Sunday, April 06, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Thousands defend the Second Amendment at Connecticut gun rights rally

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Nation

Thousands defend Second Amendment at Conn. gun rights rally: Twitchy
Finally: Issa Schedules Lois Lerner Contempt Vote for Next Thursday: John Hawkins
99% in NY Refuse To Register “Assault Weapons” Ahead of Deadline: Bob Owens

Obama's Transformation of America: Outpost
No regrets: Mark Pryor would vote for Obamacare all over again: Hot Air
Hillary struggles to list accomplishments as Secretary of State: CCP

Common Core-approved Textbooks Rewrite Second Amendment: NewAm
Report: 99% of New Yorkers refuse to register their "assault" weapons: Bob Owens
Why NRA battles courts for right to carry a concealed weapon: CSM

The Premature Obamacare Victory Lap: Rick Jensen
I am reassessing my support of full disclosure of campaign contributions: Moe Lane
Obama’s gun-control dictate on ‘mental health’ threatens veterans’ rights: Times

Economy

Democrat Senator Tells GM Car Owners to Stop Driving Immediately: Jim Geraghty
Dartmouth University Parkhurst Occupation: AmPower
Students Fed Up With Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Overhaul: Blaze

Scandal Central

How Cory Booker’s Friends Made Out Like Bandits : NRO
GOP Establishment uses Left-Wing Race Attack Against Conservative Chris McDaniel: R.S. McCain
Mozilla Clams Up: Tatler

Climate & Energy

Debunking a Few Commonly Held Fracking Myths: Jazz Shaw
Hooray! How To Talk To A Climate Contrarian (If You Must): Cove
Welcome to the party, guys: Cold Fury

Media

If CEO had to resign for views on gays he held in 2008, shouldn’t Obama do the same?: BPR
Krauthammer calls for ‘counter boycott’ over Mozilla CEO’s forced resignation: BPR
I Take Exception To Mr. Sowell’s Targeting of Ted Cruz: Primordial Slack

Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America: Jen Kuznicki
Scarborough: Reid, Dems “too stupid to be in politics”: Hot Air
‘Don’t Think That Can’t Happen’: Rush Limbaugh’s Terrifying Vision: Blaze

Free Speech “Evolves” to Pro-Choice: “I Choose Who Gets To Enjoy It.”: MOTUS
Axelrod admits Dems have 'major hurdles,' after new poll: Fox
Instapundit schools Jesse Jackson on ‘immorality’ of Hiroshima bombing: Twitchy

World

Bush B**** Slaps Obama: The Leadership of Personal Diplomacy: MagNote
Photos capture Afghan women defying Taliban threats of violence to vote in election: Twitchy
U.S. Warns China Not To Attempt Crimea-Style Action In Asia: HuffPo

South Korea: Soldiers Find 3rd Suspected North Korean Drone: Stratfor
ABN Amro Ex-CEO Found Dead: ZH
Bananageddon: Millions face hunger as deadly fungus decimates global banana crop: Independent

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What I Learned Negotiating With Steve Jobs: Lipstick & Politics
‘An American Nightmare’: The Story That Made Beck Say ‘We Are Becoming a Thugocracy’: Blaze
How Many People Does It Take to Colonize Another Star System?: PopMech

Cornucopia

Just A Girl In A Bikini Getting Tasered For Climate Change: Cove
BOOK DOWNLOAD: Thud Ridge by Jack Broughton: The Learned Turtle
Top 10 Most Powerful Sedans: AutoGuide

Image: Debunking a Few Commonly Held Fracking Myths
Sponsored by: Matt Bevin for Senate -- Help Fire Mitch McConnell

QOTD: "Comments on Mozilla Firefox reflect that the ouster of CEO Brendan Eich is not exactly going over well with the general public. In the past day alone, the website has received over 13,000 comments, with the vast majority expressing anger over the decision..." --Renee Nal

Saturday, April 05, 2014

Democrat calls for Obama to ban "assault weapon" imports due to Democrat gun-running of "assault weapons"

Instead of banning "assault weapons", I'd suggest banning progressives instead. After all, you can't be a Marxist and honestly take an oath to uphold the Constitution.

Rep calls for President to ban “assault weapon” imports due to Yee case

Citing the fact that now-suspended California state Sen. Leland Yee allegedly planned to help bring illegal guns into the country, Rep. Jackie Speier, (D-CA), is calling for the President to ban the import of ‘lethal assault weapons.’

This announcement came Wednesday from the Congresswoman, who represents the same district that Yee hailed from.

“This FBI investigation of Leland Yee reveals how easy it is to import lethal assault weapons that were previously banned,” said Speier in an emailed statement from the Representative’s office to Guns.com.

“This case should be a warning to us all that even the most trusted appearing among us are ready to do real harm,” she said.

