Friday, July 18, 2014

How Twitter Can REALLY Monetize Its Reach

There was an interesting article in yesterday's WSJ concerning investors' concerns about Twitter as a growth stock.

After a troubling start as a public company, Twitter ... plans to try out some new numbers on Wall Street... When it reports second-quarter earnings on July 29, the San Francisco company is expected to unveil as many as four new metrics that it hopes will illustrate its reach beyond the 255 million users that log in at least once a month, according to people familiar with the matter. The aim: to show Twitter isn't just a diminutive Facebook Inc.


Despite doubling revenue for each of the past five quarters, Twitter's moneymaking successes have been overshadowed by faltering user growth, forcing investors to recalibrate their long-term expectations.

Twitter sizes up its digital town square by the number of users who log into the service at least once a month. That standard industry metric, called monthly active users, and a self-invented measurement called timeline views designed for advertisers to track usage, were the primary nonfinancial metrics offered to potential investors when Twitter went public in November.

But those metrics backfired after the company reported abruptly slowing user growth and signs of a less-engaged audience, sending the stock to new lows and raising unflattering comparisons to Facebook...

I personally don't think stats like monthly active users or timeline views are at all relevant for Twitter.

Think about it: the Twitter platform receives significantly more exposure than Facebook on new media sites like Twitchy and BuzzFeed. These sites embed tweets -- served up by Twitter -- as a key part of unfolding news stories, quite unlike any other social site:


Twitter doesn't appear to be making a cent from serving up content to news sites. The hope with embedded tweets, I suppose, is to convince people that they're missing out if they're not on Twitter. Which they are, of course.

But that said, these embedded tweets are a huge missed opportunity. Consider this hypothetical monetization approach:


Did someone say bacon?

Or perhaps a tweet with "media" (an image):


You may hate ads, but if they're targeted and relatively unobtrusive, the fact is that someone has to pay for your troubling addiction to real-time news. Natch.

Oh, and Twitter: my royalty for this idea is a paltry one percent of gross revenues, in perpetuity.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.

My Simple, 4-Step Plan to Stop the Invasion of Illegals

It's really quite straightforward.

Say you're the Mayor of Murrieta, California. Or the City Manager of Scottsdale, Arizona.

Some place that's just gotten a surprise shipment of hundreds of illegal aliens suffering from unknown medical conditions, have uncertain criminal backgrounds, and perhaps even some ties to terror organizations. You know, the Democrats' new favorite constituency: wards of the state who can't speak English, are utterly dependent on government largess, and know nothing of American history, traditions and culture.

What do you do? It's really quite simple:

1. Buy a few MREs for each illegal alien along with several bottles of water apiece.

2. Immediately purchase one-way tickets for each illegal on Greyhound to the nearest, wealthy liberal community. My personal favorites:

• Bethesda, Maryland
• Cambridge, Massachusetts
• La Jolla, California
• San Francisco, California
• Washington, DC

3. Assist each illegal on to the bus, hand them their supplies for the trip, and bid them a fond adieu.

4. Open a can of beer and enjoy.


You're welcome, America.


RASMUSSEN: Just 27% of Likely Voters Want Illegals to Stay in U.S.

Rasmussen has the details:

Most voters don’t want any of the young illegal immigrants who’ve recently arrived here housed in their state and say any legislation passed by Congress to deal with the problem should focus on sending them home as soon as possible.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the primary focus of any new immigration legislation passed by Congress should be to send the young illegal immigrants back home as quickly as possible. Just 27% say it should focus instead on making it easier for these illegal immigrants to remain in the United States.

...Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who last week criticized efforts to deport these illegal immigrants, is now reportedly the latest governor to tell the White House not to house any of them in his state. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters disapprove of housing these illegal immigrants in their state. Only half as many (29%) approve, while 14% are undecided.

Got that, John Boehner? Got that, Mitch McConnell? Got that, Karl Rove and Haley Barbour?

Pity the Republicans listed above are so beholden to the Chamber of Crony Capitalism, are so unprincipled, and are so inarticulate that they can't even take a stand for the vast freaking majority of American citizens.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: 11 Steps to Stop the Invasion

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Nation

11 Steps to Stop the Invasion: Laura Ingraham
Evidence Mounts of a Manufactured Border Crisis: Roger Aronoff
Mrs. Obama’s Operation VA Scandal Distraction: Michelle Malkin

Congress: Use the Power of the Purse to Save the Border: Diana West
Border Flood is Causing a `Medical Breakdown': Bryan Preston
Illegal Aliens Accused of Threatening to Decapitate, Sell Honduran: Breitbart

