Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Most Transparent Administration Ever Suffers Curious Epidemic of Disappearing Email Systems, Crashed Hard Drives and Lost Backup Tapes

Remember when Barack Obama promised his would be the "most open and transparent administration ever"?

Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Good times, good times.


Disappearing email systems:

A week before becoming Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton set up a private e-mail system that gave her a high level of control over communications, including the ability to erase messages completely, according to security experts who have examined Internet records.

Here's why unions despise right-to-work

By Jason Hart

Have you ever wondered why labor unions are so strongly opposed to right-to-work laws?

Watch this brief video and wonder no more.

Larwyn's Linx: Boehner’s Surrender On DHS Funding Is The Beginning Of The End Of His Speakership

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Nation

Boehner Surrender On DHS Marks Beginning Of The End Of His Speakership: HayRide
Replace John Boehner as House Speaker: RS
Republicans That are Unfit for Office in the House of Representatives: Jen Kuznicki

Bibi’s Speech—The Real Fallout: Roger L. Simon
Nancy Pelosi Throws Temper Tantrum: Joel Gehrke
White House sort of admits that this Hillary email thing has legs: Moe Lane

Cave: Hot Air
DHS funding bill passes on Democrat votes: RS
The Constitution has Failed: Leon Wolf

The Hillary Cover-Up and the End of Democracy: Ben Shapiro
Prime time for Scott Walker, whether he’s ready or not: Jonah Goldberg
Another Cuomo Fail: Murders, Shootings Up in NYC: Rusty Weiss

Economy

Stakes rise in the 25-year-old H-1B battle: Patrick Thibodeau
Illinois Pension Plans 39% Funded – Taxpayers On the Hook: UnionWatch
Right-to-Work Sweeps Midwest, Heads for Passage in Wisconsin: Mish

Scandal Central

Obama Announces His Plans to Nationalize Local and State Law Enforcement: Steven Ahle
Trey Gowdy Says He’s Going After Hillary Clinton’s Personal Emails on Benghazi : Blaze
Hillary Clinton's Private E-Mail Draws Scrutiny: TSG

IRS Defends Allowing Illegal Aliens To Get Retroactive Tax Breaks Under Obama Amnesty: WZ
"Huge" just turned into "super huge": Ace
Petraeus Gave 'Black Books' Full of Spy Secrets to Mistress: Max

Media

House Dems Declare Victory: “Boehner Backed Down! We Did It!”: WZ
Mark Levin Hammers Feinstein Over Recent Comments Lobbed Against Benjamin Netanyahu: IJR
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Treats Netanyahu Like He’s a “White Policeman from Ferguson”: GWP

GOP's Failure Theater: Ace
Gee, Lanny Davis seems a little on edge about this Hillary Clinton email thing: Doug Powers
CPAC’s Best & Worst Dressed 2015 Edition: Olastyle Hawatmeh

World

First They Came for the Jews: Ben Shapiro
Obama, the godfather of prefabricated revolutions in the Arab World, one of the worst presidents: Hooben
Iran calls Obama's 10-year nuclear demand 'unacceptable': Reuters

Obama's Failure: Stephen F. Hayes
Bibi Changes the Debate: Dick Morris
Saudi Arabia Gives Top Award to Prominent Hate Preacher: Clarion

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How CoreLogic splits data and IT: ITnews
How big are the biggest monster stars?: EarthSky
New POS Malware Uses Mailslots to Avoid Detection: ThreatPost

Cornucopia

'79 Newspaper Article By Valerie Jarrett Father-In-Law Reveals Start Of Muslim Purchase of Presidency: Pat Dollard
Me and My Shadow: MOTUS
Cheap Home Security Plan: Feral Irishman

Image: Bibi’s Speech—The Real Fallout
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QOTD: "...if we’re successful negotiating, then in fact this will be the best deal possible to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Nothing else comes close. Sanctions won’t do it. Even military action would not be as successful as the deal that we have put forward." --Barack Obama, father of Syria's "Red Line" and the "Jay Vee Team" (ISIS)

Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Pro-Nuclear Iran Democrats Throw Temper Tantrums Over Netanyahu's Magnificent Address to Congress

Perhaps because it highlights the contrast between a leader and a community agitator with extremely questionable motives.

A senior administration official told CNN that Netanyahu’s address was “all rhetoric.”

“Literally, not one new idea,” the official told CNN. “Not one single concrete alternative. All rhetoric, no action.”

