Monday, December 15, 2014

A little snarky reflection on the Cromnibus bill

http://terrellaftermath.com/
It’s (Still) a TARP!  "Elizabeth Warren, corporate-welfare queen."
... "Senator Elizabeth Warren, the millionaire Massachusetts class warrior who has made the vilification of Wall Street bankers her second-favorite pastime (right behind prospering on the largesse of Wall Street lawyers, the gentlemen and scholars who funded her very generously compensated position at Harvard and fill her campaign coffers) did not exactly make the issue her hill to die on, but the fight did provide her an excellent opportunity for grandstanding. " ...

11 Other Things You Can Use a Cromnibus For   "This week, GOP House leadership passed a controversial $1.1 trillion spending bill infamously known as the “cromnibus.” The bill, supported by the Obama administration, is 1,600 pages long. So how big is that really? Like in real life?"
 
"This is what a cromnibus looks like printed out:"
"For reference, it’s just a little taller than a Starbucks Venti."



7. A passenger so you can ride in the HOV lane
 
 

 
More here.    "Now that the bill has passed the House and will odds-on end up on the president’s desk, what other uses could you have for your cromnibus? "


 

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Freedom of speech? Juan Williams: Hacked Sony e-mails expose white liberal hypocrisy on race; Star chamber justice at Smith College


Fear liberals; they are watching and listening.

Hot Air  "And Juan Williams should know — he’s had first-hand experience with the phenomenon. NPR fired Williams four years ago for admitting in a segment on The O’Reilly Factor that travelers boarding commercial flights in “Muslim garb” cause him to “get worried … get nervous.” Never mind that Williams and our own Mary Katharine spent the entire segment arguing that Bill O’Reilly was painting Muslims with too broad a brush and that a distinction had to be made between moderate and extremist Muslims; NPR cashiered Williams for the one sentence he uttered, calling it “inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR.” The experience became an epiphany for Williams about which side of the political spectrum actually practices the tolerance that the other preaches, although Williams himself remains as liberal as ever." ...
 


College president apologizes after offending students by saying “all lives matter”  ... "Could be that she was genuinely sorry for the misunderstanding, but maybe not; maybe the impetus to grovel was less about sincere regret than about quickly short-circuiting any nascent attempts by junior Social Justice Warriors to turn this into an excuse to protest her office, hold sit-ins..."

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Who is Al Sharpton?

Andrew Klavan    "In which our politically correct host, Andrew Klavan, takes a look at the disturbing history of the Reverend Al Sharpton – called reverend because he is revered, by Al Sharpton. [Full transcript here.]
 

The Feinstein Report Is Going to Cost Us; The so-called torture report is worthless as an investigation, but it’s valuable to our enemies.

Andrew C. McCarthy   "Jihadists are still waging their war against the civilized world. Check that: Jihadists are currently winning their war against the civilized world. Thank Barack Obama, who fails to grasp the difference between being “the president who ends wars” and the president who retreats from wars, and thus surrenders while the enemy is on the rise.
 
"What is the response of Senate sages to this predicament? Dianne Feinstein and her fellow Democrats saw it as the perfect time to savage the CIA, further burn America’s bridges with anti-terrorism allies, and hand jihadists a huge propaganda victory.
 
"The Islamic State had a response, too: They beheaded four Christian children for refusing to renounce Jesus Christ.
 
"You see where this is going, no?" ....Keep reading... 

CIA Waterboarding
http://comicallyincorrect.com/2014/12/12/cia-waterboarding/

Michael Ramirez Cartoon
http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/730413

Dianne Feinstein, Friend of Terrorists  ... "Thanks to Dianne and her insistence that a report exposing the CIA’s overseas handling of 119 terrorists be released, America is getting a good dose of absurd liberal reasoning.
 
