Friday, October 10, 2014

Meet Logan Routt, the 6'11" High School Quarterback

Amazing:

Everyone loves a tall quarterback—the guy who can see over his offensive linemen, command a huddle and fire the ball downfield. Most NFL signal-callers are listed between 6'2" and 6'6".

You think you know tall quarterbacks? Think again.

Meet Logan Routt, the 6'11", 220-pound quarterback at Cameron High School in Cameron, West Virginia.

According to his coach, Scott Holt (h/t MaxPreps' Stephen Spiewak), Routt "is a legit 6-11."

You can see some highlight reels here.


Hat tip: BadBlue Sports.

JUDICIAL WATCH: "It appears that top officials of the Obama administration are lying about ISIS terrorist activities on our border"

By Judicial Watch

There are times when all of us hate to say, “I told you so.” And the latest news from Judicial Watch on the apprehension of ISIS terrorists on the U.S.-Mexico border is certainly one of them.

In late August, you may recall, JW broke the story that Islamic terrorist organizations are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez where they plan to stage attacks against the U.S. In response to this threat, agents in the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense had all been placed on alert and told to work to counter the imminent threat. Two days after our initial report, Fort Bliss, the massive installation in El Paso, increased its security in response to this international terrorist threat.

But then the Obama spin machine cranked up. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security officially denied the report, telling the London Daily Mail, “we are aware of absolutely nothing credible to substantiate this claim.” The DHS official duplicitously added, “In Mexico? I haven’t seen that at all.”

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest also responded, telling the newspaper that “the most detailed intelligence assessment that I can offer from here is that there is no evidence or indication right now that [the Islamic State group] is actively plotting to attack the United States homeland. That’s true right now.”

At Judicial Watch, we pulled no punches in standing by our story. We told the Daily Mail that JW’s sources were “golden,” and that the government’s denial constituted a “non-denial denial.” As I pointed out, the words “credible” and “specific” were rhetorical loopholes that one “could drive a truck bomb through,” the paper reported.

SHHH, NO ONE TELL THE ANTI-KEYSTONE PIPELINE NUTS: Canadian Oil Exports to U.S Hit Record High

By Sean Hackbarth

Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline want you to believe that stopping the project will ensure that Canada won’t develop its oil resources. Well, someone forgot to tell Canada. From Reuters:

Canadian crude exports to the United States topped 3 million barrels per day last week for the first time, suggesting delays to new export pipelines such as TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL were failing to check oil sands development.

Environmental groups are fiercely opposed to new pipeline projects connecting Alberta's oil sands to the United States and the east and west coasts, reasoning that without market access crude production will slow.

But the latest weekly data from the U.S. Environmental Information Administration shows Canadian crude exports are ramping up rapidly despite the pipeline impasse.

Canada, the No. 1 supplier of crude to the United States, exported 3.248 million bpd of crude to its southern neighbor in the week ended Oct. 3, up 18 percent from the previous week and up 35 percent from the same period a year earlier.

The four-week average to Oct. 3 was 2.977 million bpd.

"It's a pretty clear indication that crude will find its way to market around various constraints," said Sandy Fielden, analyst at RBN Energy.

The State Department came to the same conclusion in its economic analysis of the Keystone XL pipeline:

Larwyn's Linx: HHS secretary: There may be other cases of Ebola in the United States

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Nation

HHS secretary: There may be other cases of Ebola in the U.S.: Philip Klein
Congress to Obama: Stop travel between US and Ebola-stricken countries: RedAlert
HUH: Obama Bashes Billionaires at Home of Billionaire ‘Rich Richman’: Glob

Guatemalan illegals car-jack 91 year old vet in Iowa: FAM
Illegal Who Killed 2 Girls Released via Obama’s "DREAM" Act: Wizbang
The Legacy of Obama and Holder: WZ

Reid/DSCC Hits Panic Button w/ 26 Days to Go: MinorityReport
Harry Reid's Bodyguard Physically Attacks "Crapitalism" Author: Surge
So why isn’t the NRSC doing more in, say, the #nhsen race?: Moe Lane

Grimes Won’t Even Say If She Voted for Obama: Keith Koffler
Michelle Nunn is still trying to hide her support of ObamaCare: FW
Do We Fear Winning Elections Won’t Make a Real Difference?: Jim Geraghty

Economy

Students get extra credit for attending Joe Biden rally: EAG
Obama’s False Boasts on Education Progress: Jim Geraghty
NADA, CFPB Fight For Future Of Automotive Financing: TTAC

