Saturday, July 20, 2013

Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database

Rare 
Obamacare train wreck

 "Would you trust thousands of low-level Federal bureaucrats and contractors with one-touch access to your private financial and medical information? Under Obamacare you won’t have any choice.

 "As the Obamacare train-wreck begins to gather steam, there is increasing concern in Congress over something called the Federal Data Services Hub."....

Friday, July 19, 2013

Iran’s Mullahs Demand Justice for Trayvon

Washington Free Beacon.  
Iranian officer lashes convict (AP)
 
"Iran’s foreign ministry on Friday criticized the acquittal of George Zimmerman and chastised the United States for widespread “racial discrimination.”

" “The acquittal of the murderer of the teenage African American once again clearly demonstrated the unwritten, but systematic racial discrimination against racial, religious, and ethnic minorities in the US society,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi was quoted as saying by Iran’s state run Fars News Agency."

Oh, well then...

A little Rolling Stone humor from Townhall

Political Cartoons by Nate Beeler
 
Political Cartoons by Larry Wright
 
Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel
 
Political Cartoons by Glenn Foden

The Zimmerman case: A touch of sanity

Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez
Charles Krauthammer  " “No justice, no peace,” chants the telegenic mob. In a civilized society, however, where the mob doesn’t rule, justice is defined by the verdict that follows a fair trial. It’s the best that humans can do.

"And in the case of George Zimmerman, we have a verdict. It followed a trial every minute of which was seen by the world. Nothing secret, nothing hidden. Where in the trial was there racial bias? What evidence of the case being tilted toward the defendant because the victim was black? What sign of any racial animus in the jury?"

"Those undeniable realities have not prevented Benjamin Crump, attorney to the victim’s family, from placing Trayvon Martin in the tradition of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers.

"This is a disgrace. Those were race crimes of the most savage and undeniable kind."....
Krauthammer gives Obama credit for wise words, which he pointedly has never done in five years.
....
Afterward, the president acted responsibly. “A jury has spoken,” he said, and then used the moment to reflect on other things, such as care for one’s neighbors and concern for one’s community, thus helping de-racialize the case.

Bloodied and bruised at the moment of surrender: Dramatic new pictures emerge of the moment 'Boston bomber' climbed from the boat where he had been hiding, as a sniper took aim at his head

UK Daily Mail
  • Sobering pictures were taken by Sergeant Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts state police
  • Murphy released the pictures to the Boston Magazine without permission in response to Rolling Stone's cover image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
  • "Cornered by police, the photos show the 19-year-old in a blood-splattered black jumper, with hands stained red and a sniper's laser aimed directly at his forehead.
    "The sobering pictures were released by Sergeant Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts state police, in a bid to show the real face of terrorism in reaction to the 'glamorized' image of Tsarnaev that graces the cover of Rolling Stone magazine's controversial new issue.
    "The officer has now been suspended over his decision to leak the photos, and will find out next week whether or not he will be allowed to keep his job."

    This would make a better Rolling Stone cover:

    Obama paints himself into a corner over Trayvon Martin

    Washington Examiner  "The president's own words more than a year ago — "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon" — are fueling the push for his Justice Department to bring federal charges against Zimmerman, the Hispanic neighborhood watch coordinator who has become a symbol of a broken justice system in the eyes of civil rights groups.
    "When Obama waded into the controversy in March 2012, his words seemed to carry limited consequences. His statement of support for the Martin family played well with supporters and was more than a year away from the polarizing trial.
    "It's not that simple anymore."
    ....
    "I wouldn't go there," said a Justice Department official who served in President George W. Bush's administration, cautioning against a civil rights case against Zimmerman. "It's an incredibly high standard to meet, and it's turned into such an explosive political situation. I would be stunned if they pursued a case."


    Via Lucianne
     

    IRS scandal is unraveling

    Thomas Lifson  "We can now officially say that the IRS harassment of conservative groups is a political scandal connected to the Obama political machine. Despite the best obfuscatory efforts of Obama henchmen like Rep. Elijah Cummings, yesterday the IRS scandal was tied to a political appointee of President Obama. Step-by-step the chain is being followed upward by the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa."

