Saturday, July 20, 2013

Detroit and those evil Republican S.O.B.s

Second City Cop is an excellent police blog centered around the creaking, failed Democrat political machine in Chicago and its ramifications for police work. The Chicago scene is its primary -- but not exclusive -- focus. SCC also features previews of Chicago's coming attractions, like Detroit's economic collapse:
We were just reminiscing about the past. A little over a year ago, Mitt Romney said to let Detroit go bankrupt, that a complete financial overhaul of the city, its corrupt practices and restructuring of debt was probably the best route for the beleaguered city. He was speaking as a businessman would with a company that was bleeding money. Remember all the democrats and media making fun of him for actually considering a city the size of Detroit could (or should) fail?  Silly Mormon businessman.

In a completely unrelated story, we just heard that following an eleventh hour appeal to the Obama administration, Detroit filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, placing the city residents, its employees, its retirees and its creditors in financial limbo:
  • Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history on Thursday, setting the stage for a costly court battle with creditors and opening a new chapter in the long struggle to revive the city that was the cradle of the American auto industry.

    The bankruptcy, if approved by a federal judge, would force Detroit's thousands of creditors into negotiations with the city's Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to resolve an estimated $18.5 billion in debt that has crippled Michigan's largest city.

    Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said he saw no other options for Detroit and approved Orr's request to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.

    "Detroit simply cannot raise enough revenue to meet its current obligations, and that is a situation that is only projected to get worse absent a bankruptcy filing," wrote Snyder, a Republican, in a letter accompanying the filing.

    Detroit's creditors are expected to face huge losses, and the future of retiree pension and health benefits for thousands of city workers hangs in the balance.
  • Buried in the middle of the report is a telling climax to this sorry tragedy:
    Any hope of a federal bailout to avert bankruptcy fizzled last week after Mr. Orr spoke with the White House, including Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett, according to city and White House officials.
    This is where blue governance has brought Detroit in the end: not even a liberal Democratic administration will step in to save the pensions of thousands of public workers and African Americans, condemning countless innocents to having their pensions and health benefits gutted in bankruptcy court.

    Blue model defenders will point to the cruel exodus of General Motors, the unjust outsourcing of American manufacturing, and the general unfairness of life in the big city as the culprits in the slaying of Detroit. But these champions of the marginalized should keep a few facts in mind.

    Detroit has been spending on average $100 million more than it has taken in for each of the past five years. The city’s $11 billion in unsecured debt includes $6 billion in health and other retirement benefits and $3 billion in retiree pensions for its 20,000 city pensioners, who are slated to receive less than 10 percent of what they were promised. Between 2007 and 2011, an astounding 36 percent of residents lived below the poverty line. Last year, the FBI cited Detroit as having the highest violent crime rate for any major American city. In the first 12 years of the new century, Detroit lost more than 26 percent of its population.

    And now Detroit’s desperate request for a bailout has been turned down by the Obama White House.

    Progressive politicians, wonks, and activists can only blame big corporations and other liberal bogeymen for so long. The truth is that corrupt machine politics in a one-party system devoted to the blue social model wrecked an entire city and thousands of lives beyond repair. The sooner blues come to terms with this reality, the greater chance other cities will have of avoiding Detroit’s fate.
But hey, those Republicans are evil sons-of-bitches, aren't they?


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

Another Obama straw-man lit afire: Blacks and Hispanics Benefit More Than Whites From "Stand Your Ground" Laws

It appears President Obama and his apparatchiks have figured out how to use the tragic Trayvon Martin case for more than just race-baiting. The authoritarians are also using it as a back-door attack on the Second Amendment, specifically targeting the more than 30 states that have "Stand Your Ground" laws on the books. And Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is having none of it.

President Barack Obama’s suggestion that state “Stand your Ground” laws should be examined after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin could amount to an assault on the right of Americans to own guns, Sen. Ted Cruz said in Iowa Friday.

Speaking after addressing a Republican group, Cruz told reporters he hadn’t yet watched Obama’s remarks. But when asked to respond to Obama’s call for a review of laws in individual states, Cruz responded by saying the president was trampling on constitutionally guaranteed rights.

“It is not surprising that the president uses, it seems, every opportunity that he can to go after our Second Amendment right to bear arms,” the Texas Republican said. “This president and this administration has a consistent disregard for the Bill of Rights.”

Now, never mind that George Zimmerman's legal team didn't even use a "Stand Your Ground" defense argument. Never mind that peculiar aspect of the Statists' incessant whining.

Instead, consider the fact that Blacks and Hispanics benefit more than Whites from the Florida 'Stand Your Ground':

...for decided cases, 69 percent of blacks who have claimed the Stand Your Ground law as a justification were not convicted (24 out of 35)...