...The White House expressed its displeasure with the appearance by word and deed, dispatching Vice President Joe Biden on an overseas trip that meant he did not fill his customary seat behind the House rostrum during the speech. Nor did Netanyahu meet at the White House with Obama on his trip to the United States.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel was among those in attendance for Netanyahu’s speech.

The dessicated oligarch known as Nancy Pelosi also stormed out in a huff after a perceived affront, with her face following closely behind.

SCORCHING: Top 20 Quotes from Netanyahu's Address to Congress

Churchillian.

20. For those who believe that Iran threatens the Jewish state, but not the Jewish people, listen to Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, Iran's chief terrorist proxy. He said: If all the Jews gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of chasing them down around the world.

19. Iran's regime is not merely a Jewish problem, any more than the Nazi regime was merely a Jewish problem. The 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis were but a fraction of the 60 million people killed in World War II. So, too, Iran's regime poses a grave threat, not only to Israel, but also the peace of the entire world.

18. Just last week, near Hormuz, Iran carried out a military exercise blowing up a mock U.S. aircraft carrier. That's just last week, while they're having nuclear talks with the United States. But unfortunately, for the last 36 years, Iran's attacks against the United States have been anything but mock. And the targets have been all too real.

17. Iran took dozens of Americans hostage in Tehran, murdered hundreds of American soldiers, Marines, in Beirut, and was responsible for killing and maiming thousands of American service men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan.

16. ...two years ago, we were told to give President Rouhani and Foreign Minister Zarif a chance to bring change and moderation to Iran. Some change. Some moderation... Rouhani's government hangs gays, persecutes Christians, jails journalists and executes even more prisoners than before.

15. Last year, the same Zarif who charms Western diplomats laid a wreath at the grave of Imad Mughniyeh. Imad Mughniyeh is the terrorist mastermind who spilled more American blood than any other terrorist besides Osama bin Laden. I'd like to see someone ask him a question about that.

14. Iran and ISIS are competing for the crown of militant Islam. One calls itself the Islamic Republic. The other calls itself the Islamic State. Both want to impose a militant Islamic empire first on the region and then on the entire world. They just disagree among themselves who will be the ruler of that empire.

FLAT BUSTED: Hillary Clinton's Criminal Activities Must Disqualify her from the Presidency

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: The former secretary of state's use of a personal account to exclusively conduct government business and to protect her political future in violation of the law ought to disqualify her from the presidency.

'Witch hunts" sometimes find a witch, and those who dismissed the establishment of the House Benghazi Select Committee, chaired by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., as just another witch hunt are eating their words.

The existence of a personal account that Hillary Clinton used to conduct government business as secretary of state was discovered by the committee and reported by the New York Times.

Clinton's use of this personal account explains why investigations of the Benghazi terrorist attack — and her culpability in our diplomatic mission's vulnerability there, the failure to heed warnings and the cover-up afterward — failed to find much email evidence of her direct involvement.

According to the Times, Clinton never used her official government email account at all. What's more, she used exclusively one set up on the day of her Senate confirmation as secretary of state. This indicates premeditation in an attempt to deceive the American people by someone determined to fulfill her ambition to be the first woman to sit in the Oval Office.

The Times said that Clinton's aides made no attempt to systematically preserve her emails on government servers as required by the Federal Records Act. Team Hillary is now trying to use the excuse that they thought their government recipients would archive the emails and that was thought to be good enough.

Instead, Clinton's aides carefully culled the emails to find which ones contained no information damaging to her political future, and only these would be turned over to the State Department to be archived.

Larwyn's Linx: Barack Obama’s Executive Amnesty is Much, Much Worse than You Think

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Nation

Obama’s Executive Amnesty is Much, Much Worse than You Think: Leon Wolf
Obama Unveils National ObamaLaw Plan: Neil Munro
Now Obama Claiming He’ll Raise Taxes By Executive Order: Warner Todd Huston

Boehner looks for a life line… from the Democrats: RS
Boehner Declares War on Conservative Congressmen: Erick Erickson
Boehner: President Has Acted 'Far Beyond His Constitutional Authority': CNS

A Fundamental Problem with a Jeb Presidency (and a Hillary one): Erick Erickson
Dr. Strange-Rice Loves the Idea of Iran Acquiring the Bomb: Ed Driscoll
Anti-AIPAC Protesters Hoist Hezbollah Flag, Call for End of Israel: Caleb Howe

