Well, at least the next time a bunch of radicalized (is there any other kind?) Islamists murder some of our citizens in the name of Mohammad (piss be upon him), they’ll have Steven Crowder’s video to blame:
Oh, and Steven…prepare to be audited. And for an avalanche of death threats from outraged Muslims for having the audacity to say that their religion is violent and intolerant.
This woman should be in prison.
Lois Lerner.
She’s the woman who was in charge of the IRS office in Cincinnati that has admitted to intentionally (and illegally) targeting Conservative and Tea Party groups not just for “additional scrutiny” but in a deliberate attempt to delay the approval of their status as tax-exempt non-status organizations.
Since this colossal failure and abuse of power, she has been given more than $100K in bonuses from the Federal Government and is now in charge of the IRS division responsible for enforcing Obamacare. What could possibly go wrong with that?
But even before she started wielding the Liberal-stick of bias against Conservatives in the IRS, she was abusing her powers while she was at another Federal agency with too much power, the FEC:
…prior to joining the IRS, Lerner’s tenure as head of the Enforcement Office at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was marked by what appears to be politically motivated harassment of conservative groups.
Lerner was appointed head of the FEC’s enforcement division in 1986 and stayed in that position until 2001. In the late 1990s, the FEC launched an onerous investigation of the Christian Coalition, ultimately costing the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours in lost work. The investigation was notable because the FEC alleged that the Christian Coalition was coordinating issue advocacy expenditures with a number of candidates for office. Aside from lacking proof this was happening, it was an open question whether the FEC had the authority to bring these charges.
James Bopp Jr., who was lead counsel for the Christian Coalition at the time, tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD the Christian Coalition investigation was egregious and uncalled for. “We felt we were being singled out, because when you handle a case with 81 depositions you have a pretty good argument you’re getting special treatment. Eighty-one depositions! Eighty-one! From Ralph Reed’s former part-time secretary to George H.W. Bush. It was mind blowing,” he said.
If you’re still not convinced that Lois Lerner — lifetime public servant (I say that with the greatest degree of disdain possible) — is an ideological warrior intent on destroying her enemies (that would be Conservatives, if you’re not keeping up), consider her husband’s relationship to Barry Obama, as laid out by The Daily Caller.
And now, we find out that the woman who knows more than anybody about the scandal at the IRS has announced (via her attorney) that she’s going to plead the 5th so as not to incriminate herself in the illegal activity at the IRS.
Folks on Twitter (to include me) are not amused:
so the next time I get audited by the #IRS, can I simply invoke the 5th amendment and refuse to comply?
— Robbie Cooper (@RobbieCooper) May 21, 2013
When IRS asks me how much I made last year, I want to refuse to answer on the grounds I may incriminate myself.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) May 21, 2013
Lois Lerner’s decision to plead the Fifth kinda blows up this whole silly notion that nobody at the IRS did anything illegal.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 21, 2013
@noltenc Is that the same IRS Official pleading the Fifth who’s hubby’s law firm threw a fund-raiser for Illinois State Senator Obama?
— jason drue keith (@sportsaholic007) May 21, 2013
Yeah…that’s the same one.
@jimgeraghty Violator of 1st, 4th and 14th pleads 5th.
— Matthew Burtner (@MforestB) May 21, 2013
Yep…that pretty much sums up the situation here.
Dear Congressman Issa, make her testify and let the public see her take the 5th for each question asked. latimes.com/news/politics/…
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 21, 2013
If Lois Learner pleads the 5th, incarcerate her & subpoena her bosses… #IRS Top IRS official will plead the fifth. latimes.com/news/politics/…
— Chuck Nellis (@ChuckNellis) May 21, 2013
Hell yeah.
What are the chances that these two looters turn out to also be illegal immigrants?
According to Bob Mills SkyNews9 HD, the two pieces of garbage sitting handcuffed in the above photo were caught looting homes in Moore, Oklahoma after yesterday’s massive tornado devastated the town.
