Saturday, June 07, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: HISTORIC: 63% of Americans now believe their kids will be worse off than they are

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Nation

HISTORIC: 63% of Americans now believe our kids will be worse off: WyBlog
Bergdahl was dying, the Taliban Five will behave, and other myths: Hayward
Members Of Bergdahl's Platoon Fight Back Against Smears: Caleb Howe

Documents Reveal Clintons Completely Reject Second Amendment: Red Alert
Among The Many And Growing Concerns…: Camp o' the Saints
The one about BRAVERY AND COWARDICE: Ann Barnhardt

Sgt. Tahmooressi and 100 Years of Progressivism…: Regular Right Guy
Because He Is Black, Americans Suffer and Die: Lloyd Marcus
The President’s Very Real Military Problem: RWN

Obama Funding Attorneys to Help Illegals Avoid Deportation: TopRight
VA Scandal Further Discredits Democrats' Big Govt. Policies: RWN
Is Michelle running for the Senate?: Keith Koffler

Economy

Five years into our 20-year lost decade: LI
37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High: CNS
Obama Has Typical Solution For Student Loans: RWN

Scandal Central

TSA ‘Abusively and Arbitrarily’ Hiding Information: Bill Straub
Office of Special Counsel: 37 Cases of Whistleblowers Being Punished For Whistleblowing: Ace
Did a Gun Control Cultist Intentionally Leave a Loaded Firearm for a Child to Find?: Bob Owens

Media

White (Liberal) Male Privilege: R.S. McCain
Quote of the day—alyce7: Joe Huffman
Moral Narcissism in a Week of Anniversaries: MOTUS

New York Times: Republican Psychopaths are Smearing Bowe Bergdahl: Ace
NYT editorial board sinks to new low over Bergdahl mess: Twitchy
A Blogger's Irony: Mad Jewess

This person is planning to kill me in order to teach me that I shouldn’t be mean and hateful: Matt Walsh
Hillary on Bergdahl's Desertion: What Difference Does It Make? Part 2: TR
No matter what you think you're doing, you're not doing anything.: SIAFLW

World

June 6: A walk across a beach in Normandy: American Digest
Obama Chomps On Gum During D-Day Anniversary Event…Update: France Not Happy: WZ
White House Narrative Breaker: New Study Finds That Al-Qaeda Is Not ‘On The Run’: IJR

So, Why Not Get Four Deserving Civilian Hostages Out of Taliban Hands, Too?: Ace
Obama Broke US Policy by Making Concessions, Paying Ransom for Prisoner Release: GWP
Marine Jailed in Mexico as US Welcomes Illegal Immigrants: RWN

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Cable companies are reportedly funding fake consumer groups to attack net neutrality: Engadget
BMW Beats Audi to Production Laser Headlamps, World Keeps Turning: Car and Driver
Another Day, Another Obamacare Data Breach: NRO

Cornucopia

Capital One forms unilateral partnership with People's Cube: Cube
PEOPLE Magazine Denies Clinton Walker Use, Raising Further Questions: Andrew Stiles
It’s Just a Flesh Wound! The bravery of a former Navy Seal: Hideout

Image: Obama Chomps On Gum During D-Day Anniversary Event…Update: France Not Happy
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate

QOTD: "Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck."" --Robert A. Heinlein

Friday, June 06, 2014

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I think I just wrenched my nimbus muscle.

Top Dem Donor Calls DNC Chair “irritant,” “irrelevant”

The gloves are coming off in Florida. Major Democrat donor John Morgan (he employs this guy) is blasting DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, calling her an “irritant” who is becoming “irrelevant.” Wasserman Schultz opposes a Florida proposal Morgan supports that would legalize medical marijuana in Florida.

Marc Caputo at the Miami Herald reports:

“I know personally the most-powerful players in Washington DC. And I can tell you that Debbie Wasserman Schultz isn’t just disliked. She’s despised. She’s an irritant,” Morgan, an outspoken Orlando trial attorney, told the Miami Herald.