...For whites, the percentage is actually lower. 62 percent of whites who claimed Stand Your Ground as justifying their actions were not convicted (40 out of 65)...

...For Hispanics, 78 percent successfully rely on the Stand Your Ground law (7 out 9 cases).

By my count, that makes 1,806 straw-man arguments by this president that have been proven utterly fraudulent. As for why POTUS chose yesterday to deliver his second set of remarks on the Zimmerman case? Here's why.


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

Larwyn's Linx: The Politics of Race: "Perpetual Victimhood"

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Nation

The Politics of Race: "Perpetual Victimhood" : Christine Williams
Obama’s identification with Trayvon Martin: LI
'Bash mobs' sweep through Southern California: Ari Bloomekatz, LAT

Cruz: Obama’s Shameful Trayvon Speech An Attack On 2nd: STACLU
Trayvon Martin protesters attack horse, throw rocks & bottles: FAM
'Justice for Trayvon' Rallies Set for 100 Cities: ABC

Six-Year-Old Girl Shot in Chicago, Racial Healer Unavailable for Comment: JWF
Hobby Lobby wins stay against Obamacare: Brianna Bailey, NewsOK
IL State Rep: The Chicago Police Are The Ones Killing Black Youth: Jawa

Borelli, Bryant Attend NAACP Convention: Stacy Washington
A well-regulated militia in action : Bob Owens
Iowa, meet Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz, Iowa. : WaPo

Economy

Avalanche of City Debt Downgrades and Eventual Bankruptcies Coming Up: Mish
Obamacare Simplified: Heritage
The Rich History Of The American Left: Cube

The Motor City: Broken and Out of Warranty: Dewey
MI Judge: Needs of the Unions Outweigh the Needs of the People: Lid
Chicago Public Schools lay off 2,113 employees as union-made disaster worsens: EAG

Scandal Central

La Raza Set to ‘Cash In’ If House Passes Immigration Bill : Tammy Bruce
Judge Rules That Detroit's Bankruptcy Is Unconstitutional, Ruling That It "Dishonors" Obama: Ace
Barry Soetoro Has Registered to Vote at White House Address: J. Christian Adams

MUST WATCH – Bill Whittle: The wretched lynching of George Zimmerman: Scoop
Senate Dems Want to Decide What You Should Be When You Grow Up: Donlyn Turnbull
War On Women: Pelosi Refuses To Demand Filner Resign Over Sexual Harassment Claims: WZ

Media

Pelosi Barks Orders at Media: Breitbart
Use Finally Found for Rolling Stone Magazine : MB
NLRB Isn’t Part of Obama’s ‘Team’: WSJ

Nat’l Media Ignores Zimmerman’s Personal Ties to African American Community: Publius
More of that “national conversation” cowards don’t want to have: Cold Fury
Sharpton praises Obama remarks ahead of Trayvon protests: Times

World

Will the Senate Rubber-Stamp Power’s Contempt?: McCarthy
Iran’s Mullahs Demand Justice for Trayvon: Adam Kredo
FBI Counterterror Ads Censored in Seattle: Cliff Kincaid

Sci-Tech

Huawei's Chinese connection continues to be source of suspicion: Net-Sec
The mysterious failure of Microsoft's Surface RT: Daniel Eran Dilger, Apple Insider
A Beautifully Creepy Drone View of Beautifully Vain Los Angeles: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

Lady M Takes Her Wighat Chickens Home To Roost!: MOTUS
Eric Holder Has a Dream: IOTW
Atlanta Cannonball Possibly Fired by Union Forces: Jeff Martin

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QOTD: "I love how the standard liberal reaction to Detroit going bankrupt is to blame all the missing people. Why do you think they left, geniuses?" --@ConnCarroll

Friday, July 19, 2013

The BMW 3-Series Coupe is Dead. Long Live the BMW 4-Series Coupe.

The Beemer may be more car than I need or can handle, but I definitely respect its street cred.

In BMWspeak, usually the higher the number on the trunk lid the greater the bragging rights and the higher the amount customers are willing to pay. This is one view of the new BMW 4-series coupe -- successor to the much-loved 3-series coupe. After a 38-year, five-generation run, the 3-series coupe is stepping down...

At launch, set for October in North America, the rear-wheel drive 4-series will come with the choice of two turbocharged direct-injection gasoline engines: a 2.0-liter four producing 240 hp in the 428i coupe and 3.0-liter six with 300 hp in the 435i coupe. Both come with optional four-wheel drive as part of BMW's xDrive in the US...


...Drive continues to be sent to the rear wheels through a standard six-speed manual gearbox with the latest in stop-start and brake energy recuperation, but all 435is at the launch in Portugal had the optional eight-speed automatic with paddle shifters -- a combination likely to prove popular in the States.