23 Americans aboard jet shot down from 33,000 feet over Ukraine: Post
Obama Proves Again that Fundraising Trumps National Security: TPNN
Obamacare ‘Lie’ Touted By Landrieu Is Now A Reality In Louisiana: HayRide

Ted Cruz is Leading: RS
Rand Paul Scrubs Anti-Israel Student Reading List from Website: WFB
Obama Executive Order Halts Import Of Izmash/Saiga Firearms: Bob Owens

Economy

I encourage Senate Democrats to go to the wall to kill IRS bonuses: Moe Lane
American Federation of Teachers Communists: WFB
Patent Trolls Account for Two-Thirds of All New Patent Lawsuits: TAI

Scandal Central

DOJ: We Learned About Lois Lerner's "Lost" Emails Through The News: Katie Pavlich
Shocker: DOJ Says No Need For Special Prosecutor In IRS Scandal: WZ
Burn down a school? Retire and collect your full pension!: WyBlog

Climate & Energy

Study: People Who Worry About Global Warming Use the Most Electricity: RWN
Greenpeace Executive Commutes 250 Miles By Airplane To Work: SAB
Bummer: “Connecitcut” Will Be 10 Degrees Warmer By 2100: Cove

Media

Charles Krauthammer: Obama 'Clearly Attempting to Conceal Information' on Illegal Invasion: AmPower
The Shrill is Gone! Who’s Got Next in the Demokratik Party?: Clash
Bolton PAC Releases First Ad on Benghazi: WFB

Passenger jet shot down, Israel wages ground war against Hamas and Obama keeps fundraising: Scoop
President Obama Found Out About Malaysian Jet From Putin: Caleb Howe
Andrew Klavan – Who Still Supports Barack Obama?: OlBroad

Chris Matthews, Yes Matthews, Admiringly Recalls Reagan’s Response to KAL-007 Shootdown: NB
Hamas Interior Ministry To Social Media Activists: Always Call The Dead 'Innocent Civilians': MEMRI
Snapshots: Hamas Got Rich As Gaza Was Impoverished: CAMERA

World

23 Americans Slaughtered in Shootdown of Jet, Obama Reacts Harshly By Ordering the Pit Burger: JWF
Smart Power State Department ends tumultuous day with stirring, relevant tweet: Hot Air
'That was a blast - look at the smoke': Sick boast of the laughing rebels as they 'saw MH17 hit': DailyMail

America’s Enemies Ally to Sink the Dollar: Trevor Loudon
Raw video: Jews fight back against Muslim mob in Paris: Matzav
Misunderstanderer of Islam and Boko Haram leader: “Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill Christians!”: JihadWatch

Israeli Leftist: “We Thought They Wanted a State-But it Turns Out They Want to Destroy Israel”: Daniel Greenfield
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Muslim Brotherhood) visits Somalia: Robert Spencer
Gaza crisis: Obama administration accuses Israel of not protecting civilians: Fox

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Search for Lois Lerner's lost emails leads to NSA: CBS
Snowden: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos: Ars Technica
Memo From Microsoft CEO Announcing Record Job Cuts: ABC

Cornucopia

LibertyNews Joins Murrieta Residents to Sponsor ‘Border Convoy’ From Murrieta, CA to Laredo, TX: LibertyNews
I Ain't Laughing: Vulgar Curmudgeon
R&R Lazy Posting: Woodsterman

Image: U.S. Says Missile Downed Malaysia Airlines Plane Over Ukraine
Sponsored by: Protest Times and Locations for July 18-19 National Protests Against Amnesty

QOTD:


--Chris Muir

Thursday, July 17, 2014

15 Pics From Barack Obama's Illegal Alien Border Invasion You'll Never See In Legacy Media

Click any of the images for the backstory.




MEET C.I.S.A. – Dianne Feinstein’s Latest Attack on Privacy, Civil Liberties and the Internet

By Michael Krieger

There’s not much good you can count on Congress to accomplish, but when it comes to introducing and passing oligarch-protecting, civil liberties-destroying legislation, our “representatives” are absolutely relentless in their determination. Unsurprisingly, the only “distinctly native American criminal class,” as Mark Twain described Congress, is at it again when it comes to institutionalizing spying and attempting a legal run around the Bill of Rights.

One thing that has become crystal clear since the Edward Snowden revelations, is that much of Congress has no problem at all with unconstitutional spying. Rather, they are primarily upset it was exposed and are dead set on making sure no other whistleblower can ever do the same. Enter CISA, or The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act.

I’ve spent much of today reading about the bill, and have compiled what I think are the most astute observations. First, from the ACLU:

A new cybersecurity bill poses serious threats to our privacy, gives the government extraordinary powers to silence potential whistleblowers, and exempts these dangerous new powers from transparency laws.

