Monday, January 26, 2015

SHARP: Yes, There's Ironclad Statistical Proof the New England Patriots Started Cheating Deflating Balls in 2007

And got a phenomenal advantage in terms of reducing fumbles by doing so:

The 2014 Patriots were just the 3rd team in the last 25 years to never have lost a fumble at home! The biggest difference between the Patriots and the other 2 teams who did it was that New England ran between 150 and 200 MORE plays this year than those teams did in the years they had zero home fumbles, making the Patriots stand alone in this unique statistic.

Based on the desire to incorporate full season data (not just home games, as a team theoretically bring “doctored footballs” with them on the road) I performed the following analysis:

I looked at the last 5 years of data (since 2010) and examined TOTAL FUMBLES in all games (as well as fumbles/game) but more importantly, TOTAL OFFENSIVE PLAYS RUN. Thus, we can to determine average PLAYS per FUMBLE, a much more valuable statistic. The results are displayed in the chart below. Keep in mind, this is for all games since 2010, regardless of indoors, outdoors, weather, site, etc. EVERYTHING.


...I actually went back and researched 5 year periods for the entire NFL over the last 25 years. The Patriots ratio of 187 plays to 1 fumble is the BEST of ANY team in the NFL for ANY 5 year span of time over the last 25 years. Not was it just the best, it wasn’t close...

Read the whole thing.

This needs to be investigated and, if it pans out, the Patriots need to have all of their post-2007 wins expunged from the record. This is really no different than roid-ragers like Bonds and McGwire juicing their way into the record books. It's crap.


Hat tip: BadBlue Sports.

GOT SKYNET? Legendary inventor Ray Kurweil's predictions for the next 25 years are a tad ominous

Ray Kurzweil is a legend in the scientific community, having pioneered the first text-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the CCD flatbed scanner, and the first large-scale voice recognition system. He's received 20 honorary doctorates and was appointed by Larry Page to lead artificial intelligence at Google.

In the new book BOLD by Peter Diamandis, Kurzweil reveals his predictions for the next 25 years. It's worth noting that an equivalent set of predictions, offered 25 years ago in 1990, turned out to be startlingly accurate (a computer would defeat the human chess champion by 1998, PC's would routinely operate over wireless networks by 2010, etc.).

By the late 2010s, glasses will beam images directly onto the retina. Ten terabytes of computing power (roughly the same as the human brain) will cost about $1,000.

By the 2020s, most diseases will go away as nanobots become smarter than current medical technology. Normal human eating can be replaced by nanosystems. The Turing test begins to be passable. Self-driving cars begin to take over the roads, and people won’t be allowed to drive on highways.

By the 2030s, virtual reality will begin to feel 100% real. We will be able to upload our mind / consciousness by the end of the decade.


By the 2040s, non-biological intelligence will be a billion times more capable than biological intelligence (a.k.a. us). Nanotech foglets will be able to make food out of thin air and create any object in physical world at a whim.

By 2045, we will multiply our intelligence a billionfold by linking wirelessly from our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud.

The meta-theme of Kurzweil's predictions is that of exponentiality, extremely rapid growth (e.g., in semiconductor density, computing power, ...) in the overarching capabilities of man's inventions.

Which makes me think of Skynet.

As the wise man said, "May you live in interesting times."


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.

As Obama bows to the new Saudi King, he quietly unveils plans to kill off the crucial Trans-Alaska pipeline

By Investor's Business Daily

Energy: While taking credit for increased oil and gas production on private and state lands, the president moves to put 12 million acres of the oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off limits. OPEC and the Saudis are smiling.

Whoever's in charge of presidential optics these days fits the classic definition of the blind leading the blind.

It's bad enough that President Obama doesn't have time to get to Paris for a global protest against terrorism after the Charlie Hebdo attack but can meet and greet the San Antonio Spurs.

But then he privately slams an invitation by Congress to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, our only true ally in a terror-stricken Middle East, with whom he has no time to speak, while he travels to Saudi Arabia to meet with new Saudi King Salman and extend our condolences on the death of King Abdullah.

And the way to Riyadh, Obama gives the Saudis a gift in the form of the proposed wilderness designation of three energy-rich areas of Alaska: 1.52 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain, 5.85 million acres of the Brooks mountain range and 4.92 million acres of the Porcupine Plateau.

The proposed designation comes from a president who has taken credit for an oil boom on private and state lands that has driven down oil prices to the point that the Russian economy is cratering and OPEC is hyperventilating.

It also comes from the president who in 2012 mocked the "drill, baby, drill" mantra of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "Since it's an election year (Republicans) are already dusting off their three-point plans for $2 gas," Obama said, adding that "we can't just drill our way to lower gas prices."

Well, we could and we did and $2 gas is here — despite a president who restricts domestic oil exploration and production in federal waters and on federal lands, and blocks the Keystone XL pipeline lest North America leave OPEC in the dust and literally pounding sand.

