Monday, August 18, 2014

WHERE THE HELL IS CHRIS CHRISTIE? Single Black Mom Faces Unconstitutional Gun Prosecution in New Jersey

By Investor's Business Daily

Second Amendment: An African-American single mom on her way to a birthday party for one of her kids faces 10 years in prison for straying into the Garden State carrying a firearm in her purse licensed in Pennsylvania.

Shaneen Allen is less well-known than Michael Brown, the man shot by police in Ferguson, Mo., and it's doubtful Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton will pay her a visit anytime soon. They're busy elsewhere. A mother exercising her Second Amendment right not only to keep but to bear arms to protect her family is of little interest to them.

Allen is a resident of Pennsylvania and has a Pennsylvania right to her permit. In October 2013, she was pulled over by New Jersey state troopers for an "unsafe lane change."

When one trooper approached and asked for her identification, she remembered she had left her newly acquired firearm in her purse, which can happen to a single mom who works more than one job and leaves her home at odd times of the day.

She had obtained the firearm after two robberies raised her concern for her and her family's safety.

She was arrested and charged with illegal possession of a firearm because she didn't realize that New Jersey is one of 20 states that does not recognize Pennsylvania's permit. Ignorance of this law is apparently no excuse for New Jersey authorities failing to see that here was someone who obtained a firearm to prevent crime and not to commit one.

"I got pulled over by the police," Allen told Fox News' Martha MacCallum last week.

"I really didn't even think about, you know, the firearm being in my purse at the time until he asked for my credentials. When I went in my purse, before I went to get my credentials, I saw my firearm laying there. So, I let them know, you know, I had my license to carry on me, and I had my firearm in my purse.

"As I let them know that, you know, that's when they started to, you know, lock me up and told me to step out of the vehicle and put cuffs on me."

Prosecutor Jim McClain, under New Jersey law, could have essentially given Allen a warning and a pass, treating it merely as a misdemeanor and sending her to municipal court or letting her enroll in one of the diversionary programs that New Jersey has established for peaceful first-time offenders.

Yet he chose not to, and the unanswered question is: Why not?

SOMEONE STAGE AN INTERVENTION: I'm Addicted to the #CanAnyoneConfirm Meme Started by Pro Journalist @RyanJReilly

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Larwyn's Linx: Ferguson is Not Binary

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Nation

Ferguson is Not Binary: Erick Erickson
Eye Witness: “Brown Doubled Back Toward Police”…: Treehouse
Oh, the Things We Choose Not to See!: Claire Wolfe

Police, Looters Exchange Tear-gas, Rubber Bullets, Molotov Cocktails: ZH
Officer Down, Shots Fired In Ferguson, Molotovs Thrown At Police: ProgsToday
America's Chickens Come Home to Roost: Obiter Dictum

Democrat star Castro unsure if violent gang members should be deported: Exam
The Hill more or less publishes its ‘Democratic candidates 2016′ list: Moe Lane
De Blasio's Policies Already Taking Effect: TAB

Barack Obama’s Zero Sum World: Star Parker
Brown Autopsy: Contrary to Eyewitnesses, All Shots From the Front!: Sooper
Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson earned police honor before shooting: Jason Sickles

Economy

HHS Obamacare Agreement Also Full of 'Typos': Breitbart
The Market-Distorting Effects of Current Affirmative Action Policies: Leon Wolf
In a stew over inversions: George Will

Scandal Central

High-Flying Landrieu Orders 'Review' of Her Taxpayer-Funded Chartered Flights: Breitbart
'Dead Broke' Hillary Demands Presidential Suite, $39 Million Jetstream to Give Speech: TR
Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg’s Drinking Problem and Abuse of Power: Tatler

As Military Daughter Buries Her 2-Star General Dad, Obama is Nowhere to be Found: IJR
Distraught Mother Abandoned by Obama: Sara Noble
Rick Perry Becomes a Victim of Lawfare: Leon Wolf

Media

Media Shows Home Of Ferguson Cop Who Shot Mike Brown: Clash
DEEEEE-LICIOUS: Al Gore Says He Got Stiffed By Al-Jazeera On The Current TV Deal: HayRide
This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous: Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait Is Correct: “This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous”: Patterico
Sounds familiar: Press treats Perry’s indictment as a political scandal: Noah Rothman
'Thanks Michelle!': Disgusted teens across U.S. pose alongside new healthy vending machines: DailyMail

NYTimes Reporter: Obama ‘Greatest Enemy To Press Freedom In A Generation’: DC
Lawsplainer: How Mike Brown's Alleged Robbery Of A Liquor Store Matters, And How It Doesn't: Ken White
The knockout game seems to be alive and well: Hot Air

