Iran Lied Yet Again

Remember how Obama giving Iran billions under a deal that specifically not limit Iran's ballistic missile development? 

Remember how in addition to claiming they weren't developing nuclear weapons they swore their ballistic missile program was restricted to a  range of 2,000 km?  

Good times, those. 

Anyone actually believed them was a credulous idiot, because yet again, not surprising anyone who knows about the Iranian regime, they lied. 

They just launched two missiles at Diego Garcia, 4,000 km away.

While the two missiles failed to hit their targets, this is a their revealing a capability they had sworn they were not devleoping. 

Fox News: Trump proven right on Iran's long-range missile capability as regime targets US-UK base, experts say

This officially puts Iran into the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Club, and they now have missiles that can reach Paris, London and Berlin.  Hopefully that is a wake up call to European powers, and yet another reaosn to ensure the Mullahs do not remain in power.

Progressive Democrats Lying For The Cause, Yet Again

The Detroit News:Washtenaw Co. sheriff admits she posted inaccurate information about ICE arrests

When told about ICE's responses to her claims, Dyer replied that the information she'd posted on Facebook wasn't accurate.

A major problem is that the anti-ICE leftists, with a compliant and complacent propaganda department in the mainstream media, send their lies around the world long before the truth can even get its boots on. 

Yep, it turns out the Washtenaw County Sheriff was being less than truthful when she claimed ICE grabbed illegals at a school bus stop. 

Hamas, The Media, And The Gell-Mann Effect

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

In this case the media itself seems to suffer from the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect in relations to reports it gets from Hamas that it then parrots to the world. 

Hamas will announce 500 casualties from the Israelis dropped a bomb and destroying a hospital.

The media runs with it unquestioningly. Then it turns out that it was a Hamas-allied group that dropped a rocket into a parking lot and there were less than 50 and possibly as low as 12 casualties from the incident, oh and the hospital is still standing.

Hamas' Health ministry then announces 35,000 dead composed of mostly women and children.

The media instead of being skeptical, runs with it unquestioningly.  Then it turns out the Hamas announcement  of 35,000 dead composed of mostly women and children.  It then turns out that Hamas had made up at least 12,000 of these "women and children" casualties and is under-counting its combatant casualties.

Hamas then announces that Israel attached the safe zone killing 43 people.

The media instead of being skeptical, yet again runs with it unquestioningly. Then it turns out that the Israeli strike was a mile outside the safe zone, used munitions that would not have caused the fire, and the cause was most likely the explosions from a Hamas munition depot that was hit in the strike causing the fire among the tents, and the strike area hit where Hamas had been firing rockets at Israel.

The media will go right back to reporting Hamas' claims as gospel without the slightest hint of skepticism, helping the lies go 'round the world before the truth can lace up its boots.  

The media does this Every. Damn. Time.

Partially this is due to media bias against Israel, and partly because per Obama's adviser Ben Rhodes, reporters are easily manipulated, especially if the manipulation is in line with their biases. 

The credulous media consumers then lap it up each time while suffering from the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect brought to them by the complicit media, until yet again the claim is shown to be false. We'll note the finding of falsehood never gets the same amount of coverage as the initial false claim. Then the cycle starts again.

The Next Time You Hear

The lying claim from the pro-Hamas folks that the chant "From the River To The Sea"  is not a call for the destruction of Israel, including from such liars as Rashida Tlaib and many other apologists and propagandists for Hamas, you can refer them right to the horse's mouth:

The Detroit News: Iran's supreme leader and proxy militias pray for late president and others dead in helicopter crash

[Hamas leader Ismail] Haniyeh recounted Raisi telling him this year that the Oct. 7 attack was an “earthquake in the heart of the Zionist entity.” In a later meeting with Khamenei, the supreme leader told Haniyeh that the “destruction of the Zionist regime is feasible and, God willing, the day in which Palestine will be created from the sea to river will arrive.”

So yes, next time some progressive claims that  "From the River to the Sea" is a call for peaceful coexistence you can tell them they are full of it.

Note that the funeral also featured the traditional Islamic chants of "Death to Israel and "Death to America".  Lovely folks, really.

Verily, it is said one should only speak good of the dead. 

In the case of Ebrahim Raisi, the Butcher of Tehran, one can certainty say that it is good that he is dead.

Tlaib's Support For Genocide Even Gets Nessel To Notice

Rashida Tlaib, as is her wont, lies, and lies a lot when it comes to Israel.

She recently ran an twitter video that includes Michigan Arab protestors chanting "From the River to the Sea".

So, what's between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea?  Israel. 

From The River to the Sea (in Arabic from the water to the Water) has always been a call for the destruction of Israel. It was a slogan begin by the PLO and then picked up by Hamas.

Tlaib, being caught out echoing calls for genocide then quickly lied:

The Detroit News: Tlaib's defense of Palestinian chant prompts Nessel to call for retraction]

On Friday, Tlaib posted a video on the social platform X in which she said President Joe Biden's support of Israel would cost him reelection in 2024, accused him in a lettered overlay of supporting "the genocide of the Palestinian people" and showed protesters in Michigan yelling the slogan "from the river to the sea!" The Detroit Democrat called for Biden to support an immediate cease-fire.

The lone Palestinian-American in Congress linked that tweet to another one that explained what she said she meant by "from the river to the sea" — which refers to from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, or the land between the bodies of water that includes Israel.