Why I love watching MSNBC, part XVIMCLXIII

It doesn't get any better than watching Al "Not So" Sharpton do weather.

I'm willing to bet cash money that literally 60 to 70 percent of MSNBC's viewers watch Sharpton for comic relief.


Hat tip: @BiffSpackle

Larwyn's Linx: Immigration Officers Blast GOP Border Bill: ‘Where Is the Outrage?’

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Nation

Immigration Officers Blast GOP Border Bill: ‘Where Is the Outrage?’: MRC
Diseased illegals spreading Measles in California?: FAM
He Stands With Them: William Pollack

Former ISIS Prisoner: “They Want Something Worse Than 9/11″: LI
Behind Obama’s love affair with Iran: Steve Apfel
Valerie Jarrett Cornered: Releasing Gitmo Prisoners Make Americans Safer?: UFP

The Iowa Corral: Erick Erickson
What Bobby Jindal Gets about Islam: Andrew C. McCarthy
Vanderbilt Prof Under Fire for Criticizing Islam: CI

Scott Walker takes Iowa by storm: Cameron Joseph
Don't Count Out the Anti-Establishment Republicans: Albert R. Hunt
Senate GOP May Eliminate Filibuster For Supreme Court Nominees: OTB

Economy

Greek fiasco is Europe's fiasco too: Commentator
America's Losing the Currency War: Leonid Bershidsky
Moonbat Professors: Pedophilia Is “Natural For Males": WZ

Scandal Central

White House going nuclear on Netanyahu: Michael Goodwin
Financial Crisis Commission report rigged to punish banks, protect Democrats: RS
Judge alleges ‘fraud on the court’ by government attorneys in Dobyns case: David Codrea

Climate & Energy

Obama closes off much of Alaska refuge to drilling: Exam
Days after claiming credit for increased oil production, Obama moves to limit it: Thomas Lifson
Pollution Pimp Pharrell Williams Wants To Fight Climate Change: Surge

Media

Chuck Todd Finds No Fault In Obama For Refusing Netanyahu Meeting: CNS
WaPo Fact-Checker Gives “Three Pinocchios” to Obama’s SOTU Claims on Iran Nuke Program: The Tower
New Documentary Exposes Dangers of Gun-Free Zones: Bullets First

Newspeak Update! Illegal Aliens Called ‘Undocumented CITIZENS’ by Newspaper: Sooper
‘Meet The Press’ Panel Hits GOP Over Iowa ‘Freedom Summit’: Jeffrey Meyer
Who Was It That Was Telling Me That the Daily Mail is Right-Wing?: iOTWreport

American Sniper Continues To Break Box Office Records, Nearly $250 Million So Far: WZ
A Logical Consequence: Erick Erickson
Florida is now an official target for UBC. Shannon Watts lets it slip.: GFZ

World

Journalist: Prosecutor Tied Rouhani to Argentina Terror Attack: The Tower
Saudi Arabia's Kryptonite: John Robb
The Age of Islamic Terror–1991 to present: John Ruberry

Attack leaves 140 million people w/o power in Pakistan: John Robb
Report: Iranian general was killed in Israeli strike because he didn't turn off his phone: JPost
ISIS Executes Seven Women In Mosul For Refusing ‘Temporary Marriage’: WZ

Putin’s Secret Friends in Paris: 20 Committee
Support the Ukraine: Trevor Loudon
Jewish Agency-affiliated think tank composes aliyah plan for 120,000 French Jews: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

In the Trenches with the F-35: AmInt
IBM is about to get hit with a massive reorg and layoffs: Andy Patrizio

Cornucopia

Trevor Loudon Speaking in Florida, Alabama, Delaware, Southern California and DC.: Trevor Loudon
The MSM, Athletic Supporters That They Are, Will Sniff Out the Truth: MOTUS
The New England Patriots Prevention of Fumbles is Nearly Impossible: Sharp

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QOTD: "These martyrdoms [attacks on Hezbollah and Iranian targets by Israel in Syria] proved the need to stick with jihad. The Zionists must await ruinous thunderbolts." --Obama's "partners in peace", the leadership of Iran

Sunday, January 25, 2015

"ONE OF THE LARGEST STORMS IN HISTORY": 24 Inches of Global Warming Set to Slam NYC

How much you wanna bet that Al Gore is in the Big Apple?

New York braced for one of the biggest blizzards in “the city’s history,” with over 24 inches of snow expected to blanket Gotham on Monday and Tuesday, authorities said.

“We are facing one of the largest storms in the city’s history,” Mayor de Blasio said. “This could be a storm…the likes of which we have never seen before.”

Snow is expected to begin falling just before sunrise on Monday before the serious blizzard kicks in late in the afternoon and through Tuesday morning’s rush, forecasters said ... “New Yorkers should not underestimate this storm. Assume the conditions will be unsafe,” de Blasio said. “When you can stay indoors stay indoors.”