Her solution to fix future instances of potential gun running such as in the Yee case? Call on the White House to ban the import of “assault weapons.”

“Since Congress can pass no meaningful gun-control laws, even after the mass killing in Newtown, President Obama should use his pen to slow the import of these weapons, which have no place in our homes,” wrote Speier.

Yee, who up until last month was a member of the Californian State Senate and candidate for Secretary of State, was indicted on March 26 on charges that included numerous counts of public corruption and weapons violations. The latter, according to a 137-page affidavit filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, included helping to broker a deal with Islamic rebels in the Philippines for $2 million in military-grade weapons up to and including shoulder-fired missiles. These munitions would be smuggled from the Pacific to a port in New Jersey and were intended for criminal, not civilian use.


Jackie Speier is a useless hack. Her fellow Democrat planned to violate dozens of federal, state and local laws by importing weapons for Islamofascist terrorists. And writing new laws would help... how?


Hat tip: BadBlue News

The 5 Most Exotic Restaurant Venues in the World

My personal favorites from Bloomberg's Top 10 Amazing Restaurants in Unexpected Places:

5: Ithaa Undersea Restaurant, Rangali Island, Maldives - Situated more than 16 feet below sea level in the Indian Ocean, this glass-enclosed spot cost about $5 million USD to construct. Patrons can scope 180-degree views of coral reefs and a wide variety of fish, as well as manta rays, sharks, and other aquatic inhabitants


4: The Dining Pod, Koh Kood, Thailand - Once you’re seated inside a giant open-air bamboo capsule with a table and cushioned seats, you’ll be raised up into the rainforest trees and have your food delivered by a zipline-riding waiter. (The ocean views are pretty impressive, too.)

PICTURES FROM #FreePAC Chapter 2: @RevCLBryant @WilkowMajority @DeneenBorelli @MissouriTorch

More awesomeness from FreePAC:

Senate candidate Matt Bevin and family

Blogger's Row

The outstanding speaker Reverand C.L. Bryant

PICTURES FROM #FreePAC Chapter 1: With @WilkowMajority @DeneenBorelli @MissouriTorch

Well, Biff Spackle and I are here at FreePAC's Kentucky Event (hashtags #FreePAC and #FreePACKY), and have our first batch of pictures uploaded. If you're here, stop by the media row and say hi.

2 hours before the show opens, the crowd was already piling in to the convention center.

Great bloggers representing The Missouri Torch and LipsticksandPolitics.


Larwyn's Linx: Startling: Every Government Agency Is Aggressively Pushing Obama’s Agenda

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Nation

Startling: Every Government Agency Is Enforcing Obama’s Agenda: Sara Noble
Chicago’s newly armed residents send murder rate plummeting: BPR
Democrats and the Hypocrisy of Campaign Finance Reform: LI

13K In Maryland Lost Insurance Thanks to Obamacare and Never Got It Back: Outcast
Jindal On The Upswing, Landrieu In Trouble In Latest Grigsby Poll: HayRide
GOP Now Leads in Seven Senate Races for Dem Seats: Dick Morris

Why Do 'Progressives' Love Moving Backward?: Jim Yardley
Obamacare's tangled web of lies and loss: RWN
Bruce Braley (D CAND, Iowa-SEN) equates lawyering to farm work: Moe Lane

Hillary Clinton bails on San Diego appearance after Benghazi protest scheduled: BPR
Population in LA County Hits Unsustainable Record High: RWN
War-gaming the opening blows in CT: SSI

Economy

Note: Severe Technical Damage: Karl Denninger
Meet “Lowflation”: Deflation’s Scary Pal: Peter Schiff
NC drivers could be charged by the mile: WGHP

Scandal Central

House Intel Chair: Obama Knows Where Benghazi Terrorists Are, But Won’t Pursue Them: GWP
Rewriting the Second Amendment: Bob Owens
Gutierrez: Obama Ready to Halt Deportations With Executive Orders: Roll Call

Climate & Energy

Russia prepares to attack the petrodollar: VOR
GOP lawmakers push EPA to ax proposed water rule amid outcry from farmers: Fox
Activist Demands Imprisonment for “Climate-Change Liars”: CFIF

Media

Andrew Sullivan: 'We Are No Better Than The Anti-Gay Bullies': TR
ABC Smears Former Mozilla CEO with Westboro Baptist Footage: PJM
Hillary: There’s a Double Standard on How Women are Treated in the Media or Something: JWF

Blackout: 140 Days Since ABC's 'Nightline' Has Covered ObamaCare: MRC
USA Today Echoes Occupy Wall Street: MRC
Hostile Takeover Week at College Insurrection: LI

World

Euro crisis worsens and Spanish flock to Britain: Commentator
Islamic group gets OK to cut crosses off New York Catholic church: BCF
Israel, Palestinians, US to meet to revive talks: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

