Sunday, December 14, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Pro-Amnesty Senate GOP Leaders Find Harry Reid’s Crap Sandwich Quite Tasty

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Nation

Pro-Amnesty Senate GOP Leaders Find Harry Reid’s Crap Sandwich Quite Tasty: RS
BREAKING! Constitution voted DOWN, CRomnibus victorious!: Scoop
God Bless Senator Mike Lee: R.S. McCain

Leftist Lynch Mobs from Ferguson to Rolling Stone: Sultan Knish
Stand With Cruz, Lee Against Imperial President: Jen Kuznicki
Dear progressives: don’t wear Obama shirts while burning American flags: Moe Lane

Headline correction: “Ted Cruz makes his mark” (#CRomnibus): LI
So, How Low is the Morale at ICE?: WeaponsMan
Senate passes $1.1T funding bill: The Hill

Hillary will crumble if Elizabeth Warren just says “Yes”: LI
Jeb Bush Doesn’t Think He Needs Conservative Support in 2016: LI
NYC: Sorry, Idiots Blocked the Brooklyn Bridge: WZ

Communist/Anarchist-Linked ‘Millions March’ in NYC Brings Out 12 Thou: Sara Noble
#MillionsMarchNYC Protesters Chant “What Do We Want? Dead Cops!": DownTrend
Why NYC police don't want mayor at police funerals: CS Monitor

Scandal Central

Federal Judge Blasts DOJ Prosecutor For Lying To The Court: TeaParty
Illegal Immigrant Drug Smuggler Sues After He’s Bitten By Border Patrol Dog: RWN
Top Democrat Congressman propositioned policy expert for sex: RWN

Climate & Energy

John Kerry Announces that Obama is Wasting $3 BILLION Tax Dollars on UN’s Global Warming Scheme: RWN

Media

Progressivism Is Simply Barbarism: Bill Whittle
Governor Sarah Palin: "Whose Side Are You On": C4P
Report: 2A Support Reaches Record Highs: Extrano's Alley

The Left’s plan to retake state legislatures through targeted character assassination: Moe Lane
St. Louis Post Dispatch Declares That Banning Editorial Comments Will 'Elevate The Ferguson Conversation': TechDirt
Sony suspends film shoots after hackers hit payments: Telegraph

World

Senile Old Fool McCain Denounces America for Interrogating Terrorists and Even for Bombing Nazis: MB
Al-Azhar: No Takfir Against the Islamic State: GoV
Report: Up to 1,000 Syrian Rebels Vetted By Obama Admin Have Joined Al Nusra Front: RWN

Thanks, Obama: Iran Uses Truce To Buy Reactor Parts: AmInt
Is Obama secretly working to replace Netanyahu?: Aaron Klein
China Wins a Day in Hong Kong: AmInt

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Did mysterious pipeline blast in 2008, not Stuxnet, open new cyberwar era?: Stripes
Leaked Emails Reveal MPAA Plans To Pay Elected Officials To Attack Google: TechDirt
Giant Sun Storm of 2012 Shown in Fiery Detail: Space

Cornucopia

So What Am I, Chopped Liver?: MOTUS
The Hobbit and The Office Collide for Epic SNL Parody: Mediaite
Most Moving Part of This ‘Angels We Have Heard on High’ Rendition Comes at 3:00 Mark: Blaze

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QOTD: "The activists of the left must be forced to admit whether they are for or against the presumption of innocence. If they want to dispense with the presumption of innocence when it comes to enemies of the people like police officers and fraternity members, it will also go away for Islamic terrorists and violent thugs. Not to mention Weather Underground terrorists teaching at prestigious progressive colleges.

We cannot have a presumption of innocence for some people and not others. The left is not entitled to create two justice systems for two types of people. One group will be lynched with a formality of a trial manipulated to produce a verdict that not only damns one defendant, but also his entire race or gender. The other will receive every possible defense no matter how obvious his guilt may be.

America is a nation of laws, not of racist lynch mobs. Its trials are based on facts, not on narratives. The presumption of innocence matters more than the narrative and the social justice hashtag. Without it all we have left are racist lynch mobs with smartphones marching through Manhattan." --Daniel Greenfield

Saturday, December 13, 2014

A NEW, ORIGINAL SHORT STORY: The Thrilling Adventures of Secret Agent Double-Oh Boener

The name's Boener. John Boener.

While you may know me as the Speaker of the House in Congress and a Republican, by night I'm actually a secret agent.

I plopped down on the last open barstool and waited for the bartender to swing by.

It was getting harder and harder to find a bar in DC where I wouldn't be recognized. After a careful check of an old AAA map, though, I'd found one that was certain to be off the political grid.

The big fat guy next to me was wearing a cheap suit and a clip-on tie. He rotated his stool 90 degrees to face me.

"Hey, Mr. Speaker! How'z ya doin'?"

"Eh, I'm not John Boener," I grumpily intoned, "Get mistaken for him all the time. Name's, uh, Smokey Smith."