...As difficult as Monday morning’s commute will be, that’s a cake walk compared to what’s coming on Tuesday. Commuters and pedestrians alike will have to deal with winds between 20 mph and 40 mph, dropping the real-feel temperature and blowing snow right into faces of New Yorkers.

But remember, folks: weather is not climate, unless it backs up the global warming scam.


CONVENTION OF STATES UPDATE: The Latest from West Virginia

By Mike Holz

"The second clause of Article V - empowering the states - is necessary, because left to Congress, no amendments of the proper kind would ever be obtained by the people, if the Government should become oppressive."

Almost a year ago, we published a column that pointed out how oppressive our federal government has become, and the need to rescue it from the career politicians on both sides of the aisle who are more interested in their political futures than in America's future. Article V of the U.S. Constitution, also known as The Convention of States, is the vehicle by which the states can take control of our out-of-control government. In a nutshell, Article V gives the individual states the power to propose and enact Constitutional amendments independent of Congress.

To convene a Convention of States, two-thirds of the fifty states' legislatures, or 34 states, would need to initiate a convention to propose specific Constitutional amendments. If three-fourths of the states, or 38 states, ratified these amendments, the amendments would become law and part of the U.S. Constitution. This is strictly a state legislature initiative; state governors have no role in the process and cannot stop it. Currently, 40 states are in the process of initiating an Article V convention to propose three specific amendments. One would impose fiscal restraint on the federal government through a balanced budget amendment, the second would limit the government's power and jurisdiction, and the third would impose term limits on Congress.

Should these amendments become ratified, they become law. Congress can't change or amend (add pork to) them, the president can't veto them; the Supreme Court can't overturn them.

Last February, Delegate John Overington sponsored a resolution calling on West Virginia to participate in the Convention of States movement. At the time, he had 37 bi-partisan co-sponsors. This year, he hopes to have 64 sponsors when he re-introduces it. State Senator Robert Karnes will be introducing it in the Senate. They'll both need our help in this effort.

Lets contact all our representatives, both Democrat and Republican, and let them know where we stand.


Read more at Journal-News.net

LATEST OPEN BORDERS INSANITY: Disease and Violent Middle Eastern Criminals Edition

This administration just keeps getting better and better, don't it?

Shot:

Illegal Immigrant from Middle East Arrested in Texas Burglary

An illegal immigrant from the Middle east was arrested Wednesday during a burglary in Plano.

WFAA reported:

The arrest of a burglary suspect in Plano on Wednesday could represent a break in a string of more than two dozen similar crimes since last October.

Riashat Ishmam, 17, provided authorities with the critical and timely information they needed to make take a man into custody. He had been playing games on the computer when the doorbell rang...

Riashat told News 8 that Allahdadi had also broken through the bedroom door with force. The door was shattered around the doorknob.

A panicked teen only had his phone with him — but it was all he needed... “Since this door doesn’t have a lock, I just stood still after I called 911, and luckily he didn’t even check the bathroom,” Riashat said...

The young man said he heard Allahdadi combing through drawers and moving quickly. But the intruder did not get far, because officers arrived within six minutes of that phone call and picked up Allahdadi as he climbed out the window.

Farhood Allahdadi is being held on an immigration hold... He is here illegally.


Chaser:

California Measles Outbreak Likely “Imported” to United States

With the Disneyland measles outbreak expected to grow, California hospitals and doctors’ offices are preparing for new cases and a flood of questions from patients worried about getting the disease. So far 68 cases of measles have been reported in California this year, the bulk of them in people who visited — or had contact with someone who visited — two Disney theme parks in Anaheim. The outbreak could get much worse.

In 2011, there were 222 confirmed Measles cases in the United States, 200 were linked with importations, including 72 that were linked with importations from other countries.

So is this latest outbreak linked to the influx of illegal immigrant children welcomed to America by the Obama administration?

Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet warned about this possibility at The Monitor back in June 2014... and [the] Canadian government blames the current US outbreak on “imported cases.”


Thanks, Obama!


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: The Shadow Of Crisis Engulfs The United States

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Nation

The Shadow Of Crisis Engulfs The United States: NoisyRm
Illegal Alien Free On Bond Allegedly Murders Store Clerk: Breitbart
Sharia U.S.: ConTrib

Pelosi’s Syriana Versus Boehner’s Bibi Invitation: Debra Saunders
'Netanyahu's speech is vital to prevent bad Iran nuclear deal': Hayom
Bibi not the first to face Obama threats of retaliation: Ed Lasky

Owned it: Ted Cruz introduces ‘Miracle of America’ theme at #IAFreedomSummit: Twitchy
Amnesty Allowed Illegal Alien who Killed an Arizona Man to Stay in America: RWN
SC Republican Believes Every Kid Needs to Respect Second Amendment: PJM

12 keys to the GOP presidential race right now: Byron York
Governor Scott Walker at Iowa Freedom Summit: AmPower
The New Progressive Mitt Romney: Same as the Old Progressive Mitt Romney: Reason