Scandal Central

Hooker flap a microcosm of administration’s problems: Jonah Goldberg
Report: White House link to 2012 Secret Service Colombian prostitution scandal: LI
Weaponized IRS Targets Logan Clements, Maker of Anti-ObamaCare Movie Sick and Sicker: MB

The White House Dogs: Erick Erickson
Bowe Bergdahl Investigation Complete-But With Election Day Near, It Will Not Be Released: Treehouse
Judicial Watch Sues Phoenix P.D. in Fast and Furious: Sharyl Attkisson

Climate & Energy

Union Workers Protest Obama's EPA Regs: 'Don’t Even Mention His Name': CNS
Elon Musk Has Always Been Completely Open About Depending On Government Money: Insider
Saudis Do Nothing While Crude Prices Plunge: AmInt

Media

Top Obama Rumpswab Paul Krugman: “This Is What A Successful Presidency Looks Like”: WZ
The Telegraph: The End of the Affair: Ace
U.S. President In ABC Prime Time: ‘Right to Bear Arms’ in Constitution and ‘So Was Slavery’: MRC

This Week In Quotes: John Hawkins
Gwyneth Paltrow Embarrassingly Fawns Over ‘Handsome’ Obama In Cult-Like Fundraiser Intro: Caleb Howe
Read the Latest Uncensored News to Right Wing News: John Hawkins

How Stupid Is The Rob Maness Campaign? See For Yourself…: HayRide
With Barack Obama & the Press it’s strictly business: DTG
Mass Grave Found in South of Mexico; Police Suspected of Delivering Over the Victims to Gangs: Ace

World

Missouri: Terror-linked Muslim Groups Plan ‘Weekend of Resistance’ in Ferguson: Creeping
Army Vet Fighting ISIS With the Kurds: RWN
Obama's Watch: 90% of 20K Total U.S. Warriors Wounded in Afghanistan War: Edwin Mora

U.S. Military Arrive Within Ebola Hot Zone – A Prayer For Our Soldiers: Treehouse
Dr. Obama Explains That “You Can’t Get Ebola Sitting Next To Someone On the Bus”: iOTW
Hospital releases new details about Dallas Ebola victim's treatment: Dallas News

Woman Who Claims She Isn’t Running for President Says Islamic State isn’t Islamic: Daniel Greenfield
The Obama Doctrine: Undermine the Military, Coddle Enemies and Distance Friends: FPM
ISIS Posts Photos of Dead Female Peshmerga Soldiers – Obama Attends Fundraiser: GWP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Twitter sues US federal agencies in attempt to remove the gag around surveillance: Sophos
Jitters over US surveillance could break the Internet, tech leaders warn: Stephen Lawson, IDG
AT&T to pay $105 million over bogus charges on wireless bills: Dallas

Cornucopia

Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay: Kevin Poulsen, Wired
Full Body Education: ZenPencils
Democrats: The Change That Infects…: WZ

Image: Woman Who Claims She Isn’t Running for President Says Islamic State isn’t Islamic
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Stop the Obamacare, Ebola, ISIS, Amnesty Six!

QOTD: "Take your pick; there’s no shortage of things to be outraged about. Hundreds of millions wasted on state insurance exchanges that don’t work. The IRS abuses. Lois Lerner, refusing to answer questions from Congress. No one at the State Department getting fired over the security decisions leading up to Benghazi. Assurances about Ebola that don’t pan out.

Republicans are ‘blah’ about the midterms because they’ve lost faith that winning them will make a difference. Obama’s contempt for Congress, and lack of interest in working with it on his true priorities, is obvious. He’s pledged to unilaterally rewrite immigration enforcement to suit his needs. Large chunks of Obamacare are adjusted, nullified, improvised, and revised on the fly with no change to the written law. The president begins wars without waiting for any authorization for the use of military force. The U.S. attorney general is held in contempt of Congress with no real consequence.

No one can blame conservatives for being frustrated to the point of fury. But if American rank-and-file conservatives and Republicans conclude that the game is rigged, that it’s not worth playing, and withdraw from political life . . . then that will be the ultimate triumph of this president." --Jim Geraghty

Thursday, October 09, 2014

OBVIOUSLY NOT MATH MAJORS: Liberals Claim Obama Has Reduced National Deficit By 50%

This is the kind of crap I have to deal with on my timeline as the typical "progressive" struggles to understand arithmetic.


L.D. Jackson, writing at Political Realities, speaks truth to idiocy.

Drought, disease, and dictators aren't even among Africa's worst problems that start with the letter 'D'

By Don Boys, Ph.D.


