Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
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Monday, November 24, 2014

Obama is not doing enough to wreck the country

By Lawrence Sellin

There are self-appointed mouthpieces for the illegal immigrant community, who have complained that Barack Obama did not go far enough with his executive order delaying deportation of new Democratic voters prior to the next Presidential election.

I agree.

I believe that the economy can potentially absorb five million additional gardeners and nannies. The challenge will be to create a corresponding number of rich young liberals to hire them.

I was relieved to hear that California Governor Edmund Gerald "Jerry" "Moonbeam" Brown, Jr., who has welcomed all five million amnesty recipients to his state, has proposed a new Middle Class tax that will subsidize wealthy left-wing yuppies to bridge the gap between a livable wage for illegal immigrants and that which liberals are willing to pay them. Brown sees this as a first step in his campaign to become the Democratic Party's candidate for President of Mexico in 2016.

Although I was concerned that Republicans might actually do something to block Obama's unprecedented usurpation of power, I was comforted to learn that the party of decalcified spinal columns has already excluded every possible course of action that might thwart additional attempts to undermine the Constitution and delay Obama's nationwide plan to create a North Korean version of Detroit.

While Republicans have the luxury of only needing to lie to conservatives, the Obama Administration and its mainstream media propaganda team have raised lying to an art form not seen since the demise of the Soviet Union.

CONFIRMED: Eric Holder's Rogue DOJ Targeted CBS News Reporter Sharyl Attkisson

By Investor's Business Daily

Corruption: Smoking-gun emails show how the administration sought to derail a CBS reporter's investigation of its "gun-waking" operation — a reporter whose computers were mysteriously and mercilessly hacked.

Fast and Furious, along with Benghazi, is one of the two "phony" administration scandals that produced body bags, and former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson is responsible for much of the truth-telling about both. That fact is enough to put her high atop the administration's enemies list.

Attkisson, a casualty of liberal media bias, resigned from CBS in March after a series of clashes between her and her bosses over her exposes of administration wrongdoing and its subsequent cover-ups. An email thread obtained by government watchdog Judicial Watch show just how upset Eric Holder's Justice Department and the White House were over Attkisson's reporting and how hard they tried to undermine her.

The email thread's topic was concern over news reports linking Holder directly to the Fast and Furious program that had resulted in the deaths of agents Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata at the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The killers used weapons funneled south of the border under the administration's program.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Top 5 Whoppers From Obama's Announcement That He's Nullifying U.S. Immigration Law

Daniel Horowitz, writing at Conservative Review, has an entire "Top 10" list. I picked out the five most diabolical fabrications:

Lie #5: Deport Felons: Obama claims he is going to focus on deporting felons. Yet, he has done the opposite. 36,000 convicted criminal aliens were released last year, 80,000 criminal aliens encountered by ICE weren’t even placed into deportation proceedings, 167,000 criminal aliens who were ordered deported are still at large, 341,000 criminal aliens released by ICE without deportation orders are known to be free and at large in the US. Again, this is cessation of deportations for everyone. They are leaving no illegal behind.

Lie #4: Only 5 Million: Make no mistake about it. Obama’s illegal amnesty will not just apply to 5 million individuals. It will apply by default to all 12-20 million illegals in the country as well as the millions more who will now come here to enjoy the permanent cessation of borders and sovereignty. Given the numerous options for people to become eligible for amnesty, ICE and CPB will be restricted from enforcing the law against anyone because each individual has to be afforded the opportunity to present themselves and apply for status. There is no way those who were here for less than 5 years will be deported and there’s no way the new people rushing the border and overstaying their visas will be repatriated.

Lie #3: It does not grant citizenship or the right to stay here permanently: Under the royal edict, the work permits can be renewed every three years, and most likely, they will be renewed at the same 99.5% acceptance rate as DACA applications. And once they get Social Security cards, they are going nowhere. So yes, this is permanent. And yes, they will be able to get green cards, which puts them on an automatic path to citizenship: “we are reducing the time that families are separated while obtaining their green cards. Undocumented immigrants who are immediate relatives of lawful permanent residents or sons or daughters of US citizens can apply to get a waiver if a visa is available.”