“Why she’s trying to undermine this amendment I don’t know,” he said. “But I’ll tell you I will never give a penny or raise a penny for the national party while she’s in leadership. And I have given and helped raise millions.”

...After he saw her statement, Morgan said he grew so angry that he erased her contacts from his telephone. He said he heard that she plans to run for U.S. Senate some day, perhaps in 2016, and he’ll make sure to oppose her if she does.

Morgan, a top donor to President Obama and Sen. Bill Nelson, has put $4 million of his own money into the fight to get this proposal on the ballot in November.


Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is about as compelling a salesperson for the Democrat Party as that old homeless Asian woman -- who's pushing a shopping cart filled with garbage bags -- is for drinking rubbing alcohol.

Only the old homeless Asian woman is more attractive. With all due respect, of course.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

REFUGEE CRISIS: Latin American Media Tell Poor Indigents to Rush to U.S. While Obama's in Office

There's a major refugee crisis unfolding on our southern border.

Let me repeat: a refugee crisis. A countless number of poor indigents from Central America are now flooding into America. They hope to gain amnesty and a path to citizenship under President Obama's unlawful edicts; he has enacted a de facto DREAM Act even though Congress refused to pass such a law.

KGRV in Texas reports:

Central Americans say news reports in their countries are encouraging them to make the journey north to the United States.

A mother and child told CHANNEL 5 NEWS that the message being disseminated in their country is, "go to America with your child, you won't be turned away."

The woman, Nora Griselda Bercian Diaz, from Guatemala, said she endured threats from the Zetas and extortion from corrupt Mexican police. She eventually crossed the Rio Grande with her 6-year-old Delmi Griselda Paul Bercian by her side...

...Agents eventually arrived and ushered the mother and daughter into a van. The agents didn't have time to turn around before another group came walking up the same road.

As if to encourage the flow of illegals into the U.S. -- without background checks, without health examinations, without any vetting whatsoever -- the Obama administration yesterday announced it will continue violating immigration law.

INSIGHTFUL GRAPHIC: The Weeks of Our Lives

Wait But Why features a fascinating illustration of all our weeks. The premise is simple: consider a rectangle made up of tiny squares, with each square representing a week of your life.

90 years might look like this:


Each row of weeks makes up one year. That’s how many weeks it takes to turn a newborn into a 90-year-old.

It kind of feels like our lives are made up of a countless number of weeks. But there they are—fully countable—staring you in the face.

Before we discuss things further, let’s look at how a typical American spends their weeks:


The Most Startling Chart of the Obama Era

I happened to look at the official government statistics for the Labor Force Participation Rate. This is the percentage of adults 16 and over that are in the workforce.

I noticed something that I haven't heard others point out.

Take a look at the rate and walk down each column (each month) since January of 2009 when SCOAMF was first inaugurated.


Did you notice it?

Adjusted for seasonality, the labor force participation rate (LFR) has never increased -- not once -- under Obama! Normalized by month, the LFR has been on a non-stop ride to progressive Utopia (i.e., full unemployment).

This is a stunning repudiation of the Obama economic agenda. Stunning.

Mind you, this is the Obama administration's own set of statistics. Having confirmed that the White House routinely publishes fake economic statistics (e.g., "Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report"), the true data may be even worse.

And what is this, the fourth or fifth annual Summer of Recovery©®™?


Hat tip: BadBlue News

Larwyn's Linx: Bergdahl's Squad Stepped Forward Because Obama Left Them No Choice

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Nation

Bergdahl's Squad Stepped Forward as Obama Left Them No Choice: Tatler
Bergdahl’s Platoon responds to demonization by White House: Scoop
Bergdahl declared jihad in captivity, secret documents show: James Rosen

Obama’s Casual Contempt for the Military: Jon Gabriel
Harry Reid on Bergdahl Deal: ‘What Difference Does It Make?’: WFB
Report: Obama ignored chances to rescue Bergdahl; wanted a trade: Daily Mail

Bergdahl’s free, but at what cost?: Jonah Goldberg
What world am I on?: Flopping Aces
The party's over: Bergdahl hometown cancels welcome celebrations: Allen West

