When a thing is not 'TRUE,' despite the documents and evidence, until one group says it is true.
IRS harassment did not happen, don't you know, until the Democrats admitted it.
Benghazi was just a 'concoction,' despite real world happenings, because one side said it was real. Until the other side acknowledged it, it didn't exist.
And on and on. Issue after issue.
Saturday, May 18
Friday, May 17
As You Can Perhaps Imagine, This Has Been a Rough Week for Charles Johnson
◼ The World’s Least Credible Blogger™ has been tying himself into laughable knots of hilarious self-contradiction lately, attempting to defend President Wiretap Benghazi Failure against . . . Well, facts. - The Other McCain
...Once you read that, you realize this isn’t a “claim” made by conservatives, or something “alleged” to have happened: It’s a straight-up fact, and one that doesn’t fit within CJ’s worldview.
And man, it’s just been a cruel, cruel week for CJ’s worldview.
Scroll down Diary of Daedalus and enjoy the ridiculous failures. That is to say, if you still remember who Charles Johnson is. Or rather, was.
◼ Avoid the Swamp: Charles Johnson’s New Definition Of Bogus Is Bogus; Update: RS McCain links to this post and Charles whines about it! - Diary Of Daedalus
◼ IRS Inspector General’s Report Released: ‘Inappropriate Criteria’ Used Against Conservative Groups; Nearly 300 Were Targeted - Viral Read
(And that 300 was an early number, it's a lot more than that, now.)
...Once you read that, you realize this isn’t a “claim” made by conservatives, or something “alleged” to have happened: It’s a straight-up fact, and one that doesn’t fit within CJ’s worldview.
And man, it’s just been a cruel, cruel week for CJ’s worldview.
Scroll down Diary of Daedalus and enjoy the ridiculous failures. That is to say, if you still remember who Charles Johnson is. Or rather, was.
◼ Avoid the Swamp: Charles Johnson’s New Definition Of Bogus Is Bogus; Update: RS McCain links to this post and Charles whines about it! - Diary Of Daedalus
◼ IRS Inspector General’s Report Released: ‘Inappropriate Criteria’ Used Against Conservative Groups; Nearly 300 Were Targeted - Viral Read
(And that 300 was an early number, it's a lot more than that, now.)
Wednesday, May 15
Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is How to Leak to the Press
◼ link - Nicholas Weaver/Wired
Leaking by Email
...The CIA supposedly already provided a guide to secure email, which the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) translated back to English — convenient, given the situation we now find ourselves in.
Get a dedicated computer or tablet: the cheapest Windows laptop will do. And pay cash, as our normal laptops have a host of automatic synchronization and similar services. Our personal web browsers also contain all sorts of location-identifying cookies. Even if you’re logged in to but don’t actually visit Facebook’s home page, a subpoena to Facebook can still reveal where you connect and what pages you visit — every “Like” button reports to Facebook that you are visiting that particular page, at a particular time, from a particular IP address.
Leave your cellphone, your normal computer, and your metro card (like SmarTrip) at home: anything that speaks over a wireless link must stay behind. Then go to a coffee shop that has open Wi-Fi, and once there open a new Gmail account that you will only use to contact the press and only from the dedicated computer. When registering, use no personal information that can identify you or your new account: no phone numbers, no names.
Don’t forget: if you get anything at the cafe, or take public transit, pay cash. Be prepared to walk a bit, too; you can’t stay close to home for this.
Of course, the job still isn’t finished. When you are done you must clear the browser’s cookies and turn off the Wi-Fi before turning off the computer and removing the battery. The dedicated computer should never be used on the network except when checking your press-contact account and only from open Wi-Fi connections away from home and work.
Leaking Over the Phone
Again, start by leaving all electronic devices at home. Go to a small liquor store in a low-income neighborhood, and buy a pre-paid cellphone (TracPhone or similar) with cash. Make sure it has enough airtime to not expire for a few months — T-mobile prepaid is particularly good since the pay-as-you-go plan doesn’t expire for a full year if you buy $100 of airtime.
By the way, I would personally look for a store with security cameras that look old — a continuous tape or similar setup — since once the FBI has the number, the next step is to contact the store that sold the phone. Alternatively, you can get someone else to walk into the store and buy it for you.
You now own your very own “burner” phone — remember The Wire? – and this phone must remain off with the battery removed at all times. Because every active cellphone is effectively a continuous GPS, monitoring your location and feeding the information to the phone company which retains this information for weeks, months, even years. Just a warrant-step away.
