Allan Brauer, Homosexual #Democrat Official in California, Wishes Death on Amanda Carpenter's Children

A great example of the Dan Savage-ization of the Democrat Party.

At Twitchy, "‘May your children all die’: Comms. Chair of Sacramento Dems attacks Amanda Carpenter."

Ms. Carpenter is an aide to Senator Ted Cruz.

.@sacdems, your Comms Dir, @allanbrauer, speaks for you, correct? pic.twitter.com/cIeFJbF8JU
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) September 20, 2013

Always, always remember: This is no aberration. This today's Democrat Party at work.

It's almost shocking, except it's not. It's SOP for these ghouls. Same demonic depravity. Different day.

Also at Big Government, "DEM OFFICIAL WISHES DEATH ON TED CRUZ AIDE'S CHILDREN."

Also at Free Beacon, "Democratic Official Allan Brauer Wishes Death on Ted Cruz Aide’s Children."

Added: Brauer has apologized on Twitter.

More, at Twitchy, "Calif. Dem spox: Comms. chair’s death wish was wrong, but Ted Cruz is the real problem!"

UPDATE: He's fired. At Expose Liberals, "Allan Brauer resigns after death wishes on Amanda Carpenter kids."

The Real Navy Yard Scandal

From Charles Krauthammer, at the Washington Post.

It's not one scandal. It's two, which in fact addresses. The primary scandal is how society allows the mentally ill fall through the cracks. They fall through, and in the case of Aaron Alexis, they ultimately take down 12 people with them.

The the second scandal, also a psychiatric disorder, is the radical left's sick propensity to turn any gun tragedy into a moment of politicized gun control:

In the liberal remake of “Casablanca,” the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to “round up the usual weapons.”

It’s always the weapon and never the shooter. Twelve people are murdered in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, and before sundown Sen. Dianne Feinstein has called for yet another debate on gun violence. Major opprobrium is heaped on the AR-15, the semiautomatic used in the Newtown massacre.

Turns out no AR-15 was used at the Navy Yard. And the shotgun that was used was obtained legally in Virginia after the buyer, Aaron Alexis, had passed both a state and federal background check.

As was the case in the Tucson shooting — instantly politicized into a gun-control and (fabricated) tea-party-climate-of-violence issue — the origin of this crime lies not in any politically expedient externality but in the nature of the shooter.

Keep reading.

This is one of those rare essays in which Krauthammer draws on his medical expertise as a previously practicing psychiatrist.

Outstanding.

Via Memeorandum.

Miss South Carolina Brooke Mosteller Trailer Trash Joke

The "state organization" apparently prepared the joke for her, and she was hesitant to repeat but, "everyone kept telling her" it was a good joke.

Actually, not.

At the Washington Times, "Miss South Carolina embarrasses her state with trailer joke."

'If someone says [the] house is on fire but doesn't leave the house, we tend to doubt that the house is on fire and wonder why that person is trying to get us to leave the house...'

That's Althouse, on the latest meltdown in the "global warming" scam.

See, "'When the government is so clearly failing to act on climate change... it's not surprising that the level of doubt about climate change has risen'."

And following the links, at UK's Daily Express, "What climate change? Fewer people than EVER believe the world is really warming up."

RELATED: At London's Daily Mail, "World's top climate scientists told to 'cover up' the fact that the Earth's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years." (Via Memeorandum.)

Chantell

From the UK, on Twitter.

Home Depot Dumps 20,000 Employees onto ObamaCare

Critics long argued that ObamaCare was just the first step toward nationalized health care.

And here comes yet another major national chain dumping its employee insurance benefits and sloughing off its part-time workforce onto the ObamaCare exchanges. How many of these will then end up needing taxpayer subsidies to afford coverage? How many of these will end up on Medicaid?

Who knows? All I know is that the law is working just as Democrats intended: to kill healthcare excellence in America.

The Lonely Con reports, "Home Depot Dumping 20,000 Part Time Workers Into Obamacare Exchanges."

There's been so much in the news on this I don't even try to attempt a full roundup. The administration denied big labor a waiver from the law, to the harsh chagrin of the union bosses (and proving Republicans right all along).

And now news comes that the same people who wrote the law are now cashing in as ObamaCare consultants in the private sector. Culture of corruption anyone?

The depraved left, of course, lies and obfuscates about this socialist clusterf-k, alleging a reign of so-called Republican "anarchy" over demands for defunding.

But the political reckoning is coming. Republicans will be smart to hold the line on ObamaCare. Make the Democrats eat this steaming pile of a law. It's the only way we're going to have meaningful change. Full repeal. That's the ticket.

Lee Woodruff: Secrets to a Successful Marriage

An interesting interview from today's "CBS News This Morning."

