Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Next Phase of Middle East Conflict Will Make Gaza Look Like a Picnic

By Alan Caruba


“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.”


Obama said that on August 20, 2012 in remarks to reporters. Realizing that he was close to having to engage in some kind of military action against Bashar Assad, Syria’s dictator, he was bailed out by the Russians who stepped in to remove the stores of poison gas and then, except for the “red line” gaffe, everyone promptly forgot about it.

The insurrection against Assad began in March 2011 and by September 2013 there were an estimated 120,000 dead Syrians and a million or more refugees. The conflict turned from local to regional as the extremist Islamic State (IS) emerged. It is backed by Iran and Turkey, but only for the purpose of defeating Assad, not for declaring itself the new Caliphate.

IS is now in control of much of Syria’s northern region and has taken control of central Iraq, challenging Baghdad as well as its Kurdish sector. On Sunday Islamic State fighters overtook the Lebanese city of Arsal where 100,000 Syrian refugees had fled. There were attacks in Tripoli as well. There is no accounting for how many have been slaughtered by IS at this point.

On August 4, The Daily Star, Lebanon, reported “The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) group executed seven members of a single family from the Ismaili minority in the central Syrian province of Hama overnight, state media and an activist group said Monday. ‘An armed terrorist group committed a massacre in the Mzeiraa area near the town of Salmiya, killing seven people, including two aged 13 and 15 years old,’ Syrian state news agency SANA said.”

Three days earlier Breitbart News reported “The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, told Palestine the terrorist group will join its fight against the ‘barbaric Jews’ but urged patience until ISIS is finished in Arab countries.”

Hamas, Hiroshima, and Sleeping Giants

By Investor's Business Daily

Threats: As a somber anniversary nears, "proportional response" has replaced "victory" in the lexicon of war. But no nation facing an existential threat should apologize for winning or for saving the lives of its own people.

The other day Navi Pillay, the United Nations' high commissioner for human rights, after a meeting of the U.N.'s Geneva-based Human Rights Council, said that Israel, despite dropping leaflets, dummy bombs and even sending text messages and using social media to warn citizens in Gaza, was not doing enough to protect civilians — and "international law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes."

Among a litany of Israeli sins, Pillay even said that Israel's refusal to share its Iron Dome missile-defense technology with Gaza's "governing authority," otherwise known as the terrorist group Hamas, constituted a war crime, since it meant that Israeli citizens weren't dying in proportional numbers.

"No such protection has been provided to Gazans against the shelling," she said.

Pillay has in the past condemned the ongoing mass killings in Syria, South Sudan, North Korea, China, Pakistan, Sudan and Iran, all of which have served or are currently serving on the Orwellian-named council. And while she did condemn Hamas for using civilian areas and buildings to launch rockets at Israel and for storing 20 rockets at a school in Gaza operated by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Pillay routinely reserves her harshest criticisms for Israel.

In 2008, for instance, she accused Israel of "egregious war crimes" merely for defending itself against Hamas rockets.

UNRWA, in a statement, says it found the weapons in "the course of the regular inspection of its premises," adding that the school was vacant.

But, as a senior Israeli official told the Times of Israel, it goes a bit beyond that. "The rockets were passed on to the government authorities in Gaza, which is Hamas," the official said. "In other words, UNRWA handed to Hamas rockets that could well be shot at Israel."

This situation brings back memories on how UNIFIL, the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, stood by for years, silently watching Hezbollah import its missiles and other weapon and dig its bunkers, all in preparation for using Lebanon and its people as human shields in the terrorist group's unprovoked attack on Israel.

BUT THEY'RE DOING IT FOR LOVE: Half of All Federal Crimes Occur Near U.S.-Mexico Border

By Judicial Watch

Crime is so high along the Mexican border that nearly half of all the criminal cases filed by federal prosecutors in the United States last fiscal year were concentrated in a handful of districts located in that region, according to the U.S. government’s figures.

It’s not as if this is new, but to see it spelled out in a government report with a detailed breakdown is truly alarming. The statistics illustrate that the Mexican-border region is a cesspool of crime that’s costing American taxpayers a chunk of change not to mention loads of grief. There are 94 federal court districts in this country and the five located near the southern border see a large portion of criminal cases, according to the Justice Department’s annual report on criminal prosecutions. The five federal districts also have the biggest number of defendants actually convicted of federal crimes.

Of the 61,529 criminal cases initiated by federal prosecutors last fiscal year, more than 40%—or 24,746—were filed in court districts neighboring the Mexican border. This includes Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California, Western Texas and Southern Texas. The two Texas districts each had more than double the convictions of all four federal court districts in the state of New York combined, according to the DOJ report. The Western Texas District had the nation’s heaviest crime flow, with 6,341 cases filed by the feds. In Southern Texas 6,130 cases were filed, 4,848 in Southern California, 3,889 in New Mexico and 3,538 in Arizona.