Groping For a Reset: Walter Russell Mead
Obama: Bergdahl Controversy a “Scandal Whipped Up In Washington”: Patterico
Dutch Courage: Mark Steyn

Economy

Virginia DMV wages war on free market in attempt to shutter Uber: Watchdog
One photo reveals big issue with Seattle’s $15 minimum wage: Dustin Hurst
ECB Pulls Out Pea Shooter, Fires, Misses Target: Mish

Scandal Central

Obama Advisers Repeatedly Told President Not to Deal: NewsMax
Taliban Leader: Bergdahl Deal Encourages Capture of US Soldiers: Max
Bergdahl Situation Going So Poorly For Obama That Lindsey Graham Is Acting Like A Republican: Stephen Kruiser

Feds Warn Georgia: Don't Make Passing A Drug Test A Condition For Receiving Food Stamps: PL
Holder Revives Task Force On “Homegrown Extremists”: Herschel Smith
Washington Blood Sports, Then and Now: Ed Driscoll

Climate & Energy

It's official. There's been no Global Warming for 17 years, 9 months: Poor Richard
Is Germany finally ready to keep the green dream alive by fracking?: Erika Johnsen
Obama’s “Carbon” Plan: Killing Jobs, Costing Americans Money: Cove

Media

Why I’m considering quitting.: Barnhardt
“Instead of just bringing Bergdahl back, they had to do the full kissy-huggy announcement": JWF
Pelosi daughter awaiting Army investigation of Bergdahl’s ‘dysfunctional’ platoon: Twitchy

Do You Even Lift, Bro?! This Video of Obama Pumping Iron Won’t Fill You With Confidence: Sooper
Chris Matthews Breaks Ranks, Criticizes Network’s Claim That Bergdahl Is Being ‘Swiftboated’: NB
Allen West: Susan Rice Is A ‘Delusional Liar’: NoisyRm

World

Mullah Omar hails release of 5 top Taliban commanders as 'great victory': LWJ
Taliban: Yeah, We’re Gonna Kidnap More Americans; All Thanks to Obama: Tatler
Former CIA Officer Says It’s Time for Heroes and Whistleblowers to Step Up: AIM

Obama’s Real Goal: Close Gitmo: RWN
What Happened to Marine Deserter Wassef Ali Hassoun?: Michelle Malkin
Rolling Stones to perform in Israel despite pressure from Pink Floyd members to cancel: WaPo

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

A 90-Year Human Life in Weeks (And How You'll Spend Them): Gizmodo
Malicious Advertisements on Major Websites Lead to Ransomware: CIO
Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker: Crowdstrike

Cornucopia

Interview: Rand Simberg Explains Why Safe Is Not An Option: Ed Driscoll
Pentagon Ridiculed for Debunked “Climate” Report: NewAm
Services set for Chester Nez, last original Navajo Code Talker: MarineTimes

Image: Adorably Awkward Recreations of Old Family Photos
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate

QOTD: "We in America have learned bitter lessons from two World Wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent." --President Ronald Reagan

Thursday, June 05, 2014

NUMBER OF AMERICANS NOW LOOKING FOR WORK: Roughly the Population of Georgia

By Bankrupting America

Tomorrow, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will release the employment numbers for May 2014. In April, there were 9.8 million Americans looking for a job who could not find one. Below, we put the number of unemployed in context. The amount of people looking for work in April 2014 were:

  • Roughly The Population Of The State Of Georgia. The latest available Census data estimates that in 2009, 9.83 million people lived in Georgia.
  • More Than The Population Of 10 States. If you took the population from the 10 least populated states in the U.S., it would be about 8.8 million, 1 million less than the number of unemployed individuals.
  • More Than The Number Of People Who Visit The Eiffel Tower. According to Business Insider, 7 million people visit the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France every year.
  • Less Than Half Of The Latest Estimate Of Job Openings In The U.S. Each month, the DOL releases a survey on job openings and labor turnover in the U.S. labor market. In March 2004 (the latest data available), there were 4.0 million job openings available, compared to the 9.8 million unemployed.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

JUST A COINCIDENCE: Red States to Bear Brunt of Dramatically Higher Electricity Prices Thanks to Obama EPA

Courtesy of the Institute for 21st Century Energy, the accompanying map offers an estimate of the costs the Obama EPA will extract from consumers.