Woodruff discusses her article at Ladies Home Journal, "Let's Talk About Sex (And Why I'd Rather Just Go To Sleep)."



She is married to ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, who was nearly killed by an IED in Iraq in 2006.

Together they wrote a memoir, discussed at NPR (with an excerpt), "Bob Woodruff and Wife Pen Recovery Memoir."

More, "Author Lee Woodruff on the Secret to a Successful Marriage and Being 'Perfectly Imperfect'."

Todd Helton Tags Out Matt Carpenter With the Old Hidden Ball Trick

And he was funny about it, "I've been wanting to do that for 17 seasons. Now I can cross that off my bucket list."

And he later hit a solo home-run to tie the game at 6-6 in the 9th.

Colorado won 7-6 in the 15th inning.



More video here, "Helton uses brain, brawn in win."

Helton's retiring after 17 seasons with the Rockies. His last game will be at Los Angeles on September 29th.

#Dodgers Clinch National League West Title

The game was player early afternoon yesterday. I was at work, but was watching for updates on the Dodgers' Twitter feed.

A.J. Ellis hit an eighth-inning home run and from there it was just a matter of closing the Diamondbacks down.

At LAT, "Dodgers cash in and win the West."

PHOENIX — Standing in a clubhouse that was about to become a champagne-soaked stage on which Yasiel Puig would break-dance in front of hollering teammates, catcher A.J. Ellis reflected on how the Dodgers conquered the National League West.

"It's amazing what talent can do," Ellis said.

The Dodgers secured their first division title in four years with a 7-6 victory over the second-place Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday that served as a testament to that talent.

The World Series trophy might not be for sale. But the NL West crown was.

The Dodgers started the season with a record payroll of $230 million. That figure increased by $10 million or so as baseball's most free-spending owners continued to add reinforcements.

Over the six-month season, the small- to mid-market teams in their division had little chance.

"The collection of players here is unmatched in all of baseball," Ellis said. "When you get those guys together in the right form, clicking together, it's going to create amazing results."

How amazing? The Dodgers erased a 9 1/2-game deficit in the standings on June 22 to become the first team in baseball to clinch a playoff spot, quickly going from last place to first. And they overcame a 6-3 deficit Thursday and won the game on an eighth-inning solo home run by Ellis.

Of all the millionaire players who bathed in alcoholic beverages at Chase Field, none were as important as Hanley Ramirez, who was acquired in a trade with the Miami Marlins last year.

Ramirez hit two more home runs, Nos. 19 and 20 in of his injury-shortened season — a three-run blast in the third inning that put the Dodgers ahead, 3-0, and a solo shot in the seventh that tied the score, 6-6.

"This is one of the best hitters in baseball," Manager Don Mattingly said. "He can really hit. I want the whole world to see this."

The world will see Ramirez on a stage on which he has never previously performed. Nine years into his major league career, Ramirez will be playing postseason baseball for the first time.

"It's a long season," Ramirez said. "We knew that we could come back and win the division. And we did it."

Ramirez missed five of the last six games because of an irritated nerve in his back. He was replaced by Nick Punto at shortstop in the bottom of the ninth inning.

"Everybody knows I'm not 100%," Ramirez said.

Continue reading.

Audrie Pott Suicide

At London's Daily Mail, "'I swear to god if you still have those pics I'll kill you': The pleading Facebook messages teen sent days before she killed herself 'after classmates sexually assaulted her and spread images of attack'."

And at Rolling Stone, "Sexting, Shame and Suicide: A shocking tale of sexual assault in the Digital Age":

Saratoga High School, with its country-club-worthy­quad, Olympic-size swimming pool and plush tennis courts, is one of those affluent California schools American teens recognize from movies and TV. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the school is home to high-achieving children of parents working at Apple, eBay, Netflix and other tech corporations headquartered within 50 miles. If the Saratoga Falcons did not regularly field a winning football team, there's consolation in the fact that each graduating class has propelled dozens of kids into Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Berkeley.

The summer before her death, Audrie had started to change, moving away from the kids she'd hung out with since middle school. She had started to drink a little and had dated a slightly older guy. When she drank, the self-consciousness that had afflicted her since junior high melted away. She loosened up. Sometimes, she loosened up a lot.

On Labor Day weekend of the new school year, Audrie's friend, let's call her "Sara" (many of the kids' names in this story have been changed to protect their identities), said her parents were away, leaving their white cottage-style house with its long green lawn in her care. Sara – 15, pretty, slim and blond – and Audrie had become close that summer and were exploring a new realm of boys, bottles and small parties, preferably at parent-free houses, that the Saratoga kids call "kickbacks."

