Saturday, November 03, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: The President, the State Department and Benghazi

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Nation

The President, the State Department and Benghazi: Riehl
Benghazi Timeline: More Lies Exposed: Feldman
Most Senior Marine in Congress Sends Letter to Obama: RtPlanet

The Photo Op Presidency: Malkin
An Unpredictable End to a Very Predictable Election: Rasmussen
Barone: Going out on a limb: Romney beats Obama, handily: Exam

25,000 vs. 4,000 in Ohio: GWP
Election Bulletin: North Carolina: GayPatriot
Anti-Mourdock polling games in Indiana?: LI

Economy

NYC Residents Rage as Generators Power up Marathon Tents: JWF
Nonunion utility crews turned away from New Jersey: Scoop
New York’s Incredible Shrinking Mayor: Mead

Crispy Creme: I’ll take help from anyone--unless they’re Non Union?: DTG
4 in union truck charged with receiving stolen property?: Thurber
The Choice: Krauthammer

Scandal Central

US Intelligence knew THREE hours before Benghazi attack that terrorist group was gathering weapons: Scoop
Breaking News On The Postponed Greenwich Village Parade: iOTW
Authorities Allow Male Freakazoid to Sprawl Naked in Girls’ Locker Room: MB

Obama urges voters to take 'revenge' on Election Day, Romney team rips 'terrible' message: Fox
After Taking a Victory Lap Photo Op, Obama Leaves NE a Wasteland: Victory Lap
Obama campaigns in Vegas while New Yorkers eat from dumpsters: Flopping Aces

Climate & Energy

Great News: Obamamobiles Explode When Wet: Hayward
Hey, You Know “Climate Change Is Like Racism”: RWN

Media

Why Jay Cost does not take polls at face value: GayPatriot
Romney supporters shout down CNN’s Jim Acosta over Libya: Red Alert
As Obama motorcade rolls by, Ohio citizens demand truth about Benghazi: Twitchy

Why Was There No October Surprise?: Zombie
Washington Post: 9 million Obama voters now Romney’s?: Moe Lane
Best. Biden Gaffe. Ever.: OTB

ABC and CBS Ignore Their Own Reporters As Benghazi Blackout Reach 7 Days: MRC
Powell: Black First, Then American?: NoisyRm
Axelrod: Obama's energy comes 'from his loins': Hill

World

Real News: LIBYA: THE TRUTH: NoisyRm
U.S. sold $40 billion worth of weapons to Muslim nations in 2011 (to be used against us?): Creeping
'You Have the Blood of an American Hero on your Hands': U-T San Diego

Rumsfeld Says What Everyone Is Thinking: There’s a White House Cover-Up Going On Over Benghazi: Stockton
Obama’s background: who will you vote for Tuesday?: JPA
Why didn't our president defend America and American soil when attacked?: WinSol

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

How to Effectively Listen on the Social Web [Infographic]: SocMedToday
Twitter Is Trying to Be Instagram By Adding Photo Filters: Gizmodo
Restoring wired service after Sandy may take 2 weeks, Verizon says: ComputerWorld

Cornucopia

Not content with 'Salesman of the Year', Obama wins 'Century' award...: SHN
Biden vs. Biden: NTRC
New York marathon canceled, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office says: LAT

Image: Dems Tap Radical Islamists for Cash
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QOTD: "The notion of taking one cop, one first responder, one resource, one asset and diverting it so that they stand at a post to watch runners [in the New York City Marathon] go by when we’re still searching for bodies? It’s sinful to me!" --Staten Island Councilman James Oddo

Friday, November 02, 2012

YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO ARMED FORCES BALLOTS MAILED FROM AFGHANISTAN: Yep. They Were "Lost".

But I'm sure Eric Holder will launch a thorough investigation any second now:

Postal officials are investigating the apparent loss of some absentee ballots mailed from Afghanistan.

A contractor who sent an email to Military Times said his county elections clerk in Texas had not received his ballot or his co-worker’s ballot by Thursday, although they mailed the ballots Sept. 27. “The Bagram Airfield Army post office placed Express mail tracking numbers on them, placed the ballots in an orange ‘Ballot Box,’ and probably in a dedicated mail bag.

“If our ballots got lost, how many other ballots are lost as well?” he wrote.

