Watcher’s Council Nominations for Weasel of the Week

Joshuapundit
 Here are this weeks' nominees....

 

President Obama's EPA!
"The Noisy Room : My weasel of the week nomination is the EPA once again. Five months ago at an old Georgia cotton mill, the EPA had another backhoe oopsie, just as they did recently concerning a Colorado gold mine. But the press didn’t pick it up at all." . . .

NFL Hall Of Famer And Criminal Behavior Adviser Cris Carter! "Puma By Design : My WOTW nomination this week goes to NFL Hall of Famer Cris Carter for remarks made during a 2014 speech t the NFL Rookie Symposium. Carter along with Warren Sapp imparted a little friendly advice to rookies on how "to get around" getting in trouble." . . .

Fake Islamic 'America We Will Kill You All' Sign Image Spreading Hate

Hoax Slayer
 Shame on the perpetrator of this hoax. TD

 

"This would-be protest message, which is circulating rapidly via social media and email, features a photograph that supposedly depicts a sign near Dearborn, Michigan that threatens American people with death in the name of Allah. The roadside sign, which supposedly belongs to an organization named the 'Advancement Of Islamic Agenda For America', features the following inflammatory message:

"Allah be praised America we will kill you all and nothing you can do to stop it Allah be praised

"The message has caused a great deal of angst and consternation as it travels and has been used in anti-Islamic diatribes on many political and 'patriot' websites and forums.

"However, the sign is fake. There is no such sign in Dearborn. The sign image was created via a website that gives users the ability to create church sign pictures. The Church Sign Maker website allows you to choose between various sign templates and add text to generate your own church sign image. To illustrate the point, I have created my own sign on the site using the very same sign template as used in the bogus protest message (see image at bottom of article).

"For the record, Dearborn does have a large Arab American population, but it is not accurate to claim that it is 'almost completely Muslim' nor is it a 'no go zone' for non-muslims as implied in the message."

Marines Letter To Michelle Obama… This Marine Tells Her Like It Is!

Mike Shepard  Entire letter quoted below:

Mrs. Obama

It sickens me that I have to take time to write you this letter. I am a Marine who doesn’t recognize color because every color has lived and died for you. You live in a free country to blame your life on the color of another man’s skin. All colors have given their lives for an educated woman to have the freedom to be so ignorant. I don’t blame black people for the ignorance that comes from your mouth. I love all colors because I love all that God creates. I don’t have to like you to love you because we can’t always like the ones we love. Just because I don’t like you today doesn’t mean I can’t like you tomorrow. I don’t like you or your husband today because of what you’re doing to this country. Isn’t it funny how the truth always reveals itself in time. You and your husband never showed this side of yourselves in 2008 before he was elected.

You both live better than 99% of the people in this world because of this country. You said that you are for the first time proud to be an American. Well, I will tell you that most of us are ashamed of you. You and your husband have become millionaires off the people of this country, but demonstrate very little appreciation for all that we give. White, black, brown or indifferent millions have fought and died for you to have the freedom to say the ignorant things you say. You are educated, but clearly have very little common sense. You blame past generations of Americans for the troubles of a few. Stop blaming white people for your misery and take a look at yourself in the mirror. We are responsible for our own happiness and misery. The KKK is ignorance wrapped in a sheet while the Black panthers are raised on ignorance and hate. No different from the teaching of Islam thinking their race is better than all other men. God is love and creates every color to include everyone’s skin. To truly love God is to love all that He loves. For that I love each of you and pray that we all start taking responsibility for our own damned sins.

Martin Luther King had a dream that we would all live in the promise land. He is not remembered for being black. He is remembered for the love, and character he had within his heart. If you don’t like this country get on that plane and never come back. I will stay here and love all Americans, regardless of skin. I will love the beauty of what God created and stand tall with my American friends. Not because of their color but for the character and love they carry within. This country doesn’t owe you anymore than it owes me. So many have thanked me for my service and I will always be grateful. I pray that one day you and your husband might cause me to be grateful for yours. You will never be remembered as the First Lady of Color but soon forgotten after you leave the White House. You nor your husband shall ever divide us. I wish you no harm, but pray you will take your troubles to a land you no longer hate. Hate shall come and go but His love shall last forever. If you wish to find me I am now a writer for the DC Gazette. Also on Twitter @mshep08_mike …God bless you and Semper Fi
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Lawyer for Huma Abedin, a Hillary Clinton Aide, Strikes Back at Accuser

First Draft

 "The Clinton playbook on display for one of Hillary's
true sycophants with Muslim Brotherhood ties."

Lucianne Goldberg

. . . "A lawyer for Huma Abedin, a top adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton, has accused Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, of damaging Ms. Abedin’s reputation through “unfounded allegations” about her time at the State Department.

