Thursday, August 28, 2014

UNREAL: Gov. Jerry Brown Reveals That California Has Just Seceded From the Union and is Now Part of Mexico

No, I'm not joking.

On Monday evening, California Governor Jerry Brown said all Mexicans, including illegal immigrants, are welcome in California.

According to the Los Angeles Times, while introducing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who said America is "the other Mexico," Brown "spoke about the interwoven histories of Mexico and California." He "nodded to the immigrants in the room, saying it didn't matter if they had permission to be in the United States."

"You're all welcome in California," Brown reportedly said.

Brown has made California a sanctuary state by signing the Trust Act and giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. He has also expanded financial aid to illegal immigrants by signing the California DREAM Act. Peña Nieto reportedly "thanked state officials for embracing foreigners, citing measures that extend state benefits to immigrants."

Even during the border crisis, Brown reportedly vowed "to find ways to shorten long waits at the Tijuana-San Diego international border crossing," saying, "If we can put a man on the moon, we can put a man from Mexico to California in 20 minutes."

In 2012, 28% of Californians were born outside the United States, according to The New York Times. Hispanic voters reportedly "made up 19.2% of California voters" in 2010. And according to Pew Research, Latinos make up nearly 40% of the state's population and have made California "only the second state, behind New Mexico, where whites are not the majority and Latinos are the plurality."

Even though the University of California has admitted a record number of Hispanics, the Latino Caucus has vowed to make affirmative action and bilingual education top legislative priorities.


Read the last two paragraphs again. It's true: California has seceded to Mexico. It's as if Matt Bracken's tremendous novel Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista (the second of his awesome Enemies Foreign and Domestic trilogy) is clairvoyant non-fiction.

Isn't it interesting: the Supreme Court ruled that Arizona couldn't enforce federal immigration law because it claimed that the Executive Branch has so-called "plenary authority".

Yet progressive loons like Jerry Brown can rewrite federal statutes and annex an entire state to a foreign country?

This Democrat Party is completely out of control. It has succeeded in its century-long quest to fundamentally transform destroy our form of government.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

REVEALED: EPA developed secret map to claim oversight of puddles, ponds, and farm runoff

By Rob Port

BISMARCK, N.D. — A map developed by the EPA and released to a U.S. House committee investigating controversial proposed water regulations should have citizens concerned, says U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer.

A farm group in North Dakota is calling the maps a “gall darn can of worms.”

“It is certainly alarming the EPA would develop these maps in secret and only release them after being confronted by members of Congress,” Cramer, a Republican, said in a news release accompanying his office’s release of the maps. “The EPA has been hiding information which could upset the public and jeopardize its massive power grab of unprecedented authority over private and public water.”

The maps were released by the EPA to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, on which Cramer serves. One map shows perennial bodies of water in blue and intermittent bodies of water in yellow. A second regional map including North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah uses blue to show each state’s “wetlands inventory.”

On that map, nearly the entire state of North Dakota is in blue.

Critics of the proposed rule have suggested the EPA intends to use it to expand regulation far beyond permanent bodies of water to lands that hold water only some of the time.

“It doesn’t take much of a leap to conclude these highly detailed maps developed with taxpayer funds are for the purpose of enforcing this rule,” Cramer said.

Larwyn's Linx: No "executive order" needed: Eric Holder finds wide-open backdoor to amnesty

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Nation

No "executive order" needed: Holder finds wide-open backdoor to amnesty: Allen West
The Democrats' Problem: Erick Erickson
Asian-Bashing Dems and Doormat Minorities Who Enable Them: Michelle Malkin

After Grueling Golf Vacation, Obama Finally Getting Back to Fundraising: JWF
The Drums of War Beat For ISIS but is Obama Ready?: Aaron Gardner
Al Qaeda magazine hints of looming attack; urges bombing of Vegas: Fox

Dwindling Band of Disciple-Defenders Offer "S*** Happens" Theory of Geopolitics: Ace
Breaking News From 1987: Ed Driscoll
Where Explanation Remains Required: Liberty's Torch

Another Ferguson? Wait, Wrong Race, No Interest: Larry Elder
A Conservative Statement in Arizona: Jon Gabriel
Red-state Dems who will shun Obama: Mark Plotkin

Economy

Early-state GOP voters are particularly wary about expanding Medicaid.: Jim Geraghty
Burke Charged Taxpayers for Opulent Flight While Walker Flies Coach: Nathan Schacht
To College or Not to College – the Million Dollar Question: Dave Dunn

Scandal Central

Attkisson Schools ABC, CBS, NBC on How to Cover the IRS Scandal: MRC
Obama Is Committing ‘One Of The Greatest Acts Of Despotism In The Modern Presidency’: WJ
Forget ISIS, Obama Has Pentagon Focused On Allowing Transgenders To Serve In Military: WZ

