Sunday, August 24, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: James Foley executioner said identified as British rapper

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Nation

James Foley executioner said identified as British rapper: Times of Israel
Eric Holder, Racial Profiler: Andrew C. McCarthy
Obama Hopes Illegal Immigration Is Out of Sight Out of Mind: CHQ

Republican Voters Split Over Mr Electable: Ace
Is the Tea Party Dead?: Lloyd Marcus
A 'very lonely man' about to get even lonelier: Silvio Canto, Jr.

No Reply From America?: WS
U.S. Marine's Warning to ISIS Goes Viral: BPR
Colorado Law Enforcement Agencies Get Unwanted Military Equipment: CBS Denver

Rick Perry in New Hampshire, Opens Up: NH Journal
Jesse Left Speechless By Ferguson Protester Who Calls Him Out: RWN
Texas Police Chief Shot, Killed on Traffic Stop: Police Mag

Economy

Profiles in American Labor Heroism: Ace
The Fed’s Outrageous Gift To Foreign Banks—- Risk Free Aribitrage: Stockman
The Real Value of $100 in Each State: Tax Foundation

Scandal Central

Paradigms Lost: Richard Fernandez
Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke: Eric Holder “Owes Every Officer In America An Apology”: Jerome Hudson
Did anybody from the WH attend funerals of Gen. Harold Greene or Ambassador Chris Stevens?: Doug Powers

TSA Admits Lying About Illegal Aliens Flying Without Proper ID: Kristin Tate
New York: Friday prayer at mosque preaches jihad: Creeping
Vermont: Restaurant ad for bacon removed after Muslim claimed it offended her: JihadWatch

Climate & Energy

Cold summer: US daily record minimums outnumbering record maximums 3 to 1 in the last 30 days: WUWT
HUH? Global Warming Causes Global Cooling?: Lid
Link between climate change and Ferguson found: Breitbart

Media

Take No Prisoners! by David Horowitz Provides Modern Battleplan for Conservatives: J. Christian Adams
Toure Has The Real Questions On Ferguson, Black Kids And The Police: RWN
Mark Levin: Why isn’t Al Sharpton in federal prison?: Scoop

How Dumb are NY Times Headline Writers?: CAMERA
Moral Idiocy on Parade: Roger Kimball
‘BRILLIANT!’ Fox viewers cheer Jonathan Hoenig’s devastating point on race talk. We agree: Twitchy

World

The Long Arm of Qatar: Mister Chambers
Hamas displays “humanitarian side” with public execution of 21 suspected informers: Allen West
Terrorist Who Claimed White House Would Fly ISIS Flag Gets Killed In Syria: Clash

It’s hard to engage in interfaith dialogue when your head has been cut off: Benedict Kiely
China Conducts Provocative Aerial Buzz On American Military Aircraft: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
U.S. Sends Second Carrier to Asia Amid Tensions with China: WFB

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

2015 Corvette Z06: Price Is Low, Weight Is Up, Stakes Is High: Jack Baruth
The Ultra-Laborious Way the FBI Matched Fingerprints to Paper Files: Gizmodo
2014 Women in IT Security: Kristin Lovejoy: Karen Epper Hoffman

Cornucopia

North Korea Furious Over Kim Jong Un Parody Dance Video: C&S
Mommy, my meat smells rotten: C&S
Man pays $400K for storage shed with baseball cards inside. Says it wasn't worth it: Courthouse News

Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defeat the Obamacare Six

QOTD: "Tens of millions of Americans are on welfare, unemployment, and public assistance. Yet the White House and their Senate Majority seem more concerned about the economic demands of large corporations, or the citizens of other countries, than about getting our own citizens back to work into stable jobs that can support a family and uplift a community." --Sen. Jeff Sessions

Saturday, August 23, 2014

WHO FUNDED THE HAMAS TERROR TUNNELS? Eh, That Would be Hillary Clinton

There's a reason that the greatest Secretary of State ever is trying to distance herself from Barack Obama. She's hoping no one remembers that she led the freaking State Department from 2009 to 2013.

Dennis Ross, the senior Mideast policy adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from 2009 to 2011, has admitted that it was he who was assigned the task of pressuring Israel to ease up on its military blockade of Gaza.

“I argued with Israeli leaders and security officials, telling them they needed to allow more construction materials, including cement, into Gaza so that housing, schools and basic infrastructure could be built,” Ross revealed in the Washington Post on August 10. “They countered that Hamas would misuse it, and they were right.”

Not that Hillary’s State Department had been acting independently of the White House on the issue of cement. For example, Vice President Joe Biden told interviewer Charlie Rose on Bloomberg TV in 2010: “We have put as much pressure and as much cajoling on Israel as we can to allow them to get building materials” and other forbidden items into Gaza.