Now, to use the phone … Once again, go to a different location without carrying your normal devices, turn on the phone, check your voicemail, make your call, turn it off again, and pull out the battery. Your phone calls are now (hopefully) anonymous so that when the FBI leak-hunt starts, there is no trail for them to follow.
Of course, the burner laptop or phone could still identify you if it’s ever found, as they both contain network identifiers built into the hardware. So if you ever need to abandon your device, first wipe the device back to its factory fresh configuration using any “secure erase” options available, then take a hammer and break the device. Put it in some other piece of trash (like an empty McDonald’s sack), go for another stroll, and drop in a public trashcan.
Such extreme measures are a modern necessity.....
Leaking by Email
...The CIA supposedly already provided a guide to secure email, which the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) translated back to English — convenient, given the situation we now find ourselves in.
Get a dedicated computer or tablet: the cheapest Windows laptop will do. And pay cash, as our normal laptops have a host of automatic synchronization and similar services. Our personal web browsers also contain all sorts of location-identifying cookies. Even if you’re logged in to but don’t actually visit Facebook’s home page, a subpoena to Facebook can still reveal where you connect and what pages you visit — every “Like” button reports to Facebook that you are visiting that particular page, at a particular time, from a particular IP address.
Leave your cellphone, your normal computer, and your metro card (like SmarTrip) at home: anything that speaks over a wireless link must stay behind. Then go to a coffee shop that has open Wi-Fi, and once there open a new Gmail account that you will only use to contact the press and only from the dedicated computer. When registering, use no personal information that can identify you or your new account: no phone numbers, no names.
Don’t forget: if you get anything at the cafe, or take public transit, pay cash. Be prepared to walk a bit, too; you can’t stay close to home for this.
Of course, the job still isn’t finished. When you are done you must clear the browser’s cookies and turn off the Wi-Fi before turning off the computer and removing the battery. The dedicated computer should never be used on the network except when checking your press-contact account and only from open Wi-Fi connections away from home and work.
Leaking Over the Phone
Again, start by leaving all electronic devices at home. Go to a small liquor store in a low-income neighborhood, and buy a pre-paid cellphone (TracPhone or similar) with cash. Make sure it has enough airtime to not expire for a few months — T-mobile prepaid is particularly good since the pay-as-you-go plan doesn’t expire for a full year if you buy $100 of airtime.
By the way, I would personally look for a store with security cameras that look old — a continuous tape or similar setup — since once the FBI has the number, the next step is to contact the store that sold the phone. Alternatively, you can get someone else to walk into the store and buy it for you.
You now own your very own “burner” phone — remember The Wire? – and this phone must remain off with the battery removed at all times. Because every active cellphone is effectively a continuous GPS, monitoring your location and feeding the information to the phone company which retains this information for weeks, months, even years. Just a warrant-step away.
Now, to use the phone … Once again, go to a different location without carrying your normal devices, turn on the phone, check your voicemail, make your call, turn it off again, and pull out the battery. Your phone calls are now (hopefully) anonymous so that when the FBI leak-hunt starts, there is no trail for them to follow.
Of course, the burner laptop or phone could still identify you if it’s ever found, as they both contain network identifiers built into the hardware. So if you ever need to abandon your device, first wipe the device back to its factory fresh configuration using any “secure erase” options available, then take a hammer and break the device. Put it in some other piece of trash (like an empty McDonald’s sack), go for another stroll, and drop in a public trashcan.
Such extreme measures are a modern necessity.....
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Saturday, May 11
Wednesday, May 8
Greg Gutfeld wins quote of the day: ‘The media is Obama’s scandal condom’
Greg Gutfeld: "The media is Obama's scandal condom" #truth #TheFive
— Trent Walters (@LeatherBelt5) May 8, 2013
◼ Perfect. As Twitchy noted, CNN and MSNBC hosts sure did a fine job today of talking over the Benghazi hearing testimony. - Twitchy
Saturday, May 4
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The recent decision to make the 'Morning After Pill' available over the counter is undoubtedly a good thing for people who need it - making it a 5 minute transaction, rather than delaying access, waiting for a Dr, Appointment. In theory, this would boost its effectiveness.
But, it's not as simple as that.
Removing the Doctor from the equation also means removing the advice that comes with the appointment.
So, now, anyone can get it, as many as they want any time they want - why get the real pill? And if one might work, why not take two, just to be sure? Or three? Who's to stop you? Or advise you what effect that might have?
