Friday, May 23, 2014

PICS: OFA fanatics' "Like a Boss" meme completely pwnt by Ted Cruz and the entire Interwebz

Someone who no longer works at Organizing For Alinsky came up with this brainstorm:



Ted Cruz, however, really is a boss:

Scandal Déjà vu: As Veterans Needlessly Suffer, President Obama Refuses to Hold Anyone to Account

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: While his clueless Veterans Affairs secretary stays, the president issues his response: If reports are true, people will be held accountable — that is, as soon as he gets the inspector general's report in August.

'If these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful and I will not tolerate it, period," the president said, drawing a red line in his first public comments in weeks on the issue after a meeting with Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki at the White House.

His faux outrage and emotionless tap-dancing differed little from his comments when the IRS was found to be targeting Tea Party groups to aid his re-election.

"If in fact IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous and there's no place for it," he said then, promising to wait, yep, for an inspector general's report.

Veterans are tired of waiting for reports. There have been at least 50 of them, as senators pointed out to Shinseki at a hearing, not counting the transition briefing President-elect Obama received in 2008 about a problem he pledged to address in 2009.

Now he has to wait for one more?

As the Washington Times notes, Obama's transition team was warned in 2008 of no less than three audits that showed the VA Department was misreporting wait times for medical treatment, including one audit revealing delays nearly 10 times worse than officially acknowledged. As we have noted, Obama promised then to fix a situation he now says he doesn't have enough data on.

Obama, at his meandering presser Wednesday, said he wants "to know the full scope of this problem, and that's why I ordered Secretary Shinseki to investigate."

Larwyn's Linx: Al Qaeda Fanatics at Gitmo Treated Better Than Our Vets

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Nation

Al Qaeda Fanatics at Gitmo Treated Better Than Our Vets: Pat Dollard
Senate Democrats Just Blocked a Bill to Increase Accountability at VA: WFB
Democratic War on One Woman: WSJ

Hillary’s dilemma: How to distance herself from Obama: Jonah Goldberg
In Obama’s Own Words He’s ‘Betrayed’ Our Veterans: JWF
How America Treats Illegal Aliens vs. Veterans: Michelle Malkin

Democrats threaten John Boehner on immigration reform: Exam
Reid: Let’s pass Amnesty now and wait for President Cruz to enforce it: Hot Air
Self-Defense for the Self-Defense Industry: Torch

Rand Paul drops me a note: PW
IRS to Scrap Proposed Regulations: NRO
GOP to Reid: We’ll See Your ‘Fill the Tree’ with a Filibuster: Tatler

Economy

Employers to Dump 90% of Health Care Plans: Thanks, ObamaCare!: FW
47% of Unemployed Have Given Up Looking for a Job: Mashable
Common Core’s dirty little secret and the field tests: EAG

Scandal Central

Hillary Lied, Americans Died: R.S. McCain
Obama Administration’s First Response to Benghazi Attack Was to Work on a Back Story: GWP
Pelosi Attempts to Derail The Benghazi Investigation With Hyper-partisan Democrats: JoshuaPundit

DOJ Admits Fast & Furious Docs Should Be Released Under FOIA After Stonewalling Lawsuit: JW
Issa Subpoenas Eric Holder for IRS Documents: ConTrib
FBI Urged to Investigate James O'Keefe's Tactics in Hollywood Activist Sting Operation: Paul Bond

Climate & Energy

Obama designates another half a million acres in New Mexico as a national monument: Hot Air
Tom Steyer-Koch Won't Help Mary Landrieu. He Won't Even Try.: HayRide
Climategate 3.0: Blogger Threatened for Exposing 97% "Consensus" Fraud: William F. Jasper

Climate alarmists make major blunder in reporting Antarctica ice loss results: WUWT
Obama’s Alarmist “Climate” Report Debunked by Scientists: Alex Newman
The Nod-Nod, Wink-Wink Game Pundits Play With the IPCC: CFP

Media

Review: “Faithless Execution—Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment” by Andrew McCarthy: AIM
In a Month, TV News Gives Less Airtime to VA Scandal than Bridgegate Received in Four Days: MRC
Reich On: Stephen Green

Remember When the Left Raved About the VA?: Glob
The Veterans Scandal: Socialized Medicine on Trial: Roger L. Simon
Katie Pavlich calls out Mediaite over ‘bogus, completely out of context headline’: Twitchy

Al Sharpton Defends Racist Rant: ‘It Was Only One Jew’: Jerome Hudson, Daily Surge
Toys For Totalitarians - Enemy At The Gates: SWAT Mag
BOOM: Voter Turnout Nearly DOUBLED in TX After Voter ID Law: ConTrib