Before he got a chance to say anything more, the bartender ambled up.

"Give me a Southern Comfort and Ginger Ale with lemons, olives, and a maraschino cherry," I said, "And make it shaken, not stirred."

The bartender looked surprised.

"You want Ginger Ale shaken? But, sir --"

"You heard me, sonny! And put some elbow grease into it!"

Seeing the expression on my face, he hurriedly departed to make the Boener signature drink, one not found in any book.

CROMNIBUS-CRUSHING CRUZ: I keep finding a new reason to love Ted Cruz every day

And I mean "love" in a strictly platonic, ultra-masculine kind of way, of course.

Alexander Bolton of The Hill whines that Cruz is the center of the Senate's budget meltdown:

Sen. Ted Cruz, the firebrand conservative freshman from Texas, has blown up the Senate leadership’s plans to have a peaceful weekend by forcing round-the-clock votes on President Obama’s nominees and the $1.1 trillion omnibus.

Cruz took to the floor late Friday to castigate congressional leaders for trying to pass the 1,600-page spending bill after only a few hours of debate and questioned the resolve of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to fight Obama’s executive order protecting five million illegal immigrants from deportation.

“Even though millions of voters rose up just one month ago to protest how President Obama and the Senate Democrats were running Washington, business as usual is continuing inside the marble halls of the United State Congress,” Cruz said in a fiery floor speech.

Because of objections from Cruz and his ally Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), the Senate will begin slogging through procedural votes on nominees starting at noon Saturday and vote to end a filibuster of the omnibus spending package at 1 a.m. Sunday morning...

...Cruz will force colleagues to vote Sunday on a point-of-order procedural objection that he is raising to the spending bill to protest Obama’s immigration order.

“This procedural tool will ensure that every Senator will be on record regarding the constitutionality of President Obama's illegal amnesty,” said Cruz’s spokeswoman Catherine Frazier... Cruz questioned whether McConnell and Boehner are fully committed to battling Obama on immigration.

“I would note that a whole lot of citizens across the country feel a little bit like Charlie Brown with Lucy and the football, wherein fight after fight leadership in Congress says, we’ll fight next time — not this time, no, no, no. The wise thing to do is to fight in a month, fight in two months,” he said on the Senate floor... “This bill is not designed to help working Americans. It is designed to pay off all the promises made to lobbyists who funded campaigns over the past year,” Cruz said in his lengthy floor statement... Before the United States Senate is a bill that does nothing, absolutely nothing to stop President Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional amnesty,” he said.

In an era of Oligarchs and partisan mush, Cruz is a beacon of hope. The Framers would be proud.

We need a Constitutional conservative with some testicular fortitude in the White House in 2016. I see only three viable contenders at the moment: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, or Scott Walker. I could support any one of the three -- with gusto.


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Larwyn's Linx: CROmnibus: A $1 Trillion Betrayal

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Nation

CROmnibus: A $1 Trillion Betrayal: James Simpson
Obama Flashback: ‘If you don’t like my policies, go out there and win an election’: PJM
An Open Letter To The Republican Leadership In Congress: John Hawkins

Boehner Betrays His Conservative Base: NoisyRm
Boehner to Aide-Turned-Lobbyist: 'No One Ever Really Leaves Boehnerland': Breitbart
House buys Senate some time on budget bill; approves second stopgap: Fox

9/11 Widow On ‘Torture Report': Torture Is What We Suffered From 9/11: WZ
Cruz, Lee, Sessions Pushing To Defund Amnesty In Vote Tonight: WZ
What 2014 Means For 2016: Michael Barone

Why Isn’t Elizabeth Warren Being Branded a Dangerous Kook?: Keith Koffler
Gohmert, Salmon: Boehner worked with Obama, not conservatives: Scoop
This Is Life Under Totalitarianism: WRSA

Economy

Obama: ‘I Spend Most of My Time Watching ESPN in the Morning’: WFB
Tom Coburn’s Stirring Message to Fellow Senators, in 90 Seconds: Melissa Quinn
Christmas Bonuses for Uniformed Retirees Weaken the NYC Pension Funds: CBCNY

Scandal Central

IRS Gave $14.5 Billion in Low-Income Tax Credits to the Wrong People: FiscalTimes
Obama just tweeted something that is straight up communist: WAW
New Lois Lerner emails indicate Obama’s DOJ involved in IRS targeting scandal: Noah Rothman

Climate & Energy

How Icelandic volcano Bardarbunga will plunge Europe into the dark ages: Big Wobble
Kerry: Renewable Energy Will Make the Tech Boom Pale in Comparison: IOTWreport
Bolivian President Blames Capitalism For “Climate Change”: Cove

Media

Michael Brown's Adult Criminal Record: 90 Miles
Gay Hollywood Exec Outs Obama: TAB
Palin: ‘RINO Season Opens Soon And Don’t Hold Back’: FNI

