Monday, May 05, 2014

As Economy Stumbles and War in Europe Nears, a Very, Very Busy President Tweets Out an Important Message

I truly wish this had been a Biff Spackle original and not an official White House tweet. But real it is.


A record number of Americans have dropped out of the workforce, the Secretary of State is encouraging Muslim terror attacks on innocent Israeli civilians, no one knows what the president did for 10 hours after he learned his Ambassador to Libya was missing, the economy has flatlined, Vladimir Putin is reenacting Adolf Hitler's moves from the 1930s, radical leftist billionaires are preventing America from becoming energy independent, and illegal immigration is ripping America to shreds.

And the White House staff is busy photoshopping the president sitting on the Iron Throne.


Hat tip: Western Journalism

A BOYCOTT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON BENGHAZI? For Democrats, Party Always Comes Before Country

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: A Democratic member of the House intelligence committee called Sunday for his party to boycott the newly announced select committee that will probe the Benghazi terrorist attacks, calling it "a colossal waste of time."

Almost as soon as "Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi" had fallen from the lips of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — a reprise of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's "What difference at this point does it make?" — Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" that he thinks the planned select committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attack is a "colossal waste of time" and suggested that Democrats not participate in it.

The congressman responded to Speaker John Boehner's announcement that a special committee to investigate Benghazi, and the cover-up that followed, by dismissing claims that new emails were "smoking gun" evidence that the inflammatory video excuse was concocted to safeguard President Obama's re-election and Hillary's future candidacy.

Calling the yet-to-be-approved committee a "tremendous red herring," Schiff said: "I don't think it makes sense, really, for Democrats to participate." After all, we got the maker of the video, as Hillary Clinton promised the parents of the dead while their son's casket arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C.

Former White House adviser David Plouffe, speaking on ABC's "This Week," called the committee "bogus." He was one of the recipients of a Sept. 14, 2012, email from Ben Rhodes, an assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, discussing the prepping of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice before her whirlwind tour of five Sunday talk shows to specifically and emphatically blame an Internet video for the attack.

YET ANOTHER CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS: White House Suggests It Will Ignore Select Committee on Benghazi

I've lost count. How many Constitutional Crises does this make?

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney today indicated the White House will refuse to cooperate with a new House committee tasked with investigating Benghazi.

“We have always cooperated with legitimate oversight,” Carney said this afternoon during the daily White House briefing. Asked whether the panel qualified as “legitimate,” he said: “I think if you look at what even some Republicans have said, it certainly casts doubt on the legitimacy of an effort that is so partisan in nature.”

“You know, at some point, you just have to assume that Republicans will continue this because it feeds a political objective of some sort,” he added. “At the same time you have to ask, ‘What about the American people who want to see Congress work for them?’”

What about the American people who wanted to see the Commander-in-Chief attempt to rescue them from a half-day long terror attack? You know, all of the dead and grievously wounded at Benghazi waiting for military back-up that would never come?

Simple question for the Democrats:

Has a president ever gone AWOL for 10 hours (that's 100 My Pet Goats, fat boy) after a U.S. Ambassador was reported missing and dozens of American diplomats were facing imminent death during a terror attack?

That's a rhetorical question for you drones: the answer is no.

If Obama does indeed refuse to cooperate with Congressional oversight, it will be more than past time to initiate impeachment proceedings. More conservatives in the House and Republican control of the Senate will go along way towards making that a reality.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

Larwyn's Linx: Legislators Are Digging Their Own Grave and Taking Us Down with Them

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Nation

Legislators Dig Their Own Graves, Taking Us Down with Them: Janine Turner
The AWOL Commander-in-Chief : Andrew C. McCarthy
Benghazi select committee chair announcement could come Monday: FAM

Liberal Racism: Derek Hunter
Using Mitch McConnell's Words Against Him: BarbWire
Rand Paul Promotes School Choice as "The Great Equalizer": Wire

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton: 'Benghazi a corpse': BarbWire
Meet the Serial Killer Who Murdered Living Babies: Foundry
What Obama Did on September 11, 2012: Jack Cashill

House select committee must peel back Benghazi coverup: Exam
Democrat Party Accepts Money from Anti-Gay Cult Leader: GayPatriot
Harry Reid should lead, not attack and distract: LVRJ

Economy

Tax Cut Denialism, With A Freudian Slip: JOM
In Open Letter, Volkswagen Employees Rip Into UAW Boss: LUR
Obama Vacations Have Cost $40 Million Total; $625,000 per month: RWN

Scandal Central

John Bolton: Benghazi Panel Needs to Question Hillary Clinton for 'Hours and Hours': Paul Ebeling
Benghazi: During Attack Denis McDonough and Tom Donilon Replace Obama and Biden: Treehouse
One Year Later: Americans Targeted by the Obama Administration’s IRS Deserve Justice: RS