World

Islamic State jihadis kidnap more than 3,000 women and girls in 2 week rampage: Robert Spencer
Islamic State beheads hundreds of members of Syrian tribe: Post
ISIS brutally subdues rebellion in Syria, beheading and crucifying tribesmen who resisted their rule: NatlPost

Yazidi Woman Held Hostage By ISIS Pleads With U.S. To Bomb Prison With Her Inside: WZ
Obama Golfs As Three Girls Raped by ISIS Jump Off Mt. Singhal: Sara Noble
Philosophy and chemistry banned in schools by ISIS: Al Arabiya

Victor Davis Hanson On The State Of The World Under Obama's Foreign Policy: Hugh Hewitt
Robin Williams’ ‘Aladdin’ quote inspires Syrian rebels: Post
Unreal: UK Supermarket Pulls Kosher Items From Shelves Fearing Attacks By Anti-Israel Protesters: WZ

The President's True Colors Finally Revealed: Steven Emerson
IS Recruiter: “We Are Living In A Joy That I Can’t Describe”: Tammy Bruce
Lashes for Saudi woman who called morality police liars: newspaper: Reuters

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google Maps Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There’s A Website To Prove It: Elizabeth Flux
A Sky Full of Cameras: Tomas van Houtryve
Infected items looted in quarantine centre raid, Ebola patients flee: TVNZ

Cornucopia

This, This is Awesome: It's Madden Season: Ace
D.C. Whispers: Valerie Jarrett: “They Think We’re Done? Not Quite. Not Yet. Not Even Close.”: Ulsterman
Travis County (Austin TX) Grand Jury Indicts Rick Perry: AmDigest

Image: Islamist militants tweet gruesome images of dead American soldiers and vow to blow up embassies
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QOTD: "The president and the attorney general both spoke nobly about the First Amendment after two reporters were arrested in Ferguson, Mo., while covering the racial protests in the wake of Michael Brown’s death.

Obama said that “here, in the United States of America, police should not be bullying or arresting journalists who are just trying to do their jobs and report to the American people on what they see on the ground.”

Holder seconded the sentiment, saying that “journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.”

So why don’t they back off [New York Times reporter James] Risen? It’s hard to fathom how the president who started with the press fluffing his pillows has ended up trying to suffocate the press with those pillows.

How can he use the Espionage Act to throw reporters and whistle-blowers in jail even as he defends the intelligence operatives who “tortured some folks,” and coddles his C.I.A. chief, John Brennan, who spied on the Senate and then lied to the senators he spied on about it?

“It’s hypocritical,” Risen said. “A lot of people still think this is some kind of game or signal or spin. They don’t want to believe that Obama wants to crack down on the press and whistle-blowers. But he does. He’s the greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation.”" --Maureen Dowd

Sunday, August 17, 2014

ROSEMARY LEHMBERG COMIX: Heroic D.A. stars in "The New Math"

Travis County, Texas District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg stars in our summer intern @BiffSpackle's latest work:


Contributor Beth over at Change.org describes just how out of control this drunken maniac really was.

Resident Mark Weston called deputies at about 10:45 p.m. after seeing a 2001 Lexus swerving in and out of a bike lane for about one mile on the southbound side of FM 620 near RM 2222... As Lehmberg’s driving became more erratic, Weston grew concerned and called 911.

He told deputies he observed the Lexus drive into oncoming traffic while approaching Comanche Trail. The Lexus then pulled to the side of the road in front of St. Luke’s Church near the 5600 block of FM 620.

Deputies arrived and discovered the suspect—Lehmberg—in possession of an open container of vodka in the passenger seat...

...Lehmberg was transported to the Traivs County Jail for booking. At the booking station, Lehmberg was highly combative, attempting to kick and spit at officers, screaming curse words as well as yelling “Call Greg!”, likely a reference to Sheriff Greg Hamilton. She was placed in an isolation room but continued to be physically belligerent. She was removed from the isolation room and strapped to a restraint chair. A spit restraint was fastened to Lehmberg’s face. She was then placed back in the isolation room. She was so belligerent that the magistrate judge refused to magistrate her until she calmed down...

...Lehmberg's blood alcohol content was reportedly 0.23 -- nearly three times the legal limit of 0.08, which automatically upgrades the charge from a Class B misdemeanor, to a Class A misdemeanor (since the BAC was over .15)...

Lehmberg, of course, did not step down and instead may have inspired a politically motivated attack against Gov. Rick Perry for demanding that she step down from her post.


AROUND THE WORLD IN PHOTOS: Misunderstanderers of Islam March in Support of Genocidal ISIS Maniacs

That "pull out of Iraq in a hurry" strategy ain't lookin' so good.



