… those who support the current creeping tyranny will suffer the most when the butcher’s bill comes due …

» Dark times

We have never, in the past 200+ years, faced more dangerous times than we face now. Neither the Civil War nor the World Wars were as a direct a threat to the essential essence of our federal republic. Those conflicts were for territory. This current crisis threatens the very fabric of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights itself.

May God have mercy upon us all, as this rogue government pushes good men of conscience ever closer to conflict in order protect all of our sacred liberties.

Yes, that’s how the Huffington Post tells the story of an inebriated 22-year-old Anastasia Adair in Denver the other day. Apparently, she was handing what the HuffPost calls an AK-47 (but who knows what the weapon was given the inability of the media to correctly identify any weapons and AK-47 is a catch-all phrase for scary-looking guns) back to her husband when she shot her self in the head.
…. Oh, good, you know they were just prancing up a storm at HuffPost when they discovered that there was a gun show involved. That made their “assault rifle” more dangerous, you know.

No matter how many laws the Dhimms pass, stupidity cannot be legislated away.

President met with anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party.
“For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House

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According to the White House Visitors Log … the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon time of March 31st …. The very next day after her White House meeting with the President … IRS employees — the same employees who belong to the NTEU — set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America.
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On yet another occasion, Kelley’s presence at the White House was followed shortly afterwards by the President issuing Executive Order 13522. A presidential directive that gave the anti-Tea Party NTEU — the IRS union — a greater role in the day-to-day operation of the IRS than it had already — which was considerable.

» IRS union denies ‘smoking gun’ meeting with Obama

» CHIEF IRS COUNSEL GOT JEREMIAH WRIGHT’S CHURCH OUT OF IRS PROBE BEFORE JOINING AGENCY

» DOJ LEAKED DOCS TO SMEAR FAST & FURIOUS WHISTLEBLOWER, SAYS IG

… confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson.
…. Burke resigned from his post as U.S. Attorney over the incident in August 2011, the first major Department of Justice official to leave his or her post in the Fast and Furious scandal. He said after the fact, in interviews with congressional investigators, that he now views leaking the document as a “mistake.”

In the world of Chicago-Style politics, mistakes become “mistakes” when you get caught – and until you get caught it’s just business, nothing personal (or mistaken).

And then, SUDDENLY, the media is appalled by unconstitutional stuff:
AP CEO calls records seizure ‘unconstitutional’

Total discharges at the eight Army posts that house most of the service’s combat units have increased 67 percent since 2009.

“I’ve been working on this since the ’70s, and I have never seen anything like this,” said Mark Waple, a retired Army officer who now tries military cases as a civilian lawyer near North Carolina’s Fort Bragg. “There seems to be a propensity to use minor misconduct for separation, even for service members who are decorated in combat and injured.”

…. several soldiers who tested positive for drugs were deployed anyway because the Army needed combat troops. But when they returned, they were discharged for the offense.

In other cases, the soldiers were discharged after suffering severe brain injuries in combat.

I was gonna Summit Furya, but no need; a couple of the commenters to the article covered it rather well:

» Hey guys and gals, you voted for the jerk, now you know what the name of the game really is. Obama and his crew of socialist/Marxist ideologues will screw you out of every benefit that they can. Their contempt is beyond measure, and if Hillary gets in as Pres, you will find out how much that one hates a uniform.
Are you happy with the change, troop?
Understand this: communist=progressive=liberal=Democrat=a hatred of the military. It has always been so, and will always be so. Those that spat upon and dishonored our GIs coming home from the RVN, they were Dems, folks. Figure it out.
And, now, ‘they’ are in power.
»there’s a real agenda here…push the gay thing, leave guys high and dry, ignore vets, then guess what……no one will want to join or ship over. Then what happens to the greatest military in the world?
»This is just a cover for another agenda. Get the older, more experienced ones out, and the newer ones that will support Obama and his ideals over the Constitution.

Superb. He shreds the shoddy science, the shoddy policies, the shoddy politicking, and the shoddy PR of the past couple of decades of climate propaganda …

~~ via Climate Lessons : Carter Shreds the Climate Propaganda Pumped Out to Children for Decades

…. there are seeds in this video for ideas that could be used as and when the ‘authorities’ get round to creating a decent curriculum on climate for schools. That might have to precede publishers willing to risk new books aimed at the young, and suitable for schools, with a more realistic and optimistic view of our climate system and our impact on it.

That might include the fact that we have never been in a stronger position than we are now to cope with climate variations. So parents might like to take the initiative and tell their children that. There will be troubles ahead from climate, just as there have been in the past. But we are more ready than ever before to handle them. Our abundant supplies of affordable energy are part of that.

» The cold, hard facts: New century frigid for Alaska

… across the entire Bering Sea, the ice is slowly growing at a time when it should be breaking up, said Kathleen Cole, lead ice forecaster in Alaska for the National Weather Service.

“We’re actually making ice rather than having it dissipate,” she said.

But once the weather warms back up, sea ice in the Bering should vanish more quickly than it did last year because it’s not as dense. She’s predicting an ice-free Bering Sea starting July 1.

While the globalZ-warmZ idiots are carefully ignoring the existence of arctic ice where and when it ain’t supposed to be … they will most certainly start crowing once the belated annual thaw begins. And that thaw will be portrayed as a direct and irrefutable proof of ManMadeClimateChange.

» Climate Scientist Hans Von Storch Warns: Climate Scientists Have Been “Taking On The Roles Of Medicine Men And Priests”
By “Medicine Men And Priests”, I think he meant Witch Doctors. booga, booga.

With ‘snappy’ and short statements like ‘snow will be a thing of the past’, the loud speakers among the scientists are putting the credibility of science at stake.

Yup, it’s tough to maintain ownership of credibility when you have to raise your hand above your head to break the surface of the snow so that the audience to your global warming speech knows exactly where you’re standing.

