Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Attention, Reince Priebus and John Boehner: More Than a Dozen Maine Republicans Just Fled the Party

If the Republican Party disintegrates, you can thank its spineless [air quotes] "leadership" including John Boehner and Reince Priebus. James Daniels at DownTrend explains:

Bangor Daily News published an interesting letter Monday from 13 Maine Republicans to State GOP Secretary Chuck Mahaleris. The letter, signed by six Maine Republican state committee members, a state RNC member and six other registered Republicans, addresses numerous glaring problems within the party both at the state and federal level.

One of their most notable criticisms is that of Speaker of the House John Boehner. The defecting Republicans condemn him for his decision to purge the most fiscally conservative Republicans from their leadership positions in late 2012.

And, they criticize the House’s “utter disdain” for the Constitution in its handling of the Amash Amendment, which would have restrained NSA surveillance... Among their other criticisms of Congressional Republicans include their support for:

• An Internet sales tax
• Gun control
• Illegal immigrants
• Illegal wars

The group also claims the RNC has “no intention of reforming and would rather fly under invalid rules than to right the wrongs of Tampa” in reference to rules battles that have taken place since the 2012 convention...

Hopefully, their decision will serve as a wakeup call to the Republican Party, which all-too-often abandons the principles of fiscal responsibility and freedom for its own gain. Until then, let’s hope more Republicans (and Democrats, for that matter) jump ship instead of contributing to the destruction of the very values that once made America great.

Mark Levin alludes to this kind of drastic action in his new book, The Liberty Amendments. Levin asserts that the answers for fixing Washington cannot be found in Washington.

The answers instead lie in the power of the states, the very states that gave birth to the federal government. These powers, articulated in the second amendment process of Article V of the Constitution, have laid dormant for more than two centuries.

The second Article V process allows the states to amend the Constitution without any Congressional or Executive Branch involvement. It bypasses the federal government altogether. It is an escape hatch against an oppressive federal government.

Levin notes that the second process was only included at the insistence of George Mason -- the famed anti-federalist -- who predicted the very quandary in which know find ourselves. That is, a federal government run amok, with each branch conspiring with the other to evade the constraints of the Constitution, growing ever larger and more tyrannical, tightening the circle of liberty around each individual like a noose.

Such a federal government, Mason presciently observed, would never agree to limit itself. And such is the political landscape today, with a far left political-and-media complex running an Executive and an immense, unelected fourth branch of government, unchecked by the courts and assisted by Congress.

Levin's approach is an escape hatch for liberty.

The states that created the federal government must be the instruments that reign it back in, reestablishing the Constitutional limits that made America great.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

CATASTROPHE: Obamacare tagged for huge spike in unemployment

"Unexpectedly", of course. John Nolte reports on the latest disastrous unemployment report:
Outside of the federal government's Bureau of Labor statistics, the Gallup polling organization also tracks the nation's unemployment rate. While the BLS and Gallup findings might not always perfectly align, the trends almost always do and the small statistical differences just haven't been worthy of note. But now Gallup is showing a sizable 30 day jump in the unemployment rate, from 7.7% on July 21 to 8.9% today...

This is an 18-month high.

...Gallup also shows an alarming increase in the number of underemployed (those with some work seeking more). During the same 30-day period, that number has jumped from 17.1% to 17.9%.


The reason for the jump is crystal clear. As Forbes contributor John Goodman observes:

University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan [asserts that] ObamaCare discourages hiring, discourages full time employment and discourages businesses from becoming large rather than small. At The New York Times economics blog he writes:

“...the Affordable Care Act ... creates explicit taxes on employers, subsidies for layoffs and various implicit taxes on employees with many of the same economic characteristics as taxes on employers.”

According to Mulligan’s “calculations.... we might then expect the act to contract the 2015 labor market by about 3 percent rather than expand it.”

That’s a loss of 4 million jobs!

We may be seeing the tip of that iceberg now. The next BLS unemployment report is scheduled to be released on September 6th. Gird your loins.


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Larwyn's Linx: In 2010, the top four House GOP leaders pledged to defund Obamacare

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Nation

In 2010, top four House Republicans pledged to defund Obamacare: RWN
#DontBlink — Defund It: Erick Erickson
ObamaCare Navigators And A Reform Already Gone Bad: Andrew Malcolm

Al Jazeera Targets America: Cliff Kincaid
Horrific: Arlene from Israel
Freedom Loving Bikers Counter Million Muslim March: Joseph R. Carducci

Senator Cruz's message makes a lot of sense: Rick Moran
A Beastly Attack on Ted Cruz: Tom Bevan
Like your family’s insurance? Suckers!: Sister Toldjah