Africa’s biggest problem is not drought, disease, or dictators (all massive problems) but drinking and defecation! And this is similarly true of India, Asia, and areas of South America. Fully 80 percent of diseases in developing countries are caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation.

Africa, India, and some areas in South America are open cesspools where children play, parents wash clothes and get drinking water, workers irrigate crops, etc. In those areas, fresh water is unknown and open defecation (OD) is common.

Now for the first time in human history most people live in cities, often in the slums. More than 70 percent of Africa’s urban population lives in slums! Around one-third of the urban population in developing countries, nearly one billion people, live in slums, according to estimates. There is one toilet for every 500 people in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

However, the biggest problem is in rural areas where the problem can be more quickly solved but not without difficulty. Nearly 540 million people, more than 60 percent of Africa’s population, currently practice open defecation according to the African Development Bank Group. And worldwide, more than a billion people still “go out back” to take care of one of life’s most important functions. Moreover, in all those areas, they do so where deadly cobras, lions, tigers, etc., roam freely–at night! Seems as if that ever-present danger would cause “bashful bladder” and “bashful bowel.”

WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU EXPECT? Obama FBI says it will "track" -- but not arrest -- returning ISIS fighters

By Investor's Business Daily

War On Terror: Though they've given material assistance to terrorists by fighting for the Islamic State, which is a federal crime, the FBI director says American jihadis are "entitled" to come home and move about freely.

FBI Director James Comey told Scott Pelley on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday that we know who the dozen or so Americans fighting with the Islamic State are, but we can't do much more than follow them around if they decide to return to the U.S.

In the aftermath of 9/11, and in the face of IS atrocities and threats, this is an appalling statement.

"Ultimately, an American citizen, unless their passport's revoked, is entitled to come back," Comey said. "So someone who's fought with ISIL, with an American passport, who wants to come back, we will track them very carefully."

Presumably we will do a better job than we did with the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the Boston Marathon after Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent time in the terrorist-infested Russian republic of Dagestan.

Larwyn's Linx: Hey, Leon Panetta, why didn't you speak out when it mattered?

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Nation

Hey, Leon Panetta, why didn't you speak out when it mattered?: LI
Heads, We lose: Mark Steyn
Court allows North Carolina voting limits: Lyle Denniston

DHS: Claim of ISIS Fighters Nabbed At Border 'Categorically False': Lid
Confirmed: 4 ISIS Terrorists Arrested in Texas in Last 36 Hours: JW
Texas sheriff's deputy hospitalized with symptoms of Ebola: Daily Mail

Is the French Revolution our new model?: Victor Davis Hanson
Jimmy Carter, Racism Straight Up: Ed Driscoll
The Supreme Court’s non-ruling on gay marriage: Cal Thomas

Key Hagan Admits She Skipped Classified Hearing on ISIS for Fundraiser: WFB
Polio-like illness claims fifth life in U.S.: Attkisson
Frisco Patient Exhibiting Ebola Symptoms: CBS DFW

Economy

Report: Obamacare Waivers Too Complicated to Claim: MenRec
Food Stamp Recipients Top 46 Million for 35th Straight Month: Ali Meyer
No, Mr. Obama, budget deficits aren't "manageable" by any measure: FW

Scandal Central

The Leaking Against Obama Picks Up Steam: Erick Erickson
Colorado Whistle Blower Claims Labor Department Unemployment Data Is Fraudulent…: Treehouse
First Whitewater prosecutor says 'serious crimes' were uncovered in probe: Michael Isikoff

Virginia Dem Refuses To Address 250,000 Taxpayers Who Lost Healthcare Due To Obamacare: WFB
Human Rights Commission Says the Freedom to Practice Religion Is not a Human Right: GatPatriot
NM Mayor: ‘All Of A Sudden Federal Government Is Releasing Illegals At 4-To-1 Ratio’: Pat Dollard

Climate & Energy

No laughing matter: EPA to admit it lost agency chief’s text messages: Times
Watching the Goalposts Being Moved: Ed Driscoll
Obama misleads students about climate and energy: WUWT

Media

Race Baiters Jump To Blame Ebola Death On Racism While MSM Ignores The Real Reason: Nice Deb
Mattera, O'Keefe Doing the Work the Mainstream Media Won't (to Democrats): John Nolte
Democrats’ E-mails Descend to Desperation and Farce: RS

Krauthammer: Panetta, Gates Memoirs Prove Obama 'Unserious': Breitbart
Cruz Asks FAA Tough Questions on Ebola: MSM Goes Nuts: CHQ
A New Caste Society: Steve Sailer

