What's going to happen on Chinese New Year?

This looks more like a frame on a Bee Hive.

Shanghai stampede that left at least 35 dead and 42 injured on New Year's Eve may have been caused when thousands surged forward to grab fake money thrown from a building | Daily Mail Online

Just the Facts Ma'am, that is if you can find them!

Joe Friday was fictional and just wanted the facts.

Al Sharpton, Bill de Blasio, Eric Holder, Barack Obama … are real (sort of) and want NO FACTS. m/r

Are Facts Obsolete? | The American Spectator

By Thomas Sowell – 12.31.14

The media do not merely ignore facts, they suppress facts.

Some of us, who are old enough to remember the old television police series Dragnet, may remember Sgt. Joe Friday saying, “Just the facts, ma’am.” But that would be completely out of place today. Facts are becoming obsolete, as recent events have demonstrated.

What matters today is how well you can concoct a story that fits people’s preconceptions and arouses their emotions. Politicians like New York mayor Bill de Blasio, professional demagogues like Al Sharpton, and innumerable irresponsible people in the media have shown that they have great talent in promoting a lynch mob atmosphere toward the police.

Grand juries that examine hard facts live in a different world from mobs who listen to rhetoric and politicians who cater to the mobs.

During the controversy over the death of Trayvon Martin, for example, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus said that George Zimmerman had tracked Trayvon Martin down and shot him like a dog. The fact is that Zimmerman did not have to track down Trayvon Martin, who was sitting right on top of him, punching him till his face was bloody.

After the death of Michael Brown, members of the Congressional Black Caucus stood up in Congress, with their hands held up, saying “don’t shoot.” Although there were some who claimed that this is what Michael  

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Correction for The New York Times: There are no such thing as Government Workers, just Government Employees!

"Nowhere does the Times article address the elephant in the room: No organization can do anything efficiently, or even reasonably, unless workers can be fired. Government workers' special "protections" are a reason taxes are high, bridges fall down, public schools decay, the CDC loses Ebola samples, and so on."

Ignorance On Display in The New York Times - Reason.com

John Stossel | December 31, 2014

No wonder Cuba wallows in poverty. Last week, The New York Times reported that the Castro brothers opened a special business zone where foreign companies "would be given greater control over setting wages at factories. ... (P)roposals would be approved or rejected within 60 days."

What? If I want to give someone a raise, I have to wait up to two months for government approval! That's absurd. Yet the Times said that the zone offers "big incentives for investors."

How clueless can their writers be? Their own article acknowledges, "A year later, the Cuban government has yet to announce a single foreign investment."

Duh.

The article went on to say that "according to many economists, President Obama's plan to allow more interaction between the two countries may not be the lifeline Cuba is hoping for—unless Cuba overcomes its resistance to change."

No kidding!

I suppose Times reporters need to consult economists to learn that entrepreneurs don't like having to beg dictators for permission to try something new. After all, back in America, Times editors demand increased regulation of almost every business.

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Obama and Nixon Share an Alternate Universe

Among other things! m/r



Inside Obama’s Secret Outreach to Russia - Bloomberg View

Terror at Home and it came from the Top!

You are under arrest, race-pimp!

The Political Race Hustlers became the Terrorist Leaders against the Police. m/c

Blog: Fear: NY cops refusing to enforce minor crimes

December 30, 2014

Fear: NY cops refusing to enforce minor crimes

By Rick Moran

It appears that fear haunts the streets of New York, as many policemen are refusing to write summonses for petty crimes, preferring not to stand in the open and make themselves targets for an assassin.

The police unions are insisting that two patrol cars respond to all non-emergency calls.

New York Post:

With cops on edge following the assassination of two patrol officers on a Brooklyn street, many officers have started turning a blind eye to some minor crimes, sources told The Post, while a union mandate that two patrol cars respond to all police calls has led to slower response times to non-emergencies.

“I’m not writing any summonses. Do you think I’m going to stand there so someone can shoot me or hit me in the head with an ax?” One cop said Sunday, referring to the Dec. 20 slayings and another recent attack on the NYPD.

“I’m concerned about my safety,” the cop added. “I want to go to home to my wife and kids.”

An NYPD supervisor noted, “My guys are writing almost no summonses, and probably only making arrests when they have to — like when a store catches a shoplifter.”

And the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association directive for cops to respond with at least two patrol cars has resulted in a manpower shortage that’s delaying response times to non-emergencies — such as burglaries or car crashes without injuries — to as much as four hours, sources said.