Not surprisingly, most of the offenses were immigration related. In fact, 38.6% of all federal cases (23,744) filed last year involved immigration, the DOJ report confirms. Nearly 22% (13,383) were drug related, 19.7% (12,123) were violent crimes and 10.2% (6,300) involved white-collar offenses that include a full range of frauds committed by business and government professionals. This is hardly earth-shattering news in fact, the nation’s southern border region has for years been known for its high crime rate compared to the rest of the country.

However, the problem has escalated at an alarming rate in the last few years. Last spring Judicial Watch reported that violence in the region has gotten so out of control that both Mexican and American journalists have largely stopped reporting it out of fear that drug cartels will retaliate against them and their families. Around the same time a small town paper in Reynosa, the twin border city of McAllen in south Texas, bravely ran a story describing the fear and panic that filled the streets during a three-hour firefight between rival drug cartels.

Larwyn's Linx: The Real Win For Conservatives In The GOP Border Bill

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The Real Win For Conservatives In The GOP Border Bill: CHQ
Moderate Groups Want to Run Grifter Wing Out of the GOP: PJM
Steve LaTourette: Pots, Kettles, and the Corrupting Nature of DC: Erick Erickson

The U.S. is Racist for not Paying for Every Child in the World: RWN
Two Illegal Aliens Murder Texas Border Patrol Agent in Front of His Family: Sooper
Inside “Gamechanger Salon,” The Left’s Action Network: RS

National Review Gives Michael Mann a Hockeystick Suppository: WUWT
Obama Says He Hasn't Decided on Mega-Amnesty: Ace
Obama’s Unprecedented Impeachment Dare: David Limbaugh

While Illegals Get Billions, Obama Forces Out 550 Army Majors: Dollard
Public servants acting as public masters: Glenn Harlan Reynolds
On Border, a Huge Win for the Hard Right Constitution: Michael Tomasky

Economy

The IRS cannot be fixed: it must be abolished and replaced with the Fair Tax: Exam
Public Pension Funds Are in Trouble: AmInt
Unions Lose and the Public Wins Big in Wisconsin: Signal

Scandal Central

Leaked CBP Report Shows Entire World Exploiting Open US Border: Breitbart
Don’t Impeach Obama, Censure Him: John Fund
$7,060,259,674,497.51--Federal Debt Up $7 Trillion Under Obama: CNS

Climate & Energy

Oil prices - When ISIS takes Baghdad: OilVoice
EPA goes from Environmental Protection Agency to Extremist Political Agenda: RS
EPA’s far-reaching regulatory authority undermines democracy: Slade Blackwell

Media

Americans support Israel and the press hates it: Noah Rothman
Steve LaTourette and Grift Versus Theft: Leon Wolf
Choom Gang Reunion on the Golf Course: Breitbart

Salon making big progress in its efforts to put The Onion out of business: Doug Powers
‘Another winner’! MAD Magazine busts Obama on his birthday : Twitchy
Crash of Civilizations: LI

World

Terror’s War on Civilization Grows: AmInt
Newly Discovered Hamas Combat Manual Reveals 'Benefits' of Human Shields: Grid
Saudi King Abdullah: Current Gaza war a collective massacre solely caused by Hamas: Matzav

Indicting Hamas for War Crimes: Michael Curtis
Was a UN School in Gaza Really Bombed? (Update: No, It Wasn’t): Rick Moran
Wiesel Calls on Obama to `Condemn Hamas' Use of Children as Human Shields': PJM

While West Dithers, ISIS Creates Facts on the Ground: Commentary
ISIS Seizes Iraq's Largest Dam: Daniel Pipes
India Takes Turn at New Global Sport: Ignoring John Kerry: AmInt

Hamas Leader Says There Are No Human Shields So Here Are 10 MORE Examples: Lid
The Big Squeeze – Egypt Destroying Hamas Tunnels at Sinai Gaza Border…: Treehouse
Should Jews leave Britain?: Douglas Murray

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Jerry Pournelle on the New "Dean Drive": Ace
Harvard Students Make Cake: Sprayed From A Can And Nuked In The Microwave: DC
Airplanes Can Be Hacked Through Wireless In-flight Entertainment System: Hacker News

Cornucopia

Not One Shred of Irony: MOTUS
GROSS: Take A Wild Guess What A Drone Caught Some Muslims Having Sex With : Clash
Hot-Crazy Matrix: Tactical Life