10 Things You'd Have to Offer Hillary Clinton In Order to Have Her Speak at Your Event

Using Nevada's state public records law. Laura Myers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reveals the contractual requirements for hosting a Hillary Clinton speech. Here are 10 things you'd have to offer Hillary in order to prepay for White House influence have her speak.

10 A speaking fee of between $225,000 and $300,000, depending upon the situation.

9 Round-trip transportation on a chartered private jet “e.g., a Gulfstream 450 or larger jet,” plus round-trip business class travel for two advance staffers who will arrive up to three days in advance.

8 Hotel accommodations selected by Clinton’s staff and including “a presidential suite for Secretary Clinton and up to three (3) adjoining or contiguous single rooms for her travel aides and up to two (2) additional single rooms for the advance staff.”

7 A TelePrompter.

6 A stenographer.

5 Meals and incidentals for Clinton, her travel aides and advance staff, as well as all phone charges.

4 A $500 travel stipend to cover out-of-pocket costs for Clinton’s lead travel aide.

3 Final approval of all moderators or introducers.

2 Agreement that Hillary will be "the only person on the stage during her remarks"... and "Clinton will remain at the event no longer than 90 minutes; will pose for no more than 50 photos with no more than 100 people; and won’t allow any press coverage or video- or audio-taping of her speech."

1 A bowl of M&M's with all of the red candy removed.

Okay, I made that last one up.

Why would any organization pay a Clinton $250,000 or $300,000 for a speech?

The answer should be obvious.


HUFFPUTZ: HuffPo "Journalist" Ryan J. Reilly Misidentifies Rubber Bullets on Twitter, Hilarity Ensues

It's the layers and layers of fact-checking that distinguish the radical left progressive media from the rest of us, don't ya know, Exhibit Infinity:


Which prompted the following, well-deserved mockery of yet another outed HuffPutz:

Larwyn's Linx: Convicted Drunk Driving District Attorney Abuses Power to Get Revenge on Rick Perry

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Nation

Drunk District Attorney Abuses Power to Get Revenge on Rick Perry: Liberal Logic
Rick Perry indictment looks, walks and quacks like political power play: LI
Rick Perry Punches Back Against Politically Motivated Indictment: RS

Photos- Ferguson Erupts Again As Looters Crash Stores: RightPundit
Hillary didn’t ‘hug it out’ with Obama, plots more attacks: Edward Klein
Who is Hillary Talking To?: RWN

Obama Forces US Border Patrol to ‘Let As Many People Go As Possible’: RWN
Brain Hurt – No Make Thinky: WRSA
Washington DC Votes to Continue Militarization of American Police: AmmoLand

Why The Republican Party Is Not Serious: Madison
TRUE EVIL: Never Again — Until the Next Time: Clash
Two Games For Ray Rice. 42 Months For Gun Owning Mother Of Two: DC

Economy

Noted: Six Flags Turns Away Marine And Family: Extrano's Alley
Mich. district to boost programs for immigrant students: USA Today
NYC is headed in a dangerous direction under De Blasio: RWN

Scandal Central

Obama Admin Told Ferguson Police NOT to Release Robbery Video: Sooper
Report: Giffords, Kelly's Gun Control Group Now Pushing Temporary Gun Confiscation: Breitbart
Judge Demands Answers After IRS Contradicts Sworn Testimony on Lerner’s Hard Drive: DC

Climate & Energy

While Vets Died, VA Wasted $400 Million on Green Energy: Daniel Greenfield
Mann v Steyn: If This Trial Ever Goes Ahead Global Warming Is Toast: Breitbart
The martyrdom of Mark Steyn: James Delingpole

Media

Burn, Ferguson, Burn: Fred on Everything
Mike Brown Soundcloud account: FreePatriot
The Presidency is Breaking Obama Even As Obama Has Broken the Nation: Peter Wehner

Gov. Bobby Jindal Joins Ted Cruz In Supporting Rick Perry, Calls Action A “Political Witch-Hunt”: WZ
Who's responsible for these anti-Semitic attacks? Give me one guess...: Rod Liddle
Hey Man, You Can’t Just Throw Things on the Fire and Walk Away!: MOTUS

World

Obama declares victory over ISIS; ISIS promptly enslaves 100 Yazidi women and executes 80 men: Scoop
Canada to deliver weapons to Kurdish forces in Iraq trying to fend off ISIS: SunNews
D.C. Whispers: Obama Waves Off Intel Briefing : Ulterman