Little noticed is that the murder of policemen has soared by 24% in 2014 – many of them ambushes like the one that killed the two NYPD officers. …

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Talk, Talk, TALK - Lies, Lies, LIES

Stalin knew the power of story. m/r


▶ Stories Liberals Tell: How Conservatives Can Win Back the Culture | Bill Whittle - YouTube

Dec 18, 2014

Liberals have dominated the storytelling and culture making industries for some time now. So how do Conservatives win back the hearts and minds of America? Find out, as Bill Whittle takes a look at what has made Leftie Hollywood such a success, and points to a path for the Right. Because, if we lose the culture for good, we will lose in the ballot boxes too.

Our ENEMY GOVERNMENT - Unaffordable and Inaccessible - Gruber In 2009: Obamacare Will NOT Be Affordable

Gruber In 2009: Obamacare Will NOT Be Affordable | The Daily Caller

Welcome back to David Dinkins' Land - Remember NYC before Rudy Giuliani?

"Dinkins, in Book, Blames Racism for Re-election Loss"

Racism was just euphemism for Dinkins' own incompetence. Unfortunately, the NY Times is just biased and mendacious. m/r

Wary NYPD cops letting minor crimes slide | New York Post

by Larry Celona, Dana Sauchelli, Shawn Cohen and Bruce Golding December 29, 2014 

With cops on edge following the assassination of two patrol officers on a Brooklyn street, many officers have started turning a blind eye to some minor crimes, sources told The Post, while a union mandate that two patrol cars respond to all police calls has led to slower response times to non-emergencies.

“I’m not writing any summonses. Do you think I’m going to stand there so someone can shoot me or hit me in the head with an ax?” One cop said Sunday, referring to the Dec. 20 slayings and another recent attack on the NYPD.

“I’m concerned about my safety,” the cop added. “I want to go to home to my wife and kids.”

An NYPD supervisor noted, “My guys are writing almost no summonses, and probably only making arrests when they have to — like when a store catches a shoplifter.”

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The inept Shi'ite Fifth Columnist in the White House - Obama: Iran Can Be 'Very Successful Regional Power'

Obama: Iran Can Be 'Very Successful Regional Power' | The Weekly Standard



DEC 29, 2014 • BY DANIEL HALPER

President mistakenly calls Tehran a 'country.'

Obama made a gaffe in an interview with NPR when he called Tehran a "country." But the gaffe isn't the news from the interview at all.

Instead, expect people to focus on Obama talking about Iran having a "path" to being "a very successful regional power."

"[W]hen I came into office, the world was divided and Iran was in the driver's seat. Now the world's united because of the actions we've taken, and Iran's the one that's isolated," Obama told NPR. 

[How delusional can he get?]

"They have a path to break through that isolation and they should seize it. Because if they do, there's incredible talent and resources and sophistication inside of — inside of Iran, and it would be a very successful regional power that was also abiding by international norms and international rules, and that would be good for everybody. That would be good for the United States, that would be good for the region, and most of all, it would be good for the Iranian people."

In the same interview, President Obama acknowledges that Iran sponsors terrorism and wants a nuclear bomb.

"Tehran is a large, sophisticated country that has a track record of state-sponsored terrorism, that we know was attempting to develop a nuclear weapon — or at least the component parts that would be required to develop a nuclear weapon — that has engaged in disruptions to our allies, whose rhetoric is not only explicitly anti-American but also has been incendiary when it comes to its attitude towards the state of Israel," he said, mistaking Tehran for Iran.

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Science Master, Pope Francis’s edict on climate change will be helped by his not emitting so much gas

What a putz! m/r



Pope Francis’s edict on climate change will anger deniers and US churches | World news | The Guardian

NO MORE BUSHES, NO MORE CLINTONS, NO MORE KENNEDYS, NO MORE … Overrated Candidate: The Case Against Jeb Bush

The Overrated Candidate: The Case Against Jeb Bush | The American Spectator

The political baggage he carries isn't likely to fly.

By Larry Thornberry – 12.29.14

Politically, Bushes are, like the value of the Ivy League degrees most of them have, vastly overrated. Jeb Bush, who recently, to the surprise of no one, all but announced he would run for president, is no exception.

Ever since Jeb established an “I’m Thinking About Running for President Committee” (translation to English: I’m running for president) a week or so back, the conventional wisdom, whooped up by the chatterati and the various great mentioners, is that this latest Bush is a lock for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. They also say he’s that party’s best hope for reclaiming 1600. He’s probably neither.