Ferguson Protest Leader: We Will Murder People if Darren Wilson Does not Face Criminal Charges: PunditPress
New Obama Bumper Stickers Appearing All Over Los Angeles: Federalist
While our media squabbles, press freedom is disappearing: Spectator

World

WH Whines About Turkey’s Inaction on ISIS; Obama Attends Three Fundraisers in Protest: JWF
General: If Ebola Reaches Central America, 'There Will Be Mass Migration into the U.S.': WS
Analysis: U.S.-led airstrikes produce few gains: ArmyTimes

“Operation Decisive Ambivalence”: Obama Officials Announce Losing Kobani 'Not A Big Concern To Us': Treehouse
You Can’t Understand How Beleaguered Kobani Is Until You See These Maps: Elias Groll, ForPol
Obama State Department Endorses Handbook Calling Jihad 'Noble': HyScience

Blog: Doctors, nurses in Liberia fleeing Ebola hospitals: Rick Moran
What's Coming Next: Raconteur
In Memoriam: WRSA

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Regular Exercise Is Part of Your Job: HBR
YouTube and the Future of Cable News: Adam Flomenbaum, LostRemote
New Relic Gives Business Users Insight into Web Applications: IT Business Edge

Cornucopia

Ben Affleck Criticizes Bill Maher’s ‘Racist’ Views On Islam: The Onion
Tales From the Dark Side: MOTUS
Descendants of 'Aunt Jemima' sue for $2B and future revenue : Kelsey Waananen

Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Stop the Obamacare, Ebola, ISIS, Amnesty Six!

QOTD: "On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to remarks aimed at President Barack Obama from two prominent Democrats in the last few days – former President Jimmy Carter and former Obama administration Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

Both Carter and Panetta have questioned Obama’s resolve to accomplish certain goals he had set out in speeches, especially regarding the threat of ISIS in the Middle East... Krauthammer pointed to not just Panetta remarks as former secretary of defense, but Panetta’s predecessor Bob Gates as well, who was also critical of Obama.

“[L]ook, what's important about that statement is what Carter mentioned about the two secretaries of defense,” Krauthammer said. “Here are two people with a certain loyalty and sympathy to the president -- one a Democrat and one a Republican. In fact, the Democrat, Panetta, is an icon of the party, he's known as a straight shooter. And they both say in their memoirs this guy is indecisive, he vacillates, he doesn't know how to lead. And the word they haven't used but I think we can use is that he's been unserious.”

“He wasn't serious in Libya,” he continued. “He wasn't serious about the red line. He wasn't serious about supporting the moderate opposition two years ago in Syria when it would have made a difference, as Panetta says. And he wasn't serious when he left Iraq entirely with no residual American force which would have made a huge difference. This is on the advice of his political advisors so he can run for re-election as ‘I'm the guy who ended the war in Iraq.’ He didn't end the war in Iraq. Petraeus ended the war in Iraq. Obama is the man who threw away the fruits of victory and a result of that -- the whirlwind we are reaping right now.”" --Jeff Poor

Wednesday, October 08, 2014

BUT THERE'S NOTHING TO CUT: Colorado Welfare Recipients Withdrew Electronic Funds in Hawaii, Vegas, and Virgin Islands

By Arthur Kane

Taxpayers are apparently buying welfare recipients booze and cigarettes for the road — at times a very exotic road.

A Watchdog.org analysis of a Colorado Department of Human Services welfare ATM withdrawals database shows that $3.8 million was withdrawn by Colorado welfare recipients outside the state in the past two years. There were withdrawals at out-of-state liquor stores and tobacco outlets, as well as vacation destinations like Hawaii, Las Vegas and even the Virgin Islands, data shows.

State Rep. Tim Dore, R-Elizabeth, who has urged limitations on where welfare recipients can use their electronic benefit transfer cards in Colorado, was shocked taxpayers are apparently funding some exotic travel.

“I wasn’t even aware of that,” said Dore, who promised to try to address the misuse of cards at liquor stores, casinos and marijuana shops in the next legislative session after Watchdog asked him about those items for previous stories. “That’s an additional issue we need to look into it.”

Last week, Watchdog.org published stories about Colorado welfare withdrawals at liquor stores and casinos despite federal and state law banning such actions and welfare recipients taking out money at the state’s legal marijuana shops. Federal law prevents EBT withdrawals from ATMs at liquor stores, casinos and other adult establishments, and Colorado law since 1996 prevented ATM use in liquor stores and casinos in Colorado.

