Sunday, October 12, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Just in time for the midterm elections, another case of Ebola in our open borders U.S.

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Nation

Just in time for the midterms, another case of Ebola in U.S.: Dallas
10 Unaccompanied Illegal Alien Minors Diagnosed With TB: CNS
Michigan Toddler Becomes Sixth Death From Enterovirus D68 : Treehouse

Luis Delcid-Cardona, illegal Alien from Guatemala, kills three NJ teens: FAM
Commies and Cop-Haters threaten to shut down Cardinals game: GWP
As ISIS Circles Baghdad, Obama Arrives in SF For 2 Days of Fundraisers: HAP

President Obama Has Lost Our Trust: Rick Jensen
Prostitute Scandal: Dems Returned $20K Check to WH Aide’s Dad: Keith Koffler
Don’t Scare Us, Prepare Us: Michael Reagan

Hillary's reputation for competence at State erodes from within: Lee Cary
Obama vows he’s ‘not finished’ after naming new monument: The Hill
Grimes (KY-D Cand) Really Doesn’t Want To Admit She Voted For Obama: OTB

Economy

School officials abuse 5 year old who drew something resembling a gun: ProWis
Under Common Core, Children Taught Jabberwocky Math: MB
GM Recalls 97,540 Cars for Stalling, Yearly Recalls Now Total 76: Automnews

Scandal Central

Move over Lois Lerner: Lawsuit Says IRS Destroying Evidence Again: CFIF
The Return of the Cartagena Hooker: Mark Steyn
Friday Document Dump: Clintons Wanted to Force Militias to Register With Federal Goverment: Sooper

Climate & Energy

Inconsiderate Mr. Krugman: Cafe Hayek
EPA Withdraws From Clean Water Case, Farm Bureau Declares Victory: Andrew Jenner
Phoenix Light Rail Update: We Spent $1.4billion+ to Reduce Transit Ridership: Coyote

Media

Biden says he’s Praying for the Shooting of a High Profile Victim to Push Gun Control: BuzzPo
CNN Keeps the Cartagena Hookers Under Wraps: Ed Driscoll
Lewis Black’s ridiculous rant against voter ID destroyed with a single tweet: Twitchy

Culture Wars All the Way Down : Jonah Goldberg
The Walking Dead in an Age of Anxiety: Michael J. Totten
Decorated Vets Respond to ISIS’ Online Threats: IJR

World

The Best Speech I've Ever Heard: Scoop
Air Force Pilots Say They Have No ISIS Targets To Bomb, Getting Clearance “Painfully Slow”: WZ
UK: Street preacher charged with “religious aggravation” for comparing Jesus and Muhammad: Robert Spencer

Kurdish Female Fighter Allegedly Kills ISIS Top Commander In Street Fighting In Kobani: WZ
Arab-Israeli Hamed Mohammed Habashi 'Killed Fighting for Isis in Iraq': Tom Porter
Peters: US Airstrikes Not Working – Obama Must Want Islamist State in Damascus: GWP

Russia Deploying Tactical Nuclear Arms in Crimea: Katie McGuire
Bombings kill 45 in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad and outskirts - police, medical officials: Reuters
Worst Ebola epidemic in history: RT

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

SHOCKING: Doctor in Liberia Explains MILLIONS Wasted in Ebola Fight: R.S. McCain
New Research: Ebola Transmission Rate is Exponential at Early Stages: IJR
MIT Students Claim Astronauts Will Starve On 'Mars One' Mission: PopSci

Cornucopia

Rightful Liberty: Continental Congress: Max Velocity
The Next Best Thing to an Ivy League Education: Fashion: MOTUS
Pixel Perfect: American Digest

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

QOTD: "The problems with Obamacare were so bad that they elicited public criticism from Obama’s two living Democratic predecessors. “His major accomplishment was Obamacare and the implementation of it is now questionable at best,” said Jimmy Carter. Bill Clinton urged Obama to keep his word. “The president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.”

The Obama presidency has seen many low points, but this has to have been one of the lowest​—​Jimmy Carter questioning Obama’s competence and Bill Clinton questioning his integrity." --Stephen F. Hayes

Saturday, October 11, 2014

And now, a special message from Gwyneth Paltrow

The way Allen West puts it, Hollywood dimwit Gwyneth Paltrow has a "crush on dictatorship".