Climate & Energy

Levin nails it: what Obama is really doing with this UN ‘Climate Change Treaty’: Scoop
Obama Bypasses Senate with UN Climate Treaty: 'Taking a page from China’s government’: Climate Depot
Settled Science Catches Up with Steyn: Mark Steyn

Media

Jon Stewart and His Audience Enjoy a Good Laugh Over the Death Of Michael Brown: Glob
Maureen Dowd Hits Obama for “Outsourcing” Race Relations to Sharpton: AIM
White Iraq War vet beaten outside restaurant by blacks because place wasn't "safe for whites": Marathon

Episcopal Chaplain at Yale Blames Jews for Anti-Semitism: AmInt
When You Pistol Whip A Child During A Robbery, You Deserve Every Bit Of What Comes Next: Bob Owens
ABC Heralds $3.43-A-Gallon Gas, Forget Prices Spiked Under Obama: MRC

World

English Girls Paid the Price for Political Correctness: R.S. McCain
Obama to Sign Onto UN Agenda 21 Treaty Without Congress: Sara Noble
Basting Turkey's New Prime Minister: Daniel Pipes

Ailina Tsarnaev – sister of Boston Bombers arrested for making bomb threats: FAM
Why is the media so biased against Israel? Let us count the ways: David Gerstman
My Knee Deal Is Finally Over, I Hope: Jim Treacher

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

China planes 'violated Taiwanese airspace': BBC
Early Universe Galaxy Core Harbored Millions Of Newborn Stars | Video: Space.com
Microsoft rolls out DLP to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business: PC World

Cornucopia

159. ROBIN WILLIAMS: A spark of madness: Zen Pencils
Fargo Cop shoots unarmed cow, town braces for bovine riots: Cube
In Which We Wonder About Things: MOTUS

Image: Fargo Cop shoots unarmed cow, town braces for bovine riots
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defeat the Obamacare Six

QOTD: "No government intrusion in our lives is more direct, personal and threatening than Obamacare’s intrusion in the care of our own health.

But Obamacare will harm us on a broader scale, as the underlying nature of the health law’s provisions, and the tactics used to implement them, affect all areas of public and business policy.

The suppression of liberty in health care choices will take all privacy down with it. Tight government control of electronic medical records–which used to be private–seems a minor contribution to the destruction of the Fourth Amendment compared to the seizure of everyone’s communications with everybody, without individual court orders based on probable cause.

How can we protest loss of privacy in any communications when we must surrender it for our medical records?" --Richard E. Ralston

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

TOON O' THE DAY: ISIS Threatens the U.S.

Via the extraordinarily talented Stilton Jarlsberg:


Oh, and some bonus Stilton: a recipe for awesome Labor Day frozen treats:



WTH? China advances idea of supersonic submarine

Well, this rather far-fetched notion would appear to be a game-changer.

China reportedly wants to enter the world of supersonic transport – under the water.

Rather than working up its own successor-to-Concorde project, the South China Morning Post says scientists at Harbin Institute of Technology's Complex Flow and Heat Transfer Lab are working on developing a technique called supercavitation, first pursued by the Soviet military during the Cold War.

...Supercavitation refers to giving the vessel a bubble to travel in, reducing the drag of water. In the SCMP diagram, the vessel is shown ejecting gas at its nose to maintain the bubble. This demands a high-speed launch to generate the air bubble in the first place, unless there's some way to let a vessel start slow but accelerate to supercavitating speeds.

That's the bit the Chinese boffins reckon they've dealt with: their vessel covers itself with a liquid membrane at launch to deal with water drag at low speed. The membrane will wear away, but that doesn't matter so long as the sub can get to a high enough speed to generate its own air bubble.

The group also says its approach provides a way to steer the vessel: the liquid membrane can manage drag on one side or the other to change directions. “By combining liquid-membrane technology with supercavitation, we can significantly reduce the launch challenges and make cruising control easier,” says Harbin professor Li Fengchen in the story.

If a vessel could exceed the speed of sound underwater – around 5,800 km/h, which is no mean feat to start with – it would travel from Shanghai to San Francisco in around 100 minutes.


I'm no physicist, but displacing that amount of water for that length of time would seem to be a tad beyond man's reach at the moment.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech.

COEXIST: Multiculturalism and political correctness behind sexual abuse of 1,400 girls

Donald Douglas relays the horrifying story from England and Robert Spencer adds the executive summary: all cultures aren't equal.

You can write that as the epitaph of Great Britain. The British government kowtowed to Islamic supremacists “for fear of being thought as racist.” The British government hounded counter-jihadists domestically and banned ones from the U.S. from entering the country “for fear of being thought as racist.” The British government worked with Islamic supremacists it mistook for “moderates” “for fear of being thought as racist.” The British government funded liars who exaggerated claims of Muslim victimhood “for fear of being thought as racist.” The British government for years ignored an Islamic supremacist takeover of public schools “for fear of being thought as racist.”



