Tuesday, September 02, 2014
"You May Not Be Interested in War, But War is Interested in You"
Younger generations can be forgiven if all they know of war is what they have learned in school or seen dramatized on film and television. For most Americans, the Civil War, the two World Wars, and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam are events that occurred “a long time ago.” For my generation, born just prior to or during World War Two, wars have been a constant element of our lives.
Anyone with an interest in U.S. history knows that America was born out of a long war (1775-1783) with Great Britain which eventually led to the writing of the Constitution in 1787 whose ratification became official in June 1788. A year later George Washington, the wartime general, became the first President and, thereafter, nearly every President has had to dispatch U.S. naval, land and air forces in combat. This is why the Founders concluded that the President also had to be Commander-in-Chief in order to respond to threats to the nation whether near or far.
Not all Americans were eager to engage in various conflicts and most of the larger ones have had to address a fair measure of opposition. Even the Revolution was resisted by those who felt being a colony was a wiser choice than being independent.
In the greater world, wars have been constant somewhere, a shaper of history, and, according to Benjamin Ginsberg, a prolific historian and director of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University, it has some beneficial aspects. His latest book, “The Worth of War”, explores this aspect of history.
Larwyn's Linx: Reminders of Obama’s policies may be toxic for Dems in battleground states
Nation
Reminders of Obama’s policies may be toxic for Dems in battleground states: LIThe Self-Hating Leftist: GayPatriot
Nine Days, Mr. President: Erick Erickson
Feds to Run Ads In Border Towns Telling Deportees They Can Return: TeaParty
ISIS: “US-Mexican Border Is Now Open", Plan on Crossing In: FreePost
Irresponsible Choices: Thomas Sowell
The Clinton Machine Is Alive: Benjamin Domenech
The Imaginary Non-Interventionist: Daniel Greenfield
Cruz, Perry: Change Is Coming in 2016: CBN
America at the Tipping Point: Chuck Norris
Churches Vandalized With Koran Verses Condemning Infidels: WZ
An Incident in Massachusetts: P. Bernard
Obamacare ‘Lie’ Touted By Landrieu Is Now A Reality In Louisiana: HayRide
The most desperate, stupid #NCSEN attack line you’ll see this year: Toldjah
Unions open their coffers as Senate hangs in the balance: Benjamin Goad
Economy
The Day After Labor: Mark Steyn'Wage Theft' Claims: The Latest Left-Wing Scam to Bilk Employers: AmPower
Barack Obama Marks Labor Day With A Picture Of . . . Barack Obama: WZ
Scandal Central
Supporter to Obama: 'Announce a State of Emergency' To Get Around GOP Congress: Jeryl BierGOP Strategist Lisa Boothe Takes Down Democrats On Executive Amnesty: CHQ
Exposing The Manufactured Cloward Piven Immigration Fraud : Treehouse
Climate & Energy
Mythologies and Pathologies of the California Drought: Victor Davis HansonWhen Science is Settled - by Government: Mark Steyn
California drivers brace for costly new gas tax: Fox
Media
My Rant about Ferguson and Michael Brown: Heather ScottWaPo Crank Posts Ferguson Whitewash, Bashes Progressives Today and Gateway Pundit: ProgsToday
Winooski, Vermont and the Dismantling of America’s Values: Dennis Prager
A Tale of Two Conferences: Jon Gabriel
Michelle Obama – ROCKstar!: All the Right Snark
The 20 Best Quotes From Greg Gutfeld: John Hawkins
World
We Are At War With ISIS And They Are A Real, Sophisticated, Threat: Aaron GardnerWhat the Middle East should look like…according to ISIS: Scoop
First Captured ISIS Foreign Fighter Reveals Threat to West: Breitbart
What the United Nations Doesn’t Want You to Know: Right Planet
French Exodus: 'When Jews Flee, a Nation is Sick': CBN
Video: Libyan Rebels Swim, Belly-Flop in U.S. Embassy Pool in Tripoli?: Daniel Halper
The Unfinished War: Caroline Glick
Yet more blatant plagiarism of Exposing the Real Che Guevara by another “libertarian”: Humberto Fontova
Photos of Vladimir Putin's Secret $1 Billion Palace: Supercompressor
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
If programming languages were weapons: Bjorn TiplingThe German Empire of Luxury Cars is Falling: CarBuzz
This Bike Lets You Ride on Water: SuperCompressor
Cornucopia
The Tweets Smell of Excess: Hopenchange CartoonsIvy Mike Sends: WRSA
Four Years Hence And It’s Still The Same As It’s Ever Been: MOTUS
Image: Every James Bond Car - Ranked
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QOTD: "Let’s accept, arguendo, that the outgoing DIA chief is right, and that we are now in an era of danger similar to the mid-1930s. How did we get here? It’s worth looking back into the mists of time — an entire year, to Labor Day weekend 2013. What had not happened then? It’s quite a list, actually: the Chinese ADIZ, the Russian annexation of Crimea, the rise of ISIS, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fall of Mosul, the end of Hungarian liberal democracy, the Central American refugee crisis, the Egyptian-UAE attacks on Libya, the extermination of Iraqi Christians, the Yazidi genocide, the scramble to revise NATO’s eastern-frontier defenses, the Kristallnacht-style pogroms in European cities, the reemergence of mainstream anti-Semitism, the third (or fourth, perhaps) American war in Iraq, racial riots in middle America, et cetera and ad nauseum.