And no method works 100% of the time - what happens if it doesn't work? The pregnancy begins in spite of taking the pill. In a 9-month gestation, every day is important, as development takes place. What is the effect of dosing the developing cells with massive doses of a powerful agent such as this? Will it affect motor skills? Brain development down the line? What are the risks in this regard?
Even grown women benefit from the counsel of a physician - and knowing this makes it even more troublesome that it is now available to 15 year olds with little or no education or life experience, and without a doctor's admonitions.
Forget the fact that responsible parents would rather you not give powerful medication to their children without their consent - granted, there are irresponsible and brutally unkind parents out there, too - who is going to assume the risks and responsibilities as the lawsuits begin to mount. Health risk, death, unwanted pregnancies, birth defects, who knows?
Obama claims the decision to let kids buy this stuff unchecked is based on 'sound science.' Really?
And, you're teaching this 'sound science' in school, right?
---
In a related note - the media blackout of the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell is so complete that Snopes had to issue a notice that it is indeed a true story, not a phony email scam.
A legal, permitted abortion clinic with blood on the floor, babies being killed after surviving an abortion, women dying, unlicensed workers administering medications, a Doctor who kept severed babies' feet in jars...
And it's not an aberration, undercover footage shows multiple clinics advising potential patients that, should their 'fetus' survive an abortion attempt, it would be dealt with, not saved.
The latest revelation, Kermit Gosnell's 'Mother's Day Massacre:' The event was given the name because Gosnell and his partner, Harvey Karman, bused 15 poor women from Chicago to Gosnell’s Philadelphia clinic to do the abortions on Mother’s Day in 1972.
Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger told WND in an interview that Gosnell and his partner not only did the abortions before Roe v. Wade, they were using an experimental method.
“It was called the super coil, a plastic ball with razor blades on it. They would insert the coil into the woman’s uterus to induce an abortion,” Sullenger said. “I don’t think any of the women knew they were guinea pigs, that they were being used as an experiment.”
The blades were gel-coated and laid down. The device was designed so that when the woman’s body temperature melted the gel, the blades sprang up to cut the baby, thus inducing the abortion.
There's more: The super-coil that Gosnell used had been developed by Harvey Karman, a Los Angeles psychologist who killed a woman in April 1955 after attempting to perform an abortion with a speculum and a nutcracker. After that incident he was charged with performing an illegal abortion, and spent some time in jail.
Karman (born Harvey Walters) tested the device on "hundreds" of women in Bangladesh, at the government's invitation. “Those women suffered a high rate of complications,” the grand jury report states. “Nonetheless, Karman brought his 'super coil' to Philadelphia, where he found an ally in Gosnell.”
Although Karman never earned a doctorate or M.D., after he was released from jail he began saying he had earned a doctorate from a non-existent European university and calling himself “doctor.” Like Gosnell, he was considered a pioneer of abortion rights.
And: Newsbusters noted that the local tax-funded National Public Radio station WHYY described Gosnell as “a physician who had worked in our community for 30 years, cared for women in all of that time.”
No matter where you stand on abortion, these things must give you pause. Do you want your 15 year old to have unfettered access to powerful medications without your consent? Do you think sex-education ought to include factual information about the conditions in these clinics, the real risks, and the history of things like the "Mother's Day Massacre?"
I mean, if we get all incensed about Flouride in drinking water, and 32-oz sodas, might this be of some concern? Have you even heard about it? And, if not, why not?
But, it's not as simple as that.
Removing the Doctor from the equation also means removing the advice that comes with the appointment.
So, now, anyone can get it, as many as they want any time they want - why get the real pill? And if one might work, why not take two, just to be sure? Or three? Who's to stop you? Or advise you what effect that might have?
And no method works 100% of the time - what happens if it doesn't work? The pregnancy begins in spite of taking the pill. In a 9-month gestation, every day is important, as development takes place. What is the effect of dosing the developing cells with massive doses of a powerful agent such as this? Will it affect motor skills? Brain development down the line? What are the risks in this regard?
Even grown women benefit from the counsel of a physician - and knowing this makes it even more troublesome that it is now available to 15 year olds with little or no education or life experience, and without a doctor's admonitions.
Forget the fact that responsible parents would rather you not give powerful medication to their children without their consent - granted, there are irresponsible and brutally unkind parents out there, too - who is going to assume the risks and responsibilities as the lawsuits begin to mount. Health risk, death, unwanted pregnancies, birth defects, who knows?