» Otto et al…First Rats To Leave The Sinking Ship That Is Man-Made Global Warming

All the talk now is about the Otto et al paper that just has come out, which claims that, well, the warming isn’t going to be like we thought. Oops.
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what would possibly compel a group of mostly alarmist scientists to produce such results? Answer: It has dawned on them that other factors really are playing a big time role and that it wouldn’t be long before they looked like fools. What we are seeing are the first rats swimming off the sinking ship that is man-made global warming.

Yesterday, mile-wide tornadoes tore through Oklahoma. Tomorrow the globalZ-warmZ crowd will be blaming the ‘unprecedented’ and ‘historical’ weather on carbon dioxide.
At the risk of seeming callous to the suffering of Oklahoma, here’s a preemptive challenge to the inevitable alarmist shrieking:
» Victoria Day Today – A Reminder Of Times When The Climate Was Stable

One of the suspected Boston bombers was a naturalized citizen, and the other was on his way. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, herself a new citizen, asks how we might change the process of becoming an American to exclude those who hate America.

… Because the Mullah had a great influence on the village, none of the women who washed the girl’s body dared to ask or seek the reason for the wounds around her vagina.

By 10 am or so they rallied the now-dead 8-years-old bride to the graveyard and buried her.

An eight-year-old girl sold into marriage and dead after a brutal sexual assault that her body could not withstand is no more noteworthy than a pack animal that collapses under a too-heavy weight. It’s time and money wasted, that’s all. Forget about it. Get another one.

» Pakistan: Muslim jihad gunmen attack polio team, murder policemen

Last summer, a Pakistani Muslim cleric said that polio vaccinations were un-Islamic. More recently, the Taliban was murdering people who were administering the polio vaccine in Pakistan. And the quest for Islamic purity continues.

Because, after all, kids that are about to get screwed to death ain’t too worried about the eventual consequences of polio.

» Arabs Fly Nazi Flag near Hevron

Hundreds of residents of Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, were astounded Monday morning to see an oversized Nazi flag flying next to a mosque in the Arab town of Beit Omar.

Diaz’s thought crime consists of having called a rival fighter a “fag.” This would have virtually nothing to do with homosexuals, except that in our society, everything has to do with homosexuals — and the political mandate to revere them obsequiously.

Guns became cheap enough for wealthy peasants to own in the late 1300′s, and cheap enough for most peasants to own by 1500. The decline in murder rates as guns became more common is a dramatic one

» 54 Colorado Sheriffs Sue State Over New Gun-Grabbing Bills

Fifty-four of the state’s 62 elected sheriffs have banded together and filed a lawsuit against the state for their unconstitutional legislation aimed at law-abiding citizens.
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The sheriff said that these laws are not only unconstitutional; they’re unenforceable. He said he’s got much more important things to do than to check up on people like his neighbor.
The Democrats pushed too far this time. I think their actions are backfiring. Hopefully, Coloradans will wake up and elect representatives who take their oath to the Constitution seriously.

First, don’t let people forget: the IRS scandal is not about conservative accusations. The Inspector General of the U.S. Treasury issued a report finding that the Internal Revenue Service sharply discriminated against conservative organizations. This is confirmed by Treasury’s Inspector General.

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When a conservative organization Media Trackers couldn’t get approved after 8 months, it changed its project to the liberal-sounding name “Greenhouse Solutions.” With the new name, the exact same project was approved within 3 weeks … Liberal groups — even with very political activities — were systematically approved, and quickly, with relatively little burden or scrutiny

» Senate Dems Have as Much to Explain as the IRS

The same Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee who this week is calling for hearings into IRS activities, specifically called on the IRS to engage in that very conduct back in 2010. And he wasn’t the only one. Just last year, a group of seven Senate Democrats sent another letter to the IRS urging them to similarly investigate these outside political organizations.
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From Max Baucus to Chuck Schumer to Jeanne Shaheen, key Senate Democrats publicly pressured the IRS to target groups that held differing political views and who, in their view, had the temerity to engage in the political process. The IRS listened to them and acted. And other Democrat senators like Kay Hagan and Mark Pryor said and did nothing about it.

» The IRS Scandal Started at the Top

Was the White House involved in the IRS’s targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was.

President Obama and Co. are in full deniability mode, noting that the IRS is an “independent” agency and that they knew nothing about its abuse. The media and Congress are sleuthing for some hint that Mr. Obama picked up the phone and sicced the tax dogs on his enemies.

But that’s not how things work in post-Watergate Washington. Mr. Obama didn’t need to pick up the phone. All he needed to do was exactly what he did do, in full view, for three years: Publicly suggest that conservative political groups were engaged in nefarious deeds; publicly call out by name political opponents whom he’d like to see harassed; and publicly have his party pressure the IRS to take action.

» Is the IRS scandal the worst political scandal in American history? I say “yes.”

When it comes to the IRS’s ongoing, repressive behavior against conservative groups, you’re likely to hear different verdicts: The hard Left says, of course, that this is a molehill that the Republicans are scandalously trying to turn into a scandal. (The New York Times perfectly exemplifies this line of thinking.) Others on the Left admit incompetence, but refuse to assign moral blame. Conservatives are willing to assign moral blame but think that no one really cares.

I believe that everyone should care because what we’re seeing now is a new type of scandal in American history, and the biggest crime a sitting administration has ever committed against the American people. I wrote about it at Mr. Conservative, although the headline there focuses on the IRS’s probing into people’s prayers. (Thinking about that, its worth remembering that Queen Elizabeth I, who ruled in an age when church and state were one, refused to “make windows into men’s souls.” The IRS is not so doctrinally picky.) ….