The man who would be Bush III was governor of Florida from January of 1999 to January of 2007. He was a competent, hands-on executive who did many things conservatives find simpatico. With the help of a Republican legislature, he cut taxes to the tune of about $20 billion over his two terms. He helped install higher standards in K-12 education and expanded educational choice. During the eight hurricanes that struck Florida during Bush’s governorship, he orchestrated competent and helpful responses on the part of the state’s emergency agencies.

For all these accomplishments, Jeb Bush left office with high approval ratings. And is still well thought of by a significant fraction of Floridians. So far so good. For a guy who would like to be president, it does no harm to have a successful executive record in what was then the fourth largest state in the nation, now third, and a fair chance of winning Florida’s 29 electoral votes. (In the last two presidential cycles Florida went narrowly to Caesar Obamus.)

But hang on, Jeb Bush also carries considerable political baggage, and is not liked by a fair chunk of the Republican base. The charges and specifications:

Many conservatives don’t trust Bush on immigration. There’s no reason for them to. …

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Out of Control Fiefdoms

The IRS: Just One of Dozens of Uncooperative Agencies | National Review Online

By Kevin D. Williamson  12-23-14

Lots of other federal agencies are evading investigation, too, and IGs are livid. 

Darrell Issa’s leading role in the IRS investigation may have come to a close — he lost his chairmanship of the House Oversight Committee to term limits — but there is plenty of work left for his successor, Jason Chaffetz of Utah. None of these criminals has been punished; the maddening fact is that Lois Lerner is enjoying a six-figure pension at the expense of the very taxpayers against whom she conducted a corrupt political jihad. And even if that happy day should come when Lerner et al. are given one-way bus tickets to Florence, Colo., or some other suitable destination, Chaffetz and his colleagues still would have a tremendous amount of work to do; if Issa’s time has taught us anything, it is that the federal agencies are in thrall to a culture of criminality, and that the most significant crime in the agencies’ repertoire is the obstruction of federal investigations.

Earlier this year, 47 inspectors general — the officials charged with fighting corruption, waste, and wrongdoing in federal agencies — sent a letter to Issa’s committee complaining that organizations ranging from the EPA to the Justice Department were impeding their investigations by withholding information — despite the fact that federal law specifically forbids withholding that information. These are not a bunch of Republican operatives trying to score a few political points: Those 47 inspectors general comprise more than half of all such officials, and many who signed the letter were appointed by President Barack Obama. Their complaint is that the federal agencies treat them more or less like they do . . . members of Congress: thwarting them, withholding documents, obstruction investigations.

Michael Horowitz, the inspector general for the Justice Department, came to the Oversight Committee practically begging them for a means by which the DOJ – the federal law-enforcement department — might be forced to follow the laws that it is supposed to be enforcing. “It is very clear to me,” he testified, “just as it is to the Inspectors General community, that the Inspector General Act of 1978 entitles inspectors general to access all documents and records within the agency’s possession. Each of us firmly believes that Congress meant what it said in Section 6(a) of the IG Act: that Inspectors General must be given complete, timely, and unfiltered access to agency records.” But under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, the DOJ did no such thing. Horowitz notes that the DOJ specifically tried to withhold information related to the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious.

The law promises IGs far-ranging investigative power, including “access to all records, reports, audits, reviews, documents, papers, recommendations, or other material.” All, it says, not that which any given bureaucrat feels it in his interest to release. And just in case there’s some question about which agencies are subject, the statute makes it clear: “any Federal, State, or local governmental agency or unit thereof.”

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Rome didn't engineer more machines because it was well populated with slaves

More of the Farming would be automated if there hadn't been an over-abundance of cheap labor. m/r

Farmers brace for labor shortage under new policy - Yahoo News

By SCOTT SMITH  12-28-14

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Farmers already scrambling to find workers in California — the nation's leading grower of fruits, vegetables and nuts — fear an even greater labor shortage under President Barack Obama's executive action to block some 5 million people from deportation.

Thousands of the state's farmworkers, who make up a significant portion of those who will benefit, may choose to leave the uncertainty of their seasonal jobs for steady, year-around work building homes, cooking in restaurants and cleaning hotel rooms.

"This action isn't going to bring new workers to agriculture," said Jason Resnick, vice president and general counsel of the powerful trade association Western Growers. "It's possible that because of this action, agriculture will lose workers without any mechanism to bring in new workers."