An Hour with Ann Barnhardt: Andrea Shea King
Sheriff Clark: After Obama, We'll Need “Period Of Reconstruction To Put The Country Back Together”: Nice Deb
NBC Hails Elizabeth Warren ‘the Liberal Wing’s Newest Star’; Blasted Cruz Over 2013 Funding Fight: MRC

Hannity: 'John Gruber Boehner' 'Should Not Be Speaker' : Breitbart
RINOS Beware: Sean Hannity Yanks Karl Rove Off The Air!: Hideout
Krauthammer: Elizabeth Warren’s Cromnibus Protest is “Spectacular Hypocrisy”: LI

World

The Feinstein Report Is Going to Cost Us: Andrew C. McCarthy
To whom it may concern: Vic Rosenthal
CIA Docs Obtained by JW in 2010 Show Congress Approved of Enhanced Interrogation: JW

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Verizon's New, Encrypted Calling App Plays Nice With the NSA: BizWk
Las Vegas Sands' Casino Network hit by Destructive Malware: Hacker News
No Respite for Sony: TNW

Cornucopia

Mysterious Death of Obama Critic and Reporter on Bin Laden’s Death and Ferguson Labeled Suicide: Daily Sheeple
"On any street in any town / In any state if any clown": American Digest
Video reveals how to wrap Christmas gifts in just 12 SECONDS: DailyMail

Image: Salvador Dali
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QOTD: "Back in 2010 Judicial Watch obtained government documents—once marked “Top Secret”—that reveal between 2001 and 2007, the CIA briefed at least 68 members of Congress on its interrogation program. This included so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.” The dates of all congressional briefings and, in some cases, the members of Congress in attendance as well as the specific subjects discussed are included in the files. Pelosi, who has publicly denied she was briefed by the CIA on the use of these techniques, is specifically referenced in a briefing that took place on April 24, 2002, regarding the “ongoing interrogations of Abu Zubaydah.”

After being the subject of enhanced interrogation techniques, Zubaydah identified Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) as the mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed thousands of innocent Americans. Before Zubaydah identified KSM, currently held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, the 9/11 mastermind didn’t even appear in the intelligence community’s file of key Al Qaeda operatives or associates. KSM, in turn, provided valuable intel about another Al Qaeda jihadist, Majid Khan, who, in turn, identified a terrorist named Zubair who was subsequently captured. Zubair later provided information that led to the arrest of Al Qaeda’s South Asia leader.

These jihadists didn’t exactly provide this valuable information willingly over tea and biscuits. The CIA held meetings with legislators as it pursued broader authority for its interrogation program, which did not begin until the agency got legal guidance from the Department of Justice (DOJ). A separate CIA report obtained by JW details the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques to thwart Al Qaeda operations in the United States and overseas. Nevertheless, President Obama banned the use of enhanced interrogation techniques during his first week in office in January 2009 and withheld information detailing the program’s successes. His allies in Congress did an about-face, pretending to be shocked and in the dark about the interrogation program they had been briefed about—and apparently endorsed—so many times" --Judicial Watch

Friday, December 12, 2014

A Government of Wolves

By John W. Whitehead

“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens.”—Leo Tolstoy

My 7-year-old granddaughter has suddenly developed a keen interest in card games: Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Old Maid, Blackjack, and War. We’ve fallen into a set pattern now: every time we play, she deals the cards, and I pretend not to see her stacking the deck in her favor. And of course, I always lose.

I don’t mind losing to my granddaughter at Old Maid, knowing full well the game is rigged. For now, it’s fun and games, and she’s winning. Where the rub comes in is in knowing that someday she’ll be old enough to realize that being a citizen in the American police state is much like playing against a stacked deck: you’re always going to lose.

The game is rigged, and “we the people” keep getting dealt the same losing hand. Even so, we stay in the game, against all odds, trusting that our luck will change.

The problem, of course, is that luck will not save us. The people dealing the cards—the politicians, the corporations, the judges, the prosecutors, the police, the bureaucrats, the military, the media, etc.—have only one prevailing concern, and that is to maintain their power and control over the country and us.

It really doesn’t matter what you call them—the 1%, the elite, the controllers, the masterminds, the shadow government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military industrial complex—so long as you understand that while they are dealing the cards, the deck will always be stacked in their favor.

Incredibly, no matter how many times we see this played out, Americans continue to naively buy into the idea that it’s our politics that divide us as a nation. As if there were really a difference between the Democrats and Republicans. As if the policies of George W. Bush were any different from those of Barack Obama. As if we weren’t a nation of sheep being fattened for the kill by a ravenous government of wolves.

Democrat Staffers Shame Themselves With Anti-Law Enforcement Lie

By Investor's Business Daily

Justice: Led by the Senate chaplain, of all people, congressional staffers fan the flames of racial division by doing something that Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, never did before he assaulted officer Darren Wilson.

It mattered not to the congressional aides who walked off their jobs Thursday to protest the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York that a police officer dies while on duty every 58 hours — or that a grand jury found that officer Darren Wilson had reason to fear becoming one of them.

