, is bigger than Watergate. An Ambassador and three other American diplomatic personnel are dead.

And every story the administration has told the American people about the terror attack was false.


Larwyn's Linx: On Guns and Religion and Othering the Other

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Nation

On Guns and Religion and Othering the Other: Bad Rachel
The Path We Took: America's Right
Tracking Ohio’s absentee ballot requests: RS

Do You Believe the Ohio Polls?: RSM
Can You Be a Good Muslim and a Good American?: Moran
A State of the Race Report: Hawkins

'Exodus Now': Black Bishop Rips Democrat Party: Breitbart
Introducing The New Polling Firm of Madoff, Marist, Quinnipiac & Ponzi: Hewitt
Mother of Murdered Navy SEAL Would Like Some Answers: Sentinel

Economy

Obama administration tries to block sequester layoff notices: Hot Air
Obama -- a nightmare for African-Americans trying to get jobs: Moe Lane
Pepper Spraying California Taxpayers: RWN

Scandal Central

What happened to the outrage?: SDA
Fast, Furious: 16 Kids Killed; Holder Weapons Go Global: MagNote
Subway submits, bans ads that may ‘incite or provoke violence’: Twitchy

Climate & Energy

Sea Ice Sets All Time Record High: Goddard

Media

Must See: Pat Caddell Destroys the Liberal Media: Fausta
Media "a Fundamental Threat to the Democracy and The Enemy of The American People": babalu
Ann Althouse - White Liberal Racist in Denial: MoneyRunner

MSNBC Morning Joe Train Bypasses Realville Again: DTG
Sample Problems With Current Polls: The Resistant Libertarian/Tea Party Voting Bloc: Strata-Sphere
Vote ‘President by Proxy’ Valerie Jarrett out of office on Nov. 6: CFP

World

Hillary Clinton INVITES Islamic UN Nations to Discuss Intolerance – Ours, Not Theirs: MagNote
Saudis Detain 900 Women at Airport for Traveling without a Male: Creeping
Iran’s nuclear program designed to ‘finish off’ Israel, Hezbollah MP says: Times of Israel

Read This While You Can: AT
What is the Tax on American Families, of Aid to Jihadi Nations?: NoisyRm
‘Absolutely Uncertain’ Obama on Israel Documentary Logs Nearly 700,000 Hits in 3 Days: Blaze

Trevor Loudon outs Leon Panetta; discusses Ron Paul's DSA-sponsored foreign policies: Loudon
Change: US Embassy issues terror warning for Americans in Egypt: Times of Israel
Disquiet on the Jordanian Front: Carnegie

Sci-Tech

Energy Sector Cyber Espionage: Chinese Hackers are not Alone: InfosecIsland
Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used To Know' with an HP scanner on lead vocals: Verge
Beatlemania, c.1963: Retronaut

Cornucopia

Caption Contest: MB
Hey Obama, Sgt. Friday called. He’s on to your Clapper Caper.: MOTUS
UCLA Study: Female Democrats Hideous Trolls, Republican Congresswomen Good Looking: WZ

Image: Steven Goddard - Sea Ice Sets All Time Record High
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QOTD: "One of the reasons why Barack Obama is regarded as the greatest orator of our age is that he's always banging on about some other age yet to come – e.g., the Future! A future of whose contours he is remarkably certain and boundlessly confident: The future will belong to nations that invest in education because the children are our future, but the future will not belong to nations that do not invest in green energy projects because solar-powered prompters are our future, and, most of all, the future will belong to people who look back at the Obama era and marvel that there was a courageous far-sighted man willing to take on the tough task of slowing the rise of the oceans because the future will belong to people on viable land masses. This futuristic shtick is a cheap'n'cheesy rhetorical device (I speak as the author of a book called "After America," whose title is less futuristic than you might think) but it seems to play well with the impressionable Obammysoxers of the press corps." --Mark Steyn

Saturday, September 29, 2012

650,000 VIEWS IN THREE DAYS: 23-year old NY liberal who voted for Obama exposes his anti-Israel policies in viral video

The description reads:

A new, 18-minute mini-documentary follows the journey of Irina, a 23-year-old liberal, Jewish New Yorker who voted for Obama in 2008. Yet as her connection to Israel has grown, and she has learned more about the President's policies across the Middle East and towards Israel in particular, Irina has come to realize that "when the chips are down," the President may not "have Israel's back"...


Watch the whole thing.


Hat tip: The Blaze.

OUR FUTURE UNDER OBAMA: Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Capitals of Spain and Portugal

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in the capitals of Spain and Portugal to demand ends to the austerity cuts to government spending programs. The Associated Press reported that demonstrators were expressing their anger over tax hikes, government spending cuts and high unemployment rates.

As Margaret Thatcher famously observed, "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."


This kind of civil unrest will look like a garden party if Barack Obama is reelected and permitted to continue his Cloward-Piven-inspired destruction of the economy.

And, no, you won't be getting free Obama-Phones if the economy collapses, drones.