Remember: the one campaign promise Mr. Obama kept was that "energy prices would necessarily skyrocket" under his Ozmandian efforts to control the climate de-industrialize America promote renewable energy.


As Dave Blount astutely observes:

Of course, increasing energy costs drives up the price of literally all goods and services, in addition to destroying jobs, so this only scratches the surface. What we are witnessing is the deliberate lowering of the American standard of living out of ideologically motivated malice by executive fiat.

The highest price of all won’t come in terms of dollars, but will be paid in something more precious still: liberty. Obama and other extremists in the government tried to impose this regulation through legislative means but failed. So Congress was shoved aside; the rules are to be imposed by unelected and unaccountable EPA bureaucrats. The division of powers established by the Constitution is collapsing because Congress evidently does not have the character to defend its domain from usurpation by the executive branch.

Please note the price hikes for Red States -- the heart of America -- versus the Blues. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

Meanwhile, China brings 200 dirty coal plants online every year.

And the EPA is curiously silent about that.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

GOOD GRIEF: Hillary Clinton Uses Picture with Benghazi Caskets to Promote Her Ridiculous Book

Methinks someone in public relations at Simon & Schuster may soon be updating their resume.

The marketing material for Hillary Clinton's new book, "Hard Choices" (coincidentally the name of the book published by Jimmy Carter's failed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance), includes pictures of Hillary with the coffins of the Benghazi heroes she and Barack Obama left to die.

After all, Clinton has done her level best to whitewash any involvement with the Benghazi debacle.

Oh, and don't bother checking her new book for any details: it doesn't tell us what she and the president were doing for 10 hours after they found out that a U.S. Ambassador and dozens of other American personnel were under attack by Al Qaeda-linked terrorists. I mean, besides inventing a cover story and issuing press releases even as American heroes were fighting and dying.

And then, after all of that, to have the hubris to use pictures of the coffins of the Benghazi dead to promote her pathetic book?

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a book coming out next week. Today, her publisher released images from the back cover of the book. The pictures mostly show Hillary meeting global leaders and attending important meetings.

But one of the images is Clinton with President Barack Obama, standing in front of the Benghazi caskets at Andrews Air Force Base, dated September 14, 2012, just days after the September 11 attack.


Stephen F. Hayes has reported that Secretary Clinton tries to spin Benghazi in her new book. Politico reports that at least a chapter of the book is devoted to Benghazi.

It takes a special brand of miscreant to use the photos of an event at which she knowingly lied to the faces of the victim's families regarding the nature of the killings.


Hat tip: Mark Levin

AS GOOD AS IT GETS: Reagan at Normandy

Ronald Reagan died ten years ago today. Thirty years ago tomorrow, he spoke in Normandy, France at the anniversary of the 1944 D-Day invasion to liberate Europe from the Nazis. Many remember his Normandy remarks but forget that he gave not one, but two brilliant speeches that day. He delivered the first at the site of the U.S. Ranger Monument at Pointe du Hoc:


We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.

The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers -- the edge of the cliffs -- shooting down at them with machineguns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After two days of fighting, only 90 could still bear arms.

Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's poem. You are men who in your ``lives fought for life . . . and left the vivid air signed with your honor.''