Smuggled letter from forced tunnel digger in Gaza: Matzav
Obama’s CIA Director said in 2011 ‘Caliphate is NEVER going to happen’: Scoop
Six (only six?) examples Obama is purposefully enabling the Islamist cause: Allen West

The Federal Government Bought A Border Fence…For A Country Nearly 6,000 Miles Away: IJR
Mexico protests Texas National Guard troops on US border: Yahoo!
Tesco store trashed by pro-terror Hamas protesters: Pamela Geller

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

(Photos) Burial site of the world's first nuclear reactor: Marathon
Scientists Discover How to Create Matter from Pure Light: Catherine Griffin
Hillary Clinton's Phone Hacked by German intelligence Agency: Wang Wei

Cornucopia

Flipflopper: Hopenchange
USS Iwo Jima, '40,000 tons of American fighting steel,' heads Mayport's way: Stripes
Detroit area dealers struggle with submerged autos, trapped customers: AutomotiveNews

Image: President Obama gets technical with his golf game
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QOTD: "..Just pretend for a moment that of, say, 200 anti-Semitic attacks in the UK, a study discovered that 198 of them had been committed by Methodists. That the one thing which 99 per cent of violent UK anti-Semites had in common was membership of the Methodist church. Do you think that such a fact would not be mentioned in news reports of such incidents, or in comment pieces by juveniles warning us how horrible anti-Semitism really is? I think the journos would be falling over themselves to nail the Methodists, and to delve and investigate the roots of this sectarian hatred. I think this fact would be considered salient and significant, germane to the issue at hand. But not with Muslims. Instead, [Guardian's] Owen [Jones] and the rest will first try to disguise the fact that it is Muslims making these attacks and then secondly, when it becomes patently obvious that it is Muslims, will try to insist that this fact is irrelevant and perhaps simply an unfortunate coincidence. And that anyway, because not all Muslims are anti-Semites, the fact is not worth reporting.

But of course it would not be considered irrelevant and a coincidence if it were any other minority group on earth, would it? And of course it isn’t irrelevant, or a coincidence; there is a strain of anti-Semitism running through Islam, and a mistrust or even loathing of Jews is firmly rooted within both our Muslim communities and in Muslim countries from Turkey to the Indonesian archipelago. This does not mean for a moment that all Muslims are anti-Semites, and nor of course should that conclusion be drawn. But Islamic anti-Semitism is surely a fact — and recognised as such by plenty of the more, um, enlightened Muslim writers, such as Mehdi Hasan. Here’s what he had to say on the issue: ‘It pains me to have to admit this but anti-Semitism isn’t just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it’s routine and commonplace. Any Muslims reading this article — if they are honest with themselves — will know instantly what I am referring to. It’s our dirty little secret. You could call it the banality of Muslim anti-Semitism.’" --Rod Liddle

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Climate Kook Michael Mann vs. Mark Steyn: "If This Trial Ever Goes Ahead, Global Warming Is Toast"

A while back, the flabby propagandist and "climate scientist" Michael Mann sued columnist Mark Steyn for "defamation". Mann was a no-name scientist who shot to stardom in 1998 with his publication of the "global warming hockey stick" that showed dramatic, catastrophic global warming in the out-years of the 20th century.

Because his work validated the claims of the eco-Marxists, Mann gained instant stardom in the halls of government and academia. He received tenure at Penn State -- perhaps along with Jerry Sandusky (heh) -- received millions in federal funding for "research", and was cited as an "expert" by The New York Times and other left-wing propaganda outlets. Al Gore used the hockey stick in his hysterical film on the impending climate catastrophe. The UN's climate scam panel leveraged it no fewer than five (5) times in its reports and elevated Mann to lead author status.

James Delingpole of London's Spectator introduces the gist of the Mann vs. Steyn lawsuit.

But the hockey stick, on which Mann’s reputation largely rests, was and is a nonsense...


MISSION BAY MAPS: Illustrating How Nancy Pelosi Used $1 Billion to Enrich Herself and Democrat Mega-Donors

Brilliant work by Lachlan Markay at the Washington Free Beacon that highlights the corruption of D.C. and the ruling elites, especially the hypocrites in the Democrat Party. I decided to excerpt some key graphs and illustrate the depths to which the mega-wealthy oligarchs will stoop, gorging on our taxes while the federal government sinks into bankruptcy (my commentary is italicized).

The top Democrat in the House of Representatives steered more than a billion dollars in subsidies to a light rail project that benefitted a company run by a high-dollar Democratic donor and in which her husband is a major investor... When cloud computing giant Salesforce sold a large plot of land to the Golden State Warriors in April, it had House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) to thank for helping to swell real estate prices in the area.