Economy

America 3.0: The Coming Reinvention of America: James C. Bennett and Michael J. Lotus
Detroit: A closer look at the largest municipal filing in U.S. history: MacLean's
TSA plans to procure nearly 3.5 million rounds of ammo: GSN

2000 to 2010 Interstate Migration. Winners: FL, TX. Losers: NY, CA: Dallas
California Wants Small-Business to Refund $120 Million In Tax Breaks: CBS-12

Scandal Central

All Signs Point to a Cover Up: Bryan Preston
Rogin: All State Dept employees cleared over Benghazi: Shoebat
Illegal Aliens Demand Free Organ Transplants: JW

How The NSA Scours 75% Of The Nation's Internet Traffic - In One Chart: ZH
EPA critic to NSA: Hey, want to share?: Liberal Gadfly Erica Martinson
Delaware Job Hop Stirs Flap: Vipal Monga, WSJ

Media

Allen West: Obama “a very dangerous threat to the existence of America as a constitutional republic”: Scoop
The crazying of Ted Cruz continues unabated: William A. Jacobson
CNN Continues to Ignore Warnings of Potential Obamacare 'Privacy Disaster': Matt Hadro

Three Teens Who Could Look Like Obama’s Son Murder Australian Man, NRA Gets Blamed: JWF
Writer For Far-Left Rag Mother Jones Shocked To Find Obamabots Are Real: WZ
True Patriots Know at Heart That It’s Never too Late to Never Give Up: Judi McLeod

Legal Site Groklaw Shuts Down Rather Than Face NSA in Heartrending Post: Brian Barrett
Paul Krugman Accused of Plagiarism: Wynton Hall, Breitbart
Highly Respected Conservative Embraces Article V Convention Option: Joel Hirschhorn

World

A Message From All Egyptians To Obama Bin Laden Sponsor Of Terrorism: Eman Nabih
Allies Thwart America in Egypt: WSJ
Wowie al Jezowie: Can’t find it in the heartland...Yet...: MOTUS

And Now, Let’s Play NIXON OR OBAMA?: Glob
Video of Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack 8/21/2013: WorldThreats
The Stunning Discovery in Highly Anticipated Michael Hastings Autopsy Report: Jason Howerton

Sci-Tech

How a Computer Program Helped Reveal J.K. Rowling as Author of A Cuckoo’s Calling: Patrick Juola
Anonymous funeral director explains the big con behind the industry: Cory Doctorow
Comparison shopping comes to Google Glass through new app: Aaron Souppouris

Cornucopia

Looking Back on the Life of Barack Obama: Sultan Knish
17 Haunting Dioramas Of A Post-Apocalyptic World: Fastcodesign
The People's Cube story to be reprinted in NRA magazine: People's Cube

Image: A Message From All Egyptians To Obama Bin Laden Sponsor Of Terrorism
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QOTD: "The U.S.'s closest Middle East allies are undercutting American policy in Egypt, encouraging the military to confront the Muslim Brotherhood rather than reconcile, U.S. and Arab officials said.

The parallel efforts by Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have blunted U.S. influence with Egypt's military leadership and underscored how the chaos there has pulled Israel into ever-closer alignment with those Gulf states, officials said.

A senior Israeli official called the anti-Muslim Brotherhood nations "the axis of reason."

The Obama administration first had sought to persuade Egyptian military leader Gen. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi not to overthrow the elected government of President Mohammed Morsi and then to reconcile with his Muslim Brotherhood base." --WSJ

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Obama's Dog Gets More Air Support Than the Heroes at Benghazi

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily


Leadership: We may not know who gave the stand-down order, but we do know the First Family has a second Portuguese Water Dog. Will it too be airlifted on a Marine aircraft to Martha's Vineyard?

The breaking news on Monday was not a new revelation about the National Security Agency, the IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, or the pending collapse of ObamaCare.

It was that President Obama and his family have adopted a companion for first dog Bo. The new presidential pet is called Sunny, a name obviously not picked because it reflects the future of America under this administration.

"We suspect Sunny will follow in Bo's footsteps and keep the president company in the Oval Office, go for walks with the first family after their 6:30 family dinner and even jump up on the first lady's lap from time to time," a White House spokesman announced to a world still waiting to find out what the president was doing the night of the Sept. 11 Benghazi terrorist attack other than play cards with presidential "body man" Reggie Love.

If Sunny does follow in Bo's footsteps, he'll soon be privately airlifted, as was Bo, to Martha's Vineyard aboard a Marine MV-22 Osprey, a helicopter that operates at a cost of $11,000 per hour. Bo was given a ride on one of two MV-22s that took various personnel on the trip with the Obamas and arrived ahead of them.

When the administration guts the defense budget to the point where training and military readiness are suffering, why are scarce military aircraft being used at all on a presidential vacation and why is the presidential dog being ferried on one?

