Despicable: Dem group sends gotcha tracker to funeral

Thomas Lifson  "Progressives understand very well that they cannot be honest about their political agenda, and that in order to win they need to demonize Republicans. This systematic program includes generalized propaganda (Republicans are mean! Republicans are racist! Republicans are stupid!) that media allies blanket the public with, in news programming and in popular culture, but it also includes a program called "trackers," which consists of following Republican candidates around and videotaping them, hoping for a gaffe that can be trumpeted throughout the media." More after the break.

Stupid Republicans help out with material like this:

Democratic opposition research organization American Bridge apologized on Monday for sending someone to follow New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte at a funeral this weekend, after a reporter and the New Hampshire Republican party attacked them for the move." ...

Democratic opposition research organization American Bridge apologized on Monday for sending someone to follow New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte at a funeral this weekend, after a reporter and the New Hampshire Republican party attacked them for the move...  Read more:

Democrats have a practice that becomes something more like stalking.  "Republicans whose homes have been videotaped say they understand that politics is a contact sport and that every public utterance they make is fair game. But, they argue, filming a home — and posting actual addresses — ought to be off-limits, if only out of respect for their families and neighbors."

Democratic stalkers; Posting videos of private homes crosses the line

Tech execs disappointed in their meeting with Obama

Thomas Lifson  "As his presidency sinks in popularity faster than George W. Bush's, Barack Obama is discovering that key constituencies are disappointed with him, and in danger of turning against him. Along with the media, high tech played a major role in achieving his two electoral victories. But now there are signs that his once-solid support in Silicon Valley and beyond is crumbling. The Hill reports:"  Read more:

Obama “Hijacks” Meeting With Tech Executives On NSA Surveillance To Make “PR Pitch” On Obamacare Website Fix…  "During a White House meeting called to brief America’s largest tech companies today about government overreach in electronic surveillance, President Barack Obama changed the subject – angering some meeting participants by shifting gears to address the failed launch of healthcare.gov.

" ‘That wasn’t what we came for,’ a vice-president of a company whose CEO attended told MailOnline."

The left's war on American business

Dennis Prager; Coercion in the Name of Tolerance 

" Thus, under penalty of fines and, potentially, jail:
1. Jack Phillips must participate in an event that the Colorado constitution explicitly prohibits.
2. He must do so against deeply held religious convictions.
3. He must do so despite the fact that there are hundreds of other cake makers in the Denver area.
"Those who support this decision argue that religious principles do not apply here — what if, for example, someone’s religious principles prohibited interracial marriages? Should that individual be allowed to deny services to an interracial wedding? Of course not. Here’s why that objection is irrelevant:"...

Hobby Lobby’s Secular Case    "The plight of Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts business whose owners are being forced to compromise their faith, instantly draws the sympathy of religious conservatives. But why should anyone else care?"

A Visit to Woolwich; The trial of the two men who proudly claim they killed British soldier Lee Rigby is drawing to a close.

By John O’Sullivan  "From Green Park station in central London it takes only 15 minutes to get to Greenwich by the Tube. From there a taxi will get you to Woolwich in another 15. I took this journey a few months ago, and I learned from the taxi driver that I was just the latest member of a fairly crowded pilgrimage to see . . . well, what exactly?"

Not where Drummer (Private) Lee Rigby was brutally murdered last May so much as where the English people in their thousands came to lay wreaths, medals, and other mementoes on the weekends following his death. The taxi driver gave me a running commentary: Here was the road where the banks of flowers had spilled over the pavement into the street; they had now been removed by local government authorities, but visitors kept coming; now they usually left flowers at the entrance to the Woolwich Arsenal.
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"... But the details of the murder — and the video recordings of it — still have the power to shock. Rigby’s mother and sister had to run in tears from the court to avoid seeing him deliberately run down by a car driven by the two defendants before they went on to cut him up with knives and cleavers."

From the UK Daily Mail: '...Muslim converts ran him down before almost decapitating him with meat cleaver and knives'
"There were gasps in Court Two when video footage of the soldier being mown down by a car, dragged into the road and executed was shown."

Drummer Rigby carried away by comrades from his unit.

The 30 second ad that should terrify incumbent Democrats

American Thinker   ... "Best of all, there's no real way to counter. Obamacare is theirs - they own it. And nothing they say will change that."

 

Obama's Obamacare Lie is Politifact's 'Lie of the Year,' Which Is Always About Obamacare   "There were solid odds that some Obamacare "lie" would be the winner, given that six of the 10 finalists selected by the fact-checking organization (which is part of the Tampa Bay Times) involved the law in one way or another. It was also likely to be this particular "pants on fire"-ranked statement given its significance in the public debate over the past few months. Perhaps if Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had sworn under oath that Healthcare.gov would work perfectly on October 1, that might usurp the title. But as the supercut compiled by New York magazine suggests, this was pretty inescapable for Obama."   Yahoo News

Oldie, but a goodie

Alan Caruba; The Power-Mad EPA

Warning Signs

"Barely a week goes by these days without hearing of some new demand by the Environmental Protection Agency that borders on the insane."

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"The EPA is not about making sense. It is about over-interpreting laws passed by Congress in ways that now continually lead to cases before the Supreme Court. The Court is composed of lawyers, not scientists. In an earlier case, they ruled that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a “pollutant” when it is the one gas that all vegetation requires. Without it, nothing grows and all life on Earth dies."

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I found this quote particularly interesting:

Dr. Soon and Driessen do not deny that coal-burning power plants emit an estimated 41-to-48 tons of mercury per year, “but U.S. forest fires emit at least 44 tons per year; cremation of human remains discharges 26 tons, Chinese power plants eject 400 tons; and volcanoes, subsea vents, geysers, and other sources spew out 9,000-10,000 additional tons per year.”