Climate & Energy

No Statistically Significant Warming In 17 Years And 9 Months: Cove
EPA Employees Received $500,000 In Unauthorized Bonuses: LoneCon
New EPA Rule Gives Feds Authority Over 'Nearly All' Water: CNS

Media

“Two Dads are Better Than One”: pro-gay adoption ABC profile of convicted pedophile: Wintery Knight
Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?: JOM
Obama Mocks Biden's Jealousy of Hillary Clinton: WS

Not A Cover-Up, A Strategy: JOM
Correspondents’ Dinner 2014: We Do Hot Messes Right: MOTUS
Kentucky Derby fans are sick of NBC’s Bob Costas, and BLAST him on Twitter: YC

Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) Talks Twitter: The Talkhouse
Brit Hume fears no one, eviscerates Democrat Rep. for defending false Benghazi narrative: YC
LiberalRacism: The Left's Cynical Perpetuation of Racist Plantation Politics: AmPower

World

Global Creeping Sharia Never Ceases: BarbWire
Maldives: Progresive Muslim Nation Enacts Death Penalty For Children: BCF
Top Saudi Cleric says true Muslims must believe the Sun revolves around the Earth: Commentator

From Sir, With Love: Theodore Dalrymple
‘They Are Worse Than Hitler’: Telling Words from an Iranian Émigré: Tatler
Former Russian Foreign Minister on Ukraine: No Bluffing: PJM

Exclusive: CIA Falls Back in Afghanistan: Daily Beast
Norway: No Saudi mosques, as long as there's no freedom of religion in Saudi-Arabia: IIE
Gold Jumps Back Above 200DMA As USDJPY & Stocks Continue Slide: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Scientists reverse aging in mice by giving them young blood: Engadget
Listen To NASCAR Explain Dogecoin Thanks To 'The Google Machine': Jalopnik
Department of Defense to study bitcoin as possible terrorist threat: Fox

Cornucopia

Fifth Grade Boys Steal Talent Show With Synchronized Swim Routine: GWP
LaFerrari first drive review: AutoCar
‘Seeing the irony here?’ Valerie Jarrett poses for photo with her ‘#Scandal bosses’: Twitchy

Image: Detainees freed after Odesa police HQ stormed
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QOTD: "There is an enormous amount of theorizing about what the “real story” behind Benghazi really is. To me it’s always been obvious. The White House was caught off guard — for reasons stemming both from ideology and incompetence — on September 11, 2012. As they have after virtually every other (jihadist) terrorist attack on Americans, they acted as if it had absolutely nothing to do with them. As with the Times Square bomber, the Fort Hood shooter, and other Islamist assaults, there’s always some other reason for the bloodshed, some attempt to claim, at least for a while, that this was an “isolated incident” with no broader implications for the War on Terror or Obama’s foreign policy. Admittedly, even this White House understood that spinning the Benghazi attack as an isolated incident wasn’t going to work (such intense spinning could risk irreparable scrotal torsion). So they went with the story about the video..." --Jonah Goldberg

Sunday, May 04, 2014

SWEET FANCY MOSES: In only 9 years, phone memory cards have grown from 128MB to 128GB

Moore's Law hardest hit.

Emerging in 2005 out of the need for a memory card small enough to fit inside a mobile phone, microSD cards have rapidly matured to their current status of global ubiquity and adoption. This year's Mobile World Congress marks a significant milestone in their growth, with SanDisk introducing the first 128GB microSD card. That will store a thousand times more photos, videos, and GIFs than the original maximum of 128MB.


At such large sizes, microSD cards are approaching the typical storage you'll get on an SSD-equipped laptop or tablet, which will surely contribute to the ongoing erosion of the distinction between mobile devices and PCs...

I'm not sure if I have this right, but I believe my first real PC had 128KB of RAM and a whopping 10MB hard drive. And it cost about $5,700 if memory serves.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News

The Ruling Class has Borrowed and Printed and Spent $3.2 Trillion... and Hasn't Put a Dent in Unemployment

Guest post by Phoenix Capital Research

The great attempt to prop up the US economy through spending and printing money is at an end. The world takes a long time to catch on to these changes, but the shift has already begun. It’s now...

The financial media are gaga over the alleged great jobs numbers from last week.

We’ve been over this saga many times. The methodology for calculating jobs gains is not even close to accurate. The unemployment rate is now a marketing gimmick rather than an accurate economic metric.

Indeed, here are some staggering statistics that indicate just how messed up the US economy is right now.

·      • The labor participation rate is the lowest since 1978.

·      • There are over 90 million Americans without a job right now.

·      • An incredible 20% of all American families do not have a single member who is employed.

·      • There are over 47 million Americans on food stamps.

There is simply no way to spin these numbers. The US Federal Reserve has spent over $3.2 trillion and generated virtually no real job growth (accounting for population growth).

See for yourself:

When you account for how the potential labor pool has grown, the number of employed Americans has gone almost nowhere but down since the 2008 recession “ended.”

