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Rich TAkes! on Obamanet, ISIS, Rudy and Jobs For Jihadis

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…Let’s see, I’ve taken over the banking system, autos, student loans, decreed unconstitutional illegal immigrant work permits and will soon issue millions of new social security numbers to illegal aliens, ran legal US guns to Mexico illegally, ran illegal military arms to Libya and Syria, shut down hundreds of coal mines and power plants, So.. internetencouraged the IRS to hassle my opponents, refused to approve the Keystone XL pipeline (yeah I know, that’s a first), shut down deep-water oil wells which Clinton approved, spat on Bibi (figuratively speaking) and have been negotiating with Iran so that they can build their own nukes…How can I fundamentally transform America even more today? I know, I’ll take control of the internet using an arcane law that FDR signed, I’ll just have my three commissioners over at the FCC declare the internet a public utility, that should do it! We can’t have free enterprise, free innovation, and free speech without government control now, can we? …

~Barack Hussein Obama~

From the link: Losing the Internet

“This happy cycle can go on indefinitely until eventually the the world is divided into two distinct spaces: a West completely crisscrossed by a “free and open” Internet and Internet of Things governed by a man called Hussein and 8th century badlands governed by other men called Hussein. Welcome to the 21st century. So are we doomed? Probably. But critically not in the way you might think and perhaps more importantly, not in the way president Obama thinks.

The actual effect of government control is to institutionalize incompetence. The more Obama controls, the more he destroys. Take Obamacare. Hardly a day goes by when we don’t read that 80 million records have been stolen by Chinese hackers from Obamacare provider Anthem; or that Obamacare itself is sharing information with third party providers. Only the other day the public learned that 800,000 wrong tax forms were mailed to Obamacare policy holders because they used the wrong year in the computation; that after 3 years the backend isn’t finished.

And in other news let’s not forget that Snowden stole the crown jewels from the NSA. In fact, Glenn Greenwald was on hand to collect the Oscar given by Hollywood to the documentary depicting the theft.”

Mark Cuban’s Surgical Takedown of Net Neutrality

FCC Commissioner: Public Is Being Misled About Net-Neutrality Plan

FCC Member Warns Net Neutrality Is Not Neutral

▶ President Obama: Do you really love America?

Rudy Is Right

“For the progressive, there is very little to love about the United States. Washington, Jefferson, Madison? A bunch of rotten slaveholders, hypocrites, and cowards even when their hearts were in the right places. The Declaration of Independence? A manifesto for the propertied classes. The Constitution? An artifact of sexism and white supremacy.”

All the President’s Boot Lickers Still Pretend Obama is a Christian

Cruz: Obama Is ‘An Apologist For Radical Islamic Terrorists’

Obama, Orwell and Alinsky take on the jihad ishot-646

“Another week, another Islamic State slaughter and another Orwellian White House “conference” orchestrated for maximum “newspeak” effect.”

DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat

Of course conservatives are a terror threat to progressive commie statists. 

A Pincer Movement on Ammunition

A move to regulate AR-15 ammo out of existence. It just never ends.

Obama says world should address ‘grievances’ that terrorists exploit 

jobs for jihadis

He’s got people working on workforce development for jihadis now? He still refuses to utter the phrase “radical Islamic Terrorists”

Syrian refugee program called ‘back door for jihadists’

Judge Andrew S. Hanen halts Obama amnesty

Republicans would be ill-advised to rely solely on the courts. But then, they don’t listen to me, Boehner passed a clean DHS bill after Bibi’s speech with mostly Democrat votes.

Illegal Immigrants Amnestied By Obama Eligible For Up To $9,182 In Cash Benefits Every Year

I thought that paying for votes from fraudulent voters was illegal. Silly me.

Sen. Sessions Releases Lengthy Timeline Of Obama Administration’s Dismantling Of Immigration Law

A useful reference

Muslim Immigration Poses Serious National Security Threat

ishot-645 Muslim refugees from the middle east and North Africa are being welcomed with open arms, while Christians from the same areas are being given the blind eye. There is an Islamic State and Boko-Haram Christian holocaust happening right now.