Although details of the president's immigration policy have yet to be worked out, Resnick said the agricultural workforce has been declining for a decade. Today, the association estimates there is a 15 to 20 percent shortage of farmworkers, which is driving the industry to call for substantial immigration reform from Congress, such as a sound guest worker program.

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Why is CNN so Happy with this Poll: Bush surges to 2016 GOP frontrunner? Because Jeb Bush will be the Looser against a Democrat

Poll: Bush surges to 2016 GOP frontrunner - CNN.com

What's Obama to do? Falkland Islands defence review after military deal between Russia and Argentina | UK | News | Daily Express

He's afraid of Russia, supports Argentina and betrays our friend! m/r

Falkland Islands defence review after military deal between Russia and Argentina | UK | News | Daily Express

Nothing on the Level, a False Narrative from Stupid Reporters Fed to them By Race Pimps and Hustlers

Nothing reported or protested about criminals Michael Brown and Eric Gardener has been true except the verdicts from the grand jury investigations. The Political Pimps, from Obama, Holder and de Blasio to their  Hustler "Advisers," Sharpton, West and Jackson have spread nothing but irresponsible lies, just as they always have to promote themselves over the facts! 

The realities of Black Crime are nearly the complete opposite of what we are being told in most media and the facts about lib-media darling and now-caught-on-camera-arsenist, Joshua Williams, embody it.  m/r

Ferguson's Media Darling Flames Out | National Review Online

By Ryan Lovelace 12-28-14

Joshua Williams was the liberal-media darling of the Ferguson protests; now he’s an alleged arsonist. 

Joshua Williams has been everywhere: protesting in Ferguson, Mo., Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio. Now, he is in St. Louis, where police have arrested him for arson.

During the Ferguson protests, Williams perfected the skill of catching the attention of journalists and using them to elevate his claims of police brutality to national attention. Quoted or photographed in countless articles in publications including the New York Times and USA Today, Williams claims police in Ferguson, Mo., targeted him because he is black. The truth, caught on tape by National Review Online, is much different.

The charismatic teenager was one of Ferguson’s most recognizable protesters. Once the summer protests began, protestors and reporters alike found themselves transfixed by Williams’s emotional demonstrations. Sometimes he cried, sometimes he screamed, and sometimes he confronted police in a way designed to get a response. As high-profile African Americans flocked to Ferguson, Williams somehow found himself at their side: When former Princeton University professor Cornel West arrived, there was Williams, shoulder-to-shoulder with him. “I don’t know how he ended up arm-in-arm with Cornel West, but . . . for as much as Josh was holding on to West, Cornel West there, West was holding onto Josh as well and talking with Josh,” says David Carson, the St. Louis Post-Dispatchphotographer who captured the two marching together. “So it wasn’t like it was a one-way thing.”

Williams has been portrayed in the media as an innocent victim fighting back against authority; he has been held up as the quintessential Ferguson protestor, decrying police brutality as he is time and again brutalized by police. When Williams interrupted a Ferguson City Council meeting in September and the meeting descended into chaos, for example, the New York Times published a photo of his disruptive antics with a caption that said that he had only “posed a question to the City Council.” 

Williams came to Ferguson to protest the Ferguson police’s involvement in the death of Michael Brown. He routinely clashed with the cops and claimed that he had been arrested multiple times there. 

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Protester who advocates peace charged with setting fire at Berkeley QT

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If You Went To A Government School You Didn't Learn the Facts and Truth About Government!

Judge Andrew Napolitano: America is becoming a Surveillance State - YouTube

Dec 19, 2014

"Jefferson and Madison and William O. Douglas and everybody that took a stand for human liberty would be turning in their graves," roars Judge Andrew Napolitano about President Obama's decision to use drones on American citizens.

The syndicated columnist, Fox News senior judicial analyst, and outspoken libertarian sat down with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie to discuss his new book, Suicide Pact:The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Assault on Civil Liberties.

Napolitano discusses how presidents from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush to Barack Obama have used war and domestics threats to massively increase the reach of the state. He also talks about the popularity of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who wrote the foreword to Suicide Pact, how his law students are increasingly skeptical of government invasion of privacy, and why he thinks his friend and TV sparring partner Jon Stewart is a actually a libertarian who just doesn't know it yet.

About 26 minutes.

Who invited you? You Self-Absorbed Jerks: de Blasio, Biden, Cuomo

They should have told Biden and the rest of the political instigators who generally spent their funeral speeches recognizing and congratulating each other. 

