Saturday, September 07, 2013
Eric Holder Perverts the Department of Justice to Turn Texas Into a Blue State Through Rampant Vote Fraud
Voting Rights: While the Department of Justice sues Texas over its Voter ID law, analysis of Georgia's 2008 statute shows turnout increased among all groups, including blacks and Hispanics. Jim Crow, call your office.
When on June 25 the U.S. Supreme Court freed southern states from the most onerous part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, ruling that continuing certain requirements could not be justifiably based on past voter suppression but could be justified only if current discrimination against minorities could be proved, the decision did not sit well with Eric Holder's Department of Justice.
In August, DOJ's civil rights division — the same bunch that dropped the case of a group of New Black Panthers wearing military garb and carrying billy clubs as they stood outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008 — filed suit against the state of Texas. In it, the government said it would not allow the Supreme Court's decision to be interpreted as open season for states to pursue measures that suppress voting rights.
In its suit, DOJ also contends that Texas adopted a voter identification law with the purpose of denying or restricting the right to vote on account of race, color or membership in a language minority group. Under Texas law, Holder said, "Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them — and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them."
Holder called such fees "poll taxes," a mechanism once used by southern states to keep poor minorities from voting.
Holder's problem is that the Supreme Court has already ruled that requiring photo IDs to vote — as required, for example, at the 2012 Democratic National Convention — does not constitute an undue burden on minorities since the requirement and any fees are applied to all voters equally.
Larwyn's Linx: ZoNation: “What can Republicans do for the black community?”
Nation
ZoNation: “What can Republicans do for the black community?”: ScoopMatt Drudge Asks Our Questions About Republican Leaders: CHQ
Boehner to retire before 2014 elections?: FAM
Obama Administration: Its Incompetence Is Historic: Michael Barone
One Year Later: Camp Bastion Families Still Fighting for Truth: Michelle Malkin
A New Contract With America: John Hawkins
Economy
No. of Gov’t Workers Up 324K in One Month, Private Sector Down 278K: CNSPoland Confiscates Half Of Private Pension Funds to Cut Debt Load: ZH
Schools send students home with “fat letters” classifying them as obese: RedAlert
Here Comes Another Debt Ceiling Showdown: Bill Straub
The US job market is dead in the water and not getting better: Jim Pethokoukis
DHS Allocates a Billion Dollars For Explosives Storage Magazines: NC Renegade
Scandal Central
Patriot Act Author Says NSA Is Abusing Spy Law: David KravetsBenghazi Reflections: Left to Die: DiploMad (2012)
Senators Voting for Syria Strike Got More Defense Cash: David Kravets
Climate & Energy
Must-Read Article about Germany’s Green-Energy Disaster: Daniel J. MitchellMedia
14 Principled Anti-War Celebrities We Fear May Have Been Kidnapped: John EkdahlNon-Black America Experiences a Paradigm Shift: John Ross
Obama decries use of chemical weapons against kids — unless they’re unborn: Twitchy
World
Just to help Congress decide on Syria, here’s a picture of the rebels blowing up our Capitol: ConIntelSyrian Rebel spokesman IS Muslim Brotherhood: Walid Shoebat
Hamas “Dead Baby” Strategy: Dershowitz
Stammering Obama Assures World: 'This Is Not Something We've Fabricated': Breitbart
GOP Congressman Withdraws Support For U.S. Attack On Syria: RCP
Envious of JFK, Obama Seeks His Own Bay of Pigs Fiasco: DiploMad
Sci-Tech
NSA’s Efforts to Undermine Encryption Include Backdoors, Stolen Keys, Manipulated Standards: Kim ZetterFacebook's biggest threat: Too many people like it: Richard Nieva, CNet
Uber offering DeLorean rides in San Francisco this weekend: Chris Welch, Verge
Cornucopia
You Go to War with the Clowns You’ve Got: MOTUSHi, I'm Steve: Zilla
Smart power? Obama’s team thought US might win Iran’s support against Syria: Twitchy
Image: Syrian Rebels' Motivation
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QOTD: "[N]on-compliance is an insult to [the progressives'] intellect and their authority.