Image: ‘Another winner’! MAD Magazine busts Obama on his birthday
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QOTD: "What sort of future is there in Britain for Jews? I would submit that there is a future. But what is becoming increasingly clear is that the price of that future is that Jews will increasingly be expected to distance themselves from Israel. There is a fair amount of evidence from the Jewish community suggesting that this process is already underway. Once it is complete then those ‘good’ anti-Israel Jews will be able to proclaim victory. But the same force that they encouraged to come for their co-religionists will then just as surely come for them. And then where will they hide?" --Douglas Murray

Monday, August 04, 2014

As Obama Golfs and Fundraises, China Unveils First-Strike Nuclear Missile Targeting U.S. Cities

By Investor's Business Daily

Nuclear Threat: Beijing's strategic military buildup continues with the unveiling of a road-mobile missile capable of delivering up to 10 atomic warheads anywhere in America. Time to show some flexibility, Mr. President?

While President Obama was playing the back nine, and as it was confirmed that the Russians had developed a cruise missile, the R500, which violates 1987's Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty, the Chinese were busy as well. They now have a mobile intercontinental nuclear missile with no other purpose than to make war against the U.S.

The announcement of the DF-41's existence was not exactly approved by the Chinese government. As the Telegraph reports, the inadvertent original government Web post appeared to have been deleted on Friday, but the Chinese newspaper Global Times, which seems to have a penchant for revealing Chinese military developments, posted a screen capture.

The Telegraph account notes that the DF-41 is designed to have a range of 7,500 miles, according to a report by Jane's Strategic Weapon Systems, putting it among the world's longest-range missiles.

The Pentagon said in a June report the new missile is "capable of carrying multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles," as many as 10.

THE REAL WAR ON WOMEN: Obamacare's Destruction of Home Health Care Disproportionately Hits Females Hardest

By Nicole Rusenko and Melissa Quinn

The Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to cut or increase categories of Medicare spending. Last year, then-HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced home health care funding would be slashed by 3.5 percent annually until 2017. Industry analysts say these cuts disproportionately affect women—who make up the majority of home health care beneficiaries, caregivers, and professionals in that sector of health c are.

Robert Moffit, senior fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health Policy Studies, said:

Congress does need to control the growth in Medicare spending. But the best way to do that is to inject free market competition into the program to control cost. In the meantime, Congress could secure solid home health care savings by adding a modest co-payment to that program. This is much better than simply cutting payments to home health agencies, which could reduce their participation and thus undercut seniors’ access to care.


At 'tech' news site Mashable, the important work of spreading antisemitic Hamas propaganda is never done!

Check their latest libel out:


No link. You can Google it if you're interested.

For a brief history of Mashable's love affair with Hamas, please see "SURPRISE: 'Tech' news site Mashable is a front for the Nazi-aligned Hamas terror organization."

Oh, and then there's this: "Newly Discovered Hamas Combat Manual Reveals 'Benefits' of Human Shields."

Don't look for any of these facts at Mashable.


HELPFUL COMPARISON CHART FOR JOURNALISTS: The Palestinian people vs. the Israelis

So simple even John Kerry can understand. Maybe.



Hat tip: @BiffSpackle.

Larwyn's Linx: Is Barack Obama plotting a coup?

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Nation

Is Barack Obama plotting a coup?: Power Line
Democrat Senators Call for Resignation of Obama’s CIA Director: Outpost
Steve LaTourette and the Circle of Jerks: Erick Erickson

How to fight Democrats' ugly rhetoric on illegal immigration: Realities
Watch Drug Smugglers Trot Into the United States: Sentinel
The Obama Endgame Emerges: Douglas Herz

1984 Redux: Orwellian Illegal Immigration: Victor Davis Hanson
Obama throws tantrum over GOP border bill: RS
Gov. Perry Warns Increased Illegal Aliens From Islamist Terror States: Scoop

Communist-Hamas Protest Demands Israel's Extermination in LA: AmPower
Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) deletes retweet: Israel’s Iron Dome an ‘atrocity’: Scoop
GOP sees signs of Jewish voters drifting away from Democrats: Niall Stanage

Economy

Assigned no work, federal employees revel in Internet porn: Kevin D. Willamson
Obama’s Own Stimulus Predictions: We’d Be Better Off Without It: Ben Howe
11,472,000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office: Ali Meyer

Scandal Central

The Age of Obama: Guy Somerset
22 Jihad Training Camps in the US – FBI Refuses to Take Action: Santo Lippo
Gov. Snyder Welcoming Unaccompanied Minors, Calls for Immigration Reform: Courtney Bledsoe

Climate & Energy

After brutal winter and cool summer, UK paper blames Toledo water crisis on global warming: Marathon
Mythical Carbon Pollution Is “An Affront To God” Or Something: Cove
Climate Change Not so Global: WUWT

