This Is Who Texas Democrats Are Defending

This Is Who Texas Democrats Are Defending | Power Line:
Scott lays out below the farce of the indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry, but let’s not move on before taking in the proximate cause of political dispute, the conduct of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who ironically runs the “public integrity section” of the DA’s office while obviously having no public integrity whatsoever.  

If you have 15 minutes of leisure and a strong threshold against disgust, take in these two videos of Ms. Lehmberg in action, first in her DUI stop (where her blood-alcohol level was .23), and then, even better, her appalling jailhouse behavior:

Bibles Are Back in Navy Hotels — For Now | TheBlaze.com

Bibles Are Back in Navy Hotels — For Now | TheBlaze.com:
“I am most grateful that the Navy has decided to keep Bibles in their lodges and guest quarters while they review this policy,” he added. “It is my sincere hope that Navy leaders will realize that there is nothing wrong with allowing religious literature to be placed in these rooms.”
While the Navy mulls whether to allow the Bibles to remain, the Air Force has already grappled with the issue, yanking Bibles from its on-base hotels in 2012."

A Witness Conversation Unknowingly Captured at the Scene of the Ferguson Shooting is a Game-Changer

A Witness Conversation Unknowingly Captured at the Scene of the Ferguson Shooting is a Game-Changer:
An approximate transcription of the background conversation, as related by the “Conservative Treehouse” blog:

@6:28/6:29 of video

#1 How’d he get from there to there?

#2 Because he ran, the police was still in the truck – cause he was like over the truck

{crosstalk}

#2 But him and the police was both in the truck, then he ran – the police got out and ran after him

{crosstalk}

#2 Then the next thing I know he doubled back toward him cus - the police had his gun drawn already on him –

#1. Oh, the police got his gun

#2 The police kept dumpin on him, and I’m thinking the police kept missing – he like – be like – but he kept coming toward him

{crosstalk}

#2 Police fired shots – the next thing I know – the police was missing

#1 The Police?

#2 The Police shot him

#1 Police?

#2 The next thing I know … I’m thinking … the dude started running … (garbled something about “he took it from him”)

This is terribly important because if Mike Brown had been shot, and he advanced towards the cop instead of surrendering, it would substantiate the narrative that the policeman shot in self-defense due to the fact that he was being threatened with severe bodily harm.

As France Sinks, It Posts Housing “Recovery” From Hell

As France Sinks, It Posts Housing “Recovery” From Hell | David Stockman's Contra Corner:

A lot of things are doing just fine in France, but the economy isn’t one of them. 

It’s burdened by a public sector that never ceases to bloat. 

In 2013, government spending, despite any overt efforts to limit it, grew to 57.1% of GDP, a record within the Eurostat data series for France, and up from 52.9% in 2002.

......Now France lives in a different world, the Eurozone. 

But it hasn’t quite adjusted to it. It can’t print its own money (though it desperately wants to). 

And when the government wants to spend more than it takes in, there are suddenly treaty-based limits, which it keeps transgressing.

But the private sector is being asphyxiated. 

So in the second quarter, the economy was mired down at zero growth – same as in the first quarter. Consumption was up 0.5%, which is good, but it only drove up imports (+0.4%). 

Exports stagnated, manufacturing fell 1.0%, corporate investment declined 0.8%, and housing investment plunged 2.4%.

The plunge in housing wasn’t a blip. 

And it’s occurring even while people scream about shortages of housing in Paris and other urban areas, or at least shortages of affordable housing, to which the government has responded with numerous elegant policies, like trying to force owners of vacant apartments to rent them out. 

Demand for housing is there. 

But where is construction of housing units?

Convict Jesse Jackson Jr Get $8,700 Monthly Govt Disability

Convict Jesse Jackson Jr Get $8,700 Monthly Govt Disability | The Federalist Papers:
Via AllenBWest.com:

Whenever you hear our dear politicians in Washington DC say there’s nothing more to cut or that they’re just like us, let me give you a friendly reminder. As Breitbart reported after his jail sentencing, convicted ex-congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) receives $8,700 per month in government disability pay, as well as a partial federal pension of $45,000.

That generous $8,700 in disability comes thanks to Jackson’s sudden development of a “mood disorder” as the federal government began looking to indict him. Jackson, who was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison, had no history of mental illness during his prior 17 years in Congress.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if Jackson Jr. eventually gets a pardon from his Chicago buddy, Barack Hussein Obama.

I firmly believe the Congressional pension program needs to be reformed, right along with instituting term limits for Members of the US House and Senate. A political elitism is being created that does not bode well for the American interest because it only serves self and special interest.

World peace? These are the only 11 countries in the world that are actually free from conflict

World peace? These are the only 11 countries in the world that are actually free from conflict - World Politics - World - The Independent:

Michelle Obama Might Never Show Her Face In A High School Again After What These Students Just Did

Michelle Obama Might Never Show Her Face In A High School Again After What These Students Just Did:
"In much the same way kids across the country used Twitter to highlight the subpar lunches being served in compliance with federal nutrition regulations, students are now posting their displeasure regarding changes to vending machines on campus."