John Quincy Adams versus Barack Obama’s strange love for the Muslim Brotherhood

Guest post by Abernathy Crum


In his August 19, 2013 PJ Media article entitled “Obama’s Strange Love Affair with the Muslim Brotherhood,” Roger L. Simon’s lede reads, “It’s hard to fathom how or why our administration ever thought the Muslim Brotherhood saw democracy as other than a means to an end — and a particularly repellent one at that — in the first place.”

It’s true that Obama’s Brotherhood-infatuation is transparent. Those of us who have followed the machinations of Islamic radicals over the years know exactly who we’re dealing with.  The question is: Does Obama?

When a great nation’s foreign policy is run by second-rate, radical academics, with virtually no real world experience or understanding of radical Islam, dancing with the devil seems “just” and “fun.”  Their thinking is that – if you just talk to people, their innate goodness comes out. They have such a rich culture, after all.

That mindset permeates Obama’s Middle East foreign policy.

It’s wrong-headed on all counts.

Where Islam exists, radicalism is close at hand.  In fact, the Brotherhood is not radical, but orthodox.  Unlike much of Christendom, they don’t consider the Quran and the Hadith quaint metaphors; they read them literally. 

Who is the vile, left wing, anti-Ted Cruz smear merchant named "Patricia Murphy"?            

If that is her real name, of course.

Senator Ted Cruz, one of the most popular Constitutional conservatives to appear on the scene in recent years, is the latest target of the government-media complex. The ruling class is decidedly unhappy that one of their own is -- like Reagan and Coolidge -- talking about restoring the fabric of American society and reinvigorating interest in limited government.

And therefore, just like clockwork, the enormously talented and accomplished litigator from Texas is now the target of a smear campaign not based upon facts, history or resume, but instead upon a character assassination by a single college acquaintance from his freshman year.

Leading the campaign is the usual state-run propaganda outlet -- the failed periodical once known as Newsweek and -- now operating under the alias Daily Beast. Its author, Patricia Murphy, relies upon a single character assassin (freshman roommate Craig Mazin) and a variety of anonymous sources to descend to "a new low for the genre and for modern political journalism."

And just who is the author, Patricia Murphy?

She's a denizen of the Beltway establishment, a product of the incestuous Democrat-media-federal government complex that exists to amass power and to perpetuate itself.

Patricia Murphy's resume is a disaster, befitting a failed career that leaves someone working at Newsweek. Put next to the C.V. of a man like Ted Cruz, Murphy's background is a pathetic joke.

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States and he devised legal strategy against Al Gore's failed attacks on George Bush's 2000 election win. He served as solicitor general of Texas until 2008, and won seminal cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court including the landmark Heller decision on the Second Amendment.

Murphy, on the other hand, works for Newsweek. She is also the founder of the esteemed Citizen Jane Politics -- a self-described "non-partisan website for women" -- that is so successful it hasn't been updated in more than eight months.

Prior to working in "journalism", she was a staffer for Sen. Max Cleland. Cleland was the very forgettable, left wing enviro-kook who in 2002 -- thankfully -- was the last Democrat Senator from Georgia after getting obliterated by Saxby Chambliss.

In other words, Murphy is one of the political cockroaches who flits from left-wing government to left-wing media.

Her latest secretion, a thinly veiled political attack on Ted Cruz, appears designed solely to secure her next position as a staffer for another far left Democrat hack.

Feel free to retweet the message: we're on to you, Patty. We know this article is just another audition for a gig back in the cushy confines of the massive, bloated federal government.


I've had it with these people. Let this be a warning to you left wing hacks: I'm going on offense. When you attack patriots like Ted Cruz, I'm coming after you, rhetorically speaking. I've had it. I'm exposing you as the failed apologists for Statism that you really are.


Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

Larwyn's Linx: The Ongoing Farce

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Nation

The Ongoing Farce: Liberty's Torch
Debunking the Defund Obamacare Myths: Erick Erickson
Birtherism's Sudden Respectability: Ace

Illegal aliens demand lower college tuition than the rest of us: John Hawkins
Hooray! Obama To Hit The Road To Talk About Affordable College: RWN
An apology letter to Mr. Obama: Matt Walsh

America's Tyranny Threshold: Eileen F. Toplansky
Obama’s Work to Welfare Program: Streiff
Crazy Mary Landrieu: I’d Vote For Obamacare Again: HayRide

Economy

Affordable Care Act kills off NJ's only affordable health care plan: WyBlog
America’s Retirement Woes: Entitlement Ponzi: Pocket Full of Liberty
Obama golfing yet again, this time with Bain Capital donor: Scared Monkeys