» EPA waives fee requests for friendly groups, denies conservative groups

Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
…. “This is as clear an example of disparate treatment as the IRS’ hurdles selectively imposed upon groups with names ominously reflecting an interest in, say, a less intrusive or biased federal government,”

IRS, EPA, ATF, DOJ, DHS, DOE … Different names, different duties, one single agenda: Rip the Constitution from the grasp of clinging patriots. And ideally, a single ultimate fate: Stomped Shitless

» IRS SCANDAL WIDENS: AGENCY ACCUSED OF ABUSING AUDIT POWER
» IRS asked pro-life group about ‘the content of their prayers’
» IRS SUED FOR ALLEGEDLY SEIZING MEDICAL RECORDS OF 60 MILLION AMERICANS

Lou Dobbs : Obama Lied Through His Teeth

» If Government Were a Business, Obama Would Already Be Fired
Not just fired, but sitting in a prison cell (with feet up on the furniture, no doubt).

There is no hyperbole too strong to describe this revelation. The IRS is now the Tax Gestapo, the Party Enforcer, and the soon-to-be Ministry of Worthiness when it comes to acquiring health care.
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If government were a business, Obama would have already been fired. If we lived in a sane world, impeachment proceedings against him and criminal proceedings against the IRS executives involved would begin forthwith.
And if sense applied prevalently in Americans’ appraisal of this bloated and exceedingly powerful government, we would demand in unison that the government eliminate the excess by slimming it down, reducing the influence and reach of its agencies, and thereby making this necessary evil, as Thomas Paine profoundly reminds us that government is, a more efficient and less intrusive evil.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday urged congressional leaders to raise the debt limit and insisted that the White House is not going to negotiate over the increase because lawmakers have “no choice.”

Actually, my ‘spoild-brat allowance’ analogy is nowhere near accurate. They’re not asking for more money, but for permission to borrow more money (in our name and on our credit) from somebody else (to whom we already owe more than we have) so they can meet their payroll of hired voters.

» Washington Hits the $16.7 Trillion Debt Ceiling with $300 Billion in New Debt

… the President and Congress decided in February that they would continue borrowing through May 18, with the new debt limit becoming the then-current limit of $16.394 trillion plus whatever was added on since then. Washington racked up $300 billion in more debt in less than four months, making the current limit $16.7 trillion.

This is the pattern of recurrent budget negotiation crises:
1 Spend;
2 Spend some more;
3 Run up against the debt ceiling;
4 Resort to “extraordinary measures” to ward off a possible default for a while; and finally,
5 Settle for inadequate measures that fail to curb soaring debt in the future.

We’ve entered stage 4 …

» SWEDEN: Another sewer pit of Jew hatred by hostile Muslims

» Islamophobes of the World, Unite!

Our country is being taken over by Muslims and Muslim sympathizers. Doubt it? Read on.

Poll results for the Benghazi scandal indicated that 50.1% of Americans say that Obama should be impeached. Perhaps the most surprising result was 27.6% of Democrats that responded to the poll on Benghazi said that the president should be impeached.
When asked about the IRS scandal that only became public less than 2 weeks ago, 49% said that Obama should be impeached and again, 24.4% of Democrats responding said Obama should be impeached because of the scandal.
The third scandal covered by the poll involved the Obama administration’s invasion of the AP reporter’s telephone records. On this scandal, 48.6% said they believe Obama should be impeached and 26.1% of Democrats also responded in favor of impeachment.

So it’s taken over four years for them to pull their heads out, but only a week to wipe the ‘dirt’ outta their eyes?

Stanley Fish, professor of (in?)humanities and law, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times Monday speculating that perhaps the NRA is “un-American.” Not all NRA members, mind you–not the recreational shooters, or those who believe that the Second Amendment protects the right of self-defense (although Fish describes himself as “deeply unpersuaded” by that argument). So to whom does he refer? Only the “militant” members, and most of the leadership. Let’s have him explain who the “militants” are:

I mean those who read the Second Amendment as proclaiming the right of citizens to resist the tyranny of their own government, that is, of the government that issued and ratified the Constitution in the first place.

» LA pit bull attack shows savage consequences of citizen disarmament

» Credit card reader companies discriminate against gun buyers and sellers

» Intolerable Little PrickCOSTAS MOCKS NRA MEMBERS: NOT ‘SPIRITUAL HEIRS’ OF FOUNDERS

“We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots,” said one Obama administration official who was part of the Benghazi response. “It’s actually closer to us being idiots.”

They don’t even understand the portrayal – which is not an either/or, liar/idiot choice. It’s both.
This administration was idiotic and derelict in it’s handling of the Benghazi attack, before and during the attack. This administration idiotically lied about their dereliction during and after the attack and every day since.

Two United States Servicemen fought for hours and hours against overwhelming odds and numbers with the assumption that their commanders were on the way with reinforcement. They died, fighting, waiting for (THHO)Obama to back them up.
(THHO)Obama was asleep, literally. He cared that much.

(THHO)Obama had made reelection campaign statements that would have been proven lies if he acknowledged and responded to an attack on American troops on a battlefield. He chose to protect his re-electability.

If that’s not malice, what is?

» THE TRAP: What did Hillary and Obama discuss at 10pm on the night of the Benghazi attacks?

The 10pm phone call is a trap waiting to be sprung. It could be the lynchpin that holds together the last vestiges of the most inept and corrupt administration in modern American history.

Congress must demand Clinton testify under oath and send an interrogatory to the President.

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Putting both Clinton and Obama under oath will raise an interesting dilemma for both. Which ever party answers first could be contradicted on any of these matters. If Clinton answers under oath to protect herself, Obama could easily throw her under the bus. Conversely, if Obama replies to an interrogatory first, Clinton could contradict any of his answers.

Benghazi is ultimately a conflict between the Clinton Democrats and the Chicago Machine. A wedge can be driven between these two destructive forces with some well thought-out subpoenas. Exploiting that wedge could light the fuse on the time-bomb and detonate the Obama administration once and for all.