Military Postal Service Agency officials are working with the U.S. Postal Service to resolve the issue, said James Clark, chief of the operations division of the Military Postal Service Agency. It’s unknown whether other ballots may have been affected.

The contractor stated the tracking information shows their ballots are still in Bahrain, and have been sitting there since Sept. 30.

Once again, the votes of our best and brightest are suppressed, while the Obama administration tacitly encourages illegal immigrants, felons and the dead to vote Democrat.

You know what we need to do on November 6th. And hopefully the margin of victory will be sufficient to represent a complete and total repudiation of the Democrat Party.

Flush twice. It's the only way to be sure.


President Photo-Op Goes AWOL as Lower Manhattan and Staten Island Descend Into Chaos

Through Gothamist, via Ace and Hot Air, we get a picture of a Manhattan below 38th Street that is nearing the onset of a humanitarian disaster. Jonathan Maimon made a 5-hour, 12-mile run through some of the devastated areas and what he saw is... well, unbelievable.

1) Virtually every retailer, restaurant and grocery store south of 38th street is CLOSED. This is in an area covering 8 square miles. I only observed a handful of bodegas in Soho and the East Village, along with Ben’s Pizza on W3rd and MacDougal serving customers. Whole Foods Union Square had a sign reading “because there is no electricity, we cannot open.” There is no food, other than what you have in your refrigerator.

2) To that point, there are close to 400,000 people living below 38th street without power. The mayor earlier said it could be 3 days without power; some Con Ed guys I spoke with in the East Village think it could be longer. Nobody knows.

3) No working traffic lights in this region (drivers are generally being cautious and appropriately yielding to pedestrians). Apartment stairwells are pitch black. High rises have no elevator access...

5) There is no running water or flushing toilets for people living in the Jacob Riis Houses and surrounding NYCHA buildings on the Lower East Side. In my estimate, this is roughly 20,000 people. One family I spoke with is packing their bags and moving to Brooklyn until services are restored. But it did not appear that all residents were evacuating, even as their toilets did not flush.

6) I did not witness a single Red Cross Truck or FEMA Vehicle or in lower Manhattan. Recall the assistance these agencies provided after 9/11 - this is NOT HAPPENING. There are bound to be hundreds of elderly people, rich and poor, who live on the upper floors of buildings with elevators that are now disabled. IF POWER IS NOT RESTORED, THIS WILL MOVE FROM BEING AN ECONOMIC DISASTER TO A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER.

Where's President Photo-Op and his Bomber Jacket, I mean, besides jetting to his usual Vegas fundraisers and speechifying at campaign stops while hawking a Republican "War on Women"?

Where's Mayor Bloomturd, aside from moving giant generators into Central Park to power the NYC Marathon, hosting the Brooklyn Nets NBA game, and banning 16-oz. colas, that is?

The real "War on Women" (and children, and the elderly, and the infirm) is occurring in the Northeast, as President Training Wheels parties on, oblivious to the unfolding catastrophe--just as he was to the disaster in Benghazi.



Motivational Memeogram #2


If we want to repeal Obamacare, we must vote out every single Democrat. Ev. Ree. One.


Motivational Memeogram #1


If we want to repeal Obamacare, we must vote out every single Democrat. Ev. Ree. One.



Larwyn's Linx: Obama in Wisconsin: Al Qaeda has been decimated

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Nation

Obama in Wisconsin: Al Qaeda has been decimated: Malkin
Fred Thompson: Benghazi 'Biggest Cover-Up in U.S. History': AmSpec
White House Failed to Convene Counterterror Group During Attack: FNI

War Slogans: Rants & Other Refinements
Five unanswered questions about Benghazi attack: Times
The Benghazi Drip-Drip-Drip: Tapper

Obama Briefed on Libya Threats Day Before Benghazi Attack?: Nice Deb
WI Sen. Johnson: We'll Deliver 10 Electoral Votes to Mitt Romney: Breitbart
Virginia early-voting tallies suggest large turnout edge for Romney: Twitchy

Economy

September Jobs Numbers Revised Almost In Half: LoneCon
New Obamacare Tax Form: You Must Give Personal Health Info to IRS: ATR
Eco-Taxes? IRS May Link Tax Code to Carbon Emissions: Fox