Welfare Pays Better Than Entry Level Jobs: Moonbattery
Forever 21 now lacking healthcare as well as taste: NakedDC
It's Official: Obama Deficits More Than $1T 4 Years in a Row: CNS

Scandal Central

NSA Critics, Right All Along : Charles C. W. Cooke
The ruling class war against voter ID: John Hayward
Unpublished memo: Obamacare has missed half its legal deadlines: BPR

Media

Chicago Tribune: Time to Delay and Rewrite the ‘Clumsy Monstrosity’ That is ObamaCare: JWF
Obama Administration Announces Youth Obamacare Video Propaganda Contest: Andrew Evans
Obama backers will go hysterical over this well-sourced list of 252 examples of lawbreaking, corruption...: WJ

An Extended Excerpt from the Book Mentioned by "Required Reading," Christian Nation: Ace
‘Mock Obama Day’ may never end: Andrea Shea King
Salon Admits Obama Lied About NSA Snooping on Americans: Matthew Burke

Mother Jones Meets the Mob: Ed Driscoll
A broader overview of Levin’s Liberty Amendments project: Protein Wisdom
Death Threat Democrat Declares Greg Abbott To Be A "Twittidiot" For Staffer's Error: Rhymes With Right

World

America’s Problems in the Middle East Are Just Beginning: Spengler
Mubarak's Muslim Brotherhood Prophecy Comes True: Raymond Ibrahim
Muslim Scholar Goes Off on ‘Million Muslim March’ Organizer: ‘You’re a Stooge and a Frontman’: Jason Howerton

Whose Side Is Obama On?: Daniel Greenfield
Kansas Elementary Teaching Students About The Five Pillars of Islam: WZ
Islamist mob parades nuns in Cairo as prisoners of war after six hours looting church school: Daily Mail

Sci-Tech

Microsoft: Upgrade from Windows XP or risk infinite "zero-days": Dan Kaplan, SCMag
HTTP error code 451: "Unavailable For Legal Reasons": Sophos
Late To The Game, Is VMware Turning Against OpenStack Or Embracing It?: Alex Williams, TechCrunch

Cornucopia

BOOM: Ted Cruz to renounce Canadian citizenship: Scoop
‘Impeach Obama’ Protesters Arrested for Peaceably Assembling: Greg Campbell
a haiku that, for no reason whatever, imagines Ronald Reagan as Barack Obama: Protein Wisdom

Image: Hi-Res Hillary - iOwnTheWorld
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QOTD: "A great cartoon during the Carter years had two beefy, exhausted men with rolled up sleeves briefing a two-foot high Carter looking at a map of Afghanistan. "Oh, I get it," exclaimed Carter. "The Russians are bad guys!"

Our own malevolent naïf's membership in the Choom Gang and his two drop-in senatorial gigs appear to have been an inadequate preparation for the business of conducting serious statecraft as president of what was hitherto considered to be a country to be reckoned with. Clueless – one can only hope – as to the basics of economic growth and fiscal sanity, Mr. Obama has also rushed to intervene in every pestilential backwater south of Sicily and east of Cyprus. He has embraced the hateful Muslim Brotherhood and championed the interests of millions of third-world illegal immigrants over those of his own people. There simply are NO federal policies today that are not remarkable for the absurdity of their goals, the destructiveness of their effects, or the malevolence of their formulation.

This is a president who plays at being president, assuming that another phone call from Percy Sutton, one more tirade from Al Sharpton, or one more presidential speech to some class of rapt fifth graders or liberal suckers will silence all critics and set things back on track. " --Col. B. Bunny

Monday, August 19, 2013

JUST PERFECT: Bloomberg press conference to promote gun confiscation points hundreds of firearms at reporters

Just when you think Bloomberg -- the idiot mayor, not the news service -- has reached the height of stupidity, he pulls something like this.

Charles W. Cooke at National Review Online found this headdesk moment in the twitter feed of J. David Goodman, the NYPD police reporter for the New York Times. Goodman covered a joint NYPD press conference featuring Mayor Michael Bloomberg today that saw hundreds of guns pointed directly at the audience...


...While we hope that the NYPD had the good sense to clear each and every firearm on display, what they failed to do is as undeniable as it is unforgivable. They clearly left magazines in, with bolts closed, on numerous firearms pointing at the press...


...At least one of the guns picture above, third up from the bottom on the left, clearly has the bolt-closed and the safety off as it points towards the assembled reporters.

I've concluded there are three levels of liberal idiocy: there's stupid. There's really stupid. And there's Bloomberg stupid.


Hat tip: The BadBlue Gun News Portal.

Combating the Left’s Information Warfare Campaign

Guest post by Abernathy Crum


This article describes an Information Warfare Operation being orchestrated by the Left.  It is characterized by well-designed themes and memes, effective delivery, and advanced with MSM propagation. 