Obama claims the decision to let kids buy this stuff unchecked is based on 'sound science.' Really?
And, you're teaching this 'sound science' in school, right?
---
In a related note - the media blackout of the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell is so complete that Snopes had to issue a notice that it is indeed a true story, not a phony email scam.
A legal, permitted abortion clinic with blood on the floor, babies being killed after surviving an abortion, women dying, unlicensed workers administering medications, a Doctor who kept severed babies' feet in jars...
And it's not an aberration, undercover footage shows multiple clinics advising potential patients that, should their 'fetus' survive an abortion attempt, it would be dealt with, not saved.
The latest revelation, Kermit Gosnell's 'Mother's Day Massacre:' The event was given the name because Gosnell and his partner, Harvey Karman, bused 15 poor women from Chicago to Gosnell’s Philadelphia clinic to do the abortions on Mother’s Day in 1972.
Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger told WND in an interview that Gosnell and his partner not only did the abortions before Roe v. Wade, they were using an experimental method.
“It was called the super coil, a plastic ball with razor blades on it. They would insert the coil into the woman’s uterus to induce an abortion,” Sullenger said. “I don’t think any of the women knew they were guinea pigs, that they were being used as an experiment.”
The blades were gel-coated and laid down. The device was designed so that when the woman’s body temperature melted the gel, the blades sprang up to cut the baby, thus inducing the abortion.
There's more: The super-coil that Gosnell used had been developed by Harvey Karman, a Los Angeles psychologist who killed a woman in April 1955 after attempting to perform an abortion with a speculum and a nutcracker. After that incident he was charged with performing an illegal abortion, and spent some time in jail.
Karman (born Harvey Walters) tested the device on "hundreds" of women in Bangladesh, at the government's invitation. “Those women suffered a high rate of complications,” the grand jury report states. “Nonetheless, Karman brought his 'super coil' to Philadelphia, where he found an ally in Gosnell.”
Although Karman never earned a doctorate or M.D., after he was released from jail he began saying he had earned a doctorate from a non-existent European university and calling himself “doctor.” Like Gosnell, he was considered a pioneer of abortion rights.
And: Newsbusters noted that the local tax-funded National Public Radio station WHYY described Gosnell as “a physician who had worked in our community for 30 years, cared for women in all of that time.”
No matter where you stand on abortion, these things must give you pause. Do you want your 15 year old to have unfettered access to powerful medications without your consent? Do you think sex-education ought to include factual information about the conditions in these clinics, the real risks, and the history of things like the "Mother's Day Massacre?"
I mean, if we get all incensed about Flouride in drinking water, and 32-oz sodas, might this be of some concern? Have you even heard about it? And, if not, why not?
Sunday, April 28
They’ll explore every angle except the obvious one.
◼ Think Progress: You Know, We Really Ought to Check the Dead Boston Bomber for Brain Damage - Bryan Preston/PJM
Leftists blamed Tucson on Sarah Palin’s map, Aurora on Batman movies and briefly, the Tea Party, and blamed Newtown on the guns that the killer stole. Michael Moore blamed Columbine on defense contractors. Mass murder leads to wishcasting.
But when a true and obviously ideologically-based terrorist attack happens, as at Ft. Hood in 2009 or in Boston on April 15, no one on the left blames the gun or the bomb or the pressure cooker used to build it. They don’t even blame the ideology, at least not until forced to. They leap for any excuse to get away from the fact that Islamic jihadists who want to kill us because of who we are have once again launched a successful attack.
◼ Chris Matthews suddenly doesn't care about Boston bombers' motives. "What Difference Does It Make Why They Did It?" - Real Clear Politics
◼ Liberal Pundits Still Looking for the Real Killer - /Washington Free Beacon
◼ O’Reilly And Krauthammer Blast Obama For Not Denouncing Radical Islam In Wake Of Boston Bombings - Mediaite
Bill O’Reilly opened his show tonight with a big question: why does President Obama refuse to call out radical Islam for being a major threat to the United States. He highlighted Obama asking people not to draw conclusions based on the motivations of the Boston bombing suspects, and, along with Charles Krauthammer, slammed the president for actively avoiding any mention of radical Islam in public. Krauthammer remarked that Obama’s language avoidance is “weird” and even “embarrassing.”
Krauthammer found it remarkable that Obama is going to such “comical” and “embarrassing” lengths to avoid telling people the truth, noting that Obama avoids using words like “jihad” and “Islamist.” He brought up how Obama once warned against the rise of “non-secular parties” in Egypt. Krauthammer found this to be a “weird word to use” and a clear sign that Obama is actively avoiding more honest language.