So configured the car will hit 62 mph in 5.1 seconds, a half-second quicker than the old car, and just 0.3 seconds shy of the outgoing M3 coupe. Top speed is limited to 155 mph. The eight speed is slick, with new software mapping for a clear improvement in the shifting's speed and quality.

Some of the other key stats: 3.0-liter, 300-hp, 300 lb-ft. Oh, and a starting price of $46,925.


Hat tip: BadBlue Car News.

President Trayvon Soothes Racial Tensions With Historic, Healing, Lincoln-esque Speech

Earlier today, weighing in on the Zimmerman verdict for the first time, President Barack Obama said that "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago." That is, if Trayvon had led a childhood of luxury in Hawaii and then somehow attended Columbia and Harvard using financial means yet undiscovered by modern media.

Bryan Preston:

Barack Obama had a moment when he could have stood above all the factions in the black community, indeed all the factions arguing over the verdict in that trial. He could have spoken to and for more than just one American community. He chose instead to insert himself and race into the story from the world’s largest bully pulpit, while refusing to use that bully pulpit to stand up forcefully for the rule of law.


Mark Levin:

Ronald Reagan always talked up America, never apologizing for it, but reminding everyone all over the world what a great country we have. But Obama never does that, he says, even though he’s traveled all over the country and has seen what a great people we have. Levin points out that Obama doesn’t sound like a man who is honored to lead America as her president. Instead he has a chip on his shoulder and is intent to balkanize America with speeches like he made today on race.

Instead of acting like a president, he acts like Al Sharpton – all the while more and more black teens can’t get a job and more black adults are rolling on to welfare. Yet no one ever talks about it. Ever.


Ace of Spades:

On Twitter, I challenged Buzz Feed's Ben Smith, who had claimed Obama always spoke "incredibly" about race, to apprise me as to what specific insights and memorable sentences he recalls from any Obama utterance, whether on race or any other subject; as of this 6 o'clock deadline, he has yet to respond to me. Almost as if it's unfair to ask for evidence of the Lightbringer's alleged eloquence and perspicacity.


Dave Blount:

By whipping up mobs that are already out of control, while simultaneously denouncing stand-your-ground laws that had nothing to do with the Trayvon Martin shooting, Obama appears to be setting up a row of dominos that will inevitably fall when one of the sociopathic punks he so openly identifies with attacks someone with a gun who defends himself. The aftermath will be Newtown + St. Skittles, hyped to the last extreme of absurdity by the cultural Marxists who run the media, with the short-term goal of attacking our fundamental right of self-defense and the long-term goal of creating a social divide so deep that liberals will be able to keep exploiting it indefinitely.

A leader attempts to unite his people. A ruler divides and conquers.


Dymphna asks, "Why Is Obama Trying to Start a Race War?":

Perhaps because there is a disappointing lack of widespread “burn-baby-burn-and-bust-me-some-cracker-heads” outbreaks across the country, our President chose to make a surprise speech today. That is, the occasion was a surprise, but the speech was the usual narcissistic insertion of himself into the story in order to generate a crisis. The man loves crises but mostly all he’s managed to create are scandals. And they go on and on. So he needs the race riots he keeps begging for ... Pray that we survive the power of the vile hatred in evidence at the White House. For those of you who don’t pray, please keep your fingers crossed for our country.

This may well be a turning point. If this evil plan works, there won’t be a way back. Obama burns bridges; he has no skill at building them and doesn’t want to learn.



Hat tip: BadBlue News.

JOIN THE JUSTICE FOR CHRISTOPHER RALLY: Meet July 23rd 2013 on the Capitol Steps!

Guest post by Bob McCarty

EDITOR’S NOTE: I received the message below from my friend Capt. Larry W. Bailey, former commander of the U.S. Navy SEALs Training Program, co-founder of Special Operations Speaks and one of the folks who’ve endorsed my latest book, THE CLAPPER MEMO. Please READ and SHARE ASAP!

Dear Benghazi Patriot,

This is short notice for such a major event, but it has to be done.

You see, Special Operations Speaks has just been asked by Congressman Steve Stockman to mount an event to put pressure on the House of Representatives (and especially Speaker Boehner!) to form a select committee to investigate the tragedy that was Benghazi.

As a first step toward causing Congress to get serious about assigning responsibility for what happened at Benghazi, we are organizing a rally at Cong. Stockman’s request that will be held on the steps of the U.S. Capitol at noon, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. That rally will hear words from a number of patriots, including Cong. Stockman and Cong. Louie Gohmert, both of whom have been very supportive of our efforts to answer Hillary Clinton’s heartless answer to a Senator’s question about the men who died at Benghazi: “What difference does it make?”

Be with us next week as we demonstrate to Hillary and others like her “what difference it makes.” Bring yourself, a carload, or a busload, but be there.

