Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
LA Times, 2011 – U.S. backs Christine Lagarde, former Chicago lawyer for IMF chief
AFP, August, 2014 – IMF chief charged with ‘negligence’ over graft case
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
In order to comply with the new Obama era EPA regs, American Electric Power, which supplies a major portion of the electricity used on the east coast, will be closing almost one quarter of their coal fired plants between now and next June. This is because they were economically unable to come into compliance with the new regulations in the impossibly short window of opportunity offered by the EPA. This is going to reduce the total surge capacity available for some of our most densely populated areas just when we may get hit with weather related demand spikes beyond anyone’s control.
I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Narrative
…Eric Holder pressured the Ferguson P.D. all week to hold back the robbery video, nor even tell anyone about it, terming it too “inflammatory” to be seen.
It was only after Obama pressured Democrat Governor Jay Nixon to take the Ferguson police off the case and put the state Highway Patrol (with its Black chief) in charge, that the fed-up, betrayed department finally released the truth about Mike Brown — angering Obama and Holder.
Related: [W]hat is undeniable is that results for black Americans are far worse in our most progressive, Democrat-dominated cities than they are elsewhere. The progressives have had the run of things for a generation in these cities, and the results are precisely what you see.
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
*Operation Empty Chair
The Middle East is in full meltdown and the U.S. is rapidly nearing full retreat in the region. But considering the incompetents running our foreign policy, our absence may be best for the Middle East for the moment.
(h/t EBD)
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Saturday was the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s resignation from office after the Watergate scandal. While many panelists on NBC’s “This Week” explained the moment as a time when America learned to be skeptical of its leaders, the former CBS reporter took a different tack.
“I think that we’ve gone backwards since that time when we really felt empowered as journalists,” Attkisson said. “And all I can think is: What would happen today during a Nixon-type scandal?”
h/t Lev
Operation Empty Chair
The Kurds, who the U.S. refuses to arm, are being routed by US-supplied arms that are now in the hands of ISIS. http://t.co/zVM0YeKO0E
— Neil King (@NKingofDC) August 8, 2014
Tiny House Trash
“Hey hipsters. Its not a tiny house. its a TRAILER. Its not a tiny house community. Its a TRAILER PARK. You are not “right sizing”. You are POOR.
Forward!
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Incidentally, I saw that on a bumper sticker in Elkhorn, WI yesterday.
The inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical household was $87,992 in 2003. Ten years later, it was only $56,335, or a 36 percent decline, according to a study financed by the Russell Sage Foundation.
The one beside it read “OBummer”. h/t
Natalie Tennant
Democrat.
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the lost emails are still backed up somewhere.
The new round of computer crash victims includes David Fish, who routinely corresponded with Lois Lerner, as well as Lerner subordinate Andy Megosh, Lerner’s technical adviser Justin Lowe, and Cincinnati-based agent Kimberly Kitchens.
6 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
Industrial renaissance: How surprised [Atlantic] readers must have been, then, to see last week’s news that GE was again moving (quietly) to sell Appliances and Lighting.
Load Them On A Bus
And drop them off at the White House. It’ll stop.
Oklahoma Governor: ICE Sent Us 1,200 Illegal Immigrant Children – Including 90 from India (Video)
This Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose.
Jonathan Turley: The Rise Of The Uber-Presidency
Transcript. (h/t Maz2)
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Starving Humanity”
Confessions of a subsistence freelance writer;
The transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer has always fascinated me. The ability to plant, cultivate and harvest crops stands alongside the emergence of self-awareness, control of fire, the wheel, and the development of mathematics and written language as one of humanity’s transformational events. We became something different once we began to farm.
I have found something like that taking place in me. For a variety of reasons – partly financial, partly intellectual – I have approached my land with tools that, for the most part, would have been available in 1014: scythes, sickles and mattocks recognisable from paintings and tapestries of 11th-century farms. How long would I last if thrust back by time machine or a collapse of the sort popular in apocalypse porn?
He eventually drove his poor wife crazy.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Fly The Democrat Skies: According to the National Border Patrol Council, illegal aliens are being allowed to fly on commercial airliners with only their Notice to Appear forms and no verifiable identification.
Related.
Forward!
Health and Human Services officials will allow reporters to visit a military facility housing some of the immigrant children who have arrived at the southern border in recent weeks, but only if the media promises not to record anything, not to ask any questions during the tour, and not to talk to any of the staff members or children.
They’re much too busy being registered as Democrats to talk to the press.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
We've now lost Iraq and experts believe that, under Obama's policies, by year's end we'll also lose Afghanistan and Texas.
— WH Press Secretary (@weknowwhatsbest) July 7, 2014
Don’t attribute to stupidty that which can be adequately explained by malice:
America’s porous southern border and the recent surge in illegal immigration is more than just a “humanitarian crisis,” claims the top U.S. general in charge of Central and South America, it’s a threat to the United States’ very existence.
Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly is commander of the U.S. Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM, charged with responsibility for the Caribbean Sea and all lands south of Mexico.
Particularly in regards to the drug trade, murder rates and terrorist activity brewing in Central America, Kelly says, the waves of Latin Americans sweeping through Mexico and illegally into Texas presents a threat to the U.S. every bit as serious as Iran or North Korea.
Not the northern border, though. There America stands firm to repel lamb-based dog food and contraband oranges.
More here.