It’s sorta like the Sandra Fluke manufactured “controversy” over “access” to birth control mixing with the religious exemptions issue – except on a local scale, with narcissistic North Carolina “feminists” in the starring role(s).

» TREASURY SEC: I KNEW ABOUT IRS SCANDAL LAST WEEK–AND ALSO LAST FALL

» A Degree of Malevolence

The most striking characteristic emerging from accounts of the IRS audits of the administration’s political enemies is the sheer, unbridled malevolence of them. It was, like a friend told me over dinner, as if we had suddenly awoken “in the middle of the third Obama term” to find everything that could never happen, all that was said to be impossible — indeed unthinkable — suddenly upon us. I ate another mouthful of pizza before realizing that, in fact, the events now being decried had happened in his first term.

… unsurprisingly, nobody can remember nothing about nothing. Eric Holder could not for the life of him recall who might have authorized such a wide-ranging investigation into the Associated Press. The seizure of an entire news agency’s phone records seemed like a dime someone had mislaid; a trivial something that happened “a long time ago,” like Benghazi, and ‘can you remind me,, Congressman, what that was about again?’

Inadvertent? Unintentional?
I doan thinks those words means whats youse thinks they means.
» IRS CLAIMS RELEASE OF CONSERVATIVE GROUPS’ CONFIDENTIAL INFO TO SOROS-AFFILIATED MEDIA OUTLET ‘INADVERTENT AND UNINTENTIONAL’

» IRS Demanded Info about Pro-Life Group’s Prayers

An IRS office in California ordered Christian Voices for Life of Fort Bend County, Texas to explain the content of prayers “as if they were engaging in highly offensive or criminal behavior,” …. Agents also ordered Coalition for Life of Iowa to provide detailed information about the group’s prayer meetings

…. The agents also told one of the pro-life groups that they could not picket or protest abortion clinics.
“The IRS was concerned about advocacy … The (agent) said picketing and protesting is not allowed.”

Is there any part of the 1st Amendment that is understood by this administration and the agencies thereof?

Bearing in mind that info required by IRS is supposedly for determination of eligibility for IRS blessings; the IRS, as a the tax-collecting arm of the federal government, has been saying that those blessings are only for those who pray to God in a manner approved by the federal government. If you say the wrong words to God, in the wrong context, then you forfeit the blessings of the federal government.
I have a pocket full of cash that says “Allah Akbar” is not on the IRS’s list of banned prayer words.

Liberals sputtering over IRS tyranny like an antique lawnmower: We have been yanking on the starter cord for years, trying to get the liberal-biased antique media fired up over the growing tyranny of big Progressive government.

» Scarborough on IRS scandal: This makes it harder to trust the government on gun background checks, doesn’t it?

He should know in his bones, without needing sporadic reminders, that abuses like the IRS’s are possible. Just last month, Missouri’s state government got caught leaking a list of concealed-carry permit holders to the feds. At least one Democrat in Congress freely admits that she’d support a national registry. Twice in the past six months, major publications have posted the names of local gun owners as an intimidation tactic. There’s every reason to worry about federal employees abusing personal information related to gun ownership given the ferocity of liberal opposition to gun rights. Why did Scarborough need the IRS to crap the bed to remind him of it?

Now that we have a new media that actually works, that actually does what media is supposed to do, that doesn’t excuse or tolerate tyranny; the old antique wants to cough and sputter to life?

No. Thanks but no thanks, liberal media. You are so worthless, you’re not even good for spare parts.

» The Complete IRS Scandal Timeline in Spreadsheet Format

Welcome to the last dregs of the Great Scare Campaign, where the end game strategy is merely to repeat what worked for them before, which is the abjectly false and profoundly unscientific decree that we must believe the Gods Of Science.

The sad thing is that some environment and “science” reporters are so poorly trained they fall for what is essentially marketing that poses as science.

If only The Convinced had evidence for their favorite pet theory? Then activists like Cook would be able to debate in public, speak politely, and explain their case instead of resorting to cheap smears, dodgy research, and misleading statements.

Thousands of papers support man-made climate change, but not one found the evidence that matters …
Cook’s study shows 66% of papers didn’t endorse man-made global warming ….
Most of these consensus papers assume the theory is correct but never checked. They are irrelevant ….
Money paid to believers is 3500 times larger than that paid to skeptics (from all sources) ….
Some of these abstracts are 20 years old — does two decades of new evidence change anything?

100-year supply of natural gas is now reachable thanks to hydraulic fracturing. However, on March 25th of this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that they would be forming a Hydraulic Fracturing Advisory Board. The Science Advisory Board will have oversight of this new fracturing board. The intent of this board is to study the effects of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water.

Messiness is another word for chaos. And no one likes chaos. Chaos means that in the richest country in the world some people will be illiterate, others will be homeless and some will accidentally set themselves on fire because the fireworks don’t come with enough safety warnings.

Those aren’t good things. They’re not things that governments and the squeaky wheels who make governments what they are think should be tolerated. They’re messy.

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The liberal argument is largely an argument for a society consolidated around government in service to progressive ideals. It’s a tidy world in which governments and non-profits consume an always increasing share of everything else until there isn’t anything else because it’s been consolidated. The end result of that process however isn’t progressive. It’s tribal.

Ref: Venezuela completely runs out of toilet paper

Today, the public knows that those early administration pronouncements were false. They were uttered with less than two months to go in a presidential election campaign in which Mr. Obama declared al Qaeda on its heels.

The Left does not understand why Benghazi is a big deal. Four Americans were sacrificed to ensure (THHO)Obama’s reelection. Then – to ensure (THHO)Obama’s reelection – their sacrifice was dismissed as collateral damage to a perception, by America’s enemies, of America’s “callous treatment of their noble religion”. Then the dismissal of their sacrifice was covered up, multiple lies were issued – to ensure (THHO)Obama’s reelection.