Thousands of you showed up to protect the Vietnam Wall in 2007; please help us demonstrate that we will not tolerate the murder-by-neglect of four of America’s finest on September 12, 2012. Please help us send a message to our nation’s leaders that we demand full accountability for this national crime.

Thanks in advance for doing what you can to help make this rally a success!

Related: Special Ops Veterans Demand Answers About Benghazi


The Fish Rots from the Head at Pennsylvania Avenue

Guest post by Investors Business Daily


Scandal: A retiring IRS lawyer implicates the IRS chief counsel's office, headed by an Obama appointee, as well as the head of the IRS' exempt organizations office. The targeting included a Tea Party Senate candidate.

In Thursday's hearing before the House Oversight Committee, 72-year-old retiring IRS lawyer Carter Hull implicated the IRS chief counsel's office headed by William J. Wilkins, who attended at least nine White House meetings, and Lois Lerner, head of the exempt-organizations office, in the IRS scandal.

In so doing, he made clear the targeting of Tea Party groups started in Washington and was directed from Washington.
A tax-law specialist with 48 years of IRS experience, Hull testified that Lerner, the former head of the exempt organizations division, demanded that he send some of the reviews of Tea Party groups to the IRS chief counsel's office in Washington. The chief counsel is one of two political appointees in the IRS.

According to Hull's testimony, Lerner, who famously pleaded her Fifth Amendment rights before the same committee, gave an atypical instruction that the Tea Party applications undergo special scrutiny that included an uncommon multilayer review that involved a top adviser to Lerner as well as the chief counsel's office.

Hull's name came up earlier in the testimony of Holly Paz, a D.C.-based supervisor in the IRS's tax-exempt status division, who reported to Lerner. It was on May 22, the day after Paz was interviewed by investigators, that Lerner refused to answer questions from lawmakers at a congressional hearing.

Today's Lesson in Political Philosophy, Helpfully Illustrated for the Low-Information Voter

Detroit filed for bankruptcy yesterday, representing the largest municipal insolvency in American history.


Socialism improves its perfect record to zero-for-840. Or, as Dave Blount puts it, Detroit just ran out of other people's money.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Violent Illegal Alien Criminals Secretly Released by ICE as Obama "Dreamers"

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Nation

Violent Foreign Criminals Released by ICE as Obama Dreamers: MB
Steve King Nails Grover on Immigration: Trevor Loudon
Rand Paul: I’ll do anything I can to help Mike Enzi defeat Liz Cheney: Hot Air

A White House point man at the IRS is revealed: Exam
Best Videos From IRS Hearing: Issa, Chaffetz, Gowdy: Nice Deb
Jason Chaffetz SLAMS Elijah Cummings at IRS hearing : TRS

How The Zimmerman Case Doesn’t Add Up: Robert Cleveland
DOJ: Hey, Email Us Tips Saying George Zimmerman Is a Racist: Wm. Teach
New Black Panthers Conspired to Violate 18 USC 245, Holder Snoozes: Adams

Economy

Obama’s Nominee for Secretary of Illegal Alien Labor: Michelle Malkin
Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?: SDA
Bernanke: “If We Were To Tighten Policy, Economy Would Tank”: SHTFplan

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Detroit Files Bankruptcy: HayRide
It Really Is an Approaching Train Wreck: Elephant
Purdue University – The latest victim of Obamacare: Leslie Eastman

Scandal Central

IRS Scandal (Malik Obama) reaching the White House: Walid Shoebat
Congressman: Obama Admin Forced Benghazi Survivors To Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements: WS
Despite Pentagon claims, Marine colonel sought in Benghazi investigation not yet retired: Marine Corps Times

Climate & Energy

Grist: Everyone Should Stay Single Because It’s “Sustainable”: Pirate's Cove
Radical nut confirmed as head of EPA: Times
EPA renames headquarters after impeached, disbarred pervert and philanderer: Valerie Volcovici, Reuters

Media

Ex-Gang Member To Sharpton And Jackson: I See Right Through You: HayRide
White people rioting!!: Minority Report
Mark Levin: At Least Jesse Jackson Didn't Call Florida 'Hymietown': Breitbart

Mark Levin: Greg Gutfeld is DEAD WRONG: Scoop
ACLU: Police Can Read, Track, And Store Your License Plate Number Wherever You Go: OTB
TRAIN WRECK: Rep. Bobby Rush tries to defend Trayvon Martin on Hannity: Scoop

World

Egyptian General: Hamas Smuggled Rockets to Muslim Brotherhood: John Rossomando
Obama Honors Trayvon Martin, Ignores Fort Hood Killed: IBD
Remnants of King David's palace unearthed southwest of Jerusalem : Hayom