JANINE TURNER: Gorgeous And Brilliant

Janine Turner just hit a grand-slam.

The number one threat to our republic is not the debt, is not the entitlements, is not invasion from another country. The number one threat to our country is lust. It is not a sexual lust. It is a lust for power. Since time began, the lust for power and its ruthlessness has ruined liberty, derailed democracy, wrecked republicanism, crippled nations and killed millions. The paths have been many but the goal singular — lust, lust for power.

Our founders knew firsthand how the lust for power corrupted human rights. They knew that, to quote James Madison, “men are not angels.” Thus, they created a government of checks and balances that would keep tyranny at bay. According to the Constitution, one branch of government can never usurp the other and no one branch can be autonomous.

There has been, and is, a faction amongst us that wants to change the fundamental structure of these checks — the progressives. The progressives don’t want a multi-tiered, self-checking and self-limiting government. They want an all-powerful, singular nexus of decision-making in the executive branch, free from checks and balances...

...Their mission is to eradicate the potency of the U.S. Congress, thus eliminating the utterly crucial check on executive power. They accomplish this by diminishing the reputation of the legislative branch and thus crippling its power and effectiveness. Our legislators fell for this in 1912. They are falling for it again and they are taking the American people with them.

Progressives had astonishing results in 1912 and 1913 with the 17th Amendment. Progressives managed to convince the state legislatures and the U.S senators that they were, themselves, corrupt. They convinced them to vote for their own demise. In the late 1800s, patient and premeditated, the progressives had planted a negative Senate public-relations campaign to germinate into the nucleus of the culture. With political comments such as “the Senate is dictated by special interests” and “the Senate is ineffectual,” the progressives fanned the flames of destruction.

They manipulated a masterful coup in the Senate, denying states’ rights, with a simple message – “The Senate is corrupted by special interest groups.” Sound familiar? It was simply stunning. Henceforth, the senators would no longer be appointed by the state legislators, but by the people. With this singular, monumental sweep of states’ rights, the Constitution, which they conveniently believe to be outdated, was thrown off-kilter.

Be aware: the progressive are not finished. They are enacting the same campaign today. Now instead of the Senate, the entire legislative branch is the problem. “The legislative branch prevents all good from taking place.” “The legislative branch is corrupt.” “The legislative branch is a bother.” “The legislative branch never gets anything done.” “The legislative branch is corrupted by special interest groups.” By beating down the legislative branch, the executive branch rises.

Read the whole damn thing.

And ask yourself: is it so difficult for a Republican leader to step up and articulate these issues as well as Ms. Turner?


Hat tip: BadBlue News

How do you transport a half-million pound mining truck that is roughly the size of a city block?

Mercedes has the answer.



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A TRUTHFUL VERSION OF THE OBAMA 2012 SLOGAN: "Chris Stevens is Dead and Al Qaeda is Alive"

Stephen F. Hayes offers an incisive summary of the fraud perpetrated against the victims' families and the American people regarding the Benghazi attacks.

At the same time the White House was putting the video at the center of the Benghazi story, intelligence professionals and U.S. officials on the ground in Libya were describing a precise attack carried out by al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists. The Weekly Standard has learned that an analysis from the Defense Intelligence Agency produced a day before Rhodes sent his email assigned blame for the attacks to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar al Sharia Libya. The DIA analysis did not mention a video. It adds to the still-growing body of memos and warnings from top U.S. officials. The top U.S. intelligence official on the ground in Libya repeatedly told officials in Washington that the Benghazi attacks were part of a planned assault by al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists. The top diplomat in the country said the same thing. Last week, a top intelligence official for AFRICOM told Congress that he shared that view.

We are left with this reality: Top diplomats and intelligence officers in Libya offered assessments of the Benghazi attacks that were true when they made them and remain true today. But top Obama administration officials ignored those assessments. Six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, those officials—at the direction of White House communications and political strategists desperate to maintain the fiction that al Qaeda was “on the run”—lied to the public about how four Americans were killed in a sophisticated attack carried out, on the anniversary of 9/11, by terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda.

Andrew C. McCarthy rolls back the fraud even further, painting a compelling case that the unknown filmmaker's video was not the cause of any of the 9/11/12 violence, including that which occurred in Cairo.

POLL: What was Barack Obama doing for 10 hours after learning of the Benghazi attacks?

A new poll courtesy of @BiffSpackle:



Remember all of the liberal criticism of George W. Bush reading My Pet Goat (I'm talking to you, fat boy) after being alerted by aides that the World Trade Center was under attack? Never mentioned by the liberal loons: Bush was asked by the Secret Service to give them some time to secure an evacuation route to Air Force One. So he read the book to the schoolkids for a total of six whole minutes.

The criticism from the Left was deafening.

Yet, in Benghazi, we can't even find out what the President was doing for 10 hours after learning of the attacks, leaving Americans to die awaiting a rescue that would never come.

10 hours, or 100 My Pet Goats.