...But the larger point here is not what’s happening, because what’s happening is obvious. Things are falling apart. The point is how fast it’s come.
It takes the blood and labor of generations to build a general peace, and that peace is sustained by two pillars: a common moral vision, and force majeure. We spent a quarter-century chipping away at the latter, and finally discarded the former, and now that peace is gone. All this was the work of decades.
Look back, again, to Labor Day weekend 2013, and understand one thing: its undoing was the work of mere months." --Via Aaron Gardner
Monday, September 01, 2014
Leading From Behind Into a Cauldron of Anarchy
The U.K. Daily Mail is reporting today that an Islamist group is now occupying the former U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya. This was a non-violent takeover. They basically walked in. Embassy staff had departed in July because of the deteriorating security situation in Libya.
The video embedded here shows the Islamic group, which goes by the name Fajr Libya, or Dawn of Libya, swimming in the pool and showing reporters around. The Mail cites one of the group's commanders as saying they are occupying the compound to protect it from looters. The video however, suggests a group of men reveling in their newfound prize. According to the report, they have been there about a week.Still, the commander may really want to keep the Embassy in presentable shape. While the country is racked by violent confrontations between the various militias that took down Qaddafi, this group has taken up positions throughout Tripoli and are telling foreign diplomats that it is safe to return. In fact it is part of a power play between the recently elected parliament and the former, Islamist parliament that took over following Qaddafi's ouster.
The group is not associated with Ansar-al-Sharia, which was responsible for the Benghazi attacks in 2012, nor is it associated with the new parliament - called the House of Representatives - elected in June. It is allied with the deposed parliament, the General National Congress, which is now trying to reassert itself after Dawn of Libya secured Tripoli.
Europe may not be interested in Jihad, but Jihad is interested in Europe
Government leaders in all major European countries know that hundreds of well-trained European jihadists are in Syria and that some of them will return. They do not ignore that some are already back in Europe and that attacks are likely. They do not ignore that if European jihadists are in the hundreds, those who support jihadism in Europe are probably in the tens of thousands. In recent demonstrations in support of the "Palestinian cause" all over Europe, flags of Hamas, Hizbullah and the Islamic State were abundant, and slogans explicit.
Governments in all major European countries do not ignore that many of the countries they lead are in financial dire straits, faced with sclerosis, stagnation, wretchedly controlled immigration, policies that retard economic growth, and the results of multiculturalism.
They do not ignore that many prisons in Europe are jihadi hotbeds, and that (mostly Muslim) no-go zones are proliferating.
They do not ignore that risks of riots are very real, and that judges under the influence of ideas that for a hundred years have been proven not to work -- in Russia, Cuba and everywhere -- nevertheless still serve everywhere in Europe.
They cannot ignore the existence in every European country of "anti-racist" organizations and Islamic lobbies, imams and journalists, almost exactly similar to those which exist in France and Belgium.
They cannot ignore the growing weight of Muslim votes in many parts of Europe.
They can break up some networks, thwart some attacks, symbolically strip some jihadists of their citizenship.
They know they are largely hostage to a situation they no longer control.
Their attitude is dictated by the fear of being confronted with more serious problems than murders: some European counter-terrorism services say that a Mumbai-style armed attack in Europe is possible, even probable.
The attitude of governments can be defined by a word often used to describe the attitude of Daladier and Chamberlain in 1938: appeasement.
And appeasement will work just as well as it did prior to 1 September 1939, which is to say not at all.
Europe will be faced with a stark choice that it is likely to confront only after the growing piles of dead bodies outweigh political correctness on the scale of public opinion.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
YET ANOTHER IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE: Obama's U.N. Climate "Accord" Will Trump U.S. Constitution
Power: This lawless administration plans to bypass the two-thirds requirement for Senate ratification on a climate change treaty by entering into a "politically binding" hybrid agreement to "name and shame" climate scofflaws.
Apparently letting the Environmental Protection Agency run amok with regulations fulfilling candidate Obama's pledge to bankrupt the coal industry, and enact a de facto cap-and-trade regime the president couldn't get through Congress, is not enough.The man who said his nomination was the moment the seas began to recede and the planet began to heal now plans to deal the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution yet another blow.
He's doing it by agreeing to a Kyoto-like "accord" he can use as moral cover for further destroying the U.S. economy, in lieu of an actual climate change "treaty" that must be ratified by two-thirds of a Senate that has already unanimously rejected such a pact.
The accord, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in Paris in 2015, is designed to bypass both Congress and the Constitution through the manipulation of language.
"Accords" do not have to be ratified, but they commit the nations involved to action, in this case meeting artificial and meaningless emission targets.