Sci-Tech

Botcoin: Bitcoin Mining by Botnet: Krebs
Scientists Silence Extra Chromosome In Down Syndrome Cells: Slashdot
The First Smartwatch You Might Actually Want Is Designed For Kids: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

Possibly The Best Soldier-Dog Reunion Video Ever: Tammy Bruce
George Zimmerman Neighborhood Security T-shirt: Sooper
Slavery in America: Michelle Malkin

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QOTD: "After my last visit to the shooting range, I am confident that if I am ever attacked by a blue man who stands motionless 25 yards away, I can defend myself." --Anonymous Commenter

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Larry Grathwohl: R.I.P., American Hero

Guest post by James Simpson

America is a smaller place today. Larry Grathwohl, one of America’s truly unsung heroes, has died. He will be missed. Readers may recognize Larry’s name as the only informant to successfully penetrate Bill Ayers’ communist Weather Underground Organization (WUO). He wrote a book about his experiences, Bringing America Down: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen, re-released this spring.

During the run up to the 2008 election, an interview with Larry surfaced in which he described a meeting he attended where Ayers and company discussed how they would have to murder an estimated 25 million people following the revolution they were then attempting to foment. You can still see that interview, here.

Despite making the rounds of Fox talk shows and earning extensive write-ups in the blogosphere, Larry’s story was suppressed in the extremist left, Obama-promoting mass media. But why not, according to Obama, he was just a “guy who lives in my neighborhood.”

Sure. Nothing to see here, move along now…

Chicago and Detroit: Examplars of Unbridled Democrat Rule

Democrats: if they weren't in power, they'd be useful only as comic relief.

Exhibit A - Chicago: Chicago’s 2012 pension shortfall jumps nearly 90%, to $36 billion

Pension costs are already unraveling the state’s finances. Now it’s the city of Chicago’s turn... The city’s out-of-control pension liabilities and “accelerating budget pressures associated with those liabilities” has resulted in another credit downgrade by Moody’s Investors Service... The national credit rating agency downgraded the city’s nearly $8 billion in general obligation bonds to A3 from Aa3. This is a triple-notch downgrade...


The rating agency has long critiqued pension funds’ use of overly ambitious investment return targets that allow funds to understate their true pension shortfalls... Based on the new Moody’s methodology, which uses more conservative assumptions, Chicago’s 2012 pension shortfall jumps nearly 90%, to $36 billion...


However, Chicago’s burgeoning liability is not the city’s only problem. The yearly bill to pay for those pensions is set to spike 2.5 times to $1.2 billion in 2015 from $467 million in 2014...

Pensions are threatening to do to Chicago what has happened to Detroit. Which reminds me.

Exhibit B - Detroit: The largest municipal bankruptcy in US history

The Motor City faces $20 billion of long-term liabilities. The Wall Street Journal's Matt Dillon says those holding onto $11 billion in unsecured debt are basically staring into the abyss, facing the prospect of getting next to nothing from the city's obligations... The pension funds want to block Orr's attempt to drastically reduce the amount of benefits owed to current and former city workers.


Apropos of nothing, the last time Detroit had a Republican Mayor was 51 years ago.

In short, letting Democrats run a government is like giving a 17-year old boy a fifth of Jim Beam and the keys to the Camaro.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

MORE LIES: Despite Pentagon claims, Marine colonel sought in Benghazi scandal is NOT retired

Endemic and systemic: Lying to Congress, lying to the press, lying to the American people.

Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS. Lie upon lie upon lie. The federal scaffolding that is supposed to undergird the civil society is threatened by an administration and its apparatchiks in the federal bureaucracy that have demonstrated a reckless disregard for the truth.

And, as it pertains to Benghazi, not even the Pentagon is immune from the dry-rot of lawlessness.

When insurgents attacked the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last fall, Col. George Bristol held a key post in the region. As commander of Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara, he was in a position to know what options the U.S. had to protect Americans under fire.

U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died in the Sept. 11 attacks, sparking national outcry and a congressional investigation examining the lack of protection. Several U.S. officials have testified before Congress since — but not Bristol, a salty Marine whose task force was responsible for special operations in northern and western Africa.

Defense Department officials have told members of Congress that Bristol cannot be forced to testify because he retired after stepping down during a March change of command ceremony, according to several media reports. The Pentagon reinforced that point of view to Marine Corps Times on Tuesday.

“Col. Bristol was not invited by Congress to testify before he retired,” said Air Force Maj. Robert Firman, a spokesman with the Office of the Secretary of Defense. “The DoD has cooperated fully with Congress and the Accountability Review Board since the beginning of this investigation, and we will continue to do so.”