World

Ah, those women-loving, progressive Russians!: Donald Sensing
Waking up the Islamist deniers: Anthony Furey
Iran Releases Fans Detained Over Music Video: TNW

Clinton team begged Dems to to protect Hillary at Benghazi hearings: Rick Moran
“Without a Strong Army, There is no Sovereign State”: Gates of Vienna
Who Needs The United States? Not Russia And China: Michael Snyder

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

NASA lets enthusiasts reboot zombie 1970s spacecraft: Jacob Aron
Does U.S. business stand a chance of keeping Chinese cyber-spies out of its data?: Ellen Messmer
7 Facts: eBay Fumbles Password Reset Warning: Dark Reading

Cornucopia

Lunatics From Towson University Win National Debate Contest: MB
Moving Lips Part 2: The Critical Deficit: Torch
America’s Got Talent...how about voting for it for a change???: MOTUS

Image: America’s Got Talent...how about voting for it for a change???
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Now is the Time: Chris McDaniel for Senate

QOTD: "...our veterans, our military have to be a priority. He [Obama] said he ran on that for his campaign. You know when he was Senator that he, you know, the veterans meetings that he went to - he missed 19 out of 37 of those meetings. You know he was told in 2008 this was a problem, he did nothing about it! So I don’t understand that. Number one. Number two, if this government cannot handle taking care of 5 million veterans, how are they gonna handle taking care of 300 million Americans with ObamaCare? How?" --Stacey Dash

Thursday, May 22, 2014

GEE, BUT DEMOCRATS SAY THERE'S NO VOTE FRAUD: 308,000 Virginians Registered to Vote in Other States

By Kenric Ward

RICHMOND, Va. — Some 308,000 Virginia voters are also registered elsewhere, according to an analysis of 22 states’ election records.

The finding follows Watchdog.org’s report of 44,000 people who appear to be registered in both Virginia and Maryland.

The latest survey found the 308,000 double registrations by matching names, birth dates and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.

The Virginia Voters Alliance, which reported the results, identified “big gaps” in the voter-registration process.

“Say you move to Kansas and tell the election office there that you were registered in Virginia when you submit your Kansas voter-registration form,” explained VVA president Reagan George. “If the Kansas election official is bureaucratically lazy or politically motivated your name never gets removed. The same thing can happen on the Virginia end, and you stay double registered.”

How many of the 308,000 voters cast multiple ballots in a single election is not known.

Obama wants to use banks to obliterate the Second Amendment

By Genevieve Wood

Leave it to the Obama administration to come up with perhaps the most backdoor strategy to date to go after guns.

Operation Choke Point, launched by the Department of Justice in 2013, was initially set up to monitor banks and other financial institutions that handle transactions for payday loan businesses and other online lenders the government considered open to fraudulent activities. What does this have to do with guns?

Operation Choke Point is now being used to intimidate banks that do business with online merchants the Obama administration deems “high-risk.” On that list are porn stores, escort services, drug paraphernalia shops and, you guessed it, gun retailers.

In other words, if you’re a bank, the government may be breathing down your neck about businesses it deems “high-risk” for fraudulent activity. It may swoop in at any time to open up an investigation into your banking business if its agents “think” one of your clients is engaged in illegal behavior. Why would you take on that client in the first place? It’s much less costly for you to stop dealing with these companies than to submit to investigations and audits.

That means gun shops that offer their products online and use a third-party company such as PayPal to handle credit card transactions are increasingly not worth the risk.

Peter Weinstock, an attorney focusing on investigations of financial institutions, says, “This administration has very clearly told the banking industry which customers they feel represent ‘reputational risk’ to do business with. So financial institutions are reacting to this extraordinary enforcement arsenal by being ultra-conservative in who they do business with: Any companies that engage in any margin of risk as defined by this administration are being dropped.”

Already, gun retailers in Florida, Nevada and Arizona have experienced the fallout of such heavy-handed government tactics – from banks freezing their accounts and refusing to process their credit card transactions to dropping their accounts altogether.

GOOD NEWS: Facebook will secretly eavesdrop on your conversations, TV shows and other background noise

And what could possibly go wrong with giving a massive, faceless corporation unfettered control of your computer, essentially turning it into a clandestine listening post?

..."I hope there are people who love the feature and post more," says Facebook's product manager excitedly about the new feature they just added. We suspect people will not... As the WSJ reports, starting Wednesday, the app has the ability to recognize music and television shows playing in the vicinity of users. Read that again... 'in the vicinity of users'. In other words, Facebook is unveiling its own NSA-style eavesdropping feature (on you and all your friends). Don't worry though... even if users decide not to share what they’re hearing or watching, Facebook will hold onto the data in anonymous form, keeping tabs on how many users watched particular shows. Sound familiar?