“The bill would create a massive loophole in our existing privacy laws by allowing the government to ask companies for ‘voluntary’ cooperation in sharing information, including the content of our communications, for cybersecurity purposes. But the definition they are using for the so-called ‘cybersecurity information’ is so broad it could sweep up huge amounts of innocent Americans’ personal data.

“The Fourth Amendment protects Americans’ personal data and communications from undue government access and monitoring without suspicion of criminal activity. The point of a warrant is to guard that protection. CISA would circumvent the warrant requirement by allowing the government to approach companies directly to collect personal information, including telephonic or internet communications, based on the new broadly drawn definition of ‘cybersecurity information.’”

In addition to the threats to every American’s privacy, the bill clearly targets potential government whistleblowers. Instead of limiting the use of data collection to protect against actual cybersecurity threats, the bill allows the government to use the data in the investigation and prosecution of people for economic espionage and trade secret violations, and under various provisions of the Espionage Act.

The always excellent Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has also chimed in:

OPTICS: Leadership Edition

23 Americans Murdered In Ukraine As Passenger Plane Shot Down... Obama Goes To The “Charcoal Pit” For Lunch.


We're in the very best of hands.


Larwyn's Linx: Are We There Yet?

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Nation

Are We There Yet?: Woodpile Report
The Turbulent Summer of 2014: Victor Davis Hanson
Maryland Governor: Keep Them Illegals Out of My State: Ace

White House: Migrants’ Privacy Trump Americans’ Right To Know: Neil Munro
Great news from Harry Reid: “The border is secure”: Hot Air
Armed Citizens Gather in Michigan, Protest 'Invasion' of Illegals: Breitbart

We don't need any new immigration laws: Ace
Leaked Intel Proves Obama is Lying About Flood of Illegals: LiberalLogic
The Big Snub: Did Udall Strategy Do More Campaign Harm Than Good?: PJM

Brandeis Needs a New Slogan: Ace
Concealed Carrier Defends Herself, Helps Destroy Carjacking Gang!: Bob Owens
CHANGE: Bloods gang threaten to kill more NJ city cops: PoliceOne

Economy

All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants: CIS
DHS Secretary: ICE to Run Out of Money in August: PJM
Obama plans 16-day Martha's Vineyard vacation on $12m estate: Exam

Scandal Central

VA Nurse: Dying Vets Denied Painkillers: MenRec
Miller: Veterans Benefits Administration Tried to Spy On Investigators: Heather Smith
Will Eric Holder Ever Run Out of Race Cards?: Larry Elder

McDaniel's Lawyer: We Have Enough Evidence To Launch Official Election Challenge: Breitbart
Boyle: McDaniel Camp Found '8,300 Vote Irregularities': Breitbart
Rove American Crossroads in Mississippi Controversy: AmSpec

Obama Pulls Immigration Judges From Cases, Gives Illegal Aliens Many More Years to Stay: Schlussel
It's Not 'Unaccompanied Minors': McAllen Flooded with Thousands of Adult Illegal Alien Criminals: AmPower
Complaining About Illegal Immigrant Invasion Can Get You Three Years in Maryland: MB

Climate & Energy

Man With World’s Largest Carbon Footprint Releases Climate Change Initiatives: Cove
RIP Australia’s Carbon Tax: WUWT
Splinters in her crotch: ConservativeWife

Media

Remember the Woman Who Said Obama Would Pay her Mortgage?: TPNN
Rolling Stone Anti-Gun Nuts Prove Firearm Ignorance in 5 Easy Steps: MRC
Bloomberg reporter Karen Weise "misses" Obama bundler in CFPB renovation scandal: Mark Tapscott

The Border Crisis Stories the Networks Aren't Telling You About: MRC
Is a fear of 'getting Koch'ed' hurting Republican super PACs?: David M. Drucker
NYT: Obama Finds Solace in Late Night Dinners with Celebrities and Italian Intellectuals: Ace

Nothing to See Here: Muslims Attack French Jews, Nets Silent: MRC
WaPo: Five Pinocchios for Obama in two days on economic claims: Hot Air
Greg Gutfeld Sums Up Obama: “We gave Him America. In Return, He gave us Detroit.”: FreeLight

World

Winning the Moral High Ground is a Loser's Game: Daniel Greenfield
U.S. Selling $11B in Weaponry to Gulf State That Supports Hamas, Syrian Jihadists: CNS
What Leading Democrats are Saying About the Holocaust will Shock You!: TPNN