DHS Funding Mess Could Signal Twilight For Charlie Brown GOP: HayRide
What Is at Stake in the King v. Burwell Case?: Signal
Support For Permitless “Constitutional Carry” Of Handguns Surges: Bob Owens

Economy

IRS Says Illegal Immigrants Eligible for Tax Credits: Melissa Quinn
Hospital Profits Soar As Obamacare Creates More “Paying” Patients: ACC
Parents Stage Common Core Sit-Out: AmInt

Scandal Central

Report: Hillary Clinton Evaded Government Email While Secretary Of State: Doug Mataconis
Why Is A Private Equity Firm Linked to Hillary Clinton’s Email?: GotNews
54 terrorist-supporting Democrats not attending Netanyahu speech: FAM

Climate & Energy

Judge To EPA: Stop Lying And Stop Anti-Conservative Discrimination: Jeff Dunetz
Court rips EPA over FOIA dodge: Amy Miller
Test at Tonopah solar project ignites hundreds of birds in mid-air: WUWT

Media

Meet the Man Who Exposed the Obamacare “Stupidity of the American Voter” Videos: Attkisson
Perpetual Grievance: “queer theory” linked with illegal immigration.: Heather Mac Donald
Will The Media Investigate Hillary’s Emails As Enthusiastically As They Did Palin’s?: Glob

Gallup: Big Jump in Netanyahu Approval in United States: WFB
New Worldwide Poll: Huge Number of People Don’t Believe Holocaust Actually Happened: IJR
Mark Levin rips the crap out of Peter King and boy he deserved it: Scoop

World

What Is Israel to Do?: David Solway
Netanyahu must speak: The world must understand the meaning of ‘Never Again’: Robert Heller
Saudi Columnist: Netanyahu Is Right To Insist On Addressing Congress About Iran Deal: MEMRI

Iran Poses an Existential Threat to Western Civilization: Lauri B. Regan
ISIS Threatens Twitter Founder And Employees Over Blocked Accounts: David Mack
ISIS Threatens Tennessee Professor: CI

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Deadly Bacteria Escapes Lab in ‘Disturbing’ Incident: Blaze
The First Detailed Image of the World's Smallest Known Life-form: Gizmodo
Hands-on with the Lenovo Pocket Projector: AndroidAuthority

Cornucopia

Tomorrow’s Post Today: Because It’s Time To Panic!: MOTUS
The Three Reasons American Gun Owners Won’t Surrender Their Guns: Robert Farago
Toronto police ID builders of mystery tunnel; no criminal intent found: MacLean's

Image: "When he’s not grabbing arms or poking eyes, Woodbury is the Big Ten’s sixth best offensive rebounder"
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QOTD: "Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.

Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.

It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department." --Michael S. Schmidt

Monday, March 02, 2015

BLUE STATE UTOPIA: Chicago at the edge of financial death spiral

By Investor's Business Daily

Cities: The problem with socialism, Margaret Thatcher once noted, is you eventually run out of other people's money. In progressive Chicago, that's hit home as Moody's has cut its credit rating to two grades above "junk."

Chicago's finances are staggering under the weight of an unfunded pension liability that Moody's Investors Service has estimated at $32 billion, eight times the city's operating revenue.

Chicago has a $300 million structural deficit. And Illinois law requires the city to up its 2016 contributions to its police and fire pension funds by $550 million.

"This is an unfortunate wake-up call for anyone still asleep over the fiscal cliff facing the city of Chicago," said Laurence Msall, president of the Chicago-based government finance watchdog, the Civic Federation.

The steady financial decline of the nation's third-largest city prompted us recently to say that Chicago was well on its way to becoming the next Detroit.

In other words, it's another bankrupt monument to the perils of Democratic governance: a one-party town in one of the bluest states, whose mayor, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, learned financial discipline at the feet of President Barack Obama.

A large part of Chicago's problem is that the game of maintaining campaign armies by overpromising and underfunding pensions is over. Emanuel can expect little help from Illinois' new Republican governor, Bruce Rauner, who is trying to fix similar problems at the state level.

HE REALLY IS A TYRANT: Obama now claims he can raise taxes by himself through an executive order

By Warner Todd Huston

President Obama really does think he is a king or an emperor of some type. Now he claims that he is going to use executive orders to raise taxes on us all.

This arrogant prince thinks he can do anything he wants just by his say-so. No act of Congress needed.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Monday that President Obama is “very interested” in the idea of raising taxes through unilateral executive action.

