IRS
It’s not proof per se of my theory that the RINO establishment was in on it. But the dog not barking wasn’t proof of anything either in Silver Blaze, but it was an important clue that led Holmes to finding the murderer.
Speaking of dogs, I noticed our very own Puggg helped me spread Blogmeister’s Theorem in the comment section of that article. Good doggy. Here’s a bone.
Washington, D.C.
The last time I saw a face like that, I think she was trying to make a fur coat out of Dalmatian puppies.
IRS
I’m not liking this meme I’m starting to hear develop all over conservative talk radio, that IRSgate was the proximate causation for Romney not winning.
While I definitely believe that IRSgate came straight from the top, i.e. the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and was designed to bog the TPM down in Mickey Mouse paperwork to keep it from being effective, and to harass big donors to Romney and Republican organizations and TPM organizations, I do not think that that can totally explain why Romney didn’t win. That’s because the TPM was never too hot for Romney, and he wasn’t exactly hurting for money, either. What explains Romney not winning is that incumbent politicians are very hard to beat, and not enough white conservatives were jazzed to show up and vote for an open borders RINO.
Related: Stupid and Evil
IRS
Prediction:
By the time it’s all over, and all the documents have bubbled up to the surface and everyone that has something to say winds up talking, we’re going to find out that IRSgate was a bipartisan scandal. What I mean by that is that both Democrats/Obama and the RINO/Stupid Party Establishment wanted to use the IRS to put the screws on the TPM, because both dislike it, and both had an incentive in 2012 to keep it from being too active; the RINOs didn’t want them to interfere with their coronation of Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee earlier in the year, and Obama wanted to be re-elected later in the year.
That the IRS director during the heart of the IRSgate timeline was a Bush holdover is not an irrelevant fact here, IMHO.
And I bet Karl Roverrated is involved somehow.
America
Why is IRSgate gaining a lot of traction with a lot of people?
Experiment:
Say “Fast and Furious,” low information undertow says, “Oh, that movie about drag racing.”
Say “Benghazi,” low information undertow says, “Who is Ben Ghazi?”
Say “IRS abuse,” low information undertow says, “You know, I file tax returns every April.” Light bulbs come on.
It’s like George Wallace once said about picking your campaign issues: “You’ve gotta put the crumbs down to where the ducks can get to them.”
Here’s what got him in “trouble.”
It’s been some time, but he held down 2-4 on KMOX after Rush about ten years ago. During that time, he had on as a guest for one show Jared Taylor.
UPDATE 5/17
UPDATE 5/22
Gone for good. Suits use the excuse of “journalistic standards” and “appearance of bias.” When that never bothered them before. The reality is that the suits found an excuse to dump a big salary.
Washington, D.C.
AP:
Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.
This means that Obama doesn’t even trust his own base (the media), much less us.
Washington, D.C.
Hispanics do something bad, media tremble in fear of an anti-Hispanic backlash.
Muslims do something bad, media tremble in fear of an anti-Muslim backlash.
Government does something bad…you got it.
First, Sen. Run-Around Sue Collins (RINO-ME) is wringing her hands worried that IRSgate will “fuel distrust in government.” One can only hope, except hoping is so 2008.
Second, and locally, the P-D is worried that opposition to Commune Core is “rooted in suspicion of the Federal government.” Meaning that CC critics have sinned in the eyes of the Post-Dispatch. Actually, many public school teachers, who are employed and paid by a public entity, oppose Commune Core. And it’s not just because it’s the latest π-in-the-sky educational theory, like Outhouse-Based Education, No Chillenz Left Behind or Race to the Bottom, but because Commune Core really hard-wires tying teacher tenure and pay to the performance of their (in some cases, “dumb as hell” black) students. If you think cheating-test scandals are bad now, just wait until Commune Core is fully implemented.
Five, six, seven, eight…
IRS
AP blows through the “but it was only low level employees” excuse.
This part is interesting, though:
Shulman was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican. His 6-year term ended in November. Obama has yet to nominate a successor. The agency is now run by an acting commissioner, Steven Miller.
This is the hook that Obama flunkies are using to (five, six, seven, eight…) BLAME BUSH.
OTOH, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least. RINO/Establishment Republicans aren’t exactly fond of the Tea Party Movement, either. Could the Obamaites and the RINOs have joined forces to use the IRS to put the screws on the TPM? Short answer: Yes.