Economy

Obama's tax on 529 plans takes direct aim at the Middle Class: Megan McArdle
Uncle Sam Is Coming After Your Savings: Nick Sorrentino
Capital One Fraud Researchers May Also Have Done Some Fraud: Matt Levine

Scandal Central

‘Sex slave’ claims Bill Clinton visited Epstein’s ‘orgy island’: JWF
Democrat Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s arrest sends Albany into a state of panic: Post
Obama Will Not Attend 70th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation: WFB

Climate & Energy

Climategate, the sequel: How we are still being tricked with bogus data on warming: Christopher Booker
2014 as the Mildest Year: Why You are Being Misled on Global Temperatures: Dr. Roy Spencer
Global Warming Causing Doomsday Clock To Tick Closer To Midnight: WZ

Media

There's method to his madness: Springer's Blog
Barack Obama Official Twitter Account Follows Crude Sexist Anti-Sarah Palin Account: GWP
Results from our 2016 Presidential Poll: Scooop

Ted Cruz and Climate Change: RWN
Gingrich: Elite In Both Parties 'Unwilling to Tell the Truth': Daniel Halper
National Guardsman takes down 4 armed robbers at Sonic with the ultimate equalizer: BPR

Hey, Look! That Woman Is Trying to Be Modest! Let’s All Laugh at Her and Call Her Names!: Matt Walsh
Reid Surgery a Crucial Moment in a "Storied Career": David Hawkings
LA Times Corrects: Jerusalem is Israel's Capital: CAMERA

World

Russia’s Emerging Holy War: 20 Committee
Obama, the Shiite, Goes to Riyadh: Roger L. Simon
Powerful Blast Kills Two, Wounds 54 In Philippines, Muslim Militants Suspected: WZ

The West Summarized In One Sentence: Camp o' the Saints
No-Jew-Go Zones: LI
Yarmulke-Clad Swedish Gentile Reporter Attacked in Malmo: Algemeiner

Obama’s Policies Put the U.S. on an Irreversible Path to Impotence – Videos: Sara Noble
Obama Confirms Islamic State Murder of Japanese Man: Daniel Halper
I don’t want to live under Islamic blasphemy law. That doesn’t make me racist: Douglas Murray

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Study: Complaining on Twitter correlates with heart disease risks: Ars Technica
New Life Made with Custom Safeguards: David Biello, SciAm
Twitter’s war on developers continues: Tweetbot for Mac pulled from App Store: 9to5Mac

Cornucopia

Deflated: the Statistically Impossible Patriots Fumble Record: J. Christian Adams
George Bush Destroyed Obama’s Ego in His Own House, This is Epic!: Cassy Fiano
Clintons Quietly Settle On a Punishment For Bill’s Underage Philandering: iOTWreport

Image: What happens when police enter the Islamic no-go zone in Clichy Montfermeil, a Paris suburb
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QOTD: "To an ever-greater degree the “free man” of the West is an unarmed, frightened, policed and browbeaten cipher whose first reaction to any crisis is to ‘shelter in place’." --Richard Fernandez

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Revelations from a Startling Archaeological Expedition

Courtesy of Springer's Blog:


And a reminder: Springer's Blog was a 2014 Fab 50 Award Winner, the ultimate gauge of blogging quality. As far as you know.


TRY AND CONTAIN YOUR SURPRISE: In Vermont, Drivers Licenses are a Magnet for Fraud by Illegal Aliens

By Bruce Parker


WHICH IS WHICH?: Driver’s privilege cards look nearly identical to Real ID-compliant driver’s licenses, but it’s the privilege cards that out-of-state migrants prefer most.

As California battles a flood of immigrants seeking driver’s licenses after enactment of Assembly Bill 60, Vermont’s Department of Motor Vehicles has found issuing driver’s privileges to illegals can be a magnet for benefits fraud.

In the first week after AB 60 went into effect in January, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles issued more than 11,000 driver’s licenses and processed nearly 50,000 applications for people living illegally in the U.S. By the end of week two, the number of issued licenses more than doubled, reaching 25,300.

Over the next three years, Golden State taxpayers can expect to pay as much as $220 million to give licenses to 1.4 million undocumented immigrants.

Across the country in Vermont, a different problem has emerged. A law intended to grant driver’s privilege cards to roughly 3,000 migrants is attracting applications from illegals living outside the state.

“In our Bennington DMV office, we have detected some changes where people are coming from outside of Vermont and trying to get a driver’s privilege card. Our investigation has determined that they’re not residents of the state of Vermont,” Glen Button, director of the Department of Motor Vehicles Enforcement Division, told Vermont Watchdog.

As originally reported in the Brattleboro Reformer, the Department of Motor Vehicles recently discovered 130 invalid applications in its Bennington branch, in the southwest corner of the state bordering New York and Massachusetts.