There they were, raising their hands in a gesture that black witnesses testifying before a grand jury said Michael Brown never made as he charged Wilson "like a football player" and after he punched Wilson and struggled for the cop's firearm.

President Obama's Post-Racial America

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke is the real deal:


As for all of the vainglorious promises candidate Obama made about a post-racial America?


He and Eric Holder have set race relations back at least five decades. At least.


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TOP 12 QUOTES FROM RUSH'S EPIC RANT: Boehner and Obama Have Joined Forces to Destroy Conservatives

There's only one problem with their plan: Constitutional Conservatives are the American people; therefore, any attempt to destroy conservatism is an attempt to eradicate the fabric of America:

1 The news is that the Republican Speaker of the House has thrown in with Barack Obama. I don't care what the Democrats are doing. What does that matter? Holy smokes: John Boehner has just squandered the election results before the Republicans even are sworn in to run the Senate...

2 There is a major falling out taking place in the Democrat Party, and we're supposed to be enthused by this, by the way, we're supposed to be excited by it... we're supposed to look the other way while our Speaker of the House gets in bed with Obama and advances the Obama agenda, takes care of it, amnesty, Obamacare, fully funded, done deal. The election must not have mattered.

3 [Campaign contribution] limits have practically been obliterated, which means that corporate donors can just start giving left and right. It used to be a limit of $37,000. Now it's $737,000, something... You know why? The Republicans put it in... This is how corporate America's gonna defeat the Tea Party. By allowing limitless donations from that crowd under the rubric that it's campaign finance and money is speech and freedom of speech and First Amendment. The theory is that Main Street, Tea Party people can't come close to competing with corporate money.

4 Marlin Stutzman is a Republican from Indiana... he's saying ... that he was lied to by the Republican leadership; that the Republican leadership reneged on a deal they made with him to get his support for the omnibus bill... Stutzman, Republican, Indiana, was one of the last Republicans to vote in favor of the rule allowing the House to fully vote on the omnibus spending bill, the $1.1 trillion omnibus... Stutzman backed the rule at the last minute after the Republican leadership told him that they would pull the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill, once the rule was passed, and they would replace it with a short-term continuing resolution that conservatives, including Stutzman, wanted, and that they would take up the whole thing next year after the Republicans and the new Congress are sworn in, and he was lied to.

Larwyn's Linx: Let's Primary Every GOP Boneless Wonder Who Votes For The CRomnibus

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Nation

Let's Primary Every GOP Boneless Wonder Who Votes For The CRomnibus: CHQ
Boehner CROmnibus passes House 219-206: FAM
Cromnibus passes: here's the roll call vote: Scoop

Jonathan Gruber Lied To Congress About Not Writing Obamacare: DC
Senate GOP: Should we reinstate the filibuster for presidential nominees?: Hot Air
Tea Party Reacts to Obama-Boehner Omnibus Passage With Defiance: Breitbart

The GOP: For Wall Street, Not Main Street: Erick Erickson
The Heroes in the House of Representatives: Erick Erickson
Breaking Down the ‘Cromnibus’ Vote: Roll Call

Hillary Clinton Will Be Called To Testify On Benghazi: Shark Tank
The Cop-Killing Cult of Larry Davis: Michelle Malkin
California Raid Nets Gang Members Connected to Mexican Mafia: LawOfficer

Economy

Obama-NLRB Gives Unions Access To Employers’ Email Systems: LUR
Unfunded pension liabilities are staggering: Hanford Sentinel
Burger King flees to Canada to avoid Democrats' insane corporate taxes: SRN News

Scandal Central

E-Mails Reveal Regime Scheming To Close Gun Dealers: Extrano's Alley
Ted Cruz: No One Is Above the Law, ‘Especially the President’: Daily SIgnal
USAF Major (Ret.) Told He Can’t Watch FNC at Med Facility: LL1885

Climate & Energy

A Global Tax? UN Debates Requiring Members to Report ‘GHG’ Emissions: PJM
Skeptics Cleared Off Stage at UN Climate Summit: Climate Depot

Media

Rush Was Right About Government Shutdowns: Jeffrey Lord
Palin To Congress: “Kill The Omnibus Spending Bill”: Real Revo
Record Number of Americans Want ObamaCare Repealed: Logan Albright

Angry Dad’s Letter to Jonathan Gruber: “You Arrogant B*****D!”: Tammy Bruce
CBS Continues to Ignore Emails of Racist Jokes by Sony Pictures Execs About Obama: MRC
Gruber on Obamacare in 2010: “Full disclaimer, I helped write it”: LI

World

Biden Lectured Ayaan Hirsi Ali On Islam: TR
Thinking About Torture: Jonah Goldberg
Jihadist Killings Equal to a 9/11 Pentagon Attack Every Day for a Month: Terry Moran

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Fitbit Surge Fitness Watch Early Hands-On Review: CIO
Disruption and the Uberization of Business: InnovExc
.300 Blackout AR Pistol: Guns & Tactics