It's almost surprising they didn't add the race-pimp Sharpton to their "uninvited" race mongering entourage! m/r

Hundreds Turn Their Back on de Blasio at NYPD Officer's Funeral - ABC News

by DEAN SCHABNER 12-26-14

Hundreds of police officers turned their backs on a screen showing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as he spoke at the funeral of one of two officers killed last week in what has been called an "assassination."

The funeral at the Christ Tabernacle Church, in the Glendale neighborhood of Queens, was broadcast to thousands of police who gathered outside.

The killing of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu came amid heightened tensions between the police and the mayor over what some police saw as a lack of support for the force.

The atmosphere was mostly respectful, but there were scattered signs of protest even before the police officers' action when the mayor spoke.







A block from the church, though, retired NYPD Officer John Mangan held a sign that read: "God Bless the NYPD. Dump de Blasio."

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Ruinous Breed in the Politically Inbred Land of Dynasties

More rot keeps emerging from these political cocoons who believe that our rights only spring from their "enlightened governing" elite. m/r

Land of Dynasties | The Weekly Standard

It takes the likes of a smelly old loon, Hillary Clinton, to question the mental health of Kirchner

The lying Bitch-of-Bengazi has no where to stand in questioning anyone's sanity. 

Why is anyone supporting her for anything, let alone paying her for her mundane run-on speeches that say nothing! m/r

Hillary Clinton questions Cristina Kirchner's mental health | US news | The Guardian

Had the Ebola Infected been Smoking they would have been Refused Entry!

Dangerous busy-bodies! m/r

Ebola, Smoking, and Mission Creep at the CDC - Reason.com

Jacob Sullum from the January 2015 issue

Controlling contagious diseases is just one of many items on the agency's to-do list.

Before Tom Frieden became director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2009, his two nemeses were tuberculosis and smoking. Although both are commonly described as threats to "public health," they differ in ways that may help explain the CDC's stumbles in dealing with Ebola.

Tuberculosis, which Frieden helped control in New York City and India as a CDC epidemiologist, is a contagious, potentially lethal disease. Smoking, which Frieden targeted as New York City's health commissioner, is a pattern of behavior that increases the risk of disease.

That distinction matters to people who reject paternalism as a justification for government action. We believe the use of force can be justified to protect the public from TB carriers but not to protect smokers from their own choices.

Frieden rejects that distinction. He sees the goal of public health as minimizing morbidity and mortality, even when they arise from voluntarily assumed risks, and he does not hesitate to rely on state power in pursuing that mission. For him, public health means quarantining and treating disease carriers, but it also means imposing heavy taxes on cigarettes, banning trans fats, and forcing restaurants to post calorie counts.

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Out of Control IRS - the Lefties' Political Gestapo

Christine O'Donnell, tea party figure, says IRS mistakenly placed levy on bank account - Washington Times

Keeping the "Proles" Happy - Vodka prices: Putin calls for cap amid economic crisis

"In any time that he could accurately remember, there had never been quite enough to eat, one had never had socks or underclothes that were not full of holes, furniture had always been battered and rickety, rooms underheated, tube trains crowded, houses falling to pieces, bread dark-coloured, tea a rarity, coffee filthy-tasting, cigarettes insufficient--nothing cheap and plentiful except synthetic gin."
Geo. Orwell "1984"

BBC News - Vodka prices: Putin calls for cap amid economic crisis

CDC stands for Coverup Disease Control - What is shocking is we know about the potential Ebola exposure

CDC reports potential Ebola exposure in Atlanta lab - The Washington Post

By Lena H. Sun and Joel Achenbach December 24, 2014

One scientist may have been exposed to the Ebola virus and as many as a dozen others are being assessed for potential exposure at a lab of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, agency officials said Wednesday.

The potential exposure took place Monday when scientists conducting research on the virus at a high-security lab mistakenly transferred a sample containing the potentially infectious virus to another CDC lab in same building.

The technician has no symptoms of illness and is being monitored for 21 days. Agency officials said others who entered the lab have been contacted, and based on assessments, it’s likely no one else was exposed. They said the number of people who entered the lab could be as many as a dozen, but more likely far fewer.

Agency officials said there was no possible exposure outside the secure laboratory at CDC and no exposure or risk to the public. The mistake took place Monday afternoon …

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More Ebola Trouble  - It is not going to be wished away!

