'I've never seen Border Patrol out here': Filmmaker shows how Ebola-infected ISIS terrorist could sneak across Lake Erie from Canada to Cleveland and take RICIN into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

'I've never seen Border Patrol out here': Filmmaker shows how Ebola-infected ISIS terrorist could sneak across Lake Erie from Canada to Cleveland and take RICIN into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Mail Online:

Filmmaker dresses as 'Ebola-infected ISIS terrorist' to sneak across Lake Erie from Canada to Cleveland and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without being challenged once

• Conservative filmmaker's latest provocation shows lax security on America's northern border
• James O'Keefe filmed a play-acting black-clad jihadi with a British accent carrying fake ricin and pretend Ebola across Lake Erie and into Cleveland
• He managed to disembark, walk to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame carrying a duffel bag, and enter the building without anyone challenging him
• UK citizens can enter Canada without a visa; James Foley's executioner was believed to be a Brit
• 'The only coast guard vessels we saw were tied up at their docks,' O'Keefe told MailOnline; one boat captain said he has never seen Border Patrol on the waters
• The right-wing documentarian's latest work follows an August video that showed 'Osama bin Laden' sneaking into Texas from Mexico 

CBS Reporter Calls Out WH Press Secretary Over Obama Claim: ‘Why Does He Need Until the End of the Year to Explain Something?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

CBS Reporter Calls Out WH Press Secretary Over Obama Claim: ‘Why Does He Need Until the End of the Year to Explain Something?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"CBS reporter Major Garrett called out White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Monday over President Barack Obama’s claim that he is delaying executive action on immigration reform until after the midterm elections because he needs time to explain it to the American people."

School Board Bans Chapstick: Gateway Drug to What ... Maybe Burt's Bees Lip Balm?

School Board Bans Chapstick: Gateway Drug to What ... Maybe Burt's Bees Lip Balm? - Hit & Run : Reason.com

An 11-year-old Stuarts Draft Elementary School student has collected petition signatures and officially asked the county school board to allow elementary students to use Chapstick.

Stuarts Draft fifth-grader Grace Karaffa appeared before the school board Thursday night, saying she had requested the substance while on the playground after suffering chapped lips.

"I was told I couldn't use it. Then later that day they (lips) started to bleed so I asked for Chapstick again and I was told that it was against the school policy for elementary kids to have Chapstick,'' Grace said.

Grace asked the school board to change its policy. "Chapstick allows the human body to heal the lips themselves and protects them in any weather from drying out,'' she said. She concluded her speech by saying, "Please school board, allow us to have Chapstick." 

The response?

George Earhart, the assistant superintendent for administration with the Augusta County Schools, said Chapstick is considered an over-the-counter medication by the school board. The board has a policy regarding such medicines. He said Chapstick could be allowed if a physician asked for a student to use it, and it was administered by a school nurse.

Gang of Black Teens Beats White Memphis Grocery Store Employee into Unconsciousness

Gang of Black Teens Beats White Memphis Grocery Store Employee into Unconsciousness:
Late on Saturday night, a mob of black teens swarmed a Kroger grocery store in Memphis, Tennessee and proceeded to beat two store employees and one customer to the ground.

Police reported they had received a September 6 surveillance video showing the swarm of black teens pushing, punching and kicking the young store employees at the entrance to the store.

According to Memphis police, the group emerged from a restaurant in the same strip mall and immediately attacked a 25-year-old man as he left his car in the parking lot and headed for the grocery store.

Two grocery store employees ran to the man's aide, and the black mob attacked them as well, brutally beating all three victims into unconsciousness.

Police report that the crowd of up to 20 teens were laughing and yelling "fan mob."

History for September 9

History for September 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Colonel Harland Sanders 1890, Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder 1923, Cliff Robertson 1925 


Otis Redding 1941, Joe Thiesman 1949, Adam Sandler 1966 


490 B.C. - The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle. 


1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies." 


1898 - In Omaha, NE, Tommy Fleming of Eau Claire, WI won the first logrolling championship. 


1919 - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin's HD-4, a hydrofoil craft, set a world marine speed record. 



1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite. 


1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President (Republican) Eisenhower. 


1965 - French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from NATO to protest the domination of the U.S. in the organization. 


1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League (NHL). 