15 Funniest Skymall Bankruptcy Reactions

With a tip o' the cap to IJReview and @BiffSpackle:

24 Worst Examples of Emperor Obama's Serial Desecration of the United States Constitution

A handy guide you can pass on to progressives, liberals, Marxists, Communists, and other Democrats.

  1. The president’s selective targeting of political opponents for harassment and abuse by the IRS and obstruction and corruption of the resulting investigations
  2. Fraudulent claim that the Benghazi massacre was caused by a film, willfully misleading Congress and the American people, providing false information to Congress, scapegoating an individual instead of taking responsibility for waging a war under false pretenses and inadequately protecting Americans overseas.
  3. Unlawfully granting amnesty to categories of illegal immigrants, pressuring states by expensive litigation and the withholding of federal resources to not enforce laws against illegal immigration
  4. Refusal to enforce border security laws passed by Congress
  5. Denial of equal protection under the law by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) racially discriminatory enforcement of federal civil rights law
  6. Systematic politicization of hiring at Department of Justice
  7. Systematic stonewalling by Department of Justice and other departments and agencies of Congress
  8. Investigation of journalists in violation of free speech and contravention of DOJ guidelines, Attorney General’s (AG) misleading testimony regarding the investigation of journalists
  9. Fast and Furious operation intentionally arming criminals, covered up by the Attorney General’s contemptuous obstruction of a congressional investigation and the President’s specious invocation of executive privilege
  10. Repeated and continued attacks on the first amendment using DOJ to intimidate reporters, stonewalling access to information, prosecuting reporters who do their jobs, and stifling speech through FCC regulations
  11. The politicization of investigation and prosecution by DOJ in order to coerce compliance with administration policy, punish critics, appease political supporters, while funding political allies through sue and settle schemes
  12. Refusal to enforce laws such as DOMA
  13. Coercing state compliance with Obama administration policy by politicizing enforcement actions and encouraging state attorneys general to abdicate their duty to defend valid state law
  14. Unilateral changes to Obamacare
  15. Use of the EPA to regulate into effect legislation that was rejected by the Democratically controlled Congress
  16. Unilateral amendment and maladministration of other environmental policies like the Clean Air Act
  17. Contravention of Congressional and Judicial authority through “sue and settle” lawsuits where the government seeks out advocacy groups to sue on issues that dramatically expand regulatory and enforcement authority, allowing the Executive Branch to settle and increase its power. Unilateral amendment on the eve of 2012 election of law mandating notification of impending layoffs
  18. Unilateral amendment of federal law requiring welfare recipients to work
  19. Defiance of congressional law and court orders in obstruction Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project
  20. Unilateral and illegal release of 4 Gitmo prisoners in exchange for Bo Bergdahl
  21. Making ‘recess appointments’ when Senate was not in recess
  22. Usurpation of Congress’s war powers in instigating an undeclared, unauthorized war in Libya
  23. Contempt tor Congress’s constitutional duty to conduct oversight of executive agencies
  24. Picking winners and losers based on politics

Pity the leadership in the Republican Party has -- in the words of Sarah Palin -- a case of "deflated balls": they refuse to employ the very tools the Framers bequeathed them, whether through cowardice or secret collaboration with these tactics.


Read more at Judicial Watch.

Larwyn's Linx: The Swastika and the Crescent

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Nation

The Swastika and the Crescent: David Motadel
Will Obama ever stop lying about Citizens United?: Hans A. von Spakovsky
White House aide says Obama will 'steamroll' Democrats in Congress: DailyMail

WH Outraged at Israel: “He Spat In Our Face, There Will Be A Price": WZ
Number One With a Bullet: Bill Whittle
Marco Rubio moves to 2016 Presidential bid: Jonathan Karl

Jew-hating activists caused car crashes on San Mateo Bridge: LI
Anti-Gun Group Confessions: Pagun
People Need to See This Judge’s Face and Call Her Out: ProgsToday

Mitt Romney Executes the Rarely Seen Political Triple Flip Flop: Wizbang
How Greek Default May Still Unravel the EU: Frank Hollenbeck
2 star's 'treason' comments spark call for an investigation: AirForceTimes

Economy

Whistleblower: Pelosi Covered Up Role In Crisis: IBD
$10,000 Tax Credit To Hire Ex Cons: ProgsToday
Union Membership Rate Falls to 100-Year Low: Melissa Quinn

Scandal Central

An Iranian nuclear weapons program in what used to be ‘Syria’: J.E. Dyer
Republicans Surrender To Infanticide: David Harsanyi
Looking Away from Europe’s Muslim Problem: Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal

Climate & Energy

Al Gore: Spend $90 Trillion To Ban Cars From Every Major City In The World: DC
States Should Force Federal Gas Tax Cut: Phil Kerpen
Climate Reporting’s Hot Mess: Holman W. Jenkins

Media

Sundance: because the world needs more deviant movies: MOTUS
After “State of Delusion Speech,” Mark Levin Is Upset With GOP: WJ
7 People Obama Has Agreed to Meet With (Not Named Netanyahu): Erin Dooley