◼ Excusing Jihad In Boston - Robert Spencer/Front Page
...But of course, the bombers weren’t Christians; they were Muslims, acting explicitly in the name of Islam. Media analysts, when they have deigned to take notice of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s statement at all, have scratched their heads in puzzlement over how he and his brother could have gotten the idea that murdering innocent people at a sporting event could possibly constitute any kind of defense of Islam. However, they wouldn’t be so puzzled if they knew that the Qur’an exhorts Muslims to use the “steeds of war” to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60) – and that al-Qaeda has recently recommended bombing sporting events as a nicely effective way to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah.
The mainstream media has no interest in how the Qur’an may incite those who believe it is the word of Allah to commit acts of violence against those who do not so believe. And so it was that the Atlantic Wire’s story was actually about why it scarcely mattered that the bombers were Muslim, and Chris Matthews was declaring that the bombers’ inspirations and motivations made no difference, and Martin Bashir was praising the virtues of the Qur’an, and it was Sean O’Malley, the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston, who cautioned against taking revenge and decried the “perversion” of Islam that led to the bombings.
◼ WHY DO LIBERALS REFUSE TO BE CRITICAL OF ISLAM? - Benjamin Wiker/Human Events
◼ The reason that liberals hate Christianity, but ignore Islam - Bookworm Room
Leftists blamed Tucson on Sarah Palin’s map, Aurora on Batman movies and briefly, the Tea Party, and blamed Newtown on the guns that the killer stole. Michael Moore blamed Columbine on defense contractors. Mass murder leads to wishcasting.
But when a true and obviously ideologically-based terrorist attack happens, as at Ft. Hood in 2009 or in Boston on April 15, no one on the left blames the gun or the bomb or the pressure cooker used to build it. They don’t even blame the ideology, at least not until forced to. They leap for any excuse to get away from the fact that Islamic jihadists who want to kill us because of who we are have once again launched a successful attack.
◼ Chris Matthews suddenly doesn't care about Boston bombers' motives. "What Difference Does It Make Why They Did It?" - Real Clear Politics
◼ Liberal Pundits Still Looking for the Real Killer - /Washington Free Beacon
◼ O’Reilly And Krauthammer Blast Obama For Not Denouncing Radical Islam In Wake Of Boston Bombings - Mediaite
Bill O’Reilly opened his show tonight with a big question: why does President Obama refuse to call out radical Islam for being a major threat to the United States. He highlighted Obama asking people not to draw conclusions based on the motivations of the Boston bombing suspects, and, along with Charles Krauthammer, slammed the president for actively avoiding any mention of radical Islam in public. Krauthammer remarked that Obama’s language avoidance is “weird” and even “embarrassing.”
Krauthammer found it remarkable that Obama is going to such “comical” and “embarrassing” lengths to avoid telling people the truth, noting that Obama avoids using words like “jihad” and “Islamist.” He brought up how Obama once warned against the rise of “non-secular parties” in Egypt. Krauthammer found this to be a “weird word to use” and a clear sign that Obama is actively avoiding more honest language.
◼ Excusing Jihad In Boston - Robert Spencer/Front Page
...But of course, the bombers weren’t Christians; they were Muslims, acting explicitly in the name of Islam. Media analysts, when they have deigned to take notice of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s statement at all, have scratched their heads in puzzlement over how he and his brother could have gotten the idea that murdering innocent people at a sporting event could possibly constitute any kind of defense of Islam. However, they wouldn’t be so puzzled if they knew that the Qur’an exhorts Muslims to use the “steeds of war” to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60) – and that al-Qaeda has recently recommended bombing sporting events as a nicely effective way to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah.
The mainstream media has no interest in how the Qur’an may incite those who believe it is the word of Allah to commit acts of violence against those who do not so believe. And so it was that the Atlantic Wire’s story was actually about why it scarcely mattered that the bombers were Muslim, and Chris Matthews was declaring that the bombers’ inspirations and motivations made no difference, and Martin Bashir was praising the virtues of the Qur’an, and it was Sean O’Malley, the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston, who cautioned against taking revenge and decried the “perversion” of Islam that led to the bombings.
◼ WHY DO LIBERALS REFUSE TO BE CRITICAL OF ISLAM? - Benjamin Wiker/Human Events
◼ The reason that liberals hate Christianity, but ignore Islam - Bookworm Room
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