Talk amongst yourselves.


Larwyn's Linx: Trey Gowdy: ‘I Have Evidence’ of ‘Systematic, Intentional’ Benghazi Cover-Up

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Nation

Trey Gowdy Has Evidence of ‘Systematic, Intentional’ Benghazi Cover-Up: TPNN
Benghazi Emails: Proof Obama put politics ahead of truth: Jay Sekulow
Trey Gowdy: Benghazi Select Committee Bulldog: Rotten to the Core

It is not possible to get leftists to feel embarrassment or shame: Q&O
Obama Again Calls the United States a Constitutional Democracy: Sara Noble
Honesty in Chicago Politics? Open Socialist Runs for City Council: Loudon

Bill to allow law licenses for non-citizens passes: Times
Inevitable: Rich GOP donors warn Christie their first loyalty is to Jeb Bush: Hot Air
Shellacking II: The Sequel: WFB

Economy

Welcome To ‘Operation Chokepoint’, DOJ's Massive Overreach: WZ
Obama Vacations Have Cost $40 Million, Averaging $625,000/Mo.: WZ
FCC Cronyism Stiffs Taxpayers and Destroys Jobs: Phil Kerpen

Scandal Central

Sharyl Attkisson: Emails Prove White House Cover-up: Reason
‘Smoking Gun’ Benghazi Email Distribution: Muslim Brotherhood Agent: Shoebat
Non-English Speakers Qualify for Disability Benefits More Quickly: WFB

Father of SEAL Killed in Benghazi Attacks: White House 'Watched This Battle Happen': FNI
Judge Jeanine Pirro: ‘Why Wouldn’t We Impeach This President For Benghazi?: Nice Deb
Libya Yada Yada: Crockett Lives

Climate & Energy

Global Warming Causes Schizophrenia*: Ed Driscoll
Westerners fear Obama preparing monuments land grab: Thomas Burr
The ocean ate my global warming: WUWT

Media

Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege: Tal Fortgang
The Dudes Abide: Ed Driscoll
Tommy Vietor Comix: MB

Feminist Theory Ruins Everything: @AmyGoodloe’s Lesbian Sedative: R.S. McCain
Bob Beckel meltdown – throws a tantrum over Benghazi cover-up: FAM
From The “What If Bush Had Said It” Files: Pres Jokes Conservatives Talk About Putin’s Chest: Scoop

Guard of Honor - Review: ‘The Marines Take Anbar’ by Richard H. Shultz Jr.: WFB
Would you please watch this?: GayPatriot
As Correspondents’ Dinner Comedy Act, McHale Denigrates Republicans as Racists: CNS

World

Dangerous Times: Still Missing the Strategic Meaning of Benghazi: James Lewis
Libya: Muslim Art Critics Destroy 12000 Yr. Old World Heritage Rock Paintings: BCF
Reprisals in eastern Ukraine as army continues advance on pro-Russian rebels: EuroNews

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Boeing’s Stealth Bird of Prey: Tactical Life
Company Uses Bogus Polls And Gag Orders To Protect Image Of License Plate Scanning: TechDirt
The next NSA? Police departments under scrutiny for phone, license plate surveillance: Fox

Cornucopia

Thug Finds Out What Happens When You Sucker Punch an Ex-Special Forces Business Owner: RWN
Capitalist Oppression: Slave Descendant Is Charged 20¢ for Cup of Water: MB
Sober driver arrested on bogus DWI charges after sheriff's deputy leaves her with a broken neck: Daily Mail

Image: Inevitable: Rich GOP donors warn Christie that their first loyalty is to Jeb Bush
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QOTD: “The [Benghazi cover-up] case has been reopened... [Jay Carney's assertion] is a preposterous proposition. The reason Susan Rice was on the show, the reason she got the prepping, the reason she had to be told our goals was because of the Benghazi deaths, it was not because anybody would have cared about the Cairo demonstrations.

There wasn’t a protest, there wasn’t a demonstration, the video was irrelevant. This was a way to tell her to tell the nation a story about a video that would in essence politically exonerate the president six weeks before an election." --Charles Krauthammer

Saturday, May 03, 2014

LIMBAUGH: Watergate is Benghazi. Except this time, Woodward and Bernstein are helping Nixon cover it up.

Rush Limbaugh:

What we’re watching here today is the equivalent of Woodward and Bernstein helping Nixon cover up Watergate. The mainstream media is Woodward and Bernstein. Watergate is Benghazi. Except this time, Woodward and Bernstein are helping Nixon cover it up.

The media are not interested in this at all. They don't really think there is anything, and those of them who do know that there's something here want to cover it up. Now, the media are made up of a lot of stupid people. And the media are made up of a lot of uninformed people and the media are made up of a lot of people with a lot of prejudice. And there are a lot of reporters who will discount Benghazi simply because of who is interested in it. For example, Fox is interested in it and it automatically is nothing. If I'm interested in it it doesn't rate any interest, because Fox and me, all we want is to get Obama.