1979 - Tracy Austin, at 16, became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title. 


1993 - Israeli and PLO leaders agreed to recognize each other. 


1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton. 

Homeland Security Bulletin: Islamic State Can Attack U.S. Overseas With ‘Little to No Warning’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Homeland Security Bulletin: Islamic State Can Attack U.S. Overseas With ‘Little to No Warning’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Fairchild said the threat is longterm and that homegrown radicals “know that when they go to Iraq that these guys are beheading people and putting their heads on spikes, killing hostages hundreds at a time — they know that before they go and they’ve already accepted that, so to them if Baghdadi says ‘go and gas these suckers, go and behead these suckers’ … Baghdadi says we’re going to kill as many of them as possible in the most horrifying way as possible just to show them.”

“All we know is that bad things are coming,” he said."

Guess Which Country Found ‘Shariah Police’ Patrolling Outside Nightclubs | TheBlaze.com

Guess Which Country Found ‘Shariah Police’ Patrolling Outside Nightclubs | TheBlaze.com:
"The German government says it is going to crack down on volunteer patrols known as “Shariah police” recently seen walking outside nightclubs and a city train station asking passersby not to drink alcohol and gamble."

Japan economic collapse!

News from The Associated Press:
"TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's economy shrank more sharply in the second quarter than first estimated and the latest indicators suggest only a modest bounce back since then.

The world's third-largest economy contracted at an annualized rate of 7.1 percent in the April-June quarter, according to updated government figures Monday.
The initial estimate released earlier this month said the economy contracted 6.8 percent.
Business investment fell more than twice as much as first estimated.
The economy's contraction was expected after Japan increased its sales tax from 5 percent to 8 percent on April 1."

Romney Rips into the Man Who Beat Him: ‘I Would Have Been a Better President’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Romney Rips into the Man Who Beat Him: ‘I Would Have Been a Better President’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
“I think the president is really out of touch with reality,” Romney said. ”He looked at Russia and though that was a friend he should reset relations with. He looked at Al Qaeda and said, ‘They’re on the run.’ More recently he looked ISIS and said, ‘Oh, they’re just the junior varsity."

Guess Which Country Found ‘Shariah Police’ Patrolling Outside Nightclubs

Guess Which Country Found ‘Shariah Police’ Patr

olling Outside Nightclubs | TheBlaze.com:
"The German government says it is going to crack down on volunteer patrols known as “Shariah police” recently seen walking outside nightclubs and a city train station asking passersby not to drink alcohol and gamble."

GM to Introduce Hands-Free Driving in Cadillac Model

GM to Introduce Hands-Free Driving in Cadillac Model - Bloomberg:

"The technology will be included in “an all-new Cadillac that’s going to enter a segment where we don’t compete today,” Barra said.

 The Super Cruise feature may be greeted with skepticism from consumers, said Michelle Krebs, an analyst with researcher AutoTrader.com in Royal Oak, Michigan.

 “There is still a concern by consumers about the safety of their vehicles because there’s been so many recalls,” Krebs said.

This is going to take a while to win the confidence of consumers.”"

Why the lies?!!!---------------If The Economy Is Recovering, Why Is The Labor Force Participation Rate At A 36 Year Low?

If The Economy Is Recovering, Why Is The Labor Force Participation Rate At A 36 Year Low?
We have never seen an extended precipitous decline of this nature before.  
But instead of admitting that we have a very serious problem on our hands, many mainstream economists are dismissing this decline as "structural in nature".  For example, check out the following excerpt from a recent Reuters article...

A paper published on Thursday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, suggested the decline was primarily due to an aging population and other structural factors, and concluded the labor force would continue to shrink.

But there is a major flaw in this analysis.  It turns out that older Americans are the only group for which employment numbers have actually been going up.  I really like how Zero Hedge made this point the other day...

Well that's very odd, because it was only two months ago that the Census wrote the following [5]: "Many older workers managed to stay employed during the recession; in fact, the population in age groups 65 and over were the only ones not to see a decline in the employment share from 2005 to 2010 (Figure 3-25)... Remaining employed and delaying retirement was one way of lessening the impact of the stock market decline and subsequent loss in retirement savings."