But now that Mrs. Clinton is attempting to distance herself from the president’s debacles in foreign affairs, Ross’ admission shows that it was she who sent her personal envoy to push for a policy that ultimately enabled Hamas to build the terror tunnels.

...Instead of lethal purposes, the materials used for each tunnel could have built 86 homes, or 19 medical clinics, or seven mosques, or six schools. But Hamas had other priorities.

And Secretary Clinton consciously turned a blind eye. Just as she turned a blind eye to other aggressive and anti-peace behavior by the Palestinians, such as the Palestinian Authority’s sheltering of known terrorists, its payments to imprisoned terrorists, the anti-Israel and anti-America propaganda that fills the PA-controlled media, and the anti-Semitic hatred in the textbooks used in the PA’s schools.

What are the real-life consequences of ignoring such Palestinian actions? An entire generation of young Palestinians have grown up incited to hatred of Jews and Israel, and glorifying terrorists as heroes and martyrs.

I'm sure all Democrats approve of Hillary's actions, since none have spoken out against this nefarious evil.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

FLASHBACK: Here's What’s Happened Since President Obama Freed the Leader of ISIS 5 Years Ago

By Jennifer Van Laar

In June, we learned that the head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, had been in US custody but was released in 2009 when President Obama closed down Camp Bucca in preparation for the US withdrawal of troops (yes, the withdrawal he repeatedly denies having anything to do with) from Iraq.

The Daily Mail reported then:

“[A]l Baghdadi, who also goes by the alias Abu Duaa, was an Islamic fundamentalist before the U.S. invaded Iraq and he became a leader in al Qaeda’s network before he was arrested and detained by American forces in 2005.

‘Abu Duaa was connected to the intimidation, torture and murder of local civilians in Qaim,’ according to a 2005 U.S. intelligence report.

‘He would kidnap individuals or entire families, accuse them, pronounce sentence and then publicly execute them.’”

His modus operandi has not changed since that time. His group has pronounced sentence and publicly executed individuals or groups of people, be they Sunni, Christian, Yazidi, or American.

MY ENTRY SUBMITTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL: The Spectator's Running a Contest for the Best Fake Health Advice Column

The Spectator is running a contest: "Your next challenge is to submit an imaginary feature from a newspaper’s health pages extolling the benefits to well-being of something traditionally thought to be bad for you."

Debunking 3 Persistent Nutritional Myths

The last few decades have seen tremendous advances in our understanding of human nutrition. Despite these breakthroughs, several myths regarding nutrition persist, probably as "Old wives' tales" or due to the prevalence of disreputable Internet sites.

Here are three of the most pernicious myths along with the the science that debunks these falsehoods:

I hear that I should cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables

MYTH! This common fable is easily debunked using simple logic. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. What are these? Vegetables. Therefore steak is nothing more than a highly efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to the digestive system. An excellent substitute for grain is chicken; beef is also considered an excellent source of leafy green vegetables due to cows' tendency to eat grass. A modestly-sized pork chop, say 24 ounces, also provides 100% of the recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.

People say that I should reduce my alcohol intake

MYTH! Wine is made from a very healthy fruit called the grape. Brandy is distilled wine, which means that water is removed from the fruity portions of the beverage and is even more beneficial to the human body. Remember that beer is made from grain and is therefore an excellent substitute for chicken.

Aren't fried foods bad for you?

MYTH! Fried foods are cooked in vegetable oil, effectively "baking in" many of the health benefits of common vegetables.

In next week's column, we'll address 3 of the most nefarious myths regarding exercise.

PRIORITIES: ISIS? No, "domestic terrorists" are the current focus of the Obama Department of Injustice

ISIS has issued a series of threats against the United States homeland, promising devastating terror attacks and stating "We will drown all of you in blood."

Sen. Jim Inhofe reports that ISIS is also developing a bomb to lay waste to an American city, experts say that "ISIS could easily cross the porous US-Mexico border," and Arabic documents have been found at the Texas border.

Yet President Obama has taken every possible action to ensure that the border remains unsecured and open to anyone willing to pay the Coyotes.

So ISIS isn't a priority for the Obama administration; what are their counter-terror targets?

As the Federation of American Scientists reported this week, "Domestic terrorism [is] again a priorty at [the] DOJ."

NSA whistleblower Bill Binney has an ominous warning about the behavior of the current White House; he likens Obama's new power (under the NDAA) to label citizens 'terrorists' the same rule the Nazis used in 1933.

“Look at the NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] Section 1021, that gave President Obama the ability to define someone as a terrorist threat and have the military incarcerate them indefinitely without due process,” Binney said in a recent interview with DW while expanding on his testimony about NSA in Germany earlier this year.

“That’s the same as the special order 48 issued in 1933 by the Nazis [the so-called Reichstag Fire Decree]. Read that — it says exactly the same thing.”