» Obama’s Emptiest Benghazi Talking Point

Perhaps with their newfound skepticism toward the lying liars of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the former lapdogs of the White House press corps will start asking questions like this: Where the hell is Sufyan Ben Qumu a.k.a. Abu Sufian bin Qumu?

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Closing Gitmo, you should note, just happens to be the top policy goal of the left-wing Center for Constitutional Rights. CCR is the U.S. group of jihadi-sympathizing lawyers who helped spring none other than Benghazi terror plotter Abu Sufian bin Qumu from Gitmo.

Social justice for Qumu and the Gitmo Goon Squad. No justice for the Benghazi Four. When it comes to Obama’s vow to hold the killers accountable, there is no there there.

In no uncertain terms and with no hedging, The New York Times reports that the Obama administration was aware of the fact that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups as far back as June of 2012.
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The first time President Obama was asked when he found out about the IRS scandal, he told the media that he learned of the news last Friday, the same way the rest of us did — from the news media.
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With this latest news confirming when the Administration first learned of the IRS scandal, we now know that, along with Benghazi and the unfurling Associated Press scandal, there were three scandals brewing and unfolding in the White House during an election year. But we are only now hearing about them — six months after Barack Obama was safely re-elected.
This fact says as much about the failure of our lapdog national media as it does about President Obama.

Vaguely Bordering?

“I’ve had some of the pro-gun lobbyists on here, saying to me, ‘Well, the reason we need to be armed is because of tyranny from our own government,’ and I’ve always laughed at them …. But, actually, this is vaguely tyrannical behavior by the American government. …. what the IRS did is bordering on tyrannical behavior … ”
~~ Quoth the Simpleton Idiot

Piers Morgan may be the poster child of Leftist Naivety. So shocked and surprised to realize that the RightWingNuts he has so enthusiastically mocked and ridiculed were actually dead-on-the-nail-head correct. But his use of the words ‘bordering’ and ‘vague’ indicate that he still does not possess a copy of the big picture. It shows that he fails to realize that the tyranny revealed in these new scandals is merely the top layer of snow on the tip of the iceberg.
Well, Peirs, glue your pansy ass to the chair and pay attention – because yer getting ticked off at the previews, the real show hasn’t even started yet.

~~ via HotAir : Piers Morgan: Say, I guess government can become tyrannical after all

» Flashback: Schumer, Franken urged IRS to target tea party in 2012

Schumer and Franken did, and still do, exactly what I expect them to do as leftists.
The media, on the other hand, enjoys constitutional protection of their free press rights. They have abused those rights for decades, but especially so in the last four years in which they mocked and libeled the Tea Parties.
Now that the predictions and protestations of the Tea Parties have been vindicated, the media is all righteously indignant?

Back in 2008, (THHO)Obama asked the media: “If you woke up in a tent, in the woods, your butt covered with vaseline, would you tell anybody?”
Media : No.
(THHO)Obama : Wanna go camping?

So how many years will it take the mainstream media to report on this:
» IRS official who oversaw unit targeting Tea Party now heads ObamaCare office

This was all part of the dog and pony show known as the Sequester, during which Obama tried to make the case for continuing the explosive growth of the federal government by creating the impression that even a miniscule reduction in the rate of growth of federal spending would result in disaster.

That is, he deliberately endangered American citizens to advance his socialist agenda. Add it to the list of impeachable offenses.

» A North American Union? Really?

Why the government won’t seal the southern border

Recently, I heard more false claims that the US stole much of the land that is now the southwestern states from Mexico. It’s TOTAL BUNK!

The mainstream media continues to publish those claims without counterbalancing them with the truth. That does two things. It emboldens those perpetrating those false claims against the US – and — it is accepted as truth by our woefully undereducated citizenry.

Over three years ago we attempted to bring truth to the discussion by explaining that the US did, in fact, purchase that land. It is a matter of historical fact.

Houston doctor Douglas Karpen is accused by four former employees of delivering live fetuses during third-trimester abortions and killing them by either snipping their spinal cord, stabbing a surgical instrument into their heads or ‘twisting their heads off their necks with his own bare hands’.

The idea is to produce guns that can only be used by the gun’s owners. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) cited the latest James Bond movie, “Skyfall,” as inspiration for the bill.
“In the most recent James Bond film, Bond escapes death when his handgun, which is equipped with technology that recognizes him as its owner, becomes inoperable when it gets into the wrong hands,” Tierney’s office said in a statement introducing the bill. “This technology, however, isn’t just for the movies — it’s a reality.”

Surely, Tierney has at least one friend who would whisper in his ear “John, that’s an embarrassingly stupid idea.”, unless both Tierney and his friends fully understand that the cost of such technology (whether or not it actually exists, and I doubt it does) would be monsterously inhibitive – raising the price tag of a gun by thousands of dollars and …. oh, wait.
You don’t suppose that’s the actual intent do you?

Why yes, I do believe that’s it. The ProCommieGressives of the Dhimmicrat Party have tried everything they could think of to get rid of that pesky little amendment number two. So, they’re willing to try convincing us that they will let us keep our guns if we will spend several thousand dollars to add on some little techno doo-dad.
Or maybe they’re just really stupid.
Or both.

Under his bill, guns made in the United States would have to be built with this technology two years after the bill becomes law. Older guns being sold by a business or individual would have to be retrofitted with this technology after three years.

So Unconstitutional laws apply only to constitutionalists?
» D.C. dirty tricks in Part II of unfolding David Gregory mystery-drama

Officials in Washington are using dirty tactics to hide the investigation and decision not to prosecute David Gregory of NBC News for illegally possessing a “high-capacity” magazine in the District of Columbia.
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“Meet the Press briefly borrowed the empty magazine from a private citizen who lives outside of the District of Columbia and who ‘Meet the Press’ understood possessed the magazine lawfully,” … The NBC lawyer also claimed, “The magazine was immediately returned to its owner following the broadcast.”
.However, according to a police “property record” document, a Kay Industries 30-round magazine was recovered from Mr. Gregory … as part of an active investigation.