Lie #2: Illegal Immigrant Crossings are Down: Actually, this is the third straight year that border crossings have gone up, not to mention the entirely new wave from Central America.

Lie #1: Every President has Taken Executive Action on Immigration: No other president has ever issued an amnesty of anywhere near this scope, created it out of thin air, or built it upon a prior executive action instead of a statute. And in the case of President Eisenhower, his executive action was to deport 80,000 illegal immigrants.

There is only one rational response to a tyrannical president.

Shut. It. Down.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Saturday, November 22, 2014

States and Localities Should Nullify Obama's Unconstitutional and Unlawful Executive Action

Thursday night marked a truly historic event related to the federal system of Constitutional checks and balances. A man named Barack Obama, commanding the entirety of the Executive Branch of the Republic, announced that he would create his own federal statutes from whole cloth, thereby usurping the responsibilities of the Legislative Branch.

Congress, now controlled by a pair of corporatists, promptly issued a variety of sternly worded memos and then departed for the airport to celebrate Thanksgiving.

It's now tragically apparent that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, who lead the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively for the Republican Party, are far more interested in feathering their own nests than in preserving and protecting the American system of government.

They have refused, for instance, to use the very powers bequeathed to them by the Framers for the very purpose of controlling a rogue executive. James Madison -- a student of the Enlightenment -- himself wrote:

The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose, the supplies requisite for the support of government. They, in a word, hold the purse that [can limit] all the overgrown prerogatives of the other branches of the government.

...This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.

Would that the enfeebled representatives of the American people, swept into power by an enraged electorate, grasp the reins of power that have been handed to them.

What, then, can be done?


John Hinderaker, writing at the inestimable Power Line, notes that a future Republican president could embrace the "Obama non-enforcement doctrine".

In particular, Hinderaker observes that a GOP president could choose to announce a deliberate non-enforcement policy related to the corporate income tax, any EPA regulations deemed too onerous, and similar diktats.

Of course, said actions presume that Republicans could actually win a presidential election post-implementation of Executive Amnesty. Obama's destructive orders, which will result in a diminution of influence for all legitimate voters, could lead to an electorate dominated by those who despise America.

All is not lost, however.

The brilliant Mark Levin has rightfully called for an Article V Convention of the States, in order to propose a set of amendments both constraining the federal Leviathan and empowering the states that gave birth to the central government.

I fully support said measures, but additional actions are also warranted.

That said, another tactic could be employed


The president has nullified federal statutes -- the very laws he took an oath to uphold -- in ways never before seen in American history.

These unprecedented actions should be met with equally strenuous measures.

I suggest that state and local governments should nullify all federal immigration activities. They should jail, try, profile, imprison, and deport those who have unlawfully entered the United States.

What's good for the goose should indeed be good for the gander.

Obama's ne'er-ending Constitutional Convention should be met with legitimate and lawful resistance.

Democrats must learn a stern lesson: nullification begets nullification.

The American people should not stand for a president who believes himself to be a dictator.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

GREAT NEWS: I Made the White House Enemies List

I have no idea how a two-bit blogger like myself could get included in a list like this one.

Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency.

Emails sent in September and November 2010 show Schmaler working with Media Matters staffer Jeremy Holden on attacking news coverage of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation scandal.

Holden attacked former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky on Sept. 20, 2010 for what he called an attempt “to reignite the phony New Black Panther Party scandal.”

Throughout the email exchanges TheDC obtained through the FOIA request are numerous examples of Gertz and other Media Matters staff sending the full text of Media Matters blog entries attacking the DOJ’s political opponents in the media.

