Wednesday, August 20, 2014

As Obama Disarms America, China Unveils Another New, Hypersonic "Carrier Killer" Weapon System

By Investor's Business Daily

National Security: Beijing is moving fast on a maneuverable, hypersonic glide vehicle designed to evade America's defenses, including the Aegis ballistic missile system guarding our carrier battle groups.

On Aug. 7, China conducted a second test of its hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), known as the WU-14, yet another example of its relentless pursuit of high-tech weaponry as the United States abandons what the administration dismisses as Cold War weaponry.

The first test, conducted in January, saw China's HGV reach speeds in the vicinity of Mach 10, about 10 times the speed of sound. In the latest test, according to Internet reports, the WU-14 was the upper stage of a missile launched from the Jiuquan satellite launch facility in China's western Gobi desert.

Strategic experts say that the importance of this weapons program cannot be understated. The Washington Free Beacon quotes Rick Fisher, senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, as saying:

"Accelerated HGV testing could potentially allow China to develop a second-generation antiship ballistic missile (ASBM) warhead that is more maneuverable and more difficult to counter."

As we noted after the January test, development of the WU-14 comes on the heels of China's deployment of a "carrier-killer," the DF-21D, a road-mobile ASBM. This land-based missile is designed to track and target our carrier battle groups in the western Pacific with the help of satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles similar to our drones, as well as over-the-horizon radar.

"GENTLE GIANT" MICHAEL BROWN: Beat Ferguson Police Officer Wilson Within an Inch of His Life, Say Sources

I'm certain these new and impeccably sourced reports will dissuade Eric Holder and Al Sharpton from race-baiting and fomenting violence (that's what we professionals in the blogging business call yer Grade A Sarcasm).

Wilson was coming off another case in the neighborhood on Aug. 9 when he ordered Michael Brown and his friend Dorain Johnson to stop walking in the middle of the road because they were obstructing traffic. However, the confrontation quickly escalated into physical violence, the source said.

“They ignored him and the officer started to get out of the car to tell them to move," the source said. "They shoved him right back in, that’s when Michael Brown leans in and starts beating Officer Wilson in the head and the face."

The source claims that there is "solid proof" that there was a struggle between Brown and Wilson for the policeman’s firearm, resulting in the gun going off – although it still remains unclear at this stage who pulled the trigger. Brown started to walk away according to the account, prompting Wilson to draw his gun and order him to freeze. Brown, the source said, raised his hands in the air, and turned around saying, "What, you're going to shoot me?"

At that point, the source told FoxNews.com, the 6-foot-4, 292-pound Brown charged Wilson, prompting the officer to fire at least six shots at him, including the fatal bullet that penetrated the top of Brown's skull, according to an independent autopsy conducted at the request of Brown's family.

Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket in the fracas, and was left dazed by the initial confrontation, the source said. He is now "traumatized, scared for his life and his family, injured and terrified" that a grand jury, which began hearing evidence on Wednesday, will "make some kind of example out of him," the source said.

If we had a real president, he would speak out for peacable assembly and law and order, no matter the race, creed or religion involved. But MLK, Jr. he ain't.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: The Hell That is the Obama White House

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Nation

The Hell That is the Obama White House: David Horowitz
Listen To The American People: Secure Border, No Amnesty: Michael Johns
Everybody Harry Reid’s ever viciously attacked getting ready for 2016: Moe Lane

Dorian Johnson recants?: Treehouse
Ferguson Feeding Frenzy: Michelle Malkin
ISIS Supporters Reach Out To The Ferguson Mob: Nice Deb

Ferguson in Perspective: Jason Riley Tells Hard Truths: Paul A. Rahe
Grand Jurors Break Law to Explain How Perry Broke Law: Bryan Preston
Pentagon Fires Back At Critics of 'Police Militarization' Program: Russell Berman

Rick Perry Becomes the 2016 GOP Frontrunner: Aaron Gardner
Here Comes the Mob (Again)!: Kathy Shaidle
State fines upstate farm that rebuffed same-sex wedding: Jimmy Vielkind