Coal Must Embrace All-Out Battle with Eco-Bullies  "Meekly accepting blame for climate change dooms the industry and the greater economy."

Imagine you have been wrongfully arrested, charged with murdering a child. Although the evidence against you is sketchy, the police have no other suspects, and with the government anxious to appease those demanding justice, your case is rushed to trial. Your lawyer decides that with public sentiment strongly against you, the best course of action is to plead guilty and to throw yourself at the mercy of the court.

 

 

  

Chinese navy, we salute you

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Interesting and familiar.
We were on the transport USS Rockbridge (APA 228) departing Piraeus, Greece in 1961 when a Soviet freighter cut across our bow, causing our ship to swerve. There were a few curses and one-finger salutes thrown by the marines and sailors. 

 I read some time later that incidents such as this were used to test US Navy seamanship, but tend to think it was their way of challenging our presence in that part of the world.TD 

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Victor Davis Hanson on A Culture in Ruins

PJ Media

"Lady Gaga reportedly spent $25 million on pop art to jazz up her new and apparently underwhelming album. In contrast, Miley Cyrus’ sexual twerking at the MTV Music Video Awards earned her more millions by exposing her rather unimpressive anatomy. Both make the once vulgar Madonna seem like June Cleaver, but at least raise an existential question: how much lower can we go?"

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"I think Barack Obama once promised Americans that we would never lose our doctors or preexisting health plans when his Obamacare was enacted. But I am not sure anymore. He has explained that he never said that, and retroactively added that he had long warned us that our plans were in danger if they did not comply with his new guidelines. Maybe I’d forgotten that. Even if the president of the United States is lying about his lie, what difference does it make? Those who cite the lie, not the untruth teller, are those who seek to impose discriminatory standards."

After same-sex marriage is approved, where do we go from there?

North Dakota to Let Man in Same-Sex Marriage Wed Woman, Too " North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem filed a legal opinion last week confirming that the state does not recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages, allowing a man married to another man to come to North Dakota and marry a woman without divorcing his husband."

Judge: Two cheers for polygamy

"Kody Brown and his four wives, stars in the hit TLC reality show Sister Wives, filed a lawsuit in July 2011 that claimed they were immune from any legal punishment for living as polygamists. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups agreed. He ruled that a Utah law intended to discourage the creation of polygamous households violates the Brown clan’s constitutional rights."

 

Woman Marries Herself to Prove She Doesn’t Need a Husband to Be Happy  
Self-marriage can be a confusing concept to those who don’t know what it’s all about. Nadine isn’t alone, however, many others have done it before. It was even portrayed on the popular TV show Glee, where ‘Sue Sylvester’ ties the knot with herself. These ceremonies are considered secular and purely symbolic. New Age websites such as Encouraging Priestess even share ideas on how to perform self-marriage ceremonies. The idea behind these marriages is to help a person realize that they do not need anybody else to feel complete.

Grievance Inc.

CNN Guest: Jesus Being Depicted As White A Sign Of “White Supremacy”…  Video

Lib Rag Slate: “Yes, Opposing Gay Marriage Makes You A Homophobe”…

Naomi Schaefer Riley; Women think the workplace is unfair… this is why they’re wrong  "Having children clearly makes all the difference. Hymowitz says the “whole way the conversation is framed is wrong.” Feminists and policy makers, she notes, say that they want “absolute parity and that anything less represents real discrimination and injustice.” In fact, though, the lack of parity is largely the result of the choices so many women make for the sake of the next generation — working part time, taking time off to raise kids, asking for less demanding assignments, etc." 

Pull! Sally Kohn’s ridiculous ‘war on women’ salvo gloriously shot down
"And that’s how you desperately try to save a meme. Remove your side of the aisle from exclusive culpability and bash the other side for not being lucky enough to have the “D” after their names which earns the free pass, then talk about it on TV:"
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We have a bipartisan sexual harassment problem! Yet policy war on women's rights & freedoms DEFINITELY waged by Republicans

 

Thomas Sowell; Who Is Racist?  Progress in race relations isn’t achieved by having minority leaders.

      

... "Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. After the success of the civil-rights insurgency, the latter have come into their own, gaining money, power, and fame by promoting racial attitudes and actions that are counterproductive to the interests of those they lead."

 

Three Black Teens Kill White College Student; Racial Grievance Industry Silent

Creepiest Obama story yet

Creepiest Obama story yet 
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The newly installed tapestry of President Obama casts a warm smile over guests at an event @USAinUK last night.

 

  "Love the groveling by our embassy staff - such a "warm smile," eh?
"I did a little searching and discovered that the tapestry is not new. It was created by an artist named Chuck Close and was part of a two-tapestry display in honor of Obama during the Democratic Convention at the Mint Museum in North Carolina."

Creepiest Obama story yet just got creepier
Rick Moran called the hanging of a huge Barack Obama portrait at the US Embassy in London the "Creepiest Obama story yet" yesterday. But it gets worse. Check out the size and placement (hat tip: Weasel Zippers) of the portrait, a tapestry by renowned Chuck Close, a government-approved (National Medal of Arts winner) artist. Ladies and gentlemen, we are well into Dear Leader territory:"

"That's right, the portrait of The One We Have Been Waiting For is larger than Presidents Lincoln and Washington, who flank him, almost like apostles. The visual message declares that their significance is that they paved the way for the Lightworker. Was there nobody in the London Embassy able to understand how grotesque this is? Or were people siomply(sp) too afraid to speak up?"
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He smiles down on us...

 

Dear Leader Looking Down On Us All…