This Russian Teen Prodigy’s Figure Skating Performance Was Incredible

Buzzfeed  "Fifteen-year-old Yulia Lipnitskaya’s routine in the short program portion of the team figure skating competition was basically flawless. "

"During the women’s short program portion of the figure skating team competition this afternoon, 15-year-old Russian wunderkind Yulia Lipnitskaya wowed fans and judges with a beautiful and nearly perfect routine that left us speechless."    

Full video at the site.

VIDEO: THE NEW WHITE ROSE: BRAVE GERMAN WOMAN STANDS AGAINST THE ISLAMIZATION OF EUROPE

The Astute Bloggers via Robert Hope; Sacramento, CA

The history of the White Rose in World War 2  "The White Rose ... was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler's regime.

"The six most recognized members of the German resistance group were arrested by the Gestapo and beheaded in 1943. ...

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"Today, the members of the White Rose are honoured in Germany amongst its greatest heroes, since they opposed the Third Reich in the face of almost certain death."

Can there be a ‘White Rose movement’ in Islam?   "That is a very important question. Can a person or group of Muslims become bold enough to speak out against the militant fringe of their religion?"

Apparently not for those who follow the Koran faithfully  A "group calling themselves “White Roses” created a video to inform non-Muslims about Islam. The name of this video is Three Things About Islam White Roses is headquartered in Sweden. This first version is in English. The name “White Roses” is based on a student resistance group “Die weiße Rose” in Nazi Germany. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet campaign, from June 1942 until February 1943, which called for active opposition to Adolf Hitler’s regime.

"I urge you all to read the Quran. Know the facts and make up your own mind based on the facts."

The White Rose movement in Hitler's Germany

More on the White Rose Movement

 

The making of Gollum in "The Hobbit"

Youtube

 

 

I still think he looks like James Carville.

The one news source the Democrats don't own

 

 

 

 

But they do have everybody else, including and especially MSNBC.

 

Rand Paul demands Dems return money raised by ‘sexual predator’ Bill Clinton

Though I'm sure Paul said it in a nice way.

Washington Times 

Former President Bill Clinton, left, is seen on March 9, 2004, in New York. Monica Lewinsky, is shown in an undated promotional photo provided by Fox. Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Democrats should remember President Clinton’s sexual affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky before turning their criticism to Republicans’ attitudes toward women. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer/FOX, S.Jones, File)

... "Sen. Rand Paul, who has been in a bit of a tiff recently with the Clintons, says that any Democrat who has raised campaign money with former President Clinton should return the cash to protest his sexual behavior in the White House.

"Speaking on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program, in an interview airing Sunday, Mr. Paul said Democrats are being hypocritical by criticizing Republicans as waging a war on women while at the same time embracing Mr. Clinton, who was impeached for lying about a sexual relationship with a White House intern." ...

Just remember that she was rather predatory herself.

Charles Krauthammer; The health-care myths we live by

WaPo   Myth: Electronic records will save zillions.
... "That’s why the federal government is forcing doctors to convert to electronic health records (EHR... Yet one of the earliest effects of the EHR mandate is to create a whole new category of previously unnecessary health workers. Scribes, as they are called, now trail the doctor, room to room, entering data.

"Why? Because the EHR are so absurdly complex, detailed, tiresome and wasteful that if the doctor is to fill them out, he can barely talk to and examine the patient, let alone make eye contact — which is why you go to the doctor in the first place.

"Doctors rave about the scribes, reports the New York Times, because otherwise they have to stay up nights endlessly checking off boxes. Like clerks. Except that these are physicians whose skills are being ridiculously wasted.

"This is not to say that medical practice should stand still. It is to say that we should be a bit more circumspect about having central planners and their assumptions revolutionize by fiat the delicate ecosystem of American health care." ...

Michelle Malkin: Don't Forget Obamacare's Electronic Medical Records Wreck  "Instead of concentrating on care, doctors face exhausting regulatory battles over the definition of "meaningful use" of technology, skyrocketing costs and unwarranted Big Brother intrusions on the practice of medicine."

IRS hearings: ‘This scandal is not over. The lying has not stopped.’

Human Events

 

... “ 'I want to make three primary points here today,” said Mitchell.  ”First, the IRS scandal is real. It’s not pretend, it’s real.  Number two, the IRS scandal is not just a bone-headed bunch of bureaucrats in some remote office contrary to what the President of the United States told the American People on Sunday.  And, number 3, the IRS scandal is not over.  It is continuing to this day.  And the Department of Justice Investigation is a sham.  It is a nonexistent investigation.”