Not too confrontational, it uses fundamental American emotional buttons: family, kindness, and compassionate justice. It worms its way into the national psyche, one snippet at a time. The operation is funded, organized, and supported by the usual suspects; it’s coordinated with press organizations to carry the themes forward and propagate the message for as long as possible.

It starts with a question like this: “What are you going to do to stop the separation of families, for those of us that live in fear everyday due to unjust deportations?”

It’s a well-crafted question – a clever riposte for which we have not an effective parry. 

We are at war. Our efforts just do not match the opposition. We should have had a response packet put together before the meetings took place. To know what the Left is going to do, just visit their sites and blogs. They tell us their plans, and we’re still unprepared.  We need to plan for their campaigns, collect intelligence, and anticipate the obvious.   

Planning would enable this sort of exchange:

Valeria Ruiz, 17, of Racine, Wisconsin, prodded her congressman on deportations that divide families. According to the Facebook page of Voces de la Frontera, a Wisconsin anti-deportation group, she asked Paul Ryan, “What are you going to do to stop the separation of families for those of us that live in fear everyday due to unjust deportations.”

Ryan responded: “Welcome Valeria, I was looking forward to you coming this evening.  Did Voces de la Fontera or La Raza drive you? I hope your folks are well. I have one question for you.  Your parents are citizens. Your father Miguel was naturalized in 2004 and you mom has always been a citizen.  Who are you specifically referring to?  Can you define what an ‘unjust deportation’ is?”

The rank-and-file Left does not understand Operational Security.  Their leaders do, but their leaks and chest thumping on Facebook and blogs give us enormous insight. There we can learn what they plan to do before they do it.  That is called Predictive Battle-Space Awareness.  We should have been using it for a long time.

If the socialists win the next presidential election, this will no longer be a war of words.  It will be a war of survival, a war in all its manifestations. Why do you think they are building a domestic army? In a few years it will be formidable.

Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Sooner or later in life, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences." The debacle of the city of Detroit is the glaring reality of Leftist polices and the emerging consequences are writ large for the nation.
We fight or we perish, becoming a Detroit nation; lawless, corrupt and hopeless. We become helpless before tyrants who once were smiling politicians full of good will and earnest concern.  We are already a good distance down the troubled road to that outcome.  

Within the Leftists’ ridicule and posturing, and behind their histrionic stage dramas and concocted causes, can be heard the rattle of chains.


Abernathy Crum is, by decades of training, experience and teaching, an expert in the strategy and tactics of information warfare deployed by tyrannical regimes throughout history.   Special thanks to Lee.

There, fixed it for you, @GeeOhPees2

Some Demobat on Twitter published this hilarious pile of crap:


And I promptly repaired it for him, her, whatever:


Like all of the other collectivist schmucks, they can't point to their blueprint. They have no blueprint, no final design they can show us. They simply seek to have a few masterminds in some authoritarian, centralized government issue edicts. They lust to control people, to tell them what kind of cars they can drive, what kind of health care they can buy, what kind of light bulbs they can have in their homes, how much energy they can consume, and virtually every other aspect of their lives.

They don't believe in individual liberty. They don't believe in private property rights. They don't believe in free markets.

And, most of all, they don't believe in the Constitution. They despise the nation's highest law -- the foundation of the greatest country ever seen on the face of the Earth. They seek to eradicate the Constitution and replace it with a few master-planners who must use coercion to control every action of the citizen.

The very notion of God-given rights is anathema to kooks like this. The government grants rights, don't ya know? Like a "right" to health care, never mind if all of the doctors quit. They'll force doctors to treat you!

These Statists have no model they can point to that has ever succeeded in all of human history. For there is no such model. Their path is the road to misery and despotism. And we will resist them.


David Gregory, Organ of the State

And I do mean "organ":

NBC's David Gregory dreams of a third Obama term on Meet the Press


NBC's leftist hack David Gregory, who hosts Meet the Press over the weekend, asked his ‘panel’ with a big smile on his face ‘do American voters want to see a third Obama term or would they like to see the restoration of the Bill Clinton era?’ Gregory was smiling from ear to ear that it makes it obvious what he wants. Another term of Obama, even though Obama isn’t eligible for the third term.


"Do Americans, specifically Democratic voters, do they want to see a third Obama term or would they like to see the restoration of the Bill Clinton era?"

Gee, last time I checked, putz, Obama can't run for a third term.

What is it with this Democrat-Media Complex? Whether it's Tom Friedman pining for Red China's government, or Barack Obama's serial abrogation of the Constitution, they have a hankering for dictators.