"From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate," she tweeted Friday. "My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people no matter faith or ethnicity."

This is so absolutely false that even her fellow Michigan progressive Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel called her on her BS. 

Note that her comic buddy and confidante Amer Zahr wears a sweatshirt that has all of Israel replaced with a Arab Keffiyah, and remember that he wiped Israel off the map in Tlaib's office on her first day in Congress.

Tlaib knows exactly what "From the river to the sea" means. Indeed we'll note she retweeted a "From the river to the sea" call back in November 2020, before broadcasting her own a couple days ago - she later deleted it when called out on it.

She's and other fellow-travelers are hoping she can cover a call for genocide that she supports by dissimulation and hoping you don't know what it actually means.

Lies, And Lying Liars, Who Lie: White House Cocaine Edition

"We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We know members of the Biden Administration lie as naturally as breathing or perhaps even more naturally that that. 

The drama over cocaine being found in the White House has resulted in lies being snorted out of the White House with astonishing rapidity and regularity.

The most interesitng lies so far concern the constantly shifting location where the cocaine was actually found.

Red State:  Holy Coke: The White House Cocaine Story Changes Yet Again

The location of the cocaine discovery has now wandered from outside the White House, to inside the White House, to the White House lobby, to the White House library, to the West Wing, and now to the West Executive entrance, apparently with its final discovered place yet to be decided upon, depending on the needs of the narrative and likely to shield the bringer of said cocaine into the White House.

Why bother lying about where it was found? The claim that the Secret Service is unable to identify who left it, wherever it was in fact left, does defy belief and raises lots of questions as to the security measures protecting the White House.

Then again, why not bother lying about it?  Since this administration lies about just about everything, throwing a few lies and some misdirection about the cocaine found in the White House can make it a welcome distraction from other things they're lying about as well.

More Lies And Half-Truths From Journos About Firearms And NRAAM

Journalists continue to repeat the false statement that attendees at the NRA Annual Meeting are not allowed to carry at the convention.

This is false, they know or darn well should know by now it's false, yet they keep running this falsehood every year and each year they get called out for lying about it yet again.

The Detroit News: Juggling Act: If lawmakers don't act on gun laws now, then when?

The National Rifle Association, meanwhile, will hold its annual convention this weekend 4 ½  hours east of Ulvade in Houston. Attendees, ironically, won't be permitted to carry firearms during the convention, according to USA Today.

This is simply false, and this journo is simply passing along the falsehood from USA Today when she could, you know, fact check it herself assuming she doesn't already know she's lying.

The fact is, Attendees and NRA members can and do carry at the NRA Annual meeting.  

The only limitations to carry at NRA Annual Meeting events is when the US Secret Service declares an area of the convention a gun-free zone due to a dignitary being present such as former President Trump or others, and then it is only for a defined area and not the entire convention hall.   Or, it for example if it is for an ancillary concert at a facility separate from the convention hall that does not permit firearms, then you can;t break the rules of that facility. 

Otherwise, you absolutely can carry at the NRA Annual Meeting and convention.

Would be nice if journos stopped lying about that, as well as so many other things they lie about or tell half-truths when it comes to firearms.

Gov Half-Whit's Jet Jaunt Story Changes Yet Again

One of the problems with lying is the inability to get your story straight.

Combine layers of lies upon lies and it becomes harder and harder not to dig yourself in even deeper.

It also makes you appear less than credible, as your story keeps changing to cover the consequences of your last lie in the series that you used to spin your tall tale and get out of the fallout from your prior lies.

The Detroit Free Press: Whitmer's campaign will pay for controversial Florida flight

The Detroit News:  Whitmer's Florida flight cost shifted to campaign after FAA concerns

Yep, her last explanation that her non-profit paid for it created all sorts of problems with both the FAA and IRS.  It wasn't legal for her non-profit to "pay" for the March flight -but recall that they only helpfully paid it in May after details of it came to light.  

Now, in the latest round of obfuscations, it's being shifted directly to her campaign fund which likely will be a campaign funds violation.  On the upside for Whitmer, this changes the crime from an IRS violation with the non-profit inappropriately paying for it to a state campaign finance violation .

That changes the enforcement agency back to the state rather than the feds which is most convenient. 

Since she's best buddies with both AG Nessel and Secretary of State Benson, who would be the ones "investigating", you can predict the investigation will be duly done and found nothing occurred, or that at most there will be a minor slap on the wrist rather than a real penalty applied.

This likely still doesn't fix the FAA violation, but that only affects the airplane owner/operator and not Whitmer.

On the upside, we now learn that the 4-day (not 2 as originally claimed after the initial denial) trip included her daughters and allegedly a security detail.  Of course, it doesn't explain how the campaign can now pickup the bill.  After all a  Michigan governor doesn't typically campaign in Florida for re-election, especially as she's stated repeatedly the trip was for person reasons to visit her very sick dad who was "in failing health", and suffering form chronic illness" and had naught to do with her campaign.   Of course, the sick dad excuse has also been shown to be rather dubious as he was been seen in public back in Michigan quite soon after her trip being rather spry.

In short it's likely this was a massively hypocritical spring break trip out of state and she really needs to quit lying about it as she just keeps digging in deeper.

Expect further story changes as the consequences of the latest change come to light.