Cornucopia

I literally can't even.: BB&B
Schoolin’ Gruber…Anyone?: MOTUS
Bitter Fruit: C&S

Image: Mudslide fears for L.A. as 'Pineapple Express' storm pounds West Coast
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QOTD: "What a sad spectacle this [Cromnibus] is, that the principled left and the principled right are joined together against the middle who are hoping to reap the benefits of Wall Street’s campaign donation trough (a trough that has been mostly open to Democrats in the last decade, which is why Boehner knows he will have to depend on Democrats to pass this crappy bill). If this is the only thing Boehner can bring himself to show the testicular fortitude to defend, I really hope liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans refuse to pass anything more than a CR through February. Heck, I’d prefer they passed nothing at all rather than this garbage." --Leon H. Wolf

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Should You Believe What They Tell You or What You See?

By Jim Quinn

Sometimes I wish I could just passively accept what my government monarchs and their mainstream media mouthpieces feed me on a daily basis. Why do I have to question everything I’m told? Life would be much simpler and I could concentrate on more important things like the size of Kim Kardashian’s ass, why the Honey Boo Boo show was canceled, the Victoria Secret Fashion Show, whether I’ll get a better deal on Chinese slave labor produced crap on Black Thanksgiving, Black Friday, or Cyber Monday, fantasy football league standings, the latest NFL player to knockout their woman and get reinstated, Obama’s latest racial healing plan, which Clinton or Bush will be our next figurehead president, or the latest fake rape story from Rolling Stone. The willfully ignorant masses, dumbed down by government education, lured into obesity by corporate toxic packaged sludge disguised as food products, manipulated, controlled and molded by an unseen governing class of rich men, and kept docile through never ending corporate media propaganda, are nothing but pawns to the arrogant sociopathic pricks pulling the wires in this corporate fascist empire of debt.

I’m sure my blood pressure would be lower and my mood better if I just accepted everything I was told by my wise, sagacious, Ivy League educated, obscenely wealthy rulers as the unequivocal truth. Why should I doubt these noble, well intentioned, champions of the common folk? They’ve never misled us before. They would never attempt to use two highly publicized deaths as a lever to keep black people and white people fighting each other and not realizing all races are now living in a militarized police surveillance state supported by the one Party. They would never use their complete control over the financial, political, judicial, and media organisms to convince the masses that voting for one of their hand selected red or blue options will ever actually change anything. They would never engineer the overthrow of a democratically elected government, cover up the shooting down of an airliner, and attempt to blame their crimes on the leader of a nuclear power in their efforts to retain a teetering global empire. They would never overthrow or wage economic warfare on countries that don’t toe the line regarding the continued dominance of the petrodollar in global commerce.

Sadly, I’m cursed with a mind that questions everything and trusts no one in authority or associated with the status quo.

ILLINOIS: Dead Broke and Getting Broker

By Ted Dabrowski

Imagine a company contributing the equivalent of 30 to 40 percent of its workers’ salaries each year to worker-retirement costs alone. No business could sustain that level of costs and compete, let alone survive.

In fact, the market is littered with companies bankrupted by the ballooning costs of traditional pension plans.

But that’s precisely what the Illinois government is trying to get away with. Illinois’ five state-run pension plans are so deep in the hole that the state – the employer – is now contributing the equivalent of 35 to 127 percent of its government-worker salaries just to keep its pension systems afloat. It’s simply unsustainable.

On average, the government contributes to its pension plans the equivalent of 38 percent of each worker’s salary in order to meet the state’s pension obligations. Those contributions cover not only the benefits workers accrue today, but also the shortfall created by the inherent flaws of Illinois’ politician-run pension system.

For example, to keep both the Teachers’ Retirement System, or TRS, and the State Universities Retirement System, or SURS, afloat, the state contributes the equivalent of 35 percent of an employee’s salary each year.

EXCLUSIVE: Photo of Dianne Feinstein Press Conference, Plus Our Comment o' the Day Award

Chris wins our oh-so-prestigious Comment o' the Day award, which entitles him to either a 2015 Mercedes GLK 350 or a box of Kaboom Cereal (our choice):


The level of hypocrisy has jammed the meter's needle up against the peg and wrapped it around.

These hyperventilating, panties-in-a-wad harpies (female, male, and ?) are the same slime balls (alternately, slime-without-balls) who were BRIEFED many times on what was planned and done, as well as wondering if there wasn't more that could be done.

These now-incredulous (golly gee, we never would have guessed) geniuses let the dogs off the leash, loudly commanded, "Sic 'em!" and then jumped up and down, pom poms waving, while they gleefully cheered, "Go team, go! Fight, team, fight!"

Now they're collectively on the fainting couch (getting a tad crowded there, it is), ready to throw under the bus those out on the pointy end of the spear who did their expressed bidding.