Study: Immigrants Soaked Up 2/3rds Of The Jobs Gains: Cove
'Students for Obama' becomes 'Students no longer for Obama': Alert
Democrats resort to despicable, hypocritical tactics in state races: Ralston

Scandal Central

Obama Campaign Staffer Arrested For Sexual Assault: RS
Dem Super PAC Donor Owes IRS $11.1 Million: Beacon
‘Let’s Win This Motherfu**er!’: White House Official Delivers Shock Speech at Phone Bank Rally: Blaze

While Obama Parties in Vegas, New Yorkers Dumpster-Dive for Food: Scoop
State Island Abandoned by FEMA, Red Cross: Breitbart
‘We Need Food, We Need Clothing’: Staten Island Residents Plead for Help 3 Days After Sandy: ABC

Administration Ignores Law, Delays Exposing New Regulations Prior to Election: Foundry
Obama's Problem With Fast And Furious Hasn't Gone Away: IBD
AFL-CIO mailer warns Oregon voters: We know your voting history: IHTM

Climate & Energy

Sierra Club Overruled By Utah Supreme Court: IHTM
Fisker Electric Cars Explode In Flames After Being Flooded In New York: SAB
Cheers to the Heroes Driving the American Oil and Gas Boom: ObjStd

Media

Bozell Statement: Liberal Media Are Accessories to Benghazi Cover-up: NB
As Big Three Nets' Evening News Shows Ignore Benghazi, Their Audience Decline Continues: NB
Benghazi should be the story of this election: Q&O

Benghazi blunder: Obama unworthy commander-in-chief: LVRJ
Romney's Secret Voting Bloc: the Evangelicals: Henninger
Latest Liberal Ad: Obama Supporters Shoot, Hack, Bludgeon and Bomb Romney Supporters: GWP

Is Nate Silver’s value at risk?: DC
Virginia early-voting tallies suggest large turnout edge for Romney: Twitchy
Pennsylvania: Republicans Trouncing Dems In Absentee Ballots By 19 Points: WZ

World

Benghazi Stand Down Denials Don't Stand Up To Reason: Forbes
More Radicalism From Another White House Guest: IPT
Member Of President’s Secret Service Detail Found Dead: OTB

Fox News Finds Benghazi Smoking Gun, Raises Serious Questions: Foundry
CBS Sources: Key Counterterrorism Task Force Not Convened During Benghazi Attack: Blaze
Criminal Negligence: Benghazi Gave 1-Month Warning: IBD

New Film Exposes Shocking Muslim Duplicity: IBD
Valerie Plame Is Still Alive: Flopping Aces
US citizens in Israel vote 85% Romney, 14% Obama: Matzav

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Big Data Visualization Startup Partners With StockTwits: TechCrunch
Security firm VUPEN claims to have hacked Windows 8 and IE10: NextWeb
Manhattan Evacuation Plan Reveals Island’s Old Contours: ManhattanPast

Cornucopia

Today’s Gun Toting Bank President Foiling Robber’s Escape Brought To You By Troy, Missouri: AllAm
Honey, we don’t just think you’re stupid. We’re counting on it.: MOTUS
Romney’s Friday Night Ohio Rally Features… Everyone. EVERYONE.: Geraghty

Image: Washington Times and Redman Bluestate (lower)
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QOTD: "One woman said [Democrat Senator Bob] Menendez wooed her with compliments like “beautiful” before they slept together. The other woman recounted, with apparent bitterness, receiving from an intermediary only $100 of the $500 she had been promised.

“He lies,” she said of Menendez. “He says one thing and does another. I should have checked his party affiliation before I slept with him." --Daily Caller (note from our lawyers: I made up the last sentence)

Thursday, November 01, 2012

PHOTO: Leaked photo depicts an especially presidential Obama touring damage from Hurricane Sandy

The invaluable Looking Spoon beats Biff Spackle to the punch with another scoop:


Obama's handlers chose the photo op strategy, according to Mark Levin, because the old strategy wasn't working.

Here's a helpful hint for Messrs. Axelrod and Plouffe: the new strategy ain't gonna work either.


CHART: Yo, Johnson -- How's that "Great Society" workin' out for ya?

Not too well, if both quantitative and qualitative measures are to be trusted.