Read this if you want to understand the most expensive mistake in human history--------Climate Science Does Not Support IPCC Conclusions

Articles: Climate Science Does Not Support IPCC Conclusions:
"Since 2008, the Chicago-based, libertarian-leaning Heartland Institute has organized nine ICCCs (International Conferences on Climate Change).
Norman Rogers (American Thinker, Aug 9, 2014) has given a general overview of ICCC-9 (at Las Vegas), which attracted an audience of well over 600 and featured speakers from 12 nations.
Here I present a more detailed and personalized account of the two main science issues that appear to be of general concern.
The first has to do with future temperatures and the second has to do with future sea level rise (SLR)."

In my view, CS may actually be close to zero. This means CO2 has very little influence on climate change -- probably because of negative feedback. There is still debate, however, about what kind of negative feedback to expect. Should it come from water vapor or from clouds?  

1.  IPCC’s ever-changing, non-existing evidence for AGW 

First, I want to critique IPCC reports #1 (1990) to #5 (2013). As a so-called ‘expert reviewer’ I have enjoyed a unique observation platform for successive IPCC drafts. It is rather amusing that the Summaries talk about increasing certainty for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) -- while at the same time modeled temperatures increasingly diverge from those actually observed [S-2]. 

First, we note that each report “Summary” is produced by a political consensus, not like the underlying scientific report.  [Doubting readers can visit the web site]  As Rogers points out, the U.N. mandate is: “understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change…”  There is no mandate to consider any other causations, such as natural ones related to solar change and ocean circulation cycles -- just presumptive human causes, such as fossil fuels. The IPCC sees a human climate-fingerprint everywhere because that is what they are looking for. 

Frustrated Mom Sharon Standifird Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls « CBS New York

Frustrated Mom Sharon Standifird Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls « CBS New York: "As CBS 2’s Alice Gainer reports, Sharon Standifird, was livid the day she called and texted her teenagers and they didn’t respond.
Once she knew they were safe but ignoring her calls, she got an idea, Gainer reported.
“We need to develop an app that just shuts their phone completely down and they can’t even use it,” Standifird said.
“And I started — literally just started researching how to develop an app.”
So after months of design and working with developers, “Ignore No more” was born.
With one tap, a list of only parent-selected contacts come up. 
The child can call, get the password and unlock the phone.
“Bradley needs to call me because I’m the person that has the unlock password,” Standifird said.
“It takes away texting, it takes away the gaming, it takes away calling their friends. 
The child will always be able to call 911,” said Standifird."

Jonathan Chait Is Correct: “This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous” (With Bonus Detailed Legal Analysis!)

Patterico's Pontifications » Jonathan Chait Is Correct: “This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous” (With Bonus Detailed Legal Analysis!):

"Jonathan Chait — lefty leftist Jonathan Chait, I say! — admits today that the indictment of Rick Perry is absurd.
Don’t believe me?
In a post titled This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous (yes, that is really the title), Chait says:
They say a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, and this always seemed like hyperbole, until Friday night a Texas grand jury announced an indictment of governor Rick Perry. 
The “crime” for which Perry faces a sentence of 5 to 99 years in prison is vetoing funding for a state agency. The conventions of reporting — which treat the fact of an indictment as the primary news, and its merit as a secondary analytic question — make it difficult for people reading the news to grasp just how farfetched this indictment is.
The theory behind the indictment is flexible enough that almost any kind of political conflict could be defined as a “misuse” of power or “coercion” of one’s opponents.
To describe the indictment as “frivolous” gives it far more credence than it deserves. 
Perry may not be much smarter than a ham sandwich, but he is exactly as guilty as one."

and this:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/what-the-hell-just-happened-in-texas-and-why-was-rick-perry-just-indicted.html

It's the culture, stupid!--------Dad caught with whiskey in car seat instead of child

Dad caught with whiskey in car seat instead of child | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"MCDONOUGH, GA. — A father was arrested after police say he put his whiskey bottle in the car seat instead of his son.
Henry County Police responded Saturday to a 911 call about a man sitting slumped behind the wheel of his car at a traffic light.
The light had changed several times, but the car hadn’t moved.
When another driver saw a man asleep behind the wheel and a little boy in the front seat, he called police.
According to the police report, the responding officer saw the man passed out with his foot on the brake. 
A 2-year-old boy was in the front passenger seat without a seat belt or car seat.
 Instead, the officer claims he saw the car seat in the back was holding a whiskey bottle. 
He had to knock on the window three times to get the man’s attention.
When he woke up, he took his foot off the brake and it started rolling backward."

Breaking: The DOJ told Ferguson Police to not release big piece of evidence

Breaking: The DOJ told Ferguson Police to not release big piece of evidence

So it sounds like the reason the video of Michael Brown robbing the convenience store was released several days after the event was because the DOJ told them not to. 
I guess Ferguson PD got tired of waiting to provide what they thought was important information to the case.