As they cry out for punishment for the "doers" of all this "evil" and those at the CIA who gave the orders, they conveniently ignore that it was they, themselves, who ordered the CIA to march forward. If the "foot soldiers" just "carrying out orders" are to be indicted, how about the ultimate order-givers? Does Nuremberg ring a bell?

Chris refers to, of course, the fact that Feinstein, Pelosi and the other weasels were fully briefed on the Enhanced Interrogation program. Further, their very "investigation" failed to interview a single member (not one) of the very intelligence community it claimed to review.

I would call these people pond-scum, but that would unfairly tarnish hard-working algae.

Larwyn's Linx: Cromnibus: a winter festival of unrestrained spending

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Nation

Cromnibus: a winter festival of unrestrained spending: John Hayward
Scalise On The Benefits Of Cromnibus: HayRide
Republican Budget Deal Spits in the Face of Voter Anger: Leon Wolf

The “Torture Report” and American Values: Max Boot
Awash in a Sea of Progressive Lies : DiploMad
Why release a report on the CIA in wartime?: Cal Thomas

This is Not Complicated: Erick Erickson
"The Bastards are Corrupt": Scoop
Pelosi And Reid Reveal Democrats’ '15 Strategy: Government Shutdown: WZ

States Move Forward With Plan To Alter Constitution: IBD
10th State Set to Nullify Obama’s Gun Control: ConTrib
Torture Focus is Poison Pill for Democrats: Jonathan S. Tobin

Welcome to TotCare: Obama's preschool takeover: Michelle Malkin
The Decline And Fall Of The Arkansas Battleaxe: Bob Mack
South Texas College Prof Compares Tea Party to Nazis: CI

Economy

Duck And Cover——-The Lull Is Breaking, The Storm Is Nigh: David Stockman
Nearly $200,000,000 Spent in Four Months on Illegal Alien Children: Sara Noble
10 reasons the “Free-Market Jesus Paradise” is awesome: LI

Scandal Central

Emails Show IRS’s Lois Lerner Met with DOJ Officials Just Before 2010 Elections: JW
Feinstein's Duplicity: 68 Congressional Members Briefed On Enhanced Interrogation From 2001-2007: Lid
'You're Not Going to Be Deported,' Obama Assures 'Ordinary' Illegal Immigrants: CNS

Media

LI wins FOIA suit over David Gregory gun law non-prosecution: William A. Jacobson
Don't Cry (Too Much) for The New Republic: Lee Smith
Jon Stewart Uses His Own Mistake to Bash Fox News: LI

One Democrat blasts Feinstein for "Torture Report": FAM
Dick Cheney: Torture Report ‘Full Of Crap’: GWP
Epic: Phil Kerpen Shakes Hands With Gruber, Thanks Him for "Helping Us Destroy Sh*tty Law You Passed”: WZ

World

Military on High Alert So Obama, Feinstein Can Blame Bush: Sara Noble
Oh My God: Obama Wants AUMF From Congress, But Won't Say What He Wants In It : Ace
NSA's Auroragold Mining Operation : Richard Adhikari

How the Palestinian Authority Manufactures its Own Martyrs: Daniel Greenfield
Because…Moral Equivalence.: MOTUS
The Treasury Department Is Seeking Survival Kits For Bank Employees: NoisyRm

The Other America: Victor Davis Hanson
Russian Sanctions + Low Oil Prices = Pontential Trouble For The West: Hideout
Will Islamic State wring its hands over torture? Not likely: John Kass

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Why Is Gillette Struggling to Compete on Social With the Dollar Shave Club? : Jordan Con
Comcast sued for turning private home routers into public hotspots: ExtremeTech
2015 Pocket Pistols Buyer’s Guide: Dennis Adler, Tactical Life

Cornucopia

Torcher: Hopenchange
Dianne Feinstein should keep her head on a swivel: Obiter Dictum
Video: Man Stole Ambulance to Get to Strip Club: PoliceMag

Image: HEY LIBERALS: ISIS Just Threw a Man Off The Roof for Being Gay
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QOTD: "One of the most common and most understandable reactions to the Senate’s “torture report” is that the practices described by Dianne Feinstein’s investigators are contrary to “American values.” On a certain level the assertion is undeniable: torture (and that’s what the “enhanced interrogation techniques” amount to, even if it is not torture as heinous as that routinely practiced by dictatorships) is definitely not an “American value.” But what about incinerating civilians? Is that an “American value”?

The reality is that the U.S. has often done things in the past that, looked at in another light, could be judged as immoral acts or even war crimes. Exhibit A is the strategic bombing of Germany and Japan in World War II which culminated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two atom bombs killed an estimated 190,000 civilians. The non-nuclear bombing of Japan killed at least 330,000 more. That’s more than half a million dead civilians in Japan alone. The toll was not as high in Germany but it was high enough. One bombing raid alone, on Dresden, killed between 25,000 to 40,000 people. The total number of Germans killed in Anglo-American bombing raids has been estimated at over 300,000.