It's a big part of why they hate guns. When you are armed you are intruding on the state's monopoly on violence by reserving to yourself your own self-governance and police power. It's why so many on the left loathe the tax-exempt status for churches. It's why they hate homeschooling. When you homeschool you are opting out of the state's efforts at imposing its preferred worldview on your children. It's why Chik-fil-A has to be singled out, why religious institutions have to pay for birth control, why the Race for the Cure had to keep giving to Planned Parenthood. It's why federalism is anathema to liberals and why I keep saying that "rightwing" is simply one of the Left's preferred terms for "non-compliant."" --Jonah Goldberg
Friday, September 06, 2013
Anti-War Leftist Michael Tomasky Makes Startling and Courageous Transformation to Pro-War Chickenhawk
Do you think the vast majority of American’s that do not want to get involved with Syria. Do you think it can be a lack of confidence in this Administration?It is not like this administration has not lied before. Look at the job report today. We have been lied to and spind around on the economy for 5 years. (yes I know Bush’s fault). We have been lied to about Fast & furious (I know Bush’s fault). We have been lied to about Benghazi (I know Bush’s fault). We have been lied to about the IRS (I know it was Bush’s fault). We have been lied to about Obamacare (I know it is Bush’s fault). We have been lied to about the NSA (I know Bush’s fault). We have been lied to about Immigration (I know Bush’s fault). We have seen the level of incompetence on the Gulf Oil Spill, Boston (terror)…Bush’s fault. We have seen the level of incompetence when it comes to Egypt ( Muslim Brotherhood) Lybia (Extremists / Anarchy), hell the whole middle east….not to mention Iran is that much closer to being nuclear.
I know it is all Bush’s fault.
But with this track record, why should we trust them this time? Obviously Bush will screw this one up also, no?
Fail-clown Ezra Klein hardest hit.
John Ekdahl sounds the alarm: highly principled, anti-war Hollywood celebrities are missing and we fear the worst
Our government is yet again marching us towards a war of choice in the Middle East and our non-partisan, peace-loving celebrities have gone missing since late 2008. We fear the worst.
The only explanation for their continued silence must be a large, organized kidnapping. To whoever is responsible for their disappearance, please post pictures of them holding a recent newspaper so we know they’re okay.
Hackneyed, but true: read the whole thing.
Prepare to have your Hypocrisy-Meter shattered.
RESET OR BLUE-SCREEN? USA Today Headline: "Putin calls Kerry a liar on Syria"
Things aren't exactly warming up between the Obama administration and Vladimir Putin, even as President Obama arrived in St. Petersburg for the G-20 summit.
Putin called Obama Secretary of State John Kerry a liar over Kerry's testimony this week before Congress.
The question may be al-Qaeda's influence on the Syrian rebels, an issue Kerry has downplayed.
Speaking to his human rights council Wednesday, Putin said, "This was very unpleasant and surprising for me. We talk to them (the Americans), and we assume they are decent people, but he is lying and he knows that he is lying. This is sad."
Putin has criticized Obama administration claims that Bashar Assad's government attacked the rebels with chemical weapons.
Last month, Obama canceled a summit meeting with Putin after a series of U.S.-Russian disputes, including Russia's decision to grant asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
Word has it that President Obama plans to issue a sternly worded memo to express his dissatisfaction with Putin's remarks.
Got Cold War?
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Roll Call Embarrassment Taegan Goddard Still Shilling for Obamacare While Unions, Congress and Special Interests Freak Out
Consider his utterly bizarre story entitled "Obamacare Fixed the Health Care Market". In a sense, that may be true, but only if the word "fixed" is used as it is in the sentence "we had the dog fixed".
Paul Krugman explains why it is no surprise that President Obama’s health care reform law is pushing down health insurance premiums.
“Until now there has been sort of a market — but one that…is riddled with problems. It was very hard for individuals to figure out what they were buying… Price and quality comparisons were near-impossible. Under these conditions the magic of the marketplace couldn’t work — there really wasn’t a proper market.”
“With the ACA, however, insurers operate under clear ground rules, with clearly defined grades of plan and discrimination banned. The result, suddenly, is that we have real market competition.”
Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to completely debunk Krugman's corrupt nonsense. In fact, even a trained chimpanzee can be taught to use a search engine and arrive at some conclusions concerning the impact of Obamacare on health insurance, premiums and employment. But, then again, a trained chimpanzee isn't a propagandist and Taegan Goddard is; therefore he must ignore the tidal wave of news stories that decimate his DNC-approved detritus.
