Ironic Surrealism

@RepKevinBrady Asks #IRS Commissioner Miller: “Is This Still America?, Is This Admin. Drunk On Power”? [Video]

Velvet Hammer — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:37:58 +0000

Chilling allegations.

“Is this still America? Is this government so drunk on power that it would turn its full force, its full might to harass and intimidate and threaten an average American who only wants her voice and their voices heard?”

Stunning #IRSHearing Revelation! #IRS Asked Pro-Life Group To “Detail Content Of Members Prayers”

Velvet Hammer — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:08:15 +0000

Unconscionable!

Salt in the wound: Obama’s (outgoing) IRS Commissioner Steven Miller would NOT say that the request was “inappropriate”.

#IRSHearing: Watch The Scorching Lecture To #IRS Commish Miller That Gave @MikeKellyPA A Standing O [Video]

Velvet Hammer — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:39:13 +0000

Order had to be called.

Highlights via The Blaze:

• “I have a grandson who’s afraid to get out of bed at night because he thinks there’s someone under the bed that’s going to grab him. And I think most Americans feel that way about the IRS.”
• “This kind of reconfirms that, you know what, they [the IRS] can do almost anything they want to anybody they want, anytime they want. This is very chilling for the American people.”
• “This is a Pandora’s Box that has been opened and I don’t think we can get the lid back on it.”
• “I don’t believe the White House just found out about this in a news report.”
• “I got to tell you, where you’re sitting, you should be outraged — and you’re not. The American people should be outraged, and they are.”
• “This reconfirms everything the American public believes! This is a huge blow to the faith and trust the American people have in their government!”
• “Is there any limit to the scope of where you folks can go?”
• “It’s sure as hell intimidating. And I don’t’ know that I got any answers from you today.”
• “I am more concerned today than I was before. The fact that you all can do just about anything you want to anybody. You know, you can put anybody out of business that you want anytime you want.”
• “And when the IRS comes in, you’re not allowed to be shoddy, you’re not allowed to be run horribly, you’re not allowed to make mistakes, you’re not allowed to do one damn thing that doesn’t come in compliance. If you do, you’re held responsible right then.”
• “This is absolutely an overreach and this is an outrage for all America!”

#IRSHearing: #IRS Commish Miller: “Absolutely Not Illegal” For IRS To Target Groups & Individual Citizens [Video]

Velvet Hammer — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:51:08 +0000

Wow…just…wow…

#IRSHearing: #IRS Commish “I Don’t Remember” Names Of Who Is Responsible For Targeting Conservatives [Video]

Velvet Hammer — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:21:20 +0000

Miller; meet nail, meet wall.

Rep. Dave Reichert: Your the commissioner. Who is responsible. You Conducted the investigation. Who was responsible?

Steven Miller: I don’t have that name sir.

Rep. Dave Reichert: Why don’t you have that name? Did you ask anybody.

Steven Miller: Yes.

Rep. Dave Reichert: Who did you ask? Or do you not have that name either?

Steven Miller: I asked the senior technical adviser.

Rep. Dave Reichert: What’s the senior technical adviser’s name?

Steven Miller: Nancy Marks.

Rep. Dave Reichert: And what did Nancy tell you? Who’s responsible?

Steven Miller: By that I don’t remember to be honest with you.

Rep. Dave Reichert: You don’t remember again.

Of course Miller knows. And he knows we know he knows. Yet he sat there and had the gall to say; “I don’t remember to be honest with you” while under oath.

BAM! #IRSHearing @RepPaulRyan Gets #IRS Commish Miller To Admit No Progressive Groups Were Targeted [Video]

Velvet Hammer — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:36:54 +0000

Ryan zeroed in and took Miller down with a one-two punch.

“Audit This” Philly Eagles Evan Mathis Instagrams Himself Peeing On #IRS Sign [Photo]

Velvet Hammer — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:06:50 +0000

EPIC.

H/T @BleacherReport

#IRS Official In Charge During Teaparty Targeting Now Runs ObamaCare Office!!

Velvet Hammer — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:47:40 +0000

Via ABC:

The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today. [...]

Ahem…

@velvethammer Whatever else you say about him, Obama rewards his minions well.

— Gary Black (@GaryBlackal) May 16, 2013

Obama’s #IRS Demanded Pro-Life Christian Group Seeking Tax Excempt Status Sign Non Pickett Planned Parenthood Pledge

“Rogue” Cinci #IRS Employees At Center Of Scandal: ‘We Simply Did What Bosses Ordered’

Obama’s #IRS Commissioner Ousting Farce: Miller Was ALREADY Set To Resign Post [Updated]

Video: U.S. Tax-Payer Funded Syrian Jihadi Rebel Death Porn Execution Style

Velvet Hammer — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:12:50 +0000

**WARNING GRAPHIC**

Note the public hanging of the black flag of jihad in this next video.

Last but not least flesh eating zombie aid recipient. You read that right. Proceed with caution.

H/T Blazing Cat Fur here and here and here.

Caca Occurs! Venezuela Runs Out Of Toilet Paper!

Velvet Hammer — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:49:12 +0000

Viva La Socialism!

The grim reaper wiped that poo eating grin off of Hugo’s face…

(The Guardian) –

“State-controlled prices – prices that are set below market-clearing price – always result in shortages. The shortage problem will only get worse, as it did over the years in the Soviet Union,” said Steve Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University.

President Nicolás Maduro, who was selected by the dying Hugo Chávez to carry on his “Bolivarian revolution”, claims that anti-government forces, including the private sector, are causing the shortages in an effort to destabilise the country.

The government this week announced it also would import 760,000 tonnes of food in addition to the 50m rolls of toilet paper.

Commerce minister Alejandro Fleming blamed the shortage of toilet tissue on “excessive demand” built up as a result of “a media campaign that has been generated to disrupt the country”.

“The revolution will bring the country the equivalent of 50 million rolls of toilet paper,” he was quoted as saying Tuesday by state news agency AVN. “We are going to saturate the market so that our people calm down.”
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Patience is wearing thin among consumers who face shortages and long queues at supermarkets and pharmacies. Last month, Venezuela’s scarcity index reached its highest level since 2009, while the 12-month inflation rate has risen to nearly 30%. Shoppers often spend several days looking for basic items, and stock up when they find them.

Fleming said monthly consumption of toilet paper was normally 125m rolls, but that current demand “leads us to think that 40m more are required”.

“We will bring in 50m to show those groups that they won’t make us bow down,” he said.

50 million rolls for a population of over 28 million, like putting a band-aid on a gaping wound.