Binney said such totalitarianism begins with governments expanding population surveillance and gathering intelligence on people and their various activities, before eventually transitioning to using that power and knowledge against them.

“That’s what’s happening — in terms of newspaper reporters, in terms of crimes,” Binney said. “That’s a direct violation of our constitution.”

Binney pointed to examples like New York Times reporter James Risen, who is fighting a Justice Department order to reveal a source, and former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who is serving a 30-month prison sentence for exposing torture and leaking the name of an undercover operative.


Obama and his apparatchiks like Eric Holder believe their political opponents are the terrorists, not ISIS.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: White House: Obama expresses his deeply emotional grief by golfing, or something

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Nation

White House: Obama expresses his grief by golfing, or something: John Hayward
Obama's Golf Did Not Reflect Depth of His Grief Over Foley Beheading: Ace
Mystery Solved: Obama Came Back to Washington for a Bachelor Party: Rush

Was James Foley’s murderer released from Guantanamo Bay?: Twitchy
Leftist Meme Dies In A Hail Of Non-Violence: Bob Owens
Chinese Top Gun 'Barrel Rolled' Over US Plane: Sky

1,461 Days of Summer: Matthew Continetti
Ferguson: Introducing Mike Brown Friend “Tyrone” aka “Ty da shooter”: Treehouse
The Tea Party Is Abandoning Paul Ryan: Danny Vinik

Ex-CIA Officer: 'There Are ISIS Sleeper Cells In This Country': Cathy Burke
They Want Our Guns While Giving Submachine Guns to the USDA: Sara Noble
SICK: IL Governor Quinn proclaims today ICHV Day in Illinois: GSL

Economy

Are Republicans Abandoning the Obamacare Issue? Doubtful: David Harsanyi
Don’t be a Dick’s: Anti-Gun Gun Store’s Income Sinks: WeaponsMan
Semi-Retired President Uses Weekly Address To Deal With Ex-Im Bank: RWN

Scandal Central

Violation in Terrorist Swap Punishable By Jail, Suspension, Removal of Office: JW
NSA Whistle-Blower: Obama’s Authority To Label ‘Terrorists’ Is The Same Rule The Nazis Issued In 1933: DC
Domestic Terrorism Again a Priority at DOJ: FAS

Obama Uses Jihad Beheading of American Journalist to Proselytize for Islam: Pamela Geller
Our Chief Law Enforcement Officer Doesn’t Trust Police: Sara Noble
Asian Chamber of Commerce Laughed at Harry Reid’s Racial Jokes, But Then Backed Republican: Sooper

Media

Sanitizing terror: Has the press distorted Islamic radical’s crusade against gay men?: Noah Rothman
How to Be Fired: Gavin McInnes
Mark Levin: Why isn’t Al Sharpton in federal prison?: Scoop

Our Bien Pensant American Historians: The New Friends of Hamas: Ron Radosh
Give Obama a Break About Vacations: Presidenting is Hard: Frank J. Fleming
The Return Of The Post Turtle ~ You got what you voted for America!: Norman Hooben

CBS: Ferguson residents will loot and destroy businesses until they're given jobs: Scoop
Grantland: Fox News Essentially a ‘Conservative Daily Show’ That ‘Won’t Admit It’s a Joke’: NB
This Should Get Obama's Attention: The Razor

World

The fat lady is practicing her scales: Burt Prelutsky
Report: 3 Hamas commanders were in a tunnel 30 meters underground when they were killed: Matzav
It's not 1933, but Europe is in for a heck of a bumpy ride: Commentator

The Fiddler Putts And Putts Away: William Pollack
Fed up with Muslim violence in Crimea, Russian government strikes back: BNI
Dutch Official Calls ISIS "A Zionist Plot": Gatestone

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Sea plankton 'found living outside International Space Station': Sarah Knapton
Top Ten Guns To Shoot Before You Die: TFB
Antarctic sea ice has been above average for 1000 straight days: WUWT

Cornucopia

Global Unrest: Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s send #MelonHead: MOTUS
West Virginia Highway Shuts Down For Chicken And Ammo Wreck: Bob Owens
Jessica Alba's Smokin' 'Sin City' Character is the 'Opposite of Who I Am': AmPower

Image: Global Unrest: Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s send #MelonHead
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defeat the Obamacare Six

QOTD: "The internal newsletter of the Democrat Party, which makes itself available to outsiders under the name “The New York Times,” field-tests the most pitiful spin ever attempted. We know you’re in the bag for this failing Administration, guys, but you can still exercise some discretion over which emailed White House talking points you build into “news” stories...

