What the ancient supercontinent Pangea would look like with modern political borders. If there were humans 300 million years ago, we wonder if a contemporary version of Al Gore would’ve claimed continental drift was anthropogenic and recommended a tax on magma to prevent it.
IRS agents tell House committee that the targeting started in D.C. “One of the low-level employees said that the Washington office was ‘basically throwing us underneath the bus’ for an operation they had ordered and directed. And an employee described as being more senior said that he viewed the entire project as unfair and was so worried about being blamed for it later that he actually applied for another job in the summer of 2010. ‘I didn’t want my name in the paper for being this rogue agent for a project I had no control over,’ the more senior employee said.” No surprise, sh-t always rolls downhill from the top.
“[S]ome in the West Wing privately tell associates they wish [Holder] would step down”. We know how they feel, we wish they’d all go away.
Maryland school busts deranged student for carrying explosives, a.k.a. five-year-old with cap gun. “The mother said the principal told her that if the cap gun had been loaded with caps, it would have been deemed an explosive and police would have been called in.” This is the kind of stuff that used to be done as skits on comedy shows – now, it’s running the skools.
IRS may have targeted conservatives more broadly. “…at a minimum could spread skepticism about the fairness of a powerful agency that should be above reproach and at worst could point to a secret political vendetta within the government against conservatives.” Meanwhile, IRS Ignores Senate Deadline to Answer Questions About Scandal. Worst case is looking like the winner.
Not satire: WaPo’s surreal report on Holder’s off-the-record “press freedom” meeting. “Eric Holder pledged to take ‘concrete steps’ to address the actions of Eric Holder — up to and (possibly) including backing legislative action that would curtail Eric Holder’s ability to abuse Eric Holder’s power.” Well, ignoring the fact there supposed already is such a thing (we think it’s called the “First Amendment”) any new legislative action to curtail Eric Holder’s ability to abuse Eric Holder’s power would have to be enforced by Eric Holder, wouldn’t it? If he were interested in doing that, they wouldn’t needed to have had this “off the record” meeting to begin with. Well, let’s forget all this and just spin around in circles until we get dizzy, at which time it will make sense. That must be what Eric Holder does.
Chair of Louisiana state Dem party runs away from local television reporters who ask about her declaration that opponents of Obamacare are driven by racism. Play the race card and then run away.
Professor: What America really needs now is a violent civil war to kill off the NRA. A professor of journalism, no less. Support peace and non-violence or WE’LL KILL YOU! Well, in his case, he wants the US military to kill you.
Dem congressman: The Keystone pipeline is bad because rocks sink. Yes, and by the way, it absolutely won’t create any jobs because someone at Cornell said so. We think you’ll find it persuasive… but not in the ways he intended.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NmxDouhAgNo#!
Why did Apple hire Lisa Jackson? The more red tape these clowns create, the more bribes and kickbacks to corrupt underlings are needed to get anything done. This is quintessential Obama Chicago-style gubbermint.
Michael Eric Dyson: Holder is the “Moses” of our time. Meanwhile, the few people actually watching this drivel on MSNBC (who else?) are likely asking themselves, “Who the f— is Moses?”
Did you know that ObamaCare features a never-ending, $2,000,000,000-a-year slush fund? “It’s totally crazy to give the executive branch $2 billion a year ad infinitum to spend as they wish.” Hope and change, Chicago-style, always requires a slush fund.
Officials instructed Benghazi hospital to list Amb. Stevens as “John Doe.” “The reason for the pseudonym, says the official, was to avoid drawing undue attention to the importance of the victim as Americans rushed to figure out how to recover Stevens’ body and return it to the U.S.” Drawing undue attention from whom? Al Qaeda already knew they killed him. Unless the “officials” were worried about the media and the voters finding out before they had their stories straight… [Video at the link.]
Former IRS Commissioner visited WH more than twice as often as Eric Holder. “As IRS commissioner, he reported to Tim Geithner at Treasury, not anyone in the West Wing. Shulman, in fact, had more than three times as many visits to the White House as his nominal boss.” Well, Shulman can only remember going there to look for Easter eggs – the ones he found had “Do me a favor and screw the Tea Party, signed Barry” written inside.
Obama: “I don’t have much patience for people who deny climate change.” …or Tea Partiers who try to exercise their legal rights or people who desperately call for help from foreign consulates while under attack or journalists who attempt to actually cover his admnistration or people who point out the obvious flaws in his health care plan that he didn’t write and nobody read or people who don’t vote Democrat or… well, the list of people he does have patience for is a much easier one to make.
MEDIA SNUB: News outlets balk at AG’s off-record talks on snooping. AP, NYT and HuffPo said “Hell no, we won’t go!” But Politico said, “How high would you like us to jump?” Seriously, why would anyone trust this man any further than they could throw him… unless it was under a bus?
MoveOn petition – Tell Gitmo hunger strikers to stop torturing Obama. Speaking trooth to power!
Pic of the day. One political rising star and one just trying to hang on.
Krauthammer: Biggest scandal of all is what the president was doing for 8 hours? “He never after during the eight hours when our guys have their lives in danger, he never called the Secretary of Defense, he never calls the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he never called the CIA Director, Who does he call?” Uh, the answer isn’t “Ghostbusters”, is it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-vy8PSaz-Q&feature=player_embedded
Dem Bob Beckel: Holder won’t survive scandals. “There is a general sense among Democrats… this is not going away. … There’s a general sense among Democrats that Holder cannot survive this, and one of the things that strikes me is that whenever you start calling in the press people to have discussions with them, that means you’re in real trouble.” The wheels of the bus go ’round and ’round… [Video at the link.]
Albanian Socialist leader showing off fundraiser photo with Obama. Birds of a feather fund-raise together.
“Ready for Hillary” announces sweatshop magnate as first finance head. “Today, Pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC announced it had signed on Democrat fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell, co-founder of clothing line Esprit. In the 1990s, while Tompkins Buell held control of Espirit, the Bay Area sweatshops which were contracted to make garments for Espirit were raided by the federal government. The Department of Labor found that the sweatshops doctored payroll records, paid workers less than minimum wage, and refused to pay overtime.” Well, this would only be important if someone other than a Democrat had done it.
Holder DoJ went judge-shopping for judge who would approve secret warrant. But they did nothing wrong for which they are now apologizing profusely and promising never to do again, at least for awhile anyway, until all this blows over… or something.
Labor big a real heavy sleeper. “He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like clockwork, he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the straw in it,” said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president. “Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, ‘I have to get out before the traffic gets bad.’ He’s usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.” Well, as long as that soda is less than 16oz, everything’s cool.
Keith Ellison “really disappointed” that Apple doesn’t want to pay more taxes. We’re really disappointed that so many economic illiterates get elected to congress – if the latter problem could be solved, the former would likely disappear as if by magic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zKkACDOTQQ&feature=player_embedded