POLLING PROPAGANDISTS: The Walter Shapiro, Taegan Goddard and Doug Mataconis Edition

Some hack named Walter Shapiro, using the time-tested approach of quoting "anonymous" GOP operatives, suggests that the Romney-Ryan campaign is losing Ohio and doing so in spectacular fashion. Check out this bit of nonsense, the rock-hard kernel of stupidity at the heart of the story.

Maybe Romney isn’t down by 10 points, they argue, but the GOP presidential nominee seems destined to lose by a solid 5 points – and in closely divided Ohio that represents a loss of nearly landslide proportions. (That would mean that Obama would slightly improve his 2008 victory margin against John McCain.)

Never mind that the most accurate poll -- Rasmussen's -- has the Ohio race locked in a virtual tie. Shapiro's absurd "reporting" was eagerly marketed by the usual propagandists -- including Taegan Goddard and Doug Mataconis -- as pure gospel.

Now stop and consider just how deranged your thought processes have to be in order to believe this rubbish:

Tea Party: you have to believe that the Tea Party never organized or simply disappeared into thin air

The Debt: you have to believe that Obama's act of adding $6 trillion -- 60 percent -- to the national debt, which has resulted in the country's first credit downgrade, is wildly popular

Unemployment: you have to believe that Obama's horrific unemployment record is a winning one

2010: you have to believe that the 2010 tidal wave election never happened

Obamacare: you have to believe that spiking health care premiums and a huge number of employers who are dropping coverage have somehow transformed the Statists' health care takeover into a program beloved by the citizenry

Foreign Policy: you have to believe that Obama's bizarre handling of the Middle East, now aflame, is popular

Energy: you have to believe that Obama's war on coal -- a critical state industry -- is supported by the majority of Ohioans

Illegal Immigration: you have to believe that Ohioans embrace illegal immigration and Obama's extra-Constitutional executive orders implementing the DREAM Act

Obama himself: you have to believe that the known quantity -- a narcissistic, hyper-partisan,, hard Left demagogue -- is more popular now than the unknown candidate marketed by media as some sort of messianic, post-partisan cult figure

If you believe any one of these things, it's possible you have some sort of neurological deficiency. And if you believe all of them, you might be a hapless propagandist named Walter Shapiro, Taegan Goddard or Doug Mataconis.


The polls completely missed the 2010 landslide. And the polls have no freaking clue just how pissed off the American people are.


REAL LIFE INDIANA JONES STORY: Scientists say Nazis even took art from outer space

Who needs fiction when there are real-life stories like this?

An ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II was carved from a meteorite that crashed on Earth thousands of years ago... according to European researchers publishing in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science this month.

...Elmar Buchner of the University of Stuttgart said Thursday the statue was brought to Germany by the Schaefer expedition. The Nazi-backed venture set out for Tibet in 1938 in part to trace the origins of the Aryan race — a cornerstone of the Nazis’ racist ideology.

The existence of the 10.6-kilogram (23.4-pound) statue, known as “iron man,” was only revealed in 2007, when its owner died and it came up for auction, Buchner said.

German and Austrian scientists were able to get permission from its new owner, who wasn’t disclosed, to conduct a chemical analysis that shows the statue came from the Chinga meteorite, which crashed in the area of what is now the Russian and Mongolian border about 15,000 years ago.

The meteorite was officially discovered in 1913, but Buchner said the statue could be 1,000 years old and represent a Buddhist god called Vaisravana.

...The Nazis were probably attracted to it by a left-facing swastika symbol on its front. The swastika has been used by various cultures throughout the ages, but the Nazis tried to appropriate it as the symbol of their ideology, going so far as to put a right-facing version of it on their red-and-white flag.

Rumors that Organizing for America had attempted to steal the statue and emblazon it with the creepy, circular Obama logo could not be confirmed at press time.


Homer Bailey Delivers a No-Hitter for the Republican Cause

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Homer Bailey tossed a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates last night. It was a much-needed victory for the Reds as they're battling the Washington Nationals for the best record in the National League heading into the post-season.

Lee forwards a note pointing out that Bailey's not only an ace on the mound, he's also a top gun when it comes to protecting the Republic:

You just never know who may show up at the Republican Victory Center in Kenwood [a northern suburb of Cincinnati].

Reds Pitcher Homer Bailey showed up last Saturday to encourage the volunteers to keep up the great efforts for the Republican Party. We still need volunteers and we are going to WIN this election!


Don’t pay attention to the polls which are aligned to the media. They want you to believe that the race is over. We need our voters to come out and vote. So let’s do everything possible to do just that and we WILL WIN!

Click here to find your local Victory Center. Take action. Your country needs you.


Bumper Sticker o' the Day: The Mental Deficit



Idea: @VodkaPundit.