Judicial Watch Forces Obama Administration to Release Pentagon Benghazi Attack Documents

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The Mid-Term Massacre TAkes!

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Okay, a little gloating might be in order after the Mid-Term Massacre, but Boehner and McConnell insured that it will be short-lived.

They are determined to compromise with the socialists and Obama in the near term, and the current lame-duck is very scary. Both kept their positions in closed door meetings, with no challengers. We need leaders with a spine, and neither Boehner nor McConnell have convinced me that they possess one.

Anyway, enjoy the

2014 Mid-Term TAkes!

Dems weigh in on holding the Senate

The Dance. Thanks, Joe Dan!

Tuesday Was A Hollow Victory For The GOP

The ’14 mid-terms was an open and shut case that we the people are opposed to all of Obama’s policies. Sadly, Republican leadership seems to think that we want RINOs working with Obama.

Obama plans to protect up to 5 million from deportation

His next tack is purported to be illegals who happened to birth a child while in the USA illegally. It is time to end the birth right policy. It is not in the Constitution, including the 14th Amendment, which is perhaps the most misinterpreted amendment in the Constitution. Birth-right citizenship first appeared in an 1895 Court decision. One of the first cases of judicial over-reach.

I am in favor of an amendment which specifies that at least one parent of any child born in the USA be citizens themselves before citizenship is conferred upon their off-spring.

Net Neutrality: A 21st Century Trojan Horse

Statists on both sides of the aisle, mostly leftists, would like nothing better than to regulate the last outpost of freedom.

Climate Agreement Allows China to Keep Polluting While U.S. Makes Cuts

Obama pledges we will reduce our carbon emission below 2005 levels, China agrees to maybe peak by 2030. They are opening a coal-fired plant every week, with no sulfur or ash controls. Sweet!

Elizabeth Warren gets rock-star reception at liberal donors confab

50-50 chance that Warren will be the next Dem POTUS candidate. A communist, plain and simple. I hope she is nominated. After all, you didn’t build that.

The 2014 Summer Recess Takes!

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Once again I see that I’ve been negligent in updating this page, I’ve been on vacation, and there was really nothing new to report until a week or so ago with the ebola outbreak in western Africa. How did two knowledgeable American medical volunteers contract ebola to begin with?

ISIS is still running rampant in Iraq and Syria, Obama decided to flex his muscles this week and lob two missiles, taking out one artillery piece (which was no doubt ours to begin with)

Global warming is still settled science, even though this has been the coolest summer for over a decade. Get your sweaters and sweatshirts ready for next month. It’s time to build more coal-fired power plants, instead of shutting them down. We will need the clean, cheap energy.

Socialism is still trendy, even though Venezuela can’t keep the power on, and Argentina recently defaulted. The TEA Party made substantial gains in the primary season, even though many like to proclaim that it is dead.

The stage is being set for yet another Obamacare Supreme Court challenge, and this one has legs from a legal standpoint.

But wait, there’s more: Congress is in recess.

Welcome to the 2014

Summer Recess RichTAkes!

GOP Balks, House Democrats Move to Impeach Obama | ScrappleFace

at this point, nothing would surprise me, see below:

Democrats’ Impeachment Amnesia | RealClearPolitics
Venezuela blackout leaves commuters scrambling, silences president

There’s nothing quite like living the socialist utopian dream. Argentina went into default a week or so ago too, and it is no doubt those greedy capitalist’s fault!

What life in socialist Europe is actually like

reality check

130 Environmental Groups Call For An End To Capitalism  AGW fairy

wearing their socialist communist badges with pride! Honestly!

Former Dem Gov. Dick Lamm on How to Destroy America

Mark Levin – audio at the link

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The Empire Strikes Back: Invasion at the Border

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The people sent a message. luke-darth-duel  The deliberate failure of Obama’s illegal ignoring our current  immigration law, along with his recently extending the lack of enforcement of law concerning illegal alien minors for another two years certainly helped to bring about Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s defeat. Cantor tried to swing both ways on the illegal alien issue, and recently said that he wanted to work with Obama on the illegal youth (Dreamers) issue.

