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Saturday, May 24, 2014
THE FREEDOM INDEX: Find Out Where Your Congressional Representative Stacks Up
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ANOTHER @BIFFSPACKLE EXCLUSIVE: Republicans are Racist, Misogynistic, People-Haters
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Larwyn's Linx: Another Day, Another Series of Horrific Stories Out of Veterans Administration Facilities
Nation
Another Day, Another Series of Horrific Stories Out of the VA: Jim GeraghtyTop Black Democrat Turns On Obama, Says He's Lying About VA Scandal: IJR
Kelly File: Obama Has Already Ignored 3 IG Reports on VA Failures: FNI
The Hillary-Industrial Complex: NRO
All Hell Breaking Loose and Dems J**king Off on Twitter: Ace
Rockefeller Defends His Race-Baiting: Keith Koffler
Source reveals to me what really happened in Benghazi: Allen West
Cruz Warns Dems Plan to Repeal First Amendment: TR
John Conyers loses appeal to be put on Michigan primary ballot.: Moe Lane
Economy
Why didn’t Piketty’s Harvard publisher spot the errors FT exposed?: SpecUKObamacare’s Economically Destructive Welfare Expansion: RWN
Weird: Gun-Free Restaurants Keep Drawing Armed Robbers: Poor Richard
Freeloader-in-Chief: ‘I Don’t Take Free Food’: JWF
As Gold Manipulation Comes To Light, Trends Makes More Sense: Kid Dynamite
Driverless cars could cripple law enforcement budgets: NetworkWorld
Scandal Central
DOJ Used Lois Lerner to Build Criminal Case Against Nonprofits: JWFSorry, John Kerry Can't Testify About Benghazi; He Is Just Too Busy: ZH
The Benghazi YouTube Video Narrative Began the Night of the Attack, Says Issa: VictoryGirls
Inequality Before the Law: Mark Steyn
Hillary Stacks the Benghazi Select Committee: Arnold Ahlert
What Else is Obama Hiding?: JW
Climate & Energy
Climate Alarmist Who Warned Of Global Cooling In 1975 Admits He Was Wrong: LoneConEnd Crony Capitalism, Sell Federal Land, Limit Tax Breaks for the Rich: RWN
Alternative Energy Breakthrough: AmDigest
Media
Our Veterans Administration: UshankaAndrea Mitchell to Dem Congressman: 'Why Even Play the Game' of GOP's Benghazi 'Witch Hunt'?: MRC
Democrats' Ridiculous Bossy Bumper Sticker Just Begs to be Photoshopped : PJM
What White Democrats Really Think About Black Americans: Patricia L. Dickson
Networks Cover "Bridgegate" More in 4 Days Than the VA Scandal In an Entire Month: Ace
Call (of Duty) Waiting: Hopenchange
CNN: Where News Goes to Die: Ed Driscoll
Group Behind ‘Pitfalls Of Working With White People’ Received Nearly $1 MILLION in Public Grants: GWP
Amazon Engaging in Digital Book-Burning?: NYT
World
New Ad Campaign “Truth About CAIR” Hits NYC Subway Platforms: CreepingSyrian female refugees on sale on Facebook; women sold in mosques: JW
Bosnian refugee in Sweden: “What I fled from in 1992 has now arrived here.”: JW
Jews, Get Out of Europe: P. David Hornik
Accommodating CAIR at 9/11 Memorial Like Giving Nazis Veto Power at Auschwitz Memorial: BCF
Home Depot’s Double Standard: Fires Christian, Allows Terror-linked Muslims to Proselytize: Creeping
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Google offers best argument for broadband competition: Marguerite ReardonShort-Throw Touchscreen Projector Means There's No Remote To Lose: Gizmodo
Marc Andreessen on net neutrality: Marginal Revolution
Cornucopia
They All Look Like Game Show Hosts to Me.: MOTUSSomething Wonderful: Story of My Life - ThePianoGuys: American Digest
Thoughts on Liberty (Updated): DeRP
Image: The Rash
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate
QOTD: "The United States Government is corrupt. The IRS is corrupt, the EPA is corrupt, the Department of Justice is corrupt. They use their powers selectively to chastise their political enemies. In a hyper-regulatory state, there are laws against everything, and everyone is guilty of being in breach of at least 300 of them at any hour of the day. I have no use for Dinesh D'Souza, for example, but it seems obvious that he's been set up as this season's Benghazi video maker. There are gazillions of $20,000 campaign-finance infractions across America, but the only guy that's been singled out is the fellow who made a hit anti-Obama movie. As John Hayward puts it, he's been
'...busted for doing 59 in a 55-mph campaign-finance zone in your little compact car, while huge semi trucks full of political cash blast past you at a hundred miles an hour without the cops batting an eye.'
D'Souza's enemies are gloating. As is the habit in the American system, he will most likely be prevailed upon to cop a plea in return for a reduced sentence. And everyone else will get the message: If you make a film or write a book attacking Obama, make sure it's a flop - or anyway not so big a hit it catches the regime's eye." --Mark Steyn
Friday, May 23, 2014
PICS: OFA fanatics' "Like a Boss" meme completely pwnt by Ted Cruz and the entire Interwebz
Shuts down Veterans’ memorials #LikeABoss pic.twitter.com/N9XQPWoGl3
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) May 23, 2014Ted Cruz, however, really is a boss:
Scandal Déjà vu: As Veterans Needlessly Suffer, President Obama Refuses to Hold Anyone to Account
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
Nation
Al Qaeda Fanatics at Gitmo Treated Better Than Our Vets: Pat DollardSenate 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!: FW47% 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. McCainObama 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 AirTom 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: AIMIn 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 SensingWaking 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 AronDoes 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: MBMoving 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
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
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
..."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
Hat tip: BadBlue News