9/5: List of 258 Firms Cutting Workers and Hours Due to Obamacare (Investors)
9/5: Obama rewrites health care law to exempt employers from mandate (Reuters)
9/5: New Mexico will see 130 percent premium hikes due to Obamacare: (Manhattan Institute)
9/4: AFL-CIO President Trumka Slams Obamacare's Restructuring of Workforces (Al Jazeera)
9/4: Obama Grants Congress an Exemption From His Health Care Overhaul (WSJ)
9/4: In 13 States Plus D.C., Obamacare Will Increase Health Premiums By 24% (Forbes)
9/4: ObamaCare Is Turning Us Into A Part-Time Nation (Forbes)
9/4: Low-cost 'bronze' plans under health law could leave some consumers with big medical bills (Minneapolis)
9/3: Health insurance in Madison area will up to 125 percent higher (WXOW-19)
9/3: Kroger Cuts Health Benefits For Spouses (BizJournals)
9/3: Union dumps AFL-CIO for its positions on ObamaCare, immigration reform (Fox)
9/3: Obamacare Could Cost Hawaii Millions for 'Cadillac' Healthcare Plans (Honolulu)
These are just a few of the choice headlines related to Obamacare's unfolding devastation. Worse still, the tens of thousands of pages of laws, regulations and diktats have yet to be finalized; in truth, the law really hasn't even kicked in yet.
Medicare is going bankrupt. Medicaid is going bankrupt. Social Security is going bankrupt. The Trustees of these systems, along with the GAO and the OMB keep sounding the alarms in increasingly dire terms.
And as these programs run dry, as interest rates spike, as Obamacare collapses, as the federal leviathan -- which borrows 40 cents of every dollar to operate -- implodes, cheerleaders for collectivism like Taegan Goddard are this era's useful idiots.
We are headed rapidly for an economic whirlpool, a hydraulic that will -- like chaotic events that have occurred throughout history -- catch most off-guard and send the country rapidly into desperately dangerous, uncharted waters.
And which segments of the population will be hardest hit by such an economic catastrophe? Will it be the super-rich, the Beltway elites, or former Presidents of the U.S.? Or will it be the poor, seniors living on fixed incomes, and young people trying to get their careers started?
Taegan Goddard is a disgrace. He is a marketer of central planning, of Soviet-style industrial policy that can't work, won't work and has never worked in all of human history. And yet he brays on as the system disintegrates, leaving future generations on the hook for his egregious failures.
History will not look kindly on this disgraceful excuse for a journalist. He should hang his head in shame.
Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.
Larwyn's Linx: The Citizen of the World Presidency
Nation
The Citizen of the World Presidency: Elliott AbramsObama's Smoking Gun Syrian Evidence was Doctored?: Nice Deb
Limbaugh: Obama's flip-flop so bad it's "psychopathic": Jason Howerton
How Amnesty Goes Away: Mickey Kaus
Amendments for Liberty : Hans A. von Spakovsky
Organizing for Action acting to avoid organizing over #Syria.: Moe Lane
Obama shows up late, alone at dinner hosted by Putin at G20: FAM
Drawing Inside the (Red) Lines: DiploMad
Voters explode on John McCain at town hall over Syria: Blaze
Economy
ObamaCare Employer Mandate: A List Of Cuts To Work Hours, Jobs: IBDU.S. Report Makes Case for Food Stamp Increase: JW
Fliers target Portland neighbors on food stamps: KPTV
Labor unions turning on Democrats: Bill McMorris
Study: “Longest Period of Economic Decline in American History”: Mac Slavo
Obamacare foes wrong about impact on employment--or just early?: Peth
Scandal Central
Obama Circumvents Immigration Law Again: Keith KofflerSpecial Ops Vet Group Wants Truth About Benghazi Before Syria Strike: Breitbart
NRA joins ACLU lawsuit against NSA spying, fearing gun registry: Bearing Arms
Climate & Energy
Former senior EPA adviser Beale expected to plead guilty in $900,000 pay fraud: WaPoMedia
Poll Results: Conservative Bloggers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bombing Syria: RWNKerry: Syrian Opposition Mostly Moderates. Reality: No They Aren't: Ace
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans: EIB
On Syria, I Respectfully Dissent: Andrew C. McCarthy
Liberals in the Media Upset About Obama Sign... On An Outhouse: John Hawkins
Ana Marie Cox Gets Leveled by Mark Levin: Breitbart
World
Putin Puts Obama in Hot Seat: ‘What Will You Do If Rebels Using Chemical Weapons?’: Raymond IbrahimAl Qaeda-Linked Syrian Rebels: We'll Slaughter Christians Once U.S. Helps Us Win: TPNN
The Stupidity Of Chemical Weapons As Justification To Attack Syria: Herschel Smith
War-Mongering Hypocrites: Lone-Star Watchdog
Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family: DC