Majority of Americans Say Government Spends Too Much on Welfare


Welfare spending has been growing for decades and is at a record level, approaching $1 trillion annually. Putting that amount in perspective, if the cost of welfare were converted to cash, it would be five times the amount necessary to pull all poor Americans out of poverty. Yet under President Obama’s plan, welfare spending is on track to keep climbing...


...Such low confidence in government welfare may be due to the fact that despite massive rates of spending, the number of Americans considered “poor” has stayed roughly the same. Instead of eliminating poverty and promoting self-sufficiency, welfare has led to government dependency. Today, roughly one-third of the U.S. population—100 million—receives some type of welfare aid.

The vast majority of government programs don’t require work for able-bodied recipients. Tragically, the Obama Administration has been whittling away at the very few programs that have included a work requirement, gutting work requirements from the 1996 welfare reform law and suspending work requirements in the food stamps program.

This course of dependence is not helpful to the poor, and it’s not helpful to taxpayers. The American people know this, too. The vast majority—84 percent—say that work for able-bodied adults should be a requirement to receive welfare.

...Work requirements led to the successes of the 1996 welfare reform. Within just five years of the law’s implementation, which inserted work requirements into the largest cash assistance welfare program, welfare rolls dropped by half. Child poverty rates plummeted, and employment rates among low-income individuals climbed.

Work requirements should be applied to the rest of the government’s 80 welfare programs. The food stamps program, which has seen massive growth in spending and participation rates during the last decade, would be a good place to start...

But don't worry: facts, logic, reason, history and a track record of unmitigated failure never dissuaded a "progressive".



MONSTER: Night-time satellite view of Sandy making landfall

Spotted at Anthony Watts' invaluable site:



Larwyn's Linx: Ambassador Chris Stevens Called for Help in the Midst of the Bengahzi Attack

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Nation

Ambassador Chris Stevens Called for Help During Bengahzi Attack: GWP
Consulate warned it couldn't withstand 'coordinated attack'!: Fox
Contradictory Evidence Swallows Administration Libya Cover-Up: Foundry

Hannity on Benghazi Slaughter: the Tapes are Damning: GWP
Gingrich: Senator Said Networks Have Libya Emails: Powers
Final CBS/NYT/Q-polls in OH, FL, VA show Obama up …: Hot Air

The Obama Campaign’s Most Honest Surrogate: HayRide
Levin: They didn't have to die, that's the point!: Scoop
Women: Dem Sen. Bob Menendez paid us for sex: DC

So Much for the Obama Early Voting Advantage: ScarMonk
Democrat Mayor: Let's Face It, We're Losing Wisconsin: Ace
New Polls Confirm Romney Momentum in Battleground States: LifeNews

Economy

The economy is why Romney wins: RWN
September Surprise! Jobs Count Revised Down, October Bleak: Riehl
No love connection: Chuck Woolery outraged at AARP: Fox

Scandal Central

Bob Menendez and Hookers?: RSM
Fast and Furious: Where Was the Leadership at the Department of Justice?: Foundry
Critics say AG Holder’s ties to abortion industry create conflict of interest: Watchdog

Climate & Energy

MACT – The End of Coal as an Energy Source: RS
The U.S. Energy Boom in Four Charts: FreeEnt
E-mails Contradict Obama On Involvement With Yet Another Green Energy Failure: JoshuaPundit

Media

Romney Is What The Country Needs Now: Coulter
Obama campaign sign in L.A. modeled after Fascist Mussolini portrait: Zombie
Feinstein Refuses to Debate Republican Opponent: OCR

The Uncool President: Hanson
Liberals So Stressed By Election That They Can’t Exercise Or Sleep: STACLU
Pic: Detroit News front page highlights Romney’s momentum in Michigan: Twitchy

Uh Oh: Jay Leno Brings Up Benghazi: JWF
There You Go Again: New York Times In Futile Attempt to Save Obama in Ohio: Forbes
Why New Jerseyans, Vermonters can’t enter NatGeo photo contest: Overlawyered

Press hurls hardball questions at Mitt on FEMA while lobbing softballs to Obama on Benghazi.: IBD
Pew backs up Gallup on Obama losing early voting totals: Moe Lane
The mysterious media Benghazi bugout: Post