...the Times tries to help out by suggesting a fresh spin for Obama defenders: he’s golfing and partying as a gesture of defiance to both terrorists and his domestic critics. I invite you to try – I mean, really try, sit there quietly for a few minutes and let your mind slip fully into the clouds of conjecture – and imagine media outlets even suggesting that a Republican president’s irresponsible, self-indulgent behavior was such a gesture of defiance. You can’t do it. Even if J. K. Rowling is reading this, she can’t do it. There are limits to even the most bountiful imagination." --John Hayward

Friday, August 22, 2014

MARK LEVIN: Former pot- and coke-head is hooked on golf like drug addicts are hooked on drugs.

By Mark Levin


They're at war with us and our pathetic president is playing golf. He's playing golf again today. He's hooked on golf like drug addicts are hooked on drugs. He used to do pot, he used to do coke, now he does golf. Unbelievable. And these pictures are sent all over the world. Every hellhole where these cockroaches live and function and rape and destroy they see it! They see him laughing five minutes after he gives that pathetic commentary. On the golf course. And he's supposed to represent us.

He pretends he's Lincoln. Lincoln! What do you think Lincoln would do under these circumstances? You think he would tolerate it? He thinks he's FDR Do you think FDR would tolerate this? He's a nobody when the history books are written. This isn't about firsts. The presidency doesn't exist for him, the presidency exists for us.

When a fellow American is so horribly abused and the other captors, it is said they used to beat the hell out of him because he was an American and his brother was in the Air Force. This poor guy. And this family. And have your son decapitated when you want to reach into that television screen and put your hand around that piece of crap's neck who is doing it to him and squeeze the freaking life out of him and we can't reach him? Bullcrap! And the Brits, to their credit, they think they know who he is. And when they know who he is our pathetic president should put a $25 million bond on his head. Cockroaches have been known to turn on cockroaches. Because that's what they do.

Good lord, I tell you what. Two bad elections and look it's happened to us as a people. Look what's happened to us. Look what's happened in the country. Look what's been done to the presidency. Look what's been done to our government. Look what's been done to our military. Look what's been done to our border. Look what's been done to our economy. Two freaking elections.


Via Mark Levin. Cartoon by @BiffSpackle.

Kansas Democrat Senate candidate Dave Domina got rich — very, very rich — while "looking out for the little guy"

By Deena Winter

LINCOLN, Nebraska – Democratic Senate nominee Dave Domina bills himself as a champion of the little guy, but his financial disclosure shows he is fabulously wealthy.

Domina is one of the most prominent trial lawyers in the state and worth between $20 million and $82 million, according to the financial disclosure forms he submitted to the secretary of the U.S. Senate.

His net worth could be much higher, since he valued two farms owned by his spouse or dependent at “over $1 million,” and candidates aren’t required to report the value of their personal residences. It’s difficult to pinpoint his precise net worth, since candidates report their assets, salary and liabilities in broad ranges, such as $250,000 to $500,000. Or “over $50 million.”

But clearly, Domina is a wealthy man. He would rank 19th on Roll Call’s list of the 50 richest members of Congress.

His wealth easily overshadows his Republican opponent: The Republican nominee, Ben Sasse, reported assets of between $873,000 and $2.4 million. Sasse was president of Midland University in Fremont before resigning to focus on his campaign.

Domina has built a reputation by representing people who take on large, multi-national corporations, insurance companies and banks. In one of his high-profile cases, he won a $1.3 billion jury verdict for cattlemen against the nation’s largest slaughterhouse, which was accused of manipulating prices, although the verdict was overturned on appeal.

He criticizes the notion that corporations are people, and he has lamented the fact that the billionaire class keeps growing while the middle class shrinks. He may not be a billionaire, but he’s certainly a multi-millionaire.

CALIFORNIA ACTION ALERT: Stop SB53, the Ammo Registration and Eventual Gun Confiscation Bill

By NRA-ILA

Your calls, e-mails and faxes are working! Senate Bill 53 has been stalled on the Assembly floor for days awaiting a vote. State legislators have admitted receiving tens of thousands of e-mails OPPOSING SB 53.

The war over SB 53 is heating up in Sacramento and now anti-gun advocates are attempting to split gun owners by trying to buy the support of hunters. The newest amended version of SB 53 will continue to BAN the mail and internet sales of ammunition to firearms owners in California, unless you have a hunting license. Supporters of SB 53 think that they can pretend to be "pro- hunting" while they are still violating the rights of firearms owners statewide.

Because of your efforts to OPPOSE SB 53, the supporters of SB 53 are desperately trying to SAVE AND PASS SB 53 by watering it down to benefit of select group of gun owners. You can be sure that if SB 53 is enacted this year, they will be back in 2015 to pass the full agenda of restricting ammunition sales to the rest of the law-abiding firearms owners in California.

Call AND e-mail the state Assembly NOW and tell them that hunters ARE firearms owners AND we stand UNITED in OPPOSING SB 53. Contact information for the state Assembly can be found here.