And David Gregory -- the same jerk who should have been prosecuted for waving around an illegal 30-round magazine in the District of Columbia -- is the very worst of a very bad lot.


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Larwyn's Linx: The Radical Racialist Background of Michelle Obama

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Nation

The Radical Racialist Background of Michelle Robinson Obama: Leon Puissegur
Just Another Day in Paradise: MOTUS
Chicago: 3 Dead, 14 Wounded Saturday as Obama Parties: JWF

Obama's Strange Dependence on Valerie Jarrett: Karin McQuillan
The ‘Forced Home Inspections’ in Obamacare Law: Wizbang
Surrender Is the Only Option with an Imperial President: Sara Noble

Life in a City with Gun Control: Baltimore, Chicago, Gotham, Oakland: Extrano's
Chris Christie demands ammunition control in New Jersey: BearingArms
War against the Democrat #waronwomen takes to skies of San Diego!: Moe Lane

Economy

No Jackasses, Cheap Credit Does NOT Help (Anyone): Karl Denninger
Something Evil This Way Comes With Obama’s New Labor Secretary: RS
Why "Work Smart, Not Hard" is the Worst Advice in the World: Mike Rowe

Why don't people save their own money?: Ace
Indiana union’s “Ponzi-like scheme” will cost NEA $14 million: EAG
Your Child’s Public School Teacher Cruising Online for a ‘Sugar Daddy’?: RSM

Scandal Central

Obama Presidency A Lengthening Legacy Of Lawlessness: IBD
Obama’s Impeachable Offenses Over New Benghazi Revelations: Tim Brown
What You Might Not Know About Barack Obama: Sara Noble

Questions for Lawmakers on Immigration: Jon Feere, CIS
Police Chief Requests Armored Vehicle From DHS, Calls “Free State Project” Domestic Terrorists: Joshua Cook
Verizon Rewarded for Records Release With $10 Billion Government Contract: Joe Wolverton

Climate & Energy

What’s more fun than looking at old Global Warming predictions?: IHTM
Dead farmers don't grow crops: Linda Athens

Media

What Has Mark Levin Wrought?: James V. Capua
Torture and Murder in Tennessee – Why No Movement for These Innocents?: NoisyRm
REMINDER: Boycott Jane Fonda in the Butler: PatriotUpdate

Jim Bridenstine at the RedState Gathering #RSG13: RS
New York Times Editor: Left-Wing Slant Reflects Readership: Breitbart
Patrons Report Armed Police at Silver Spring, Maryland Screening of Lee Daniels’ The Butler: Tommy Cristopher

World

Obama on Egypt: The Clueless Presidency: Jonathan S. Tobin
The Citizen of the World Presidency: Elliot Abrams
Mayhem at the mosque: A gripping dispatch from the cauldron of Cairo: Angella Johnson

Townhall Tactic 2013: Why do you want to deport my daddy?: LI
UK Detains Glenn Greenwald's Partner for 9 Hours Under Terrorism Law: Abby Ohlheiser
Judge Jeanine: “Mr. President, George Bush was MORE popular in the Arab world than you are”: Scoop

Sci-Tech

In classified cyberwar against Iran, trail of Stuxnet leak leads to White House: Rowan Scarborough
2,700-year-old Hebrew inscription found in Jerusalem: Times of Israel
AUVSI convention shows trends toward civilian, international UAVs: Aaron Mehta

Cornucopia

Learn English with Russell Simmons!: Morlock Revolt
Review: 'Breaking Bad' - 'Buried': Geocaching out: Alan Sepinwall, HitFix
Ohio man finds 285 pounds of pot delivered in new gun safe: Fox

Image: Evidence that Morsi Actually Lost the Egyptian Presidency
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QOTD: "On Thursday afternoon President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. would be cancelling a joint military exercise with the Egyptian Army over its violent crackdown on supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Shortly afterwards, Egypt Independent reported that Putin had called an extraordinary session in the Kremlin to put “all Russian military facilities ‘at the Egyptian military’s disposal.’” The report, which cited several sources without providing any further details about them, also said that “Putin will discuss Russian arrangements for joint-military exercises with the Egyptian army.”" --Zachary Keck

Sunday, August 18, 2013

2014 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster

Matt Hardigree at Jalopnik is driving one as his primary vehicle and answering questions about it.

Question: Does such a wide and heavy car feel ... well, wide & heavy? Reviews of similar cars often point out how nimble supercars are, but are those mini cooper or Fiesta ST levels of nimbleness?

It feels wide, because that's not as much a physical sensation as it is a visual/perceptual one and you certainly feel like you're going to scratch an oncoming car until you get used to it, which is fairly quickly.
However, parked next to a Countach S it seems as narrow as a Morgan 3-Wheeler.

