It’s Wednesday, December 10th, 2014…but before we begin, our brief thoughts on two news events, the details of which inquiring minds already know. First, one of the last gasps of Senate Dimocratics desperate to divert attention:
The question isn’t why Feinstein released this patently partisan report, but why now?!? The answer’s simple: Liberals are desperate to focus America anywhere but on their multitudinous failures. And there is nothing…absolutely NOTHING…Dimocrats won’t do, and no one…absolutely NO ONE…they won’t sacrifice to gain or maintain even the merest shred of power. And this includes our national security and the lives of innocent Americans; as this utterly disgraceful, even treasonous display proves.
Next, meet the pride of MIT:
“Maybe it’s easier to get tenure at MIT than we thought. At least that’s our reaction to the Forrest Gump routine put on Tuesday before Congress by MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, who sounded for all the world as if he knew nothing more about politics and health care than the lovable bumpkin who always showed up when history was being made.
That wasn’t the way Mr. Gruber sounded in his now famous videos—including in a University of Pennsylvania appearance last year—when he credited the enactment of ObamaCare to a “lack of transparency,” the gaming of Congressional rules intended to measure the law’s fiscal impact, the “stupidity of the American voter,” and a lack of Democratic candor about the redistribution of wealth embedded in the new insurance scheme.
But on Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Gruber distanced himself from his remarks while refusing to say if they were true. He apologized for the tone, arrogance, glibness and the inappropriate nature of his remarks. But his response to substantive questions suggested that he is mainly sorry for getting caught on tape.
He even insisted on Tuesday that ObamaCare had been debated and passed in a transparent manner. But this position is 180 degrees from the one he expressed on tape. So he simply dismissed his taped remarks as “conjectures” about a political process he now claims not to understand…”
Forget Forrest Gump; Gruber’s more like Prissy in Gone With the Wind: “I don’ know nuttin‘ ’bout birthin’ ‘Bamacare!”
In other words…GASP!…he lied like a rug; which is to say he’s on a par with every other Liberal in the country. As with almost every other Dim in the country, we wouldn’t piss on Gruber and Feinstein were they engulfed in flames.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Picking up where we just left off, here’s Hope ‘n Change‘s hilarious take on The Obamao’s hospital hiatus:
“…Although it hasn’t been mentioned in any of the official press releases, many are speculating that the actual cause of Mr. Obama’s throat problems is his incessant cigarette smoking. Okay, many are actually speculating that he too frequently enjoys a vigorous throat boning, but Hope n’ Change has far too much dignity to print such an accusation.
Anyway, if smoking is to blame then it’s also possible that there’s something more serious going on than simple gastric reflux – which would help explain the unusual step of subjecting the president to a CAT scan instead of simply tossing him a roll of TUMS.
In any event, Hope n’ Change would like to offer the president some advice to help with his sore throat. Drink plenty of fluids, rest, and try not to talk. For at least another two years.“
Moving on to the “What Does He Take Us For…?!?” segment, courtesy of The Blaze:
Police in Small Wisconsin City Want Residents to Volunteer to Have Their Homes Searched for Guns
Police in Beloit, Wisconsin, want residents to volunteer to let officers search their homes for firearms as part of a new initiative that officials believe will help reduce gun violence.
Beloit Police Chief Norm Jacobs told Wisconsin Public Radio that officers will mostly be looking for guns in homes that residents might not even be aware of. “That’s really what we’re looking for. Maybe we’ll find a toy gun that’s been altered by a youngster in the house — and we know the tragedies that can occur there on occasion,” he added.
Jacobs also told WPR that “gun violence is as serious as the Ebola virus.” The home searches, he argued, are similar to a vaccine to strengthen the city’s immune system, the report stated.
In other words, he’s from the government, and he’s here to help! Yeah…
Since we’re on the subject of law and order, Thomas Sowell rhetorically asks…
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“…If grand juries are supposed to vote on the basis of what mobs want, instead of on the basis of the evidence that they see — and which the mob doesn’t even want to see — then we forfeit the rule of law and our freedom that depends on it.
If people who are told that they are under arrest, and who refuse to come with the police, cannot be forcibly taken into custody, then we do not have the rule of law, when the law itself is downgraded to suggestions that no one has the power to enforce.