CIA Evidence of ‘Horrendous’ Syrian Atrocities Will Be Given to Senators: Niels Lesniewski
Obama’s Syrian Adventure: Is ‘Arab Spring’ Fantasy Still in Play?: Roger Kimball
Syria: Charlie Daniels
Saudi Arabia must choose freedom: The Hill
Sci-Tech
How to remain secure against NSA surveillance: Bruce SchneierQualcomm Toq smartwatch (pictures): CNet
Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection: ABC Australia
Cornucopia
No Matter How Hard We Run, We Can Never Escape Our Childhood Breakfast Cereals: AceDreams of His Arab Communist Father: 90 Miles
D.C. cops under orders to arrest tourists with empty bullet casings: Exam
Image: iOwnTheWorld
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QOTD: "Perhaps the only thing more absurd than our president is his band of followers and apologists. Like faithful brainless and gutless Orwellian caricatures they follow along with every bend, twist, deletion, and redaction of the record. It appears that liberals have both short-term and long-term memory loss, and do not realize that in today's digital age, stupid words are forever.
This Syrian mess was built by Obama; it is an annex to the mess he and Hillary made in North Africa and is compounded by how they threw away our gains in Iraq in exchange for nothing.
If Obama cannot handle this, do you think he can handle Iran?" --W. Lewis Amselem
Thursday, September 05, 2013
KRAUTHAMMER: Left Mocked Bush For Going Into Iraq With 50 Allies But "Obama Can't Even Get One And A Half"
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer blasts the liberal establishment for mocking the Bush administration at the time that the United States intervened in Iraq. He compared actions in that conflict to the Obama administration's inability to unite America's allies in the present Syria situation:
"I don't think it is a sudden embrace of the separation of powers or a renewed interest in constitutional action in which he brings in the Congress.
On domestic issues, he hasn't shown any interest in that, and all of a sudden he develops religion on the eve of the supposed strike. The reason is, he was alone and naked in the world.
He didn't have Russia, he didn't have the U.N., didn't have the Security Council, he didn't have the Arabs who, yes, very much oppose but won't lift a finger and didn't even approve in the resolution of the Arab League support for unilateral or any kind of action against them, military action against Syria, and he lost our closest ally in Britain.
He had nobody. Here are Obama and the Democrats who mocked the Bush administration for unilateral intervention In Iraq where we had a coalition of almost 50 countries and he can't get one and a half. So he had to have the Congress, that's the reason he did that switch in the end. He knew how alone he was and how he needed cover."
Anti-war progressives Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Harry Reid -- to name but a few -- all now support war in Syria. This gang of chickenhawks (always a favorite term during the Bush era) are banging the drums of war even though we have no idea whether anyone actually used chemical weapons and, if they were used, who used them; or who we're fighting for; or what the goal is; or whether a regional or global conflict will result; or how blowing up some camels helps U.S. national security interests.
All of those factors don't matter. This is about saving face for Barack Obama and keeping the attention off the litany of scandals -- Benghazi, IRS, NSA, James Rosen and AP wiretaps, Fast and Furious, and dozens more -- engulfing the administration.
These Democrat hacks are the worst of the worst. In fact, if the field of politics didn't exist, I find it difficult to imagine how they would earn honest livings.
Which reminds me of Mark Twain's famous missive: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.
What Do We Stand For?
At the very edge of oblivion, some men reflect, and some men snivel and cry. I have spent many years now studying the societal strengths and failings of modern American culture, and I have to say, that most citizens within our once grand Republic will do far less reflecting and much more crying when the bell tolls. This is not to say that I believe the fight is lost. Far from it. In fact, I would consider myself an optimist amongst many of my peers in the Liberty Movement as to our chances of defending Constitutional freedom today. There is a very strong core within our country that still embraces the ideals of individualism and independence. The problem is, those who are awake face each day surrounded by lunatics and and the giggling blind. It's difficult to find solace within the asylum of the “mainstream”, and so, we begin to assume we are alone.