Economy

Tuition Pays for This: Walter Williams
Semi-Retired President Heads Back To Vacation: WZ
Americans Sick of Government Regulation: Betsy McCaughey

Scandal Central

The Rich Oeuvre of Saint Michael Brown: MB
Officer Darren Wilson Suffered “Orbital Blowout Fracture to Eye Socket” During Mike Brown Attack: GWP
Perry Prosecutor Defended Child Killer, Sex Trafficker, Corrupt Leaders: Brian Sikma

Rick Perry is ‘setting the record straight’ in new ad: RedAlert
GOP selects head of legal team for Benghazi Select Committee: Twitchy
The Republicans who helped Indict Rick Perry: RS

Climate & Energy

Another Species Has Gone Extinct: Erick Erickson
Gary Peters Plays Both Sides of Energy Debate for Dollars: Dan Riehl
If there wasn't an election soon I might be happy about falling gas prices: WyBlog

Media

There’s a Mobius Loop Going On: Ed Driscoll
Progressive Activist Launches Campaign to Vandalize Books: Glob
Probably Not The Mug Shot the Dems Were Hoping For: Ace

Yes, AP Violated Its Style Guide to Refer to Michael Brown, 18, as a ‘Youth’: Ed Driscoll
David Gregory's Liberal Tenure at 'Meet the Press': More Mouthpiece Than Moderator: MRC
What a Getty Photographer Captured Before He Was Arrested in Ferguson: NatlJrnl


MSNBC's Al Sharpton Led His First Anti-Semitic Race-Riot In Crown Heights, 23 Years Ago Today: Lid
‘We will prevail': Gov. Rick Perry turns himself in to authorities amid cheers; Updated: Twitchy
Profiles in Moonbattery: Sylvester Stallone: MB

World

The Meltdown: Bret Stephens
Under What Conditions Can The US Army Engage Citizens: The Army's "Civil Disturbances" Primer: ZH
AFDI Rally for Israel & Persecuted Religious Minorities in the Middle East: Urban Infidel

Why Jordan Doesn't Want More Palestinians: Gatestone
Islamic State Burying Yazidis Alive, Woman Tied To Car And Split In Two: WZ
The Temple Mount and the Tallit: MyRightWord

ISIL Claims to Behead an American Photojournalist: Polly Mosendz
Low-flying helicopters alarm St. Paul residents: Stripes
Government's Response To Snowden? Strip 100,000 of Their Security Clearances: TechDirt

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Record valet shenanigans in your new Corvette? Yes, you can.: Lyndon Johnson, TechTell
German Ebola scare: Nigerian woman faints in jobcentre forcing 600 into quarantine: DailyMail
US won't reveal records on health website security: Jack Gillum

Cornucopia

Vote In The Right Wing News 2016 Presidential Candidate Survey For August of 2014: John Hawkins
Separated at Birth?: MB
Longtime ‘SNL’ announcer Don Pardo dies at 96: Times

Image: AFDI Rally for Israel & Persecuted Religious Minorities in the Middle East
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QOTD: "President Obama went back to his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard Tuesday evening following less than 48 hours in Washington, leaving people puzzled over why he came back in the first place.

Obama’s two days in Washington were mostly quiet, and concluded with the president receiving his daily national security briefing in the morning, and joining Vice President Biden to huddle with members of his economic team in the afternoon.

Administration officials have insisted for weeks that the president just wanted to return to the White House for a series of meetings, but the explanation was met with a healthy dose of skepticism, since Obama rarely interrupts his vacations." --Justin Sink, The Hill

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

UKRAINE'S NEXT CRISIS: Economic, Not Military

By Robert Bensh

Ukraine’s next crisis will be a devastatingly economic one, as violent conflict destroys critical infrastructure in the east and brings key industry to a halt, furthering weakening the energy sector by crippling coal-based electricity production.

The Ukrainian military’s showdown with separatists in the industrial east has forced coal mines to severely cut production or close down entirely. This has led to an electricity crisis that can only be staunched by cutting domestic production along with exports to Europe, Crimea, and Belarus -- or worse, getting more imports from Russia.

