Why Do We Assume That Asylum Seekers Have a Right to Resettlement in a First World Country?

"We" don't.

The left turns everything into a RACE and SOCIAL JUSTICE issue because our system is driven by all politics all the time, and the left's motivations are never based on humanitarianism but raw political power.

See iOWNTHEWORLD.

Lyvette Crespo May Have Murdered Her Husband as Revenge for His Alleged Extramarital Affairs

Look, this lady's alleging that she's a victim of domestic abuse so she can get away with murder. I doubted her story from the get go. Remember, the family had financial squabbles as well. She was constantly pestering her husband about money. I mean, who was the abuse victim here? Sheesh.

And now there's allegations of extramarital affairs, as well as claims that Lyvette Crespo sent threats to her slain husband's alleged lovers via text message.

I hope she's charged with murder.

At LAT, "Detectives look at Bell Gardens mayor's reported extramarital affairs."

And at CBS Los Angeles, "Only On 2: Were Explosive Text Messages Sent From Slain Mayor’s Wife to His Alleged Mistress?"

'It is a narcissistic delusion for liberals to believe that somehow we have caused Muslims to hate us when, in point of fact, the Koran and other Islamic scriptures command them to hate us...'

From Robert Stacy McCain, "They Want to Kill Us All":

We cannot negotiate with this hate. We cannot compromise with this hate. No policy of ours will permit us to co-exist in peace with this hate. We cannot choose peace when Islam chooses war, and we cannot hope that “tactical air strikes” will suffice to defeat their deadly hatred. The only option left to us is to give them war without limits, war without mercy, a determined, relentless and unceasing war that will not be satisfied with anything less than complete victory over these murdering Muslim monsters who want to kill us all.

RTWT.

'There is no level of depravity to which they will not sink...'

British Prime Minister David Cameron, referring to Islamic State, not the Democrat Party.

Peter Kassig's Parents Issue Plea for Son's Life in Video

And we know, sadly, it'll be for naught. Their son will be murdered, ruthlessly and mercilessly.

And the hostage Kassig, who was a humanitarian aid worker, converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman --- a lot of good that's going to do him.

At USA Today, "Parents of ISIL hostage issue video plea for son's life."

VIDEO: Dodgers-Cards Benches Clear After Yasiel Puig Hit by Pitch in 3rd Inning of #NLDS Game 1

A rough outing for the Dodgers yesterday.

At LAT, "Clayton Kershaw shanks it again for Dodgers in 10-9 loss to Cardinals."

And at USA Today, "Yasiel Puig hit by Adam Wainwright, benches clear."

Parenting as a Gen Xer: We’re the First Generation of Parents in the Age of iEverything

An interesting, if somewhat pathetic, piece, from Allison Slater Tate, at WaPo:

The truth is, my generation of parents are pioneers here, like it or not. We’re the last of the Mohicans. We can try as hard as we want to push back and to carve space into our children’s lives for treehouses and puzzles and Waldorf-style dolls, but in the end, our children will grow up with the whole world at their fingertips, courtesy of a touch screen, and they will have to learn how to find the balance between their cyber and real worlds. It is scary. I don’t think I even believe there is a “right way” to parent with technology. But acknowledging that what we are doing is unprecedented – that no study yet knows exactly what this iChildhood will look like when our children are full grown people – feels like an exhale of sorts.

RTWT.

Daily Kos: The Real Killer Isn't Ebola — It's Republicans Who Block Medicaid Expansion

Tom Johnson, at NewsBusters, who reads this bilge so you don't have to:

In a Thursday post, Daily Kos writer Jon Perr alleged that Republicans’ refusal to expand Medicaid in twenty-five states “might be the greatest act of political spite in modern American history” and claimed, citing research published earlier this year, that it could lead to more than 17,000 “needless deaths” annually.

Perr contrasted conservatives’ cavalier attitude toward that statistic with the “virulent strain of right-wing outrage” over Ebola and asserted that Americans can strengthen their health-care system by voting Democratic in next month's elections, thereby “kill[ing] the GOPer virus dead in its tracks.”

As the election nears, the left's extremism is ramping up exponentially. They're going to get crushed, and it's hurting already.

Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier Dead at 63

One of the most revolting dictators of my lifetime.

At the New York Times, "Jean-Claude Duvalier, ‘Baby Doc’ of Haiti, Dies at 63":

Jean-Claude Duvalier, a former president of Haiti known as Baby Doc who ruled the country with a bloody brutality and then shocked the country anew with a sudden return from a 25-year exile in 2011, died on Saturday.

Mr. Duvalier, 63, died of a heart attack at his home, his lawyer told The Associated Press. President Michel J. Martelly announced the death on Twitter.

Mr. Duvalier continued to defend what human rights workers called one of the most oppressive governments in the Western Hemisphere, following in the footsteps of his father, François, known as Papa Doc, who also died suddenly, in 1971. The son was 19 when he assumed the post “president for life,” as he and his father called it, becoming the youngest head of state at the time.

He never apologized for atrocities, including brutal crackdowns on opponents at the hands of the feared Tonton Macoutes, a civilian militia that left a thousand people, if not more, dead, disappeared or illegally detained in harsh prisons.

Indeed, he defended himself as victims of his government pursued cases in Haitian courts on charges of corruption and human rights abuses. Mr. Duvalier had appeared in court and calmly denied any wrongdoing and even asserted the country was better off when he ruled.

“Were there deaths and summary executions under your government?” a judge asked him at a hearing in March 2013.

“Deaths exist in all countries,” Mr. Duvalier replied almost inaudibly. “I didn’t intervene in the activities of the police.”

He regularly dined in restaurants in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and attended events at the invitation of Mr. Martelly, whose administration has included relatives and allies of people associated with Mr. Duvalier.

This year, his old political party announced that it would field candidates in elections and opened an office, though analysts were not sure if it was a serious move or a thumb in the eye of the rival he loathed and who succeeded him, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, another formerly exiled president who also returned and still is a political force.

Mr. Duvalier fled the country in 1986, as political repression and worsening economic conditions set off violent unrest in what was then and still is the hemisphere’s poorest country. He asked France for asylum and the United States for the plane that would take him there, an American official said at the time.

His departure set the stage for democratic, though tumultuous, elections. Human rights groups have said that he looted Haiti’s treasury of millions of dollars and has largely lived off ill-gotten gains ever since.

His presence in the country, and the fact that he will now escape trial, appalled victims and human rights workers.

“On Duvalier’s death I’m thinking of the look in my mother’s eyes when she talks about her brother Joel who was disappeared by that dictator,” Patrick Gaspard, a Haitian-American who is the American ambassador to South Africa, said on Twitter. “News of the passing of Duvalier makes me honor my father and generations of Haitians who resisted that vicious dictatorship.”

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You CANNOT Be Serious?!! The Left's Islamic State Trutherism

“It takes five people to stage an event like this — two to be ‘parents’ — two to pose for cameras..one in a ninja outfit….and one to contact the media that does not bother checking who ANY of these other four people are.” --- Far-left whackjob Naomi Wolf, on Facebook.

See Ed Driscoll, "Out: Far Left 9/11 Truthers. In: Far Left ISIS Truthers."

Via Instapundit, who writes:

Sad to think that Naomi Wolf was a top adviser to Al Gore. We really dodged a bullet in 2000.

Man, did we ever!

'I'm sick and tired of minorities running our country!'

Says Charlotte Lucas, a co-founder, with her husband, of Lucas Oil Products.

At WRTV-6 Indianapolis‎, "Charlotte Lucas' Facebook rant about 'minorities' raises eyebrows."

And here's the drama, at AATTP, "Lucas Oil Vice President Unleashes Horrific Facebook Rant About ‘Minorities’ (Video)."

So, opining on Facebook that you're tired of godless minorities ramming their values (and repulsive food) down your throat is "horrific."

Oh the humanity!

High-Altitude Acrobatic Skydiving

Via Mudville Gazette:

Uh Oh: Texas Hospital Changes Account on Ebola Patient

It's amazing how politicized this infectious threat has become.