This is the Mission Bay area, some of the highest priced real estate in the world, thanks to Nancy Pelosi's earmarks and payoffs. Note the path of 3rd Street, which cuts north and south in this once-blighted area.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Insect Overlords

Life mimics The Simpsons*:

A spider has photobombed BBC Scotland's news to capture an insect trapped on a camera showing live shots of the River Clyde in Glasgow.


The "webcast" came as Graham Stewart was presenting one of Reporting Scotland's early morning bulletins. The spider then retreated with its prey.

*Simpsons anchorman Kent Brockman sold out the entire human race on one of his newscasts after seeing an ant crawl across a camera in the space shuttle and then assuming it heralded an invasion by giant ants bent on world domination.

Fearing for his life, he announces his willingness to submit to the imagined invaders.


“One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.”


Larwyn's Linx: The Collapse of the Liberal World Order

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Nation

The Collapse of the Liberal World Order: Jeffrey Lord
Blame Obama, Not Bush, for Today's Bloodbath in Iraq: Timothy H. Lee
Photos: Suspect Michael Brown Robs Store Before Shooting: GWP

The Vacation Wars: Daniel Greenfield
15 Things I Hate About Politics: John Hawkins
Americans to Obama: Enforcement Not Amnesty: Joe Guzzardi

What A Sham: Charleston Thug Life
Teen in Ferguson Shooting Was Robbery Suspect: LawOfficer
Ride on, Ride on, Ride on! Be careful though...: MOTUS

Intolerance Behind Elizabeth Warren’s 11 Commandments of Progressivism: Mises
The Most Interesting Candidate in the World: WFB
Whose voice is on that anti-Charlie Crist robo call? It's Charlie Crist's: TampaBay

Economy

Owners: Liberty's Torch
20 Facts That Show How NAFTA Is Destroying The Economy: Michael Snyder
Does George Soros know something we don’t about the S&P 500?: MarketWatch

Scandal Central

Pelosi Subsidies Benefit Husband and Dem Mega-Donor: WFB
Obama Official Ordered Deletion of Emails with White House on Healthcare.gov: Lid
Obama Isn’t Having Much Fun On His Latest Vacation, You Guys: DC

Media

Lose the Camouflage, Please: Jack Dunphy
Meathead Still an Idiot: Rob Reiner Likens Tea Party to Hamas: Liberal Logic 101
Covering Almost as Much Ground as Isis: Mark Steyn

Corrupt Media Knew About Michael Brown Video: TLT
Washington Post Columnist Practices 'Political Bigotry' Against The Tea Party: Lid
Rick Perry Indicted For Vetoing Tax Dollars For Dangerous Drugged And Drunk Driving DA.: Rhymes

World

Obama Regime Is Training and Equipping Taliban to Take Over Afghanistan: MB
Obama and Osama Share the Same Goal in the Middle East: Garth Kant
Seven People Attend Code Pink Protest Against Obama Airstrikes in Iraq: Glob

Dozens of Yezidi Villagers Killed As Deadline to Convert to Islam Expires: BCF
Boko Haram Kidnaps Dozens Of Boys From Nigeria In Latest Raid: Hello Beautiful
US Jewish leaders' deafening silence: Hayom

Guess who was missing at funeral of highest ranking officer killed in combat since Vietnam War: LI
About That "N": CAMERA
An interview with a would-be Western jihadi: Hot Air

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

You Are Not Nearly Scared Enough About Ebola: Laurie Garrett
Huge asteroid that 'could end human life' defying gravity as it moves towards Earth, scientists say: Lizzie Dearden
Snowden: NSA Developing Cyber-Defense System Called MonsterMind: RedOrbit

Cornucopia

Pick One: Grand Poobah
Top Five True Medical Facts About a 0.238 Blood Alcohol Content: Ace
First-grade teacher retiring after 41 years gets send-off for the ages: Rare

Image: Michael Brown was a criminal>
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QOTD: "...Ferguson is a reminder for both sides of the aisle: This is what Big Government looks like.

A state dedicated to ever-expanding rules requires ever-increasing enforcement. For years we’re seen SWAT-style raids over organic farming, zoning violations and minor drug infractions. We meekly accept “free-speech zones” on college campuses and at political conventions, in which dissent is corralled into cages and supervised by armed guards.

For those on the Left, who do you think ultimately enforces the mountains of rules you mandate? For those on the Right, can you not envision a Ferguson-style show of force at some future Tea Party protest?

In America, the citizens are supposed to be the masters and the government (elected or appointed) are the servants. That isn’t the case in Ferguson and it needs to be." --Jon Gabriel

Friday, August 15, 2014

SOMEONE PINCH ME: I can support Democrat Hank Johnson 100 percent on his latest bill

Under President Obama -- who famously claimed (twice) that America needed a "civilian national security force just as powerful as the military" -- law enforcement agencies around the country have become the paramilitary wings of local governments.