Jefferson City
Little Jaybird just got his hands caught in the CCW private information jar:
The latest hobby horse being trotted out now is that the Feds needed access to this information (namely, who in Missouri has CCW permits) in order to “weed out fraud.” But I doubt hardly any if any Missourians who go through what it takes to get a carry permit, including visiting the County Sheriff’s office (or in case of St. Louis County, the HQ of that “Internationally Accredited” St. Louis County P.D.), are engaged in any kind of fraud. I’d like to know what kind of “fraud” was supposed to be afoot.
The reason drivers licenses are germane here is that Missouri CCW licenses are merely a new endorsement on one’s own drivers license, not a separate card.
Nixon abuses power…it’s like it’s 1974 all over again.
Washington, D.C.
Marco Rubio said on some News Church show yesterday that we had to pass amnesty and open borders that includes the fake pretend border security, because if we didn’t, Obama would issue an executive order that grants amnesty to all illegal aliens that doesn’t have the fake pretend border security.
I have a better idea: Don’t pass comprehensive immigration reform, and impeach the black bastard.
Rubio, lame. Me, smart.
Your Blogmeiser’s Desk
But-Monkey time.
I hate to be the Debbie Downer on the afternoon after the morning after. But you have to remember that most of these Senators filibustering the drones yesterday, including the main provocateur, is fundamentally for amnesty and open borders.
Once we get what they want, i.e. an America that is so heavily non-white that its Federal government is majority non-white, I can all but guarantee you that such a future Federal government will order an armed drone strike against what by then will laughably pass for an “American citizen” on soil that once seemed like America. Hell, I can make the case that if the population base is majority non-white and somehow the Federal government remains in the hands of people we now think of as traditional white Americans (TWAs), that the very fact that the population is non-white will make it a lot more likely that the TWA-run Federal government orders an armed drone strike against some of the few remaining TWA civilians. Seems strange, but the key to understanding my riddle is the phrase Sam Francis coined, Anarcho-Tyranny: Current and future legislation and regulations mainly enacted because of non-white misbehavior will mostly be used against TWAs who only slightly misbehave.
Milwaukee
It’s as if Obama’s ATF wants violence with scary looking rifles to happen everywhere.
Hypothetical: Maybe the Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, who wants us to learn how to defend ourselves with these implements, knows more about what’s really going on his county than even he is putting on?
Sacramento
California will soon do to its ex-residents what New York State has been doing to many of its ex-residents for years, Rush Limbaugh most famous among them. And you won’t have to be an ex-Californian with hundreds of millions in the bank, either. They’re going to hustle and extort as many relatively middle class defenseless refugees as possible, until they give up and pay up.
I saw this coming. As early as just after the fall 2008 financial crisis, I predicted exactly this in the comment section of AR.
White House
Must I do the rest of the world’s thinking for it? Respond with a presser full of clean cut young adolescents who have had to use firearms to defend their households, parents and younger siblings against invaders.
Washington, D.C.
Obama faces ‘limited’ options on executive action on gun violence
The Obama administration’s vow to tackle gun violence – with Congress, or without – has sparked an uproar from conservative Republicans and has left Democratic gun reformers eager to learn what the White House has up its sleeve.
Vice President Joe Biden is expected to propose legislative solutions to what President Obama has called the nation’s gun-violence “epidemic” as early as Tuesday, but he says he’s also eying executive orders empowering the administration to take action without congressional approval.
“There are executive orders, executive action, that can be taken,” Biden said Wednesday. “We haven’t decided what that is yet, but we’re compiling it all.”
Although GOP leaders say they’ll examine the whole of Biden’s strategy, rank-and-file Republicans are already lining up behind the National Rifle Association against anything that would limit the buying or owning of guns – a stark warning that the legislative route could very quickly become a dead-end, particularly in the GOP-controlled House.
A roadblock in Congress would shine a brighter spotlight on Obama’s unilateral response – both as a fulfillment of his promise to address gun violence head-on in the wake of last month’s Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, and as a magnet of criticism from conservatives who’ve accused him for years of ruling by decree.
Now I know what’s bothering me, but I’ve just been unable until now to get it off the tip of my tongue.
We all know that “gun control” is going nowhere, just for the simple fact that Obama farmed it out to a blue ribbon panel (hint number one), and made Biden the head of the blue ribbon panel (hint number two).
But now, here’s the big bug up my crawl: Obama will do very little if anything about the “gun problem” using “executive action” simply because he knows that Republicans will raise holy hell about it, and Obama doesn’t want to kill his chances to use “executive action” in the future. Golden eggs, geese.