Media

Meet The Press Wonders Will Israel ‘Achieve Victory, But Lose Battle Of Wider Public Opinion’: NB
Supporters of Israel mock jihadists with #HamasBumperStickers, libs outraged: Twitchy
New Yorker Editor David Remnick Whines That Obama ‘Has Been Stifled At Every Angle’: CNS

The Left’s Obsession with Fox News: Jon Gabriel
Liberal Jehmu Greene tries and fails to shout down Tammy Bruce in immigration debate on Fox: Scoop
Does Nancy Pelosi Understand When Someone Is Falsely Accused of Rape?: Newsalert

Political Cartoonist Implies Obama Consumes Illegal Narcotics, GOP Wishes POTUS Death: Ed Driscoll
Darkness Falls: Mark Steyn
‘Spoken like a truly ignorant bigot': Juan Williams’ latest suggestion is ‘desperate’: Twitchy

Real Life in Texas 70 Miles North of the Border: MB
A Week of Nancys: MOTUS
Follow-up on Liberal Fascist Violence in Tinley Park: MB

World

Kerry: Netanyahu is such “a stubborn head” that he “refuses to understand anything”: Pamela Geller
Gaza's Civilian Casualties: The Truth Is Very Different: Richard Kemp
Hamas censors British journalists. Why don’t we care?: Spectator

Valerie Jarrett: White House Can't Condone Israel's 'Killing of All of These Innocent Children': Breitbart
Do Democrats Regret Stripping Anti-Hamas Language From Their 2012 Platform?: Lid
Calgary Herald's Erika Stark - Good Girl: SDA

Welcome to the 1930s: Roger L. Simon
“Palestinians” present Egypt with draft of Gaza truce demands: JihadWatch
Islamic State grabs Iraqi dam and oilfield in victory over Kurds: JihadWatch

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Ebola Fears in UK After Passenger Becomes Ill on Gangway and Dies: GWP
Ebola: Sunday Evening More: WRSA
Is your Dropcam live feed being watched by someone else?: PC World

Cornucopia

The Best Quotes From “Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy”: John Hawkins
South Korea threatens North Korea with gigantic inflated condoms: Cube
Batman creator's personal comics to be auctioned: Fox

Image: Political Cartoonist Implies Obama Consumes Illegal Narcotics, GOP Wishes POTUS Death
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QOTD: "Try a brief experiment. Google rates of health problems, education, and hunger in terms of illegal immigration (using the appropriate euphemisms), and then all sorts of studies pop up from social scientists and bureaucrats, the themes being that racism has led to inequality and lack of parity. Then look up rates of criminality, incarceration, graduation rates, and public assistance predicated on illegal status, and you will either hit a brick wall, or quickly learn such data is “problematic.” It is quite Orwellian how research is predetermined to find the host culpable, but never to suggest the guest is at fault.

If immigrants came in manageable numbers, if they arrived in legal fashion on the basis of ethnically blind and meritocratic criteria, if the host believed in the melting pot and promoted integration, assimilation, and the mastery of the English language, if the arrivals were reminded why they were leaving their homelands and why they were entering the United States, then we could manage. But, alas, the very opposite of these criteria is true.

It has become a cachet of elites to mouth platitudes about “comprehensive immigration reform” as they carefully construct their own apartheid existences in Nancy Pelosi style. They are not so much immune from the ramifications of their own ideology as found guilty of racial bias and prejudice by their very efforts to talk in the abstract in a way that offers them psychological recompense for never living that way in the concrete." --Victor Davis Hanson

Sunday, August 03, 2014

OPERATION CHOKE POINT: Shutting Down Perfectly Legal Businesses for Political Reasons

By Iain Miller

Can the government shut down legal but politically disfavored businesses? If an ongoing federal regulatory campaign continues, that may be precisely what happens. In recent months, a federal government regulatory initiative called Operation Choke Point has gained increased public and media attention. Operation Choke Point is ostensibly a joint effort by various regulatory entities—the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) most prominent among them—to reduce the chances of Americans falling victim to fraud in a variety of “high-risk” industries, predominantly payday lending. It uses existing regulatory powers to provide heightened supervision of banks that do business with the third party payment processors that provide payment services to these industries.

However, this seemingly laudable aim conceals a worrying reality. There is nothing illegal about most of these industries (at least not yet). But because they have been designated high-risk, banks are cutting off dealings with many processors and companies preemptively. As a result, many companies and individuals that have done nothing wrong have been frozen out of banking services.Without the links to banks, their financial lifeblood is choked off indeed.