“The president certainly has not indicated any reticence in using his executive authority to try and advance an agenda that benefits middle class Americans,” Earnest said in response to a question about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) calling on Obama to raise more than $100 billion in taxes through IRS executive action.

“Now I don’t want to leave you with the impression that there is some imminent announcement, there is not, at least that I know of,” Earnest continued. “But the president has asked his team to examine the array of executive authorities that are available to him to try to make progress on his goals. So I am not in a position to talk in any detail at this point, but the president is very interested in this avenue generally,” Earnest finished.

The unlawfulness and arrogance of this man is incredible.

Larwyn's Linx: Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Planes If Israel Struck Iran

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Nation

Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Planes If Israel Struck Iran: Rip Curl
Administration Attacks on Bibi Spur Bipartisan Support for Israel: LI
Hezbollah Flag Raised at Anti-AIPAC protest: LI

Will Obama’s Iran Deal Be the Worst Deal Ever Made?: Roger L. Simon
Our Crucial Choice of the War on Terror: Sultan Knish
Why Does President So Oppose Netanyahu’s Speech?: Star Parker

Judge Rules Deported Illegal Aliens Can Return To The U.S.: DownTrend
Boehner repudiated by GOP: RS
It Begins: FNC' Wallace Begins “Tear Down This Walker Campaign”: Treehouse

My Candid Candidate Thoughts After CPAC: Erick Erickson
Jeb Bush Speech Prompts CPAC Walkout: Greg Campbell
DHS Funding Battle Reveals a Republican House Divided: Roll Call

Economy

Would every non-anti-Semitic donor to UCLA please watch this video?: Moe Lane
Black oppression being taught in Florida high school Earth science class: Allen West
Doom: Yeah, this isn't good: Ace

Scandal Central

Jane Harman: $500K Unreported Donation to Clintons 'Got Lost In System': MagNote
If President Obama Had His Way, The DC Opportunity Scholarship Fund Would Not Exist: Pocket
Democratic Party patriotism test: Don Surber

Media

Obama Identifies With The 9/11 Killers: WZ
Revisiting Obama’s past: LI
Why Conservatives Will Miss Mr. Spock: Pedro Gonzales

Obama, Christianity and Scandal: RS
Danish Publisher: Charlie Hebdo and Free Speech in Europe and US - Podcast: Fed-Soc
StopRush now targeting Limbaugh’s STAFF: Media Equalizer

World

'Knives are out': Hawaii Dem faces backlash for taking on Obama over 'Islamist' extremism: Malia Zimmerman
Christianfrei: A Middle East free of Christians: DTG
Flashback: Samantha Power Suggests U.S. Invade Israel to Impose Peace: Rick Moran

ISIS Secretly Fed Murdered Son To Mother, With Rice And Tea: RWN
Feinstein: Netanyahu ‘Arrogant’ for Saying He Speaks for All Jews: Andrew Desiderio
'Jews using Holocaust to suck the blood of Germans,' Egypt TV host says: JPost

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

NSA authorization to collect bulk phone data extended to June 1: CIO
Apple officially wants to be recognized as a car maker: Luke Dormehl
Hammerhead Drone Makes First Flight: PopSci

Cornucopia

Missing Breitbart – Still: MOTUS
Global Warming Claims Another Victim: Springer
SNL Spoofs Teen Girls Joining ISIS: TR

Image: Netanyahu’s Visit Bringing Uninvited Problems for Jewish Democrats
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QOTD: "To the Democratic senators and congressmen and women not attending Netanyahu’s speech, in the famous words of George Orwell, you are “objectively pro-Fascist” (in this case pro-Islamofascist). To the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, you are racist with a capital-R if you do not attend. Netanyahu is no more coming here to “disrespect the president” than he is because Obama is part black. Netanyahu is coming here because he takes the words “never again” more seriously than any phrase imaginable. That is the primary job description for the prime minister of Israel." --Roger L. Simon

Sunday, March 01, 2015

New Documents Blow the Lid off Obama-Clinton Benghazi Scandal

By Tom Fitton

I’ve always believed that the Benghazi cover-up was about two presidential campaigns: Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and Hillary Clinton’s nascent presidential campaign.

Why else would Hillary Clinton personally send out lies about Benghazi within hours, and then keep on pushing these lies until the truth could no longer be ignored. The truth about an attack by an al Qaeda group that killed our ambassador and three other brave Americans in the days before Obama’s reelection would not only have put Obama at risk of losing, but also would have potentially dashed the hopes of his successor-in-waiting, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The desperation by Obama, Clinton, and their political teams must have been potent. It was so potent that they – rather than admitting to the Islamist conflagration they caused in Libya by ousting and killing Gadhafi – preferred to ignore pleas for increased security from Ambassador Stevens; to abandon him and his colleagues to rampaging terrorists; refuse to follow up with force against those who attacked us; and to lie to the American people about the nature of the attack.