It’s Time For Christians To Blacklist Mozilla Firefox And OkCupid: John Hawkins
Graphic: A Timeline of Corporations in the Collaborative Economy: Jeremiah Owyang
Ship looking for missing plane detects ‘pulse’ signal: Post

Cornucopia

Ted Cruz presents ‘The Broken Window Theory of Obamacare’: Twitchy
With A Clear Conscience: Christian Mercenary
Musings After Midnight: LibertySphere

Image: Obama Knows Where Benghazi Terrorists Are, But Won’t Pursue
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Retire John Boehner; Support JD Winteregg for Congress

QOTD: "We have numerous people that we know participated in the Benghazi attacks affiliated with al-Qaeda that are still on the battlefield. We have the capacity to get them but there’s no planning to get them. We have other serious al-Qaeda threats that normally we would take off the battlefield, but because of this Administration’s more kinder, gentler approach we have not done that." --Rep. Mike Rogers, Chairman of House Intelligence Committee

Friday, April 04, 2014

Mozilla chose... poorly

If you would like to assess how far American culture has descended, look no further than the case of Mozilla's (maker of the Firefox browser) CEO.
Andrew Sullivan, himself a gay man, voiced strong disgust on his blog The Dish towards Mozilla Firefox forcing CEO Brandon Eich to resign for having donated $1000.00 to California's Prop 8 campaign in 2008 seeking to ban gay marriage, saying Eich had been "scalped by some gay activists".
As ConservativeIntel notes, "Mozilla set a new company record today for online customer dissatisfaction":
If Mozilla was hoping to avoid controversy by edging out former CEO Brendan Eich, the company has most certainly failed. The graph below comes from the feedback page on their site. This chart goes back to when the comment system was adopted, and the highest number of “sad” comments is today, by a factor of about two. The second highest number came yesterday.

Look, I can understand folks supporting gay marriage. I, for one, believe that marriage as a contractual instrument codified in religion or law should be traditional, i.e., between a man and a woman. I mean, human procreation kinda depends upon it, last time I took biology.

Is my opinion controversial? It would seem so, at least in the age of Obama and Gomorrah.

Why would Mozilla inject itself into issues of faith, morality and marriage? I leave the answer to that question as an exercise for the reader.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

STATE DEPARTMENT AUDITOR: Uhm, Any of You Guys See $6 Billion Lying Around Somewhere?

But, hey: what's $6 billion among friends?

The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors.

In a special “management alert” made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve Linick warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years.

The alert was just the latest example of the federal government’s continued struggle with oversight over its outside contractors.

The lack of oversight “exposes the department to significant financial risk,” the auditor said. “It creates conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file. It impairs the ability of the Department to take effective and timely action to protect its interests, and, in tum, those of taxpayers.”

In the memo, the IG detailed “repeated examples of poor contract file administration.” For instance, a recent investigation of the closeout process for contracts supporting the mission in Iraq, showed that auditors couldn't find 33 of the 115 contract files totaling about $2.1 billion. Of the remaining 82 files, auditors said 48 contained insufficient documents required by federal law.

...Before Linick took office last fall, the State Department had been without an inspector general position for five years—the longest IG vacancy in the government’s history, as noted in The Washington Post.


By contrast, the Air Force -- in order to save just $3.5 billion over five years -- slashed the invaluable A-10 Warthog (pictured above) program.

Priorities: for Democrats, waste, fraud and abuse always trump protecting America's warriors.


Hat tip: BB.

Larwyn's Linx: Johnny, Get Your Gun-Free Zone

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Nation

Johnny, Get Your Gun-Free Zone: Mark Steyn
Obama declares health care debate over: PW
Eric Cantor Technically Ineligible to Participate in VA-7 Convention: VA Right

Pushing back against the Common Core lobbyists: Michelle Malkin
Hot New Video: Obama’s Absentee Crisis Management: Caleb Howe
Millionaires Need Your Help!: Ann Coulter

A Free State: Christian Mercenary
Former Obama Adviser: Major Section of Obamacare Will be Destroyed: Tatler
Fort Hood Gunman Was On A Cocktail Of Prescription Drugs: Insider

Economy

If Ryan's budget is a "Stinkburger", what are Obama's failed budgets?: Toldjah
Sessions Demands Universal E-verify Workplace Enforcement: VDARE
His Master's Voice: American Digest

Memo To Larry Summers: Contra Corner
When is a "Cut" Not a Cut?: Second City Cop
Turns Out, Even the Price Of Beer Is Rigged: Testosterone Pit

Scandal Central

The Fascist Thugs Win One: Firefox CEO Steps Down (Update: IRS Role Exposed): Bryan Preston
Shocking? Guess Not: Cold Fury
Third Calif. Senator Charged With Multiple Felonies: JW