As Britain collapses into inevitable chaos, civil war, and jihad in the streets, Blair, Cameron, May and the rest, and all the dreary Sarah Browns (one of the proprietors of the Leftist dhimmi hate site Harry’s Place) among their dreary, dreary supporters, can congratulate themselves that as they bring down a once-great civilization upon their own heads, at least no one will think that they were “racist.”


America appears headed down the same dismal road. In the aftermath of the Fort Hood mass murders in 2009, with 14 dead (including an unborn child) and many more wounded, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey reminded us that, "What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but it would be an even greater tragedy, if our diversity becomes a casualty here."


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

OBAMA'S MANUFACTURED BORDER CRISIS: If This Isn't Treason, Then What Is?

By James Simpson

The Conservative Treehouse has done yeoman's work exposing the Obama administration's many machinations over the manufactured border crisis. In a report published at Accuracy in Media earlier this month, I described how the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program of the Department of Health and Human Services has exploded, spending almost $700 million so far this year, more than double that of 2013. Much of the information described in that report was initially dug up by the Treehouse.

As we described in the report, many of these "children" were not in fact children, but young men and women, many of whom were gang members or being actively recruited by gangs. Largely unreported were the 200,000 plus illegal alien families accompanying these youths. The Treehouse has now uncovered evidence of deliberate manipulation of the UAC numbers conducted by the Obama administration.

The U.S. Border Patrol has reported apprehension of 57,525 UACs in 2014, almost double the 2013 number. However another agency, the Executive Office for Immigration Review is tasked with actually confirming these numbers. It counts a total of 20,814, only slightly more than 2013, (20,778), and once again, most of these are not the young children the media has been showing heart-rending photos of. The fact is that there is no crisis of young, unaccompanied children flooding the border. There are entire families flooding the border.

Larwyn's Linx: Will IRS’s Strategy of Destroying Evidence Pay Off?

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Nation

Will IRS’s Strategy of Destroying Evidence Pay Off?: Seth Mandel
Obamacare Ruins More Than Health Care: Richard E. Ralston
Congress’ Duty To Lead: Betsy McCaughey

Obama's Rousing Speech Brought Military Vets To Their Feet: Nice Deb
How Many Will Die?: Erick Erickson
‘Missile defense will never work,’ the Democrats cried: Moe Lane

If ‘evil’ doesn’t apply to Islamic State, what does?: Jonah Goldberg
Hidden Video: Mike Brown Accomplice Dorian Johnson: Treehouse
Protesters, lawmakers criticize Mexico's handling of Marine case: LAT

When Your Base Becomes Your Enemy: Erick Erickson
So. It is time for the gutter war in Florida-GOV.: Moe Lane
‘Shark-eyed sociopath’ Charlie Crist cruises to Dem nomination: Twitchy

Economy

Burger King Shrugged: Jon Gabriel
You Won’t Learn This with Common Core Curriculum: Dewey
ND Teacher of the Year accused of molesting student: EAG

Scandal Central

The IRS Scandal Has Arrived: Walter Russell Mead
Issa to Depose IRS Commissioner Over Uncovered Missing Lerner Emails: Breitbart
Allegations of Corruption by a S.C. Sheriff in Overriding ICE Detainers: CIS

Elijah Cummings’ Plan for a Police State Run by a Federal Czar: Sara Noble
Government to Track ‘False, Misleading’ Ideas on Twitter: Jon Gabriel
IRS Destroyed Lois Lerner’s Blackberry After It Knew Her Hard Drive “Crashed”: WZ

Climate & Energy

Climate Change to the Rescue?: Roger L. Simon
Obama going around Congress AGAIN in a push for new UN Climate Change rules: Scoop
Green Monster: John Stossel

Media

The Only JayVee Player on the Court: Mark Steyn
Finally a Lib ‘Journalist’ With Guts to Say He Wants Conservatives Banned from TV: Publius
Report: Patrick Fitzgerald warned Blagojevich about wiretap: IP2P

Leftist nuts starting to wonder: Why hasn’t Hillary said anything about Ferguson?: Hillary
Watch Rahm Emanuel Run from Paul McKinley’s Boo Committee: RebelPundit
Chuck Todd: Those Who Don’t Pay Income Tax Pay More than Rich by Playing Lottery, Slots: DSM

World

ISIS May Have MANPADS Now: This Ain't Hell
Guess How Many Young Brits A Week Become ISIS Terrorists: Clash
Decimated Hamas Accepts Ceasefire, Claims Victory: IPT

Anti-Semite Jimmy Carter Will Be Keynote at Muslim Convention: Sara Noble
BOOM! 15 Qassam rockets intercepted by Iron Dome at the same time: Scoop
Rotherham: Fear of all the wrong things failed 1,400 children: Isabel Hardman

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

This is Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft: TheVerge
If you ran a Bitcoin related service before the thing hit $100, watch out...: BingoBlog
China researches supersonic submarine: Register

Cornucopia

Those Who Go Unsung: Ben Shapiro
Pimp We Much: MOTUS
Al Sharpton's Secret Work As FBI Informant: TSG

Image: Hezbollah Has Seized and Murdered Hostages, But Condemns Foley Killing
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defeat the Obamacare Six

QOTD: "Imagine that President Obama, immediately after his re-election, assembled a sort of reverse bucket list--an enumeration of the things he least wanted to do in his second term. What's on the list? By our reckoning the top two entries are obvious: 1. Sign legislation repealing ObamaCare. 2. Go to war in Iraq.

