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In The Mailbox: 10.23.13

Posted on | October 23, 2013 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Dead Republican Party: Brett Kimberlin Limerick Contest
First Street Journal: How Elon Musk Is Getting Rich On Your Tax Dollars
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Yo! @GOP! Over Here! Obamacare Is Still A Joke!
Doug Powers: The Obamacare Runaround
Twitchy: Obamacare “Glitches” Explained In Two Perfect Pics


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Budget Discord Simmers On The Left
American Thinker: The ObamaCare Black Hole
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Quantity v. Quality, a.k.a. Death Panels
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, October 22
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama Pal Warren Buffett – Obamacare Website “Obviously A Huge Screw Up”
JustOneMinute: Meanwhile, Back On The Choom Gang
Pat Dollard: Rand Paul To Hannity – “Liberals Have No Idea Of How Capitalism Works”
Protein Wisdom: Not So Fast, GOP Establishment
Shot In The Dark: Kennedy Non Grata
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – If They Who Wrote The Software Don’t Trust It
The Lonely Conservative: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Megan McArdle: Seven “Solutions” That Won’t Save ObamaCare


Category: Blogging, Linkagery

White House Official = Twitter Troll?

Posted on | October 23, 2013 | 26 Comments

This is disturbing news:

Jofi Joseph, a director in the non-proliferation section of the National Security Staff at the White House, has been surreptitiously tweeting under the moniker @natsecwonk, a Twitter feed famous inside Washington policy circles since it began in February, 2011 until it was shut down last week.
Two administration officials confirmed that the mystery tweeter was Joseph, who has also worked at the State Department and on Capitol Hill for Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Joe Biden. Until recently, he was part of the administration’s team working on negotiations with Iran.

Read the whole thing. Joseph was doing a New Media Age version of an old game played by disgruntled D.C. types, the anonymous “leak” that disparages one’s colleagues or superiors. During the Reagan years, there were always anonymous “sources” who would badmouth the administration’s policy and personnel in quotes to reporters at the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Such behavior is disgracefully selfish, because the leaker’s motive — petty revenge and the advancement of personal ambition — is never made apparent in the press coverage based on blind sources. Backstabbing the boss, or sabotaging one’s peers, is not something that lying cowards are ever willing to do under their own names.

Via Memeorandum, with more blog commentary at Outside the Beltway, Right Wing News, Weasel Zippers and Ann Althouse.

 


Category: Journalism

Obama Claims Ignorance of Failure Despite IG’s Clear Warnings in August

Posted on | October 23, 2013 | 50 Comments

Evidently, the administration has chosen Kathleen Sebellius as the designated scapegoat for the ObamaCare fiasco:

President Barack Obama didn’t know of problems with the Affordable Care Act’s website — despite insurance companies’ complaints and the site’s crashing during a test run — until after its now well-documented abysmal launch, the nation’s health chief told CNN on Tuesday.
In an exclusive interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked when the President first learned about the considerable issues with the Obamacare website. Sebelius responded that it was in “the first couple of days” after the site went live October 1.
“But not before that?” Gupta followed up.
To which Sebelius replied, “No, sir.”

Let’s call this what it is: A deliberate lie. Jeff Dunetz points out that concerns with the ObamaCare site made headlines in August:

Back in August the Health and Human Services Inspector General issued a report dealing concerns that the Obamacare website was months behind in testing. . . .
As reported by Reuters on August 6th:
. . . “They’ve removed their margin for error,” said Deven McGraw, director of the health privacy project at the non-profit Center for Democracy & Technology. “There is huge pressure to get (the exchanges) up and running on time, but if there is a security incident they are done. It would be a complete disaster from a PR viewpoint.”

Read the whole thing and be sure to hit Jeff’s tip jar. The entire ethos of Obama is about blame-shifting to avoid responsibility.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care, Yid With Lid

Great Moments In Public Sector Accountability, Waxman Edition

Posted on | October 23, 2013 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

Head over to Breitbart for a clip in which the laughable Harry Waxman (D-Mordor) tries to tell us that Sebelius is doing a swell job, and that contractors failed to live up to their obligations, resulting in the ObamaCare debacle.
As Knopfler notes, “They punish the monkey, and let the organ grinder go.”