Sharyl Attkisson: Morell's 'Bizarre' Benghazi Testimony Contradicts Past Claims About Attack: NB
House Oversight Committee to Move to Hold Lois Lerner In Contempt: Ace
Insurance Stocks Party like It's ObamaCare: Chriss Street

Climate & Energy

Retired NASA Scientist "Global Warming is Rubbish": Lid
Environmentalists to the Peasants: Drop Dead: Diogenes
EPA accused of stonewalling records requests from conservative groups: Fox

Media

Media Deathwatch Update: Bloodbath at the Star-Ledger as 167 jobs, 25% of newsroom cut: WyBlog
My Child Never Had No Gun!: Second City Cop
Stop Polluting Sports With Your Left Wing Bulls***: MRC

Liberal Mob Claims Another Scalp: Ricochet
Cable News Ratings: Fox Still Number One—MSNBC, CNN Shedding Viewers: AIM
Obama’s stand-up routine is laughable indeed: Jonah Goldberg

World

To attract developers, Microsoft opens up Web-app technology: Stephen Shankland
Megyn Kelly Faults CAIR for Quashing Film on ‘Honor Violence’: Foundry
North Korea to reportedly execute 200 officials believed loyal to Kim Jong-un uncle: Fox

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How To Disrupt The Market: The Story of Telling
Vegetarian? It's Not For Your Heart: Karl Denninger
Experian investigated over data breach: IT News

Cornucopia

65 million reasons for optimism: Scott Rasmussen
Ah, This Explains Nancy Pelosi: PW
Mythical El Chupacabra finally captured?: KABC

Image: Thousands attend funeral of fallen Boston firefighter, a 43-year-old husband and father of 3
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QOTD: "During a tour of the Middle East in November, Secretary of State John F. Kerry portrayed the region as on its way to a stunning series of breakthroughs, thanks to U.S. diplomacy. In Egypt, he said, “the roadmap” to democracy “is being carried out, to the best of our perception.” In Syria, a peace conference would soon replace the Assad regime with a transitional government, because “the Russians and the Iranians . . . will make certain that the Syrian regime will live up to its obligation.”

Last but hardly least, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was on its way to a final settlement — by April. “This is not mission impossible,” insisted the secretary of state. “This can happen.”

Some people heaped praise on Kerry for his bold ambitions, saying he was injecting vision and energy into the Obama administration’s inert foreign policy. Others, including me, said he was delusional.

Four months have passed, and, sadly for Kerry and U.S. interests, the verdict is in: delusional." --Jackson Diehl, Washington Post

Thursday, April 03, 2014

Why are Boehner and Issa helping cover up Obama's scandals?

Once again the IRS appears to be complicit in a targeted leak of a private citizen's tax return to effect a nakedly partisan attack. This time the IRS reportedly leaked the tax return of an executive at Mozilla who had expressed support for traditional marriage.

As for the gun-running operation that killed hundreds, Eric Holder and Barack Obama continue to unlawfully claim "executive privilege" over a massive trove of documents that likely implicate both in "Operation Fast and Furious". Throughout American history, "Executive Privilege" was reserved only for a small, explicitly named set of communications unrelated to a specific criminal investigation. Until Obama, that is.

As for Benghazi? Well, for starters, we still don't know what Barack Obama did for eight hours during a running terror attack that resulted in the deaths of four American diplomats. We still don't know who coordinated the campaign of lies to the victims' families and the American people about the nature of the attack.

So what does Johnny Boehner and his hand-picked Oversight Chairman, Darrell Issa, do? Next to nothing. They hold show hearings. They appear on television. But they refuse to name a Select Investigative Committee for any of these outrageous scandals.


Why?

Allen West has a pretty good idea and I have some additional thoughts (*cough* they got somethin' on him *cough*).


Hat tip: BadBlue News

Another "Gun-Free Zone", Another Preventable Massacre

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Gun Control: Another tragedy at Fort Hood is compounded by the absurdity of well-trained and disciplined soldiers told to "shelter in place" until the police arrive.

The second mass shooting at Fort Hood is not considered an act of terrorism.

It is, however, a grim echo of its predecessor, which was an act of terrorism called "workplace violence." And to this day, the commander in chief calls Maj. Nidal Hasan's Nov. 5, 2009, rampage in which 13 were murdered and 32 wounded "workplace violence."

In that tragedy, Hasan, a self-proclaimed "Soldier of Allah," shouted "Allahu Akhbar" and opened fire on dozens of U.S. civilians and soldiers who were unarmed and unable to fire back. Then, as now and in the Sept. 16, 2013, mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, military personnel trained to defend themselves were unable to do so and had to wait until the police arrived.

Granted, a military base such as Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, is not like a fort in the Old West. It's a place where soldiers trained for war prepare and those returning from war rest with their families and children. It's more like a small town than an armed camp.

But in small towns all across America, private citizens freely exercise their Second Amendment rights and are allowed to carry concealed weapons to defend themselves and their families. Why not U.S. soldiers?