Russian Intelligence Moves Back Into Cuba: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Houston: Mosque protests plans for new bar: Creeping
Police: Al Qaeda Magazine Suggesting Attack On US Open: CBS New York

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Meet CISA – Dianne Feinstein’s Latest Attack On Privacy, Civil Liberties And The Internet: ZH
Dead in Japan? Yahoo Ending has all you need: CIO
Google likely trillion dollar company: Tech pro: CNBC

Cornucopia

The House Of Special Purpose: Camp o' the Saints
Hillary's $2,777 PER MINUTE speaking contracts REVEALED: Daily Mail
​10,000yo Indian cave paintings of ‘aliens, spaceship’ puzzle archaeologists: RT

Image: Hillary's $2,777 PER MINUTE speaking contracts REVEALED
Sponsored by: Protest Times and Locations for July 18-19 National Protests Against Amnesty

QOTD: "Democratic super PACs have outraised their Republican counterparts by millions, a factor attributed in part to GOP donors' fear of being targeted by the Internal Revenue Service -- or “getting Koch'ed.”"

...“Certainly, there is some abiding sense of distrust that people who give to these super PACs will be looked at more closely by federal authorities,” said Fred Malek, the finance chairman at the Republican Governors Association and a longtime major donor to GOP causes and candidates.

Added Charlie Spies, a Republican attorney who has run various super PACs, including the main outside group that supported Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential bid: "With some donors, Sen. Reid's concerted effort to demonize political giving as made an impact."" --David M. Drucker

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

L.A. NEWSPAPER AD: Take Illegal Immigrant Child Into Your Home, Earn Up to $73,000 a Year... Tax-Free!

Handed over the transom by Double-M and also spotted here.

An ad for foster parents for illegal immigrant children in California promises $6,054 per month for those who sign up and successfully complete the 45-day approval process. The migrant children ad appeared in a Penny Saver in Murrieta. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, hundreds of protesters stopped busloads of illegal aliens from being transported into the town for holding and ultimate release.

The foster immigrant children ad was placed by the Crittenton Services and Foster Family Agency – FFA. The Murrieta Penny Saver notice said the agency was looking for families to provide homes for both American foster children and “unaccompanied refugee minors.”

The Orange County foster family organization provides services for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.

Sounds like a good deal. Of course, President Obama will be long gone when the piper will be paid. That's not what I say, that's what the CBO says:

Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office released its updated long-term budget projection, and there is not a lot of black ink in that report. CBO estimates that, despite receiving record revenue gobbled up from the private economy, the Treasury will continue to run enormous deficits over the next 25 years. By 2039, the public share of the debt is projected to rise from 74% of GDP to 106%...

...So what does all of this mean? Who cares about some banal numbers on a federal balance sheet?

Contrary to the perception of many policy-makers, the national debt is not some abstract problem that will only affect future generations once investors no longer trust the security of federal treasures. As CBO explains (page 10), this is an immediate and near-term problem...

...the relatively-low annual payments for interest on the debt, hovering around $230 billion a year, are only a temporary reprieve due to historically low interest rates. According to Investors’ Business Daily, “if Washington had to pay the average interest now that it paid in 2000 (6.4%), it would be paying $500 billion more each year to stay afloat.”

Sadly, Americans are used to navigating opportunities and challenges based upon instant gratification or imminent danger. Warning voters about the threat of our national debt to the future of their grandchildren is not enough. Conservatives need to make the case that the current level of debt is a mitigating factor to current economic growth and that it will continue to diminish their wages and job opportunities.


But, by all means, let's continue importing hundreds of thousands of low-skilled, largely illiterate, and desperately poor folks from the Third World! That should help!


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

REPORT: There was a "mutiny" within the Border Patrol after discovery that feds planned to disperse Murrieta protesters by force

By Mac Slavo

As the Department of Homeland Security and The Department of Health and Human Services scrambled to find food, medical care and shelter for up to 60,000 illegal immigrants making their way into the United States over the last several months, they came up with the idea of shipping thousands of undocumented migrants to detention centers in Murrieta, California.

Americans showed up in droves to protest the proposed drop-offs. So much so that the gatherings made national news. Swarms of Americans, many of whom hailed from foreign countries themselves, stood in the middle of the road blocking scores of buses as they attempted to reach their destinations at makeshift refugee camps set up by DHS and HHS.

Given the recent history of such brazen actions by American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights, it was believed that the federal government would step in and begin detaining protesters in free speech zones or temporary holding facilities so that the buses could get through.

But that never happened.

Now, a highly credible insider speaking with GMN in a recorded interview has shed some light on what happened, and according to him things could have gone a whole different direction.