Category: Health Care

“Not The Cruz Mask,” He Wimpered. “Yes. Bad Day At The Office,” She Said, As The Whip CRACKED. #50ShadesOfLiberal

Posted on | October 22, 2013 | 48 Comments

by Smitty

Graphic due to Bob. I also blame him for this post. None of these tweets are really bad in isolation, but the sum sort of creeps me out. Time for a shower.

Category: humor

Brief Note for @LeftIsRight4U: Why I Never Argue Politics With Liberals

Posted on | October 22, 2013 | 91 Comments

My tendency toward vehement expression makes me ill-suited for discussions intended to convert people to my point of view. And, honestly, I consider such arguments a waste of time.

Democrats tend to be deficient in either knowledge or character. If their allegiance to Satan’s Own Party is a result of ignorance, they will either wise up, or they won’t. And if they are Democrats because of defects in their character — selfishness and dishonesty being the most common vices of liberals — then it’s good that they are Democrats. “Look over there, voters: A party crowded with liars and thieves.”

Bad causes attract bad people, and the economic platform of the Democrat Party is sufficient to make it a mooch-magnet, the political embodiment of Sloth and Greed: “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!”

Honest and decent people abhor the encouragement of vice, and what else have Democrats done but campaign on the Seven Deadly Sins, which they rhetorically transform into “social justice”?

A liberal would cheerfully swallow a porcupine, if you called it “social justice,” but as the Nobel Prize economist Friedrich Hayek demonstrated, social justice is a mirage — a deceptive delusion, a phantom, a will-o’-th’-wisp, the elusive quarry of fools. Watching governments pursue this impossible goal, wrecking society in the name of Equality and Progress, one is reminded that when Thomas More wrote Utopia, he coined the title from Greek: “Nowhere.”

Liberalism leads us on the Road to Nowhere, because liberalism has no logical stopping point. Cede their every demand today, and tomorrow liberals will be back to demand more. One realizes eventually that anyone who cedes anything to liberals is rather like Chamberlain at Munich, supposing he had gained “peace for our time” by bargaining away the Sudetenland to Hitler.

Excuse the totalitarian analogy, but it well suits the case. Unable to excuse the (entirely predictable) failures of their policies, Democrats resort to the kind of scapegoating that is characteristic of totalitarianism. Their defenses of the ObamaCare disaster resemble nothing so much as Stalinists blaming the failure of a Five-Year Plan on Trotskyites, kulaks and saboteurs. Constantly accusing Republicans of mala fides — racism! sexism! homophobia! — is an inadequate substitute for sound policy, but Democrats don’t seem to care.

Envy of the rich, and a selfish craving for “free” benefits, are now apparently enough to organize an electoral majority in this country, so America is now Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption, as I said on Election Night. Ignorance and vice have finally triumphed over virtue and truth, and nowhere so much as among the young, who have no memory of the Soviet nightmare, nor of LBJ’s “Great Society” debacle, and who are too lazy to learn anything about the past.

So . . . I don’t argue about politics with liberals.

When I was a young Democrat (as I was until my mid-30s), no one could persuade me I was wrong. It wasn’t until I began to realize the truth, quite independently of any arguments made by any of my friends, that I began to resent my former foolishness.

I had been a chump, a mark, the kind of sucker who thinks he can break even if he plays just one more game of three-card monte.

Once I wised up, by God, I wised up. As I wrote five years ago:

“Bill Clinton, in my mind, had two great accomplishments
as president: He signed the Welfare Reform Act of 1996
and he made me an ex-Democrat.” 

Now, it happens that some liberal Democrats, including @LeftIsRight4U, share my contempt for the Axis of Assholes on Twitter who, on the one hand, have been cheerleading Neal Rauhauser’s online harassment of Brett Kimberlin’s enemies even while, on the other hand, harassing liberal Democrats active in the #UniteBlue project.

Because of this convergence — Rauhauser’s profound viciousness means that his enemies tend to accumulate — the #UniteBlue people now stand accused of being “fake” progressives because they happen to have a common enemy with some of us on the Right.

As I often say, however, “sociopath” is not a political philosophy, and the hateful dishonesty of those trying to destroy #UniteBlue is something anyone can and should despise, whatever their partisan or ideological allegiance. Bad causes attract bad people, and wherever Neal Rauhauser goes, evil is sure to follow. It is sad to see political passions become aroused to such a point that some people embrace the nihilism expressed by the radical slogan, “By Any Means Necessary.”