Larwyn's Linx: Homeland Bound: Obama’s Ego Creates Another Scandal

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Nation

Homeland Bound: Obama’s Ego Creates Another Scandal: The Wilderness
Obama Official: Bergdahl platoon may have been ‘long on psychopaths’: Renee Nal
Ted Cruz: We’re hearing Obama wants to release another Gitmo terrorist: Scoop

Why Obama had to have the Bergdahl deal: Paul Mirengoff
White House accuses Bergdahl's old squad of "swift-boating" him: WS
"5 4-Star Generals traded for 1 Private Deserter": Twitchy

Obama to Donors: I'm in a “Very Strong Position” To Amend Constitution…: RWN
Impeachment: Food For Thought: Camp o' the Saints
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has no idea who Thomas Jefferson is: Moe Lane

Economy

Obama is Not a Socialist: Thomas Sowell
Progressives shocked they have to pay for programs they voted for: Poor Richard
“We Are Seeing a Very Material Slow-down Across the Economy”: Mac Slavo

Scandal Central

ACLU Rejects Amendment to Corral Campaign Spending: Daily Signal
Holder vows to fight ” domestic terrorists” (i.e, Americans): Creeping
House Votes to Defund Eric Holder’s Anti-Gun Program: ConTrib

Police and prosecution roundup: Overlawyered
Attkisson: How the Government Violated Its Own Ethics Rules, Then Covered It Up: Daily Signal
ACORN Spin-Off Received HUD Grant Despite Federal Funding Ban: JW

Climate & Energy

Curbing Carbon Vs. Rationalizing Recklessness: RWN
Report: EPA Regulations Could Reduce Average Family Income By $1,200 A Year: DC
Isn’t It Cool How California Is Flooded By Inland Seas?: Cove

Media

NBC Reporter: Google Search Would Have Told White House Bergdahl Was Controversial: MRC
CNN Notices that Obama Likes Breaking Laws: Eagle Rising
Noam Chomsky: Obama ‘Determined To Demolish The Foundations Of Our Civil Liberties’: DC

“Footage of Obama’s Warsaw workout prompts security questions”: PW
Dangerous ‘Butterfield Effect’ Now Striking Non-Journalists: Ed Driscoll
Media Silent as Guns Used to Save at Least Seven Lives Since May 25: Breitbart

World

Czech President Delivers Bold Speech in Support of Israel: Jon Gabriel
Taliban Releases Propaganda Video Of Bergdahl Release Celebratingr Commanders' Return: WZ
Hagel Announces Bergdahl’s Release, Troops Respond With Silence: MenRec

Omidyar and the Oligarch’s Code: Enabling Extremism, Monetizing Dissent: Chris Floyd
Obama’s Syria Policy Rebuked From the Inside: Max Boot
The Photos China Doesn’t Want You to See: Daily Signal

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Decline and Fall of IBM: I, Cringely
Contact With 36-Year Old Spacecraft Results in Dancing, Hugs: UniverseToday
Google Glass-equipped rifles offer ‘mind-blowing’ fire superiority: Times

Cornucopia

A Warrior’s Homecoming: What Not to Wear: MOTUS
Last original Navajo code talker dies: Fox
Cop impersonator pulls over Fla. officer: PoliceOne

Image: This photo of the ISS looks like a scene from a space horror movie
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate

QOTD: "It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance. This fanatical creed does not only attack a single nation, as we saw after September 11. Muslim fanatics in Nigeria recently captured 200 young Christian girls. And in the flower at the heart of Europe, an abominable killing took place at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.

I am not reassured by the claims that this is the work of only a small fringe group. Quite the contrary. I believe that xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism stems from the essential ideology that these fanatical groups are based on." --Czech President Miloš Zeman

Wednesday, June 04, 2014

SMART POWER: Obama Cedes a Critical Base in Asia as Russia Continues Its Aggressive Expansionism

By Investor's Business Daily

Global Power: The U.S. hands over control of its only central Asia base to Russia's old ally, Kyrgyzstan, continuing our retreat from the world stage as Vladimir Putin patiently reassembles the "evil empire."

In something of an ironic trip, President Obama is in Poland, one of the countries he betrayed in 2009, along with the Czech Republic, by scuttling missile-defense plans in Europe to celebrate the country's 25th anniversary of its break from communism.

Undeterred by this example of President Obama's "flexibility" with the Russians, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that the U.S. should open a major base in Poland.

Our advice to Sikorski, after our precipitate withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obama's decimation of U.S. military strength, is — don't hold your breath.

"For the first time since the Second World War, one European country has taken a province by force from another European country," Sikorski said, speaking of Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea.