According to the whistleblower, who has thus far remained anonymous for fear of reprisal, the Department of Homeland Security on orders from the White House was preparing to disperse the protesters with physical force if necessary. Federal riot police were being mobilized, complete with riot gear, body armor and armored personnel carriers.

When local law enforcement and border patrol agents, many of whom live in Murrieta, got wind of the plot they reportedly pushed back against the Federal government and themselves protested behind closed doors.

EXCLUSIVE: Chamber of Commerce Introduces New Logo!

It would appear from yesterday's article by Caroline May ("Chamber of Commerce on Immigration Reform: 'We're Going to Use Every Tool and Resource at our Disposal'") that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the enemy of America.

As such, our year-round summer intern @BiffSpackle introduced a brand, spanking new logo for this vicious brand of anti-American crackpots.

The Chamber of Commerce has not been discouraged by the lack of legislative action on immigration reform. Instead, the business organization is digging in, pushing for an immigration overhaul as soon as possible.

“We’re going to use every tool and resource at our disposal. And we’re going to keep pushing our leaders to do the right thing for our country, if not before the election, then after—perhaps during a lame-duck session,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue declared Monday in a blog post.

...Donohue’s blog post did not make reference to the influx of illegal immigration, largely from Central America, that has resulted in a crisis at the southern border. However, at a news conference last week, Donohue acknowledged that the surge has made moving the ball on immigration reform harder.

“You’re damn right, it makes it more difficult,” he said, according to the Jacksonville Business Journal.

Despite the difficultly, Donohue stressed Monday, “We know that immigration reform will ultimately get done—because it must get done.”

These people are despicable.

They don't care about their children. They don't care about the country. They don't care about their communities.

They care about power and money. They are vile, simply vile.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

THERE ARE MORE THAN 250 PROTESTS AGAINST THE OBAMA INVASION THIS WEEKEND: Will You Be Joining Us?

By Lawrence Sellin

Below is a list of 267 protests against our porous borders and the open invitation by the Obama regime to people from all over the world to come to America and receive myriad social services and other incentives AT YOUR EXPENSE - our taxpayer dollars at work.

This at a time when many Americans are unemployed and under-employed, government spending for entitlement programs is at an all time high, defense spending is dropping precipitously and domestic law enforcement is being militarized!


This travesty is already wrecking havoc by bringing DISEASE (tuberculosis, chagas, leprosy, scabies, lice, swine flu, etc), CRIME (human trafficking, drug smuggling, gangs, murder, property destruction), ISLAMIC TERRORISTS, etc., to our once great nation.

National sovereignty is fast becoming a concept of the past and the Constitution has been shredded (Obama and his DOJ are publicly signaling impunity for anyone coming to America illegally - even criminals and Islamic terrorists)!

The iconic phrase extolling our representative government as one that is “for the people, by the people, of the people” (Gettysburg Address) has been trampled on.

The days of our once great constitutional republic may be limited.

Please do what you can by attending one of the 267 protests this weekend (Note: So far, there are 41 locations in California, 34 in Texas, 20 in Florida, etc., and the list is growing).


Larwyn's Linx: Jose Antonio Vargas --- The Smirking Face of the Entitled Illegal Alien

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Nation

Jose Antonio Vargas: The Face of the Entitled Illegal Alien: Michelle Malkin
We Are All Border States Now: Mark Steyn
Immigration Backlash in Oracle, Arizona: AmPower

The Noose Tightens on the IRS: Sidney Powell
Nice: Illegals Arrive in Bus and Shop at Walmart With EBT Cards: GWP
Reckless Endangerment: NC Renegade

Lynn, Massachusetts can’t handle illegal alien swarm: FAM
O’Malley: Border kids would be in danger in ‘conservative part’ of MD: Twitchy
COEXIST: BCF

CONFIRMED: Senate GOP Leaders Paid for Attacks Against Conservatives: RS
Our Unwillingness to Defend Ourselves: Walter Williams
Muslim Sues Latino Caucus for Not Giving Her Scholarship: Daniel Greenfield

Economy

House GOP votes to gut IRS budget: Hot Air
Obama cut billions from home health care; both parties try to restore: Scoop
Sticker Shock: NY Family Hammered With 22% Obamacare Rate Hike: MenRec

Scandal Central

Lerner’s Old FEC Pal Under Investigation; Claims Her PC Crashed Too: UniSpec
Illegal Immigration Protesters to Challenge Feds: Let Them "Send in SWAT Teams": Breitbart
US government says online storage isn't protected by the Fourth Amendment: Nicole Lee

New emergency alert system gives Obama the power to flip switch and address the entire nation: DailyMail
Border Patrol Mutiny: Mac Slavo
Citigroup to pay $7B; settle DOJ probe into sale of subprime mortgages that led to '08 collapse: DailyMail