"Dianne Feinstein is among those who have the audacity to point the finger of accusation at CIA operatives for splashing water in the face of the confessed architect of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but have no problem with the paper-thin skin of an unborn baby being peeled away from its fragile bones while still in the womb. " ...
Political Cartoons by Dana Summers

Back To The Future On Cold War, Thanks To Obama

Investors.com
"I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr.
  Putin," Republican nominee Mitt Romney said during the third presidential
 debate in Boca Raton, Fla., on Oct. 22, 2012

"Russia: Moscow has a new intermediate-range missile violating a nuclear arms treaty. Now the Obama administration may return cruise missiles to Europe in response. A new Cold War, caused by U.S. decline, heats up.

"It sure was a great debate quip: "In the 1980s, they're now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years."

"President Obama in 2012 got laughs slamming his Republican foe for believing that "the biggest geopolitical threat facing America" was "Russia, not al-Qaida."   Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

Did any of your liberal friends smirk and yuk over Obama's response?

Why can’t we have a “conversation” about militant Islam?


Legal Insurrection  “The conversation about militant Islam has been systematically repressed.”

"If you’re paying attention to what the mainstream media is selling, you know that when it comes to militant Islam, the world has a big censorship problem. The Lawfare Project just released a new video that offers up a laundry list of examples of times when the criticism and discussion of radical Islam has been censored, repressed, or fought via “lawfare.”
 

 
"I think Lawfare has an excellent point; right now, we’re in the middle of the annual “War on Christmas,” in which the entire country (world? probably) “has a conversation” about the propriety of hosting a Nativity scene during a holiday season that celebrates the Nativity.
 
"By “conversation,” of course, we mean “conversation about how best to push religious expression into the shadows (unless it involves the Koran, in which case, rock on.)”
 
"I don’t think we’ll ever win the war against censorship—they’ll keep trying, and we’ll keep fighting to have our voices heard. But the key to make sure the world hears the voices of those radical Islam has touched is to keep speaking."   Related: The Lawfare Project

While on the subject...
Cornell Univ. Police Chief apologizes for saying #AllLivesMatter instead of #BlackLivesMatter
"College Insurrection and others recently reported how the President of Smith College apologized to the student body for using the term “All Lives Matter” rather than “Black Lives Matter.” A Cornell engineering student just tweeted to me about a similar statement from the Chief of the Cornell University Police, Kathy Zoner, in an all campus email." ... More on this.

Holder was right; we are a nation of cowards.

How's this for torture?

EPA torture 600 AEA
 
Energy Townhall   "Whether it’s the costliest regulation in history or the coal-killing power plant rules (that Obama’s law professor says raise “constitutional questions”), it’s clear that the CIA isn’t the only government agency engaged in torture. At least the CIA isn’t torturing Americans."

Friday, December 12, 2014

"On Your Hands" (aka The Axis of Idiots ), criticizes foreign policy stances of Democrat politicians.

Snopes  "Command Sergeant Major J.D. Pendry served in the U.S. Army (not the U.S. Marine Corps, as stated in some altered versions of this piece) from 1971 to 1999 and is the author of the The Three Meter Zone: Common Sense Leadership for NCOs. In 2006 he penned an e-mail entitled "On Your Hands," which has been widely circulated on the Internet under a variety of titles (including "Axis of Idiots", " "No Punches Pulled Here," and "Insight of a Sergeant Major") and has since been altered by others. "  His site

Sgt. Major Pendry writes:
 "Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement.  You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage.  You're the "runner-in-chief."

"Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us.  You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it.  Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers.  Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001".

"John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute.  You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam.  Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact.  You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq.  You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, with the same words you used to describe Vietnam.  You're a fake!  You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese.  Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it."

"The late John Murtha, said our military was broken.  He said we can't win militarily in Iraq.  He accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa.  Okinawa?  And the Democrats called him their military expert!  Maybe he suffered a traumatic brain injury while he was off building his war hero resume?  He was a sad, pitiable, corrupt, and washed up old fool, not a true Marine.  He wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's ass, a phony and a disgrace".

Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists.  Then you wanted to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate.  History was not a good teacher for you, was it?  Lord help us!  See Dick run!"

"Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy,Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, to name a few ad nauseam:  Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our former President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer.  Now Obama wants to start his own war and half of you idiots support him!  "American news media, the New York Times particularly:  Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers.  You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country.  Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda.  Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer." 
Pendry
"You are America 's 'AXIS OF IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us.  Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers.  It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing.  There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists.  Don't ever doubt that.  Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam.  If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies".

"Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism.  Your loyalty ends with self.  I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing.  You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform.  You need to run away from this war, this country.  Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it."  "Our country has two enemies:  Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.   J. D. Pendry - 

"In a May 2008 blog entry on his (now inactive) web site, J.D. Pendry explained his original motivation for writing the piece:"
["On Your Hands" was] a mailing I sent to my private email list on June 24, 2006. I don't feel a need to explain myself, but I wrote this right after someone sent me pictures of the mutilated bodies of two young American Soldiers. Since the original posting, this letter has made a few laps around the net and been posted in many different places. Other than to my private email list, I originally posted it at Free Republic and it's been posted there several more times and to a Geocities Website that I once maintained. I've even received inquiries from people that heard it read on radio programs. There's been some minor editing of my original post as it's traveled around and I've seen it renamed several times. Frankly I prefer my title because my title is my point.
Other sources:

Progressive War Hawks

 Hat tip to Robert Hope; Sacramento, CA

Charles Krauthammer: A travesty of a report

Drone target
 
Charles Krauthammer: A travesty of a report  ... "We were so blindsided that we established a 9/11 commission to find out why. And we knew next to nothing about the enemy: its methods, structure, intentions, plans. There was nothing morally deranged about deciding as a nation to do everything necessary to find out what we needed to prevent a repetition, or worse. As Feinstein said at the time, “We have to do some things that historically we have not wanted to do to protect ourselves.' ” ...

This Town Has Displayed a Nativity for 50 Years. Now an Atheist Group Wants it Removed.

The Constitution as interpreted by liberals contains the destruction of the American culture. TD

The Daily Signal  "Residents of an Indiana town have been threatened with legal action by an atheist group if they don’t remove their nativity scene.

"Brookville, Ind. has displayed the nativity outside the courthouse every holiday season for the last 50 years.

"But according to WLWT, residents of the Indiana town say that for the last three years, the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation has demanded they remove the scene, threatening them with a lawsuit if they fail to comply." ...
 

 
..."Franklin County commissioner Scott McDonough, who lives in Brookville, was recently interviewed on Fox and Friends and said that the atheist group was “misreading” the law." 
 

Ira Madison III
 
"The day of the grand jury announcement that absolved Darren Wilson of any wrongdoing for the killing of Mike Brown, I noticed that one of my friends had updated their profile picture on Facebook to an “I Support Darren Wilson” meme. Having effectively purged from my social media most of the people I considered no better than Confederate flag enthusiasts, I was horrified by this turn of events. Who had I missed? Who did I now need to delete as a friend?

"It was my sister.

"As a black man, it had never occurred to me that anyone in my family would stand in solidarity with the murderer of an unarmed black male." ...

Ann Coulter on Rolling Stone: The College Rape Club


Ann Coulter  "Sorry this column is late. I got raped again on the way home. Twice. I should clarify -- by "raped," I mean that two seductive Barry White songs came on the radio, which, according to the University of Virginia, constitutes rape.

"TAKE BACK THE NIGHT!

"Even the feminist-whipped media parted company with Rolling Stone magazine over Sabrina Rubin Erdely's story about an alleged fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia -- since retracted.

"But while dismantling every part of this preposterous rape claim by a woman Rolling Stone calls "Jackie," journalists rush to assure us that "sexual assault at colleges and universities is indeed a serious problem," as an article in Slate put it..."
...
"The main threat to college students' physical and emotional safety these days comes not from athletes or fraternity members, but from the feminists."  Read more