Start thinking like that, abandon decency and honor, and you will eventually disgrace whatever “cause” you hoped to advance. Good causes need never resort to dishonorable means, and how good could any “cause” be, if it is supported by the likes of Neal Rauhauser?

Contemporary discourse is hopeless because Democrats have cynically exploited irrational sentiments, taking advantage of the widespread ignorance of history — and economics and, for that matter, basic arithmetic — to convince naive idealists that the only reason the streets are not paved with gold and lined with money trees is because of those greedy racist Republican teabaggers.

In such an anti-intellectual climate, attempting to explain why Democrat policies are harmful is a waste of time. Anyone who was such a fool as to vote for Barack Obama twice is beyond reach of facts or reason. Had I the eloquence of Cicero, I could not persuade them.

Therefore, there is no danger that #UniteBlue will commit political treason (for so they are accused by the Rauhauser crew) by a mere tactical alliance with Rauhauser’s “right-wing” targets including myself. And if any of the #UniteBlue people turn into greedy racist Republican teabaggers, certainly no one could ever blame me.

Because I never argue about politics with liberals.

 

Category: Politics

Col. Nathan Jessup, Tea Partier

Posted on | October 22, 2013 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

“Son, we live in a world that has elections, and that elections have to be guarded by men with principles. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lefty? The Tea Party has a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom.

You weep for Progress, and you curse the Tea Party. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what the Tea Party knows. That Progress’s demise, while tragic, probably wasted lives. And the Tea Party’s existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves these United States.

You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at Burning Man, you want the Tea Party at that election, you need the Tea Party at that election.

The Tea Party uses words like honor, code, loyalty. It uses these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. The Tea Party has neither the time nor the inclination to explain itself to a citizen who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom the Tea Party strives to restore, and then rejects the Constitutional manner in which it’s provided.

It would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, it’s suggested you pick up a sign, and stand tall at a rally.

Either way, the Tea Party doesn’t give two hoots what you think you are entitled to.”

Category: humor

Atheist Sex Offenders Are Dangerous

Posted on | October 22, 2013 | 56 Comments

Ohio sex offender James Maxie is a violent atheist.

Yes, I know what you’re probably thinking, but this is not about that. Actually, it’s about an anti-Christian criminal in Ohio:

A self-described militant atheist with a criminal past faces multiple charges after an attack on a pastor who, after his sermon, had asked the man’s girlfriend if she felt safe.
James Maxie, 28, of Springfield, Ohio, is charged with second-degree felonious assault and misdemeanor resisting arrest after an incident Sunday at The Bridge Community Church in North Hampton.
Police Chief Jarrod Campbell said in his 11 years with the department, he’s rarely dealt with “an incident this brutal.”
The Rev. Norman Hayes, 57, said he feared for his life and begged for the attack to stop. Hayes suffered a broken nose, bruises and three long cuts that required stitches across his face. . . .
Maxie and the girlfriend, who attends the church, approached Hayes after the service. She told police that Hayes asked her if Maxie was abusing her, and Maxie became furious, striking pastor several times in the face in the church hallway.
“He came from nowhere and hit me … and knocked me down, and then he got on top of me and just kept hitting me over and over,” Hayes said. . . .
The brutality of the beating in addition to the location are why police charged Maxie with a felony, Campbell said.
“Churches are somewhere where people go to worship their particular religion, and violence is usually the last thing you see,” he said.
Campbell is working with the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office to see if additional charges should be filed.
Maxie served two years in prison after being convicted of felonious assault. He’s also a convicted sex offender, charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor in Clark County, and was sentenced to five years of probation, beginning in October 2008, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. In 2004, Maxie was charged with four counts of cruelty to animals in Springfield.
A self-described militant atheist, according to his Facebook page, a day before the assault Maxie shared a photo from another page titled, “I’m proud to be Atheist.” . . .

(Hat-tip: Comin’ to Gitcha on Twitter.) By the way, I was going to make the headline “Atheist Pedophiles Are Dangerous” because this dangerous criminal was convicted of sex with a minor. But as violent and creepy as this convicted felon is, maybe he isn’t as bad as that.

 

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Category: Crime, Religion, Sex
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