That isn’t the case, however. While Bristol is preparing for retirement, he is on active duty through the end of July, said Maj. Shawn Haney, a Marine spokeswoman, on Wednesday. He will be placed on the inactive list on Aug. 1, she said. That contradicts statements that Pentagon officials have issued to both Congress and the media.

Pentagon officials said Wednesday that they were looking into the case. The situation will likely frustrate congressional critics, primarily Republicans, who say the Obama administration has not been truthful about the Benghazi attack and the U.S. response to it...

Where is the Select Committee, John Boehner? Where is the Select Committee? What are you doing about all of these outrageous lies?

Oh, that's right: Amnesty for illegals is your top priority. You're a disgrace, John Boehner, an absolute disgrace.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Judicial Terrorism

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Nation

Judicial Terrorism: Koch's Tour
Totalitarianism and the Zimmerman aftermath: John Hayward
Eric Holder’s Stand Your Ground Squirrel: Michelle Malkin

This Could Be The Worst Thing The Obama Regime Has Done: HayRide
Random Thoughts: Cold Fury
Feds want Zimmerman, any way they can get him: LI

The 15 Most Annoying Things About American Culture: John Hawkins
Levin: If Zimmerman is attacked, we know who has blood on their hands: TRS
Rachel Jeantel: "Travyon Hit First": RCP

Economy

Stop the Jarrett Tax: Betsy McCaughey
Weaponizing the IRS: MagNote
Expect What the Economists Don't: Mish

Repeal the Mandate Tax: Phil Kerpen
Treasury Official Won't Answer Questions About Obamacare Delay: Breitbart
How the Black Community Could Honor Trayvon Martin: AWD

Scandal Central

Issa Has Info Linking IRS Scandal to White House!: CommonCts
Grassley to Holder: Why is Your Department Hiding New Fast and Furious Murders?: Katie Pavlich
Bombshell: IRS Chief Counsel Was Involved in Targeting Tea Party Groups: Tatler

Media

Zimmerman - The Joy of Hopelessness: Fred on Everything
Slam! Iowahawk blasts Holder, soulless race-baiters; Makes key and devastating point: Twitchy
Feds Targeted Tax Records of Political Candidates; All Three Networks Ignore: NB

10 Facts the Media Aren't Telling You About the Zimmerman Case: John Nolte
Mark Levin and the Liberty Amendments, July 16, 2013: David Leeper
Valerie Plame is now “Fair Game”: IP2P

Next Month’s Rolling Stone Cover: iOTW
Media Ignores Children Slain in Chicago During Course of Zimmerman Trial: AWR Hawkins
Larry Elder schools snotty Brit Piers Morgan: FAM

‘This Town’ Needs an Enema: Erick Erickson
Just Another Law-Abiding Citizen of Beautiful Downtown Realville: R.S. McCain
Black mob violence against a Marine: WGBAL

World

Obama UN Nominee Samantha Power Makes Deceptive Noises On Israel In Confirmation Hearings: Joshua
Imam calls for US and Europe’s destruction from Temple Mount pulpit: Times of Israel
Michael Hastings Cremated Immediately Without Family Consent: RedFlag

Sci-Tech

Wearable Computers Create New Security Vulnerabilities: Christina Bonnington
Anatomy of another Android hole - Chinese researchers claim new code verification bypass: Sophos
Warm up your wrist: 5M smartwatch shipments expected in 2014: Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOm

Cornucopia

Conrad the Constitution Episode V - Lois Lerner Audits the Constitution: Fox Bros. Studios
We B Lyin’: A continuing series: MOTUS
Help Defeat Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS): MenRec

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QOTD: "We’re getting ever closer to discovering that the White House through its counsel’s office was involved in, and probably directing, the abuse of citizens who were organizing to speak out against the Obama agenda. Catherine Engelbrecht’s case indicates that the IRS abuse is just one line of attack; the Obama government unleashed the full alphabet soup on her after she founded True the Vote.

That’s part of why Eric Holder has been unleashed on George Zimmerman. The right hand is hammering an innocent man while the left hand tries to wave Obama’s most dangerous scandal away. They’ll risk civil unrest to keep this particular scandal off the front pages." --Bryan Preston

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Syfy Greenlights ‘Sharknado 2,’ Sets Twitter Contest for Film Subtitle

"Electric Bugaloo"?

It’s happening: Syfy is going back in the waters for a “Sharknado” sequel, and this time in Gotham.

The NBCU cable net officially announced a follow up to last week’s viral creature feature, tentatively titling the newly greenlit pic “Sharknado 2.” Variety reported last week that talks were underway at the cable net for a “Sharknado” followup less than a day after the TV movie launched.

The Asylum, the shingle behind the first “Sharknado” along with other Syfy original movies, will return to produce the telepic, which will take place in New York City. (“Sharknado” was set in L.A.) Syfy will debut “Sharknado 2″ next year.