Among others, Gertz sent Schmaler attack pieces he wrote about Townhall Magazine’s Katie Pavlich, who also authored a book on Operation Fast and Furious; Breitbart.com writers Joel Pollak and Ken Klukowski; Fox News Channel’s William LaJeunesse, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Megyn Kelly, Martha MacCallum, Bill Hemmer, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity; Sipsey Street Irregulars blogger Mike Vanderboegh; DirectorBlue blogger Doug Ross; National Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy; and this reporter [Matthew Boyle].

So if I disappear for any reason, you'll know why.


Hat tip: Rumcrook.

Friday, November 21, 2014

CARTOON: Origami

When the history of American political cartoons is written, the works of Michael Ramirez will be rivaled only by those of Thomas Nast.

And the fact is, in times like these, we need more like Ramirez: men and women who will speak truth to power using both pictures and words.

"Obama has engaged in a sustained and calculated campaign to dismantle the immigration laws of the United States"

By Senator Jeff sessions

President Obama’s executive amnesty violates the laws Congress has passed in order to create and implement laws Congress has refused to pass.  The President is providing an estimated 5 million illegal immigrants with social security numbers, photo IDs and work permits—allowing them to now take jobs directly from struggling Americans during a time of record immigration, low wages, and high joblessness. 

This amnesty plan was rejected by the American people’s Congress.  By refusing to carry out the laws of the United States in order to make his own, the President is endangering our entire Constitutional order. 

The President’s plan will apparently also allow many illegal immigrants to receive green cards and become legal permanent residents—meaning they can access almost all U.S. welfare programs, have lifetime work authorization, obtain citizenship, and sponsor foreign relatives to join them in the U.S.

Law enforcement has warned this unprecedented amnesty will unleash a ‘tidal wave’ of new illegal immigration flooding into American neighborhoods at taxpayers’ expense.

The President’s plan also calls for boosting foreign worker programs for IT companies that experts tell us displace U.S. workers and keep wages low.

The President’s unconstitutional action is a direct threat to our Republican system of government and will have catastrophic consequences for the American people.  It must be stopped.  And the way to stop it is by using Congress’ power of the purse.

BUT THEY'RE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: EPA regulations will add $700 a year to average energy bill

By Adam Tobias

MADISON, Wis. — An energy consulting firm predicts several new EPA regulations will go through bank accounts like a tsunami, and the storm will come from three directions.

Environmental Protection Agency policies that aim to cut carbon dioxide emissions are expected to create $284 billion in additional energy costs in 2020, according to a report by Energy Ventures Analysis Inc.

The policies, which President Obama supports, will result in a $680 increase in annual electricity and natural gas bills, says the study, commissioned by Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private-sector coal company.

The American industrial industry will be hardest hit, with some $200 billion in new energy expenses.

Some of that, of course, will be passed along to the consumer, putting an even further strain on personal finances.

But don’t forget about paying for an influx of families that will now qualify for help from publicly funded energy assistance programs.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

JUST IN TIME FOR AMNESTY: 21 Facts That Prove Government Dependency is Out of Control

By Michael Snyder

If you could stay home and watch television, play video games and hang out with your friends all day at government expense, would you do it? Of course most Americans that collect money from the government each month are not abusing the system. Many truly are incapable of taking care of themselves, and others are just receiving government benefits (such as Social Security) that they feel that they have earned by a lifetime of hard work. But with each passing year the number of Americans jumping on board “the safety net” continues to grow rapidly, and a lot of these people should be able to take care of themselves. Today, the American people collectively receive more money from the government than they pay in taxes. And remember, the federal government uses our money to build roads, inspect our food and fund the military as well. So what does this say about our economy? Could it survive without all of these debt-fueled transfer payments? And what does this say about our society? At one time, our nation was known for our Protestant work ethic. What would our forefathers say about us today? The following are 21 facts that prove that dependence on the government is out of control in America…

America's Eerily Calm Transition to Dictatorship

By M.D. Kittle

Using the kind of social network tools that helped him get elected, President Obama on Wednesday declared in a Facebook video that he would use his “lawful authority as president” to “start fixing our broken immigration system.”

