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Obamacare Watch: Judicial Watch Sues IRS and HHS for Records of Sharing of Taxpayers’ Private Information - Judicial Watch

Obamacare Watch: Judicial Watch Sues IRS and HHS for Records of Sharing of Taxpayers’ Private Information - Judicial Watch:

"Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records about the sharing of private taxpayer information under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The lawsuit was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia"

Limbaugh: Obama Should Have Spied On Syria Instead Of Trump Tower

Limbaugh: Obama Should Have Spied On Syria Instead Of Trump Tower:

"“Do you realize Assad’s been doing this for seven years, folks? The gassing of Syrian citizens with chemical weapons and other WMD has been going on for seven years,” Limbaugh maintained. “And Obama’s out there surveilling Trump and whoever else during the Republican primary campaign and then the Trump transition.”

Limbaugh said Syria’s use of chemical weapons and Trump’s attack on a Russian ally have turned the narrative of who is the pawn of Russia on its head."

Syria – It Doesn’t Matter Who Used The Chemical Weapons, The Issue is Extremism and Stability… | The Last Refuge

Syria – It Doesn’t Matter Who Used The Chemical Weapons, The Issue is Extremism and Stability… | The Last Refuge:
(Much here-click to read all)

...Now pay attention to Secretary Tillerson:

Overall, the situation in Syria is one where our approach today and our policy today is, first, to defeat ISIS. By defeating ISIS we remove one of the disruptive elements in Syria that exists today.

That begins to clarify for us opposition forces and regime forces. In working with the coalition — as you know, there is a large coalition of international players and allies who are involved in the future resolution in Syria.

So it’s to defeat ISIS; it’s to begin to stabilize areas of Syria, stabilize areas in the south of Syria, stabilize areas around Raqqa through ceasefire agreements between the Syrian regime forces and opposition forces. Stabilize those areas; begin to restore some normalcy to them. Restore them to local governance — and there are local leaders who are ready to return, some who have left as refugees — they’re ready to return to govern these areas.

Use local forces that will be part of the liberation effort to develop the local security forces — law enforcement, police force. And then use other forces to create outer perimeters of security so that areas like Raqqa, areas in the south can begin to provide a secure environment so refugees can begin to go home and begin the rebuilding process.

In the midst of that, through the Geneva Process, we will start a political process to resolve Syria’s future in terms of its governance structure, and that ultimately, in our view, will lead to a resolution of Bashar al-Assad’s departure.

~ Secretary Tillerson during Air-Strike Debrief

See the plan?

AM Fruitcake

History for April 9

History for April 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Charles Proteus Steinmetz 1865, Paul Robeson 1898 - Singer, Ward Bond 1903 - Actor ("It’s a Wonderful Life", "The Maltese Falcon")



Hugh Hefner 1926 - Publisher, Michael Learned 1939 - Actress ("The Waltons", "All My Sons"), Dennis Quaid 1954 - Actor ("Wyatt Earp", "The Right Stuff"), brother of Randy Quaid


1682 - Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France.


1865 - At Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of Wilmer McClean's home. Grant allowed Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permitted soldiers to keep their horses and mules. Though there were still Confederate armies in the field, the war was officially over. The four years of fighting had killed 360,000 Union troops and 260,000 Confederate troops.


1867 - The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty with Russia that purchased the territory of Alaska by one vote.


1940 - Germany invaded Norway and Denmark.


1942 - In the Battle of Bataan, American and Filipino forces were overwhelmed by the Japanese Army.


1945 - National Football League officials decreed that it was mandatory for football players to wear socks in all league games.


1959 - NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts.


1967 - The first Boeing 737 was rolled out for use.

Hundreds of TSA workers at airports across the US failed drug, alcohol tests – TheBlaze

Hundreds of TSA workers at airports across the US failed drug, alcohol tests – TheBlaze:

"“TSA employees have been criminally charged for using cocaine on the job, facilitating large scale drug and human smuggling, and engaging in child pornography activities,” the report stated.

And in February, TSA and airport employees were brought up on charges related to an alleged cocaine-smuggling operation going back nearly 20 years. The defendants allegedly transported cocaine-filled suitcases through security at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico."

I'm still wondering about this-----Trump, #SyriaStrike, and Fake News – Mike Cernovich – Medium

Trump, #SyriaStrike, and Fake News – Mike Cernovich – Medium
Trump, #SyriaStrike, and Fake News

Assad had no incentive to gas his own people, let alone children, as he finally had ISIS on the run. The entire rest of the world (save for one huge exception) was either pro-Assad (Russia) or neutral:

Last week, both Tillerson and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said the U.S. had abandoned its demand that Assad be removed from power and that the only priority in the Middle East was the defeat of Islamic State, which is concentrated in Syria and Iraq.

In what world does Assad, who is 51, make the most catastrophic mistake of his life by bombing children with poison gas? Even in prison, those who murder children are killed. Harming children isn’t merely the act of a maniac. It’s a level of deprativity even violent criminals will not countenance.