U.S. negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to hammer out this deal, which is grounded neither in science nor the law.
Larwyn's Linx: Latest Big Lie: ‘We Have No Strategy’
Nation
Latest Big Lie: ‘We Have No Strategy’: Michael LedeenWe Are Liviing in Days of Infamy: Ed Lasky
President With No Strategy To Stop ISIS Spending Sunday On Golf Course: WZ
At-Risk Senate Seats, 08/31/2014 edition (Includes DOOM calls): Moe Lane
Photos Taken From Landrieu’s DC Home Confirm DC Residency: GotNews
Obama, Mary Burke indignant over report latter is hiding from former: Moe Lane
You Will Be Made to Care: Erick Erickson
MD Sheriff to Feds: Try and Take Our Guns--You’ll Get a Civil War: TeaParty
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Oberweis gaining on Durbin in U.S. Senate race: SunTimes
Obama May Hold Immigration Action Until After Election: Doug Mataconis
Cruz: ‘Russian bear is encountering the Obama kitty cat’: Times
Another Faulty Health Care Website Rollout: WyBlog
Economy
Paul Ryan Has an Answer for Ferguson: Star ParkerThe world is burning so Obama’s weekly address is about minimum wage: Twitchy
Rick Santorum, Labor Day, And The Workers Who Would Vote Republican: VDARE
Scandal Central
Obama Does Have A Strategy, And It’s Awful: RWNFRAUD: Ferguson Witness Coached By The Black Panthers?: GotNews
Ferguson Agitators Call to Halt Highway Traffic In Labor Day Protest: Ironic
Climate & Energy
Democrats Believe 'Fish Are More Important Than People': BreitbartMonckton and the Arctic Ice Cap: Winter Soldier
Fantasy: Al Gore Says No Arctic Ice in 2014 – Reality: Summer Ice Cap 1.7M Square KM Bigger: Hideout
Media
No Sharpton, no Jesse: Funeral for nine year-old victim of gang violence held in Chicago: DTGNBC: military officials are ‘APOPLECTIC’ over Obama’s passive nonexistent foreign policy: Scoop
Open Mic terrorist: Radical IMAM makes 9/11 jokes on CNN: Scoop
"The Weirdest Story About a Convicted Bomber and Taylor Swift You Have Ever Read.": Ann Althouse
Ferguson: A History of a Small Suburb With Big Violence Problems: GotNews
Ben Carson: No, I'm Not Sorry I Compared U.S. To Nazi Germany: Daniel Strauss, TPM
World
Islamist Militia Has Just Claimed It Now Controls U.S. Embassy in Libya: WJNigeria: Islamic jihadists behead six-year-old boy because he was Christian: JihadWatch
Wynne Government Wants Birth Tourism: BCF
Jimmy Carter Invokes Allah In His Speech to Terror-Tied Islamic Group’s Conference: Sara Noble
Diary of a Foreign Minister: US Secretary of State Kerry strongly pro-'Palestine': Matzav
One hopes viciously-beaten George Galloway is now asking himself, “Why do they hate me?”: Moe Lane
Ted Cruz Says Let’s Bomb ISIS ‘Back to the Stone Age’: RWN
My ISIS Strategy: Roger L. Simon
Diary of a Foreign Minister: US Secretary of State Kerry strongly pro-'Palestine': Matzav
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Apple Claim Chowder: Introduction: John Kirk, TechPinionsRalph Lauren And Athos Enter Wearable Tech Market With New Products: RedOrbit
Rogue trading bot suspected cause of Bitcoin slump: Juha Saarinen, ITNews
Cornucopia
“Ask not for whom the bell tolls” I think you know...: MOTUSWhere to start honest talk on race: Linda Chavez
Hispanic is the New Black: RWN
Image: Ben Carson: No, I'm Not Sorry I Compared U.S. To Nazi Germany
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QOTD: "You may think you can sit on the sidelines. You may think you can opt-out of the culture war. You may think you can hide behind your trendy naked Leena Dunham t-shirt while you sip trendy drinks talking about trendy shows and writing columns demanding Christians be forced by the state to bake cakes, provide flowers and farms, and offer up photographs of gay weddings. But not only will you one day be called to account to your God for how you advanced his kingdom, but on this Earth you will be made to care. That does not mean you have license to be bitter or angry or hateful. You should love others and help others. Just do not expect anything in return." --Erick Erickson
Sunday, August 31, 2014
YOUR UNITED NATIONS IN ACTION: Photo of ISIS Driving UN Vehicle (Paid For With Your Tax Dollars)
To be fair, that's a trick question. No country does, though a few come close. Perhaps Canada, Israel, and the U.S. for starters (though in the latter case, said attributes appear to be eroding on a daily basis).
So why would any rational American support an elite group of 100+ barbaric, tyrannical regimes? That's a rhetorical question, because we already do -- not by the consent of the governed, mind you -- and it's called "The United Nations" (or "U.N."). And the UN, by dint of numbers, supports Islamists, terrorists and other anti-civilization throwbacks.
Did you know the United Nations runs a car rental office just for bloodthirsty terrorist pig-dogs?