Climate & Energy

Carbon Scam by UN and World Bank Behind “Genocidal” Land Grabs: NewAm
"Environmental Justice": HHS and EPA Branding For Societal Transformation And Redistribution: NoisyRm
First Six Months of 2014 No Warmer Than Historical Average in Contiguous USA: Sierra Rayne

Media

How Diplomats, Reporters and Human Rights Activists Saved Hamas: Daniel Greenfield
Dinesh D’Souza explains what happened in his big meeting with Costco: Scoop
Scrapbook Photos: Obama’s Summer Road Trips: WSJ

Where Is Obama’s Border Policy?: Charles Krauthammer
Elizabeth Warren Could Beat Hillary: Dick Morris
Millennials Desire Government That Provides All and Costs Nothing: Walter Hudson

World

ISIL captured 52 U.S.-made howitzers; artillery weapons cost 500K each: Times
Hamas won’t accept “calm for calm” – so I guess Israel needs to bomb harder: Allen West
Islamist Jew-haters and their leftist enablers: “The Jews are Beasts”: LI

The lopsided casualty rate in Gaza proves nothing about responsibility for the conflict: LI
Hamas Is the Norm, Israel Is the Exception: Spengler
Europe Reverts: Pamela Geller

Attacking Israel with the big lie: genocide: Jonah Goldberg
ISIS Orders Government Workers To Stop Feeding Christians In Mosul: WZ
German police fear Muslims: “I hope I get out of here in one piece”: JihadWatch

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google's Project Zero Cybersecurity Watch: No Excuses: TNW
Comcast Rep Tears Into Fleeing Customer 'Like a Pit Bull on a Pork Chop': CRM Buyer
Google's robot dog 'Cujo' goes on patrol with the Marines as it carries up to 400lbs: DailyMail

Cornucopia

Jesse Ventura Trial Not Going Very Well For Him: Nice Deb
Scientists baffled by gigantic 262ft hole that has appeared at Siberia's 'End of The World': DailyMail
Age in Software is Bulls***: Dave Winer

Image: SMALL LIFELESS, DEAD CHILDREN Found “Washed Up Along Riverbank” of Rio Grande
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QOTD: "[N]ow, I want to work with everybody — Republicans and Democrats — to move this country forward. But I can’t just stand by while politics threatens all the hard work of millions of Americans because we’ve just got gridlock in Washington. So what I’ve tried to do is take a range of actions this year to help working Americans with my own legal authorities — from speeding up big infrastructure projects to raising wages. I’m waiting for Congress to act, but in the meantime I’ve got to go ahead and do what I can do.

And in response, their plan so far has not been to join me and say, all right, Mr. President, you’re right, we do need to rebuild our roads; we do need to spruce up our airports. Instead their big idea has been to sue me. That’s what they’re spending time on — a political stunt that wastes America’s time and taxpayer dollars." --Barack Obama

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

AMNESTY "DISGRACE!" -- Black Chicagoans Hammer Obama for "Forsaking the African-American Community"

By Investor's Business Daily

Crime: A core constituency asks: If the president is concerned about unaccompanied children from Guatemala fleeing deplorable conditions and violence, what about fatherless children here burdened by gang violence with nowhere to flee?

Some 748 of the unaccompanied children from Central America have found their way to the Chicago area, Fox News reports, far from our open border and virtually unannounced to local residents or their political leaders who are unaware of exactly where the children were sent or being kept.

Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., told Fox last Friday that he was unaware of the exact locations of the facilities where the children were sent, and said he believes the White House did not want the children's living conditions to be made public.

The irony of these children being sent to Chicago, arguably the most violent city in America, where gang violence runs rampant, where fatherless children roam the streets with little hope of finding a job or a future, apparently escapes President Obama as he vacations on Martha's Vineyard.

Unlike the children of Central America, arriving en masse, the children of Chicago, facing conditions every bit as horrible, have no border to cross to seek asylum or refuge.

It hasn't escaped notice of the residents of Obama's hometown who gathered Friday to protest the president's $3.7 billion request to help Central American children escape violence while they see little being done to end the violence in which 120 people have been shot and 26 killed so far this month.

"You're spending billions of dollars in Texas, but we've got a problem right here in Chicago," said a local resident Friday, one of many from Chicago's Southside who assembled in front of the Chicago Police Department to protest the violence plaguing their neighborhoods.

They condemned President Obama for paying more attention to illegal aliens crossing our southern border than to the children of his hometown.