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

ROACH MOTEL: 3 Hamas generals were in a tunnel 30 meters underground when they were squashed like bugs

Via Israel Matzav comes this intriguing report, one certain to strike terror into the hearts of Hamazis everywhere.
If you have any doubts that Thursday's hit of three senior Hamas commanders in Gaza indicates that Israeli intelligence has penetrated to the highest levels of the Hamas command, read the article below in conjunction with the tweet above from Khaled Abu Toameh.
This was not just another strike, not just another assassination. The killing of the three constituted an indication that something in the intelligence discipline at the very top of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades has cracked.
The Shin Bet, as the intelligence behind the strike, and the IDF, as the operational arm, targeted the trio in a building in a crowded Rafah neighborhood on one of the heaviest days of fighting thus far. Thus this was a very different strike from the one at the start of the Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012 when the Hamas military commander, Ahmed Jabari, was assassinated in a surprise attack that marked the beginning of that operation. Given that the fighting had re-escalated since Tuesday, and that Israel was known to be trying to hit the Hamas military leadership, the three had taken every possible precaution to evade Israeli intelligence. Those precautions simply were not good enough.
It can be assumed that whether or not Muhammad Deif is still alive, those members of the Hamas military leadership who have survived are now desperately trying to figure out what went wrong. How could it be that after long weeks in which Israel was unable to get to any of the heads of the military wing, now, within 48 hours, the Shin Bet located one of Deif’s hideouts and killed three other members of the Hamas general staff?
It should be stressed again: Two of the three were not mere senior commanders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Muhammad Abu Shamala, the “head of the southern command” and Raed al-Attar, the commander of the Rafah area, were part of the founding generation of the Hamas military wing — along with Deif and several others who are no longer with us, including Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh and Emad Akel. They were among Deif’s closest brothers-in-arms — long-term veterans with experience and knowledge that cannot be easily replaced.
Abu Shamala and al-Attar are tied to almost every major attack in and from the Rafah area since 2001. These include the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit on a tunnel raid into Israel in which two other soldiers were killed, and even the killing of 16 Egyptian soldiers on the Gaza-Sinai-Israel border two years ago. Thus the two had tangled not only with Israel, but also with Egypt, which knew of their ties to terrorist organizations in the Sinai.

I'm reminded of The Onion's fabulous 9/11 story entitled "Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell."

According to Hell sources, the 19 eternally damned terrorists have struggled to understand why they have been subjected to soul-withering, infernal torture ever since their Sept. 11 arrival.

"There was a tumultuous conflagration of burning steel and fuel at our gates, and from it stepped forth these hijackers, the blessed name of the Lord already turning to molten brass on their accursed lips," said Iblis The Thrice-Damned, the cacodemon charged with conscripting new arrivals into the ranks of the forgotten. "Indeed, I do not know what they were expecting, but they certainly didn't seem prepared to be skewered from eye socket to bunghole and then placed on a spit so that their flesh could be roasted by the searing gale of flatus which issues forth from the haunches of Asmoday."


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

By Dan Friedman

Genesis 16

11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he shall be a wild ass of a man: his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren.'



If you would like to read the story behind the headline, cut and paste and do a Google search.

• Pope Francis canonizes 800 men who, in dying for their faith, saved Europe from Islam

• Slain journalist James Foley's dad: "I did not realize how brutal they were"

• IS militants 'biggest threat' to US

• Gunmen execute 18 alleged collaborators in Gaza; Israel launches airstrikes

• Shi'ite militia kill dozens of Iraqi Sunnis in mosque shooting

• Dozens killed in Iraq mosque attack

• Israeli boy seriously injured murdered when Gaza mortar slams into car

• Palestinian Facebook page: More Hamas executions of suspected collaborators imminent

• Why Is Britain a Breeding Ground for ISIS Terrorists?

Enjoy your weekend, and hug the kids for me.

DIY Drunk History

So this is my nephew's entry in DIY Drunk History (rated PG-13), and it's pretty darn good if I do say so myself.


The snark is strong with this one.

Upvote him, please, and send him onto the Dodgeball finals in Vegas.


Larwyn's Linx: Obama claims ISIL speaks for no religion; so what's that first "I" stand for?