CHARLES SCHWAB: High-Frequency Trading a "Growing Cancer... Corrupting Our Capital Market System"

The following statement has been issued by The Charles Schwab Corporation

 

Schwab serves millions of investors and has been observing the development of high-frequency trading practices over the last few years with great concern. As we noted in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal last summer, high-frequency trading has run amok and is corrupting our capital market system by creating an unleveled playing field for individual investors and driving the wrong incentives for our commodity and equities exchanges. The primary principle behind our markets has always been that no one should carry an unfair advantage. That simple but fundamental principle is being broken.

High-frequency traders are gaming the system, reaping billions in the process and undermining investor confidence in the fairness of the markets. It’s a growing cancer and needs to be addressed.  If confidence erodes further, the fuel of our free-enterprise system, capital formation, is at risk. We can’t allow that to happen. For sure, we still believe investing in equities is a primary path to long-term wealth creation, and we believe in the long-term structural integrity of the markets to deliver that over time for individual investors, which is all the more reason to be vigilant in removing anything that creates unfair advantage or undermines investor confidence.

On March 18, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced his intention to “continue to shine a light on unseemly practices in the markets,” referring to the practices of high-frequency trading and the support they receive from other parties including the commodities and equities exchanges. He has been a consistent watchdog on this matter. We applaud his effort and encourage the SEC to raise the urgency on the issue and do all they can to stop this infection in our capital markets. Investors are being harmed, and they shouldn’t have to wait any longer.

As Michael Lewis shows in his new book Flash Boys, the high-frequency trading cancer is deep. It has become systematic and institutionalized, with the exchanges supporting it through practices such as preferential data feeds and developing multiple order types designed to benefit high-frequency traders. These traders have become the exchanges favored clients; today they generate the majority of transactions, which create market data revenue and other fees. Data last year from the Financial Information Forum showed this is no minor blip. High-frequency trading pumped out over 300,000 trade inquiries each second last year, up from just 50,000 only seven years earlier. Yet actual trade volume on the exchanges has remained relatively flat over that period. It’s an explosion of head-fake ephemeral orders – not to lock in real trades, but to skim pennies off the public markets by the billions. Trade orders from individual investors are now pawns in a bigger chess game.

THE WAR ON POVERTY: $21 Trillion Later, Government Has Only Made Things Worse

Guest post by Matthew Vadum
 

The War on Poverty has barely made a dent in actual poverty, states the 205-page report unveiled last month by the House Budget Committee, which is chaired by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.).

The paper, created in the hope of starting a discussion in Congress about reforming America’s bungled poor-relief programs, came out before Ryan released the GOP’s new budgetary blueprint yesterday that lays out how to balance the budget in 10 years. That document calls for reducing federal government spending by $5.1 trillion over a decade largely by getting a grip on out-of-control social programs. The House Budget Committee could vote on the fiscal plan as soon as Friday. Leadership in the Democrat-dominated Senate, which hasn’t even tried to adopt a budget in recent years, isn’t planning to craft a fiscal blueprint this year, either.

The heart of the War on Poverty report is its observation that most federal poverty-alleviation programs are essentially useless or incapable of having their impact measured in the real world.

The study observes that in 1965, the poverty rate was 17.3 percent. In 2012, it was 15 percent. This means taxpayers blew a staggering $20.7 trillion over the last half century in order to achieve a paltry 2.3 percentage point decrease in poverty.

The War on Poverty has barely made a dent in actual poverty

Broken down into less mind-blowing, easier-to-grasp figures, between 1965 and 2012 the average family of four spent roughly $146,000 per percentage-point drop in poverty, or $335,000 per family for the whole 2.3 percentage-point reduction.

Only the most blinkered or jaded among us in the body politic believe that sucking $9 trillion out of the private, productive economy for each single percentage-point reduction in the poverty rate constitutes an acceptable return on investment.

Which brings us to the modern “progressive” Left.

Larwyn's Linx: We Interrupt This Obama Fundraiser to Bring You Another Shooting at Ft. Hood

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Nation

We Interrupt This Obama Fundraiser to Bring You Another Shooting at Ft. Hood: JWF
Obamacare Takes a Life: Jeffrey Lord
Sharyl Attkisson dissects Benghazi talking points after House hearing: Twitchy

The GM Scandal Is Worse Than You Think: Federalist
The GOP/Dem Pretense That Paul Ryan Wants to Slash Spending: Outcast
Supreme Court strikes down overall limits on campaign contributions: KFSN-TV

Immigration Expert: Obama May Grant Amnesty After Midterm Election: TR
Rep. Gowdy Rips Pelosi: She Needs to Seek Help: MinorityReport
98% Consensus Reached: Steven Goddard