Chris Kyle’s Widow Appeared at SHOT Show...: Blaze
President Tee-Time in a No-Go World: Mark Steyn
Does Islam Have Anything to do With Islam?: Donald Sensing

World

The Fate of Ukraine: 20 Committee
Abdullah is Dead. ISIS has an opportunity to flip the Kingdom. Here's how.: John Robb
Wilders: Paralyze the Dutch Government: GoV

Election Envy: The Europeans and the Jews: Spengler
Boko Haram Leader: “Allah Commanded Us” In The Koran To Slaughter Civilians: WZ
Islamic State Deepens Grip in Future Palestine: Khaled Abu Toameh

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

TrueCar says more than half of its web traffic now is mobile: Automnews
Teenage Engineer's Gorgeous, '80s-esque Pocket Synths Cost Just $59: John Wenz
Alfa Romeo sedan – A 3 Series fighting sedan: BMWblog

Cornucopia

History Repeats Itself: Springer
Ultimate Archery: TR
Denial and Deflategate: A Patriots Fan’s Stages of Grief: Ian Crouch

Image: White House aide says Obama will 'steamroll' Democrats in Congress
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QOTD: "The White House’s outrage over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to speak before Congress in March — a move he failed to coordinate with the administration — began to seep through the diplomatic cracks on Friday, with officials telling Haaretz the Israeli leader had “spat” in President Barack Obama’s face.

“We thought we’ve seen everything,” the newspaper quoted an unnamed senior US official as saying. “But Bibi managed to surprise even us.

“There are things you simply don’t do. He spat in our face publicly and that’s no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price,” he said.

Officials in Washington said that the “chickenshit” epithet — with which an anonymous administration official branded Netanyahu several months ago — was mild compared to the language used in the White House when news of Netanyahu’s planned speech came in." --Times of Israel

Friday, January 23, 2015

ANOTHER KEY WEAPON SYSTEM KILLED: A-10 Warthog ISIS-Killer Axed by Uber-Competent Commander-In-Chief

By Investor's Business Daily

Defense Spending: The venerable A-10 Warthog, designed to stop Soviet tanks, and the perfect weapon to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State, as President Obama promised, faces a budgetary chopping block.

We have noted the irony of how Obama was going to war against the Islamic State with weapons systems he had scrapped, ending the production runs of the F-22 Raptor and Tomahawk cruise missiles. They were dismissed by the administration as relics of the Cold War even as Russia was rearming and trying to reassemble the old Soviet Union.

We've also mentioned the phasing out of the A-10 Thunderbolt, a close-support aircraft that entered service in 1972 and was designed to combat Soviet tank formations on a European battlefield.

Dubbed the "Warthog" because of its decidedly un-sleek profile, the A-10 has been found to be useful in another capacity in Iraq — attacking IS forces that don't want to be on the business end of the Warthog's 30 mm cannon as it flies low and slow over the battlefield.

As Iraqi News reported last week after an A-10 sortie against IS forces near Mosul: "The aircraft sparked panic in the ranks of ISIS and bombing its elements in spaces close to the ground." Such strikes also prove the value of such a low-maintenance aircraft built to take the punishment expected in close air support.

"Elements of the terrorist organization targeted the aircraft with 4 Strella missiles, but that did not cause it any damage, prompting the remaining elements of the organization to leave the bodies of the dead and carry the wounded to escape," according to the Iraqi report.

This is not surprising, since the A-10 can almost hover over a battlefield as it picks out targets for its 20-foot-long, 2.5 ton, seven-barrel Gatling gun that can fire 1,100 of those 30 mm shells. The titanium shell that wraps around the bottom of its cockpit makes it difficult to shoot down.

HOW TO RETIRE FROM A LIFETIME IN CONGRESS WITH $100 MILLION OR MORE: Dianne Feinstein Teaches Us How

By Judicial Watch

California Senator Dianne Feinstein, vice chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, is demonstrating how lowlypaid lawmakers leave office filthy rich, according to a newspaper columnist that writes about the senior Democrat’s most recent scandal.

Like many of Feinstein’s past scandals, this one involves her enormous influence as a veteran federal lawmaker translating into big bucks for her husband, real estate mogul and investment banker Richard Blum. The U.S. Postal Service is selling 56 buildings and Blum’s commercial real estate company, CBRE, stands to make about $1 billion in commissions, the news report says. A few years ago CBRE was selected as the sole real estate agent for the huge deal, most likely with the help of his powerful wife.

Here’s a line from the article, which appears in a New York paper this month: “This feat of federal spousal support was ignored by the media after Feinstein’s office said the senator, whose wealth is pegged at $70 million, had nothing to do with the USPS decisions.” It’s not surprising that the mainstream media swallowed the unbelievable denial since Feinstein is the prototype of the liberal politician that seldom receives any real scrutiny. We’ve seen evidence of this in the mainstream media’s ongoing love fest with President Obama.