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Nation

Obama claims ISIL speaks for no religion; so what's the "I" stand for?: Patheos
Eric Holder and The Lynch Mob Mentality in Ferguson: CHQ
Ferguson and The Real Race War: Bill Whittle

The InJustice League Of America: Crockett Lives
Pro-Israel student attacked at Temple U. by terror supporters: LI
HS Kid Arrested: Wrote School Project About Shooting a Dinosaur: Lid

Beaten to Death at McDonald's: David Paulin
Thugs smile for mugshots after eldery vet dies from beating, stabbing: FAM
Conservatives support #BlackOpenCarry despite political differences: Twitchy

Economy

Dead Broke Bill Clinton Now Enjoys $1,000 Cigars: WS
Utah teacher: ‘Too much risk’ reciting the Pledge of Allegiance: EAG
Repossessions, Delinquencies Up; Auto Loan Balances Hit All-Time High: TTAC

Scandal Central

A mere 14,646 duplicate voters flagged in Fairfax, Maryland: Watchdog
Peters: WH 'Murderous,' 'Un-American' for Release of Rescue Details: Breitbart
Why is Holder in Ferguson; 36 blacks in Chicago shot last weekend?: TBP

GAO Announces The Bowe Bergdahl Trade Broke The Law: Lid
Lead Travis Co. Investigator: “No Evidence Of Wrongdoing” By Perry: Brian Sikma
Rep. Mike Honda Intros Bill Banning Civilians from Buying Body Armor: NBC SF

Climate & Energy

Why, of Course It Is: Nancy Pelosi’s District Exempt From Water Restrictions: LoneCon
Climate Change Brings Darkness And Doom Or Something: Cove
Hysteric Air Officials Now Looking To Classify E-Cigs As Hazerdous Materials: Cove

Media

The Jihadi Serial Killer the Media's Hiding From You: Michelle Malkin
This ‘blistering’ Daily News Obama cover may be the best ever: Twitchy
Nine-Year-Old Boy Shot to Death in Chicago; Obama, Holder, Sharpton Unavailable for Comment: JWF

Key Ferguson Witness Dorian Johnson Previously Pled Guilty to Filing False Police Report: MB
Financial Support For Officer Darren Wilson Grows Rapidly – Day #3 Total $110,570: Treehouse
Blue porch lights, Darren Wilson T-shirts part of growing support for Ferguson officer: Jason Sickles

“Mr. President, get your ass off the golf course…act like a president or get the hell out!”: Scoop
Fist bump? Just when you thought Obama’s golf after Foley presser couldn’t get more sickening: Twitchy
CBS Offers a Shockingly Positive Look at Women and Guns: A 'Great American Tradition': MRC

Obama’s small-screen worldview: Jonah Goldberg
Free Beacon does it again with another fantastic MSNBC super-cut: Scoop
Father of James Foley: 'We know Jimmy's free. He's finally free': Larry Elder

World

Netanyahu: "Hamas is ISIS. ISIS is Hamas.": John Hayward
'We Prefer to be Killed Rather than Convert': NRO
The Islamic State is destroying the greatest melting pot in history: Spectator

Report: Rescue Attempt Of James Foley Failed Because Obama Kept “Dragging His Feet”: WZ
James Foley Kidnapped By Obama-Backed Free Syrian Army Group, Then Handed To ISIS: WZ
Obama negotiated for Muslim Deserter Bergdahl, but not for American Journalist: Creeping

Gaza Flag Flies on Manhattan Bridge Thanks to Lax Security: Sara Noble
Why Muslim Terrorists Don’t Kidnap Russians: MB
Turkey's support for Hamas against Palestinian Authority is putting Erdogan in a pickle: ForPol

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Bike That Can't Be Stolen: PopMech
Windows 9 inbound: Microsoft to unveil Windows 'Threshold' in September: NetworkWorld
What Is Truth?: DailyWTF

Cornucopia

7 Fascinating Cars—Including an Alfa Jeep!—from the 2014 Concorso Italiano: Car and Driver
Slingin' in the Rain: Crockett Lives
Why Conservatives Can’t Make Inroads in the Culture: John Wilson

Image: Gaza Flag Flies on Manhattan Bridge Thanks to Lax Security
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defeat the Obamacare Six

QOTD: "Can Obama still control all the forces he’s ‘separably’ unleashed? Maybe the reason he stays in the Vineyard is that he’s guessed the answer. It’s his psychological bunker, where he waits, hoping for a last minute reprieve from Steiner. He doesn’t know what comes next anymore and frankly, is afraid to look." --Richard Fernandez

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Cadillac to Throw Down Against Mercedes S-Class and BMW 7-Series

So... despite the government bailout and the recall skulduggery, I hope for the best.

General Motors global product development chief Mark Reuss revealed Tuesday that Cadillac will press ahead with an F-segment sedan built upon a new platform.



The Detroit News reports the new Cadillac will slot above the full-size XTS, and will throw down against the Mercedes S-Class and BMW 7 Series.

Reuss adds that the flagship sedan is important for the brand “if it is to compete as a serious luxury carmaker” in the top luxury segment...


If it's to "compete as a serious luxury carmaker", I'd humbly suggest that moving all manufacturing to right-to-work states might be a good start.


Hat tip: BadBlue Car News.