World

Libyan Leaks: Secret Document reveals Al-Qaeda ‘brother’ put in control of U.S. Embassy in Tripoli: JihadWatch
Rumors of General Officers Arrested, Relieved, or Resigning in Protest: BlackFive
The Latest Disasters in Greece: Mead

Former A.G. Mukasey: Obama Knows What Happened In Benghazi: Ace
OMG! Is this what happened in Benghazi?: Matzav
Al-Qaeda Linked Radical Was Hired By Obama Administration to Run Security at Tripoli Embassy: GWP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

The Case of the Unexplained FTP Connections: Russinovich
Cell networks struggle under Sandy: Fierce Government IT
Unboxing Photos from Early iPad Mini Delivery Surface in France: MacRumors

Cornucopia

No One Left Behind...In A Swing State: MOTUS
Where's Howie?: Jawa
Fabulous New Ad From Independent Women’s Voice on Breaking Up with Obama: Bruce

Image: Paul Ryan goes trick-or-treating with his niece Zaydee May in Janesville, WI
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QOTD: "There is a rumor — I want to be clear, it’s a rumor — that at least two networks have emails from the National Security Adviser’s office telling a counterterrorism group to stand down. But they were a group in real-time trying to mobilize marines and C-130s and the fighter aircraft, and they were told explicitly by the White House stand down and do nothing. This is not a terrorist action. If that is true, and I’ve been told this by a fairly reliable U.S. senator, if that is true and comes out, I think it raises enormous questions about the president’s role, and Tom Donilon, the National Security Adviser’s role, the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who has taken it on his own shoulders, that he said don’t go. And that is, I think, very dubious, given that the president said he had instructions they are supposed to do everything they could to secure American personnel." --Newt Gingrich

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

BOOM: Hey, How's That "Ignoring Benghazi" Strategy Working Out for Antique Media?

Let's compare Mondays -- one before Benghazi, one after -- and remove as much noise as we can from the equation (debates, Hurricane Sandy, etc.).

Fox News must be praying that the Leftist kooks running the other cable news operations continue their embargo on the biggest political scandal since Watergate.


AN OLDIE, BUT A GOODIE: If it's Halloween, it must be...

A classic, made all the more relevant by Steven Crowder's hidden camera video.



Hat tip: Tommy.

GOOD NEWS: Court Sides With Justice Department, Allows Warrantless Video Surveillance on Private Property

To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds, they told me if I voted for John McCain that we'd see widespread surveillance of U.S. citizens... and they were right!

Police are allowed in some circumstances to install hidden surveillance cameras on private property without obtaining a search warrant, a federal judge said yesterday.

CNET has learned that U.S. District Judge William Griesbach ruled that it was reasonable for Drug Enforcement Administration agents to enter rural property without permission -- and without a warrant -- to install multiple "covert digital surveillance cameras" in hopes of uncovering evidence that 30 to 40 marijuana plants were being grown.

This is the latest case to highlight how advances in technology are causing the legal system to rethink how Americans' privacy rights are protected by law. In January, the Supreme Court rejected warrantless GPS tracking after previously rejecting warrantless thermal imaging, but it has not yet ruled on warrantless cell phone tracking or warrantless use of surveillance cameras placed on private property without permission.

Yesterday Griesbach adopted a recommendation by U.S. Magistrate Judge William Callahan dated October 9. That recommendation said that the DEA's warrantless surveillance did not violate the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and requires that warrants describe the place that's being searched.

As Mark Levin observes, every day we endure under this administration sees the circle of liberty tightening around us, the citizens that gave birth to this great country.

You know what to do on Tuesday. You know to call your friends, neighbors and family members and to rally them, to drive them to the polls, to do whatever it takes to fire this administration and begin our journey back to Constitutional government.


FAST AND FURIOUS IN BENGHAZI: Timing of Attack Hints at Double-Cross of White House Gun-Running Operation by Turkey

Clare Lopez is an international security consultant at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies. She is uniquely qualified to analyze the intelligence and defense communities not only through her current professional connections, but also because of her 20-year background with the CIA. She served for 20 years as an operations officer specializing in counterintelligence, counternarcotics, and counterproliferation programs.

Today, writing at RI.org, Lopez spots a very troubling anomaly with the timeline of the Benghazi attack. And, as if there aren't enough unanswered questions about the attacks and the subsequent White House cover-up, her discovery has the potential to implicate Turkish officials in the murders.