Nowhere has this fact become more obvious than in Ferguson, Missouri in the aftermath of the shooting of a young black man.


Now, Democrat Hank Johnson is calling for a demilitarization of law enforcement.

A Democratic congressman plans to introduce a bill to restrict a Defense Department program that provides machine guns and other surplus military equipment for free to local law enforcement agencies across the country.

Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson said Thursday that the death of an unarmed teenager who was shot by a police officer in a St. Louis suburb highlights the need for the legislation, which has been in the works for months. The bill comes as members of Congress have called for the Justice Department to investigate the shooting of a black teen by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Police in riot gear and military garb have clashed nightly with protesters since Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown and at times have trained weapons on them from armored trucks.


A spokesman for the Defense Logistics Agency, the government's combat logistics support agency, said the Ferguson Police Department has been part of the surplus equipment program. It received two tactical vehicles — both Humvees — as well as a generator and a trailer and may have received other equipment, DLA spokesman Joe Yoswa said.

Johnson said city streets should be a place for businesses and families, "not tanks and M16s." He said a Pentagon program that transfers surplus military equipment to state and local law enforcement has led to police agencies resembling paramilitary forces.

Dear President Obama: American citizens are not ISIS. Save the impressive displays of force for the Islamonazis, okay?


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

5 Quotes That Capture the Spirit of the Day

Selected by our summer intern, Biff Spackle (@BiffSpackle):

Timothy H. Lee:

After inheriting a stabilizing Iraq in the aftermath of a Bush Administration troop surge (which Obama claimed in 2007 couldn't succeed), Obama's decisions have resulted in today's ghoulish genocide and deepening chaos. Per habit, therefore, he now reverts to scapegoating others and pleading that he's little more than a helpless bystander to inconvenient world events. This from a man who in 2011 practically claimed to have fired the shot that felled Osama bin Laden.

David A. Lieb:

The unarmed teenager whose fatal shooting by police ignited days of heated protests in suburban St. Louis was suspected of stealing cigars and pushing a clerk at a nearby convenience store earlier that day, police said Friday... [Michael] Brown and his friend, Dorian Johnson, were suspected of taking a box of cigars from a store in Ferguson that morning. Jackson said Wilson, along with other officers, was called to the area after a 911 call reporting a "strong-arm" robbery just before noon.

Lachlan Markay:

The top Democrat in the House of Representatives [Nancy Pelosi] steered more than a billion dollars in subsidies to a light rail project that benefitted a company run by a high-dollar Democratic donor and in which her husband is a major investor... Pelosi’s tireless advocacy for federal support for San Francisco’s light rail system has come under scrutiny for potentially enriching another liberal billionaire, hedge fund manager Tom Steyer.

Jeffrey Lord:

What are Americans seeing here? What do the rise of ISIS in Iraq, the return of the squeegee men in New York, the murder numbers out of Chicago, the endless stories on health care losses, IRS bureaucrat Lois Lerner — what do all of these events have in common?

This is the fulfillment of the liberal worldview crashing in on itself. A view of utopia — all of it. Every last bit of it. It was never real — it could never be real.

Jim Treacher:

You think you’ve got problems? Put yourself in President Barack Obama’s shoes for a minute: Everybody’s mean to you, bad stuff keeps happening even though none of it is your fault, and you never get to do anything you want to do. It seriously sucks, dude! ... Has any other president in American history ever endured such suffering? That’s a rhetorical question. Of course not.

Hat tip: BadBlue News

Larwyn's Linx: The Republicans Have Decided To Run Against Amnesty

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Nation

The Republicans Have Decided To Run Against Amnesty: S&L
You Had One Job: Ace
America’s selective libertarianism: Jonah Goldberg

Over-Militarized: Erick Erickson
My thoughts on Ferguson, Missouri: Allen West
White Chicago Communists Are Leading Riots In Missouri: ProgsToday

Took Obama Only 7 Minutes To Get On Golf Course After Remarks: WZ
Photo of Obama dancing as riot raged scrubbed from Internet: BPR
Protesters Shut Down Times Square, Demand Justice for Michael Brown: AmPower

Meet the Cops Who Gave Their Lives: Michelle Malkin
Let's (Properly) Rewrite A News Story: Karl Denninger
ICE: Cartels Now Using Grenades At The Border: WZ

Economy

Spare the Job, Wreck the Child: Gavin McInnes
Riots, Welfare, Racism: Obama’s Legacy of Hopelessness?: Clash
Gun Sales Skyrocket in St. Louis in Wake of Riots: AmmoLand