14 Reasons the U.S. Economic Bubble is Ready to Burst

By Michael Snyder

Did you know that a major event just happened in the financial markets that we have not seen since the financial crisis of 2008? If you rely on the mainstream media for your news, you probably didn't even hear about it. Just prior to the last stock market crash, a massive amount of money was pulled out of junk bonds. Now it is happening again. In fact, as you will read about below, the market for high yield bonds just experienced "a 6-sigma event". But this is not the only indication that the U.S. economy could be on the verge of very hard times. Retail sales are extremely disappointing, mortgage applications are at a 14 year low and growing geopolitical storms around the world have investors spooked. For a long time now, we have been enjoying a period of relative economic stability even though our underlying economic fundamentals continue to get even worse. Unfortunately, there are now a bunch of signs that this period of relative stability is about to end. The following are 14 reasons why the U.S. economy's bubble of false prosperity may be about to burst...

#1 The U.S. junk bond market just experienced "a 6-sigma event" earlier this month. In other words, it is an event that is only supposed to have a chance of 1 in 500 million of happening. Billions of dollars are being pulled out of junk bonds right now, and that has some analysts wondering if a financial crash is right around the corner.

#2 The last time that we saw a junk bond rout of this magnitude was back during the financial crash of 2008. In fact, as the Telegraph recently explained, bonds usually crash before stocks do...

The credit market usually leads the equity market during turning points, as happened when credit markets cracked first in 2008.

Will the same thing happen this time around?

#3 Retail sales have missed expectations for three months in a row and we just had the worst reading since January.

#4 Things have gotten so bad that even Wal-Mart is really struggling. Same-store sales at Wal-Mart have declined for five quarters in a row and the outlook for the future is not particularly promising.

FIGURES: Anti-Gun Democrat Threatens to Kill Researcher Conducting Survey on Second Amendment

Yes, these Communists progressives are truly the most tolerant of people and certainly all about the Constitution that each swore an oath to uphold.

Each election cycle, the Minnesota Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance contacts the 280-plus candidates running for the Minnesota House in hopes of surveying them about their views on gun rights.

As you’d probably expect, some candidates choose not to respond to GOCRA’s questionnaire. No biggie. But the organization is recommending Rep. Ron Erhardt (D-Edina) receive anger management therapy after he allegedly threatened to kill GOCRA President Andrew Rothman when he was contacted about the survey.

Earlier this summer, GOCRA sent two emails asking Erhardt, 84, to respond to their questions. He didn’t respond, so at 5:19 p.m. on July 19, Rothman followed up with a phone call.

Here’s how that conversation went, according to an affidavit signed by Rothman:

When contacted, the individual answering the phone identified himself as Ron Erhardt. Your affiant identified himself and reminded Rep. Erhardt of the approaching questionnaire deadline. Rep. Erhardt indicated that he did not intend to complete the survey. Your affiant, following the procedure used with each candidate, reminded Mr. Erhardt that GOCRA’s policy was to give a special “F*” grade to candidates with no voting record or survey, as set out in the “How will this information be used?” section of the introduction…

Rep. Erhardt responded, yelling, “Give me a double F! No more surveys! You come near me, and I’ll blow your head off!” Rep. Erhardt then disconnected the phone call. The call’s duration was 78 seconds.

Wouldn't it be nice if these nitwits actually read the Constitution once in a while? I know, I'm a dreamer.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

STILL HAS A GOOD FIRST STEP: Total Time it Took Obama to Tee Off After Making Foley Statement: 480 Seconds

Relayed by the invaluable Weasel Zippers:



Even CNN noticed the less than solemn attention Mr. Obama paid to the beheading of an American journalist. And @BiffSpackle offered his usual caustic 'toon pillorying our beleaguered POTUS.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: The Sheldon Cooper Presidency

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Nation

The Sheldon Cooper Presidency: Ace
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) meets Jew-hating constituents: Moe Lane
Report: Harry Reid 'Seethed' At Disengaged President Obama: Charlie Spiering

War-gaming November: Incumbents vs. Angry Voters: Stephen Green
ISIS ‘a national security threat’: Cal Thomas
Opportunists fan the flames of racial unrest: Victor Davis Hanson

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA: Erickson
Major Liberal Group Could Be About To Reject Hillary Clinton: WJ
Time to Pay Attention to Kansas: RS

Holder to "Investigate" Ferguson Shooting for "Civil Rights Violations": GWP
Ferguson: We've Seen Enough to Know That Mike Brown Was a Thug: Publius
Communists Inciting Violence in Ferguson: RebelPundit

Economy

More Bad News for Obamacare: LoneCon
New Poll Suggests Pretty Much Everyone Hates Common Core: CI
About That Sovereign "Safety": Karl Denninger

Scandal Central

More Trouble for Eric Holder? Judge Resurrects Fast and Furious Scandal With Order Against DOJ: Fred Lucas
Perry Grand Juror Was A Democratic Party Delegate During Proceedings: MediaTrackers
Why Is Obama Hiding ObamaCare Enrollment Data?: IBD