"America, we hope, has ways of reassuring us that we haven't even thought about. There are major bases in Britain, in Spain, in Portugal, in Greece, in Italy. Why not here?"

Perhaps because America under Obama doesn't want bases anywhere. Our commander-in-chief is neutering what he considers America the bully, while Russia and China happily fill the strategic vacuum we are creating.

The latest example is our exit from our air base in the former Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic.

GOOD NEWS: Feds Dumping Thousands of Illegals Caught in Texas at Bus Stations in Arizona

And if some of the illegals are carrying communicable diseases, or are violent offenders wanted in other countries, or are gang members, well, let the people of Arizona sort it out!

But they're doing it for love, right, Jeb Bush?

Oh, and once again lifting the heavy rocks the decrepit, useless and feckless House Republican leaders won't, Judicial Watch reports:

As if it weren’t bad enough that even convicts qualify for Obama amnesty, check out what’s going on in Arizona; the federal government is dumping an unknown number of illegal immigrants caught in Texas at bus stations in Phoenix and Tucson.

The feds didn’t even have the courtesy to give state officials a heads up that hundreds, possibly thousands, of illegal aliens would be dropped off for processing by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and subsequently released into the general population. A chunk of the migrants got apprehended in Texas over Memorial Day weekend after crossing into the state through the Rio Grande Valley, according to news reports.

Evidently Border Patrol agents in Texas are overwhelmed because there’s been a huge surge in illegal crossers in one concentrated area and the Obama administration hasn’t provided an increase in manpower. So someone at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) came up with the brilliant idea of simply shuffling the weekend influx of illegal aliens to another state. In all, more than 400 families were relocated to the Tucson area as part of the operation.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer learned that the feds were using her state as a dumping ground for illegal immigrants in the media. She was rightfully outraged and fired off a letter to the president calling the plot dangerous and unconscionable.

Brewer's letter is a doozy:

THE MARKETS GO SCHIZOPHRENIC: Treasurys Are Screaming Crisis While Stocks Yawn

By Pam Martens

One critical gauge of how fair and efficient a market is resides in the degree to which it reflects the composite wisdom of all participants. A rigged market, for example, reflects the composite wisdom of just those doing the rigging since they are privy to information that is not shared with all market players.

On March 30, bestselling author Michael Lewis appeared on 60 Minutes to summarize the findings in his newest book, Flash Boys, as follows: “stock market’s rigged.” Michael Lewis was talking about stock market manipulation by high frequency traders.

Increasingly, the U.S. bond market is delivering almost the same message as Michael Lewis. The U.S. Treasury market, which is experiencing a flight to safety (that suggests a slowing economy, lower corporate earnings and thus a lower stock market in the future) is essentially saying that the current composite wisdom of the stock market is either nuts or the market is, indeed, rigged.

Stocks have been setting new highs of late while the yields on the benchmark 10-year and 30-year Treasurys decline. The 10-year Treasury began the year at a yield of approximately 3 percent and closed on Friday at a yield of 2.49. The 30-year Treasury started the year at a yield of approximately 4 percent and closed last week with a yield of 3.33 percent.

Strong economies produce a higher demand for money and, thus, rising interest rates. For stocks, which are wedded to earnings, to be rising while Treasury yields are falling shows a serious decoupling of market logic.

The question is, does high frequency trading and stock market rigging have anything to do with this decoupling?

HEROES: World War II Vets and Airborne Visit Omaha Beach

These are what heroes look like.


Over at London's Daily Mail, newly released aerial photos of D-Day taken by the RAF reveal the utter chaos and madness of the Longest Day.