Why are Republicans threatening to raise holy hell over executive orders about guns but not executive orders about immigration? After DACA, the only proper response was from Steve King, who dragged Obama into Federal court over the unconstitutionally levied $465 application fee (only Congress can approve Federal fees), and Obama’s unilateral creation of work visas for DACA applicants (only Congress can create these visa programs). Personally, I think the whole thing is unconstitutional, but the Federal courts would probably let Obama get away with refusing to bring civil deportation actions against DREAMers for the sake of prosecutorial discretion, so King is probably picking the low hanging fruit, the fee and the visas. But beyond Steve King, the reliable immigration Patriots in the House and a scant few others, crickets.
Obama starts screaming about executive orders about guns? Oh yeah, now he’s Hitler and Stalin rolled together. Drudge says so.
Why? The cheap labor lobby has bought off half the Republican Party, including most of its leadership.
The whole irony is that Hispanic immigration and Hispanic votes are greater long term threats against Amendment the Second, and the whole Constitution in general, then any political go-nowhere loudmouth bloviation from podiums and on talk shows today.
Connecticut
Joplin Globe:
Marta Mossburg, columnist: Free speech must be defended, even amid tragedy
In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., massacre, it seems crude to speak of rights and facts. With the unfulfilled lives of 20 children and six adults mercilessly gunned down foremost in our collective consciousness, it is much more soothing to talk about safety and stopping the violence and to let those in authority do their job.
But this is when those who care about civil liberties have most to fear, because those who would strip us of rights know it is easier to regulate and legislate after tragedies. Psychology tells us why: Humans crave coherence and neat solutions, even when none are available.
Think of the Patriot Act, passed six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It gave the government broad new powers to surveil individuals and search their property — with no means to test whether the new regulations would thwart terrorists. Or think of the Dodd-Frank Act, passed in 2010 in response to the financial crisis. Its regulations ensured bailouts for the biggest banks, which are larger now than they were before the Great Recession.
And as President Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said, “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
It is in that light that we should view Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance’s comments about “misinformation.”
In a news conference Dec. 16, he said that anyone who posts misleading information online on social media sites about the Newtown case would be “investigated, statewide and federally, and prosecution will take place when people perpetrating this information are identified.”
He added: “All information relative to this case is coming from these microphones.”
It’s horrible that anyone would consider posing as [*****], try to disrupt the investigation of the murders or cause further heartbreak for the victims’ families.
But what kind of precedent does it set if the government gets to determine what is “misinformation”?
For starters, government is frequently the source of lies and obfuscation at every level — and not just in places like Russia, China and North Korea. Think of the official response to the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others in September. According to the Obama administration, an anti-Muslim video incited the violence, which officials knew immediately was not the case.
At the state level, what if governors were able to arbitrate the truth? Before answering, remember that four Illinois governors have spent time in federal prison in the past 50 years.
We already know what happened after Lt. Vance spoke. Social media website Facebook suspended accounts of those whose versions of the Newtown massacre did not match the government one, officially because users violated company policies but more likely to avert criminal prosecution. Facebook is a public company and can set its own user rules, but its actions are a reminder of how little it takes to diminish free speech, which is constantly under threat. College speech codes that outlaw offending others and the dominant culture of political correctness that pushes people to self-censor for fear of being labeled a sexist, racist or homophobe are just two other examples.
Lt. Vance, no doubt, through his remarks wanted to protect the families of the victims from emotional harm and prevent new violence from spinning off of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. But for him to claim that the government alone is in charge of information on Newtown and for a major corporation like Facebook to capitulate show how easy it is for government to control speech. Those targeted could sue, but how many people have the money or time to defend themselves appropriately? Our system depends on those in power respecting the rights of the governed. When that breaks down, it is not only the people targeted who suffer, but all of us in the form of more self-censorship by private individuals and businesses.
We are not Russia or China, but only because we have people who vigorously defend our rights. Now should be one of those times, even as we mourn.
No, but it is Connecticut, and J. Paul Vance must be related to either Jennifer Joyce, Bob McCulloch or Glenn Boyer. And J. Paul Vance should realize that almost all of the initial misinformation (and much of the current misinformation or baseless hysteria) originates from the mainstream media, not dorks on Facebook.
J. Paul Vance should find better things to do, like telling his New Jersey counterpart to learn his own state’s firearms and ammunition laws.
Glasgow, Scotland
Police swoop on landlord for organising an ‘ugliest woman’ competition (when it was actually meant for men anyway!)