Obama’s expected plan to grant legal status to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants was hailed as a victory for the powerful amnesty movement and criticized by amnesty opponents as an extra-constitutional power grab by a president who has grown increasingly fond of issuing executive power grab.

“… Obama (is) going against the will of Congress, which considered and rejected the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act on several occasions, including when both houses of Congress were controlled by the president’s party …” wrote Hans von Spakovsky and John Malcolm of the Heritage Foundation in a piece outlining the constitutional pitfalls of Obama’s unilateral action.

William Gheen, president of the Raleigh, N.C.-based Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, used stronger words in challenging the president’s looming declaration, slated to be unveiled Thursday night on national television.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

PRESIDENT LAWBREAKER: This graphic needs to go viral

YoungCons points us to a NumbersUSA illustration that needs to go viral:



Hat tip: BadBlue News

The Feds' New Racial Quotas

By Thomas Sowell

If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes.

Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have been leaning on public schools around the country to reduce what they call the “disproportionate” numbers of black male students who are punished for various offenses in schools.

Under an implicit threat of losing their federal subsidies, the Minneapolis Public Schools have agreed to reduce the disparity in punishment of black students by 25 percent by the end of this school year, and then by 50 percent, 75 percent and finally 100 percent in each of the following years. In other words, there are now racial quota limits for punishment in the Minneapolis schools.

If we stop and think — as old-fashioned as that may seem — there is not the slightest reason to expect black males to commit the same number of offenses as Asian females or any other set of students.

When different groups of human beings have behaved differently in all sorts of ways, in countries around the world, for thousands of years of recorded history, why would we accept as dogma that the only reason one set of students gets punished more than others is because the people who are doing the punishing are picking on them?

BLACKOUT: Networks Refuse to Cover Obama's Amnesty Announcement and Resulting Constitutional Chaos

By Mac Slavo

Thursday evening will mark a momentous announcement from President Obama concerning his hugely controversial executive order to “shield” and otherwise legalize millions of ‘undocumented’ illegal immigrants living in the United States.

But is this tide turning presidential address scheduled to be carried live on TV for all the country to witness?

No. It seems that the big four networks – ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox – have all opted out of broadcasting the 15 minute speech, instead airing their November sweeps shows as scheduled in hopes of maximizing viewer ratings:

The administration announced today that POTUS will be speaking live from the White House at 8 PM ET on Thursday. ABC has the fall finale for Grey’s Anatomy on at that time while CBS has ratings powerhouse The Big Bang Theory, NBC has reality show The Biggest Loser and Fox has Bones. As of right now, three of those networks will not see any changes in their November sweep schedules due to the speech.

While Obama’s speech will be seen on their cable news siblings, Fox and NBC are not carrying it live on their broadcast networks tomorrow night.

Out of sight, out of mind?

Moreover, according to Deadline.com, the White House never asked the networks to carry the address:

WHY, OF COURSE HE IS: Eric Holder Shields Accused Cop-Killers From Facing Death Penalty

By Investor's Business Daily

Justice: Eric Holder, who dropped the New Black Panther case and almost had a defender of cop-killer Mumia abu-Jamal as an assistant, takes the death penalty off the table for four alleged Virginia cop-killers.

The National Guard has not been called up, Al Sharpton has not made an appearance, and neither have 40 FBI agents been dispatched to ensure the convictions of the four gang members who allegedly murdered a Virginia police officer.

Nor will there be riots and looting if they are acquitted.

When cops are the victims instead of the accused, a different standard of social justice seems to apply.

Waynesboro, Va., is not Ferguson, Mo., and 45-year-old reserve Virginia police officer Kevin Quick is not Michael Brown, shot and killed by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson.