In the coal centers of Ukraine’s industrial east—Luhansk and Donetsk—fighting has forced the full closure of an estimated 50 percent of coal mines, while overall coal production has fallen 22 percent over the same period last year.

Key industry sources say they will potentially run out of coal in less than three weeks.

For Ukraine, the second largest producer of coal in Europe, this will have a devastating impact on the energy sector, which is in a state of emergency, unable to get coal to thermal power plants that provide some 40 percent of the entire country’s electricity.

CALLOUS DISREGARD: Obama's Ferguson Remarks Ignore Yet Another Bloody Week in Chicago

By Investor's Business Daily

Malignant Neglect: The president talks about Ferguson, Mo., but not about a Chicago weekend where three dozen people were shot, seven of them killed, including a 16-year-old black girl who wanted to be a doctor.

To his credit, President Obama was more judicious than usual talking about the shooting of Michael Brown outside St. Louis. He did not say the police acted stupidly. He actually made a rare attempt at acknowledging individual responsibility when he said that when young black men "commit a crime, they need to be prosecuted, because every community has an interest in public safety."

One of those communities is Chicago, about whose routine carnage the president has said little of substance, and where last weekend, as the fires of looted stores in Ferguson burned, seven people were shot dead and 29 were wounded. No need to put out the fires of perceived racial animosity or place special focus on the situation when it is young blacks routinely killing other young blacks.

If Sasha and Malia Obama, the president's young daughters, had another sister, she might look like 16-year-old Shaquise Buckner. Chicago police say Shaquise, who was the same age as Malia, appeared to have been the unintended target of a gang-related drive-by shooting early Saturday morning.

Yet Attorney General Eric Holder went to Ferguson, not Chicago. Thirty-six people are shot in Chicago in a single weekend, seven of them fatally, yet the FBI sends 40 agents to Missouri to investigate the shooting death of one young black male.

In his remarks on Ferguson and the difficulties of young black men, Obama spoke of "communities that feel left behind; who, as a consequence of tragic histories, often find themselves isolated, often find themselves without hope, without economic prospects. You have young men of color who are more likely to end up in jail, or the criminal justice system, than they are to end up in a good job or college."

One of those communities is Chicago.

NO GUN-FREE ZONES HERE: Deep Blue Los Angeles, CA School Systems Use AR-15s to Discourage Shooting Sprees

From a startled Vocativ, which hasn't quite figured out that mass-murdering psychopaths don't exactly consult the law books before starting their suicidal rampages:

School’s back in session next week, and the campus police in Compton are packing more heat than ever. That’s not a reference to the hot drought California has faced in 2014—we’re talking guns. Specifically: controversial AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, approved for use on school campuses to prevent future gun rampages.

“This is our objective—save lives, bottom line,” Compton Unified Police Chief William Wu told the city’s school board. The board has been told that select campus police officers will be allowed buy the rifles and keep them in their cars, in case of a mass shooting incident or terrorist attack.

“Everyone wants children safe. At this time, we as a community, we have to come together and find other ways. But in the interim, our police officers need to be equipped,” he said.

Wu went on to explain how handguns wouldn’t cut it when it comes to thwarting a killer armed to the hilt. “Handguns, you’d be lucky to hit accurately at 25 yards,” he said. Wu added that with a rifle in the right hands, you could strike at “50, 100 yards accurately.”

...The police chief and the mayor of the small city of Fontana, California, meanwhile, backed a controversial line item to order 14 AR-15 rifles in an effort to safeguard schools. The guns are to be stored in locked safes within the schools.

“It’s unfortunate that we have to have that, but it’s the best message we can send to anybody that thinks to harm our children,” said Fontana Police Chief Rodney Jones. “The message we’re sending is…not here, not now, we’re prepared for you. And if you seek to harm our children, we will neutralize that threat and you will most likely be killed.”

What the hysterical author M.L. Nestel fails to inform the reader is that school shootings are down across America:

...the media’s understandable obsession with newsworthiness not only gives Americans a misimpression of what is happening to crime rates and mass killings, but it also encourages mass killers, who thrive on this attention. Reading the Santa Barbara killer’s manifesto, it is clear that he was just one more person who craved attention and felt he could get it by killing as many people as possible.