AlQaeda affiliated Nusra Front driving around with a UN vehicle. Thats their flag on the car (v @BSyria @akhbar) Pic pic.twitter.com/pExYuz5dVO
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) August 31, 2014
If you're a little bit late to the party, it's true: the United Nations actively supports terrorism.
One day, I pray, we elect a Constitutional conservative president. And one of their first acts is to completely defund the UN, boot it out of New York City, and name John Bolton the Secretary of State. For spite.
Yeah. I went there.
Hat tips: The Right Scoop and BadBlue News.
The Medieval World of Terror Theater
The beheading of American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq was much more than an altogether gruesome and tragic affair: rather, it was a very sophisticated and professional film production deliberately punctuated with powerful symbols. Foley was dressed in an orange jumpsuit reminiscent of the Muslim prisoners held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay. He made his confession forcefully, as if well rehearsed. His executioner, masked and clad in black, made an equally long statement in a calm, British accent, again, as if rehearsed. It was as if the killing was secondary to the message being sent.
The killing, in other words, became merely the requirement to send the message. As experts have told me, there are more painful ways to dispatch someone if you really hate the victim and want him to suffer. You can burn him alive. You can torture him. But beheading, on the other hand, causes the victim to lose consciousness within seconds once a major artery is cut in the neck, experts say. Beheading, though, is the best method for the sake of a visually dramatic video, because you can show the severed head atop the chest at the conclusion. Using a short knife, as in this case, rather than a sword, also makes the event both more chilling and intimate. Truly, I do not mean to be cruel, indifferent, or vulgar. I am only saying that without the possibility of videotaping the event, there would be no motive in the first place to execute someone in such a manner.
In producing a docu-drama in its own twisted way, the Islamic State was sending the following messages:
ACORN: Eric Holder's $17 Billion Settlement With Bank of America Funds Leftist Bank Shakedown Artists
Extortion: Radical Democrat activist groups stand to collect millions from Attorney General Eric Holder's record $17 billion deal to settle alleged mortgage abuse charges against Bank of America.
Buried in the fine print of the deal, which includes $7 billion in soft-dollar consumer relief, are a raft of political payoffs to Obama constituency groups. In effect, the government has ordered the nation's largest bank to create a massive slush fund for Democrat special interests.Besides requiring billions in debt forgiveness payments to delinquent borrowers in Cleveland, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Oakland, Detroit, Chicago and other Democrat strongholds — and up to $500 million to cover personal taxes owed on those checks — the deal requires BofA to make billions in new loans, while also building affordable low-income rental housing in those areas.
If there are leftover funds in four years, the settlement stipulates the money will go to Interest on Lawyers' Trust Account (IOLTA), which provides legal aid for the poor and supports left-wing causes, and NeighborWorks of America, which provides affordable housing and funds a national network of left-wing community organizers operating in the mold of Acorn.
In fact, in 2008 and 2009, NeighborWorks awarded a whopping $25 million to Acorn Housing.
In 2011 alone, NeighborWorks shelled out $35 million in "affordable housing grants" to 115 such groups, according to its website. Recipients included the radical Affordable Housing Alliance, which pressures banks to make high-risk loans in low-income neighborhoods and which happens to be the former employer of HUD's chief "fair housing" enforcer.
BofA gets extra credit if it makes at least $100 million in direct donations to IOLTA and housing activist groups approved by HUD.
Larwyn's Linx: ISIS Barbarians At Our Gates
Nation
ISIS Barbarians At Our Gates: Terresa Monroe-HamiltonObama Fails History 101: Victor Davis Hanson
President George W. Obama Lashes Out at Media: Ed Driscoll
Do You Want to Know Why There’s No ISIS Strategy?: Keith Koffler
Watch Ted Cruz’s FANTASTIC speech at Defending the Dream 2014: Scoop
Obama’s 5 Worst Foreign Policy Decisions: John Hawkins
Decline and Fall of Obama's America: Ben Stein
The Incompetence of Leftist Ideology: Kevin Wade, Fay Voshell
Andrew C. McCarthy: In Search of a Strategy
The Streets of San Francisco: Daniel J. Flynn
Sharyl Attkisson wants to know where illegal immigrant "kids" have gone: Hot Air
Nancy Pelosi’s Grip on History is a Little Hazy Too: Elephant
Economy
The Left’s Attempt to Institutionalize the Rewriting of US History: Ron RadoshIf consumers are so f***ing confident, why aren't they spending?: Jim Quinn
QuickTrip Mart Will Not Re-Built in Ferguson: RWN
Scandal Central
Criminalizing Conservatism: AmSpec'Fake' IRS scandal spawns real coverup: Column: James S. Robbins
Does ISIS Have Black-op Backers?: James Lewis
Climate & Energy
Michael Mann’s special purpose Hockey Stick filter has been exposed: WUWTEPA staff backs new ozone restrictions: Timothy Cama, The Hill
Business, industry leaders worry EPA ozone emission changes will cost state billions: NOLA
Media