Facebook’s mobile app just grew a keen sense of hearing. Starting Wednesday, the app has the ability to recognize music and television shows playing in the vicinity of users... The feature is designed to make it easier for users to share. When users begin to write a post, the Facebook app will offer to include information about music or shows playing in the background.


...If enough users opt in, the new Feature could give Facebook enough data to start compiling television ratings. Even if users decide not to share what they’re hearing or watching, Facebook will hold onto the data in anonymous form, keeping tabs on how many users watched particular shows...


We are sure this will not be abused or hacked by the NSA... and we are sure there will be plenty of small digital print that users will understand... One wonders though, is there any way for non-Facebook users to know that they are being eavesdropped upon?

I think Facebook should be required to sound a blaring, high-pitched beeping noise -- say, similar to the Emergency Broadcasting System, only more shrill and annoying -- to ensure that everyone within earshot is aware they are being surveilled by the NSA Facebook.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

Larwyn's Linx: Ted Cruz Grills FBI Director on IRS Investigation, Slams Leaky Patrick Leahy

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Nation

Ted Cruz Grills FBI Director on IRS Investigation, Slams Leahy: Nice Deb
The Leader of the Hobbits: PW
Democrat Congressman: “We’ve proved that Communism works”: WZ

'Angry' Obama Responds to VA Crisis by Vowing to Do Nothing At All: AmJrnl
Politics trump ethics in the Obama administration: Victor Davis Hanson
Prison For D’Souza, Beach Time For Corzine: Mollie Hemingway

Does The Tea Party Need More Experienced Candidates?: Dan McLaughlin
It’s Not Conservatism’s Fault That Republicans Won’t Listen: Jen Kuznicki
Scott Walker loses 7 point lead, now tied in Wisconsin reelection race: Hot Air

Texas Democrats Abort Wendy Davis: BlurBrain
Chamber of Commerce and Obama agree cheap foreign labor is a great idea: RS
Top Issues in America: Bankrupting

Economy

Nearly Half of Unemployed Have 'Completely Given Up' Looking for Job: NRO
GM Sure Recalled Lotsa Cars Right After The Feds Sold Their Shares: Federalist
10,996,447: Disability beneficiaries hit new record: CNS

“Obamacare for retirement accounts”: PW
Obamacare: Home of the $11,500 Application: Tom Blumer
The VA, the NHS and choice: Cal Thomas

Scandal Central

Have You Noticed? Everything ‘Sky-Rockets’ Under Obama: Nice Deb
Director of Phoenix VA Hospital Where Vets Died from Delays Received $8,500 Bonus in April: WS
Death toll from Veterans Affairs delays, incompetence climbing: Mark Tapscott

The Left 's Forked Tongue Brigade Continues To Circle The Wagons On Benghazi: Joshua
Hillary Clinton’s people pushed Democrats to join Benghazi Select Committee to Protect Her: Scoop
James O’Keefe teases Part 2 of sting video: ‘The celebrity names get bigger’: Twitchy

Media

The Rise of Mob Rule in America: Amy Lutz
Roy Blunt Goes Off On Obama Admin For Failing To Take Responsibility Amid Scandals: WFB
Statistical Analysis Shows 4% Of NYT Reporters Are Serial Killers: Ann Coulter

House Sends Subpoena to Eric Holder on IRS Scandal, Big Three Nets Refuse to Report: MRC
How Conservatives Can Defeat the Media: AT
Counter-productive 2nd Amendment exercise: BlackFive

Interview: Mark Steyn Surveys the Passing Parade: Ed Driscoll
The New Obama Narrative: Epic Incompetence: Peter Wehner
MSNBC Panel Admits VA Scandal A 'Political Problem' for Obama, 'Confidence is Lost': MRC

World

Official: Iranian FM “Laughed and Ignored” U.S. Queries on Ballistic Missiles: Omri Ceren
The Menace Of Russia And China – A Strategic Alliance Of Our Enemies: NoisyRm
The Problem With Obama is That People Believe Him: Glob

What About Huma?: Breitbart
State Dept. ‘Not Sure’ It Got Senate Letter Sent Four Days Ago Pleading for Sudanese Christian: Tatler
Blunt on Christian Facing Martyrdom in Sudan:‘She Is Wife of U.S. Citizen’: CNS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Public utility compromised after brute-force attack, DHS says: IT World
eBay Database Hacked With Stolen Employee Credentials: Brian Prince
Ad Network Undertone Gets A New CEO Ahead Of Expected IPO: Insider

Cornucopia

Rafael Cruz explains how the Bible tells you exactly who to vote for…: Scoop
Another "Officer Friendly" Incident (Language Warning): Reason
The Best Quotes From Kathy Shaidle’s “Confessions of A Failed Slut”: John Hawkins