Man exhibiting Ebola-like symptoms rushed to Bellevue

Anti-American, anti-Constitution, Obama Appointed, Socialist judge throws out Arizona sheriff's immigration suit against Obama

Maybe Reuters should look behind this story a bit: 

Beryl A. Howell (born 1956) is a federal District Court judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 14, 2010 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 27, 2010. She previously served in law enforcement, and in public and private practice as an attorney, counsel to Congressional committees, and recording industry lobbyist. Judge Howell is considered by many to be anti-Constitutional in her jurisprudence, and is associated with the American Progressive Movement; an organization established as a joint venture between American Communist and American Socialist movements. 

U.S. judge throws out Arizona sheriff's immigration suit against Obama - Yahoo News Canada

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit brought against Barack Obama by an Arizona police chief who called the U.S. president's sweeping immigration reforms unconstitutional, saying the plaintiff lacked legal standing in the case.

Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the demand by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for a preliminary injunction to halt the policies.

Arpaio, who calls himself "America's Toughest Sheriff," filed the case last month, saying Obama had overstepped his powers by bypassing Congress and ordering the changes himself. 

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The Quest for more Gun Accidents to Support Anti-Gun Lies

Blog: Is this the most irresponsible and reprehensible 'public service' commercial ever?

Two Turkeys

Turkey's Two Thugs by Claire Berlinski, City Journal 23 December 2014

Claire Berlinski 23 December 2014

Erdoğan and Gülen are both dangerous—but only one of them lives in the Poconos.​

Until recently, I lived in Turkey. It seemed to me then unfathomable that most Americans did not recognize the name Fethullah Gülen. Even those vaguely aware of him did not find it perplexing that a Turkish preacher, billionaire, and head of a multinational media and business empire—a man of immense power in Turkey and sinister repute—had set up shop inPennsylvania and become a big player in the American charter school scene. Now that I’ve been out of Turkey a while, I’ve realized how normal it is that Americans are indifferent to Gülen. America is full of rich, powerful, and sinister weirdoes. What’s one more?

It’s normal, too, that Americans view news from Turkey as less important than other stories in the headlines. After all, Turks aren’t doing anything quite so attention-grabbing as hacking Sony, destabilizing the postwar European order, or rampaging through the Middle East as they behead, rape, crucify, and enslave everything in their path. Thus, the reader whohas noticed the news from Turkey might believe the story goes something like this: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the authoritarian thug running Turkey, has been rounding up journalists who bravely exposed his corruption.

That American readers now understand that Erdoğan is a corrupt authoritarian is an improvement. (They may vaguely recall that not long ago, he was viewed by the large parts of the Western intelligentsia—and by the very same news organs reporting the latest developments—as a liberal-minded reformer.) But this is actually a story about two thugs. The details may be hard to follow, but the devil is in the details. The journalists recently arrested by Erdoğan are loyal to Gülen, who has made himself quite cozy in the United States. The phrase commonly used to describe this state of affairs—“self-imposed exile”—should not leave the reader nodding pleasantly. It should leave him wondering, “What does that mean? Why have we offered him exile?”

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No Kidding - They want to suck us dry! IRS employees biased against conservatives

This asses think its their money, so they love asshole Democrats who think our rights come from government! m/r

IRS employees biased against conservatives: report - Washington Times

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 23, 2014

One IRS employee called a conservative group “icky” while another griped that they would probably “have to” approve a different group’s application for nonprofit status, according to the latest findings Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee.

In a new staff report released by Rep. Darrell Issa, the California Republican who is term-limited as chairman of the committee, investigators also found IRS officials had “repeatedly changed their stories” about what went on and who was responsible for targeting the conservative and tea party groups who applied for nonprofit status.

The different stories, and roadblocks erected by the tax agency, the White House and congressional Democrats have made it difficult to figure out exactly what went on in the agency as it was targeting tea party and conservative groups for improper scrutiny and delaying approval of their applications, the investigators said.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/23/irs-employees-biased-against-conservatives-report/#ixzz3MmWXdBGX 
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The Left Turn Makes a Full Circle - The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal

The Circular Firing Squad of the Community Agitators (the most useless of pursuits). m/r

The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 22 December 2014

22 December 2014  Heather Mac Donald

Since last summer, a lie has overtaken significant parts of the country, resulting in growing mass hysteria. That lie holds that the police pose a mortal threat to black Americans—indeed that the police are the greatest threat facing black Americans today. Several subsidiary untruths buttress that central myth: that the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks; that the black underclass doesn’t exist; and that crime rates are comparable between blacks and whites—leaving disproportionate police action in minority neighborhoods unexplained without reference to racism. The poisonous effect of those lies has now manifested itself in the cold-blooded assassination of two NYPD officers.