Economy

Study: Obamacare Will Cost Large Employers Nearly $6K Per Employee: TR
The War on Poverty—$21 Trillion Later: CFP
Worried About Big Money Donors ‘Stealing The Election’?: Sooper Mexican

Scandal Central

Dem Rep Threatens: Act By Cinco De Mayo, or Obama Will Act Alone: TR
Obama Administration Admits Use Of "Warrantless Searches" Of US Citizens: ZH
Couple who received pre-marked voter registration card fears gov’t retribution: DC

Massive Vote Fraud Discovered in NC's 2012 Election: Bryan Preston
Congress is deceiving the American people about the federal budget: Bill White: Yahoo!
GM avoided defective switch redesign in 2005 to save a dollar each: Reuters

Climate & Energy

The EPA Is Going to Regulate Wood-Burning Fireplaces Out of Existence: Sara Noble
One California for me, another for thee: Victor Davis Hanson
Unemployment: EPA Eliminates Coal Jobs: MinorityReport

Media

Peter Wehner Defines Bush-Republicanism Disconnect: Jen Kuznicki
Compassion: Cancer patient smeared by Reid now receiving death wishes from liberals: Hot Air
'My 7-Step Plan to Destroy America': Thomas Lifson

Common Core Worksheet Tells Kids to Pick 2 Amendments to Remove from Constitution: Publius
CNN Student Worksheet: Founding Fathers ‘did not trust the ability of the common voter’: Renee Nal
AWESOME: Vladimir Putin calls Sarah Palin on the Tonight Show!: Scoop

Gov’t Spent $700 Million Promoting Obamacare: WFB
LA Times Bungles Talks Coverage: CAMERA
"GOP budget slashes spending, aid to poor": Andrew Taylor, AP

World

John Kerry’s departure from reality: Jackson Diehl, WaPo
Cartoons and Cueballs: An Exchange with Glenn Greenwald: Floyd
Tweet Of Night – Obama To “Get To The Bottom” Of New Fort Hood Shooting: WZ

Obama intimidated top military brass: Agree with policy on gays or resign: RWN
Senate Seeks to Warn Russia Over Looming Invasion of Moldova: WFB
Diverse Sweden Rushes to Embrace (and Become) a Third World Culture: VDARE

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Climate activists uncaged: Jonah Goldberg
Google Takes “SpyView” Wiretapping Appeal To SCOTUS: MarketingLand
Nokia's Adorable New Bluetooth Speaker Is Just $55: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

How Do You Spell Success?: MOTUS
*FLASH* Researchers Catch Up!: Sondrakistan
That's Not a Waiting Line: SDA

Image: 4 dead in Fort Hood shooting
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QOTD: "Allow me to spotlight two sentences in Michael Moore's rant about the GM defective switch scandal that indicate the mental leap our progressive friends have to make when discussing this story:

Only now, under the newly-configured GM — owned, essentially, by you and me from 2009 through last year — has the truth come out…

I hope someone in the Obama administration will get out the handcuffs, the SWAT teams, or the U.S. army if need be, march into GM headquarters in downtown Detroit and haul away anyone who is there who had anything to do with this. And if they already left town, hunt them down and bring them in to face justice.


"Anyone who had anything to do with this"? Would that include "the owners from 2009 through last year"?" --Jim Geraghty

Wednesday, April 02, 2014

The worst April Fool's Day prank in history

Guest post by Jim Quinn

It was so fitting that Obama sauntered into the Rose Garden on April Fools day to proclaim the wonderful success of Obamacare. We are the fools for allowing this fool and his fellow fools in Congress to further bankrupt our country with this disastrous, government-run clusterf***. He is a dangerous empty suit. The only thing that mattered to him and his sociopathic control freaks in the last two months was hitting an enrollment number that he could tout as success. Making sure there are enough doctors in the plan or ensuring excellent healthcare services once you get sick is not part of their agenda. And they certainly don’t worry about the 7.1 million people paying their premiums. That’s the insurance companies’ problem.

There is so much propaganda, spin, disinformation and outright lies circulating in the captured mainstream media that the dumbed down, distracted, disinterested American populace believe the sound bites from Obama and the talking heads on MSNBC and the rest of the Obama loving media. Isn’t it funny how early in the disastrous roll-out of this joke Sebelius and her band of HHS drones didn’t know how many people had enrolled for weeks after the end of a month, but yesterday Obama knew that exactly 7.1 million people had enrolled within hours of the final deadline?

You may have noticed the non-stop 30 second ads trying to convince iGadget addicted morons to sign up for Obamacare over the last three months, building to a crescendo in the last few weeks. Obama was desperate to get young people and his black constituency to sign up. Most of the commercials were black NBA superstars yapping about the wonders of Obamacare. These were surely targeted to white middle class people. Right? Guess how much the average 30 second commercial costs. How about $123,000. The government has admitted their advertising budget for the last three months was $52 million. My guess is they went over budget and probably spent $75 million of your tax dollars to convince millions to join a government program that will cost you trillions more of your tax dollars. The original July 2013 estimate from the government for the total advertising of this mess was $700 million. I’ll take the over in the final number. This is after spending $600 million on the wonderful glitch-free website.