ARAB SPRING! ISIS Now Operating in Gaza, Yo

Two extremist groups have pledged allegiance to ISIS and indicate they are now operating in Gaza, according to deep-web chatter mined from ISIS online forums by new media firm Vocativ.

Despite official claims from Gaza that no ISIS presence exists there, ISIS support among Gazans is growing on Twitter and YouTube.

Vocativ analysis of deep web chatter in ISIS forums suggests that the extremist Sunni organization, which has taken over roughly half of Iraq and threatens Assad in Syria, has ties with militant groups operating in Gaza.

While Hamas has dominated Gaza since 2005, dozens of rival Islamist factions operate in the strip. Over the past few weeks, two Salafist groups have pledged allegiance to ISIS and claimed responsibility for rocket fire into Israel. As Vocativ reported at the end of June, the group formerly known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis changed its name to Al Dalwa Al-Islamia—which translates to “The Islamic State.” A few days ago, on July 10, the group claimed to have fired a battery of rockets at the Israeli town of Bnei Netzarim...


...A second Salafist terror group, Ansar Al-Dalwa al-Islamia (“Supporters of the Islamic State”), boasted of its own rocket barrage one day earlier, on June 9. Neither claim of responsibility can be independently verified, however ISIS has published details about both instances of rocket fire on their forums, which is tantamount to a welcome-to-the-network embrace.

Hillary picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue

The Masked Avenger relays:

It’s a bad day in Hillary land.

First it was reported that Ready for Hillary got outraised by Ben Carson’s PAC, then the Free Beacon discovered that the Hillary staff collaborated with the University of Arkansas to ban the Free Beacon from the Clinton docs, the New York Post revealed that Schumer worked against Clinton in her 2000 Senate race, and finally CNN reported that liberals aren’t so keen on another Clinton in the White House and want Elizabeth Warren, one West Virginia Dem said “I am very torn because I want a Democrat in the White House, but I’m not sure its Hillary. To me she would be more of the same.”

And a report from the Washington Post read much the same, with “several attendees pleading with her [Elizabeth Warren] to run for president.”


Seems that air of inevitability is slipping away just as fast as her poll numbers are.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.

STUNNING: UN and Obama rebuke Israel for self-defense, fail to note details like rockets and terrorism

By Anne Bayefsky

The 20th century job description of the United Nations was “to maintain international peace and security” based on “the sovereign equality of all its members,” and to do “nothing [to] impair the inherent right of self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a member of the UN.” 

But the UN of the 21st century has an exception clause. Every time Israel is attacked, not only does the UN fail to maintain peace and security – it attempts to gut Israel’s inherent right of self-defense.

In accordance with this pathology, UN actors manufacture a cycle of violence that begins with Israeli aggression; assert a moral equivalence between Arab terrorists and their Israeli victims; and concoct a litany of Israeli human rights abuses. They conclude that Israeli actions in self-defense are crimes, and Israel’s enemies are understandably, if a tad too fervently, protecting human rights.

Ceasefires are just opportunities to shift gears from alleging crimes to demanding punishments.

The events of the past week have been a textbook demonstration of this toxic formula.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued a “situation report” on July 9, 2014. It provides a “background on the crisis” that states:  “the latest escalation round started on 11 June when Israeli forces targeted and killed an alleged member of an armed group, along with a child accompanying him, and Palestinian factions responded by shooting rockets at southern Israel.”

OCHA could have started with something else that occurred on June 11, 2014 – a rocket sent from Gaza that narrowly missed a main artery in southern Israel.  Or the UN body might have started with the rocket attacks perpetrated by the targeted Hamas operative himself, such as the rocket shot at Sderot on April 21, 2014.  Or it could have chosen any of the other 200 rockets fired into Israel in the first six months of 2014.

Alternatively, a “background on the crisis” could have begun at the beginning, with uninterrupted violent Arab rejection of a Jewish state from the moment of Israel’s creation.

Instead, the UN body chose the routine of “it all started when he hit me back.”

Next on the bandwagon came Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Pillay is responsible for hatching the infamous Goldstone inquiry, together with the UN Human Rights Council, at a special Council session in January 2009. Goldstone’s report claimed Israel was deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians, as opposed to defending itself from 8,000 rocket and mortar attacks launched from Gaza over eight years.  Though Goldstone himself later retracted the slanderous charge, Pillay remained an enthusiastic supporter.