Now imagine that Lois Lerner had never been born and Obama narrowly lost in 2012. Fast-forward to the summer of 2014, and President Romney is facing the ISIS crisis. Romney announces U.S. air strikes in Iraq and demands that other countries cooperate: "From governments and peoples across the Middle East there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer, so that it does not spread."

Is there any doubt this would be contentious as hell? Democrats would denounce Romney as a war monger and accuse him of squandering one of Obama's "great achievements," the successful withdrawal from Iraq, by allowing the situation there to deteriorate so as to provide a pretext for military intervention. War protesters would fill the streets of American and foreign cities. Prominent leftists would denounce Romney--who avoided the Vietnam-era draft thanks to student and ministerial deferments--as a "chicken hawk." Opposition to the new Iraq war would mobilize the left, creating the prospect of a Democratic wave in November." --James Taranto

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

CRACKPOT "JOURNALIST" ED KILGORE SHOWS SOME ANKLE: Cheerleads the modern equivalent of fascist book burnings

Ed Kilgore -- if that is his real name -- is allegedly a journalist working at the execrable Washington Monthly. His claim to fame is a startling resemblance to Gollum, though without that creature's smooth complexion and strong chin.

Genuine reporter Warner Todd Huston relays news that Kilgore has a solution to the ongoing ratings disaster at NBC's Meet the Hindenburg Press. Kilgore's brainstorm involves -- wait for it -- fewer Republican voices and even more radical Lefists. Genius!

We already know that the fascist, authoritarian left wants to ban anyone and anything they don’t agree with. But usually they have the good sense not to say so out loud for fear that people will realize they are fascist authoritarians. But one “journalist” finally admitted the truth.

Left-winger Ed Kilgore, who blogs for Washington Monthly magazine, made to comment on the new ideas that NBC has for revamping Meet The Press when Chuck Todd takes over the venerable Sunday political show (Todd himself is an old Democrat operative, by the way).

In his August 25 post entitled, “Who Should Be Banned as Panelists For the New ‘Meet?’,” Kilgore notes that NBC president Deborah Turness is saying that she wants to have a panel of journalists question each guest as a sort of “coffeehouse conversation.”
Turness imagines that this will bring “more edge” to the long running Sunday political show. Kilgore thinks this is a terrible idea. Why? Because *gasp* that panel might have conservatives on it.

So, Kilgore has a solution for this conservative “problem.” He thinks NBC should ban all conservatives as panelists...

If Turness is serious about this, we need to organize a grassroots campaign to ask that certain journalists be permanently banned from the panel of Meet The Press, or we’ll boycott the damn thing ab initio. I’d start with Peggy Noonan, Bill Kristol, David Gergen, David Brooks and George Will. Even at their best, they’ve all gotten more airtime than their shaky talents merit. But I’m sure you have dozens more who deserve the Meet Ban. Fire away in the comment thread.

Now that is how we know all liberals think. They don’t want the free and open exchange of political ideas that the founders dreamed of when they crafted the Bill Of Rights. No, all liberals are fascists at heart and given the power they would ban all opposing views.


Kilgore's advocacy for virtual book burnings is surprising only because it pulls back the curtain on the totalitarian mindset endemic to the modern Democrat Party.

Kilgore would have been at home in the old Soviet Union organizing pogroms or as a wannabe-Sturmbannführer harrassing Jews and other political undesirables in the street.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

SHELL GAME: The Real Tactics of the Federal Reserve

By Lee Cary

Janet Yellen’s August 22, 2014 speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming was a verbal shell game with an invisible pea.

The first paragraph in Yellen’s speech began with this sentence: “In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression.”

Then, the first paragraph ended with the admission that “…five years after the end of the recession, the labor market has yet to fully recover.”

Many of the remaining 3,450 words she spoke refuted the claim of “considerable progress” and turned over multiple shells in search of the pea that explains why the labor market has not “fully” recovered.

The pea remains invisible.

In her penultimate paragraph, Yellen stated that, although labor market conditions have “improved more rapidly [rapid after five years?] than the Committee [Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC] had anticipated,” “Of course, if economic performance turns out to be disappointing and progress toward our goals proceeds more slowly than we expect, the future path of interest rates likely would be more accommodative [read “lower”] than we currently anticipate.”

Throughout her speech, Yellen used “if,” “might,” “may,” and “could” a total of 58 times. (The saying, “If my aunt had a moustache, she’d be my uncle” is only disputed by those with aunts who have moustaches.)