"The lawyer, Miguel Rodriguez, sent a letter to the State Department on Friday responding forcefully to two sets of questions posed by Mr. Grassley, Republican of Iowa: whether Ms. Abedin, while a department official, had been overpaid during her maternity leave and a vacation, and whether she had demonstrated a conflict of interest by aiding one of her part-time employers through her work at the State Department.

"Ms. Abedin was granted permission by the State Department to work as a “special government employee” while also performing work for certain outside clients. Mr. Grassley has focused recently on her consulting work in 2012 for the firm Teneo, which was founded by Douglas J. Band, a longtime adviser to former President Bill Clinton." . . .

Don't worry about Iran; Obama will watch over us

Trust But Don't Verify

 

"Obama's Iran deal just keeps getting better and better - assuming, of course, that you're either Iranian or just a rabid anti-Semite who wants to see Israel vaporized on general principle (hint: we're referring to B. Hussein).

"How else to explain the recently revealed little detail in "the toughest deal ever made" that says inspection of Iran's Parchin nuclear weapons development site will be handled through the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has agreed to let the Iranians themselves conduct the inspections.
. . . 
"Hope n' Change is still somewhat undecided about Donald Trump, but for the love of all that's holy it's time we got someone in office who knows how to negotiate a critically important deal without being rolled like a drunk."

Military experts: Iran already has nuclear weapons   "Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely and U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Dennis B. Haney assert that since 1979, a cabal of nations has aided and abetted Iran in its efforts to develop a robust nuclear program under the guise of generating a nuclear-energy system.

"And they believe the White House is fully aware." . . .

On today's market scare

 Article from Charles Schwab:  Panic Is Not a Strategy—Nor Is Greed
. . . "If markets are good at one thing, it's reminding investors that they don't go up uninterrupted forever. The US stock market went over 1,000 trading days between its 2011 correction and the one we’re in the midst of presently. Normally, corrections—defined as declines of at least 10%—occur about once a year. As the chart below illustrates, the CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX) has spiked. Last week’s move was the largest for a single week in the history of the VIX, albeit nowhere near the peaks between 2009 and 2011." . . .

How Would Market Chaos Affect The 2016 Race?   . . . "This sharp decline in stock prices is in no way comparable to the meltdown of 2008, which threatened the global financial system with ruin. Venerable investment houses are not failing. Big banks are not clamoring for emergency infusions of cash. There is no subprime bubble to burst.

"But the current market losses, which began in China, are not happening in a vacuum. China's growth rate, which for years was about 10 percent a year, is down to a relatively anemic 7 percent, according to official figures -- and the true growth figure is probably much lower, according to independent economists. A slowdown of this magnitude in the world's second-biggest economy inevitably ripples across the rest of the globe." . . .Liz Ann Sonders

The Fed Rolled a Wheelbarrow of Dynamite into a Crowd of Fire Jugglers   " . . . John Hussman be abused by the elitist Wall Street lemmings. He has too much integrity and class to lower himself to the level of Wall Street hucksters. His letter this week is heavy on substance, facts, and sound reasoning. Therefore, it is of no use to CNBC cheerleaders or Wall Street shysters. His lessons are timeless.

Rather, the key lesson to draw from recent market cycles, and those across a century of history, is this:

Valuations are the main driver of long-term returns, but the main driver of market returns over shorter horizons is the attitude of investors toward risk, and the most reliable way to measure this is through the uniformity or divergence of market internals. When market internals are uniformly favorable, overvaluation has little effect, and monetary easing can encourage further risk-seeking speculation. Conversely, when deterioration in market internals signals a shift toward risk-aversion among investors, monetary easing has little effect, and overvaluation can suddenly matter with a vengeance. 

  Read the full article

Stock market plunges, then regains half the loss in 30 minutes   "The end of the world has been postponed. Following dramatic plunges in Asian and European markets, the Dow Jones futures index predicted over a 600 point loss by opening. And sure enough, panic selling pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average down over a thousand points. But within thirty minutes, more than half the loss was recovered."

America Needs More Judges Like This

"Excellent!! This, "lawyer", and his racist disciples of satan/demoncrat clients thought they were going to get another pie-in-the-sky, whinny, liberal, fellow demoncrat judge to go along with their phoney, race-baiting, oh woe is me, I've been discriminated against cop-out (no pun intended). But they got a law-abiding judge who adjudicates on the facts. You go judge John!"

Posted by Law and Order American Justice on Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Via Law and Order American Justice

WAPO WRITER: Thinks Black Votes Should Count For More Than …

Clash Daily

"So they don’t really want ‘equality’, do they? You can’t make this stuff up anymore.