Letter from the parents of Aaron Carson Vaughn of SEAL Team VI: Please resign, Mr. President: WorldTribFox News Hits Ratings Highs, MSNBC Sputters in Busy Week: Rick Kissell, Variety
Notorious Anti-Semitic British MP Attacked on London Street: Tatler
ESPN Poised to Implode: First Openly Gay NFL Player Michael Sam CUT by Homophobic Rams!!: Sooper
NY Times: Benghazi Special Committee A GOP Plot To Damage Hillary's 2016 Prospects: Lid
‘That’s it, folks. Internet’s closed': #ExJoning soars to new heights [photo]: Twitchy
World
Russia to Bulgaria: Quit Mocking Soviet Monuments!: CubeJohn Kerry's Demand for 'Global Coalition' Signals Cowardice, Weakness, and Appeasement: AmPower
Support for Israel remains strong after Gaza conflict: LI
Raped and Slaughtered: Muslim Persecution of Christians, April, 2014: Gatestone
Why Israel Defeated—But Didn’t Crush—Hamas: P. David Hornik
US airstrikes, humanitarian aid for Iraqi city under ISIS siege: Fox
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
What is the Shape of the Universe?: Space.com75% Of Ikea’s Catalog Is Computer Generated Imagery: FastCoDesign
Electric Earth: Stunning Images of Lightning: LiveScience
Cornucopia
If wishes were horses our cart would have a driver: MOTUSThe Need for an Uzi for Self-Defense: GotNews
George R.R. Martin’s big Twitter reveal: HolyKaw
Image: If wishes were horses our cart would have a driver
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QOTD: "Here’s what the laptop of doom suggests: “Use small grenades with the virus, and throw them in closed areas like metros, soccer stadiums, or entertainment centers. Best to do it next to the air-conditioning. It also can be used during suicide operations.”
The longer ISIS is allowed to exist — and 110 pinprick airstrikes is not degrading their capability — the more time they will have to develop their schemes and plans. Time is not on our side, but it seems that Obama believes he can just dither all the day long. Or perhaps, Obama doesn’t really want to deter ISIS — and certainly not attack them. You have to ask, if Obama has been receiving his daily national security briefs, why would he allow this threat to develop and metastasize into what it is today? Or maybe he does not take any security briefs at all? How could any American president allow such a direct threat to exist and publicly admit he has no plan?
Well, Mr. President Barack Hussein Obama, ISIS has a plan and their plan is not based upon what they will not do, or aren’t willing to do. Obama is conveying the message that he wants to avoid engaging and fighting ISIS. ISIS is conveying the message that they will kill anything and anyone who stands in their way — the way of restoring Islamic dominance.
So, whose side is Obama on?" --Allen West
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Marcus Tulius Cicero Offers an Observation on the Obama Democrats
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to fear.
A Purdue University website reflects on some of the key reasons for the fall of the Roman Republic. Several might ring a bell:
• Roman Senators became oligarchs; their conspicuous consumption became visible signs of corruption.
• Emergence of Rome as an all-powerful, centralized and authoritarian government.
• An ever-increasing tax burden and massive government expenditures.
Well, thank goodness we have a Constitution which all of our politicians take an oath to uphold, which prevents any of this from happening in America.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
LEAST-STOLEN AUTO IN U.S.: The Tesla Electric Scam-mobile
Without massive redistribution and subsidies, the Tesla Sedan would probably sticker for $400,000. And it would still be worth about $18,000.
Car thieves have confirmed its value, it would appear.
Good news for those of you who own a Tesla Model S—it's a car that's sharing top honors on the current list of "least stolen" vehicles within the United States...
...Tesla's Model S currently enjoys an extraordinarily low vehicles-made-to-vehicles-stolen-ratio. For every 1,000 vehicles shipped out of the Tesla factories, an average of 0.15 are stolen. Or, to flip the equation around a bit, one out of every 6,666 Tesla Model S cars are swiped...
...And as for why nobody appears to be running away with Model S in mass quantities, there are a few possible explanations. First off, there simply aren't that many Model S vehicles on the roads compared to the mass-produced, gas-guzzling cars of the company's competitors—more cars, more potential for theft.
There's also the fact that thieves aren't likely to get much resale value when they run away with a Model S car.
That and the fact that the Tesla has been known to occasionally turn into a fireball when it encounters road debris, perhaps.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.
Misunderstanderers of Islam Threaten to Machine-Gun Ohio School and Bomb Chicago Police
An Ohio school was placed on lockdown Wednesday after a man with a “heavy accent” phoned the school and threatened to murder children with an AK-47 due to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, according to local police.
All schools in Pickerington, Ohio, were placed on lockdown after an unknown man made a threatening call to the Pickerington North High School, Fairfield County Sheriff Dave Phalen confirmed ... The man, who claimed to have an AK-47, said he planned to launch an attack on the school and kill students over his apparent anger at the Middle East conflict, Phalen said.