Operation Choke Point echoes—and may in fact be modeled on—the federal government’s takedown of the otherwise legal American online poker industry in 2011. In that instance, regulators targeted payment processors that dealt with gambling businesses. As a result, banks became wary of doing business with those targeted payment processors. Finding their lifeblood cut off, some companies had no choice but to turn to less scrupulous processors or disguise transactions with them, leading to criminal liability—which in turn allows DOJ to close down the industry. Operation Choke Point appears to be heading down this road.

Obama's Rogue IRS Strikes Deal With Atheists To Monitor Churches -- But Not Mosques

By Investor's Business Daily

First Amendment: Government's assault on religious liberty has hit a new low as the IRS settles with atheists by promising to monitor sermons for mentions of the right to life and traditional marriage.

A lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) asserted that the Internal Revenue Service ignored complaints about churches' violating their tax-exempt status by routinely promoting political issues, legislation and candidates from the pulpit.

The FFRF has temporarily withdrawn its suit in return for the IRS's agreement to monitor sermons and homilies for proscribed speech that the foundation believes includes things like condemnation of gay marriage and criticism of ObamaCare for its contraceptive mandate.

The irony of this agreement is that it's being enforced by the same Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division of the IRS that was once headed by Lois "Fifth Amendment" Lerner and that openly targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups.

Among the questions that the IRS asked of those targeted groups was the content of their prayers.

Those who objected to the monitoring of what is said and done in mosques for signs of terrorist activity have no problem with this one, though monitoring what's said in houses of worship is a clear violation of the First Amendment. Can you say "chilling effect"?

Congress can make no laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion. So it's not clear where the IRS gets off doing just that by spying on religious leaders lest they comment on issues and activities by government that are contrary to or impose on their religious consciences. Our country was founded by people fleeing this kind of government-monitored and mandated theology last practiced in the Soviet Union.

If today's New York Times editors were around in 1943

Via The People's Cube:


Noah Pollak tags it: "All The News Hamas Sees Fit to Print."


Larwyn's Linx: House Passes "Mean-Spirited" Immigration Bill, Takes Off For 5 Weeks

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Nation

House Passes "Mean-Spirited" Immigration Bill, Takes Off For 5 Weeks: ZH
Obama's Inexplicable Love for the Dark Side: James Lewis
Symbols of Islamofascism: what are they, what do they mean?: Vlad Tepes

Our Children Will Ask: Why Didn’t Congress Impeach Obama?: NoisyRm
As much as you’d like to, don’t fall into the impeachment trap: Allen West
The Wicked Witch Of The House In Meltdown: NoisyRm

Law Enforcement Really Concerned About “Sovereign Citizens”: RWN
Chicago Muslim Calls for Jihad Against Jews in Gaza: Wizbang
Chicago, Concealed Carry and “Polite Society”: BearingArms

American Ebola Patient Arrives In US, Walks into Emory Hospital: GWP
The Coming Democratic Midterm Collapse: Jeff Greenfield
Ohio's 4th largest city has no drinking water: AP

Economy

Annual Obama Birthday Bacchanal Begins: Keith Koffler
Finally, an illegal alien Obama's DHS will seize and deport: WyBlog
Joe Biden spent more than $1 million flying to his home in Wilmington: DailyMail

Scandal Central

Virginia Vote Fraud Cases Stonewalled by Holder After 4 Years: DC
Just hours before 9/11, Bill Clinton explains he could have, but didn’t, kill bin Laden: WaPo
Why would Obama's DoD award contract to company tied to North Korea?: Allen West

Climate & Energy

The Drought Goes From Bad To Catastrophic: ZH
Socialists Really Pumped Over September Climate Change Summit: Cove
Global Temperature Update – Still no global warming for 17 years 10 months: WUWT

Media

New Book Claims Hillary Treated Secret Service Like S*** and They Despised Her: RWN
Media Silent as USC Grad Student Beaten to Death by Illegal Alien: RWN
Navy SEAL Warns Jesse Ventura: You Crossed a Sacred Line, You’ll Be Faced With The Consequences: Sooper

Press Conferences, Turnip Trucks: NukingPolitics
Here Are All of ‘Feminist’ Activist Kathy Groob’s RACIST Deleted Tweets Against Asians: Sooper
Barack Ebola: Death to America: Donald Joy

It’s That Time Of Year Again: President Selfie Is Celebrating Another Big Birthday: Nice Deb
Krauthammer: World’s Anti-Semitic Reaction to Gaza 'Orwellian': Breitbart
Ex-'60 Minutes' Producer Is No Hollywood Hero: Megan McArdle

World

Fear and trembling: Western media and Hamas: Commentator
Chinese Hackers Target Israel’s Iron Dome: Diplomat
Qatar, and other American "allies", are among the villains in Gaza: Gatestone

