BIZARRE: Deceased victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting won’t be receiving medical care.

This is what passes for news at MSNBC.

FEMA threatens to arrest volunteer drone operators during Colo. flood relief.

This is the Falcon UAV. It has a length of about 4 feet; a wingspan of 8 feet, weighs less than 10 pounds, and flies between 300' and 1500' AGL. Certainly not a threat to anything beyond FEMA's ego.

Here is Falcon UAV's response to FEMA:

Falcon UAV would like to thank the Boulder County EOC and specifically Allen Bishop and Michael Chard (while they were running operations) for their common sense approach to drone operations, working to coordinate the airspace, as well as embracing this technology to help support the recovery effort. In contrast we are very disappointed in FEMAs response to actively prevent the use of UAVs and drone technology when these services were offered for free and at a time when manned helicopters could be used for more critical missions such as evacuations and high mountain search and rescues in inaccessible communities.

Classy. And FEMA deserves the sound of one hand clapping.

IS THERE a Nobel prize for excellence in photoshoppery?

If so, this is the winner.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama's myths.

Benghazi, the AP, the NSA and the IRS debacles are put on the back burner by Obama’s Syria follies. They in turn will be forgotten once we brace for a new war to follow the ones waged against the evil redneck assault gun owners; the minority bashers who committed Trayvon Martin-like travesties daily; the sinister homophobes who denied marriage equity; the nativists who hated people of color and so insisted on onerous legal technicalities against undocumented workers; the voter suppressionists who demand ID at the polls; the misogynists who denied powerful professional women a little help to ensure their reproductive rights; the polluters who fouled our air and water and fried our planet; the cruel older generation that ignored embattled students struggling with oppressive loans; and union busters who hated collective bargaining.

All those wars will revive and be bolstered by even more in the next 40 months to come. “You did not build that” and “no time for profit” have demagogic children not yet born. We will hear thousands more of the tired emphatics like “make no mistake about it” and “let me be perfectly clear.” There will be hundreds more straw men: “Some do these bad things; others do those bad things, but I alone do the good things.” We have in store lots more of the teleprompted first-person I, me, my, and mine narcissism. “Bush did it” has three more years of ad nauseam utility. “Iraq” will still begin and almost end every sentence until 2017. “Working for the middle class” will follow each dismal jobs report.

Do not underestimate the rhetorical skills and political demagoguery of Barack Obama. He is as incompetent and delusional as Jimmy Carter, but he has far better sophistic skills, far better advisers, and is far more ruthless. Almost half of America does not pay federal income taxes; almost half receive some sort of government assistance. They are as loyal as the captive media to what Obama represents and delivers.

Yet Hanson is still optimistic.

OBAMACARE: We Must Have Different Definitions of “Pro-Jobs”.

IN GOD WE TRUST; government, not so much.

MAYBE THEY COULD BECOME A COUNTY IN TEXAS: Maryland counties join movement to secede from largely Democrat-run state. Rick Perry has, after all, been advertising for Maryland businesses to move to Texas; why not have Texas move to Maryland?

Then I'd only have to move 50 miles or so to move home....

I WOULD ASK if progressives can get any dumber than this, but unfortunately the answer is obvious.

SURPRISED? Climate models wildly overestimated global warming. Look, when you can't get an accurate local forecast much beyond the 'look out the window to see what's coming over the horizon' time frame, predicting climate 20-50 years in the future ranks between silly and stupid.

And yes, I do understand the difference between weather and climate....

Linked from PowerLine.

NOW THE GOVERNMENT wants to regulate ... dinner parties?

CALL THE CDC. There's been a Rocky Mountain outbreak of Acute Sore Loser Fever.

It's highly contagious among progressives.

AN ATHEIST IN THE WOODS.

An atheist was walking through the woods.

"What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" He said to himself.

As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.

He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charge towards him.

He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him. He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear was even closer.

He tripped & fell on the ground.

He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.

At that instant moment, the Atheist cried out: "Oh my God!"

Time stopped. The bear froze. The forest was silent.

As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky. "You deny my existence for all these years, teach others I don't exist and even credit creation to cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament?"

"Am I to count you as a believer?"

The atheist looked directly into the light, and said: "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps you could make the BEAR a Christian?"

"Very well", said the voice.

The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed. And the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head & spoke: "Lord bless this food, which I am about to receive from Thy bounty through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen."

From my email.

IN THE WHITE HOUSE: A cockroach “the size of a small drone.” Does it speak Russian?

IT SHOULD HAVE been canceled after season 4.

AFTERBURNER: We have our Chamberlain; where is our Churchill?

UNDERBUSSED:

Now we know why the Obama administration bought that Canadian superbus. They'll need it for the unions.

ED DRISCOLL: Hitting the Ejector Seat on the Clown Car Presidency. Unfortunately the ejector button has been disabled until 2016. Can America hold out that long?

I CAUGHT a 172-pound flounderer.

HEH: What 5 years of drinking Obama's Kool-Aid will do.

WASHINGTON POST: The chickens come home to roost. Well, they advocated for an expanded definition of discrimination.