Hat tip: @BiffSpackle.

THE LOGIC ZONE: Where No Democrats Dare to Tread

Well, this newcomer to Twitter looks like a must-follow: @HeisenBurgaKing:


DEMOCRAT COMRADES: Now is the Time to Embrace Dear Leader!

By The People's Cube


Comrades, I'm confused as usual. What do we do? Our party seems to be distancing itself from Dear Leader at election time. Dear Leader's greatest ability other than golf, vacations, blaming rethugs and George W. Bush <spit>, blaming teabaggers, blaming Reagan <double spit>, blaming the Founding Fathers <triple spit>, reading from his teleprompter, and lecturing the country is to campaign.

Yet our party is not using his most glorious talents. They seem to be running away from Dear Leader. But Dear Leader is the greatest and most glorious leader the world has ever had. Our party has made this abundantly clear. He won two terms for Marx's sake! He has stopped the rising of the seas! He is the one we have been waiting for! He has created so many phantom and part time jobs!

So why is our party trying to hide from Dear Leader? In that reichwing hillbilly state of Kentucky, our party's nominee wouldn't say whether she voted for Dear Leader. The Daily Mail has a horribly disrespectful headline about this. What's the matter with her? Dear Leader is so wonderful that even Mitch McConnell <spit> should claim to have voted for Dear Leader even though McConnell is a racist who probably voted for Romney. Britain's Telegraph is claiming the love affair with Dear Leader is over.

What do we do, Comrades? Do we do what the party is doing and avoid Dear Leader? Do we not send in our $3 contributions when he repeatedly auctions off a dinner with himself and FLATUS (where we sit at the table and watch her eat her meals AND ours)? Do we not admit we voted for him? We're told the party is always right. But abandoning Dear Leader is rotten, racist, and seems just plain wrong. It's just not right that we should have to choose Dear Leader or our party.

Maybe we should override the party? Perhaps create a group that makes it clear that we are sticking by Dear Leader? Shouldn't we point out that Dear Leader IS the party? Without him, the party is nothing and all that?


Hat tip: @AmericanPowerBlog.

Paul Krugman Trolls Every Man, Woman and Child in the United States

That's how Downtrend's Brian Anderson describes possibly the dumbest comment ever made by the dumbest Nobel Prize winner in history.

In a piece titled In Defense Of Obama, Krugman appears to be trolling the country with this opinion:
Despite bitter opposition, despite having come close to self-inflicted disaster, Obama has emerged as one of the most consequential and, yes, successful presidents in American history.
Stop laughing; Krugman is serious (I think). The main reason he thinks Obama is doing great and leaving a stellar legacy is because the public perception of his failure is an illusion:
Yes, Obama has a low approval rating compared with earlier presidents. But there are a number of reasons to believe that presidential approval doesn’t mean the same thing that it used to… More important, however, polls – or even elections – are not the measure of a president. High office shouldn’t be about putting points on the electoral scoreboard, it should be about changing the country for the better.
Still not convinced, just look at this list of Obama’s accomplishments:

Larwyn's Linx: Ebola: Officials Sound the Alarm

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Nation

Ebola: Officials Sound the Alarm: Sharyl Attkisson
Boehner to Obama: Don't Import Gitmo Terrorists to America: Daniel Halper
Self-imported ISIS suicide Ebola bioweapons in U.S.?: IM41

CDC: 4,500 People a Month Enter from Ebola-Stricken Countries: CNS
Obama-apppointed Judge strikes down Texas Voter ID Law: WZ
Ferguson, St. Louis Protestors Burn US Flag: “this is not our flag”: Treehouse

Let’s Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow: MOTUS
Why I Oppose Liberalism: John Hawkins
WaPo Reporter: White House Spin on Hooker-gate "Demonstrably False": Ace

Wendy Davis’ campaign ends in farce – runs Greg Abbott Wheelchair Ad: LI
Susan Collins says it’s too late to repeal Obamacare; Mark Levin responds »: Scoop
Michelle Obama calls ‘Bruce Bailey’ (D-CAND, Iowa Senate) a ‘Marine.’: Moe Lane