“The school received a call [at around 11:15 a.m.] from a male with a heavy accent and he indicated that he was going to attack Pickerington North due to attacks on Israel and was going to kill the kids and that he had an AK-47 gun,” Phalen recounted... “He identified himself as ‘Mohammed Shehad,’” or something similar to that, and claimed to live in the area, Phalen said, explaining that those who fielded the call were unsure precisely what last name the man provided.
On second thought, I blame Grover Cleveland.
A man who had an ISIS flag waving from his vehicle is facing several charges after he threatened police with a bomb Wednesday morning when he was pulled over on the Southwest Side... Emad Karakrah, 49, was charged with felony counts of disorderly conduct and aggravated fleeing; and a misdemeanor count of driving on a never-issued license, according to Chicago Police. He was also issued three traffic citations.
Someone called police after seeing a “suspicious person” driving a silver Pontiac southbound in the 7700 block of South Kedzie at 9:18 a.m. with an ISIS flag waving out the window, according to a police report.
Officers attempted to pull over the vehicle, but the driver took off, according to the report. The officers called for assistance, and another officer pulled the vehicle over after it went through several red lights.
The man told police during his arrest that there was a bomb in the car and he would detonate it if they searched the vehicle, according to the report... A bomb squad, the FBI and Homeland Security responded to the scene and searched the vehicle, but no bomb was found, authorities said.
On third thought, I blame the Crusades.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
PHILADELPHIA'S "FORFEITURE MACHINE": $64 Million Confiscated From Citizens With No Due Process
In March, Chris Sourovelis’ son was caught selling $40 of heroin to an undercover police officer.
Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department responded by raiding the Sourovelis’ north Philadelphia home, with guns drawn — one of them pointed at the head of the family dog — and found small amounts of the drug in the 22-year old’s bedroom. Chris and his wife, Amy, knew nothing of their son’s drug habit and it was the first time he had been busted for possessing narcotics.
A few weeks later, the cops were back to tell the Sourovelis family they had to gather their things and leave the property. The home was being confiscated under civil forfeiture rules, leaving the family homeless and forced to sleep on a neighbor’s couch.To get their home back, Chris and Amy Sourovelis had to agree that their son would no longer live with them. Even though they agreed, the family could still lose their home permanently as the case winds through the city’s legal system.
Now, the Sourovelis family is one of a group of people bringing a class-action lawsuit against the Philadelphia Police Department and the city’s District Attorney’s Office, alleging that law enforcement in Philadelphia is routinely and repeatedly violating the due process rights of the city’s citizens.
“I did not do anything wrong, yet Philadelphia is trying to take my house,” said Chris Sourovelis, in a statement released by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm involved in the case. “If this can happen to me and my family, it can happen to anybody.”
And it does, more often than might be expected.
From 2002 through 2012, law enforcement in Philadelphia seized more than 1,000 homes, 3,200 vehicles and $44 million in cash, according to data obtained by the Institute for Justice through an open records request.
Those assets provided more than $64 million in revenue to the Philadelphia DA’s office, because Pennsylvania law allows local law enforcement to keep the proceeds from forfeited property after it is seized and resold.
Property can be seized by police without requiring a conviction — or even a criminal charge, in some cases — and the proceeds have padded the Philadelphia District Attorney’s bottom line by 20 percent during the past decade.
Attorneys working on the lawsuit say the city has set up a “forfeiture machine” to take advantage of the perverse incentives created by the law.
Larwyn's Linx: FBI National Domestic Threat Assessment Omits... Wait For It... Islamist Terrorism
Nation
FBI National Domestic Threat Assessment Omits Islamist Terrorism: Bill GertzAlleged ISIS laptop had a checklist for creating bioweapons: Moe Lane
What Leading From Behind Looks Like: Erick Erickson
The 5 most nauseating quotes from Obama’s American Legion speech: Alexa
'No strategy' a gift-wrapped gaffe that could haunt Obama: Exam
UNREAL: White House Says We Are Not At “War With ISIS”: WZ
Mr. President, This One’s On You: Keith Koffler
Four Ways Amnesty Would Harm Americans: RWN
Terrorist Scumbag Nidal Hasan Wants to Become ‘Citizen’ of Islamic State: JWF
Obama’s Segue From Constructive Tax Proposals to Low-Grade Demagoguery: RWN
Chicago Shootings Now Up from 2013- Over 40 a Week in 2014: RebelPundit
Disarmed: Texas Governor Rick Perry Loses Right To Carry Firearm: SHTFplan