Obama Wishes the Media Would Stop Following Him All the Time — And He’s Not Exactly Sorry for Golfing Right after a Tragic Statement | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama Wishes the Media Would Stop Following Him All the Time — And He’s Not Exactly Sorry for Golfing Right after a Tragic Statement | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"On Sunday, during his hosting debut on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd asked the president if he regretted the timing of the golf trip.

Obama didn’t exactly apologize."

Kicking Sand in Obama's Face

Kicking Sand in Obama's Face :: SteynOnline
Obama on August 29th:

We are not taking military action to solve the Ukrainian problem... It is not in the cards for us to see a military confrontation between Russia and the United States in this region. Keep in mind, however, that I'm about to go to a NATO conference. Ukraine is not a member of NATO, but a number of those states that are close by are. And we take our Article Five commitments to defend each other very seriously.

Steyn on August 29th:

If you were the Estonian government, would you actually be reassured by that? And if you were Putin, if you were Putin sitting in the Kremlin, and you just wanted to mess with Obama, wouldn't you be slightly ever-so-tempted just to invade Estonia, just to see whether Obama follows through on that Article Five thing?

Putin on September 5th:

On Friday morning, less than 48 hours after President Obama delivered a speech in Estonia warning that Russian aggression against Estonia could trigger war with the US and NATO, Russian security forces have seized an officer with Estonia's state security bureau at gunpoint and taken him into Russia.

From Benghazi to the Baltic, the world has the measure of Obama. The only people who don't are America's besotted, parochial elite and the deluded electorate who made this man "leader of the free world".

Extra info:
Article 5 is known as the "one-for-all and all-for-one" article, the keystone of NATO as an organization. It states that an "armed attack" against one member is an attack against all and sets in motion the possibility of collective self-defense.
However, it only commits members to "assist the party or parties so attacked" and to take "such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force…." It does not automatically result in military action.

And who REALLY benefits from this?-------Michigan awards $90M deal to builder of problem-plagued HealthCare.gov

Michigan awards $90M deal to builder of problem-plagued HealthCare.gov | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
LANSING — The State of Michigan has awarded computer contracts worth nearly $90 million to the Canadian firm that built the federal government’s Affordable Care Act website and took much of the blame for its disastrous launch.

Officials in the administration of Gov. Rick Snyder chose CGI Technologies and Solutions, whose parent company is headquartered in Montreal, over three U.S.-based firms.

CGI did not submit the lowest bid. 
Accenture, a management consulting and technology firm headquartered in New York, offered the lowest price by nearly $5 million, but “CGI provided best value,” Kurt Weiss, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, said Friday.

State officials were “aware that there may be potential arguments that CGI is not a qualified vendor based on their recent involvement with health care at the federal level” and the HealthCare.gov website, Weiss said.

Dems eye digital absentee ballots as way to boost turnout for their candidates

Tim Skubick: Dems eye digital absentee ballots as way to boost turnout for their candidates | MLive.com:
If you don’t scrutinize this carefully, you are likely to overlook the political importance of a new scheme to get young voters to vote.

It was announced last week that the Democrats are promoting a “digital absentee voting application” process aimed at those who vote the least, i.e. those between 18-35.

The smartphone and the Internet are the vehicles in this strategy because this age group lives and dies by them. It is one thing to make it easier to access an absentee voter ballot but the trick is to get them to use it.

Here’s the context of the Democratic move. Party chair Lon Johnson is on a crusade to drive up his voter turnout in the fall. He has 900,000 Democrats who failed to vote in the governor’ race four years ago. If he can motivate them to vote this year, Mark Schauer might be your next governor, or so Mr. Johnson hopes and prays.

Driving up the absentee vote is a means toward that end and making it easier to secure a ballot from your local clerk is the pitch to the young voters. Right now you need to show-up in person and get an application by fax or phone. In other words it is labor intensive. With this digital absentee voting application process, the voter is just one touch screen or one click away from securing a ballot.

Mr. Johnson figures if he gets only a small percentage of those AWOL 900,000, it is worth a try and he’s geeked about this working.

Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls

Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls | Popular Science:
"Who is running these interceptors and what are they doing with the calls?  
Goldsmith says we can’t be sure, but he has his suspicions.
“What we find suspicious is that a lot of these interceptors are right on top of U.S. military bases.
So we begin to wonder – are some of them U.S. government interceptors?
Or are some of them Chinese interceptors?” says Goldsmith.
“Whose interceptor is it?
Who are they, that's listening to calls around military bases?
Is it just the U.S. military, or are they foreign governments doing it?
The point is: we don't really know whose they are.”"

Megyn Kelly Played This Video from George W. Bush and Liberal Heads Are Exploding

Megyn Kelly Played This Video from George W. Bush and Liberal Heads Are Exploding:
"Bush was roundly criticized for the comments at the time, but considering the horrific events in the Middle East excalating while Obama works on lowering his golf handicap, Bush’s words have even deeper impact. "

Your tax dollars at work.... at your kids--------The TSA...for Kids!

The TSA...for Kids! - Hit & Run : Reason.com:

20 Amazing Color Images of the First World War

20 Amazing Color Images of the First World War - Listverse:
"Australian Light Horse Brigade"

History for September 8

History for September 8 - On-This-Day.com
Sid Caesar 1922, Peter Sellers 1925, Patsy Cline 1932 


1565 - A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, FL. 


1664 - The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who then renamed it New York. 


1866 - The first recorded birth of sextuplets took place in Chicago, IL. The parents were James and Jennie Bushnell. 


1892 - An early version of "The Pledge of Allegiance" appeared in "The Youth's Companion." 


1935 - U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later. 


1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America. She was the first Jewish contestant to win the title. 


1952 - The Ernest Hemingway novel "The Old Man and the Sea" was published. 

Newly Released Bush-Era Legal Memos Are ‘Deeply Disturbing,’ ACLU Says | TheBlaze.com

Newly Released Bush-Era Legal Memos Are ‘Deeply Disturbing,’ ACLU Says | TheBlaze.com:
“Their conclusions are deeply disturbing,” he added. “They suggest that the president’s power to monitor the communications of Americans is virtually unlimited — by the Constitution, or by Congress — when it comes to foreign intelligence.”

1930 redux? Sooooo, the hatred of Jews is GOOD for the USA? Again?------Anti-Semitism Drives French Investors Into the Arms of NY Real Estate

Anti-Semitism Drives French Investors Into the Arms of NY Real Estate | New York Observer:
A "fixer" named Marlen Kruzhkov has helped dozens of rich guys move their families -- and over $1 billion -- to NYC

A French propaganda poster from 1942 asks “Who steals our North Africa? Roosevelt.” And blames the Jews.

....This year, New York has increasingly become home to one particular population seeking American status: Jewish Frenchmen.

Marlen Kruzhkov, an attorney at New York’s Gusrae Kaplan, specializes in helping Jews make the move from France to the States. 

Mr. Kruzhkov explained to the Observer in a phone interview that this migration has increased massively since the beginning of 2014, spurred by a spate of anti-semitic incidents, which only worsened with the war between Israel and Hamas. 

While last year he helped a handful of families with legal arrangements, today he is handling the arrangements of several dozen families—parents with children—looking to make the move. 

The families Mr. Kruzhkov works with are predominantly well-off investors, with an average net worth of $50 to $70 million. These dollars come along for the all-American ride.

As any good lawyer does, Mr. Kruzhkov begins his conversations with the families he represents by asking, 

“Why this, why now? Why do you want to be here and invest here?” 

Unanimously, the answer is French anti-Semitism.

Holi tsunami!!!-------'Great Lakes tidal wave' causes 5-foot immediate rise in water on Lake Superior shoreline

'Great Lakes tidal wave' causes 5-foot immediate rise in water on Lake Superior shoreline | MLive.com:
A seiche, which is the Great Lakes version of a tidal wave, hit the eastern shoreline of Lake Superior near Sault Saint Marie around 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014.

The seiche (pronounced SAYSH) was caused by a dramatic change in wind direction due to severe thunderstorms. 

The wind was blowing out of the southeast for a long time period, pushing water along the shoreline out into Lake Superior. 

Then a line of strong thunderstorms moved through, and the accompanying west wind blew the water back into shore.

View full sizeThis is the water level near the Soo locks. The large fluctuation in the middle of the graph shows the seiche and over five feet of water level change.U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Detroit 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported a 65-inch change in water levels. 

First the water lowered by 14 inches and then quickly rose 51 inches.