That's how prejudiced they are and short minded. You have some of the media who know full well what they're doing and they're working with the regime to cover it up. Then you have real activists in the media who know exactly what happened and who fear the truth coming out and are going to do everything they can to protect Obama, including trying to lay the blame off on Republicans somehow or the military, or the video that nobody ever saw...

The memo shows that the White House knew exactly what happened and was trying to protect Obama from it, with Susan Rice being briefed. And Dr. Krauthammer says that's the equivalent of the Nixon tapes being discovered.

The Nixon tapes were big. The 18-minute gap, Rose Mary Wood, the secretary, Nixon taping all the people, Haldeman and Ehrlichman. It's what enabled Woodward and Bernstein to go. I still like my comparison that the Drive-Bys of today are the equivalent of Woodward and Bernstein helping to cover it up. When Dr. Krauthammer says the other media are somewhat embarrassed because they allowed themselves to be stoned spun and rolled for a year and a half. Now the memo appears, it's obvious they missed the story....

The media and the administration official in the White House were both ragging on Fox. They were watching Fox. They were watching the O'Reilly Factor and they were e-mailing each other back and forth. O'Reilly was going back and forth how Benghazi was a big thing and the media was missing it and clearly the video had nothing to do with it. And these two people, one a Drive-By reporter, the other an administration official, were both writing back and forth about what B.S. Fox was talking about...

AP reporter Matt Lee and Regime official Victoria Nuland, State Department, were writing back and forth. E-mails to each other about what a bunch of B.S. is on Fox as O'Reilly is discounting the Regime theory on the video explaining why there were protests in Benghazi and that's why the Ambassador is dead. So the point is you have a State Department official writing back and forth with a news media person, Matt Lee. If you read it, it's clear that Matt Lee from the Associated Press is offering his assistance to the regime.

My only point in bringing this up is the media didn't have to be spun. The media didn't have to be rolled. I'm not criticizing Krauthammer, please don't misunderstand. I'm disagreeing with the role of the media here. They're totally already in the Obama camp. They are Obamaites first and journalists second. They're liberal Democrats first and journalists second. They're not even journalists anymore. So you have Victoria Nuland at the State Department and this Matt Lee guy and they're watching O'Reilly and O'Reilly is making all the sense in the world about the video not being responsible for anything here, and these two people are writing back and forth about what a bunch of B.S. is on Fox.

Now, the AP reporter, he doesn't know from anything. He's not asking the State Department babe, "Hey, is what I'm hearing on Fox right?" He's not asking the government official, "Hey, could O'Reilly have a point here? Maybe the video doesn't have anything --" No, the AP reporter was already in bed with the State Department official, and they were already conspiring with each other on how to make sure nobody believed the Fox report or the Fox version of things. They wanted to make sure that the Fox version of things remained marginalized and isolated. I don't think the media has to be spun, and I don't think they're embarrassed now. I don't think there's any regret that they missed this story.

The regret is they weren't able to successfully cover it up. If anything, the Drive-By media is gnashing its teeth over the fact that the original Fox and anti-standard media version of this, my version, is the one that's real, that the regime has been lying. They're mad that that has been learned. So now they've gotta cover it up. So we're into the cover up of a cover-up now. The media is not interested in the truth of this story. They never have been. This has been a circle the wagons event from the get-go. From the night of the Benghazi attack, this has been a circle the wagons moment. Now they've gotta do it again.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

ANOTHER NEW LOW FOR JOHN KERRY: "We need another intifada" to force Israel to surrender its sovereignty

And you thought John Kerry had already hit rock bottom, n'est ce pas?

In anonymous briefing to top columnist, members of Kerry’s team slam Netanyahu, empathize with Abbas, warn Palestine will rise ‘whether through violence or via int’l organizations’


American officials directly involved in the failed Israeli-Palestinian peace process over the last nine months gave a leading Israeli columnist a withering assessment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the negotiations, indicated that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has completely given up on the prospect of a negotiated solution, and warned Israel that the Palestinians will achieve statehood come what may — either via international organizations or through violence...

...One bitter American official told Barnea, “I guess we need another intifada to create the circumstances that would allow progress...”

...In a rare attribution of some blame to Abbas, the Americans said they “couldn’t understand why it bothered him so much” to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. But here too, ultimately, the Americans were empathetic to Abbas: “The Palestinians came to the conclusion that Israel was pulling a nasty trick on them. They suspected there was an effort to get from them approval of the Zionist narrative.

...Israel can expect to face international isolation and possible sanctions from countries and companies across the world if Netanyahu fails to endorse a framework agreement with the Palestinians, Obama cautioned in an interview with Bloomberg at the time. If Netanyahu “does not believe that a peace deal with the Palestinians is the right thing to do for Israel, then he needs to articulate an alternative approach,” Obama said then. “There comes a point where you can’t manage this anymore, and then you start having to make very difficult choices,” he said.