Economy
The Party Of Amnesty Is Not The Working Man’s Friend: George Rasley7-in-10 Say Economy Has Permanently Changed for the Worse Since '09: AmPower
Cops: Teacher received cocaine delivery at school: EAG
Scandal Central
Almost a Dozen Americans Have Joined ISIS to Fight in Syria and Iraq: GlobMary Landrieu Could Easily Qualify To Run For Office In Washington DC: HayRide
Obamacare backer Mary Landrieu embroiled in major residency scandal: WJ
Media
Ed Henry goes there: Why is Obama fundraising after admitting he has no ISIS strategy?: Noah RothmanDear PBS, I don’t think there’s a compassionate way to murder infants: Matt Walsh
Website ranking: Joe Huffman
Cowardice, dishonor and ignorance are now labels proudly worn by the Republican Party.: Obiter Dictum
Don’t Dare Call Them Socialists: RWN
Scott Walker Hammers Media for Targeting GOP Governors: Breitbart
World
Sermon by Syrian Muslim Cleric "ISIS Was Born From Hillary Clinton's Filthy Womb": LidPutin Ends the Interregnum: Lilia Shevtsova
Report: ISIS Plotting To Assassinate Pope Francis For “Bearing False Witness” Against Islam: WZ
Obama: The News Makes it Seem Like the World Is Falling Apart, But Actually It's Fine: Ace
Junior Varsity: Cold Fury
‘We Don’t Have a Strategy Yet’: William Kristol
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Why CIO Tenures Aren't Longer: CIOCryptoWall surpasses CryptoLocker in infection rates: SCMag
Twitch's peak viewing numbers rival CNN and MTV's prime-time audience: Engadget
Cornucopia
If You’ve Ever Wanted An “Evil Black Rifle,” Now Is The Time To Buy: Bob OwensA New Game Show: Tweet Like Your Favorite Famous Person: MOTUS
White House Will Do Nothing to Secure Sgt. Tahmooressi’s Release: Sara Noble
Image: Elizabeth Warren Frustrates Anti-Israel Left
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defeat the Obamacare Six
QOTD: "I want the American people to understand something, Sean. The commander in chief, and we only have one, is the president of the United States and his name is Barack Obama. And these cockroaches organized, funded themselves, built a forceful military, started conquering geographic areas all around the world under his nose. He ignored it. He did nothing about it. He didn't talk to the American people about it. As a matter of fact, he downplayed it. This is one of the worst military national security screw ups in modern American history. And he's still screwing up. Has he rallied the American people? Has he spoken to congress? Has he asked for a declaration of war or at least a joint resolution to fund an aggressive offensive attack against these cockroaches? No, he hasn't. We're dealing with a very peculiar, petulant man who operates with a few advisors around him. A man who really needs as much counciling and expertise he can get given his thin resume and experience record." --Mark Levin
Friday, August 29, 2014
REPORT: "Gentle Giant" #MichaelBrown Charged With Murder as a Juvenile cc: @ChuckCJohnson
News tip from law enforcement source: #MichaelBrown Brown was charged with 2nd degree murder as a juvenile. Confirming now... #Ferguson
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) August 18, 2014Confirmed earlier report that #MichaelBrown had juvenile arrest record involving second degree murder... Working on getting report #Ferguson
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) August 18, 2014PRELUDE TO CATASTROPHE: ISIS Openly Operating in Juarez, Mexico Just Yards Away From El Paso, Texas
Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.
Specifically, Judicial Watch sources reveal that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is confirmed to now be operating in Juarez, a famously crime-infested narcotics hotbed situated across from El Paso, Texas. Violent crimes are so rampant in Juarez that the U.S. State Department has issued a number of travel warnings for anyone planning to go there. The last one was issued just a few days ago.
Intelligence officials have picked up radio talk and chatter indicating that the terrorist groups are going to “carry out an attack on the border,” according to one JW source. “It’s coming very soon,” according to this high-level source, who clearly identified the groups planning the plots as “ISIS and Al Qaeda.” An attack is so imminent that the commanding general at Ft. Bliss, the U.S. Army post in El Paso, is being briefed, another source confirms. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to multiple inquiries from Judicial Watch, both telephonic and in writing, about this information.
I don't see a problem.
After all, the White House announced today that we are "not at war with ISIS", the President just admitted he has no strategy for dealing with the bloodthirsty gang of murderous Islamists, and instead of working on such a strategy he's out of the office (...wait for it...) fundraising.
Oh. One more thing. An ISIS laptop was recovered in Syria that reveals the group is in the process of weaponizing Bubonic Plague.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Larwyn's Linx: Will Amnesty Make an Appearance in this Year’s Lame-Duck Session?