Image: Ted Cruz Grills FBI Director on IRS Investigation – Tangles With Leaky Leahy
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Now is the Time: Chris McDaniel for Senate

QOTD: "Sensing easy prey in people who so avidly cooperate in their own destruction, the media has relentlessly expanded its strategy for portraying conservatives as gibbering idiots for whom no sane voter would press the lever. For decades the media has collaborated with Democrats and the liberal elites in creating a superstructure that exists for the sole purpose of humiliating conservative candidates and spokesmen. It is proactive, universal, and often quite successful. It has also been virtually ignored by the conservative establishment, which consistently behaves as if American politics is a gentleman’s pastime operating by the same rules that it did in the late 19th century...

...This is the system we’re facing in 2014. Has anybody learned from these events -- from the self-immolation of O’Donnell and Akin, from the Sandra and Trayvon conspiracies, the blatant sabotage of Mitt Romney? The record certainly doesn’t show it. There has been no discussion of the media enemy, no evaluation, no strategizing...

...The striking thing about all this is how predictable it is, and how everyone involved fails to predict it. When Candidate X stands up and gets blown to atoms, do the rest of the Republican candidates out there flee the field? Do they attack the plummy voice and the guys who are winging the explosives their way? They do not. They crouch behind their bushes, waiting to be called on, waiting to be blown up." ..." --J.R. Dunn

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Democrats feverishly trying to repeal the First Amendment... and have up to 41 co-sponsors

Anita writes:

Here’s a link to the Democrat proposal to repeal the First Amendment.

It has up to 41 co-sponsors now and it will apparently get voted upon this year.


Remarkable. No one has noticed!

And, as you might expect, vintage media is completely ignoring this development.

As Matthew J. Franck observes:

On its face, the language of the amendment would undo all existing First Amendment protections, including those enjoyed by “news organizations.” After all, one of the signature activities of journalism is the endorsement of some candidates and the opposing of others, and it takes the expenditure of some “​funds”​ to do that.

But there’s a funny thing I have yet to see anyone else notice. The Udall amendment contains the following language as its Section 3: “Nothing in this article shall be construed to grant Congress the power to abridge the freedom of the press.”

I don’t think I have ever before seen a proposed constitutional amendment that directly contradicts itself.

Can you believe these people actually take an oath of office, swear to uphold the Constitution, and then try to pass fascistic detritus like this.


Hat tip: Anita MonCrief.

HO HUM: Physicists Pave the Way to Turn Light into Matter

I think I may have done this in high school when I detonated a dozen M-80s in a coffee can. I mean, when a friend did that.

E = mc². It’s one of the most basic and fundamental equations throughout astrophysics. But it does more than suggest that mass and energy are interconnected, it implies that light can be physically transformed into matter.

But can it really — physically — be done? Scientists proposed the theory more than 80 years ago, but only today have they paved the way to make this transformation routinely on Earth.


...In 1934, two physicists Gregory Breit and John Wheeler proposed that it should be possible to turn light into matter by smashing together only two photons, the fundamental particles of light, to create an electron and a positron. It was the simplest method of turning light into matter ever predicted, but it has never been observed in the laboratory...

Past experiments have required the addition of massive high-energy particles. We’ve seen from the development of nuclear weapons and fission reactors that a tiny amount of matter can yield a tremendous amount of energy. So it seems Breit and Wheeler’s theory would require the opposite effect: tremendous amounts of energy from photons to yield a tiny amount of matter.

This experiment will be a first in that it doesn’t require the addition of massive high-energy particles. It will be performed purely from photons.

Who Is The New Secret Buyer Of U.S. Debt?

By Brandon Smith

On the surface, the economic atmosphere of the U.S. has appeared rather calm and uneventful. Stocks are up, employment isn’t great but jobs aren’t collapsing into the void (at least not openly), and the U.S. dollar seems to be going strong. Peel away the thin veneer, however, and a different financial horror show is revealed.

U.S. stocks have enjoyed unprecedented crash protection due to a steady infusion of fiat money from the Federal Reserve known as quantitative easing. With the advent of the “taper”, QE is now swiftly coming to a close (as is evident in the overall reduction in treasury market purchases), and is slated to end by this fall, if not sooner.

Employment has been boosted only in statistical presentation, and not in reality. The Labor Department’s creative accounting of job numbers omits numerous factors, the most important being the issue of long term unemployed. Millions of people who have been jobless for so long they no longer qualify for benefits are being removed from the rolls. This quiet catastrophe has the side bonus of making it appear as though unemployment is going down.

U.S. Treasury bonds, and by extension the dollar, have also stayed afloat due to the river of stimulus being introduced by the Federal Reserve. That same river, through QE, is now drying up.