Rather than admit that it was a planned attack by a terrorist group in league with al Qaeda, the Obama/Clinton machine knowingly put out the lie that the killings were the result of a spontaneous demonstration in response to an obscure Internet video supposedly offensive to radical Islamists. The message: don’t blame us – blame those who offend Islamists (conservatives, Republicans, etc.). Indeed, rather than sending our military to eliminate the enemy in Libya, the Obama administration arrested the poor sap who made the offending video.

DIABOLICAL: Democrats building a "country within a country" using 15 million illegals who they call "New Americans"

By Sara Noble

The White House has plans to legalize 13 to 15 million illegal immigrants who will then establish a “country within a country.”


Cecilia Munoz

The following Mark Levin interview with Susan Payne is shocking but it also puts all the pieces into place.

Susan Payne is a contributor to WCBM, Baltimore and Co-Host of the Pat McDonough Radio Show,

Unbeknownst to the Obama officials, Ms. Payne was invited to listen in on conference calls at an immigration rally. Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and 16 members of the White House cabinet were on the first call. White House officials were on all three calls. What Ms. Payne learned needs to be immediately shared with Congress and the public.

It should be noted that Ted Hayes, founder of America’s Black Shield, also listened in on these calls.

The “Task Force of New Americans” and the “Receiving Communities” are part of a plan by the Obama administration to develop a “country within a country” which will eventually form a new, and instantly fundamentally transformed United States.

The conference calls and meetings surrounding the task force made it clear Barack Obama is planning to legalize and protect 13 to 15 million illegal immigrants who will then be moved onto citizenship.

When these “new Americans” come out of the shadows, the communities in which they’ve been placed will be designated as “receiving communities.”

The “new Americans” are considered “seedlings” by the White House and the “receiving communities” are the “fertile ground” to nurture them, according to comments made during the meetings.

Citizens will then be pushed into the shadows as the “New Americans” come out of the shadows.

One member of the task force said they will be forming a “country within a country”.

Larwyn's Linx: Fear of a Reality Check

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Nation

Obama's Fear of a Reality Check: Rich Baehr
Texas Report Finds Open Border Attracts Jihadists: VDARE
Black pastors urge CBC not to skip Netanyahu speech: Times

WH Plans to Develop a “Country Within a Country” of 15 Million Illegals: Sara Noble
Cruz to DHS Chief: Do you Intend to Abide by the Court Order?: MinorityReport
Where's Hillary? Netanyahu doesn't want you to ask: Matzav

Mitch McConnell uses Harry Reid's Trick... Against Conservatives: Gaston Mooney
When Vagina Warriors attack: ProWis
When Do Brownies Become Brownshirts?: Jim Goad

No Change In Ted Cruz 2013 Story: Jeffrey Lord
Jeb Bush and CPAC: how he answered some questions: Moe Lane
Jeb Bush Fails CPAC, Can't Even Stack Straw Poll Successfully: Breitbart

Economy

Obama uses Power of the Purse to Reward and Punish States: Art McGrath
Goodbye, Illinois: residents are leaving for other states: Chicago Tribune
New visa rules for spouses bring cheers from tech industry: Mercury News

Scandal Central

Louie Gohmert Unable to Control His Fury Over Obama’s Immigration Action: Blaze
The Benghazi Brief – A Power Point Presentation: Treehouse
Bozell: Left Using IRS, FEC and FCC to End Free Speech: CNS

Climate & Energy

The Warmish Inquisition: Mark Steyn
Bummer: By Almost Every Measure, Things Are Looking Good For Polar Bears: William Teach
No irrigation water again this year for Valley farmers: Mark Grossi

Global warming news: Chicago ties 1875 record for coldest February: Marathon
Boston's All-Time Snowfall Record in Jeopardy: NECN
Political Science: Heat’s on Climate Change Dissidents: Debra Saunders

Media

Mark Levin rips into both Democrats AND Republicans at CPAC: Scoop
Legitimating Lies Through the BDS Movement: WFB
Obama responds to Leonard Nimoy’s death by posting photo of himself with…not Leonard Nimoy: Poor Richard