A pub holding a competition to find the ‘Ugliest Woman’ got a visit from the police after someone reported them for sexism.
An unknown complainant demanded the competition be cancelled and wanted the owners of Islay Inn prosecuted.
However, when police arrived at the Glasgow venue they gave manager George Hogg the go ahead after discovering it was, in fact, a competition for men dressed as women.
Add it all up. When it seemed that this was an ugliest woman competition dealing with women, the Feminist Thought Police had permission to run jackboot over the event. But when they got there and found out that it was a transgender/transsexual event, then they had to back off, because it would have been transphobia to knock the joint back.
I guess TS/TG > Feminist Women (Lesbian) on the totem pole of the left.
May I present a third option?
MYOFB.
Brooklyn
His first order of business when he wins his lawsuit against New York City will be to buy a shirt.
I’m usually down with cops and give them the benefit of the doubt. But in this case, there was no way he could have been a threat.
Atlanta
Man says parking officer criticized Mitt Romney bumper sticker
An Atlanta man says a parking officer criticized his Mitt Romney bumper sticker and then slapped a ticket on his vehicle. The Georgia Republican Party is incensed about the incident and is urging Mayor Kasim Reed to speak out.
The motorist admits that he was illegally parked, but is upset over the ticketing officer’s reaction to the bumper sticker.
“I overheard her say that, when she saw the sticker on the back of my car, the Mitt Romney sticker, ‘Oh, I’m definitely going to give you a ticket now,’” he said.
Georgia Republican Party Chairman Sue Everhart said she was surprised to hear of the incident.
“I am just amazed that this happened in this city, and I know this is not what Mayor Reed would like to see his employees do. It reflects on the whole city,” said Everhart.
I am unsurprised that it happened in Atlanta, if ABRA Atlanta is anything like St. Louis.
Every parking officer I have ever seen in the city of St. Louis out in the field writing tickets have been black women. What’s even funnier is that they ride around in dinky little four-door Chevy Cobalts, and they have sirens on top, as if parking officers are expected to pull anyone over, and as if a Chevy Cobalt can engage in a high speed pursuit. It goes back to the old joke about the Chevy Citation…impossible to get a citation while driving one.
Southern California
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, POLITICALLY TROUBLESOME INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS WOULD BE HARASSED BY THE AUTHORITIES — AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Alleged ‘Innocence of Muslims’ filmmaker taken in for interviewing by deputies.
This running gag isn’t as funny as it used to be. Imagine the uproar if we had a Republican in the White House — but it’s the absence of uproar over these tactics that is really revealing. It’s going to be really hard for the press and pundits who should be raising a stink about this, but aren’t, to play their “have you no decency?” games during a Republican Administration. They’ll try, of course, but they should be treated with the contempt they deserve. And that should start now, actually.
It’s easy to think that this is all a result of a Presidential administration and Federal law enforcement corps headed by a man with three Arabic names looking to stuff Muslim misbehavior down the rabbit hole. But I get the feeling that it wouldn’t be any different if this happened while Bush 43 was President. Official America seems to have a big ass blind spot re Islam for some reason.
Alex Jones Land
Alex Jones on the 16-year old that the FBI questioned for a pro-Ron Paul YT video:
Hallman concluded his email by expressing concern the incident could hamper his future career prospects.
“So that’s my story, a teen from the suburbs who was questioned by the FBI about a harmless free speech protected video I made for school. My record forever scarred with the truth that the FBI questioned me. When getting a job they will see that, when getting a passport they will see that, when going to college they will see that,” he writes.
He need not worry. He’s a 16-year old young white man in early 21st Century diverse America. That alone will ace him out of a chance of actually getting a job. Everything else is just gravy.
Ruby Ridge, Idaho
The month that will end in about a half hour was the 20th anniversary of Ruby Ridge. The 21st was the actual day of infamy.
Nothing about it in the lamestream media, obviously. But there was disappointingly extremely little in the alt-right media, either. Only a brief blurb from the Instapundit, linking to what CATO had to say on the tenth anniversary.
Near North Riverfront
Let’s look at this from another angle:
They would have fought anyway. All the guards did was push the timing up and made book over the affairs.
Missouri
If everyone else jumps off a bridge…
The article mentions Florida’s “success story.” Maybe a little too successful.
Chicago
Whistle-blower, documents: Ill. state workers forced to attend Pelosi, Jesse Jackson Jr. event on taxpayer dime
Documents and a whistle-blower affidavit obtained by The Daily Caller charge that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., and Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., participated in an unethical — and possibly illegal — effort to force 76 employees of an Illinois state agency to engage in political activity on the taxpayers’ dime.