Our borders are now being over-whelmed by children, and the Border Patrol, ICE and the southwest is being turned into a giant day care facility for illegals. Sweet! They are even flying them around the country to spread the joy.

I don’t know if this is an intended (which I suspect) or an unintended consequence of Obama and DHS’ suspension of enforcement of “dreamers” which they renewed recently. I do know, as I’ve said all along, that ignoring the law is a violation of Obama’s oath to uphold the Constitution and to defend the country against all enemies.

This invasion of minors certainly seems to have been deliberate and pre-planned. DHS planned for an invasion of 65,000 illegal minors back in January. Note the date on the requisition, below:

Gov’t Confirms Authenticity of Contract Request for ‘Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children’ at the Border

This outrage should be at the top of the list of Articles for Impeachment, along with gun-running in Mexico, Syria and Libya, directing IRS targeting of citizens, the NSA intercepting everyone’s communications and targeting the AP and journalists, and whatever else his phone and pen has unleashed. The list is rather long.

This latest invasion of our country could have been avoided had we actually built the fence and secured our border. We’ve been waiting for that since 1986, when Reagan signed the last Amnesty bill. He later said that signing the Amnesty Bill was his greatest regret during his tenure.

There is more, but the border issue had to have played a big role in the Virginia primary results, and I hope that the Rs, including Ryan, finally start to get a clue. Andrew Breitbart is surely  smiling now.

Cantor loses Republican primary

Eric Cantor succumbs to tea party challenger 

Local Tea Party Activists Helped Topple Eric Cantor

Dave Brat: Meet The Candidate Who Beat Eric Cantor

from last May. Cantor spent about 5 million on this race, Brat a little over 100k.

Yoda-The Empire Strikes Back quote of the night: “dollars don’t vote, people do” ~ Dave Brat.

Flashback: Republican Cantor Headlines Anti-Tea Party Conference Sponsored by George Soros & Unions

Cantor’s successor as Majority Leader McCarthy attended too.

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Rich TAkes! on Climate Change

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Our Dear Leader has recently threatened to take on limiting carbon emissions through regulatory agencies, since Congress “won’t act”. I’d like to remind everybody that a Democratic controlled Senate refused to ratify Kyoto years ago by a vote of 99-0. icy thinker

Many, if not most people believe than man is on the road to causing catastrophic global warming, after all, Al Gore, Barack Obama and legions of others tell us incessantly that the science is settled, why there is even scientific “consensus”, even though the very concept of scientific consensus is antithetical to the concept of science itself.

Climate Forcing! Feedbacks, The PDO and The AMO! Aerosols, Greenhouse gases, the Sun and the Clouds, oh my! Don’t forget La Nina and el Nino, the Little Ice Age, and the Medieval Warming Period, to say nothing of cows belching and farting…and especially politics!

Here is my RichTAkes! on Anthropogenic Global Warming!

(as always, my comments appear in cayenne, and the use of a flash-blocker to disable auto-play is recommended due to multiple embedded vids.)

US physics professor: ‘Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life’

“It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion.”

American Physical Society Sees The Light: Will It Be The First Major Scientific Institution To Reject The Global Warming ‘Consensus’?

Richard S. Lindzen: The Climate Science Isn’t Settled

– Confident predictions of catastrophe are unwarranted.

Lindzen’s 2009 WSJ piece appeared after the Climategate CRU* email scandal erupted

Richard Lindzen: An Inconvenient Expert

Perhaps the preeminent US climate scientist, Lindzen  was Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was lead author of Chapter 7, ‘Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks,’ of the IPCC Third Assessment Report on climate change.