Think about that — while parents, law enforcement officers, and volunteers are still digging through the rubble of an elementary school to dig out their children, these two degenerate pieces of shit were going through the remains of their homes and cars and taking their stuff.
I say this in all seriousness, without an ounce of hyperbole — looters should be shot dead on the spot. And that includes these two low-lifes. The officer on the left, the one with his handgun drawn? He should just go ahead and put a slug into the skull of each one of them and leave them for the buzzards, maggots, and rats to devour.
A child is pulled from the debris after a tornado flattened his elementary school
Watching video of that massive tornado that ripped through Moore, Oklahoma and then seeing pictures of flattened elementary schools made me sick to my stomach.
So far, there are reports of 51 people dead, to include many school children.
I simply cannot begin to wrap my mind around the grief and pain their parents are going through right now. I simply cannot…
And while I know the human toll was significant, but the thought of all the dogs and cats who were most likely killed or maimed breaks my heart, too.
UPDATE — So, when my wife first read me this email last night, my first thought wasn’t “Wow, what a dumbshit,” but rather, “Sounds like someone either hacked her email account, or sent an email directly from her computer if she forgot to lock it.”
Turns out I was correct. The program manager from whose account this was sent was back in the office today (being exceptionally nice to everyone). They’re trying to figure out who sent it (obviously someone from within the office, as the email named a lot of people on her team).
Gotta love a good office drama/mystery.
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My wife just went back to work as a (contractor) UI designer at a local software company. She said that there has been a bit of tension between one of the program managers and her team.
Anyway, my wife was checking her email tonight and found this email addressed to their entire office (names redacted):
>do yo really think i don’t know that you all hate me and talk behind my
>back? how stupid do you think i am? i’m talking to you [Islamic name], you moslem
>asshole to you [man's name] and to you [man's name] you filthy jew. first of all i’m
>better than all of you and i will succeed even if you are all against
>me! if you won’t do what i tell you i will tell [Big Boss] to fire you!!! And
>[woman's name] just because [European sounding name] is backing you you shouldn’t think that i won’t
>get what i want. We’re gonna get rid of that damned piece a shit
>software you work on and then we’re gonna get rid of you too! we don’t
>need you!!! This whole company is fucked up anyway and [Big Boss] doesn’t have
>what it takes to set things straight anyway so i have to do it alone.
>Just becaUSE im not as pretty as [pretty woman in the office] and just because I like to DRINK
>DOEnST MEAN YOU CAN LOOK DOWN ON ME. im still better that yall. You can
>all go fuck yourself i’m quitting anyway
Likes to drink? You think? I’m guessing she was drunk when she wrote this.
Holy-epic resignation letters, Batman! Now that’s how you burn all your bridges on the way out the door. Good luck on the rest of your season on the unemployment line, lady.
Oh, and if you’re wondering about the racist that wrote this, she’s Hispanic.
Every five years, Texas Monthly magazine publishes their list of the Top 50 Barbeque Joints in the World (of course, all 50 are in the great state of Texas).
Last week, they published the list (without rankings, which won’t be published until the issue hits newstands on May 23). However, via their twitter feed, we learned that Austin’s very own Aaron Franklin (Franklin Barbeque) is number 1 for this go around (rounding out the rest of the Top 4, in alphabetical order: Louie Mueller Barbecue, in Taylor; Pecan Lodge, in Dallas; and Snow’s BBQ, in Lexington).
Every five years or so (since 1997), this magazine dispatches a team of trained eaters to travel around Texas incognito, ingesting huge amounts of barbecue. Their goal is to visit as many of the state’s approximately two thousand barbecue joints as possible in order to come up with a list of the fifty best. At each joint, the eaters sample at least three meats, a couple of sides, and a dessert. In areas of high barbecue density, they may visit as many as nine places in a day. Immediately after each visit, our eaters fill out a detailed score sheet. The final score considers intangibles like setting, service, and history, but mainly it is based on the meat. The brisket score counts the most. This time, eighteen places from the 2008 top fifty made it onto the list. (The joints with asterisks are ones that were featured on the list in 2008.)