The highest reaches of American society promulgated these untruths and participated in the mass hysteria. Following a grand jury’s decision not to indict a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer for fatally shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown in August (Brown had attacked the officer and tried to grab his gun), President Barack Obama announced that blacks were right to believe that the criminal-justice system was often stacked against them. Obama has travelled around the country since then buttressing that message. Eric Holder escalated a long running theme of his tenure as U.S. Attorney General—that the police routinely engaged in racial profiling and needed federal intervention to police properly.

University presidents rushed to show their fealty to the lie. Harvard’s Drew Gilpin Faust announced that “injustice [toward black lives] still thrives so many years after we hoped we could at last overcome the troubled legacy of race in America. . . . Harvard and . . . the nation have embraced [an] imperative to refuse silence, to reject injustice.” Smith College’s presidentabjectly flagellated herself for saying that “all lives matter,” instead of the current mantra, “black lives matter.” Her ignorant mistake, she confessed, draws attention away from “institutional violence against Black people.”

The New York Times ratcheted up its already stratospheric level of anti-cop polemics. 

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Most of US are Hacked-Off by this President Anyway

"Obama has conducted his foreign policy in such a way that North Korea is emboldened to launch this kind of assault against a company in the U.S."

Hacked by North Korea? Just Call the President | The Rosett Report

By Claudia Rosett On December 20, 2014 

From Hollywood back-biting to North Korean terrorist threats against American movie-goers, the hacking-of-Sony saga by now includes so many stupefying elements that it’s hard to know where to begin. But let’s focus on President Obama’s remarks at his end-of-year press conference ^[1] Friday, when he criticized Sony Pictures Entertainment for canceling its planned Christmas Day nation-wide release of The Interview, the movie that incurred the wrath of Pyongyang by making fun of one of the 21st century’s most ludicrous tyrants, Kim Jong Un.

A reporter asked Obama if Sony had made a mistake in pulling the movie.  Obama summarized part of the background: “Sony is a corporation. It suffered significant damage. There were threats against its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced.”

Having staked out his ground as a sympathetic observer, he hit the punch line: “Having said all that, yes, I think they made a mistake.”

He went on to say: “I wish they had spoken to me first. I would have told them, do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.”

Pause the tape right there. What did the president leave out? Why, he omitted the terrorist threats of physical assault issued by the hackers, who — having cyber-attacked, robbed and humiliated Sony for more than three weeks — finally sent emails captioned “Warning.” These emails threatened that a “bitter fate” awaited anyone who might go to a screening of The Interview, and drove home the point with the message: “The world will be full of fear. Remember the 11th of September, 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. (If your house is nearby, you’d better leave).”

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These Race Hustlers Deserve All the Criticism they Get!

Killings of 2 New York officers trigger backlash - Yahoo News

And they Got Rid of Joe Clark! Paterson principal demoted days after sign mishap; officials cite performance issues

Spell December!

Paterson principal demoted days after sign mishap; officials cite performance issues - News - NorthJersey.com

Technically, the Korean War is still in Process; Apparently So - Open Up North Korea’s Information Curtain

Open Up North Korea’s Information Curtain | National Review Online

What does an Ebola Czar Do? A Cover Up! CDC Hiding 1,400 Possible Ebola Cases in US

So no news about Ebola gets out! Obama Admin. is Burying the information and not working on prevention! m/r

Attkisson: CDC Hiding Numbers of Possible Ebola Cases in US - Breitbart

by PAM KEY21 Dec 2014

Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Media Buzz,” investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson said the CDC is not putting out the current information on how many potential cases of Ebola they are currently tracking in the Untied States.

Attkisson said, “I called CDC not long ago and I said how many cases are being monitored in the United States and they said 1,400. I said, ‘Where are these updates on your website? ‘ They said they’re not putting it on the web. This is public information we have a right to know and the media should not hype it, but should cover it.”

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Megalomaniac

SHAME: de Blasio Attacks NYPD Officers | The Daily Caller

Reaping what was sown!

Ever wonder if the Right Reverends Sharpton and Jackson have ever read the Bible? m/r

A City on the Brink by Matthew Hennessey, City Journal 21 December 2014

MATTHEW HENNESSEY 12-21-14

Anti-cop attitudes among the city’s progressive elites created the context for this weekend’s atrocity.