Even worse, we sometimes have to deal with misguided and biased persons that join the Liberty Movement, not to stand upon any solid fundamental principles, but who seek to impress their own twisted world views upon us as if they “know better”. You would think that the concept of freedom would be simple to understand and grasp, but for some, it is like plunging into a trigonometric wonderland of confusion.As the U.S., led by the Obama Administration, moves towards yet another possible war in the Middle East, using covert terrorists as proxies and enacting violent policy based on dubious or non-existent evidence and far flung accusations, I realize that with all the blathering voices out there telling us what to think, what to do, what to fear, who to admire, who to worship, how to live, and what to aspire, perhaps it is time for each of us to solemnly question what we stand for, and what America is supposed to stand for?
Really, think about it. What are we here for? What purpose do we serve in the grand scheme of things? What are our defining principles?
Have we lost track of ourselves as Americans so completely that we cannot even explain in a reasonable fashion what kind of people we want to be, and what kind of world we want to live in? Are we so busy squabbling with each other that we have no time to examine the foundation upon which we all rely?
INFURIATING: Senate to Vote on Air Support for Al Qaeda on 9/11
President Obama cleared his first hurdle on Wednesday in his push for a military strike in Syria, as a key Senate panel voted to authorize the use of force... The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-7, with one senator voting present, to approve a military strike in response to a deadly chemical weapons attack last month.
The Senate now plans to return early from recess and meet Friday to file the resolution, setting up a key test vote in the full chamber as early as next Wednesday [9/11].
Josh Rogin reports that Harry Reid and Democrats in the Senate are violating the rules to cover for Obama's embarrassing 'red line' gaffe.
Senate Democratic leadership tossed aside the rules for moving legislation with regard to the resolution authorizing the use of military force against Syria, angering some Republicans and creating confusion on Capitol Hill in the run-up to the war vote ... some GOP Senate offices are upset with what they see as a rush by Democratic leadership to pass the war authorization outside the rules that govern how legislation goes through the committee process.
“This is a rush to war behind closed doors,” one senior GOP Senate aide said. “We were told there was a need to have a thoughtful and public debate about how this nation goes to war, but this seems to be about simply getting a resolution done to cover the president.”
A rush to war to "cover [for] the president"?
A rush to war to support Al Qaeda on, of all dates, 9/11?
And what are John Boehner and Eric Cantor doing? Well, like clockwork they continue to ignore the will of the people -- who oppose Syrian intervention by overwhelming margins -- to help cover for a failed president.
Meanwhile, where does the House stand with the NSA Scandal, the Benghazi investigation, the IRS Scandal, the investigation into DOJ wiretapping of reporters and their families?
Meanwhile, where does the House stand with defunding Obamacare, the Continuing Resolution, or the Debt Ceiling debacles that face us in mere weeks?
Meanwhile, what was Boehner's priority prior to the Syrian diversion? Amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Michael Walsh is right: we have a "partisan fusion party."
And no one in Washington represents "we, the people" any longer.
Hat tip: BadBlue News. Artwork: MattrosArt
Egyptian Newspaper Depicts President Obama as the Devil
Popular and widely read Egyptian newspaper Al Wafd published the above picture today portraying U.S. President Barrack Hussein Obama as Satan himself. The unflattering picture has been making the rounds on Facebook in the Middle East and, according to Al Wafd, is representative of the hatred growing numbers of people in the region have for the American president, thanks to his staunch and unwavering support for Islamists and jihadiis — whether in Nigeria, Libya, Egypt, or Syria — even as they terrorize, murder, rape, and burn down Christian churches, that is, even as they engage in diabolical activities.
Remember when President Obama was going to repair the image of the United States in the Muslim world while bringing peace to the Middle East?
Good times. Good times.
Now we appear to be only a couple of prophecies away from the apocalypse.
Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.
In a single paragraph, a commenter destroys the National Journal's Matthew Cooper and his 'no voting fraud' fantasies
...voter-ID laws generally represent an answer in search of a problem. There just isn't much evidence of voter fraud...
...Civil-rights groups have been apoplectic about these laws, saying that they are discriminatory. And they would seem to have a pretty good case, as there's no fraud epidemic and those who would have the hardest time complying with the law are poor and minorities. That's because minorities and the poor are much less likely to have the kind of government-issued photo IDs that some states require...