    IRS Hearings: Republicans Ask Questions, Democrats Attack Issa  "Rep. Gerry Connolly, a liberal from Virginia, spent his entire question period upbraiding Issa and launching pre-emptive strikes against the Inspector General, who will testify later.  He did not ask a single question of the witnesses.  Democrats also launched broadsides against Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio over statements those Senators have made about the IRS."

    Federal Study: Fracking Process To Drill For Oil and Gas Does NOT Pollute


    Yid With Lid   "CBS is reporting that a landmark federal study on  fracking conducted by the Department of Energy, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process,  seeped its way up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site."
    ....
    "The federal government gave hydraulic fracturing a clean bill of health in 2004 and there has never been a documented case of ground water contamination owing to hydraulic fracturing. However, bowing to the environmentalists, president Obama has insisted that the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior and the Department of Energy to conduct new tests on the process.  This study is part of those tests."

    So treat those anti-fracking TV shows and movies as what they are: propaganda.

     Hat tip to Jeffrey Dunetz at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

    The gun-fighter

    Thursday, July 18, 2013

    Grievance, inc.


     
    'Let’s Go Mess Up Hollywood for Trayvon'   "On Tuesday night, a flash mob of some 40 to 50 teenagers invaded the busiest and most tourist-centric part of Hollywood, smashing windows, stealing cellphones, and assaulting passersby."

    Courage
    "He also called out the media for not having a “pure heart” when it comes to race. “Racism is wrong in any, shape or form,” Barkley said. “A lot of black people are racist too. I think sometimes when people talk about racism, they say only white people are racist, but I think black people are too. I don’t think the media has clean hands.” "


    Video; Jesse Jackson blasts Florida as ‘apartheid state’  " “No doubt, the inclination is to boycott Florida, stop conventions, to isolate Florida as a kind of apartheid state” if the DOJ does not act, Jackson said."

    Twitter Explodes With Racial Epithets Towards Larry Elder: 'Coon A-- House N--ger' " As NewsBusters reported, conservative talk radio host Larry Elder had a heated exchange Wednesday with CNN's Piers Morgan concerning the George Zimmerman trial and prosecution witness Rachel Jeantel.
    Will Chris Matthews apologize for these people also? Will anyone in the Obama administration condemn this racism?
    Stay tuned....well, never mind.

    Race-Industry Leeches  ...."But all these dimensions of the race-industry narrative are very useful for black professors, activists, and politicians. Better-educated and more well-off than millions of whites, they can rationalize their privilege by leeching off the suffering and dysfunction of the black underclass, and then leverage white guilt for their own advancement. Meanwhile millions of blacks remain underemployed and uneducated, victims of crime, drugs, sexual carelessness, and the liberal racist plantation of dependency and victimhood."

    Weasel Zippers reports; "Race Pimp Al Sharpton Scores His Very Own Gold Digger…"

    Weasel Zippers
    Quoting the NYDN: 
    "Al Sharpton has a new, decades-younger, attractive main squeeze.
    The civil rights activist and MSNBC star, 58, is dating 35-year-old Aisha McShaw, a Westchester “personal stylist” who has been seen on Sharpton’s arm at several recent black-tie affairs, including the White House Correspondents Dinner in April and President Obama’s holiday party in December.
    ....
    " “I’m his girlfriend,” McShaw said before Sharpton intervened to shepherd her away from a reporter.

    ""She told The News that she works as a “personal stylist,” but Sharpton quickly shuffled her off without letting her elaborate on her profession."....

    Bombshell at IRS hearings today? Watch LIVE

    Legal Insurrection  "The House Oversight Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing today at 11:00am ET on “The IRS’ Systematic Delay and Scrutiny of Tea Party Applications.” (Livestream also at the bottom of this post).

    "FOX News’ Carl Cameron reported Wednesday evening on the O’Reilly Factor that major evidence is expected to be revealed at Thursday’s hearing that proves, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, that the IRS targeting scandal goes “way higher up in the government” and that the IRS in DC “was ultimately calling the shots.” "