Allen West Just Leveled A Bombshell Accusation Against Obama That Could Explain A Whole Lot

Allen West Just Leveled A Bombshell Accusation Against Obama That Could Explain A Whole Lot:
"Former Florida Rep. Allen West declared President Obama an Islamist who is intentionally working against the security of the United States.
“The only plausible explanation for many actions taken by President Obama and his administration is that they are working counter to the security of the United States of America,” the former Florida congressman and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel wrote in the post published Wednesday."

History for August 17

History for August 17 - On-This-Day.com:
Birth anniversaries of Davy Crockett (1786-1836), Francis Gary Powers (1929-77), and Mae West (1893-1980).

Happy Birthday! Belinda Carlisle, Robert De Niro, Maureen O’Hara

1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City. 


1896 - The Klondike gold rush was set off by George Carmack discovering gold on Rabbit Creek in Alaska. 


1903 - Joseph Pulitzer donated a million dollars to Columbia University. This started the Pulitzer Prizes in his name. 


1915 - Charles F. Kettering received a patent for the first electric ignition device. 


1945 - The nationalists of Indonesia declared their independence from the Netherlands. 


1961 - The Communist East German government completed the construction of the Berlin Wall. 


1977 - Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD) reported that in one day the number of orders for flowers to be delivered to Graceland had surpassed the number for any other event in the company's history. 


1982 - The U.S. Senate approved an immigration bill that granted permanent resident status to illegal aliens who had arrived in the United States before 1977. 


1992 - Woody Allen admitted to being romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn. The girl was the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen's longtime companion. 


1996 - Ross Perot was announced to be the Reform Party's presidential candidate. It was the party's first-ever candidate. 

1998 - U.S. President Clinton admitted to having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern. 

Watch: Obama Might Need More Than A Band-Aid To Dress The Wound Rick Perry Just Gave Him

Watch: Obama Might Need More Than A Band-Aid To Dress The Wound Rick Perry Just Gave Him:
"We flagged this issue in 2012.  And have yet to even have a response.  This is a failure of leadership from the administration in Washington D.C.  They either are inept or don’t care.  And that is my position."

Navy Removes All Signs of Christ From Military Hotel Rooms

Navy Removes All Signs of Christ From Military Hotel Rooms:
"The Navy is pushing for the mass removal of Bibles in hotel rooms across the country, yet U.S. soldiers are being encouraged to respect Muslims," said AFA President Tim Wildmon. "Where is the priority here—in a country founded on religious freedom? Take Bibles out of hotel rooms but support an Islamic observance. This is a truest definition of a double standard."
Earlier this summer, soldiers were told to respect the rights of Muslims during Ramadan, which ended July 28, through a directive at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a Department of Defense medical and graduate school in Bethesda, Md., that urged members of the military to show respect to Muslim colleagues."

Guess Who Al Gore Is Suing | TheBlaze.com

Guess Who Al Gore Is Suing | TheBlaze.com:
"David Boies, Gore’s attorney, said in a statement that Al Jazeera America “wants to give itself a discount on the purchase price that was agreed to nearly two years ago.” He said the suit was filed in Delaware Court of Chancery on Friday."

Michigan 9th most expensive state to own a vehicle in, auto insurance driving cost

Michigan 9th most expensive state to own a vehicle in, auto insurance driving cost | MLive.com:
"Michigan has the ninth highest cost of car ownership in the country when you take repairs, insurance and gasoline costs into account, according to financial publisher Bankrate.com.
The average cost of a vehicle’s repairs, insurance and gasoline in Michigan is $2,375 per year.
That’s the ninth highest in the nation.
The highest cost is $2,705 per year in Wyoming and the lowest cost is $1,942 in Iowa.
Michigan is a standout in the Midwest, where car ownership is generally less expensive. 
That’s reflected in the numbers posted by surrounding states Wisconsin ($2,018), Indiana ($2,200) and Ohio ($1,973).
The biggest driver of Michigan’s higher numbers is insurance costs, according to Bankrate.com Data Journalist Stacy Jones."

Building fail sheds light on N. Korean priorities

Building fail sheds light on N. Korean priorities:
"In a country that sorely needs to improve its basic infrastructure, there is no public debate over whether North Korea really needs a new luxury ski resort, or a 105-story pyramid-shaped hotel that has been a Pyongyang landmark for more than 20 years, but has yet to open for business. 
Questioning the value of megaprojects held up as symbols of progress and national pride in North Korea is taboo.
Housing, however, hits closer to home.
"This accident happened because they broke the rules and methods of construction," Pyongyang resident Pak Chol told The Associated Press after the accident was reported by the state media.
"We must make sure that this kind of terrible accident never happens again, by sticking to the proper method of building."
"Symbolically, to have a newer building go down in the heart of the city is quite bad indeed," said Geoffrey See, managing director of the Singapore-based nonprofit Choson Exchange, which conducts training on economic policy, entrepreneurship and law in North Korea.

Top Obamacare Official: ‘Please Delete This Email’ | TheBlaze.com

Top Obamacare Official: ‘Please Delete This Email’ | TheBlaze.com:
"Congressional investigators are demanding answers from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner after she reportedly instructed a subordinate to “delete” an Obamacare-related email conversation involving key White House officials."