For people who have never tried to take into custody someone resisting arrest, to sit back in the safety and comfort of their homes or offices and second-guess people who face the dangers inherent in that process — dangers for both the police and the person under arrest — is yet another example of the irresponsible self-indulgences of our time…”
Which incudes overpaid professional athletes with the education and intellect of…
…Jethro Bodine.
In a related item, courtesy of PJMedia, Victor Davis Hanson describes what he sees as the…
“…Instead, in the world that Al Sharpton envisions, the rules of police and citizen conduct that unleash popular furor would be something like the following. Of all the many racial and firearm-related violent scenarios — armed blacks shooting armed or unarmed blacks or whites; unarmed blacks attacking armed or unarmed blacks or whites; armed whites shooting armed or unarmed blacks or whites — only one merits national, even global outrage. Whatever the circumstances of the confrontation or the level of prior violence inflicted, armed whites, either private citizens or law enforcement officials, must not under any circumstances shoot unarmed blacks. Again, that is an empirical observation, not one of judgment.
Note well that last week a Bosnian immigrant was beaten to death by young African-American and Latino teens. Other such black-on-white cases are said to have preceded and followed the murder. The usual official bureaucratese followed the shooting: that such targeted violence had nothing to do with race, that it could not be a hate crime, and that it was not associated with Ferguson, etc. Was there rioting or a Justice investigation over the unwillingness of authorities to cite this as a hate crime? Certainly, two messages were implicit about the killing of Zemir Begic: had he been African-American and his assailants white, Ferguson-like violence may well have followed; and had he had a gun and shot his hammer-welding attackers, he might well have found as bleak a future as did George Zimmerman or Darren Wilson for shooting and killing an attacker who did not wield a firearm.
By racializing crime and the reactions to it, and by dismissing facts in lieu of racial stereotyping, the Al Sharpton school of racists has more or less redefined both race relations and criminal justice itself.
In a blink of an eye, we have gone from Barack Obama citing Ferguson at the United Nations; to the father-in-law of Michael Brown, in front of a crowd on the verge of rioting, screaming into a mike “burn this bitch down”; to Louis Farrakhan all but calling for a race war: “But when we die and they die, then soon we gonna sit down at a table and talk about – we tired. We want some of this earth. We tear this God damn country up.”
Just as the ethics reformer in the White House has left a legacy of unprecedented presidential scandal, so too the racial healer has presided over the greatest erosion in racial relations in the last half-century. That is the lesson of Ferguson — and the Fergusons to come — and the backlash outrages to the Fergusons to come — and on and on and on.“
Meanwhile, as reported in the New York Post…
Did I do dat?!?
“…Take the Seattle Police Department, which Justice alleged engaged in a “pattern and practice” of discrimination toward blacks. The feds based their findings largely on “implicit bias,” arguing cops “subconsciously” discriminated by making “disproportionate stops of non-whites.”
“Biased policing,” Justice explained in its findings letter to the Seattle PD, “is not primarily about the ill-intentioned officer but rather the officer who engages in discriminatory practices subconsciously,” adding that even a well-meaning cop can violate the civil rights of black suspects by operating “on implicit biases that impact that officer’s behavior or perceptions.”
The department said “many in the community perceive that pedestrian stops are overused and target minorities.” It admits it couldn’t verify the accuracy of the complaints and never bothered to get the cops’ side of the story.
In a 2012 consent decree, Holder ordered Seattle to soften its use-of-force rules and train brass and rank and file alike in “bias-free” policing that recognizes and eliminates “implicit bias,” while disciplining any conduct tied to it. The rules, which fully went into effect this year, have led to “de-policing.”
The result? Crime is up in the Emerald City. Since Holder stepped in, crime is up 13% overall in Seattle. But it’s not just minor infractions. It’s the biggies — aggravated assaults up 14%, car theft up a whopping 44% and murders up 21%…”
Again, Holder’s with the government, and he’s here to help.
He’s here to help alright; but as Ryan Lovelace details at NRO, the only help Holder provides is in sowing discord, division, disinformation and discontent:
No…just a healthy work ethic!