In February, officer Quick never made it after he texted his girlfriend that he was on his way to see her.

According to police, Quick was set upon by three siblings and a fourth man, and was carjacked, kidnapped and taken from bank to bank to withdraw money using his own debit card at gunpoint before being shot to death.

His body was found in a wooded area in Goochland County six days later.

Siblings Daniel Mathis, Shantai Shelton and Mersadies Shelton have been charged along with a fourth man, Kweli Uhuru, in a federal indictment that lists them as members of a street gang called the "99 Goon Syndicate," an offshoot of the infamous "Bloods" gang, and allegedly committed the murder to climb in the gang ranks.

Monday, November 17, 2014

GRIM MILESTONE: Public Loathing of Obamacare Hits New High

Paraphrasing Jammie, "What do these stupid Americans know, anyway?"

As New Enrollment Period Starts, ACA Approval at 37%


As the Affordable Care Act's second open enrollment period begins, 37% of Americans say they approve of the law, one percentage point below the previous low in January. Fifty-six percent disapprove, the high in disapproval by one point.

...Approval has been in the low 40% or high 30% range after a noticeable dip that occurred in early November 2013. This was shortly after millions of Americans received notices that their current policies were being canceled, which was at odds with President Barack Obama's pledge that those who liked their plans could keep them. The president later said, by way of clarification, that Americans could keep their plans if those plans didn't change after the ACA was passed.

The current 37% reading comes on the heels of last week's midterm elections, in which Republicans won full control of both houses of Congress. Already, party leaders are discussing efforts to repeal the unpopular law.

Repeal is highly unlikely, given Obama's veto power, but the law's new low in approval -- and new high in disapproval (56%) -- could potentially have an impact on its future.

This is so odd: who could have predicted that a 2,200-page bill, that not a single Democrat read and which attempted to centrally manage one-sixth of the U.S. economy, would have turned out to be a complete and utter clusterbungle?


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Chicago's Impending Pension Catastrophe, Visualized

By Ted Ballantine, Pension360.org

Among the country’s largest cities, Chicago’s per-capita pension debt is unmatched — in a bad way. Check out the chart below to see just how much pension debt each person in Chicago is shouldering compared to other large cities.

Here’s how Chicago’s unfunded liabilities broke down by system as of 2012, according to the city’s website:

– Municipal Employees’ Annuity & Benefit Fund of Chicago (MEABF): $8.2 billion

– Laborers’ & Retirement Board Employees’ Annuity & Benefit Fund (LABF): $0.9 billion

– Policemen’s Annuity & Benefit Fund (PABF): $7.0 billion

– Firemen’s Annuity & Benefit Fund (FABF): $3.1 billion

– Chicago Teachers Pension Fund (CTPF): $7.1 billion

– Park Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund (PEABF): $0.4 billion

 
Read more Ted Ballantine at Pension360. A few states consistently pop up as having the most pension debt. Hawaii isn’t always on that list. But it should be. Read… Hawaii: Fiscal “Sinkhole State”

Sunday, November 16, 2014

MARK LEVIN: Democrats "should thank God every single day that we are a peaceful, law-abiding people"

By Mark Levin


You heard Donald Berwick, who flat-out stated that the purpose of government-run health care is to redistribute wealth, is to redistribute services. Then you heard Obama lie about every aspect of this law that they were constructing and promoting, every piece of it -- you could keep your doctor, you could keep your policy, your costs will go down $2,500 a year per family, it would reduce the annual deficit and the overall debt -- just absurd.

Now you're going to hear from Gruber, Professor Gruber again with one additional audio, telling you, bragging about how he lied, how Obamacare as told to you was a fiction, and how the statute itself, its complexity, its length, was used to bamboozle you. And I want to add this -- not only was the President of the United States behind this, the entire Democrat party, the entire media, they were all behind it. They were all behind it. Jonathan Gruber -- pro-fessa, MIT.