Larwyn's Linx: The Benghazi Scandal Widens

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Nation

The Benghazi Scandal Widens: Hayward
The Polls’ History of Underestimating the GOP: Geraghty
Benghazi-gate: New Evidence White House Lied About Attacks: Breitbart

Media Has Manipulated Polling Since 1980: HillBuzz
Great Debate Questions: JRubin
Allen West kicks Patrick Murphy in the butt: Lane

BenghaziGate: President Obama Is A Lazy Liar: IBD
What the Hell Is Everybody So Scared Of?: Scoop
"Moderate" New Jersey Imam Calls for Blasphemy Law: IPT

Economy

California Debt Bigger Than Brazil, Mexico or India: Greenfield
Michelle Obama chows down on pizza as kids beg for more food: WZ
Did Flaws in Democratic System Cause Crisis?: CNBC

Obama - utterly indifferent to a sputtering economy: GayPatriot
Why Americans Won’t Invest in Themselves: Spengler
US spent 200 times more on Obamas than UK does on royalty: TAB

Gold Glitters: RWN
Top Five Worst Obamacare Taxes Coming in 2013: ATR
Obama Weekly Address: Hey, Let's Fix Housing Again!: RWN

Scandal Central

Treason at 1600: Obama denies airpower to U.S. forces in Afghanistan: Owens
Rep. Peter King: ‘Susan Rice Should Resign’: NRO
Obama Cabinet Biggest Violator of Public Records Laws: JW

Media

The Normative Power of Law and the Emotional Power of Drama: Ace
Deafening silence about the Camp Bastion attack: Malkin
It's Over!: AT

NBC Caught Doctoring Audio Again: Ace
Leno: ‘We Wasted Four Years Waiting For Obama To Do Something About The Economy’: NB
Film claiming Obama's mother once posed for pornographic pictures is sent to a million swing voters: Daily Mail

Samuel L. Jackson fires the first shots in an American cultural civil war: WinterSoldier
ABC Reports White House Knew Terrorists Carried Out Libya Attack; NBC, CBS Out to Lunch: NB
James O’Keefe investigates the SEIU and political corruption: Scoop

World

Obama Continues To Align US With Islamists: Joint US-Egypt Naval War Games Scheduled: JoshuaPundit
Libya: The Timeline: NRO
Krauthammer Destroys The Obama Administration On Libya Lies: HayRide

Attn Liberals: This Is What Islamic Supremacism Looks Like: Cube
Obama Free On Day He Declined Netanyahu Meeting: Beacon
Skidmarks on China’s aircraft carrier?: DefTech

Obama speaks often but does little : AEI
Ex-Military Mock Obama For Spiking Football on Bin Laden With Toon: Breitbart
'Ridiculously photogenic Syrian soldier': A weapon of mass seduction: ForPol

Sci-Tech

All credit card PIN numbers in the World leaked”: DataGenetics
Facebook's MySpace Moment: Why Twitter Is Already Bigger Than Facebook: Forbes
Animals suspected in spread of new virus: ap

Cornucopia

Free ObamaPhone: Facts and Fiction: Cube
One Hell of a Blown Call: Instapundit
One Of The 47%: Denny

Image: MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: Voter ID Laws Discriminate Against 'Transgender Americans'
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QOTD: "• Last summer, with our gargantuan debt approaching its legal limit, the debt ceiling, Congress and the president needed to reach a deal.
• Because this president wouldn’t budge upon his desire to raise taxes, the only compromise that could be reached was this “sequestration” nonsense.
• Sequestration is a terrible patchwork of a compromise, because it cuts defense so deeply it endangers the country, and what’s worse is that it was deliberately designed to be a terrible compromise, because the theory would be that it was so bad, it would force Congress and the president to get serious and come up with a better deal.
• Yet here we are, nearly a year and a half later, and there’s no better deal on the table. Obama’s been too busy golfing, going to fundraisers, and hanging around the couch with the ladies of The View, apparently.
• Sequestration could go away anytime this president got serious about cutting spending. It can also go away anytime a president-elect gets serious about cutting spending, too." --Jim Geraghty

Friday, September 28, 2012

GOOD NEWS: ABC and Univision Join Forces to Attack Immigration Law

It would seem that ABC and Univision have teamed up to -- wait for it -- keep an eye on law enforcement. In this case, the two channels are doing their level best to promote illegal immigration.

How? They've started by monitoring Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Long-term, they've said they intend to create a 24-hour channel. Short-term, they're documenting every move the Sheriff makes. It's for the children, I suppose.

Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio was denied an appeal yesterday that would have let his deputies take Arizona's SB 1070 a step further.

The "show me your papers" law says that police must first engage in a lawful stop -- broken tail light, reckless driving, whatever -- before they can start asking someone about immigration status. Arpaio's office was in court yesterday trying to skip the broken tail light phase and go straight to the "papers, please" part...


[However,] there has never been a finding by a court that Arpaio's office has racially profiled Latinos...

In related news, 50 convicted sex offenders, pedophiles, and other criminal aliens were just arrested by ICE.

The Obama strategy? Support unchecked illegal immigration, let unvetted aliens commit the most heinous of crimes, and only then try to find them.

So maybe it's not for the children.


Hat tip: J.T.