According to the whistle-blower, Rev. Jackson also encouraged the government employees to load first-generation and low-income college students up with student loan debt — because Democrats in Congress, he allegedly promised, would eventually pass laws to forgive that debt later. “[T]hose people will continue to vote Democratic,” Jackson Sr. said, according to the whistle-blower.
On March 3, Pelosi flew to Chicago to endorse Rep. Jackson Jr., 17 days ahead of a heated March 20 Democratic primary he later won. Pelosi was scheduled to make the endorsement at a press conference later in the day, after she participated in an hour-long “forum” hosted by the elder Jackson at the headquarters of his progressive Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
Pelosi politicized that forum, jumping the gun and endorsing Jackson Jr. earlier than planned. The Cloward-Piven maneuver that Junior suggested vis-a-vis student loans sounds like some sort of Federal felony for fraud or bait-and-switch.
Now we know why the Feds may be closing in on JJJr, and he came up with this mood disorder/bipolar business as a ruse.
These are Illinois state workers in Chicago. I think most of them were willing participants.
Notice the timing: Pelosi “endorsed” JJJr because he was in a primary fight against Debbie Halvorson, because it was very similar to our own Clay-Carnahan primary. That shows you the pecking order in the Democrat Party: Pelosi and Halvorson are both white women, yet Pelosi endorsed the black man over a white woman. Pelosi then participated in a Rainbow PUSH forum, hosted by Jesse Jackson Sr, who hasn’t exactly been genteel with all of his dealings with women in his lifetime. This is the same party that’s trying to tell you that there is a Republican “war on women.”
Washington, D.C.
The Issa investigation into Operation Gunrunner, based on what information is available, i.e. what Obama didn’t lock up with executive privilege, shows that five senior ATF agents are responsible for the clusterfuck.
If you’re a CEO of a major corporation, could you get away with saying that you didn’t know something that five Vice-Presidents were doing?
Speaking of Federal law enforcement gone wild, guess what the DEA did recently.
Louisville
The doers are said to be “juveniles” in Jefferson County, Kentucky, which contains heavily black Louisville.
And you wonder why they got a sweetheart plea deal which probably involved no incarceration. You have to remember, it wasn’t rape, it was just the comeuppance she got for her having enslaved them for 400 years.
District of Spying
BND:
National Reconnaissance Office accused of illegally collecting personal data
WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s most secretive intelligence agencies is pressuring its polygraphers to obtain intimate details of the private lives of thousands of job applicants and employees, pushing the ethical and legal boundaries of a program that’s designed instead to catch spies and terrorists.
The National Reconnaissance Office is so intent on extracting confessions of personal or illicit behavior that officials have admonished polygraphers who refused to go after them and rewarded those who did, sometimes with cash bonuses, a McClatchy investigation found.
The disclosures include a wide range of behavior and private thoughts such as drug use, child abuse, suicide attempts, depression and sexual deviancy. The agency, which oversees the nation’s spy satellites, records the sessions that were required for security clearances and stores them in a database.
When the Echelon scandal broke more than a decade ago, we righties focused on it for the keyword angle, that various communications were diverted into the system if it had certain “suspicious” keywords. When I found a list of these “keywords,” I deliberately amended the e-mail newsletter I was doing at the time with an “Echelon Disclaimer,” followed by those words. I wanted to widen my audience.
However, the real scandal with Echelon wasn’t that, it was the fact that various Anglo-American corporations were pressuring politicians to pressure the people that ran Echelon to use it to spy on continental European corporations. You could understand why Boeing would want to spy on Airbus, for example.
This news about the NRO doesn’t surprise me. Corporations are pressuring politicians to pressure the NRO to extract personal info on people who won’t willingly put it on their resumes.
Augusta, Maine
Maine Governor LePage apologizes for “Gestapo” comment
Maine Governor Paul LePage apologized on Monday for calling the U.S. Internal Revenue Service the “Gestapo” during criticism of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law.
The Republican governor compared the tax agency to Nazi secret police during a weekend radio address on healthcare. “You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo — the IRS,” he said, according to local media reports.
He wasn’t lying, he was telling the delayed truth.
You think the IRS is bad now? Wait until ObamaCare gives them permission to stick the probe way up your ass to see if you’re complying with that monstrosity. No wonder they’re hiring thousands of new parasites agents.
And all this is okay according to John Roberts.
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