Let’s assess the tremendous success the Savior was blustering about yesterday. He sold the plan to the American public back in 2009 with a number of promises:

CITIZENS OF THE WORLD: Mexican Military Held Border Patrol at Gunpoint Inside U.S. Borders

Reason #4,804 that the United States deserves a real president. Judicial Watch reports:

In the latest Mexican military incursion into the United States, two heavily armed camouflaged soldiers from Mexico actually crossed 50 yards inside Arizona and held American Border Patrol agents at gunpoint in a tense confrontation.

Armed with assault-style weapons, the Mexican soldiers retreated back south after a 35-minute standoff as if nothing ever happened and the Obama administration just let it slide. The unbelievable foray was made public by a mainstream newspaper that obtained government documents with alarming details of the January 26 incident. Specifically, the paper cites the Border Patrol Foreign Military Incursion report and a separate letter from U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske, an Obama appointee who was recently sworn in.

The Mexican soldiers were spotted by a Border Patrol agent entering the U.S. about 2.5 miles west of Sasabe Arizona shortly before 9 a.m. A second federal agent positively identified the two individuals in tan, digital camouflage uniforms, on foot traveling westbound, on the United States side of the International Boundary Fence Line, according to the report obtained by the newspaper. The Mexicans misidentified themselves to U.S. Border agents and claimed to be pursuing drug smugglers, the government documents say.

Kerlikowske admits that the intruders were “confirmed members of the Mexican military” but he asserts that U.S. border officials determined that no further action was necessary involving the matter. Like a loyal Obama lapdog Kerlikowske claims military incursions from Mexico are infrequent though he was apparently forced to admit that there were 23 incidents in the Tucson and Yuma sectors of Arizona since 2010, including three this fiscal year alone.

The latest incursion was one of the most serious in recent years, according to U.S. officials that apparently didn’t want their name printed in the newspaper. The same officials, clearly insiders privy to information that’s not made public, seem to indicate that Mexican soldiers aren’t chasing drug smugglers but rather protecting cartels as they transport their cargo into the United States through the treacherous desert.


Let me repeat: members of the Mexican military weren't pursuing drug- or human-smugglers. They were protecting drug cartels inside the United States of America.

November is coming.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

NICE: Obama EPA conducted hazardous experiments on humans in manner reminiscent of Nazi doctors

And, no, drones: that's not an overstatement.

It turns out that while environmentalist groups try to link fracking to cancer, the Environmental Protection Agency was actively exposing people to dangerous carcinogens — for their own good, of course.

An EPA inspector general's report found that the agency did obtain approval to conduct five "human research studies" exposing "81 human study subjects to" toxic pollutants including diesel exhaust. The IG report found that "exposure risks were not always consistently represented."

So the EPA asked people to expose themselves to dangerous pollutants — some at levels 50 times greater than what is safe — but didn’t tell them about the dangers.


Now why would the EPA perform such dangerous and unconscionable experiments on humans, especially on the elderly and infirm?

Why, they're doing it for the children, of course:

These experiments exposed people, including those with asthma and heart problems, to dangerously high levels of toxic pollutants, including diesel fumes, reads a EPA inspector general report obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The EPA also exposed people with health issues to levels of pollutants up to 50 times greater than the agency says is safe for humans.

The EPA conducted five experiments in 2010 and 2011 to look at the health effects of particulate matter, or PM, and diesel exhaust on humans. The IG’s report found that the EPA did get consent forms from 81 people in five studies. But the IG also found that “exposure risks were not always consistently represented.”


So what if some old and sick people die?

The ends justify the means, peons -- didn't you ever learn that in school?


Hat tip: BadBlue News

Larwyn's Linx: Rand: Only 858,000 newly insured Americans have paid Obamacare premiums

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Nation

Rand: Only 858,000 newly insured Americans have paid premiums: WZ
The Most Un-American Speech Barack Obama Has Ever Delivered: Bryan Preston
Republicans Catch on that Negative Advertising Works: Rich Baehr

Report – Obamacare Enrollments Vastly Exaggerated: LI
Democrats Facing Political Fallout on Medicare: Roll Call
“DNC Chair Can’t Think of a Single Obamacare Fix”: PW

Who is Eric Cantor?: Jamie Radtke
Rep. Ann Kuster (D-NH): hates town halls, likes being rude: Moe Lane
Cantor Suffers Significant Blow in Virginia: VA Right

Economy

Where was GM CEO Barack Obama During All This?: Ace
Yes, ObamaCare Kills Jobs: R.S. McCain
Most Obamacare "Sign-Ups" Due to Two Modest Changes in the Law: Ace