Larwyn's Linx: Tom Steyer Buys Harry Reid

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Nation

Tom Steyer Buys Harry Reid: Andrew Stiles
Lawless Order Is How This White House Always Operates: IBD
This is Why Liberty Dies: Outpost

Democrats persist in illegal use of Capitol Visitor Center: Power Line
In From the Cold: Why Shinseki Failed: FormerSpook
Michelle Obama Says Kids Should Monitor Parents for Racism: Wizbang

O'Keefe Dupes Hollywood Progressives in Fracking Sting: GWP
America's Budding Tyrants: Walter Williams
At fundraiser, Obama says Benghazi investigation is unserious: Poor Richard

Fed ‘Biosurveillance’ Seeks Access to All’ Private Medical Records: CNS
The Narcissistic Creed: Kevin D. Williamson
Obama drift frustrates donors: The Hill

Economy

Obamacare’s Dangers for Seniors: Betsy McCaughey
Nevada Trashes Its Failed Obamacare Website: Ben Bullard
Is There a STEM Worker Shortage?: CIS

Scandal Central

Discredited in Benghazi: Angelo M. Codevilla
New Proof of Extensive IRS Scheme: Wall Street Daily
Secrets, lies and Snowden: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit: Guardian

Dershowitz Says D’Souza Case ‘Smacks of Selective Prosecution’: WSJ
What Obama Will Read About In Between Fundraisers: More VA Whistleblowers on the Way: JWF
After Two Officers Are Indicted For Shooting Citizens, Dallas Opts for Body Cameras: TechDirt

Climate & Energy

Sheriff Warns Border Wilderness Zone Will Create Vast Drug Corridor: Breitbart
Meterologist Says Climate Alarmists Used ‘McCarthy’ Tactics Against Him: MRC
Pat Sajak: “Global Warming Alarmists Are Unpatriotic Racists”: Update

Media

#Burack Didn’t Kill Our Vets–Somebody Else made That Happen: MOTUS
O'Reilly Takes on Climate Change Advocates over China: Breitbart
Cops, MRAPs and the Heartbreak of Police Operator Syndrome: TTAG

CNN president Jeff Zucker: We won’t be ‘shamed’ into covering Benghazi hearings: Times
LGBT Tyranny Can Take Your First Amendment Rights Away: Sara Noble
Liberals Say the Darndest Things: Fred Wszolek

‘Social Justice’ Loons Compare Prison System to Apartheid: MenRec
Warning: Literature Ahead: Rich Lowry
Sense of Events: The Washington Post Is Still Stupid: Donald Sensing

World

Obama's intel chiefs lied to Congress about Muslim Brotherhood connections: Allen West
Obama says he's ready to work with terror group Hamas: Pamela Geller
Information Warfare: The Revolution Is Just Getting Started: StrategyPage

Islamism with a Human Face?: Daniel Pipes
New Jersey: Paterson mayor celebrates Nakba, raises ‘Palestinian’ flag at City Hall: Creeping
Russian warships arrive in Shanghai ahead of joint exercise: CCTV

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Comcast Says It's Going To Slap All Of Its Customers With Data Caps: TechDirt
Twitter is Dead. Long Live Twitter!: P&F
Four DARPA Projects That Could Be Bigger Than The Internet: DefenseOne

Cornucopia

Seeing 'em Jump: Ed Driscoll
Moving Lips: Liberty's Torch
Sarah Palin mocks media, liberals over Hillary Clinton health questions: WaPo

Image: Michael Ramirez
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Now is the Time: Chris McDaniel for Senate

QOTD: "The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance” system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical information in the name of national security... “Health situational awareness includes biosurveillance and other health and non-health inputs (e.g., lab/diagnostics, health service utilization, active intelligence, and supply chain information), as well as systems and processes for effective communication among responders and critical health resource monitoring and allocation,” the draft states.

...the NHSS proposal would allow the federal government to monitor an individual’s behavior before, during and after any government-defined health “incident” – which could be anything from a local outbreak of the flu to a terrorist anthrax attack." --Barbara Hollingsworth

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Party Now Resorting to Vile, Anti-Semitic Imagery to Attack Private Citizens

These people are the lowest of the low.

Pelosi using your tax dollars and the Capitol Building to attack you


Tonight, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are using your tax dollars to host the premiere of a film that attacks conservative groups – in the U.S. Capitol.

This partisan attack in the people’s house cannot stand and we have filed an ethics complaint [PDF] to hold Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid accountable.

Congress expressly prohibits partisan political rallies and fundraisers on the grounds of the Capitol or within its walls. As House Administration Chairman Rep. Candice Miller (R – MI) said, the “work in this hallowed building must solely be in the interests of the American people and not in the interests of any political cause.”