Commenter Raphael Semmes shreds Cooper's nonsense:
This article makes me lose respect for your publication. Most democracies in the world require a photo voter ID, and it is part and parcel of democracy. I have personally been an accredited international election observers in six foreign elections where the country had long required photo ID to vote. There was no suggestion at any time from ANY side that this produced any ''vote suppression'' whatsoever. What it produced was an honest vote. Republicans are quite right to protect our election process, and Democrats are scoundrels to demagogue this issue. I have also worked in an election campaign, in the 4th district of North Carolina in 1972, where the election was stolen by voter fraud, so I get the fact that this is a problem that needs to be corrected.
It would seem Cooper missed the story about the "Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud."
And the fact that more than 50 people employed by or linked with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud.
During the 2008 election cycle alone, ACORN was linked to as many as 600,000 bogus voter registrations. Combined with their tactics of encouraging early voting and use of absentee ballots, it is an indisputable fact that ACORN was and is responsible for widespread election fraud.
17 seconds using Google would have allowed an honest journalist to investigate vote fraud (the elections of JFK and LBJ being archetypes of Democrat vote fraud).
But because this is National Journal -- and some hack named "Matthew Cooper" -- we're talking about, any connection to the truth is purely coincidental.
Related: If you read the list of things you need an ID to do, you would -- if you had an ounce of intellectual honesty -- admit that the entire bogus voter ID controversy is about one thing: the Democrats' insatiable desire to destroy the integrity of the ballot box.
Larwyn's Linx: Obama lies to the world: I didn’t set a red line
Nation
Obama lies to the world: I didn’t set a red line: ScoopCommunity Organizer Goes to War: Ann Coulter
Obama, Shifting From ‘Forward’ to ‘For War’: Jim Geraghty
Endgame: It’s time to bomb Syria, says … Howard Dean: Hot Air
Mr. President Massachusetts Abstains, Courteously: DTG
“It doesn’t matter which way you go, so long as I get somewhere.”: MOTUS
Boehner’s Syria Surrender: Matthew Vadum
Meet the Syrian Islamist Group Controlling John McCain’s Agenda: FPM
Gold Star Mom Slams Poker Player McCain: Ben Shapiro
Economy
A nation of dependent Julias (and Julians): James PethokoukisWI public pension system struggles to earn a living: SAB
Patricia Heaton tweets video of professor’s anti-Republican rant: Twitchy
Scandal Central
GOP Congressman Goes After John Kerry Hard On Benghazi: John HawkinsBenghazi Mention Sparks Fireworks in Syria Hearing: Matt Fuller, Roll Call
WH rebrands controversial immigration post to skirt funding cut-off: Fox
Climate & Energy
Taking the EPA to Court: News-RegisterGold miners cry foul over 'heavy-handed' EPA raids: Alaska Dispatch
Media
The Blasphemy Police: Mark SteynOh My: NY Times Notes The Brutality From Syrian Rebels: STACLU
‘Political Comedian’ Embarrasses Himself at CNN: C4P
World
Million Muslim March Organizers Delete Extremist Posts: Ryan MauroPutin Lashes Out, Accuses Kerry Of Lying To Congress: ZH
House panel debate raises new doubts on Syria resolution: MarineCorpsTimes
Syrian Rebels Attack, Shell Christian Village: Bryan Preston
John McCain: a Senile, Drooling Old Fool Setting National Security Policy: Robert Spencer
Jabhat al-Nusra Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack: Paul Joseph Watson
Sci-Tech
The CIA's Grand Challenges with Big Data - Structure:Data 2013: GigaOmThe End of Email As We Know It: John Herrman, BuzzFeed
Zeus copy machine hits Kickstarter with all-in-one 3D printer, scanner and fax: Sean Buckley, Engadget
Cornucopia
Operation Call Your “Representatives”: AWDHow About A Beer Summit With Syria? Didn’t Think So…: SHN
Blurred Red Lines: iOTW
Image: House panel debate raises new doubts on Syria resolution
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QOTD: "This is a monster failure, an absolute massive failure on John Boehner’s part. This is a couple of debt ceiling negotiations ago- only a trillion or two ago- where John Boehner just basically went to the White House and said ‘debt doesn’t really matter, I am not willing to use shutting down the government as a tool. I will not even threaten it, I will not do it.’ And so Barack Obama has been pushing him around since then and it really is travesty for conservatives to have somebody in there like John Boehner who is really not an effective leader." --David Bossie
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Obama: I Didn't Build That Red Line, World Government Did!