That Sunday, Sara told her parents that she was going to be sleeping over at Audrie's, and Audrie told her mother that she'd be sleeping over at Sara's. When Sheila drove Audrie to Sara's, she assumed the girls would be spending the evening in their jammies in front of the television, or giggling over ice cream and Facebook. But Sara had already texted around a dozen friends to drop in for her kickback.

Eventually, 11 kids showed up, many of them to sip vodka and Gatorade cocktails. They all belonged to their class's popular clique, the girls dressed as provocatively as possible, even by the loose standards of California high schools. "See-through shorts and thongs pulled up, shorts pulled down," recalls an older girl. "That's what the 'cool girls' wore." The boys they hung out with favored a uniform locally dubbed "swagfag" – snapback hat, PacSun tank tops, knee-length chino shorts and Vans.

A few kids had brought some bottles of liquor – rum stolen from Safeway, vodka bought for them by an adult at a liquor store. They eventually guzzled a bottle of tequila that Sara's parents kept in their own cabinet. The mixer of choice was Gatorade, or downed straight. Audrie drank hardest of all....

Just reading that you can tell it's going to end badly.

But continue reading.

A New Touch for iPhone

At WSJ, "Fingerprint Technology, New System Make the 5S the Leader of the Smartphone Pack":

The iPhone 5S is the first digital device I've seen with a simple, reliable fingerprint reader—one you can confidently use, without a thought, to unlock the device instead of typing in a passcode. You can even use this fingerprint reader, called Touch ID, to authorize purchases from Apple's App, iTunes and e-book stores.

It sounds like a gimmick, but it's a real advance, the biggest step ever in biometric authentication for everyday devices. After using Touch ID, I found it annoying to go back to typing in passcodes on my older iPhone.

That's so cool.

RTWT.

Also, at Wired, "Debut of iOS 7 Heralds the Dawn of the Mobile-First Era," and "How to Prep Your iDevice for iOS 7."

Plus, "IMAGE GALLERYA Guide to the Differences Between Apple's New iOS 7 and iOS 6," and "How to Use iOS 7, Apple's New Operating System."

Still more at the Verge, "iOS 7 now available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch." (Via Techmeme, with additional articles on Apple.)


And on Twitter:

Downloading iOS 7. "About 16 hours remaining." What the hell?

— Robin Abcarian (@robinabcarian) September 19, 2013

Apple customers frustrated by lengthy iOS 7 download delays http://t.co/itYuX3BxnT #Apple

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) September 19, 2013

I'm holding off a bit before I upgrade, lol.

Costa Concordia Righting

At the Guardian UK, "Costa Concordia engineers exhausted and relieved after successful salvage," and "Costa Concordia salvage mission gives families hope for news of the missing."



Also at Scientific American, "Crippled Costa Concordia Ship is Upright--Now What?"

Rebel-on-Rebel Violence Seizes Syria

Because it's going so well over there with our, er, allies.

At the Wall Street Journal:

An al Qaeda spinoff operating near Aleppo, Syria's largest city, last week began a new battle campaign it dubbed "Expunging Filth."

The target wasn't their avowed enemy, the Syrian government. Instead, it was their nominal ally, the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army.

Across northern and eastern Syria, units of the jihadist group known as ISIS are seizing territory—on the battlefield and behind the front lines—from Western-backed rebels.

Some FSA fighters now consider the extremists to be as big a threat to their survival as the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.

"It's a three-front war," a U.S. official said of the FSA rebels' fight: They face the Assad regime, forces from its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, and now the multinational jihadist ranks of ISIS.

Brigade leaders of the FSA say that ISIS, an Iraqi al Qaeda outfit whose formal name is the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, has dragged them into a battle they are ill-equipped to fight.

Some U.S. officials said they see it as a battle for the FSA's survival.

In recent months, ISIS has become a magnet for foreign jihadists who view the war in Syria not primarily as a means to overthrow the Assad regime but rather as a historic battleground for a larger Sunni holy war. According to centuries-old Islamic prophecy they espouse, they must establish an Islamic state in Syria as a step to achieving a global one.

Al Qaeda militants from central command in Pakistan and Pakistani Taliban fighters have also set up operational bases in northern Syria, people familiar with their operations said.

The spread of ISIS illustrates the failure of Western-backed Syrian moderates to establish authority in opposition-held parts of Syria, some of which have been under rebel control for over a year.

Continue reading.

Ken Norton Dies at 70: Former Heavyweight Champ Once Beat Muhammad Ali

At the Los Angeles Times, "Former heavyweight boxer Ken Norton Sr. dies at 70."

And at the Washington Post, "Former heavyweight Ken Norton dies at age 70":

Norton broke Ali’s jaw in their first bout, beating him by split decision in 1973 in a non-title fight in San Diego. They fought six months later, and Ali won a split decision.

They met for a third time on Sept. 28, 1976, at Yankee Stadium and Ali narrowly won to keep his heavyweight title.