And by the way, the man who uncovered this is a patriot citizen outside of Philadelphia. If you go to my social sites, marklevinshow/facebook, marklevinshow/twitter, I link to a story by Bloomberg News about this gentleman. He lost his health care and literally, in his basement, maybe it's his mother's basement, he wanted to know who the people were who were the architects behind this and he started to dig and dig and dig and he listened to these long speeches. He's the one that came up with this! Not a single major news service -- because they didn't care. They're cheerleaders -- they are Praetorian Guard media. I told you, the media created Obama, they're not going to destroy him. You've heard some of this but again, I'm making the case, one step at a time.

Saturday, November 15, 2014

The 8 Funniest Gruber Quotes

The inimitable Nice Deb collates all of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's greatest hits ("Remember that golden oldie, 'You're So Stupid'?"). The leftist crackpot was the recipient of $400,000 of wealth redistributed from you, confiscated solely for the purpose of nationalizing one-sixth of the U.S. economy.

Without further ado, may I present the eight funniest Gruberisms?

8 "The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness."

7 "P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low."

6 "Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon."

5 "If any American really believes that Obamacare is going to control costs, I've got some real estate in Whitewater, Arkansas I'd like to sell them."

4 "Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ."

3 "When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa."

2 "The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks."

1 "Your mama so stupid, she thinks a quarterback is an income tax refund."

Now these aren't word-for-word quotes, I'm paraphrasing. Consider it artistic license, like the kind Democrats used to jam the Obamacare crap sandwich down the collective throat of the citizenry.

Oh, and Power Line has an interview with Richard Weinstein, the man who carefully sifted through Gruber's speeches and public comments, a task far too difficult for ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Which highlights the lack of a role for a "media" that act collectively as the public relations arm for the Oligarchs.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Legacy of Lies

By Lawrence Sellin

Who amongst us has ever heard of William A. Wirt?

In her exceptional book "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character," Diana West writes that Wirt, a Gary, Indiana schools superintendent, asserted before a Congressional committee in May 1934 that there was a deliberately conceived plot among members of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration to overthrow the established social order in the United States and substitute a communist-style planned economy.

The Roosevelt administration well understood that if Wirt's accusations were seriously investigated it might distract from or even halt their political momentum. For that reason, it was decided that the proceedings would be a suppression of the truth rather than an uncovering of the truth.

For performing his patriotic duty, Wirt was branded a liar by committee Democrats, smeared by the press and even ridiculed by Roosevelt himself, a fate that would likewise befall future anti-communists such as ex-Soviet agent Whittaker Chambers, journalist M. Stanton Evans, Representative Martin Dies (D-TX) and Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI).

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

INVASION: Obama plans to unveil unlawful executive orders on Amnesty as early as next week

The evisceration of the Constitution continues apace, with America's highest law ignored by the Party of Evil and left undefended by the Party of Stupidity.

President Obama is planning to unveil a 10-part plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action -- including suspending deportations for millions -- as early as next Friday, a source close to the White House told Fox News.

The president's plans were contained in a draft proposal from a U.S. government agency. The source said the plan could be announced as early as Nov. 21, though the date might slip a few days pending final White House approval...

...The plan calls for expanding deferred action for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children -- but also for the parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.

The latter could allow upwards of 4.5 million illegal immigrant adults with U.S.-born children to stay, according to estimates.

Critics in the Senate say those who receive deferred action, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, receive work authorization in the United States, Social Security numbers and government-issued IDs.

And what will be the inevitable effect of these criminal activities on the part of Barack Obama, i.e., rewriting statutes as though he's some sort of Third World dictator?

You guessed it: a veritable invasion of America by the world's impoverished, diseased, illiterate, criminal, dependent, and rent-seeking classes, to name but a few.

This disgraceful action would represent a fundamental transformation of the country and must be met with Articles of Impeachment.

Of that, there can be no doubt or question.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.