The president went on to condemn Israel’s settlement activities in the West Bank, and said that though his allegiance to the Jewish state was permanent, building settlements across the Green Line was counterproductive and would make it extremely difficult for the US to defend Israel from painful repercussions in the international community. “If you see no peace deal and continued aggressive settlement construction — and we have seen more aggressive settlement construction over the last couple years than we’ve seen in a very long time — if Palestinians come to believe that the possibility of a contiguous sovereign Palestinian state is no longer within reach, then our ability to manage the international fallout is going to be limited,” Obama warned.

Late last year, Kerry -- whose face has been distorted by repeated failed plastic surgeries and now resembles that of Mr. Potato Head -- lashed out at Israel and mentioned the possibility of a "Third Intifida" (i.e., a wave of mass murders of innocent women and children).

Never before, to my knowledge, has an American diplomat hoped for a wave of mass murder on the civilian population of an ally.

I placed the map of Israel above for a reason. The purple borders illustrate how Egypt and Jordan could tear down their security walls and thereby allow Palestinians freedom in Arab lands.

Why doesn't John Kerry talk about that? Why doesn't Barack Obama mention that?

We know why. Indeed, we know exactly why.


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Larwyn's Linx: Boehner announces he will allow vote to establish select committee on Benghazi

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Nation

Boehner to allow vote to establish select committee on Benghazi: UnitedLiberty
Trey Gowdy ‘On the Record’ on the Select Committee for Benghazi: Gretawire
Boehner to appoint panel on Benghazi: The Hill

S&P Capital IQ: 144 Million to Lose Their Employer Health Plans: Lid
Yet Again, Anarchists Highjack Peaceful Left Wing Protest: Ace
GOP Establishment: ‘The McConnell Strategy’: Rotten

Is Obama Too Smart for the Presidency-or Is It Too Tough for Him?: Michael Walsh
Bunkerville Remains The Flash Point: Christian Mercenary
Wendy Davis has Some Explaining to do on Ethics: RWN

Economy

5 Ways Liberals Hurt The Poor: John Hawkins
What is the Real Unemployment Rate?: Federalist
Break Up the Golden State?: City Journal

Scandal Central

Vid: A few times Obama, Clinton, etc. blamed Benghazi on Video: Bryan Preston
Finally, Boehner to Launch a Select Committee on Benghazi: David Weigel
Go Trey, Go Trey: William A. Jacobson

Does Harry Reid Own 93 Acres Near Bundy Grazing Land?: BuzzPo
Obama Had “Debate Prep” Meeting on September 11, 2012, the Day of the Benghazi Attack: Patterico
Benghazi Vs. Botched Execution: Cove

Climate & Energy

Supreme Court Ruling Empowers EPA: Bill Straub
How To Talk To People About Hotcoldwetdry: Cove
Claim: U.S. corn increasingly vulnerable to hot, dry weather; Data: corn trend positive: WUWT

Media

CBS Evening News Finally Notices Benghazi Emails; Discloses Exec.'s Family Tie to White House: MRC
David Gregory Connects Benghazi Directly to Hillary Clinton: Bryan Preston
100,000 New Yorkers demonstrate downtown against Nazi Jew-hatred, media doesn’t run it: Geller

Benghazi: Not Exactly Rocket Science: DiploMad
Krauthammer's Take: New Benghazi E-mail Akin to Discovery of Nixon Tapes: NRO
LIBS TO LIBS: 'CNN Has Gone In The Toilet, FOX Is Only Place For Straight News': Clash

World

Obama Never Made it to Situation Room During Benghazi Attack!: GWP
Benghazi, Lies and Videotape: Nonie Darwish
Pope Francis Says He Cried After Seeing Pictures of Christians Crucified By Islamists In Syria: WZ

The Real Problem With Kerry’s ‘Apartheid’ Myth: RWN
Mexican Military Repeatedly Invades the USA – Obama Does Nothing: Eagle Rising
Japan puts early-warning aircraft on Okinawa amid China's moves: Stripes

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Flying Car That Could Expedite Your Morning Commute: Discover
Mind blown! Facebook’s f8 makes a mobile move into marketing automation: InsideFacebook
BICEP2 and the Origins of the Universe: Behind the Buzz: Space.com

Cornucopia

No Sex, Just Lies: Still Waiting On the Emails and Videotape: MOTUS
Bizarre Arizona landscape swirls and sways like brushstrokes from a surrealist painting: Daily Mail
Rob Schneider Tells Chris Stigall: We Are Sliding Very Fast Towards Fascism: CBS Philly

Image: Officials to hold largest security drill in Boston’s history
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QOTD: "...a trio of Republican senators wrote to Obama Friday, demanding he reveal his whereabouts during the attack after former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Fox News that Obama was not in the White House’s basement Situation Room monitoring events.