Larwyn's Linx: Obama State Department: Bergdahl's Former Squad Members Are All Liars

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Nation

Obama State Dept.: Bergdahl's Old Squad Members Are Liars: GWP
The story you haven’t yet heard about Bergdahl's desertion: Michelle Malkin
Prisoner swap: Did Hillary know?: The Hill

DHS transforms Phoenix bus station into a refuge for illegal immigrants: Twitchy
Hillary’s New Benghazi Cover-Up: RWN
#MSSen: Thad Cochran’s inspiring message: David Freddoso

Cruz: 42 Democrats Have Signed On To Repeal the First Amendment: WFB
Ted Cruz throws down, lectures fellow Senators on Free Speech: Scoop
Sanders’ Bill Sandbags Vets: Betsy McCaughey

The case for impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama: Allen West
High Strangeness at Obama Presser: Diogenes
What the Nullifiers Aren’t Telling You: Jen Kuznicki

Economy

It’s long past time: a letter to Speaker Boehner: PW
UAW Bosses Avoid Secret-Ballot Vote, Hit Members With 25% Dues Hike: LUR
The Job Killer You Probably Haven’t Heard About: DailySignal

Scandal Central

Taliban: Bergdahl Converted, Taught Us Bomb-Making, Ambush Skills: JWF
‘Do It Yourself, White Boy!’ Life at the VA: Ricochet
Man Who Left Four to Die in Benghazi: “We don’t leave men and women in uniform behind”: JWF

Climate & Energy

Mark Levin: EPA Rule is ‘greatest power grab since Obamacare’: Renee Nal
Trick the Bumpkin: Democrats and the EPA: Rick Wilson
Guess Which Loyal Obama Voter Bloc Will Be Punished Most By EPA’s Regulations: Surge

Media

Sharyl Attkisson on Journalism's Very Dangerous Trend: DailySignal
Mark Levin: The Bergdahl exchange was NOT a POW exchange: Scoop
What They Said Then: How the Liberal Media Savaged Reagan: MRC

GoreVision/Al Jazeera Analyst Demands ‘Jewish Humility’ From Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg: Algemeiner
Furious Ralph Peters TORCHES Obama over Jihadi trade and saying fellow soldiers are LIARS: Scoop
Ben Carson, CNN's Don Lemon Spar Over Obama's 'Fundamental Change' of America: Breitbart

World

Barack Obama, Judge of Life or Death: Ben Shapiro
Obama Admits Taliban May Resume Harmful Activities: Dossier
Analysis: Blowback from the Syrian jihad has begun: LWJ

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Danger of Focus Groups & Big Data: InnovExc
This one story illustrates why everyone hates Comcast: BGR
FCC Website Hobbled By Comment Trolls Incited By Comedian John Oliver: Slashdot

Cornucopia

Let US Troops Know You Care With A Care Package: LoneCon
Ethics Complaint Targets Harry Reid for Abuse of Power: Josh Siegel
What if Team Obama had just told the truth about Bowe Bergdahl?: Byron York

Image: Sad Hill News
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate

QOTD: "Bergdahl['s father] apparently published a tweet last week about Guantanamo’s detainees. Except this tweet was directed at a Taliban spokesman. And it came just four days before it was announced that his son was finally being released.

“I am still working to free all Guantanamo prisoners,” the tweet said, according to various screen grabs. The tweet was subsequently deleted. “God will repay for the death of every Afghan child, ameen.”" --Sad Hill News

Tuesday, June 03, 2014

OH, DAYAM: Mad Magazine Sticks the Landing

On a scale of one to 10, this one earned a 12.9 (for degree of difficulty):



Hat tip: Twitchy

TED CRUZ ISSUES AN APB: Where Did the Liberals Go?

This is why conservatives rally around men like Ted Cruz. Because he speaks truth to power, whether that power is in the clutches of the Democrat Party or in the Chamber of Crony Republicans. He's a brilliant man, a Constitutionalist, and unafraid to take on the Beltway elites who have grown fat, soporific, and complacent as our form of government, our currency, and our culture are destroyed.

Cruz's statement to the Senate is a keeper:

America is an exceptional country.

When our country was founded, we crafted a constitution that Thomas Jefferson explained would serve as chains to bind the mischief of government. There has never been more mischief of government than there is right now.

And the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the constitution, are precious to every American. The Bill of Rights begins with the first amendment. For over two centuries Congress has not dared to mess with the Bill of Rights.