“…The DOJ’s Community Relations Service arrived in Ferguson purportedly to lessen the tension between protesters and city officials. But sources who attended the DOJ’s private gatherings with Ferguson residents tell NRO that the Justice Department also sought to educate and question the community about the issues of white privilege and racism. The political nature of the Justice Department’s intervention in Ferguson may not be exclusive to its interactions with residents; it also might have affected its ongoing investigations into the Ferguson Police Department and officer Darren Wilson…”
It’s like Sean Aland notes in his posting at Patriot Update:
“…So you have to ask, where is the media attention or the band of five that claim to be the champions of the oppressed in the black community when it comes to the real violence being committed by blacks and Planned Parenthood against the black community? They are nowhere to be found as their claims of racism only exists in their mind and on their agenda…”
In other news from the world of Useful Idiots, PJMedia‘s Roger Simon offers his assistance in…
“…For Hillary, the problem is she no longer knows what she thinks — an absolute prescription for filling a void with “gaseous new-age rhetoric.” These days, it’s the first thing that comes to mind. You can almost see the wheels grinding when asked a question:
What did I think in the days of Saul Alinsky? What did I think back in Little Rock? What did I think when Bill was president, first term, second term? Should I bake cookies? Why did Monica keep that dress? How could I have left those billing records in the White house? Is this good in Ohio? What did I think when senator? When do the Watergate hearings start? What did I think when secretary of State? Is this a war zone? Am I under fire? What did Sergei Lavrov do with that reset button? Will Lanny Davis back me up on Fox? Why does Putin always show off his pecs? Is my old friend Suha still at the Bristol? I should ask Huma. What did Obama say? Should I be separating from him on this one or not?
TILT!
Yes, like a pinball player, you can only handle so much. With all those different personas, opinions and rationalizations racing around in the brain, the machine overloads. And in Hillary’s case that machine is long overfilled, like one of those computer hard drives we’ve all junked. What we have here is not a “failure to communicate.” We have someone quite literally with nothing left to say — except perhaps “Elect me! Elect me! Elected me!” Oh, and by the way, I’m a woman.
So is half the rest of the human race. Do they all get to be president?“
Not a chance; for, particularly when it comes to Marxists, be they male or female, Black or White, in the end…
If you don’t believe us, just ask Vince Foster!
For more on the subject of spiritual wickedness in high places, i.e., the Dimocratic Party and the Art of Lying With a Straight Face, we turn to NRO and another brilliant bit of expository commentary from Andrew McCarthy:
“Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson gave some peculiar testimony in a House hearing Tuesday about two men tied to a designated terrorist organization who, he says, fled to Canada after “they were released by the judge” in an immigration hearing. Representative Jason Chaffetz pressed Secretary Johnson on the matter but appears either to have run out of time or not known what to ask. He and the committee should follow up promptly.
…Johnson’s testimony suggested that there was nothing much DHS could have done because a “judge” had released the two PKK-tied Kurds. But the bail decision was actually made by an immigration judge, who works for the Justice Department not the federal judiciary. The decisions of an immigration judge can be appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which is also part of the Justice Department. Those decisions, in turn, can be reviewed by the BIA’s superior, the attorney general.
That is to say, any decision an immigration judge makes can be reversed by Eric Holder…”
Or…
…Holder’s boss. Yeah…about the same time he releases he scholastic transcripts!
On the Lighter Side…
Then there’s these three beauties courtesy of Balls Cotton:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with the Professionally Sensitive segment, as James Taranto reports on…
A Malpractice Suit Waiting to Happen
“Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams,” PowerLineBlog’s Paul Mirengoff reports. He quotes a memo in which Robert Scott, the dean, explains that “for some students,” the outcomes threaten “to undermine a sense that the law is a fundamental pillar of society designed to protect fairness, due process and equality”:
In accordance with these procedures and policy, students who feel that their performance on examinations will be sufficiently impaired due to the effects of these recent events may petition Dean Alice Rigas to have an examination rescheduled.
Mirengoff seems to think this is ridiculous; his post is titled “Not a Parody.” We’d say Columbia’s action is reasonable and prudent. Someone who’s traumatized by a legal process probably should be kept away from clients to the extent possible.
Which reminds us, Q: What’s the difference between a good lawyer and a great lawyer? A: A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.
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