… police documents show there was no confusion. At 4 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 21, a NBC producer, whose name was redacted, emailed MPD this: “Meet the Press is interviewing a person on the show this Sunday in studio -Producers for the show would liek [sic] to have a clip (standard and high power), without ammunition in studio to use on the show. There will be no gun, no bullets, just clips. Is this legal?”
At 9 p.m., someone at MPD — again, the name was blacked out — replied: “No, possession of high capacity magazines is a misdemeanor under Title #7 of the D.C. Code. We would suggest utilizing photographs for their presentation.”

From the comments:

So, why didn’t NBC use a stock photo of a 30 round magazine to illustrate what they were referring to? Could it be they found it much more dramatic and sensationalistic to have David Gregory waving it around for the cameras while he scoffs at our constitutional right to keep and bear arms?

This isn’t journalism at all…It’s partisan political advocacy…Which is why people’s trust in the objectivity of network news is dropping like a rock….And it also explains why you could fit most viewers of NBC into a phone booth nowadays.

» D.C. Considers Mandatory $250K Insurance Policy for Gun Buyers

Some gun-control advocates believe that insurance can help reduce gun violence by encouraging responsible gun ownership …

That is a lie, and a stupid lie to boot. Responsible gun owners are not the cause of the gun violence that gun-control advocates use as an excuse to disarm the American people. Said gun-control advocates don’t give a diddly-damn about gun violence, except for the gun violence they may encounter in their attempts to implement their agenda.
Mandatory gun insurance is nothing more than another way to make gun ownership more expensive and thereby encourage people to voluntarily disarm themselves.

Meanwhile, D.C. Gangbangers are working with insurance companies to design group plans.

The White House on Wednesday released 94 pages of emails between top administration and intelligence officials who helped shape the talking points about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the CIA would provide to policymakers in both the legislative and executive branches.

The documents … directly contradict claims by White House press secretary Jay Carney and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the revisions of those talking points were driven by the intelligence community and show heavy input from top Obama administration officials, particularly those at the State Department.

Members of the FBI thwarted a Fayetteville teenager’s plan to rob and kill people who did not share his Islamic beliefs, according to documents.

Erwin Antonio Rios, 19, of the 1200 block of Oak Knolls Drive, allegedly planned to obtain a gun illegally and take part in a local religious jihad against non-believers, or kuffar, and members of the U.S. Armed Forces …..

» So Much For Pro-Gun Democrats In North Carolina

Last week, the North Carolina House of Representatives passed HB 937 by a margin of 78 to 42. This bill would amend various North Carolina gun laws. Included in this list of laws were provisions that clarified the General Assembly’s intentions with regard to park carry, that would permit concealed carry (but not alcohol consumption) in establishments that served alcohol, that would permit concealed carry at events that charged admission, and that would permit concealed carry holders to leave their firearms in a locked vehicle on university and community college campuses.
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The margin of victory for this bill was provided by every single Republican and one lone Democrat …

“In one case, the IRS withheld approval of an application for tax exempt status for Coalition for Life of Iowa. In a phone call to Coalition for Life of Iowa leaders on June 6, 2009, the IRS agent ‘Ms. Richards’ told the group to send a letter to the IRS with the entire board’s signatures stating that, under perjury of the law, they do not picket/protest or organize groups to picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood,” the Thomas More Society announced today. “Once the IRS received this letter, their application would be approved.”

» The IRS Scandal and Obamacare, Part II: Your “Shared Responsibility Payment for Not Maintaining Minimum Essential Coverage”

The IRS has a long and ignominious history of targeting political opponents. Its latest actions make it clear that it has been serving as a political retribution wing of the permanent Obama campaign or “Organizing For America”.

In the midst of this madness, Obamacare is set to magnify the power of the IRS by a factor of 10 or more.
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President Obama topped off this debacle by refusing to appoint a Special Prosecutor.

Eighteen strikes and you’re out. As Mark Levin suggests, the IRS must be disbanded and replaced with The Fair Tax. It’s time to unleash the economy and constrain the federal government’s weed-like urge to grow. The Fair Tax accomplishes both ends.

» This Is No Ordinary Scandal

We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. The reputation of the Obama White House has, among conservatives, gone from sketchy to sinister, and, among liberals, from unsatisfying to dangerous. No one likes what they’re seeing. The Justice Department assault on the Associated Press and the ugly politicization of the Internal Revenue Service have left the administration’s credibility deeply, probably irretrievably damaged. They don’t look jerky now, they look dirty. The patina of high-mindedness the president enjoyed is gone.

Something big has shifted. The standing of the administration has changed.

» IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 million medical records

The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly accessed and stole the health records of some 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges.

According to a report by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in California is suing the IRS, alleging that some 60 million medical records from 10 million patients were stolen by 15 IRS agents. The personal health information seized on March 11, 2011, included psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual/drug treatment and other medical treatment data.

You Get What You Tolerate … What would Henry do?

… ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional, concluding that some board actions taken in the wake of those appointments were also invalid.

Just remember, these are the Syrian ‘rebel jihadists’ Barack Hussein Obama is arming and funding.

» GITMO Guards getting splashed with Muslim urine, feces, and vomit isn’t new…but apparently, CNN thinks it is

CNN also doesn’t tell you that the reason the Muslim savages who have been freed to leave are still there is because their own countries refuse to take them back and no other country wants them.

Most Americans, however, say both deserve continuing investigation ….
Slim majorities of Americans are very or somewhat closely following the situations involving the Internal Revenue Service (54%) and the congressional hearings on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and its aftermath (53%) — comparatively low based on historical measures of other news stories over the last two decades.