JUST IN TIME FOR NOVEMBER: Democrats Unveil New Logo

Another @BiffSpackle exclusive.




THE ULTIMATE QUESTION: Just How Big do the Obama Democrats Want to Grow Government?

By James Pethokoukis

Just how big do Democrats/left-liberals/progressives want to grow government? And how high are they willing to raise taxes? If only there were a left-wing version of Paul Ryan’s famous long-term budget blueprint that would outline a multi-decade path for taxing and spending (including how to deal with the coming entitlement tidal wave).

Instead, pretty much all you can find are 10-year budgets showing taxes a bit higher here, spending a bit high there. After that, however, it gets pretty fuzzy. It’s almost as if the pols and wonks on the left are avoiding the subject of what’s beyond the near horizon.

BOOK: Biden got his job as U.S. Senator with help from a Mafia hit-man

Flashback by Labor Union Report

The book I Heard You Paint Houses came out in 2003, so it’s been gathering some dust on a number of bookshelves around the country for quite some time.

The book’s title, according to Amazon, comes from the first words infamous Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors.

The book is essentially the deathbed biography of one-time Delaware Teamster boss and mob hit-man Frank Sheeran and truly is a fascinating read.

[Spoiler alert: Before he died, Sheeran claimed to be the one who killed his friend and mentor, Jimmy Hoffa--whose body was apparently later cremated.]

Despite the book purportedly being made into a movie called The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro , Al Pacino , Joe Pesci, as well as directed by Martin Scorcese, it has not been released yet.

While the book has been out for some time, it wasn’t until last night, during Joe Biden’s prime time speech, that I was reminded of some of the books contents, most notably this piece that appeared in the Orange County Register a few weeks ago:

Larwyn's Linx: Here is the left’s secret plan to turn America into Sweden

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Nation

Here is the left’s secret plan to turn America into Sweden: James Pethokoukis
ObamaCare, that most destructive of ‘reforms’: John Hayward
Only 1 CDC Quarantine Station Along Entire U.S.-Mexico Border: GotNews

Throwing Barack Obama Under the Bus: Erick Erickson
Is Biden the Punchline — or Is America?: Jon Gabriel
Dems Form Circular Firing Squad Ahead of Midterms: LI

10 ISIS Fighters Apprehended Crossing From Mexicon into U.S.: GWP
Revolt Against Obama: Sean Hannity
Democrats will pay the price for Obama in November: David Limbaugh

House Democratic campaign operatives feel abandoned by their party: Moe Lane
Mark Pryor Won’t Answer a Simple Question: Erick Erickson
Say, Whatever Happened To The Bloodbath From NC’s New Gun Laws?: Cove

Economy

What’s Wrong with the American Economy?: Commentary
CPS (ChitCago And 'Free Money'): Karl Denninger
Wal-Mart cuts health benefits for 30,000 part-timers: Katie Lobosco

Scandal Central

Liberals storm California’s bedrooms: Jonah Goldberg
O'Keefe Sting: Top Grimes Donor Admits She’s "Going to F*** ‘Em" (Coal) if Elected: ProgsToday
What Was Found At A Phoenix Crime Scene Could Land Holder And Obama In Boiling Hot Water: WJ

Climate & Energy

EPA welcomes more comments on water regs: Tim Devaney
Climate Hysteria Today: Nothing Is More Dangerous Than Hotcoldwetdry: Cove
The “heat went to the oceans” excuse: deep ocean has not warmed since 2005: WUWT

Media

Ferguson’s Unasked Questions: Heather Mac Donald
Protecting American Population From Ebola Is Denounced as Racist: MB
CNN Axes 300 Jobs: TR

DHS once more relying on SPLC-inspired conflation in domestic threat report : David Codrea
"Creed" by Steve Turner: American Digest
Americans for Prosperity plows millions into building conservative ground force: WaPo

World

Leon Panetta: Obama to blame for Iraq mess: RS
PANETTA: I Knew Right Away Benghazi “Was a Terrorist Attack”: GWP
Freedom X wins lawsuit case against CAIR’s censorship attempt : Christopher Collins

Fox New Reports USAF Father/Son, Targeted Online By ISIS Followers: Fortuna's Corner
ISIS Dangled Heads in Golan Heights to Goad UN Soldiers: GWP
Scotland Yard uncovers ISIS plot to behead people on the streets of London: Scoop

CDC: Airborne Ebola possible but unlikely: Elise Viebeck, The Hill
Epidemiologist says US must stop all flights from Ebola-stricken West Africa: Daily Mail
Pictured: Spanish nurse whose home is under police guard after she contracted Ebola: Daily Mail

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Information Warfare: Israel Perfects The Battlefield Internet: StrategyPage
Navy Reports Breakthrough in Drone ‘Swarming’: Brendan McGarry
Marriott to pay $600K fine for blocking guests' Wi-Fi networks: Naielle Walker, SCMag

Cornucopia

October 7: The Feast of Our Lady of Victory: Michael Novak
40 Pictures 40 Years: American Digest
Ross principal found with drugs, passed-out woman, police say: Kale Williams

Image: Is Biden the Punchline — or Is America?
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Stop the Obamacare Six!