Of course, with any list like this the fun is in debating the deserving ommissions, and the “how the hell did that place make the list?”
Smitty’s Meat Market, Lockhart — Lockhart has long been considered the BBQ capital of Texas (more on that later in this post), based on the strength of their Big Three Q joints (Smitty’s, Black’s, and Kreuz Market). While Black’s makes a well-deserved return to the list, the omission of Smitty’s is a slap in the face to the tradition of smoked meats in Central Texas.
I’ll be the first to admit that the quality and consistency at Smitty’s has slipped over the last several years. And, if I’m in Lockhart, I’m much more likely to find myself at Black’s. I would no longer put Smitty’s in my Top 5, or probably not even in my Top 10. But to exclude them entirely for the Top 50? Insane.
Micklethwait Craft Meats, Austin — Much like Franklin’s, John Mueller’s, and La Barbeque, Micklethwait’s is a recent addition to the Austin BBQ circuit. And I fully believe, having eaten several times at each of the Austin Big 3, that had Micklethwait been opened a few months earlier, it would have been in the top 50 as well.
Lamberts Downtown Barbecue, Austin — WTF? Not only is Lambert’s not a BBQ (they are a restaurant that also serves BBQ in addition to a bunch of other things), but the BBQ they do serve? Average at best. Their shrimp and grits? Amazing. Good, if not overpriced, oysters.
Up until about 3 years ago, I wouldn’t have put a single Q joint in Austin on this list. But with the well-deserved praise that Franklin has brought to the Capital City, the competition has stepped up. La Barbecue and John Mueller Meat Company, each with their own ties to Franklin’s are easily just as good (and in the case of the hot guts at each of the Mueller sibling’s trailers, even better) as Franklin’s…but without the ridiculous 2-hour wait.
I’m an old school BBQ purist and devotee to the German-influenced style of smoking meats that is the trademark of Central Texas BBQ, and I have to admit that the Austin Big 3 are easily better than the Lockhart Big 3. Not collectively, but each of them is better than any of the three in Lockhart.
And then you throw in the superb meats at Stiles Switch BBQ & Brew, Micklethwait Craft Meats, Live Oak, and Blue Ox? Each, in their own right, some of the most perfectly smoked cow and pig I’ve ever shoved down my pie hole? And I’m going to go ahead and proclaim that Austin has indeed supplanted Lockhart as the true Mecca of Texas BBQ.
Once the list came out, I decided that my goal would be to hit all 50 Q joints on the list within a year. I started this quest on Friday by hitting John Mueller’s Meat Company. It wasn’t the best meat I’ve ever had from John’s pit — but it was still better than anything 99% of the BBQ world could ever produce on their best day.
I’ll start a new post with my review of John Mueller’s once the actual rankings are posted.
What’s your favorite Q in Texas? Thoughts on this year’s list?
Below the fold is the list of 50, listed alphabetically by city. Continue reading »
Illegal immigrant, Andres Munos: is this what it takes to finally get deported back to Mexico (or Honduras, or Guatemala, or whatever third-world pisshole he came from)?
But mostly from the tequila…
Few stories infuriate me off more than this one.
Few incidents make me madder at the pro-open-borders politicians who are responsible for letting shit like this happen in our country.
Sunday morning, just outside of Houston, TX, Sgt. Dwayne Polk, 47, a 16-veteran of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, was killed by a drunk driver who ran a red light and drove his pickup truck into the driver’s side door of Sheriff Polk’s SUV.
The driver, Andres Munos, 22, is an illegal immigrant (or as the PC-pussies at the Houston Chronicle put it, he “lives in Houston but is not a U.S. citizen”). That’s bad enough that this illegal piece of shit killed a cop. That’s all on him and not on the politicians who refuse to secure our borders.