"Her one-sentence summary of the scandal was powerful stuff: “The IRS, at the direction of some political elites in Washington - not in Cincinnati, but Washington – took what had been, for decades, a process of reviewing applications for exempt status that, for 501(c)(4) organizations, could be expected to take three to four weeks, and they converted that process into one that took three to four years, and in some cases is still not over.' ” ...

 

The IRS and Obamacare: keep these in mind through 2014 to 2016.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/02/stupid-dog-tricks/

 

Email to IRS chief Lerner reveals new strategy to target Tea Party 

"The Daily Caller is reporting that an email obtained by the House Ways and Means Committee shows how the IRS is broadly tightening the definition of "political activity" in order to deny non-profit status to Tea Party and other conservative groups.

"In essence, the proposed new rules would make just about everything that used to be considered legal activity, illegal."

Bill Henck: Inside the IRS   "As noted at the top, William Henck has worked inside the IRS Office of the General Counsel as an attorney for over 26 years. Although it goes over some old ground, we submit the following personal account by Mr. Henck for the consideration of readers in the context of current controversies without further comment. He writes:"

... "I do not personally know whether the IRS has targeted conservative groups or individuals, but I do know that the environment within the agency is ripe for such activity and there is nothing to prevent it from occurring. As stated in more detail below, I have personally witnessed improper giveaways of billions of dollars to taxpayers with inside access at the agency, bullying of elderly taxpayers, the cover-up of managerial embezzlement and misappropriation of thousands of dollars in government funds, and a retaliatory audit. I have also heard credible accounts of, among other things, further improper giveaways, blatant sexual harassment, and anti-Semitism. All of these matters have been swept under the rug." ...

IRS hearings: ‘This scandal is not over. The lying has not stopped.’ 

Obamacare discourages some from working, and that’s OK

Marketwatch

 

..., "For instance, consider a single mom with one child. If she earns $23,419 a year, 150% of the poverty rate, she’d get a subsidy of $3,198 for health insurance. But if she makes one dollar more, her subsidy would be reduced by a dollar. Together with payroll taxes and income taxes she’d owe, that’s more than a 100% marginal tax rate on that extra dollar of earnings."   Page 2 here.

Freedom for the Job-Locked   Dems’ desperate defense of Obamacare-induced unemployment  "Democrats insist this is a boon. Indeed, many are talking about it as an act of liberation (which reminds me of an eleven-year-old headline from the Onion: “IBM Emancipates 8,000 Wage Slaves”)."

Why did the chicken cross the Jordan?

PETA Wants Giant Tombstone Erected In Memory Of Chickens Killed In Truck Wreck

 

"Wackadoos. See more wacky PETA fun here. and here."

Wackiest of all is this PETA effort to change the name of fish to sea kittens.

 

Lest we think this is a parody, WZ links to this Atlanta Journal-Constitution article.

CBO Director: Obamacare ‘Creates a Disincentive for People to Work’

CBO Director: Obamacare ‘Creates a Disincentive for People to Work’
“ '[B]y providing heavily subsidized health insurance to people with very low income and then withdrawing those subsidies as income rises, the act creates a disincentive for people to work—relative to what would have been the case in the absence of that act.”

"Elmendorf, a Democrat, tried to claim that these people who would “have less of an incentive to work” would be “better off,” but Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan was having none of it."

LA Times likes the CBO report   "We've previously identified this GOP position as the most cynical attack on the ACA of all — the Republicans choose to call it a "bailout" of insurers; actually, it's a way of keeping premiums for some plans from getting out of hand, until the industry has more experience dealing with its new clientele. Unsurprisingly, the GOP is doubling down on this dishonesty by talking about eliminating the risk corridors as a condition for raising the federal debt limit."

Pelosi: Fighting “Job Lock” Lets Americans “Follow Their Passion” – Like Leaving the Workforce   “ 'Liberty to pursue their happiness”! But Pelosi has this all wrong. The CBO projections aren’t finding that people will “follow their passion” and become self-employed, or start a business. The CBO projects that people will simply stop working."

Remember When Dems Said ObamaCare Would Create Jobs?    "When Democrats like Nancy Pelosi defended ObamaCare back in 2010 by claiming it would immediately create 400,000 new jobs, anyone with an ounce of common sense knew the claim was completely false…" 

Wasteful High Jinks at the Labor Department

NRO

 

"President Obama’s Department of Labor appointees have shaken things up at the Department, but probably not in ways you would expect. An investigation of DOL practices reveals that Obama appointees are wasting time and resources with public-relations busy work, weird morale-boosting exercises, and many other activities that have nothing to do with helping U.S. workers."

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"And posters celebrating “LGBT Pride” featured San Francisco administrator Harvey Milk and civil-rights advocate (and onetime Communist-party member) Bayard Rustin."  Full article.