Syfy is also giving fans the opportunity to create “Sharknado 2′s” subtitle by submitting their ideas at @SyfyMovies using the hashtag #Sharknado. “Sharknado’s” subtitle was “Enough said"...

The sequel is said to be a documentary.


Hat tip: BadBlue Fame.

USA Today asks: After Zimmerman verdict, can nation heal the racial divide we in the media created?

That's my paraphrase: the real headline represents the Dumbest Question Ever:


Charles Krauthammer dissects the idiocy of USA Today's question:

What's interesting here is that we saw every minute of the trial. There was nothing secret, there was nothing hidden. So, for all of those who want to make this into a racial incident, an example of racial prejudice, answer this: where was the racial taint in those hours and hours of that trial? Where was the bias? And what parts of the trial were not fair because the victim was African-American?

The way that these demagogues are comparing this incident to Emmett Till, who was lynched in the south half a century ago I think is a travesty and a desecration of the memory of Emmett Till who was a victim of real brutal racism in a country that at the time had legalized racism. Here was a trial that everybody watched and that was without any doubt a fair trial.

I think the media's attempt to turn this into a racial incident is disgraceful because the paradigm is white on black, except that Zimmerman is Hispanic. So, CNN and others had to invent a new category, the 'white Hispanic.' Up until now we had never heard of that. Why? Presumably because one of Zimmerman's parents is white. Well, that also applies to the president of the United States. Which means is he a white African-American? This is an absurdity and it's also a disgrace.

The media -- including the extremist known as Al Sharpton -- have behaved in as loathsome a manner as I can ever recall.


The Cover Photo Rolling Stone Should Have Run

You may have seen or heard about the latest cover of Rolling Stone magazine. It is intentionally designed to glamorize the scumbag terror bomber who I refuse to name.

Celebs have taken to Twitter to call for a boycott of Rolling Stone, and now CVS is joining everyone with an ounce of decency in condemning the magazine’s rock-star treatment of accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The company posted this message on its Facebook page:

CVS/pharmacy has decided not to sell the current issue of Rolling Stone featuring a cover photo of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect. As a company with deep roots in New England and a strong presence in Boston, we believe this is the right decision out of respect for the victims of the attack and their loved ones.

CVS received numerous requests to boycott the Rolling Stone issue.


The pathetic hacks who run this joke of a magazine could have, of course, gone with a different photo.


These are the innocent victims who will soon be dead or crippled, including an eight-year old boy (circled in blue) happily clinging to a rail watching the race with wonderment. And Rolling Stone's hero, the terrorist throwback from the seventh century (circled in red) has just dropped off his bomb.

You disgust me, Rolling Stone. You fill every molecule of my body with revulsion.


TRAYVON-INSPIRED RIOTS KILL 3 JOURNALISTS: Richard Cohen, Maureen Dowd, and Chris Matthews burned alive

Irony:


Now, in real life this horrific incident didn't happen.

But the point is, it could.

The same man hailed by journalists like these as the first post-racial president is a divider, not a uniter. He sows discontent, hatred, revenge, intolerance and unrest.

His attorney general has consistently lied to the public, lied to Congress, and helped foment race hatred.

And men like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, clinging to a picture of America many decades old, spread prejudice, bigotry and anxiety.

Black versus Hispanic. Hispanic versus White. Black versus Asian. Christian versus Muslim. Rich versus poor. Overweight versus underweight. Women versus Men.

Everywhere you look, the country has been divided by this man and his cronies into segments. Not Americans. Segments. Segments to be pandered to, to be agitated, to be bribed, to be rewarded, to be punished, to be incited.

And the civil society decays like a rotten tooth.

The irony is, media hacks like the ones mentioned above never saw it coming. Too blinkered, too stupid, too twisted, too ideological, they and their ilk will suffer with the rest of society as America unravels before their dumbfounded, stupefied eyes.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

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Nation

Is This Still America?: Thomas Sowell
Oh I wouldn't sweat it, Holder: Ace
Scrap Delusional Immigration Bill and Start Over: Ramesh Ponnuru

Mark Levin: tthe left is dividing this nation with racism: Scoop
Juror B37 Gets a Lesson in Race Incitement: Jonathan Tobin
Eric Holder: You have a duty to retreat: WyBlog

Republicans Surrender: Erick Erickson
There Are No Indispensable Men: Erick Erickson
Deal Defuses ‘Nuclear Option’ in Senate: Roll Call

Economy

IRS gave $14 billion in refundable tax credits to illegals: Rare
BYE, BYE BLUE ANGELS: Watchdog
DC March for Jobs: Dave Blount

GOP Filibuster ‘Compromise’ Keeps NLRB Firmly Under Union Control: RS
Things That Make You Go Hmmm... Like Gold: ZH
Nancy Pelosi's Husband: A deadbeat boss, sued for backpay.: Instapundit