QOTD:

"Yay! Six percent fewer part-time employees have coverage because of ObamaCare! That’s quite an “achievement,” especially since the primary result of Barack Obama’s economic plans has been the wholesale conversion of full-time jobs to part-time positions. An America full of people who work hard, but don’t make enough money to take care of their needs, dependent on an insolvent corporatist program that will soon collapse into a single-payer black hole for their health care? What’s not to like, if you’re a dishonest socialist?

Let us pause once more to remember that President Barack Obama loudly, clearly, and repeatedly promised that nothing like this would ever happen, and anyone who (accurately) warned otherwise was a fearmonger who just wanted poor people to die. ObamaCare remains the biggest con job ever pulled on the American people, dwarfing Bernie Madoff’s financial misadventures by several orders of magnitude.

And the hell of it is, the people telling all these lies, jacking up insurance premiums across the land, and blowing health care plans to smithereens love to congratulate themselves on their compassion. They really care, you see… unless you’re one of the designated losers in their scheme to have the government pick winners. In that case, your travails count for nothing. Not only is your suffering meaningless, but they’ll attack you as a selfish counter-revolutionary for even daring to mention it. No American politician is so callous as a “compassionate” left-winger confronted by someone who got the fuzzy end of a Big Government lollipop." --John Hayward

Tuesday, October 07, 2014

EYE-TRACKING STUDY: How Users View Google Search Result Pages Has Changed Significantly

Interesting report by Ayaz Nanji at MarketingProfs.

The way people engage with Google search engine result pages (SERPs) has changed significantly over the past decade, according to a recent report from Mediative.

The report was based on data from an eye-tracking study of 53 participants who were asked to complete 43 common search tasks, such as looking for an apartment to rent in a particular neighborhood. All searches were conducted on desktop computers in Canada using the Google search engine.

A similar study conducted by Mediative in 2005  found that users tended to focus their gaze on the "Golden Triangle"—the top-left corner of a SERP where the first result was usually displayed.



The 2014 results were strikingly different from those a decade ago. The Golden Triangle has all but disappeared; instead, users tend scan more vertically and to vary their focus depending on what they are searching for...


ISIS Threatens Mass Slaughter After Planting Black Flag In Kobani

By Investor's Business Daily

War On Terror: While hitting a truck here or a tank there, the administration blows another chance to shatter Islamic State forces in open country as they plant their black flags on NATO's doorstep in the Kurdish city of Kobani.

One of the benefits of being a superpower is that you have super power. But power is effective only if you use it, something President Obama is loathe to do.

We have commented before on the administration's video-game air campaign against ISIS, designed to score points with the electorate even as ISIS relentlessly advances.

CNN reports that over the weekend "allied airstrikes destroyed two ISIS tanks, a bulldozer and another ISIS vehicle," likely one of those white pickup trucks ISIS is fond of. We're sending expensive high-tech fighters to fire laser-guided weapons at solitary bulldozers. This is beyond pathetic.

A week ago we warned of the Islamic State advance on Kobani, and the desperate pleas from the Kurds for something more than token airstrikes as they struggled to survive an ISIL onslaught complete with tanks, armored personnel carriers and even heavy artillery.

It was an advance through the wide-open northern desert of Syria that could have been stopped with a sustained around-the-clock air campaign that targeted more than bulldozers.

It would have been a shooting gallery for our B-1 and B-2 bombers. Even a single B-52 might have done more to "degrade and destroy" advancing ISIS forces in one pass than we have accomplished since Obama's anemic air campaign began.

Now it may be too late to do anything as house-to-house fighting in Kobani is under way.

OPERATION ANNOY ISIS

By Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D

On August 7, 2014, Barack Obama announced "Operation Annoy ISIS," ordering U.S. aircraft to drop humanitarian supplies to tens of thousands of Yezidi refugees fleeing the terrorists of the Islamic State. He also ordered U.S. combat aircraft to be ready to launch airstrikes to protect Americans in Erbil, Iraq, and to lift the siege of the Yezidis.