Climategate

Anthony Watts has assembled a fine set of articles chronicling the Climategate scandal

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation

from 2009

The Climategate Whitewash Continues: Don’t Believe the ‘Independent Reviews’ About Goings on at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

from 2010

Time Mag AGW

Lennart Bengtsson: The Science And Politics Of Climate Change

The science isn’t settled and we still don’t know how best to solve the energy problems of our planet.

Reflections on Bengtsson and the GWPF

Professor Judith Curry’s take on the recent Bengtsson controversy 

Science as McCarthyism

One of the most telling features of climate science is just how few climate scientists changed their minds as the evidence changed. The pause in global temperature in the last 15 years or so has been unexpected. Now we know why:

Climate scientists slam Obama science czar on global warming

Former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer and University of Colorado climate scientist Roger Pielke, Jr. slammed Holdren for his “pseudo-science rambling.”  Plenty of links here

‎cfact.org/pdf/2010_Senate_Minority_Report.pdf

a primer on positive and negative feedback loops.

“We check the main predictions of the climate models against the best and latest data. Fortunately the climate models got all their major predictions wrong. Why? Every serious skeptical scientist has been consistently saying essentially the same thing for over 20 years, yet most people have never heard the message.”

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Rich’s Select Committee Double-TAkes!

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Special Double Edition Rich TAkes!

Lots has been going on, and very little has been going on. Trey Goudy is named Chairman of the Select Committee to investigate Benghazi, The EPA has been asking human subjects to stick their head up a tail-pipe, and the IRS targeting seems to track directly to the White House (to the surprise of virtually no one).  Trey

The EPA has also proposed regulating (read: taxing) cow farts. And the FCC has raised the ugly head of Net Neutrality once again. Oh yes, the TEA Party is not dead yet.

Judicial Watch: New Documents Show IRS HQ Control of Tea Party Targeting

Linking straight to the White House

The Terrifying Implications of the IRS Abuse-DOJ Connection

Gun-running in Libya and Syria led to 9/11/2012 at Benghazi?

House approves select committee to investigate Benghazi attack

I’m not sure if better late than never applies here, John Boehner should have done this a year ago

CIA Whistleblower faces the ire of an angry Justice Department over Benghazi questions

Hillary Language On Benghazi Identical To Rhodes Email — 1 1/2 Days Before!

Clinton advisor Dick Morris traces video talking points directly to Hillary.

Fast & Furious: Benghazi Edition

Speaking of Fast & Furious, I remember raising my eyebrows when I heard reports of an early Secretary of State speech in Mexico City inn early 2009. She said, “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” Mrs. Clinton said, using unusually blunt language. “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.”

Besides the obvious, which is, if we controlled our borders this wouldn’t be happening, my second thought was that legal semi-automatic firearms sold in the US would not be at the top of any drug cartel’s wish list. Much better would be Mac10s, Uzzis, and AK47s from black market sources, which would also be cheaper than US AR-15s when purchased in bulk.

The timing here is important, this story appeared in the NY Times on March 25, 2009.

Clinton Says U.S. Feeds Mexico Drug Trade – NYTimes.com

Judging by her statements in Mexico City, Hillary must have been in the loop on fast & Furious as well. No other logical conclusion can be reached. 

The Obama administration announces on March 24 that Project Gunrunner will be expanding: “March 24, 2009: David Ogden, deputy attorney general at the time, stated, “The president has directed us to take action to fight these cartels and Attorney General Eric Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration’s comprehensive plan.””

Fast & Furious timeline:

Fast and Furious: The Events Leading to Eric Holder’s Contempt Vote

And this from MRC:

“DOJ’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is increasing it’s efforts by adding 37 new employees in 3 new offices using $10 million dollars in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify it’s Project Gunrunner- which is aimed at disrupted arms trafficking between the United States and Mexico. ATF is doubling it’s presence in Mexico itself, from 5 to 9 personnel working with the Mexicans specifically to facilitate gun tracing activity which targets the illegal weapons and their sources in the United States.”

Flashback: David Ogden Announces New Efforts With Project Gunrunner “As Directed By the President”

Vid at the link.

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