72-Hour ceasefire in Gaza lasted just 90 minutes: Hot Air
ISIS Opens The World's Biggest Bazaar of Violence: Global Guerillas
Benghazi falls to Islamists. Thank you Barry, for supporting them.: Allen West

Mexico: Cartels Build A Robotic Air Force:
Jon Voight Letter to Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz on Israel: 'Hang Your Heads in Shame' : HollywoodReporter
2013: Female Member of Israeli Parliament Obliterates John Kerry: "whole region to spin out of control": 90 Miles

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Ebola advisory issued by NJ health officials: App
2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Tested: 2.2 Seconds to 60!: Car & Driver
NASA Confirms The Plausibility of Reactionless Drives??!!: Ace

Cornucopia

Lady M’s Summer 2014 Frocky Horror Picture Show: Part 1: MOTUS
Marvel's Mega-McGuffin Metaplot: Ace
Message to the world. I just want you to know... the truth!: Norman Hooben

Image: Devout Muslim Women Call on Islamic State for More Slaughter: ISIS Answers the Call
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QOTD: "The Border Patrol is increasingly posting signs written in Chinese near the U.S./Mexico border, which underscores the booming human smuggling trade as illegal aliens from China flood into America.

Case in point, the emergency beacons placed in desolate border regions which allow stranded illegals to request help from the Border Patrol have instructions in English, Spanish and Chinese, but back in 2001 when they were first deployed, the instructions were written only in English and Spanish.

Since then, human smuggling has exploded into a billion dollar institution, with people of various nationalities paying smugglers, known as coyotes, thousands of dollars to be transported illegally into the United States.

“The Chinese are paying $50,000, the Indians are paying $10,000 to $20,000, [for] all the Central Americans the average is about $7,000 and the Mexicans are, especially [from] southern Mexico, are paying $3,000, so it’s a huge, huge money event for the cartels, probably even more lucrative than the drug business..." --Kit Daniels

Saturday, August 02, 2014

Just hours before 9/11, Bill Clinton admitted he had Bin Laden in the cross-hairs, but refused to act

There's a a good reason the Democrat Party has always been referred to as The Party of Weakness™. Its track record of foreign policy failures -- from Carter to Clinton to Obama -- has been perfect. Oh-for-three.

Remember how the leftists always used to blame 9/11 on Bush, despite 8 years of Islamist attacks on U.S. interests that were treated as crimes -- not acts of war -- by B.J. Clinton?

If memory serves, the Democrat fairy tale involved Bush getting a Presidential Daily Briefing in August of 2001. Here's the complete sentence from the PDB, one of 800 warnings that month.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an [redacted] service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's access to the US to mount a terrorist strike.

Gee, that seems specific. Damn that Bush, always missing obvious leads like that.

Well, it turns out that B.J. had multiple chances to kill Bin Laden and shrank away from his responsibilities due to political concerns. And just hours before 9/11, he actually admitted it, in one of his hundreds of $150,000 speeches, many to foreign entities.

Nothing to see here, just move along, kids.

A recording has turned up in Australia in which former President Bill Clinton explains why he didn’t kill Osama bin Laden, just hours before the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. He made the comment reportedly during a Sept. 10 meeting with business leaders in Australia, ABC news reports:

“And I’m just saying, you know, if I were Osama bin Laden … He’s a very smart guy. I spent a lot of time thinking about him. And I nearly got him once,” Clinton said in the audio.

“I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have had to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him.

“And so I didn’t do it.”

Clinton had multiple chances, it turns out, to kill or capture Bin Laden (and that's according to 60 Minutes).

But for Democrats, political expediency -- not the interests of the American people -- always come first.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: No Global Warming For Nearly 18 Years

I wonder what the global warming   climate change   climate disruption grifters will have to say about this?

Remarkably, the El Niño warming of this year has not yet shortened the Great Pause, which, like last month, stands at 17 years 10 months with no global warming at all.

Taking the least-squares linear-regression trend on Remote Sensing Systems’ satellite-based monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature dataset, there has been no global warming – none at all – for 214 months. This is the longest continuous period without any warming in the global instrumental temperature record since the satellites first watched in 1979. It has endured for about half the satellite temperature record. Yet the Great Pause coincides with a continuing, rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration.


..Yet the length of the Great Pause in global warming, significant though it now is, is of less importance than the ever-growing discrepancy between the temperature trends predicted by models and the far less exciting real-world temperature change that has been observed...

...The Great Pause is a growing embarrassment to those who had told us with “substantial confidence” that the science was settled and the debate over. Nature had other ideas. Though more than two dozen more or less implausible excuses for the Pause are appearing in nervous reviewed journals, the possibility that the Pause is occurring because the computer models are simply wrong about the sensitivity of temperature to manmade greenhouse gases can no longer be dismissed...