Unfortunately, these misimpressions caused by the media have real consequences. Legislation gets passed that disarms law-abiding citizens and makes attacks more likely.

I won't hold my breath waiting for Vocativ to issue a rebuttal from a real expert like John Lott.


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

SUMMER O' RECOVERY 5: Grand total of ZERO states where percentage of employed people has risen since '08

From a surprisingly candid Washington Post comes this confessional regarding the utter failure of Obamanomics:

From 2007 to 2014, the employment rate among 25- to 54-year-olds has declined in the United States by 3.5 percent, and no state reported employment gains during that time, according to data released by the Pew Charitable Trust on Tuesday.

The state with the largest decline is New Mexico, where 9.2 percent fewer people are employed today than they were in 2007. Vermont and Nebraska had the smallest decline, both less than 1 percent, and 19 other states had declines that were determined to be not statistically significant.


Serious question for you progressives out there: can you think of one thing in this country that's gotten better since Barack Obama first took his oath of office?


Hat tip: Masked Avenger

Larwyn's Linx: When Screaming Racism, ‘War on Women,’ and Impeachment Are Not Enough

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Nation

When Screaming Racism, ‘War on Women,’ and Impeachment Are Not Enough: Erick Erickson
Who Lost the Cities?: Kevin D. Williamson
Why Did They Burn Down The Quick Trip ?: Treehouse

Holder (Obama) Insisted Brown Video Be Suppressed: S&L
‘Peaceful Protesters’ Vandalize, Loot, Destroy Ferguson Businesses: GWP
Jarrett: Obama Viewing Ferguson Unrest from 'Perspective of a Parent': Breitbart

Every American Must Condemn Partisan Indictment of Rick Perry: RWN
Politics as Combat : Andrew C. McCarthy
Let’s demilitarize the regulatory agencies too: Walter Olson, Overlawyered

Cops: Michael Brown punched officer in face, went for his gun: Scoop
Slimy Democrats set up voter registration where Michael Brown shot: FAM
31 Shot, 7 Killed in Chicago over Weekend While Ferguson Burns: RebelPundit

Economy

DOJ Orders Dearbornistan Schools to Fundamentally Transform: Sara Noble
Teacher tested for Ebola virus in New Mexico: EAG
Kent State Professor Calls for Jihad on Israel, Still Has Job: CI

Scandal Central

Group Behind Perry’s Indictment Got $500K from Soros: MRC
Rick Perry Indictment A Political Assassination: CHQ
Obama Goes To A Jazz Concert While Race Riots Explode For Another Night In Ferguson: WZ

Benghazi: When America Switched Sides In The War On Terror And Armed Al-Qaida: Ginni Thomas
Obama admin thwarting release of public data under FOIA, lawsuit charges: Times
New Army Manual Calls for the Use of Lethal Force Against Peaceful Protesters: Resister

Media

The News Media’s Double Standard on Political Scandals: Rich Noyes
Progressivism is evil: Cold Fury
Brilliant Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Challenges Semiliterate Race Baiter Al Sharpton To A Debate: WZ

Legendarily Entitled Politician Has Rock-Star Demands In Speaking Engagement Contracts: Ace
Twitter, Obama and the Gen. Harold Greene funeral hoax: Byron York
CNN Legal Analyst: This autopsy report changes everything: Scoop

HuffPo 'Reporter' Stirs Race Hate in Ferguson: Publius
‘Dehumanized’ HuffPost Reporter Ryan Reilly’s Struggle with Facts: J. Christian Adams
The Most Hilarious Responses to That Huffpo’s Earplug Rubber Bullets Tweet!: Sooper

The Dirty Little Secret About The Difference Between White And Black Americans On Ferguson: John Hawkins
Projection: Debbie Blabbermouth-Schultz Calls Someone Else Crazy: JWF
ABC reporters mock Hillary Clinton’s extravagant travel demands for speech: Scoop

World

Arming Terrorists, Denying Arms to Israel : MB
Islamic State of Losers Having Very Bad Week: Jawa
The Afghans found in Tilbury Docks remind us that slavery is back in Britain: Fraser Nelson