...Ambassador Christopher Stevens held his last meeting of the day on September 11 with [a]] Turkish diplomat [Ali Sait Akin] from 7:30pm to 8:30pm and then escorted him out to the compound gate to bid farewell. At that point, the briefing states, “Everything is calm at 8:30 p.m. There’s nothing unusual.”

But the AP witnesses said that, “The neighbors all described the militants setting up checkpoints around the compound at about 8 p.m.” The checkpoints were described as being manned by bearded jihadis in pickup trucks mounted with heavy machine guns and bearing the logo of the Al-Qaeda terror franchise, Ansar al-Shariah.

That means that the Turkish Consul General would have had to pass out through the blockade as he departed the American compound and left the area. There is no record that he phoned a warning to his American colleague, the one he’d just had dinner with, Ambassador Stevens. Given the description of the blockade around the American compound and of the jihadis and their trucks that were manning it, it seems unlikely that the he somehow just failed to notice. “[N]o one could get out or in,” according to one neighbor interviewed by the AP.

Except for the Turkish Consul General, it would appear.

Stevens was a sitting duck, a target surrounded by the jihadist attackers who shortly would take his life and that of his Public Affairs Officer, Sean Smith.

...Similarly, this raises the question of the Libyan gate guards from the "February 17 Martyrs Brigade," the jihadi militia subcontracted by the British firm Blue Mountain, which was the prime contractor for the U.S. Benghazi compound security contract... [T]he Libyans of the Martyrs Brigade surely must have been [aware of the checkpoints]. Yet they provided no warning to the Ambassador and his people either, because again, according to the State Department briefing, the American security officers inside were taken by surprise when the first gunshots and explosions rang out around 9:40 pm...

In other words, the Turkish Consul General met with Stevens -- the discussion topics of which have not been released by the State Department -- and then left the Ambassador, drove safely through a newly-established terrorist checkpoint, and disappeared into the night without warning his colleague.

Lopez asserts that "it is obvious that the Turkish diplomat and by extension, his government, were at least to some degree complicit in the attack against Ambassador Stevens and the others."

What was the subject of the discussion between Stevens and Akin? Malta Today offers some context that hints at some strong possibilities.

A Libyan-flagged vessel which last year was used by a Malta-based humanitarian organisation in supplying a lifeline to rebels in Misurata, has been implicated in a covert US arms smuggling operation to Syrian freedom fighters, which may also be linked to murdered US ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi last month.

The ship 'Al Entisar' which was chartered last year by I-Go Aid Libya, then run by businessman Mario Debono, has been reported to be linked to last September's attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.


A Fox News investigation revealed that shipping records confirmed that the Al Entisar entered the Turkish port of Iskenderun, some 35 miles from the Syrian border, just five days before Ambassador Chris Stevens, and three other US officials were killed during an assault by more than 100 Islamist militants on the US Consulate compound in Benghazi.

Another report, this time appearing on the Times of London, said that the Al Entisar was carrying 400 tons of cargo. Some of it was humanitarian, but also reportedly weapons, described by the report as the largest consignment of weapons headed for Syria's rebels on the frontlines...

...The cargo reportedly included surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles, RPGs and Russian-designed shoulder-launched missiles known as MANPADS.

The ship's Libyan captain reportedly told the Times of London that "I can only talk about the medicine and humanitarian aid" for the Syrian rebels.

It was reported there was a fight about the weapons and who got what "between the free Syrian Army and the Muslim Brotherhood."

A reasonable person would deduce from these stories that the United States was running weapons (does "Fast and Furious" ring a bell?) from Libya to Syria using Turkey as a go-between. The end result turned out to be a complete disaster -- like everything this administration attempts.

The Libyan weapons likely went to the Muslim Brotherhood and a Turkish diplomat appears to have helped set up the assassination of Ambassador Stevens. We simply don't know whether the government of Turkey itself was involved with the double-cross or whether Akin was a Brotherhood sympathizer who helped set up the attack.

The families of those murdered deserve answers. America deserves answers. And we can start the interrogatory by firing this administration on November 6th and launching a full-scale Congressional investigation. We don't have to take this s*** any more.