“Over a year and a half has passed since the terrorist attacks, and the American people still do not have an accounting of your activities during the attack. Mr. President, can you now confirm that Mr. Vietor’s account of your absence in the White House Situation Room is accurate?” the letter asks." --Russell Berman

Friday, May 02, 2014

BEN RHODES HITS THE QUADFECTA: Email Breakdown

Thanks to JudicialWatch (PDF), we have the original email from White House propagandist Ben Rhodes regarding the Benghazi cover-up.

Check out the four talking points, annotated by @BiffSpackle:


Oh, my.


Related: May 10, 2013: Ted Cruz has 12 Questions for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

TOMMY VIETOR COMIX in "Dude, where's my van?"

Via our summer intern, @BiffSpackle and based on a true story.


Methinks Mr. Vietor will soon be back living in his van, down by the river.


THE PUPPETMASTERS: Meet The Radical Billionaires Controlling the Democrat Party

Guest post by Tori Richards

This weekend, a shadowy leftist group named Democracy Alliance will meet in Chicago to figure out a way to thwart conservative rivals.

As the adage goes, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

While top liberal organizations blast the right for accepting dark money, the Alliance’s entire business model is based on maintaining secrecy akin to the Illuminati.

“Like a lot of elite groups, we fly beneath the radar,” Oakland lawyer and Alliance donor Guy Saperstein told the Washington Post in 2006, a year after the group was formed. “We are not so stupid though (to) deny our existence.”

The group requires some hefty financial backing. It costs $25,000 just to join, yearly dues of $30,000 and an additional $200,000 donation to Alliance causes. Donation recipients must sign confidentiality agreements, the Post reported.

The Alliance was founded by a group of billionaires, including George Soros and philanthropist Peter B. Lewis, as a result of George W. Bush’s re-election. Its goal was to fund think tanks and media organizations to move societal change toward a more socialist agenda. But the focus changed to funding political endeavors after Vice President Joe Biden asked for help in 2011 for the upcoming election.

Obama’s campaign and his umbrella activist group Organizing for Action have received millions from Democracy Alliance members.

JAY CARNEY: Man Without Shame

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Benghazi Cover-Up: The administration's tangled web of deceit now includes lying about prior lies as the White House press secretary tries to cover up its cover-up of why four Americans died in a terrorist attack.

No, that was not Winston Smith, the rewriter of history working for the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's classic novel "1984," tap-dancing once again before a no-longer-sycophantic White House press corps. Rather, it was that master storyteller, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

Carney shamefully continued to insist that when then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice went on five Sunday talk shows days after the 2012 attack to offer an untrue story that Benghazi was the result of an inflammatory video, she was acting on the best intelligence offered by the intelligence community.

Carney said this knowing that Mike Morell, CIA deputy director two years ago, testified before Congress and said the video story did not come from CIA analysts.

As for the emails that showed the administration's motives for the story were political, to protect a president running for re-election and a secretary of state that wanted to be his successor, Carney offered his entry for 2014 Lie Of The Year: The emails obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch in a lawsuit specifically seeking Benghazi documents weren't really about Benghazi.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in an interview on TheBlaze TV that the newly released emails bring questions about the slaughter "into the White House, and it shows that the idea that the CIA created the talking points that Susan Rice was using is a big fat lie."

In an argumentative exchange between Carney and ABC News' Jon Karl, Carney insisted that "if you look at the document in question here, it is not about Benghazi; it is about the protests around the Muslim world outside of U.S. embassies" and it was the general situation in the Middle East that Rice was being prepped for.

To his credit, Karl asked all the right questions in response to Carney's song and dance: "Why were you holding back this information? Why was this email not turned over to the Congress? Why was it not released when you released all the other emails?" and, of course, if what Carney was saying is true, why did it take a court case to get the unredacted email released?

Larwyn's Linx: Benghazi --- American ‘Liberalism’ and the Mainstream Media on Trial

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Nation

Benghazi: U.S. 'Liberalism' and the Mainstream Media on Trial: Roger L. Simon
The Dishonored Dead: Mark Steyn
ObamaCare: Healthcare Spending Rise Fastest Since Carter in Office: MB

Whatever happened to free-speech panic?: Jonah Goldberg
Ted Cruz Leading A Grassroots Tsunami: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Senate Dems to Hold Vote to Change the First Amendment: ConTrib

Carney Blames CIA For WH Telling Susan Rice To Lie About Benghazi: WZ
Cummings lies about Benghazi response; Issa and Chaffetz respond: Scoop
The Bundy Paradox: Starving the Monkeys

So it Looks Like Wendy Davis Might be Finished: Glob
Obama administration plans to destroy $1.2 billion of ammunition: John Lott
Thin Ice: Why at Least 10 Senators Should Be Worried: Minority Report

Economy

The East Baton Rouge Schools Grade-Fixing Scandal Grows: HayRide
Bummer: SEIU can no longer skim from poor, sick Michigan residents: ConIntel
Democrat Utopia of Venezuela: High Wages, But No Food: Walter Russell Mead