CROOKS AND LIARS: Lois Lerner's Emails Exist -- and Always Have

By James Simpson

The Obama administration is now admitting that IRS Exempt Organizations Director Lois Lerner's emails, and all other "lost" IRS records for that matter, have not been destroyed. They are backed up, as are all other government records. To claim as the Obama administration originally did, that the emails were destroyed, is a bald-faced lie. We all always knew that of course. But there is nothing this administration won't do to change the subject when its shenanigans are uncovered. Now that they have been backed into a corner, they say it is too much trouble to recover the information. Another lie. To suggest that these backup systems are incapable of finding records is ludicrous. If records can't be recovered, why preserve them?

Judicial Watch is the organization that forced the Obama administration's hand. This group has been successfully fighting Obama administration obstruction on many fronts. JW President Tom Fitton stated:

This is a jaw-dropping revelation. The Obama administration had been lying to the American people about Lois Lerner’s missing emails. There are no “missing” Lois Lerner emails – nor missing emails of any of the other top IRS or other government officials whose emails seem to be disappearing at increasingly alarming rate. All the focus on missing hard drives has been a diversion. The Obama administration has known all along where the email records could be – but dishonestly withheld this information. You can bet we are going to ask the court for immediate assistance in cutting through this massive obstruction of justice.

While the records exist and always have, it has now been revealed that Lerner destroyed her cell phone after learning she would be forced to appear before Congress. The IRS has admitted that the phone would have had the same emails that would have been on her computer hard drive that allegedly "crashed" and was later destroyed by the IRS. There needs to be serious criminal charges here.

The elections of 2014 and 2016 will determine the fate of this nation. We can't survive this level of corruption and deceit much longer, and a Hillary Clinton administration would quickly finish the job of destroying America that Obama has started.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Have it His Way, Plus Mexican President Demands U.S. Immigration Reform

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Nation

Have it His Way: Mark Steyn
Playing the Game Badly: Erick Erickson
Federal Court Crushes California's 10-Day Gun Waiting Period: Ace

10 Acts of Jihad in America That Americans Haven’t Heard About: Spencer
Obama’s Staggering Blindness to Growing Terror Threat: David Limbaugh
If ISIS attacks again, what will U.S. do?: Cal Thomas

Mexican President Demands U.S. Immigration Reform, Amnesty: AP
Time for Libertarians to Put on Their Big Boy Pants: Roger L. Simon
Chicago robberies drop 20% after concealed carry permits are issued: Hot Air

Blacks Must Confront Reality: Walter Williams
Cummings: Obama Should Appoint Police Czar To “Prevent More Fergusons”: WZ
Perry Legal Team Asks Court to Dismiss Indictment: Brian Sikma

Economy

Try Harder: Belmont Club
Her Highness Hillary and our leftist overlords.: Tom Blumer
More School Cafeteria Mayhem: FLOTUS Kills The Pink Cookie: Tammy Bruce

Scandal Central

Darrell Issa: IRS Scandal Is ‘Amazing Sequence’ of Cover-Up, Denial: WFB
WHITE HOUSE CAUGHT IN ANOTHER LIE – Lois Lerner’s Emails Were Not Lost!: ProgsToday
GOP lawmakers: DOJ's IRS probe 'compromised,' special counsel needed: Fox

Climate & Energy

Cut the Costly Climate Chatter: WUWT
Washington Post Psyched To Be “Climate Change” Activists: Cove
Barack Obama Wishes National Park Service Happy Birthday With Picture Of... Barack Obama: WZ

Media

The Problem with Insane, Cloistered, Non-Beheaded Leftist Professors in the New York Times: Matthew Clark
Cowardly Comedy in the Age of Obama: Glob
NBC, CBS Skip Harry Reid's Questionable Asian Joke: It's Hard to Keep 'My Wongs Straight': NB

Dear Millennials: Hollywood, Your Favorite Bands, and Your Professors Are Lying To You: John Hawkins
Facts vs. Visions: Thomas Sowell
Awesome: Mark Levin mocks Harry Reid: Scoop

World

The long march: Libya’s capital falls to Islamists: Noah Rothman
State Department Barbie: She’s Come Undone: MOTUS
Hamas Training Manual Tells Civilians to Store Bombs: IPT

Tripoli Falls to Islamist Militias: Ace
Democrats at War: Andrew Klavan, Zero Base Thinking
‘Muslims against ISIS’ gather in Dearborn, Mich., to ‘condemn inhumane crimes’: Twtichy

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google: Ryan Gallagher
Comcast Really Does Hate Its Customers: Rob Enderle
LG G3 Stylus is an Android phone, not an accessory, coming next week: Phandroid

Cornucopia

The best lesson from Fantasy Football's success: Seth Godin
Bumper Sticker O' The Day: Treehouse
Zero to Stupid: Clash

Image: Captured Russian troops 'in Ukraine by accident'
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defeat the Obamacare Six

QOTD: "While Obama golfed: Over the weekend, Tripoli Airport fell to the jihad boys. I was there some years ago, and thought it compared favorably with, say, Logan. Now it's a smoking ruin - part of the blowback from Obama's leading with his behind, or whatever he calls it. As things stand, this guy will end his presidency with a chain of failed states for al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, ISIS and the Taliban to gambol and frolic in stretching from West Africa to the Hindu Kush. But you can't see them from Martha's Vineyard, so who cares?" --Mark Steyn

Monday, August 25, 2014

THE TRIFECTA OF BUSTED: Obama IRS caught lying to the Courts, Congress and the American People

Judicial Watch does it again, acting as an advocate for the American citizen when neither party appears willing to uphold the law.