The airstrikes began on Aug. 8, 2014, when two F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region.

On September 10, 2014, Obama declared his intention to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS, while precluding a combat mission for American ground forces in Iraq.

As of October 7, 2014, 60 days into the air campaign against ISIS, a total of 376 airstrikes have been conducted, 266 in Iraq and 110 in Syria, the vast majority targeting vehicles, equipment and buildings, not terrorists.

Supporters of the Obama Administration's approach to the ISIS threat cite the 1999 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air campaign in the Kosovo War as an example of how air power alone can end wars.

On the night of 24 March 1999, NATO launched Operation Allied Force in response to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians. The violence had already taken the lives of more than 250,000 people by 1995, and when the conflict continued to escalate, the United Nations Security Council warned of an "impending humanitarian catastrophe" if action was not taken.

During the 78-day campaign, NATO aircrews flew 38,004 sorties, 10,484 of which were strike sorties. Overall, the U.S. Air Force flew 30,018 sorties, including 11,480 airlift, 8,889 fighter, 322 bomber, 6,959 tanker, 1,038 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), 834 Special Operations, and 496 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) missions.

FUKUSHIMA: Senate Candidate Alison Grimes' (D-KY) Campaign in Complete Meltdown Mode

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas is doing the heavy investigative lifting that legacy media tends to do only when the target is a Republican.

Yesterday, news dropped that the campaign staff of Alison Grimes (D-Candidate, Kentucky) admitted she was flat out lying when she said she would protect the state's coal industry against the radical Obama Left.

Undercover reporters from O’Keefe’s “Project Veritas” organization visited Grimes campaign offices and Democratic-party headquarters in Kentucky, posing as anti-coal environmentalists. Hidden cameras caught staffers explaining that Grimes doesn’t really support Kentucky’s robust coal industry, and is instead seeking to blur the lines between herself and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a state deeply hostile to President Obama and his environmental agenda.

“You know she has to say that,” said Juanita Rodriguez, a Warren County Democratic operative. “Because in Kentucky if you don’t support the coal industry, you are dead . . . It’s a lying game, unfortunately.”

“If we can get her elected, do you think she is going to do the right thing and she’s gonna try to wipe out that coal industry and go for better resources?” one of the reporters asked Fayette County Democratic Committee member Gina Bess.

“I absolutely think she is,” Bess replied.

Today, the other shoe dropped. Investigators taped a wealthy Democrat donor admitting that Grimes intended to help Obama destroy the coal industry and that any statements to the contrary were lies designed to full the inbred hilljacks in Kentucky.

A top Grimes donor and real estate tycoon, Niko Elmaleh, was caught on tape saying Grimes was going to f*** the coal industry.

PV: So you know that Alison will help us stop coal?

Niko Elmaleh: Come on Dude. What do you think?

PV: I think yes, but I haven’t heard it straight up.

Niko Elmaleh: She can’t say it straight up.

PV: She supports big coal.

Niko Elmaleh: No. She’s going to f*** ‘em as soon as she gets elected.

PV: Really?

Niko Elmaleh: Yeah. Take my word for it. Here. Take my word for it.

Niko Elmaleh: She’s going to have to do what she has to do to get elected and then she’s going to f*** them.

Niko Elmaleh: Okay trust me. She’s a killer.

By all accounts, incumbent Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell -- whose vow to "crush" the Tea Party was among the dumbest public pronouncements by a politician not named Joe Biden -- is locked in a neck-and-neck race with Grimes.

As an aside, if McConnell happens to lose even after these latest revelations, rest assured it's because: (a) he insulted the base of his own party; and (b) he refused to apologize for said abuse.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Messengers of Dem Doom

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Nation

Messengers of Dem Doom: LI
Campaign Like Your Kids’ Lives Depend On It – Because They Do: CHQ
Cruz: SCOTUS Decision On Same-Sex Marriage Is "Tragic, Indefensible": Ace

Midnight in Obama’s Garden of Good and Evil: Roger L. Simon
You Will Be Made to Care: The Semblance of Normalcy: Erick Erickson
ISIS, Ebola — Americans can handle the truth: Cal Thomas

A Terrorist’s Best Friend: Political Correctness: William Pollack
Nine Apologies Biden Owes Americans: Keith Koffler
Democrats Are Getting Ready For The Blame Game: Ace

The Alison Grimes campaign may now start imploding.: RS
Democrats start to point fingers: FreeRep
2014 Dem Meltdown: Even Axelrod is Now Admitting Obama's "Mistakes": Surge