Judicial Watch has helped pick up the slack and in fact has exposed many of Feinstein’s transgressions over the years, mostly involving abuse of power to enrich her family assets. The atrocities were so rampant that in 2007 the San Francisco lawmaker was forced to resign as chair of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, where she annually supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars. As chair Feinstein supervised her own staff of military construction experts and she lobbied Pentagon officials to support her favorite projects. During her tenure her husband’s companies got billions of dollars in government contracts.

NUCLEAR INSANITY: As Obama begins $12B payout to Iran, spy shots reveal terror state has new, long-range ICBM

No, this isn't from The Onion. Unfortunately, it's reality.

Shot:

Since 1979, the most aggressive enemy of the USA has been Iran under the control of an ambitious Islamist regime that has used terrorist cat’s paws to kill Americans throughout the Middle East and that is sworn to our national destruction. When it looked like this regime would finally be overthrown by the people it oppresses, Obama conspicuously had not a word of support for the rebellion, which was soon crushed. In jarring contrast, he enthusiastically supported “Arab spring” rebellions that took down friendly (Egypt) or effectively neutral (Libya) governments, creating opportunities for the sort of hostile Islamists who run Iran. Now he has been helping Iran to acquire nuclear weapons by moving obstacles out of its way. In case it was not yet obvious whose side Obama is on, this should clear things up:

The Obama administration on Wednesday paid $490 million in cash assets to Iran and will have released a total of $11.9 billion to the Islamic Republic by the time nuclear talks are scheduled to end in June, according to figures provided by the State Department... Today’s $490 million release, the third such payment of this amount since Dec. 10, was agreed to by the Obama administration under the parameters of another extension in negotiations over Tehran’s contested nuclear program that was inked in November.

Money is the only reason the mullahs are willing to go through the charade of negotiating with Obama, whom they openly despise. Only a total fool would imagine they have any intention of foregoing the continued development of nuclear weapons with which to kill American civilians.

These cash payments by the United States have been made with no strings attached, prompting concerns that Iran could use the funds to finance its worldwide terror operations, which include the financial backing of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other rogue entities.

These operations have already been used to kill Americans (e.g., the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, direct assistance to terrorist insurgents in Iraq).

Not all of the money Obama is sending the mullahs will go toward terrorism. Some will finance the continued development of ballistic missiles. Iran doesn’t need these for a nuclear attack on Israel, but the USA is farther away.

Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), said the ongoing release of these assets has provided Iran with a critical “financial lifeline.”


Chaser:

Iran has built a 27-meter-long missile, capable of delivering a warhead “far beyond Europe,” and placed it on a launch pad at a site close to Tehran, an Israeli television report said Wednesday, showing what it said were the first satellite images of the missile ever seen in the West... It stressed that the missile could be used to launch spacecraft or satellites, but also to carry warheads.

Given that President Obama in his State of the Union address threatened to veto proposed bi-partisan legislation that would impose sanctions on Iran should the negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 fail to come to a successful conclusion by June of this year, a clear weapons program is a newsworthy political development as well. But, the mainstream media is silent.

Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has said, “Iran is clearly taking steps that can only be interpreted as provocative. Yet the Administration appears willing to excuse-away any connection between these developments and signs of Iran’s bad faith in negotiations... The more I hear from the administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of Tehran. And it feeds to the Iranian narrative of victimization, when they are the ones with original sin: An illicit nuclear weapons program going back over the course of 20 years that they are unwilling to come clean on."

Certainly Iran’s production and implementation of a missile system capable of carrying a nuclear warhead is a development worthy of reporting. It is a national security story. And when a senior Senator takes a President from his own party to task, it is a major political story as well. And yet… Where’s the coverage?

Moonbattery summarizes these startling developments perfectly: "There is a line between incompetence and treason. Whether Jimmy Carter crossed it by withdrawing support for our ally the Shah and thereby helping the current Iranian government to power is debatable. With Obama [and the media], it is an easier call."


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

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Nation

Mossad Chief: Not opposed to Iran sanctions, contrary to reports: LI
White House miffed that Israel’s PM was invited to address Congress: RS
Breaking: Full statement from Mossad head on Iran: Matzav

Obama’s shtick is getting tired, even with some Democrats: Noah Rothman
Obama Still Reading From The Same Old Script: Jonah Goldberg
SOTU: Obama Boasts of Fundamentally Transforming America: Sara Noble

So, Renee Ellmers: Ace
Ted Cruz Says GOP Will Lose With ‘A Milquetoast Alternative’ In 2016: DC
Defending the Filibuster: The Soul of the Senate: Richard Arenberg

Team Obama Has No Idea What to Do With ISIS Prisoners: JWF
Civil Rights Group Blasts Obama for Anti-Semitic Comments: GWP
Remington Wins Opening Move In Bizarre Sandy Hook Lawsuit: Bob Owens