First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities — toilet paper.

Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages, the embattled socialist government says it will import 50 million rolls to boost supplies.

I will spare you the torrent of snarky commentary flooding from the voices in my head.

Police are “investigating,” but somehow I doubt this will qualify as a hate crime, just as no matter how many times it happens, it will not make national news.

After the federal government has handed over $15,000,000,000,000.00 of our money, this is what we get in return.

I say “anti-gun” because it looks like there isn’t anyone who will be making the pro-liberty argument. We’ve got a radically anti-gun legislator, a reporter who doesn’t seem to like guns, and a psychiatrist whose views on guns are anyone’s guess.

Who stands for liberty? Will it just be three people telling us how awful the consequences of guns are to society while ignoring the far worse consequences of citizen disarmament? Is that what the event planner for Quail Ridge Books and Music intended? A parade of horribles targeting gun owners?

» Get Up Off The Floor

And right now you’re going “It’s all done, we’re done, we—”

Get up off the floor. First, if you’re a believer, despair is a sin. And if you’re not a believer, despair is spitting on the graves of all the men and women who fought in much worse conditions than you face. The ghosts of Tiananmen Square rise up against you. The men who in the Gulags carried a hope of freedom accuse you. The victims of communism point fingers at you. The millions of dead at the hands of marching statism would like to remind you that to give up is to die. And that’s when you should give up. Not a second earlier.

But worse than that – despair is a sin and an insult on the brave dead… And it might be stupid too.

» Dems Shoot Themselves in the Foot Again On Guns

The anti-gun campaign has activated only two groups of people, the small circle of liberal media commentators and the huge mass of gun freedom advocates. A couple of out-of-state, paid Organizing for America activists waving pre-printed signage at a town hall is not a grass roots movement.

The only grass roots movement is for gun freedom. The NRA membership rolls are exploding, and there will be no sitting on the sidelines in 2014 for those concerned with gun rights. They will all vote.

Let the Democrats bring up another gun control bill. Let their hate cloud their strategic thinking. Let them keep making mistakes.

One theme ties all the bizarre aspects of Benghazi scandal together — the doctored talking points, the inexplicable failure to beef up diplomatic security before the attacks and to send in help during the fighting, the jailing of a petty con artist on the false charge that his amateur video had led to attacks on our consulate, and the shabby treatment of nonpartisan State Department whistleblowers.

There was an overarching pre-election desire last year to downplay any notion that al-Qaeda remained a serious danger after the much ballyhooed killing of Osama bin Laden. Likewise, Libya was not supposed to be a radical Islamic mess after the successful “lead from behind” removal of Muammar Gadhafi. Facts then had to change to fit a campaign narrative.
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“Hope and change” is fast becoming the 1973 Nixon White House.

It’s not 1979 all over again – if Jhimmi Carter had been able to blame the entire Iranian embassy hostage crisis on some poor schmuck who recently made a YouTube video, maybe he could have pulled off a second term?

Obama himself doesn’t need to pass down orders to apparatchiks like Lerner, any more than imams in Saudi Arabia needed to tell the Tsarnaev Brothers to bomb the Boston Marathon. All he has to do is set the tone, which he accomplishes with divisive rhetoric about punishing enemies. His flying monkeys will apply this philosophy wherever they get the chance.

To Serve the Advancement of Colored Progressives
» NAACP’s Julian Bond: It’s OK for IRS to target ‘racist’ tea party
Bond is only one of many that have searched in vain for 4 years, trying to document a case of tea party racism. No, wait, that is a lie … none of them have attempted to document anything … they simply make the accusations and fully expect those accusations to be accepted as fact without proof and everyone to act accordingly.
In the feeble mind of Julian Bond, the IRS is not federal agency tasked with collecting taxes but a pen of frothing dogs to sic on whoever dares to oppose the Progressive agenda.

The Irony is strong with this one:
» Axelrod: ‘Impossible’ for Obama to have known about IRS targeting

Axelrod on Wednesday defended the president, saying it was “impossible” he could have known about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups because the government is too big.

Ain’t that what the Tea Partiers have been saying all along? That the government is too big?

» Fox to Investigate IRS Henhouse Activities
» IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution

That is, the fox will be investigating the carnage in the henhouse. The technical term for this is farce.

You can see what’s going on here. You may not want to see it, or believe it, but you can see it. The federal government made awful, unforgivable wrong decisions about the security for its people in Benghazi. They compounded the error by failing to put together even the beginning of a rescue mission during the seven-hour assault. Perhaps those responsible for making the call had a fear of a “Black Hawk Down” scenario, in which the rescuers find themselves needing rescue, but whatever the reasoning, the net effect was the same: our people were under fire, fighting for their lives, and nobody was coming to help. The decisions made that night make a mockery of the unofficial, but widespread motto of our armed forces: “Nobody gets left behind.”

… it seems like (for a refreshing change), something a lot stronger than Shinola is sticking to the president as details of his current scandals emerge. Those stories are developing so quickly that we won’t even attempt to recap them here (get thee to Drudgereport!) other than to say that they all involve flagrant abuse of power, outrageous lies to the American people, desperate attempts to place the blame on others, and a belief by this president and his people that nothing is more important than maintaining his political power – no matter who or how many die, no matter what laws are broken, and no matter what damage is done to our Constitution and credibility as a nation.

None of this, of course, comes as even a teensy-weensy surprise to those of us who’ve been sounding alarms for years now. Barack Hussein Obama is no worse than he’s ever been…it’s just that his facade seems to finally be cracking, revealing glimpses of the vehemently anti-American radical beneath to a mainstream media which has had more in common with Helen Keller than Edward R. Murrow.