...[Any r]ecent extreme weather cannot be blamed on global warming, because there has not been any global warming. It is as simple as that.

Mic drop. Walk off stage.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

ONE PHOTO SAYS IT ALL: The Satanic Evil That is Hamas

A level of barbarism unseen since the Nazis (which, by the way, are the direct ancestors of Hamas).

As Joshua Riddle observes, "These atrocities should be front page news, but of course, they aren’t. Israeli ambassador put CNN on blast with their biased coverage. Definitely worth a watch."

Gee, I wonder what CAIR has to say about this?

Oh, and just a reminder: 61 percent of Democrats side with Hamas or are ambivalent to the Nazi-aligned group.


RAT: Did Marxist-Racialist Luis Gutierrez Turn Federal Informant After Getting Caught Lying About his Rezko Dealings?

A timely reminder from Newsalert regarding the self-proclaimed "Hispanic Martin Luther King", Luis Gutierrez (D-IL):

Convicted political fixer Tony Rezko gave U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez free upgrades on a riverfront town house after the congressman asked for them, Gutierrez told the FBI, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

Gutierrez's comments to federal agents in a previously undisclosed 2008 interview contradict what the congressman told the Sun-Times in 2006 about the purchase.

"I walked in with my wife — as any other consumer could have — and purchased the unit at the listed price, with no considerations," the Northwest Side congressman said then, asserting that he never discussed the deal with Rezko, buying the home through a salesperson at Rezko's company, Rezmar Corp.

He told a different story when questioned by federal agents two years later about the town home he bought in River Walk, a Rezko development along the Chicago River north of Diversey, the Sun-Times has learned.

Gutierrez told them he and his wife had had dinner with Rezko and his wife, sources said, and that he told him that the price of the town home had gone up $35,000 in two weeks — from $399,000 when they first visited a model home to $434,900.

Considering that the price had risen, Gutierrez told Rezko he thought he should get some upgrades, sources said.

The upgrades eventually included an additional bathroom and higher-quality carpeting, the Sun-Times has learned...

Don't bother looking for the original story on the Sun-Times website. It's been tossed down the memory-hole, entirely by accident, I'm sure. It doesn't even appear in the archives.

As Newsalert wonders, "Did Luis become a federal informant to stay out of jail so he could inform on crime he's involved in?"

Did Gutierrez become a rat -- you know, a snitch, a snake, a punk, a narc, a fink, a stool pigeon -- to avoid federal charges?

We know he's an anti-American, Marxist, racialist rabble-rouser, so my wager would be on "yes".


Hat tip: Lee Cary

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Shocking images show corpses of illegal immigrants left to die: Daily Mail
Feds Fly Unaccompanied Minors to Alaska: Breitbart
IRS, Atheist Group Work Together To Silence Speech from Church Pulpit: GWP

Obama military downsizing leaves U.S. too weak to counter global threats: Times
Nancy Pelosi Goes Nuts on House Floor: Scoop
Clinton Corruption Bombshells: JW

The Next Front in the Battle over Obamacare: RWN
John Boehner: Scammer of the House: CFP
U.S. aid workers with Ebola headed to Ga. hospital: USA Today

Chris Christie Refuses To Talk About Cuomo’s Moreland Problem: MenRec
Obama Executive Order: Detain Americans With "Respiratory Illnesses": DCC
CDC designates El Paso as quarantine site, including for Ebola: KVIA

Economy

Don’t Buy This Dip: The Fed Is Not Your Friend: David Stockman
Russia, India Negotiate to Bypass Dollar: ZH
UK: HSBC Shuts Down Islamist Bank Accounts: Gatestone

Scandal Central

Lois Lerner’s Vendetta: FPM
Mexican Drug Trafficker Assaults Border Patrol, Charges Dismissed: Breitbart
U.S. attorney general to Gov. Rick Scott: We're watching you: Tampa Bay

Climate & Energy

Real, Live Endarkenment – Redux: WRSA
How the Obama Administration Has Actually Broken the Law Hundreds of Times: Blaze
“Climate Change” Means Hot And Cold Snaps!: Cove

Media

Obama's 15 Worst Excuses For His Failed Presidency: John Hawkins
Jackie Mason Goes Off on Anti-Israel Celebrities: Hollywood Reporter
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Why Democrats Are Ditching the 'War on Women': NatlJrnl

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Hamas Issues All Of Its Followers Terrorism 101 Training Manual: WZ
Levin: Why aren’t there calls for ‘cease-fires’ in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, or Ukraine?: Scoop
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Obama And The US Army Open The Door To The UN: NoisyRm
Canada: Muslims scream “Heil Hitler” at Jews while police stand idly by: JihadWatch
UK: Families barred from cinema for not being Muslim: JihadWatch