Scandal Central

General: We Didn't Even Try To Save American Lives In Benghazi: Eli Lake
Could You Lie to a Bereaved Father? Hillary Could.: Mona Charen
Top Intel Chief Testifies: 'We Should Have Sent Help For Americans in Benghazi': Katie Pavlich

Chaffetz Unloads on Hillary's State Department Leaving Americans to Die in Benghazi: Breitbart
Issa: WH Withholding Benghazi Docs ‘Disturbing and Perhaps Criminal’: Nice Deb
Enough White House Lies on Benghazi: David Limbaugh

Jay Carney Lashes Out at Ed Henry Over New Benghazi Emails: Blaze
Boehner’s Last Two Opponents Were Fired From Their Jobs: DC
Ethics Complaint Filed Against Landrieu For Staged Political Ad : HayRide

Climate & Energy

Former NASA Scientist Calls "Climate Change" Nonsense: Cove
Federal Regulators Could Be Empowered To Enter Your Property To Inspect Your Cars: DC
Bummer: Polar Bears Endangered By Too Much Ice: Cove

Media

Mentioned on DC: "More than 100,000 Gang Members in Texas"—Unmentioned: Immigration!: VDARE
MSNBC: “We Never Have a Conversation About Race”: Nice Deb
Brother of CBS News head at center of plan to whitewash Benghazi terror attack: Creeping

Even NBC's David Gregory Isn't Buying What Jay Carney Is Selling on Benghazi: PJM
MSNBC Is Now Admitting There MAY Be Something To This Whole Benghazi Thing: DC
Gosnell: The Movie Hollywood Won’t Make, But You Can: Michelle Malkin

MSM Warned: Be Nice or Hillary Won’t Give Us Her Presidency!: Anchoress
ABC, NBC Ignore Shocking Economic Slowdown: MRC
Jay Carney’s Tower of Lies: Peter Wehner

World

The Nightmare of a Defenseless America: Kurt Schlichter
Sharia Advisors – Barack Obama's Muslim Appointees in High Security Positions: FreePost
Jihad in India: Twin bomb blasts hit India express train: Geller

Vladimir Putin's long—and very dangerous—game: Leon Aron
Japanese Nazis Parade Through Tokyo: The American Interest
Afghanistan’s ‘torturer in chief’ now living in Los Angeles: Creeping

Border Patrol Found 194 Bodies in Tucson Sector Alone Last Year: TR
N4T Investigators: Rogue Mexican Army troops crossing the line: Lupita Murillo and Michel Marizco, KVOA
Keep beefing up Border Patrol? Some Arizona ranchers say no: McClatchy

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Microsoft Office applications barely used by many employees, new study shows: TechWorld
E-ZPass Tracks Motorists Outside Of Toll Booths: WBGO
Would you want Apple to put health sensors in your EarPods?: iMore

Cornucopia

Cops Must Swear Silence to Access Vehicle Tracking System: Instapundit
Congratulations - We Are the .1 Percenters!: MOTUS
After America Moves a Step Close to Reality: Ed Driscoll

Image: Ukraine crisis: Small numbers, global impact
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QOTD: "Has a unit of Mexican Army soldiers who patrol right on the Arizona border gone rogue?

This small group has attacked U.S. citizens, and even challenged U.S. federal agents within the U.S. A News 4 Tucson investigation into the dangerous world of rogue soldiers in Mexico's military.

In January, soldiers from this lonely outpost of the Mexican Army drew their guns on U.S. Border Patrol agents just 50 yards into the United States. Then in March, they opened fire on Javier Jose Rodriguez, a young Tucson man visiting family in Sásabe when he was driving around the town early on a Saturday morning after drinking beers with friends. Rodriguez was shot in the arm and in the side, he spent three weeks at University of Arizona Medical Center.

The United States' reaction has been tepid, angering people who live and patrol along the Arizona border." --Lupita Murillo and Michel Marizco

Thursday, May 01, 2014

ILLINOIS: We're Number One, Again!

Gallup has some interesting new poll results out. They asked residents of all 50 states whether they are unhappy enough to want to move out of state.

Every state has at least some residents who are looking for greener pastures, but nowhere is the desire to move more prevalent than in Illinois and Connecticut. In both of these states, about half of residents say that if given the chance to move to a different state, they would like to do so. Maryland is a close third, at 47%.

I added the blue for a reason. David Freddoso explains:

I find it fascinating that seven of the top eight — all but foreclosure-plagued Nevada — are wealthy and thoroughly liberal bastions, followed by two of the poorest states in the U.S. to round out the top ten.

Illinois, by the way, is also number one for residents who think their state is the worst of all.

I think it was Mark Levin who first noted that Democrats are like locusts. They destroy a state and then, having sufficiently eradicated growth and opportunity, move on to the next. New York-to-Connecticut and Maryland-to-Virginia serving as archetypes.


Hat tip: BadBlue News