Department of Justice attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service told Judicial Watch on Friday that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide catastrophe. The Obama administration attorneys said that this back-up system would be too onerous to search. The DOJ attorneys also acknowledged that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) is investigating this back-up system.

We obviously disagree that disclosing the emails as required would be onerous, and plan to raise this new development with Judge Sullivan.

This is a jaw-dropping revelation. The Obama administration had been lying to the American people about Lois Lerner’s missing emails. There are no “missing” Lois Lerner emails – nor missing emails of any of the other top IRS or other government officials whose emails seem to be disappearing at increasingly alarming rate. All the focus on missing hard drives has been a diversion. The Obama administration has known all along where the email records could be – but dishonestly withheld this information. You can bet we are going to ask the court for immediate assistance in cutting through this massive obstruction of justice.

Would it be too much to ask to see John Koskinen, Lois Lerner and Steven Miller frog-marched into the federal pen?

Or for the pathetic John Boehner to name a Select Investigative Committee on the IRS?


Hat tips: BadBlue News and ProgressivesToday.

THE TREASON OF OPEN BORDERS: ISIS says "we are in your state, we are in your cities, we are in your streets..."

By Investor's Business Daily

Jihad In America: Terroristic tweets underscore the Islamic State's global reach. It has an army of Western passport holders, and an open southern border to cross. It's not only coming to the U.S.; it's already here.

Slain journalist James Foley studied his craft in the Chicago area, earning a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. For a time he was a teacher in the Cook County Jail boot camp program. He was familiar with the streets of Chicago. So, apparently, is the Islamic State that beheaded him.

An anonymous tweet has an attached photo showing a message written in Arabic. The note is dated June 20 and is being held up in front of the Old Republic building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Dubbed the Magnificent Mile, a shopping mecca, Michigan Avenue is another symbol of what, from a radical Islamist perspective, is wrong with Western culture and civilization.

The text reads: "We are in your state, we are in your cities, we are in your streets, you are our goals anywhere." It adds the hashtag #AmessagefromISIStoUS.

Certainly Islamic State has proved adept at using social media to threaten its future targets and recruit sympathizers and members.

It would be easy to dismiss this as a stunt with no real significance, except that it echoes promises that Islamic State and its sympathizers have already made, including to fly their black flag over the White House, currently occupied by another former Chicago resident, President Obama. Also attached to this tweet is a photo of the White House.

"Many terror organizations refer to Chicago as Obama Town," according to CBS Chicago security expert Ross Rice, a former FBI agent assigned to the Windy City. Islamists remember that Osama bin Laden was killed on Obama's watch as drone strikes disrupted and decapitated their terrorist networks, he notes.

In a joint bulletin issued with the FBI on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security warned local, county and state law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for signs of activity by the IS and its sympathizers. We are reminded of the Tsarnaev brothers and Tamerlan Tsarnaev's time spent in the terrorist-infested Russian republic of Dagestan before returning to bomb the Boston Marathon last year.p>

There is apparently is no shortage of American recruits for terrorism. American suicide bomber Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, who grew up in Florida, returned to the U.S. undetected after receiving terrorist training in Syria. He later journeyed back to Syria, where he allegedly drove a truck packed with explosives into a crowded restaurant.

There is also no shortage of Western passport holders who have joined Islamic State.

"They are one plane ticket away from U.S. shores, and that's why we're concerned about it," Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday.

Hollywood's Secret Love Affair with Islamofascism

By Randall Stevens

Is it Inquisition time in Hollywood, or is it something else?

In the midst of the Hamas siege of Israel, while the IDF was courageously protecting Israeli citizens from rockets hurled by the barbarians in Gaza, some Spanish personalities in supposedly Jewish-run Hollywood caused quite a ruckus. In an open letter, the Latin trio of Penelope Cruz, husband Javier Bardem, and director Pedro Almodovar condemned Israel for daring to cripple the terrorist organization. (Note: for the record, the letter was signed by many other Spaniards in Hollywood.)

The signatories of the letter, “condemn the bombing by land, sea and air against the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip… Gaza is living through horror these days, besieged and attacked by land, sea and air. Palestinians’ homes are being destroyed, they are being denied water, electricity [and] free movement to their hospitals, schools and fields while the international community does nothing.”