This amendment here today, if adopted, would repeal the free speech protections of the first amendment.

Mr. Chairman, when citizens hear that they gasp. As immune as we are to abuse of power of government, citizens are still astonished that members of Congress would dare support repealing the first amendment.

And let’s be clear, this amendment doesn’t just do it to for corporation or just do it to billionaires. Nothing in this amendment is limited to corporations or billionaires. This amendment would give Congress absolute authority to regulate the political speech of every single American with no limitations whatsoever.

This amendments is about power, and its about politicians, silencing the citizens.

Mr. Chairman, when did elected democrats abandon the Bill of Rights?

#GameOfThrones: In Real Life, Oberyn Martell Stands Next to Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane

For Game of Thrones viewers who missed Sunday's episode, I'll forego the spoiler and simply highlight the following Instagram from the set that compares the physique of Oberyn Martell to that of Gregor Clegane (AKA "The Mountain").


In real life, "The Mountain" is played by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (pronounced, oh, what the hell, I have no idea). Björnsson is 6'9" and started his career in professional basketball. He subsequently began entering the World's Strongest Man competitions, finishing second this year, third in 2013 and 2012, and sixth in 2011.


Hat tip: BadBlue Fame (caution: some PG-13 content)

The 10 Most Stunning Revelations Surrounding the Bergdahl Fiasco


In my pathetic and desperate attempt to mimic popular websites, I'm now resorting to BuzzFeed-style Top 10 lists.

10. White House Overrode Internal Objections To Taliban Prisoner Release
"To pull off the prisoner swap of five Taliban leaders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the White House overrode an existing interagency process charged with debating the transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners and dismissed long-standing Pentagon and intelligence community concerns based on Top Secret intelligence about the dangers of releasing the five men, sources familiar with the debate tell TIME."

9. Bergdahl Never Listed By Pentagon As Prisoner Of War
"In his five years of captivity, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was never listed by the Pentagon as a prisoner of war... After disappearing in eastern Afghanistan in June 2009, Bergdahl was listed by the Pentagon on July 1, 2009, as “duty status whereabouts unknown.” Two days later his status was changed to “missing/captured,” and it did not change again prior to his release."

8. Bergdahl Deserted, Leaving Note Saying He Was Disillusioned with the Army
"Sometime after midnight on June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life. He slipped off the remote military outpost in Paktika Province on the border with Pakistan and took with him a soft backpack, water, knives, a notebook and writing materials, but left behind his body armor and weapons — startling, given the hostile environment around his outpost."

7. Pentagon knew Bergdahl’s whereabouts but didn’t risk rescue for ‘deserter’
"The Pentagon on several occasions had ground-level intelligence on where ArmySgt. Bowe Bergdahl was being held captive at various times — down to how many gunmen were guarding him — but special operations commanders repeatedly shelved rescue missions because they didn’t want to risk casualties for a man they believed to be a “deserter,” sources familiar with the mission plans said."

6. Susan Rice Claims Bergdahl served with “honor and distinction”
"Did the White House send Susan Rice out on another Sunday talk show fool’s errand? Just as with the Benghazi attack, Barack Obama’s national-security adviser went out on a Sunday to discuss a burgeoning controversy, and perhaps without a full set of the facts in front of her. When questioned by George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week, Rice tried to parry the question about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s initial disappearance, which some of his fellow soldiers believed to be an act of desertion that cost more American lives. Rice insisted that Bergdahl had served with “honor and distinction,” a claim that will be tested in the coming days and weeks..."

5. Hours Later, White House Backpedals After Claiming Bergdahl ‘Served With Honor And Distinction’
"Deputy national security advisor Tony Blinken struggled to cover for his boss Susan Rice on Tuesday, backtracking from her contention that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “served with honor and distinction” in the face of tough questions from NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell... Mitchell confronted Blinken over Rice’s Sunday claim that Bergdahl “served with honor and distinction” — an assertion almost immediately disproven by scores of Bergdahl’s comrades and official Pentagon reports, which show the soldier abandoned his post and may have been seeking to join the Taliban."