Seems to me that if the Obama administration truly cared about the health and safety of the American people, we'd have quarantined these infected individuals immediately and banned all flights from Liberia and other countries at the center of this abominable plague.

But no. The anti-American Obama-Dems don't want to seal the borders at all, lest that place in danger their immigration amnesty pathology.

This is how low the Democrats have taken this country. And you can truly understand then the public hatred of the president and his party. They're going to be crushed in the midterm elections, just barely over a month away.

In any case, at the Wall Street Journal, "Texas Hospital Changes Ebola Patient Account: Dallas Hospital Says Duncan’s Travel History Available to Doctors and Nurses":

DALLAS—A day after saying that doctors didn’t receive a Liberian patient’s travel history due to an electronics records glitch, the Dallas hospital that initially failed to admit the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. has changed its version of events, stating that information that he had come from Africa was in fact available to doctors.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said in a terse clarification late Friday evening that Thomas Eric Duncan ’s travel history was available to physicians as well as nurses in its electronic health records when Mr. Duncan first arrived at the hospital’s emergency room on the night of Sept. 25, complaining that he felt ill.

That was a marked change from a statement sent out by the hospital late Thursday evening, which said that the hospital had “identified a flaw in the way the physician and nursing portions of our electronic health records interacted in this specific case,” which had prevented the physicians from seeing the information nurses collected from Mr. Duncan that he had recently arrived from Africa.

Doctors sent Mr. Duncan home with a prescription for antibiotics when he initially visited the hospital. He was only admitted to the hospital three days later, on Sept. 28, when he returned via ambulance after his symptoms had worsened. He was formally diagnosed with Ebola two days after that, on Sept. 30.

By that time, Mr. Duncan had come into close contact with emergency medical technicians, and five children he had been around had attended Dallas public schools Monday and Tuesday. One child also attended a middle school on Wednesday, school officials have said.

The hospital provided no further information about what took place during Mr. Duncan’s initial visit, raising questions about whether the facility had been on the lookout for potential cases of Ebola following warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC had earlier cautioned hospitals that the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, which has killed more than 3,000 people according to the World Health Organization, had increased the likelihood that patients from impacted countries would come to the U.S., and that early recognition of potential Ebola cases in America was critical.

More.

Plus, a roundup at Instapundit, "REMAIN CALM! ALL IS WELL! U.S. Officials Urge Calm in Face of Ebola Concerns."

Bwahaha! Hate-Addled Stalker Walter James Casper Cheers Blogger's Automated Anti-Splogger Take-Down of American Power!

After almost seven years of uninterrupted blogging, American Power was taken offline due to an erroneous flagging by Blogger's automated anti-splogger software system. Indeed, there was some major Google glitch last night while I was watching the Angels game. I had to go through extra security just to log onto my Chromebook (the login function asked for a phone number to text me an additional password). And it turns out that the blog was affected too. American Power was taken down.

Bob Belvedere tweeted:

@AmPowerBlog I'm getting this msg when I try to get to your site: 'the blog at http://t.co/HbZF8J2e5q has been removed'

— Bob Belvedere (@BobBelvedere) October 4, 2014

No big deal, actually. I didn't feel much like blogging anyway after the Eric Hosmer crushed that 11th inning home run. I hit the sack.

So, I was out cold at 5:33 this morning when Blogger sent this email:

Hello, We have received your appeal regarding your blog http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/. Upon further review we have determined that your blog was mistakenly marked as a TOS violator by our automated system and, as such, we have reinstated your blog. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused in the meantime and thank you for your patience as we completed our review process. Thank you for understanding. Sincerely, The Blogger Team.

I got up and checked my iPhone and American Power was already loaded in the phone's browser. I got some coffee at 7/11 and got back to my normal blogging routine --- to the bitter consternation of my obsessed hate-addled stalking troll Walter James Casper III, who tweeted:

Dude, where's my blog? #KARMALAND #bwahaha

— W. James Casper (@repsac3) October 4, 2014

The sick f-ker Repsac checks my blog multiple times per day, while denying his sick obsessive program of stalking and harassment.

Reppy's been consumed by ideological hatred --- and a deep psychotic personal animus against yours truly --- since 2008, when the dirtbag loser first started stalking me, in the comments at Biobrain's blog.