Economy

This Popular Restaurant Has a Maddening New ‘Charge’ : YC
Obama’s Taxes Trap Hillary: Dick Morris
Obama’s Attempt to Turn the Page Undermined By Policy Failures: Michael Barone

Scandal Central

Obama Regime: Our Goal Is Not To Eliminate Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program: WFB
Obama’s Yemen model is a roaring success: RS
Federal Agencies Stonewall House Committee’s Benghazi Investigation: Sharyl Attkisson

Media

Mark Levin: Republicans won’t stop amnesty, Obamacare: Times
Finally Obtained: David Gregory Arrest Warrant Affidavit: LI
Will Media Show Berserk Pro-Abortion Protestors Blocking Pro-Life March?: MRC

Magazine Now Known For Fake Rape Stories Trashes American Sniper Film: Glob
Fox’s Kurtz: Obama YouTube Interview Was ‘Beneath the Dignity of the Office’: Mediaite
A Billionaire Lectures Serfs In Davos: "America's Lifestyle Expectations Are Far Too High": ZH

World

Where's the Coverage? Satellite Shows Iran's Long Range Nuke-Capable Missile: CAMERA
Iran's New Terror Base against Israel: Gatestone
Obama awards Iran $11.9 BILLION through end of nuke talks: Atlas

Obama’s Bloody Yemen Disaster: Michelle Malkin
Ex-teacher battling CAIR critics in Texas speaks out: I’m not afraid of savages: BPR
Watchdog: Belgian public schools becoming ‘Jew-free’ zones: Times of Israel

Three Female Lawyers have Been Executed by ISIS for being Educated: GJWHG
Egyptian Leader El-Sisi at Davos: Islam Is in Need of “Religious Revolution”: GWP
Dutch ex-minister: World peace if Israeli Jews move to US: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Twitter 'recap' helps you catch up with missed tweets: CIO
Google to reportedly enter cellular service industry as MVNO running on Sprint, T-Mobile networks: AppleInsider
This Drone Crashed While Trying to Deliver 6lbs of Meth: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think: Johann Hari
World’s Largest Animated GIF Created with Ground Paintings and a Satellite Camera: PetaPixel
Joey Bada$$ Claims His Phone Got Tapped After Leaked Malia Obama Selfie: Mediaite

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

OH, MY: Flight Logs Confirm Clinton and Dershowitz Flew on Pedophile Billionaire’s Sex Jet

Clinton 2016: This Time With Pants!

Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the "Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein's address book under an entry for "massages," according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.

Hillary's got to be livid.


A clear path to the 2016 nomination and now her philandering hubby finds himself entangled in a pedophilia scandal?

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to one count of soliciting underage girls for sex (and one count of adult solicitation), for which he served just over a year in county jail. But sprawling local, state, and federal investigations into the eccentric investor's habit of paying teen girls for "massages"—sessions during which he would allegedly penetrate girls with sex toys, demand to be masturbated, and have intercourse—turned up a massive network of victims, including 35 female minors whom federal prosecutors believed he'd sexually abused. He has reportedly settled lawsuits from more than 30 "Jane Doe" victims since 2008; the youngest alleged victim was 12 years old at the time of her abuse.

This is one sick dude. And it begs credulity to believe that Clinton knew nothing about the sex club Epstein is said to have operated for the rich, powerful and connected.

HEROES, NOT ZEROES: American Sniper vs. the State of Obama's Disunion

By Investor's Business Daily

Valor: When Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood talked to an empty chair at the 2012 GOP convention, many thought he'd lost it. Now more Americans are watching his story of hero Chris Kyle than saw the State of the Union.

There was a sense of irony in President Obama praising himself for a "persistent, steady resolve" in fighting an Islamic terrorism he refuses to call by name.

He delivered his State of the Union speech just as the U.S. military was moving the assault ships Iwo Jima and Fort McHenry into the Red Sea to evacuate American personnel, if necessary, from another of his success stories imploding into chaos.

Yemen is on the verge of following Libya's slide into a failed state dominated by Islamic radicals. The Islamic State that Obama silently watched grow remains in control of wide swaths of Syrian territory where many red lines were drawn in crayon.

It's also in control of Iraqi towns where Americans expended great blood and treasure before he threw their sacrifice away with a precipitate withdrawal.

Rather than a persistent, steady resolve, Americans see a callous cluelessness. After four Americans were murdered in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, they saw their commander in chief fly to Las Vegas for a fundraiser. Rather than march with a world protesting the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, they saw their president stay home to meet and greet the San Antonio Spurs.

Obama touts success where there are no successes, which is perhaps one of the reasons the ratings for his State of the Union addresses have steadily declined and why his policies, which he said were on the ballot in November, were soundly rejected by voters.

Obama's absence from the Paris march is reminiscent of the empty chair that Eastwood talked to at the 2012 Republican National Convention. It was meant to be a metaphor for Obama's all-style-and-no-substance presidency.