After Foley Beheading, Obama Making Golf Getaways Difficult to Defend: Joe Concha
DREAMer Who Killed Two Girls In Hit And Run Won't Be Deported, Still Protected By DACA: Caroline May
About Sums It Up: Reaganite

Media

Ferguson: We Need To Stop Talking About “Media Bias”—And Start Talking About Media Evil.: VDARE
James Foley found out ISIS doesn't care who you voted for: Allen West
Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source: Fox

Obama Congratulates Spurs For Hiring Female Coach While Ignoring Death of Two Star General: Treehouse
New book: The ‘SNL’ skit Obama killed, Hillary’s ‘entitlement’ attitude: BPR
If What This Writer Says Is True, Harry Reid May Be About To Destroy Obama: WJ

Ferguson: Not Even An O.J. Jury Would Convict Officer Wilson: Larry Elder
LAGOP’s #AirMary Attack On Landrieu Is Hysterical But True: HayRide
Two From the Prof: WRSA

World

The Enemy Knows We’re In A World War, But Democrats Don’t: HayRide
President Obama Shows Why He Cannot Beat ISIL: Erick Erickson
Gen. Allen: Destroy the Islamic State Now: Gen. John R. Allen

ISIS Crucifixion Of Children Could Lead To A Christian Holocaust: WJ
Was beheaded American journalist James Foley’s murderer released from Guantanamo Bay?: BPR
Hamas sends a love letter to ISIS (with 10 tips): Commentator

The Full Video Of James Foley’s Beheading -- Hidden by the Media -- Has Been Found: Shoebat
Switzerland: Muslim Protesters Attempt to Storm Synagogue: INN
American Decapitated by Englishman: Mark Steyn

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Heroin’s new hold on Indiana: IJEC
Data Breaches May Drive Consumers Back to Cash: Douglas Ceto
Tesla to allow iPhone to start Model S without key/fobs with v6.0 update: 9to5Mac

Cornucopia

If You're Gonna Crash Your Motorcycle...: Feral Irishman
The End of Pax Romana: Can I Get a Big Portabella with that?: MOTUS
Robin Williams and Our Strange Times : Jim Geraghty

Image: Weapons can be easily smuggled past airport body scanners
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QOTD: "The last couple seasons of the show [Saturday Night Live] were the only two in the show’s history where we were totally like every other comedy show: basically, an arm of the Hollywood Democratic establishment. [Jon] Stewart was more nuanced. We just stopped doing anything which could even be misinterpreted as a criticism of Obama." --SNL writer-producer James Downey, who retired in 2013

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Juxtaposed Headlines o' the Day

Submitted for your consideration: are these two news stories somehow... connected?

Obama Has Played 29.5 Hours On The Golf Course As Race Riots Rage


White House "Did Not Know" National Guard Was Being Deployed In Ferguson



By the numbers, "Obama is in the middle of a two-week vacation at the $12 million, 17-room mansion of a Democratic Party fundraiser wherein, according to ABC News, he has played 29.5 hours of golf, attended a Democratic fundraiser, partied at a birthday bash, spent 6.5 hours on the beach, and attended a jazz concert on Sunday... According to Gallup, Obama's job approval stands at just 41%."


Hat tip: Badblue News.

THIS IS YOUR RECOVERY. And This is Your Recovery On Drugs.

By Jim Quinn

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”Thomas Jefferson

Does this chart portray an economic recovery in any way? Wages have been stagnant since the START of the supposed recovery in 2010. Real median household income, even using the highly understated CPI, is on a glide path to oblivion. You just need to observe with your own two eyes the number of Space Available signs in front of office buildings, strip centers and malls across America to realize we have further to fall. Low paying, part-time burger flipping jobs aren’t going to revive this debt saturated economic system. But at least the .1% are enjoying their Federal Reserve created high. Fiat is a powerful drug when administered in large doses to addicts on Wall Street.

The S&P 500 has risen from 666 in March of 2009 to 1,972 today. That is a 196% increase in a little over five years. During this same time, real household income has fallen by 7%. There have been a few million jobs added, while 11 million people have left the labor market. According to Robert Shiller’s CAPE ratio, the stock market valuation has only been higher, three times in history – 1929, 1999, and 2007. He seems flabbergasted by why valuations are so high. Sometimes really smart people can act really dumb.

The Federal Reserve balance sheet was $900 billion before the 2008 financial crisis. Today it stands at $4.4 trillion. The Fed has increased their balance sheet by 220% since the March 2009 market lows. Do you think there is any correlation between the Fed puppets printing $2.4 trillion and handing it to their Wall Street puppeteers, who used their high frequency trading supercomputers and ability to rig the markets so they never lose, and the third stock bubble in the last 13 years? It’s so self evident that only an Ivy League economist or CNBC anchor wouldn’t be able to see it.