Moreover, the letter had the audacity to call the IDF operation “genocide.”

These words, which infer that Israel is culpable of a Holocaust of their own making, has, expectedly, led to a backlash by some producers and stars. Cruz and Bardem have come under fire by Ryan Kavanaugh, CEO of Relativity Media, who stated to The Hollywood Reporter, “As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, I know that anyone calling what’s going on in Israel ‘genocide’ vs. self-defense is either ignorant and shouldn’t be commenting or is truly anti-Semitic.” In his own open letter, the outspoken and conservative Jon Voight admonished Cruz and Bardem to “hang their heads in shame.”

Yet the wrath of Hollywood seems to have conspicuously missed the other Spaniard, director Pedro Almodovar. Who is Almodovar, and what makes him the most curious of the three?

Larwyn's Linx: Obama’s America Is September 10th America

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Nation

Obama’s America Is September 10th America: Andrew C. McCarthy
Report: ISIS ‘Coming Through the Mexican Border’: Breitbart
We have never been at war with Eastasia: RS

Do you know bulls*** when you see it?: Cold Fury
Ferguson Postmortem: Victor Davis Hanson
Is Santa Muerte Cult Randomly Killing in San Fernando Valley?: BCF

Fraud: Ficticious Unaccompanied Alien Children and their Housing: Treehouse
Obama Made Sure He Widened the Racial Divide at Brown Funeral: Sara Noble
Obama tees off as criticism mounts: Keith Laing, The Hill

America: The Ostrich Years: Derek Hunter
Rick Perry Takes Mugshot to Next Level: LI
Napa Earthquake: Earthquake hits Napa Valley, CA: Twitchy

Economy

With Disaster Imminent, Fed Unwilling to Stop Printing Money: David Stockman
Ford worker files for UAW dues refund, stirs right-to-work debate: AutoBlog
Obamacare To Complicate Tax Refunds, Add ‘Hefty Repayment Liabilities’: CBS DC

Scandal Central

Sunday Contemplation: Market Ticker
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Bilks Taxpayers out of Millions: Ben Howe
Obama Admin defies SCOTUS, new HHS Mandate rules are a distinction without a difference: WyBlog

Ted Cruz: 'We need to padlock and shut down' the IRS: Steve Contorno
When ‘Anti-Government’ Violence Erupts, Who Is Really At Fault?: Brandon Smith
Maryland Colleges' Campus Police Also Getting Military Surplus Gear: WZ

Climate & Energy

Surpise! Glaciers appearing in Scotland: WUWT
EPA Employee Won’t Stop Pooping In Hallways: ProgsToday
Good Grief: Climate Change To Ruin Your Breakfast And Drown Atlanta From Sea Rise: Cove

Media

What Cops Really Do: Fred on Everything
Born Liar -- 'It's in (her) DNA': Obiter Dictum
ACLU and National Media Intervene in Mann v Steyn et al: Steve McIntyre

The Golf Address: Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd, Straight-Up Racist: Ed Driscoll
Suge Knight -- Shot Multiple Times After VMA Party Turns Violent: TMZ

The Logic of Illogic: John C. Wright
Meet the Press Gives Al Sharpton Platform To Promote Involvement In Ferguson: CNS
Lt. General Calls for DEFCON 1 Over ISIS 9/11 Threat: Aaron Gardner

World

Iraqi Archbishop: ‘I Have Lost My Diocese to Islam; You in the West' Are Next: Creeping
The Caliphate Brings Trauma: Daniel Pipes
Just a Bit More Beheading than We Are Used To: Douglas Murray

Bashar al-Assad: Obama’s new ally: RS
Egyptian Female Activist Poses Nude and Defecates On ISIS Flag. Yes, Really.: RWN
ISIS Member Who Beheaded Foley Is British Ex-Rapper: “Jihadi John”: Hideout

Hamas Funeral Attendee Forgets To Remove Suicide Belt, Goes Boom!: Tammy Bruce
Boko Haram Declares Town Under Their Control An Islamic Caliphate: WZ
Iran Says It Downs Israeli Drone Near Nuclear Site: ABC

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

"The computer used to guide the Apollo 11 moon mission was less powerful than a modern calculator.": Reason
K&M M17S Bullpup First Shots: Bearing Arms
11 Things to do Before (and After) an Earthquake Strikes: PopMech

Cornucopia

White House Tells Bloggers To Stand Down: WNB
On Aug. 24, 1814, the British started a fire — and ultimately kindled a capital’s future.: Joel Achenbach, WaPo
Wrecked Bugatti Veyron Up For Auction, Current Bid Is $250k: AutomNews

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QOTD: "In the formulation used by Obama and [State Department spokeswoman Marie] Harf, it doesn’t matter what ISIS/ISIL says, never mind that they have something approaching 20,000 active fighters in the field, have routed the Iraqi Army and announced a caliphate that extinguishes the national boundaries set by the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Never mind that they’ve announced the intention to bring their violence to America. They can’t be at war with us because we won’t let them. Harf, in particular, gives hardworking and diligent imbeciles everywhere a bad name. Just because they have declared war on all manner of other people doesn’t mean they can’t declare war on us, too. I mean the Japanese and Germans did that in 1939-41.