Obama Sets Espionage Act Record, and Jon Stewart Just Called Him Out in a Big Way: IJR
Blogger Destroys Jezebel and Daily Beast’s Attempt to Smear Scott Walker: Sooper
Trump Pitches Himself to CPAC as ‘King of Building Walls,’ Says Mexico Is an Enemy : Grabien

Fact Check: Washington Post’s Alyssa Rosenberg’s Errors: Sharyl Attkisson
I Believe You Will Agree: Theodore Dalrymple
The Roots of Our Disagreement: Tom Rogan

World

Centuries-old phenomenon returns to Europe: Thom Nezbeda
Bolton on nuclear deal: “It’s a debacle for the United States, worse, it’s a grave danger”: Sara Noble
Legitimizing Iran as a Threshold Nuclear Power?: Yaakov Lappin

Boris Nemtsov, Russian Opposition Leader, Murdered: AmInt
Afghan “Death” militia emerges, vows to fight Islamic State, Taliban: LWJ
Norway Just Deported 824 Muslims: Qpolitical

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

AT&T Charging Customers to Not Spy on Them: Bruce Schneier
Asians Penalized 50 Points On SAT, Blacks Given 230 ‘Bonus’ Points: WZ
NASA Spacecraft Arrives at Dwarf Planet Ceres This Week: Mike Wall, Space.com

Cornucopia

Sergeant Leonard Nimoy, RIP: BattleSwarm
"So you're all astronauts on some sort of... star trek?": MOTUS
White House Goes Full Stalin: C&S

Image: West Calls On Russia For Independent Probe Of Nemtsov's Murder
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QOTD: "Secretary of State John Kerry bashed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today. Kerry said Netanyahu could not be trusted because he supported the Iraq War.

...John Kerry voted for the Iraq War and stood by his vote years later.

...Benjamin Netanyahu was not prime minister when the Iraq War was debated and launched.

...Kerry was ... asked to address Netanyahu’s criticism of a hypothetical deal with Iran as a threat to Israel... “The prime minister was profoundly forward-leaning and outspoken about the importance of invading Iraq under George W. Bush,” Kerry replied. “We all know what happened with that decision.”

Actually, for the record, George W. Bush won that war. Barack Obama lost it to ISIS." --Jim Hoft

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Breaking Bad (Debt)

By Jim Quinn

“At this juncture, the impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained.”Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, Congressional testimony, March, 2007

“Capitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.”James Grant, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer

The Federal Reserve issued their fourth quarter Report on Household Debt and Credit last week to the sounds of silence in the mainstream media. There were minor press releases issued by the “professional” financial journalists regurgitating the Federal Reserve’s storyline. Actual analysis, connecting the dots, describing how the massive issuance of student loan and auto loan debt has produced a fake economic recovery, and how the accelerating default rates in auto loans and student loans will produce the next subprime debt implosion, were nowhere to be seen on CNBC, Bloomberg, the WSJ, or any other status quo propaganda media outlet. Their job is not to analyze or seek truth. Their job is to keep their government patrons and Wall Street advertisers happy, while keeping the masses sedated, misinformed, and pliable.

Luckily, the government hasn’t gained complete control over the internet yet, so dozens of truth telling blogs have done a phenomenal job zeroing in on the surge in defaults. The data in the report tells a multitude of tales conflicting with the “official story” sold to the public. The austerity storyline, economic recovery storyline, housing recovery storyline, and strong auto market storyline are all revealed to be fraudulent by the data in the report. Total household debt grew by $117 billion in the fourth quarter and $306 billion for the all of 2014. Non-housing debt in the 4th quarter of 2008, just as the last subprime debt created financial implosion began, was $2.71 trillion. After six years of supposed consumer austerity, total non-housing debt stands at a record $3.15 trillion. This is after hundreds of billions of the $2.71 trillion were written off and foisted upon the backs of taxpayers, by the Wall Street banks and their puppets at the Federal Reserve.

"Anthropogenic Global Warming: Why I left the Religion"

Superb post at Small Dead Animals by Dr. Kyla Dillard, who explains in layman's terms why she abandoned her belief in man-caused global warming (or AGW). Some key graphs (emphases mine):

Because as a scientist, I can do the math. How do you explain the 18 years of zero temperature increases, when CO2 levels have continued to rise?

The computer model predictions have all failed, every single one of them.

I recommend Watts Up With That You can read the studies, they give all the links and analysis there.