The Final Death of Western Civilization: GoV
Islamic State booby traps massive Iraqi dam which could kill thousands if breached: Telegraph
Hamas in West Bank 'planned to topple Palestinian Authority': Yaakov Lappin

Britain’s anti-Semitic whiff of Weimar: Douglas Murray
Islamic Terrorist Group Demands Islamic State… in Downtown Oslo: Daniel Greenfield
Syrian opposition: Obama allowed ISIS cancer to metastasize: Matzav

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Lorem Ipsum: Of Good & Evil, Google & China: Brian Krebs
IT Marketing: The Next Big Thing in IT: Robin Gareiss, Nemertes Research
Now On Kickstarter, Tickle Makes Learning To Code Fun With Scratch: TechCrunch

Cornucopia

Random Thoughts: Thomas Sowell
Trading Places: MOTUS
Post-Dispatch reporter: ‘More than a dozen witnesses have corroborated cop’s version of events’: Twitchy

Image: Trading Places
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QOTD: "The Reverend Jesse Jackson is, to the surprise of all thinking people, right about something: “A spark has exploded,” he said, referring to the protests and violence in Ferguson, Mo. “When you look at what sparked riots in the Sixties, it has always been some combination of poverty, which was the fuel, and then some oppressive police tactic. It was the same in Newark, in Chicago, in Detroit, in Los Angeles. It’s symptomatic of a national crisis of urban abandonment and repression, seen in Chicago.”

A question for the Reverend Jackson: Who has been running the show in Newark, in Chicago, in Detroit, and in Los Angeles for a great long while now? The answer is: People who see the world in much the same way as does the Reverend Jackson, who take the same view of government, who support the same policies, and who suffer from the same biases...

...The more progressive the city, the worse a place it is to be poor and/or black. The most pronounced economic inequality in the United States is not in some Republican redoubt in Texas but in San Francisco, an extraordinarily expensive city in which half of all black households make do with less than $25,000 a year. Blacks in San Francisco are arrested on drug felonies at ten times their share of the general population. At 6 percent of the population, they represent 40 percent of those arrested for homicides. Whether you believe that that is the result of a racially biased criminal-justice system or the result of higher crime incidence related to socioeconomic conditions within black communities (or some combination of those factors) what is undeniable is that results for black Americans are far worse in our most progressive, Democrat-dominated cities than they are elsewhere. The progressives have had the run of things for a generation in these cities, and the results are precisely what you see." --Kevin D. Williamson, "Who Lost the Cities?"

Monday, August 18, 2014

WELL DONE, RICK PERRY: Mexico freaks out over Texas National Guard troops patrolling US border!

By Mac Slavo

The Mexican foreign ministry has launched a formal protest in response to Governor Rick Perry’s decision to send Texas National Guard Troops to the southern border.

According to a head-scratching statement released by Mexico, there is apparently no border security problem and the State of Texas has grossly overreacted.

Mexico “reiterates, in a firm and categorical way, its rejection of this measure,” read a statement from the foreign ministry.

“No circumstance at all or change in border security exists that justifies this measure taken by the state.”

The troop deployment “does not contribute in any way to solving the immigration problem,” and is inconsistent with US-Mexico talks aimed at “building a modern, prosperous and safe border,” the statement read.

Governor Rick Perry called up 1,000 Texas National Guard Troops in an effort to curb the flow of illegal immigrants into the state. Several dozen troops began arriving in the Rio Grande Valley last week as part of the state’s Joint Counterdrug Task Force.

While Mexican officials may protest and propagandize the situation, the evidence is clear. There has been a significant change in the circumstances on our southern border in recent months and tens of thousands of migrants, including criminal drug cartel and gang members, have made their way into the United States. Moreover, the Mexican government itself is facilitating the mass migrations.

(Pictured: The Beast train transports thousands of immigrants to crossing points on the southern border)

The foreign ministry says that they want to create a safe and prosperous border, yet some 70,000 people have been violently killed in Mexican border cities in the last 6 years as part of the ongoing drug war.

Is this what the ministry means when they say they want to build a modern and prosperous border region?

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?

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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.”