Update: Clinton discloses West's effort to help reshape Syria opposition

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EXCLUSIVE: Artist's Depiction of White House Situation Room as Benghazi Attack Unfolded

Redman Bluestate offers this courtroom sketch:


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Larwyn's Linx: Did Obama Withhold Cross-Border Authority?

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Nation

Did Obama Withhold Cross-Border Authority?: Bracken
Tyrone and Lena: Lord
How Can This Not Be at the Top of the News Everywhere?: NRO

A Better Choice: The Case for Mitt Romney: RedAlert
Obama "Playing President" During Sandy, But Not For Benghazi: RCP
Could Illinois be in play?: GayPatriot

Benghazi attack launched "under cover of pretext": WinSol
Team Obama Buys a Week of Ads in... Michigan: Ace
NumberMuncher: Ohio's Looking Better Than The Polls Claim: Ace

Does “Polling Bubble” Explain Why Race Appears Close?: Hawkins
Gallup Does Some Myth-Busting: Q&O
Rush: Gallup’s latest sent shock waves through Democrat Party: Scoop

Economy

Obama's Layoff Bomb: Malkin
Black and White Standards: Williams
What does a Barack Obama Business District look like?: LI

Will Obama’s bankruptcy bulls*** work in Ohio?: Thiessen
Obama's Department of Business: a Bureau of Crony Capitalism: Foundry
Those Who Like The Health Law And Those Who Understand The Health Law: Kaiser

Scandal Central

Hannity on Benghazi Audio Tapes: “I’ve Heard They Are Damning”: GWP
Michelle Obama’s Radical Past Involvement in Third World Center at Princeton: Blaze
Time to Out the Sinister Valerie Jarrett: CFP

Climate & Energy

Hurricane Sandy to Cost $40 Billion (Or, About Half as Much as Obama's Green Energy Scams): GWP
From Ohio: Ground Game Report: RSM
Bill Clinton: Obama Couldn’t Make Ocean Recede During Sandy: JWF

Media

Facebook Censors Navy SEALS to Protect Obama on Benghazi-Gate: Breitbart
Union Prez: Emergency Oversight "Just Like Being in the Slave Days": MICapCon
Wasserman Schultz Involved in Police Altercation Outside Voting Precinct: Shark Tank

MEDIA TO JIHADIS: 'Kill as many Americans as you please. We won't embarrass Obama by covering it!': Malkin
13 Year-Old Jenny Schools 26 Year-Old Lena: GWP
Newspapers Increasingly Dump Obama For Romney: IBD

Liberal Pundits Declare Libya Fiasco 'Utterly Contrived,' an 'October Mirage': MRC
BuzzFeed ‘Reporter’ Overheard at Romney Event: There’s a ’40% chance that he says something stupid’: JWF
Pentagon Denies Fox Benghazi Report; Atlantic Calls Me Names: AtlWire

MSNBC Ridicules Romney for Collecting Food and Supplies for Sandy Victims: NB
Liberals jumping ship on Obama?: Greenroom
The Campaign Hurricane e-mails: Obama seeks $$, Romney sends prayers: RS

World

Iowa Secretary of State: International Election Observers Not Permitted at Polls: Caffeinated Thoughts
Why I’m switching to Romney this election: JPost
Romney Trounces Obama Among Israeli Jews: Shark Tank

Sci-Tech

Bartender 'threatened with arrest by Google heavies' after employee left top-secret phone at bar: Daily Mail
Facebook used to kidnap, traffic Indonesian girls: ABC Houston
Google's Nexus 10 Hits Apple Where It Lives: Linux Insider

Cornucopia

Proof: Obama provides America his written Benghazi orders: Cube
Steven Crowder Tries to ‘Redistribute’ Children’s Candy in Hilarious ‘Obama-Style’ Halloween Prank: Blaze
Keeping tabs of conservative writers who will claim “The Hurricane Has Saved Obama!”: HillBuzz

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QOTD: "The Benghazi coverup is much worse than you think. Clearly there were air assets on the scene above the CIA annex and they were denied permission to fire.

Tyrone Woods was painting a target with a ground laser designator (GLD). Those are only used when the air asset is overhead, ready to fire. The jihadis can use cell phones with night-vision capabilities to see the laser beam, which then pinpoints the location of the person using the GLD. As a former Navy SEAL, Woods would’ve known that. He would only have exposed himself if he thought that the mortar squad was about to be taken out. The air asset didn’t fire, and Woods and Glen Doherty were killed by the mortar squad.