» 2012 US Drought Was Not Caused By Climate Change

The Boy King Obama, facing re-election in November 2012 immediately attributed the drought to Anthropogenic Global Warming, the usual Green suspects rallied around the king, who then received even more support for his theory from such Hollywood scientific luminaries as Bette Midler, the guy with the squeaky voice, what’s his name, oh yeah Matt Damon and Barbra Streisand to name the most irritating but a few.
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Those pesky natural variations are back and they always ruin a good warmist fear story, which always ignores natural variations as such, instead attributing them to human influences, natural cyclic events are treated the same way, because they simply do not fit the narrative of ideological or politicized junk science that underpins the Green Agenda.
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As time goes by Obama’s settled science becomes less settled, when scientists employed by the Federal Government publicly disagree with the President about the causes of the drought, it shows clearly that Obama is just pushing a political agenda and attributing a natural event to help further his Green socialist cause.

Western civilizations are not accustomed to dealing with people, who have developed deception into an art form. Knowledge is power, and the best way to combat the Islamist agenda is to say, “We are used to your lying. Knock it off!”

» PROGRESSIVE GROUP: IRS GAVE US CONSERVATIVE GROUPS’ CONFIDENTIAL DOCS

The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.

The commendable admission lends further evidence to the lengths the IRS went during an election cycle to silence tea party and limited government voices.

» REPORT: EPA WAIVERS FOR ‘GREEN’ GROUPS, DENIES CONSERVATIVE, WATCHDOG GROUPS

… while “government agencies are supposed to waive fees for groups disseminating information for public benefit,” the EPA denied such requests from the Conservative Enterprise Institute [CEI] in addition to other groups like Judicial Watch and the Franklin Center that hold Obama administration accountable.
The EPA granted requests for waivers to groups like the National Resources Defense Council and EarthJustice. The report found that the EPA waived fees for “green” groups 92% of the time.
…. According to CEI, their requests were “denied 93 percent of the time,”

Remember these?
DOJ persecution of States’ legislation to enforce federal laws that are ignored by the feds?
ATF running down legal gun-owning citizens while walking more and bigger guns across the border to foreign criminals?

You don’t drain a swamp of predators by simply spreading them out over larger areas.

The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret …. More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country’s wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles
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Each death is federal crime, a charge that the Obama administration has used to prosecute oil companies when birds drown in their waste pits, and power companies when birds are electrocuted by their power lines. No wind energy company has been prosecuted, even those that repeatedly flout the law.

A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69 cm …

One factor likely to offset sea level rise, ice2sea said, is that warmer temperatures will result in more snow, especially over Antarctica, locking in the moisture on land. It also played down worries of a runaway melt of Greenland, and of the breakup of major Antarctic ice shelves …

I’ve noticed that … yup, every time it snows, sales of sun-block and flip-flops skyrocket.

Chickens iz stupid. I know, I have a bunch of them. But as stupid as they are, they would have pecked the crap out of Chicken Little after a couple of decades of constant, fact-void alarmism over falling skies.

» No Warming In Antarctica Since The Start Of Satellite Records
» Alaska Endures Record Cold While Still Buried Under Snow

The activists of the left would like you to believe that they defend terrorists despite their violence. That excuse is as thin as the claims by serial killer devotees like the Holmies or the #FreeJaharites that they are in love with their man despite the crimes he is accused of committing. It’s not despite the terrorism that they defend terrorists; it is because of the terrorism.

They are not pro-terrorist out of principle. It isn’t even the ends that they sympathize with. Few of them really want to live in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist oligarchy. It’s the means that appeal to them. If they can’t be Clyde, bombing police stations and offing the pigs, they’ll settle for being Bonnie, hanging on Mohammed’s arm while he flies a plane into the World Trade Center or sets off a bomb at the Boston Marathon.

#FreeJahar isn’t some horrid aberration. It’s a junior version of the liberal approach to the War on Terror. We don’t have to ask where the idolization of terrorists comes from. It is spawned from the same #FreeJihad media that pretends to be outraged by the Holmies and the Jaharites. The Jaharites are the abominable children of an abominable ideology that hybristophilically worships the forces that destroy societies because they are all that allows them to feel powerful and alive.

When a poisonous snake slithers through my back door, I don’t spend any time trying to analyze it’s intent, motivation or psychology. I kill it.
And frankly, I am long past the point of being curious of what makes a leftist tick.

The Department of Interior is providing $472,150 grant funding to increase the survival of two endangered fish species by “training” them to “recognize and avoid predators.”

I know what you’re thinking. It was only a couple of days ago that the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told us in a press conference that due to the mean, thoughtless and spiteful House Republicans and their sequester cuts the Interior Dept was so broke they wouldn’t be able to afford to fight wildfires in areas where Arizona TeaPartiers homes might get consumed in flames … uh … forcing IRS snipers to retreat to the safety of their Chevy Volts … which coincidentally are probably the source of the fire in the first place.
But it’s true that training little fishies to avoid predators is a cash-saver – because due to the massive totalitarian sequester butchery they are no longer able to provide little fishie assault weapons.

Yea, I know. My commentary is stupid. But only fractionally stupid compared to the Dhimmicrat’s idea of running a country.

A steeper-than-expected rise in US shale oil reserves is about to change the global balance of power between new and existing producers, a report says.

Over the next five years, the US will account for a third of new oil supplies …

The US will change from the world’s leading importer of oil to a net exporter.
Demand for oil from Middle-East oil producers is set to slow as a result.

Three fifths of the ‘next five years’ will be under the “leadership” of a president who has demonstrated, repeatedly, his role as the worst enemy of American energy independence.
Does it matter if the entire North American continent is floating on a sea of oil?

Sometimes firefighters will start smaller, controllable fires to stop the spread of major conflagrations. That could be why left-wing establishmentarians are suddenly willing to acknowledge that scandals like the IRS harassing patriot groups and the Injustice Department secretly helping itself to journalists’ phone records are unacceptable, just as the still more serious Benghazi debacle gets ready to explode into full public consciousness