Consider the following meeting occurs. Assad is at his table, surrounded by his generals and most trusted advisers. He has finally defeated ISIS. Syria is stable. The U.S. is considering a major aid package. As he smiles with pride, a general speaks up… “Imma let you finish, but first I have to say that we need to gas children with poison gas.”..."

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‘Black Lives Matter!’: Mob descends upon campus building, pounds windows, shuts down pro-cop speech – TheBlaze

‘Black Lives Matter!’: Mob descends upon campus building, pounds windows, shuts down pro-cop speech – TheBlaze:

"A mob of hundreds of screaming protesters descended upon a California college building Thursday in opposition to a pro-police author’s speech. The actions ended up preventing would-be attendees from entering the room and forcing police to end the event early and give the author an escort to safety.

Because of the melee outside, Heather Mac Donald — author of “The War on Cops” — "

Harvard Grad Students Faced 'Existential' Crisis of Sadness, Despair After Election - Washington Free Beacon

Harvard Grad Students Faced 'Existential' Crisis of Sadness, Despair After Election - Washington Free Beacon:
"Graduate students at Harvard University said Donald Trump's presidential victory pushed them into an "existential" crisis of sadness and despair.

The "deep feeling" of misery led students to start a "resistance school," which kicked off at Harvard, Wednesday evening. 

Timothy McCarthy, a lecturer at the Kennedy School, taught the first course.

The first lecture covered all the favorite topics of the campus left, including anticolonialism, white privilege, intersectionality, and "allyship." 

McCarthy described Trump as a "devil" and said America was founded on the "callous slaughter of indigenous people," and the subjugation of every minority group from "queer folks" to the disabled.

"Around four in the morning we peeled ourselves off the couch, some of us off the floor," said Jasmine, a graduate student who introduced the course. 

"We took a deep breath, and we decided to head home and try to get just a couple hours of sleep after what had been a very long day. 

But we couldn't sleep.

 Like so many of you, my friends and I woke up on Nov. 9 just devastated."

"We couldn't shake this deep feeling, almost existential feeling, of sadness, of bewilderment, and of anger," she said..."

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Morons!

31 Hilarious Fast Food Signs That Had It Their Way (Slide #1) - Offbeat

31 Hilarious Fast Food Signs That Had It Their Way (Slide #1) - Offbeat:

Lunch video-----Feminist Whores For Islam

Noon-toon-----Mike Lester by Mike Lester for Apr 8, 2017 | Read Comic Strips at GoComics.com

Mike Lester by Mike Lester for Apr 8, 2017 | Read Comic Strips at GoComics.com:

Judicial Watch Lawsuit Seeks Obama White House Records on Controversial Global-Warming Report | National Review

Judicial Watch Lawsuit Seeks Obama White House Records on Controversial Global-Warming Report | National Review:

"“It was more of a political document than a scientific document,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told me. “People need to know how the [climate] alarmists have taken over agencies like NOAA and NASA. This is about trying to get the truth out.” Judicial Watch also filed a separate lawsuit against NOAA in 2015 attempting to get the datasets used in Karl’s paper.

There’s plenty of reason to suspect collaboration between Karl and Holdren. Both are professionally invested in anthropogenic global warming and have advanced their careers promoting a catastrophic view of humanity’s fate due to our carbon-fueled rape of Mother Nature."

The best and brightest?-----Yale punished male student for writing essay that said rape is an 'irrational act,' lawsuit says - The College Fix

Yale punished male student for writing essay that said rape is an 'irrational act,' lawsuit says - The College Fix:
Violates the university’s Woodward Report

Yale is being sued for violating the Title IX rights of a male student accused of rape because it first punished him for writing an essay that called rape “an irrational act.”

Doe v. Yale alleges that the pseudonymous male student became a “person of interest to Yale’s sexual misconduct
apparatus” in 2013 for a philosophy class assignment he turned in:

The [female teaching assistant] reported John to Yale upon receiving academic papers from John in which he referenced (and denounced) the crime of rape and rapists to illustrate Plato’s ideas of justice in the Republic. John was also required to take sensitivity training …

The amended complaint was filed in February but it’s getting attention now because Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and one recipient of this year’s Bradley Prize, wrote about the case for The Wall Street Journal.

In violation of Yale’s Woodward Report, which says the university upholds the right to “discuss the unmentionable,” Doe became a target precisely because of “Yale’s draconian regulation of his speech” in the philosophy paper, Berkowitz writes:

In the context of Socrates’ account in Plato’s “Republic” of the tripartite soul, the paper argued that rape was an irrational act in which the soul’s appetitive and spirited parts overwhelm reason, which by right rules.

According to the lawsuit, Pamela Schirmeister, Title IX coordinator and an associate dean in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, summoned Doe to her office and told him his rape example was “unnecessarily provocative.” She ordered him to have no contact with the teaching assistant and directed him to attend sensitivity training at the university’s mental-health center. She also informed him that he had become a “person of interest” to Yale, which meant that the university had to intervene to ensure he “was not a perpetrator himself,” in the lawsuit’s words. A few months later, the same Title IX office initiated the sexual-assault investigation against him.