Please don't Google 'deniers' & run back to me saying that it is not a credible site, go see the studies, the math, & the manipulation of data for yourself. Because there are literally trillions of dollars at stake, so of course there is a vested interest in keeping this thing going. If you disagree with something I say, quote me exactly which sentences you disagree with, then show me the actual research that contradicts what I have said.

Follow the money [and] you will see where the truth lies. Say it were true: If you believe that humans cause climate change, how does moving vast quantities of money help that? Exactly how would a carbon tax help and exactly when would we see the verification of that?

Australia's carbon tax was to take $139 billion out of the pockets of the taxpayers. Had it been successful, it was supposed to reduce CO2 from the atmosphere from 412 parts per million (ppm) all the way down to 411.87 ppm.

That would have been a reduction of 13/100 of a part per million. It is imperceptible The computer model predictions have ALL failed, yet people want other people, poor people, to die today due to lack of cheap energy and clean water.

...If there were no harm associated with the "green" policies, then it would not matter, but people are actually being harmed right now by energy poverty. People in Germany are illegally cutting wood in the historic Black Forest, just to heat their homes and stay alive. People are being forced to decide between heat and food, due to the massive increases in energy prices in Ontario, so that we can pay 15x the market rate for wind electricity and be forced to pay the Americans to take our excess electricity. Meanwhile, the only true green energy in Canada; hydroelectric power, has to be shut down to keep from destabilizing the grid when the wind is blowing. That's right, water is diverted from the turbines at Niagara Falls, so you can pay 15x the rate to subsidize big green. Don't lie to yourself, those are not wind farms, they are not farming the wind, they are farming the subsidies and taking money out of your pocket by theft.

Bumper Sticker o' the Day

Sent in by Dale.


Speaking of snipers, some interesting facts about the silent warriors:

• Snipers are trained to shoot between heartbeats
• While Chris Kyle was the most prolific American sniper in history, a Finnish soldier named Simo Häyhä had 705 kills during the Russo-Finnish War of 1939-1940; he accomplished the feat in less than 100 days operating in temperatures as cold as -40 degrees
• The name 'sniper' derives from the 1770s, where "soldiers in British India coined the verb 'to snipe,' meaning a soldier was good enough of a shooter to kill an elusive bird called a Snipe"

God Bless Our Warriors.


IT BEGINS: Obama's Ammo Ban Just the First Step in Killing Off the Modern Sporting Rifle

By Mac Slavo

If nothing else can be said about President Obama, he has adamantly stuck to one key promise – the one he made to the Brady Center to pursue gun control ‘under the radar.

The AR-15 is America’s most popular sporting rifle, and it has been falsely mischaracterized as an “automatic” firearm and an “assault” weapon. It has been demonized as a monstrosity via the Sandy Hook shootings. Bans on it and other so-called “assault weapons” have been attempted from every possible angle.

And now that those measures have failed to accomplish total gun control, the Obama Administration, hungry to undermine the 2nd Amendment and restrict gun ownership, is using backdoor regulations through the BATFE to ban the sale, import and manufacture of the most affordable ammunition for the AR-15. Melissa Melton writes:

“The Obama administration was unable to ban America’s most popular sporting rifle through the legislative process, so now it’s trying to ban commonly owned and used ammunition through regulation.”

Larwyn's Linx: Obama's Nuclear Iran Deal Portends “Spectacular Attack” on the United States

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Nation

Obama's Nuclear Iran Deal Portends “Spectacular Attack” on the U.S.: Sara Noble
Here’s the List Of 26 Anti-Jew Democrats Turning Their Backs On Israel: Federalist
The Truth Behind Obama's War On Israel and Netanyahu: Lid

GOP Revolt Crashes DHS Spending Bill, Handing Huge Defeat to Boehner: Blaze
Time to start using the “F word”: Riot
‘You Coward’: Dem’s Comment About GOP Leader Caught on Hot Mic: Josh Feldman

Obama to ban bullets by executive action, threatens top-selling AR-15 rifle: Paul Bedard
Obamacare Architect’s New Lie to the Supreme Court: Phil Kerpen
How Obama’s Overreach Killed Immigration Reform: Joe Guzzardi

First They Came for the Jews: Ben Shapiro
We, The Stupid: PolFi
Rubio: I've learned lesson on immigration: The Hill

Economy

Dis Orientation: SDA
Obama Has Given Insurers $3B To ‘Compensate For Caps’: S&L
Chicago nears fiscal free fall with latest downgrade: Karen Pierog