Scandal Central

Ferguson Is Big Government: Jon Gabriel
Postal Service Apologizes for Denying Mail Deliveries to Israel: Adam Kredo
Free societies require more of police than turning tough situations into militarized zones: Mary Katherine Ham

Climate & Energy

Out-of-control, rogue EPA blames Texas for Illinois air pollution: Events

Media

Today's Front-Page Wall Street Journal Story Lies About Israel: Lid
Hugh Hewitt Won’t Let Soledad O’Brien Off The Hook For Getting Paid by Islamist-Supporting Country: Sooper
Late Night Comic Shows He’s No Longer Afraid of Obama with Devastatingly Funny Bit: IJR

SNAP: Dr. Keith Ablow Claims Fattie FLOTUS Should Not Be Giving Nutrition Advice: Clash
Over 200 school age kids shot in Chicago so far this year – media silent: FAM
Some ‘Disgusted’ to Learn What President Obama Was Doing While Unrest Raged in Ferguson: Blaze

World

'Most pro-Israel administration ever' blocks missile shipment to Israel: Matzav
Washington said limiting arms transfers to Israel as ties fray: Times of Israel
Mission Accomplished! Obama admin declares Yazidi intervention a success, rescue unneeded: Scoop

The morality of Israel’s killing Palestinian civilians: Bookworm Room
The UNRWA is Hamas: Daniel Greenfield
Palestinian Authority Envoy Calls for Israel's Destruction: IPT

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Gamescom: Shoot Racist Tea Partiers in ‘Battlefield Hardline’: Breitbart
Former Microsoft CEOs Gates, Ballmer Join Billionaires for Civilian Disarmament, Pro-Democide Club: TTAG
Why the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is So Special: MotorTrend

Cornucopia

Photographer Snaps Two Mimes in 1974, Realizes 35 Years Later that One Was Robin Williams: PetaPixel
Dancing Queens: Mama Mia!: MOTUS
Obama Busted: Birth Cert Contains Words/Places That Did Not Exist In 1961!: MinorityReport

Image: DailySignal
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QOTD: "After months of worsening tensions, the US-Israeli diplomatic relationship has reached new lows, with the White House and State Department last month tightening the reins on arms transfers to Israel, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, and blocking the delivery of a batch of Hellfire precision missiles.

It also reported on a “particularly combative phone call on Wednesday” between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and said administration officials consider Netanyahu and his team reckless and untrustworthy, while the Israel leadership considers the administration weak and naive.

The decision to evaluate every request by the Israeli military separately, including halting the transfer of Hellfire missiles, came after the White House and State Department discovered last month that the Pentagon was supplying Jerusalem with arms without their knowledge, the newspaper report said.

While one US diplomat described the American reaction to the arms transfer as a feeling of being “blindsided,” another US defense official stressed the back channel transfers were legitimate and did not require a sign-off from President Barack Obama or the State Department.

“There was no intent to blindside anyone. The process for this transfer was followed precisely along the lines that it should have,” a US defense official told the paper." --Marissa Newman

Thursday, August 14, 2014

F.O.P. SLAMS OBAMA FOR FERGUSON REMARKS: "Discussing Police Tactics From Martha's Vineyard Is Not Helpful"

President Obama took 90 seconds away from golfing, vacationing and dancing* to issue a warning to Ferguson, Missouri police:

The executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police criticized President Obama Thursday for his remarks about law enforcement in Ferguson, Mo.

"I would contend that discussing police tactics from Martha's Vineyard is not helpful to ultimately calming the situation," director Jim Pasco said in an interview with The Hill.


"I think what he has to do as president and as a constitutional lawyer is remember that there is a process in the United States and the process is being followed, for good or for ill, by the police and by the county and by the city and by the prosecutors’ office," Pasco added.

Pasco harkened back to 2009, when Obama criticized a Massachusetts police officer for arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, when he was attempting to break into his own home. Obama said the officer had “acted stupidly.”

"That is one where the president spoke precipitously without all the facts," Pasco said, adding that the current situation "is a much larger and more tragic incident."
Pasco said both police and members of the public are entitled to due process but said he is not convinced police have used excessive force in Ferguson.

"I'm not there, and neither is the president," Pasco said. "That is why we have due process in the United States. And this will all be sorted out over time. But right now, I haven't seen anything from afar — and maybe the president has — that would lead me to believe the police are doing anything except to restore order."

Someone acted stupidly, alright, but it ain't clear it's the po-po.