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Dead Children Found Washed Up Along Riverbank of Rio Grande: GWP
Rep. Bridenstine finally gets tour of Ft Sill and says it's horrific: Scoop
‘How Do You Defend Inaction in the Face of a Crisis?’ You Don’t, Sir.: Jim Geraghty

Shocking anti-Semitic hatefest in downtown Seattle: Mike Report
AZ Rancher: 'Border Is on Fire... Washington Is Sending Us Gasoline': FNI
Obamacare is a game of Jenga: Events

Lawsuits and Impeachment: Thomas Sowell
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Sessions Obliterates Obama and Holder on Lawless Amnesty Push: TPNN
Rand Paul’s dangerously wrong and dangerous foreign policy: RS
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The Implosion Is Near: Signs Of The Bubble’s Last Days: David Stockman
The freedom of money: John Hayward
Obama's "recovery": fewer than half of US adults have full time jobs: Poor Richard

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Leaked Data Shows 10-Fold Increase In Obama’s Asylum Approvals : DC
Political fallout from underage illegal immigrants may spread far from the Rio Grande Valley: Exam
DOJ investigates Nebraska parade float critical of Obama: Times

The Outhouse of American Liberty: Mark Steyn
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No, Mr. Holder, This Has Nothing to Do With Race: David Limbaugh
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Michelle Obama Encourages Illegal Aliens To Break Laws: S&L
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Gen. Keane: ISIL Threat 'Dwarfs What the Old Al Qaeda Was': WFB
Bergdahl Returned to Active Duty, Former Platoon Mate Reacts: JWF
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Canadian Prime Minister Condemns Obama, West for Not Supporting Israel: Breitbart
Paris Mob Attacks Synagogue: TAI
Where's the Coverage? Palestinian Official: All Hamas Rockets Are War Crimes: CAMERA

The Jewish State in a Morally Sick World: Dennis Prager
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QOTD: "In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” on Monday, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) said that the southern border is controlled by Mexican criminal organizations and not the United States.

Bridenstine stated “we don't control the southern border of the United States the way the law requires right now but the transnational criminal organizations in northern Mexico, they control the southern border on the south side of the border. If you pay them enough money you get into our country,” and that many illegals “remain illegal residents in perpetuity.”

He added that the failure to secure the border endangers children by putting them in the hands of dangerous criminal organizations... “There are a lot of children there that have suffered on the trek to the United States of America. we're talking about cases where people were abused...when you pay criminal organizations to transport children, you're putting your children in harm's way,” he said. “If you don't pay [criminal organizations] enough money your children could be subject to forced labor, forced prostitution, sold in the slave trade, and in many cases many cases death. There are mass graves in northern Mexico because somebody didn't pay the right criminal organization.” --Breitbart

Monday, July 14, 2014

19 Illegal Immigration Facts You'll Never Read in Legacy Media

By Michael Snyder

Should we roll out the red carpet and allow millions upon millions of thieves, rapists, gang members and drug dealers to come waltzing into this country any time they would like? Should we broadcast a message to the rest of the world that anyone that can find a way to enter this country and somehow get to a “sanctuary city” can sign up for a plethora of welfare benefits and live a life of leisure at the expense of hard working American citizens?

Yes, those questions sound absurd, but what I have just described will essentially be official U.S. government policy if the immigration bill going through Congress becomes law. And unfortunately, Democrats now say that they have the Republican votes that they need to get “immigration reform” through the House of Representatives. If this amnesty bill becomes law, it will encourage even more illegal immigration and it will be one more step toward making the U.S. border essentially meaningless.

Right now, we desperately need the American people to contact their representatives in Congress and demand that they vote against this bill. Sadly, this is not likely to happen because most Americans have absolutely no idea how negatively illegal immigration is affecting this nation.

The following are 19 very disturbing facts about illegal immigration that every American should know…

How many Central American children have to die before the Democrats decide to secure the border?

By Lee Cary


Central American children are pawns in the Democratic Party’s pursuit of political advantage through an open Southern border.

Gilberto Ramos is just one of their most recent victims.

The Guardian recently told Gilberto’s story:

Gilberto Ramos wanted to leave his chilly mountain village for the United States to earn money to treat his mother's epilepsy. His mother begged him not to go. "The better treatment would have been if he stayed," Cipriana Juarez Diaz said in a tearful interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday. When he wouldn't relent, she draped him with a white rosary for safe passage. A month later, his decaying body was found in the Texas desert.


Gilberto, age 15, died a pawn in the Obama regime’s pursuit of his party’s comprehensive progressive agenda that aims to open the southern U.S. border to an unhindered influx of future Democrat voters.

The Obama regime’s official complicity in promoting the flow of unaccompanied, undocumented children entering the U.S. lacks the same degree of transparency associated with the civilian deaths in Mexico due to Eric Holder’s Fast & Furious gun-running, the White House’s involvement in the IRS Scandal, and the deaths of Americans in Benghazi.