Nation
Will Amnesty Make an Appearance in this Year’s Lame-Duck Session?: MadisonDems Want Chicago To Be “Model City” For Amnestied Illegals: RWN
Obama About to Fire His Smoking Gun Again: David Limbaugh
2,300 Illegal Alien ‘Children’ Sent to Nassau and Suffolk Counties: Sara Noble
Surenos 13 gang member re-enters country after being deported: FAM
In town halls, U.S. lawmakers hear voter anger over illegal migrants: BCF
Obama on ISIS: ‘We don’t have a strategy yet.’: Tatler
'One of the Worst Military, National Screw-Ups in Modern U.S. History': FNI
Hillary is in No Rush: Rich Baehr
Quote of the Day: Shaneen Allen Edition: PagunBlog
Yes, “gun control” supporters want you dead: Walls of the City
Democrat Party Has Roots in Violence, Racism and Bigotry: RtPlanet
Economy
Bloodstained Hypocrisy of Hollywood’s Violence Profiteers: Michelle MalkinThe Impending Catastrophe: “It’s Not Difficult To See This Coming”: SHTFplan
Teacher threatens to stab, shoot her students on Twitter – and keeps her job!: EAG
Scandal Central
Phony IRS Scandal Not So Phony: AIMDOJ to Give Leftist Groups Cut of B of A Settlement: JW
Legal rationale Obama plans to use so his blanket amnesty will survive court challenges: Scoop
Holder To Give Funds From DOJ’s $16 Billion Settlement With BofA To Radical Leftist Groups: WZ
Secessionist Democrat Luis Gutiérrez: Let’s Pass Amnesty to Fight ISIS or Something: Glob
Four GA men arrested for 'beating to death' former Marine who survived 2 tours of duty in Iraq: Daily Mail
Media
Rachel Maddow, neocon: Moe LaneVIDEO: Hannity's Epic Battle With UK Imam, Anjem Choudary, Who Defends ISIS: FNI
This Paul Begala flashback tweet and replies will have you in tears … of laughter: Twitchy
See Jon Stewart DESTROY Strawman!: Jon Gabriel
Bloomberg’s Jeanne Cummings Claims GOP Wants To Take Away Birth Control: MRC
The Most Incredibly Stupid T-Shirt You’ll See About The Ferguson Shooting: Sooper
The Rotherham Scandal Questions the Media will not Ask: DTG
The 15 Most Conservative Senators: NatlJrnl
The 15 Most Liberal Senators: NatlJrnl
World
Friday Sermon in Spain: "Allah, Destroy the Plundering Jews, Do Not Spare a Single One": MEMRIISIS Murders 1,500 POWs in a Brutal Display of Violence (NSFW): Scoop
Islamic jihadists capture 43 UN peacekeepers in Golan Heights: JihadWatch
War on Jews: Europe and now America: Rich Baehr
Iran Begins Arming Palestinian Terrorists: WFB
Finland suspects Russian airspace violation: NavyTimes
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Paging Dr. Watson, IBM's medical adviser for the future: Joab Jackson, CIOReported breaches involving zero-day bug at JPMorgan Chase, other banks: Adam Greenberg, SCMag
Stealthy, Razor Thin ATM Insert Skimmers: Brian Krebs
Cornucopia
More Social Justice for the Sociopathic “Gentle Giant”?: MBBlake Hounshell in 2008: Palin’s Russian invasion of Ukraine ‘extremely far-fetched scenario’: Twitchy
Female fighters of the PKK may be the Islamic State's worst nightmare: Stripes
Image: The Most Incredibly Stupid T-Shirt You’ll See About The Ferguson Shooting
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defeat the Obamacare Six
QOTD: "To maintain their personal sense of superiority, progressives [like Jon Stewart] need to sit in the seat of the scoffer. They used to spend their time mocking those who dared question President Obama as self-evident fools and racists.
Now that Obama’s failure is obvious, they’ve had to move on to other targets. Defending his disastrous record would make his fans look like the unsophisticated rubes, and they can’t have that. Instead, they focus on a stumbling Fox News host, an errant red-state legislator, or any citizen whose comments can be edited to inject the left with their daily dose of smug." --Jon Gabriel
Thursday, August 28, 2014
THE FIVE MOST BEAUTIFUL DEMOCRAT SENATORS: People Magazine Couldn't Be Reached for Comment
From left to right:
• Charles "Schmucky" Schumer of New York
• Chris "Smeagel" Murphy of Connecticut
• Barbara "Sweet Cheeks" Mikulski of Maryland
• Sherrod "Pockmarks" Brown of Ohio
What? The hell you say. That was only four?
My bad. Chalk it up to my public education in Chicago.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
A MUST READ: 30 Blocks of Squalor & Cigarette Taxes for the Children
It’s that time of year again – when the little juvenile delinquents, future prison inmates, and functionally illiterate junior members of the free s*** army pick up their “free” backpacks and “free” school supplies they will never use and shuffle off to the decaying prison like schools in the City of Philadelphia to eat “free” breakfasts and “free” lunches, while being taught government sanctioned pablum by overpaid mediocre union teachers.
It’s a repeat of every year for the Phila school district. As the school year approaches they are shocked to report a massive deficit and beg the State of PA for more funding. The $12,000 per child simply isn’t enough, even though Parochial schools provide ten times the education for $9,000 per child. The district has a slight $80 million deficit this year. Last year they had a $100 million deficit and the mayor proposed a soda tax to fill the gap. It was defeated, so they raised property taxes instead. Mayor Nutter’s name is fitting. He is just another in a long line of Democratic mayors who have ruled Philadelphia since the 1950′s and whose policies of welfare handouts for their voting base paid for by taxing the producers, has resulted in a population decline from 2.1 million in 1950 to 1.5 million today. Doug Casey captures the essence of Philly with this definition:
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy): a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
The liberal solution to an ever decreasing tax base and an ever growing level of benefits for the free s*** army and government union drones, is to increase taxes on the few remaining producers. They then flee the city, leaving fewer producers to tax. Rinse and repeat. Your neighborhoods then look like this.



