Pelosi’s office denied that the event was the premiere screening, despite it being called such by Politico, Fox News, MSNBC, and the film’s own producers in an RSVP now removed from their own site...


Not only do rules prohibit the use of House rooms for screenings, but they expressly prohibit any events that are campaign or political in nature.

What caught my eye is the octopus imagery: the theme was employed by the Nazis in the mid-20th century and by Islamofascists ever since.

A PEN AND A PHONE: Drunk Illegal Alien Who Killed Cop Qualified for Obama Amnesty

By Judicial Watch

The drunk driver who killed a veteran Arizona police officer in a head-on freeway collision this month is an illegal immigrant with a criminal history that nevertheless qualified for amnesty under President Obama’s broad plan.

Why else would he be free to drive U.S. highways and work off the books as a gardener? The devastating story comes out of Phoenix, where an off-duty Mesa Police Officer (Brandon Mendoza) driving home from work, got slammed head-on. In the other car was Raul Silva Corona, an illegal alien from Chihuahua Mexico with a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, according to various news reports.

Officer Mendoza was only 32 years old and he served 13 years on the Mesa Police Department. Before crashing into him, Corona drove 35 miles along several Phoenix-area freeways in the wrong direction. Authorities received dozens of calls from drivers who saw the drunken man speeding the wrong way and they tried to pursue him, but couldn’t stop him. Both men died instantly and hundreds attended a vigil for the popular officer last week.

Initial news reports did not mention the drunk driver’s illegal status or criminal history, probably because it’s not politically correct. The media conveniently dismisses these crucial facts as irrelevant, though it’s a very important issue. Back in 1994 Corona pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy in Adams County Colorado, according to court records obtained by the mainstream news outlet linked above. Evidently, it was part of a deal in which prosecutors dismissed the more serious charges of burglary, assault and leaving the scene of an accident.

Under Obama’s amnesty, tens of thousands of illegal aliens with criminal records more serious than Corona’s are being released from U.S. custody. Just last week Judicial Watch reported that in 2013 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) freed 36,007 illegal immigrants convicted of violent and serious crimes from detention centers throughout the nation. The crimes include homicide, sexual assault, theft, kidnapping and alcohol-related driving convictions, according to the government’s own records. The breathtaking documents were obtained by a nonpartisan research center dedicated to studying immigration issues.

DEMOCRAT LOGIC COMIX: The Morality Conundrum

Another comic strip, the latest in our vast collection, by our summer intern @BiffSpackle.


Yes, they really are that certifiable.


Hat tip: @JJAuthor.

When Obama Resigns

By Lawrence Sellin PhD

Despite the best efforts of the mainstream media and the political establishment to protect Barack Obama, they can no longer hide the incompetence and criminality of the most divisive and sordid administration in American history.

Former National Security Council Spokesman Tommy “dude, this was like two years ago” Vietor is the poster boy of the Obama Administration; a collection of inexperienced, emotionally immature ideologues, whose “the ends justify the means” mentality permits them to tell any lie, violate any law and indifferently sacrifice lives as long as it serves their political objectives.

This bungling and scandal-prone gaggle of amoral nitwits, led by a talking teleprompter, survives only because the extent of their dishonesty is matched by that of the political-media establishment and the public’s inexplicable willingness to tolerate it.

It is, in fact, explainable. Just as certain banks were “too big to fail,” Barack Obama is, quite simply, too corrupt to fail.

The “too big to fail” theory asserts that certain financial institutions are so large and so interconnected that their failure would be disastrous to the economy, and they, therefore, must be supported by government when they face difficulty.

Likewise, politicians and the media know that exposing Obama would reveal their own dereliction of duty, their complicity to undermine the Constitution, their continuous flouting the rule of law and uncover their willful ignorance of his alleged felonies and confirm their participation in the greatest election fraud and Constitutional crisis in American history. They know that the truth would topple the corrupt status quo and terminate their exclusive grip on political power, allowing the American people to regain control of their government. The political and media elite will do anything to prevent that, even risk the survival of the country, rather than risk their careers and the financial benefits.

WHAT'S THE RUSH? Impeached, disbarred perv considers apology to salvage wife's quest for power

By Rob Nikolewski

I don’t like Bill Clinton.

From the get-go, his Eddie Haskell-goes-to-Washington act rubbed me the wrong way.

But we’re talking about politicians, not popes, and I was never one of those Clinton haters who frothed at the mouth, seeing conspiracies behind every potted plant from Little Rock to D.C.

Now, Monica Lewinsky is back in the news because the former White House intern wrote an article in this month’s Vanity Fair, reflecting on her tryst that consumed the media and the entire nation for nearly two years.