New York City’s anti-cop activists are scrambling for cover now that two NYPD officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, have been slain in cold blood on a Brooklyn street by a suspected gang member seeking revenge for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. For the last several weeks, Gotham has been the scene of nightly, inflammatory protests against the NYPD. An assortment of self-proclaimed social-justice activists have disrupted traffic, assaulted officers, and demanded an end to Broken Windows policing. The city’s progressive elites, including Mayor Bill de Blasio and city council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, have accommodated the protestors—offering them aid and comfort in the media, entertaining their wilder claims, and standing silent as they defamed the NYPD as racist killers.

Last weekend, demonstrators marched through the streets of Murray Hillchanting, “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” They didn’t have to wait long. Ismaaiyl Brinsley had posted threatening anti-cop messages on Instagram in the hours before the double murder. “They take 1 of ours . . . let’s take 2 of theirs . . . #RIPEricGardner#RIPMikeBrown,” he wrote. Under the circumstances, no clearer motive, nor indication of guilt, is imaginable. Yet, Al Sharptonsaid it was “reprehensible” that anyone would link the killings to Ferguson or Staten Island. Since Brinsley himself made that link, it seems fair to ask: Doesn’t the good reverend know it’s impolite to speak ill of the dead? (Brinsley turned his gun on himself as cops closed in.)

At an evening press conference, Mayor de Blasio said that the motive for the killings was unclear—showing the same curious abundance of caution that led him to declare last week that protestors on the Brooklyn Bridge had “allegedly” attacked two police officers, despite a video clearly showing the assault. The mayor’s knee-jerk anti-cop sentiment led him to spend an hour listening to the grievances of Harry Belafonte’s Justice League NYC, which had pledged to shut down Fifth Avenue on Tuesday as a means to ending the “war on black America.” After a Staten Island grand jury declined to hand down indictments of the police officers involved in Eric Garner’s death, the mayor told reporters that he had urged his biracial son to “take special care” during encounters with the police. “Are [kids like Dante] safe from the very people they want to have faith in as their protectors?” he asked. The city’s progressive elites identify not with the brave men and women of the NYPD, but with the cops’ detractors.

Not surprisingly, the NYPD is sick of what Bob McManus calls de Blasio’s “split the baby strategy” of appeasing the protestors while courting cops’ support. They turned their backs on the mayor last night when he entered Woodhull Hospital, where the slain officers had been taken. …

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The killer makes a confounded literary reference - Gunman executes 2 NYPD cops as ‘revenge’ for Garner

“I’m Putting Wings on Pigs Today,” a person believed to be the gunman wrote. “They Take 1 Of Ours . . . Let’s Take 2 of Theirs,” the post continued, ending with, “This May Be My Final Post.”

Gunman executes 2 NYPD cops as ‘revenge’ for Garner | New York Post

By Larry Celona, Shawn Cohen, Jamie Schram, Amber Jamieson and Laura Italiano December 20, 2014

Two uniformed NYPD officers were shot dead Saturday afternoon as they sat in their marked police car on a Brooklyn street corner — in what investigators believe was a crazed gunman’s ­assassination-style mission to avenge Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

“No warning, no provocation — they were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniform,” Police Commissioner William Bratton said.

Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 3 p.m. when they were shot point-blank in the head by lone gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, who had addresses in Georgia, Maryland and Brooklyn.

Moments after killing the two officers, Brinsley, too, was dead, having turned his gun on himself on a nearby subway platform as cops closed in.

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Accomplices Before the Fact! New York Police Officers Shot Dead

Culpable

New York Police Officers Shot Dead in Squad Car - Breitbart

by BREITBART NEWS20 Dec 2014New York, NY

“It’s difficult to find the words,” New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said Saturday night.

Without provocation, an attacker ambushed officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos while they sat in their marked patrol car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant Area of Brooklyn at 2:47 in the afternoon. “They were quite simply assassinated,” Bratton said, “targeted for their uniform.”

While Liu and Ramos sat in full uniform in a Critical Response Vehicle in the 84th precinct, a man approached the passenger door, assumed a “shooting stance,” and fired several times through the window. Both officers were struck in the head and died from their wounds.

The Commissioner said that the officers had no warning and may not have had the opportunity to see the assailant, much less reach for their weapons. The attack was entirely unprovoked. 

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