There was either a Spectre gunship or an armed Predator or Reaper drone overhead, and it was denied permission to fire. That’s the only explanation that fits. Woods would not have used his GLD for any other reason than to paint a target for an immediate air strike.

Only the commander of AFRICOM and the president have the authority to tell the air asset to not fire in this situation." --A Power Line reader

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Global Warming Responsible for Worst-Ever Storm to Hit New York

I refer, of course, to the New England Hurricane of 1938.

The New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane, Yankee Clipper, Long Island Express, or simply the Great Hurricane) was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The storm formed near the coast of Africa in September of the 1938 Atlantic hurricane season, becoming a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale before making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on Long Island on September 21...


...The hurricane was estimated to have killed between 682 and 800 people, damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at US$306 million ($4.7 Billion in 2012). Even as late as 1951, damaged trees and buildings were still seen in the affected areas. It remains the most powerful, costliest and deadliest hurricane in recent New England history, eclipsed in landfall intensity perhaps only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.

Whether or not "global warming" was to blame for the 1938 (or the 1635) storm I leave as an exercise for the reader.


Related: Scientists reject Sandy-Climate Change Link.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Careers Will Be Destroyed by Benghazi

Stanford Fellow Victor Davis Hanson offers a historian's perspective on the catastrophe in Benghazi.

...When the government systematically misleads and cannot establish a believable narrative, almost everyone involved is eventually tarred. The final chart of those officials in the Nixon White House who were devoured by Watergate was vast — and so it is becoming with the disaster in Libya. If we have learned anything from Watergate and Iran-Contra, it is that the longer officials deceive and obfuscate, the greater the number of wrecked careers and reputations...

...Most likely, the political wing of the White House almost immediately made a decision that the attack on our Benghazi consulate should not endanger the conventional narrative of a successful commander-in-chief — ahead in the polls in part because he had highlighted a supposedly successful foreign policy. Key to that story was the notion that the hit on bin Laden and the drone attacks on other Islamists had rendered al-Qaeda all but impotent...

...In such a landscape, Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans were brutally murdered. And almost immediately it was clear that the ambassador had earlier warned that Libya was descending into chaos and that Americans were not safe there — only to have his requests for further protection rejected.

During the actual assault on the consulate, a real-time video, streams of e-mail exchanges, and surveys of Islamist websites confirmed that al-Qaedists were carrying out a preplanned assassination — and over the next seven or eight hours it became clear that our staff was in dire need of military assistance that was somehow never sent. Then for nearly two weeks, the president, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Press Secretary Jay Carney, and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice advanced a counter-narrative that simply could not have been true: A spontaneous demonstration over a two-month-old video — just happening to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11 — got out of hand as some disruptive protesters showed up with machines gun, mortars, and RPGs and began killing Americans. Since it was an American religious bigot who had prompted such terrible but “natural” riots with his video that ridiculed and injured Islam, we should apologize for the uncouth among us in the strongest terms.

Obama, Clinton, Clapper, Rice, and Carney strove to outdo each other in damning the obscure video maker — to such an extent that he was summarily arrested on a supposedly outstanding probation charge. The message? Ambassadors die and careful U.S. foreign policy is undermined when right-wing bigots abuse their free-speech rights...

Hanson's next column should deal with the historic malfeasance of old media, a wholly owned subsidiary of the federal government.


Hat tip: Ame.

MORE OF THE LEFT'S VAUNTED "TOLERANCE": Progressive Scumbags Portray Ritual Murder of Mitt Romney

Dateline Boulder, Colorado:

The Boulder Theater was packed with stilts, skeletons and acrobats on Friday — and that was just on stage — for the first night of ***’s weekend run...


MarchFourth Marching Band kicked off the show with a stunning visual performance. ***’s Day of the Dead/Mayan Apocalypse theme came to life with a “sacrificial ritual” of a band member in a Mitt Romney mask.

A "Day of the Dead" theme "came to life" through the portrayal of a ritual murder?

I redacted the name of the band. They don't deserve to be mentioned.

Because these punks don't have the cojones to depict the ritual murder of a Democrat.


Hat tip: Ari.