We all know the sordid story, but whether you thought it was a witch hunt or not, the bottom line was Bill Clinton was to blame for it, not the 22-year-old intern.

From the moment news of the scandal leaked, Clinton looked out only for himself. He let White House insiders begin a whispering campaign that Lewinsky was a sex-crazed stalker. At the time, maybe they didn’t know the truth.

But Clinton did, and he did nothing to stop it.

He let the rumors and slander swirl around the young woman until the infamous stained blue dress left Clinton, in the words of the late Christopher Hitchens, with no one left to lie to and he had to fess up.

In the meantime, Lewinsky, the object of countless dirty jokes, could barely show her face in public and considered suicide.

Larwyn's Linx: VA Gave Out Bonuses for Criminally Negligent Homicide

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Nation

VA Gave Out Bonuses for Criminally Negligent Homicide: Sara Noble
VA scandal has now spread to a seventh hospital: Bryan Preston
Obama Privately Outraged About VA Scandal!: Keith Koffler

Dear Buckeye Friends Living in John Boehner's District: The Local Malcontent
California Legalizes Genocide, No Joke: Declan Finn
Must-Watch Congressional Races, 2014 Edition: PJM

Shift Power Back to the States: RS
The Twilight Zone and Amnesty: RS
Hillary's Health Matters: Cal Thomas

Rove Myth Debunked: Jen Kuznicki
POLITICO poll: These are the voters that will decide the 2014 election: David Freddoso
POLITICO poll shows mounting danger for Dems: Politico

Economy

America's fastest-growing class of millionaires? Public employees: Instapundit
Feds used donations intended for poor for massages, luxuries for themselves: Exam
Unemployment, Horrible Economy, Poor Leadership: What Ails America: JWF

Scandal Central

Judicial Watch Obtains Document Revealing Scope of Obamacare Rollout Disaster: JW
Obama to Fundraiser: We’re Debating ‘About What, Benghazi? Obamacare? It’s Not Serious’: Tatler
Obama Was Warned About VA Problems Six Years Ago: JWF

Executive Branch Bypasses Congress to Impose Financial Sanctions on… Legal Gun Dealers: Outcast
Donna Brazile, Vice Chair Of The DNC, Longs For Communism: WZ
Obama Admin Slaps Gun Sellers With “High Risk” Label Cutting Off Their Lines of Credit: WZ

Climate & Energy

Breaking: The “97 Percent Climate Consensus” Canard: Power Line
Watergate don’t bother me, does EPA bother you?: John Hayward
John Kerry slams climate change critics in graduation speech: Daily Mail

Media

A Year After Obama Pledged To Take 5% Pay Cut, WH Won’t Confirm If He Actually Did: Nice Deb
ABC, NBC Ignore Report Showing Obama Administration Knew About Ongoing VA Problems: MRC
Check Your Privilege in the Maintenance Shed: Mark Steyn

Bob Schieffer Gives Tim Geithner The Softest Interview In The History Of Television: NRO
Proof That the L eft is a Bunch of Wussies: VictoryGirls
A War Against Veterans?: Eagle Rising

Misogyny Among the Fairer Sex: Taki's Mag
Conservative student goes on stage, reveals he has a disability and then blows peoples’ minds: YC
College Wins US Debate Championship By Repeating the N-Word Over and Over: PunditPress

World

Hamas video raises concerns of possible train attack: Hayom
US Charges 5 Chinese Military Hackers in '21st Century Burglary': ABC
Mainstream Britain still doesn't understand UKIP: Commentator

The Belgian Connection: Peter Schiff
Border Overrun With Illegal Immigrant Minors Thanks To Obama’s DREAM Amnesty: WZ
Margaret Thatcher of India?: Mona Charen

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Massive survey finds Comcast and TWC are the two most hated companies in America – period: BGR
China Counters US Claims with Own Charges of Cyber-espionage: CIO
Cisco CEO Warns Obama To Rein In NSA Or Face Collapse Of Trust In US Tech (And Cisco Sales): ZH

Cornucopia

Obama Syndicate Assaulting Americans From Every Angle: NoisyRm
Climate science in chaos due to shortage of scary synonyms: Cube
‘The Internet has got to be free and open and neutral!’: Berners-Lee wows at The Webbys: Twitchy

Image: The Local Malcontent
Sponsored by: KENTUCKY: Fight Mitch McConnell's Lies: The Tea Party Backs Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "...Big Racism is trying to lay the predicate for another round of Brown v. Board of Education lawsuits aimed at imposing racial gerrymandering on student populations and the makeup of faculty in elementary and secondary schools. This report is just another small part of the grand scheme.