Oh well, perhaps Reppy will someday, at long last, seek out the psychiatric help he so badly needs.

Meanwhile, his decidedly odd cheering of Blogger's automated splog-flagging system reveals just how far Reppy's descended into the nihilist pit of deranged, demonological hatred.

Eric Hosmer Crushes Homer in 11th Inning, Crushing #Angels Home-Field Hopes

Hosmer's been on fire. He pounded that extra-innings triple off the wall against the A's, crushing Oakland's wild card hopes. And now he's crushed the Angels' hopes, as the Royals can clinch a trip to the American League championship on Sunday.

At the New York Post, "Royals show no signs of slowing down, beat Angels again."

The Real Reason Winning the Senate Matters

From Charles Krauthammer, at WaPo:

You can win midterm elections without a positive agenda. You can’t win presidential elections that way. It is therefore vitally important for Republicans to win the Senate in 2014. Here’s why.

In midterms, it’s all right to be the party of no. The 2010 election, for example, was a referendum on the liberal overreach of the first two Obama years. Result? A Democratic “shellacking,” said President Obama. The massive stimulus, (the failed) cap-and-trade and Obamacare created a major backlash that cost Obama the House and, with it, the rest of his ideological agenda. It’s been blocked ever since.

That’s the power of no. And Republicans should not apologize for it. The role of the opposition is to oppose. With the welfare state having reached the outer limits of its competency and solvency, it is in desperate need of restructuring and reform. With an ideologically ambitious president committed instead to expanding entitlements, regulation and government itself, principle alone would compel the conservative party to say “stop.”

“Stop” was more than enough in 2010. With the president in decline and his presidency falling apart, it will be enough in 2014. Those complaining that Republicans haven’t come up with a national agenda are forgetting that we don’t have a parliamentary system. We don’t have an organized hierarchical opposition with a shadow prime minister and shadow Cabinet. We’ve got 500-odd local political entrepreneurs running under the same Republican banner but offering distinctly independent takes on its philosophy.

The 1994 Contract With America is, of course, the exception. But that required unique leadership and circumstances. We do not have that now.

Nor do we need to. Republicans are today on track to take back the Senate.

Why is this important? It’s not an end in itself. Nor will it change the trajectory of Obama’s presidency. His agenda died on Nov. 2, 2010, when he lost the House. It won’t be any deader on Nov. 4, 2014, if he loses the Senate.

But regaining the Senate would finally give the GOP the opportunity, going into 2016, to demonstrate its capacity to govern...

Keep reading.

We're seeing more and more reports bullish on a GOP takeover of the Senate. The election's just over a month away. Lookin' good.

So, I Was Able to Find Fox Sports 1 for the #NLDS

I couldn't find it at first, which would have been a bummer, especially since the Dodgers had been blocked out of basic cable all season.

I checked the Fox Sports website, "Find FOX Sports 1 on your TV."

And see LAT, "TV schedule for rest of Dodgers-Cardinals division series announced."

GRAPHIC: Islamic State Beheads British Hostage Alan Henning

The bloke was doomed.

At Bare Naked Islam, "BREAKING! British citizen Alan Henning beheaded by the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria (WARNING: Graphic)."

And from SITE Intel Group, "Islamic State Beheads Alan Henning in Video (Public and Edited)." And at the Times of Israel, "Islamic State beheads British hostage Henning."

Emily Ratajkowski Hot in Cosmopolitan Magazine November 2014

At Egotastic, "Emily Ratajkowski Hotness Hits the Big Time in Cosmo."

BONUS: "Emily Ratajkowski Cleavetastic Melons in the Big Apple."

Obama Puts Failed Democrat Policies 'On the Ballot'

And flailing Dems are not pleased, lol.

At WaPo, "And just like that, Obama’s ‘policies are on the ballot’ comment is campaign ad fodder," and Legal Insurrection, "2014 Dem Nightmare Come True: Obama puts his policies “on the ballot”."

Nice quote. Good picture. #ncsen pic.twitter.com/lfV8RuFPhR

— William Allison (@WilliamAllison) October 3, 2014