* Asterisk:

SCANDAL: Clinton Appointee Judge Catherine Blake Rules AR-15s Aren't Protected by Second Amendment

By Investor's Business Daily

Gun Control: A federal judge rules that the AR-15 and similar weapons commonly used in self-defense "fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual arms," and we have no right to keep or bear them.

Nobody looted the gun shop and tattoo parlor that share a storefront in a strip mall less than 10 minutes from Ferguson, Mo., where riots followed the police shooting of Michael Brown.

According to the local Riverfront Times, the owners of County Guns and Tattoo Studio arrived with friends to protect their businesses. One owner carried a rifle and pistol and wore a vest, while the other had his own rifle.

Their defensive use of firearms as rioters burned and looted other stores in the strip mall couldn't have occurred in Maryland. There, AR-15-style weapons are banned, more because of the rifles' "scary" appearance than their lethality. Maryland's Firearm Safety Act of 2013 makes their possession and open carry illegal.

As the Ferguson riots raged, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake, appointed by President Clinton, issued a ruling that upheld the Maryland law, saying, "the court seriously doubts that the banned assault long guns are commonly possessed for lawful purposes . .. and is inclined to find the weapons fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual."

Now the Second Amendment, written in the era of muskets, does not mention what arms we have the right to keep and bear. But we have an idea, based on how they were used: to protect their owners' homes, businesses, farms and families, and to fight the tyranny of the British crown. It's been said that the Second Amendment was put in the Bill of Rights to protect the other nine.

Gun control advocates say, with some snarkiness, that the Second Amendment doesn't allow one to own nuclear weapons or tanks, so it's merely a question of where we draw the line. They would draw the line at the AR-15 and its counterparts — which, despite the judge's claim, are commonly used for legal, defensive purposes.

GOOD NEWS: Chicago Communist Organization Shipping Members to Ferguson to Foment "Revolution"

The News Commenter has the scoop.

There's a lot of buzz on the ground about a communist group that's bussing members into Ferguson from Chicago. The Revolution Club Chicago members provoked the police with Molotov cocktails the night of August 13th while the local protesters peacefully protested. That's when police then responded with gas and flash grenades. Their reported goal is to make the protests go super-violent, spread across the region, and spark a revolution. They are said to visibly stand out from the local protesters in how they respond to police and intimidate reporters when photos and video are taken of them...


Courthouse News Service offers additional detail about the community agitators who seek anarchy and violence.

The protestors have received reinforcements from around the country. On Tuesday, Black Panther members were spotted in the crowd. On Wednesday, members of the Revolution Club of Chicago took turns inciting the protestors with messages through a megaphone.

"This system is totally illegitimate and we are here to stand with the people who are rising up in the face of massive police terror," Revolution Club member Gregory Koger told Courthouse News. "This community is being terrorized by the police. These young men can't even walk down the street without being terrorized by the police."

Revolution Club Chicago, according to its Facebook Page, is a small collective of pro-genocide and pro-Islamonazi rabble-rousers. I'm guessing they're also big fans of Alinsky. Kinda like you-know-who.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

3 Blood-Boiling Examples of Income Inequality

1 This week, President Obama played his 184th round of golf and held his 401st fundraiser, all conducted on the taxpayer's dime.

2 This week, Vice President Joe Biden left for his third vacation this month; it was also recently revealed that the VP -- good old "Lunch bucket Joe" -- flies every week or so to Delaware to get his hair plugs cut. On the taxpayer's dime.

3 Also this week, it was revealed that Attorney General Eric Holder -- who claims that the United States is a "nation of cowards" for its abysmal treatment of non-whites -- flew himself, his daughters, their boyfriends, and his personal security detail to the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, in a U.S. government Gulfstream V. The multi-, multi-millionaire Holder generously reimbursed the U.S. taxpayer a grand total of $955 for the five seats (for you math-challenged progressive nutjobs out there, that's less than $200 a ticket for a flight that cost the taxpayer tens of thousands of dollars).

Liberalism is the philosophy of the Stupid

That's what Mark Levin says... and Mark Levin is right.

The reason I say that liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid is because we can look at what's going around in the country today. If, in your own lives, you were pursuing policies that were destroying your own home ownership, that were destroying your own job, that were creating a massive, impossible debt for your family and your children in particular, you'd stop it. You wouldn't keep doing it!

And yet for the liberal, if it's imposed on you -- and they feel that they can be immune from it -- they're for it.

They wouldn't do to themselves and their own family what they're doing to you, and your family, and the whole nation.

It's just like Peter Schweizer's great book documents: the country club Marxists running the federal government specialize in "Do As I Say (Not As I Do)."



Image: Baltimore Sun.

Around the World in Four Pictures

Via the invaluable Daily Signal:


Hat tips: 90 Miles From Tyranny and BB.