Many factors go into improving student performance. Diversity in the faculty may be one, no one knows. Even if it is, the cost and injustice of achieving such an ideal is too great for the benefit. How does having minority children in predominantly minority schools interacting with mostly minority teachers prepare them for the work force? What are the ethical considerations of assigning minority teachers to low performing schools based on their race then evaluating them based on student achievement when we know the teacher’s race more likely than not can’t influence that outcome? Shouldn’t experienced and motivated teachers, regardless of race, be given incentives to move to low performing schools rather than using an “alternative credentialing” process to hire minority teachers. (I apologize here if I seem to conflate schools with high minority populations with low performing schools. This isn’t the case.)

By defining diversity as something that is good, despite no evidence that it actually produces anything other than grievance mongering, the left attempts to encourage racial animosity and division for their own political ends and personal gain." --streiff

Monday, May 19, 2014

The Administration's Frustration With Itself Has Gone On for Years!

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough claimed on Sunday that the President is “madder than hell” about the hundreds of veterans who have died awaiting care at the VA.

It's the same assertion that has been repeatedly recycled by the White House, debunked, and repeated -- over and over again. Only the complicity of the dying, incestuous Democrat-Media Complex allows them to continue deluding the rapidly diminishing percentage of Americans who believe the Democrat Party cares about them.

They care about them as much as they care for the veterans.

To paraphrase Glengarry Glen Ross, the lies are weak.

IRS scandal: “It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it.”

Healthcare.gov: “Nobody’s madder than me about the website not working as well as it should.”

Lavish spending at the General Services Administration: “On the GSA issue, he was I think it’s fair to say apoplectic.” (Former White House senior advisor David Axelrod)

Fast and Furious:” “It’s very upsetting to me to think that somebody showed such bad judgment that they would allow something like that to happen.”

Secret Service scandal: “If it turns out some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then, of course, I’ll be angry.”


Just when you think this administration has hit rock bottom, they bring out a new Caterpillar Excavator -- pictured -- and start digging a new sub-basement.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Judicial Watch Obtains Secret White House Document Revealing Obamacare Rollout Disaster

Once again a private watchdog organization has outperformed the feckless, bumbling House committee chairmen. With all due respect.

I'm looking at you, Darrell Issa. To wit, "Judicial Watch Obtains 106-Page HHS Document Revealing Scope of Obamacare Rollout Disaster."

Judicial Watch today released a 106-page document obtained on May 1 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), revealing that on its first full day of operation, October 1, 2013, Obamacare’s Healthcare.gov received only one enrollment. The document, obtained in response to a November 25, 2013, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against HHS, also reveals that on the second day of Healthcare.gov operation, 48% of registrations failed...

...The full extent of the failure, however, is reflected in the details provided by the Judicial Watch FOIA document revelations. They include:

  • On October 1, there were 43,208 accounts created and 1 enrollment. (Page 49)
  • As of October 31, 2013, there were 1,319,425 accounts created nationwide – but only 30,512 actual enrollments in Obamacare. (Page 19)
  • Official figures contained in the HHS report provide conflicting figures as to the number of enrollments. FFM [Federally Facilitated Marketplace] statistics show 23,259 cumulative to-date applications submitted as of 10/2/13 and 286 completed plan selections. Earlier numbers show 356 enrollments created as of 7pm on 10/2/13 that were completed with Form 834s sent. (Pages 91-92)

White House says Obama only learned of VA Death Scandal on TV (Like IRS-gate, Fast and Furious, etc.)

Do you get the sense that Barack Obama doesn't give a crap what anyone thinks? I mean that the administration's lies are now so half-hearted that they get exposed as lies within minutes.

Consider this story, reported by the British press, which is where we Americans now have to get our news.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney wound up with egg on his face Monday as he told reporters that President Barack Obama first learned from a TV news report that his Veterans Administration was denying medical care to vets with secret off-the-books-waiting lists...

...Obama has come under fire before for saying he was made aware of scandal-worthy shortcomings in his own administration by watching television, including the IRS tea party-targeting scandal that rocked Washington 12 months ago and the Operation Fast and Furious saga that has tainted his Justice Department for years.

...A CNN reporter asked Carney on Monday when the president was 'first made aware ... of these fraudulent lists that were being kept to hide the wait times' at VA medical centers... 'You mean the specific allegations,' Carney asked, 'that I think were reported first by your news network out of Phoenix, I believe? ... We learned about them through the reports. I will double check if that is not the case. But that is when we learned about them and that is when I understand Secretary Shinseki learned about them, and he immediately took the action that he has taken.'

After the Operation Fast and Furious scandal broke, Obama responded to national outrage in an interview broadcast by CNN's John King on October 12, 2011, similarly saying he was out of the loop until he turned on his television.

Of course, in typical fashion, it turns out Obama was warned six years ago of these issues.