Oh wait…it is on them.
Munos had been arrested once before, in 2012, for DWI and and unlawfully carrying a weapon. Was he deported then? Nope, he served 30 days in county jail and then was released back into our community.
A drunk-driving, illegal-gun wielding illegal alien that we had in custody. Was simply released back onto our streets.
I wonder how long he’ll be in jail this time — for killing a cop while driving drunk? A year? Maybe 2? And then I’m sure our (in)justice department will simply return him to the streets of Houston, rather than deport this worthless piece-of-shit back to the third-world shithole he came from.
I’m guessing the children over at Progress Texas, who are falsely claiming that not only were they scrutinized by the IRS “just like the Conservative and Tea Party groups”, but that they also welcomed the scrutiny, weren’t asked to provide this information.
Mostly because the IRS would have known that they are Godless Liberals, and thus do not pray.
Oh, and despite the fact that they are 100% engaged in political advocacy, they were still granted their bullshit tax exempt status (despite demanding higher taxes for thee, but not for me).
Via Althouse:
Information the IRS demanded from the Coalition for Life of Iowa. Asked if that’s an appropriate question to a 501(c)(3) applicant, IRS commissioner Steven Miller says he’s pained at his inability to answer.
What an awful witness! (And I say that after watching much of today’s testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee.)
ADDED: To help you think about what might be an appropriate question read this(“Exemption requirements”) and this (“Exempt purposes”). Miller seemed to actively resist giving us any idea how the requested details might have been anything but harassment, even as he squirmed away from a simple denouncement of the request.
I think my friend Bob Owens is on to something here:
Quite frankly, the IRS abuse justifies armed revolution as much as Gage’s powder raids did in 1775.
— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) May 19, 2013
The American people have put up with nearly unbearable tyranny under this President. How much more?
— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) May 19, 2013
Not much more, Bob. Not much more.
Politicians and their butt buddies in the media would be well advised to re-read this piece and seriously consider the road they are leading us down: What I saw at the coup
93 degrees yesterday? 96 degrees today?
Time to break out the kiddie pool and let Cash cool off in the backyard:
Not quite ready for the high-dive yet, but baby steps (or strokes, as it were)
This is one of the most disgraceful and disrespectful things I have ever seen a Commander in Chief do to denigrate one of our uniformed service members:
WTF?
The men in our armed services don’t need no stink’n umbrellas. See this Soldier?
A lone Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), walks his tour in humble reverence during Hurricane Irene in Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Aug 27.
And these Soldiers?
These are real men. This is real commitment. This is real love of country and of the brothers with whom you serve and for those who served before you.
Notice what these Soldiers— standing the most sacred and the most honored of posts during a hurricane — do not have? That’s right, no umbrellas. And why not? It’s against regulations for them to do so.
Just as it is for Marines. According to Marine Corps regulation MCO P1020.34F of the Marine Corps Uniform Regulations chapter 3, a male Marine is not allowed to carry an umbrella while in uniform. And in case you think Obama has the authority to override this regulation, he doesn’t:
The Marine Corps Manual, the guidebook that defines protocol for officers and enlisted Marines, in section 2806 paragraph 2, specifically states “The Marine Corps Uniform Regulations, published by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, shall be binding on all Marines. No officer or official shall issue instructions which conflict with, alter, or amend any provision without the approval of the Commandant of the Marine Corps.”
But of course the main reason that Marines and Soldiers don’t need umbrellas is because they’re real men who know they will not melt if a bit of rain falls on their head or uniform.
And more than that, there isn’t a Marine out there who would ask another man to hold an umbrella over his head for him.
But Obama is not a man. And this picture clearly shows how little respect or regard he has for the men who are there to protect his fucking worthless life, not to be props or servants.
The Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen who serve beneath this narcissistic douchebag already despised him. This picture is only going to make it worse.