A writer over at The Washington Post has a bold new proposal he believes can heal the American racial divide: empower blacks by making their votes count more than those of other races.
“Racial reconciliation is impossible without some kind of broad-based, systemic reparations,” writes Theodore R. Johnson, a former White House fellow and current Ph.D candidate in law and policy at Northeastern University. “But if a pecuniary answer can’t fix the structural disadvantage — and it can’t — what can?”
The answer, Johnson argues, is simple: weighted voting, where black votes count for more than white ones. Specifically, Johnson suggests giving each black person five-thirds of a vote, to reverse the old three-fifths compromise written into the U.S. Constitution.

 Read more: Daily Caller.

Top 3 Observations About Hillary Clinton’s Ever-Expanding Email Scandal

Doug Ross Journal
"The invaluable Sharyl Attkisson, an investigative reporter excommunicated from CBS News for daring to reveal some of the crimes of the Obama administration, offers an informed set of 15 "unsolicited observations" regarding Hillary Clinton's ever-expanding email scandal. My top three?

Mills

[1] Turning a blind eye?

"There’s no excuse for law enforcement officials failing to investigate the serious allegations made by a former Clinton Deputy Assistant Secretary: Raymond Maxwell. A year ago, Maxwell alleged he witnessed a Benghazi document sorting operation in the basement of the State Department with Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan present. " . . .
Need we tell you the rest?

[2] What difference does it make?

"Clinton has shifted her verbiage in significant ways:

March 10: “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material [emphasis added].” Her precise wording leaves open the possibility that she received classified material.
July 28: “I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received [emphasis added].”
August 18: “I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified [emphasis added].”

"No matter the wordplay, the inspector general of the Intelligence Community has provided information that, if true, means all of Clinton’s statements are false."

[3] Ghosts of document controversies past.

"Clinton has long been surrounded by document controversies and by associates connected to document controversies." . . .

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2015/03/17/clinton-email-scandal/

The Plot to Impose a National Sales Tax or Value Added Tax

 

NoisyRoom   "A devilish plot is afoot to impose new national taxes on the American People.  It is a masterful piece of trickery because the authorization for the new national taxes is buried within Compact for America’s version of a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution.

"Furthermore, the balanced budget amendment does nothing to control federal spending; and transforms our Constitution from one of limited and defined powers to one of general and unlimited powers. ¹

"Yet this monstrosity is pending in Michigan as SB 306 ² and in North Carolina as HB 366. ³ Legislators in four States, Alaska, Georgia, Mississippi and North Dakota, have already passed it.
Let’s look at Sections 1-6 of Compact for America’s balanced budget amendment:
  It does Nothing to Control Federal Spending
"Section 1 allows Congress to spend as much as they take from us in taxes and add to the national debt. That’s a good idea?

"Sections 2 and 3 permit Congress to raise the debt whenever 26 States agree.  States are addicted to federal funds. Will 25 States agree not to take more federal funds?" . . .

Crowd sings “How Great Thou Art” after high school band banned

Legal Insurrection

 “A lone voice began to sing the forbidden song”

"The progressive war on faith isn’t limited to the condemnation of bakers who stand for their religious principles; indeed, that’s a relatively new development. Before bakers, high schools were (and still are) the target of these attacks on faith in America. From Texas cheerleaders banned from using Bible verses on their banners to schools banning Christian clubs to schools banning religious Christmas music at “winter”—or sometimes “holiday”—concerts, we repeatedly see this war on faith play out across the nation.

"One such incident occurred in Brandon, Mississippi, where the high school band was benched and unable to play their half-time show for a Friday night football game because it had been banned from playing the hymn, “How Great Thou Art.' ”

 Todd Starnes reports:

There was no halftime show under the Friday night lights at Mississippi’s Brandon High School — the marching band had been benched.

The band was ordered off the field because the Christian hymn “How Great Thou Art” was a part of their halftime show — in violation of a federal court order.

 "What followed was amazing and heart-warming:" . . .

Ted Cruz shows presidential qualities while grilling pork and lesbian activist

American Thinker   "While innocently grilling some pork, Ted Cruz was ambushed by lesbian activist Ellen Page, who tried to shame him for not supporting homosexual marriage.  But instead of Cruz being shamed, it was Page who was tongue-tied while Cruz turned the tables on her.

"This was a stunning performance, even more so considering that it was a surprise attack.  Cruz was calm and cool and collected.  He quickly turned the attack back on the attacker, making her look like a hypocrite for not caring about homosexuals executed in the Middle East.  He turned a discussion about "discrimination" into one of religious liberty.

"This is the kind of candidate we need:someone who is not just a conservative, but an articulate conservative, who can turn the tables on attackers and challenge assumptions of questions.  This is the kind of candidate who could be president and easily handle the most hostile questions from the liberal media, turning them back on the questioners.

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