It would be interesting to know what those who now decry the torture of terrorist suspects have to say about the deaths of some 800,000 people, mostly civilians, in these World War II bombing raids. Were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, the presidents who ordered these bombing campaigns, war criminals? And if not how can one argue, a so many on the left seem to, that George W. Bush is?" --Max Boot

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

HEY, WHY NOT? Boehner Omnibus Spending Bill Funds Social Security Benefits for Obama's Amnesty Aliens

What else would you expect?

Pages 958 and 959 of the 1,603-page omnibus spending bill from House Speaker John Boehner include a provision that gives Social Security benefits to illegal aliens under President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty...

...Right after Obama’s executive amnesty announcement, the White House confirmed to the Washington Post that illegal aliens who get amnesty from Obama—paid for by Boehner, and any Republican who votes for this omnibus bill—will have access to Social Security benefits.

By not including language saying that Social Security benefits can’t go to illegal aliens under the executive amnesty—just as they didn’t include language going after funding for the implementation of the executive amnesty itself—Republicans are completely surrendering, ensuring that millions of illegal aliens will get Social Security.

...[A] GOP aide said he’s not surprised Boehner caved to Obama’s amnesty... “I can’t say I’m surprised by this, given the apparent lack of will to protect the American people against Obama’s illegal actions,” the aide said.

I get the feeling that the Oligarchs in Washington can be segmented not as Democrats and Republicans, but as "Traitors" and "Quislings", respectively.

Yeah, you can use that one, royalty-free. It's the least I can do.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Why don't you ask him about torture?

The corrupt, conscious-less, traitorous Democrat Party released the one-sided Senate report on interrogation techniques this week for one reason and one reason alone: to shriek "BUSH" at the top of their lungs one last time before the reins of power are ripped from their greasy hands.


The Democrat cruds -- it was an entirely partisan enterprise -- did not interview CIA directors during the time in question; did not interview CIA personnel during the time in question; and whitewashed their own involvement and approval of the techniques.

MAP: Support for Gun Control Across the United States

Interesting interactive map at iSideWith that purports to depict regions of the country color coded by support (or loathing) of gun control.


Couple of large grains of salt with which to digest this map: the provenance of the site is unknown to me. And the political affinity of those that visit could dramatically skew results. In this case, my guess is that this map understates support for gun rights.


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

JUST SUPER: FBI Most Wanted Al Qaeda terrorist "crossed back and forth" between US and Mexico for years

The invaluable Judicial Watch reports that deportations of illegal aliens has hit another new low. And the inevitable result is as disgusting as it is predictable.

Illegal border crossings have "skyrocketed":

Obtained from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this month by a mainstream newspaper, the figures reveal that President Obama deported fewer illegal aliens in the last year than at any time during his tenure. This despite the fact that federal agents caught nearly half a million people trying to cross into the U.S. in the fiscal year ending in September. “An even bigger decline came in the numbers of people removed after living for some time in the U.S., mostly after being ensnared in the criminal justice system,” the newspaper reports.

Oh, wait! It gets better. An FBI "Most Wanted" Al Qaeda terrorist crossed freely back and forth between the U.S. and Canada "for years".

The news could not come at a worse time, on the heels of a shocking case reported by Judicial Watch this week involving an Al Qaeda terrorist on the FBI’s most wanted list who for years crossed back and forth into the United States from Mexico. The jihadist, Adnan G. El Shukrijumah (also known as “Javier Robles”), met with fellow militant Islamists in El Paso Texas, according to JW’s law enforcement sources, and even piloted an aircraft into the Cielo Dorado airfield in Anthony New Mexico earlier this year. Shukrijumah is the poster child for the need to secure the perpetually porous southern border.

Instead, Obama has issued an administrative amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. while the border remains particularly vulnerable. The new ICE report says that federal agents removed 315,943 last year, a 14% drop from the previous year. The administration went even easier on illegal aliens with criminal records, removing only 102,000, a 23% drop from 2013 and fewer than half the number of people deported in 2011. Only two-thirds of the illegal immigrants caught at the border were sent back, marking a 9% decline from the previous year.

We get word from Matthew Boyle today that John Boehner's insane "Omnibus" spending bill gives Social Security benefits to Obama's Amnesty aliens.

Rest assured that this means you and I will be paying for the Social Security benefits of terrorists (not to mention gang-bangers, felons, kidnappers, murderers and other illegal alien criminals).

How's your rear end feel?