President Barack Obama repeatedly denied Wednesday that he ever set a “red line” against the use of chemical weapons in Syria, and he insisted that the “world community” and Congress created the so-called red line, and should enforce the line.
“I didn’t set a red line,” he insisted to reporters at a press conference in Sweden Wednesday morning.
“The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent of the world’s population said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a [1993] treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war,” he said.
“Congress set a red line when it indicated that — in a piece of legislation [in 2003] titled the Syria Accountability Act that some of the horrendous things that are happening on the ground there need to be answered for,” he said.
MOTUS offers the following perspective (via Thomas Lifson):
This new tact is no doubt the work of his old trusted team of really big brains: the Axelrod, Gibbs, Plouffe and Favreau Brain Squad (BS) team was called into an emergency session yesterday to "coordinate the administration's message strategy on Syria," as it continued to spin totally out of control, i.e., Big Guy's favorability polls are dropping like rockets. Because everyone knows that what we need now, more than a strategy, is a messagestrategy.Maybe the BS would be better utilized going to work for General Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who's still unable to tell Congress exactly what the U.S. is seeking to accomplish in Syria. (snip)
This turn of tables is clearly the result of having called in the Brain Squad (BS) whose sole strategy in the past has been to blame stuff on everybody else. BO then criticized the do-nothing Congress for dithering on the authorization of his "Syria Accountability Act" or, as ACE calls it, "Operation Enduring Hesitation." And while the BS team likes that turn of phrase, they've softened it to "Operation Enduring Dithering."
Wut, wut?
There were several "red lines" on the walls of the Benghazi compound, ain't that right Rep. Chickenhawk, @NancyPelosi?
— Doug Ross (@directorblue) August 31, 2013
Mexican Border Town's Black-Clad, Blonde Vigilante Said to be Avenging Brutal Deaths of Innocent Women
Like a character from a graphic novel, she dresses in black, has unusually blond hair — and kills bus drivers who sexually assault women.
In a place like Ciudad Juarez, known for its years of brutal killings of women, the story has inexorable appeal. But how much of it is true?
Authorities are taking the reports seriously enough to investigate and have posted undercover cops on buses. Women’s advocates say they wouldn’t be surprised if someone finally had taken long-denied justice into her own hands.
Two bus drivers were slain in the last week, and over the weekend an electronic message claiming responsibility was sent to several news outlets.
“You think because we are women we are weak, and maybe we are,” the message says. “But only to a certain point.... We can no longer remain quiet over these acts that fill us with rage.
“And so, I am an instrument who will take vengeance.”
Signed: Diana, Huntress of Bus Drivers.
The message says women who work the night shifts in Juarez’s enormous maquiladora industry repeatedly fall prey to the bus drivers on whom they must rely to get home in the dark.
For now, at least, there is no way to verify the veracity of the message, whether it was written by the actual killer or killers of the bus drivers, whether Diana the Huntress really exists, or even whether she is a she.
What is clear is that for the last two decades, hundreds of women, many of them maquiladora workers, have been killed or have gone missing in Ciudad Juarez. Some disappeared after boarding buses, their raped and tortured bodies later found dumped in the desert. Few of the cases are ever resolved, and families have endlessly protested the lack of justice for their daughters, sisters and mothers...
Human rights activists in the region said that police appeared to be investigating the avenger much more diligently than the rapists.
And, by all means, let's keep those borders open, Democrats!
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Suddenly Pro-War Pacifist Howard Dean Helps Feed Every Loopy Syria Conspiracy Theory Imaginable
...just a month after [Obama] drew his (blurry) 'red line' on chemical weapons in Syria...
...Who knows if who, what, or anything threatened the ... Daily Mail, but the now-scrubbed story (Jan 29, 2013) sure didn't fit the Obama-supporting narrative so prevalent on our side of the pond...
In fact, the United Nations says the rebels were using chemical weapons, not the Assad regime.
...According to UN diplomat Carla del Ponte, however, it appears that the recent chemical weapons attack, in April, was carried out by the Syrian rebels and not the regime, as it had been widely assumed. Speaking to a Swiss television channel, del Ponte said that there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels had carried out the attack. She also said UN investigators had seen no evidence of the Syrian army using chemical weapons, but that further investigation was needed...
The Daily Mail is not the only source of the reported false flag operation. No Quarter USA recently described the latest media-driven frenzy part of a PSYOPS campaign:
...It is highly unlikely that the Syrian Government authorized and ordered a chemical attack using the nerve agent Sarin against rebel strongholds in Damascus on the 21st of August. It appears that this incident was carried out, at a minimum, with the complicity of the United States and Great Britain.
An old friend who is well plugged into the area shared with me today that he learned of a meeting that took place on 15 August on Turkey’s border with Syria. It was between a Senior Turkish intelligence officer and a rebel aligned with the Free Syrian Army. A CIA officer also was attending but not “participating.” The rebel rep pressed for an urgent supply of weapons and announced, “there will shortly be an event that will lead the United States to strike inside Syria.”
Oh, and just like clockwork, the anti-war, Leftist nut Howard ("YEEEEEEHAHHHAHHHHAHHHAHAHHHAHHHHHH") Dean has transformed himself into Generalissimo Chickenhawk Dean and is now banging the drums of war.
These Leftist crackpots are the lowest of the low.
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No Republican who thinks seriously about America's national security interests -- by which I mean to exclude John McCain and Lindsey Graham -- can support Obama's "plan" to shoot blindly into this hornet's nest.
It would be completely different if we knew with absolute certainty that Assad was responsible for chemical attacks on his own people. (I'm still waiting to see if it was a Syrian upset about a YouTube video.)
It would be different if instead of killing a few hundred civilians, Assad had killed 5,000 civilians with poison gas in a single day, as well as tens of thousands more with chemical weapons in the past few decades.
It would be different if Assad were known to torture his own people, administer summary executions, rapes, burnings and electric shocks, often in front of the victim's wife or children.
It would be different if Assad had acted aggressively toward the United States itself, perhaps attempting to assassinate a former U.S. president or giving shelter to terrorists who had struck within the U.S. -- someone like Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood terrorist.
It would be different if Assad were stirring up trouble in the entire Middle East by, for example, paying bounties to the families of suicide bombers in other countries.
It would also be different if we could be sure that intervention in Syria would not lead to a multi-nation conflagration.
It would be different if we knew that any action against Syria would not put al-Qaida or the Muslim Brotherhood in power, but rather would result in a functioning, peaceful democracy.
And it would be different if an attack on Syria would so terrify other dictators in the region that they would instantly give up their WMDs -- say, Iran abandoning its nuclear program.
If all of that were true, this would be a military intervention worth supporting!
All of that was true about Iraq, but the Democrats hysterically opposed that war...
Led by none other than Barack Obama.
Read the whole thing. And memorize it.
Hey, Leftists: you gonna put some ice on that?
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
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QOTD: "Really, Congress? ...You're willing to bail out President Barack Obama after he's managed to set the Middle East on fire?
You're going give Obama cover after two years of Syrian civil war, a growing threat to Israel, a nuclear Iran closer than ever, and Egypt and Libya in chaos...all of which has been met with a shrug and “at this point what difference does it make?” nonchalance?
...He's being played by sand-trap dictators, Al Qaeda's bankers and Russian bad boys like some rube just fallen off the pumpkin truck...but please, go ahead and join him.
By all means, become a stakeholder in an ill-planned Administration policy with almost no possible good outcomes for the United States.
While you're at it, reward Obama and the Democrats' brazen, utterly shameless hypocrisy over war and Presidential power as if the last 10 years didn't happen..." --Rick Wilson
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
You know how Alaskans have dozens of words for "snow"? We conservatives need a similar variety for "hypocrite"
We need a similar level of variety for the word hypocrite, ranging from Holden Caulfield to Nancy Pelosi:
Isn't it funny..."peace-loving" liberals supporting war. #hypocrites #ccot #tcot pic.twitter.com/BPwXNI6Nax
— Mandy (@m_mgrant) September 3, 2013
In tabular form:
Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds reports that at Buzzfeed, memes were running 10-to-1 against Obama's rush to war. And notes one meme that Buzzfeed missed.
These Democrat and Republican establishment types are the lowest of the low.
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