Economy

Teacher indoctrination: Walter Williams
Illegal aliens bring 21 dialects that teachers don’t understand: EAG
The state of boys: In crisis: Rob Nikolewski

Scandal Central

Ron Fournier: Obama Used ‘Incompetence As A Defense’ For His Scandals: WFB
O’Keefe: Senate Campaign For Dem Alison Grimes Admits She’s Lying To Get Elected!: ProgsToday
Swastikas Painted On Jewish Fraternity House At Emory University: CI

“Judicial Tyranny” — Mark Levin on the Supreme Court’s “sleazy as it gets” non-ruling: Scoop
Surprise! Sandy Hook Commission Targets Homeschoolers Despite Lack Of Evidence: Ace
Lois Lerner Tries Barging Into Neighbor’s Home To Evade Questions: Surge

Climate & Energy

Zero Percent Water: Alan Heathcock
Grimes Staff Caught on Hidden Camera: She’s Lying About Support for Coal Industry: WFB
DODGE: Hillary Clinton refuses to comment on Keystone: Scoop

Media

Daily Forward: We are all #PamelaGeller: JihadWatch
Send Me Money Or Else!: Kurt Schlichter
Weiner can’t even talk sports with naked models without getting grief: Twitchy

Michelle Obama Won’t Campaign For Democrats Because She’s Mad Over Letter About Potatoes: DC
Obama Booed During PSA at Michigan State Football Game: Paula Bolyard
CBS Defends Ben Affleck Following Battle With Maher Over Radical Islam: CNS

America’s “Elites” Are No Longer Elite And Our “Intellectuals” Aren’t Intellectual: John Hawkins
George Will Uninvited From Scripps College: Claremont Independent

World

What the Arab World Produces: Dennis Prager
Ralph Peters: People in Kobani will pay a tragic price for Obama’s out right cowardice: Scoop
Massive blast reported at suspected Iranian nuke facility: Times of Israel

Mexican President: Anti-Immigration Americans Are Racist: Breitbart
Why Won’t Obama Ban Air Travel From Countries Where Ebola Is Out Of Control?: Michael Snyder
Jihadi Chatter Online About Using Ebola, Poisons As Weapon Against The U.S.: MEMRI

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

It's official: HP will break itself in two: James Niccolai, IDG
Facebook Messenger may soon let you pay your friends, code leaks reveal: 9to5Mac
Bad EHR Workflow Played Role in Ebola Patient's Release: CIO

Cornucopia

The Ebola Farce: A Guest Post by Ol’ Remus of The Woodpile Report: Liberty's Torch
Go. Away. Jeb.: iOTW
Rightful Liberty and ‘Standing Up’: Max Velocity

Are Any of You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?: MOTUS
Obama's Failures Were All Predicted: TAB
Pic o' the Day = Passing the Torch: AWD

Image: @directorblue
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QOTD: "A prominent conservative political pundit was uninvited from speaking at Scripps College, in a program designed to promote conservative views on campus, because of his conservative views." --Brad Richardson

Monday, October 06, 2014

BOOM: Husband of Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) Formed "Green Energy" Company to Profit From Obama Stimulus

But the Democrat Senator from North Carolina claims she knew nothing -- nothing -- about her husband's "business":

Sen. Kay Hagan’s husband and son created a solar energy contracting company in August 2010, and then, using $250,644 in federal stimulus grant funds, her husband hired that same company to install solar panels at a building he owns.

Public records show that Green State Power was formed seven weeks before JDC Manufacturing — a company owned in part by Greensboro attorney Charles “Chip” Hagan III, Sen. Hagan’s husband — received the stimulus grant for the solar project at a 300,000-square-foot facility in Reidsville, N.C.

A story in late September on the Washington, D.C.-based website Politico revealed that JDC Manufacturing received “nearly $390,000 in federal grants for energy projects and tax credits created by the 2009 stimulus law, according to public records and information provided by the company.”

President Ebola

By Alan Caruba


What does it tell you when Britain and France have stopped flights to and from the nations in Africa where Ebola has become a threat and the United States has not taken a similar measure?

What does it tell you when the President sends 3,000 U.S. troops on a “humanitarian” mission to West Africa? It tells me he has put the U.S. at risk if any or a portion of these troops return after having been infected.

As always history has lessons that cannot be ignored. In 1918 and 1919, there was a pandemic of the Spanish influenza that caught nations by surprise, infecting an estimated 500 million people and killing between 50 and a 100 million of them in three waves. It began in the U.S. in March 1918 at a crowded army camp, Fort Riley, Kansas.