The correct action for Obama is to take these people at their word and act accordingly. At this point they are weak and without the organizational structure to present a terribly credible threat. The AUMF that Obama wishes to have terminated is a good vehicle to do what needs to be done. The problem is that, at his core, Obama doesn’t like American power or influence. He won’t respond decisively to crush this threat and will ensure a future attack on America." --streiff

Sunday, August 24, 2014

SUNDAY CARTOON: The Difference Between an Artist, a Photographer, and a Photoshopper

Via What the Duck:


Spotted at BadBlue Tech News.


GRAPHIC: 3-D Representation of SF Quake Near Napa

In case you don't live on the Left Coast or hadn't heard the news today, California suffered a significant earthquake early Sunday. It was the strongest quake in the region in 25 years.

The quake was the strongest to hit the Bay Area since 1989, when a 6.9-magnitude one struck during the World Series. The Loma Prieta earthquake caused 63 deaths, 3,757 injuries and an estimated $6 billion in property damage...


The 1994 Northridge earthquake in Southern California was nearly as deadly -- 60 people were killed and more than 7,000 were injured. The USGS says 20,000 people were left homeless in its aftermath...


While not nearly as damaging, this morning's quake is said to have injured up to 120 with three in critical condition.



More photos and updates here.


The mugshot that launched a presidential campaign

Amy Miller relays news sure to disappoint the criminal front group known as the Texas Democrat Party:

If you were one of (I’m assuming) thousands who saw Texas Governor Rick Perry’s mugshot and thought, “that oughta be on a t-shirt,” then today is your lucky day.

Perry’s “RickPAC” has that mugshot on a t-shirt, along with that of embattled Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg, whose mishandling of the state’s Public Integrity Unit is the source of the current legal action against the Governor. Perry hasn’t let the lawsuit slow his momentum, however, and since his booking has maintained his travel schedule, sending him to key events in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa, and Washington D.C.


Perry’s approach to his legal troubles has done a good job highlighting the weakness of the special prosecutor’s legal arguments against the Governor’s decision to veto funding for Texas’ Public Integrity Unit, and even liberals admit being shocked at the decision to indict.

Miller notes that Perry still has a long road ahead if he hopes to repair the damage to his "brand" from the 2012 campaign, but I for one could easily support him in 2016.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

THE TENTACLES OF QATAR: From ISIS to the White House

By Randall Stevens

Why Israel? Why now?

Though few Americans paid any attention at the time, in November of last year, Secretary of State John Kerry announced to the world that this summer would be defined by violence against the Jewish state. Almost as he had been tipped off, the Secretary of State warned Israel to make a deal with the likes of Hamas and Fatah, Palestinian parties who do not acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, Kerry said, “Does Israel want a third intifada? … “I believe that if we do not resolve the issues between Palestinians and Israelis; if we do not find a way to find peace, there will be an increasing isolation of Israel. There will be an increasing campaign of delegitimization of Israel that’s taking place on an international basis.” Kerry’s November comments were followed up in May by other, albeit anonymous, officials… one who stated, “I guess we need another intifada to create the circumstances that would allow progress.”

These were thuggish words, even for an administration that has aided, abetted, encouraged, and armed the anti-Semitic, genocidal Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda rebels in Syria. Yet the Obama administration spoke with more than words. In June, the administration had the State Department approve $500 million of funding to a unity government between Hamas and Fatah. This, despite the fact that according to U.S. law, it is illegal to fund any Palestinian entity in which Hamas is a member. Repetitively calling the Palestinian government “technocratic,” as (opposed to what, “terrorist?”), State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki brazenly lied to the press, stating, “[There is] no evidence that Hamas plays any role in the interim technocratic government.” One month later, that “no evidence” is technocraticly launching rockets into Israel.

Ostensibly, the aerial assault and now ground invasion of Gaza was the direct result of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June. This triggered what appears to be a revenge crime by three Jewish Israelis, who kidnapped and murdered a 16 year old Palestinian boy. This escalation was soon followed by rockets aimed into Israeli territory from Gaza, and now both sides are at war. Or, one could say, predictably at war. Did not Kerry mention something about this last year?

One cannot consider these events in a vacuum. The Middle East at the present time is in chaos, and there are good reasons why. Although never known for political stability, the Middle East today is in the midst of anarchy due to the Arab Spring. From the beginning, the Obama administration embraced this movement, and the United States remains an important source of support for transnational, Islamic, revolutionary groups. Understanding broadly who the United States has chosen to back in this struggle is especially relevant now that two countries in particular, Egypt and Qatar, have stepped forward to negotiate a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza.