Friday, January 10, 2014
I, for one, applaud the Democrats' war cry of "income inequality"
We should embrace income inequality as our rallying cry.
• Obama's $4 million Hawaii vacation.
• Michelle's $500k Hawaii extension.
• The multi-million dollar vaycay-cays to Africa
• The Spanish Riviera
• Her brother in Oregon
• Martha's Vineyard
• Broadway plays, playa
• Taxpayer-funded campaign trips on pretty much a weekly basis
• $1,000-a-plate dinners with rich entertainment f***s.
Eight of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround D.C.
All on King Putt's watch.
So yeah, by all means, let's talk about income inequality. And let's start with the Imperial Presidency and its explosive diarrhea dump on the middle class.
The Illustrated Adventures of NRSC Hitman Brad Dayspring!!
You want to send a message to the ruling class?
Support Matt Bevin and then watch the run on the Establishment GOP's Depends undergarments.
DISGUSTING AND DEPRAVED: Obama Appoints Convicted Cop Killer's Advocate to Department of "Justice"
Justice: The nominee to head the Department of Justice's civil rights division is a radical lawyer who fought to free from prison a cold-blooded killer of a Philadelphia cop.
On Dec. 9, 1981, Officer Danny Faulkner, 12 days from his 26th birthday, observed a car going the wrong way down a one-way street without its lights on.He pulled over the vehicle, and the driver, one William Cook, got out of the car and began wrestling with Faulkner.
Moments later, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Cook's brother (aka Wesley Cook), showed up at the scene with a .38-caliber handgun and opened fire, hitting Faulkner, eyewitnesses said, in the back.
Faulkner returned fire, wounding his assailant, who got off several more shots, including the one that hit Faulkner in the face at point-blank range, killing him.
Police found Faulkner fatally wounded and Abu-Jamal with a bullet wound in his chest and his .38-caliber handgun and five spent shell casings. Four eyewitnesses testified at his trial. A jury sentenced him to death.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 1995, and in 1998 it refused to grant his request for a new trial. In 1999 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Abu-Jamal's appeal.
In December 2001, a federal judge overturned his death sentence but upheld his conviction. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a second appeal in 2010.
The bullet in Abu-Jamal came from Faulkner's gun. The bullets in Faulkner came from Abu-Jamal's weapon, and the question of Abu-Jamal's guilt has never been a close call.
In a post on the Ventura County Star website, Faulkner's widow, Maureen, remembered Abu-Jamal, who, "when taken to a hospital after he slaughtered my husband, to remove a bullet shot in self-defense from my husband's gun, said in front of two witnesses, 'I shot the (blank), and I hope the (blank) dies.'"
His brother, William, has never testified to his brother's innocence though he was at the scene of the crime. Abu-Jamal himself chose not to testify in his own defense.
Nonetheless, Abu-Jamal soon became a poster child for Democrats and the liberal left as a symbol of the racial bias of the criminal justice system and of the death penalty.
Larwyn's Linx: The Single Biggest Thing You Can Do to Clean Up the Republican Party
Nation
Single Biggest Thing You Can Do to Clean Up the GOP: Erick EricksonBeware Left-Wing-Funded “Main Street” Republicans: Michelle Malkin
Obamacare: insurers have no idea who you are: Sister Toldjah
Chris Christie: gateway candidate for President Hillary: Gun Free Zone
NAACP Lawyer 'Honored to Represent' a Cop-Killer: J. Christian Adams
Trey Gowdy: No appetite for Amnesty in the House: Scoop
Future Health Care In America: The Abyss Of Gun Rights: Herschel Smith
The Cold War never ended: III Percent
White House: HIPAA Does Not Apply to Second Amendment: GSL
Economy
Promise Zones: Obama’s Marxist War on Poverty: Sara NobleSessions’ response to President’s “promise zones”: Minority Report
The Left's Necessary Lie: Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison
Escaping the rat maze of the welfare state: Jonah Goldberg
'Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record': HyScience
Congress to Obama: Amnesty ‘Final Economic Blow for Millions’: WFB
Scandal Central
The NSA Even Spies on Congress: Andrew Napolitano50 Years Hence: Reviewing LBJ’s War on “Transitional Living”: MOTUS
FreedomWorks CEO: New IRS Guidelines Target Tea Party and Exempt Unions: GWP
The Fix Is In: ‘Justice’ Department Appoints Obama Donor to Lead Obama IRS-gate Probe: JWF
Report: CO Senator Pressured Department to Falsify Insurance Cancellation Numbers: TruthRevolt
Surprise: Dem Rep from NY is 9/11 Truther, Plus Obamacare Support: Moe Lane
Climate & Energy
EPA Changes The Borders Of Wyoming; Governor Appeals Decision: GWPGlobal warming's glorious ship of fools: Mark Steyn
The unalarmed climate scientist: WS
Media
CNN’s Crowley: Why Would the Out-of-Work Vote Republican?: Larry ElderHow Dumb Is the NRSC's Brad Dayspring? This Dumb - Shoots At Mark Levin, Hits Self: Dan Riehl
The Urban Dictionary entry for “Kanye West Syndrome” is downright hilarious: Joshua Riddle
Your ♡bamaCare!!! Fail of the Day: Stephen Green
A Reddit Gun Lover Has A Hilarious Present For Anti-Gun Mother Jones: Sean Davis
Chris Christie's Bully Problem: Highway to Hell: Ruthfully Yours
DOJ Selects Obama Supporter To Lead IRS Investigation (MSM Yawns): Nice Deb
Correcting Mark Levin's Repeated Misrepresentation of James Madison: Joe Wolverton
Tenth Amendment Center’s Interpretation of Nullification Destroys Constitutional Compact: Jen Kuznicki
World
The Meaning of Fallujah: Michael LedeenObama Administration: Employees of Al Qaeda Aren’t Al Qaeda: Sara Noble
"Kerry Is Just Not in Touch with Reality": Daniel Pipes
Wasserman Schultz facing wrath of Jewish backers for support of Iranian nukes: BPR
Obama/Kerry using limitless leverage to emasculate Israel: Caroline Glick
France: Proud, Paranoid, and Unfree: Ace
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
What’s the Endgame for Social Media?: Clara ShihMicrosoft deals new blow to XP diehards by pulling malware protection: Daniel Robinson
Top 5 IT Risk Management Resolutions for 2014: Ericka Chickowski
Cornucopia
The American Ship of State: Nuking PoliticsNiagara Falls frozen: SMH
Caleb Jacoby, Son of Boston Globe Columnist Found Safe in New York: Algemeiner
Image: Niagara Falls frozen
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Shake up the GOP: Fire Mitch McConnell!
QOTD:"The Chamber of Commerce, the Main Street Partnership, the NRSC, and lobbyists galore in Washington are coordinating attacks on conservative groups and conservative candidates for daring to champion limited government and hold the GOP accountable for breaking promises. These groups have no interest in supporting limited government and free markets. They support their government and their markets with your tax dollars.
The GOP in Washington has decided that the problem is not government, but Democrats in charge of government. And they’ve decided to punish any conservative who points out government itself is the problem. Conservative groups are attacked by Republican leaders. Conservative candidates are attacked by Republican leaders. Conservative talk radio hosts are attacked by Republican leaders.
The single biggest thing you can do to clean up the GOP is to defeat Mitch McConnell in Kentucky by supporting Matt Bevin. The NRSC attacks all came after the Senate Conservatives Fund decided to support Bevin. The attacks on Mark Levin came after he spoke kindly of Matt Bevin. The attacks on conservative candidates came after Matt Bevin became a credible candidate.
All these attacks came because Mitch McConnell would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven. He would rather a Senate GOP minority with himself in charge than a Senate GOP majority with himself retired.
You beat Mitch McConnell, you will find many Republican squishes with squishy soiled underwear. Until you beat Mitch McConnell, these guys in Washington will neither respect you nor fear you." --Erick Erickson
Thursday, January 09, 2014
Still Life With Dichotomy
One of the nation's first recreational marijuana stores sold out of pot. @john_ingold pic.twitter.com/qzZjfrQ5ZA
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) January 9, 2014My health insurance now illegal:
Our health plan just got canceled thanks to #Obamacare. Anyone else feeling the pain? http://t.co/sTL8v26SVt
— Franklin Center (@FranklinCenter) January 10, 2014Hat tip: BadBlue News
Introducing the New People’s National Democrat Party™
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s inauguration last week was more than one man swearing an oath of office. It was the official declaration of a new Democrat Party. We have been told repeatedly that the Republicans are undergoing a massive re-branding effort but it’s been by no means as dramatic as the emergency re-branding efforts going on under the Democrat tent. De Blasio has effectively become the leader and national voice of the new direction of a party who has been flirting with this ideology for years now. They no longer fear the societal and American stigmatisim associated with socialist agendas. Because of one mayor’s election they now feel emboldened to inflict and unleash it.
Barack Obama and the DNC, with the help of their usual cohorts in the media are in the midst of attempting a magic trick. They are going to attempt to convince people that because of this President’s pro growth policies, the economy is finally stabilized enough to the point of increasing the federal minimum wage, while simultaneously making the argument that we need to extend government entitlements (Unemployment Insurance) for those unable to find a job. Breaking from usual tactics, they also aren’t being shy about this new strategy and their admitted stated goal is to paint the GOP as the party of inequality, economic disparity and the wealthy.There is inequality. There is disparity.
No one is disputing this.
The only problem for the New People’s National Democrat Party™ is they have been the ones in charge of this inequality and disparity for going on 7 years now.
The burning questions for this President, who just two weeks ago touted the economic success of his policies is this; If the economy is growing as it should be and the corner has been turned on the 5.4% unemployment rate hell of the George W. Bush years, why can’t anyone find a job? Why is income inequality growing? Why are the rich getting richer?
Why do we as a country need to perpetually renew unemployment insurance benefits beyond the rate of 99 weeks for families struggling if there are jobs readily available as his administration is claiming?
Obama two weeks ago said the American economy is poised to break through, just as it has been for the past 5 years. We are inundated with graph after graph showing the massive turn around from the brink of economic destruction Obama brought us all back from. On Jake Tapper’s The Lead , just yesterday, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said ”People are suffering because I have met them. They have gone to emergency situations”. This administration is readily admitting that we are in the depths of emergency unemployment situations. Direct quote.
The natural response from anyone being told to “Get a job” is “I’ve been trying” or “There are no jobs” .. Either our economy is growing or it isn’t..
Which is it?
The country cannot be both in such an amazing recovery that raising the minimum wage to $10.00 becomes completely logical while at the same time in such despair that unemployment benefits need to be made all but permanent to offset growing income inequality.If the Democrat party has decided to go full Warren & head over heals for de Blasio, it is only because it’s an admission that Barack Obama’s economic policies have failed and that it’s nothing more than a distraction from the fact that Barack Obama’s healthcare law has failed. This is the Democrat Party’s corporatization of Occupy Wall St.’s message with a media trying desperately to wring every last drop out of it. They have given up trying to promote liberty and prosperity and are settling into exploiting fear and entitlement. It’s a dangerous strategy right out of a comic book super villain’s handbook and one that must be understood and exposed. Their goal is no longer to lift people out of poverty but to willfully keep them dependent and therefore voting for them, all the way through the 2014 midterms. In three months when this new expansion fails, Harry Reid, Barack Obama and now Hillary Clinton will all argue for another 3 month expansion. Then another, and another.
The question for the GOP is are they going to put an end to this?
If the Democrat’s entire message becomes inequality, then inequality is needed for it to become successful. Financial and economic stability through gainful employment is no longer the goal. This is precisely the reason for Democrats pushing a minimum wage hike while simultaneously pushing more benefits of people not even in the workforce.Make it harder for private employers to hire people who already have a steady stream of income thanks to unemployment. Expert Presidential Debate Moderator Candy Crowley tried this exact strategy with Governor Scott Walker just last week and in doing so gave the entire game up for the progressive Democrat’s new talking point. Government dependency as a lifestyle and not as a stop gap.This is a dangerous trap being sprung on the GOP (and the country) but one that is easily avoidable if they would only push back against it. The messaging cannot and should not be about cutting unemployment benefits. The messaging should be why Democrats are pushing permanent unemployment to begin with. They are literally trying to tell the country that an economy based on individual employment can function and thrive on people being unemployed.
QOTD: Whoops!
It's worth reading, and then re-reading, this snippet courtesy of Jim Geraghty:Whoops: "U.S. officials have told the Washington Post that they believe that former Guantanamo Bay detainee and al-Qaeda-linked militant Abu Sufian bin Qumu was involved in the September 11 terrorist attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya — a claim specifically denied in the New York Times' report last week about the tragedy."
David D. Kirkpatrick hardest hit.
Related: BENGHAZI COMIX: Is This What Really Happened in D.C.?
Twitter Nirvana: Getting a Mention From The Shat
@AdamBaldwin #BathroomMovies Star Trek: The Captain's Log
— Doug Ross (@directorblue) January 9, 2014@AdamBaldwin @directorblue Sigh! Why do I follow you?
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) January 9, 2014Larwyn's Linx: “That’s as low as any president in our history has gone”
Nation
“That’s as low as any president in our history has gone”: ScoopDoes senior adviser Valerie Jarrett run America?: Dave Swindle
Establishment GOP Leaders Take The 30 Pieces Of Silver To Pass Amnesty: CHQ
U.S. Chamber of Commerce will oppose tea party candidates: Dan Riehl
Issa: Sebelius May Face Perjury Charges Over Obamacare Testimony: Nice Deb
IL Governor Quinn Addresses Terror-linked Islamic Conference: Creeping Sharia
The Nation: A State of Non-existence: Christian Mercenary
That was quick: Hillary Machine knocks down Christie: TAB
NJ: Say, our concealed carry laws are getting good people killed: Bob Owens
Economy
Democrats and their Pathetic Unemployment Decoy: Daniel HorowitzObama: America's Clear and Present Danger: Allen West
Brookings: Income inequality was actually getting better from 2000-2010: PJM
Define Income Inequality: Jonah Goldberg
Leftists Committed To Getting Their Grubby Paws On Your Kids Early: Tatler
Six lies millennials must reject: Walter Hudson
Scandal Central
Obama Donor Helped Free Terrorist Behind Benghazi Attack: Daniel GreenfieldLetter questions whether Boehner was briefed on Benghazi ops: Catherine Herridge
Police Union Blasts Obama For Choosing Cop Killer's Lawyer To Head DOJ Civil Rights Dept.: RWN
Climate & Energy
Obama Regime Issued Record 3,659 Economy-Crushing Regulations In 2013: WZChicago Colder Than South Pole as Frigid Air Clamps Down: Bloomberg
John Holdren in 1971: “New ice age” likely: Zombie
Media
Could We Get Some Immigrants Who Can Take A Poll?: Ann CoulterPolitico And BuzzFeed Are Non-Partisan?: Glob
Bridgegate: Christie releases statement after emails link aides to George Washington Bridge lane closures: 6ABC
Democrats ask Bloomberg to back off gun control push: AWR Hawkins
WashPost's Milbank Compares Talk of Impeaching Obama to 'Revenge Killing': Brad Wilmouth
The Ignorant Left: Instapundit
World
Is China copying the old imperial Japan?: Victor Davis HansonObama’s “Gates” of Hell Have Opened!: MOTUS
About 100 million Christians persecuted around the world: report: Reuters
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
The Lean UX Manifesto: Principle-Driven Design: Anthony VivianoEnjoy a Guided Tour Inside the E-4B NAOC Doomsday Plane: Aviationist
All The Best, Scientifically Verified, Information on Fukushima Impacts: Deep Sea News
Cornucopia
Give the Devil His Due: Blasted FoolsAmerica's Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil: Cube
Connecticut’s new gun and magazine registration law is already manufacturing crime: Bob Owens
Image: Chicago Colder Than South Pole as Frigid Air Clamps Down
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Bankrupt - a Movie About Detroit by Ben Howe
QOTD: "While many on the Left point to the labor market's weakness as justification for reinstating extended unemployment benefits, a simpler conclusion is that the economic recovery policies since 2008 have failed. In fact, even the White House recognizes that extended unemployment benefits will raise unemployment. The research the White House cites to advocate for 73 weeks of benefits implies that this will result on average in nearly 5 more weeks of unemployment per person in some states.
Congress should recognize the inherent ineffectiveness of trying to help people find work through a program that has evolved into a poorly operating welfare program, one that does little to help unemployed workers acquire new skills or relocate, and that has failed to deliver demonstrable results." --Alex Brill
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: Pivot to Jobs Edition
For your review, please consider: "Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants and the Employment Picture for Less-Educated Americans."
Suffice it to say that Obama's policies combined with Amnesty for illegal aliens will be catastrophic for the average working American.
As Obama Appeases Iran, its Terror Proxy Hezbollah Dramatically Upgrades Missile Threat To Israel
War On Terror: As we ease sanctions on Tehran and worry about Israeli condos on the West Bank, Iran and Syria are helping Hezbollah import strategic weapons systems into Lebanon, targeting our closest Mideast ally.
When Hezbollah launched a war against Israel in 2006, the Iranian-created terrorist group sent a message to both Israel and the U.S. to watch their strategic back.Any move against Tehran's nuclear sites would be met by strikes against our Mideast interests not only from Iran, but from the territory of Lebanon, using that country as a launching pad and its people as human shields.
During that war, Hezbollah used weapons supplied by Iran and transported through Syria. Long-range rockets bombarded northern Israeli towns and villages, even reaching the Israeli port of Haifa. Since then, Hezbollah has replenished and expanded its stockpiles and is believed to have stored as many as 100,000 rockets and missiles of various types for a future offensive.
Through its creation of Hezbollah, Iran has transformed Lebanon into a satellite. Lebanese democracy is all but gone, with Hezbollah having obtained virtual veto power in the Lebanese Cabinet. Opposition to Syrian and Iranian influence has been dealt with by a campaign to decapitate the opposition's leadership.
Mohammed B. Chattah, a former Lebanese government finance minister and ambassador to the U.S., was among six victims killed and assumed to be the target of a bomb that detonated in Beirut recently. He was the latest pro-Western and pro-democracy Lebanese politician to be assassinated in a long campaign to eliminate opposition to Syria, Iran and Hezbollah's interference in and domination of Lebanon.
Tehran's use of Lebanon as a strategic base took a step forward, as the Wall Street Journal reports, with the news that long-range surface-to-surface missiles given to Hezbollah by its allies Iran and Syria have been disassembled and moved to Lebanon.
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£244million superyacht designed to mimic the streets of Monaco http://t.co/I5RQX1zcNI pic.twitter.com/ygNpKHZ5qg
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) January 8, 2014DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: Unemployment Squirrel Edition, Part Deux
As John Hayward observes, "It’s awfully strange to see a President simultaneously claim that his economy is (finally) on the mend… while simultaneously demanding yet another 'emergency' unemployment extension."
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
A Plan for Dealing With John Boehner
I think we can all agree that John Boehner is a complete and utter failure as House Speaker. Marble-mouthed, unprincipled, double-dealing and cowardly are among the more positive attributes I can think of. Consider the man's actions over the two-and-a-half years that have elapsed since the Tea Party movement and Constitutional Conservatives brought him to power:
• Despite an unprecedented series of White House scandals -- including, but not limited to gun-running to Mexican drug cartels, the Benghazi cover-up, IRS-gate, and repeated perjurious testimony to Congress -- John Boehner refuses to name a Select Investigative Committee or demand a Special Prosecutor.
• In fact, in the case of the Benghazi cover-up, even though 75 percent of House Republicans want a Select Committee formed, Boehner refuses. That's right: John Boehner refuses to name a Special Committee on Benghazi, with dedicated budget, resources and staff -- and won't even tell us why.
• And what could be the reason? Some have speculated that Boehner has secretly cut a deal with Democrats in exchange for, well, who knows? Suffice it to say that if John Boehner is negotiating for you, you're going to walk out of the room wearing only your underwear. My guess is he really has cut a secret deal with Obama and Reid, perhaps regarding the debt ceiling or some other act of surrender that sells out the American people in exchange for his consolidation of more power.
• And what is John Boehner's top priority right now? That's right: Amnesty. Legalizing tens of millions of illegal aliens, which we know for a fact will vote by a stunning 8-to-1 margin for Democrats. Brilliant.
• As for de-funding Obamacare? That, too, Boehner refuses to do, instead holding fan-dance votes to repeal Obamacare, knowing that said bills will never see the light of day in the Senate. The Constitution grants the House of Representatives the power of the purse. Boehner could de-fund Obamacare -- completely -- if he wished, letting Obama try to rally support for his despotic and failed testament to central planning. But this Boehner will not do, because it requires brains, courage, principles and cojones.
So what do we do about John Boehner?
While there are grassroots efforts emerging to primary Boehner in Ohio's 8th District -- and we wish them all possible success -- the time has come to consider an alternative plan. A nuclear option, if you will.
Assuming that Boehner wins his primary in OH-8, I suggest we rally support among Tea Party and Constitutional Conservatives in that district to vote. To vote Democrat.
That single seat has virtually no chance of swinging the majority in the House one way or the other. A newly elected Democrat in that very Red seat will be a back-bencher and virtually powerless. This will give time to the district (and it is a very conservative district by all accounts) to assemble a credible candidate should one not emerge in 2014.
I would never advocate such a tactic in the Senate even though Mitch McConnell is Boehner-lite. In the Senate the odds of taking majority control are simply too tempting to chance returning the dimwitted crackpot from Searchlight, Nevada to a seat of power.
But Boehner, on the other hand, is such an egregious failure, such a cowardly and un-principled operator, that he must be ripped out of the Speaker's chair by any means necessary.
Let's see what happens in OH-8, but I suggest we fund and vociferously support any -- and I do mean any -- Boehner opponent. Enough is enough.
Larwyn's Linx: Occupuncture: Crushing the Equality Narrative
Nation
Occupuncture: Crushing the Equality Narrative: The WildernessReady to Commit?: Erick Erickson
Mega-Wealthy Obama: I Hate Income Inequality: Albert Merrick
Why Socialism is on the Rise: Ben Shapiro
Obamacare: Workplace Disaster Ahead: Betsy McCaughey
Former SECDEF Gates Rips Obama in His New Memoir: Ace
Chris Christie signs illegal alien DREAM Act, whole hog for amnesty: WyBlog
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) needs poll-tested excuse for Obamacare: Moe Lane
Roberts protects Obamacare again: GOPUSA
Economy
Barack Obama’s broken window economy: John HaywardThe Big Pop: Peter Schiff
On “income inequality”: ProWis
Equality. Let’s “spread it around.”: MOTUS
Politics And Minimum Wage: Walter Williams
UC Berkeley illegal aliens: "Just hand over the damned money": ProWis
Scandal Central
How the NSA Threatens National Security: Bruce SchneierFormer Guantanamo detainee implicated in Benghazi attack: Adam Goldman, WaPo
DOD Reviewing Its 'Equal Opportunity' Training--After Anti-Christian Materials Exposed: Penny Starr
Climate & Energy
US Sucked Into Polar Vortex! Film at 11°: Ed DriscollTime Magazine Swings Both Ways: Ed Driscoll
Everything Is Because Of ‘Climate Change’, Except What Isn’t: Caleb Howe
Media
Mark Levin’s ‘The Liberty Amendments’: Spyridon MitsotakisThe Best Takedown Of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow That You Will Ever Read: YoungCons
Huffpo tries to debunk Rush’s Polar Vortex comments, fails miserably: Scoop
Surrounded by His Victims, the President Says Paying People Not to Work Creates Jobs: EIB
The Left's Lies on Obamacare and Everything Else: Ace
Another Undocumented Democrat Comes out of the Shadows: Daniel Horowitz
NBC: Bush to Blame for 'Security Vacuum' in Iraq Created by Obama's Troop Withdrawal: Kyle Drennen
Mark Levin eviscerates lib argument about Framers, slavery, and the Constitution: Scoop
Lib columnist discovers unemployed “gaming” jobless benefits: Michelle Malkin (2010)
World
Flying Towards a Waterfall: Former SpookHow Islam--and the ever-present threat it poses to humanity--could be brought to an end in one, simple step: VFTR
Erdogan’s Son Caught with Al-Qaeda Financier: American Interest
The Muslim Suicide Convert: Daniel Greenfield
Standing Up to Bullies: U. Texas Quits American Studies Association Over Its Israel Boycott: Ace
"The Forest of Assassins" brings the early days of the Vietnam War to life.: Former Spook
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Supervolcano eruption mystery solved: James Morgan, BBCWow! Hubble Snaps Super-Deep View of Universe (Photos): Miriam Kramer
Vizio's first 4K TVs will start at only $999: Nathan Ingraham, The Verge
Cornucopia
We're Ready for Hillary!: iOTWSatan Demands Equal Rights: Cube
Survivors of the Blizzard of ’78 Mock the ‘Arctic Vortex’: PJM
Image: Satan Demands Equal Rights: Cube
Sponsored by: Caleb Jacoby, teenage son of Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, is missing
QOTD: "If interest rates rise much further, to perhaps 4% or 5%, the stock and real estate markets will be placed under pressure, and the Fed and the other “Too Big to Fail” banks will see considerablelosses on their portfolios of Treasury and mortgage-backed bonds. Such developments could trigger widespread economic turmoil, forcing the Fed to expand its QE purchases. Such an embarrassing reversal would add to selling pressure on the dollar, and might potentially trigger an exodus of foreign investment and an increase in import prices. I believe that nothing can prevent these trends from continuing to the point where a crisis will be reached. It’s extremely difficult to construct a logical argument that avoids this outcome, but that hasn’t stopped our best and brightest forecasters from doing just that.
So while the hallelujah chorus is ringing in the New Year with a full-throated crescendo, don’t be surprised by sour notes that will bubble to the top with increasing frequency. Ultimately the power of monetary policy to engineer a real economy will be proven to be just as ridiculous as the claims that housing prices must always go up." --Peter Schiff
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
CRAZED SEX POODLE COMIX: The Collected Wisdom of Al Gore
And this is the thought leader of the
* "Crazed sex poodle" is the phrase a Portland masseuse used to describe Gore's behavior.
HIGHLIGHTS OF SECDEF ROBERT GATES' NEW BOOK: For Obama, Every National Security Decision Was Political
Highlights from Washington Post:
Obama, after months of contentious discussion with Gates and other top advisers, deployed 30,000 more troops in a final push to stabilize Afghanistan before a phased withdrawal beginning in mid-2011. “I never doubted Obama’s support for the troops, only his support for their mission,” Gates writes.
If you as the Commander-in-Chief don't support the mission, you then truly don't support the troops.
It is rare for a former Cabinet member, let alone a defense secretary occupying a central position in the chain of command, to publish such an antagonistic portrait of a sitting president...
...the book simmers with disappointment in Obama, it reflects outright contempt for Vice President Biden and many of Obama’s top aides... Biden is accused of “poisoning the well” against the military leadership. Thomas Donilon, initially Obama’s deputy national security adviser, and then-Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute, the White House coordinator for the wars, are described as regularly engaged in “aggressive, suspicious, and sometimes condescending and insulting questioning of our military leaders.
..."“Hillary told the president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. . . . The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying..."
How the Obama administration dismantled the United States government -- and how we can rebuild it
Obamacare is a flea bitten dog that never would have been enacted without wholesale and deliberate falsehoods said over and over again by Barack Obama and every Democrat cheerleader. It never would have been enacted without legislative sleights-of-hand and backroom bribes offered to key Democrats.
It never would have been enacted and Barack Obama would likely not have won a second term without the willing negligence of a toothless “watchdog press” who refused to independently investigate or report obvious lies.Now we will be bitten by this dog and indeed, as many as five million people who have lost insurance (that they liked) have already felt the teeth. It will get worse. Although not widely reported, another 100 million Americans with workplace coverage (by HHS’ own estimates) may be dropped by employers and forced into more costly coverage through security-challenged exchanges.
Many of those already forced into Obamacare have seen their trusted doctors dropped from networks and even with subsidies, deductible thresholds so high that savings are just a fiction. Another fiction. And those people with severe illnesses who have been canceled and lost the best hospitals and specialist care may have already been condemned to death by their own government “helping them”.
As the American people absorb body blow after body blow from this destructive fraud, our system of government has, itself, been battered so that this President can have his “signature” issue. By unilaterally changing the so-called “Law of the Land” so many times Obama has rendered Congress all but irrelevant. While this may sound good to those frustrated with divided government, it is nothing less than the strangling of the very heart of our Constitutional system of representation.


