...Berkowitz says Yale has “reached a new low in the annals of campus policing of speech” if Doe’s claims are accurate:

Surely no female student would incur criticism, much less censorship or punishment, for providing weighty philosophical authority in support of the proposition that rape is wrong.  If Doe’s story is true, Yale is no longer satisfied in enforcing correct opinions. To utter the correct opinion, Yale also demands that you be the correct sex..."

Read it all! 

These Are the Questions Susan Rice Needs to Answer Under Oath - Reason.com

These Are the Questions Susan Rice Needs to Answer Under Oath - Reason.com: 
"...But since Rice says nothing unethical transpired, there should be no problem in her answering those queries under oath.

• For instance: Why did you lie to PBS about having no knowledge of the unmasking of Trump officials or family?

On the heels of the allegations made by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Rice was asked whether the Obama administration had unmasked Trump transition members swept up in surveillance of other individuals. "I know nothing about this," she claimed at the time....
...This is the same woman who went on national television and repeatedly lied that the Islamic terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi were a "spontaneous reaction" to a "hateful and offensive video."

• So, Ambassador Rice, did you request that the identities of Trump campaign officials, transition team members, or family members be unmasked?

• Is it normal for high-level officials to request for names of political players to be unmasked in raw intelligence?

• Which individual in government initially provided you with the raw intelligence reports containing the masked Trump team identities?

• Which Trump team members did you specifically ask to be unmasked? And why did you ask for their identities to be unmasked?

• In what way did unmasking these people have foreign intelligence value?

• In what way was this done to protect the American people?"

Much, much more here. Read on!

These people are scum!-----In January, Susan Rice Assured NPR the Obama Admin Removed Chemical Weapons From Syria | The Weekly Standard

In January, Susan Rice Assured NPR the Obama Admin Removed Chemical Weapons From Syria | The Weekly Standard:
"According to a recent headline from Reuters, "U.S. intelligence agencies suspect Assad did not turn over all chemical weapons stockpile." 
The evidence of the recent chemical attack in Syria makes that declaration little more than stating the obvious. 
However, back in January in an in interview with NPR, Obama national security adviser Susan Rice was still touting the Obama administration's success at removing chemical weapons in Syria:

We were able to find a solution that didn't necessitate the use of force that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria, in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished. Our aim in contemplating the use of force following the use of chemical weapons in August of 2013 was not to intervene in the civil war, not to become involved in the combat between Assad and the opposition, but to deal with the threat of chemical weapons by virtue of the diplomacy that we did with Russia and with the Security Council. We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.

Between her dubious public statements on Benghazi, the Bowe Bergdahl desertion, her recent denial that she knew anything about unmasking Trump officials' identities in intelligence reports, and now this—it would seem Rice has a real problem with credibility..."
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Your College Degree is Worthless – The Mission – Medium

Your College Degree is Worthless – The Mission – Medium
Your College Degree is Worthless
This is not a judgement, it’s just a fact.
A degree is information. 
Information is an incredibly valuable resource in the market.
But in the case of the college degree, far better information is available for far less time and money.
The information contained in a degree is flabby and ridiculous
Let’s get concrete.
Say you want to work for James Altucher.
Two candidates apply. 
Candidate one sends a resume that says, “Marketing Major at Least Common Denominator University”.
Candidate two sends examples of copy from three email drip campaigns they created, results of their Shopify store, and the CPC they got on a Facebook ad set.
Which one provided better information about the value they can create for James?
Let’s go deeper
Better yet, consider applicant three...(this is great!)
Both candidates two and three sent information ten times more valuable than a degree, without spending five years and six figures sitting in classrooms learning how not to create value.
What they did is easy and accessible to all.
It takes a little courage, hard work, experimentation, creativity, and persistence.
It doesn’t take any kind of privilege, a trust fund, a GPA, or any other dumb external paper prestige.
“But most companies list degrees as requirements!”
Information, my dear, is costly and imperfect.
Companies are imperfect too.
Employers use degrees because they’ve seen a correlation (not causation) between degree holders and minimum threshold of employability over non-degree holders, on average. 
Not because college does something to make people better at their work.
Employers know it does nothing of the sort.
They have gobs of info to sort through, and they look for quick easy ways to trim down pools of applicants.
It’s illegal to use IQ and other measures, so they put together a bag of info that they think is a decent approximation.
A degree is one data point in that bag.
They use it in the absence of something better.
But if you have something better, it trumps the degree immediately..."
Read it all before you make that decision!

Limbaugh: The Only Government To Meddle In The Election Was Ours

Limbaugh: The Only Government To Meddle In The Election Was Ours:

"Yes indeed, there was meddling in the 2016 presidential election, talk show host Rush Limbaugh told his audience Tuesday.

“So it turns out there was a government interfering in the presidential election. It was ours. It was the United States government, at the time being run by Barack Hussein O and his minions,” Limbaugh said as he summarized the latest reports alleging former national security adviser Susan Rice led efforts to conduct surveillance on President Donald Trump and his associates."