Scandal Central

Feds admit improper scrutiny of candidate, donor tax records: Times
DOJ Sets Up Zimmerman Snitch Hotline: JWF
Top Bachmann aide arrested in connection with thefts in Rayburn House Office Building: Fox

Climate & Energy

If storms are worse now, why did they need a sea wall 150 years ago?: WUWT
EPA headquarters to be renamed after Bill Clinton: RedAlert
Why Don't Farmers Believe in Climate Change?: David Biello

Media

Trayvon the Gay-Basher?: Gay Patriot
America’s Ongoing Kristallnacht: MB
George Zimmerman: Angela Corey’s Racial Peace Offering: RS

Familiarize Yourself With The Marissa Alexander Case Before The Media Misinforms You: Ace
Idiot Leftists Define Race Riots Down: American Power
"“Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom.": Trevor Loudon

Race Industry Leeches: Bruce Thornton
Zimmerman’s lawyers: He might seek “compensation” from the prosecution: Hot Air
Five cases of black on white crime people want on national TV: WGBAL

World

http://www.israpundit.com/archives/56409: Israpundit
Panama: North Korean ship with Cuban ‘military cargo’: Fausta
The Hijab Covering American Islam’s Notion of Peace: Shark Tank

Sci-Tech

Advice to a New Programmer: Andew Binstock, Dr. Dobb's
Will students fork over $60K for UC Berkeley’s new online master’s degree in data science?: Ki Mae Heussner
Gaston J. Glock Releases New Extreme Performance Shooting Shirt for Competitive Shooters: AmmoLand

Cornucopia

Racial Justice: Dance With The Won Who Brung Ya’: MOTUS
Top 10 Al Sharptonisms!: P&F
Spots and Plans: Zilla

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QOTD: "Yes, Trayvon Martin shooting was a tragedy which the usual suspect race baiters and progressive media are using for political gain. Where is the outrage for the recent killings in Chicago of a 6-month-old black baby, 16-year-old black honor student, or 17-year-old black teenager who refused to join a gang? The focus is on the symptoms which promote political gain, not the disease which now afflicts the black community. And I am tired of white liberals invoking the heinous memory of lynchings." --Allen West

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Helps Men De-Stress

First runner-up headline: New test-taking strategies, er, uncovered [NSFW].

Well men, we’ve done it... thanks to research conducted by Carnegie Mellon University...

The study assigned 54 straight men to view either mildly erotic (think Sports Illustrated) or neutral images of mix-sex couples before completing a social stress test. The results found that the men who viewed the semi-erotic photos were half as likely to feel stressed when taking the test compared to the guys who viewed the nonsexual pictures. The study also found that 50 per cent of men performed better on the math portion of a stress test ─ which would have been nice to know before my 11th grade math exam.

“When you’re stressed, your body produces more of a hormone called cortisol, which excites your nervous system and disrupts your brain’s problem-solving capabilities,” says the study’s coauthor, J. David Creswell, Ph.D. His research, however, proves that erotic images appear to limit this stress-cortisol response.

...So, there you have it ladies. Another study leading you to believe men are absolute pigs. Sure, we like sex. But so do you, no? I mean, pornography would likely help women feeling stressed as well. Our bodies function the same, for the most part. I’d like to see how the study would differ had they selected women to read a chapter of 50 Shades of Grey, or watch an episode of True Blood. My guess is the results would be “shockingly” similar.

Ya learn yerself something new everyday.


Hat tip: BadBlue Fame.

But... But... But... No One Needs More Than 10 Rounds per Magazine!

Except, of course, those who live in the real world:

Two NYPD Cops Fire 84 Rounds at Murder Suspect


A man who allegedly killed his 13-year-old half-sister survived a fusillade of bullets from New York City police officers early Tuesday, after pointing his pistol at officers.

Officers responded to a 911 call at 2971 Eighth St. in Harlem at 3:27 a.m. Tuesday.

Steven Murray, 28, had allegedly shot his mother Christine Fryar, 44, and her daughter Annie, according to the NYPD. Paramedics arrived to find the daughter dead with a gunshot wound to the head. The mother, who was also shot in the head, was transported to Harlem Hospital, and is listed in critical condition.

Police eventually confronted Murray, who was running through the surrounding neighborhood. The officers pursued Murray on foot and returned fire after he fired one shot.

NYPD Sgt. Alexander Mesa fired 39 shots, and Officer Joseph Robinson got off 45 rounds. Murray was hit 14 times, and refused to drop his weapon, reports the New York Daily News.

Murray has been charged with murder and attempted murder.

Shhh: no one tell the would-be tyrant Andrew "Architect of Ruin" Cuomo.


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.