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Memo To House Republicans: If You Fund It You Own It

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Nation

Memo To House Republicans: If You Fund It You Own It: CHQ
Gruber Lawyers Up Regarding How Much Money He Made From Governments: Ace
Levin: Gruber hearings pointless; GOP will fund every cent of Obamacare: Scoop

The CIA, Interrogation, and Feinstein’s Parting Shot: Max Boot
Ex-Dem Senator: Why Does Feinstein Support Drones, But Not Torture?: DC
George W Bush declines to back-stab the CIA over waterboarding: Moe Lane

Gruber gets Gowdy-ed: LI
Issa to Gruber: Prepare for a Subpoena, Putz: Scoop
Dear Democrats You Did this to Yourselves: DTG

Second Ferguson Witness Reportedly Found Dead: MB
Senate Democrats Never Heard Anything About This "Torture" Business: Ace
Elizabeth Warren Goes Full Orwell: Ed Driscoll

Economy

Surprise? Ocare Has A Doctor Shortage: Cove
Obamacare’s Contracting Bonanza in 8 Charts: Jay Hancock
Madoff Ops. Chief Gets 10 Years: FINalternatives

Scandal Central

Leaked Docs: Obama Amnesty Increases Risk of Terrorism: Tea Party
Email Chain: Obama Intended to Destroy Legal Businesses With Harsh Regulations: LibertyNews
Lois Lerner Met With DOJ To Plot Against Tax Exempts As Early As Oct 2010: Lid

Climate & Energy

The Gods Have Made Them Mad: Jonathan David Carson
Climate Catastrophe: John Stossel
With future uncertain, Colorado shields its water: Stamford Advocate

Media

Obama Cursed Reporters: Dossier
Mississippi Burning – Jessica Chambers Murder: Treehouse
Catalog of Krugman quotes regarding Gruber and Obamacare: Reddit Libertarian

Time Magazine: Lena Dunham Rape Allegation Fake But Accurate: Ed Driscoll
Mara Liasson: Gruber 'Could Be the Undoing of Obamacare': Breitbart
NBC Nightly News Breaks Silence on Jonathan Gruber 32 Days After First Video Surfaced: MRC

Obama gets huffy when Spanish host calls him the ‘Deporter-in-Chief’: Scoop
‘OMG! Hilarious!': Obama says ‘when we make mistakes, we admit them’: Twitchy
CBS’s Pelley Asks Former Acting CIA Director If He Feels ‘Ashamed’ After Release of ‘Torture’ Report: MRC

World

Make No Mistake, Dianne Feinstein Is Releasing The 'Torture' Report For Political Reasons: Lid
Former top Obama CIA official defends interrogation program: Marc A. Thiessen
Obama's Reaction to the Senate Report: Torture is Good: Chris Floyd

Ralph Peters: Releasing CIA report will “provide aid and comfort to the enemy”: Scoop
China Takes Nuclear Weapons Underwater Where Prying Eyes Can’t See: NoisyRm
Statement of Geert Wilders during His Interrogation by the State Police: Gatestone

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Glassdoor: Google dethrones Twitter as the best tech company to work for in the U.S.: VB
The Content Marketing Stack: Alltop
The Pirate Bay goes offline after police raid server room: Verge

Cornucopia

The 2014 Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog: Drew Magary
Bumper Sticker o' the Day: Treehouse
The Best Quotes From Jack Donovan’s “The Way Of Men”: John Hawkins

Image: Obama’s immigration taunt: Next president won’t dare reverse my executive action
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QOTD: "As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral connection to it. Laws will seem more like revenue traps and shakedowns. The state will start to seem more like another extortion racket, and, as in Mexico, people will have a harder time telling the good guys from the bad guys." --Jack Donovan

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

BEYOND BENGHAZI: Massive Security Gaps in State Department Security on Hillary's Watch Revealed

And this seems so unexpected coming as it does under the watch of a Secretary of State whose sole qualification was squelching "Bimbo Eruptions."

The Wall Street Journal elaborates:

State Department investigators discovered numerous security deficiencies in global hot spots when reviewing U.S. diplomatic facilities in 2012 and 2013, suggesting problems were more widespread than previously known.

...The review, which hadn’t been made public before, was undertaken from April to October 2012, toward the end of Hillary Clinton ’s tenure as secretary of state. It provides the best snapshot of security when the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked in September 2012, leading to the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

Congressional panels investigating the Benghazi attacks concluded that State Department officials didn’t beef up security despite requests from diplomats in Libya. The reviews suggest such problems went well beyond Benghazi.

DRONES ARE JUST PEACHY: Ex-Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-KS) Slams Dianne Feinstein for enhanced interrogation hypocrisy

Alex Griswold points us to a disappointed Andrea Mitchell, whose face resembles papier-mâché (not that there's anything wrong with that) when confronted with the stark idiocy of Democrat policy positions.

Former Democratic Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey called out Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” for her “incompatible” positions in support of droning terrorists, but in opposition to using enhanced interrogation.

“Well the other thing is, you’ve got guys out there right now running drones. Dianne Feinstein supports the use of drones,” he noted. “What happens if ten years from now, there is another investigation saying those guys violated international law as well?”

“I mean you’re basically saying, ‘I can’t interrogate Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, but I can put him out with his family and drop a drone [strike] on him.’ There seems to be something incompatible with those two positions.

Well, let's put it this way, Bob: wiping out a terrorist's family with a drone strike is no more hypocritical than Michelle Obama gorging on fast food while insisting that growing kids starve themselves.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.