Heavy? No. Because V12. Also, the steering in the most extreme mode is so sensitive it steers with your mind, so nimbleness is a byproduct of your mental agility.

A man can dream, can't he?


Hat tip: BadBlue Car News.

Marines preparing for IEDs carrying WMD payloads

Egypt, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Iran: since the ascent of Barack Obama to the presidency, a series of baffling and bizarre decisions (and non-decisions) on the part of the administration have left the Mideast awash in violence and misery.

Which explains the U.S. Marines preparing for WMDs in improvised explosive devices (IEDs):

The Marine Corps’ explosives experts are enhancing their training to prepare for expected future encounters with improvised bombs carrying chemical, biological or radiological agents — so-called weapons of mass destruction...

To date, such improvised explosives have not been a credible threat on the battlefield, especially in improvised explosive devices. In Iraq, a few failed attempts were made using industrial chemicals, but the Marine Corps considers improvised WMDs a threat that’s likely, according to a contract solicitation from the service seeking assistance in developing this new training.

Marines with 1st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company at Camp Pendleton will attend the new Weapons of Mass Destruction Design and Defeat Course in October. The goal is to improve EOD techs’ chances for survival should they encounter improvised WMD, and help deployed forces adapt to the threat.

It is a matter of time before improvised WMD are used against U.S. forces, says Steven Bucci, ... a retired Army Special Forces officer, said attempts in Iraq demonstrated the enemy’s willingness to use them. All they lack are the materials, and failing states like Syria, which possess weaponized chemical agents, could provide them.

Improvised WMD would most likely incorporate chemical agents, Bucci said. While they are difficult to manufacture and weaponize, much of the work is done if enemy forces obtain chemical weapons from an unsecured national stockpile — artillery shells, for example.

“The bad guys know how to detonate artillery shells as IEDs,” Bucci said. “They did that in Iraq and Afghanistan. If they are chemical weapon shells or warheads, then you have a potential problem. So while that has not been a particular threat in the past — other than these lame attempts in Iraq — if they can get some of these things out of Syria, the possibility of creating chemical IEDs goes way up..."

Which reminds me: Hillary Clinton is the greatest Secretary of State ever.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.

THE WHITE HOUSE OR THE ONION: You Make the Call

The latest tweet over at the official White House Twitter feed is this delightful missive:


Every. Single. Minute.

Except for golf with Larry David and other rich white guys, his 139th official round as president.


And except for the swimming with Larry David and other rich white guys.


And except for the fireworks.


And except for the shopping.


And except for the cycling.


And except for more golf.


And except for yet more golf.


And except for taking napps in an abode just like those owned by the 99 percent.


"The only thing I care about is using every minute of the remaining 1,276 days of my term - to make this country work for working Americans again."

How so, Mr. President? What have you done? How have you spent "every minute" trying to help Americans? Is there a single shred of evidence that you've spent even one minute helping the private sector?

You know, this propaganda would be a lot more tolerable if it didn't consist of such obvious, patent lies.


Democrat Party Unveils Subtle Redesign of Logo

"As Detroit goes, so goes the nation under Democrats."


The stock and gold markets may be sniffing the stink of rotting debt in the U.S.

Australian financial writer Greg Canavan reports that foreign investors are spurning U.S. debt instruments.

We are headed for a reckoning and, despite all of the warnings, no one in Washington appears the least bit interested in stopping the train before it goes off the cliff.


Larwyn's Linx: The Dems Rally Their Legions of Haters for 2014

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Nation

The Dems Rally Their Legions of Haters for 2014: Power Line
Full Hour Fox Special: Mark Levin “The Liberty Amendements” : Ramparts
The 25 Stupidest Liberal Quotes of the Last Decade: John Hawkins

The United States Constitution vs. Barack Obama: Voting American
McAuliffe on scandal: I don’t know anything, I was just in charge: Hot Air
Overpasses For Obama’s Impeachment Continues: Nice Deb

Obama whines about GOP confusing people about Obamacare: RWN
Obama: Health Insurance a ‘Right’: Rick Moran
Police tells conservative rally to quiet down for Islamonazi prayers: GWP

Economy

Student’s Back-To-Campus Survival Guide for Conservative Scholars: CI
I asked the NSA for its file on me, and here's what I got back: Kevin Collier
The Most Important Question in Politics: Who Decides?: Scott Rasmussen

Scandal Central

Attkisson’s FOIA Request For Benghazi Documents Denied: WZ
Chicago Comptroller Indicted in Ohio: Second City Cop
Vote Fraud: 163 poll workers in Ohio retired because of a "high error" rate (read fraud): John R. Lott