Scandal Central

Investigators Found ‘Lost’ Lois Lerner Emails In 2 Weeks: S&L
From the mixed-up files of Ms. Hillary: Scott Johnson
Among IRS emails unearthed is one by Lerner that pretty much admits cover-up: Howard Portnoy

Climate & Energy

Obama’s Little Shop of Horrors: Stubborn Things
Mark Levin’s New Group Americans For CO2: Jen Kuznnicki
The nine stages of Canadian cold: Scott Feschuk

Media

Fox News Calls Out Eric Holder for Skipping Them in Exit Interviews: Josh Feldman
Jon Stewart Goes After Obama Admin’s Prosecution of Whistleblowers: Josh Feldman
Scott Walker Swats Away Heckler, Rouses Audience During CPAC Speech: Josh Feldman

The New York Times Cheers On A Nuclear Iran: David Gerstman
Nancy Pelosi: How Difficult It Is to Be a Member of Congress: IJR
Jon Stewart Blames Fox News For His Decision To Leave “Daily Show”: WZ

World

ISIS' Next Target: Michael J. Totten
Obama’s Former Deputy CIA Director: Emerging Iran Deal Leaves Enough Centrifuges for Nuke: The Tower
Islamic State’s female jihadists use social media to lure women recruits: LWJ

Entropy is taking over: Michael Kennedy
Europe Without Jews?: Guy Millière
The Russia That Died With Boris Nemtsov: Leonid Bershidsky

Defense Intelligence Told NOT To Update Obama on bin Laden Documents: MagNote
The Sack of Mosul: Jon Gabriel
How Obama Caved on Bahrain: Foreign Policy

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence: Tim Urban
Leaving the Global Grid And Being Arrested For It: John Robb
Google shows off plans for its futuristic new headquarters: DigitalTrends

Cornucopia

Leonard Nimoy: He lived long and prospered: Jaime Weinman
An Employee Of Golden Corral Got Terminated After He Went Public With This: RWN
Spotlight on Kevin D. Williamson: iOTWreport

Image: Islamic State’s female jihadists use social media to lure women recruits
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QOTD: "Netanyahu is not coming to Washington next Tuesday to warn Congress against Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, because he seeks a fight with Obama. Netanyahu has devoted the last six years to avoiding a fight with Obama, often at great cost to Israel’s national security and to his own political position.

Netanyahu is coming to Washington next week because Obama has left him no choice. And all decent people of good will should support him, and those who do not, and those who are silent, should be called out for their treachery and cowardice." --Caroline Glick

Friday, February 27, 2015

HEY, WE CAN FINALLY NAME A HILLARY ACCOMPLISHMENT: She Successfully Lied to the Entire World About Benghazi

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: Documents from Judicial Watch show that Hillary Clinton's closest advisers knew from the onset, before she launched an inflammatory video lie, that Benghazi was a terrorist attack for which Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility.

'Mrs. Clinton, name an accomplishment," Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and prospective 2016 GOP presidential candidate, asked Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.

Last year, when ABC's Diane Sawyer asked the former secretary of state that question, Mrs. Clinton changed the subject, not even bothering to mention dodging sniper fire in Bosnia.

Nor is she likely to mention Benghazi, a place now synonymous with the failure of the foreign policy she helped orchestrate. Benghazi has become yet another example of why our friends don't trust us and our enemies don't fear us.

As we have noted, at 10:07 p.m. Washington, D.C., time on Sept. 11, 2012, Clinton's State Department issued a statement that read: "Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to an inflammatory material posted on the Internet. ... Let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind."

This was the origin of the lie that the Benghazi terrorist attack was caused by an Internet video offensive to Muslims.

The Obama Democrats Abandon Israel in its Hour of Need

By Caroline Glick

It is hard to get your arms around the stubborn determination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today. For most of the nine years he has served as Israel’s leader, first from 1996 to 1999 and now since 2009, Netanyahu shied away from confrontations or buckled under pressure. He signed deals with the Palestinians he knew the Palestinians would never uphold in the hopes of winning the support of hostile US administrations and a fair shake from the pathologically hateful Israeli media.

In recent years he released terrorist murderers from prison. He abrogated Jewish property rights in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. He agreed to support the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. He agreed to keep giving the Palestinians of Gaza free electricity while they waged war against Israel. He did all of these things in a bid to accommodate US President Barack Obama and win over the media, while keeping the leftist parties in his coalitions happy.

For his part, for the past six years Obama has undermined Israel’s national security. He has publicly humiliated Netanyahu repeatedly.