Quarantine: Here’s Where They’ll Send Those Suspected of Ebola or “Respiratory Illnesses”: SHTFplan
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QOTD: "Two federal judges have made it clear IRS stonewalling on the issue is no longer acceptable. On July 10, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan gave the agency 30 days to submit a written explanation—under oath—explaining how it lost the emails. The ruling was a response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. A day later, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton demanded to know what became of Lerner’s hard drive. If it was destroyed, he wants a sworn affidavit to that effect. He also wants information about the IG’s investigation. Walton’s ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by True the Vote, who is also asking the judge to appoint an independent expert to investigate the lost emails. True the Vote’s lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, explained why. “We don’t trust the IRS,” she told Walton.

Judicial Watch’s Jay Sekulow is calling for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor based on emails between Lerner and the DOJ regarding the targeting of conservative groups, as well as the reality that the DOJ investigation (such as it is) is being conducted by Barbara Bosserman. Bosserman is an attorney from the DOJ’s Civil Right division, not the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division that handles public corruption. She has also been a campaign contributor to President Obama and the Democratic Party, presenting what Sekulow, as well as members of the Committee, consider a blatant “conflict of interest.” “There could be no more clear example of the need to appoint a truly objective and independent prosecutor than in this case,” Sekulow contends." --Arnold Ahlert

Friday, August 01, 2014

Invasion by Design

By Investor's Business Daily

Border Crisis: A new report shows the vast majority of unaccompanied minors aren't unaccompanied at all, have family members inside the U.S., are not victims of human trafficking and thus can be deported immediately.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois and other Democrats have repeatedly made the argument that Republicans shouldn't complain about the current border invasion since it was a 2008 law that automatically entitles minors from noncontiguous countries to asylum hearings before they face deportation.

Gutierrez and his liberal colleagues in Congress and the media should read the law to find out what's in it.

As the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) points out in a recent report, under the definition of what constitutes an unaccompanied child (UAC) in the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, most children from countries other than Canada or Mexico do not qualify to stay here while they await a hearing.

According to CIS, the law says that to receive the UAC designation the illegal alien must be under 18 and without "a parent or legal guardian in the United States." Yet, CIS notes, about 90% of the non-Mexican and non-Canadian children pouring across the border are placed with family members or guardians in America.

"An illegal immigrant who arrives at the U.S. border who is not a victim of trafficking and has family inside the United States should not be benefiting from protections in the 2008 trafficking law," said Jon Feere, legal policy analyst at CIS.

Indeed, there's no need to amend this law to deal with the current crisis. The problem could end by strictly enforcing the letter of the 2008 law.

Human trafficking involves the transport of children against their will for illicit purposes and without the consent of their parents. The law was designed to prevent the sexual exploitation of children.

CIS notes that smuggling is not trafficking. It is not human trafficking when the families pay fees to smugglers who bring the children into the U.S.

"The Obama administration appears to be hiding behind the 2008 law and acting like it requires them to allow the current wave of illegal immigration to continue," according to the CIS report.

21 Ways To End The Phrase ‘Americans Are So Broke…’

By Michael Snyder

Did you know that 77 million Americans have unpaid debts that are "in collections" and that Congress is actually thinking about letting post offices offer payday loans? We live in a country where almost everyone is drowning in debt and where most people are either flat broke or very close to flat broke. Years ago, "your Mama is so broke" jokes were all the rage, and at the rate we are going they could make a big comeback. Some of my favorites were "your Mama is so broke she went to McDonald's and put a milkshake on layaway" and "your Mama is so broke your family ate cereal with a fork to save milk".

Unfortunately, the facts that I am about to share with you are not funny at all. In fact, they are quite sobering. Yes, things are going fairly well for the elitists that live in the good areas of New York City, Washington D.C. and San Francisco right now, but most of the country is deeply struggling as our economic fundamentals continue to crumble. Please share these numbers with as many people as you can, because we need people to understand that there has not been an "economic recovery" for most of America. In fact, in many ways things just continue to get even worse. The following are 21 ways to end the phrase "Americans are so broke"...

1. Americans are so broke that about a third of them have debt collectors on their heels. One recent study discovered that more than one out of every three adults in the United States has an unpaid debt that is "in collections". That is a total of 77 million people. In other words, the debt collection business in America is absolutely booming.

2. Americans are so broke that Congress is now actually considering allowing post offices to provide payday loans and check cashing services.

3. Americans are so broke that they are keeping their vehicles longer than ever. The average age of vehicles on America’s roads recently set a new all-time high of 11.4 years.