Hillary Spokesman Caught Lying About Hillary’s Benghazi Terrorism Denial: Daniel Greenfield
'True the Vote' Finds 173 Cases of Suspected Interstate Vote Fraud: WatchdogWire

Climate & Energy

Obama Planning to Circumvent Congress to Deliberately Drive Up Energy Prices: RWN
UN IPCC 95% Sure That All Warming Is Caused By Humans: RWN
Krauthammer: The Idea That Climate Change Is A Closed Issue Is "Arrogant And Anti-Scientific": RCP

Media

Yet Another Opportunity for the First White Al Sharpton: Moonbattery
Hating Cowboy Hats: Moonbattery
Suspect in Huntington Beach riots arrested after “liking” his photo on police dept’s Facebook page: Mandy Nagy

Judge Jeanine Pirro: ‘Mr. President, It Looks Like You Support Fanatical Muslims’: Nice Deb
Barack Obama vs Allen West God & Man in America: DTG
Movie Review – HATING BREITBART: Glob

World

The Narrative Implodes: Richard Fernandez
Critics Slam Muslims for the 9/11/13 Scheduling of Million-Muslim March in DC: Publius
Pic of The Day: Egyptian Copts Pray Inside Church Torched By The Muslim Brotherhood: WZ

Crush the Muslim Brotherhood: Daniel Greenfield
Careers Destroyed by Failure to Conform to Liberal Homophilia: Moonbattery
In Saudi Arabia, a whip for words: MorningJournal

Sci-Tech

Internet Traffic Plunges By 40% As Google Goes Dark For Five Minutes: ZH
Facebook ignored security bug, researcher used it to post details on Zuckerberg's wall: Tom Warren
NASA shares lessons learned from Google+ Hangouts: Fierce Govt IT

Cornucopia

New product for Gun Control Cultists and other “Progressives”: GunFreeZone
Who Are You Going to Believe, Me or Your Lion Eyes?: MOTUS
Bob Filner on the Big Screen!!!: Morlock Revolt

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QOTD: "I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent." --Thomas Paine, 23 December 1776, "The Crisis"

Saturday, August 17, 2013

As Egypt Burns, President Obama Cycles Into Action

Okay, you got me: the President isn't doing anything about Egypt, other than asking his State Department to support the Muslim Brotherhood. Here's the President taking quick action after word that hundreds have been slaughtered in Egypt:


Oh. And besides those decisive actions, the President met with writer/actor Larry David. On the golf course. For the 140th time.


Reminder: "John Kerry: Don’t ‘Prejudge’ The Muslim Brotherhood"

FANTASTIC: It turns out that Democrats destroyed the entire health care system to insure, like, 3 extra people

"“If you’re one of the 30 million Americans who don’t yet have health insurance, starting in 2014, this law will offer you an array of quality, affordable, private health insurance plans to choose from." --Barack Obama, 28 June 2012

The CBO has done another assessment of Obamacare: it finds that ClusterCare will leave, uhm, 30 million people uninsured:

A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report says that under the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, 30 million non-elderly Americans will remain without health insurance in 2022.

One of the main arguments the Obama administration made for passing the Affordable Care Act was that it would provide coverage for the uninsured.

...Under Obamacare, 8 percent of legal U.S. residents will remain without health insurance in 2022, according to CBO... The report was done to assess the fiscal impact of the Supreme Court June Obamacare decision.

“CBO and JCT [Joint Committee on Taxation] now estimate that the ACA, in comparison with prior law before the enactment of the ACA, will reduce the number of nonelderly people without health insurance coverage by 14 million in 2014 and by 29 million or 30 million in the latter part of the coming decade, leaving 30 million nonelderly residents uninsured by the end of the period,” the report said.

“Before the Supreme Court’s decision, the latter number had been 27 million,” states the report.

As a result of the Supreme Court decision, states are no longer obligated under Obamacare to expand eligibility for their Medicaid programs.

Let me get this straight: Democrats destroyed the entire health care system to insure, like, 3 extra people?

Tell Congress: sign the petition -- Don't Fund Obamacare. Stop it now.


COLOR MRI SCANS: Your Brain Before and After a 20-Minute Walk

Interesting verification of the synergy between mental and physical health.

This great graphic is really an MRI of the brain. It was posted by Maria Popova on her always stimulating blog, Explore. The MRI was provided by Dr. Chuck Hillman from the University of Illinois...


...It shows that after a 20-minute walk there is increased brain activity and the particular type of activity is generally associated with happiness.

It is a useful reminder of the interconnectedness of the mind and body (with apologies to the usual dualism presented). It is also a good reminder that by exercising our bodies, we also reinvigorate of brains.

Interestingly, Biff Spackle was able to secure an MRI scan of a typical progressive's brain.



Hat tip: BadBlue Money.