Economy

Chicago Teachers Union sending bus of protesters to Ferguson: EAG
California Law Requires Doctors To Undergo LGBT Re-education: RWN
The Lies Of The Obama Administration Continue: Realities

Scandal Central

Did CIA Meet With CAIR to Purge Anti-Muslim Training Material? It’s Classified: JW
Were Fast and Furious guns used in a Phoenix gang shooting?: John Hayward
The Jarrett Junto: Failure Is In The Eyes Of The Beholder: Saints

Climate & Energy

Nancy Pelosi Goes Silent When Asked About Her Crony Ties To Tom Steyer: Surge
Renewable Energy Protest Fails After Solar Battery Can’t Fill Up Balloon: GWP
In a stunning reversal, the Australian Labor Party bails out on the ‘carbon tax’: WUWT

Media

Barack Obama, Gwyneth Paltrow and the Pathetic and Grotesque 1%.: RS
‘And Yes, Obama Will Go All “Captain Queeg” On The Country’: Saints
Mark Levin Blasts 'Arlen Specter in a Dress' Susan Collins: Breitbart

Bill Whittle: You're not a liberal...you're an infant: Poor Richard
This Hilarious John Oliver Video Explains How Police Can Legally Seize Your Property: Dialy Signal
Dr. Beckel Has Become Mr. “Hide”!: Surge

When Political Correctness Endangers Women: Bethany Mandel
President Obama Reaches Out to Working Moms like Gwyneth Paltrow: Jim Geraghty
New York Times Leads With Scoffing Over GOP's 'Dismal...Grim' Anti-Obama Campaign Rhetoric: NB

World

Burrowing Out: DPU
We know how to win the Jihad War: James Lewis
Battle for Baghdad: ISIS now within 8 miles of airport, armed with MANPADS: RT

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Fast, simple diagnostic test specific to 2014 Ebola outbreak: ScienceDaily
The Snappening — Snapchat Hacker Threatens to Leak thousands of Nude Images: HackerNews
Kmart Says Credit Card System Breached In Malware Attack: BuzzFeed

Cornucopia

Gagging at Gnats...: Liberal Logic 101
Another look at the 'Top Ten List of America‘s Stupidity': Obiter Dictum
Going all the way back to 1977: Joe Blogs

Image: Ferguson, St. Louis Protestors Burn US Flag: “this is not our flag”
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Stop the Obamacare, Ebola, ISIS, Amnesty Six!

QOTD: "But you know who might be afraid, President Obama, child. The latest approval ratings seemed to have sunk lower than George Bush's levels. Partly because more than half of Americans are disapproving of the way he seems to be handling terrorism. Now ISIS is a big threat that keeps growing. Does he have to -- does he have the wherewithal to get us into another war after trying to get us out of a war for eight years?" --Whoopi Goldberg

Friday, October 10, 2014

The Penultimate Indictment of Barack Obama

By Investor's Business Daily

Leadership: The former president on whose watch Americans were taken hostage and the mullahs rose to power in Iran gets it right in condemning the current president's failed handling of Syria and the Islamic State.

We've often referred to Jimmy Carter as our worst president. But considering the recent IBD/TIPP poll showed 53% of Americans labeling Barack Obama's presidency a failure in just its sixth year, the incumbent may soon claim the title. It's one thing to make mistakes out of gullibility, quite another to foul up the world out of gross incompetence.

It is said that Carter's presidency literally crashed and burned in the Iranian desert with the failed Desert One Delta Force mission that was sent to rescue our embassy hostages from the clutches of the mullahs he had naively helped to power. But as we have noted, at least Carter tried a rescue, as President Obama failed to do at Benghazi as he rested up for a Las Vegas fundraiser.

Carter at least acknowledged and belatedly learned from his mistakes. As James Jay Carafano of the Heritage Foundation points out, Carter, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, declared the "Carter Doctrine" and warned the Soviets that the U.S. would defend its interests in the Middle East "by force if necessary." That, presumably, included the threat of boots on the ground.

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:

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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