Scandal Central

What will it take to put you in this death trap today?: Cold Fury
Benghazi: CIA Station Chief Contradicts Obama Talking Point: Bryan Preston
Expert Hacks Healthcare.gov in 4 Minutes: Keith Koffler

Climate & Energy

Union of Settled Scientists Threatens to Strike: Mark Steyn
Apocalypse Cow — Obama EPA To Regulate Bovine Emissions: IBD
McKibben calls for a ‘climate strike’ while an MSNBC poll goes horribly wrong: WUWT

Media

Did WaPo Collaborate With Congressional Democrats to Smear the Koch Brothers?: Power Line
Leftmedia Celebrating Meaningless, Movable O-Care Goalposts: Stephen Kruiser
Levin blasts Obama for his Castro-like campaign rally, spewing Obamacare lies: Scoop

Obama jabs press: Future HealthCare.gov outages ‘won’t be news’: The Hill
Fallon on Obama Victory Lap: 'Amazing What You Can Achieve When You Make Something Mandatory': Breitbart
New Connecticut long gun laws take effect April 1: ABC-7

The New York Time wonders: “Was Marx Right?”: PW
Media Curiously Uninterested in Democrat Accused of Arms Trafficking: Glob
Dana Loesch Unloads on Rep. Jeff Roorda for Calling Rep. Holly Rehder a “Nazi”: MoTorch

World

A World War of Community Organizers: Daniel Greenfield
The Curious Case of Obama’s Cancelled State Dinner In Saudi Arabia: Nice Deb
Ted Cruz Introduces Bill Preventing Terrorists From Entering US As UN Ambassadors: LoneCon

Erdogan Jumps out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire: Henri J. Barkey
Blame Bush: Why Obama gets so little respect from the troops: Allen West
UK to Consider Outlawing Muslim Brotherhood: Daniel Greenfield

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The oldest light in the universe: Symmetry Magazine
The One Question That Should Drive Your Strategy: Innovation Excellence
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April Fools! A Roundup of Automaker's Jokes: AutoGuide
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QOTD: "Cannon allegedly boasted to the undercover agents about an upcoming trip to Washington during a meeting in the mayor’s office. He said he would use his clout to push for Charlotte streetcar funding.

“So, you know, Friday I’m meeting with the President,” he said. “The President will be asking what my priorities are. I’m gonna say the Gold Lynx Line’s a priority and I want to see that through.”

“Damn,” the agent responded. “I’m just proud, and, uh, grateful to uh, have you as a friend.”

A White House spokesman declined to comment Wednesday, citing the ongoing investigation. But a White House official said they were unaware of the FBI investigation at the time of Cannon’s visit to the White House in December 2013." --Mary Katharine Ham, "Indicted Charlotte mayor used access to White House in making plans for pay-offs"

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

David Returns to Italy

A bit of culture for a change, sent in by Ann.

After a two-year loan to the Smithsonian Museum in the United States, Michelangelo's David has returned to Italy.

The visit was generously funded by:

LATEST OBAMACARE LIE SHREDDED: 7.1 million enrollment number is bogus; only 858,000 have paid premiums

Gee, 858,000 is a far cry from the "7.1 million" signup number that the White House pulled out of its keister estimated as having signed up by the March 31st deadline.

Even worse? 858,000 is an infinitesimally small fraction of the "46 million"* uninsured Americans that Obamacare was supposed to address.

Yes, it's true: Democrats destroyed the American health care system for nothing.

A triumphant President Barack Obama declared Tuesday his signature medical insurance overhaul a success, saying it has made America's health care system 'a lot better' in a Rose Garden press conference... But buried in the 7.1 million enrollments he announced in a heavily staged appearance is a more unsettling reality.


Numbers from a RAND Corporation study that has been kept under wraps suggest that barely 858,000 previously uninsured Americans – nowhere near 7.1 million – have paid for new policies and joined the ranks of the insured by Monday night.

...Others were already insured, including millions who lost coverage when their existing policies were suddenly cancelled because they didn't meet Obamacare's strict minimum requirements.

...The president took no questions from reporters, but celebrated the end of a rocky six-month open-enrollment period by taking pot shots at Republicans who have opposed the law from the beginning as a government-run seizure of one-seventh of the U.S. economy.

'The debate over repealing this law is over,' he insisted. 'The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.'

The president also chided conservatives 'who have based their entire political agenda on repealing it,' and praised congressional Democrats for their partisan passage of the law without a single GOP vote.

As Aleister observes, For months we were told it was impossible to quote exact ObamaCare enrollment numbers yet somehow, one day after the close of open enrollment the Obama administration has suddenly announced the incredibly specific number of 7.1 million enrollees.


* 46 million uninsured? Yes, that's another lie. Hat tip: Weasel Zippers.