Norton would come back the next year to win a heavyweight title eliminator and was declared champion by the World Boxing Council. But on June 9, 1978, he lost a bruising 15-round fight to Larry Holmes in what many regard as one of boxing’s epic heavyweight bouts and would never be champion again.

“Kenny was a good, good fighter. He beat a lot of guys,” said Ed Schuyler Jr., who covered many of Norton’s fights for The Associated Press. “He gave Ali fits because Ali let him fight coming forward instead of making him back up.”

Video here, "Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton I - March 31, 1973 - Entire fight - Rounds 1 - 12 & Interviews."

Cameron Espinosa, 12, Dead After Fire Ant Bites

You just never know how you're gonna check out.

He was just a boy too. My youngest son is 12-years-old. Sad.

At US News, "Texas town outraged after middle school football player dies from attack by ants during game."

And at USA Today, "12-year-old football player dies after ant bites."

Historic Left-Wing Clusterf-k Media Falsely Reports AR-15 Used in #NavyYardShooting

Here's Emily Miller, at the Washington Times, "New York Times gets it wrong, media obsessed with linking AR-1."

And at Twitchy, "Emily Miller: Aaron Alexis made no effort to purchase AR-15, media ‘obsessed’ with idea."

And it wasn't just the New York Times but virtually the entire leftist MSM complex.

Here's the cover yesterday's New York Daily News:




A total, complete leftist clusterf-k.

Sick.

More at Twitchy, "NY Daily News called out for epic front-page fail, absurd ‘AR-15 made for murder’ column."

And at Big Journalism, "NY Daily News Shamefully Leaves Up Mike Lupica AR15 Column."

Freedom to Blog Update: Standing Up to Evil

Every single time I've been the target of left-wing harassment and intimidation --- including the numerous and despicable libel campaigns against my college employment --- it's been the result of blogging the truth about despicable leftists and their depraved ideology of hate, envy, and coercive redistributionism. There's nothing left-wing monsters hate more than people shining the truth on their acts of godless hatred, harassment, and intimidation. I'm proud of everything I've ever done to earn that kind of enmity, because I always stand for decency and right. I won't stop shining that spotlight of truth, ever.

So it's with a deep sense of investment that I link to this piece from Robert Stacy McCain, "The Fact of Evil: @Popehat Describes Brett Kimberlin’s Lawsuit Against Truth." And he writes:

Liars hate truth, and the wicked fear justice. Every honest man must oppose harassment and intimidation intended to silence those who call evil by its right name, because if truth is silenced, the righteous and innocent shall become prey for the wicked and dishonest.

Continue reading.

And following the links, don't miss Popehat, "The Popehat Signal: Help Fight Evil In Maryland."

Don't back down. Speak the truth and stand tall against these f-kers. They're genuinely evil.

Britney Spears Confirms Las Vegas Residency in 'GMA' Appearance

Hey, maybe I'll check her out next time I'm in Vegas.



More at London's Daily Mail, "Britney Spears takes a gamble in plunging jumpsuit as she is greeted by 1,000 screaming fans in Nevada desert to announce Vegas residency deal."

Pat Tillman Image Painted on Locker Room Door Leading Out to Sun Devil Stadium

Poignant.

Via BuzzFeed, "Arizona State Football’s Pat Tillman Tunnel Will Give You Chills."

Tillman leading out the devils. No hashtags necessary. Pictures worth 1000 words pic.twitter.com/AdYDBIQolU

— SunDevilEquipment (@SunDevilEquip) September 6, 2013

'You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin' .... I'm gonna send ya back to schoolin'...'

From last Thursday morning's drive-time. I left home and went into the 7/11 store across from my apartment to get some coffee. When I got back in the van and turned the ignition, on comes the crack-a crack-a crack of Pat Benatar's drum intro to "Heartbreaker." I thought to myself, "Cool"! as I turned up the volume. And then as I was pulling into the parking lot at work, just as I pulled into my parking stall, on comes the thump-a thump-a thump-a of Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love." Of course I sat back for a few minutes to enjoy the music. Then it was off to start my day.

Music at The Sound L.A.

Whole Lotta Love --- Led Zeppelin 06:59 AM

The Wanton Song --- Led Zeppelin 06:55 AM

Old Time Rock N Roll (live) --- Bob Seger 06:50 AM

Hollywood Nights --- Bob Seger 06:46 AM

TRYIN' TO LIVE MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU (LIVE) --- Bob Seger  06:40 AM

Ohio Crosby, Stills, Nash &  ----Young  06:29 AM

Rockin' In the Free World --- Neil Young 06:25 AM

Marrakesh Express Crosby, Stills & --- Nash 06:22 AM

Heartbreaker  --- Pat Benatar 06:19 AM